The Trail: A Daily Diary of Campaign 2008

Hillary's great, as is her well-educated, accomplished daughter. Family quality tells in each generation. This is a class act.

How about headlining:
"FATHER LIKES DAUGHTER: IT AIN'T ILLEGAL IN ARKANSAS IFFEN YE CAIN'T READ"
Answers why Chelsea is instructed NOT to take questions from the press.

Oh puhleeze everyone .... ANYBODY but Hillary!

Shocking Hillary Clinton Videos

http://www.judiciaryreport.com/shocking_hillary_clinton_videos.htm

It amuses me that the Billary sheep keep mentioning Obama's drug use as if it was a bad thing. Firstly he quit, secondly when he did it he was at least smart enough to inhale rather than just fake it for being "one of the guys" like Bill Clinton who can't even be genuine about his misdemeanors. Also worth noting that Bush like Clinton abused drugs (although in his case the main one was the legal "taxable" drug of alcohol).

Obama isn't a perfect person, no one is. However when it comes to drugs he's been honest and his message is much more suitable for younger people assessing their options than the cowardice of people like Bush and his political siblings the Clintons.

"Why did you choose a career that led you to work for a Hedge Fund, whose top managers certainly receive favorable tax treatment under current federal policy,rather than one in public service such a Peace Corps-type organization or the Volunteer military?"

What a joke. Why did M Obama get a job that tripled her salary from a Rezko associate immediately following Barack's successful, funded in no small part by the same said Rezko, election to the Senate? Why do you not impose the same job level requirements, such as the Peace Corp, upon any member of the Obama family?
Political favors from politicians, usually after they leave office for their family members is nothing new or changed.
Frankly, as is usually the case, the knowledgeable candidates have all been eliminated or marginalized by the media. In all likelihood because most so called reporters are unable to understand a two sentence or more answer to a question. Why bother to know anything at all when you have the good folks from Rogaine etc. to tell you the right and moral thing to report. You know the guys like W. Blitzer and Tim Russert, the really smart journalists. The old sage "The best politician money can buy" is just as true for wonder boy as anyone else. Has been for all my life and I am old enough to have seen many elections.

"Sen. Jay Rockefeller (WV), Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee"

Are you referring to the same Rockefeller that has been supportive of the telecom companies immunity since they donated millions to his relection campaign?

Jacksmith----

Yeah, I might be an idiot. But you are one.

WHO DO YOU WANT ANSWERING THAT PHONE AT 3 AM?

Sen. Jay Rockefeller (WV), Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, gave his answer Friday.

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2008/02/29/rockefeller_endorses_obama/8868/

"The indisputable fact is Barack Obama was right about Iraq when many of us were wrong," Rockefeller said in a statement. "It was a tough call and the single greatest national security question, and mistake, of our time."

It's time for democratic voters to realize that Obama is nothing else than an empty suit with a very good speech. Showing up with zero experience at the most important job on the earth it can't do anything good for the country, nor for him. On the other side , the republicans are already prepared with the couple of devastating themes against Obama that will make McCain an easy winner this fall. Let's face it, Clinton did not attack Obama with the nastiness republicans will do. So the only solution is to nominate Clinton who we now is tested, qualified for the job and ready from the very first day.

YOU MIGHT BE AN IDIOT:-)

If you think Barack Obama with little or no experience would be better than Hillary Clinton with 35 years experience.

You Might Be An Idiot!

If you think that Obama with no experience can fix an economy on the verge of collapse better than Hillary Clinton. Whose ;-) husband (Bill Clinton) led the greatest economic expansion, and prosperity in American history.

You Might Be An Idiot!

If you think that Obama with no experience fighting for universal health care can get it for you better than Hillary Clinton. Who anticipated this current health care crisis back in 1993, and fought a pitched battle against overwhelming odds to get universal health care for all the American people.

You Might Be An Idiot!

If you think that Obama with no experience can manage, and get us out of two wars better than Hillary Clinton. Whose ;-) husband (Bill Clinton) went to war only when he was convinced that he absolutely had to. Then completed the mission in record time against a nuclear power. AND DID NOT LOSE THE LIFE OF A SINGLE AMERICAN SOLDIER. NOT ONE!

You Might Be An Idiot!

If you think that Obama with no experience saving the environment is better than Hillary Clinton. Whose ;-) husband (Bill Clinton) left office with the greatest amount of environmental cleanup, and protections in American history.

You Might Be An Idiot!

If you think that Obama with little or no education experience is better than Hillary Clinton. Whose ;-) husband (Bill Clinton) made higher education affordable for every American. And created higher job demand and starting salary's than they had ever been before or since.

You Might Be An Idiot!

If you think that Obama with no experience will be better than Hillary Clinton who spent 8 years at the right hand of President Bill Clinton. Who is already on record as one of the greatest Presidents in American history.

You Might Be An Idiot!

If you think that you can change the way Washington works with pretty speeches from Obama, rather than with the experience, and political expertise of two master politicians ON YOUR SIDE like Hillary and Bill Clinton..

You Might Be An Idiot!

If you think all those Republicans voting for Obama in the Democratic primaries, and caucuses are doing so because they think he is a stronger Democratic candidate than Hillary Clinton. :-)

Best regards

jacksmith...

Chelsea is better than Obama. Obama used drug, Chelsea did not. Obama refused to pay over a dozen parking tickets for over 10 years received when he was studying law at Harvard as an adult, Chelsea did not. Obama stole a line from a friend without properly crediting his friend, Chelsea did not. Obama is linked to Rezko who is investigated as a criminal, Chelsea is not. Who do you vote for? not Obama!

Posted by: hao | March 2, 2008 09:11 AM

I WILL NOT VOTE FOR ANYONE WHO PAYS PARKING TICKETS OR WHO IS RELATED TO SUCH A PERSON.
SCUM, ALL OF THEM.

Why would anyone believe anything hedgefund, extreme makeover surgery chelsea had to say?????

Everything about chelsea is fake...

I will never forget when, 48 years ago, as an exchange student in Nebraska and a young admirer of Kennedy in a Republican home, I was shown the pictures of the two then candidates - Kennedy and Nixon - and was asked whether I didn't see that Nixon looked a lot more trustworthy than his opponent!...
Ever since that day I have had my doubts about the reasons why people prefer one candidate over another...

We got six polls this morning (including the MSNBC one) and they all agree that Obama is slightly ahead in Texas and slightly behind in Ohio. Full roundup: http://www.campaigndiaries.com/2008/03/sunday-polls-ohio-and-texas-are-sort-of.html

The Sunday papers in England are lashing out brutally at Hillary Clinton and Chelsea gets her share, too.

http://tpzoo.wordpress.com/2008/03/02/the-sunday-papers-the-fat-lady-sings/

The Times seriously asks whether Chelsea would be the next Clinton to run for the Presidency and happily uses the opportunity to slam her, too.

One simple question to Hillary Clinton !

You have long royal history, you have diplomatic smile, you have Bill, you have Chelsea, you have connections, you have worldwide fame and so on !

Obama is poor. No experience, black, not ready, simple looking and so on !

Then why people like him, so far, more than you ?

When will Obama answer his ties to Rezko? See Chicago Sun Times of 3/1/08 "Seeing red, Rezko in Texas"

Will Obama be a man of his word?

Obama talks about the importance of his words, but will he keep his pledge to take public financing in the general election? He needs to answer this question NOW--it's important to Democratic voters in Texas and Ohio.

If he doesn't accept public financing then he will have reneged on one of the most fundamentally important statements he's made--it was a "pledge" he made. He vowed his "word," his name, to not accept public financing if the Republican opponent would do the same--John McCain has done so.

Will Obama be a man of his word, or will he only choose to carry through on his word when it's politically convenient for him?

I disagree. Chelsea gets tons of coverage and why? I mean----she has been hiding away on a hedge fund. This isn't someone who has come out with any opinions about any issue at all.

I am not saying she is a bad person, but I really don't understand why the media continues to cover her, when she herself won't even give an interview.

Texas Primary Prediction Time!

Who do you predict will win the Texas Democratic Presidential Primary?

http://www.youpolls.com/details.asp?pid=1793

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Ohio Primary Prediction Time!

Who do you predict will win the Ohio Democratic Presidential Primary?

http://www.youpolls.com/details.asp?pid=1794

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Hillary should be proud of her daughter! I am. She is a well educated and a well mannered young lady...As a father of three daughters I am very sincere in my admiration of Chelsea Clinton. I am also very sincere in asking to see the tax returns of her parents and where the Five $mil loan came from and Bill's international wheeling and dealing.Please come clean Clintons before Ohio and Texas. Ken Wooden

I found a great video on everything Senator Obama means to us and will bring to this country. I believe strongly that Martin Luther King Jr. would want everyone to see this video - to see the truth that will set them free :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuB_W8o_UsU

Chelsea's as willfully ignorant as her mother. Everyone has reported, over and over, that the 'iron my shirt' guys were from a local radio station. Yet Chelsea uses her "They weren't kidding. They were serious." soundbite in every speech ever since.

I didn't believe David Geffen's assessment of the Clintons at the time: "Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it's troubling." After what I've seen in this campaign, now I believe it. And yes, it's very troubling.

HRC is 60yrs old. She claims 35yrs of experience. She graduated Yale law school at 25. Does she mean to imply that she's counting the day after she graduated law school to work as a corporate lawyer as part of her experience? The Clintons are so phony.

Bill had the chance to go down as one of the best presidents. However, he left the White house in ignominy; from the Lewinski scandal to his pardonings of blatant white collar criminals who were his political allies.

HRC will be more of the same. There will be gross nepotism. Appointments to key positions will be made to those who have contributed or are owed favors. It will be like this current administration. Obama truly represents change. Just look at his campaign. He is supposed to be a neophyte. He however picked some very smart people who have run a marvelous campaign. His judgment is superior to HRC's. He is not emboldened to pick certain people like HRC. He is free to pick the best.

Making women terrified to report sexual harassment out of fear of being publicly humiliated and having their careers destroyed is a terrible role model for women, as is attacking the character of 12-year-old rape victims.

Posted by: info23 | March 2, 2008 10:45 AM
_______________________________

HUH?

Speaking of easy to understand here is one where you can just look at the picture. The trend explains it all.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/president/us/democratic_presidential_nomination-191.html

Okay, let's stipulate that Hillary is an excellent mother and has Chelsea's interests at heart.

And let's say Chelsea wants to intern with someone not her father who, in all respects, resembles Bill Clinton.

Would the doting mother want Chelsea exposed to that risk?

Would she want her daughter to marry that person?

I think not.

Then why would we want to allow him back into the taxpayer-supported White House?

Time to move on.

Please read this:

"I found this story about a case where Hillary used her knowledge of child abuse to get a man off of rape charges to be very sad and disturbing. Of course, it was her job as a lawyer to provide a competent defense, but it seems like she may have crossed a line by aggressively attacking the 12-year-old girl"s character.

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/ny-usark245589997feb24,0,2670956.story

She seems to have carried that tactic with her when she actively participated in smear campaigns against the credibility of the victims of her husband"s harassment, even after he was caught lying under oath in a court of law. Making women terrified to report sexual harassment out of fear of being publicly humiliated and having their careers destroyed is a terrible role model for women, as is attacking the character of 12-year-old rape victims.

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/2/24/164324/479/466/463280

She's not giving an opinion about issues. She's answering questions about her mom the candidate's opinions and record.

Hope that wasn't too much information for you to try to understand.

rd

From the Washington Post:

THERE'S THE BEEF
"During the course of our endless presidential campaigns, lots of silly things are said by the candidates and the press. But few are more ridiculous than the idea that Barack Obama is just an empty suit."

"We're talking here about a former president of the Harvard Law Review. Have you ever met the people who get into Harvard Law School? You might not choose them as friends or lovers or godparents to your children, but -- trust me on this -- there aren't many lightweights there. And Obama was chosen by all the other overachievers as top dog. Compared with the current leader of the free world, this guy is Albert Einstein."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/21/AR2008022102826.html

Judge Him by His Laws - Obama's 12 year record as senator
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/03/AR2008010303303.html

"Since most of Obama's legislation was enacted in Illinois, most of the evidence is found there -- and it has been largely ignored by the media in a kind of Washington snobbery that assumes state legislatures are not to be taken seriously. (Another factor is reporters' fascination with the horse race at the expense of substance that they assume is boring, a fascination that despite being ridiculed for years continues to dominate political journalism.)"

If experience, wisdom and judgment may be relied upon to judge a presidential candidate's abilities to solve problems, then let's look at the records of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.

In the Illinois legislature, Barack Obama secured bipartisan support for health-care reform and passage of low-income tax credits and child care subsidies.

In 2002, Barack Obama cautioned that without clear rationale an invasion of Iraq would encourage the worst impluses of the Arab world and strengthen the recruitment arm of Al Qaeda.

In the U.S. Senate, Barack Obama promoted a restoration of balance between work and wealth, criticized special interests for distorting U.S. tax codes and fought in a bipartisan effort to establish independent oversight of Senate ethics.

When did Hillary Clinton demonstrate her economic wisdom and foresight while Alan Greenspan was warning of irrational exuberance as the subprime housing loans were created and pandered during her husband's administration and her husband supported China's entry into the World Trade Organization without any conditions such as protecting the environment or labor and property rights to levels that are comparable to western standards?

Today China is not only a leading contributor to environmental pollution and global warming (thank you very much Mr. Nobel Laureate, Al Gore), it's also pushing up oil and other commodity prices, taking our jobs and stealing our intellectual property.

When did Hillary Clinton deliver health-care reform? In Hillary Clinton's eight (8) years in the Senate, the Congressional Record (www.thomas.gov) shows she "sponsored" only two (2) pieces of legislation that were presented to the president for signature. The first piece of legislation (S. 1241) was to establish a historic site in New York state, the second (S. 3613) was to name a U.S. Postal Service building.

At 3:00 AM who is Hillary Clinton gonna call in a national crisis? GHOSTBUSTERS?

Without any attachment to a position and no leadership qualities or principles to guide her in a time of national crisis, Hillary Clinton like her husband, would need to first conduct a poll to determine what is in her political interest before committing to any national decision.

It's refreshingly nice to see the better angels of America's character prevailing as voters reject the racial, religious and ethnic slurs being spewed by the divisive Clinton, Limbaugh and Hannity supporters.

As a Republican-leaning independent, I will vote for Barack Obama if he is the Democratic nominee running against John McCain but I will not vote for Hillary Clinton.

NEWS FLASH: Hillary Clinton and her daughter Chelsea are inspiring!! Some of you silly narcisists just aren't capable of seeing that, but many, many of us - the TRUE CORE MEMBERS OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY are sensationally inspired by Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Leave it to the "feel-good", "unifying" operatives in the Obama camp to attempt a slam of Chelsea Clinton, of all people. The young woman has been the very picture of professionalism and poise throughout this entire campaign, and you try to malign her because she's not "funny" enough. Well, I'll hand it to you, that sentiment is absolutely hilarious!

Let it be said once again, try real hard to listen now: This is a PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN, not a season of AMERICAN IDOL.

Hillary is the next President of the US.

Chelsea is presidential material. She's as well versed in policy as her two parents. Compare that to the Bush daughters, who giggle and can barely string a coherent sentence together. I'd vote for Chelsea in 10, 15 years time. She might be our first woman president of the United States.

Chelsea Clinton has never taken a political stand in her life. And her opinion is supposed to matter?

It all comes down to Ohio and certainly Texas for Clinton and Co.:

Texas Primary- Hillary vs. Barack:

http://newsusa.myfeedportal.com/viewarticle.php?articleid=50

Why does Hilary take Americans for fools?
Even her own strategists have no clue what that is...

February 29, 2008 Pregnant Pause

It was, in this reporter's opinion, the most interesting moment in today's Clinton campaign phoner with reporters. Responding to the release of HRC's new TX TV ad, which asserts in no subtle terms that only she has the experience to deal with a major world crisis, and, relatedly, to keep your children safe, Slate's John Dickerson asked the obvious question:

"What foreign policy moment would you point to in Hillary's career where she's been tested by crisis?" he said.

Silence on the call. You could've knit a sweater in the time it took the usually verbose team of Mark Penn, Howard Wolfson and Lee Feinstein, Clinton's national security director, to find a cogent answer. And what they came up with was weak -- that she's been endorsed by many high ranking members of the uniformed military.

Borrowed speeches is not experience.

Obama should at least a full Senate term and learn the hard lessons of making difficult choices before bragging about his lack of experience.

He can cut an paste all the eloquence from all the great leaders of the past but that doesnt make him experienced.

I think it would be fair for a college student to ask Ms Clinton the following question, considering that she was brought up in the White House by parents who would both say they are/were committed public servants: "Why did you choose a career that led you to work for a Hedge Fund, whose top managers certainly receive favorable tax treatment under current federal policy,rather than one in public service such a Peace Corps-type organization or the Volunteer military?"

The nasty inuendo and smarmy personal attacks by some of the pro Clinton posters here are truly repulsive. The remind of the things I hate most about Republicans.

An outside observer from Canada.

Chelsea Clinton is representing her mother's campaign on the trail. She's not representing herself, her ideas, her humor, her character, her beliefs. To that end, she has to come across as a sober, serious spokesman - one who's kept on a tight leash.

From this article, it "reads" like she's doing exactly that. She's neither her father nor her mother. And however one feels about those two, Chelsea Clinton is delivering the campaign's messages in the way it appears to me that she was intended to so. I would say she gets an A.

Would other campaign spokesmen for the Cliton campaign act with the same poise and dignity, and no: I don't mean her parents. I mean the surrogates and the job shoppers appearing in news stories from around the country.

More Chelsea Clinton, less of the creepy crawlers.

Thanks much. HLB, Mt. Lebanon PA

Chelsea's comment is honest. Her father, former President Bill Clinton adroitly trying to help his wife Senator Hillary Clinton to win the Primary. My observation is: Senator Clinton is bragging too much on the core on of the core element of leadership; which is "Experience"... is overly used by Hillary but that may sooner or latter hit the rocks hard! A Republican seeks for a new beginning; that may ensure the enhancement of the lost image of America.

I seriously doubt Chelsea will quit her lucrative day job at a hedge fund; funny thing is that Hillary Clinton criticized the salaries of the same hedge fund managers (what, Chelsea makes about 200K). While Schuster of MSNBC got kicked for his language for the way the Clintons use their daughter, I have no such restraints. Hillary's use of her daughter comes straight from "Hustle and Flow": "It's hard out here for a pimp!"

I've never understand why, when someone like Bill Clinton refuses to answer questions and doesn't allow the press to use anything he says, do they even bother to follow the megamaniac around?

Hillary Clinton has been telling America that she is the most qualified candidate for president based on her "record," which she says includes her eight years in the White House as First Lady - or "co-president" - and her seven years inthe Senate. Here is a reminder of what that record includes: - As First Lady, Hillary assumed authority over Health Care Reform, a process that cost the taxpayers over $13 million. She told both Bill Bradley and Patrick Moynihan, key votes needed to pass her legislation, that she would "demonize" anyone who opposed it. But it was opposed; she couldn't even get it to a vote in a Congress controlled by her own party. (And in the next election, her party lost control of both the House and Senate.) - Hillary assumed authority over selecting a female Attorney General. Her first two recommendations, Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood, were forced to withdraw their names from consideration. She then chose Janet Reno. Janet Reno has since been described by Bill himself as "my worst mistake." (Recall the Waco disaster). - Hillary recommended Lani Guanier for head of the Civil Rights Commission. When Guanier's radical views became known, her name had to be withdrawn. - Hillary recommended her former law partners, Web Hubbell, Vince Foster, and William Kennedy for positions in the Justice Department, White House staff, and the Treasury, respectively. Hubbell was later imprisoned, Foster committed suicide, and Kennedy was forced to resign. Hillary also recommended a close friend of the Clintons, Craig Livingstone, for the position of director of White House security. When Livingstone was investigated for the improper access of up to 900 FBI files of Clinton enemies ("Filegate") and the widespread use of drugs by White House staff, both Hillary and her husband denied knowing him. FBI agent Dennis Sculimbrene confirmed in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in 1996, both the drug use and Hillary's involvement in hiring Livingstone. After that, the FBI closed its White House Liaison Office, after serving seven presidents for over thirty years. - In order to open "slots" in the White House for her friends the Thomasons (to whom millions of dollars in travel contracts could be awarded), Hillary had the entire staff of the White House Travel Office fired; they were reported to the FBI for "gross mismanagement."

Her "experience" also includes her vote to authorize the war in Iraq, a war that has cost thousands of U.S. lives, hundreds of thousands of injuries and mental health problems, hundreds of thousands Iraqi civilian lives and who knows how many more injuries. This authorization has resulted in weakening our attack against Al Queda and the Taliban in Afghanistan, introduction of terrorist cells into Iraq, and so on. The bill so far $2 trillion dollars. We're hated in the world everywhere and to what end?

For the future of our children and their children, please end the Bush/Clinton dynasty. Obama '08

Let us take a step bacward and think what Obama has done for the country.Before he was elected he said Iraque war is wrong,which donot count.He has bought a property in Chigago with the help of an criminal,he also donoted in his campain.Now decide who should get your vote

The Post reports:

"Like her father, Chelsea doesn't take questions from reporters on the road. Chelsea Clinton famously told a 9-year-old 'reporter' from Scholastic News in December she wouldn't answer her questions.

"Her father, meanwhile, has effectively been banned by his staff from speaking to the press after some controversial statements last month.

"At several events Friday and Saturday, campaign aides put steel barriers around the media area and said reporters could not leave until Bill Clinton left first.

"Anyone could approach the former president except for journalists, thereby removing from Clinton the temptation to respond to shouted media questions."

Put that into the context of yesterday's pathetic bleat from the Clinton campaign"-this time from Hillary mega-contributor Walter Shorenstein, founder of the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, who claims that HRC is losing because the media is biased against her"-tells me two things.

First, that there is a cultural commonality of victimhood that unites Clintonites"they are never responsible for their failures, their mistakes, or their lies, ever ("not one time," as Bill would, and did, say).

Second, that the media is actually bending over (and not necessarily backwards), to accomodate this kind of bullroar in order to placate the fading bulls of the Democratic establishment.

Maybe real estate developer Shorenstein should remember the words of broastcast legend Edward R. Murrow:

"We cannot make good news out of bad practice."

You cannot make good news with a bad candidate either.

Obama is so inspiring that many of his supporters littered the Internet posting malicious personal attacks towards Hillary. They are intimidating, they are classless. they should be rejected and denounced.

It's telling when a candidate can run against an entire family in a state where the voters are supposedly the ideal demographic for that family and still be competitive. The Clintons initially benefited from name recognition in every state. Once Obama gets a week or two to campaign that advantage disappears. That should tell us who is more "presidential."

I truly believe if Chelsea's Mom weren't running she'd be an ardent Obama supporter.

Chelsea is better than Obama. Obama used drug, Chelsea did not. Obama refused to pay over a dozen parking tickets for over 10 years received when he was studying law at Harvard as an adult, Chelsea did not. Obama stole a line from a friend without properly crediting his friend, Chelsea did not. Obama is linked to Rezko who is investigated as a criminal, Chelsea is not. Who do you vote for? not Obama!

Chelsa better keep whatever day job she has because there is nothing there. A lot like her mother she is not inspiring or funny.