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”

* He did not stand up against Wright for 20 years while Wright used the pulpit to spread hateful lies against the United States and its people, including blaming the U.S. for creating the AIDS virus in order to commit genocide.
“An Angry Obama Renounces Ties to His Ex-Pastor”

* He insults the Democratic process by working to disallow the delegates from Florida from counting, calling it a “name recognition” exercise, when it was in fact a fair election where he broke the pledge to not campaign there by buying national cable advertisements.
Obama’s new ad is a “clear and blatant violation”

“Obama suggests halving Florida delegation”

* He accepted money and land from a corrupt influence peddler like Tony Rezko, turning his back on the residents of Chicago’s South Side who needed the affordable housing that Rezko was supposed to provide after receiving one hundred million dollars to do so. Even now eleven buildings in Obama’s district are still boarded-up and unlivable.
“Obama ducks the questions: Suddenly, our open senator is acting like a dissembling pol”

“An Obama Patron and Friend Until an Indictment”

* He accepted money from the Nuclear Power industry and is an advocate for it after being bought off even though we have no solution for the disposal of nuclear waste.
“Nuclear Leaks and Response Tested Obama in Senate”

If you continue to support Obama, after these displays of corruption, of malice, and poor judgement, and after the disgraceful way he has behaved toward Hillary, then you will make it impossible for me to continue in the Democratic Party. Your judgement and your leadership would be as suspect as Obama’s.

Furthermore, by continuing to support Obama you send the signal that you condone a society where no one in a leadership position stands up for an innocent person like Hillary Clinton while she is slandered in the media by a member of her same political party. If you agree that Hillary should not have mentioned a historical fact, RFK’s death, because Ted Kennedy was recently diagnosed with cancer, making Hillary uncaring, then I find your reasoning to be gravely lacking. RFK is public domain, his legacy belongs to us all: Americans and the world. Hillary was not chanting about his death at a rally, she was not gleeful about it, she was using it as a historical reference during an interview with the editors of the Argus Leader newspaper.

In addition, if you think that the word “assassination” should be taboo and no one, especially Hillary, should dare mention it during a Presidential race, then I can only say that superstition has no place in rational thought; the word “assassination” does not have magical powers. To suggest that mentioning the word “assassination” might “give people ideas” belies the reality that having the secret service detail all around the Presidential contenders is a much stronger suggestion to people than making a historical reference in an editorial boardroom meeting would.

What all of these attacks on Hillary’s innocent comment have in common, besides the fact that they are an attempt to silence her, and that they are irrational and mean-spirited, is that the society that her attackers want us to accept, and you if you are complicit and do not stand up for her, is completely frightening. I do not think it is just to silence a person. I believe in freedom of speech. I also do not want to live in a society where historical facts are taboo and cannot be uttered because of superstition or “the spreading of ideas”—that is a Police State, it is not Liberty, it is not America. If Obama supporters want this kind of society, I will have to fight against it: I will become a Republican.

Hillary Clinton has been working on solutions that will help our country return to greatness for nearly two decades. She is what would be best for our nation. Hillary Clinton is qualified, dedicated, knowledgeable and caring. To overlook her accomplishments and her experience for an upstart with the thinnest of resumes is a slap in the face on a core value of America, that we are a meritocracy. To dismiss her for a corrupt and malicious man like Obama, who would slander her and accuse her of murderous intent, is beyond contemptible.

History will judge you unworthy of your leadership position if you do not stand up for the innocent, if you do not condemn Obama and his campaign for this most brutal assault on a true American patriot like Hillary Clinton.

“In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist;
And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist;
And then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew;
And then . . . they came for me . . . And by that time there was no one left to speak up.”

—Pastor Martin Niemöller

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.

Please note that it was the Obama campaign who e-mailed reporters about Hillary’s RFK statement and fanned the hysteria like they did to Geraldine Ferraro, like they did about Trina Bachtel’s death, and Hillary’s other innocuous comment about President Johnson and Dr. King. The Obama campaign has behaved in an irresponsible and hateful manner, inciting hatred against innocent people. Please stand up for the truth, for Hillary. Please.

When Clinton referenced RFK’s assassination while discussing previous Democratic nomination fights which stretched into June, she was quickly scolded by the Obama campaign.

“Senator Clinton’s statement before the Argus Leader editorial board was unfortunate and has no place in this campaign,” wrote Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton in a missive to reporters.

Burton’s e-mail included a link to a New York Post story which noted that Obama, who received a Secret Service detail early in the campaign, has been the subject of threats.

The Obama campaign’s decision to target Clinton’s RFK reference forced the former first lady to express regret for her remarks.

It also ensured that the dust-up would be covered on all three network newscasts.

— Source

The comment Hillary made about RFK is in no way offensive. People really have to bend it around to make it into something sinister. That takes effort, so it reveals the bias. All Hillary said was that nomination fights extend to the summer and have gone to the convention in August, and she gave a date that has historical significance: June when RFK was still campaigning. Her subtext was to question why she is being asked, and has been asked, to drop out when she is very close to winning the nomination outright.

Hillary Clinton is a good, honorable, person who has been a public servant for over 35 years, these attacks on her are vicious and mean-spirited. You have an opportunity to right a wrong; history will take note. I ask you to consider this episode in your endorsement. Hillary Clinton can win the general election, and she would be one of our country’s greatest Presidents. Her breadth and depth of knowledge, her commitment, her love for our country and its people, is evident every single day that she fights on in spite of formidable challenges. Strength, Fortitude, Resiliency, Diplomacy, Experience, Intelligence, Dignity, Courage: These are the qualities I want in a President. Hillary Clinton has demonstrated them all clearly.

I am impressed and awed by her tenacity and grit. She is a true representation of what is best about the promise of America: that through hard work and determination great things can be accomplished. Hillary Clinton has produced real results that help many people: she helped create the SCHIP Children’s Health Insurance, which now covers over six million children; she fought for the Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act to ensure the safety of prescription drugs for children, and she helped pass the Renewal Communities program to encourage investment in struggling communities.

Hillary inspires me. Please give your daughters that gift. Hillary is the better qualified, smarter, and harder-working candidate. Let this mean what it should mean in hiring someone for a position.

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.

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.

“About 80 percent of Obama’s lead — between 130 and 140 delegates — came in caucuses,”(Michael Barone, RealClearPolitics, 5/17/2008) which are not only undemocratic as they discriminate against those who cannot afford to spend the hours needed to participate in them, such as working class voters, shift workers, mothers, and the elderly, but caucuses are also undemocratic because they result in these types of numbers:

Clinton wins Ohio by 203,851 votes and
wins 9 more delegates than Obama

Clinton wins Pennsylvania by 214,115 votes and
wins 12 more delegates than Obama

Clinton wins Texas by 100,000 votes and
wins 5 LESS delegates than Obama

Obama wins Kansas by 17,710 votes and
wins 9 more delegates than Clinton

Obama wins Hawaii by 19,512 votes and
wins 8 more delegates than Clinton

Obama wins Minnesota by 73,115 votes and
wins 24 more delegates than Clinton

Source:
New York Times and RealClearPolitics:

Obama won far more delegates than correspond to the votes he won by. This is not only unfair representation, it strongly suggests that Obama is the weaker general election candidate. Exit poll data from states like West Virginia and Kentucky also reveal that large blocks of Hillary’s supporters will not vote for Obama if he is chosen as the nominee.

Furthermore, Hillary’s right to take her case to the convention is not unusual, indeed it is supposed to be part of the process. What has been unusual is the vile chorus from the Obama campaign, and his media enablers, that Hillary should drop out of the race, and that she has no chance of winning the nomination so her only motivation to continue the race must be a sinister one.

She does have a chance to win the nomination if the superdelegates, who were created in the 1980s to counterbalance the enthusiasm of left-wing caucus-goers, follow the rules and choose independently, which suggests that they should not just ratify the results of the caucuses and the paper-thin delegate edge Obama won in the primary states, or to choose Obama for the sake of “party unity,” or the “need” to have a nominee now rather than later. Obama will not win enough pledged delegates to secure the nomination without the superdelegates, this means his support is not a majority or a plurality. The superdelegates are free to choose based on their assessment of who is the most electable candidate, the one with the most support from core Democrats, in the fall election. That candidate is Hillary Clinton, and this is the reason she continues to fight for the nomination.

Indeed, Democratic nominees have emerged from bitter convention floor fights and have succeeded in becoming President:

Woodrow Wilson was nominated on the 146 ballot and went on to become President

Franklin D. Roosevelt was nominated in 1932 in a contentious convention after 4 ballots and went on to become President.

Hence, I pose the same question that Daniel A. Cirucci asks,

“In 1980, Kennedy came into the Democratic convention at Madison Square Garden in New York City with 1,225 delegates to President Carter’s 1,981, with 122 delegates uncommitted.

Kennedy stood on principle and people admired him for fighting the good fight.

If Kennedy could take it to the convention when he trailed by 756 delegates, why can’t Hillary go to the convention trailing by far less?”

My answer is Sexism, and this will not stand. We supporters of Hillary will not accept the superdelegates undermining her candidacy with bogus claims that they are following the “will of the people” when we know how unrepresentative the caucus states are. If Hillary additionally wins the popular vote, which should count Florida and Michigan because real people voted for her in these states, but the superdelegates still move to crown Obama, then we will have no choice but to reject Obama as the nominee.

The superdelegates should do the job they were given, which was NOT to rubber stamp the pledged delegates, but to choose the stronger candidate when it is a close race: Hillary Rodham Clinton.

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.

Finally, I believe that it would be unfair to punish Senator Clinton by not seating the Florida and Michigan delegates for the mistake that Florida and Michigan committed. I realize that you need to send a strong message to the states that breaking your rules is unacceptable. However, because these delegates can change who the nominee is, their importance is too great for you to apply your retribution when it so adversely affects Senator Clinton.

You must find a better solution for sending a message to the states regarding their commitment to your rules than to punish an innocent party. To punish Hillary Clinton for the sins of others is fundamentally unfair, plainly wrong, and I and many others will not support the Democratic Party in the November elections if this is what you choose to do.

Sincerely Yours,
LE

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.

* Hillary Clinton is committed to providing universal health care for all Americans. Her plan to create this program would address not only the great inequality and ineffectiveness of our health care system, where a woman like Trina Bachtel chooses not to go to a hospital because she owes $100 and pays for that decision with her life and the life of her unborn baby, but Hillary’s plan would also address the economic drag on US companies that have to provide healthcare while competing against companies in other countries that do not.

* Hillary Clinton has demonstrated her great knowledge, dedication and love for our country. I am impressed and awed by her tenacity and grit. She is a true representation of what is best about the promise of America: that through hard work and determination great things can be accomplished. Hillary Clinton has produced real results that help many people: she helped create the SCHIP Children’s Health Insurance, which now covers over six million children; she fought for the Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act to ensure the safety of prescription drugs for children, and she helped pass the Renewal Communities program to encourage investment in struggling communities.

Hillary was counted out after the first results in Iowa, so counting Hillary out again with only six more states to go is clearly a mistake. The voters in those states, like those of Michigan and Florida, should not be excluded from having their voices heard.

It is still possible for Hillary to win the nomination, “There is a minority of analysts out there - maybe 5%, maybe even less - who see her path to the nomination as much narrower than it was four days ago, but who still see a path. I’m with the minority on this one. However, it is possible that she could counter Tuesday’s blowout with two big blowouts of her own in the next two weeks. This could undo most of the damage done by her big loss in North Carolina, and put her back on track”—May 9, 2008, Jay Cost of Real Clear Politics.

I believe in Hillary Clinton, I am proud to have her as a model and I will not vote for the Democratic Party if I believe that she was treated unfairly. Superdelegates from the states that she has won, especially those that represent districts where she won by a majority of the votes, should support her.

Please do not reject the best qualified, most experienced, more dedicated, harder-working candidate. Please support Hillary Clinton for the Democratic Nomination and for President of the United States.

Thank you very much for your time.

I invite you to visit my YouTube page to watch the videos I have made in support of Hillary: http://www.youtube.com/user/iLEwoman

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

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.

9)Obama made a statement that small-town Americans are bitter and cling to guns, religion, and anti-trade sentiment.

10)Obama lies about the Clinton economic boom, if you go to FactCheck.org, you will see that Clinton is credited for passing the 1993 budget that helped create the boom of the 1990s.

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.

Obama lied about his positions regarding issues on a questionnaire he turned in during one of his Chicago political races, until evidence emerged in Obama’s own handwriting showing Obama worked on the answers himself, so those were the positions he held.

Obama lied about having nothing to do with lobbyists until it came out that a lobbyist was a key part of his own campaign in NH, at which point Obama simply said that he meant Federal, not State, lobbyists only. 

Obama lied about not knowing that his pastor Jeremiah Wright is a racist bigot. And Obama lied about not knowing that his slumlord friend Tony Rezco was under investigation, and later indicted for theft, when Obama “bought” the land next to his house from Rezco’s wife. 

So why would you insinuate that “subtle racism” may be behind people’s support for Hillary Clinton? There are clear, unambiguous, factual reasons to support Hillary and to not support Obama.

I think it is exactly this attitude that has prevented journalists from digging deeper into Obama’s record. But you are not doing anyone any favors. The truth will come out, and more negative things will be associated with Obama,like his comment that people who are not like him and live in small towns are bitter and cling to religion and hatred. 

It is really insulting that a person cannot feel good about supporting the better candidate, Hillary Clinton, because of the fear that it will be seen as racist. Come on, how is that fair? If there were no reasons to support Hillary, and if there were no questions about Obama’s experience, qualifications, or love for the people that a President is supposed to represent, then yes you can say it is racism. But this is not the situation in this election. 

Objectively you are talking about a woman who has spent her lifetime preparing to become president by working hard, being the best, getting things done, versus a man who gave a speech, has passed two pieces of legislation as US Senator and is not respected by his colleagues. Yes, he is a rock star and a celebrity, but he is not a Clinton, and it was under the Clintons that we had a period of time that we can only look back to fondly— a period of time with peace and prosperity.

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:

“You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them,” And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”

Now it is Hillary who is being attacked for criticizing this comment of Obama’s. Now most of the commentary is how terrible it was for Hillary to basically say anything at all. This is why I think she is not allowed to either defend herself or attack her opponents because as soon as she says something people just go up in arms with so much indignation that it is quite astounding. It is really something to behold.

Obama has been pandering to Americans everywhere, meanwhile he thinks them “bitter,” his preacher, Wright, thinks the country invented the AIDS virus to kill people of color and Obama never objected, but as soon as Hillary points out that this is not someone most people would want as President, the media turns on her and now she is the culprit, just like in the hospital story of Trina Bachtel.

In this story Hillary was accused of “being a liar,” but the fact is that Trina Bachtel’s death is a tragedy and it shows how horrible our healthcare system is that a pregnant lady is made to feel that she cannot go to a hospital because she owes $100. So, how can the culprit in this story be Hillary Clinton, who retold the story to illustrate what she has been fighting for: universal healthcare?

See: Health Care Horror Stories, By PAUL KRUGMAN, New York TImes:

“Stories like those of Trina Bachtel and Monique White are common in America, but don’t happen in any other rich country — because every other advanced nation has some form of universal health insurance. We should, too…. After all the fuss, The Washington Post eventually conceded that “Bachtel’s medical tragedy began with circumstances very close to the essence” of Mrs. Clinton’s account. And even more important, Mrs. Clinton was making a valid point about the state of health care in this country.”

There has been A LOT of sexism which has mostly been perpetrated by the media through a relentless stream of commentary and reporting that seeks to undermine Hillary Clinton as a human being, that seeks to minimize her importance, that seeks to belittle and humiliate her, and seeks to hurt her.

But facts are facts: women are victims of a 20% wage gap in the U.S. that has held steady for 14 years and which experts acknowledge can only be explained by discrimination, see Evelyn Murphy’s work on: www.wageproject.org

The fact is that one in three women is a victim of violence; Every 9 seconds a woman in the U.S. is physically assaulted (www.womaninc.org), with men as the batterers. The United States ranks 70th in the world in the number of women it has elected to office, between Cambodia and Zimbabwe, according to www.ipu.org.

When the New York Times reporter of “Jumping in the Pool”, KATHARINE Q. SEELYE, writes that, “you’ll see a notation at the top that there was “no news.” This is a quick signal to your fellow reporters that there were no headlines, no reason to call the desk,” regarding Hillary Clinton’s meeting with the family that told her of Trina Bachtel’s death following the delivery of a still-born baby, shows how the media bias against Hillary Clinton works. Everything Hillary does is minimized, made to be unimportant, made to be silly and insignificant. Had it been Obama, much would have been made of a family’s willingness to share a tragic story with him.

Meanwhile Obama gets articles written by the NY TImes about how eloquent he is even in body language:
Obama Body Language

So it takes Jay Leno to find how much he actually squirmed, like a little kid:
Obama Squirms

This is how the bias works, this is how sexism works. Hillary’s candidacy has been a joke to the reporters who are sent to cover her, and when things that are important are said by her, she is belittled or ignored.

I would also like to point out that the writer of this piece ended with the line,”But the story of the pregnant woman lived on,” which implies that some actual journalism took place, that reporters looked into the story and that the story spread—but that is not what happened. It did not “live on,” Hillary brought it on. Hillary brought it to the attention of her audiences. The reporters ignored this story until one hospital wanted to call Hillary a liar and then the media jumped on it, to pile on, to expose Hillary. This is how sexism works.