Conjecture Is Reality

Turns out the hypothesis that a Hillary supporter, whom I believe is named Barbara Fields, who just happens to be on the speakers committee of the National Press Club, did indeed promote the appearance of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright at the Club this week.

Hhmmmmm, do you think it had anything to do with the primaries? With the nomination? Methinks I smell another rat in the midst! And there goes the National Press Club, splash!

CNN Reports Not on Hill

In the CNN "political ticker" ("political hot topics") of yesterday reported at 5:39 a.m.

Where was Hillary?

Of the 11 "top political stories from news organizations across the country" listed, the subject order went like this:

Obama
McCain
McCain
Democrats
Obama
Three generic stories
Obama
Obama
McCain

Wheeeeeeeeerrrreeeeee's Hillary????

Is it true that

1. Jeremiah Wright is on the payroll of the Clinton campaign?

2. A Clinton staffer on the NPC program committee promoted Jeremiah Wright's appearance at the National Press Club?

Knock Knock! Is Anyone With a Brain at the DCCC?

What a ploy! Selling tickets the old fashioned way. Who is the highest bidder? Tickets at the highest price. Going once, going twice...

Does this fall under bribery? Have tickets been sold before? It's obviously only for the rich, and what about all those blue-collar down and outers in PA? Wonder how much $ they'll put in to go, but maybe RichKidHillaryWhoPretendsThatShe'sPoor will pay for them all herself. This is a raffle or maybe a lottery, and I believe that national lotteries are violations of federal laws. But then again, didn't Obama sell himself so a lucky person could have dinner with him?

They're asking a "handful of supporters"! What a joke! Is a "handful" a million+? "Grassroots supporters"? They have $50/day or week to toss in? WE are "grassroots supporters" and I ain't got money to throw away like this.

I am positively going to vomit right on top of this computer! "We've reserved a special place for you." OH, PULLEAZZZZZZEEEEEEE. What comedian put this together? Who okayed it? Those people have the brains of a pencil head and probably not as much.

All week the Democratic party has been chastized (by HRH, whoops, HRC (Her Royal Clinton)) for forgetting its "roots" , forgetting the "poor" and "blue collars". Consider how Obama has been criticized for catering to the wealthy. Consider the Shrill's yelling all week! And here comes the DCCC sashaying down the street doing the same thing. How hypocritical is this? If this doesn't sound like Fat Cat Republicans, I'd like to know what does. Meow, meow.

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Bill Clinton Gets Mad (Again)

In Wednesday's Wall Street Journal:

On Monday Bill Clinton said that Barack Obama pulled the "race card" in comments Bill Clinton made about the SC race. When a reporter queried Clinton on Tuesday about just exactly what he said, Clinton responded (paraphrasing): "I am not going to play your silly little game with you. You always follow me around. No, no, no; that's not what I said. I don't remember it. Go back to your notes and when you get a clear handle on it, then ask me. "

On Monday Clinton said the Obama campaign had twisted Clinton's remarks about Jesse Jackson for "political purposes" (surprise!) so that Clinton would be perceived as a race-baiter.

Robert Gibbs, Obama's communications director, responded: "Where we put the idea in his (Clinton's) head to say what he said so he can blame us for having said it? That would be pretty good if we could do that."

This Editor's note: As usual, the Clintons fail to remember what they said and what they did and what they didn't say and what they didn't do whenever it is convenient. Isn't this a trait of a pathological liar?

Deaths in Iraq Between Sen. Warner's Letters

The dates of Sen. Warner's identical responses to me are March 21, 2008 and April 14, 2008 (Two letters were received April 14, both identical, both with the same date, both the same as the March 21 letter.)

During this 3.5 week period 58 American soldiers died in Iraq and Afghanistan. What has changed? Nothing. Sen. Warner stated in his three identical letters: "I am pleased the President agreed with my comments (to reduce forces) , and that an initial reduction of forces is beginning." What reduction in forces is "beginning"? Is the press hiding a reduction in forces? Is he talking about the surge, then the slightly reduced surge? This is not a reduction in forces. Could it be Senator Warner's staff has failed to change his template?

In the fall of October, 2006 Senator Warner took another trip to Iraq.

Why do representatives do this? What does it accomplish other than to reinforce their own political positions so they can say to their constituents back home: "See me! Look at me! I went! Things are going great" or almost so.

Things were not going so great that fall, and the Washington Post quoted Senator Warner on October 6, 2006:

"Warner blamed the Iraqi leaders for failing to improve conditions. 'You do not see them taking the levers of sovereignty and pulling and pushing them and doing what is necessary to bring about a situation in Iraq whereby the people are able to live, have sufficient food and fresh water, and have a sense of confidence in their government that they're going forward,' Warner said.

"But he said the situation is not beyond repair. 'We're not going to give up hope yet. Let's give it more time to work.'"

Senator Warner, how long, how long, how long is time enough? While you sit in your Senate chambers and talk about giving more time to permit the Iraqi travesty to "work itself out" how many more will die? Be injured? Senator Warner, you have the power to change the direction this hellfire blows. Please do it. Or have you already retired and are just bidding your time while others far away die from the hands of the weak in Washington, D.C.?

Letters from Sen. John Warner

Two have arrived: Both with the same postmark date (April 14, 2008) and identical content to the March 21, 2008 letter Sen. Warner wrote me in response to letters I sent him about the tragedy in Iraq.

During the three weeks which have passed between the letters, how many of our soldiers have died and been maimed as a result of this travesty across the ocean?
Yet, Senator Warner's replies are the same. What has changed? Nothing. Not in the Senate halls, at least, and yet we keep pouring humans and money and equipment into the abscess known as Iraq. Isn't it time we got rid of the abscess and pulled out? How many Iraqis are begging us to get out?

Was it about 18 months ago in the fall of 2006 that Sen. Warner went to Iraq and upon returning, said something to the effect "We've got to change something over there. I'm just not putting up with it anymore." I'll research this and post his exact words from that last trip he made to Iraq and the aggravation he expressed. What aggravation? How does his compare to the "aggravation" endured by soldiers (if still living) and family members who suffer the ill effects of Senator Warner's and his colleagues' failure to act?