Mr. Russert, during the Nevada debate, you asked Obama about the four pages of defense from his campaign, leaving the false impression that Obama's campaign started the dustup.

To balance, why did you not bring up the dirty tricks from the Clinton campaign as noted below by the Huffington Post, dated 1/7/2008?

We get it Mr. Russert.  We black people have always known this, now the world can see it unfold right before their very eyes, i.e., that black people get blamed for staring stuff up, when we never did, and then we get blamed again for defending ourselves.

At least Arrianna Huffington can see things clearly in this instance, even if you don't, Mr. Russert.

"The attacks are as varied as they are contemptible. Let's take a look at the dirty laundry list. Put on your galoshes, the mud is mighty thick.

1. Obama is too liberal. HuffPost's Tom Edsall reports: "Hillary's aides point to Obama's extremely progressive record as a community organizer, state senator and candidate for Congress, his alliances with 'left-wing' intellectuals in Chicago's Hyde Park community, and his liberal voting record on criminal defendants' rights as subjects for examination."

Dear God, not "left-wing intellectuals"! Aren't you grateful Hillary warned us in time? The last thing voters in a Democratic primary want is someone with a "liberal voting record." Apparently, Mark Penn is still advising the campaign.

2. Obama is too conservative. In a sleazy direct mail letter sent to New Hampshire voters, Clinton tried to twist Obama's record on abortion, saying he has been "unwilling to take a stand on choice."

Really? Tell that to Planned Parenthood and NARAL, both of which have given Obama 100 percent ratings for his support of abortion rights. I asked NARAL about this mailing. "We are fortunate to have such strong pro-choice candidates like Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, as well as former Sen. John Edwards and Gov. Bill Richardson, running for president," Elizabeth Shipp, NARAL's political director emailed me. "We are confident that any one of these candidates would protect and defend a woman's right to choose, if elected president." *

3. Obama is soft on crime. Hillary's staffers, trying to play up the "too liberal" meme, pointed out that Obama had spoken out against mandatory minimum sentences for federal crimes, saying: "Mandatory minimums take too much discretion away from judges."

How dare he! Imagine a Democrat -- an African American Democrat, at that -- expressing dissatisfaction with the injustice of a system that disproportionately impacts young people of color. It's apostasy!

What makes this dunderheaded attack especially despicable is that Hillary has taken the exact same position on mandatory minimums. During this summer's debate at Morgan State University, moderated Tavis Smiley, Hillary had this to say about what needs to be done to mitigate the disproportionate number of African American serving prison time in America: "We have to go after mandatory minimums. You know, mandatory sentences for certain violent crimes may be appropriate, but it has been too widely used. And it is [having] now a discriminatory impact." Unbelievable. The hypocrisy is flabbergasting.

4. Obama lacks depth and specificity. You knew this one was coming. "On a lot of these issues it is hard to know where he stands, and people need to ask that," said Clinton on Friday. And on Good Morning America today, she trotted out a cobweb-covered one-liner from 1984: "As famously was said years ago, 'Where's the beef?'"

Perfect. Twenty-four years ago, Walter Mondale and the Democratic establishment used that zinger and that line of attack to go after Gary Hart. Mondale ended up being the nominee and carried just one state in the general election. Is that what Hillary thinks we should sign up for again?

5. Obama is a dreamer. That's right, Clinton is actually trying to convince voters that Obama is too positive, too optimistic, too inspirational. In a speech she called him "an untested man who offers false hope," and in Saturday's debate she said, "We don't need to be raising the false hopes of our country about what can be delivered."

Oh, yeah, that's the last thing we need, someone who actually seeks to inspire Americans to allow their reach to exceed their grasp. That's the problem with leaders like Lincoln, Kennedy, and Martin Luther King -- they just weren't realistic enough. King shouldn't have said, "I have a dream!," he should have said, "I have a realistic view of what we should settle for! We probably won't be able to pass the Civil Rights Act, but we might be able to pass a bill condemning segregated water fountains. You probably won't be able to sit at the front of the bus, but I might be able to get you to the middle."

This is who Hillary Clinton is, through and through. "I have always tried to strike a balance," she said in 2004. "I think you have to view the world as it is, not as you would wish it to be." That's a long, dispiriting way from Bobby Kennedy's "Some men see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream of things that never were and ask, 'Why not?'"

6. Obama is too big a risk for America. That's right, Clinton is again taking a page from the Bush fearmongering playbook -- insinuating very bad things could happen if we don't elect her. "Look what happened in Great Britain," she said. "Tony Blair leaves, Gordon Brown comes in, the very next day, there are terrorist attacks... So you've got to be prepared on Day One with everything ready to go." It's a sequel to her husband's Roll the Dice -- which, in itself, was a sequel to the entire Bush/Cheney reelection campaign.

So the New Hampshire race is now officially too close to call, Hillary's hypocrisy running neck and neck with her cynicism. Be very afraid, indeed.

* UPDATE: Ted Miller from NARAL contacted me to tell me that they are calling 82,000 pro-choice Independent voters in New Hampshire with a message from NARAL president Nancy Keenan: "All the Democratic candidates running for president are pro-choice and will support and defend a woman's right to choose."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/portrait-in-cynicism-hil_b_80289.html

Bill Clinton lies again, this time in Nevada.  It is not Obama's people breaking the rules, but Clinton's, according to the Washington Times' Christina Bellantoni, dated 1/20/2008:

"It appeared Mrs. Clinton benefited from the very process her campaign deplored, with nearly all of the at-large precinct sites along the Strip favoring her. Her campaign had reported they were receiving a "flood" of calls about members of the Culinary Workers Union, which backed Mr. Obama, intimidating workers into voting for him.

But yesterday, there were several accounts of the reverse happening. At the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino, Clinton supporters were reprimanded several times for breaking the rules and campaigning outside of their designated area. A busload of Clinton supporters from the Palms casino, which is nonunion, nearly unanimously caucused on her behalf (CB)."

http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080120/NATION/832397040/1001

Sir, you are in deep trouble. 

Here are 6 steps to turn defeat to victory.

(1).  Fire all your Clinton staff.

(2). Stop letting Hillary get away with free TV time.  She had 24 hour saturation crying TV time in New Hampshire with no adequate response from you. Then she had one hour national coverage on Tyra Banks show to get the women's sympathy vote in Nevada.

What can you do?  You or Michelle should get on TV every time Hillary gets on.

How would that work?

Well in New Hampshire, when Hillary started crying, Michelle could have gone on TV and said, "Hillary is just crying to get the sympathy vote.  We women believe in merit to get ahead.  We do not believe in crying our way to the top."

That would have blown Hillary away on that issue; and changed the subject away from sympathy to merit.

In Nevada, you could have gone on Tyra the next day to present your story.  That would have broken up Hillary's saturation coverage.

(3). Stop talking about Reagan.  Other than the devil, Reagan is the most hated man in poor and black communities.  He was anti-union, anti-poor, and anti-black.  Whether or not you personally believe that or that he had great ideas and changed the trajectory of the nation, I'm here to tell you that I think he was the worst President of the 20th Century; and a lot of poor people feel that same way.

Reagan began his run for the White House in Philadephia Mississippi, and instead of paying homage to the slain civil rights workers, Chaney, Goodman and Schwerner, Reagan sided with the white people by saying "We are with you."  Black people will never, ever forget that.

When you say Reagan, I hear David Duke, and I'm not alone.

(4). Bill Clinton has made a political calculation to trash you, trash Martin Luther King and the black community, reach out to the Hispanic community, and beat you with White and Hispanic votes; and forget about the black vote in South Carolina and the nation.

Oh, sure he has done some damage control, but deep down in is heart, he has written off the black community; and feels he can win without it.

Thus far in Nevada, this strategy has proved successful.  Hillary won with Hispanics and Whites.

You are in deep, deep trouble.  Your campaign cannot survive a loss in South Carolina.  Fold up your tent and go home if you lose SC.

You must recognize what you are up against and take immediate action to right this ship.

You are not running against Hillary; you are running against Bill.  He has taken you down from the high-flying days of Iowa.

Now you must take dead aim at Bill Clinton.  "Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee (Ali)." 

Blast him just as he  blasts you.

If I were you I would join this fight with the following:  "Bill Clinton had 8 years to pass health care and could not get the job done.  I will pass healthcare."

"Bill Clinton was in power and let Bin Laden blow-up the World Trade Center in the 1990's.  Bin Laden will bomb nothing, when I become President." 

"Had Bill Clinton captured Bin Laden, there would not have been any 911.  I will get Bin Laden.  Bill and Hillary had their chance to get Bin Laden and could not get the job done.  You can bet your last money, that I will get Bin Laden!!!"

"Bill Clinton backed the Nevada law suit, to suppress voter participation.  I will never ever suppress any vote in this nation."

"Bill and Hillary say that they will hit the ground running.  Yes, I would say that too if I had 16 years to get ready.  Eight years in office and 8 years since.  Well it's not going to take me 16 years to get ready.  I AM READY NOW!!!!!"

And if Bill and Hill really want to get nasty, hit them with this.  This will drive a stake right through there hearts:

"I will not be fooling around with interns while I'm on the phone conducting foreign policy.  Mothers of America can rest assured that their intern sons and daughters will be safe when Michelle and I are in the White House."

You should expect him to go nuclear after that, but after the dust settles, that should end the Bill and Hillary tag team match right there.
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Women see you and Edwards as beating up on Hillary; so change the subject to Bill.

And when Hillary says Bill's not running, say, "You have said in the past that this is a two for one Presidency, and every time I say something, he replies, so it looks that way to me."

This strategy requires that you be prepared for all out blow-back from the Clintons.  It's not going to be pretty.  However, unless you can beat Bill the man, women will see you as beating up on Hillary, the woman.

(5). Unleash Michelle.  Let Michelle answer Hillary.  You answer Bill.  Bill and Hillary are tag teaming you.  Two against one.  They can be in two places at the same time.  Either you are going to have to run twice as hard and die from exhaustion, or Michelle has to get on the campaign trail full time.

Michelle is every bit as smart as Hillary.

Every time Hillary goes on TV, let Michelle go on to answer her.

(6). You must come clean with the American people.  This is the most critical; if you are to recapture the magic.

    A. Explain to them what bundling means and how it is different from lobbyist influencing your campaign.  If you don't, people will see you as just another politician.

    B. One of your Illinois Senate contributors has been indicted.  Tell the people what's going on with that.  If you don't people will see you as dishonest.

    C. Did you say that Hillary was from Punjab?

    D. Did you say Bill was a crook?

    E. Edwards said that you have taken more from lobbyist than Hillary.  Is that true?  If it is, people see you as a hypocrite.

    F. One of your NH campaign people is a state lobbyist.  Explain to people why that is different from a Washington lobbyist.

    G. You let reporters in on some of your campaign fund-raisers and some you don't.  Let them see everything.  If you don't they will report that you are just like everyone else.

    H. Did you say that you did not know you would vote on the resolution?  If you did, you must explain it in context.  Must not be mealy-mouth.  Must be a strong denunciation of Bill Clinton that blows him away.

    I. Did you say that there was no difference between you and Bush on the war?  Explain in context.

    J. Did you take your speech off the website?  Explain in context.

    K.  Hammer Hillary with that war vote.  Hammer it; and don't let it go.  Explain to Americans why your votes in the Senate had to support the troops; but continue to hammer Hillary on the Bush-Chaney-Hillary war.

    L.  Rename the war, the Bush-Chaney-Hillary-Iraq war.
  
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These 6 things will get you pulled even with the Clintons to begin a brand new race.

Next you have to come up with a strategy to win.

Bill Clinton lies again claiming he witnessed Nevada voter suppression.

This is a familiar tactic.

He makes a scurrilous charge against Obama on the eve of an election, hoping that the press won't fact check it in time to rebut it.

He did it in New Hampshire, when he said Obama said Hillary was from Punjab, but Bill produced no evidence that Obama said that or sanctioned that.

But this time the press (Politico's Ben Smith) has fact checked Bill's "suppression" remarks and found them to be false.

January 19, 2008
Read More: Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton says he witnessed voter suppression

Bill Clinton, speaking at a Vegas YMCA last night, made more charges against Obama and claimed to have, with Chelsea, personally witnessed voter suppression by the Culinary Workers:

There is this whole business of the new politics. Well I got a taste of the new politics today. We need a new politics where we all love each other. You’ve heard all that. There’s a radio ad up in the northern part of Nevada telling Republicans that they ought to just register as Democrats for a day so they can beat Hillary and go out and be Republicans next week and vote in the primary. Doesn’t sound like the new politics to me.

Today when my daughter and I were wandering through the hotel, and all these culinary workers were mobbing us telling us they didn’t care what the union told them to do, they were gonna caucus for Hillary.

There was a representative of the organization following along behind us going up to everybody who said that, saying 'if you’re not gonna vote for our guy were gonna give you a schedule tomorrow so you can’t be there.' So, is this the new politics? I haven’t seen anything like that in America in 35 years. So I will say it again – they think they're better than you.

(The transcript was provided by one source with a recording of the event, and confirmed by another.)

To go over the facts here, the only publicly reported radio ad anything like what Clinton refers to is one that encourages Republicans and independents to caucus, but doesn't mention Hillary.

And the Vegas papers haven't found any evidence of the kind of straightforward voter suppression Clinton reports. The Obama campaign has suggested the Clinton campaign file formal complaints if it has evidence.

"This is ludicrous," Culinary Workers political director Pilar Weiss told Politico. She said the union is "aware that some workers aren't going to vote our way" and doesn't engage in intimidation.

"The fact that they lost a lawsuit aimed at suppressing workers' votes, and that now they're trying to hold on to these baseless claims is ridiculous," she said.

Weiss also said Clinton's claim is "technically impossible." Clinton supporters can ask union organizers -- who are actively promoting Obama's candidacy -- to add their names to the lists of workers who will take time off to caucus today. But signs posted around the casinos advertise another avenue to get the time off: Workers can go around the union and ask their managers directly.

"We have found it shocking that President Clinton has gotten so engaged in promoting these accusations," she said.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0108/Bill_Clinton_claims_he_witnessed_voter_suppression.html


This has an old familiar ring.

Remember how in New Hampshire the Clintons played the race card and then claimed that it was Obama who played the race card.

David Limbaugh correctly calls this pro-active jui jitsu.

Now here in Nevada The Clintons tried to suppress voter turnout with the lawsuit, and are now accusing Obama's people of voter suppression.

Same old Bill and Hillary Clinton.

Same old divide and conquer; do it the Clinton's way or they'll cry and blow up the process, destroy the hopes and dreams of Americans, and ruin it for every one.

They are a stain on this process.

It's time for Americans to tell the Clintons to go home.

Who are these people?

Who do they think they are?

All the Clintons do is complain.

They complain and don't want Obama to use Martin Luther King in his speeches.

They complain and don't want Obama to use John F. Kennedy in his speeches.

They complain when Obama uses Reagan in his speeches.

I get it, only the Clintons can use King, Kennedy and Reagan in their speeches. 

The Clintons complain that the media is unfair to them.

They play the race card and when Obama defends himself, they accuse Obama of playing the race card.

During the first debate they claimed that the moderator was being unfair to Hillary.  This was an intimidation tactic designed to warn future moderators to watch what they ask.

The Nevada rules, for 10 months, were OK with them until the Union endorsed Obama, then the Clintons and/or their surrogates complained and sued to have the Nevada rules changed at the last minute.

Now Hillary claims that the Nevada Unions are intmidating her supporters but offers no direct evidence:

"We know there are some unions in the South who are telling people who to caucus for and if they're not going to caucus for who they choose, don't come at all," said Clinton, who offered no direct evidence (HRC)."

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usnev0119,0,3127594.story?coll=ny_home_rail_headlines


They have trouble following the rules.  During the Nevada debate Hillary had to be warned about pushing the envelope in going over the allotted time.

They constantly break the rules.  During the Nevada debate the moderator asked each candidate to ask questions of one another.  When it came to Hillary's turn, instead of just asking a question, she gives a full-blown 3 minute speech about one of her programs and then asked the question.

Michigan and Florida were asked by the DNC not to move their primaries; which they ignored.  Florida's and Michigan's delegates were taken away from them as punishment.  The candidates were asked by the DNC not to participate in those two primaries.  No major candidate, neither Obama nor Edwards participated in Michigan, except Clinton.

Candidates can participate in private parties in Florida to raise money, but can't hold any public events in large arenas.  Drudge reports that the Clintons are looking into renting a large arena in Florida.

If Hillary can't follow the rules now, how can she be trusted to follow the Constitution?  We don't need another President who can't follow the Constitution.

If things don't go their way the Clintons are like petulant children, always complaining.

They were in deep trouble in New Hampshire and so they came up with this racist (spade work, etc), slash and burn campaign to trash Obama, trash the Black Community, forget South Carolina, go to Nevada and California to get the Hispanic and White Vote; at the expense of Black Votes.

The Clintons have made a political calculation that they don't need the black vote to win this election.  They will rely on white and Hispanic votes.  

This strategy is already working in Nevada and some in the black community are too tone deaf to see it.

"Clinton leads Obama, 41 percent to 32 percent, according to a poll this week of likely caucusgoers by the Las Vegas Review Journal. She has an advantage over Obama among Hispanics, women and older Nevadans."

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-usnev0119,0,3127594.story?coll=ny_home_rail_headlines


However, on the other hand, there has not been that much complaining from the Obama camp.

I used to be fond of the Clintons until they started lying on Obama and appealing to the lowest common denominator.

Now I wish they would just go away.  The Clintons had eight years to pass healthcare and could not get it done.

They think they can win this election by always crying, always playing the victim, accusing others of being racist when it is they themselves who are playing the race card, trashing the Black Community, lying, blaming the media, playing on racial divisons, and using the Chaney-Bush-Rove fear card.

It's time that America said "No,"  to the Clintons.

They had their chance.

It's time to give someone else a chance to do what they could not do.

Gloria Steinem, Hillary Clinton's friend played the race card first; lied and said black men have had an easier time to the top than white women.

Suzanne Field's correctly rebuts that in the Townhall article below:


Politics of Sex and Race
By Suzanne Fields
Thursday, January 17, 2008

When Al Gore chose Joe Lieberman as his running mate, Jews were elated -- and scared. Many worried that if he said or did anything wrong, everyone would blame the Jews. That never happened; there's little evidence that anti-Semitism played any role at all in the election of 2000.

Now there's a similar buzz among blacks, who fear the nomination of Barack Obama would unleash a racial backlash. Black reaction to certain of Bill and Hillary's remarks suggest just such fears. The most insulting remark, in the complaints of many blacks, was the question of emphasis in Hillary Clinton's remark that "Dr. [Martin Luther] King's dream began to be realized when President Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act." Fair enough (although a reference to her old civics textbook would remind Hillary that Congress passes legislation; presidents sign legislation into law). Then she added that "it took a president to get it done." That wasn't exactly wrong, but it wasn't smart. It wasn't racist, but it was polarizing. She diminished Martin Luther King Jr. and elevated Lyndon B. Johnson.

Questioned about her remarks on "Meet the Press," she told interviewer Tim Russert that "this campaign is not about gender, and I sure hope it's not about race." That's disingenuous and she knows it. She and her husband appeal to considerations of both gender (i.e. sex) and race, and so do many of their supporters.

Race and gender issues are frequently discussed together, but racial politics and gender politics are very different, historically and politically. Rights and injustices differ in degree, most dramatically perceived in the antebellum South, where many white women lived in plantation luxury through the hard work of black slaves. Both blacks and women campaigned vigorously for the vote, but blacks got the right to vote 50 years before women did. Nevertheless, blacks continued to suffer painful discrimination.

Many early feminists were abolitionists and crusaders for civil rights for blacks, but there was competitive tension in their rhetoric over the urgency of getting the vote. "Before Obama and Clinton, there was Douglass and Stanton," writes one black blogger, referring to the acrimonious debate in 1869 between feminist leader Elizabeth Cady Stanton and black abolitionist Frederick Douglass, the year before blacks won the right to vote.

Frederick Douglass framed the issue from a black perspective: "When women, because they are women, are hunted down through the cities of New York and New Orleans; when they are dragged from their houses and hung from lampposts; when their children are torn from their arms and their brains dashed out upon the pavement; when they are objects of insult and rage at every turn; when they are in danger of having their homes burnt down ... then they will have an urgency to obtain the ballot equal to our own."

Gloria Steinem drew race and gender parallels in an op-ed in The New York Times, but her emphasis was on sex: "Gender is probably the most restricting force in American life, whether the question is who must be in the kitchen or who could be in the White House." She didn't include in her "restricting force" the matter of who goes to college: There are many more women than men, and more black women than black men, enrolled in college and graduate school. Proportionately, black children suffer more the lack of fathers than white sons and daughters. African-American boys are more likely to drop out of high school, commit crimes and land in prison.

It's fine for Hillary to inspire our daughters to aspire to the highest rungs of power, but it's true that the feminist revolution yielded greater access to success for young women than the Civil Rights Movement yielded for young black men. There are several complicated reasons why, and Barack Obama is such an attractive candidate because he's an example of "making it" without a focus on color. No small thing.

But certain women still wave the feminist flag. Erika Jong, an aging member of the sisterhood, writes on Huffington Post that she's sick of "pink men" as well as "brown men and tan men and wheaten men" who argue, blather and bloviate with wrongheaded predictions for the future while insisting that women shut up.

"I know there are bad mothers, bad women, bad sisters, bad aunts, and bad females of every stripe. But I have seen enough men in high office to last a lifetime. Let's give women a chance." This is the latest feminist rationale for Hillary.

Suzanne Fields is a columnist with The Washington Times.

http://www.townhall.com/Common/Print.aspx

Senator Obama:

Sir, if you were suing GM would you use GM's lawyers, and expect to win the law suit?

Then why are you using old Clinton aides, in your campaign, and expecting to win?

Don't you know as soon as you go into senior strategic executive session with your top aides, the old Clinton aides get on the phone and call Clinton and tell him everything that was discussed?

This is self-evident.

For example, the earlier debate, the moderator asked you a question concerning the number of Clinton aides on your staff, and Hillary laughed and said, "I'd like to know that too!!!

That caught you by surprise didn't it?  But Hillary wasn't surprised at all.

Someone in your campaign leaked the information to the moderator, in my opinion.

I suspect there have been other leaks as well.

(I wonder why Hillary released her economic plan 36 hours before you released yours?  I'll bet you a years salary that you were going to release yours first, but someone in your campaigned leaked it to Bill; so they released first.  Sir, you are in deep trouble).

Just as the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs would not have on his staff, the Chairman of the Russian Joint Chiefs, in my opinion, you should not have Clinton aides working on your staff.

Otherwise, Bill Clinton is running Hillary's staff and yours.

Bill is picking your pockets clean.

I would advise you to clean house, if you expect to win.
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Sir, who is advising you?  Someone is advising you not to go on the news shows to explain your positions.

Whomever it is, they need to go.

Here's why:

You cannot win by keeping silent.

A highly decorated war General hero tried to win an election without talking.  He lost; despite being the odds on favorite.

General Westmoreland had laryngitis and couldn't talk; and lost the election.

Whomever advised you to stay away from the Sunday talk shows during New Hampshire, and not to respond to the Clintons, has committed a serious error.

You as an individual do not have to answer  every time, but when Clinton says something, your spokesman can say something to the effect like this:, "The Clintons are distorting my record again.  What they say is factually incorrect,"  and then give the correct information.

You have not in the case above compromised your principles; but you have an answer on record.

The American people would understand that you are defending yourself and not engaging in the gutter politics of the Clintons.

You have got to defend yourself!!!!

Also, who advised you to bring up Reagan's name, the most anti-union President in history,  on the eve of the Nevada vote?
 
If you did it on your own; then it was a bad move; and you should not repeat it.

It's a good strategy in the general but is a disaster in the primaries.

If staff suggested it, then fire them immediately, because they are working for Bill trying to sabotage your campaign.

David Axelrod is not an effective spokesman.  He has trouble speaking and stammers sometimes.  He might be bright, and can fit somewhere else in the campaign; but his bad speaking habits reflects badly upon you; and the people you would select if you were to win.

All Clinton's spokespersons past and present are excellent speakers; Myers-press lady; George Stephanopolous, etc.

On the the plus side for you, Tom Daschel is outstanding.  If all your spokespeople were in the mold of Daschel; it would be a tremendous boost for your campaign.
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Sir, why are you letting Hillary get away with filibustering during debate?

You have to be careful and hit back, without being too direct.  If you are too direct, then you'll lose some of the women's vote.  You have a very difficult job, but there is no doubt you must hit back!!!!

She stole your "Yes we can" slogan last night and you said nothing!!!

Sir, you could have said "True leadership is when others follow me.  Americans just saw Hillary use my slogan, thus following my lead.  Now, America, I must ask you, who is the true leader?
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I'm sure she ran over her time; the commentators said so.

In that case you could say, "Mr. moderator, are you going to enforce the time rule?"

And then you could say, "How can someone say they will follow the rules of law, the constitution, when they cannot even follow the time rules?"

You have to fight back!!!
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Hillary is challenging the rules in Nevada concerning Casino voting.

We know why: because she didn't get the Union endorsement.

For 10 months, the rules were ok with Hillary.

Two days after you got the endorsement she decides to sue.

Now she claims not to have known what the rules were.

You can nail her on that by saying:  "My opponent claims to be ready on day one in the Whitehouse, yet my opponent took ten months to understand the simple Nevada rules.

I do not call that ready to go on day one."
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When she says, "terrorist will strike a new President who does not have experience," you can say, "Is that the reason the terrorist struck the World Trade Center during the first Clinton Administration?"
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There might be a truce, but the Clintons are on full war footing, but being the gentleman that you are,  you are still at the gate.  Not good.

For example, she called your vote on the Energy Plan "Backwards."

That was a personal attack on your integrity and your intelligence, so you are justified in fighting back.

You should reply, "Not as backwards as the Chaney-Bush-Hillary Iraq war."
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You can tell she is on war footing:

Again, for example, after the Nevada debate, you were gracious enough to walk over and shake her hand; she barely acknowledge you.

And when you went over to sign autographs, instead of her starting at the opposite end of the stage, she came rudely right in your face and began to try and steal your spotlight as if she owned the whole stage.
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She's stolen your "Change" slogan as well as your "Yes we can" slogan.

She barely shook your hand.

She rudely boxed you in on stage, and came right into your spotlight.

She has stolen your "young people" strategy and her and Bill are playing to younger crowds.
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Hillary doesn't have an original idea.  She steals and cries her way to the top, and is jealous of your success.  Those are the most dangerous kind of people.  Jealous-hearted.  They'll do anything to win.
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You need to start fighting back if you want to win.
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When she gave her explanation about the "fear factor," she used to describe your inexperience,  you should have shot back, "yes, but it is still fear mongering."  

And don't let her get the last word.

If she persists, just turn to the camera and say, "the American people, having heard George Bush fearmonger us into the war in Iraq for 7 years, know fear mongering when they hear it."
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After each debate, do you have an after action plan?

The military uses after action plans to improve strategy.
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Sir, you did better on the Nevada debate than the last time.

I rated you the last time a C and Hillary an A.

This time, I rated you a B and Hillary an  A.
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Sir, why does Hillary know so much about your organization?

Is her opposition research team better than yours?

Simple, get rid of yours, and make your new team's OR better than hers.
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Sir, you have $100 million, so please get the best debate coach in the nation and practice, practice, practice.

You must not let her ramble on over her time limit, unchallenged.

You must not let her get the last word.

You must beat her in debate, period!!!!

Richard H. Collins nails the Clintons:


"You see, it can’t possibly be their fault. When campaign surrogates bring up Obama’s drug use, Hillary knew nothing about it. When they discus Obama’s Muslim background they meant it as a compliment. When they use potentially racist terms like “shuck and jive” to describe his campaign, it is just a poor choice of words. When Hillary herself says that Obama hasn’t done the “spade work” necessary to be president, there are clearly no racist connotations intended.

When her campaign lurches from awkward slogan to awkward slogan, when she fails to answer a straightforward question; when she gets in it to win and promptly places third; when Bill steps all over her message; this is all someone else’s fault - the media being the prime culprit.

The surprise win in New Hampshire temporarily put a smile back on Bill and Hillary’s faces and put aside the media attacks. Remarkably, after “thirty-five years of being an agent of change” Hillary claimed to have finally found her voice.

Call me cynical, but Hillary doesn’t have “a voice.” She has a driving ambition to be president and an inability to tolerate anyone who stands in her way.

It doesn’t take a pollster to predict this penchant for blaming others will return the moment she starts losing again.

After all, it can’t be her fault (RHC)."


http://www.townhall.com/columnists/RichardHCollins/2008/01/15/barack_the_second_black_president?page=full&comments=true

David Limbaugh got it right.

Hillary's camp was the first to use the race card.

"But you'll note that Obama had not used the race card against Hillary. Hillary brought up the subject herself and then falsely accused Obama of having raised it so that she could deftly "respond" and perhaps neutralize his presumed race advantage with Democratic voters.

Hillary was employing a tactic I'll call preemptive, pro-active political Jiu-Jitsu. The art of Jiu-Jitsu involves using an attacker's energy against him rather than directly opposing it. But Hillary modified the Jiu-Jitsu technique by fabricating her opponent's attack so that she could react and score points -- on race.

She used the same modified Jiu-Jitsu approach in New Hampshire in appealing to women. She skillfully exploited the near-tear moment to show her human side and then falsely accused mostly unnamed men of sexism for saying she looked weak and unpresidential (who said that?), thereby appealing to women for solidarity against this largely fictitious attack (DL)." 

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/DavidLimbaugh/2008/01/15/hillarys_pro-active_political_jiu-jitsu

CHEER!!!

CHEER!!!

CHEER!!!

GO GET THEM MICHELLE!!!

GOOD FOR YOU!!!

"I know about the sense of doubt and fear about what the future holds, that keeps us hoping and waiting for a turn that will never come," she said. "There are a lot of doubters and naysayers out there talking about, 'I'm not sure America is ready for a black president.'"

But she declared that "we are more ready and prepared than we can ever know."

Greeted by a standing ovation when she took the stage at the opening of the Trumpet Awards - an event celebrating black achievement - she went on to criticize anyone who would "dismiss this moment as an illusion, a fairy tale" in an obvious reference to comments made by Bill Clinton, the spouse of her husband's main rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, who used the term "fairy tale" to refer to Obama's characterization of his position on the Iraq war.

Among that group, she included blacks who might be skeptical about whether Obama is electable. She pointed to his showing in Iowa and New Hampshire and said she is optimistic about his chances in the upcoming South Carolina Democratic primary - when the black vote will first factor into the election.

"We had a miraculous victory in Iowa," Michelle Obama said. "Ain't no black people in Iowa! Something big, something new is happening. Let's build the future we all know is possible. Let's show our kids that America is ready for Barack Obama right now."

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080114/D8U5B0EG0.html

It wasn't Jesse and Al who interjected race into the Presidential race at this point, post Iowa, pre-New Hampshire, but Hilliary Clinton's friend Gloria Steinem, who said this:

"That’s why the Iowa primary was following our historical pattern of making change. Black men were given the vote a half-century before women of any race were allowed to mark a ballot, and generally have ascended to positions of power, from the military to the boardroom, before any women (with the possible exception of obedient family members in the latter)(GS)."
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Not only was Steinem first but she happens to be incorrect:

For example, white Madeline Albright was Secretary of State before Colin Powell.

White women have been heads of major hollywood studios. No black man has ever been head of any major studio.

White Sally Ride, who was not a pilot,(then a prerequisite to the astranaut corps), went first into space ahead of the better qualified black pilots, many of whom had Ph.Ds.

White women were citizens at the birth of the nation. It took blacks 300 years to become citizens. In fact Chief Justice of the Supreme Court said "Free or slave, blacks were not now citizens, were never intended to be citizens, and will never be citizens." (Dred Scott-1856}.

White women never had to pay poll taxes. Black people did.

White women never had their votes suppressed.  Black men and women have had and continue to bear the brunt of voter suppression.

So this notion that blacks have had an easier path than white women is pure right-wing fiction coming from Ms. Steinem, a so called liberal.

And this notion that black people are the first to play the race card is also pure fiction.

Obama, you can beat Hillary.

Nobody cares that Baltimore ALMOST beat the Patriots.  The fact is the Patriots won. Obama needs to concentrate on what he needs to do to win, and not worry about Hillary.

Tiger doesn't worry about what Ernie is going to do; Tiger just concentrates on what Tiger has to do to win.  If Tiger brings his A-game, then it doesn't matter what Ernie or Hillary does.

If Obama is not thinking like Tiger, then close up shop now, and spare us the misery later on. So far as I can see, Obama has his C-game.

For example, in the 24 hours after Iowa, Obama was still talking about Iowa, while Hillary was game-planning for New Hampshire.

Twenty-four hours after New Hampshire, Obama is in South Carolina, while Hillary is not only in Nevada and California, but is going to do an hour with Russert; and has a stimulus package as well. A grand-slam home run, while Obama has a bunt single in South Carolina.

Hillary is on her A-game. Obama is still stuck on his C-game.

This election is too serious to play.
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If Gore had won his home state of Tennessee, then Florida would not have been in play; and Gore would have been President.

If Obama had won the New Hampshire Saturday night debate, then it would not have mattered what else Hillary did.  She could have cried from here to Mississippi, and it would not have mattered. But Obama didn't win. She cleaned Obama's clock; from jump street.

The first question was about Pakhistan. Edwards, Obama and Richardson gave some mealy-mouth responses; but not Hillary. Hillary gave a five point program that was clear, concise and logical.

Bam!!!
Bam!!!
Bam!!!
Bam!!!
Bam!!!

Game over; three minutes into the debate.

Obama, I tell you this; unless you can out debate Bill Clinton, pack up your stuff and go home. Someone in the audience is saying, "Bill Clinton is not running," and completely miss the point entirely.

The Airforce demostration team, "The Thunderbirds" are not running for President either, but everyone in America has seen them in their minds eye, and know what precison flying is. They know what it looks like.

They know what top debaters look like and sound like; and they know Bill is one of the best.

So if you can't beat Bill; go home.

Think about this.  Bill knows he can beat you.  He just did.  Sure it was a lying, swift boat dirty tricks un-American, racist job, but he beat you just the same.

You have $100 million, go out and get you the best debate coaches in the world and practice, practice, practice.

Know your economics cold.  Know your monetary policy.  Know your marginal rates. Know your Finance. Know your foreign policy cold.

Do you have a think tank behind you? Reagan had AEI and Laffer behind him. Let America know that you know budget and you have sound economic policies behind you. If you don't know much about a subject; don't try and fake it; just know what you do know, COLD.

Wilt had the flash and dash 100 points per game, but 13 points per game, Russell beat him every time. Russell didn't try and match Wilt, but what he did know, he knew it cold.

Beat Hillary in debate and it doesn't matter what else she does.
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Do you monitor radio stations and rebut the callers?

Get that done.
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News Cycle.  McGovern's "Come Home America" was one of the best speeches ever given, but nobody heard at 2AM; way outside of the news cycle.

Bill answers within the news cycle. Master that news cycle stuff.
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Parcells started the Superbowl off with an on-side kick; and went on to win the Superbowl. Nobody starts a game off with an-side kick; it was one of the most brilliant moves in sports history.

What is your masterful surprise play; something no one has ever seen before?
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Where's Michelle? That lady is a genius.

I saw her give two superb 45 minute speeches on C-SPAN without notes; and blew everything Hill and Bill were saying, away.  If people think Hillary is something, I'll bet Michele is better.

One lady was overheard in the C-SPAN audience after Michelle's speech, "Can a wife be vice-president?"

I know she has to take care of the kids; but she has to get out there and win one for the old home team.
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Finally, Al Davis says, "Winning is expected." Obama, we expect you to WIN.  If you can't bring that C game to an A and win, then just go home now and spare us the misery.

If Obama doesn't do it this time, I know Harold Ford and Julian Bond can match Bill in debate; for next time.

In Summary, "Beat Hillary in debate!!!"