Endorsements? How about...
Submitted by donjo on May 15, 2008 - 11:14am.
Hillary's primary campaign endorsements. Sort of forgotten in the wake of the news of the mighty John Edwards announcement.
Senators
Sen. Evan Bayh (D-IN) [17]
Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) [18]
Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) [19]
Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-HI)
Sen. Blanche Lincoln (D-AR)[citation needed]
Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA)[citation needed]
Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) [20]
Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-MD)[citation needed]
Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL)[citation needed]
Sen. Mark Pryor (D-AR)[citation needed]
Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY)[citation needed]
Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) [21]
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) [22]
Fmr. Sen. John Breaux (D-LA) [23]
Fmr. Sen. Dale Bumpers (D-AR)[citation needed]
Fmr. Sen. Mark Dayton (D-MN)[citation needed]
Fmr. Sen. John Glenn (D-OH)[citation needed]
Fmr. Sen. and U.S. Ambassador to Burundi and Botswana Bob Krueger (D-TX)[citation needed]
Fmr. Sen. Harlan Mathews (D-TN)[citation needed]
Fmr. Sen. Robert Burren Morgan (D-NC) [24]
Fmr. Sen. Claiborne Pell (D-RI) [25]
Fmr. Sen. David Pryor (D-AR)[citation needed]
Fmr. Sen. Robert Torricelli (D-NJ) [26]
Fmr. Sen. Joseph Tydings (D-MD)[citation needed]
U.S. Representatives
Rep. Gary Ackerman (D-NY)[citation needed]
Rep. Rob Andrews (D-NJ)[citation needed]
Rep. Michael Arcuri (D-NY)[citation needed]
Rep. Tammy Baldwin (D-WI)[citation needed]
Rep. Shelley Berkley (D-NV)[citation needed]
Rep. Marion Berry (D-AR)[citation needed]
Rep. Tim Bishop (D-NY)[citation needed]
Rep. Leonard Boswell (D-IA)[citation needed]
Rep. Corrine Brown (D-FL)[citation needed]
Rep. Dennis Cardoza (D-CA)[citation needed]
Rep. Chris Carney (D-PA) [27]
U.S. Virgin Islands Delegate Donna M. Christensen (D-VI)[citation needed]
Rep. Yvette D. Clarke (D-NY)[citation needed]
Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO)[citation needed]
Rep. Joseph Crowley (D-NY)[citation needed]
Rep. Henry Cuellar (D-TX)[citation needed]
Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO)[citation needed]
Rep. Norm Dicks (D-WA)[citation needed]
Rep. John D. Dingell (D-MI)[citation needed]
Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY)[citation needed]
Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA)[citation needed]
Rep. Gene Green (D-TX)[citation needed]
Rep. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY)[citation needed]
Rep. John Hall (D-NY)[citation needed]
Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL)[citation needed]
Rep. Ruben Hinojosa (D-TX)[citation needed]
Rep. Brian Higgins (D-NY)[citation needed]
Rep. Maurice Hinchey (D-NY)[citation needed]
Rep. Darlene Hooley (D-OR)[citation needed]
Rep. Jay Inslee (D-WA)[citation needed]
Rep. Steve Israel (D-NY)[citation needed]
Rep. Paul E. Kanjorski (D-PA)[citation needed]
Rep. Dale Kildee (D-MI)[citation needed]
Rep. James Langevin (D-RI)[citation needed]
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX)[citation needed]
Rep. Nita M. Lowey (D-NY)[citation needed]
Rep. Stephen Lynch (D-MA)[citation needed]
Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY)[citation needed]
Rep. Doris Matsui (D-CA)[citation needed]
Rep. Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY)[citation needed]
Rep. James McGovern (D-MA)[citation needed]
Rep. Michael McNulty (D-NY)[citation needed]
Rep. Kendrick Meek (D-FL)[citation needed]
Rep. Gregory Meeks (D-NY)[citation needed]
Rep. John Murtha (D-PA)[citation needed]
Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY)[citation needed]
Rep. Grace Napolitano (D-CA)[citation needed]
Rep. Richard Neal (D-MA)[citation needed]
Rep. Solomon Ortiz (D-TX)[citation needed]
Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ)[citation needed]
Rep. Bill Pascrell (D-NJ)[citation needed]
Rep. Ed Pastor (D-AZ)[citation needed]
Rep. Donald Payne (D-NJ)[citation needed]
Rep. Chuck Rangel (D-NY)[citation needed]
Rep. Silvestre Reyes (D-TX)[citation needed]
Rep. Laura Richardson (D-CA)[citation needed]
Rep. Mike Ross (D-AR)[citation needed]
Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-CA)[citation needed]
Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-MD)[citation needed]
Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH)[citation needed]
Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-CA)[citation needed]
Rep. Allyson Schwartz (D-PA)[citation needed]
Rep. Jose Serrano (D-NY)[citation needed]
Rep. Joe Sestak (D-PA)[citation needed]
Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA)[citation needed]
Rep. Albio Sires (D-NJ)[citation needed]
Rep. Ike Skelton (D-MO)[citation needed]
Rep. Heath Shuler (D-NC) [28]
Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY)[citation needed]
Rep. Vic Snyder (D-AR)[citation needed]
Rep. Hilda Solis (D-CA)[citation needed]
Rep. Jackie Speier (D-CA)[citation needed]
Rep. Betty Sutton (D-OH)[citation needed]
Rep. John Tanner (D-TN)[citation needed]
Rep. Ellen Tauscher (D-CA)[citation needed]
Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA)[citation needed]
Rep. Edolphus Towns (D-NY)[citation needed]
Rep. Stephanie Tubbs-Jones (D-OH)[citation needed]
Rep. Nydia Velázquez (D-NY)[citation needed]
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL)[citation needed]
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA)[citation needed]
Rep. and Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to The Federated States of Micronesia Diane Watson (D-CA)[citation needed]
Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY)[citation needed]
Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA)[citation needed]
Fmr. Rep. James Barcia (D-MI) [29]
Fmr. Rep. Edward Beard (D-RI) [30]
Fmr. Rep. and 2006 Candidate for Governor of Texas Chris Bell (D-TX)[citation needed]
Fmr. Rep. Ken Bentsen (D-TX) [31]
Fmr. Rep. James Bilbray (D-NV)[citation needed]
Fmr. Rep. Bob Borski (D-PA)[citation needed]
Fmr. Rep. Jack Brooks (D-TX) [32]
Fmr. Rep. and Fmr. Democratic Majority Whip of the United States House of Representatives John Brademas (D-IN)[citation needed]
Fmr. Rep. Jim Chapman (D-TX)[citation needed]
Fmr. Rep. Bob Clement (D-TN)[citation needed]
Fmr. Rep. Kika de la Garza (D-TX) [33]
Fmr. Rep. Butler Derrick (D-SC)[citation needed]
Fmr. Rep. Mervyn Dymally (D-CA) [34]
Fmr. Rep. Vic Fazio (D-CA) [35]
Fmr. Rep. and Texas Supreme Court Justice Bob Gammage (TX)[citation needed]
Fmr. Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and U.S. Ambassador to Japan Tom Foley (D-WA)[citation needed]
Fmr. Rep. and 1984 Vice Presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro (D-NY)
Fmr. Rep. Floyd Flake (D-NY) [36]
Fmr. Majority Leader of the House Dick Gephardt (D-MO)[citation needed]
Fmr. Rep. William Gray (D-PA)[citation needed]
Fmr. Rep. and U.S. Food and Agriculture Delegate to the U.N. Tony P. Hall (D-OH)[citation needed]
Fmr. Rep. Jack Hightower (D-TX) [37]
Fmr. Rep. Joe Hoeffel (D-PA)[citation needed]
Fmr. Rep. Herb Klein (D-NJ)[citation needed]
Fmr. Rep. Raymond P. Kogovsek (D-CO)[citation needed]
Fmr. Rep. Bill Luther (D-MN)[citation needed]
Fmr. Rep. James Maloney (D-CT) [38]
Fmr. Rep. Marjorie Margolies-Mezvinsky (D-PA) [39]
Fmr. Rep. and Texas Attorney General Jim Mattox (TX)[citation needed]
Fmr. Rep. Charles McMillen (D-MD)[citation needed]
Fmr. Rep. William Patman (D-TX) [40]
Fmr. Rep. Marty Russo (D-IL) [41]
Fmr. Rep. Lynn Schenk (D-CA)[citation needed]
Fmr. Rep. Pat Schroeder (D-CO)[citation needed]
Fmr. Rep. Karen Shepherd (D-UT)[citation needed]
Fmr. Rep. Ronnie Shows (D-MS) [42]
Fmr. Rep. Charles Stenholm (D-TX)[citation needed]
Fmr. Rep. and U.S. Ambassador to Denmark Dick Swett (D-NH)[citation needed]
Fmr. Rep. Alan Wheat (D-MO)[citation needed]
Fmr. Speaker of the United States House of Representatives Jim Wright (D-TX)[citation needed]
[edit] Presidential staff and advisors
[edit] Military
Fmr. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General John M. Shalikashvili[citation needed]
Fmr. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Hugh Shelton [1]
Vice Admiral (Ret.) Donald C. Arthur[citation needed]
Retired Lt. General Joseph Ballard Chief of Engineers and Commander, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers[citation needed]
Major General Roger Blunt, (Ret.)[citation needed]
General (Ret.), Fmr. NATO Supreme Allied Commander, 2004 Presidential Candidate Wesley Clark[citation needed]
Major General Edward L. Correa Jr., (Ret.) Adjutant General of Hawaii[citation needed]
Sgt. Major Dean Cox, USA (Ret.) Navy/Army, WWII, former Chair of the Iowa Veterans Council (IA)[citation needed]
Retired U.S. Navy Captain Joan Darrah[citation needed]
Brigadier General Michael Dunn (Ret.)[citation needed]
Retired General George Buskirk (IN)[citation needed]
Major General Paul Eaton, (Ret.) Office of Security Cooperation in Iraq, Commanding General[citation needed]
Brigadier General Evelyn "Pat" Foote, (Ret.)[citation needed]
Brigadier General Belisario Flores (Ret.)[citation needed]
Lt. General Robert Gard, (Ret.) President Emeritus of the Monterey Institute for International Studies[citation needed]
Retired Lt. General Claudia Kennedy[citation needed]
Brigadier General Keith H. Kerr (Ret.)[citation needed]
Retired Lt. General Donald L. Kerrick[citation needed]
Rear Admiral Connie Mariano, MD, (Ret.) Navy White House Physician for three Presidents[citation needed]
Major General Paul D. Monroe, Jr. (Ret.)[citation needed]
Rear Admiral Stuart Platt (Ret.)[citation needed]
Brigadier General Virgil A. Richard (Ret.)[citation needed]
Rear Admiral Alan Steinman, M.D., (Ret.) Past Director of Health and Safety of the Coast Guard[citation needed]
Rear Admiral David Stone, (Ret.) Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for the Transportation Security Administration[citation needed]
Admiral Fmr. Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff William Owens (Ret.)[citation needed]
Major General Antonio M. Taguba (Ret.)[citation needed]
Brigadier General Preston Taylor (Ret.)[citation needed]
General Johnnie Wilson[citation needed]
Brigadier General John M. Watkins, Jr. (Ret.)[citation needed]
Lt. General Frederick Vollrath, (Ret.) Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel, Headquarters Department of the Army[citation needed]
Joe Wynn; Veteran, US Air Force, Vietnam Leader of National Association of Black Veterans, President Vets Group[citation needed]
Brigadier General Jack Yeager[citation needed]
[edit] National political figures
Fmr. President Bill Clinton[citation needed]
Fmr. Assistant U.S. Attorney General Eldie Acheson[citation needed]
Fmr. Assistant Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Roberta Achtenberg[citation needed]
Fmr Head of the Small Business Administration Aida Alvarez[citation needed]
Fmr. U.S. Secretary of State and United States Ambassador to the United Nations, Madeleine Albright[citation needed]
Martha Barnett, Former President, American Bar Association[citation needed]
Fmr. National Security Advisor Sandy Berger [43]
Fmr. Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Carol Browner[citation needed]
Fmr. Secretary of the Army Louis Caldera[citation needed]
Fmr. Secretary of State Warren Christopher[citation needed]
Fmr. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry Cisneros [44]
Fmr. Secretary of the Navy Hon. John H. Dalton[citation needed]
Fmr. Democratic National Committee Chair Debra DeLee [45]
Fmr. Deputy Secretary of Defense Rudy De Leon[citation needed]
Fmr. Assistant Secretary of the Navy John Douglass[citation needed]
Fmr. Chairman of the Democratic National Committee Don Fowler[citation needed]
Fmr. Democratic National Committee Chair Steve Grossman [46]
Fmr. United States Ambassador to the United Nations Richard Holbrooke[citation needed]
Human Rights Leader and Community Activist Dolores Huerta[citation needed]
Patricia Ireland, Former President, National Organization of Women[citation needed]
Fmr. Secretary of Commerce Mickey Kantor[citation needed]
Fmr. President, League of Women Voters Margaret Mark[citation needed]
Fmr. Democratic National Committee Chair Terry McAuliffe [47]
Fmr. White House Chief of Staff Mack McLarty [48]
Fmr. Vice President and 1984 Presidential Candidate Walter Mondale (D-MN)[citation needed]
Former FCC Commissioner Susan Ness[citation needed]
Fmr. Secretary of Energy Hazel R. O'Leary[citation needed]
Fmr. White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta [49]
Fmr. Secretary of Defense William Perry[citation needed]
Fmr. Attorney General of the United States Janet Reno[citation needed]
Fmr. Governor and U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Riley (D-SC)[citation needed]
Fmr. Secretary of the Treasury Robert E. Rubin[citation needed]
Fmr. Deputy National Security Advisor Mara Rudman[citation needed]
Fmr. Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala [50]
Fmr. Secretary of Transportation Rodney Slater [51]
Fmr. Democratic National Committee Chair Robert Strauss [52]
Fmr. Secretary of Veterans Affairs and Fmr. Secretary of the Army Hon. Togo West[citation needed]
Fmr. Secretary of the Air Force Sheila Widnall[citation needed]
Fmr. United States Ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young [53]
Jacqueline Jackson wife of Jesse Jackson[citation needed]
Kathleen Kennedy, daughter of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy [2][3]
Kerry Kennedy, daughter of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy and a human rights activist[2][3]
Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., an environmentalist and a member of the Kennedy family[4][3]
National Abortion Rights Activist Rosalyn Levy Jonas[citation needed]
[edit] Ambassadors
Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to Uruguay Christopher Ashby[citation needed]
Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to Organization of American States Harriet C. Babbit[citation needed]
Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to Portugal Elizabeth Frawley Bagley[citation needed]
Fmr. U.S. Trade Representative Charlene Barshefsky[citation needed]
Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to OECD Amy L. Bondurant[citation needed]
Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to Ghana Edward P. Brynn[citation needed]
Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to Norway Robin Chandler Duke[citation needed]
Fmr. Ambassador to Singapore Timothy Chorba[citation needed]
Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to European Union Stuart E. Eizenstat[citation needed]
Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to Morocco Edward E. Gabriel[citation needed]
Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to Croatia Peter Galbraith[citation needed]
Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to Canada Gordon Giffin[citation needed]
Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to Morocco Marc C. Ginsberg[citation needed]
Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to Singapore Steven J. Green[citation needed]
Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to Mexico James R. Jones[citation needed]
Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to Barbados Jeanette Hyde[citation needed]
Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to Germany John Kornblum[citation needed]
Fmr. U.S. Ambassdor to the United Kingdom Philip Lader[citation needed]
Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to the Organization of American States Luis J. Lauredo[citation needed]
Fmr. Speaker of Wisconsin Assembly and Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to Norway Tom Loftus (D-WI)[citation needed]
Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to the Dominican Republic Charles T. Manatt (IA)[citation needed]
Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to Zimbabwe Tom McDonald[citation needed]
Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to Portugal Gerald McGowen[citation needed]
Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Richard L. Morningstar[citation needed]
Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to Malta Joseph Paolino[citation needed]
Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to Spain and Andorra Edward Romero[citation needed]
Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to Ecuador Peter F. Romero[citation needed]
Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to the Bahamas Arthur Schechter[citation needed]
Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of the Netherlands Cynthia Schneider[citation needed]
Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to Finland Derek Shearer[citation needed]
Fmr. Ambassador at Large Wendy R. Sherman[citation needed]
Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to Trinidad Terry Shumaker[citation needed]
Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to Sweden Thomas L. Siebert[citation needed]
Fmr. United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nancy Soderberg[citation needed]
Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to Slovakia Carl Spielvogel[citation needed]
Hon. Vernon Weaver; Veteran, World War II and Korea, and Fmr. Ambassador to the EU[citation needed]
Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to Gabon and São Tomé and Príncipe, and husband of Valerie Plame Wilson Joseph C. Wilson[citation needed]
Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to Austria Katherine Hall[citation needed]
Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to Brazil Anthony S. Harrington[citation needed]
Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to Venezuela Donna Hrinak[citation needed]
Fmr. U.S. Ambassador to Austria Swanee G. Hunt[citation needed]
[edit] Governors
Gov. John Baldacci (D-ME)[citation needed]
Gov. Mike Beebe (D-AR)[citation needed]
Gov. Jon Corzine (D-NJ)[citation needed]
Gov. Mike Easley (D-NC)[citation needed]
Gov. Jennifer Granholm (D-MI)[citation needed]
Gov. Ted Kulongoski (D-OR)[citation needed]
Gov. Martin O'Malley (D-MD)[citation needed]
Gov. David Paterson (D-NY)[citation needed]
Gov. Ruth Ann Minner (D-DE)[citation needed]
Gov. Ed Rendell (D-PA)[citation needed]
Gov. Ted Strickland (D-OH)[citation needed]
Gov. Togiola Tulafono (D-American Samoa)[citation needed]
Fmr. Gov. and Ambassador to Canada Jim Blanchard (D-MI)[citation needed]
Fmr. Gov. John Y. Brown, Jr. (D-KY) [5]
Fmr. Gov. Dolph Briscoe (D-TX)[citation needed]
Fmr. Gov. Brendan Byrne (D-NJ)[citation needed]
Fmr. Gov. Julian Carroll (D-KY) [54]
Fmr. Gov. and Ambassador to Canada Kenneth M. Curtis (D-ME)[citation needed]
Fmr. Gov. Gray Davis (D-CA)[citation needed]
Fmr. Gov. Jim Florio (D-NJ)[citation needed]
Fmr. Gov. Wendell Ford (D-KY),[6]
Fmr. Gov. Warren Hearnes (D-MO)[citation needed]
Fmr. Gov. Bob Holden (D-MO)[citation needed]
Fmr. Gov. Bruce King (D-NM)[citation needed]
Fmr. Gov. Joe Kernan (D-IN)[citation needed]
Fmr. Gov. and Fmr. Senator Bob Kerrey (D-NE)[citation needed]
Fmr. Gov. Madeleine Kunin (D-VT)[citation needed]
Fmr. Gov. Gary Locke (D-WA)[citation needed]
Fmr. Gov. Ned McWherter (D-TN)[citation needed]
Fmr. Gov. Bob Miller (D-NV)[citation needed]
Fmr. Gov. George Nigh (D-OK)[citation needed]
Fmr. Gov. Paul Patton (D-KY) [55]
Fmr. Gov. and Fmr. Rep. Carlos Romero Barceló (PR) [56]
Fmr. Gov. Pedro Rossello (PR) [57]
Fmr. Gov. Hulett Smith (D-WV) [58]
Fmr. Gov. George Sinner (D-ND)[citation needed]
Fmr. Gov. Eliot Spitzer (D-NY)[citation needed]
Fmr. Gov. David Walters (D-OK)[citation needed]
Fmr. Gov. William F. Winter (D-MS)[citation needed]
Fmr. Gov. and U.S. Ambassador to Ireland Mike Sullivan (D-WY)[citation needed]
Fmr. Gov. Tom Vilsack (D-IA)[citation needed]
Fmr. Gov. John Waihee (D-HI) [59]
widow! and Quincy Jones! Cool.
Once in a while you get shown the light, In the strangest of places if you look at it right.
Thanks Donjo. Can I borrow this for a post on my blog, please?
"Our public servants work for us - we don't work for them. We have an obligation, as citizens of this country, to always remember that - and to never let them forget it." - DeadMessengers
It's not mine, I stole it from Wiki. If you go there, there's also more listed. Mayors, etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hillary_Rodham_Clinton_presidential_campaign_endorsements
We're electing the President of the United States, not some g.d. prom king.
while this is a very impressive list of very smart and impressive people, i am sorry but my initial response is 'so what'. are they just going to stand by or worse, sit on their hands and watch their chosen candidate lose because the corporate press says she should? it is the corporate press calling for her to lose, the BO campaign is just going along with that and reaping the benefits, can't blame them, they want to win. we know who is behind the corporate press, too, so we know who is really calling for her to lose.
watching this from the sidelines is very disturbing, to say the least. i see similar trends happening here where i live. the press is becoming more and more biased and unashamed of their shilling, whereas, the Canadian press has, in my memory, always been fairly decent about sticking to the facts. the trend is that canda isn't going to be a haven for american liberals anymore because we are becoming like america more and more everyday. I hold out no hope, zero, that Stephane Dion will call an election and boot harper out. he appears to be too scared to even start the fight. so north america is in a choke hold isn't it?
it isn't going to stop anytime soon, unless someone like hillary and general clark are in charge. they are the kinds of people who will stand up and start saying no to the insanity. but they are not winning this are they? i despair because i wonder what would have happened had the clintons placed all the power at their disposal behind a clark candidacy a year and a half ago?
but they didn't do that and now, they better get out there and fight until their fingernails bleed and all the people on that list need to get their f*ing faces on TV and fight for her. just my humble opinion and i am fully aware that it isn't worth spit.
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recently. You remember, the one that drove us crazy?
Seems that there's something much like that going on now.
Except this time it's not our general who's taking the punches.
I was just thinking about that yesterday, when the headline on MSNBC.com was something like "Mississippi victory more important than West Virginia". I thought... geez... they won't even give her an inch. Reminds me a lot of '04.
Wes Clark Democrats...let the Clinton campaign know who sent you
not one body as in nobody
has given any attention to the troubling 100% Diebolding of Mississippi against the will of the people and how that election may not have had much 'integrity'.
That kind of doubt is reserved soley for a state that Clinton wins. Even New Hampshire - with it's paper trails and Dem Sec of State - was immediately thrust into the fraud file by eager Obamaists.
Mississippi is declared as "STRONG REPUBLICAN" category for the 2008 elections. It has voted Republican in every pres election since 1968 except once - for Southerner Jimmy Carter in 76.
http://www.270towin.com/states/Mississippi
Whereas in West Virginia ... Of all the presidential elections from statehood in 1861 through 2004, voters went Democratic 20 out of 36 times. Quite a difference.
But more importantly- the polls show Clinton beating McCain in W VA (not Obama) and thereby putting it into play....were she the nominee.
Neither Dem is shown beating McCain in Mississippi. And given their Diebold wallpapering... no way Jose.
No comparison.
just want you to know my son is out of his depression. the very evening i came and cried on your shoulders here about him several weeks ago, he was being offered his tuition paid for university next year by his grandparents, unbeknownst to me. soon after, he went off pepsi, about 1-2 litres a day, and found to his surprise that the dark mood swings disappeared so we think that is what it was all along, the pop. today he is driving up north to tree plant for two months and right now, he is supposed to be at the university registering. so there is a thing called clarkie white light and i can tell you that it works. luv you all.
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So happy for him and for you.
Yes, it seems like an innocuous soft drink but I often tell my hubby that it seems to be the culprit (well not just Pepsi, but all of that corn syrupy stuff) for so much disease and sugar imbalance, plus obesity, heart disease, diabetes etc.
And I'm sorry to be hitting the same old dead horse but every single Bilderberg conference is attended by the heads of PepsiCo and CocaCola. They are huge global players. The new Phillip Morris/Reynolds Tobacco.
Glad Clarkie white light could be of service! :)
and feel your pain! I second your opinion...
We sat here and watched the Mexican election (theft) - the Canadian placement of leadership as it lined right up with the "agenda" and other European nations, like dominoes in succession.
There is something nasty afoot and we have not managed to stop it in its tracks....as we thought we might have, esp. after "winning" 2006. What have we gained since then? I am so weary of hearing about falling short of the 60 vote requisite as an excuse. What have we really effectively been able to change since we took Congress? I asked my (eternally optimistic) husband this yesterday. No... more accurately, I pleaded with him to provide me with some concrete examples of the good accomplished by our Dem representatives in Washington so I might slog forward in an attempt to bolster the next batch through their elections.
He offered me some vague "putting on the brakes" analogies that .... didn't satisfy.
We are still torturing, spying, killing, engaged in useless brutal wars, robbing from our own, bankrupting the nation, lying cheating and scoundreling up a storm around the planet, all the while polluting it so that massive weather extremes are killing the thousands that we aren't decimating in oil wars.
So what have we improved?
It is a despairing picture when you step back and overview what has occurred since the Supreme Ct 2000 decision. Since the stopping of the counting of the ballots in FLA-- a moment in our history that I knew the moment it was announced on the news (we had news then) it was a critical mass turning point. I swear I got icy cold chills, my blood temperature dropped. Some inner sense alerted me that we were going down a new and dark road. When Americans stop counting ballots.
Now we are enured to the idea. Florida. Michigan. Oh so what. Some party rules might be broken and we all hold those party rules so much more dearly than voters votes.
I am thinking Naomi Klein has best encapsulized what's happening here. A nation, a world, in post traumatic shock syndrome. By design. Suffering and paralyzed, unable to respond or to 'act'-- only able to meekly comply and capitulate to the powers that be. Masses of people left stranded with NO representation.
Now I think I'll go hide under the bed....
President McCain is the only thing I can honestly see on our grim horizon right now. I am expecting for us to have a new "Ohio"/ "Florida" state this November that will have a late night 'shift' in the vote, a midnight 'witching hour' surprise for the voters. I hold out little to zero HOPE of Barack Obama making it past even Round Three of the GOP Swift Parade. TKO.
I am cynical enough now to believe the whole thing - the whole set up- has been in the can for a long time and is playing out like a well rehearsed dream - for the Rove team.
We can chronicle it and hope that history will take note.
What else?
Oh yeah. I was about to climb under my bed. :/
...own worst enemy....
Why the Dems could lose
By Cokie and Steve Roberts
Democrats seem intent on nominating Barack Obama, in the face of mounting evidence that Hillary Clinton would be the stronger candidate against John McCain in November. And they only have themselves to blame.
Yes, the Clinton camp made strategic blunders that allowed Obama to score heavily in Republican states where few Democrats vote. But the real culprit is the party's stupid, self-destructive nominating system, which has two major flaws.
First, it was designed to anoint a nominee by early February, far too early in the process. The result: Obama built up an insurmountable lead at a time when he was still largely unblemished, untested and unscrutinized. The past six weeks have brought tougher media coverage, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright's tapes, the candidate's ill-considered comments about "bitter" voters and a wave of second thoughts among key groups like union members and white Catholics.
Second, the nominating system was completely incapable of reflecting these shifts. Not only were few states remaining on the calendar, the rules of proportional representation made it almost impossible for Clinton to catch up.
Since Feb. 19, seven states have voted. Clinton has won four — Pennsylvania, Texas, Ohio and Rhode Island —building up a popular-vote margin of 483,000. Yet her total gain in delegates was exactly five. In Texas, she won by more than 100,000 votes, but because of that state's ridiculous rules, she actually came out five delegates behind.
How can that outcome possibly be fair? How can it possibly benefit the party?
Wait, it gets worse. Obama built up sizable margins in small states that Clinton was foolish enough to concede. His delegate advantage in Idaho, Kansas and Louisiana — three states that will never vote Democratic — was a total of 38. By contrast, Clinton handily won three large swing states — Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Ohio. And yet, because of party rules, her combined marginal gain amounted to 28 delegates.
How can it make sense for Idaho, Kansas and Louisiana to have a bigger impact on choosing the Democratic nominee than Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Ohio? Add in the exclusion of Florida and Michigan, two crucial states that favor Clinton, and there's only one word for the Democrats' system: crazy. And Republicans are gleeful.
Three months ago, they were convinced that Clinton was the easier candidate to beat, and she's hardly an ideal choice, not when more than half of all voters tell ABC pollsters they don't like or trust her. But many GOP insiders now see her as a tougher, more tenacious rival, and the latest polls support that judgment.
The Associated Press-Ipsos survey gives Clinton a 50 percent to 41 percent edge over McCain, while Obama ties his Republican rival. As GOP pollster Steve Lombardo told the AP: "This just reinforces the sentiment that a lot of Republican strategists are having right now — that Clinton might actually be the more formidable fall candidate for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is that Obama can't seem to get his footing back."
One of those strategists, Rep. Tom Cole of Oklahoma, added that Obama "is by any definition very liberal, to the left of Hillary Clinton, in a center-right country. That is very, very helpful to us." Already Republican candidates in North Carolina and Louisiana are running ads linking Democrats to Obama and his "very liberal" policies. And that's only the first trickle in a tidal wave to come.
Obama can make some strong counterarguments. While Clinton might be the better candidate in traditional swing battlegrounds, he can "expand the map" by bringing in new voters, mainly young people and blacks, and making the Democrats competitive in red states like Colorado and Virginia.
The election map, however, has been starkly static during the Bush years, with only three small states switching sides between 2000 and 2004. Winning Ohio with Clinton is a safer bet for Democrats than capturing Colorado and Virginia with Obama.
So why don't Democratic leaders and superdelegates face these facts and shift to Clinton? One reason is race. It's true, as Obama says, that being black in America has hardly been a political asset, given the fact that he's the only African-American in the U.S. Senate.
But at this time, in this party, being black is an enormous asset. Given America's long, torturous path toward racial justice, many Democrats simply cannot imagine denying the nomination to the first serious African-American candidate for president.
From a moral perspective, that's a noble judgment. From a political perspective, it could cost Democrats the White House.
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"A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood of ideas in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." JFK
read it. Too bad it wasn't also published in the mainstream publications.
"Our public servants work for us - we don't work for them. We have an obligation, as citizens of this country, to always remember that - and to never let them forget it." - DeadMessengers
while this is a very impressive list of very smart and impressive people, i am sorry but my initial response is 'so what'. are they just going to stand by or worse, sit on their hands and watch their chosen candidate lose because the corporate press says she should?
After seeing these lists, the first thing that popped in my mind was to blame the media. And after thinking about it, that is still, I believe, the #1 brick wall that holds us back in so many ways.
But, for the most part, these people have stood by, seemingly silent, as Team O! and the press have slammed, smeared and denigrated a former first lady and 2 term senator all to get their chosen one the nomination. Not to mention the tearing down of the Clinton presidency which the press played a giant role in shredding even when he was in office. Guess their job wasn't done, and they're trying to erase from history any good or difference from the Repub admins that preceded or followed.
And I don't for a minute believe the press is doing this so that O! will become president, as many in the lefty blogosphere foolishly believe. They are doing to benefit the Repubs, who without such a weak and flawed candidate to go up against, would surely have lost in a landslide this year.
Maybe the people supporting Hillary have spoken out, have expressed their disgust and dismay at how she has been treated, and the press is just ignoring it. I kind of doubt it though, because with so many people blogging these days, I'm sure we would have caught wind of it.
If even a small fraction of the sexist smears aimed at Hillary had been racist smears aimed at O! this country would not have stood for it. It's been a real eye opener to see how far we've come, and has disgusted me beyond being able to just get over it, suck it up and act as though it really doesn't matter.
If all these people -- who have way more influence than any of us have -- just sit back and allow this to happen, it's yet another indication of who actually has the power here -- of who exactly is running the show. The power mongers are no longer hiding in the shadows. They are right in our faces, shoving candidates down our throats, and making a mockery of our elections, raping our economy, our environment and our people who risk their lives to serve -- saying yeah, and whatchu' gonna do about it, punk? Well. What are we going to do?
Personally, I came to a decision yesterday. I will not participate in the presidential election of O! is the nominee. I will vote down ticket, and donate to Congressional Dems. I think there are some in congress who are there to do good and do the right thing. They can't do it alone, and the more we get in there to help, the better off we'll be. Right? Won't we?
Once in a while you get shown the light, In the strangest of places if you look at it right.
but I don't think Hillary has used this list wisely. Maybe she has, but I see no sign of it anywhere. Wes was on call a while ago, but seems to have dropped virtually out of sight; I think some of the Admirals, etc. could have helped in NC and VA. However I don't know if any of these people were ever asked to campaign or actively participate in the election process - other than sign their names to an endorser's list.
Perhaps Hillary is too careful about "offending" Obama's people in order to fuel the perception that the Dems are united. She needs to acknowledge the FACT that it's becoming more and more apparent that this party is irrevocably fractured and this fall will be in deep doo doo against McCain. Cripes, Obama doesn't give a crap if he's splitting the party - that's been his plan all along. She may say she will support whoever is the nominee, but most of us will not support such a weak candidate as Obama. His negatives are a mile wide and 10 miles deep and this will be driven home daily by the buffoons in the corporate media - and tne repubs. Either O or H will have and "H" of a time winning - and this against a man who has about as much presidential timbre as my big fat cat, Maxi. In fact, they sort of look alike.
One would think, at this point where it seems to be going to the laughably-named super delegates that she would be utilizing these endorsers to put a full court press on the delegates, including phone #'s, e-mail addresses, and any other means to communicate their support - and why. All in 4 paragraphs or less, of course.
How many people outside this board actually know anything about this list? The names are out there for 10 seconds and then vanish. The only hope is for some kind of revolution by We The People, and that's highly unlikely - but wait a minute, when the gas hits $4.00 a galloon shortly, a lot of people will finally begin to get properly pissed. Diesel fuel on it's way to $5.00 - and all this unfettered and uncontrolled rip-off is driving up other prices, as well.
Until some big event happens to change our citizen's personal comfort level, nothing will change. The multi-national corporatists with their headquarters in some post office box in Aruba win.
We're electing the President of the United States, not some g.d. prom king.
They are right in our faces, shoving candidates down our throats, and making a mockery of our elections, raping our economy, our environment and our people who risk their lives to serve -- saying yeah, and whatchu' gonna do about it, punk? Well. What are we going to do?
The only thing I can think of is to collect the email addresses of all the people on those lists, then line them up into one big copy/paste and plaster it on every Hillary blog this weekend asking people to email the list and beg them to write, call talk shows, stage group appearances, sing, tap dance, do a jig, anything to get attention. Alone, in groups of twos and threes or one giant appearance altogether on stage. I don't give a rat's ass. But they aren't dong any good as inanimate letters on a list on some obscure webpage that no one looks at. They all need to be told this and what to do about it, apparently. This group is very impressive and I think Americans desperately need impressing right now.
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• Actor Chevy Chase
• Actor Michael Douglas
• Actor Jack Nicholson
• Actress Candice Bergen
• Actress Lynda Carter
• Actress America Ferrera
• Actress Sally Field
• Actress Whoopi Goldberg
• Actress Christine Lahti
• Actress and comedian Caroline Rhea
• Actress Victoria Rowell
• Actress Amber Tamblyn
• Actress Elizabeth Taylor
• Home improvement television show host Bob Vila
• Actress Reese Witherspoon
• Former Astronaut John Glenn
• Author John Grisham
• Basketball player - entrepreneur Magic Johnson
• Businesswoman and television host Martha Stewart
• Evangelist Sister Paula Nielsen
• Film director Rob Reiner
• Film director Steven Spielberg
• Film producer Bruce Cohen
• Model Christie Brinkley
• Model Marla Maples
• Music executive Clarence Avant
• Musician Melissa Etheridge
• Musician Kenny "Babyface" Edmonds
• Musician Merle Haggard
• Musician Janet Jackson
• Musician Madonna
• Musician Barry Manilow
• American Idol finalist Katharine McPhee
• Musician Barbra Streisand
• Musician Carly Simon
• Musician Tony Bennett
• Music producer Quincy Jones
• Music producer - Motown Records Berry Gordy
• Novelist Anne Rice
• Owner NBA Charlotte Bobcats - BET Robert L. Johnson
• Poet Maya Angelou
• Publisher Hugh Hefner
• Talk show host Rosie O’Donnell
• Talk show host Jerry Springer
• Tennis player Billie Jean King
• Writer Erica Jong
• Fmr ABC News Anchorwoman Carole Simpson
• Fmr CEO of the Discovery Channel Judith McHale
• Widow of Frank Zappa, Gail Zappa
• Fashion entrepenuer Kimora Lee Simmons
• Talk show host Bill Cunningham
• Fmr Head of the SBA Aida Alvarez
• Rajen Anand, Chairman- National Federation of Indian-American Associations (CA)
• Martha Barnett, Former President, American Bar Association
• Fmr. Executive Director, Human Rights Campaign Elizabeth Birch
• Alice Bulos - Chair Emeritus of the Filipino American Democratic Caucus (CA)
• Nevada NOW President Jessica Brown (NV)
• United Fukienese American Association President Peter Cheng
• Iowa NOW President Jean Classon (IA)
• California Legislative Black Caucus Chair Mervyn Dymally (D-CA)
• Women for a Stronger America Treasurer Cynthia Forbes (IA)
• President Emerita of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas Dr. Carol C. Harter
• Deputy Director, Maryland Natural Resources Police Lt. Colonel Alphonso Hawkins (MD)
• California NAACP President Alice Huffman (CA)
• Human Rights Leader- Activist Dolores Huerta
• Patricia Ireland, Former President, NOW
• President of Chinese American Citizens Alliance Raymond Lam
• Fmr. President, League of Women Voters Margaret Mark
• Missouri NOW President Kathy McKemy (MO)
• Former FCC Commissioner Susan Ness
• Vice President of National Congress of Vietnamese Americans for the Western Region Dang Pham
• CEO - Best Buddies, son of Eunice Kennedy Shriver Anthony Shriver
• Former Executive Director of NARAL Laura Thibault
• Civil Rights Leader Raul Yzaguirre
• Private Equity Mogul John Houtan Kohan