Clipmarks | masbury's 'clinton' clips

Barbara Ehrenreich: Hillary's "gift" to women

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:08:51 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Clinton didn’t just break through the “glass floor,” she set a new low for floors in general

Clip Source: ehrenreich.blogs.com

Susan Faludi rejoiced over Hillary Clinton’s destruction of the myth of female prissiness and innate moral superiority, hailing Clinton’s “no-holds-barred pugnacity” and her media reputation as “nasty” and “ruthless.”

But by running a racially-tinged campaign, lying about her foreign policy experience, and repeatedly seeming to favor McCain over her Democratic opponent, Clinton didn’t just break through the “glass floor,” she set a new low for floors in general, and would, if she could have got within arm’s reach, have rubbed the broken glass into Obama’s face.

But did we really need another lesson in the female capacity for ruthless aggression? Any illusions I had about the innate moral superiority of women ended four years ago with Abu Ghraib

Hillary Clinton smashed the myth of innate female moral superiority in the worst possible way – by demonstrating female moral inferiority. We didn’t really need her racial innuendos and free-floating bellicosity to establish that women aren’t wimp

Tags: clinton, women

"Only through direct contact with the destitute"

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 19:56:30 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The heartlessness of Reagan theory implanted in Clinton law leaves us with a more brutal society, and a need to cry out "unceasingly for ... the rights of the worthy and the unworthy poor" - excellent writing from Catholic Workers

Clip Source: www.truthdig.com

“Our society is more brutal than it was,” said Martha Hennessy, Day’s granddaughter. “The heartlessness was introduced by Reagan. Clinton put it into place.

If we face economic collapse, there are many factors that could see the wrong response. There are more elements of fascism in place than there were in the 1930s. We not only lack community, we lack information.”

as our society begins to feel the disastrous ripple effects from the looting of our financial system, the unraveling of our empire and the accelerated rape of the working and middle class by our corporate state, hope will come only through direct contact with the destitute

“What we would like to do is

by fighting for better conditions, by crying out unceasingly for the rights of the workers, of the poor, of the destitute—the rights of the worthy and the unworthy poor, in other words—we can to a certain extent change the world

make it a little simpler for people to feed, clothe, and shelter themselves as God intended them to do

Tags: poverty, politics

FactCheck: Who's really responsible for crisis?

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 01:44:45 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "Screwing [the economy] up takes a great deal of cooperation." D's blame R's and R's blame D's - but those accusations (and I have made them, too, sorry to say) are far too simplistic to help us fix the problem. Here's a list of contributors to the perfect storm.

Clip Source: www.factcheck.org

So who is to blame?

The Federal Reserve, which slashed interest rates after the dot-com bubble burst, making credit cheap

Home buyers, who took advantage of easy credit to bid up the prices of homes

Congress, which continues to support a mortgage tax deduction that gives consumers a tax incentive to buy more expensive houses

Real estate agents, most of whom work for the sellers rather than the buyers and who earned higher commissions from selling more expensive homes

The Clinton administration, which pushed for less stringent credit and downpayment requirements

Mortgage brokers, who offered less-credit-worthy home buyers subprime, adjustable rate loans with low initial payments, but exploding interest rates

Wall Street firms, who paid too little attention to the quality of the risky loans that they bundled

The Bush administration, which failed to provide needed government oversight

Former Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan

Collective delusion

home prices would keep rising forever

Tags: economy, bailout

The Ron Paul counter-convention

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 22:23:28 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Media pitched "fracture" that never materialized during the DNC; Now there's a counter - rally of 10,000 people led by a Republican candidate, featuring Republican big names, in the same city as the RNC, and it doesn't make the news!

Clip Source: www.crooksandliars.com

Fractured Party? Ron Paul Holds His Own Convention

During the Democratic National Convention, there was not a day of coverage that did not include breathless speculation on how fractured the Democratic Party and how at any time either Hillary Clinton or both of the Clintons would institute some sort of coup de grace and undermine Barack Obama

But not one mention that there is a whole other Republican rally going on right now

Why, media, why? The portion I watched on Tuesday had such names as Tucker Carlson, Bruce Fein and Grover Norquist speaking

Almost 9,800 tickets had been sold for the Rally for the Republic, being held in Minneapolis

Paul

considers the rally a celebration of traditional Republican values

But Paul has no speaking role at the GOP convention. He said his staff made overtures to the party, but nothing came of its efforts.

Tags: ron paul, rnc

What a Hillary supporter saw at Invesco

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 02:33:07 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Someone ready to fight for what matters, not just inspire

Clip Source: sage

When Obama emphatically said "ENOUGH!" and began to demand that the
Republicans own their failures, I grew hopeful. When he talked about
watching his mother argue with insurance companies while she was in bed
dying of cancer, I felt his quiet, appropriate and protective rage. When he
looked straight into the camera and committed to fighting for equal pay for
equal work "because I want my daughters to have the exact same opportunities
as your sons," I believed him. And when he called John McCain out to have a
debate about who has "the temperament, and judgment, to serve as the next
Commander-in-Chief," I trusted him to be capable of holding his own in such
a debate. Through his demeanor, Barack Obama did what no other person,
including Bill or Hillary Clinton, could do for him: he proved he has what
it takes not just to inspire but to protect and defend all of our lives and

rights.

Tags: obama, speech, hillary

Bill Clinton home run as DNC celebrates

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:02:36 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A truly magnificent speech: "My fellow Democrats, I say to you: Barack Obama is ready to lead America and to restore American leadership in the world."

Clip Source: www.crooksandliars.com

Bill Clinton Throws His Full Weight Behind Obama, Blasts Bush/McCain Legacy

My fellow Democrats, I say to you: Barack Obama is ready to lead America and to restore American leadership in the world.

Barack Obama is ready to honor the oath, to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States. Barack Obama is ready to be president of the United States.

People the world over have always been more impressed by the power of our example than by the example of our power.

In this decade, American workers have consistently given us rising productivity. That means, year after year, they work harder and produce more.

Now, what did they get in return? Declining wages, less than one-fourth as many new jobs as in the previous eight years, smaller health care and pension benefits, rising poverty, and the biggest increase in income inequality since the 1920s. American families by the millions are struggling with soaring health care costs and declining coverage.

Full transcript below:

[Video]

Tags: clinton, obama

Unity Realized: Hillary Nominates Obama

Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:55:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: In an incredibly unifying and symbolic moment during the New York state delegate roll call, Senator Hillary Clinton asks for a suspension of the vote and requests the nomination of Barack Obama by acclamation. RIP “Democratic Disunity” meme.

Clip Source: www.crooksandliars.com

Unity Realized: Hillary Suspends Roll Call and Formally Nominates Obama

In an incredibly unifying and symbolic moment during the New York state delegate roll call, Senator Hillary Clinton asks for a suspension of the vote and requests the nomination of Barack Obama by acclamation. RIP “Democratic Disunity” meme.

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“With eyes firmly fixed on the future, in the spirit of unity, with the goal of victory, with faith in our party and our country, let’s declare together, in one voice, right here, right now, that Barack Obama is our candidate and he will be our President. Madame Secretary, I move that the convention suspend the procedural rules and suspend the further conduct of the roll cal vote — all votes cast by the delegates will be counted — and I move Senator Barack Obama of Illinois be sleceted by this convetion by acclamation as the nominee of the democtaric party for president of the United States.”

Tags: obama

Kristol: Powell to endorse Obama, speak at DNCC

Thu, 14 Aug 2008 03:56:34 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Powell spokeswoman denies it

Clip Source: www.dailykos.com

Kristol: Powell to endorse Obama, speak at DNCC

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell will endorse Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention, Weekly Standard Publisher Bill Kristol told FOX News exclusively on Thursday.

“He may well give a speech at the Democratic convention explaining his endorsement of Obama,” Kristol said, citing inside sources. “For whatever reason I think he has decided he’s going to endorse Obama. I think [Powell] has a high respect for Senator McCain, they go back a long way.”

Kristol continued, “This is not an absolute done deal, but these people are very confident that Powell will endorse Obama.”

Kristol said sources told him Powell will “quite possibly” speak at the Democratic convention on the same night as Obama’s vice-presidential selection and former President Bill Clinton.

Powell's spokeswoman

“There’s absolutely no truth to it whatsoever,” Cifrino told FOXNews.com

Tags: powell, obama

Georgia: a US vs Russia oil fight

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:40:06 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Georgia is a pawn in a much larger game: "this is about energy security, not about democracy or human rights"

Clip Source: www.democracynow.org

Three [years] ago the United States helped open a 1,000-mile-long pipeline that connected Azerbaijan to Turkey, running through Georgia. The pipeline was designed specifically to bypass Russia. More oil and natural gas pipelines are scheduled to be built in Georgia.

And this was the brainchild of Bill Clinton

he chose Georgia for this purpose and also built up the Georgian military to protect the pipeline, and Russia has been furious about this ever since

we’ve poured hundreds of millions of dollars into beefing up the Georgian military

specifically to protect the BTC pipeline against sabotage and attack

this is about energy security, not about democracy or human rights

It’s a geopolitical contest between

the US and Russia for influence in Europe.

clinging to these enclaves, this is Russia’s insurance policy

they’re saying, “From our positions in these enclaves, we can sever those pipelines whenever we want,”

They did in fact

attack the pipelines

Tags: oil, georgia, russia, energy

Poll: Without Edwards, Clinton loses Iowa by greater margin

Tue, 12 Aug 2008 19:40:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Poll conducted on caucus night at caucuses suggests 82% of Edwards backers had Obama as 2nd choice. Wolfson wrong. Again.

Clip Source: www.gazetteonline.com

IOWA CITY - John Edwards' admission

has prompted Hillary Clinton's forces to suggest that if Edwards had been forced out of the race sooner, she -- not Barack Obama -- would have won the Iowa Caucuses and thus, presumably, the nomination.

A University of Iowa Hawkeye Poll conducted the night of the Iowa Caucuses suggests the opposite: that the absence of Edwards would have helped Obama.

The survey administered

in every precinct in Iowa

included a question on second-choice preferences

Eighty-two percent of those who had Edwards as their first choice said if he was not viable, they would support another candidate. When asked which candidate they would support, 51 percent said Obama and only 32 percent picked Clinton.

"Monday's claim from Howard Wolfson

that two-thirds of Edwards supporters would have supported Clinton is just not supported in data

"Had Edwards not been running,

my data suggest that Obama would have ended up even further ahead of Clinton than he was."

Tags: clinton, edwards, obama, politics

Vincent Bugliosi to House Judiciary re: Impeachment

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:37:27 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "Whether Republican or Democrat, all Americans should be absolutely outraged over what the Bush administration has done"

Clip Source: www.democracynow.org

VINCENT BUGLIOSI:

If a House Judiciary Committee could recommend that President Clinton be impeached for what he did, as they say in the law, a fortiori, all the more so, with all the highly incriminating evidence that I set forth in my book, much of it documentary, you shouldn’t have any difficulty making a criminal referral to the Department of Justice to commence a criminal investigation of the Bush administration to determine whether first-degree murder charges should be brought against certain members of this administration. And I hereby strongly urge you to do so. Whether Republican or Democrat, all Americans should be absolutely outraged over what the Bush administration has done. How dare they do what they did? How dare they?

Tags: impeachment

Get honest about the "most liberal senator" propaganda

Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:18:50 GMT

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clipper's remarks: They did it to Kerry, too - here's how it happens.

Clip Source: www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com

National Journal’s

rankings noted the criteria was based on 99 key roll-call votes last year: “Obama voted the liberal position on 65 of the 66 votes

while Clinton voted the liberal position on 77 of 82 votes.” So, Clinton voted for the liberal position 77 times, Obama voted for it 65 times, which makes Obama the chamber’s single most liberal member. Got it.

But there’s a more logical explanation: Obama missed a whole lot of votes in 2007 — he’s been on the campaign trail — but was on the floor for many of the biggest, most consequential votes. In nearly every instance, he voted with the party. And with that, voila! The most liberal senator in America.

(which also helps explain why Kerry nabbed the top spot four years ago)

[T]his is philistinism masquerading as social science — it’s the U.S. News College Guide of Washington politics. Journalists ought to understand that. And those of conscience ought to ignore it, or lay it bare, but certainly not feed into it.”

Tags: politics, obama, mccain

Pentagon: Wait ten yrs, we'll give you "safer" cluster bombs

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:55:26 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A hundred nations have banned them; Clinton admin had similar policy with 2005 deadline; Bushies postpone till 2018.

Clip Source: www.democracynow.org

Pentagon Vows to Build “Safer” Cluster Bombs by 2018

In May, more than 100 countries agreed to ban cluster bombs. But the United States, Russia, China, Israel, India and Pakistan have refused to agree to the ban.

Defense Secretary Robert Gates has signed a memo requiring that the US build so-called safer cluster bombs—but the rule won’t go into effect until 2018.

In 2001 a defense policy issued by then-Defense Secretary William Cohen called for a similar reduction in submunitions from cluster bombs by 2005. Leahy said, “Now the Bush administration’s ‘new’ policy is to wait another ten years.”

Tags: war

US withdraws nuclear bombs from Britain

Sat, 28 Jun 2008 01:04:45 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Apparently, under orders of GWB. Well, way to go, GWB.

Clip Source: rawstory.com

US withdraws nuclear bombs from Britain: report

The United States has removed its nuclear arsenal in Britain, ending its half-century deployment there and reducing its European nuclear deployment to six locations in five countries, a report said.

The withdrawal follows the removal of nuclear weapons from the Ramstein Air Base in Germany in 2005 and Greece in 2001, according to the The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) Strategic Security Blog, citing unidentified sources.

The United States now has an estimated 150 to 240 B61 nuclear bombs scattered in Europe -- at the US Air Force bases at Aviano AB in Italy and Incirlik in Turkey, and at four European bases, in Belgium, Germany, Holland and Italy, the blog said.

In November 2000, then president Bill Clinton authorized the Pentagon to deploy 110 nuclear bombs at the Royal Air Force Lakenheath air base, 113 miles (70 miles) northeast of London, the report said.

There were 480 atomic bombs in Europe at the time, it said.

Tags: nuclear weapons

Limbaugh: I am defender of Corporate America

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 05:40:43 GMT

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clipper's remarks: An unashamed cadre of the corporatocracy

Clip Source: thinkprogress.org

Limbaugh: ‘I consider myself a defender of corporate America.’»

right-wing radio talker Rush Limbaugh declares himself “the intellectual engine of the conservative movement.” Described by reporter Zev Chafets as “less a theoretician than a popularizer”

“I consider myself a defender of corporate America.” Limbaugh’s claim is supported by the aggressive manner in which he acts as a “pitchman” for products on his show:

Some simply run their usual ads. Others use Limbaugh as their pitchman, which costs them a premium and a long-term commitment. And lately he has created a new option. At a much higher rate he will weave a product into his monologue (To a caller who said he took two showers after voting for Clinton in Operation Chaos, Limbaugh responded: “If you had followed my advice and gotten a Rinnai tankless water heater, you wouldn’t have needed to take two showers. And I’ll tell you why. . . .”)

Tags: limbaugh, media