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To: LindyBill who wrote (244149)	4/1/2008 12:29:27 PM
From: KLP	Respond to of 793801

Hitchens will DEFINITELY Not be invited to a Clinton WH ... When Hillary and camp see that piece, wonder what they will do or say. It is the worse commentary on, and of the Clinton's I've ever seen....their camp would be smart to just bite their tongues, and hope the article fades in the silence..... She deserved every single bit of those bile soaked words....

To: LindyBill who wrote (244149)	4/2/2008 12:12:27 AM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793801

There is a difference between promises made and promises not kept. The difference boils down to integrity or lack of integrity. I don't believe either Clinton can spell promise or integrity. There will be a huge added plus to dumping Hillary. Some 41 former senior generals will sink with her. They have taken a political side in hopes of winning a platinum parachute. These military gray beards could be doing much good, instead they are prostituting themselves for personal gain. When the side they chose loses, they will lose all credibility.

To: LindyBill who wrote (244149)	4/2/2008 1:42:32 AM
From: goldworldnet	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793801

Though despicable, Hillary's scandal doesn't bother me nearly as much as Obama's. I'm a peace time vet and never did anything to brag about, but Obama's 20 year tie to a racist anti-American bothers me a whole lot more than Hillary's flippant war story lie. * * *

To: LindyBill who wrote (244149)	4/2/2008 12:44:47 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793801

Yet three years after he won election as the party chairman by running largely as an outsider, it is not clear that Mr. Dean has the political skills or the stature with the two campaigns to bring the nominating battle to a relatively quick and unifying conclusion. Indeed, 24 hours after he made his remarks, Mrs. Clinton said she intended to keep fighting for the nomination through the summer, if necessary. It was an unmistakable rebuke to Mr. Dean, who has never had good relations with the Clintons. In an interview, Mr. Dean said he was taking steps to pave the way to a smooth convention in Denver this summer, suggesting that he had had private conversations with both campaigns. Mr. Dean and his aides said they were assembling resources — voter lists, political organizations and polling on vulnerabilities of Senator John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee. Beyond that, Mr. Dean and other Democrats argued that with the party so divided — and in the midst of a fight between two outsized political figures — there were limits to what he could, or should, do. “I’m making calls all the time to people,” he said. “I’ve spoken to a great number of leaders who are not aligned. The operative thing here is let the voters get to have their say before the Washington politicians have their say.” Still, senior officials in both campaigns said they had heard rarely from Mr. Dean on matters like the tone of the contest and how it might be concluded and what to do about the Michigan and Florida delegates, the subject of a bitter and potentially debilitating debate between the Clinton and Obama campaigns. The chairman of the Florida Democratic Party, Karen Thurman, said she could not recall the last time Mr. Dean had called her to try work out the dispute. She and other Florida Democrats are to meet with Mr. Dean on Wednesday to try to persuade him to agree to a compromise. Some Democratic Party leaders, while offering sympathy for Mr. Dean’s plight, said it was urgent that he take a more assertive role to restore peace. Several suggested that Mr. Dean — who has sought to build a legacy by expanding party operations to all 50 states — risked having his tenure as party leader remembered for a traumatizing loss in a year where most Democrats think victory should be easy. “I think he should be talking to governors and Al Gore and John Kerry,” said Donald Fowler, a former party chairman who supports Mrs. Clinton. “I think he should be convening almost daily conversations with people — including the campaigns — trying to reach a solution.” “If I were a chair, I would be a little more public in what I was doing and suggesting,” Mr. Fowler said. “The D.N.C. chair rarely has an opportunity to do stuff, but this is one of those occasions.” Gov. Phil Bredesen of Tennessee drew attention last month when he proposed a solution: Have the elected Democratic officials and party leaders known as superdelegates convene after the voting is done on June 3 to resolve the fight. Mr. Bredesen said he had acted in part because he saw no evidence that Mr. Dean or other leaders were trying to resolve the situation. “What I try to do is when I see a problem to step up,” Mr. Bredesen said. “I think the party needs to take a hand in this thing.” ‘ Mr. Dean, a reserved former governor of Vermont, goes home most weekends and spends most of his weekdays on the road. In Washington, he stays at a hotel. His approach and style offer a sharp contrast to a string of big-shoulder, high-profile party chairmen —Terry McAuliffe or the late Ron H. Brown — who rose through the party ranks and were fixtures at the parties, fund-raisers and restaurants that make up this city’s political culture and where much of the political conversation takes place. He in many ways ran for chairman as a candidate defying the Democratic establishment, and his first years were marked by a very public feud with Representative Rahm Emanuel, Democrat of Illinois, over Mr. Dean’s trademark proposal to use Democratic National Committee money to build organizations in all 50 states. He does not have particularly close relationships with many of the people who are central to the Clinton and Obama campaigns or Washington Democratic players. “I have never heard from him,” said Charles T. Manatt, who was chairman of the Democratic National Committee from 1981 to 1985. “But he is a totally different style from someone like me who came in through the party process. Dean doesn’t live in town so he hasn’t connected with a lot of people in town.”

To: LindyBill who wrote (244149)	4/2/2008 12:48:33 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793801

Hillary's Delta Blues By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY \| Posted Monday, March 31, 2008 4:30 PM PT Election '08: Hillary Clinton blames predatory subprime mortgage lenders for creating the housing mortgage crisis. She should know. Her campaign manager sat on the board of one. Sen. Clinton has spent a considerable amount of campaign time bashing the Bush administration's handling of the subprime lending crisis. She paints a picture of economic disaster as financial wolves huff and puff to repossess everybody's home, though 96% of mortgagees have been making their payments on time. Williams: Predatory lender? She should be very familiar with the subject, since she has as her campaign manager one Margaret "Maggie" Williams, who has sat on the board of one of the nation's largest, and now bankrupt, subprime mortgage lenders accused by consumer advocates and the federal government of predatory lending practices. Williams joined New York-based Delta Financial in April 2000, less than a month after one federal official said Delta's practices were "turning the American dream of homeownership into a nightmare." In March 2000, the federal government had charged Delta with violating consumer fair lending and consumer protection laws by approving and funding loans regardless of the borrower's ability to pay. Delta Financial, and subsidiary Delta Funding, made much of its money by turning around and selling its loans at a profit. At the time Williams joined Delta, it had a 5% foreclosure rate — double the industry standard. Until Delta's bankruptcy last December, Williams sat on the board of the ninth-largest subprime lender in the nation, handling subprime loans worth more than $800 million in the third quarter of 2007 alone, according to National Mortgage News. As of last September, Williams owned 12,500 shares of Delta's common stock and by year-end had earned in the neighborhood of $175,000 for her board service, according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Records show that she was able to cash in some of her stock options for a profit of $15,000 during a temporary rise in Delta's stock price last July. Williams has a way of popping up at the most unusual times. When Bill Clinton was president, Johnny Chung, a bagman for the Chinese military, sought a photo-op with the Clintons for himself and a few close friends. Rebuffed by then-DNC Chairman Don Fowler, Chung showed up at the White House with a $50,000 check that he handed to Williams, Hillary Clinton's chief of staff. Williams also was seen by a Secret Service agent taking files from Vince Foster's office the night of Foster's alleged suicide. Foster, White House counsel for the Clinton administration, was Hillary Clinton's law partner at the Rose Law Firm and was tied to the Whitewater scandal. Williams also served as chief of staff for the William J. Clinton Foundation, contributors to which include the Soros Foundation. George Soros is the patron saint of MoveOn.org. The foundation's Form 990 IRS return from 2006 shows that none of the top 13 donors was identified. Curiously, donations rose nearly 50% to $138.5 million that year, about the time Hillary decided to seek the White House. Williams isn't the only Clintonian who made money from an industry Hillary has denounced. Henry Cisneros, Bill Clinton's former secretary of housing and urban development, grossed more than $5 million in stock sales and board compensation from Countrywide Financial, one of the nation's largest subprime lenders. Judging by her choice of staff and her truth-deficit disorder, it's clear Hillary Clinton isn't ready for prime, or even subprime, time.

To: LindyBill who wrote (244149)	4/2/2008 1:07:17 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793801

What happened in Selma, Alabama and Birmingham also stirred the conscience of the nation. It worried folks in the White House who said, "You know, we're battling Communism. How are we going to win hearts and minds all across the world? If right here in our own country, John, we're not observing the ideals set fort in our Constitution, we might be accused of being hypocrites." So the Kennedys decided we're going to do an air lift. We're going to go to Africa and start bringing young Africans over to this country and give them scholarships to study so they can learn what a wonderful country America is. This young man named Barack Obama got one of those tickets and came over to this country. He met this woman whose great great-great-great-grandfather had owned slaves; but she had a good idea there was some craziness going on because they looked at each other and they decided that we know that the world as it has been it might not be possible for us to get together and have a child. There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born. So don't tell me I don't have a claim on Selma, Alabama. Don't tell me I'm not coming home to Selma, Alabama." --Barack Obama, 40th anniversary of Selma civil rights march, March 4, 2007. A reader, Gregory Gelembiuk of the University of Wisconsin, thought there was something strange about the story told by Barack Obama in his Selma speech last year, and asked me to look into it. Obama made similar comments at American University in January when he was endorsed by Ted and Caroline Kennedy. Gelembiuk pointed out that the senator's father, Barack Obama Sr., came to the United States to attend the University of Hawaii in 1959. But a Kennedy memo available on the Internet appears to show that the Kennedy family only became involved in the program in July 1960. So how could Obama credit the Kennedy family for bringing his father over to America?