Hillary’s Voice

Dear Obama Superdelegates,

I want to ask you how you can continue to support Senator Obama after this latest disgraceful episode where his campaign maliciously and intentionally disseminated a vicious lie regarding Hillary’s comment about RFK in order to impugn her. Why did he feel he had the right to malign her like this, and why do you remain silent? I do not accept that he should not be held personally responsible if you hold President Bush responsible for the war in Iraq, though Bush never fired a shot. Obama has repeatedly shown a mean streak and a horrible lack of judgement that is unacceptable for a Presidential contender.

From small slights (not shaking her hand on the Senate floor, giving her the finger at a rally, members of his campaign calling her a monster) to outright slander (RFK, Dr King/Johnson remarks), Obama is not someone I can respect or would want to have the responsibility of steering our great nation.

For the Obama campaign to e-mail the national press corps and insinuate that Hillary’s statement was sinister is a new low.

Obama has repeatedly behaved in an unprincipled manner:

* He worked to disallow a new election in Florida and Michigan
“The Obama people are blocking it in the Legislature”

* He refused to debate Hillary
“At Home in Midwest, Obama Explains Why He Refused Debate Challenge”

Please Editorial Board of the Argus Leader,

You were there. You are journalists. You have a first person account. You know Hillary Clinton’s context was the schedule, and how she has been pressured to drop out when nominating fights historically have not only gone to the convention in August, meaning that there was active campaigning until June, but have produced Democratic Presidents:

Woodrow Wilson was nominated in 1912 on the 146th ballot.

Franklin D. Roosevelt was nominated in 1932 after 4 ballots.

I beg you, because you hold the truth paramount, please stand up for Hillary Clinton. You were able to see first hand how the Obama campaign has hand-fed reporters vicious lies, which unfortunately the complicit media has just repeated and disseminated widely, in order to win the nomination. This manipulation of the media is the reason Obama is slightly ahead of Hillary, but she is still competitive in spite of being outspent (Hillary supporters are working class, while Obama’s are elite Liberals with more disposable income), in spite of heavyweights like most of the Kennedy family, Oprah Winfrey, Bill Richardson, and Tom Daschle supporting Obama, and in spite of the sexism that exists in our culture. Why is Hillary so close to the nomination still? The reasons are that she is the stronger, more knowledgeable, more experienced, more dedicated, smarter, harder-working candidate. When voters have a chance to hear Hillary Clinton, like in the debates, which Obama now refuses to participate in, voters choose Hillary. Her intelligence comes through loud and clear, and Obama’s inexperience and unpreparedness for the awesome job of the Presidency comes through as well. That is why Obama refuses to debate Hillary, thereby depriving voters of the opportunity to get to know her while his campaign disseminates vicious lies against her to make her out to be a monster.

Hillary invokes a historical fact: country raises an uproar.

VIDEO

1) Reporters REPEAT What the Obama Campaign SAY Hillary MEANT

2) The Public Easily Buys That a Woman Must be Evil (Eve) and Has Sinister Motives (sexism)

3) The Obama Campaign Fans the Flames Keeping the Story on Top: Cycle Repeats

General elections for President of the United States have been held since 1945 in November.

The point about Hillary’s RFK/JUNE reference, and her accurate statement that nomination fights have gone to the convention in AUGUST is that these months are close to NOVEMBER. Her point is that even if considered relatively “late” by people who want to force her out, August still leaves her time to win the general, and June has been a time of active campaigning, which is what she is doing in spite of the Obama campaign and his media enablers calling the race over.

The Democratic Party, especially after 2000 when Al Gore won the popular vote but lost the election, should stand up for the rights of voters. The caucus system, which is largely responsible for Obama’s pledged delegate lead, is unrepresentative and it disenfranchises voters, as would not seating the delegates from Michigan and Florida. Not representing voters (caucus states), disenfranchising them (FL & MI), calling them racist(?!), and ignoring them (choosing Obama) will lead to massive negative repercussions for the Democratic Party. This is why Hillary must fight on, and why she must win the nomination.

I support Hillary’s continued fight for the nomination in this late stage, with only three more primaries to go, because I think she is the more qualified candidate. She has served longer in the U.S. Senate, sitting and chairing important committees such as the Arms Services Committee, the Environment and Public Works Committee and the Subcommittee on Superfund and Environmental Health. She has sponsored over 350 bills—everything from added protection for children in vehicles to protection of a watershed, to added benefits for public safety officers. Hillary also helped create the SCHIP health insurance program that now covers over six million hildren. Additionally, Hillary Clinton has been a diplomat for over a decade who has traveled to over 80 countries representing the United States with dignity and courage, which has included speaking forcibly on Chinese soil about human rights and women’s rights.

I also support Hillary because I think she can win in the general election against John McCain.

Dear DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee,

I would like to respectfully ask you to seat the delegates of Florida and Michigan at the Democratic convention.

I feel very strongly that if Hillary Clinton is treated unfairly by the Democratic Party, then I in good conscience will not vote for the Democratic Party in the fall elections.

Florida was a fair election. Both candidates had their names on the ballot and Hillary did not campaign in Florida while Obama bought national cable advertisements that effectively allowed him to campaign there in violation of the pledge all candidates took to not campaign in Florida. Because Obama behaved in an unprincipled manner, this should be considered in your decision.

Obama’s new ad is a “clear and blatant violation”

In Michigan Senator Obama worked to prevent a new Democratic primary from occurring, again acting in an unprincipled manner. To allow Obama to be rewarded for his role in what is, in essence, voter suppression would be wrong. Hence, the Michigan delegates must be seated because having been given the chance to put his name on the ballot, Obama chose to prevent a vote from occurring. To allow this to stand and therefore stymy Senator Clinton’s bid for the nomination is patently unfair to her and completely unacceptable.

“The Obama people are blocking it in the Legislature”

Further, you should not punish the people of Florida and Michigan by ignoring their voices in the nomination process. People voted; you should not disenfranchise them by dismissing them.

A week before the North Carolina primary Hillary Clinton was not expected to win there, so it is more than a little strange that those results have been trumpeted up so much.

Some analysts nevertheless still see a path for Hillary to win the nomination. If she gets her two blowout wins in West Virginia and Kentucky, she will be back on track.

Please do not give up on Hillary yet. Write to the superdelegates and urge them to support Hillary for the nomination.

It is easy to do using this website:
https://www.lobbydelegates.com/ 

Here is the letter I wrote, feel free to use part or all of it: 

I just donated $50 to Hillary Clinton’s campaign because I believe she should be the Democratic nominee for U.S. President, and I urge you with all my heart to also support her nomination, here is why:

* Hillary Clinton is the more qualified candidate: she has served longer in the U.S. Senate, sitting and chairing important committees such as the Arms Services Committee, the Environment and Public Works Committee and the Subcommittee on Superfund and Environmental Health. She has sponsored over 350 bills—everything from added protection for children in vehicles to protection of a watershed, to added benefits for public safety officers. Hillary Clinton is also a diplomat who has traveled to over 80 countries representing the United States with dignity and courage.

The way people have reacted to Hillary Clinton’s gas tax proposal, you would think it was a “modest proposal” like Jonathan’s Swift’s: that people should eat their babies to prevent poverty. Good grief! 

The lady has a proposed tax break, with a source for the funding (taxing the oil companies’ profits) for people who are struggling to pay their bills. 

In this country, there are people like Trina Bachtel’s who died, along with her baby, because she felt that she could not go to a hospital because she owed $100. 

If you think that $70 won’t make a difference in someone’s life, you are not struggling in this economy. But plenty of people are, and Hillary cares for such people and proposed a mechanism to give them some relief. But she is blasted for it as if she had called on Americans to eat their children.

Further, Obama supports nuclear power even though we have no technology and no way to deal with the nuclear waste. HELLO!! Wake up America!! Obama is wrong on nuclear power. He has been bought by the nuclear power industry. Obama has terrible judgement, and he does not care about the people who would suffer living next to reactors or to the radioactive waste they produce.

See videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvoGAcG0vZ0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjDmyToTYBE

video: Ten Reasons to Not Vote for Obama

There are at least ten reasons to not vote for Obama, that do not include his lack of judgement in choosing Wright as a pastor:

1)Obama refuses to speak to reporters/walks out of conferences. He is not a transparent politician.

2)He was involved with Tony Rezko, who was indicted for influence peddling and is a corrupting influence in Illinois politics.

3)Tony Rezko got millions of dollars from the government to create affordable housing in Obama’s district, now 11 of the buildings he was supposed to fix are boarded-up and are unlivable.

4)Obama voted “present” hundreds of times instead of taking a stand because he did not want to offend contributors, like Robert Blackwell, who Obama helped obtain state grants for.

5)Obama chose as his mentor Bill Ayers and Dohrn, who are terrorists who detonated bombs on US territory and they helped him start his career.

6) Obama lied about filling out a questionnaire that details his stand on many important issues like abortion, the death penalty and gun control. It has his handwriting but he said a staffer filled it out. Obama also lied about the Kennedy family helping his father.

7)Obama also has acknowledged that he “voted by mistake” many times?!

8)Obama made a statement that said his grandmother is “a typical white person” who has a “reaction bred” into her when she sees someone she does not know.

I don’t think you need to raise the possibility of “suble racism” as a reason why people do not trust Obama. There are many reasons why people should support Hillary, and all have to do with the fact that she is better qualified, more experienced, harder working, and smarter about putting plans together that would help people. 

Google: “Hillary’s accomplishments.”

Hillary helped create the SCHIP Children’s Health Insurance program, which now covers six million children; she has sponsored over 350 bills—everything from added protection for children in vehicles to protection of a watershed to added benefits for public safety officers. 

She has traveled to over 80 countries. 

Hillary’s healthcare plan is truly universal, it would cover everyone, Obama’s would not. 

She supports using the best environmental technology to do oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico while we develop green energy so as to lessen our dependence on foreign oil. Obama does not. 

Obama supports nuclear energy, which is a disaster. How many of his supporters are even aware of this? Few, and that is the problem with the media bias against Hillary. 

Meanwhile, Obama has lied many times on issues that are a lot more significant than Hillary embellishing her trip to Bosnia. 

Obama lied about how his father came to the US, saying the Kennedy family program helped him when in fact his father came before the program started. See the Washington Post article, “Obama Overstates Kennedys’ Role in Helping His Father” by Michael Dobbs.

Does it make sense to you that a candidate cannot defend herself without being insulted, or that she cannot attack her opponents without herself being labeled as “divisive”?

The perception is that Hilary Clinton is negative, because as I have stated earlier, she is not allowed, basically because of a biased media and frankly our sexist culture, to defend herself or attack her opponents.

Politics is about fighting for what you believe, and women’s rights have always been a struggle to voice concerns over inequality while being shouted over to “keep quiet.” The fact that women get killed because they are women in our world right now, makes it worth fighting to get the attention this issue deserves.

A lot of Hillary’s struggle has been just to have her voice heard, her work looked at objectively, her accomplishments acknowledged. But the reaction of too many people is to dehumanize her, to debase her, and to try to humiliate her.

In the real world, I would expect that people who fight for themselves will be able to fight for others. And in the real world, I think people objectively would not feel so upset about a person defending themselves. But with Hillary, everything she says is blown out way out of proportion.

For example, in this latest incident with Obama saying: