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Clinton Says Obama Playing Racial Politics
By Zachary A. Goldfarb
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton accused Sen. Barack Obama's presidential campaign of fanning the flames of racial politics and said that he has not yet been held to account for his record on the war in Iraq.
Several prominent African Americans have voiced concern about statements by Clinton and her husband, former president Bill Clinton, the day before the New Hampshire primary.
Sen. Clinton (N.Y.) said in a sometimes testy appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press," that the controversy is an "unfortunate story line that the Obama campaign has pushed very successfully."
Clinton had appeared to some to demean the leadership of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights era when she told Fox News last Monday, "Dr. King's dream began to be realized when President Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. ... [I]t took a president to get it done."
And former president Clinton said at Dartmouth College the same day about Obama, "This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I've ever seen." After some complained, Clinton said that he was referring only to Obama's Iraq record and not his candidacy.
The Clintons moved Friday to soothe ruffled feathers but, when asked Sunday about the Monday comments, Clinton pointed blame at Obama's campaign. "They've been putting out talking points. They've been telling this in a very selective way," Clinton said. "I'm glad to have the opportunity to set the facts straight."
"Dr. King didn't just give speeches," Clinton said. He understood "he had to move the political process and bring in those who were in political power. ... He wanted somebody in the White House who would act," she said.
Clinton said her husband's comments focused on the story line of Obama's campaign -- a speech he gave in 2002, as a state senator in Illinois, in which he opposed the war in Iraq. "He gave a very impassioned speech against it and consistently said that he was against the war, he would vote against the funding for the war," she said. "By 2003, that speech was off his Web site. By 2004, he was saying that he didn't really disagree with the way George Bush was conducting the war. And by 2005, 6, and 7, he was voting for $300 billion in funding for the war. The story of his campaign is really the story of that speech and his opposition to Iraq. I think it is fair to ask questions about it."
"How do you translate your words into deeds?" she added later. "I think it is fair to point out that he has no record of actually producing positive change."
Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), the 2004 nominee who endorsed Obama last week, said Obama has the necessary qualities to "inspire and to be a president."
Kerry defended Obama's youth and relative inexperience, saying on ABC's "This Week," "He's older than Bill Clinton when Bill Clinton became president."
Clinton would not say whether she feels Obama has the experience to be president.
"That is up for voters to decide," she said.
Clinton also addressed her emotional display the day before the New Hampshire primary, in which her eyes appeared to well with tears and her voice broke as she described how she copes with the stresses of the campaign. Critics thought it was staged; some thought that it handed her the primary.
"It was a moment of real emotional connection," Clinton said. She said politicians are "also human beings."
Clinton said that she did not consider the troop surge to be anything more than a narrow military success and that, as president, she still planned to ask her generals to withdraw troops with 60 days.
"Part of the reason that Iraqis are doing anything is they see this election," she said. "They know that the blank check that George Bush gave them is about to be torn up."
Clinton said she has no idea whether the "vast right-wing conspiracy" she once accused of trying to destroy her husband's presidency still exists. And when asked what her biggest public adversity has ever been, she responded, "I think we all know that."
Edwards 'Running Hard' in South Carolina
John Edwards, Kerry's running mate in the 2004 election, said he didn't hear from Kerry before the Obama endorsement but was not surprised by it.
Edwards, on CNN's "Late Edition," reiterated his pledge to continue his campaign "through the convention."
"Are we running hard in South Carolina? Yes, we are running very hard here. I mean, this is the place that I was born. It is a place where I expect to do well," Edwards said. "And it is a place where I understand what is happening in people's lives in a very personal way."
Romney, Giuliani Confident of Upcoming Victories
Former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney both said they expected to win upcoming Republican primaries in critical states for them. Giuliani has staked much of his campaign on a win in Florida on Jan. 29, while Romney faces a big test on Tuesday in Michigan, where his father was governor.
Romney said he would be more confident of winning if only Republicans and independents could vote in the primary. "There will be Democrats that come in the race. Maybe some of them will vote for me, because they will remember what my dad did for Michigan and how he helped turn it around," he said.
Asked if he had to win in Florida, Giuliani replied on "Fox News Sunday," "I don't think any candidate would ever say 'have to,' " but if you want me to say it's real important ... it's real important."
Giuliani was quizzed about his position on illegal immigration: Millions of immigrants who now are illegally in the United States but have not committed a crime here would not have to leave the country before becoming citizens.
"They would have to get on the back of the line. They couldn't get ahead of anyone else. They would have to pay fines. And then at the end of the road, anyone on any of these lists would have to be able to read English, write English, speak English. There would be substantial things that had to be done," Giuliani said, and he dismissed the label "amnesty." "Amnesty is being free and clear of all penalties of any kind," Giuliani said.
Romney and former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee clashed over their economic records, appearing on CBS's "Face the Nation" and CNN's "Late Edition." Huckabee portrayed Romney as an out-of-touch businessman, and Romney accused Huckabee of being a tax-hiker.
Romney said Huckabee raised taxes by $500 million as governor and called his resistance to admit that he raised taxes "disingenuous."
Huckabee said it's "almost sad to watch him make these kind of claims. He raised over half a billion dollars of fees in his own state. And he says, well, those aren't taxes."
"I hate to say poor Mitt, because a man with that much wealth is hardly poor anything," he added.
Huckabee ripped Romney's background as someone who oversaw leveraged buyouts.
"There are a lot of people who lost their jobs when his company would take over, restructure a company, lay a lot of people off. A lot of times, the CEOs and the people at the top got some pretty huge bonuses and made a lot of money. A lot of people went home without a pension and a paycheck," Huckabee said.
Romney suggested that criticism sounded to him like demagoguery.
"It has been said for a long time, you don't help the wage-earner by attacking the wage-payer. And this kind of divisive, populist approach is like he is channeling John Edwards," Romney said.
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Your headline, "Clinton Says Obama Playing Racial Politics," is either misleading or insufficiently supported by the substance of the article. Please explain WHY Clinton believes that Obama is playing the race card. All your article does is make an assertion that she has said this. It then goes on to talk about some possibly insensitive comments made by the Clinton campaign, and about their criticisms of Obama's Iraq voting. Would you please expound upon the assertion that Clinton says Obama is playing the race card. If anything, your article supports the opposite conclusion.
Posted by: Josh Stern | January 13, 2008 3:06 PM
Why is it when any one criticizes Obama on any of his fabrications, he brings up race. Is this his most intelligent reply ?
Posted by: gatorsn2008 | January 13, 2008 4:44 PM
Black versus white. Up to now I wondered whether I lived in the United States. I now feel comfortable that I am still living in the same country I was born. Still one can dream that things have changed. What we do have is more latency and hidden problems. I guess that is what they mean by change. We have a change in style.
Posted by: Arthur Gittleman | January 13, 2008 6:00 PM
Clintons [Hillary and Bill] will do anything and everything to capture our White House. Such divisive politics is dangerous and would backfire on Clintons. Clintons have forgotten issue of Monica Lewisnky disgrace of presidency in Oval Office, Bill's conserted womanising with Jenniffer Flowers, Whitewater scandal, Bills's investigation by Special Counsel, his impeachment, obstruction of justice, and loss of his law license, and more.
If OBAMA attacks Clintons with these, I am sure Hillary would cry much more, while Bill will again deny these never happened,
or another fairy tale. WHAT A SHAME. SHAME ON CLINTONS. You will not have my vote. Hillary is now playing race card with bill.
That does not seat well with AfricanAmerican community. The south is no longer "your country", but OBAMA COUNTRY.
You have taken black votes for granted for too long. Whether your swipe of OBAMA is about Iraqi war, broken economy, Health care, or any other topic, you crossed the line of gentlemen/women pilitics. Bill and Hillary Clintons will forever be remembered
as the couple that indecent, and incapable of telling the truth. Both Clintons are of old generation, thus cannot understand the voice of AMERICA- AMERICA WANTS CHANGE, AND WE WILL HAVE CHANGE. If by some mistake, Hillary Clinton wins nomination, I will vote Republican/independent regardless of who wins GOP nomination.
Out of desperation, you CLINTONS have insulted our hero - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. That is irreparable. We have fought, made laws, changed our constitution, soaked our votes in blood, only for desperate Clintons to tell us those things do not matter. I wish I can meet both of you face to face for further questioning. You have a lot of explaining to do.
Posted by: PRINCE ANYAKORA | January 13, 2008 7:42 PM
ADDENDUM Our hero, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. died for the DREAM and that is the HOPE and CHANGE OBAMA takes about, and that is not a fairy tale. Clintons have further just lost lost the remains of legacy Clintons have.
I guess Clintons are so lost that they also lost the theme of campaign.
YOU DO NOT INSULT A LEGEND AND BE REGARDED AS PERSONS NOT HAVING MENTAL BANKRUPTCY. Here, Clintons crossed the line of decency in politics.
Posted by: PRINCE ANYAKORA | January 13, 2008 8:12 PM
The BS here is palpable. If you listen to the full context of what the Clintons actually said, rather than the little snippets printed here, there is absolutely nothing racial about it.
This is all spin started by Donna Brazille (an Obama supporter) on The Situation Room. Once she said it offended her as an "African American", Obama's minions came out in full force all over TV and started accusing the Clintons of being racists.
Well, guess what? As a white person, I'm offended by all of this - Let's see... we have Jesse Jackson, Jr. saying Hillary didn't cry for Katrina victims, Oprah going to SC and inciting older black voters by bringing up fire hoses and dogs, Obama doing the same himself today at a church in LA, Rep. Clyburn telling Clinton to back-off Obama or he'll endorse him, and Obama refusing to even comment on all of it. Why? Because it's getting him the black vote in SC. Who's racist?
Oh and let's not mention that church Obama attends that has now conveniently taken down its racist website. I saw it before they did. I even copied it. It offended me too.
The thing that offends me the most? While Obama was carefully grooming himself all these years to run for President, the Clintons were actually doing something to help African Americans.
So... What happens if all the black voters do vote for Obama in SC? What kind of race does this become? Demographically, who loses after that? Be careful what you wish for....
Posted by: Brigitte | January 13, 2008 9:55 PM
BS? Senator Obama being 'groomed' for President? Are you kidding?
Senator Obama is bringing a new style of politicking. No more of this petty decisiviness, personal attacks, win at all costs mentality.
That's why we, as a country, have failed to live up to our potential.
That's why we are a cynical nation now, suspicious of all politicians and indifferent to get involved.
But, we Americans are bound by a common set of wants - we want good health, good education, living wages, whether we are black, white, asian or mexican. We don't want the government to give us these things, we want a government that will not let price gouging stand and equal opportunity take a back seat!
It's sad to me when I see the Clintons (both of them) behave like this.
I want this new type of politics, and Obama can deliver.
Posted by: P | January 13, 2008 11:12 PM
The same ol' Clintons still show up once the stress brings down their masks.
Twist and attack if the outright lies don't work. For examples of lies that aren't working;
She has "35 years experience". Really? Doing WHAT?!? Being a lawyer? OK, I'll grant that she IS older than Obama but a more experienced legislator? No. That doesn't fit the facts.
She claims to be "more electable". Really? Sez who? Even before the closer scrutiny begins (i.e., before anyone has had a chance to be reminded of all the joy of her White House years - "teachable moments" like learning be very careful with your kids about what the definition of "is" is or whether oral sex is "sex" or not), 50% of American voters flat-out just will NOT vote for her. If that's her definition of "most electable," then I guess we need to be more specific - like maybe about which country it is she's polling. (OR maybe it's just that pesky definition of "is" again.)
I apologize for sounding so snide but I'm really, REALLY tired of having my intelligence insulted by these incessant Clinton revisionisms. (And by the remarks about Martin Luther King AND Senator Obama, as well.)
Shame on them!
And shame on US if we fall for their scams again...
Posted by: Carmen Cameron | January 14, 2008 6:56 AM
i trust hillary clinton's lifetime of work on issues important to the american people.
i trust her platform of government.
i DON't trust the snake oil salesman obama.
and i am still waiting for WAPO's in depth reporting af the scandalous relationship between obama and indicted political fixer tony rezco.
Posted by: mikel1 | January 14, 2008 9:39 AM
"To set the facts straight": a euphemism meaning "to lie". When you start with crooked facts, they need to get set straight, like arrows. Senator Clinton uses the phrase frequently.
Posted by: Rarignac | January 14, 2008 10:42 AM
All you HRC supporters are kidding yourself. Are you aware of how many people will NEVER vote for her just in the Democratic party alone??? Obama is the best of what we are left with. We would have had a solid chance to win the general with Biden or even Dodd, but, true-to-form, we learched at novelty candidates. I hope he can pull it out. But I know she wont.
By the way, HRC and WJC are fully aware that by bringing this up (any racial issue whatsoever), they muddy the waters of tolerance and force voters (minority or otherwise) to think again about whether this country is ready to move beyond race - eventhough the evidence up to now has been quite positive. ....and Robert Johnson, aside from a small portion of his news programming, I find BET shows playing to the lowest common denominator in the African American community - still I was quite struck how willing he was to be HRC pawn. Both Obama and HRC are risky choices, but Barack is our best chance.
Posted by: ash | January 14, 2008 10:43 AM
I am a middle aged woman - new to blogs and posting but feel that I guess it is time for me to respond to this ridiculous premise that the Clintons are racist and that the media continues to promote this idea. Ridiculous!!!! All Mr Obama has to say is he believes the Clintons are NOT RACIST. that would end this whole thing and we could get back to the real issues in the campaign. WAKE UP PEOPLE - the media is dowing this to you - this is how propaganda is used to move the public!
Posted by: Gail | January 14, 2008 11:21 AM
After reading these comments, I wonder how many actually watched "Meet the Press" yesterday. I watched it twice.
Senator Clinton's performance was below par. She kept trying to filabuster and talked over Tim to avoid answering questions. She even managed to cackle.
Ms Clinton keeps citing issues about Obama with no proof and I am sorry Tim didn't ask followup questions about what they know about how some 5 year old speech had been taken off a web site years ago. They must really have good oppo people to figure out an old post was missing from a web site!
The speech they keep referring to is on the website now, so I still don't understand their issue.
Barak Obama is too smart to keep running if there is really something in his closet beyond a stupid realty purchase from Tony Rezko of 10 feet to add to his yard. My biggest concern about Senator Obama is that he is too close to the Chicago Dem party, but I'm sure the Clinton campaign envies him that.
Michelle Obama wouldn't be going around the country leaving her kids and job if she didn't believe in what he is trying to do. And I can't believe she would be out there if all the cocaine smear had any relevance.
I am a white 57 year old female but I am tired of the slime from the Clinton campaign--and my 79 year old mother attended her first Iowa caucus to vote for Obama after watching all of what happened in Iowa.
Posted by: smhrabak | January 14, 2008 11:29 AM
The spin the Obama campaign is doing playing the race card will haunt them in the end. And this includes the elite press who is also spinning this out of control. Do they really think that Americans are stupid to buy this? Americans will not stoop down to the level the Obama campaign and the press wants this to election to become. Shame on you Obama and your supporters. You go Hillary!
Posted by: I also vote Present! | January 14, 2008 11:52 AM
The media doesn't have to tell us the Clintons are racist. Their policies do the talking. From the famous "Sister Soulah" moment through the 3 strikes you're out we've witnessed their lack of real concern for the Black community. They use us for votes, and I hope we're not stupid enough to give it to them for free, when we have a candidate who can really do something new and nonpartisan.
Posted by: Tara | January 14, 2008 5:05 PM
A Swing in African American Vote
African-American voters are moving to Obama. Clinton led among blacks by 23 percentage points in late 2007, 56%-33%, but Obama now leads by 25 points, 57%-32%. Former South Carolina Democratic chairman Dick Harpootlian, who supports the Illinois senator, credits Obama's victory in Iowa with persuading black voters elsewhere he is a viable candidate.
Now that Barack Obama is deemed electable, are African Americans voting along Race?
Posted by: PollM | January 14, 2008 5:13 PM
The article's headline is misleading, because nowhere in the text does it mention Clinton's accusation of "playing racial politics" toward Obama.The press is fanning the flames of this Democratic rivalry simply because they need something interesting to write about.Although Senator Clinton's comment was inappropriate it was blown entirely out of proportion, and I believe that she was completely unaware of its offensiveness.
Posted by: zack87 | January 15, 2008 10:57 AM
Barack Obama is a member of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ. Its minister, and Obama's spiritual adviser, Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. In 1982, the church launched Trumpet Newsmagazine, with Wright's daughters now serving as publisher and executive editor. Every year, the magazine makes awards in various categories. Last year, it gave the Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. Trumpeter Award to a man it said "truly epitomized greatness." That man is Louis Farrakhan.
Maybe for Wright and some others, Farrakhan "epitomized greatness." For most Americans, Farrakhan epitomizes racism, particularly in the form of anti-Semitism. Over the years, he has compiled an awesome record of offensive statements, even denigrating the Holocaust by falsely attributing it to Jewish cooperation with Hitler -- "They helped him get the Third Reich on the road." His history is a rancid stew of lies.
describing the September 11 attacks as a "wake-up call" to America for ignoring the concerns of "people of colour", and for claiming that Americans "believe in white supremacy and black inferiority . . . more than we believe in God".
., Obama offers white voters a chance to free themselves from white guilt!
unbelievable and he is running on uniting all people
Posted by: Anonymous | January 18, 2008 6:59 PM
POOR CRYBABY OBAMA, STOP TAKING ABOUT ME! BOO HOO....Its time all you obama supporters stop blaming all his problems on the Clintons, its really SAD and desperate...Its fine for axelrod and obama camp continuing to making up stories about the Clintons and mis-quoting them to keep the race card alive in the election as in attempt to keep attention off his poor senate record and his religious beliefs and that he fails miserably in every debate, where he has no pre written speech. The media bashes Romney for his beliefs why is obama any different, because he's 1/2 black...Poor excuse! Is why the VOTERS not the Clintons are researching and bringing out facts. This is solely because Obama supporters are a little nervous that he cant win in a state that isn't mostly black voters, that his in-experience, poor judgment in the senate and backing bush several times to support the war are all coming to the surface. Did anyone really think he would continue his free ride in the press? Its not the Clintons, its the VOTERS who care about the country and not voting based on his skin color doing the job the media fails to do and research obama. Quite allot of bad, but true information coming out that the VOTERS are entitled to know. He and David axelrod are in a panic... He may be claiming to be a Christian at a black racist church now, I think we all have concerns that he was raised a Muslim. His father was step father were Muslims, were does his loyalty fall. I think it's sad that he is ashamed of his parents and heritage. Where's his pride? He also is half white correct? Or is he denying that too! He is a grown man, "STOP CRYING OBAMA, its proof he isn't ready to lead. If he hadn't turned this election in blacks against whites and his wife's continued racist stumping (as she was booed out of NV) he would not be having these issues. I'm glad it's all coming out!
Posted by: Anonymous | January 23, 2008 10:35 AM
Today, once again, I read this horrible classification of candidates. Mrs. Clinton represents gender; Mr. Obama represents race; and Mr. Edwards represents class.
How untrue! They have many things in common. Their offers for change are almost the same, but their difference is that Mr. Obama inspires.
Without trying to educate anyone, I would like to share with you the definition that my Oxford pocket book dictionary gives of the verb "to inspire", which among other definitions, says: animate or instill (a person) with a feeling; prompt, give rise to. It also lists the following synonyms: move, arouse, awaken, uplift, encourage, energize, invigorate, etc. The only candidate that can communicate all of the synonyms is Mr. Obama, and he does it with truth and clarity.
Perhaps Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Edwards the can move their followers with the same feelings listed in the synonyms, and I sincerely congratulate them. However, I would suggest that they look into their souls and hearts and ask if their candidate really moves, arouses, awakens, uplifts, encourages, energizes and invigorates them as Mr. Obama does for me.
Obama's dream is universal, it has no gender, class or race. It embraces everyone who has a dream and wants to follow that dream. It's never too late to embrace this great cause. Join in this universal dream, and be a part of this true and only dream and hope for a better country for Americans and better world for our brethren.
Posted by: esther_624 | January 26, 2008 5:33 PM
Hillary held to a higher level of courtesy than Obama in racial politics was the outcome of the South Carolina exit polls on race.
Given the fact that in the world of discrimination, social promotion has always been a dilemma, it seems reasonable to expect that both Hillary and Obama deserve equal scrutiny for the equal opportunity that America is making available.
The emotional impulse to "make history" with either of them cannot overshadow the fact and the reality that America is still about to elect a President, and it is a very serious business where the most minute scrutiny is not only tolerated but encouraged, and that no candidate should be presumed to be free from it by the same criteria and standards - an apples to apples comparison of intellectual rigor, vitality, judgement and integrity - however those are measured. Obviously experience is a large part of that scrutiny, and Americans should not be poised to sacrifice their interests or feel guilt about making such inquiries and satisfying themselves of the faith and trust upon which their vote is cast.
Elections are not about the comfort of the candidates but the comfort of the public. Hence, polls over attacks may be interesting but are irrelevant for a purpose other than to seek the truth and character of the candidates by examination and revelation.
Posted by: Pat | January 27, 2008 11:20 AM
is there anyone who can tell me if president Jonhson had not signed the civil rights act it it would,ve become a law when it did? MLK he was a great he used his intellinge and his desire to bring about change Obama? he looks like a crying baby to me " u pick on me cause i am black" you lnow what i dealt with something similar for 23 years i arrested many theis excuse was u doing it cause i am black my answer was no i'm arresting you because u are a thief trying to wa;lk out without paying theil food bill
Posted by: greek | January 28, 2008 8:24 PM
I'm undecided about who & which party I'm voting for, but found this great article called "Black Voters and a Twist of Bias" on the BlogZine SAVAGE POLITICS.
WOW- all I have to say!
Here is an excerpt: "Last Saturday's South Carolina Democratic Primary produced the widely expected result of a Barack Obama victory. From the beginning of the week, it was the ethnic composition of the State in question which was amply discussed by both the Media and it's multiple pundits. It was here and through other sources that we discovered that 55% percent of Democratic voters in South Carolina were African American. An interesting number when you consider the "coincidence" that Obama actually won the election by exactly the same margin: 55%. Of course, many in Clinton's campaign have used this demographic reality to spin their defeat, vociferating that they had always expected to loose from the start. It should be noted that it has been this exact attitude which they have ridiculed Obama's camp for, insinuating that they had proved to be "sore losers" by not admitting their own failures in stating their case to the American People. As we all know, in modern politics, no campaign is free of idiotic childishness, sadly resurfacing the reality that our current political existence is dominated by whining imbeciles of the lowest ilk. Nevertheless, the Clinton Campaign's affirmation (victory based on a unified ethnic constituency) is valid, especially when we consider the data.
The Primary's exit polling, presented by all major networks, were utilized by analysts to determine how was Obama's, Edwards', and Clinton's support spread throughout different social markers. Their results indicated that 80% of the Black vote, and only 20% of the White vote, went towards Barack Obama. Regarding most White voters in the State, you could easily identify their split between John Edwards and Hillary Clinton. The significance of this racial division is crucial in understanding the fate of Barack Obama's campaign, and the Democratic Party, if they chose to face the General Election with him at the helm...." Find the rest of the article at http://savagepolitics.com/?p=59
Posted by: elsylee28 | January 29, 2008 11:56 AM
HUSSEIN OBAMA will have the desk removed from the oval office just to have room to spread-out his muslim prayer rug. He will outlaw displays of the American flag like he has at his rallies of 'white-cracker' hating supporters. His use of the race card may work on TV, but it won't work at the polls. The majority of voters are simply not going to accept a black muslim president. Nice try HUSSEIN, but the good ole USA just ain't ready for your no-substance rhetoric.
Posted by: Anonymous | January 30, 2008 6:23 PM
Why is it when any one criticizes Obama on any of his fabrications, he brings up race. Is this his most intelligent reply ?
Posted by: gatorsn2008 | January 13, 2008 04:44 PM
Uh Hum, das right bro, nome sayin
Posted by: Anonymous | January 30, 2008 6:26 PM
It clear that the Post and other beltway influences are really troubled by Obama connecting with such a diverse base of support. It just wasn't supposedly to happen that way - - Obama was supposed to be a flash in the pan. HRC was supposed to prevail.
And, if the so-called "race card" is being played by anyone, it's the beltway king-makers, other insiders and the Clintons themselves. Not by Obama.
Obama has convinced me, a 65-year white male, ex-Marine, and long-time Republican (except '72 and '04) that he is a unifier and consensus builder. If anyone can formulate and articulate a vision for America it's Obama...the rest of the candidates from both parties are merely pandering.
Obama also makes people feel as if they are stakeholders...I'm sure it will be a shared vision that Obama advocates. It has been so far.
The nearly silent cry I hear everyday is that of Americans passively pleading for a return to the unity of our nation state. Return the "United" back into the United States.
That's different theme from Clinton's perception that America is a global corporate state. Behind their thinly vieled curtain of babble, the Clinton's want us to compete with third world countries who pay wages of a $1/day, and whose people go potty in the local stream. At least that's a perspective of the great global economy brought America WJC. It's his legacy, and it's his wife's agenda.
But just to speak to Obama's strengths, he has convinced me he has the high energy of youth and that he has guts.
He will meet face-to-face with our so-called enemies, and I am sure he will have success in mitigating the tensions caused by Bush and the gang of empty suits surrounding him.
Obama is the right person for the time.
Posted by: Vunderlutz | February 3, 2008 4:33 PM
why people should consider black men or black women he/she was play racial political ageda? the answer it is not true it has been 400 years black African struggle for justice after 40 years in slaver and black man mostly qualify like senate barack deserve to change direction history it is unbelieveable form white racial porfile.the most american people black and white voters they believe for senate obama deserve better he can be next president of united states of American. we should not played that card of racial high profile.the black and white are defense this country for greates of united state of american.
thank you
Posted by: J.m.Thogkow | February 8, 2008 12:06 PM
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Exploring the Jackrabbit Java Content Repository
The JCR project has made the name JCR synonymous with content repository. A content repository is deployed as an infrastructure with defined services. Users only need to concern themselves with the application, and a single application can easily access different content repositories.
The flexibility of JCR is an enormous boon for developers, in that programmers can learn a single API suited to a variety of application cases. In addition, Jackrabbit removes dependencies on vendors and reduces the cost of migration.
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When Schulz's Peanuts comic strip premiered in October 1950, it couldn't have been more different from the comic strips stacked around it — among them Hal Foster's Prince Valiant, Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon, and Roy Crane's Captain Easy — and maybe that's why the initial public response could be summed up as a national shrug. That changed, of course, and the strip became the untouchable but beloved titan of its medium appearing in 2,600 newspapers in 21 languages reaching a collective readership north of 350 million.
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Frequent conversations with Dad began with, "I talked to Mr. Johns today" (he was the principal of the high school). Busted. Again.
That never worked for me. My Dear Old Dad worked for the School Board. He always found out.
Ah the joys of a party line.
I just enjoy the girls who don't have their hair pulled up like horns or sit around with their tongues sticking out.
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We're delighted at the volume and depth of coverage of government contracting lately, an area too long neglected by the private press army in Washington and the business press almost entirely.
The coverage was triggered by the events of September 16, when Blackwater USA employees fired on a Baghdad square, killing seventeen Iraqis and wounding twenty-four. The incident spurred appropriate coverage from political and war reporters.
Today's news
says prosecutions may have been compromised because the guards were promised immunity of some sort by State Department officials investigating the incident.
But the incident in Iraq has also brought to prominence long-overdue money questions—about accountability and the use of contractors across the federal government. These are questions business reporters are better equipped to ask.
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Last week, government agencies released several reports on the accountability of contractors and the swelling amount of money the government shells out.
The New York Times covers contractors largely as a political story, but pulled back in last Wednesday's front-page story to focus on the numbers and money behind the growth in the use of contractors.
Over the past four years, the amount of money the State Department pays to private security and law enforcement contractors has soared to nearly $4 billion a year from $1 billion, administration officials said Tuesday, but they said that the department had added few new officials to oversee the contracts.
Our main beef is with the press's disappointing reliance on anonymous sources for a subject that couldn't be more public.
The Times story, for instance, offers few on-the-record quotes—from a Brookings Institution analyst, a law professor, a DynCorp spokesperson, a former executive. Otherwise the sources are administration officials, auditors, outside experts, former state department officials, former employees of contractors, and even members of Congress. None of whom are identified.
The best quote come at the end and is on-the-record: a Califoria National Guard captain, Jonathan Shiroma, tells the Times that while some Dyncorp trainers were " 'outstanding,' " others preferred to stay on the base.
We're not sure what's worse: reporters use of the unnamed sources or the fact that they need to use them.
Still, the story homes in on a previously obscure office that has emerged as a big source of the problem: the Bureau of Diplomatic Security.
Today, the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, the small State Department office that oversees the private security contractors in Iraq and elsewhere, is overwhelmed by its responsibilities to supervise the contractors, according to former employees, members of Congress and outside experts. They say the office has grown too reliant on, and too close to, the 1,200 private soldiers who now guard American officials overseas.
The 2003 invasion of Iraq opened new opportunities in the burgeoning world of government security. Blackwater got a toehold with a $27 million no-bid contract to guard L. Paul Bremer III, the administrator of the American occupation in Baghdad. A year later, the State Department expanded that contract to $100 million. Blackwater now employs 845 of the more than 1,100 private security contractors at work in Iraq and holds a contract worth $1.2 billion.Assistant Secretary of State Richard J. Griffin, who oversees the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, told Congress this month that his office had 36 agents overseeing the guards.
Griffin abruptly resigned the same day this story appeared.
The Washington Post has been out in front on the contracting story both in terms of the volume and depth of its reporting.
Of particular interest was Robert O'Harrow Jr. and Dana Hedgpeth's profile
of Erik Prince, who founded Blackwater, on the rise of his company. The article and a nearby slide show of photos accompanied by his voice includes interviews with Prince and a visit to the Blackwater Lodge and Training Center in Moyock, North Carolina.
Here Prince continues the PR counteroffensive he has been fighting in other publications as well:
`The idea we have a private army is ridiculous,' [Prince] said, as a group of sheriff's department deputies cleaned their weapons nearby. `This idea of a private mercenary army is nonsense. These guys have sworn the oath as military or law enforcement persons. These are guys who served voluntarily. They are all Americans, working for Americans, protecting Americans.'
O'Harrow's blog, Government Inc., on the Washington Post Web site, has been pounding steadily on the government's heavy reliance on contractors.


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I'm making several cookie gift baskets for Easter gifts and I want to also place 3 decorated eggs in each basket. I want to use pastel colored eggs & coat them in the tiny clear glass beads so the color shines through.
Can I use the plastic 'fillable' eggs in pastels or no? Styrofoam eggs? Am I saying the right kind of teeny beads? Seed beads or do they go by another name-there are no holes in them to string them. Do the beads come in pastel colors and if so..would it be better to use that colored bead on that color of the egg? Sooo (last question)..what type of glue should I use to adhere the beads? Thanks for any help!! |
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You could use what ever type of bead you like, I have seen them done in seed beads, clear plastic beads of all sizes,with holes, glitter, or diamond dust, some people use regular white glue, but I think I would use tacky myself, or even hot glue, the clear beads look beautiful over the plastic eggs of evey color! there are also pastel shades in the plastic beads,, I perfer the look of clear beads over colored plastic eggs myself, styrofoam eggs would cost alot more, so it just depends on the look you are after, check out this post on beaded eggs, very pretty! oddie |
Here is a link that might be useful: pretty beaded eggs
Oddie-thanks! Wow-they sure are pretty. Methinks I'm going to try the even tinier beads & roll them to cover. Still pondering what type of glue to use tho...maybe decoupage? |
- Posted by flamingo_in_ar (My Page) on Sat, Mar 15, 08 at 11:52
I would use micro beads, they have no holes, and either double sided sticky tape (Michael's carries this) or spray adhesive, Sharon. You can usually find the beads in the scrapbooking section. I want a cookie! |
Thanks Flamey-I got a bag of the eggs today as well as the tiny clear seed beads. Will give them a shot tomorrow. Why wouldn't decoupage glue work? Sure would be easier to brush it on than using hot glue. I think I have some spray adhesive on hand-I guess I'm just thinking the spray might not keep the beads in place as stongly as decoupage. Hmm-will try both. |
- Posted by luvstocraft (My Page) on Sun, Mar 16, 08 at 22:22
Let me know what glue works for you. I tried some last year, and had a hard time getting even coverage for some reason. I really think they would be pretty with the sparkly beads all over them. Luvs |
RATS!! I spent alot of time & $$ to bead the 6 plastic eggs-to no avail. I used Mod Podge first. I let it dry until tacky, then rolled the egg in the seed beads. The beads would not adhere. Next..I used spray stencil adhesive-no go-not tacky enough. Lastly I used an all purpose spray adhesive. They did adhere, so I let them dry overnight. Just now, I gently used my hands to brush off the excess beads and they ALL came off! BAH HUMBUG!! (they looked so pretty too!) If anyone can give me another choice-I'm game to try it. Really want to use the seed beads-they look so cool! |
- Posted by luvstocraft (My Page) on Tue, Mar 18, 08 at 12:00
Sharon, I am so sorry it didn't work for you--like I said, I had the same problem. I didn't want to do hot glue because I figured I'd really burn myself allot! Someone on here told me about "Quick Grab" glue that she buys at Joanne's, I wonder if that would work. Maybe just do small sections at a time? There HAS to be a way to do it, we see them all over the place, right? Hope someone can give more helpful advice. Luvs |
- Posted by flamingo_in_ar (My Page) on Tue, Mar 18, 08 at 12:17
I think hot glue would be too thick. Did you try double sided adhesive? I think it's made by 3M, comes in small sheets, about 5x7". It's super thick and sticky, it won't be cheap to use, but it will hold the littl micro beads, I used it on my turtle tin, inside the lid. I wonder if clear silicone would work? It would be so messy, though. Good luck, Sharon! |
Thanks everyone. Methinks I'm goona flag the ideas. As for the double stick pieces. Seems to be it would be hard to place it on a curved item like these eggs.Oh well..on to my next project! |
OMG!! Just had a thought! Wonder what would happen with clear, quick drying nail polish?? |
sorry about your project! I still say tacky glue,for the small beads, you need a real thick glue, to hold the beads on the slick plastic surface the eggs have, the thinner glue doesnt bite and hold, heres a link to a site where they used tackey glue, hope you deside to try your craft agine. oddie |
Here is a link that might be useful: Beaded eggs useing tacky glue
Keep forgetting to ask you sharon_fl did you see on the painting fourm where I posted to your post there about useing something stripale to hang the wallpaper liner project in your GD room? I posted that my daughter used vaseline to hang border, taked to her the other day and she said you just have to be carefull and not use to much said she spread it all over the border useing a paper towel, and hopefully get it in the right spot the frist time, when putting up so you dont smear the vaseline, also cleanup any that get on the wall right away, blot with a paper towel and wipe with hot soapy water to remove all oil, said the key is useing a very small amout of the vaseline, would warn aginest useing this over flat paint, would soak up the oil, and stain, I am sure. just thought I would tell you incase you missed it. oddie |
Oddie-THANKS for the link-will hit that after I post here. As for the strippable paste? I got the underliner paper and I'm just going to use regular wallpaper paste-and be done with it. If it rips...so be it! Thanks tho! |
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In March school board members attended an oral argument in New Orleans regarding desegregation and following that argument board attorney Jamie Jacks said, "In January 2013, Judge Glen Davidson, the federal judge overseeing Cowan v. Cleveland School District, ordered that junior high and high school students could attend any school they wanted. The Department of Justice appealed that ruling to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals."
According to the court document, the conclusion of that argument was: "Given the available statistics showing that not a single white student chose to enroll at D.M. Smith or East Side High after the district court's order, and that historically, over the course of multiple decades, no white student has ever chosen to enroll at D.M. Smith or East Side High, the district court's conclusion that a freedom of choice plan was the most appropriate desegregation remedy at those schools certainly needed to be expressed with sufficient particularity to enable us to review it.
"We therefore reverse and remand for a more explicit explanation of the reasons for adopting the freedom of choice plan, and/or for consideration of the alternative desegregation plans proposed by the parties, as appropriate."
In May 2013 the district submitted its proposed desegregation plan for the 2012-2013 academic year and proposed to create new magnet programs and revitalize existing ones at D.M. Smith and East Side.
These plans consisted of offering specialized or advanced classes only at D.M. Smith and East Side and recommitting to the International Baccalaureate programs at both school in order to attracts students enrolled at Margaret Green and Cleveland High and to attract students graduating from the magnet programs at the elementary schools.
Parts of the plan called for white students to attend D.M. Smith and East Side for certain classes or for part of the day, without enrolling full time at those schools.
However according to court documents, "The United States objected to the District's plan, claiming that the magnet programs did not and would not attract white students in significant numbers and the District's plan would not meaningfully integrate schools. The United States argued that consolidation of the schools into one junior high and one high school for the entire District would accomplish the objectives set forth by the district court."
In December 2012 the district court held a hearing on the adequacy of the school district's plan and both Beverly Hardy, former Hayes Cooper principal and director of the magnet program, and Maurice Lucas, president of the school board, testified in favor of the District's plan.
Hardy testified that the magnet programs would work and "Lucas explained why the school board chose its plan, claiming that the magnet programs were likely to be successful. He also testified that the school board had not considered consolidation."
Several parents of children attending East Side and D.M. Smith testified, Reverend Edward Duval, Lenden Sanders and Tonya Short, opposing the school district's plan.
According to the documents these parents testified, "The schools on the east side of town were not academically challenging for their children, that there was a continuing stigma associated with attending those schools, and that the public consensus was in favor of consolidation."
The district court then adopted a plan that abolished the attendance zones, allowing students to choose to attend any junior high or high school.
Shortly thereafter, the United States filed a Rule 59 motion to alter the judgment.
"It maintained, as it does on appeal, that the freedom of choice plan was constitutionally inadequate and again argued that appropriate solution was consolidation."
The school district responded by defending the freedom of choice plan and arguing that a "mandatory consolidation would ultimately result in decreased integration due to 'white flight' from the District, as mandatory consolidation would lead to white parents leaving the District or placing their children into private schools."
The latest ruling said, "The United States pointed out that, depending upon where the undecided African-American students chose to pre-enroll, there was a real possibility that Margaret Green and Cleveland High might be oversubscribed and D.M. Smith and East Side would not have enough students to operate economically."
The U.S. Justice Department made a complaint in the early 1980s citing that the 1969 order did not impel Cleveland to desegregate its schools. In 1989, another complaint was filed against the Cleveland School District.
Also in that year the district opted to re-open Hayes Cooper Elementary School as the Hayes Cooper Center.
As the district's enrollment data indicates, Hayes Cooper Center is a magnet school success.
The school annually attracts more applicants than available slots, and it has maintained a diverse student body in accordance with the requirements of the 1989 Consent Order. Another consent order in 1992 was filed. The concern was now that the U.S. Justice Department thought the district had been unable to replicate the success of the Hayes Cooper Center at any other school, and its magnet school initiatives had failed more often than they have succeeded.
In 2004, D.M. Smith Middle School applied for and received funding from the U.S. Department of Education through the Magnet Schools Assistance Program.
They also applied and received money from 2007 to 2010 for the same purpose; however, no white students were attracted to the school despite that effort. The same can be said of East Side High School and Nailor Elementary School. Both were tried as Magnet schools, but neither attracted many white students and remain majority black schools.
As part of the 2010-2011 school reorganization plan, the district closed Bell Elementary School and dispersed its students to three other elementary schools, and re-opened the school the next year as the Bell Magnet School for Math, Science, Health and Wellness. Senior U.S. District Court Judge for the Northern District of Mississippi Glen H. Davidson gave his opinion on the case last year after visiting each of the schools. Davidson, who visited the Cleveland School District before making his decision, did not order consolidation of the high schools and middle schools.
"The Court notes that the predominantly African-American junior and high schools —East Side High School and D.M. Smith Middle School — are actually housed in newer and probably superior facilities than their counterparts located on the west side of the former railroad tracks," wrote Davidson.
It was at this time Davidson ruled the high school and junior high school students should have a true freedom of choice to attend either high school and junior high school.
Students can now choose which school to attend during registration, however if a student switches schools they are required to sit out of after school activities for a year.
According to the Cleveland School District handbook, "Upon completion of grade eight, when a student has chosen a high school and attends that school for one or more days, the school of his/her choice shall become his/her home school. If the student wishes to change high schools, that student is ineligible for a period of one year in any extracurricular activities to include: sports, cheerleader, band, dance teams or any other activities governed by the Mississippi High School Activities Association."


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The culture of Brazil in the heart of London
Festival Brazil brings a dynamic programme of music, visual arts, dance, literature, debate and performance celebrating the arts and culture of today's Brazil to the heart of London. Festival Brazil runs throughout the summer from 19 June to 5 September 2010.
Over the summer the Southbank Centre site will be transformed to create unusual places for performance and activities and a fabulous carnival atmosphere. Look out for vibrant graphic and graffiti art which is central to the urban landscape of Brazil and enjoy internationally renowned Brazilian artists and performers as well as a new wave of young talent.
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The producer was speaking at the Music Producers Guild Awards on February 14, where he collected Bowie's innovation honour on the artist's behalf. He said that the unreleased songs could still be put out one day.
BBC News reports that Visconti said both he and Bowie were "very excited" by the reaction to last year's Mercury Prize nominated LP. "We were very excited with the reaction. Honestly I was in a daze for the first week, because keeping a secret for two years took quite a lot of lying. I almost started believing my own stories!"
He continued: "No one believed that David Bowie was going to make another album and so the timing was perfect, because everyone kind of gave up on him. There were rumours of bad health and rumours of retirement, and I'm laughing my head off every time I hear them. I'm in the studio with a very healthy man who has no problem writing songs, he wrote easily 30 songs for that album."
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Second Amendment Academy is an educational student organization whose focus is toward educating the general public in regards to the safe and proper use of firearms.
We also look at current legislative action with respect to gun owner's rights and the Constitution. The Academy has had prominent attorneys from the Houston area and the National Rifle Association come in and speak regarding these fundamental rights.
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PHOENIX -- A Goldwater Institute study released today reveals that government lobbyists in Arizona outnumber legislators 10-1. The report reveals how much money is spent on taxpayer-funded lobbying, that is, the practice of government agencies hiring lobbyists to promote their agendas. Author and Goldwater Institute constitutional policy analyst Benjamin Barr offers two paths to reform: disclosure and prohibition.
Your Tax Dollars at Work: The Implications of Taxpayer-funded Lobbying tracks Arizona's public lobbying expenditures from 2000-2005, and finds Arizona government bodies spent more than $10 million in taxpayer funds on lobbying activities during that time. The Department of Transportation alone spent more than $1.3 million.
Government lobbying is toxic to representative democracy, says Goldwater Institute Chairman Tom Patterson. It distorts the democratic process by pitting government interests against those of citizens. The United States and Arizona constitutions protect the right of citizens to petition their government. Mr. Patterson continued, Letting government agents lobby with taxpayer funds, however, drowns out the voices of regular citizens, putting private citizens at a distinct disadvantage.
The report includes a list of Arizona state agencies that employ more than 900 registered government lobbyists. Government agencies from the Department of Education to the Board of Barbers hire lobbyists. Cities and counties also use registered lobbyists, with Maricopa County, the city of Tucson, and Phoenix listing 85, 71, and 43, respectively.
Your Tax Dollars at Work also examines the effects of government lobbying on the democratic process. In particular, the report discusses the implications of requiring taxpayers to fund advocacy they might not otherwise support. Mr. Barr uses the Arizona School Boards Association (ASBA) as an example of this conflict. In 2003, the ASBA spent over $200,000 on lobbying expenditures. The association actively lobbies against school choice programs and has even brought suit against tuition scholarship organizations. Meanwhile, public opinion polls show 90 percent of Arizonans support these programs.
More than 10 states have considered reforms to eliminate or reduce taxpayer-funded lobbying. Your Tax Dollars at Work explores two such reforms that have been implemented in other states. Washington State adopted a Public Disclosure Act, which requires detailed financial reporting on all public lobbying activity. Florida, meanwhile, has taken a more aggressive approach by prohibiting state entities from using public funds for lobbying purposes altogether.
Mr. Barr says, Government officials should be allowed to testify or share information with other branches of government, but they should not be permitted to hire lobbyists to influence and mold public policy. While there are different models to consider, the best way forward is clear. True reform requires the outright prohibition of government bodies lobbying with taxpayer dollars.
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