Hillary’s Voice

Wise people throughout the centuries have observed that what we focus on (positive or negative) becomes energized.

That said, since late January, more of my campaign-related blog posts have been Obama-negative than Hillary-positive. There’s a natural reason for that: Obama has been stealthily negative since Iowa and his campaign has made many false statements.

I will continue to point out when the Obama campaign does such things, because many media are refusing to do that basic part of their job.

To balance things out and help energize Hillary in a positive way, I’ve decided to also post AT LEAST ONE positive piece about Hillary every day.

Please join my (now small) effort for Hillary’s benefit.

It’s easy to find Hillary-positives: she has a long history of them, which I touched on in a post (with links) here.

She also has a lot of present-day positives, listed at Hillary’s site here.

Today, I did a simple post about the Maya Angelou piece — THANKS to Hillary’s Voice group for pointing it out!

At the bottom of my Angelou post are links to few other positive pieces that have links to outside sources.

Six Democratic super-delegates from North Carolina plan to endorse Barack Obama before that state’s primary. They’re afraid that prolonged contentious campaigning will reduce the yet-unnamed Dem nominee’s chances against McCain.

Translation: they want Hillary to drop out sooner.

Super-delegates’ attempts to prematurely give Obama the nomination would only further ossify the resentment many Hillary supporters already feel toward Obama and the Democratic Party.

Below, I explain why throwing the race to Obama now might make John McCain ecstatic in November — and would likely create a new wave of Independents.

Since the Reverend Wright situation recently left splatter marks on Barack Obama, we’ve heard a lot from Obama’s campaign about how Hillary Clinton embellished the danger of her trip to Bosnia back in 1996, among other things.

Yesterday, the Washington Post reported on some of Obama’s own embellishments: i.e., his falsely taking credit for other U.S. senators’ legislative work. A few weeks ago, the Obama campaign sent a fund-raising email that 1) said that Hillary is attacking Obama’s supporters — a statement that’s as divisive as it is factually questionable; and 2) accused Hillary of being divisive.

Last night, I found a Time Magazine blog post called “Just Embellished Words: Senator Obama’s Record of Exaggerations & Misstatements.”

Between 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina (with help from Mr. Rove and Mr. Limbaugh), George Bush managed to get a few million Americans riled up whenever other people questioned their president — as though the questioners were calling Bush fans’ mamas “ugly.”

Brilliant strategy: getting people emotionally invested to the point that they took personally any political opposition to a guy most of them weren’t even friends with.

Six days ago, I received an email evincing that Barack Obama’s campaign staffers are using a similar tactic. In part, the email reads: