Geraldine Ferraro stepped down from her post on Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's Finance Committee (no wonder they lost money), but left this letter to Clinton obtained by CNN's Suzanne Malveaux, which, to me, serves as a warning to Clinton and the Democratic Party:
Dear Hillary -
I am stepping down from your finance committee so I can speak for myself and you can continue to speak for yourself about what is at stake in this campaign.
The Obama campaign is attacking me to hurt you.
I won't let that happen.
Thank you for everything you have done and continue to do to make this a better world for my children and grandchildren.
You have my deep admiration and respect.
Gerry
What this says to me is that Ferraro will continue to be a divisive force in the Democratic Party. What's bothersome is that she refuses to see that she's causing damage. She will drive a great many people to Barack Obama. I say, Horray! for this, but I'm concerned about the Democratic Party and I think Pelosi needs to step in and stop this crap once and for all.
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Emperor's Club VIP Website "Disabled"
UPDATE: Spitzer's Call Girl
Emperor's Club VIP, the escort service that was to have played host to Eliot Spitzer's extramarital prostitution affairs, has a website which until this week probably saw very little traffic. Not anymore. Even though it does not come up on an Alexa search, it was reported when I Googled the site that it's "disabled" due to traffic.
Wow. But it's interesting that Alexa can't list it for ranking, but perhaps Alexa's overrated anyway!
UPDATE: Ashley Dupre A Millionaire From Scandal
Emperor's Club VIP, the escort service that was to have played host to Eliot Spitzer's extramarital prostitution affairs, has a website which until this week probably saw very little traffic. Not anymore. Even though it does not come up on an Alexa search, it was reported when I Googled the site that it's "disabled" due to traffic.
Wow. But it's interesting that Alexa can't list it for ranking, but perhaps Alexa's overrated anyway!
UPDATE: Ashley Dupre A Millionaire From Scandal
GOV'S WANKY IN HANKY-PANKY!! > Spitzer Spent $80,000 On Prostitutes - NY Post
Ok. I had to try one of those NY Post-style headlines. What a riot! But less funny is the unfolding story of New Yok Gov. Eliot Spitzer and his reported fooling around with an escort service called Emperors Club VIP , (and for which its website has been "disabled").
Now the Post reports that Spitzer may have paid as much as $80,000 for call-girl service over a 10-year period. That's more than many people make in a year!
Stay tuned.
Now the Post reports that Spitzer may have paid as much as $80,000 for call-girl service over a 10-year period. That's more than many people make in a year!
Stay tuned.
NY Senator Moynihan’s Widow Endorses Barack Obama
Mrs. Moynihan said, "...I know Pat would approve, applaud and encourage me to join Caroline Kennedy in supporting Barack Obama’s candidacy for the Democratic nomination for president of the United States." Senator Moynihan, who represented New York from 1977 to 2001, strongly supported Mrs. Clinton’s candidacy for the NY Senate seat. But it also telling that even as she supported Hillary for her seat, Mrs. Moynihan went against her for President. I think -- oh, and this is another Superdelegate win for Obama -- that there's some backlash agains the way the Clintons are ripping the Democratic Party apart for their own power grab.
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Mesquite Texas, Precinct 2312 - 200 Voters Locked Out
With the data coming in explaining that Barack Obama won the Texas Caucus, you'd think it was over, but not exactly. This voter, an Obama supporter named Avia Rice, is sharing what reads like a minor horror story down there..
Hello All:
I just got home from the Mesquite, Precinct 2312, and we waited for over 1 hour to only find out that our chairperson never showed up. We were given several numbers to call and nothing was ever resolved. The dallas county election person that handled the primary ran our meeting, when she shouldn't have, and assured us that our paper votes would count. THis was so discouraging. Once the announcments were made that we weren't aware of her wherabouts, about 20 people left and hten another 25 or so left when we were told that we were to vote on paper.
I will be calling and complaining to the Democratic party chair and well as trying to contact the media. Its very interesting that this was running rapid in Mesquite, Garland and Desoto where voters are heavily African Amercan and Hispanic. We got news that about 200 people in Desoto were locked out of the school and never let in to even try to Caucus.
What else should I do to report this?
Hello All:
I just got home from the Mesquite, Precinct 2312, and we waited for over 1 hour to only find out that our chairperson never showed up. We were given several numbers to call and nothing was ever resolved. The dallas county election person that handled the primary ran our meeting, when she shouldn't have, and assured us that our paper votes would count. THis was so discouraging. Once the announcments were made that we weren't aware of her wherabouts, about 20 people left and hten another 25 or so left when we were told that we were to vote on paper.
I will be calling and complaining to the Democratic party chair and well as trying to contact the media. Its very interesting that this was running rapid in Mesquite, Garland and Desoto where voters are heavily African Amercan and Hispanic. We got news that about 200 people in Desoto were locked out of the school and never let in to even try to Caucus.
What else should I do to report this?
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Mayor Nutter: Clinton-Backer Says Obama Will Be President
Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter's backing Senator Hillary Clinton for president over Barack Obama. But that's not stopped him from predicting that Obama will be the 44th President of the United States. Read this from Ben Waxman's blog:
Nutter, Brady, Fattah, and Knox all appeared at a mayoral forum at Central High School in Philadelphia. They were asked to predict who the next president would be. Here is Nutter's answer:
The candidates also were asked to predict who would be the next U.S. president.
Taubenberger, who heads the Greater Northeast Philadelphia Chamber of Commerce, named a fellow Republican, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani. Brady was next: Hillary Clinton. "The Democrat," Fattah said. Knox seconded that.
"I'll go out on a limb. Sen. [Barack] Obama," Nutter said, yielding to a crescendo of applause and whoops from the young audience at the mention of the Illinois Democrat.
With that kind of reaction, Nutter should consider a switch. But that would be hard to obtain because Obama supported Nutter's Mayoral challenger U.S. Representative Chaka Fattah in the race for Mayor of Philadelphia. Nutter won, obviously. But it's also apparent to Nutter that he's backing the wrong horse in this presidential race.
Obama Wins Texas | Clinton Lost Texas | Obama Gains 99 Delegates
The Texas Secretary of State is set to certify the official election results for the Democratic primary. As predicted, Barack Obama has beaten Hillary Clinton. While Clinton won the state's popular vote, Obama racked up more caucus support, so that, now that the final tally is in, the Lone Star state's delegate total reads: Obama - 99 delegates versus Clinton's 95 delegates. So, if someone from CNN, or Fox, or MSNBC, or CBS, or ABC says Clinton won Texas, you can email this to them and laugh heartily.
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Clinton Backer Geraldine Ferraro's History Of Racism - Ben Smith In The Politico
Give Ben Smith credit for digging up this bit of history on Geraldine Ferraro's love of racist comments from 1988 using a Lexis search:
"If Jesse Jackson were not black, he wouldn't be in the race," she said.
Really. The cite is an April 15, 1988 Washington Post story (byline: Howard Kurtz), available only on Nexis.
Here's the full context:
Placid of demeanor but pointed in his rhetoric, Jackson struck out repeatedly today against those who suggest his race has been an asset in the campaign. President Reagan suggested Tuesday that people don't ask Jackson tough questions because of his race. And former representative Geraldine A. Ferraro (D-N.Y.) said Wednesday that because of his "radical" views, "if Jesse Jackson were not black, he wouldn't be in the race."
Asked about this at a campaign stop in Buffalo, Jackson at first seemed ready to pounce fiercely on his critics. But then he stopped, took a breath, and said quietly, "Millions of Americans have a point of view different from" Ferraro's.
Discussing the same point in Washington, Jackson said, "We campaigned across the South . . . without a single catcall or boo. It was not until we got North to New York that we began to hear this from Koch, President Reagan and then Mrs. Ferraro . . . . Some people are making hysteria while I'm making history."
I would say that Ferraro's making history again, er, "making hysteria" again, I should say.
Geez.
Also on February 27th she appeared on John Gibson and said the same "Obama's Winning Because He's Not White!" crap. Wow.
"If Jesse Jackson were not black, he wouldn't be in the race," she said.
Really. The cite is an April 15, 1988 Washington Post story (byline: Howard Kurtz), available only on Nexis.
Here's the full context:
Placid of demeanor but pointed in his rhetoric, Jackson struck out repeatedly today against those who suggest his race has been an asset in the campaign. President Reagan suggested Tuesday that people don't ask Jackson tough questions because of his race. And former representative Geraldine A. Ferraro (D-N.Y.) said Wednesday that because of his "radical" views, "if Jesse Jackson were not black, he wouldn't be in the race."
Asked about this at a campaign stop in Buffalo, Jackson at first seemed ready to pounce fiercely on his critics. But then he stopped, took a breath, and said quietly, "Millions of Americans have a point of view different from" Ferraro's.
Discussing the same point in Washington, Jackson said, "We campaigned across the South . . . without a single catcall or boo. It was not until we got North to New York that we began to hear this from Koch, President Reagan and then Mrs. Ferraro . . . . Some people are making hysteria while I'm making history."
I would say that Ferraro's making history again, er, "making hysteria" again, I should say.
Geez.
Also on February 27th she appeared on John Gibson and said the same "Obama's Winning Because He's Not White!" crap. Wow.
Obama Wining In Mississippi By 16 Points
As of this writing, Senator Barack Obama's winning in Mississippi by 16 points, 57 to 41 percent on Fox, CNN, and MSNBC. Obama's projected to win, so the only question is by how much. Stay tuned.
Ferraro: "They're Attacking Me Because I'm White!
One day after Clinton backer and former Vice Presidential Candidate Geraldine Ferraro said that Senator Barack Obama had the campaign advantage because he's Black, she's opened her obviously lively mouth again. Today, in the same publication where she gave the interview, Ferraro said "They're Attacking Me Because I'm White!"
The full text is here:
NEWSPAPER: But far from backing off from her initial remark, Ferraro defended it and elaborated on it.
FERRARO: "Any time anybody does anything that in any way pulls this campaign down and says let's address reality and the problems we're facing in this world, you're accused of being racist, so you have to shut up," Ferraro said. "Racism works in two different directions. I really think they're attacking me because I'm white. How's that?"
Geez.
Senator Clinton has said that Ferraro's comments were not welcome. But now, she's got a fresh set of stupid Ferraro comments to deal with. Of course, all of this just fires up the Obama supporters and Ferraro may have sealed the deal for Clinton's eventual loss by pissing of rank-and-file Dems.
The full text is here:
NEWSPAPER: But far from backing off from her initial remark, Ferraro defended it and elaborated on it.
FERRARO: "Any time anybody does anything that in any way pulls this campaign down and says let's address reality and the problems we're facing in this world, you're accused of being racist, so you have to shut up," Ferraro said. "Racism works in two different directions. I really think they're attacking me because I'm white. How's that?"
Geez.
Senator Clinton has said that Ferraro's comments were not welcome. But now, she's got a fresh set of stupid Ferraro comments to deal with. Of course, all of this just fires up the Obama supporters and Ferraro may have sealed the deal for Clinton's eventual loss by pissing of rank-and-file Dems.
Clinton Backer Geraldine Ferraro's Racism In Full National View
Geraldine Ferraro was one person that, as an even younger version of me, I looked up to. After today, I don't. What's unfortunatel about this election is just how many Democratic poiticians I respected who've turned out to have such racist views.
It's something that I should have expected given that for the first time a man of African-American decent in Barack Obama has the chance -- a real great chance -- to be the next, the 44th President of the United States. This prospect has caused those like Ferraro to show their real "colors".
This is what Ferraro said to the DailyBreeze in Southern California :
NEWSPAPER: When the subject turned to Obama, Clinton's rival for the Democratic Party nomination, Ferraro's comments took on a decidedly bitter edge.
FERRARO: "I think what America feels about a woman becoming president takes a very secondary place to Obama's campaign - to a kind of campaign that it would be hard for anyone to run against," she said. "For one thing, you have the press, which has been uniquely hard on her. It's been a very sexist media. Some just don't like her. The others have gotten caught up in the Obama campaign.
"If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position," she continued. "And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept." Ferraro does not buy the notion of Obama as the great reconciler.
"I was reading an article that said young Republicans are out there campaigning for Obama because they believe he's going to be able to put an end to partisanship," Ferraro said, clearly annoyed. "Dear God! Anyone that has worked in the Congress knows that for over 200 years this country has had partisanship - that's the way our country is."
This is stupid. There were many "white men" in this position. I think of the excitement of Mario Cuomo's run. And what about John F. Kennedy. Let's see. JFK's a white man whom Obama's compared to.
Nuts. Totally awful how some Democrats -- ok, some white Democrats -- have revealed themselves to have such racist views.
McCain Advisors Lobbied For Airbus Deal Over Boeing
In a case of "WFT!?!" Senator John McCain's advisors lobbied for the Airbus $35 billion Air Force tanker contract over Boeing. That's an outrage and McCain should say "I'm sorry" to the people of Washington State.
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