Showing posts with label Hillary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hillary. Show all posts

Monday, July 21, 2008

What Hillary said about Obama and Afghanistan


Sweetness & Light reminds us of the content on Hillary's website mere weeks ago (via the American Thinker's Clarice Feldman):

Hillary For President
"True"
TV : 30

Announcer: Barack Obama says he has the judgment to be president.

But as chairman of an oversight committee charged with the force of fighting Al Qaeda in Afghanistan - he was too busy running for president to hold even one hearing.

Barack Obama: "I became chairman of this committee, at the beginning of this campaign-at the beginning of 2007, so it is true that we haven't had oversight hearings on Afghanistan."

Announcer: Hillary Clinton will never be too busy to defend our national security-bringing our troops home from Iraq and pursing Al Qaeda in Afghanistan.

Hillary Clinton: "I'm Hillary Clinton and I approved this message."

***Poof**** Down the memory hole.

Sunday, July 20, 2008

History Lesson: How Democrats doubled down on defeat


A brief tour:

• Democrat Joe Biden, Jan. 2007: "If he surges another 20, 30 [thousand], or whatever number he's going to, into Baghdad, it'll be a tragic mistake."

• Democrat Barack Obama, Jan. 2007: "I am not persuaded that 20,000 additional troops in Iraqis going to solve the sectarian violence there. In fact, I think it will do the reverse."

• Democrat Hillary Clinton, Jan. 2007: "I cannot support [the] proposed escalation of the war in Iraq."

• Democrat Barack Obama, Jan 2007: "I don't think the president's [surge] strategy is going to work."

• Democrat John Kerry, Feb. 2007: "The simple fact is that sending in over 20,000 additional troops isn't the answer--in fact, it's a tragic mistake. It won't end the violence; it won't provide security; ...it won't turn back the clock and avoid the civil war that is already underway; it won't deter terrorists, who have a completely different agenda; it won't rein in the militias."

• Democrat Dennis Kucinich, Feb. 2007: "It has been proven time and time again that troop surges don't work."

• Democrat Harry Reid, Apr. 2007: "The war is lost... This surge is not accomplishing anything."

• Democrat Christopher Dodd, Apr. 2007: "We don't need a surge of troops in Iraq... there is no military solution in Iraq. To insist upon a surge is wrong."

• Democrat Barack Obama, Jul. 2007: "My assessment is that the surge has not worked."

• Democrat Dick Durbin, Aug. 2007: "By carefully manipulating the statistics, the Bush-Petraeus report will try to persuade us that violence in Iraq is decreasing and thus the surge is working. Even if the figures were right, the conclusion is wrong."

• Democrat Jan Schakowsky, Aug. 2007: "I believe overall the surge is a failure. ...It’s clear to me we cannot win..."

• Democrat Joe Biden, Sep. 2007: "We should stop the surge and start bringing our troops home... [When asked whether Iraq closer to political reconciliation than before the surge began, and would continuing the operation stop the killing between Sunnis, Shi'ites and Kurds?] ...The answer to both those questions is no."

• Democrat John Kerry, Sep. 2007: ""The president's escalation ... has failed to achieve its goal of bringing about a resolution of the fundamental conflict between Sunni and Shi'ite."

• Democrat Chris Dodd, Sep. 2007: "It pains me to say that ... the surge tactic is a failure — and that failure is reconfirmed everyday by unfolding events in Iraq."

• Democrat Barack Obama, Oct. 2007: "[The surge is a] complete failure... Iraq’s leaders are not reconciling. They are not achieving political benchmarks."

• Democrat Harry Reid, Nov. 2007: "It is indisputable that the goals of the surge have failed."

• Democrat Joe Biden, Nov. 2007: "This whole notion that the surge is working is fantasy."

• Democrat Nancy Pelosi, Feb. 2008: "There haven't been gains [in Iraq]... The gains have not produced the desired effect, which is the reconciliation of Iraq. This is a failure. This is a failure."

• Democrat Carl Levin, Apr. 2008: "...the purpose of the surge as announced by President Bush last year... has not been achieved"

• Democrat Joe Biden, Apr. 2008: "The purpose of the surge was to bring violence in Iraq down so that its leaders could come together politically. Violence has come down, but the Iraqis have not come together... We Democrats understand that this war must end..."

• Democrat Bill Richardson, Jun. 2008: "[when asked if he was ready to concede that John McCain had been right in proposing the surge, said] "Absolutely not."

Peter Wehner concludes:

Democrats, then, have compounded their initial bad judgment about the surge with reckless obstinacy. As ethno-sectarian violence in Iraq rapidly declined, as al Qaeda absorbed tremendous military blows, and as political accommodation and legislative achievements have emerged, Democrats, rather than welcoming the progress, grew agitated. They embraced with religious zeal the belief that the Iraq war was lost; they therefore viewed the success of the surge as a terribly inconvenient development, one they sought to deny to the point that they looked silly and out of touch. Worse, Democrats acted as if they had a vested interest in an American defeat.

Rarely has a political party been so uniformly wrong, in such an obvious way, on such an important matter. And when Americans cast their vote on November 4, they should carefully consider how Barack Obama and the entire Democratic party fought ferociously and relentlessly to undermine a policy that has worked extraordinarily well...

Democrats called General Petraeus a liar. They said the war was lost. They claimed our troops were barbaric, killing innocent civilians with impunity.

They were wrong. They were unbelievably partisan, putting their interests before those of the United States and the safety of its military.

No party has been more wrong, more often, on serious issues of national import than the Democratic party since 1864.

As for Iraq? Well, let's just say that the Democrats' track record as the Party of Weakness and Defeat remains unblemished.

Update: Even preventing a holocaust wasn't a good enough reason for Obama to keep troops in Iraq:

Barack Obama said Thursday the United States cannot use its military to solve humanitarian problems and that preventing a potential genocide in Iraq isn't a good enough reason to keep U.S. forces there...


Linked by: Gateway Pundit and Wolf Howling. Thanks! Sources: Peter Wehner, Stephen Collinson, Democrats.org, New York Times, Think Progress, Democrats.org, Reuters, Carl Levin's Official Website, Chris Dodd's Official Website.

Progressive blog comment-watch


Over at TPM Election Central, Hillary and Obama loyalists are going after each other with a vengeance ("Top Dem Party Officials Send Sharply-Worded Email Demanding That Hillary Donors And Supporters Get Behind Obama"). Accusations of trolling, stupidity, Democratic sabotage, and the like are running fast and furious.

This comes on the heels of a series of death threats against Hillary backers. Nothing says Party Unity like the promise of a set of ghastly murders.

In the post's comments, the current curse-word totals are running as follows:

12 f***
 4 s***
 4 a**
 3 a******

I'll alert the blogosphere as those counts change.

"Let's try for a 0% approval rating!" - Democrats call for new gas taxes


Hoping to reach the magical zero-percent approval rating, Congressional Democrats are calling for new and higher gas taxes on the American suckers citizens who elected them.

Now, [Democratic] lawmakers quietly are talking about raising fuel taxes by a dime from the current 18.4 cents a gallon on gasoline and 24.3 cents on diesel fuel.


...Just three years ago, [the construction] trust fund enjoyed a surplus of $10 billion. Even without a tax freeze, the fund is projected to finish 2009 with a deficit of $3 billion. That that could grow as Americans drive less and buy less gas because of higher pump prices.

[Ed: I wonder what happened after 2005? Perhaps a new set of Congressional leaders were elected? Leaders of the Democratic -- spend first and ask questions later -- variety?]

Senate Democrats in May tried to add $5 billion to an aviation overhaul bill to replenish the highway trust fund next year; Republicans objected. Democrats tried again in June, but this time for $8 billion; Republicans objected to that, too.

Congress should first reduce spending on pet projects, known as earmarks, argued Sen. Jim DeMint, R-S.C. "I'm not going to let the Senate spend all this money when nobody is looking, especially when we refuse to stop wasting billions of taxpayer dollars on earmarks."

There's an idea: perhaps our earmark-addicted leaders (Senators Obama and Clinton alone have combined on nearly a half billion dollars in pork) could start by cutting their own scandal-laced projects before socking American consumers with higher taxes.

But that would require a high level of ethics and a stand-up attitude: and neither characteristic seems to be a strong suit of our Democratic Congress.

Hat tips: STACLU and Macsmind.

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Hillary's loyal backers receiving death threats from Obama supporters


PUMA is an organization of Hillary backers who have swung their support to John McCain.


And now they're receiving death threats.

Yes, this is just another example of the famed tolerance and fairness of the "progressive" left.

A note to maniacs who make death threats: They don’t work. They harden the opposition to your cause because they expose your true nature as a homicidal bully. They also rally the support of the vast majority of decent people who are outraged by the tactic. You turn your target into a hero, and if you succeed in either murdering or inciting the murder of your victim, you turn her or him into a martyr. Not the best plan.

I’m a grown woman and I’m not afraid of bullies — never have been, never will be. But I do have children, and anyone who has lost their mother at a young age understands the profound and long-lasting grief that flows from that. Anyone who threatens me or any of the the other women in this movement with death for expressing our political views peacefully and lawfully will fail at frightening me — but he will succeed at terrorizing innocent children. And THAT makes me angry.

HillarysMyGirl and GiggleChick have also publicly blogged about receiving death threats from Obama supporters.

Update: NotFallingInLine.org publishes an open letter to Nancy Pelosi.

Linked by: Gateway Pundit, Macsmind, Parkway Rest Stop and Wake up America. Thanks!

Tuesday, July 08, 2008

Wesley Clark: the Keith Olbermann of failed politicians


Remember Wesley Clark's comments denigrating John McCain's service about a week ago?

Gen. Wesley Clark, acting as a surrogate for Barack Obama’s campaign, invoked John McCain’s military service against him in one of the more personal attacks on the Republican presidential nominee this election cycle... Clark said that McCain lacked the executive experience necessary to be president, calling him “untested and untried” on CBS’ “Face the Nation.” And in saying so, he took a few swipes at McCain’s military service.

...he hasn't held executive responsibility. That large squadron in the Navy that he commanded — that wasn't a wartime squadron,” Clark said.

I don’t think getting in a fighter plane and getting shot down is a qualification to become president.”

Wesley Clark thinks that the Democratic candidate is more qualified than John McCain. Is that because of Barack Obama's incredible success as a state senator and as a "community organizer"?

Hold up. Let's rewind just a few months.

[Wesley Clark argues] that Hillary Clinton does have the right experience. That’s right. Wesley Clark claims that the type of military experience that John McCain has - 22 years in the Navy completing his career as a field grade officer, plus more than two decades on the Senate Armed Services Committee - doesn’t qualify him to be commander in chief of the U.S. Armed Forces. He goes on to explain how Hillary’s experience better qualifies her. Really. I am not making this up.

Wes Clark is arguing that eight years as first lady beats McCain. He states her time as First Lady “plus her years in the Senate” uniquely qualify her. But wait, John McCain has three times as many years in the Senate as Hillary so that part of her resume is less qualifying than that of McCain. So it must be her time as first lady that gives her the experience that trumps McCain’s more than two decades as a Naval Officer and experience as a combat veteran. Really.

Really.

Wesley Clark is almost as credible in the field of politics as Josef Stalin. Only Clark's personality isn't as bubbly.

Update: Jackalope has more on the Democratic war on the military.

Monday, July 07, 2008

In light of the Obama birth certificate controversy...


Now, I've been doing my level best to try to debunk the Obama birth certificate "scandal".


I analyzed the high-resolution Kos scan, for instance, and was able to tease out what appears to be a faint seal and signature block.

That said, some (and I apologize, but I honestly can't remember who it was) reminded me of this little story:

Passport files of candidates breached

State Department employees snooped through the passport files of three presidential candidates — Sens. Barack Obama, Hillary Rodham Clinton and John McCain — and the department's inspector general is investigating... The incidents raise questions as to whether the information was accessed for political purposes and why two contractors involved in the Obama search were dismissed before investigators had a chance to interview them...

And this one:

Two Fired for Viewing Obama Passport File

Two State Department employees were fired and a third has been disciplined for improperly accessing Sen. Barack Obama's passport file, the State Department announced last night... Senior department officials said they learned of the incidents only when a reporter made an inquiry yesterday afternoon. They said an initial investigation indicated that the employees -- all of whom worked on contract -- were motivated by "imprudent curiosity."

...Bill Burton, spokesman for Obama's presidential campaign, called the incidents "an outrageous breach of security and privacy." He said this is "a serious matter that merits a complete investigation," adding that the campaign will "demand to know who looked at Senator Obama's passport file, for what purpose, and why it took so long for them to reveal this security breach."

Hillary's agents are diabolical, aren't they?

They knew about this burgeoning scandal months ago. Heh!

Sunday, June 29, 2008

Democratic divisions still linger, even after "Unity"


Don't ask why I've been trolling The New Republic, but suffice it to say there's some trouble brewing for Barack Obama among certain factions in organized labor.

At the AFL-CIO meeting this week that endorsed Barack Obama, one union president, Thomas Buffenbarger of the Machinists, voted “present.” In a letter to his members, Buffenbarger explained:

"...hope and change are not antidotes to the economic pressures blue-collar families face... In the Machinists Union, a predominately blue-collar union, the impression continues to grow that Senator Barack Obama could care less about folks like us. At the plant closings in Galesburg [where a Maytag plant moved its operations to Mexico] and Herrin, in llinois and during our fight to save pensions at United Airlines, he never lifted a finger to help our members... In phone calls to IAM members, Senator Obama never broke 18 percent in any state. He came in third, often a distant third, behind Senators Hillary Clinton and John McCain. And our union made over a quarter million calls to its members."

...Buffenbarger was also miffed when the Obama campaign failed to respond to phone calls this Spring asking him to denounce the Pentagon decision to buy a new tanker fleet from Northrop Grumman, working in cooperation with AIRBUS, rather than from the Chicago-based Boeing company. The Northrop-Grumman planes would have been built partly in Toulouse, France. During the Washington primary in March, Obama had initially offered a tepid criticism of the decision, but at a town meeting in Wilkes Barre during the Pennsylvania primary, Obama had appeared to defend the Pentagon award to Northrop-Grumman and Airbus, infuriating the Machinists whose workers would have built the planes.

The Economist spells out a key point curiously ignored by our beloved mainstream media.

Many union members are culturally conservative whites who might be expected to vote Republican, especially now that Mr Obama, rather than Hillary Clinton, is the Democratic nominee.

Further, reports the Guardian:

...while Clinton and Obama were willing to put the past aside yesterday, resolving the divisions between their followers could prove far more challenging - even for professional politicians.

Jeanne Shaheen, a Democratic candidate for Senate who spent the day campaigning with Michelle Obama on Thursday, could not entirely bury her sense of grievance at Clinton's loss. Shaheen had been one of Clinton's most powerful supporters in New Hampshire. "I know what it's like to make an important policy statement only to have the media report what you are wearing or what your hairstyle is," Shaheen told the crowd in Unity.

Some diehard Clinton camp followers say they will never get over their disappointment and have founded online groups like Puma, or Party Unity My Ass. Puma's followers are calling on women to support McCain, or stay home.

Puma's website can be found here, should you wish to lend your support.

Saturday, June 28, 2008

Behind the scenes: the secret negotiations between Barack and Hillary


In order to quell the discord in the Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama arrived at a deal this week that would enable them to more effectively collaborate. The efforts to unify the Democratic factions stem from a groundswell of support within the party for John McCain (see: "Prominent Democrats Will Lead McCain's New Hampshire Organization" and "Over 100 Anti-Obama Websites Set Up By Hillary Supporters").

It is not entirely clear what sort of negotiations occurred behind the scenes to enable the two foes to arrive at a peace settlement. But Junior Cub Reporter Biff Spackle discovered the only known transcript of the first meeting between the winning and losing Democratic candidates.


Hillary, thanks so much for coming to meet me in private.

As you know, many of your supporters have pledged their allegiance to John McCain and the GOP.

Hillary, what will it take to get you to unify the party?

Barack, thanks for entertaining me here at your beautiful Jeremiahisport compound.

I've only got two demands, I mean, requests.

First, I want 21 million dollars to bring my campaign fund out of the red.

Second, if I'm chosen as your nominee for Veep, I want my own cool, fake vice presidential seal.

You know how you have vero possumus on yours?

Yes, it means "in truth, we are able."

Yeah, I read it on the Puffington Roast. I want the latin Secundum verum, nos reperio cameltoe on mine.

You've got it.

Err, Barack, why is a hotdog standing in the corner?

Who me?

Isn't that a member of your posse?

Hell no! I thought it was one of your bodyguards in disguise!

Security! Get that hot dog!

It's running away!

Take it down, take it down!

**KA-BLAM!!** **KA-BLAM!!**

Got it!

Bill Clinton?

Why, Bill, why?

I wanted to know if you were having an affair... I wanna be president again, where everyone'll lissen to me... I been out of the loop for so long....

But why in a hotdog suit?

I thought no one'd reco-nize me...

Sleepy... gettin' sleepy... I'm slippin' away... Jennifer, I'm comin' home...

Oh, the humanity!

Does this mean I can be VP now?

Thursday, June 12, 2008

Survivor: ObamaFriends


I'm Jeff Probst and welcome to the season finale of...

Survivor ObamaFriends!

Let's recap the first eight weeks of the show.

Week one: campaign financier Tony Rezko, who Barack kicked off the show with the immortal words Turn that f***ing camera off you s***head!

Week two: Barack's lifelong friend, pastor and advisor Jeremiah Wright was booted, leaving a farewell message of G*dd**n America and its televisions! These shows were invented to harm all people of color!

Week three: It was time for one-time terrorist and Obama fundraiser William Ayers to leave. He said, I don't regret anything I've done on this show, including stealing all of Jeremiah Wright's underwear. I feel we didn't do enough."

Week four: Father William Pfleger bid us adieu with the immortal words: "America is the greatest sin against God and the second greatest sin in this damnable show!"

Week five: State Senator and Reverend James Meeks left the show in a hurried controversy when he said of your beloved host -- Jeff Probst, "He may not be a slave master. But we have the same game show hosts. It's the same white people who are presiding over reality shows where black people are not eligible!!!”

Week six: Obama campaign adviser Jim Johnson was jettisoned from the campaign when questionable loans from subprime lender Countrywide were revealed. When asked to tape a closing comment for the show, he simply passed gas and then made a "rim-shot" noise.

Well... the time to reveal our Survivor winner has arrived.

Barack must choose from the two finalists: Hillary Clinton or his wife: Michelle Obama. Earlier, Barack wrote the name of the loser and deposited it in the ballot box. Let's read it now!

And the second-place finisher is... Michelle Obama! Michelle, any final words before you depart? I'll give you some words! I'll give you some damn words, you two-faced... --

And our finalist is... wait just a second... ...there's another vote in the box! It says Barack Obama!

That can't be right!

I'm afraid those are the rules, Barry!

And that -- that means -- Hillary Clinton is our winner!

How the f*** did she do that?

How did I lose? I had this wrapped up!!

Hehehe! I love it when a plan comes together!



Texas-sized tip o' the hat to: Reliapundit.