Hillary has no problem sitting down these days with Richard Mellon Scaife.
In the 90's he personally financed much of the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy that attack the CLintons. He created the Arkansas Project and the American Spectator magazine to eviscerate the Clintons.  I guess when you want to do the same you go to the best and sit down next to him for an interview with his right wing paper.

Take a good look at Hillary.  Look at the friends SHE keeps.  Look at the campaign tactics SHE now uses against a fellow Democrat. It is not a pretty picture.

katjam

Random thought:

African-Americans like myself should be as grateful to guys like Bush and Cheney and Pat Buchanan and Paul Begala for "liberating us" as the Iraqi people should be grateful to guys like Bush and Cheney and Pat Buchanan and Paul Begala for "liberating them."

After all, nobody has done more for colored folks over the last 40 years than white guys.  How could African-Americans like myself or Iraqis or ANYONE for that matter possibly be angry at them?

More at Zandar vs. The Stupid.

A few days before the SC primary, a guy knocked on my door. I guess that Begala would call him "an asshole from Washington, DC." I found him to be a very pleasant Obama supporter. I had been an Edwards supporter since 2004 but was wavering as the primary neared.

We discussed the situation. He didn't knock Edwards in any way. I told him that I was concerned with Obama's lack of administrative/governance experience. He said that he knew many topnotch people with experience in the government in DC who were supporting Obama. He suggested that it was more important to get a President who could see the bigger picture and could select a staff to run the government.

After a brief conversation, he left and I added his comments to my consideration. Eventually, I chose to vote for Obama.

Not every campaign volunteer knocking on doors will be as effective. But, I can tell you, having someone who believes in a candidate enough to drive hundreds of miles and spend time away from home knocking on strangers' door is a strong message by itself.

Begala is no more "unaffiliated" with the Clinton campaign than Chelsea. He just doesn't draw a pay check.

As Bill Richardson said, these Clintonistas exhibit a very obnoxious sense of entitlement.

There is no doubt that the wingnut websites are re-orienting towards smearing Obama. They would be spouting lies and distortions no matter who was leading for the nomination.

The "Hillary-has-been-vetted" line is BS. The negative polls show that the VRWC 20 year, multi-million dollar smear campaign has been successful in terms of turning almost half the potential voters against Clinton. They have more salvos just waiting for a Clinton candidacy.

I'd just as soon have a candidate who forces them to start from scratch in defaming and smearing.

Mom and I have been known to go round about her Catholic church and how it treats women.  Her response is always that the church belongs to her and the people, not whoever happens to be at the top.  She wants to change it from the inside.

Would Hillary tell her she doesn't have that choice?

yeah, it's an unfair cheap shot.

clinton is bringing up the wright thing because her only hope is if the obama campaign has a spectacular collapse. and she (accurately, i think) believes that wright's comments are viewed as quite negative by a lot of democrats, even obama supporters.

it isn't about any lofty principles, its about a campaign with little chance of winning, using what it can to take advantage of her opponent's perceived weakness. in other words, clinton is running a political campaign. she's not claiming that she has a right to decide what church he goes to, she's just trying to use something embarrassing against her opponent. woop-de-doo.

while i disagree with the substance of clinton's charge, i don't think it's out of bounds. indeed, if mccain went to a white supremacist church i think we'd all be all over him for that. and before anyone says it, i am not claiming that wright's church is the equivalent to or somehow on par with a white supremacist church. i just want to note that if people were giving nazi salutes while mccain took communion, we would have no trouble blaming him for his association with the church. and our blame would not be because we all think that we have a right to tell everyone where to go to church.

Didn't they link Obama to Winston Churchill, too?  Everybody keeps mentioning the Bush connection, but surely the Churchill one is the cooler one if the press is doing this kind of story.

Be nice to America. Or we'll bring democracy to you country.

BMT writes: "I want to know when the party leaders are going to tell the Clintons that they're out of bounds. I'm disgusted and everyone I know is disgusted. I've never seen anything so loathsome from a Democrat."

Dude, don't just sit there: Call and complain.

Then grab Nancy's ear.  And Helpless Harry's ear too.

My entire neighborhood, the majority of who is low-income African Americans, is plastered with Obama posters.

John Mccain Called his wife WHAT??

Well, being related to Brad Pitt sure beats being related to the Cheneys.

He's going to have to adjust his stump speech now because he's found a very cool person to be related to.

Meanwhile, that ((POW)) sound you hear is the sound of small minds in hard heads exploding:

But, but...he's Black! POW

Can't hear ya, Peach!

I think we've been missing the point of all this nastiness from Clinton.  Sure it damages Obama somewhat and we can see she's trying to take him out in the minds of the superdelegates.  Her toxic-Obama strategy may well have a more insidious intent-

Notice the Gallup poll showing 30% of Clinton supporters would move to McCain vs only 18% of Obama's?  What if she's poisoning her own against him and then using that in her superdelegate/ electability argument?  "But I'm more electable because my people won't vote for Obama while his will vote for me!"

I just listened to an interview with the pilot who flew Hillary Clinton into Tuzla on that legendary day. Funny stuff. He confirms the exaggerations are just that and noted that if there was any "sniper fire" there is no way that they would have even considered landing the plane. There was no crazy "corkscrew landing" or any of that. The reason they used a military cargo plane is because the runway was too short for Air Force One to land there and this particular plane can land on shorter runways.

This is on CNN headline page from C. Bernstein it is an OUCH

http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2008/03/26/hillary-clinton-truth-or-consequences/#more-470

and the military is going after Hillary, I think she is really toast now

http://pennsylvaniaprogressive.typepad.com/my_weblog/2008/03/bosnian-vet-acc.html

My Letter to the editor.  Of course they won't print it since I point out their lies, but here we go.

And just to add, I was once a fan of Taylor Marsh.  YOu now blow her a way. Keep it up.

 wish to thank our wonderful media for teachin us a valuable lesson.  

They are afraid of the Religious Right. The Religious Right can say any nonsensical phrase, God punished us on 9/11 because of the gays in America.

But the media ignores that.  But have a black preacher say somethink like it, and you rise up and put him in his place.

Bet lynching would be considred patriotic if we had a media like today in the old days.

Rev. Wright had the nerve to tell the truth.  American Foreign policy brought about 9/11.

How dare he tell the truth. Preachers must lie, like the President, and the media.  They just hate our little ol freedoms.  Bet they love the fact you can't speak out against the US anymore.

So when will the Iraqi People thank us.  We have spent 4 tillion blowing them up.  We have blown up their houses,  Killed most of their family mamebers, made them flee the Country, poisoned their water, blew up their hospitals and reduced their electricity to an hour a week.

And what about the joy they must feel that knowing every time they walk down the street, one of our drunk contractors will put a bullet in their head.

But of course the media will not tell you this story.  They must stop an uppity black precher. The media not finding any dirt on Barak Obama must make up their own negative news.

Keep scaring poor ol whitey, it is all you are good for.

Patriotism and religion, like whiskey, is best used in moderation. Mark Twain

Here's a nice article by a white attendant of Trinity: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-oped0326trinitymar26,0,2414760.story.  After watching more of Wright's speeches on YouTube and getting the real context for them....  I absolutely agree with Obama that if Wright has erred, it's in thinking the US is static.  It is so deeply irritating that MSM has not bothered to put these speeches in context, and even more irritating that HC isn't rising above it.  Not that I would have expected her to.

sigh