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From an astute reader:
“Progressive” blogger Joshua Micah Marshall at Talking Points Memo continues his obsession with the “Hillary Clinton-Bosnia-Sniper” story. On Thursday, as of 21:00 ET, Marshall totally ignores the major foreign policy speech by Sen. Obama for more pressing matters: YouTube mashups!
The Clinton-Bosnia-Sniper story seems to be peaking. And there have been a lot of snippets of video swirling around YouTube with this or that part of the story. But most of them are incomplete or rapid-fire-cut or edited to make Sen. Clinton look as foolish as possible. Not that there’s anything wrong with that, as Jerry Seinfeld used to say. We do those kinds of videos too. But since you’ve probably seen a lot of those, we wanted to go back and put together all the key moments in roughly chronological order — what Sen. Clinton said on different occasions, the key video from the trip, what other eyewitnesses say, what her spokespersons and aides say, etc.
Obama’s economic speech was surprisingly given zero front page coverage. The indictment of the Puerto Rico governor was also ignored. Clinton’s call for Democratic unity was also ignored.
Earlier this month, TPM fired veteran political writer Linda Hirshmann for “not making the case for Obama”: Their reason: “We’re focusing on getting our long-standing regulars and folks covering things we don’t on the blog.”
Covering things like, YouTube mashups of the Bosnia visit?

I’m sooo voting for John McCain if Barry steals this nomination
Come on we all know that Hillary was lying. Obama is telling the truth
That site is horribvle, its more like “Obama Points Memo!:
How can you “steal” something you’re winning?
The brainpower around here could power an LED light, for almost a day.
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Vote for Big Mac, cause it’s over johnny! Hillary’s chickens are coming home to roost! The Dem leadership are putting her little sideshow to rest. By the way how can the person leading in every metric of the race “steal” the nomination? I’m just curious.
Did anyone see the piece on CNN where the Iraqi people are following the US election closely?
The Iraqi soliders are supporting Hillary Clinton. They asked Hillaty Clinton to send books on how democracy works to help their leaders and the people. Excellent interview.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=G1TrBmdaEH0
Clinton Risks Credibility Gap Over `Fudged’ Claims, Stances
By Indira Lakshmanan
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March 28 (Bloomberg) — Hillary Clinton, accused of exaggerating her experience and reversing policy positions, risks a widening credibility gap that may undermine her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.
The New York senator, who this week admitted to misrepresenting the danger she confronted in Bosnia, also has come under fire for allegedly distorting her role in opposing free trade and the war in Iraq, and overstating her involvement in bringing peace to Northern Ireland and health insurance to children.
The debate over these and other statements is fueling distrust among voters, according to analysts and recent polls. A Pew Research survey released yesterday showed 30 percent of white Democrats — a group Clinton needs in order to win the remaining primaries — regard her as a “phony,'’ twice as many as those who perceive rival Barack Obama that way. In late February, just 7.8 percent of voters surveyed by Pew described her as “untrustworthy.'’
“She’s either fudged her positions or been downright disingenuous,'’ said Dan Gerstein, a Democratic strategist who isn’t working for any candidate. “Any one'’ episode “wouldn’t hurt her, but the accumulated weight has turned Democratic voters against her.'’
Clinton spokesman Jay Carson dismisses questions about her credibility. “She made a mistake recounting a trip she made as first lady to what was in fact a war zone,'’ he said, referring to Bosnia. Voters “don’t ask for perfection, they just want to know that you are working hard for them, and no one works harder than Senator Clinton.'’
More to Mine
While Obama, 46, an Illinois senator, has also been accused of padding his resume and taking more credit than he deserves, Clinton’s longer record offers more material to mine for contradictions. And some observers say she’s held to a tougher standard.
“We pay more attention to her because we know more about her,'’ said Hank Sheinkopf, an unaligned Democratic strategist. “The Clintons have been part of the daily American soap opera for 20 years.'’ By contrast, “Barack Obama doesn’t have enough experience in the Senate to `get him’ on things,'’ he said.
A Bloomberg/Los Angeles Times poll conducted Feb. 21-25 found registered voters thought Senator John McCain, 71, the presumed Republican nominee, “has more honesty and integrity'’ than Clinton by a margin of 45 percent to 31 percent. Obama rated equally with McCain on those qualities.
Sheinkopf said Clinton hasn’t done any more “issue switching'’ in the campaign than most candidates. “What is new is the ability to catch it,'’ he said. “You can go online and check stuff instantly. Nobody gets away with anything.'’
Offering Ammunition
Still, Clinton, 60, has provided ammunition to opponents. She has insisted that she supported weapons inspections, not war, in Iraq in 2002, although she gave speeches that year advocating action against Saddam Hussein before voting to authorize the use of force.
Clinton did another turnabout on Jan. 25, 10 days after she won the primary in Michigan, where she was the only major candidate on the ballot. She said both Michigan’s and Florida’s delegates should count — even though she had previously agreed they wouldn’t because the states had violated party rules.
While she has asserted on the campaign trail that she opposed the North American Free Trade Agreement from the start, Robert Reich, who was secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton, said she never expressed to him concern about the labor and environmental issues that she highlights today.
“It was clear her concern about Nafta was about timing,'’ Reich said in an interview, adding that she was afraid it might interfere with her universal health-care initiative.
Peacemaking
Clinton has said she helped “bring peace to Northern Ireland'’ and “create the Children’s Health Insurance Program.'’ Those are overstatements, according to principals in those events, some of whom say that while she was supportive, she wasn’t a main negotiator.
Her Northern Ireland claims are a “wee bit silly,'’ Nobel laureate and former First Minister David Trimble was quoted as saying March 8 in the Telegraph, the British newspaper. “Being a cheerleader'’ is “different from being a principal player,'’ he said. But John Hume, who shared the Nobel Prize with Trimble, credited Clinton with “playing a positive role for over a decade in helping to bring peace.'’
Last month, she called on Obama to reject support from Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan because of anti-Semitic remarks. When a Dallas TV station challenged her to denounce a Hispanic leader who said black politicians had never helped her people, Clinton replied, “People have every reason to express their opinions. I just don’t agree with that'’ — before her campaign rejected the remarks.
Wright Videos
This week, Clinton said if she were Obama, she would have left the church of Reverend Jeremiah Wright, his longtime pastor from whom Obama distanced himself only after videos of incendiary remarks circulated. Yet Clinton critics said she embraced Suha Arafat in November 1999 after a speech in which the late Palestinian leader’s wife, in Arabic, accused Israel of using toxic gas on Palestinians.
Clinton said the translation she heard was incomplete; hours later, when she received a fuller transcript, she condemned the remarks.
To contact the reporter on this story: Indira Lakshmanan in Washington at ilakshmanan@bloomberg.net.
Last Updated: March 28, 2008 00:01 EDT
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Who gives a shit what IRAQIS want?
Now there’s a line that I’m sure the GOP smear machine wouldn’t exploit in November.
“Hey guys, check it out, the Iraqis want HILLARY to win. Let’s all vote for her now…”
Barack has won this thing, and Hillary has constantly dug her own grave with her words and actions. The sooner people wrap their heads around that and turn to attacking the real problems, the better off we’ll be.
Now there’s a line that I’m sure the GOP smear machine wouldn’t exploit in November.
“Hey guys, check it out, the Iraqis want HILLARY to win. Let’s all vote for her now…”
Barack has won this thing, and Hillary has constantly dug her own grave with her words and actions. The sooner people wrap their heads around that and turn to attacking the real problems, the better off we’ll be.
How has Barack Obama won? He has not got them nomination, he cannot get the finished line. The DNC has handicap voters in Florida and Michigan. We will not forget it in the November.
In football, you can win the most games and make it in to the Superbowl, or you can be a 9 and 7 team that makes it in. It’s just like the Giants vs. the Patriots this year, and no one gave the Giants a chance and the odds in Vegas were astronomical. But until you play the game and finish the 4th quarter, you don’t have a winner.
This is what everyone is telling Hillary to do, just forfeit the superbowl because on paper you can’t win; however who won superbowl this year? We’ll just have to see if the superdelgates will support Obama or Clinton. But, that’s what Obama and his supporters are afraid of. Their pre-emptive strike has been, to try and set it up a fanatic media attack, the so called will of the people, by pointing to the number of pledged delegates is the determining factor. But it’s not, and never has been according to the DNC rules. It’s Obama trying to spin it and make it seem like he’s won and only Obamabots have bought into it. The superdels who know better, know that’s not how it’s suppose to be and also know that Obama will never win the General Election.
Just look at the defection numbers and state poll match ups and you’ll know that CNN/MSNBC is stuck in the pro-obama spin cycle. I don’t care what party members say about falling inline when a nominee is determined. I do know anyone I know will support Obama in the begin has now changed to Clinton. McCain is the second best choice after Clinton, and I don’t vote as a party loyalist, I vote for what’s best for the country as an American.
LA Times: Fellow organizers say Sen. Obama took too much credit for his community organizing efforts. “As the 24-year-old mentor to public housing residents, Obama says he initiated and led efforts that thrust Altgeld’s asbestos problem into the headlines, pushing city officials to call hearings and a reluctant housing authority to start a cleanup. But others tell the story much differently. They say Obama did not play the singular role in the asbestos episode that he portrays in the best-selling memoir ‘Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance.’ Credit for pushing officials to deal with the cancer-causing substance, according to interviews and news accounts from that period, also goes to a well-known preexisting group at Altgeld Gardens and to a local newspaper called the Chicago Reporter. Obama does not mention either one in his book.” [Los Angeles Times, 2/19/07]”
Excerpts from Final Call re RNA Movement/ Trinity Church search
Ndaba: ?A great sitting-down?
By Dora Muhammad
Updated Aug 9, 2003, 08:32 pm
CHICAGO (FinalCall.com) - There?s a certain moment in time, that if leaders have the wisdom to see and seize it, they can make a historic turn in the lives of their people. Such a moment was the July 26 summit on reparations, the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan said as he opened the meeting held at the Salaam Restaurant.
Nearly 50 activists from across the country answered the call to discuss operational unity and a consolidation of efforts, in order to enhance and fortify the movement for reparations for Black people?s suffering in the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
“The principle of reparations is the one great principle that we all can unite around,” Min. Farrakhan stated in his opening remarks. “Religion has not united us. Politics has not united us. Our economic needs have not united us. Our Blackness has not united us.
“But in the principle of reparations, all of us have a stake in it and see the value of it and know that if we unite today on the basis of reparations, then our children and our children?s children can be the beneficiaries of what happens today and from this day forward.”
Gathered together in the Ashanti practice of the principle of consensus, the “big sitting-down”?or ndaba, as the South African Nguni call it?was the fruition of the vision of Dr. Conrad Worrill, the national chairman of the National Black United Front (NBUF).
The church, the courts, the community
Representing Trinity Church and its pastor Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Dr. Iva Carruthers spoke of equipping ministers beyond worship, and enabling them to effectively network, empower people and impact policy. Within the next year, she intends on working with over 400 preachers, with a focus on connecting theology, technology and transnational public advocacy. She termed it: “intentional communication.”
Much of the consolidated case is based on human rights precedents of crimes against humanity, but another strong component of the legal argument is consumer protection law. This will enable the litigation team to challenge the companies on the basis of their lying to the public in denials that they have no connection to the slavery, because the team has gained possession of documents that show the companies? involvement.
Since the consolidated lawsuits are set for a Chicago courthouse, Attorney Lionel Jean Baptiste, who is representing a Chicago plaintiff, has been thrust to the forefront of the legal team. However, he cautioned the summit that the legal battle cannot stand alone in the fight for reparations.
“We understand that we are in an arena that has been set up by the slave master,” he said, “We will not win in that arena, unless we step it up in the streets, unless the political fight is brought to bear.”
I am not stating anything here, nor trying to incite anything. Merely believe the Wright issue needs more “sunshine” before it goes away. The press has apparently dropped it. so voters must check for ourselves. If it is benign good, if not we need to know.
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