This past Friday, during a meeting with a newspaper editorial board, I was asked about whether I was going to continue in the presidential race.

I made clear that I was – and that I thought the urgency to end the 2008 primary process was unprecedented. I pointed out, as I have before, that both my husband’s primary campaign, and Sen. Robert Kennedy’s, had continued into June.

Almost immediately, some took my comments entirely out of context and interpreted them to mean something completely different – and completely unthinkable.

I want to set the record straight: I was making the simple point that given our history, the length of this year’s primary contest is nothing unusual. Both the executive editor of the newspaper where I made the remarks, and Sen. Kennedy’s son, Bobby Kennedy Jr., put out statements confirming that this was the clear meaning of my remarks. Bobby stated, “I understand how highly charged the atmosphere is, but I think it is a mistake for people to take offense.”

I realize that any reference to that traumatic moment for our nation can be deeply painful – particularly for members of the Kennedy family, who have been in my heart and prayers over this past week. And I expressed regret right away for any pain I caused.

But I was deeply dismayed and disturbed that my comment would be construed in a way that flies in the face of everything I stand for – and everything I am fighting for in this election.

http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/05/25/why-we-continue-hillary-and-me/#more-2698

The right-wing columnist Westbrook Pegler, who had also been a ferocious critic of F.D.R. and the New Deal, welcomed the possibility that, as he put it, “some white patriot of the Southern tier will spatter his [Kennedy's] spoonful of brains in public premises before the snow flies,” and J. Edgar Hoover’s deputy Clyde Tolson remarked offhandedly, “I hope that someone shoots and kills the son of a bitch.”

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This issue has been on the newsstands for the last three weeks (or more) and since it’s the June 2008 edition, it will be on the shelves for at least another few weeks.

Hillary Rodham Nixon knows exactly what she’s saying. She couldn’t be as explicit as the quotes above (emphasis mine), but she knows exactly what she’s doing.

“According to a recent Los Angeles Times report, the Clinton campaign is more than $21 million in debt to vendors and service providers throughout the country.”

And no, I’m not talking about lame 503 ads. The fact is, Hillary is 30 million dollars in debt and she still hasn’t paid a large number of her vendors– the details AFAIK came in one of the financial reports to the FEC.

This is very much fair game, b/c Hillary claims herself as the defender of working-class whites, but then she hypocritically turns around and screws them by using their services and not paying for them.

The hypocrisy of Hillary on this is enough to hit her on it.

But beyond that– if you offered a service to somebody, especially a rich somebody like Hillary Clinton with over $100 million in assets, and then they turned around and refused to pay you, wouldn’t you be pissed? This is a matter of basic fairness and respect for other people, something the Clintons seem utterly incapable of. So yes, we should be pointing this out, not in the form of 503’s but rather, in the form of letters to the editor and calls to radio shows.

Again, the list of unpaid vendors is public, so if anyone knows the vendors, that they should be encouraged to sue in court. As I said, this goes well beyond the political angle– it’s basic fairness. Unpaid vendors are hesitant to file suit against the Clintons b/c they’re so powerful– is this something we want to allow? I say, heck no. The Clintons screw over the little people, but then pretend like they’re defenders of them.

Even if this had nothing to do with politics, I’d say the same thing. The Clintons have no excuse, considering their assets, for not paying hard-pressed vendors around the country. As long as they remain in arrears, the vendors should indeed be encouraged to file suit, so as to, at the very least, discourage other politicians from pulling the same crap. I have some close friends who have their own small businesses, so yes, I do feel very strongly about this.

I think hillbilly has put a hit out on Obama as well. Now we REALLY know and understand the meaning of “anything,” as in “she will do *anything* to win the nomination. And in light of the kkklinton death list, we need to take her veiled threats with the utmost seriousness. On the positive side, she killed (excuse the pun)any chance of “forcing” Obama to offer her a vice-presidency, so we no longer have to worry about that.

I don’t like the feelings of hatred that I feel for them. My feelings are so intense, and I seldom have that much negative passion. I also feel it for that MSNBC resident klansman, pat buchanan.

If we haven’t been previously convinced, this political episode really illustrates how desperately we need our own tv media outlet(s). I saw a Black politician on tv a few months ago, and I think his name is JC Watts, from Oklahoma. He is a Black republican. He said he was going to start a Black Political tv station. I wish we could put our dollars together and have a People’s tv station. I hardly ever watch BET and I forbid my children from watching it. And even while I can get a little raw, I do not consider myself to be in or have much in common with the ghetto demographic. I also think we need to financially secede from all the institutions that show bias against us, especially the msm. I feel that their blatantly biased/racist spin on local and national events wages an assult on our mental health, which is what racism does. Everyone I know is so upset and drained, unless they are totally apolitical. Racism creates an environment where we are called dysfunctional for having the temerity to call something racist. We are dismissed and convinced that we don’t see what we see, hear what we hear, or feel what we feel, and that WE are the ones who are racist for bringing it up. We need to hear from our Black psychologists about now because we are being assulted on a daily basis. On the positive side, the hardcore racists are dying out more & more with each generation.

If you feel bus tire tread marks on your ass, it’s because the DNC & the supers are trying to protect their jobs from the ire,backlash & revenge of white, female kkklinton supporters. These are the people she is sending to storm the May 31st meeting. That said, I do think there is a flurry of activity going on behind the scenes that we aren’t privy to at this time. I have the greatest confidence in Obama & his crew to have a brilliant plan. I will hold on to this belief until June 4th. If everything isn’t tied up & packaged by then, I’ll freak out again.

The high point of my day yesterday was hearing Keith Olbermann rip hillbilly a new asshole, and hearing Janet Napolitano say “beat down the strawman.” Aside from that, I envisioned a video game where the players are snipers shooting @ hillary clinton. She can hide behind bill, chelsea, women’s organizations & various lies. She can start out in a dark pants suit, and as the player gets more points, her pants suits get lighter, and she becomes an easier target. If the player stops her before she gets to the white house, her head explodes… Then she grows a new one and keeps running, because she won’t quit.

We need to foreclose upon all the Clintons now, no political career for any of them. Nothing for Hillary, nothing for Chelsea, certainly nothing, ever, anymore, for Bill. Get these corrupt fools out of the political arena!

If there’d been any doubt remaining about the need to utterly destroy the Clintons’ political career, then Hillary just removed it with this criminal remark.

I still don’t get why so many people are treating the Clintons with kid gloves. You treat people with respect when they earn respect. The Clintons have earned only contempt and anger.

Specific things we need to be doing:

1. The Clintons have stiffed an awful lot of vendors throughout their campaign with their unpaid bills– so much for caring about “White working-class voters.” Point this out in letters to the editor and calls to radio shows, but even more importantly, try to contact these vendors and encourage them to sue the Clintons in court for unpaid bills and delinquency of payment. Obviously, a lot of negative press will arrive and humiliate the Clintons further, working-class whites in places like Kentucky and West Virginia will be shown that the Clintons were just using them– plus, as an added benefit, the bleeding from a thousand small cuts, from numerous angry vendors suing the Clintons for non-payment, will bankrupt them.

2. Place tremendous and crushing pressure on the Senators and Congresspeople who are still stonewalling on the Congressional legislation, that would require the Clintons to open up the donor list on the Clinton Foundation library files. There was legislation before Congress to require such foundations to disclose their donors, yet a few Senators (mostly Democrats, shamefully enough) have been stonewalling on the bill, as a sense of political favors.

Enough! For reasons of basic political integrity, indeed of basic national integrity, it is essential to disclose the donor list. It is an outrage that some members of Congress have become so corrupt that they refuse even such basic transparency.

Such members of Congress, even Democrats, need to be harshly targeted for their stonewalling. No financial support for them, no votes, weekly public humiliation in the media for their affronts to even a basic sense of fairness, and for their obvious corruption. They need to feel rough treatment and humiliation for allowing the Clintons to continue to conceal their criminal activities with the Clinton Foundation library files!

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/5/23/212159/634/53/521670

It will get mention on the Sunday morning talk shows, but nothing more.

b-serious,

I’m more inclined to agree with town.

In a way, it’s a blessing. Instead of this being a ‘dump’ story, THIS will be the story at every gathering this Memorial Day Weekend. THIS will be what people will be talking about. I agree with you b-serious, about this is what the MSM will attempt, but the bottom line brilliance of Keith Olbermann’s comment last night was that he listed a good portion of the Clinton Attacks Obama Wiki.

As I said, when Isolated Incidents are neither ISOLATED nor INCIDENTAL they form a pattern.

THIS WAS NOT ISOLATED.

This is part of a PATTERN.

b-serious, I do hear you, but I’m more inclined to agree with town on this.

To that anonymous who is crowing that the Democrats will be divided: we will be united at Denver.Behind Obama. We’re just going through the process of kicking that nasty, evil beyotch off the Unity bus right now. She’ll be lucky if she gets reelected in 2012 to her Senate seat.

She should never hold office again ever. I will never vote for her ever, ever, ever. I would rather endure McCain first. I know. But at least that evil is simple and honest evil. And as old as he is, shortlived most likely.

Thanks, Craig. Now it makes sense.

She is not fit to be president, or even to be a citizen.

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He wants his father’s seat in the US Senate. The same seat Hillary Rodham Nixon holds as we speak.

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Christopher Chambers, Obama is not a lightweight. In fact, he’s just the opposite.

He has more courage than we can imagine.

Sharpshooters on the roof

babyming, i repeat myself as well about the popular vote ruse. a primary system that features caucuses can not use popular vote because it devalues caucus states. obama recieved no votes from the large african american and college town populations of michigan. puerto rico is not a state and puerto ricans are not citizens. it is not that complicated.

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Just a quick point of clarification- Puerto Ricans ARE indeed citizens of the US. For example our passports are BLUE and we need not file for citizenship or for a greencard in order to travel to live in any of 48 contiguous states or work.

Also, where it is true we cannot vote in the general Presidential election we DO vote in the primaries. Why I have no idea.

Expect big numbers to post up in PR. Like many Latin American countries, politics is discussed round the clock (by kids and adults) and taken very seriously.

Hillary is banking on the switching the rules…But get this- in using the Puerto Rican numbers she is trying to inflate her numbers in “anticipation” of general election because people on the island cannot vote in the general.

By the way, there are many Puerto Ricans who have already mailed in their votes from states already visited… we know our votes won’t count if we our attempt to register with a Puerto Rican address, so we use our state side address.

Look into to Andy if you don’t believe me. I live and vote in Brooklyn,too.