Tales of the Blancasphere
Hillary has been doing my work again. It's not that she has been trying to derail Barack Obama using the tactics we used against her and Bill in '90's. It's not that she has been trying her best to make him unelectable. It's not even that she has been sinking her own party. It's that she has been so stupid to let the right manipulate her and play her like a cheap guitar.
She is the gift that keeps on giving--to the vast right wing conspiracy, of which I have been a loyal member. And here's the best part, she has been befriended by members of the right, like Richard Mellon Scaife. Others, like Sean Hannity, have come to her aid. She has even appeared on Bill O'Reilly twice. Thank heaven she's just that dumb.
You see, Hill doesn't understand that the only reason we are being so nice to her on the right is that we really, really, really want to run against her in the fall. We really can't run against the black guy, because most of us can't say "black" without sounding like we are card carrying members of the Ku Klux Klan. Which is just totally unfair to us. Many of us, like myself, stopped carrying the cards a long time ago and just attend the weekend rallies and weenie roasts. Nothing says good eating like a weenie roasted over a burning cross!
Hill doesn't understand that as soon as the primaries are over, and she is the nominee, we will come down on her like Larry Craig on a teamster at a truck stop bathroom. We have years of material saved up, chirons we are itching to splash across the television screens of America, stories saved up about how she murdered Vince Foster, killed some teenagers in Arkansas, and smuggled drugs in and out of South America.
What she doesn't know won't hurt Fox News' ratings in the fall. When the Fox News Network becomes all Hillary bashing all the time.
So I raise my glass to you Hillary. Thanks for doing my job for me. See you in Denver, when we totally rip you a new one!
by Blanca DeBree
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Bill Richardson, former Clinton Secretary of Energy, now former friend and crony, has left the Clinton nest and flown straight to the Obama camp, endorsement in hand with visions of a Vice-President slot dancing in his head.
In an email sent to the Obama camp Richardson praised Hillary as "a distinguished leader with vast experience" while gushing about Obama who would be in Richardson's words, "a historic and great president who can bring us the change we so desperately need by bringing us together as a nation here at home and with our allies abroad".
According to the Brit newspaper, the Telegraph, foreign corespondent Toby Harden claims Richardson's importance as an endorsement force ranks third after Al Gore and John Edwards. He also writes that Richardson's decision was perhaps, a "sheer naked political calculation" as Richardson has "made it clear he desperately wants to be Vice President".
Read the rest of Richardson Flies From Clinton's Coop: Endorses Obama.
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Seven famous Hillary Clinton Quotes in one 1:45 video for easy referral.
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Any candidate that is the media's darling ought to start looking over his shoulder.
Mike Huckabee has joined the ranks of such early campaign 'Media Next Big Things' as John Dean and John McCain. Both fascinated the media in early campaigning.
They fascinated the voters to a lesser extent.
Candidates should beware when journalists trot out that Pre-Primary Label of Doom--"groundswell". As in what reporters think they'd hear, if they had put their ears to the grounds anywhere other than the in press tent.
Also, unlike Iraqi War strategy, this is one "surge" they can get behind.
Huckabee is the latest groundsweller. The word usually signifies the support a candidate suddenly receives from press regulars tired of writing about nothing.
At least the NY Times' ADAM NAGOURNEY had the good sense to dampen some of the recent enthusiasm showered on the former Arkansas governor in the press.
Nagourney started out upbeat.“We’ve been waiting a long time for this to happen,” Mr. Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas, said by telephone Sunday as he prepared to board an airplane here. “It’s everything we’ve been working for.”
The article showcases some concerns of the Huckabee campaign.
The biggest concern should be the one that journalists point to while touting Huck as the Next Big Thing.The Des Moines Register’s poll found that support for Mr. Huckabee had gone from 12 percent in October to 29 percent now. That and other recent polls suggest that Mr. Huckabee and Mr. Romney are in an extremely tight contest. That showing came despite the fact that Mr. Huckabee has been hugely outspent by Mr. Romney on television and has not campaigned in Iowa since Nov. 8.
All the breathless reporting of Huckabee centers around the fact that his poll numbers are up to--29%?
In Iowa.
In December.
This Huckabee press spin is nice; be reminded though, the attention showered today can quickly disappear when another candidate starts looking "sexier".
Still, one can't begrudge the attention Mike Huckabee's been getting lately: he's a likable fellow and the news people do need something to write about. It's really harmless fun when you think about it. Still, Mike Huckabee might want to cast a backwards glance over his shoulder.
Just to see if anybody other than the press is back there.
Source:
New York Times - Mike Huckabee, Lonely No More
by Mondoreb
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10 Hillary Clinton quotes on the issues to start your day.
Two weeks ago,the news was about Hillary Clinton's flip flops on driver's licenses for illegal immigrants. For or against? No one, including Clinton, seemed to know.
The focus has since turned on the experience Clinton brings to the table in her quest for the 2008 Presidency.
To answer both questions about her stand on the issues and her experience, DBKP presents this capsule view of the 2008 Clinton platform--in her own words. Carry it with you for quick reference.
Tax policy:
* "The tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're going to have to cut that short and not give that to you. We are going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."
--San Francisco fund-raiser for Sen. Barbara Boxer - 6/8/2004
Small Business Growth:
* "I can't worry about every under capitalized business"
--Testimony before congress on the effects of Nationalized Health Care.
The War on Terror:
* "It's been said, and I think it's accurate, that my husband was obsessed by terrorism in general and al-Qaida in particular."
--Dateline, NBC 4/16/2004
Executive Privilege:
* "I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president."
--Commenting on release of subpoenaed documents in 2000.
Religious Issues
* "I have to confess that it's crossed my mind that you could not be a Republican and a Christian."
--Richmond Times-Dispatch, 1997
* "I have to admit that a good deal of what my husband and I have learned (about Islam) has come from our daughter."
--U.S. presidential reception - 2/20/1996
The U.S. Constitution
* "A right-wing network was after his (husband Bill Clinton) presidency...including perverting the Constitution."
--20/20, ABC 6/8/2003
Media Matters:
* "I mean, you've got a conservative and right-wing press presence with really nothing on the other end of the political spectrum."
--aired on C-Span, 1/19/1997
The Importance of The Historical Record:
* "Heavens, no! It could get subpoenaed. I can't write anything."
--Asked in 1996 interview if she as US First Lady was keeping a diary, hours before a jury in Little Rock, Arkansas, returned guilty verdicts against Clintons' business partners.
Challenges
* "The great story here for anybody willing to find it, write about it and explain it is this vast right-wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he announced for president."
--NBC's Today show interview January 1998
Clear, concise, compact: the 2008 Hillary Clinton stand on the issues, in her own words.
Never again be confused.
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Hillary "Cacklin'" Clinton
Vs.
Mike "The Invisible Man" Gravel
The Setting: The Death by 1000 Papercuts Polit-O-Drome
The Announcers: Mondoreb & Little Baby Ginn
The Rules: 3-question Texas Death Debate Style
MONDOREB: Welcome to the DBKP Polit-o-drome and today's Clinton-Gravel 1st Round Match. Once again, it's looking like a full house for DBKP Political Cage Match action. Scalpers were only getting $290 a ticket outside the arena. That's over $200 less than our last Match between the "The Mayor of Mayhem" Giuliani and "Dunkin Death" Hunter. What do make of that, Ginn? "Cacklin" Clinton usually pulls a good crowd.
LITTLE BABY GINN: Well, I don't think it's the Clinton supporters. You know they're going to show. But it's a long way from Alaska to the Polit-O-Drome. Gravel might not have much of the crowd behind him here today.
MONDO: Gravel's supporters might not have much to cheer for: "The Invisible Man" is a decided underdog in today's match. Your referee today is once again Mayor Mikey Bloomberg of New York City. We're almost ready to go. Any last thoughts about today's matchup, Ginn?
GINN: Don't count Gravel out. He's solid and I think he'll bother Clinton from the Left. Expect him to throw a lot from that direction today.
MONDO: OK, buckle up! We're ready for this one to start up!
[DING! DING! DING!]
"INVISIBLE" Mike Gravel: We have to address the whole drug issue. I see no reason between marijuana and booze or alcohol, and there's no reason why you shouldn't be able to go to a liquor store and buy marijuana. It has recuperative powers.MONDO: Gravel starts out working high. I think that's bothering Clinton.
Source: 2007 HRC/LOGO debate on gay issues Aug 9, 20
GINN: The Legal Drugs Dropkick always makes Clinton uncomfortable. She already looks winded.
MONDO: Then she could be in trouble because I don't think she inhales either.
Hillary "CACKLIN'" Clinton:GINN: Hillary comes up lame and now she's got Gravel in the clinches. She's not letting go.
We need diversion, like drug courts. Non-violent offenders should not be serving hard time in our prisons. They need to be diverted from our prison system. We need to make sure that we do deal with the distinction between crack and powder cocaine. And ultimately we need an attorney general and a system of justice that truly does treat people equally.
Source: 2007 Democratic Primary Debate at Howard University Jun 28, 2007
MONDO: She was smart to lock it up; Gravel mighta got her against the ropes on that one. Bloomberg steps between them and breaks it up. Is Gravel smiling? What's going on there?
GINN: He's taunting her, Mondo! Gravel's pointing and mocking her to try and hit him!
MONDO: He's showing some fire--and that seems to be confusing Clinton. The small band of Gravel supporters is going nuts!
"INVISIBLE" Mike Gravel:GINN: He's got her in an Unfair Crime Cruncher. I don't think she was expecting this Libertarian onslaught from the "Invisible Man"! Clinton's hurtin' for certain now. Mondo, we could have a 1st Round upset brewing!
Because so much crime is the product of people who were in prison, an obvious means of reducing crime is to drastically reduce our prison population. That can be done, at no danger to society, almost overnight. How? By eliminating a whole host of common social activities from the law's list of "crimes."
Common activities for which we now punish people--so-called "victimless-crimes" because they affect no one but the participant--include drinking, prostitution, gambling, homosexuality, use of certain drugs. What is the point of jailing people for these practices? What more towering hypocrisy, what more potent breeder of total disrespect for the law can there be than these "crimes," which are practiced by millions of citizens, but for which only a few are singled out for punishment?
Victimless crimes are a peril to our health only in so far as they are classified as crimes. Some 51% of criminal arrests in 1970 were for victimless crimes. We could very nearly empty our jails by abolishing them.
Source: Citizen Power, by Sen. Mike Gravel, p.214-215 Jan 1, 1972
MONDO: Hillary's looking to her corner for help. Looks like Bill, her manager, is distracted by a Paris Hilton lookalike in the third row, Ginn.
GINN: That oughta fire her up, for sure.
Hillary "CACKLIN'" Clinton:MONDO: OH NO! She hit him with a low blow!
"Goddamn stupid fucking fool!"
"Stay the f**k back, stay the f**k away from me! Don't come within ten yards of me, or else!"GINN: Oh my God! Did you see that?!?! She did it again! Clinton hit Gravel low again and then threatened him! The "Invisible Man"'s hurt and hurt bad!
MONDO: I've never seen anything like it, Ginn! Two low blows in a row! That oughta be a point.
GINN: Thank God, the ref IS deducting a point from Clinton's score. And checking out Gravel. He's hurt, Mondo.
MONDO: Losing one point isn't going to help Gravel any if he can't continue.
Hillary "CACKLIN'" Clinton:
"Come on Bill, put your dick up! You can't f**k her here!!"
GINN: She's obviously upset with her manager. Somebody better get her calmed down or she's gonna get disqualified!
MONDO: Fat chance, Ginn, it happened right at the end of the round.
The Invisible Man WAS doing so well, too; he's still doubled over in pain from those two HARD low blows. I don't know if he's gonna come out for the last round.
GINN: Looks like Clinton's calming down. Gravel definitely does not look good.
"INVISIBLE" Mike Gravel:MONDO: Gotta hand it to Gravel: he's a gamer. He's not backing down, crippled crotch or not! He's trying to get Clinton in the Habeus Corpus Cross of Death!
During one of the debates I mentioned that my fellow Democratic candidates scare me. Hillary's speech last week to the Take Back America conference gives me yet another reason to be afraid.
In an indignant voice she decried the Bush administration's ''stunning record of secrecy and corruption, of cronyism run amok. . . It is everything our founders were afraid of, everything our Constitution was designed to prevent.'' Actually, our Constitution grants Congress the power to prevent these ills but Hillary and her colleagues weren't up to the task.
Our founders' legacy did not stop Hillary from voting for the Patriot Act and then supporting its renewal in 2006 despite revelations that the government was using it to infringe on the very liberties that our founders held sacred. Where was her commitment to our founders when she voted to gut our habeas corpus protections?
Huffington Post - June 25, 2007
Hillary "CACKLIN'" Clinton:GINN: Wow! Clinton puts him away with a roundhouse Patriot Punch to the head!
I despise terrorism and the nihilism it represents. Those helping terrorists would face the "wrath" of the US.
Source:Her Way, by Jeff Gerth & Don Van Natta, p.240-241 Jun 8, 2007
Mondo: Damn, Ginn. Gravel almost had her til she wrapped herself in the flag. Good defense by Clinton--and good offense, too! But everybody loves an underdog; "The Invisible Man" almost pulled a stunner here today. He just couldn't overcome those Clinton low blows. But you have to hand it to Hillary. She knew what she had to do to win and she got it done. I thought it would be hard to top the Giuliani-Hunter slugfest, but this was action-packed from the bell!
GINN: This one was certainly a treat for the casual fan of Ultimate Political Cage Match action. Looks like the judges' have a decision. And I'd like to remind our viewers that the judges decisions are FINAL!
[JUDGES DECISION: Hillary "CACKLIN" Clinton over Mike "INVISIBLE MAN" Gravel 2-0; one judge scored it a draw.]
GINN: Clinton's the winner! She'll take on the winner of Bill "Close Encounters" Richardson and "Judicial Joe" Biden in the Quarterfinals. That's it for this Round 1 action. Hillary came out on top. Be sure to be here for our next match: Mitt "The Maulin' Mormon" Romney vs Mike "The Heartless" Huckabee.
MONDO: Until then, have a safe trip back home and remember--the early bird gets the worm.
by Mondoreb & Little Baby Ginn
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PREVIOUS FIRST ROUND ACTION:
Rudy "The Mayor of Mayhem" Giuliani vs. Duncan "Dunkin' Death" Hunter
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Rudy "The MAYOR Of MAYHEM" Giuliani
Vs.
Duncan "DUNKIN' DEATH" Hunter
The Setting: The Death by 1000 Papercuts Polit-O-Drome
The Announcers: Mondoreb & Little Baby Ginn
The Rules: 3-question Texas Death Debate Style
MONDOREB:Welcome to the DBKP Politodrome and today's Giuliani-Hunter 1st Round Match. It's a full house for DBKP Political Cage Match action. Scalpers were getting $400 a ticket outside the arena. That's $158.09 in 1980 dollars, in case you were thinking "tickets were a lot cheaper back in my day".
LITTLE BABY GINN:I was too young to count in 1980. I hadn't hit my prime yet. But the Mayor of Mayhem looks to be in his prime today--prime fighting shape. He really looks dangerous today, Mondo. "Dunkin' Death" Hunter is a decided underdog, but look for him to hammer Giuliani on the social issues. If Rudy has a weak spot, that'd have to be it.
MONDO: The referee today is Mayor Mikey Bloomberg of New York City. Bloomberg was originally scheduled to be a Cage Match participant, Ginn, but as you know, came in heavy at the weigh-ins and didn't make the weight.
GINN: I talked to someone in the Bloomberg entourage this morning. They said the mayor's problems stemmed from one too many waffles.
MONDO: Oh ho! Waffles? It'll be interesting to see the Clinton weigh-in tomorrow. We're just about ready here for the first round to begin.
[DING! DING! DING!]
DUNKIN' DEATH Hunter:MONDO: Hunter starts with an illegal alien punch.
Illegal aliens continue to funnel directly into many of our local communities and adversely impact our way of life by overwhelming our schools, inundating our health care system and, most concerning, threatening our safety.
The MAYOR Of MAYHEM Guiliani:GINN: The Mayor slips the punch and catches DD in a Safe City Scissor. Wow! What footwork!
I had 400,000 illegal immigrants, roughly, in NYC. And I had a city that was the crime capital of America. I didn't have the luxury of political rhetoric. So I said: If you are an illegal immigrant in NYC & a crime is committed against you, I want you to report it. My policies led to a city that was the safest large city in the country, so they must have been sensible policies.
Source: 2007 GOP debate at UNH, sponsored by Fox News Sep 5, 2007
DUNKIN' DEATH Hunter:Ginn: Rudy's hit and he's hit hard! Hunter fires off a Human Life Haymaker and catches the Guiliani squarely in the stomach! The mayor might be in trouble here. It looks like he's having trouble breathing!
"If I have a judicial candidate in front of me who can look at a sonogram of an unborn child and not see a valuable human life, I will not appoint that candidate to the federal bench."
Mondo: Not as much trouble as a 2nd-term fetus, Ginn.
The MAYOR Of MAYHEM Guiliani:Mondo: Giuliani got out of trouble, but he's still hurt.
I believe the best way we can have common ground in this debate that you're hearing is if we put our emphasis on reducing abortions and increasing the number of adoptions, which is something that I did as mayor of New York City. But I think ultimately that decision that has to be made is one that government shouldn't make. Ultimately, a woman should make that with her conscience and ultimately with her doctor.
Source: 2007 GOP Iowa Straw Poll debate Aug 5, 2007
Ginn: Yeah, Hunter's gotta be feeling pretty good now; he's still in this thing.
DUNKIN' DEATH Hunter:MONDO: Hunter's going for it all! The Gay Pride Pretzel! Rudy's gotta be thinking this is a drag!
In September 2007 I voted "Yes" for a bill in which schools forfeit funds if they expose kids to gay propaganda."
The MAYOR Of MAYHEM:GINN: A stunning comeback! Giuliani pulls off a Religious Icon Kamikaze! Truly magnificent!
My decision to reduce funding for the Brooklyn Museum of Art after it
displayed sexually explicit cutouts and a portrait of the Madonna defiled with elephant dung was hysterically opposed by the New York elite. The politically correct never envisioned that people could in good faith have a difference of opinion about whether public money ought to be used to desecrate a religious image. There was an important First Amendment issue at stake. I believed that the mayor should never have the right to stop anyone from making a statement of any kind. People have a right to free expression. If they were to create offensive art on their own property, using their own funds, and someone were to attack them for doing it, the mayor would
be obliged to protect them, and so would the police. But I believe there is a difference between protecting someone's right to desecrate a religious image and being required to fund that desecration using tax dollars from the very people it offends.
Source: Leadership, autobiography by Rudolph Giuliani, p.225-226 Oct 1, 2002
Mondo: I have to agree, Ginn. Everybody loves an underdog and Hunter showed surprising power here today. But you have to hand it to Rudy. His ability to slip Hunter's big punches was key. Still, it has to be closer than most people expected.
GINN: And now the judges' decision and I'd like to remind our viewers that the judges decisions are FINAL![JUDGES DECISION: Rudy "The Mayor of Mayhem" Giuliani" over Duncan "Dunkin' Death" Hunter 2-1]
GINN: Rudy the winner! He'll take on the winner of Mitt "The Maulin' Mormon" Romney and Mike "The Heartless" Huckabee in the Quarterfinals. That's it for this Round 1 action. Rudy came out on top. Be sure to be here for our next match: Hillary "Cacklin'" Clinton vs. "Invisible" Mike Gravel.
MONDO: Until then, have a safe trip back home.
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