An All Time Low For the Clintons

For a moment we are going to change the subject matter as KE is pissed off at the Clinton Campaign for race baiting. May I invite you to read the article below:

Obama camp slams Clinton team on controversial photo
Posted: 02:15 PM ET

Obama's campaign accused the Clinton campaign of circulating this 2006 photo of Obama Monday.

(CNN) — Barack Obama’s campaign accused Hillary Clinton’s team Monday of circulating a photo of the Illinois senator donning traditional attire – clothing worn by area Muslims – as a goodwill gesture during an overseas trip.
In a statement, the Clinton campaign called the charge “an obvious and transparent attempt to distract” voters from serious issues – but did not issue a denial.

The picture, which appeared on the Drudge Report this morning, was attributed to sources within the Clinton campaign – although the Web site did not reveal how many, or who, might have received the photo.

In a statement, Obama’s campaign manager, David Plouffe, said Clinton’s campaign was engaged in “shameful, offensive fear-mongering,” though he did not point to any proof beyond the original item that appeared on Matt Drudge’s blog.

“This is part of a disturbing pattern that led her county chairs to resign in Iowa, her campaign chairman to resign in New Hampshire,” said Plouffe. “and it’s exactly the kind of divisive politics that turns away Americans of all parties and diminishes respect for America in the world."

Earlier this year, some Clinton volunteers left her campaign in those states after circulating e-mails that falsely claimed Barack Obama was a Muslim – an inaccurate rumor his campaign has worked hard to dispel — and suggesting that his drug use as a young man might make him vulnerable to Republican attacks were he to become the nominee.

Clinton’s campaign manager Maggie Williams responded to the photo controversy with a Monday morning statement that insisted the New York senator’s team “will not be distracted,” but did not directly address the substance of the allegation.

“Enough. If Barack Obama's campaign wants to suggest that a photo of him wearing traditional Somali clothing is divisive, they should be ashamed. Hillary Clinton has worn the traditional clothing of countries she has visited and had those photos published widely,” said Williams.

“This is nothing more than an obvious and transparent attempt to distract from the serious issues confronting our country today and to attempt to create the very divisions they claim to decry. We will not be distracted.”

On a campaign conference call with reporters, Ret. Major Gen. Scott Gration, who traveled to Africa with Obama, said the photo showed that “he did what any great leader should do — he accepted the gift, accepted the hospitality, accepted that token of friendship."

–CNN Associate Political Editor Rebecca Sinderbrand

Now out of respect for the Democratic race and the goal of being non partisan out of respect for readers of this blog not to alienate anyone KE is beyond hot. I would expect this type of B.S. from the conservative side but certainly not from a fellow Democrat. Below is a post from another site written by readers like yourself about the incomparable Hillary Clinton. I could not have said it better myself:

First off, let's say something about experience. The bulk of Hillary's experience has been as a wife, not in elected office. Obama trumps her on that. Let's not assume the wife of the president or governor is equivalent to being the actual thing.The problem with Hillary's campaign was arrogance. They assumed that it was her turn.

She had the connections and machine and ran her campaign under that belief. It is my turn. They also assumed that they had the black vote locked up like sheep in a pin, and that they could win while dismissing whole geographic blocks of voters.But what they didn't count on is Obama running a highly effective campaign, equal parts organization on the ground, and fundraising via the internet.

Overlaying all of that was his deliberately positive theme, his ability to convey it effectively, and his lack of deviation from same.(And it's hard for the charge of empty rhetoric to stand when there is about 65 pages of policy initiatives of varying length and detail that one can download if one is really concerned about policy details. He knew that, voters know that).So as Obama surged based on his likeability and broad themes, they were not really prepared to have to spend money or effort fighting for each person's vote.

They had calculated that they would hit the major states, win them easily, blow off the smaller states, but lead in them, and have it all wrapped up by SuperTuesday.And that's the thing. She lost because she took tons of voters for granted. Small states. Black voters. Even now they are seeing slippage among hispanic voters and blue collar men, laying waste to the claim of Texas and Ohio being some kind of firewall.Think about it. You run an advertisement in Ohio saying, "Hillary has worked the night shift too" with her sitting doing paperwork in the middle of the night. Who are the people creating and approving such nonsense? Or when you talk condescendingly to the black candidate and compare him to Jesse Jackson, or say he won Louisiana because of black people, at the same time you want the black vote. You should at least pretend to hide the fact that you think blacks are sheep.

Mistakes all around that could have been avoided. Or, you knock Obama's connection with a supposed slumlord (based on legal work Obama was assigned as a junior associate) and the land deal he got (a side lot at that), while not bothering to really explain how you earned hundreds of thousands trading commodities when great CTA's like Victor Niederhoffer have blown up doing same. Glass. Houses. Stones.And finally it did them in. All stones and ballsy arrogance, taking just too many people for granted, and assuming too many people were stupid.Obama supporters also know that it is not one man running the government, nor is a president likely to get all he wants. So reality will limit some of Obama's exuberance. But yet, you want the person with the enthusiasm who fights for the job, and clean, as opposed to the one who stands there saying, "Gimme, it's my turn".

Posted by Finn February 22, 2008 2:39 AM
As smart as Hillary might be, if she was REALLY smart she would have realized early on the politics was not her true calling. Rightly or wrongly, image and personality are probably more important than ever in political life, and she's so sadly bereft that it's almost tragicomic. In the eyes of many, she's not a former First Lady, but Monica Lewinsky's ex-boyfriend's enabling wife: a cross between Lady Macbeth and Snow White's evil stepmother.

On top of that she's transparently disingenuous, foul tempered, and speaks like a hectoring schoolmarm. Dropping out of the race would just be a start for her: she needs to get out of politics entirely and become a forceful champion for her favorite social causes. As head of an advocacy group she would be formidable, not the sad caricature of a political wannabe she is presently.

Posted by Kelly Hall February 22, 2008 10:46 AM

For the rest of the week (or until the Supreme Court comes back with a ruling) KE is about to rip loose. Stay Tuned......

KE