Other good sites and blogs (no connection to us):    http://www.Hillaryis44.com --  
--  http://anglachelg.blogspot.com/  -- Savagepolitics.com --  -- http://www.stop-obama.org/ -- 
- http://www.hireheels.com -- http://clintondems.com 
more new PUMA and other sites at http://www.turndownobama.com

Welcome to IronMyVote.com 

http://www.turndownobama.com
Latte Hillaristas Against Obama in November

RESOURCE, REFERENCE

Talk radio numbers

Contact Links for commenting at local online papers --  MS, IN, SD, Montana up presently

Many more contact addresses and phone numbers at http://giveemhell.org/ . Media, DNC, etc;
You can write most news orgs all at once here:
http://surrealist.org/prayforpeace/workshop.html 

My old research site: http://1950democrat.livejournal.com 
To search my old site, click here and add your term to the search box.

File-sharing/creation for your 
Hillary flyers -- http://docs.google.com 
Make a docs.google account, follow the prompts -- then post the link to the document at your favorite forum.

Obama's childhood, why Obama chose Chicago, Wright, Michelle

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1729524,00.html 
The Story of Barack Obama's Mother
Scarcely a typical single mom

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/chi-obama-life-storygallery,0,1773480.storygallery 
This is a great one-page index with preces to the whole long series of Chicago Tribune profiles of Obama from spring and summer 2007. Answers nearly all questions about his background and career.

Of particular interest:

"Showing his bare knuckles
In first campaign, Obama revealed hard-edged, uncompromising side in eliminating party rivals"
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/chi-0704030881apr04,0,6468332.story 
He knocked ALL his opponents off the ballot, including the beloved 'elder stateswoman' who had befriended and recommended him, getting him onto the ballot in the first place, Alice Palmer.

"Carefully crafting the Obama 'brand'"
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/chi-obama_senate_recordjun12,0,1010006.story 
<I>[In Feb 2005, soon after his election to the US Senate], Obama and his advisers were thinking ahead. Some called it the "2010-2012-2016" plan: a potential bid for governor or re-election to the Senate in 2010, followed by a bid for the White House as soon as 2012 or, if not, 2016.</I>

In The New Republic:
 "The Agitator" about Obama's 'community organizer' days ("rub raw the sores of discontent")
http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=a74fca23-f6ac-4736-9c78-f4163d4f25c7&p=10  (This is page 10 of 10)

And Steve Sailer is doing a blog, finding facts among the verbiage of Obama's memoir "Dreams of My Father" 
 http://isteve.blogspot.com/2008/03/obama-throws-his-own-living-grannie.html
In this entry he quotes Obama's white grandfather displaying some shocking liberal guilt (and dysfunctionally dumping it on a 17-year-old Obama). Obama was raised by these white grandparents from age 10-college.

NEW, haven't checked this yet: http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/353829,CST-NWS-rez23.article 
            Background on Obama's Chicago district

Black Activist Alice Palmer Trusted Barack Obama
He didn't just throw Palmer under the bus, he backstabbed her to death.

Update June 22, 2008 -- What's below here is pretty much out of date. For the latest pro-Hillary, anti-Obama news, see links at www.turndownobama.com  

Quotes of the day:

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This quote is from Admiral Richover 30 years ago when the Big Media denizons of that day tried to entrap him, and claimed they were the voice of the people.

He replied: ” You are nothing but a bunch of soap and deoderant salesmen, and as far as I am concerned this interview is terminated”. Time for a commecial? Great idea. Return. The Admiral has agreed to continue this interview and we have agreed to let him talk about whatever he wants to talk about”.

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TPS Says: 

Look my friends, we have the whole establishment against us. The only people who are with us are the voters.

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Former U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young, himself a foot soldier in the civil rights movement, can now "clown" about "Bill being every bit as black as Obama" and probably having ''slept with more black women than Obama."

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Obama wants to go head to head with every dictator in the world and he’s gonna whine about bill clinton!?

HM, sombody ought to make a video like that from Obama's talk today about "I'm troubled by...." Juxtapose with footage of bin Laden and other REAL enemies talking tough

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Hillary won and here’s what she and Bill are doing wrong.

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Comedy Commentaries -- for keeping our sanity

Volunteer cartoonists needed: we caption, you draw

Edwards vs Obama vs Hillary on experience
    Obama under a palm tree -- Edwards at a mill town -- above them HIllary and Bill in the White House working

News media speaking:
    IA:         delegates Hillary 15, Obama 16              "It's about voters!"
    NH:       delegates Hillary 9, Obama 9                   "It's about tears!"
    MI:        delegates Hillary 75, Uncommitted 53      "Anyone but Hillary!"
    NV:       delegates Hillary ??, Obama ??                "It's about delegates!"

Re Michigan:
    Picture of a big happy Hillary vs a half-size donkey labeled "uncommitted" with Obama and Edwards peeking out of the donkey suit.

Handbills on national issues -- to print out and distribute
      What Hillary REALLY said about Martin Luther King

Some decent news stories 
    http://www.thestar.com/article/296969
        http://www.newstatesman.com/200801100000
    Clinton backers dismiss 'chill Bill' talk
    Despite criticism of ex-president's tough talk, some enamored with '2-for-1' vote for wife
        http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-bill_wedjan23,0,3581335.story
    JFK's foreign policy experience vs Obama's 
        http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2008/0801w.widmer.html 
    Brit view of the SC debate 
        http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/002734.php 
    Nevada: Hillary 51%, Obama 45%,
            http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/us/politics/20nevada.html?ref=politics 
            (may be wrong about the delegate assignement)

under construction:

“It is unfortunate that people have tried to distort what Mrs. Clinton had to say about Dr. King.”
“I think there has been a deliberate and systematic attempt by some people in the Obama campaign to really fan the flames about race and to really distort what Senator Clinton said. I understood and I think most right thinking people understood what she said.
“President and Senator Clinton have a record, a history, a very long history of bringing people together. No right thinking American would ever think that Senator or President Clinton would ever do anything that would use the race card”
“I must tell you…I’m trying to set the record straight…the Obama camp is doing something else, theyr’e sending out memos to the media trying to suggest that the Clintons are playing the race card.”

-Rep. John Lewis on News Hour 1/14

Lewis is an old time Black hero from the MLK era

Here's what Jesse Jackson SENIOR said, which hasn't been reported much either:

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/01/15/6388/
<I> Little things get magnified out of proportion, and start rubbing the raw wounds of race and gender.

When Obama said that Hillary was “likeable enough,” it was not a gender insult; it was a gentle compliment. These two were friends; they have campaigned together. To turn it into anything else is simply silly. When Hillary said Lyndon Johnson was necessary to get the Voting Rights Act passed, of course she’s right. It took years of demonstrations, litigation and legislation to challenge segregation. King appreciated what Johnson helped achieve, even as he continued to challenge him. Hillary’s statement is not a racial insult. </I>

Published on Tuesday, January 15, 2008 by The Chicago Sun-Times 
Dem Hopefuls Must Keep Eyes on the Prize and Stay Civil
by Jesse Jackson

When I think back on the Rev. Martin Luther King on his birthday, I know he would have been both pleased and troubled by our current state.He would surely have been pleased at a picture of the Democratic debate in New Hampshire — an African American, a woman, a white male populist and a Hispanic competing for the Democratic nomination to be president. When King had his dream, he knew a day like this might come.

He surely would have been troubled by the state of our country. Poverty is up; hunger spreading. Millions of children go without adequate health care. Affordable housing is lacking, and now in the subprime mortgage crisis, millions face losing their homes. Wages are more unequal than ever; parents are working harder and longer and not keeping up. For much of America, the recession has been going on long before the economists woke up to it.

King had a dream, but he was not a dreamer. He kept challenging this country. He understood that equal protection under the law was a necessary but not sufficient step toward a good society. He spent his last birthday organizing a poor people’s campaign, meeting with whites from Appalachia, Latinos, leaders from many different religions. He wanted to build a march — across lines of race, religion and region — that would call on this wealthy nation to deal with entrenched poverty. He was looking for justice, not for alms. The right to a job and a living wage, the right to organize and bargain collectively, the right to health care and affordable housing: These issues were the next stage in his struggle.

That’s why the current press focus on the sniping between the campaigns is a dangerous distraction. Candidates are tired; the campaign is close. Advisors argue for going negative; surrogates take cheap shots. Little things get magnified out of proportion, and start rubbing the raw wounds of race and gender.

When Obama said that Hillary was “likeable enough,” it was not a gender insult; it was a gentle compliment. These two were friends; they have campaigned together. To turn it into anything else is simply silly. When Hillary said Lyndon Johnson was necessary to get the Voting Rights Act passed, of course she’s right. It took years of demonstrations, litigation and legislation to challenge segregation. King appreciated what Johnson helped achieve, even as he continued to challenge him. Hillary’s statement is not a racial insult. When surrogates start demeaning Obama’s experience as an organizer or insinuating garbage about his past, that degrades all of us, not just him.

The problem with this stuff is that it can easily get out of hand, embittering supporters on both sides. We’re having a vital competition inside the team about who should be the first-string quarterback. And it’s great that the competition is stiff and the competitors all highly skilled. But the battle for position shouldn’t be so bitter that it divides the team and makes it impossible for the winner to bring us together to meet the real competition.

Show us your stuff; let the voters make the choice. Who can best bring about the change we need? Who has the best plan to make this economy work for working people? Who will stand up for the poor and stand up to the powerful? Who will best lead us out of this misbegotten war, so we can begin to rebuild America?

Let’s appeal to people’s hopes, not their fears, and give them someone to vote for, not against.

–Jesse Jackson

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2008/01/injecting-race-who-started-it.html

Bill Clinton: there are still two people around who marched with Martin Luther King and risked their lives, John Lewis and Reverend Andrew Young. They both said that Hillary was right and the people who attacked her were wrong, and that she did not play the race card, but they did.
“So I don’t have to defend myself from Dick Harpootlian. I will just refer you to John Lewis and Andrew Young. And let him go get in an argument with them about it.

Of course, the entire press corps went crazy and breathless about this - but STILL refused to present the Presidents POV. They pretended complete confusion about his charge of Obama’s “hit job”, even though it was clear the President was referring to the companion piece to the “Punjab’ memo that attacked Clinton’s finances that Obamas campaign had tried to silently push with the press corps. They feigned confusion even though the President had been quite specific about what he meant by this up in NH.
Here’s John Lewis on PBS News Hour, which was not reported on anywhere else in the media. No where. Just this little blog. Google it to see. The only place Rep. Lewis’s response has been seen is here and on a few blogs who have picked it up from here. Even after the President said go look to the hero Lewis, they still all have refused to show you his words. These words:

“It is unfortunate that people have tried to distort what Mrs. Clinton had to say about Dr. King.”
“I think there has been a deliberate and systematic attempt by some people in the Obama campaign to really fan the flames about race and to really distort what Senator Clinton said. I understood and I think most right thinking people understood what she said.
“President and Senator Clinton have a record, a history, a very long history of bringing people together. No right thinking American would ever think that Senator or President Clinton would ever do anything that would use the race card”
“I must tell you…I’m trying to set the record straight…the Obama camp is doing something else, theyr’e sending out memos to the media trying to suggest that the Clintons are playing the race card.”
-Rep. John Lewis on News Hour 1/14
http://www.mydd.com/admin/story/2008/1/26/15930/0207

If people want to compare Rezko to Whitewater, the first thing to notice is that in Whitewater the Clintons LOST MONEY. There was some kind of bubble where their side were the VICTIMS.

The next thing is that the Clintons were investigated for years at great hostile expense and CLEARED (in Whitewater and everything else they've been investigated for): VERDICT INNOCENT

Obama GAINED from his assocations with Rezko (donations, patronage, house deal), and the investigation is just beginning: NO VERDICT YET

Hillary grew up in a Goldwater Republican home, was a Goldwater Girl in 1964. For a while she was active in both Goldwater and liberal camps, comparing them. During the Black march era, she was a student at Wellesley and worked hard getting some Black goals met there: more Black teachers etc. Iirc by graduation she had pretty well phased over into the liberal camp. She campaigned for McGovern in 1972.

There was nothing contradictory in supporting most of Goldwater's policies but disagreeing with him on some civil rights issues. 

Where were you in 62?

Bill's spech about Hillary's record:

He spoke for an hour. He spoke passionately about the need for a real energy policy and how it would strengthen our nation’s workforce by providing green-collar jobs that couldn’t be shipped overseas and would provide good wages for folks that needed them without raping the environment or making us susceptible to foreign oil interests. He spoke about what has happened under Bush- the loss of good jobs, good wages, the rich getting richer and special interests controlling the policies that affect each of us. He spoke warmly of Bush Sr. as his partner in helping raise money and awareness for Katrina. He spoke of the need for balanced leadership focused on the needs of real people, real families. He went on about why there is a healthcare crisis and how the new prescription drug plan has a ‘donut’ that only helps Big Pharma and that it was stupid for the federal government not to negotiate lower prices. He went on to point out how Hillary’s plan would save billions by requiring electronic medical records and gave antecdotal evidence on why it was important beyond the cost savings. He spoke about how he wished he would have done better for college students by providing a way to allow graduates to go into public life and pay back their loans by serving the greater good as policemen, firemen, rural doctors, teachers. He also pointed out Hillary has a plan to get rid of the middle man in the stuent loan process which would save students and the federal government billions by decreasing loan defaults and making payments affordable so you could get post-graduate degrees without fear of mounting debt. 

Then he got into Hillary’s life as a public servant. From staying an extra year in law school to help fashion child abuse regulations when none existed, and then her work with the Children’s Defense Fund knocking on doors. But most importantly, he spoke about how she came to him time and time again with issues and found solutions. How she helped fashion support to pass laws he would eventually sign- like adoption tax credits. He made a point she did that in Arkansas and in the White House. He talked about the bad budget policies that contribute to our import-export problems with the same folks that own us because our federal government cannot pay for its day-to-day operations without borrowing money- EVERY DAY. Big Dog gave credit to her unrelenting, untiring need to help others and how her work has helped all of us even when none of us knew it. He also pointed out her legislation as a Senator helping our troops and trying to end this war. He noted with a sense of sadness that bad things happen and that experience and committment could be the difference between a good response and a bad one.

He made the case.

He did it without mentioning her opponent(s).

He did it without being divisive.

He did it by pointing out her innumerable strengths and why we would all be better- better as a nation- better as world leaders- better as families with Hillary in the White House.

It seemed almost that he was stating his work was undone and that the last 7 years had undone much of it and the only person to get us back on track would be Hillary.

He made the case that much of the vision, many of the accomplishments he enjoyed came from her hard work and dedication.

Trying to post this at Kos:

I was surprised that she went so deeply into the Iraq vote questions, and even gave her critics more ammunition by saying that she voted against a related bill because it would have given the UN to much control over US action!

Most of the questions had been pretty softball, like for a Hollywood talk show audience, and she'd been playing to the audience, giving the audience what it could absorb and react to quickly. Then suddenly her voice lowered and she looked down, seeming to be thinking aloud and regretting her past mistakes. Or like McCain had suddenly sat down across from her and she was just talking for him.

As someone said a while back (David Brooks?), the Kosovo operation had recently finished very successfully, and Bush Sr had done a good job with the earlier Kuwait Gulf War. So I think the principle she brought up here is, that she still believes the US should be free to act without UN approval when necessary.

Of course she thought the possibility of Bush Jr even trying to abuse the power given him bu the AUMF was remote, much less him making such a mess of it. Her intention was to give Powell a barginaing chip to use with the UN to get them to keep trying more inspections. A big stick so Powell could speak softly. 

Need to check thse lnks:: www.freedomsenemies.com/_more/obama.htm

www.freedomsenemies.com/_Obama/ObamaLatest.htm

I just posted at http://www.nydailynews.com/opinions/2008/02/02/2008-02-02_for_democrats_it_has_to_be_hil_the_daily.html?page=1 

Since you favor Hillary, would you please take a sceptical look at the charges of 'racist tactics' a bit more closely? What did the Clintons actually SAY? It all seems to be 'invented the internet' sort of twisting of the Clintons' words. Jesse Jackson Sr, John Lewis, and many respected Black leaders have examined the actual conversations and are strongly defending the Clintons. Here is what John Lewis said: 
“It is unfortunate that people have tried to distort what Mrs. Clinton had to say about Dr. King.”
“I think there has been a deliberate and systematic attempt by some people in the Obama campaign to really fan the flames about race and to really distort what Senator Clinton said. I understood and I think most right thinking people understood what she said.
“President and Senator Clinton have a record, a history, a very long history of bringing people together. No right thinking American would ever think that Senator or President Clinton would ever do anything that would use the race card”
“I must tell you…I’m trying to set the record straight…the Obama camp is doing something else, theyr’e sending out memos to the media trying to suggest that the Clintons are playing the race card.”
-Rep. John Lewis on News Hour 1/14
http://www.mydd.com/admin/story/2008/1/26/15930/0207

nytimes.com/2008/02/08/opinion/08brooks.html?_r=1&ref=opinion&oref=slogin

You can see from this when “race” enters the picture.

www.thesouthern.com/articles/2008/02/08/ap-state-il/d8um9gio1.txt

I just checked the popular vote totals for WA, LA and NE.
BO - 21,629
220588
26000
Rough total of 268,000.
Florida popular vote was 857,208 for HRC out of approx1.5 million.
So yesterday he won approximately a third of the votes she got in the Florida primary.

Other great sites (no connection):
http://www.Hillaryis44.com and http://www.Taylormarsh.com

Good blogs etc:
http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/  --  http://anglachelg.blogspot.com/  -- http://www.hillblazers.com/  -- http://www.blackcommentator.com/  -- http://www.blackagendareport.com  -- http://truthteller2007.mydd.com/  -- http://seymour_glass.mydd.com/  -- http://ronbeas2.blogspot.com/  -- http://www.lesstalkmoreactivism.blogspot.com 

Uncommitted Superdelegates/endorsers Sen. Carl Levin (MI)  (202) 224-6221 / Sen. Harry Reid (NV) (202) 224-3542 / Sen. Frank Lautenberg (NJ) (202) 224-3224 / Sen. Jeff Bingaman (NM) * (202) 224-5521 / Gov. John Lynch (NH) 603-271-2121 / Gov. Bill Richardson (NM)* 505-476-2200 / Gov. Brad Henry (OK)  405-521-2342 /
 Gov. Phil Bredeson (TN) 615-741-2001

Pelosi's email: www.speaker.gov/contact/comment_email 

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Phone Democratic National Committee to "seat the FL and MI delegates":
 202-863-8000 -- 1-877-336-7200 -- (720) 362-2006 --(202) 863-8148
also leave comment at DNC at www.democrats.org/page/petition/chairman/fcvmgi 

"Seat our delegates!":website and petition

Spread this link around: http://rezkowatch.blogspot.com 

o http://www.txdemocrats.org/page/speakout/dailies/thankyou   to write to many Texas papers at once

http://www.hillaryspeaksforme.com/

http://taylormarsh.com/

http://blog.hillaryclinton.com/

http://noquarterusa.net/blog/

http://www.talkleft.com/

http://alegre.dailykos.com/

http://hillaryclinton.com/

http://blogsforhillary.com/

http://hillaryrodhamclinton2008.blogspot.com/

http://gettoknowhillary.blogspot.com/2008/01/wisdom.html

http://www.thehillaryiknow.com/

http://www.myspace.com/hillaryclinton

http://www.hillaryis44.org/

http://grlpatriot.mydd.com/

http://www.facebook.com/hillaryclinton

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/taylor-marsh

here’s a link to the SDs that have endorsed: demconwatch.blogspot.com/2008/01/superdelegate-list.html

SDs that havent endorsed: demconwatch.blogspot.com/2008/01/superdelegates-who-havent-endorsed.html

here’s a link that has a bunch of email addys: www.emailyourgovernor.com

here’s another list of SDs this is all of them committed and uncommitted:

www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/interactives/campaign08/primaries/2008_superdelegates.html

?? more SD addresses?
my.barackobama.com/page/community/blog/areseforobama 

         Hattiesburg Hattiesburg American <http://www.hattiesburgamerican .com/>  okay, registered and posted 3, yes, post is up!!!

         Brookhaven Daily Leader <http://www.dailyleader.com/>  no registration required, comment 'under review',not a comment string  but just a letter to editor?

         Jackson Jackson Free Press <http://www.jacksonfreepress .com/> - may send email confirmation -- no, none received

         Jackson The Clarion-Ledger <http://www.clarionledger.com/> no luck, can't find register/login
         Biloxi -GulfCoastNews.com <http://www.gulfcoastnews.com/> same as clarion

Please e-mail to Nancy Pelosi as the Speaker of the House to both

AmericanVoices@mail.house.gov

http://speaker.house.gov/contact/

http://www.speaker.gov/contact

info@changetowin.org - unions endorsing Obama

hyper-educated-uppity-woman.blogspot.com/

www.Stop Obama/
www.Savage Politics/
www.Sugar N Spice
www.No Quarter/
www.Liberal Rapture/

Rules and Bylaws Committee membership 

With the news that the challenges to the DNC decisions on Florida and Michigan will be heard by the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee (RBC) on May 31st, the next question, of course, is, who is on the committee and who do they support?

Here is the list:

Co-Chairs - no endorsement
Alexis Herman (co-chair, Washington , D.C. )
James Roosevelt, Jr. (co-chair, Massachusetts )

Members - Clinton supporters (12)
Hartina Flournay (DC)
Donald Fowler (SC)
Harold Ickes, Jr. (DC)
Alice Huffman (CA)
Ben Johnson (DC)
Elaine Kamarck (MA)
Eric Kleinfeld (DC)
Mona Pasquil (CA)
Mame Reiley (VA)
Garry Shay (CA)
Elizabeth Smith (DC)
Michael Steed (MD)

Members - Obama supporters (8)
Martha Fuller Clark (NH)
Carol Khare Fowler (SC)
Janice Griffin (MD)
Thomas Hynes (IL)
Allan Katz (FL)
Sharon Stroschein (SD)
Sarah Swisher (IA)
Everett Ward (NC)

Members - no known endorsement (8)
Donna Brazille (DC) we all know who she endorses!
Mark Brewer (MI)
Ralph Dawson (NY)
Yvonne Gates ( NV)
Alice Germond (DC) - DNC Secretary
Jaime Gonzalez, Jr. (TX)
David McDonald (WA)
Jerome Wiley Segovia (VA)

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