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Hillary Clinton's Concession Speech

Sun, 08 Jun 2008 01:09:40 GMT

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Obama campaign used party rules to foil Clinton

Fri, 30 May 2008 14:00:43 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Obama's campaign mastered some of the most arcane rules in politics, and then used them to foil a front-runner who seemed to have every advantage - money, fame and a husband who had essentially run the Democratic Party for eight years as president.

Clip Source: apnews.myway.com

Unlike Hillary Rodham Clinton, rival Barack Obama planned for the long haul. Clinton hinged her whole campaign on an early knockout blow on Super Tuesday, while Obama's staff researched congressional districts in states with primaries that were months away. What they found were opportunities to win delegates, even in states they would eventually lose.

"Without a doubt, their understanding of the nominating process was one of the keys to their success," said Tad Devine, a Democratic strategist not aligned with either candidate. "They understood the nuances of it and approached it at a strategic level that the Clinton campaign did not."

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'I Grabbed Chelsea's Ass'

Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:27:14 GMT

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Clip Source: news.aol.com

Chelsea Clinton stopped traffic Friday night as she wandered the streets of Philadelphia on a gay bar crawl, winning rave reviews for both her politics and her appearance.

Led around the neighborhood by Gov. Ed Rendell, Chelsea was mobbed by local gays and lesbians, as she walked from one club to the next. They ran up to hug her, posed for pictures and certainly invaded her personal space.

I grabbed her ass," one young woman exclaimed to her friends after snapping a picture with her arm around the former first daughter.

"Chelsea, the gays love you!" one fan exclaimed, as she took the microphone at Bump, a restaurant and bar that was her first stop. "Oh, gosh, I don't know if everybody loves me," she responded.

story on MSNBC's First Read

It's Crunch Time for Clinton and Obama

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 19:16:01 GMT

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Clip Source: www.philly.com

Obama gave a soaring speech on race as he tried to explain his former pastor's inflammatory sermons, and later defended his own comment about "bitter" small-town Pennsylvanians.

Clinton had to explain her false claims that she dodged sniper fire on a 1996 visit to Bosnia. And the two of them argued over minor differences on free-trade treaties and job losses, health care and energy policy.

The consensus among political leaders and analysts: Clinton will win, but perhaps not by enough.

Obama holds a wide lead in Philadelphia and a narrower one in its suburban counties, while Western Pennsylvania favors Clinton by as much as 2-1.

Clinton has the advantage among women, older voters, Catholics, union households, and white voters with high school educations making less than $35,000

15 percent of voters who tell pollsters they remain undecided

roughly 325,000 newly registered Democrats in the state

a mixture of first-time voters and those switching affiliation to participate in the closed primary

Tags: clinton, obama

The Bush jobs record

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 04:02:04 GMT

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Clip Source: krugman.blogs.nytimes.com

Changes in nonfarm employment since inauguration under the last two administrations:

1. The official recession may have been short, but the employment recession of 2001-2003 was anything but

2. The administration’s habit of counting job gains since August 2003 is revealed for the cheap trick it is

3. Even during the good years, job growth under Bush was slower than the average under Clinton

Add: I may have been unclear: this is the total number of jobs added, in thousands, since January 1993 and January 2001 respectively. So the Clinton years ended with a net gain of about 23 million jobs, whereas the Bush years so far have seen a net gain of about 5 million. That’s not to say that either president deserves credit/blame for everything that happened on his watch; it’s just about the real facts of the case.

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Pennsylvania Democratic Presidential Primary

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 15:16:16 GMT

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Clip Source: rasmussenreports.com

Pennsylvania: Clinton 47% Obama 42%

Senator Hillary Clinton’s lead in the Pennsylvania Primary is shrinking.

The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in Pennsylvania shows Clinton leading Barack Obama by just five percentage points, 47% to 42%. For Clinton, that five-point edge is down from a ten-point lead a week ago, a thirteen-point lead in mid-March and a fifteen-point advantage in early March.

Support for Clinton slipped from 52% early in March, to 51% in mid-month, 49% a week ago, and 47% today. During that same time frame, support for Obama has increased from 37% to 42%.

A separate survey found that both Democrats are in a competitive race with John McCain for Pennsylvania’s Electoral College votes. Nationally, McCain currently leads both Democrats in the Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll. Looking at the Electoral College, the race is essentially a Toss-Up.

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Girl in Clinton Ad Supports Obama

Tue, 11 Mar 2008 19:02:21 GMT

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Clip Source: www.npr.org

In a now-famous Hillary Clinton campaign ad, a young girl sleeps while a phone rings in the dead of the night at the White House. The message: Clinton will keep her safe. But the ad used stock footage of a child — and she's now turning 18 and voting for Barack Obama.

Clip Source: www.npr.org

Parodies of Clinton Ad Blossom on YouTube

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There were numerous other parodies that involve suggestions about the activities of former President Bill Clinton at 3 a.m., but this is a family blog.

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Influential Democrats Waiting to Choose Sides

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 19:30:08 GMT

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Clip Source: www.washingtonpost.com

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's trio of victories over Sen. Barack Obama last week appears to have convinced a sizable number of uncommitted Democratic superdelegates to wait until the end of the primaries and caucuses before picking a candidate, according to a survey by The Washington Post.

Many of the 80 uncommitted superdelegates who were contacted over the past several days said they are reluctant to override the clear will of voters

At the Democratic National Convention in Denver in August, there will be 796 superdelegates

"You're going to see a lot of delegates remaining uncommitted," said Rep. Mike Doyle (Pa.), who has not endorsed either candidate. "There's a sense that this is going to Denver not resolved."

Clip Source: www.washingtonpost.com

So far Clinton, with 242 superdelegates, has had more success soliciting their support than Obama, who has the backing of 210.

Clip Source: www.washingtonpost.com

"If superdelegates were just intended to automatically vote for the preference someone else expressed, there wouldn't be any purpose,"

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Pennsylvania’s Missed Opportunity

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:12:54 GMT

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Clip Source: blogs.wsj.com

With Sen. Barack Obama narrowly leading Sen. Hillary Clinton in delegates after the Ohio and Texas votes (margins vary this morning, as they usually do, from 86 to 132), Pennsylvania’s April 22 primary looms as the biggest race remaining, with 158 delegates at stake.

It could have been even bigger.

Any state whose primary was held before April in 2004, and opted to hold this year’s primary in April, would gain a 15% bonus on their base delegate total. (It’s spelled out on the first two pages of the party’s call to the convention.) Move your primary from before May 1 to afterwards, and pick up a 30% bonus.

Pennsylvania was best-positioned to pick up a big bonus at little cost.

Instead it settled for April 22, and a 5% bonus.

That cost Pennsylvania 33 extra delegates to the convention

Abe Amoros, executive director of the Pennsylvania Democratic party, told me it was up to the legislature to set the primary date. “I have never heard the argument of moving it to May,

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Clinton Is Beating Obama on Health Care

Thu, 06 Mar 2008 20:04:21 GMT

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Clip Source: blogs.wsj.com

Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton are locked in a long fight over the wonky details of their health care plans. Clinton’s winning.

In Texas, where the overall race was close, she beat Obama 58% to 39% among voters who said health care was their top priority, the WSJ’s Gerald F. Seib notes in this morning’s Capital Journal column. She also won health-care voters by a significant margin in Ohio, and in the Super Tuesday primaries and caucuses.

Health care is the No. 1 issue for somewhere between a fifth and a quarter of Democratic primary voters this year. The voting bloc is largely working class.

Clinton has argued that her plan, which requires everyone to buy insurance, would do more than Obama’s plan (which doesn’t include a mandate) to move toward universal coverage. But her edge among voters may come more from the fact that she pushed an ambitious plan for health reform plan during Bill Clinton’s presidency.

Clinton gets credit among working-class voters for having waged the fight.

Tags: clinton, obama, health care, insurance, politics

"We are the ones we have been waiting for"

Wed, 06 Feb 2008 14:10:15 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Notice Barack's demeanor at the end of the speech.

Clip Source: my.barackobama.com

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Here's the speech Barack delivered tonight in the great city of Chicago...

Tags: obama, clinton, super tuesday speech, "we are the ones we have been waiting for"

Debate Reactions: Obama the Clear Winner

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 04:47:04 GMT

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Clip Source: my.barackobama.com

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Clinton digs in on toxic toys after China's 'slander' charge

Sat, 24 Nov 2007 16:41:39 GMT

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Clip Source: afp.google.com

Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton Friday slammed China for calling her criticism of made-in-China toys "slander," and urged Washington to take "immediate, decisive steps" to protect US children.

"This is the same government that just this month revoked the licenses of more than 750 of its toy companies because of quality control problems and ordered another 690 to renovate or improve their facilities, even as it asserted that 99 percent of toy exports met quality standards," Clinton said in her statement.

"And the Chinese government's watchdog agency reported earlier this year that 20 percent of the toys made and sold in China pose safety risks. That is unacceptable."

Clinton also took up China's claim that the majority of problems with Chinese toy exports were due to "design faults by (foreign) importers and designers."

China is the world's top toy exporter, selling 22 billion toys overseas last year, or 60 percent of the globe's total.

Tags: clinton, toxic toys, china 'slander' charge

How do we beat the bitch?

Wed, 14 Nov 2007 19:59:48 GMT

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Clip Source: news.aol.com

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Tags: mcain, clinton, hillary, bitch, video, you tube

Judge orders White House to save all e-mails

Mon, 12 Nov 2007 23:20:39 GMT

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Clip Source: blogs.usatoday.com

In Washington, U.S. District Judge Henry Kennedy, a Clinton appointee, ordered the Executive Office of the President to maintain backup tapes of its e-mails, which the White House has resisted. It stopped archiving e-mails in 2003.

The White House must save copies of all its e-mails, a federal judge has ruled in response to two lawsuits attempting to determine whether Bush administration officials destroyed millions of records illegally.

The Federal Records Act prohibits destruction of government documents unless the U.S. archivist approves.

Two groups — Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Government and the National Security Archive — have accused the Oval Office of deleting of 5 million e-mails. The concern emerged during the investigation of who leaked Valerie Plame's CIA identity to reporters.

Here's more from the Associated Press.

Tags: judge, orders, white house, e-mails, email, federal records act