I will be pulling them out pretty fast:
"Hillary Clinton backers try to woo left at Detroit conference" by Noah Bierman | Globe Staff July 19, 2014
DETROIT — The latest effort by Hillary Rodham Clinton’s backers to win over liberal activists began this week at a snack table in a cavernous conference center. And it wasn’t going well.
“I’m not her biggest fan,” said Kathy Kaufman, a 49-year-old environmental blogger from Chapel Hill, N.C. “She’s a little bit more centrist and corporate than I’m thrilled with.”
Kaufman was eating a caramel brownie paid for by “Ready for Hillary,” a super PAC preparing for Clinton’s potential 2016 candidacy. (Kaufman turned down a “Ready for Hillary” mug.) The free snacks and swag are among several efforts Clinton’s supporters are making to promote her during this week’s annual Netroots Nation conference in Detroit, a gathering of about 3,000 liberal bloggers and activists who have been increasingly influential among the Democratic Party’s base supporters.
I will bet their water has not been shut off.
So WHAT ELSE is the Globe NOT TELLING YOU?
Polls show Clinton an overwhelming favorite to win the party’s nomination. Attendees at this conference in Detroit, who run the spectrum from mainstream Democrats and labor groups to Democratic socialists, might not be representative of the public, or even the Democratic Party, at large. But they do hold sway in the party, and it was skepticism on the left in 2008 that opened the door to Barack Obama’s ascendency and could again pose a challenge to Clinton as the next presidential primary season draws nearer.
Okay, I would like to stop here and just register my objection to another Clinton-bush race. That would mean a two-family (with Bill being the adopted son H.W. never had, all he got was W) aristocracy will keep a lid on all the dirty secrets over the last 50 years. Obummer had a chance to change all that and send the leadership of this country in a different direction. Instead, he cozied up to those same powers.
In 2008, liberal critics opposed Clinton’s support for the Iraq war. This year, Clinton’s ties to Wall Street, including six-figure speaking fees she has received from big banks, have prompted questions on the left.
All while she was pleading poverty!
Also see:
"Six-figure fees for speeches at a time of austerity in higher
education could become a political liability for her in
the 2016 campaign given that President Obama and other Democrats have
made college affordability a central plank of the party's agenda."
Even the $chuls are paying big, huh?
Also see: Instructor Obama Scamming Students
But at least he is in the cla$$room.
Clinton, who has tried to avoid overtly political gatherings, declined to attend this year’s Netroots Nation conference in Detroit. Other potential 2016 candidates seem willing to take advantage of the void. Vice President Joe Biden, who announced his appearance only last week, delivered a rousing 45-minute speech Thursday that drew loud cheers and ovations. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts delivered a 17-minute speech full of populist rhetoric, bringing activists to their feet Friday morning.
Didn't I tell you I had a grime with her?
Biden emphasized his role in pushing gay rights measures and touted the Obama administration’s initiatives such as the Affordable Care Act and the stimulus program to argue that “progressive government did and does have a role in the economic health and well being of the American people.”
PFFFT!
“There’s no reason to be in this business unless you know what you believe and you’re willing to risk what you believe,” Biden said.
Then when are you enlisting for the army and going to war yourself, Joe, instead of sending other families' kids?
Btw, how is the oil business in Ukraine working out for your son?
For Warren’s speech Friday, many in the crowd donned old-fashioned “Warren for President” hats distributed by a group campaigning to draft her to run in 2016. They chanted “Run, Liz, run,” as Warren waved her hands to tamp them down.
“We can whine about it, we can whimper about it, or we can fight back,” Warren said as she laid out opposition to trade deals, big banks, and the power of lobbyists. “I’m fighting.”
Breaking News: She IS RUNNING!!!
Warren has pledged to fill out her Senate term, which runs through 2018. But more recently, she is using the present tense to say she is “not running for president,” appearing to leave some wiggle room should she change her mind. She repeated that phrasing in an interview Thursday when pressed, while still insisting it was a firm denial.
“There is no wiggle room. I am not running for president,” Warren said. “No means no.”
Warren did not directly answer a question about whether perceptions of Wall Street ties would damage Clinton as a potential presidential candidate. “I have made no secret about my concerns about the influence of Wall Street on policies in Washington,” Warren said.
Clinton received some boos when she spoke before the liberal activist convention in 2007, when the convention was known as YearlyKos. She eventually won over much of the crowd, drawing applause, according to news reports.
“I don’t see skepticism,” said Tracy Sefl, a senior adviser to Ready for Hillary. “I see support that is growing. I’m also proud that the Democratic Party isn’t a coronation party. We’re working really hard at what we’re doing.”
Few people interviewed here this week sounded hostile to Clinton, but several said they were not enthusiastic, either.
“If Elizabeth Warren ran, I’d be really interested,” said James Melton, a community college spokesman from Detroit who runs a political blog. “I’m not that excited about Hillary. But if she got the nomination, I’d vote for her.”
I'm not excited about any of them, Democrat or Republican.
Though Clinton is not speaking here, her backers are at least trying to make her presence felt. “Ready for Hillary” is a $10,000 sponsor of the conference. A pair of staffers from the super PAC drove a recreational vehicle here, painted red, white, and blue — with the famous picture of the former secretary of state sending a text message on the back.
And HOW EXACTLY does that help the GREENHOUSE GAS and GLOBAL WARMING PROBLEM?
The group, which says it has 2.5 million supporters, planned a party for Friday night. Its Thursday evening seminar explaining the mechanics of its super PAC strategy, which began late because of Biden’s speech, filled less than half of the conference room.
“They have a lot of money, so I’m not surprised they have a big presence,” said Stephanie Taylor, cofounder of the Progressive Change Campaign Committee .
Even some of Warren’s biggest fans here acknowledge that Clinton might be too polarizing in a general election. Shelley Allen, an activist from Anchorage, Alaska, in her 50s, said that although she would prefer Biden or Warren to run for president, others might find them “a little too left.”
“If it’s Hillary, I’m voting for her,” she added. “She’s a little too Wall Street, a little too corporate. But that’s where you get the money.”
You know, then she is the perfect representative for the face of AmeriKan government.
Well, almost. Mitt would have been the perfect president.
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And about that Iraq war:
"Clinton advisers weighed several drafts of speech on Iraq military action" Associated Press July 19, 2014
WASHINGTON — President Bill Clinton’s advisers carefully considered how to explain the president’s military action against Iraq in 1998 as the House was debating his impeachment, according to records from the Clinton White House that were released Friday.
Oh, yeah, Saddam Hussein and the Iraqis had to pay a price for that headline-diverting stunt. I remember.
The National Archives released about 1,000 pages of previously restricted documents from Clinton’s two terms, part of about 20,000 pages of Clinton records that have been disseminated since February. The papers, which are stored at the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Ark., have received interest as former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton considers another presidential bid.
I'm sure I have links to those papers, but somehow they are all scattered on the floor. Who gives a f.... ??
The White House mulled how to explain Clinton’s decision to launch a military strike against Iraq the day before the House was to debate bringing impeachment charges against the president in the Monica Lewinsky scandal.
No explanation needed. It was obvious.
The notes of national security aide Tony Blinken include a draft of Clinton’s address announcing the air strikes in December 1998 as a response to Saddam Hussein’s refusal to allow United Nations inspectors to look for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Yeah, that LIE that a MASS-MURDERING INVASION and MORE was based on!
The draft indicates White House counsel Charles Ruff cleared a version that would say, ‘‘All of us would have preferred that the need for this action had not arisen on this day — on the eve of the impeachment debate in the House of Representatives.’’
Buuuuut.....
Instead, Clinton’s address ended up sticking close to what the draft refers to as White House chief of staff John Podesta’s version. The president said, ‘‘Saddam Hussein and the other enemies of peace may have thought that the serious debate currently before the House of Representatives would distract Americans, or weaken our resolve to face him down.’’
You were wrong, Mr. President! It didn't distract us at all!
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You know, I didn't want to be the one to say it, and I'm no fan of his efforts myself, but she really left John Kerry a mess when she bowed out as Secretary of State.
