Hillary Is 44

Sunday, May 11th, 2008

Chelsea Morning, Part II

We’ll commemorate Mother’s Day today and publish Part II of Barack Obama’s Situation Comedy tomorrow.

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Make a Mother’s Day contribution to Hillary Clinton:

An 11-year-old eastern Kentucky boy presented a $440 check to former President Bill Clinton during a recent West Virginia campaign stop for his wife, Hillary.

Dalton Hatfield handed Clinton the check after Friday’s rally in Williamson.

The boy says he not only sold his bicycle, but video games and anything else he could find to donate to the former first lady’s bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.

The donation left the former president almost speechless.

Clinton autographed a photo of himself and his wife and told the boy he was going to call her right away and tell her about the generosity.

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Contribute directly to the Hillary Clinton campaign (don’t forget to add 44 cents):

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Last year on Mother’s Day we published Part I of Chelsea Morning:

Hillary endured many insults whether intentional or the paternalistic stupid kind. She was not alone in suffering insults and as the Imus insults towards a team of young, predominantly African-American, women basketball players shows us, she is not the last.

But the world is a bit better thanks to Hillary. Ronald Reagan ran by holding out the hope that America would have a new morning. Hillary holds a great hope and promise for America too. We call it a Chelsea Morning.

In a video tribute to her mother this year, Chelsea speaks for us:

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Saturday, May 10th, 2008

Barack Obama’s Situation Comedy

Paid Obama shill David Axelrod and unpaid Obama shill Donna Brazile have a vision of the Democratic Party.

The Obama/Axelrod/Brazile vision for the Democratic Party mimics the desired demographics for a television sitcom.

As the long suffering Donna declared A new Democratic coalition is younger. It is more urban, as well as suburban, and we don’t have to just rely on white blue-collar voters and Hispanics.

Axelrod has declared The white working class has gone to the Republican nominee for many elections, going back even to the Clinton years. This is not new that Democratic candidates don’t rely solely on those votes.

This cheap vision of the Democratic Party is applauded and defended by many of the well-off, highly educated, white, eggheads inside the Democratic Party. Why is this?

The very simple answer is because since the middle of the last century the “eggheads” (as Paul Begala so aptly categorizes them) have failed repeatedly to win. The failures can usually be attributed to those pesky white voters that reject Democrats. Instead of trying to win them over, Obama/Eggheads want to roll over them.

The list of egghead failures is long - Adlai Stevenson through John Kerry. Democrats have failed to win. The eggheads have failed to win.

The solution from Obama/Axelrod/Brazile is to create the fiction that ‘if you can’t beat them, write them off and you will still be successful‘.

Since the middle of the last century Democrats at the presidential level have lost. Some non-egghead Democrats have won. John Kennedy of Massachusetts won. Post 1964 Civil Rights Act - Texan Lyndon Johnson won. Georgian Jimmy Carter won. Arkansan Bill Clinton won.

John Kennedy won the presidency before passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Bill. Kennedy was young but had a great deal of experience in political life. Kennedy toured Europe, the Soviet Union and the Middle East in the fateful year 1939. On the day before Germany invaded, John Kennedy was in Poland. Kennedy’s Harvard senior thesis completed in 1940 was “Appeasement in Munich”. Kennedy by the end of the war was a war hero. Kennedy served with regular Joes in the U.S. Navy. Kennedy saved the lives of his crew. John Kennedy from the elite schools and elite background was loved by working class whites and blacks. John Kennedy was no egghead.

John F. Kennedy:

As he flew into West Virginia that spring of 1960, Kennedy was desperately in need of victory. His most visible opponent was Senator Hubert H. Humphrey of Minnesota but, as usual, most of the action was happening behind the scenes. Kennedy would eventually win the West Virginia primary not just on personal charm - although this, too, was important – but on his campaign team’s understanding of old-time mountain politics. West Virginia’s politics were — and are — strongly based on what one historian has called its “oral political culture,” established by local candidates and their supporters working on a “face-to-face, friends-and-neighbors basis.”

John Kennedy was no egghead:

In West Virginia, Kennedy visited a coal mine and talked to mine workers to win their support; most people in that conservative, mostly Protestant state were deeply suspicious of Kennedy’s Catholicism. His victory in West Virginia cemented his credentials as a candidate with broad popular appeal.

John Kennedy won those suspicious voters in West Virginia. Barack Obama, who presumes himself to be the Democratic Party nominee won’t win those voters.

The Los Angeles Times writes today on West Virgina.

In Hardy County, Democrats outnumber Republicans more than 2 to 1. But there is little enthusiasm for Barack Obama in this mountainside enclave, a portent of trouble for the Illinois senator in next week’s West Virginia primary and the general election beyond. [snip]

“I’m not yet convinced that Barack Obama is more substance than fluff,” said Clyde M. See Jr., a former Democratic speaker of the West Virginia House of Delegates and two-time gubernatorial candidate who heads a small law practice in Moorefield, the county seat. “He’s a fine speaker, mind you, but I’m still not sure he’s got the right stuff to win the general election.”

Obama is rejected by white working class voters. While eggheads love to blame this rejection to racism, the rejection remains. Of course the eggheads do not attribute Hillary’s losses to misogyny. John Kennedy overcame the prejudice against him in West Virginia many years ago - a prejudice against Catholics by the vast white protestant majority. Hillary Clinton is winning over West Virginia voters like John Kennedy did. Obama pretends they don’t matter.

Obama is questioned about being an out of touch elitist egghead. There are doubts about Obama’s patriotism too.

Obama wants to write off white voters instead of asking person-to-person for their votes - like John Kennedy did.

Neil Gillies, an Obama supporter who runs a local environmental nonprofit group, glumly recounted the gibes that his wife, a schoolteacher, hears regularly from her students. “They’re convinced [Obama] is a Muslim, a terrorist, a guy who’s coming to take away their guns,” Gillies said. “It’s just sad.”

Slung along the bottom of West Virginia’s eastern panhandle, Hardy County was once rock-solid Democratic. Senior citizens fondly recall the day Eleanor Roosevelt arrived to dedicate the opening of Moorefield High School in 1941.

But socially conservative church groups and gun-rights supporters here have helped tilt the vote Republican in recent presidential elections. In 2004, Hardy County lined up for George W. Bush by a 3-1 ratio.

“It’s just not going to be easy for Obama to woo crossover Democrats back into the fold,” said P. Merle Black, a professor of politics and government at Emory University and a longtime analyst of Southern voting patterns. “In addition to the race factor, you’ve got huge cultural differences between them and Obama on guns and religion and many of the issues that would make those voters think he doesn’t represent their interests.”

Obama thinks these white voters are “bitter” and that is why they “cling” to guns and God. Any wonder that white working class voters reject Obama?

Obama has made an effort to highlight his religious beliefs and his support for hunters’ rights. But his former pastor’s racially charged sermons — and the candidate’s own comments about small-town Americans who have lost their jobs and “cling to guns or religion” — have not helped his cause.

“I’ve got 50-some guns, and I wasn’t crazy about Obama’s talk about small towns,” said Sam Vetter, 64, a farmer and lifelong Democrat who regrets voting for Bush in 2000. “Besides,” he added, “Obama just doesn’t sound right for an American president.”

Despite a well-financed television campaign and endorsements from Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV and Rep. Nick J. Rahall II, Obama is expected to finish well behind Clinton in West Virginia’s primary, which will award 28 pledged delegates.

Little wonder that Obama/Axelrod/Brazile want to forget about these pesky white voters:

Obama’s support among white male voters, the most tightly contested bloc over the primary season, has slipped. He did well early on in states such as Virginia, where he took 52% of the white male vote to Clinton’s 47%. But this week, Obama lost, 58% to 42%, among white men in Indiana and 55% to 42% in North Carolina. He has won majorities of white male voters in 10 states since January, but Clinton bested him in 13 others, including the critical northern battlegrounds of Ohio and Pennsylvania.

“This is the single biggest problem he faces,” said William A. Galston, a former senior Clinton administration domestic policy advisor who considers Obama the apparent nominee after this week’s results. “This is a party problem, not just his alone. But [Obama] has to be particularly sensitive to addressing these voters.”

The Audacity of Hope is that white voters don’t matter. The Audacity of Hope is that Democrats can win with situation comedy demographics. Clue for eggheads:

For many of Hardy County’s Democrats, though, there seems to be no appeal that will overcome who Obama is and what he represents.

“When we lost all those Democrats who voted for Bush in 2000 and 2004, I felt we just had to have a better bundle of goods to sell,” See said.

“Problem is, I’m not sure we have those goods this time around.”

We’ll discuss why the eggheads Hate Hillary tomorrow.

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Friday, May 9th, 2008

Barack Obama: Mission Accomplished

Jay Cost of RealClearPolitics’ HorseRaceBlog has a question:

So, here’s my question. What happens to “It’s Over” if Clinton pulls a 40-point victory in West Virginia on Tuesday, then follows it up a week later with a 30-point victory in Kentucky? If these states turn out in the same margins that states since March 4th have averaged, that would imply a net of about 290,000 votes for Clinton. That puts her within striking distance of a reasonable popular vote victory. “Over” will be over as we turn our attention to Puerto Rico.

There are good reasons not to take Puerto Rico lightly, even though the press has continued to do exactly that. I would note: (a) Puerto Ricans vote in large numbers (2 million in the last gubernatorial election); (b) Puerto Ricans have never had this important a role in United States presidential politics; (c) Puerto Rico’s politics is focused at least partially on how (if at all) to adjust its relationship with the United States; (d) Puerto Rico’s is an open primary, and the residents of the Commonwealth, who are United States citizens, do not see themselves as Republicans or Democrats.

The inference I draw is that Puerto Ricans could turn out in huge numbers. If they do, and they swing for Clinton in a sizeable way, the popular vote lead could swing, too. Add 290,000 votes from West Virginia and Kentucky to 250,000 votes from Puerto Rico, account for expected losses in Oregon, Montana, and South Dakota, and you get Clinton leading in many popular vote counts, some of which are really quite valid. If she has one of those leads when the final votes are counted on June 3rd, the race will go on to the convention.

[Jay also provides an updated toy to play with.]

Swing State Democrats Have An Answer:

The decision about who to support to be our Party’s nominee is not one that any of us should take lightly. We haven’t. But, after giving this important decision a great deal of thought, we are convinced that Hillary Clinton has the vision, skills and commitment to make the changes our country needs. As Democrats who have run and won in competitive Congressional districts and battleground states, we believe that Hillary is best positioned to successfully lead the Democratic ticket in districts and states like ours around the country.

As you know, Hillary has racked up victories in bellwether states like Ohio, Pennsylvania and now Indiana that are absolutely vital to winning the White House and maintaining our Congressional majority in the fall. Hillary has won the big battleground states by connecting with voters whose support we must have to win the general election. Her victories in Pennsylvania and Indiana were all the more impressive after being outspent by as much as two or three to one.

Pennsylvania was not just a victory for Hillary Clinton. It was also a wake- up call for superdelegates, forcing us to ask ourselves two essential questions: 1) Which candidate can carry the magic 270 electoral votes to win in the fall? 2) Which candidate is most likely to help our fellow Democrats in down-ballot races? We believe the answer to both of these questions is Hillary Clinton.

Hillary Clinton has a request and a promise:

Today, in every way that I know how, I am expressing my personal determination to keep forging forward in this campaign.

After our come-from-behind victory in Indiana, there are just 28 days of voting left. But we’ve never campaigned with the stakes as high or the time as short as they will be over the next four weeks.

And with you by my side, I’m going to keep fighting for what I believe in until every voter has had his or her say.

From the very beginning, you and I have counted on one another, working through every challenge and seizing every opportunity. That’s not just the way our campaign works. That’s the way America works.

As we enter the final four weeks of this contest, let’s keep working our hearts out.

Contribute now to keep moving our campaign forward.

In six days, we have the chance to show our strength in West Virginia. If you’ll stand with me, it’s an opportunity I intend to make the most of.

There’s no question about it — we’ve got to make every one of these next 28 days count — starting with today.

Contribute now, and let’s keep winning together.

As we’ve told each other time and time again. There will be good days and not so good days in the course of this campaign. But there will never be a day that we can’t count on one another.

As we enter the final 28 days of voting, I know you’ll give it everything you’ve got. And you know I will do the same.

Thanks for being such a wonderful friend and ally,

Hillary Rodham Clinton

Barack Obama, as usual, has a Bushism:

Not long after the polls close in the May 20 Kentucky and Oregon primaries, Barack Obama plans to declare victory in his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.

And, until at least May 31 and perhaps longer, Hillary Clinton’s campaign plans to dispute it.

It’s a train wreck waiting to happen, with one candidate claiming to be the nominee while the other vigorously denies it, all predicated on an argument over what exactly constitutes the finish line of the primary race.

The Obama campaign agrees with the Democratic National Committee, which pegs a winning majority at 2,025 pledged delegates and superdelegates–a figure that excludes the penalized Florida and Michigan delegations. The Clinton campaign, on the other hand, insists the winner will need 2,209 to cinch the nomination–a tally that includes Florida and Michigan.

“We don’t accept 2,025. It is not the real number because that does not include Florida and Michigan,” said Howard Wolfson, one of Clinton’s two chief strategists. “It’s a phony number.”

Wolfson said they intend to contest the DNC’s 2,025 number “every day,” as well as any declaration of victory made by Obama based upon that number, because it does not include Florida and Michigan. [snip]

Obama will not reach the 2,025 magic number on May 20. Rather, on that date he is all but certain to hit a different threshold–1,627 pledged delegates, which would constitute a winning majority among the 3,253 total pledged delegates if Florida and Michigan are not included.

“On May 20 we’re going to declare victory,” said an Obama senior advisor who asked that his name be withheld to speak candidly, adding that after those contests they will be “the ones with the most pledged delegates and the most popular votes.”

The DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee will meet in Washington on May 31, 2008 to try to resolve the mess Howard Dean and they have made. The meeting is supposed to be open to the public.

Howard Wolfson, of the Hillary Campaign, has the last word:

“You can declare mission accomplished but that doesn’t mean that the mission has actually been accomplished,” Wolfson said.

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Thursday, May 8th, 2008

Hillary Clinton’s People Politics vs. Barack Obama’s Thug Politics

Barack Obama’s “New Politics” are really quite extraordinary. Obama’s “new politics” can be summarized as ‘get votes for free which you did not earn’.

The latest Chicago thuggery is a plan for Obama to get delegates in Michigan - a state in which Obama removed his name from the ballot!

Imagine that. A candidate does not run for election but gets votes. This surely is new - and dangerous, and undemocratic, and unwanted.

No doubt Obama violated the “no campaign” pledge in Michigan when he aired advertisments via surrogates asking voters to vote “uncommitted”. Obama also violated the “no campaign” pledge in Florida when he aired advertisments in Florida. But to get delegates from an election in which you did not run is well… thuggery. We are tempted to describe such odd election counting as Bush-like. But we can’t - Bush actually ran for office. Bush was actually on the ballot.

So now, by the art of thuggery, Obama is demanding delegates from an election in which he received ZERO votes. John Edwards, still an official candidate, gets no delegates.

In this new age of electronic voting machines (horrid things) voters have a clear way to express their preferences. If the candidate of their choice is not on the ballot - voters can easily WRITE-IN the name of the candidate they prefer.

Electronic voting machines make it very easy to WRITE-IN a candidate name. Even old non-electronic voting machines make it easy to WRITE-IN a candidate name. Yet few in Michigan wrote-in Obama’s name.

To repeat, Obama wants votes added to his tally, which he did not earn. The voters of Michigan did not WRITE-IN Obama’s name. So why then is Obama asking for delegates from Michigan?

In the age of electronic voting machines and communications tools such as the internet and email a WRITE-IN campaign is simple and affordable and can be very effective. It would be very new but certainly doable. Why didn’t Obama partisans run a write-in campaign in Michigan? Absent actual votes Obama should get zero delegates from Michigan.

Hillary will earn her nomination the old fashioned way - by getting votes.

Meet the Clinton clan — once more today across West Virginia — and be prepared for some return visits before next Tuesday’s primary.

Although she holds a commanding lead in the polls over fellow Democrat Barack Obama in West Virginia, Sen. Hillary Clinton and Co. are leaving nothing to chance by blanketing the state.

Clinton the candidate is staging a Capitol lawn rally in Charleston, Clinton the ex-president is barnstorming in a five-town blitz and Clinton the onetime first daughter is campaigning in Shepherdstown.

By the time polls open across the state Tuesday, you might see more of the Clintons, campaign leader Jessica Santillo suggested.

In Washington, Hillary spoke to “Generations of Women for Hillary”:

A crowd of 1,500 gathered at the “Generations of Women for Hillary” fundraiser at the Omni Shoreham Hotel in Washington, paying at least $250 a plate and helping to raise about $1 million for the campaign. Campaign Chairman Terry McAuliffe, addressing attendees, offered no indication that Clinton would be slowing down in her bid for the White House. “She is going to Denver as the nominee of the Democratic Party of the United States of America. And then she’s going to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue as the president of the United States of America,” he told the cheering audience.

Clinton worked her way through the crowd as speakers blared Chaka Khan and Whitney Houston versions of “I’m Every Woman.” People stood on chairs waving napkins. When the music was abruptly cut off, the clapping audience chanted: “Hill-ar-y, Hill-ar-y!”

“I’ve been counted out more than once. But thanks to all of you I’ve come back,” Clinton said, earning a thunderous, extended ovation. She later added, “When I was counted out in New Hampshire, it was the women of New Hampshire who came back and said, ‘No, she’s not finished yet.’ When I was counted out before Super Tuesday it was women from California to Massachusetts who came and said ‘No, we’re not finished yet.’ When I was counted out before Ohio, before Indiana, we have always come back.”

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Wednesday, May 7th, 2008

Tiebreaker Indiana: Make Hillary 44

Update: Hillary is showing the way:

Sen. Hillary Clinton added a previously unscheduled campaign stop Wednesday in West Virginia, soldiering on after a split decision in Tuesday’s voting in Indiana and North Carolina, her aides said.

The senator plans to appear at 11:45 a.m. at Shepherd University in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, Clinton aides told reporters about 3 a.m. Wednesday.

Her daughter, Chelsea Clinton, had already been scheduled to speak at the university.

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While internet Hopium dens filled with incense and chanting, hoping slumlord Antoin “Tony” Rezko does not “flip” on long time friend Barack “Waffles” Obama - Hillary Clinton was busy winning “tiebreaker” Indiana.

Hillary’s victory was accomplished in the face of a fierce fight put forth by Obama’s strongest supporter - Big Media.

There were two unexpected moments in the course of a very long evening. The first was the outing of Donna Brazile, as a badly disguised Obama supporter, by Campbell Brown at CNN. The outing occurred as Democrats witnessed the full threat posed by the McGovern Dukakis egghead Obama wing of what was the Democratic Party.

Campbell Brown vs. Donna Brazile:

BROWN: Hold on. I want to ask Donna something. Hold on.

I want to ask Donna something because you have been on these panels time and time again with us as an undecided voter, and you sound very much –

BRAZILE: I’m not undecided.

BROWN: Uncommitted?

BRAZILE: I’m undeclared.

BROWN: Undeclared. There you go. Well it sounds very much – Hey, no –

BRAZILE: Words matter.

BROWN: Words matter. It sounds very much to me tonight like you have made up your mind.

Outing Donna as an Obama supporter is not really news. What is news is that Donna was called on her fake neutrality while paymaster CNN was broadcasting. Maybe CNN will now remove Donna from commenting on CNN in the same manner they removed Paul Begala and James Carville.

The really big news of the night however was Donna expressing the Obama vision of the Democratic Party they wish to create after Paul Begala made this unremarkable statement:

BEGALA: But I think Hillary is still going to make the case that she can win those blue-collar white voters that Barack still can’t, that may very well along with Latinos be the key to this general election. That’s what’s so interesting about this primary, why I think it’s good for my party, because the voters who are in play in this primary are the exact voters who are going to decide the general election as well, working-class white folks and Latin Americans.

Donna reared at Begala’s statement and provided the full Obama vision of their Democratic Party:

BRAZILE: Well, Lou, I have worked on a lot of Democratic campaigns, and I respect Paul. But, Paul, you’re looking at the old coalition. A new Democratic coalition is younger. It is more urban, as well as suburban, and we don’t have to just rely on white blue-collar voters and Hispanics. We need to look at the Democratic Party, expand the party, expand the base and not throw out the baby with the bathwater.

[David Axelrod of the Obama circus has also said The white working class has gone to the Republican nominee for many elections, going back even to the Clinton years. This is not new that Democratic candidates don’t rely solely on those votes. Eriposte does a good job dismantling Axelrod’s argument and correcting the historical record.]

Perhaps Donna missed the 2004 election. Perhaps Donna missed the lessons of the 2004 election. Perhaps Donna is not reading the 2008 election returns. Vague promises to “expand the party, expand the base” ring hollow from Donna the Obama supporter. John Judis explains:

Indeed, if you look at Obama’s vote in Pennsylvania, you begin to see the outlines of the old George McGovern coalition that haunted the Democrats during the ’70s and ’80s, led by college students and minorities. In Pennsylvania, Obama did best in college towns (60 to 40 percent in Penn State’s Centre County) and in heavily black areas like Philadelphia.

Replace “Pennsylvania” with Ohio, Indiana, North Carolina and the results remain the same.

Obama lost whites in North Carolina (61% to 37%) and Indiana (60% to 40%). Obama’s vote in both states among African-Americans was 91% in North Carolina and 92% in Indiana.

Donna Brazile might want to wish away the importance of the white vote due to her lackluster campaign history. Perhaps Donna blames her failures on whites not voting for her candidates and is taken in by the audacity of hope. Pershaps Donna does not realize that Obama is not expanding his base but rather shrinking it. Whereas Obama won white male votes in California (55% to 35%) Obama mainly lost them in subsequent primaries (North Carolina 36%).

Donna also does not understand the fastest growing demographic - Latinos - and Obama’s inability to garner Latino votes (especially against a latino friendly McCain). Obama will not be accepted simply because Donna is so beguiling on CNN. Obama will be rejected.

Donna also seems oblivious to the divisions Obama has injected into the Democratic Party:

Forget the horse race numbers for a moment: if the surveys are accurate, the polarization within the Democratic Party has reached critical levels. Nearly six in ten Obama supporters in Indiana say they would be dissatisfied if Clinton were the nominee — that’s (I believe) the high percentage of Obama supporters who have ever said that.

In both IN and NC, two thirds of Clinton supporters say they’d be dissatisfied if Obama were the nominee — I believe that’s the highest number recorded for that question, too.

The percentage of Clinton voters who say they’d choose McCain over Obama in a general election is approaching 40% in Indiana. Put it another way: in North Carolina, less than HALF of folks who voted today for Hillary Clinton are ready to say today that they’d definitely vote for Obama in a general election.

We’ve had enough of fake “uniters not dividers”. We’ve had enough of “reformers” without results.

The nation cannot afford another indigestible waffle.

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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Onward To West Virginia

It’s not to early to start getting ready for the West Virginia primary on May 13, 2008.

Tonight however, is election night in Indiana and North Carolina.

Some good election result maps:

Indiana election results map.

North Carolina election results map.

Here we go!

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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

A Time To Work - For Hillary Clinton

[All polls close at 7:00 p.m. (ET) in Indiana (a great many polls close at 6:00 p.m. (ET) in Indiana due to much of the state being in the eastern time zone). All polls close at 7:30 (ET) in North Carolina. Join us when the poll close.]

As demonstrated by the comments from the earlier post, today is a day to work for Hillary Clinton.

Hillary is working.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton had been campaigning for more than 16 hours when she strode onto the stage at Evansville Central High School just before 11 p.m. Monday.

She had started her day at a community college in eastern North Carolina. There were rallies at a train depot, a firehouse in northwest Indiana and another across the state on the Ohio River.

But Clinton betrayed barely a hint of fatigue as she beamed at a crowd of screaming supporters at the high school. “This campaign has been a joy,” she said before launching into a full-throated attack on the Bush administration.

Hillary Clinton is working to great effect.

Many voters at these events marvel at Mrs. Clinton’s understanding. After 16 months of hearing hard-luck stories, she has developed a special radar. Delivering her speech on Sunday in Fort Wayne, Mrs. Clinton’s gaze fell upon a man in fatigues. “I see someone in uniform that I’m especially concerned about,” she said. “While our troops are serving, their homes are being foreclosed on.”

Sure enough, the man, Lance Recht, a National Guard member who served in the first Iraq war, is struggling to save his home. He works at a muffler shop and may join the border patrol in Arizona, leaving his wife and children so he can pay a mortgage whose interest rates have shot up.

“We are that close to foreclosure,” Mr. Recht said in an interview, joining his thumb and forefinger.

When Mrs. Clinton singled him out, his wife, Marissa Recht, said, Mrs. Clinton had no way of knowing their story.

Hillary Clinton is working. The voters are voting. Let’s help get the vote out for Hillary.

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Monday, May 5th, 2008

The Checkered Flag

[Tonight - Hillary Clinton on David Letterman to do the Top Ten list (prepare for Obama whining - the topic is “top ten reasons for loving the USA.”]

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As we all make our last phones calls for Hillary Clinton this day before voting starts in Indiana and North Carolina let’s remember what Barack Obama said a very short while ago.

Just before Barack Obama suffered his humiliating loss in Pennsylvania, Obama said Indiana would be the “tiebreaker”.

“I think Indiana is very important,” Obama said. “We’ve got three contests coming up in pretty big states — Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Indiana. They all have significant numbers of delegates, and they are states where Sen. Clinton and I are actively campaigning.”

“You know, Sen. Clinton is more favored in Pennsylvania,” he added, “and I’m right now a little more favored in North Carolina, so Indiana right now may end up being the tiebreaker. So we want to work very hard in Indiana. While Sen. Clinton has some advantages here, I benefit coming from an adjoining state.”

Of course Obama also thought he would win Guam by 11%.

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One of the big reasons why Obama will lose a general election is that Obama has focused his pillow talk appeal to editorial board economic elites. Obama believes that “bitter” Americans cling to their gasoline, god and guns.

Hillary has focused her policies on the needs of working class Americans.

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Economic elites disdain gasoline consuming NASCAR voters - which is why Democrats lose so many elections. Today Hillary Clinton made headlines in the Auto Racing Daily when Sarah Fisher endorsed Hillary Clinton.

We need a president who will stand up for us and be a fighter for Hoosiers and all Americans,” said Fisher, who will attempt to qualify for her seventh Indianapolis 500 this May 2008. “Senator Clinton will be a president who steers our country in the right direction and puts our economy back on track. Something Senator Clinton and I have in common is our commitment to achieving our goals, leaving roadblocks behind, refusing to be knocked down. Senator Clinton is a doer and a fighter who keeps getting out there, going for the checkered flag.”

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Sunday, May 4th, 2008

Pillows For Barack Obama; People For Hillary Clinton

This morning, Hillary Clinton will appear on the ABC network’s This Week program. Barack Obama will appear on the NBC network’s Meet The Press program.

Hillary Clinton will answer questions from George Stephanopoulous and from voters in North Carolina and Indiana. Barack Obama declined to appear on the program.

If Obama persists in not debating and answering the many questions there are about his almost unknown history (his books are barely disguised fiction) news outlets should take a cue from ABC - hold a forum, invite both candidates. If one of the candidates refuses to answer questions then persist with the forum and have the fearless candidate appear.

Besides Hillary Clinton on ABC, this morning we will witness Tim Russert once again fluff pillows to make Obama comfortable. Will Russert interview Obama with the same ferocity Russert interviews Hillary? Will Russert show past Obama videotapes to force Obama to finally provide honest answers? Will Russert follow-up his questions with further inquiries or will Russert once again allow Obama to say what he wishes without fear of contradiction by the historical record? Will Russert ask Obama why he mouthed a speech on race instead of answering question about Obama’s judgement these past 20 years?

We will all have the answers to the above questions later today. We are not expecting much from the Russert interview of Obama. We will, as usual, have our already high expectations exceeded by Hillary Clinton’s answers in the townhall forum on ABC.

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Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama on Kentucky Derby Day

It’s Kentucky Derby Day!

Here at Big Pink we are all excited. The race, the people, the horses, the silks, the hats - all are exciting!

First, the horses in the race:

Cool Coal Man, Tale of Ekati, Anak Nakal, Court Vision, Eight Belles, Z Fortune, Big Truck, Visionaire, Pyro, colonel John, Z Humor, Smooth Air, Bob Black Jack, Monba, Adriano, Denis of Cork, Cowboy Cal, Recapturetheglory, Gayego, and Big Brown.

The Kentucky Derby is not just about the horse running in the race:

It takes a team to produce a Derby winner - from the breeders’ initial mating, through the foaling on the farm, and then finally to the racetrack. Once every spring, one team made up of jockey, owner, trainer and breeder realizes its dream in the Kentucky Derby Winner’s Circle at Churchill Downs.

The Kentucky Derby official song is the great Stephen Foster classic My Old Kentucky Home. The official drink is the Mint Julep.

What exactly is the Kentucky Derby?

The Kentucky Derby is a Grade I stakes race for three-year-old thoroughbred horses, held annually in Louisville, Kentucky, on the first Saturday in May, capping the two-week-long Kentucky Derby Festival. The race is one and a quarter miles (2 km) at Churchill Downs. Colts and geldings carry 126 pounds (57.2 kg) and fillies 121 pounds (54.9 kg).[1] The race is known in the United States as “The Most Exciting Two Minutes in Sports” for its approximate duration, and is also called “The Run for the Roses” for the blanket of roses draped over the winner. It is the first leg of the Triple Crown of Thoroughbred Racing in the US and typically draws around 155,000 fans.

The Kentucky Derby bills itself as “The Most Exciting Two Minutes in Sports”. This is not exactly true. The Kentucky Derby is the final 2 minutes in a very long process. The horses in the Kentucky Derby are the best of the best having proven their merit for years.

By now many readers of Big Pink are wondering “Why are we reading so much about a blasted horse race?”

Aside from a naked, shameless, pander to the voters in that great and wonderful state of Kentucky there are lessons to be learned from the Kentucky Derby in this 2008 Presidential race.

First of all let’s take notice that all the horses running for this big prize in Kentucky - have experience.

The horses running in the Kentucky Derby have proven their mettle and worth for years. These are champions. A horse can’t just come in from carting vegetables and run for the Roses.

Second, although there are 20 horses in the lineup, its possible not all of them will run. One or several horses might be “scratched”. For whatever reasons, strategic, health of horse, injury, some horses get pulled from the race by the owners. Some horses get “scratched” from the race by officials.

But guess what, just because a horse gets “scratched” the race is still run. The horses still run.

The owners of the horse that got “scratched” voluntarily cannot state that the race does not count. The owners of the horse that got “scratched” voluntarily cannot demand a share in the purse. The owners of the horse that got “scratched” voluntarily cannot say that race is invalid because “I did not participate”. The owners of the horse that got “scratched” voluntarily cannot ask millions of viewers of the race and bettors and historians to erase the race results from history.

Dean/Obama/Brazille/Pelosi must have the respect for Michigan (and Florida) voters that horse racing officials have for their participants.

Happy Derby!

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