Wednesday, October 31st, Philadelphia was host to the Democratic presidential debate which included six of the leading candidates. The eyes of America and much of the hot talk before and after the debate centered on the front runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, Hillary Clinton. Let me sum it up for all those who missed it or had no idea it was on. I'M NOT IMPRESSED--with Mrs. Clinton. I believe that Hillary is a lame duck. I realize that term is usually a moniker given to the most impotent of presidents; but I feel that Hillary is an equally impotent candidate. Don't believe the hype people. The media has already anointed Giuliani and Hillary as the two contenders whose battle royale would sell the most papers. The problem there, is they are not the two most qualified and would not be best for the country. Is George Bush's wife qualified to be president? Should Nancy Reagan have run for president following her hugely popular husband's reign? I think not. What then, qualifies Mrs. Clinton?
Don't misunderstand me. I voted for Bill Clinton--twice. That does not mean I will blindly vote his wife into office. The debate Wednesday night proved my reservations to be warranted. Hillary would not give a straight answer to the questions presented her. When pushed by Russert to clarify exactly what her opinion is; we get this monologue about 'gotcha politics'. It is not 'gotcha politics' to hear straight talk about what the next leader of the free world actually believes. Instead we got a mouth full of double talk and political acrobatics. Abortion, immigration, the Iraq war, the coming conflict with Iran, the oil crisis, the economy are all problems that can't be brushed away by political rhetoric. Hillary's tap dance around the issues was not entertaining, but disappointing. At every misstep, Obama and Richardson were there to zing Mrs. Clinton and emphasize their own political prowess and knowledge of the issues.
I believe the debate was great for the American people to see firsthand which candidates have a real grasp on the problems we face as a nation going forward; and not just a commanding use of the latest catch phrases and buzzwords. On the one hand, the Clinton camp says they are tough enough to romp with boys; but on the other, the Clinton operatives cry foul the next day saying the big boys are picking on her because she is a woman. It's not about the gender of the candidates, race, or any of those things. What this is about, is finding the right person to unite this divided nation and repair the damage done by George Bush. I would submit that by the very nature of Mrs. Clinton's tendency to avoid giving straight answers and share her true intentions for this nation; she will not be getting my vote. This 2008 election is a critical juncture in the future of my family; and I will not let someone with a pocket full of special interest money and catchy sound bites to sway me from sifting out the best candidate. I hope you don't either.
I'm just the Average Black Man, and that's my two cents.
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
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THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX THAT WANTS HER. The true terrorist are Bush and Clinton who have laid a scam on the american public, where now we are so deeply in debt that we will be paying forever to her chinese friends interest on our debt for the military cost that have put us there.
***House Hearing on the Cost of Operations in Iraq***
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AUDIO FILE HERE:
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SO FAR WE HAVE TO TODAY SPENT ENOUGH FOR 2 KOREA WARS AND 16 YRS OF THE VIETNAM WAR AND THAT DOESN'T EVEN CONSIDER WHAT WE HAVE FOR THE REST OF THIS YEAR AND THE FOLLOWING YR WHICH HAS BEEN APPROPRIATED..
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House Hearing on the Cost of Operations in Iraq
Budget Committee Chairman Rep. John Spratt (D-SC) held a hearing on the cost of military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Witnesses include: Amy Belasco, Congressional Research Service, Defense Budget Specialist; Peter Orszag, Congressional Budget Office; and others.
10/24/2007: WASHINGTON, DC: 2 hr. 52 min.
NO REPUBLICANS SHOWED UP AT THE HEARING TOO !
Hillary Clinton Piles on Pentagon Earmarks
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/clinton-can-boast-wealth-of-earmarks-2007-06-13.html
Hillary Clinton Piles on Pentagon Earmarks
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://thehill.
com/leading-the-news/clinton-c an-boast-wealth-of-earmarks-20 07-06-13.html
Weapons Industry Dumps Republicans, Backs Hillary
http://www.alternet.org/story/65869
The U.S. arms industry has all but abandoned its traditional allies in the Republican party and is putting their money on Hillary Clinton.
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AMY GOODMAN from DEMOCRACYNOW.ORG SPEAKS TO MARIAN EDLEMAN ON -->The clintons on Children welfare reform
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/24/1431211
7/24/07
Children's Defense Fund's Marian Edelman
AMY GOODMAN: Marian Wright Edelman, we just heard
Hillary Clinton. She used to be the head of the board of the Children's Defense Fund, of
the organization that you founded. But you were
extremely critical of the Clintons. I mean, when President Clinton signed off on the, well,
so-called welfare reform bill, you said, "His
signature on this pernicious bill makes a mockery of his pledge not to hurt children." So what are
your hopes right now for these Democrats? And what are your thoughts about Hillary Rodham Clinton?
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: Well, you know, Hillary Clinton is an old friend, but they are not friends in politics.
etc
We have to build a constituency, and you don't -- and we profoundly disagreed with the forms of the welfare reform bill, and we said so. We were for welfare reform, I am for welfare reform, but we need good jobs, we need adequate work incentives, we need minimum wage to be decent wage and livable wage, we need healthcare, we need transportation, we need to invest preventively in
all of our children to prevent them ever having to be on welfare.
And yet, you know, many years after that, when many people are pronouncing welfare reform a great success, you know, we've got growing child
poverty, we have more children in poverty and in extreme poverty over the last six years than we had earlier in the year. When an economy is down, and the real test of welfare reform is what appens to the poor when the economy is not ooming. Well, the poor are suffering, the gap
between rich and poor widening. We have what I consider one of -- a growing national catastrophe of what we call the cradle-to-prison pipeline. A black boy today has a one-in-three chance of going to prison in his lifetime, a black girl a one-in-seventeen chance. A Latino boy who's born in 2001 has a one-in-six chance of going to rison. We are seeing more and more children go into our child welfare systems, go dropping out of school, going into juvenile justice detention facilities. Many children are sitting up -- 5,000, according to a recent congressional GAO study -- are sitting up in juvenile institutions solely because their parents could not get mental health and healthcare in their community.
This is an abomination.
etc
Democracy Now!: Clinton Campaign's Corporate & GOP Ties.
YOUTUBE video
Link = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edzv_L8j5f0&&
DemocracynowDOTorg transcripts::
Link = http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/31/1412212
A new expose in The Nation magazine finds that while Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is publicly trying to win support of unions in her presidential campaign, behind the scenes she is being advised by a team of strategists closely affiliated with unionbusters, GOP operatives and conservative media. We speak with the reporter who broke the story. [includes rush transcript]
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Please rate it awesome
I think you will like this information. It will show
Hillary didn't do well with the children's defense fund
and Bill isn't the black president as he removed
education for prisoners (mostly black and Hispanics)
and earmarked the funds for more prisons.
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/24/1431211
AMY GOODMAN: Marian Wright Edelman, we just heard
Hillary Rodham
Clinton.
She used to be the head of the board of the Children's
Defense Fund, of
the organization that you founded. But you were
extremely critical of
the
Clintons. I mean, when President Clinton signed off on
the, well,
so-called welfare reform bill, you said, "His
signature on this
pernicious
bill makes a mockery of his pledge not to hurt
children." So what are
your
hopes right now for these Democrats? And what are your
thoughts about
Hillary Rodham Clinton?
MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN: Well, you know, Hillary Clinton
is an old
friend,
but they are not friends in politics. We have to build
a constituency,
and
you don't -- and we profoundly disagreed with the
forms of the welfare
reform bill, and we said so. We were for welfare
reform, I am for
welfare
reform, but we need good jobs, we need adequate work
incentives, we
need
minimum wage to be decent wage and livable wage, we
need healthcare, we
need transportation, we need to invest preventively in
all of our
children
to prevent them ever having to be on welfare.
And yet, you know, many years after that, when many
people are
pronouncing
welfare reform a great success, you know, we've got
growing child
poverty,
we have more children in poverty and in extreme
poverty over the last
six
years than we had earlier in the year. When an economy
is down, and the
real test of welfare reform is what happens to the
poor when the
economy
is not booming. Well, the poor are suffering, the gap
between rich and
poor widening. We have what I consider one of -- a
growing national
catastrophe of what we call the cradle-to-prison
pipeline. A black boy
today has a one-in-three chance of going to prison in
his lifetime, a
black girl a one-in-seventeen chance. A Latino boy
who's born in 2001
has
a one-in-six chance of going to prison. We are seeing
more and more
children go into our child welfare systems, go
dropping out of school,
going into juvenile justice detention facilities. Many
children are
sitting up -- 15,000, according to a recent
congressional GAO study --
are
sitting up in juvenile institutions solely because
their parents could
not
get mental health and healthcare in their community.
This is an
abomination.
etc
etc
etc
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Oh yea thats right Bill Clinton passed the 1994 crime
bill that removed
pell grants for prisoners
Federal Crime Bill
By Paul Wright
On September 13, 1994, Bill Clinton signed the final
version of the
crime
bill into law. The same week congress passed the crime
bill it also
passed
the "Bank Reform Bill." Included in this law is a
provision which will
prevent the government from pursuing negligence cases
against the
individuals who caused the collapse of the savings and
loan industry
(mainly by looting the institutions they were
entrusted to run or that
they owned). Thus, it is apparent that "crime" isn't
the issue, the
issue
is who steals what from whom. The mood of congress was
accurately
captured
by Senator Joe Biden, an admitted plagiarist, who said
"If someone came
to
the floor and said we should barb wire the ankles of
anyone who
jaywalks,
I think it would pass."
Officially titled the "Violent Crime Control and Law
Enforcement Act of
1994," the final version of the bill is 120 pages
long. It contains
many
administrative amendments to existing laws,
clarifications, etc. in
addition to its substantive portions.
etc
This law abolished Pell grants for prisoners. The
federal Pell Grant
was
created in 1965 by Senator Claiborne Pell, D-RI, to
aid low income
students for college. The 1965 bill stated that no
qualifying low
income
persons would be excluded, prisoners were specifically
mentioned in the
bill and were intended to be included in the grant
program. Media
hypsters
insinuated that prisoners were taking advantage of the
opportunity for
Pell
Grants because of an oversight in the original Pell
Grant Bill that
failed
to specifically exclude them.
The $6.3 billion program is considered a
quasi-entitlement, says the
U.S.
Department of Education, and receives whatever funding
is necessary for
grants to all income eligible persons. Of that $6.3
billion in the most
recent fiscal year, a total of $35 million was
allotted for prisoners.
Most of that amount was in the form of federal aid
paid not directly to
individual prisoners, but in the form of payments to
state programs
designed to provide educational services to their
prison inmates. The
$35
million allotted to prisoners represents less than six
tenths of 1
percent
of the $6.3 billion total. Political rhetoric has
propelled the myth
that
the money wasted on prisoner Pell Grants will now be
used to provide
assistance to more worthy recipients in the community.
The truth of the
matter is that the $35 million saved won't stay in the
education
budget.
It will be retained by the U.S. Treasury (presumably
to help pay for
the
$9.8 billion earmarked for construction of more
prisons).
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c103:H.R.3355.ENR
http://www.gpo.gov/congress/103bills.html
BELOW SEE HOW THEY IMPORTED DRUGS BEFORE THEY GOT INTO OFFICE AND WERE ABLE TO FUND THEIR CAMPAIGNS AT THE SAKE OF THE POOR
If the clintons get back in office watch drug use zoom out of control they are in cahoots with bush and now making money on privatized prisons
If you want to know about the clintons and how they make money (on Drugs) on the lives of children see their past history.just google "clinton cocaine arkansas"
http://prorev.com/connex.htm <=== CLINTON TIME LINE
BUSH SR AND DRUGS ===> http://www.whatreallyhappened.com/RANCHO/POLITICS/MENA/mena.html
LINK BELOW HAS THE SAME AS ABOVE LINK BUT IT ALLOWS YOU TO HELP BLOG IT OUTSIDE OF THIS SITE
or "clinton privatized prisons" or google "amy goodman marian edleman hillary clinton july 24 2007"
SEE = Daniel Patrick Moynihan opposed the Clintons' Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act--their "welfare reform" law. When it was passed, Moynihan called it "the most brutal act of social policy since Reconstruction." google "clinton crack cocaine prison"
MENA CONNECTION: Clinton, Cocaine & Coverup =
youtube = http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqY3pMcW8DI
VOTE OBAMA FOR A REAL HONEST GOVERNMENTBUSH ALLOWED THE DRUGS TO FLY INTO ARKANSAS THROUGH TEXAS
THEY ARE BOTH IN CAHOOTS TOGETHER
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=TSHB,TSHB:2006-45,TSHB:en&q=bush+clinton+arkansas+texas+cocaine
GOOGLE = bush clinton arkansas texas cocaine
VOTE OBAMA FOR A REAL HONEST GOVERNMENT A MAN WHO WANTS TO PUT THE MONEY BACK THAT THE CLINTONS TOOK AWAY WHEN THEY NEVER FUNDED THE MOTHERS WHO GOT TAKEN OFF WELFARE TO WORK FOR EDUCATION AND HOW THEY NEVER FUNDED THE CHILDREN FOR CHILD CARE AND HOW THEY TOOK AWAY THE PELL GRANTS FROM PRISONERS SO THAT THEY KEPT REVOLVING THROUGH THE NEW PRIVATIZED PRISONS THAT THE CLINTONS PROMOTED DURING THEIR REIGN.
PS: I DO NEED SOMEONE WHO IS A PROFESSIONAL WRITER TO PUT ALL THESE LINKS IN A COMPLETE FORM / DIARY SO THE WORLD AT LARGE CAN UNDERSTAND HOW THE CLINTONS HURT PEOPLE OF COLOR THE MOST BY THEIR USING CRACK COCAINE AGAINST PEOPLE OF COLOR AND THE INNER CITY POOR AND THEN SEND THEM TO PRISON FOR LONGER TERMS AND THEY GOT THEIR CAMPAIGN FUNDS FROM IMPORTING DRUGS INTO ARKANSAS THROUGH TEXAS WHILE BUSH WAS GOVERNOR OF TEXAS AND CLINTON WAS GOVERNOR OF ARKANSAS AND WHILE BUSH SR WAS PRESIDENT AND EVEN BEFORE THIS WAS SET UP WHILE REAGAN WAS PRESIDENT AND BUSH SR WAS A VICE PRESIDENT AND EVEN BEFORE THAT WHEN BUSH SR WAS THE CIA CHIEF ALLOWING THESE DRUG CARTELS TO FUNCTION AND IMPORT DRUGS INTO THE USA.
NO !!! BILL CLINTON IS NOT THE "" BLACK PRESIDENT "" HE IS THE "" WHITE DEVIL ""
Yes i hate hillary and bill for what they did to the poor during his administration.
The following is a partial list of deaths of persons connected to President Clinton during his tenure as Governor of Arkansas and/or while President of the United States and thereafter. Read the list and judge for yourself.
http://www.lizmichael.com/clintond.htm
The Republicans are salivating to run against Hillary. They have some ammunition on her that she has managed to keep suppressed by her pals in the press. She is going to be under oath BEFORE THE ELECTION in a Los Angeles civil case, Paul v Clinton. Go enjoy the video trailer: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7007109937779036019&pr=goog-sl
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