Michelle Obama at a rally for her husband at the Chicago campus of the University of Illinois. Tribune photo by E. Jason Wambsgans.
by Mark Silva
Just last month, Michelle Obama was remarking at a fundraiser for her husband, Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama: “In the past week or two, another candidate’s spouse has been getting an awful lot of attention.’’
Not any more.
It is no longer Bill Clinton, husband of Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, who is drawing the headlines. This is, in part, by design, following a spate of comments by the former president that may have hurt his wife’s candidacy more than his own continuing appeal on the campaign trail helped.
It is now Michelle Obama who, with her own comments in recent weeks, may also have created more controversy than comfort for her husband’s candidacy.
Last week, the Illinois senator’s wife complained in Ohio that opponents are invoking the candidate’s middle name – Hussein, the birth-given name of his Kenyan grandfather – as a political wedge aimed at instilling ethnic hostility. The name, she said, serves as “the ultimate fear bomb’’ in the contest between Obama and Clinton.
Earlier this month, campaigning for her husband in Wisconsin, Michelle Obama declared: “For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country." She probably would have said that a little differently, had she had another chance. "I've got to be careful not to be the story,’’ she told a reporter aboard her campaign bus. “Because it becomes a distraction to the broader issues."
The question, for Michelle Obama and Bill Clinton, may be how much distraction from the broader issues they have created at critical junctures in the campaign – or whether Michelle Obama has helped focus voters on some of the underlying cultural dynamics in this titanic contest.
Role reversal: Ten years ago on the South Lawn, the fellow holding the leash was president. Photo by Roberto Borea / AP.
Clinton’s dismissal of Obama’s victory in the South Carolina primary, likening his campaign to that of the Rev. Jesse Jackson’s 20 years before, left him vulnerable to criticism for playing “the race card.’’
Michelle Obama’s criticism for the Hussein “fear bomb,’’ near the eve of critical primary elections in Ohio and Texas, may have left her vulnerable to similar criticism.
The two, Michelle Obama and Bill Clinton, have something in common.
They are bright and charismatic.
They were both schooled at the nation’s finest law schools – he at Yale Law, she at Harvard Law. Her Ivy League credentials run deeper than his: She drew her bachelor’s degree from Princeton, graduating cum laude, though he graduated from Georgetown, and won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University.
He is a fighter – “summoning the God of second chances’’ for his wife on the campaign trail these days. She is a fighter, readily countering Hillary Clinton’s claim recently that she, as the party’s nominee, could be more experienced as fending off the inevitable Republican criticism than Barack Obama might be.
"We live in Chicago, people!" Michelle Obama told a crowd in California. “Don’t worry whether Barack is tough enough.’’
And then last week in Ohio, she challenged critics tossing around her husband’s middle name for political effect. “When all else fails, be afraid of his name, and what that could stand for, because he’s different,’’ she said. “When people are threatened by real change, they will say anything to stop it.
“But we also learned that the American people can stand the truth,’’ she said.
Truth is hard to gauge in a political campaign.
Bill Clinton’s campaigning for Hillary Clinton has impaired his own image, if not hers.
The former president’s favorable rating has taken “a slight dip in recent months,’’ the Gallup Poll reported this month. “His rating is down to 50 percent in the current poll, compared with a 56 percent reading in October, the last time the favorability question was asked.’’
Both Michelle Obama and Bill Clinton would be likely to play more than a passive role in the White House, she as first lady, he as the first first man.
Bill and Hillary Clinton met at law school. Barack and Michelle Obama met at the law firm in Chicago, Sidley Austin, where both were working.
One of Barack Obama’s favorite campaign lines: “I am reminded by every day of my life -- if not by events, then by my wife -- that I am not a perfect man."
And then, no one is perfect.
Michelle Obama found herself having to explain her remarks about her pride in America, telling a TV station in Rhode Island: “What I was clearly talking about was that I'm proud in how Americans are engaging in the political process.
“For the first time in my lifetime, I'm seeing people rolling up their sleeves in a way that I haven't seen and really trying to figure this out,’’ she said in the state, one of four voting Tuesday. “That's the source of pride that I was talking about."
The country, she readily says, isn’t the same land of opportunity today that she grew up in, coming from the South Side of Chicago. It’s harder for families to make ends meet.
“The life that I am talking about that most people are living has gotten progressively worse since I was a little girl,’’ Michelle Obama has said. “And this is through Republican and Democratic administrations. It doesn't matter who was in the White House. . . . So if you want to pretend there was some point over the last couple of decades when your lives were easy, I wanna meet you!"
The clock is running on the primaries that may settle this campaign for the Democratic nomination, or thrust it into another contentious few months.
Bill Clinton has been relegated to a small-town circuit of campaign travel lately, keeping him out of the line of sight of the national media that he once taunted so willingly, taking them to task for their coverage of his wife’s campaign.
Mariachi bands have been accompanying the former president in Texas.
After the music stops on Tuesday, one of these irrepressible players may have a better shot at becoming the nation’s first lady, or the nation’s first man.







Comments
They are goth proof that spouses of presidential candiadte are better seen than heard from.
p.s. allot of upwardly mobile corporate woman I know are very interested in Michelle Obama. Then again these are educated voters who generally vote republican. True.
Posted by: An Inconvenient Truth | March 2, 2008 7:27 AM
bill "hussein" r.,
I like it.
An Inconvenient Truth,
Is "goth proof" evidence or insulation? :-)
Posted by: Doug "Hussein" Zook | March 2, 2008 8:32 AM
Michelle Obama does generate a great deal of interest. Women like myself see her as being a strong role model, and do not believe for one minute, the blown out of proportion story about her being unpatriotic. The quote was couched with pride in America's interest in the Obama campaign. I have no doubt the lunatic fringe will be jumping all over that quote here today, besmirching the good name of a potential first lady that women can identify with very strongly. Her husband isn't to bad either! I wish the Obama's all the best in bringing America a change in direction that we so desperately need. We believe in you both Michelle. Elect Obama in 2008 and beyond.
Posted by: blonde bombshell | March 2, 2008 8:42 AM
Michelle will be an excellent first lady. Most voters do not look forward to Bill in the White House with nothing to do.
Posted by: David | March 2, 2008 8:57 AM
Hillary’s insinuations about people that have a dream are not surprising, after she lost her dreams following the scandals and lies of her spouse. The fish starts to stink from the head. Look at the current state of the nation. It doesn’t need more hardened politicians and liars, nor trigger happy faces looking for more guns. We hope Obama continues to dream and talk more folks off other candidates’ drum wagons. We all need to have a dream.
Posted by: Les Papier | March 2, 2008 8:58 AM
David,
It's 3:00 a.m., an aide yells into the room "President Clinton, come quick!"
Thus ensues a HillBillarry logjam in the doorway. What do you do? How do you prevent it?
Oh yeah...
!GOBAMA!
Posted by: Doug "Hussein" Zook | March 2, 2008 9:07 AM
OBAMA LOOSES JOBS FOR MINORITIES
Ms. Obama, VP Chicago Hosp, that charges minorities 6 times as much, isn’t cold hearted enough; she also caused hundreds to loose their 11.hr jobs, to be more efficient she said! In 05, elected to the BOD Westchester-based TreeHouse Foods, she received $12,000 and $33,000 from a subsidiaries, in Nov announced closing its La Junta, plant, that claimed the jobs of 153 workers, most of them Hispanic! Huge blow to a rural town jobs paid a starting wage of $11hr, Company pays top execs like MICHELLE OBAMA tens of millions a year while destroying middle-class America. Raises the question not only about corporate values but about Barrack Obama's own values. Specifically, while he bashes Wal-Mart, why does his wife, make $45,000 and up a year serving on the board of Chicago comp that pays her a very hefty amount of money while laying off mostly minority workers in economically deprived areas? No. 1 customer is Wal-Mart???
Obamas attack on middle class and minorities- The Crowns and employees of their family-run holding company have given at least $195,000 to Obama's presidential campaign. Maytag shut the Galesburg plant after Labor Day 2004 Union member say senator did little to save jobs in the blue-collar town of 37,000. Obama connection to Maytag: Lester Crown, company's director’s records show, has raised tens of thousands of dollars for Obama's campaigns. Maytag shut the Galesburg plant after Labor Day 2004.Michelle Obama: "Don't Go Into Corporate America" [Byron York]
I have a new story today about Michelle Obama's visit to Zanesville, Ohio, where she met with a group of women at a local day care center. According to the U.S. Census, Muskingum County, where Zanesville is located, had a median household income of $37,192 in 2004, below both the Ohio and national averages. Just 12.2 percent of adults in the county have a bachelor's degree or higher, also well below the state and national averages. About 20 percent don't have a high school degree. Nevertheless, Mrs. Obama urged them to foreswear lucrative professions like corporate law or hedge fund management and go into the helping industry, even if the sacrifice is great:
As she has many times in the past, Mrs. Obama complains about the lasting burden of student loans dating from her days at Princeton and Harvard Law School. She talks about people who end up taking years and years, until middle age, to pay off their debts. “The salaries don’t keep up with the cost of paying off the debt, so you’re in your 40s, still paying off your debt at a time when you have to save for your kids,” she says.
“Barack and I were in that position,” she continues. “The only reason we’re not in that position is that Barack wrote two best-selling books… It was like Jack and his magic beans. But up until a few years ago, we were struggling to figure out how we would save for our kids.” A former attorney with the white-shoe Chicago firm of Sidley & Austin, Obama explains that she and her husband made the choice to give up lucrative jobs in favor of community service. “We left corporate America, which is a lot of what we’re asking young people to do,” she tells the women. “Don’t go into corporate America. You know, become teachers. Work for the community. Be social workers. Be a nurse. Those are the careers that we need, and we’re encouraging our young people to do that. But if you make that choice, as we did, to move out of the money-making industry into the helping industry, then your salaries respond.” Faced with that reality, she adds, “many of our bright stars are going into corporate law or hedge-fund management.”
What she doesn’t mention is that the helping industry has treated her pretty well. In 2006, the Chicago Tribune reported that Mrs. Obama’s compensation at the University of Chicago Hospital, where she is a vice president for community affairs, jumped from $121,910 in 2004, just before her husband was elected to the Senate, to $316,962 in 2005, just after he took office. And that does not count the money Mrs. Obama receives from serving on corporate boards. She would have been O.K. even without Jack’s magic beans.
Mrs. Obama also bemoaned the amount of money she has to spend — nearly one-third of the median household income in Zanesville — on piano, dance, and other lessons for her two children. But she was grateful for the concern her husband's supporters have shown for her. "Everywhere I go, no matter what, the women in the audience, their first question for me is, 'How on earth are you managing it, how are you keeping it all together?'" she told the women.
Posted by: sick of obamas | March 2, 2008 9:28 AM
I am truly amazed at the lack of intelligence of the American people. Lets see if I can put this into words that you people can understand. You have a home and a family that lives with you. Your family each helps out with the cost of living. Roof over the head, water, food ect... You take that money they give you and spend it on other things. But now hmmmm you don't have money for the family. Lets borrow some from the neighbor across the street. All better now! Now lets do this every day! Family is happy, we are doing a good job in their eyes, so lets just keep spending their cash and keep borrowing. One day this debt will have to be paid. You will lose the roof over your heads. It is happening now. And all you people want to do is vote for people that want to spend more and more!!!! We have a government that is soooo huge!! Why??? If they were doing such a great job why the hell are we so in debt!?!?! If this was a business the stock holders would be chopping off heads!!! You people have forgotten, we are the boss's. We are suppose to TELL the government what to do! Not the other way around. If some Bully was at your school growing up taking all yours and the other kids lunch money every day and telling you it was for your own good, would you let it go on??? I would beat the little sh#ts a$$! Stand up America. Quit being bullied around! We revolted against England because of a 2 percent tax. Yes, 2 percent!!!!! It's funny how the one person that knows how to get us out of this mess is being silenced. What does that tell you???
Grim XIII
Ron Paul Revolution
Posted by: Grim XIII | March 2, 2008 9:31 AM
Everyone needs to take a look at why Tim Russert tried to get Hillary to release White House Diaries and Calendars. Look up Paul vs. Clinton on any search engine and you will find out why!
Posted by: Dan Sample | March 2, 2008 9:31 AM
Bill Clinton was one of the biggest embarrasments to the nation that we have ever had in the White House. He has a history of total lack of self control. Do we really want him living in the White House again? How far would Hilary go to cover up his next sex scandal? That puts our National Security at risk.
Posted by: Nolan | March 2, 2008 9:32 AM
BILL CLINTON ONCE MORE IN THE WITE HOUSE?? NO WAY.
WITH A PRIVATE OFFICE AND AN INTERN UNDER UNDER THE DESK? NO WAY. HIS OFFICE SHOULD NOT HAVE A DOOR AND THE DESK MADE OF COLORLESS GLASS. AND A SIGN AT THE ENTRANCE "NO FEMALES PAST THIS POINT"
I WILL GO FOR A CHANGE.
Posted by: samuel gonzalez-moreno | March 2, 2008 9:43 AM
Michelle should shut up.
Posted by: John James | March 2, 2008 9:44 AM
We are at the cusp of history. Are we going to venture out into the western frontier of hope - or are we going to stay home and take our medicine....
http://thefiresidepost.com/2008/02/20/america-hope-or-prozac-nation/
Posted by: Ohg Rea Tone | March 2, 2008 9:47 AM
I've never fathomed the fascination with first spouses (and other family). There's one president. The spouse will be at best a mild plus and at worst a mild distraction. (The former president, of course, is different, and this illustrates why we need an unofficial one-president-per-power-couple rule. A gaffe from Bill will be important in a way that a Cindy or Michelle gaffe will never be.)
Posted by: Deborah | March 2, 2008 9:48 AM
RE:
Michelle Obama, Bill Clinton, first lady, first man?
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LETTER TO PRESIDENT CLINTON
Montreal, March 22, 1995
President William Jefferson Clinton
President of the United States of America
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
Washington, DC 20500
U.S.A.
Mister President:
Please allow me to take the opportunity of your visit to Haiti, as President of the United States of America, on March 31, 1995, to pay due tribute in all sincerity to you and your distinguished wife, Mrs. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
You honor Haiti and the Haitian people with your presence and support.
Thanks to you and your allies in the United Nations and the Organization of American States, the return-to-democracy process has been successfully carried out. Now that the legitimate President, Jean Bertrand Aristide, has been reinstated in his official status, it is with legitimate pride, I am sure that he welcomes you to his country. For you, as well as for us, the "Uphold Democracy" operation is truly a beautiful historical moment.
Mr. President, I come from Haiti, that underdeveloped country.
With underdeveloped tools — a camera and a few films — I have tried, in order to serve my country’s cause, to demystify the word "Light" and denounce Newton’s Theory of Colors.
With that same desire to serve constitutional legitimacy in my country, I have written the enclosed book entitled Haiti, Let There Be Light! I hope that you and Mrs. Clinton will accept this privately produced copy, especially intended for you, while you are getting ready for your trip to Haiti.
May I make a confession to you, Mr. President? I followed, closely and with intense interest, your electoral campaign, election, and swearing-in ceremony as 42nd President of the United States. What a great nation you represent! Please believe me: your courageous commitment to facilitate the restoration of democracy in my country has escaped no one. On the very day of your swearing-in ceremony, I wished to send you my book, Haïti, Que La Lumière Soit!, which questions Newton’s Theory of Colors. I did not do so, because I felt an English-language version would be more appropriate.
Since I could not send you a copy of the yet-to-be-published English version of my book, I contented myself with dreaming — dreaming that on one of your first evenings in the White House, you were seated in the Oval Room with Mrs. Clinton and your daughter Chelsea. You were reading Haïti, Que La Lumière Soit! I imagined you carefully examining certain passages of that work in its English version, which is now in preparation — typed by a sightless, multilingual Haitian. Those paragraphs deal with the so-called missing matter, darkness in space, "Black Holes" — in a word: the invisible mass of the Cosmos. You notice Dr. Carl Sagan’s research on Exobiology and the DNA found in the dark matter in the universe, and you suddenly remember a Time article from April 10, 1978 entitled “Black Holes and Martian Valleys”, which contained the following passage:
"A while later, astronomer Carl Sagan (The Dragons of Eden) found himself lugging his slide box into the Vice President’s big new house and, after coffee, taking the Mondale and Carter families on a journey through the heavens.
Jimmy Carter is the closest thing to a scientist we have had in the White House since Thomas Jefferson.
Nixon could not run a tape recorder.
Johnson could not fully figure out his alarm wrist watch.
Not Jimmy. He was fascinated by the discussion of "Black Holes" and the speculation that they might provide answers to what holds the Universe together."
"Well," you exclaimed, “O.K. for former President Carter. It is normal for the President of a star-spangled republic to choose between "Star Peace" and "Star War". As to the former President’s inclination toward Einstein’s physics and/or Planck’s Quantum Theory, there is a great temptation to apply certain laws of the Cosmos to politics and diplomacy. Consider the "Tunnel Effect"(Facor), the way that energy escapes from black holes.
"Carter goes back to the sources and draws inspiration from them. That makes me think about Aristide — both of them are well at ease in both the Western world and the Black world: the visible and the invisible. However, there is one difference: the Haitians follow Aristide everywhere, like a comet’s tail. If Aristide is considered as a "Black Sun", then the Haitians are "Space refugees".
"Yes, Haiti! We are pulled down to earth. Democracy… the exodus of the Boat People… with the Law of Probabilities, whether we think about Planck or Carter, it doesn’t seem that a solution will be found tomorrow…
"What business did the Haitians have in that "boat"?"
"Say, there above, the Black Twin! Is it still broad daylight in the shadow of the "Black Sun"?"
“Oh God,” you say aloud to Mrs. Clinton: "Eureka! I have found it! Fiat lux! Let there be light! Que la lumière soit! Black holes, black sun, tunnel effect, Aristide effect, boat people, space refugees, Carl Sagan, Jimmy Carter… six of one and half a dozen of the other."
There is loud laughter in the Oval Room.
Bill a ri
Bill laughed
Hillary a ri
Hillary laughed
Chelsea a ri aussi
Chelsea laughed too
Humor is American, Mr. President, and so are dreams. Let my book Haïti, Que La Lumière Soit! be the "dark matter", arguing in favor of the development of the Black world — visible and invisible!
In the area of science, high technology, creative innovation, and space exploration, I think there is nothing that America cannot deal with. That is why, in that spaceship of universal energy, I dare sail with a dream.
In my dream, it is your first trip inside your SPACE AIR FORCE ONE, propelled by the energy of invisible and concentrated dark matter, like black holes. A mini black hole of an avant-garde design whose motor sequence develops inertia, spectral speed, speed equal to or higher than that of light, and scientifically controlled reversibility of the phenomenon.
What a new synthesis, but also what a liberation!
Synthesis and analysis of two wings of the same bird — contracted and unfolded at the same time, following the heartbeat of the Universe tamed inside the infinitely small: "One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind!"
This would be the natural and constructive counterpart of Newton’s Theory of Light and Colors, which slows down that impulse. This is a necessary change in the name of development and progress humbly submitted on behalf of Haiti: a testimony of gratitude toward mankind. Let us go further, to the other side of the Universe, as suggested by an eyewitness: the Hubble telescope, with its camera.
"… Hubble focused on the centre of the galaxy [M87], an area 500 light-years across. The pictures revealed a spiral structure formed by fast-moving gas clouds being drawn toward the centre, rather like water going down a drain."
"Dr. Harms said the Hubble spectrographic camera was then focused on points 60 light-years across on opposite sides of the spinning disc. This camera breaks down light into its wavelength parts, rather like a prism separates colours in sunlight." (The Globe and Mail, Thursday, May 26, 1994)
Let us in the long run, replace the camera by a motor run by the ENERGY OF THE YEAR 2000, transforming the DARK MATTER from the invisible to the visible and vice versa. We would there by take advantage of the sequence of colored and colorless light speeds, so as to better visit the Universe, where law and order are transcendent, just as in democracy.
I have decided to write this letter because your leadership, Mr. President, like an inevitable and immeasurable energy, has practically absorbed me, allowing me to express myself.
On October 4, 1994, in the General Assembly of the United Nations, a voice echoed the power of your leadership. In new words, on March 31, 1995, that same voice will repeat:
"Even now, with the peaceful launching of the operation "UPHOLD DEMOCRACY" on 19 September last year, a tropical smile has shed light upon the faces of those who espouse and love peace — Peacemakers, Peacekeepers, and Peacelovers. Together, President Clinton and we have managed to open up a "tunnel" of hope after so much suffering."
That testimony by President Aristide at the U.N. emphasizes the magnitude of the efforts needed to bring about such a happy conclusion.
Your present trip to Haiti is the strongest confirmation of that sequence of events, and illustrates an unprecedented chapter in the annals of Haiti, as well as in the life of the Haitian people.
Thank you, Mr. President, for associating Haiti with your Strategic Development Initiative (S.D.I.) at the dawn of the 'Star Peace".
Lucien Bonnet
http://www.contact-canadahaiti.ca
PLEASE, SEE "Bill A Ri And There Was Light!"
Posted by: Lucien BONNET | March 2, 2008 9:59 AM
oh pplleeaassee......
Posted by: moonslippers | March 2, 2008 10:01 AM
You need to do more research on Obama with regard to the war in Iraq. Senator Obama is telling everyone that he would be right from day one in the White House because he would never have voted to go to war with Iraq. He also mentioned in the last Democratic debate that once he pulls out the US troops from Iraq, if there were problems again with Al-Qaeda, he would do whatever it took and make sure Americans were safe. That would include sending our troops back to Iraq if he, as president, deemed it necessary. Didn’t President Bush deem it necessary? How is Obama’s approach different? There have been other people that have visited Iraq from our country and they have seen first hand the help and hope our troops have given the Iraq people. They also noted that we are needed to help the displaced families and children who want to rebuild Iraq. Yet, Obama wants our troops completely out of Iraq.
Now here comes the hypocritical part on Obama’s side. On June 22, 2006, Senator Obama voted “NO” on an, “Amendment to order President Bush to withdraw most United States troops from Iraq by July 1, 2007, leaving only a minimal number of forces.” Obama is saying one thing to the American public to win votes and voting the opposite.
There is another discrepancy about Obama as well. How about him being the chairperson to the committee reviewing the Afghanistan problem in the US Senate? He has yet to meet with his Afghanistan committee and there are real concerns with Afghanistan. Even Obama stated that the real problem is in Afghanistan, but is he doing anything about it? No! Obama stated, “I haven’t had time. I have been running for president.” Is he going to have time when the phone rings in the White House????????
Is Senator Obama disconcerting attitude to our foreign policies the right choice for our great country of the United States of American?
As a journalist you can present concrete facts about a candidate and it is about time the news media shows the world who is the strongest candidate and who is the weakest. Foreign Policy is a huge part of beginning a US President and Obama has shown the people of American he does not have what it takes.
Please do not forget that Obama would gladly meet with Cuba’s new leader or any other country’s leader that is a dictatorship. Hillary Clinton and President Bush have both mentioned that as a president you must have preconditions before meeting with any country that is run by a dictatorship.
Come on guys! Show us what Senator Obama is really about; all talk.
Posted by: JJR | March 2, 2008 10:02 AM
Satisfying the Democratic Electorate - Behind the Numbers
Lucien Bonnet PLease, SEE : LETTER TO POPE JOHN-PAUL II in "BILL A RI AND THERE WAS LIGHT !" ... Posted by: Lucien BONNET | February 22, 2008 05:19 PM ...
blog.washingtonpost.com/behind-the-numbers/2008/02/satisfying_the_democratic_elec_1.html - Similar pages
Posted by: Lucien BONNET | February 22, 2008 04:28 PM
RE:
With the candidates focused on Texas, Obama told 17,000 people in Reunion Arena in Dallas that he agreed with Clinton that there is a choice for Democrats to make.
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LETTER TO SENATOR BARACK OBAMA
Montreal, February 20, 2008
SENATOR OBAMA ,
The whole world has its eyes on you, on The United States Of America and its people.
Everyone expects you to be democratically elected and see that something happen in America.
In March 1983, one of humanity's most famous spokesmen, Pope John Paul II, came to our
country - 'Haîti' - and loudly proclaimed what each and every one of us had been whispering:
'Something must change here.'
Today, more than ever, a lot of people of The United States of America stand up, longing for something and working to make something happen.
And, like in March 9, 1983, beloved Haiti, History - (which from then and now on rests in thy hands) - tells thee: 'It is now time to let people speak to thee of love!', let's say today': 'Go thou America ahead and show us thy true countenance in a positive light.' It is up to everyone to play his or her part in order to let thee regain thy mark of excellence !'
With this letter, I am communicating with You, Senator Obama, and with the whole people of The United States of America.
You offer this country what it takes to be a 'Wonderfull Land.' Yes, let us say 'with a great people living together.'
Go thou, America, go ahead, following in the footsteps of one of thy sons who is now becoming one of thy statesmen.
With this in mind, Mr.Obama, to whom else could I entrust this letter sent to his Holiness Pope John Paul II when he set foot on Haitian soil for the first time, as well as its acknowledgment by the Vatican?
That letter to Pope John Paul II is intended to draw attention to the problem posed by anti-Black discrimination and its negative repercussions on the advancement of scientific progress in the West, and more precisely in the realm of Optics.
In the Western world, according to Newton's widely accepted theory, white is considered to be the synthesis of all colors. Actually, the opposite is true. White constitutes the analysis or 'visible' decoding of light or color, whereas black is its synthesis or 'invisible' composition.
In other words, darkness or blackness and, we might add, 'Black Holes' - a scientific misnomer designating invisible stars or 'Black Suns' - are a source of energy and light.
That basic raw material of light energy culminates, in its most radiant form, in the neutralization of all the colors of the spectrum in the form of so-called "white light."
Therefore "absolute blackness", the absorption of all the colors, is a divisible component of light. Needless to say, Newton's theory gives only a partial interpretation of the notion of light, by excluding black. Our contribution aims at demonstrating that the black color is not only an integral part of the color process, but its true synthesis. Light is therefore shown to be a divisible whole comprising an intensity or color scale in which black is the invisible or 'absorbed' form of the energy in question.
Allow me, Senator Obama, in order to support my statement concerning Black Holes and radiation, to pose a question asked by Hubert Reeves, Doctor of nuclear astrophysics and Scientific Consultant to NASA:
What would have become of the Sun, if it were plunged into a high temperature radiance like the one that existed at the beginning of the Universe? [our translation]
Instead of emitting light, it would absorb it and, in the end, it would be completely reabsorbed into the cosmic fluid.
The cosmic fluid is what, due to an "optical mistake", is called "darkness" or the "blackness of space". We are talking about the electromagnetic flux, that immeasurable ocean in which the planets and stars are bathed, like the sea which links all the continents together. Darkness is thus "The Sea of Space."
"What would have happened if, instead of an ordinary star like the "White Sun", a Black Hole or "Black Sun" were injected into that primordial radiation?"
"According to Einsteinian Physics, a Black Hole is a place where gravity is so formidably intense that nothing can escape it, not even visible light. Such a hole should suck in and absorb radiation and increase its own mass: E=MC2, always."
But after Einstein came Bohr, Heisenberg, and Quantum Physic. From then on, nothing was the same as before.
"The Einsteinian version of the Black Hole is equivalent to a statement that the matter inside the Black Hole is definitely there to stay, in that volume of space. Let us quote Hubert Reeves: "Such an absolute statement is thus contrary to the "Quantum spirit", affirming that nothing is definitely localized in one place. There is always a probability of escape. If the enclosing wall is too high, a tunnel will be dug; if the prisoners are patient, they will escape. One has only to wait. [our translation]."
"According to that principle, Black Holes "evaporate." Matter constantly escapes as radiation. Black Holes "shine!" Their surfaces behave like those of any body heated to a certain temperature and that radiation endlessly feeds that marvelous "Cosmic Fluid" which, wrongly and in bad faith, people keep calling "Darkness."
Nigra sum "sed" formosa. Yes, but should we not say instead, I am black "and" comely? Darkness, which is both source and vehicle of light, does not have to defend itself for being the beautiful and infinitely discreet raw material of the Universe. Darkness is the "Mother of the Universe."
Also, beautiful and discreet art thou, Haiti. Discreet, yes, but never outshone! Just like the Black Virgin who inspires and sheds her love on thee from the hilltop and even beyond Cité Soleil (Sun City).
Our purpose was to offer a more constructive approach aiming at correcting the abusive traditional, so-called scientific, theories of Optics. That is why, we wrote to that authentic witness to the signs of this age, His Holiness Pope John Paul II, the prophet of the new era.
Congratulations to You, Sir, and congratulations to the people of The United States Of America, for having made it possible for this day to mark the beginning of a "New Era of Hope !"
Lucien Bonnet
PLease, SEE :
LETTER TO POPE JOHN-PAUL II
in "BILL A RI AND THERE WAS LIGHT !"
http://www.contact-canadahaiti.ca
Posted by: Lucien BONNET | February 22, 2008 05:19 PM
Posted by: Lucien BONNET | March 2, 2008 10:04 AM
You need to do more research on Obama with regard to the war in Iraq. Senator Obama is telling everyone that he would be right from day one in the White House because he would never have voted to go to war with Iraq. He also mentioned in the last Democratic debate that once he pulls out the US troops from Iraq, if there were problems again with Al-Qaeda, he would do whatever it took and make sure Americans were safe. That would include sending our troops back to Iraq if he, as president, deemed it necessary. Didn’t President Bush deem it necessary? How is Obama’s approach different? There have been other people that have visited Iraq from our country and they have seen first hand the help and hope our troops have given the Iraq people. They also noted that we are needed to help the displaced families and children who want to rebuild Iraq. Yet, Obama wants our troops completely out of Iraq.
Now here comes the hypocritical part on Obama’s side. On June 22, 2006, Senator Obama voted “NO” on an, “Amendment to order President Bush to withdraw most United States troops from Iraq by July 1, 2007, leaving only a minimal number of forces.” Obama is saying one thing to the American public to win votes and voting the opposite.
There is another discrepancy about Obama as well. How about him being the chairperson to the committee reviewing the Afghanistan problem in the US Senate? He has yet to meet with his Afghanistan committee and there are real concerns with Afghanistan. Even Obama stated that the real problem is in Afghanistan, but is he doing anything about it? No! Obama stated, “I haven’t had time. I have been running for president.” Is he going to have time when the phone rings in the White House????????
Is Senator Obama disconcerting attitude to our foreign policies the right choice for our great country of the United States of American?
As a journalist you can present concrete facts about a candidate and it is about time the news media shows the world who is the strongest candidate and who is the weakest. Foreign Policy is a huge part of beginning a US President and Obama has shown the people of American he does not have what it takes.
Please do not forget that Obama would gladly meet with Cuba’s new leader or any other country’s leader that is a dictatorship. Hillary Clinton and President Bush have both mentioned that as a president you must have preconditions before meeting with any country that is run by a dictatorship.
Come on guys! Show us what Senator Obama is really about; all talk.
Posted by: J. Ryder | March 2, 2008 10:08 AM
what did hilary and Bill firget in the white house?
Posted by: KC | March 2, 2008 10:24 AM
I was looking at roles of first ladies, trying to figure out how it could count as experience.
What I found that Hillary Clinton did not fulfill the mold of a first lady. Although her tenure in public office was tainted by scandal, she played an active role. She advised the president, met with foreign dignataries, and enlightened the world with many issues surrounding the treatment of women, the welfare of children, and the care of veterans.
What type of first lady will Michelle Obama be?
Here is Hillary's
http://www.firstladies.org/biographies/firstladies.aspx?biography=43
I think either democrat will be a fine candidate for president.
Posted by: Emmeline | March 2, 2008 10:39 AM
I will wait until after Rezko trail which starts on March 3rd. There may be things that come out that the Obama don't want exposed. http;//www.timeline.co.uk article: Mansion 'mistake' piles the pressure on Barak Obama
Posted by: jp,michigan | March 2, 2008 10:58 AM
JJR: Obama is suggesting that since our enemy is Al Qaeda, that he will go after it. Bush's pretext for war: WMD, democratic nation building, it'll be a cake-walk, yellow-cake uranium, aluminum tubes, Sadaam = Al-Qaeda. All misleading, poorly supported rationalizations for doing something, that President Bush's spokesperson pointed out weren't "rolled out" until September because "you don't market a new product in August". So if you think Bush was really doing what he thought was best for the country, why all the half-truths and manipulations that, to a lot of us, look like bald-faced lies.
This is the same Bush who recently criticised Obama's comments about unilateral action in Pakistan -- a few days after Bush followed that very strategy to take out an Al Qaeda leader in Pakistan without Pak permission.
Yes. I trust Obama to actually do things on principle -- like fight Al Qaeda effectively -- and other REAL threats to our country. Not the pretend ones. Thanks for listening.
Oh, yeah. Michelle rocks!
Posted by: one of the Franks | March 2, 2008 11:04 AM
OBAMA WANTS CHANGE. I suggest he start with his wife. I also suggest that if he don't dump her to at least shut her up, and tell her stop acting like a big mouth condesending educated fool and get over herself at least until after something has been decided. It is obvious that Obama's wife has got a big problem with America and that turns me off. I also suggest he stop preaching and start speaking. I also suggest that he is like the tobacco companies, trying to sell his crap to our children. I also suggest he list his accomplishments in both Illinois and the US Senate. Oh that's right, he has none! I also suggest he explain his friendship with people and organizations that are hardcore anti-white, anti-latino, anti-jew, anti- immigrant and anti-American. The media has given Obama and his wife a free pass and that is BS. We need a President, not a community activist and preacher who has a wife with a bad attitude. Final word, McCain!!!
Posted by: John B | March 2, 2008 11:22 AM
John B.,
The following link is to Republican Senator Richard Lugar's web site. In it he talks about his work with Senator Obama to secure/limit nuclear warheads, WMD, and other weapons' systems.
http://lugar.senate.gov/press/record.cfm?id=278019
These are serious men working on a serious subject for the benefit of all of us.
Your post really smacks of anger. Which is your right. But don't say Barack Obama has never done anything, because it's not true.
!GOBAMA!
and...
!MRSGOBAMA!
Too!
Posted by: Doug "Hussein" Zook | March 2, 2008 11:43 AM
You can add this to Hillary's experience.
http://hotflashes51.wordpress.com/2008/02/20/hillary-clinton-list-of-achievements/
"First lady of Arkansas During Rodham Clinton’s 12 years as first lady of Arkansas, she continued to pursue children and family issues. She chaired the Arkansas Education Standards Committee to improve the testing standards of new teachers, founded the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, and introduced Arkansas Home Instruction for Preschool Youth, a program that trained parents of preschool children in preparedness and literacy. The first lady also served on the Arkansas Children’s Hospital Legal Services board, Children’s Defense Fund board, while continuing to work for the Rose Law Firm. She was named one of the 100 most influential attorneys in America by the National Law Journal in 1988 and 1991. She was also named Arkansas Woman of the Year in 1983 and Arkansas Mother of the Year in 1984. First lady of the White House When the Clintons moved into the White House in 1993, the president appointed his wife to head the Task Force on National Health Care Reform that proposed a national health plan. The controversial plan failed to receive enough support to reach the floors of Congress. But she brought the national attention to the need for a better national health plan. During her eight years as first lady, Rodham Clinton also initiated the Children’s Health Insurance Program in 1997, increased research funding for prostate cancer and childhood asthma to the National Institute of Health, as well as assisted in determining the cause of a mysterious illness affecting veterans of the Gulf War. She also initiated and guided the Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997. Rodham Clinton has received many prestigious awards, including the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service, the President’s Award of the League of United Latin American Citizens, Role Model of the Year, by the United Steel Workers of America; the Martin Luther King Jr. Award from the Progressive National Baptist Convention, and the National Association of Elementary School Principals Distinguished Service Award. Rodham Clinton also has authored best-selling books, including her autobiography, Living History and It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us, which won her the 1997 Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for the recorded version."
She is one fine public servant and was a great first lady. One of the first to hold a post doc. degree. She did a lot for health care, women, and children. Issues that affect families. Somehow, all that work is now cast out as "gender oriented and the gender card." Her sincerity and passion is being put into question. Her life time of work, concentration, in this area is being questioned. Honestly, it is disgusting to see people level a person who has achieved a lot in their lives and championed for the issues that affect others, families, here in the US and internationally. That's is why "Mrs Hillary Rodham Clinton, First Lady of the United States of America, was awarded the United Arab Emirates Health Foundation Prize for her work with women, children and their families. With a prize of 40,000 that she donated to the World Health Organization project in the Kigoma Region of Tanzania entitled 'Community Involvement in Reducing Death in Childbirth.'" "In April 1999, Clinton was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Children of Chernobyl Relief Fund for her support of that Ukrainian organization's efforts regarding legacy effects of the Chernobyl accident. In June 1999, Clinton received the Mother Teresa Award, the highest honor given to civilians by Albania. This was in recognition of her humanitarian efforts following the Kosovo War and worldwide.[8]"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillary_Rodham_Clinton_awards_and_honors
She was a Fine First Lady of AR, and a Fine First Lady of the US.
But go 'head keep asking what did she do? Mock why doesn't Laura Bush run for President.
Posted by: gameboy | March 2, 2008 11:48 AM
YOU MIGHT BE AN IDIOT:-)
If you think Barack Obama with little or no experience would be better than Hillary Clinton with 35 years experience.
You Might Be An Idiot!
If you think that Obama with no experience can fix an economy on the verge of collapse better than Hillary Clinton. Whose ;-) husband (Bill Clinton) led the greatest economic expansion, and prosperity in American history.
You Might Be An Idiot!
If you think that Obama with no experience fighting for universal health care can get it for you better than Hillary Clinton. Who anticipated this current health care crisis back in 1993, and fought a pitched battle against overwhelming odds to get universal health care for all the American people.
You Might Be An Idiot!
If you think that Obama with no experience can manage, and get us out of two wars better than Hillary Clinton. Whose ;-) husband (Bill Clinton) went to war only when he was convinced that he absolutely had to. Then completed the mission in record time against a nuclear power. AND DID NOT LOSE THE LIFE OF A SINGLE AMERICAN SOLDIER. NOT ONE!
You Might Be An Idiot!
If you think that Obama with no experience saving the environment is better than Hillary Clinton. Whose ;-) husband (Bill Clinton) left office with the greatest amount of environmental cleanup, and protections in American history.
You Might Be An Idiot!
If you think that Obama with little or no education experience is better than Hillary Clinton. Whose ;-) husband (Bill Clinton) made higher education affordable for every American. And created higher job demand and starting salary's than they had ever been before or since.
You Might Be An Idiot!
If you think that Obama with no experience will be better than Hillary Clinton who spent 8 years at the right hand of President Bill Clinton. Who is already on record as one of the greatest Presidents in American history.
You Might Be An Idiot!
If you think that you can change the way Washington works with pretty speeches from Obama, rather than with the experience, and political expertise of two master politicians ON YOUR SIDE like Hillary and Bill Clinton..
You Might Be An Idiot!
If you think all those Republicans voting for Obama in the Democratic primaries, and caucuses are doing so because they think he is a stronger Democratic candidate than Hillary Clinton. :-)
Best regards
jacksmith...
Posted by: jacksmith | March 2, 2008 12:13 PM
Michelle Obama made a speech in February. In that speech she was talking about BO's mother.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/JB26Aa01.html
Michelle Obama speaks with greater warmth of her mother-in-law than of her husband. "She was kind of a dreamer, his mother," Michelle Obama was quoted in the January 25 Boston Globe. "She wanted the world to be open to her and her children. And as a result of her naivete, sometimes they lived on food stamps, because sometimes dreams don't pay the rent.
ENOUGH SAID!
Posted by: Bonnie | March 2, 2008 12:35 PM
jacksmith,
You might really, really, like Jeff Foxworthy but your insults aren't getting you anywhere.
By the way, do have a count of how many times you've posted this copy/paste hack job?
Posted by: Doug "Hussein" Zook | March 2, 2008 1:00 PM
Michelle Obama is a selfish, loud-mouthed hack. Despite being a poster child for opportunity in America, she and her husband demand "More, more, more!"
Posted by: Anonymous | March 2, 2008 1:36 PM
Hillary ran her marriage and her campaign in the ditch....Oh let's give her the country to trash.
Where are the diaries and tax returns? People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing.
See Dick Morris @DickMorris.com and see "Hillary Unmasked". Dick has worked closely with the Clinton's for years and he shares some incite few have.
Posted by: Valerie | March 2, 2008 1:57 PM
democrats are screwed comes november when McCain runs the 3 am commercial. we democrats better focus on getting a firm control of the congress in november so we can overide vetoes
Posted by: a democrat | March 2, 2008 2:03 PM
"They are going to have a very hard choice to make after Tuesday if she loses Texas or Ohio," top Obama adviser David Axelrod said Saturday. "There are people in the party who are very concerned about this turning into some kind of a Bataan Death March."
And a death march it's become. Obama 2008.
Posted by: Logic Hussein Prisoner | March 2, 2008 2:03 PM
jacksmith,
why do nearly all of your "foxworthyisms" have: Whose ;-) husband (Bill Clinton) in them? bill clinton is not rUnNiNg hello! Billary put the crown down.....
Posted by: teopa | March 2, 2008 2:30 PM
Obama's dogged downplay of complex problems that stems from arrogance and ignorance leads to chaos. Obama has demonstrated more self-interest than anyone else. He spent his time editing a journal and writing a book that are worthless in providing Hispanics, Blacks and other minorities real tools to overcome poor circumstances. He has done NOTHING tangible. His single-mindedness to the point of wreckleness is NOT THE SOLUTION for U.S. NO OBAMA in General Election!
Posted by: NO Obama NO Michelle | March 2, 2008 3:31 PM
Michelle Obamma received a bugus raise of $195,052 annually after Barack Obama was elected senator. Check out this article on Michelle Obama
Posted by: jaajoe | March 2, 2008 4:08 PM
Axelrod is ruining the Democratic party's chances in the Fall. If Obama does not bow out after losing Ohio and Texas, then I hope he goes to jail with his pal Rezko. Michelle can bake cookies like the good mommie she isl.
Posted by: realist | March 2, 2008 4:27 PM
Help us please America wake up Obama is a man who thinks he is Jim Jones from Johnstown Africa. Wake up.....How can there be that may unhappy Americans that you are looking for the great racist hope?
Posted by: annjilly | March 2, 2008 4:29 PM
Why is Michelle hiding the fact she is pregnant with a goy? I see the two of them trying to be the Kennedy Klan again.
Posted by: annjilly | March 2, 2008 4:30 PM
If experience, wisdom and judgment may be relied upon to judge a presidential candidate's abilities to solve problems, then let's look at the records of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
In the Illinois legislature, Barack Obama secured bipartisan support for health-care reform and passage of low-income tax credits and child care subsidies.
In 2002, Barack Obama cautioned that without clear rationale an invasion of Iraq would encourage the worst impluses of the Arab world and strengthen the recruitment arm of Al Qaeda.
In the U.S. Senate, Barack Obama promoted a restoration of balance between work and wealth, criticized special interests for distorting U.S. tax codes and fought in a bipartisan effort to establish independent oversight of Senate ethics.
When did Hillary Clinton demonstrate her economic wisdom and foresight while Alan Greenspan was warning of irrational exuberance as the subprime housing loans were created and pandered during her husband's administration and her husband supported China's entry into the World Trade Organization without any conditions such as protecting the environment or labor and property rights to levels that are comparable to western standards?
Today China is not only a leading contributor to environmental pollution and global warming (thank you very much Mr. Nobel Laureate, Al Gore), it's also pushing up oil and other commodity prices, taking our jobs and stealing our intellectual property.
When did Hillary Clinton deliver health-care reform? In Hillary Clinton's eight (8) years in the Senate, the Congressional Record (www.thomas.gov) shows she "sponsored" only two (2) pieces of legislation that were presented to the president for signature. The first piece of legislation (S. 1241) was to establish a historic site in New York state, the second (S. 3613) was to name a U.S. Postal Service building.
At 3:00 AM who is Hillary Clinton gonna call in a national crisis? GHOSTBUSTERS?
Without any attachment to a position and no leadership qualities or principles to guide her in a time of national crisis, Hillary Clinton like her husband, would need to first conduct a poll to determine what is in her political interest before committing to any national decision.
It's refreshingly nice to see the better angels of America's character prevailing as voters reject the racial, religious and ethnic slurs being spewed by the divisive Clinton, Limbaugh and Hannity supporters.
As a Republican-leaning independent, I will vote for Barack Obama if he is the Democratic nominee running against John McCain but I will not vote for Hillary Clinton.
Posted by: Coachwad | March 2, 2008 4:51 PM
Shocking Hillary Clinton Videos
http://www.judiciaryreport.com/shocking_hillary_clinton_videos.htm
Posted by: anonymous | March 2, 2008 5:09 PM
Michelle Obama says on Good Morning America that for the first time in her life she felt proud to be an American. Later that day in Wisconsin she repeated the same statement in a stump speech.
Mistake? That is just not true. It was exactly what she meant to say, twice.
Posted by: Robin | March 2, 2008 5:11 PM
Not "First Man" but "First Gentleman" please, and thank you!
Posted by: Correction | March 2, 2008 5:28 PM
I've seen Michelle up close and personal in the work place. Very scary. Hypocritical, cold-hearted and vengeful. I like what Obama stands for, but as spouses go, I prefer Hilary's.
Posted by: Bill | March 2, 2008 6:05 PM
While I am an Obama supporter, I think Michelle has hurt his campaign recently (and as unbelievable as it sounds, has caused a few people I know to switch to supporting Hillary). It would be best if Michelle left the decisions and campaigning to Barack (the wives of both W and HW Bush were better examples than Hillary was as a possible First Lady- remember the "baking cookies" comment?).
Michelle is a bright young woman, but I think she comes off poorly to many segments of the population. It is not right, but a sad truth.
Bill is, well, Bill. We all know him. Enough said.
Posted by: Liz | March 2, 2008 6:14 PM
Know why Obama is beating Clinton?
While Obama is going door-to-door looking for the undecided voters, Hillary is going door-to-door looing for Bill!!
Posted by: Don | March 2, 2008 7:34 PM
RETURN OUR FURNITURE AND CHINA TO THE WHITEHOUSE!!!
VOTE FOR HILLARY!!!
Posted by: Don | March 2, 2008 7:35 PM
Doug "Hussein" Zook
Your absolutely right I am angry and it is becuase of idiot's like yourself.
Every time someone criticizes OBAMA's non record of accomplishments people like you make up some BS nonsense. You and people like you constantly mistake working on something for an accomplishment. In regard to Richard Lugar, he hasn't accomplished anything either. He is another career politician who has run a con game on the american people for years. Wise up stupid! Yes I said stupid! Oh Yeah, Obama's wife needs to quit talking like she understands what it is like to have to struggle. She never struggled a day in her life and neither has her husband. They are both children who grew up never wanting for anyhting but more. It must be and have been a real struggle for Mr. and Mrs Obama taking hundreds of thousands of dollars down through the years for nothing more than sitting on a board or lending their names to something. How have they made ends meet? Once again, she is an educated fool. Princeton and Harvard didn't do anything but make her head big and empty just like her husband's. Ah, what's the use trying to wise idiot's like you up? Post again when the drooling stops.
P.S. You forgot to comment about the friends of Obama that hate - white's, hispanic's, immigrants of all backgrounds, jew's, and all non black americans. I guess you think they are mis-understood?
Posted by: John B. | March 2, 2008 8:06 PM
Gawwwwwwwwwwwd I hate Obimbos!
Posted by: Melvin | March 2, 2008 8:52 PM
Hillary hang in there, I urge you not to quit this race just because some Congress people want you to bow out, remember you said you where a fighter, please stick to your guns and stay true to your statement, Let Obama work to bring America together, since he said he could do it better than you let him now prove what he said and promised he could do. Don't let some gender biased mass media outlets or Congress people who's backing Obama try and dictate to you when to quit this race no matter what. I'm not going to Unify behind a Presidential candidate in whom I don't trust, and lack's the experience over Hillary who has the experience to do the job from Day One of entering the Oval Office, I'm just not willing to take that leap and faith and hope on a "Johnny Come Lately 3 term Senator Obama.
Hillary, if you're no longer are in the race for whatever reason , I will be voting for Ralph Nader or staying home, instead of voting for Obama, because I do not like how you where treated throughout this campaign and doing the televised debates, you where always given the very difficult questions to answer by the Moderators and then Obama was given the opportunity to frame or piggyback his answers off of yours, Obama was very well shielded and protected by the media, he has never been challenged and scrutinized on his political or personal life as of yet like Hillary has, and this is very unfair and biased against Hillary. I guess the media is waiting to do this after they have helped to get Hillary out of the way, and then bring his campaign down to its knees allowing the Republican candidate to win and keep control of the White house for another four years, I believe this is the underlying strategy of the Republican Party and the media from the very beginning of this campaign.
I'm an African American Male who is not being a part of Unifying this Country or the Democratic Party at Hillary's expense, due to her lack of being treated fair, balanced, and objectively during this election primary season. Hillary Please Never Quit, Let Obama earn his Keep, Let him see if he can Walk the Walk he's been preaching about throughout this campaign, because the way you where treated in this campaign is going to make it very difficult for Obama to Unify the Democratic Party and rally Hillary Supporters around him doing the general election. Many Hillary supporters may stay home or vote for Ralph Nader in protest to Obama's Presidency, because most people in the leadership in Congress or the DNC did not support and rally behind the candidate Hillary Clinton, who has the most experience to tackle and fix the mess Bush will leave behind in 2009.
Posted by: Darrell | March 2, 2008 9:07 PM
As a 59 year old female physician who was extremely active in the women’s movement and who now serves our veteran population, I am appalled by the way Hillary Clinton, and her supporters continue to play the gender and sympathy card and have tried to manipulate women to get them to vote for Senator Clinton for the presidential nomination.
Senator Clinton is simply not the best candidate and the presidency is not owed to her because she is a woman. The voters get to decide who the best candidate is and if she continues to lose and does not get out of the race she will undermine the unity of the Democratic Party and give the Republicans the advantage.
I have lived in Washington DC since 1978, and have lived through the drama of the Clinton years in the White House where Hillary Clinton was so arrogant she would not listen to physicians who could have helped her get a health care plan done. I watched her become a Senator of NY by displacing another woman who had 6 years of experience to Mrs. Clintons zero experience. Senator Clinton didn’t seem to think it was important to be a sister then.
I watcher her vote for the war in Iraq not because she was uninformed but because she thought it was the politically opportunistic thing to do. I knew it was wrong as did so many people but she still has not apologized when all her other colleagues have. Now she has the absolute nerve to tell us how much she cares about our veterans. Vietnam vets are still suffering from that war and now our new young limbless veterans with PTSD will be suffering for decades to come.
Despite all this, I actually thought at first I might be able to support her as presidential candidate because she is smart and did some good work in the senate but when she brought Bill in and started to rely on her “35 years of experience” just to win, I knew that she was still the flawed insecure candidate who has still not found herself who wants to win more than she wants to serve and will divide us to get what she wants. Now that she has gone so negative and has displayed such poor judgment in running her campaign, I know that will have to hold my nose to vote for her if she wins the nomination.
I would love to see a woman president someday and our generation has paved the way for that possibility but not such a flawed candidate as Hillary Clinton. There are several younger women governors and senators right now who have stood on their own two feet and who will be able to break that glass ceiling and who will be great models for our daughters.
If Hillary Clinton has any class she would get out of the race sooner rather than later and make way for the new generation who doesn’t need to be so combative, is not so sexist or racist and who might actually be able to get things done. I am proud that our baby boomer struggles have made the way for our younger counterparts and now it is their turn to lead.
Posted by: Ann31 | March 2, 2008 9:32 PM
Attention: All Hillary Supporters And Other Concerned Parties:
Subject: On Instituting “The Ralph Nader Factor Movement” If Hillary Loses Ohio And Texas Primaries To Obama On Tuesday March 4, 2008.
This Is A Call To Protest Against The Gender-Biased Behavior's Exhibited By Some News Anchors and Journalist In The Mass Media, The Democratic Gender-Biased Voting Block Directed, and The Obama Campaign Toward’s Hillary Who Tried Very Hard To Break And Shatter The Glass Ceiling Of Becoming The First Experienced Female President In America, Including Trying To Break Down And Destroy "The It's A Man's World Mentality" When It Comes To Women Seeking Presidential Aspirations. The Protest Will Only Consist Of Volunteering To Work In The Nader Campaign Offices, Campaigning for Nader throughout every Community in America, Donating To His Campaign Financially, And Voting For Nader During Election Day By The Tens Of Thousands, These Actions Will Help Successfully Usher In "The Ralph Nader Factor," and give Obama Some Real Competition Throughout the remainder of this Presidential Campaign, I believe These Actions Will Help To Block The Inexperienced Candidate Obama From Becoming President. America Really Needed Someone Like Hillary With The Experience To Tackle And Fix The Mess That Bush Will Leave Behind In 2009, Obama Lacks That Experience At This Time, He's Excellent At Talking The Talk, But Lack's The Experience To Walk The Walk. I Believe The Only Way To Protest Obama Getting Into The White House And Possibly Messing Up This Country Even Further Is To Vote Against Him For Nader During The General Election.
If Hillary Does Not Win Texas And Ohio March 4, 09, All True Hillary Supporters Must Begin Mobilizing In Very Large Numbers To Help Block Obama's Chances Of Becoming President By Getting Behind Independent Candidate Ralph Nader, Since The Majority Of The Democratic Party And The Media His Been Very Gender-Biased Against This Woman Presidential Candidate, Hillary, In Whom I Think Have More Experience And Substance On The Issues Than Her African American Male Opponent Obama. This African American Male Believes That It's Time To Begin Mobilizing and Instituting The "Nader Factor." All Strong Hillary Supporters And Any Other Party Supporters Male And Female Who Agree With My Position That Women Are Treated As Second Class Citizens In This Country Should Consider Participating In This Protest And Movement. We Should Begin To Form And Mobilize In Great Numbers Now To Vote Independent In Order To Stop Obama From Winning In The General Election, This Will Help Send A Strong And Very Clear Message To The Gender-Biased Voting Base That Both Women And Men In This Country Should Be Treated Equally When It Comes To Competing For Top Level Positions In Government And The Private Sector, I'm An African American Male Who's A Strong Advocate For Equal Gender And Racial-Based Rights In This Country For All Citizens. People Should Be Able To Fairly Compete On An Even Playing Field No Matter What Race Or Creed They May Be As Well. If Hillary No Longer Has A Chance To Become President If She Loses Ohio And Texas, Then I Want Ralph Nader To Be Our Commander And Chief Over Obama or McCain, And for those who just can’t vote for Nader, You Can Still Protest Obama’s Presidency By Just Staying Home And Not Voting At All Doing This Election Season, Because Obama Made A Statement Doing A News Conference; That If He Loses To Hillary; She Would Not Get His Supporters, But If Hillary Loses To Him, He Would Get Hillary’s Supporters Let’s Prove Him Wrong On This, Because He Comes Off As Being Overconfident, Arrogant, And Cocky Towards Hillary And Her Supporter’s.
Posted by: Darrell | March 2, 2008 11:31 PM
In answer to J. Ryder's questions below.
You need to do more research on Obama with regard to the war in Iraq. Senator Obama is telling everyone that he would be right from day one in the White House because he would never have voted to go to war with Iraq. He also mentioned in the last Democratic debate that once he pulls out the US troops from Iraq, if there were problems again with Al-Qaeda, he would do whatever it took and make sure Americans were safe. That would include sending our troops back to Iraq if he, as president, deemed it necessary. Didn’t President Bush deem it necessary? How is Obama’s approach different? (answer: Bush was only interested in getting revenge for the hit placed on his dad by Sadam. If everyone has actually read the documents for going to war rather than listen to what was being said, they would have voted no, I am sure. But only one person actually read it, even after that person requested that it be read before being signed. I truly believe that Obama will have better judgement and take a more causious approach before making that decision. I also believe that he has explained many times, to those that listen carefully that it would take approximatley one to two years to make this happen, although he would start the process early in his presidency. He would also leave special forces as necessary. However, people really seem to listen to the new spins about his speeches but not really listen to the speeches, especially his most recent speeches.) There have been other people that have visited Iraq from our country and they have seen first hand the help and hope our troops have given the Iraq people. They also noted that we are needed to help the displaced families and children who want to rebuild Iraq. Yet, Obama wants our troops completely out of Iraq.
Now here comes the hypocritical part on Obama’s side. On June 22, 2006, Senator Obama voted “NO” on an, “Amendment to order President Bush to withdraw most United States troops from Iraq by July 1, 2007, leaving only a minimal number of forces.” (answer: what exactly is minimal, I think we need to check out exactly what that means to Bush before signing anything. If it meant pulling out and leaving fifty thousand of our men and women over there, I would have voted NO as well. So before we take the broad view, I think we should have a look at the details of this bill. It is amazing how we judge people of their votes when we have not reviewed or investigated the full details) (In Hillary's case, the top of the document stated that it was giving permission to go to war, there is no excuse here) Obama is saying one thing to the American public to win votes and voting the opposite.
There is another discrepancy about Obama as well. How about him being the chairperson to the committee reviewing the Afghanistan problem in the US Senate? He has yet to meet with his Afghanistan committee and there are real concerns with Afghanistan. Even Obama stated that the real problem is in Afghanistan, but is he doing anything about it? No! Obama stated, “I haven’t had time. I have been running for president.” (answer: Hillary is the Senator of NY, ask her how much has she done for NY since running for President, Nothing! He is on a "Subcommittee'" and John Kerry is on the Committee over the subcommittee, therefore during this time of absence there are other people overseeing this committee, it is not gone unnoticed or uncared for by Obama as Hillary would like you to think. Also, I might add, he has had meeting with this team, just not that one meeting that Hillary wants you to focus on. It is all politics and we must be smart enough to first keep an open mind that it is "all things political," and invesitgate all partys who bring up the issue about the other party, so that we are not falsely following the lies. Dig into what is behind the scene. I am sure you will find yourself in awe!)Is he going to have time when the phone rings in the White House???????? (where will Hillary be when the phone rings? trying to keep Bill from making the next sex scandal? or will she be in court trying to get out of the next campaign funding scandal? I think you should think about that because she may not have time to answer the phone, while trying to put out those fires!(answer: I would like to have Obama please, I believe he and his organized, financially responsible, higly intelligent team in the White House will together make the best decision for our country!)
Is Senator Obama disconcerting attitude to our foreign policies the right choice for our great country of the United States of American?
As a journalist you can present concrete facts about a candidate and it is about time the news media shows the world who is the strongest candidate (THEY ARE, IT'S OBAMA) and who is the weakest. Foreign Policy is a huge part of beginning a US President and Obama has shown the people of American he does not have what it takes.(SPEAK FOR YOURSELF, WE DO NOT FALL INTO THE 'FEAR FACTOR' Of choosing our next President, we can see what that has done already, his name is G. Bush. Now Hillary is trying to use the same old FEAR tactics. We are firm on our choosing and will not buy into the many lies of the CLintons and the manipulation of someone elses records to make it appear as they need it to. Tomorrow she will show up as Jekel again. On Tuesay we will hopefully have given her the KNOCK OUT she needs!
Please do not forget that Obama would gladly meet with Cuba’s new leader or any other country’s leader that is a dictatorship. Hillary Clinton and President Bush have both mentioned that as a president you must have preconditions before meeting with any country that is run by a dictatorship.
Come on guys! Show us what Senator Obama is really about; all talk.
Posted by: Angelene | March 2, 2008 11:44 PM
One day Bill and Hillary were going for a drive in the country in their convertible. It was a beautiful day and they were enjoying each others company. In the need of fuel, they came upon an old time two pump filling station that offered full service. Bill pulled in and the station attendant eased out of his rocking chair under the shade of the canopy. He wore dirty bib overalls and rubbed his filthy greasy hands into a ragged while approaching the Clinton’s car. “Fill-ur-up with Premium”, Bill ordered not bothering to look up towards the lowly redneck. With out a word he opened the cap, inserted the nozzle and moved to clean the windshield. When he leaned over, Bill was disgusted by the man’s rancid odor and turned his head to avoid becoming nauseous. The attendant looked through the windshield and noticed Hillary. Declaring with surprise, “Hillary Rodham? Is that you? Why it’s been years, how have you been?!” Hillary was equally surprised and obviously moved by his presence. “Bubba Ray? Why, it IS you? How have you been?” Bubba stood tall and quickly combed his oily hair with his grimy fingers. He moved over to her side of the car and bent to give her a kiss on the cheek, which she gleefully received and actually leaned her body towards his. She was moved with emotion and her face flushed with passion. Bubba whispered in her ear, “You know I still think of that night in my truck after the prom.” Hillary whispered back breathlessly, “I do too!”
“Now HOLD ON HERE!” jealously yelled Bill. “Do you know who I AM? Who in the heck do you think you are coming on to my wife?! Are you done filling my car, how much do I owe you?!” $37.00 dollars sheepishly replied Bubba Ray as he hurriedly removed the filling hose. Bill threw two twenty dollar bills at him and sped away leaving a cloud of dust.
“What the heck was that?” Demanded the former President, “Who was that guy?”
“That was Bubba Ray, he was my high school sweetheart and we were going to get married.” Hillary replied mournfully. “But my love for the power of the presidency was stronger and drew me away to college; we lost touch with each other.” She then added with an acid sour tone, “That’s when I met you.”
“Ha! Well I bet you’re glad you married me and ditched that stinking redneck…otherwise you would end up being a wife of that filling station attendant!” Bill mocked while looking at himself in the rearview mirror. “After all, I’m the 42nd President of the United States, fabulously good looking with the wealth to match!”
Hillary blew with anger. Her face and eyes transformed and burned red like Satan and her voice growled as demon possessed. “Why you arrogant FOOL! If I would have married Bubba Ray, HE would have become the President and that would have been YOU sitting back at that gas station!”
Posted by: Anonymous | March 3, 2008 5:41 AM
what do you call a former president? first man or mr. president?
Posted by: ynot | March 3, 2008 11:03 AM
Bill wwould far better suit the whitehouse than MO
MO is a fakey as her mate
The look at me Im Jackie K thing is as transparent as her explanations of her dumb statements
Besides Bill is far better looking than MO
Anytime I have seen her speak she comes off as a conceited self serving better than all wench
Her kids think Brittney is yuck?
Wow that makes her mother of the yr
Why was she letting them watch BS to begin with?
Or was this another rehearsed act just like the parents
So when she is first ahem lady does she refer to BO as her baby daddy???
Will she then be proud of her country?
She finds herself in a position to have to think about supporting Hillary??
MO will never achieve what Hillary has.
Standing at the podium arms hovering strattled she looks like a linebacker with a hint of gang slang
Meaning she talks as if she and her babydaddy have been out in the streets fighting in gang wars
BO will heal our souls she claims
Mine is quite safe with god
God now thats a name you dont hear from the mouths of the Obamas
Judgement???? well take a look at the church they take their kids to
She claims to be someone who has been lessened by the american dream
Looks to me like she makes alot of $ and lives in a rather lavish home-but hey maybe in her standards that isnt good enough for someone of her calibur.
Posted by: Betty | March 3, 2008 11:16 AM
the only name that fits Obama and his wife are dumb and dumber. people are nuts voting for him, it sure shows you the mental simplicity we have in our Country.
Posted by: democrate 11 | March 3, 2008 6:33 PM
If Obama is voted in as president this country will perish. Can't believe you people don't see this. I don't say this because he is Muslim (Yes he is, the evidence is quite irrefutable). I say this because he tried SO hard to get everyone engaged and pepped up about voting. So people don't consider the issues and just vote for the "Cool Guy". If he is elected president, I'm moving to Sweden.
Posted by: Kal Hal | September 25, 2008 9:19 AM