From the "WTF?" Files,...

Jewish Newspaper Removes Clinton From Iconic Photo

'Der Tzitung' won't publish photos of women

Following the raid on Osama bin Laden, Hasidic newspaper Der Tzitung ran the iconic White House Situation Room photo, with just one teensy change: There were no women in it. The paper removed Hillary Clinton as well as Counterterrorism Director Audrey Tomason, as noted by Failed Messiah last week. The story was picked up today by the Jewish Week, Jezebel, and Styleite, among others.

On the Jewish Week, Rabbi Jason Miller notes that Der Tzitung is an “ultra-orthodox” paper that “will not intentionally include any images of women in the paper because it could be considered sexually suggestive.” But based on Clinton’s pose, Miller isn’t sure how or why the editors deemed the image racy: “Perhaps they just don't like the idea of a woman with that much political power.” Compare the original and edited versions of the photo here.

Sorry, but ANY story using "Hillary Clinton" and "sexually suggestive" in the same stroy makes me lose my dinner!!

Typically Obama-like, America Finds Itself Saying "Oops, Sorry" Again!

Egyptian Youth to Clinton: Where Was the US?

They complain of sluggish response in online chat

Egyptian protesters got a chance to speak directly to Hillary Clinton for the first time, and they weren't exactly overcome with gratitude. Sample questions she fielded online via an Egyptian site:

* "Does America really support democracy? If yes indeed, why the US was late in its support for the Egyptian revolution?"
* "The attitude of the US during the Egyptian revolution was to support the Egyptian regime first. Then, when the revolution turned successful, the US switched sides and supported the Egyptian youth. . . . Why?"

As the Washington Post notes, Clinton stuck to the company line: The US did the best it could in a complicated situation with an old ally. "I think that we were walking a balance, because we wanted to be sure our message did not push anyone into doing something that we disagreed with, namely violence, which we tried to, in every way possible, prevent," she responded, as recounted by Fox News. "This is a new world we're all in together," she added.

And the Bush-Bashing Will begin in 5,...4,...3,...

"The system worked as it should have -- which is why it failed."

Officials: Protocol Followed, but System Failed to Prevent Terror Attempt

FOXNews.com

With a full-fledged review under way, top agencies are making immediate changes that suggest the system in place to flag suspected terrorists is fundamentally flawed -- even though officials say they followed procedure before a suspect armed with explosives boarded a Detroit-bound flight.

That appears to be the answer emerging from top agencies like the State Department in the aftermath of the failed Christmas Day airplane bombing, as officials explain how suspect Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab was able to clear security while armed with explosives and then board a flight bound for Detroit.

President Obama, who is meeting with agency heads Tuesday afternoon, said as much last week when he declared "systemic failure" allowed Abdulmutallab to board the plane bound for Detroit from Nigeria by way of Amsterdam. Other officials have since acknowledged that the system probably needs some adjustment.

"Systemic failure means that individuals probably weren't at fault, but that the systems that were put in place were not adequate to the task," said David Gordon, former director of policy planning at the State Department.

Obama was meeting Tuesday with top officials including Napolitano, Attorney General Eric Holder, CIA Director Leon Panetta, FBI Director Robert Mueller and counterterrorism adviser John "Oh, you mean THAT Nigerian!" Brennan.

Less Talk, More AK-47s

White House 'Disappointed' by Iran's Prison Sentence for American Journalist

TEHRAN, Iran — Iran convicted an American journalist of spying for the United States and sentenced her to eight years in prison, her lawyer said Saturday, complicating the Obama administration's efforts to improve relations with Tehran.

The White House said President Barack Obama was "deeply disappointed" by the conviction, while the journalist's father told a radio station his daughter was tricked into making incriminating statements by officials who told her they would free her if she did.

It was the first time Iran has found an American journalist guilty of spying, and it is unclear how it will affect Obama's push to break a 30-year-old diplomatic deadlock between the two adversaries.

Roxana Saberi, a 31-year-old dual American-Iranian citizen, was arrested in late January and initially accused of working without press credentials. But earlier this month, an Iranian judge leveled a far more serious allegation, charging her with spying for the United States.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said the United States was working with Swiss diplomats in Iran to get details about the court's decision and to ensure Saberi's well-being. She said in a statement the United States will "vigorously raise our concerns" with the Iranian government.


And it's the same Clinton "talking" that got us into a 9/11 situation in the first place.

Image this scene with the Pantsuit Princess in downtown Tehran:

Yeah,..Who Needs Experience to Run the US Government?

Cast of Characters
One More Question...

Incoming Obama administration director of speechwriting Jon Favreau (L) and a friend pose with a cardboard cutout of incoming Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton at a party. (Obtained by The Washington Post)

Updated 9:22 p.m.
By Al Kamen
Question No. 58 in the transition team vetting document for the Obama White House asks that applicants: "Please provide the URL address of any websites that feature you in either a personal or professional capacity (e.g. Facebook, My Space, etc.)"

Question No. 63 asks that applicants "please provide any other information ... that could ... be a possible source of embarrassment to you, your family, or the President-Elect."

For a while there this afternoon, President-elect Barack Obama's immensely talented chief speechwriter, 27-year-old Jon Favreau, might have been pondering how to address that question.

That's when some interesting photos of a recent party he attended -- including one where he's dancing with a life-sized cardboard cut-out of secretary of state-designate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, and another where he's placed his hand on the cardboard former first lady's chest while a friend is offering her lips a beer -- popped up on Facebook for about two hours. The photos were quickly taken down -- along with every other photo Favreau had of himself on the popular social networking site, save for one profile headshot.

Asked about the photos, Favreau, who was recently appointed director of speechwriting for the White House, declined comment. A transition official said that Favreau had "reached out to Senator Clinton to offer an apology."

Favreau is not the first campaign aide whose online presence has proved awkward. Last March, John McCain aide Soren Dayton forwarded an anti-Obama YouTube video to his private Twitter feed linking Obama with the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, leading to his suspension from the campaign. And in 2007, two bloggers hired by former North Carolina senator John Edwards stepped down after blog posts they had written before he hired them became a subject of controversy.

Favreau's case seems unlikely to be so dire; Clinton senior adviser Philippe Reines cast the photos as evidence of increased bonhomie between the formerly rival camps.

"Senator Clinton is pleased to learn of Jon's obvious interest in the State Department, and is currently reviewing his application," he said in an e-mail.

Pack Up the Circus Tents,...

Clinton Endorses Obama, Suspends Historic Bid for the White House
by FOXNews.com
Saturday, June 7, 2008

Standing before a throng of supporters with American flags as her backdrop, Hillary Clinton did something Saturday that 17 months ago seemed unthinkable — she conceded defeat.

The former first lady, who as recently as Tuesday declared herself the strongest candidate, gave former rival Barack Obama an unqualified endorsement and pivoted from her role as determined foe to absolute ally. She suspended her historic bid for the White House, settling the dust following a grueling 17-month campaign.

Clinton repeatedly called on her supporters to unite behind the Illinois senator, casting the general election as a critical opportunity to shift course after seven years with a Republican president. She acknowledged the hard-fought and sometimes-bitter Democratic primary battle, but assured her voters that Obama has proved himself to the country.

“I’ve had a front-row seat to his candidacy, and I have seen his strength and determination, his grace and his grit,” she said.

“We all know this has been a tough fight, but the Democratic Party is a family … we may have started on separate journeys but today our paths have merged, and we’re all heading toward the same destination.”

Clinton kicked off her concession by directly thanking supporters who poured their “heart and hopes” into her campaign.

“Well this isn’t exactly the party I’d planned, but I sure like the company,” Clinton said at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., her husband Bill and daughter Chelsea by her side.

Within minutes she announced that she was bowing out of the race.

“The way to continue our fight now … is to take our energy, our passion, our strength and do all that we can to help elect Barack Obama the next president of the United States,” she said to cheering supporters. “Today as I suspend my campaign, I congratulate him on the victory he has won, and the extraordinary race he has run. I endorse him and throw my full support behind him.”

Obama later issued a statement saying he is “thrilled and honored” to have Clinton’s support.

“But more than that, I honor her today for the valiant and historic campaign she has run,” he said. “She shattered barriers on behalf of my daughters and women everywhere, who now know that there are no limits to their dreams … Our party and our country are stronger because of the work she has done throughout her life, and I’m a better candidate for having had the privilege of competing with her in this campaign.

“No one knows better than Senator Clinton how desperately America and the American people need change, and I know she will continue to be in the forefront of that battle this fall and for years to come. “

Clinton was under pressure to send a strong signal to the 18 million voters who supported her in the marathon 50-state primary that it’s time to unite behind the presumptive nominee.

Obama secured the 2,118 delegates needed to clinch the Democratic presidential nomination Tuesday after primaries in South Dakota and Montana. He planned to spend the weekend at home in Chicago.

Clinton on Tuesday gave little indication she was ready to bow out of the race. She congratulated Obama for running an “extraordinary” race but did not acknowledge at the time his delegate majority.

But on Saturday she paused to urge the audience to appreciate the historic nature of the race itself, which pitted the first serious female candidate for president against the most viable black candidate.

“Together, Senator Obama and I achieved milestones,” she said.

She said that even though her campaign was not successful, she paved the way for a woman to some day win the White House.

“Though we weren’t able to shatter that highest, hardest glass ceiling this time, thanks to you it’s got about 18 million cracks in it,” she said. “The path will be a little easier next time.”

Clinton began the race as the undisputed front-runner in January 2007. But she saw her march to the nomination derailed a year later after being swamped by Obama in Iowa’s lead-off caucuses.

The last major candidate of the 2008 primary campaign to fall, Clinton persevered by staying defiant when her back was against the wall.

In the critical contests she had to win to stay in the race, she won. She had a strong showing in the March 4 primaries, and then pulled off a victory in Pennsylvania April 22. The victories were used to raise doubts about Obama’s chances against presumptive GOP nominee John McCain, even as his delegate lead over Clinton stayed imposing.

Left on the table is whether Clinton will be considered as Obama’s vice presidential pick.

The two had a face-to-face meeting Thursday evening at the Washington home of a Senate colleague, California Democrat Dianne Feinstein, where they discussed the campaign to come. They spoke alone for about an hour. Both were laughing when they finished.

Clinton was expected to campaign for Obama and to help with fundraising while seeking his assistance in retiring her $30 million campaign debt.

The New York senator has told colleagues she would be interested in joining Obama as his running mate.

Following the speech Saturday, she made her way through the crowd of supporters, shaking hands and signing autographs, telling one supporter, ‘Don’t worry, I’ll be back.’

Also unanswered is how passionately Clinton’s supporters will file in behind Obama. Clinton was met with ear-splitting cheers when he began her address, but the crowd response became progressively more tepid as she spoke about driving Obama to victory in November.

Polls show the general election race against presumptive GOP nominee John McCain is still tight. The latest national Gallup tracking poll shows Obama leading McCain by just 1 point.

Clinton spent much of Friday working on her concession speech with campaign manager Maggie Williams, media adviser Mandy Grunwald and strategist Mark Penn.

By suspending her campaign, Clinton would retain nominal control of her delegates and could continue to raise money to pay off campaign debts.

A party at her Washington home on Friday was intended as a way to thank and bid farewell to campaign staff.

FOX News’ Major Garrett and The Associated Press contributed to this report.


The TrekMedic giddily adds:

There's a rumor running rampant (and started by the TrekMedic) that Obama's first response to the Shrill One was "how does crow taste, bitch?"

Ding-Dong! The Witch is Dead!

Obama in St. Paul: “Tonight, I can stand before you and say that I will be the Democratic nominee for President of the United States.”
by Bonney Kapp

In the arena that will be filled with GOP faithful in just a few months at the Republican Convention, Barack Obama will tell several thousand on hand an significantly more watching on television that after 54 contests, the primary season has come to an end. “Tonight, I can stand before you and say that I will be the Democratic nominee for President of the United States,” he is expected to say according to prepared remarks sent out to reporters.

On the hour-long flight from Chicago to St. Paul, Minnesota, Senior Advisor David Axelrod told the press that while the historic nomination has yet to sink in for him, Barack Obama is already thinking about what’s next. “He’s already thinking about where we go from here. But he’s obviously very happy.” Axelrod noted that while tonight’s a time to celebrate their hard-fought win, “We’re gonna wake up tomorrow and we’re gonna start all over again because we’re not in this you know simply to break a barrier, we’re in this to try and change a country.”

Staffers refused to talk about Hillary Clinton as a potential running mate - the line repeated to reporters on the campaign plane: “We don’t have a short list or a long list. We’re coming here tonight to finish the process of winning this nomination, then we’ll turn our attention to the notion of who the running mate will be,” Axelrod explained.

But Barack Obama will heap praise on his soon to be former rival at his victory rally. “Senator Hillary Clinton has made history in this campaign not just because she’s a woman who has done what no woman has done before, but because she’s a leader who inspires millions of Americans with her strength, her courage, and her commitment to the causes that brought us here tonight….You can rest assured that when we finally win the battle for universal health care in this country, she will be central to that victory. When we transform our energy policy and lift our children out of poverty, it will be because she worked to help make it happen. Our party and our country are better off because of her, and I am a better candidate for having had the honor to compete with Hillary Rodham Clinton,” he will say according to prepared remarks.

Party unity, after all, will be needed to beat John McCain this fall. “At the end of the day, we aren’t the reason you came out and waited in lines that stretched block after block to make your voice heard. You didn’t do that because of me or Senator Clinton or anyone else. You did it because you know in your hearts that at this moment – a moment that will define a generation – we cannot afford to keep doing what we’ve been doing. We owe our children a better future. We owe our country a better future. And for all those who dream of that future tonight, I say – let us begin the work together. Let us unite in common effort to chart a new course for America.”

June 4th, 2008 12:13 AM Eastern
All But Defeated, Clinton Not Going Anywhere - For Now
by Aaron Bruns

Hillary Clinton conceded nothing tonight at Baruch College in New York - not the delegate count, where her rival Barack Obama passed the threshold of 2,118 delegates required to win the nomination, and certainly not the Democratic primary.

Instead, Clinton thanked the voters of South Dakota for delivering a final win in her 2008 campaign, and told supporters she’d continue fighting for her beliefs and for theirs — from instituting universal health care to ending the war in Iraq.

To that end, she said she’s going ahead with her campaign — but with an eye toward party unity. “In the coming days, I’ll be consulting with supporters and party leaders to determine how to move forward with the best interests of our party and our country guiding my way,” she said.

With Obama clinching the requisite number of delegates tonight, moving forward for Clinton would mean convincing delegates currently pledged to him to switch sides at the convention — which some Democrats say would be a blow to the Party. But Clinton said she has Democrats’ interests at heart. “I am committed to uniting our Party, so we move forward, stronger and more ready than ever to take back the White House this November,” she said.

“Now the question is, where do we go from here, and given how far we’ve come and where we need to go as a party, it’s a question I don’t take lightly,” Clinton told the crowd. “This has been a long campaign, and I will be making no decisions tonight.”

She asked supporters to help her decide by submitting suggestions on her website — where, conveniently, they can donate to the campaign. Those in the room seemed to be in agreement on where to go next — chanting “Denver! Denver!” to urge the New York Senator to take her fight to the convention in August.


But first, Clinton congratulated Obama for running what she called an extraordinary race. “It has been an honor to contest these primaries with him, just as it is an honor to call him my friend. And tonight, I would like all of us to take a moment to recognize him and his supporters for all they have accomplished,” she said.

Clinton seemed to acknowledge that many Americans are wondering what’s keeping her from dropping out now that all the votes are cast and her opponent has clinched the delegate count — but she had no good answers. “I understand that a lot of people are asking, what does Hillary want? What does she want? Well, I want what I have always fought for in this whole campaign,” Clinton said. “I want to end the war in Iraq. I want to turn this economy around. I want health care for every American. I want every child to live up to his or her God-given potential, and I want the nearly 18 million Americans who voted for me to be respected, to be heard and no longer to be invisible.”

The New York Senator leveled no attacks on Obama, but spent a significant amount of time discussing the need for universal health care, a frequent contrast point over the course of the campaign. “I have been working on this issue not just for the past 16 months, but for 16 years. And it is a fight I will continue until every single American has health insurance. No exceptions and no excuses,” she said.

In doing so, Clinton hinted at one possible reason she’s still around — leverage. When she inevitably sits down with Obama, she can use her delegates and her constituency to try to convince Obama to adopt her mandated coverage plan, which she’s argued is the only way to get to universal coverage.

Obama mentioned that inevitable sit-down when the two Democrats finally spoke on this final election night (poor cell phone reception in the gym where Clinton held her event led to a few voice mail messages being exchanged, and one aborted conversation that was cut off due to lack of service). While Clinton did not set a time for the meeting, both candidates are in Washington on Wednesday.

In the end, Clinton said that even though the primary contest was a grueling one, democracy and the Democrats won by her staying in the race. “A record thirty-five million people voted in this primary, from every state, red, blue, purple, people of every age, faith, color and walk of life. And we have brought so many people into the Democratic Party and created enthusiasm among those we seek to serve.”

“While this primary was long, I am so proud we stayed the course together because we stood our ground, it meant that every single United States citizen had a chance to make his or her voice heard.” In wrapping up the first long phase of the primary campaign, Clinton made it clear it’s not the last time we’ve heard her voice; most immediately, we’ll hear it on Wednesday morning as she addresses an AIPAC conference in Washington just minutes after Obama. And superdelegates will hear a lot of it tomorrow, as Clinton is set to hole up in her Washington home making phone calls all day long.

The Sad Thing is,...He's Right!

He's a shrill loser and the Pope should censure him,..but he's right!



Gentle readers, face facts: the entire primary circus was supposed to be a run-up to Shrillary's coronation. She's planned for the White House since she and Slick Willie ran Arkansas! She's looked the other way while Bill dropped his pants at every moderately-good looking woman he saw. He bought her Senate seat by bribing Hasidic Jews in the Hudson Valley. She was willing to throw away the Florida and Michigan votes because she didn't think she'd actually NEED them in Denver.

Then along came this articulate, well-spoke idealistic "uppity n****r" (not my words, but what I've heard Central Pennsylvanian democrats call him)who stole her thunder.

Medicine from Shrillary's Nationalized Healthcare?

HT to Isophorone for this gem:

Pinochio-o-o-o!

Experience or Amnesia?

Clinton: I Made a Rare Error When I ‘Misspoke’ About Bosnia Sniper Threat

by FOXNews.com

Saying she made a rare error, Hillary Clinton repeated Tuesday that she “misspoke” when she suggested she landed under sniper fire during a goodwill trip to Bosnia in March 1996.

Speaking to KDKA radio in Pittsburgh, the Democratic presidential candidate said it’s been a long campaign and this is the first time she has said the wrong thing.

“I have written about this and described in many different settings and I did misspeak the other day,” Clinton said during a live 10-minute interview. “This has been a very long campaign. … Last week for the first time in 12 years or so, I misspoke.”

Later in the day Clinton told reporters she disagrees with characterizations that she is pursuing a pattern of exaggeration.

“You know, I think that the military and the Secret Service did a terrific job. But we certainly did take precautions. There is no doubt about that, and I remember that very clearly,” she said. “So I made a mistake. That happens. It proves I’m human, which, you know, for some people, is a revelation.”

But the latest explanations have opened an opportunity for Barack Obama’s campaign to offer several recent examples of Clinton “misspeak,” including remarks at a Feb. 29 even in Waco, Texas, with retired Gen. Wesley Clark and remarks at a Dec. 29 event in Iowa, both detailing how she had to make a run for it on the tarmac at Tuzla Air Base to avoid sniper fire.

That claim was repeated during a speech last Monday on Iraq, in which Clinton said of the trip: “I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.”

The New York senator has since had to backtrack after a fact check and video revealed that rather than dodging hostile fire, the former first lady was greeted on the tarmac by an 8-year-old child and Bosnia’s acting president.

Clinton’s faulty memory was also corrected by the comedian Sinbad, who joined her on the trip and told The Washington Post he doesn’t remember any threats to their safety.

On defense, her campaign issued quotes from several newspaper articles at the time that conveyed that it was a military zone at the time of the visit and Clinton was surrounded by sharpshooters when she visited U.S. peacekeeping troops in Bosnia.

Daughter Chelsea Clinton also responded Tuesday while campaigning in Indiana to the claims of being under sniper fire, saying: “I think that my mother’s on record as having talked about this and I support what she said. I mean, I was there as well and I’m so honored that I was there.”

Hillary Clinton told the radio station that she does not believe the error will damage her credibility.

“The military took great care of us,” Clinton said Tuesday. “They were worried about taking a first lady to a war zone and took some extra precautions.”

Click here to hear the Clinton interview on KDKA.


The TrekMedic adds:

What the hell,..she's single-handedly ended the "Troubles" in Northern Ireland, helped Algore invent the internet, and conveniently looked the other way every time Slick Willy dropped trou near an intern. Next thing you know, she'll take the White House and single-handedly cure both cancer and AIDS by 2010.

The Shrill One Under a Microscope?

Et, tu, Time? You know she's sinking when one of the ringleaders of the MSM calls her record into question:

Assessing Clinton's "Experience"
Thursday, Mar. 13, 2008 By KAREN TUMULTY, MICHAEL DUFFY AND MASSIMO CALABRESI

In her race to win the democratic nomination against a first-term Senator from Illinois, Hillary Clinton has put the criterion of experience front and center. She often references what she says is 35 years of work that qualifies her to run the country. And the most important achievements Clinton cites are the ones she claims from her years as First Lady — a job that carries no portfolio but can wield enormous influence.

The nature of Hillary Clinton's involvement was always a matter of great sensitivity in her husband's White House. After her disastrous 1994 foray into health-care reform, Bill Clinton's aides went out of their way to downplay her role in Administration decision making. She rarely appeared at meetings in which officials hashed out important policy trade-offs, but when the discussion centered on issues that were among her priorities, she sent her aides — much the way Vice President Al Gore did. "There were certain issues they kind of owned," recalls Gene Sperling, who headed economic policy in the Clinton White House. The First Lady's top concerns, he says, were children's issues, health care, and foster-care and adoption policies.

Now the former First Lady claims at least a share of the credit for a wide range of the Clinton Administration's signature accomplishments, both domestic and overseas. Does she deserve it? The Clinton and Obama campaigns spent this week arguing that question with dueling memos and talking points.

TIME decided to cut through the spin with a series that will take a closer look at the claims candidates make. As Senator Clinton is fond of saying, It's time to get real. We kick off the series by evaluating three of the achievements she mentions most often:

Children's Health Care

WHAT SHE SAYS
One of her biggest achievements, Clinton often tells voters, is the multibillion-dollar health-care program that provides coverage for children whose parents are too rich for Medicaid but unable to afford health insurance on their own. As one of her campaign ads puts it, "She changed the lives of 6 million kids when she championed the bill that gave them health insurance."

THE BOTTOM LINE: The record suggests Clinton did indeed lobby for children's health coverage but that many others were responsible as well. And it also shows that her husband nearly killed the idea before it ever got off the ground.

Northern Ireland

WHAT SHE SAYS
On the campaign trail, Clinton has claimed she "helped to bring peace to Northern Ireland" in the 1990s.

THE BOTTOM LINE: Clinton played a role in hearing the concerns of Irish women left out of the peace process, and in encouraging them to put pressure on their countrymen to pursue negotiations. But that does not mean she rolled up her sleeves and conducted or led the talks that resulted in the 1998 Good Friday Agreement.

Macedonia Refugees

WHAT SHE SAYS
"I negotiated open borders to let fleeing refugees into safety from Kosovo," Clinton has asserted when asked to identify an example of her foreign policy experience.

THE BOTTOM LINE: In the case of Macedonia, Clinton engaged in personal diplomacy that brought about change. But securing the return of American business partners is not the same as the opening of borders to thousands of refugees. That accomplishment was a result of broader U.S. and European efforts during the war.

The Audacity of Chutzpah!

So,...once again, self-appointed Empress Shillary Clinton has stuck her foot in her mouth:

Obama: I Am Not Running to be Hillary’s No. 2

In a fiery rebuttal to suggestions emerging over the past week, Barack Obama on Monday shot down suggestions he become Hillary Clinton’s wing man and questioned the logic of those who say he is prepared for the vice presidency but not to be president.

Speaking at a town hall style meeting in Columbus, Miss., the Illinois senator said the proposal floated by Clinton’s campaign over the last week that he be her running mate doesn’t make sense, especially since he has won twice as many states as Clinton, hundreds of thousands more of the popular vote and 110 more delegates so far.

“I am not running for vice president, I am running for president of the United States of America. I am running to be commander in chief,” Obama boomed to applause. “I don’t know how somebody in second place is offering vice president to the person in first place.”

Obama was speaking fresh off a weekend Democratic caucuses victory in Wyoming that turned the Democratic presidential primary contest back into a horse race. Mississippi’s primary is on Tuesday and Obama is far ahead in the Magnolia State, according to several polls of voters there.

Clinton began talking up the idea of a “dream ticket” last week when she suggested that maybe one day voters will have a chance to elect both her and Obama at the same time. The notion of a dream ticket was forwarded again by Bill Clinton over the weekend while campaigning on his wife’s behalf in Mississippi.

While Obama has been plagued by claims he is all fluff and no substance, he said he doesn’t want voters to get caught in the spin being put out that a Democratic ballot — with Clinton in the one slot and Obama in the second slot — would be a dream ticket.

“I don’t want anyone here thinking that somehow maybe I can get both. Don’t think that way, you have to make a choice in this election. Are you going to go along with the past or are you going to go with the future?” he asked.

“I do not believe Senator Clinton is about change,” he added, “because in fact this kind of gamesmanship — talking about being vice president, maybe he’s maybe not ready for commander in chief — that is exactly the kind of double speak, double talk that Washington is very good at, that people who spend a long time in Washington have a lot of experience at, but is not going to solve the problems of the country. Have I been clear? I want to make sure I’m clear to everybody.”

On Monday, Clinton campaign officials were asked how Clinton could consider Obama as a potential running mate if she doesn’t think he is qualified to be commander in chief.

Clinton Communications Director Howard Wolfson responded that Obama “has not passed the commander in chief test but there is a long way between now and Denver. (It is) not something she’s prepared to rule out at this point.”

The Democratic National Convention will be held in Denver on Aug. 25-28. As the campaign continues to go on, several Democratic Party officials have worried aloud that the nomination could remain undecided until then.

Talking to voters, Obama tore into the Clinton camp’s claims — crystallized in a “3 a.m.” television ad that aired last week — that she is better prepared for a national security emergency call that comes in the middle of the night.

“I believe that the most important thing is that when you answer that phone call at 3 in the morning is what kind of judgment you have, not how long you’ve been in Washington,” he said. “And I believe that I have shown better judgment than Senator Clinton. I believe I offer a clean break from the policies of George Bush because Mrs. Clinton went along with George Bush on the war in Iraq. Senator Clinton went along with George Bush on her willingness to try to saber-rattle when it came to Iran.”


The TrekMedic adds:

Now we all know what the Shrill One did with Slick Willy's balls!

The Circus is Coming to Town!

It'll be six more weeks until the media circus following the campaign-that-will-not-end comes to SE Pennsylvania.

While the TrekMedic's party has secured its candidate, surviving a coup d'etat that shed little blood, but broke many hearts, he now watches this campaign with all the vicarious pleasure Michael Vick must have enjoyed watching those pit bulls fight: knowing that it will be vicious, bloody, and at times illegal. And in the end, the loser, maimed and mangled, will be put out of her misery.

And along those lines, the TrekMedic was today perusing the Inkwaster and noticed Annette John-Hall's take on the upcoming bloodshed.

Getting past the racial angle of her column, one quote by Melissa Harris-Lacewell truly sticks out about the Shrill One:

Truth be told, the blue-collar candidate is anything but.

"Hillary Clinton likes to cast herself as an outsider candidate, but the truth is, she is a woman of privilege who is connected at the hip to the [former] president of the United States," Harris-Lacewell says.


Its the same Shrill One who's been a lifelong New Yorker, who's been a lifelong Chicago Cubs fan, and the same one who's added and dropped a Southern Accent more times than Slick Willie shared a cigar with Monica.

And whether its April 22 in Pennsylvania, the DNC convention this summer, or at the national ballot on November, all this BS will come back to haunt her and she'll be beaten like a drum at a "Stomp" performance.

**THAT'S MY OPINION AND YOU'RE ENTITLED TO IT!!**

Shrillary Saw Her Shadow,....

Damn,.....six more weeks of belligerence, braying and bulls**t!

Texas Caucus Count Takes Wind Out of Clinton’s Wins
by FOXNews.com
Wednesday, March 5, 2008



Late-breaking numbers out of Texas’ odd two-phase voting system put an asterisk on Hillary Clinton’s Tuesday night victory speech, showing gains made by Barack Obama in the delegate grab race had all but numerically canceled out her big win in Ohio.

Although Clinton got a major boost in morale by winning more raw votes than Obama in Ohio, Texas and Rhode Island (she lost to Obama in Vermont), an Associated Press count of the delegates shows Clinton only reduced her opponent’s lead in delegates by 12.

In the overall race for the nomination, Obama had 1,562 delegates, including separately chosen party and elected officials known as superdelegates. Clinton had 1,461. It takes 2,025 delegates to secure the Democratic nomination.

For the night, Clinton won at least 185 delegates and Obama won at least 173.

Clinton’s victory in Ohio won her only 9 more delegates than Obama, with two delegates still to be awarded. In Texas, Clinton won four more delegates than Obama in the primary. But Obama trimmed Clinton’s lead to a single Texas delegate in the party caucuses. Ten delegates are still to be awarded in the caucuses.

The candidates vied for 370 delegates in four states: Texas, Ohio, Rhode Island and Vermont. But the Democrats’ system of awarding delegates proportionally made it hard for either candidate to post big gains.

Also, Texas had a two-step system, with about two-thirds of its delegates awarded in a primary, and the rest in party caucuses.

Click here for the Texas Democratic exit poll.

Click here for the Ohio Democratic exit poll.

Clinton is pointing to Ohio as her biggest win from Tuesday, where she beat Obama 54-44 percent. She won the Texas vote by a slimmer 51-47 margin. Clinton won Rhode Island 58-40 percent, but Obama took Vermont by an even wider margin, 60 percent to Clinton’s 38 percent.

The result is that all eyes next focus on Saturday’s contest in Wyoming and other states holding contests well into June.

Wyoming has long been off the Democrats’ radar. In 2004, the state favored George Bush over John Kerry by more than 2-to-1. Only 70,000 Wyoming Democrats cast ballots in that general election, and this year it yields a scant 12 pledged delegates. Contrast that with Tuesday’s Western state vote in Texas, where about 2.8 million Democrats cast ballots in a battle for 193 pledged delegates.

But this year, every delegate is being fought over, grabbed at and wooed, even in down-ballot states such as Wyoming, Mississippi, North Carolina and Montana. The biggest delegate prize of the remaining 12 nomination contests is seven weeks away, on April 22, when 158 pledged delegates are up for grabs in Pennsylvania.

Obama still maintains a numeric lead in the delegate count, making it nearly a statistical impossibility for Clinton to make an outright win before the August Democratic convention. Only 611 pledged delegates are still up for grabs.

Both Clinton and Obama were bracing themselves for a renewed fight on Wednesday.

“What’s happening in this election is that people are starting to ask themselves, you know, the questions that’ll be asked during the general election,” Clinton said, speaking with FOX News.

She added: “I think every election’s a confluence of events. You know, that’s why they’re not static. That’s why this process should go on over a period of time because, you know, new information comes out. People begin to look at the candidates differently. They ask themselves, you know, the questions about who can really be the best nominee, who can win the nomination.”

Obama, also speaking with FOX News, predicted success.

“The bottom line … is we come out of the evening with essentially the same leads in delegates as we had going in and so, we still feel very confident that — we’re going to be going to Wyoming and Mississippi this week; we think we’ll do well there. And on to Pennsylvania, North Carolina and other states after that. … We feel we’re in a very strong position to end up getting the nomination.”

But with few predictions of this race still standing, the Super Tuesday II developments could mean any number of things.

One scenario could provide a strengthened bid for Republican John McCain, who could benefit from a protracted battle between Clinton and Obama. But the reverse could be true, too, as he drops from the news headlines and the Democrats work out their weaknesses before facing the Republican machine heading into November.

Another scenario could mean a bitter end-run at the August Democratic convention. Clinton’s camp is resolute in continuing the fight, and while she still trails in the race for convention delegates, she could make a last-minute grab for the nomination on the convention floor — if it gets that far.She and some of her top surrogates — including former President Bill Clinton and daughter, Chelsea — have been placing personal calls to maintain support among the so-called superdelegates, who aren’t bound to their state nomination contests.

But at the same time, Obama has laid the groundwork to fend off such an onslaught and is said to have a few of the superdelegates quietly on his side, at the ready to parry Clinton’s attempts to play the numbers.

For now, the contest moves on.

After Saturday’s face-off in Wyoming, next Tuesday, Mississippi Democrats head to the polls. After a voting lull, it picks up again in The Keystone State in late April and continues on in May with contests in Indiana, North Carolina, West Virginia, Kentucky and Oregon. The June contests are in Montana and South Dakota. Democrats also have yet to vote in Guam and Puerto Rico.

Sit UBU, Sit!

Good Dog,....



HT to Tony Phyrillas for this gem!


I have nothing to add to this,...just LMAO!

A Valentine from Tony Phyrillas to the Dems

Because Tony is THE MAN!




Y'know,..there's a reason why Hearts, Valentines and all things related to this day are RED!!!!

(The answer for the typically oblivious lefties: Dems don't have hearts!)

Because "Whored Out" Would've Been Too Much Like the Truth,....

Clinton: MSNBC Chelsea Remarks ‘Incredibly Offensive’
by FOXNews.com

Hillary Clinton said Saturday that the remarks made Thursday on MSNBC about her daughter Chelsea being “pimped out” by the campaign were “incredibly offensive,” and she expects “appropriate action” taken.

Clinton reacted personally to the comments while campaigning in Maine, after correspondent David Shuster apologized twice Friday on air for making the comments.

“I am a mother first and a candidate second, and I found the remarks incredibly offensive,” Clinton said. “I can take whatever comes my way, that’s part of what I signed up for as a candidate, as an office holder. But I think that there’s been a troubling pattern of comments and behavior that has to be held accountable. So I have sent a letter to the head of NBC expressing the deep offense that I took and pointing out what has been a troubling pattern of demeaning treatment and I would expect appropriate action to be taken.”

Clinton’s campaign is already threatening to boycott future debates on MSNBC in the wake of the remarks, and Clinton said Saturday, “We’ve accepted a lot of debates from a lot of different sponsors. So we’re going to wait and see how this plays out.”

Shuster said on air Thursday, while talking about Chelsea Clinton placing phone calls to Democratic superdelegates on her mother’s behalf: “Doesn’t it seem as if Chelsea is sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way?”

Shuster has since been temporarily suspended, and is not allowed on air except to make his apologies.

“I used a phrase that was inappropriate. I apologize to the Clinton family, the Clinton campaign and all of you who are justifiably offended,” he said Friday evening on “Tucker.”

“As I said this morning on MSNBC, all Americans should be proud of Chelsea Clinton, and I am particularly sorry that my language diminished the regard and the respect she has earned from all of us, and the respect her parents have earned in how they raised her,” he said.

“NBC News takes these matters seriously, and offers our sincere regrets to the Clintons for the remarks,” MSNBC spokesman Jeremy Gaines said, adding the network was hopeful the debate would take place as planned.

But in a letter to the network, Clinton said “no temporary suspension or half-hearted apology is sufficient.”

And in a conference call with reporters Friday, Clinton spokesman Howard Wolfson excoriated Shuster for making the comment, which he called “beneath contempt” and disgusting.

“I, at this point, can’t envision a scenario where we would continue to engage in debates on that network given that comment,” he said.

Clinton and Barack Obama were scheduled to participate in an MSNBC debate Feb. 26 in Ohio, one of just two debates Obama has consented to before March 4, when Ohio and other states hold primaries.

The Clinton campaign has pushed hard for as many debates as possible with Obama, but Wolfson said the Feb. 26 debate could be jeopardized.

Wolfson pointed to what he called a pattern of tasteless comments by MSNBC anchors about the Clinton campaign. Weeks ago, “Hardball” host Chris Matthews apologized to the former first lady after suggesting her political career had been made possible her husband’s philandering.

Wolfson said neither Chelsea nor Sen. Clinton had received a phone call offering a personal apology, even though Shuster told The Associated Press he’s tried to reach Clinton to do so.

“I’m not familiar with any apology,” Wolfson said, during a call where the campaign also announced raising more than $8 million online since Super Tuesday. “It’s the kind of thing that should never be said on a national news network.”

Click here to hear Shuster’s comment about Chelsea Clinton.


The TrekMedic observes:

Hmmm,....we all know the Shrill One does nothing without first calculating the risk. Obama-bin-Laden is cleaning her clock,...her crocodile tears aren't gaining any more sympathy votes,...so why not send her daughter out to the wolves and see all the media attention draw back to her campaign.

Nice try Shrillary,..not going to work!

Shrillary's At It Again!

Are you S**ting Me???

Hillary Tells Audience She’s Misty-Eyed Again

Did Hillary Clinton get misty-eyed again?

At least she said she did.

It wasn’t clear from a reporter’s standpoint that she actually shed tears, but after the Democratic presidential candidate took the microphone Monday from one of her old law school professors at a New Haven, Conn., event, Clinton indicated the moment had gotten to her.

“I said I would not tear up. Already, we’re not exactly on that path,” Clinton told the audience.

Photos from the event also reveal what appear to be moist eyelids on the former first lady.

The comment comes just one day before the presidential candidates face voters in Super Tuesday polls, and Clinton is hoping to edge out a surging Barack Obama for the Democratic nomination.

This also comes less than a month after another public emotional moment for Clinton.

Clinton was facing criticism in early January for not being human enough, but a widely seen video recording showed Clinton shedding a tear at a New Hampshire event just before the primary there. That moment might have helped give her the boost she needed to win The Granite State.

The moment in Connecticut came as she revisited her law school days while hosting a campaign event at the Yale Child Study Center where she first pursued her interest in child advocacy.

Penn Rhodeen, a New Haven public interest lawyer who worked with Clinton as a student, recalled her showing up on his doorstep wearing purple bell-bottoms.

“It was so 1972,” he recalled, praising Clinton for her longtime interest in helping children.

“Here is the abiding truth we know — you have always been a champion for children. Welcome home, dear friend. We are so proud of you,” he said.

Clinton at one point wiped her eyes with her hand, but unlike her teary-eyed moment in Portsmouth, N.H., her voice never broke.

Clinton also was showing some of the stress of the campaign trail as she had coughing spell at the Monday event.

Clinton had insisted Sunday night on her plane that she’s feeling fine, but a string of long days on the campaign trail have led to a scratchy voice and a cough that comes and goes.

In the middle of Monday’s event, it came in a big way. Five aides rushed out of the room to fetch a lozenge as she struggled to control the cough, asking the participants o continue.

Through Monday, she had one more rally scheduled, an appearance on David Letterman’s show Monday night, and a 90-minute national town hall after that.

FOX News’ Aaron Bruns and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

The TrekMedic weighs in:

Ok,..separated at birth,...

The Shrill One:












And Elaan of Troyius (Star Trek Original Series):












The link:

The Enterprise transports Elaan, the female ruler of the warrior Troyians, to the planet of her enemy so that her arranged marriage will halt their interplanetary war. Kirk must teach the arrogant, vicious ruler the ways of polite society but falls victim to the legendary weapon of Troyian women: their tears act as a love potion.

Yeah,..I'm a Sci-Fi geek,..that's why I'm called the "TrekMedic," right?

Bitch, Slapped (SC Donnybrook)

In the wake of her 20-point drubbing in South Carolina, it looks like the rats are jumping off the USS Shrill One in droves:

Ted Kennedy to Endorse Obama

Sunday, January 27, 2008 4:27 PM

Democratic Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts will endorse Senate colleague Barack Obama for president, party officials confirmed Sunday.


The endorsement will be announced Monday in Washington, said the officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak for the record. An official close to the senator said the announcement will be made during an Obama campaign rally at American University, where he will be joined by Sen. Kennedy and his niece, Caroline Kennedy, who also has endorsed Obama.


Caroline Kennedy Endorses Obama

Sunday, January 27, 2008 12:03 PM


The daughter of President John F. Kennedy endorsed Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, saying he could inspire Americans in the same way her father once did.


"I have never had a president who inspired me the way people tell me that my father inspired them," Caroline Kennedy wrote in an op-ed posted Saturday on the Web site of The New York Times. "But for the first time, I believe I have found the man who could be that president — not just for me, but for a new generation of Americans."


Kennedy, who was four days shy of her 6th birthday when her father was assassinated, wrote that Obama "has a special ability to get us to believe in ourselves, to tie that belief to our highest ideals and imagine that together we can do great things."


And she appealed to other parents to pick a candidate who she said could invigorate a younger generation that is too often "hopeless, defeated and disengaged."


Kennedy wrote that she wants a president "who appeals to the hopes of those who still believe in the American Dream, and those around the world who still believe in the American ideal; and who can lift our spirits, and make us believe again that our country needs every one of us to get involved."

Could it be because Slick Willy not only can't keep his pants on by habit, but can't shut his mouth, either:

BILL CLINTON'S BIGMOUTH OF THE SOUTH
OUTRAGE AT 'BARACK = JESSE' REMARK
By GEOFF EARLE, Post Correspondent

January 28, 2008 -- WASHINGTON - Shoot-from-the-lip Bill Clinton has struck again.

A day after Barack Obama's overwhelming victory over Hillary Rodham Clinton in South Carolina, the spotlight was back on the former president - this time for dismissive comments he made comparing the Illinois senator's campaign to the failed presidential candidacies of the Rev. Jesse Jackson.

While his wife campaigned in Tennessee and Obama stumped in Georgia, the media focus was once again on Bill Clinton, who said on Saturday: "Jesse Jackson won South Carolina in '84 and '88. Jackson ran a good campaign. And Obama ran a good campaign here."

The message: that Obama might peel off a few Southern states with sizeable black populations, as Jackson did, but can't forge a successful nationwide candidacy.

POLL: Is Bill Too Active in Hill's Campaign?

Sen. Clinton attributed her husband's comments to emotion.

"Well, I think it's human nature. I think that the spouses of all three of us have, you know, been passionate and vigorous defenders of each of us and, you know, maybe got a little carried away," she said on CBS's "Face the Nation."

She chalked it up to "sleep deprivation" on the campaign trail.

Liberal bloggers were outraged by Bill Clinton's comparison of Obama to Jackson.

Mickey Kaus, writing on the Web magazine Slate, called the comment an "attempted ghettoization" of Obama's candidacy.

Obama responded on ABC's "This Week" yesterday that Clinton was dwelling in the past.

"I think that that's his frame of reference - the Jesse Jackson races," Obama said.

"That's when, you know, he was active and involved and watching what was going to take place in South Carolina.

"I think that a lot of South Carolinians [last week] looked at it through a different lens."

Bitch, Slapped (Gotcha!)

From the Drudge Report:

Does this pic look familiar?



It's the Shrill One posing with one Tony Rezko!

The same Tony Rezko she turned to mud and slung at Barack Obama-bin-Laden during the last debate!

Quoth her Shrillness:

"Clinton injected the indicted developer's name this week in debate with Obama: 'I was fighting against those ideas when you were practicing law and representing your contributor, Rezko, in his slum landlord business in inner city Chicago.'"

D'oh!


Addendum from Stop Her Now!


If history has taught us anything, it is that being a Clinton means it is never your fault. Not surprisingly, Hillary’s presidential campaign continues the Clinton tradition of blaming others for your problems.