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Ther're Back: Ayers,Wright, and Rezko The House needs to step up to the plate. Where are the leaders? Time out? It's about time Here we go again Selective memories You can put lipstick on a pig,but it's still a pig Why I think Barack Obama will win in November No longer McCain's party October 07 November 07 December 07 January 08 February 08 March 08 April 08 May 08 June 08 July 08 August 08 September 08 October 08 John Edwards & Barack Obama went straight for the jugular in going after Hillary. They attacked the vote on calling the Iranian Revolutionary Council a terrorist organization. Saying it will give this president the excuse he needs to go to war with Iran. Hillary’s inconsistent answers were exposed on social security and at the end of the debate she agreed with New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's controversial plan to give driver's licenses to illegal immigrants but then a minute later started backtracking. Now Bill Clinton was a master at being evasive but her facial expressions and demeanor showed she is no Bill Clinton. Will this debate change the numbers? I don’t know. I think what was really exposed last night was status quo positions of the front runner. How can my party complain about the secrecy in the Bush Administration if Hillary does not turn over all her documents? I understand it gives the other candidates an unfair advantage, because she will be the only candidate required to do this. But if this lack of transparency is going to stop, someone has to take the lead. The other is lobbyist money; Hillary has out raised all the candidates of both parties in lobbyist money from Wall Street, defense department, and insurance and drug companies. Some might see it as success but really it business as usual. Somehow we must have a leader to take us to public financing because these lobbyist have too much influence. I am getting suspicious as to why the Bush Administration is getting their way on the latest NSA spying bill. Did the telecommunication lobbyist have something to do with it? I don’t know. This may sound like a slam on Hillary but it really isn’t, it just exposes some of her weakness in a primary. Great leaders learn form mistakes and they don’t usually repeat them. Constructive criticism will only make a person stronger. 
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Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for freedom of the press, but this election is about the candidates, not the pundits. We don’t need Chris Matthews or Bill O’Reilly trying to be the story. I was disappointed with Tim Russert Sunday when he tried to get Hillary to say, she injected race into her campaign. I thought Brit Hume of Fox news Sunday, gave the best explanation of what Hillary said about how it took Lyndon Johnson, along with Martin Luther King to get the civil rights legislation passed. Turn it upside down or right side out and you cannot come up with racial implications in her statement. Tim Russert tried to make her defend Bill Clinton’s fairytale statement about Obama’s record on the To be fair Barack Obama had campaign workers trying to use Hillary’s and Bill‘s statements to their advantage, in I never thought I would say this, but in my opinion, Bill Clinton needs to find a rocking chair and just cool it until after Super Tuesday. Right now, this primary is about Hillary Obama and Edwards. Bill Clinton will be a factor in the general election for the Democratic Party, but the people need to hear what Hillary will do for this nation, not what Bill Clinton thinks she will do. The Republican Party is topsy-turvy, broken up into three parts, the social conservatives, fiscal conservatives, and defense conservatives. They do not have a Ronald Reagan to unite the party. I cannot believe Mike Huckabee said we need to make the U.S. Constitution more compatible with the bible. That’s really throwing out red meat to the social conservatives in They will be interesting to see who wins the Democratic primary in 2 comments from 1 users
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posted by
victorianbybirth
on Jan 17, 2008 at 06:34 PM
I was talking to my "liberal" husband the other night about politics "cringe" while watching the primaries & we both agreed (unusual for us when discussing politics) that it would be a good thing if the media was placed under a gag order until the day after the election. No more predicting, slanting, skewing,etc...facts only, on election night. I don't think 12 million illegal voters & 300,000 dead Illonoisians? couldn't throw an election as well as the news media. It is obvious ,with all of the channels, who they support. If a majority of the voting public makes their decision based on what they see on & in the news & the news media knows this, then they are going to print & air at their discrimination (what suits them) instead of being unbiased. Our news media (all of them) are drunk with power & not afraid to use it!
posted by
victorianbybirth
on Jan 17, 2008 at 03:07 PM
I also don't see McCain as a classic Republican. He is more in line with Independents these days which is not necessarily a bad thing. The media needs to lay off the "racist" , "sexist" issues. I have yet to hear from either Obama or Clinton that would fall into those categories. This is why I dislike "main stream media".
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