Supporting Rev. Wright

Obama has really been put in a tough position with the endless media coverage showing an edited clip from one of Rev. Dr. Jeremiah Wright's sermons. I've watched three of his unedited sermons and I have not heard him say anything that was not true. Maybe there were statements that some may not want to hear but that's another story.

I'd like to show some support for Rev. Wright and the church members. They have been unfairly attacked and put in a painful position.

destroying the party

Hillary is a user. It's just her nature.

Trouble in Texas

From the Daily Texan
"When recounting, the volunteer noticed a whole list had Sen. Hillary Clinton written in similar handwriting in the presidential preference column for each of the six voters on that list. Skidmore started calling each of the voters on the list when he reached finance senior Ronesha Holmes, who told him she did not write Clinton as her preference; Holmes said she was instructed to leave that line blank.

Even one discrepancy threw up a flag of suspicion, Skidmore said.

As he continued calling people on the list Thursday, he found that two other students, history and pre-med sophomore Abigail Cheney and government sophomore Adam Aldrete, said they did not fill in a presidential preference and that Clinton was not who they would have listed."

go to:
http://media.www.dailytexanonline.com/media/storage/paper410/news/2008/03/07/TopStories/Caucus.Chair.Uncovers.Discrepancies-3258732.shtml

those years of experience ...

Everything points to Obama winning the nomination.
He is clearly the people's choice.

Hillary talks about 35 years of experience.(shared with Bill)
She supported NAFTA, strongly opposed by supporters of Ross Perot and other Democrats.

She headed the task force for universal health care, a Clinton failure. This was during the time the party still held a majority of the house and senate.

Under the Clinton team, the Democratic party lost control of both houses in Congress for the first time in 40 years.

During the second term we had Monica Lewinsky, a problem that lead to the senate voting to impeach Bill. Hillary said it was all a "vast right wing conspiracy"

Some believe the Monica distraction combined with the continued unresolved problems in Iraq set us up for an event like 911. Remember Operation Desert Fox.
911 took place early in the Bush term.

Hillary needs to open her records and clarify some of the events that took place during her period of experience.

Real Estate deals and the Clinton House

With all the talk about Obama's real estate dealings with his neighbor, I'm reminded of the Clinton's housing deal in New York. There was a lot of suspicion at the time but the media seems to have dropped that one.

"On "Inside Washington," gruff liberal columnist Jack Germond was the exception. He suggested Mrs. Clinton was "going to start to get a little static from the Republicans on the Terry McAuliffe putting up the $1.3 million for their house. No other Senate candidate could do that and get away with it. If that were a Republican we'd all be screaming at the press." He added that if a conservative "were getting that kind of money we'd all be saying that's illegal." In response, the pride of National Public Radio, Nina Totenberg, corrected Germond on what would be their precise pose of hypocrisy. "Well, that's not illegal. We'd all be saying it smells." By contrast, Totenberg implied, this smells like perfume."
from:http://www.mediaresearch.org/bozellcolumns/newscolumn/1999/col19990916.asp

"NY POST PAGE SIX - The last thing the Clintons want is for a Democrat from Arkansas to defeat Bush next year," says our spy about the ex-general [Clark] who is expected to announce his candidacy next month. . . Our source adds, "The Clinton master plan is for a Hillary candidacy in 2008 and they will subtly sabotage the Democratic candidate in 2004. That's why they insist on keeping their personal operative, Terry McAuliffe, in charge of the Democratic committee."

read more: http://prorev.com/mcauliffe.htm

Hillary's big NAFTA story

Canada PM vows probe into leaked memo assailing Obama
2 hours ago
OTTAWA (AFP) — Canada on Wednesday announced a probe into the "blatantly unfair" and possibly illegal leaking of a government memo that cast aspersions on US Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama.
"We will take every step necessary to get to the bottom of this. The leak of this kind of information for whatever reason by whomever is completely unacceptable to the government of Canada," Prime Minister Stephen Harper said. "In fact, it may well be illegal."
"It is not useful, it is not in the interests of the government of Canada, and the way the leak was executed was blatantly unfair to Senator Obama and his campaign," he told the House of Commons.
"We will make sure that every legal and every investigative technique necessary is undertaken to find out who exactly is behind this."

I think this is called passive-agressive behavior. Hillary reaped the full benefit of this story planted last week. She even told Obama that he should fire the person in his campaign that spoke to the Canadian official.
But, maybe, in the end, it's the voters fault. To hear this sort of "breaking news" and vote before checking the source is so foolish. If she wins the nomination, they'll get no more than they deserve.

message from Katha

-----Forwarded Message-----

Sent: Mar 1, 2008 2:37 PM


I am compelled.

To my Texas friends:
This is scary to write...as I fear rejection from you, however this is very important to me.

As you know I live in North Carolina now and our primary is not till MAY!!! I feel futile. My vote may have little value by that time.

If you have DECIDED to vote Republican. You need not read this.
If you have DECIDED to vote for Hillary. You need not read this.
(I will honor that you have good reasons for your decisions.)
HOWEVER if you have NOT decided FOR SURE!
Please Read

...you may be still wavering who to vote for. You may have yet to decided to vote at all on Tuesday...
There may be a part of you not completly Republican or not completely convinced Hillery is your gal.
Please read ....

I would love to give you a personal view of how Obama has already changed my life and lives around me.

I teach high school students in the foothills of Appalachia...the foothills of poverty. I have primarily white poor as well as black and Hispanic and mixed race in my classes. 50% live in poverty.

Obama has offered my students inspiration to be something more than they thought they could be. And they are eating it up!!!!

It’s the first time many have ever cared about politics and I have had a dozen students tell me that their parents have never voted and have always been angry at politicians. But they are voting this time.

I am not saying I completely agree with the man’s politics… But to have 2 whole class periods (my class periods are 90 minuets long) where the students are asking questions faster than I could answer…because they do not understand the system….and NOW they want to know.

What does it mean to be a Democrat or a Republican? What is a caucus and a primary? When does North Carolina get to vote? Do we get a caucus or primary? Who was JFK? What happened to John Edwards? (as you know Edwards is from North Carolina but you may not know how much folks here truly love the guy…including myself) The questions went on and on…and on. Do you think a black man can REALLY become President? My Grandma says they will NEVER let him be President…if he makes it some white guy will shoot him for sure. Mrs. Underwood do YOU think someone will shoot him?

Honestly, I had a lot of fast soul searching to do. Should I spend my class time teaching civics or refocus the class and teach the curriculum that I am held accountable for at exam time??? (something called NCLB... how ironic)

I reminded them that they should have learned a lot of this in “Civics” class by now. The answer was…”It was not important then.” “I didn’t care then” “I never thought a person like me could ever be President.” “It had nothing to do with me”. One of the smarter kids said, sarcastically, ”Kerry or Bush…now THAT was something to getexcited about!” The class burst into laughter.

So I shelved my curriculum for a couple of days…

I have just taught the best civics lessons I could. We listed in columns general differences between Democrats and Republicans…and added a few other parties. We looked up the CNN web site and checked out the caucus and primary states. Even though I already knew we vote in May…I had them research when NC votes.

One black girl's grandma keeps telling her someone will shoot Obama… her family believes the white folks will never let a black man be President. The white kids re-acted to that assertion/accusation. I loved the discussion we had about that. It was testy at times and I even felt uncomfortable. But they laid it all out on the table and we talked it through. So many of the kids relate to Obama….it was like he was the common denominator that made the discussion work.

They relate to Obama because he is black and of mixed race…the white kids talked about him because his mother was a teen mom and his dad left him…like their dad left them. They talked about how his grandparents raise him most of his youth. Most all of them wanted to know how he got to this successful point in his life when he was just like them when he was younger. It was if to say...if he can do it ...so can I.

I truly wanted to offer them a non bias perspective. But only 5 of my students will actuality be old enough to vote in Nov…and only 2 will be old enough to vote in the primary. AND by May it will likely all be decided. So I felt safe if I unintentionally was not fair to all the candidates. I mostly wanted to support learning about their country and how they could all be a part of deciding their own futures. Not just jumping back into all the apathy we see day in and day out. I know Obama inspires these kids…and their families.

I asked them..."What do you think Obama means by "Change"? What Changes is he going to make? I was surprised by their answers and I started holding back my tears.

I will quote:

"He is Changing us."
"He is asking us to Change".
"He is expecting us...me, to do…be my best."
"Mrs. Underwood, he made us have this talk."
"He made me want to learn more about voting"
"He makes me feel like "I can"...I can do what I really want to"
"He made me understand everyone in this class more"

So my Texas friend, you can see....I am truly supporting Obama...with my meager financial donations, and I hope have inspired you to vote for Obama on my behalf. For my students, for their families. For the Change yet to come. So someday soon ...we can stop chanting "Yes We Can" ....and you, my students, and I can all look back and say "Yes We DID!" ...."We ALL did it together!"

Thanks for your time,
Katha