Hillary In Charlotte

Dumbing Down Of The Media

Conversation from "WowOWow"
05/02/2008

Marlo Thomas: The Media Steals Our Chances of a Fair Election
With: Joan Juliet Buck, Lily Tomlin, Marlo Thomas and Mary Wells
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JOAN: Does the deliberate dumbing down of the news have the same effect as censorship, by cutting the public off from information that we need to make our decisions?

MARY: I say this as an old advertising pro: The news is for sale. The news is just a factor, like entertainment. The ultimate person who is responsible for whether the news is good, bad or indifferent is the viewer, because if the news is not good, fewer and fewer people will watch it.

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Little Sign of Obama

submitted by BitDog

Clintons Tagteam North Carolina Undecideds; Little Sign Of Obama . . .
** ** **

Mayhill Fowler | Posted May 5, 2008

"Our friends in the media like to show all those people telling Hillary Clinton to quit," the field organizer tells Lenoir, North Carolina Sunday afternoon. "But you're going to be the next Rhode Island." The town of Lenoir chuckles at quit and stares blank-faced at Rhode Island, likely thinking, he said he weren't from these parts. I'm thinking whoa! this is ambitious. But then I've known ever since April 18 when Ace Smith, Clinton's North Carolina state director, spun "lowered expectations" in a revealing way that she was going for gold here. Winning North Carolina "would be the biggest upset of the century," Smith told reporters. Smith, who engineered Clinton's wins in California and Texas, clearly had been engaging in some pleasant woolgathering. But now that the race has tightened to under ten points, perhaps three is indeed a lucky number.

When Bill Clinton finally (as usual, hours late) greets Lenoir, he says much the same thing. "Hillary is in this race today with a genuine chance to win because of people like you and places like this. It has been one of the great honors of my life to campaign on her behalf in small-town America from the beginning. It's towns like this that brought her back from thirteen points down in a miracle victory in just two days in New Hampshire. Towns like this."

Towns like this. Here is the Clinton strategy for winning North Carolina. Although Barack Obama had television ads running in NC by the end of March, Hillary Clinton was already campaigning on the ground in the Tar Heel State during the run-up to the Pennsylvania primary. This late in the race, the law of inexorable consequence has set in. The way one primary unfolds determines the parameters of the next. Therefore, because Senator Clinton was always going to win Pennsylvania, she could afford to begin her North Carolina campaign early. By now she has stumped in three to four times more North Carolina cities and towns than Senator Obama. Moreover, Bill Clinton, widely disparaged in the national media and outside states in-play, is Hillary Clinton's stealth weapon in North Carolina. As Bill says to Lenoir, "I went to 47 towns in Pennsylvania, 39 in Indiana, and by the time I've done here, I'm gonna top 50 in North Carolina." That's right, fifty, at the rate of five to seven a day. The day before primary, Bill Clinton will make nine--yes, nine--campaign stops in small towns across northern North Carolina. After the Jefferson-Jackson dinner Sunday night in Indiana, Senator Clinton flew back to the Tar Heel State. The three Clintons (Chelsea has been here, too) are campaigning so fiercely because they think Hillary can win North Carolina--or at least achieve a narrow loss. . .'

The North Carolina polls have the undecided vote for the Tuesday Democratic primary at ten to twelve percent. That has felt about right to me. Over the weekend, just like in Iowa, many of the undecideds decided at the eleventh hour it was about time to make up their minds and headed out to do so. Saturday and Sunday provided opportunities to see a Clinton; Obama, however, was not in the state. At several events, I met undecideds who settled on Clinton once they had seen her, none of whom had yet seen Senator Obama. At the race car rally in Mooresville, for example, a group of school teachers told me that they had wanted to see both candidates in person before deciding. But having just watched Clinton, and with no chance of seeing Obama in the flesh, they were going to vote for Clinton. This is the dynamic in Lenoir, as well. Obama is a rara avis--people just don't know much about him, although one lady says that she knows "one or two people for him." As a consequence of his absence from the state over the weekend, the undecided vote in North Carolina is therefore likely to break for Clinton. . .'

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Message

Dear Friends and Hillary Supporters,

I quote the 4 MAY edition of the Oregon Statesman Journal, a newspaper
 with a readership largely located in the suburbs south of Portland, an
 area the winner of the Oregon Primary on 20 MAY will have to carry:

http://www.statesmanjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080504/OPINION/805040309/1048

"Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton? That choice divides friends,
 families, states — and the Statesman Journal Editorial Board.

"On the Republican side, the endorsement in Oregon's May 20 election
 was easy. Arizona Sen. John McCain has the national nomination sewn up.

"Although Texas Rep. Ron Paul remains on the Oregon ballot, the only
 question is whom McCain will choose as his vice presidential candidate.

"But the Democrats have made the Oregon presidential primary relevant
 for the first time in decades.

"Complicating voters' decision is that Sen. Clinton of New
 York-via-Arkansas-and-the-White-House and Sen. Obama of Illinois have nearly as
 many liabilities as assets.

"Obama has inspired a sense of hope across this beleaguered nation. He
 represents a new generation of leaders who can cross racial, social and
 economic lines.

"He doesn't have much political experience, but neither did a
 19th-century candidate named Abraham Lincoln, who ranks as one of America's
 great presidents.

"But the Editorial Board keeps stumbling on two key questions: What has
 Obama done, either as an Illinois legislator or a U.S. senator? And
 will his missteps in speaking lead to destructive missteps in action?

"Clinton seems willing to say anything to get elected. She also has the
 baggage of husband Bill Clinton, whose weak character dragged down a
 promising administration and caused this newspaper's Editorial Board to
 call for his resignation (not that he listened).

"But Hillary Clinton does get things done.

"After leaving the White House, she handily won election in New York,
 where she proved that she's not simply an urban lawmaker. Rural New
 Yorkers speak highly of Clinton, praising her for paying attention to their
 parts of the state.

"In the Senate, she has achieved influence much greater than one would
 expect for her seven years on Capitol Hill.

"Clinton "gets" the concerns of the middle class that dominates the
 Mid-Willamette Valley.

"She was the first candidate to offer Oregon a "compact" of campaign
 promises on state-specific issues such as restoring county timber
 payments and giving the state say about siting of liquefied-natural-gas
 terminals.

"As for McCain, his chief liabilities are his age and his temperament,
 but he has distinguished himself in a lifetime's service to the
 country.

"Through four years in the U.S. House and 22 in the Senate, he has
 built a reputation for driving good ideas into law.

"Not all Republicans will agree with McCain's support for the Iraq war.
 But they can appreciate that as a former Navy pilot and Vietnam
 prisoner of war, he has an informed opinion — and has stuck to his
 convictions.

"McCain will be on the ballot in November, and a divided Editorial
 Board thinks that Clinton would be his strongest opponent.

"In the end, Clinton and McCain are the best choices for Oregonians in
 the May 20 primary election."

I hope everyone is doing well.  And please remind your friends and
 relatives to vote for Hillary Clinton, for there is so much to accomplish
 both in our country and in the Democratic Party.  Indeed, this article
 on the antics of Obama supporters at the Jefferson-Jackson Dinner in
 Indiana illustrates why we must elect Hillary Clinton President of the
 United States:

http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/05/04/despicable-sexist-sign-outside-indiana-dinner/

Also remember to visit the office on Monday and Tuesday.


....from Kenneth

Gee...Obama has ability to Learn?

Message from Kenneth

The Observer's endorsement of Obama does not surprise me: their
reporters were belligerent during the Clinton campaign's conference calls; and
they have consistently provided negative coverage of Hillary.

Respond with opinion

But I do find their repetition of falsehoods propagated by the Obama
campaign somewhat vexing.  Read their endorsement, and be prepared to
refute it when you speak with friends, family and colleagues before the
primary.  Also view it as motivation to work twice as hard for Senator
Clinton.

"But in the campaign, as in the Senate, he has shown the ability to
learn."

How does one  respond to this statement?  Should one respond to this
statement?  Is this a newspaper or a comedy club?

The deck has been stacked, and the cards have been dealt.  And yet, she
still manages to win the game.  Now let us prove the Charlotte
Observer wrong by delivering this county to Hillary.

Tar Heel News

from Fox News

May 3rd, 2008 1:01 AM Eastern

Running On Fumes, Clinton Goes For Carolina Comeback

  by Aaron Bruns

RALEIGH, NC — Hillary Clinton wrapped up a grueling day at the end of a grueling week on the campaign trail with a free-wheeling mini-rally at the state fairgrounds — giving the crowd some hope that she’d be able to pull off what her state director has called “the upset of the century” in North Carolina on Tuesday.

“Three weeks ago we were 39 points behind, and those were the best polls,” she said. “We’ve made some progress, we have a long way to go just to get within the ballpark.”

She faces distinct demographic disadvantages in the Tar Heel state. 35% or more of the Democratic electorate is African American, and North Carolina has as many public universities as any state in the union. Black and highly educated voters have been bastions of support for Sen Obama. But Clinton is targeting veterans and soldiers in the state full of military bases, and hitting as many small towns and rural areas as she can — hoping big margins among white, working class voters can make up the difference.

The New York Senator’s advantage here could just be old fashioned hard work. At this her fifth event of the day, Clinton admitted that she and campaign partner Governor Mike Easley were “running on fumes.”

“But we’re working hard, we’re traveling across this state,” she said. “I’ve lost track of how many towns we’ve been to.”

Another not-so-secret weapon for the Clinton campaign: an equally indefatigable surrogate in President Bill Clinton. “My husband is going to visit every place where 2 or more people gather in North Carolina before Tuesday,” she told the crowd. “This makes him feel like we’re back in Arkansas, where we campaigned across Arkansas all the time.”

Recalling driving across Arkansas during Clinton’s successful 1982 campaign to retake the Governorship he lost in 1980, Clinton said “it was a bit like my campaign. People didn’t think he was ever going to be able to pull it off.”

Recount in Guam Likely

Obama, Clinton vie in Guam Democratic caucuses                 

                        ..Yahoo News

                                            

                        

                        HAGATNA, Guam - Barack Obama defeated Hillary Rodham Clinton by seven votes in the Guam Democratic presidential caucuses Saturday. The count of more than 4,500 ballots took all night.

                        

Neither candidate campaigned in the U.S. island territory in person, but both did long-distance media interviews and bought campaign ads for the caucuses.

Results of the count completed Sunday morning Guam time show delegates pledged to Obama with 2,264 votes to 2,257 for Clinton's slate. That means they'll split the pledged delegate votes. Obama's slate won in 14 of 21 districts.

Eight pledged delegates will attend the convention, each with one-half vote.

U.S. citizens on the island, however, have no vote in the November election.

Officials Say Recount Is 'Imminent' Pacific News Center Staff Reporter 04.MAY.08 9:30 a.m. Guam - The Democrat Party Nominating Committee said officials will look over the large amount of "spoiled ballots" in the coming days. At issue is the small margin of victory of Senator Barack Obama. He beat his rival, Senator Hillary Clinton by 7 votes, but well over 500 ballots were deemed invalid during the tabulation process. Herbie Perez, chairman of the nominating committee, said she will not certify the results because the Committee needs to ensure that all the uncounted ballots were properly identified as "spoiled." She said officials from the Party and representatives from both candidates will meet probably Monday or Tuesday to address that issue. Perez revealed she is also looking into the missing ballots. More than 8,100 were printed in response to reports of shortages at precinct sites. But when the final tally came in, only a little over 4,500 ballots were used. - Pacific News Center - Guam, Saipan, CNMI, Asia-Pacific

Early Voting on Rea Road, Charlotte

Long Lines! Took Two  Hours to Vote for Hillary!

...From Ann Lewis

Hillary is hitting the airwaves -- on TV and cyberspace -- in the coming days!                                 

                                 

HILLARY TAKES QUESTIONS FROM MOMS SATURDAY                                

                                Hillary sat down with MomLogic.com this morning in Cary, North Carolina, at Cary High School to discuss the concerns of moms and their families in this important campaign.

                                 Hillary spoke personally with the hosts on Saturday asking a variety of questions submitted to Momlogic.com moms about issues affecting them and their families.                                 

                                 The first of MomLogic.com's multi-part posted today at MomLogic.com.                                

                                 

LIVE TOWN HALL ON ABC NEWS SUNDAY                                

                                 Hillary will participate in a live one-hour Town Hall on a special edition of "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" from Indianapolis on Sunday, May 4. Just two days before the Indiana and North Carolina primaries, Hillary will take questions from Stephanopoulos and voters in studio in Indianapolis and others via satellite from North Carolina.                                

                                 

Click here to find your local listing!                                

                                 

HILLARY ON LETTERMAN MONDAY!                                

                                 Hillary will be appearing on "The Late Show with David Letterman" on Monday, May 5 to deliver the Top 10 list. Tune in to your local CBS affiliate at 11:30 p.m. ET/10:30 p.m. CT.

Indianapolis Star Endorses Clinton

Experience makes Clinton better choice in primary

Posted: May 2, 2008

In this extraordinary election year, Indiana's Democratic voters have been presented with an extraordinary opportunity: Choose for their party's presidential nominee between a gifted senator from Illinois who has enthused millions of new voters and an equally talented senator from New York with years of high-level experience.

It's been difficult for voters in other states to decide a clear favorite between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. It's also a difficult choice for The Star's Editorial Board, which recently questioned each candidate in person about key issues facing the nation.

Obama offers an attractive vision for the way things could be. He speaks eloquently of hope and change. He connects with voters, many who formerly felt disenfranchised, on a level few political leaders have attained.

Clinton offers a clear-eyed view of the way things are. She offers nuanced positions on how to address the war in Iraq, trade with China and economic expansion. Her depth of knowledge is remarkable.

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North Carolina Poll Report, April 29th

Submitted By Kenneth:

According to an Insider Advantage/Majority Report poll, Clinton now
 leads Obama in North Carolina.



http://www.southernpoliticalreport.com/storylink_430_370.aspx

Insider Advantage, North Carolina Democratic Primary
571 Likely Democratic Primary Voters
29 APR 2008
Margin of Error +/- 3.8%

Clinton 44
Obama 42
Undecided 14

Our efforts will hopefully convince the large number of undecided
 voters to support Clinton on 6 MAY.  Be sure to participate in one of the
 events published at Hillary's website, as we have the chance to deliver
 this state to Hillary Clinton.

Obama For Gas Tax Holiday before He Was Against IT

article submitted by Kenneth

Yahoo News Fact Check:

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Democratic Sen. Barack Obama accuses his presidential rivals of pandering to voters by supporting the "gimmick" of temporarily lifting federal taxes on gasoline, despite his own past support for a similar tax holiday.

As a state legislator voting for a tax break, Obama even joked that he wanted signs on gas pumps telling motorists that he was responsible for lowering prices.

                        

Most experts criticize the idea of a federal tax suspension, but Obama's political opponents accuse him of flip-flopping and ignoring the financial pain caused by today's rising gas prices.

THE SPIN:

Obama argues that Democratic Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Republican Sen. John McCain — he calls them "the two Washington candidates" — are pandering to voters by proposing to suspend the federal gas tax of 18.4 cents a gallon for three months. He says a tax holiday would provide consumers little real relief, ignore the country's energy problems and take money from road and bridge repairs.

"This is the problem with Washington. We are facing a situation where oil prices could hit $200 a barrel. Oil companies like Shell and BP just reported record profits for the quarter. And we're arguing over a gimmick that would save you half a tank of gas over the course of the entire summer so that everyone in Washington can pat themselves on the back and say that they did something," Obama says.

Clinton says Obama is turning his back on people who need relief from rising gas prices. Republicans, including the campaign of rival John McCain, question his switch.

THE FACTS:

In 2000, gasoline prices were climbing quickly, reaching $2 a gallon in the Chicago area — a remarkable price back then. Illinois legislators scrambled to offer some election-year relief to angry motorists.

Obama voted three times for a tax holiday.

The version that ended up becoming law required a six-month suspension of the state's share of the sales tax on gasoline, a 5 percent tax paid directly by consumers rather than gas stations. It also required gas stations to post signs on their pumps saying that the Illinois General Assembly had lowered taxes and the price should reflect that cut.

The impact of the tax holiday was never clear.

A government study could not determine how much of the savings was actually passed along to motorists. Many lawmakers said their constituents didn't seem to have benefited. They also worried the tax break was pushing the state budget out of balance.

At the end of Illinois' tax holiday, there was a failed push to eliminate the sales tax permanently. Obama was among those voting against eliminating the tax.

Obama's presidential campaign says the lessons of that Illinois tax holiday influenced his decision to oppose a national tax holiday. The lack of clear results then make him dubious about suspending the national tax now.

In addition, the Illinois tax was paid directly by consumers and increased as gas prices increased. Obama's campaign points out the national tax is a flat 18.4 cents (24.4 cents a gallon for diesel) and, therefore, isn't climbing as gas prices climb. It's also paid by producers, raising more questions about whether they'd pass the full savings along to customers.

During a three-month suspension, the average driver would save only about $28, according to the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials.

"That assumes the oil companies are going to give it to you. That's probably not a likely outcome," said Jack Basso, the association's director of management and business development.

If oil companies did pass along the savings, tax experts say, the lower prices would increase demand. Since refineries are already at maximum production levels, the increased demand probably would drive prices back up.

The association also estimates that suspending the tax would divert about $8.5 billion from the Highway Trust Fund, which pays for road and bridge repairs and already faces a shortfall of $3.2 billion. Taking that tax money from the trust fund could endanger hundreds of thousands of jobs — every $1 billion in highway money supports 33,000 jobs, by one estimate — and would push more maintenance and construction costs onto the states.

"The federal gas tax is a piddly little 18 cents. If that is eliminated, it isn't going to make an iota of difference to the average gasoline purchaser, yet it's going to hasten the bankruptcy of the Highway Trust Fund," said Rod Diridon, head of the Mineta Transportation Institute at San Jose State University.

McCain suggests avoiding that problem by replacing the lost money with unspecified funds from elsewhere in the budget. Clinton wants to impose a new tax on oil company profits to make up for lifting the gasoline tax.

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By Christopher Wills

Michelle Obama

Article submitted by Kenneth

Michelle Obama Declines Opportunity to Discuss Wright

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ABC News' Sunlen Miller Reports: Back on the campaign trail, Barack Obama reitereated his disappointment in the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, defending his denoucement of his former pastor in a press conference on Tuesday.

"Frankly, what he said over the last few days and in some of the sermons that have been excerpted were unacceptable and weren't things that we believed in or cared about or cared to believe in," Sen. Obama, D-Ill., said in response to a voter's question at a campaign event in Indianapolis, Ind., "I've made a statement (on Tuesday) that was hard to make but it was I believed."

The questioner had asked about "turning his back on someone who had been a good friend" but Obama, with his wife Michelle by his side, did not take issue with the tone.

"I mean, it is true that part of the job when you're running for president is that anybody who is tangentially, you know, even remotely associated with you is somehow fair game and that's unfortunate because most of us in our lives –- we meet people, we know people, some people we work with or we sit on a board with -- we don't really go vet them and find out all the terrible things they might have done because, you know, we don't know or what they said to see if it's politically correct," Obama continued.

Obama changed the subject rather quickly to talking about how he and Michelle came from modest backgrounds, but when wrapping up, the candidate looked at his wife seated on a picnic table next to him and asked, "So Michelle, do you have anything to add to that?"

Mrs. Obama shook her head indicating no.

"You do but," the Senator said, trailing off, leaving the incomplete thought in the air before adding, "Remember there are a lot of reporters around though."

Honk Event

Sunday, April 27, 2008,Noon, at Carolina Place Mall

GOP Sees Obama as LIABILITY for Democrats

G.O.P. Now Sees Obama as Liability for Ticket

By CARL HULSE APR. 26, 2008

Jeff Zeleny contributed reporting.

Sunday, NYT, Politics

WASHINGTON — Senator Barack Obama is starring in a growing number of campaign commercials, but the latest batch is being underwritten by Republicans.
In a sign that the racial, class and values issues simmering in the presidential campaign could spread into the larger political arena, Republican groups are turning recent bumps in Mr. Obama’s road — notably his comment that small-town Americans “cling” to guns and religion out of bitterness and a fiery speech by his former minister in which he condemned the United States — into attacks against Democrats down the ticket.
“The public, week by week, is becoming more familiar with his big-government, far-left vision for America,” said Ed Patru, a spokesman for Freedom’s Watch, an advocacy organization that is portraying Mr. Obama as ultraliberal in an advertisement running in Louisiana before a special election for a House seat.
Republicans say the new focus on Mr. Obama reflects their view that he remains the more likely Democratic presidential nominee since he continues to lead Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in convention delegates. It also shows that Republicans, who have for months characterized Mrs. Clinton as the contender who would most energize Republican voters, now see vulnerabilities in Mr. Obama that could be liabilities for other Democrats on the ballot.
“There were times when Republicans reacted with just horror that he would lead the ticket,” said Stuart Rothenberg, a nonpartisan political analyst. “Now there is not the sense of him being invulnerable, the magic bullet. I think there has been a major change.”
The growing Republican emphasis on Mr. Obama could also help Mrs. Clinton plead her case that she is more electable, bolstering her argument to superdelegates that Republicans are poised to pounce on her relatively untested opponent. Her advisers have been frustrated that some top Democrats rate Mrs. Clinton a greater liability for the party’s candidates in conservative parts of the country — a view still held by some strategists — even though she has shown a capacity to withstand Republican attacks.
At the same time, some Democrats privately said the new Republican push could be a backdoor effort to buoy Mrs. Clinton, the candidate Republicans initially saw as the Democrat who would most rally Republicans and spur fund-raising. It has not been lost on Republican strategists that they can give pause to superdelegates leaning toward endorsing Mr. Obama.

Info On Hillary Rapid Responders

...submitted by Carmina

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Media Jumping Obama Ship

..submitted by Bitdog

If you look at Obama's vote in Pennsylvania, you begin to see the
outlines of the old George McGovern coalition that haunted the Democrats
during the '70s and '80s, led by college students and minorities....Its
ideology is very liberal. Whereas in the first primaries and caucuses,
Obama benefited from being seen as middle-of-the-road or even
conservative, he is now receiving his strongest support from voters who see
themselves as 'very liberal.'...[H]e is going to have trouble in Indiana,
Kentucky, and West Virginia, where he will once again be faced by a large
white working class vote. He can still win the nomination and lose
these primaries. Pennsylvania was the last big delegate prize. But if Obama
doesn't find a way now to speak to these voters, he is going to have
trouble winning that large swath of states from Pennsylvania through
Missouri in which a Democrat must do well to gain the presidency."

===>

and Bitdog wrote:

I think it's fairly significant that the OP-ED page cartoon guy for the
Observer would pen the above 'toon. North Carolina, Charlotte and this
paper are pretty much in the O'bama tank if you know what I mean.

Obama Supporter

by Carlos from NoQuarterUSA
"Obama Delegate Behind Texas Polygamy Hoax?"

The hits keep coming in the media meltdown at the Barack Obama campaign. As local police, the Texas Rangers and the FBI investigate the hoax phone call that lead to the massive raid on the Texas polygamist compound, word emerges that the woman arrested for the hoax is … a pledged delegate to the Obama campaign?

NoQuarter USA Continue...

Our Candidate

submitted by Kenneth

Watch slide show and read article from Charlotte Observer

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Petition for Obama to Debate Hillary in N.C.

Senator Clinton has shown she's committed to hearing voters across the Tar Heel State.

That's why she accepted a North Carolina debate.

I signed a petition calling on Senate Obama to participate in a debate on the issues in North Carolina. Go to the link below and add your name to make your voice heard.

Petiton for Obama and Debate in NC

Pat Kirby Shares Letter with Charlotte4Hillary

Hi Professor Dubois,
>
>I have been thinking about you constantly during this incredible

>primary race, and finally decided to drop you a note.
>
>I'm Pat Kirby, and I was your student in the Fall of 1999 during the
>stolen Bush election, and have fond memories of spending in class as
>you tried to convey to my much younger classmates that they were
>witnessing history. I'm the woman who was in the class and you kind
>of used me as your touchstone that what you were teaching about the
>second women's movement really did happen. I enjoyed the class
>tremendously, but boy do I wish I was in a class of yours right NOW!
>
>Hope that you are doing well and I assume that you have already
>begun to write a book about this incredible primary race! We all
>now know that Hillary was born with an abundance of the suffragist
>gene, and I certainly hope that she will go all the way.
>
>I have moved to Charlotte, NC, and as you know we are about to have
>our chance at bat although it will be a tought fight in this
>Republican haven. I have volunteered for the campaign here because
>I have to be a part of this her story making event and I am
>enjoying doing phone calls, Honk for Hillary events and any thing
>else. If you get a minute, check out our website at
>charlotte4hillary.com. I did a brief women's history timeline for
>the website and it has pictures of all of our activities as well as
>local articles here in Charlotte.
>
>I'm glad to finally find your email address on the UCLA website, and
>I will continue to think of you throughout the remainder or the
>race, and I look forward to reading your book on Hillary. Who else
>should write it but a former Wellesley woman!
>
>Gotta run - I am actually going to early vote today...........never
>thought I would get to vote for a woman in my lifetime. It is
>thrilling! Take care.
>
Pat Kirby

response:Thank you so much Pat. I think its time for you to call me
Ellen. yes, I am working hard for HIllary and have new hope. Your
email really made my day, week, even month! It is wonderful to learn
that your work as a teacher continues to affect people as they move
through their lives. You will have a tough job in North Carolina but
I am cheered to know you are at it there. if I can do anything,
please let me know. Here are a few contributions I made with my pen.

Ellen DuBois "Dissent Mag." online

Ellen Dublois"Dissent Mag." #2 article

Dubois, "Feminists For Clinton"

* Ellen Dubois was a classmate of Hillary Clinton when both attended Wellesley College

Thanks, Pat for being so selfless and sharing!

Charlotte4Hillary

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In today's Charlotte Observer:

Clinton, Obama won't debate in NC
Observer Article

Please send in 2 or 3 sentences on why Obama is afraid to debate Hillary after the Penn debate. Feel free to include references to his inappropriate (un-presidential) performance in Raleigh after the Penn debate - here's one of the better urls in case you missed it:
The Swamp

Once again, send letters to opinion@charlotteobserver.com

Here's my letter to the editor:

Sen. Obama is afraid to face Sen. Clinton in a NC debate. After being asked the kinds of difficult and awkward questions she has endured for years, he proved he couldn't take the heat in the Pennsylvania debate. We all watched the tantrum he threw the next morning in Raleigh. The venue, the network and the date had all been set for weeks, and the NC Democratic Party is making excuses for him. This is machine politics at its worst.

*****Please be prepared to respond to the Charlotte Observer tomorrow when they report the results of the PA primary*****

Some good points to include:
- He outspent her by $12million to $3million - with unlimited funds he still couldn't close the deal
- His performance in Raleigh after Penn debate - how much did his inappropriate behavior influence the PA primary?
- Even with the outrageous media bias for him, the people saw through it
- NC voters are also the type who "cling" to their guns and their religion

Here's a link to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review's unlikely endorsement of Hillary. The owner is the guy who led the "vast right-wing conspiracy" against Bill Clinton. This piece has great lines to use in support of her - very plain-spoken and hits all the right notes.

Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

!!!!!!THANK YOU ALL FOR EVERYTHING YOU'RE DOING - ONLY 2 WEEKS TO GO - WE'RE IN IT TO WIN IT!!!!!!!

___Carmina

Debate Cancelled

Nathan received this letter from The North Carolina Democratic Party:

We regret to inform you that the proposed Democratic Presidential
Debate scheduled for April 27 has been cancelled due to time constraints and
logistical issues associated with such a large, national event.

You have shown tremendous passion and interest in being a part of
history as Democrats are poised this year to elect the first female or
African-American President. However, there were also growing concerns about
what another debate would do to party unity.

We hope your interest in the North Carolina Democratic Party will not
end with the cancellation of the debate.

We will keep your e-mail addresses for a random drawing to attend a
special event in the fall featuring the nominee.

Senators Clinton and Obama have offered additional opportunities to be
seen and heard across the state in the coming weeks and months.

Both candidates have committed to attending our Jefferson-Jackson
Dinner on Friday, May 2 in Raleigh.

Tickets are available by signing up online at www.ncdp.org.

Again, the Party thanks you for your interest in the Democratic
Presidential primary. We hope you will continue to be involved in local and
state politics.

Your voice, your vote does make a difference.

Response

"I completely disagree with the North Carolina Democratic Party
assessment of why the debate was cancelled. It is no wonder to me that it was
cancelled since Raleigh is heavily leaning toward Obama and Obama has
hinted in the past week that he was against any further debates, largely
due to the fact that he does so poorly in them.

Your claim of "...growing concerns about what another debate would do
to party unity," is ridiculous. Political debates and public discourse
are the ways to inform our North Carolina Democratic Electorate. The
North Carolina Democratic Party should be ashamed of giving in to the
Obama Campaign wishes by cancelling this debate. The party will not be
united until one of the candidates has enough votes for the nomination. And
neither cadidate has enough votes, contrary to the opinion of Mr.
Obama.

Apparently Mr. Obama does not consider our North Carolina Democratic
constituency important enough to debate the issues here. Senator Clinton
has not offered any so-called "time constraints and logistical issues."
Senator Obama is more concerned with gaining Independent and
Republican voters, and this is not the purpose of our DEMOCRATIC PRIMARY. Our
Democratic Primary is for the will of the Democratic electorate to voice
its vote for its choice for the nominee.

Shame on the NCDP for allowing our North Carolina Primary to be
relegated to second-class status at the behest of Senator Obama."

Nathan

Obama Supporters Slash Tires Of Pa. Democrat!!

From ABC: submitted by Kenneth

Democrats' Pennsylvania Brawl Intensifies

Accuses Clinton of 'Slash and Burn'; She Says He's Flash Over Substance
By DAVID WRIGHT

SCRANTON, Pa., April 20, 2008—

In the final push before the Pennsylvania primary Tuesday, the Democratic candidates traded some of their sharpest jabs yet, again raising concerns that when the brawl is over, the party will not be able to unite for the fight for the presidency.

Barack Obama accused Hillary Clinton of "slash and burn politics." Clinton countered that he is all flash and no substance, and she claimed he is now throwing the kitchen sink at her.

Obama conceded that Clinton would be a better president than George Bush. "But that's not saying very much," he quickly added.

Obama said all three candidates -- including presumptive Republican nominee John McCain -- would be better than Bush.

Clinton took issue with Obama's apparent olive branch for the Arizona senator.

"We need a nominee who will take on John McCain, not cheer on John McCain," she said.

Obama also launched a new ad, responding to Clinton's previous attacks and accusing her of "11th-hour smears, paid for by lobbyists."

Clinton's campaign countered with another attack ad of its own, charging, "He couldn't answer tough questions in the debate, so Barack Obama is making false charges about Hillary's health plan."

Supporters of both campaigns have gone even further.

A retired major general who supports Obama raised Clinton's claims that she dodged sniper fire during her 1996 trip to Bosnia. Walter Stewart called that a "dishonor," and said it should disqualify her from laying wreaths at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.

A Clinton supporter is circulating a mailer raising the issue of Obama's acquaintance with Bill Ayers, a Chicago professor who was once a member of the violent Weather Underground.

The mailer, created by union activist Rick Sloan of the International Association of Machinists, claims Republicans will "channel Joe McCarthy" in the fall, turning Obama's "change we can believe in" into "change no patriotic American could stomach."

Both campaigns have disavowed those particular statements.

But Democratic Party activists in Pennsylvania said they worry the bitterness could make it difficult to mend fences once the dust settles.

"This has gotten so bad this year, I'm not sure people can forget about it and put it behind themselves after Tuesday," said Joe Morgan, a Democratic committeeman for Berks County.

He said the supporters are worse than the candidates when it comes to vindictive attacks.

"The bitterness and anger they have toward people who are not supporting their candidate is something I have never seen before," he said.

Morgan has been writing his own blog on the race, so at first he decided to remain neutral. He said Obama fans in particular were incensed with him for doing so. His tires were slashed and a complaint was lodged with the Internet service provider for his blog. Morgan is now supporting Clinton.

But as the candidates criss-crossed the state this weekend making their closing arguments to the voters, there was one sign that even the most bitter divisions could be healed.

The Pittsburgh Tribune Review endorsed Hillary Clinton. The endorsement itself is no surprise, except that the owner and publisher of the paper is Richard Mellon Scaife, the billionaire heir to the Mellon fortune whom Clinton once accused of masterminding the "vast right-wing conspiracy" against her and her husband.

Apparently all of that is now water under the bridge. No hard feelings at all.

Copyright © 2008 ABC News Internet Ventures

"Pittsburgh Tribune-Review": Editorial Endorsement

In Pennsylvania's Democrat primary for president: Vote for Clinton
Sunday, April 20, 2008

For decades, the two major parties have chosen their presidential candidates long before Pennsylvania holds its primary.

Not this year.

Ron Paul's maverick candidacy aside, Republicans have settled on John McCain, whom we previously endorsed. Democrats, however, are still deciding.

For once, the Keystone State might well determine a party's nominee.

f Barack Obama does well here or pulls an upset, the Democrats' leader in states, delegates and popular votes could be propelled to de facto victory.

If Hillary Clinton wins as expected, she should be able to fight on to the convention -- and a double-digit victory might give her momentum to seize the nomination.

For Pennsylvania Democrats, the smart choice Tuesday is Mrs. Clinton.

Continue Reading

3 New Superdelegates

April 18, 2008, 6:14 pm
Clinton Gets 3 New Superdelegates

By Ariel Alexovich, NYT Politics, The Caucus

Hillary Rodham Clinton added a new trio of superdelegates to her tally on Friday.

Two former New Jersey governors, Jim Florio and Brendan Byrne, endorsed Mrs. Clinton last year, but they were only selected to be their state’s add-on delegates Thursday. As such, they have the same voting rights as superdelegates and don’t have to vote with the popular vote winner of their state (although Mrs. Clinton won New Jersey anyway).

Representative Betty Sutton of Ohio also came out in support of Mrs. Clinton. The district she represents is in northeastern Ohio.

“I have had the opportunity to engage in significant discussions with Senator Clinton about the concerns and hopes of the people I am so honored to represent,” Ms. Sutton said in a news release. “She has demonstrated a keen understanding of the pressing issues, such as the need to create economic opportunity for working families right here in Northeast Ohio.”

“I am grateful for the support of both former New Jersey governors Byrne and Florio, as well as Rep. Sutton,” Mrs. Clinton said in a statement. “Together, with their support and millions of others, we will deliver health care to every American, jump-start the economy, and turn our great country around. Our campaign is experiencing great momentum.”

Important Response Needed From All

Kenneth sent two articles from Carmina in a letter today that need your written response to the editor.

Here is the first article link:Read and Respond

The other article can be opened in PDF format:Download obama_on_defensive_charobs_4_17.pdf

Once again, here is a summary of Kenneth's letter and helpful instructions. Let's all cooperate.

Explain to the Observer why you believe Obama is unelectable. Outline
why you may not vote for him if he is the Democratic nominee. Why are
you opposed to his candidacy? What qualifications does he lack? How has
he conducted himself during this primary campaign? What do you find
objectionable about his past? Why are you unable to cast a vote for Barack
Obama? Limit your response to 150 words, and submit it to
opinion@charlotteobserver.com with your name, address and telephone
number. Also remember to place the title of the article and the date on
which it was published in the subject heading of your email. Responses
that refer to a particular passage or knowledge claim in the article are
more likely to be published. And feel free to write me or Carmina
(carminaday@carolina.rr.com) if you require any help with your letter.

Because the second article to which we must respond is only available
in the print version of the 17 APR edition of the Charlotte Observer, I
attach a reproduction of it to this letter in the form of a pdf
document. Entitled "Obama put on defensive," this article discussed the many
controversies surrounding Obama the ABC moderators cited during the
debate we viewed on Wednesday: it mentions the "bitter" comments Obama made
at the Getty mansion in the Pacific Heights neighborhood of San
Francisco; it mentions Obama's relationship of twenty years with Reverend
Jeremiah Wright; and it mentions Obama's friendship and professional
relationship with terrorist William Ayers, a former member of the Weather
Underground. Feel free to assess Obama's response to the ABC moderators'
questions in your letter to the editor. Did you find his answers
convincing? Do you believe Obama has the right to complain about the
questions the ABC moderators asked during the debate? Or do you believe these
are questions the media should have asked long ago? And what is your
opinion of Obama's relationships with William Ayers and Reverend Jeremiah
Wright? Do you believe Obama refuses to debate Clinton in North
Carolina as a result of his inability to answer questions about his past?
Limit your response to 150 words, and submit it
opinion@charlotteobserver.com with your name, address and telephone
number.

Obama and Ayers

From AP:
Photo: Wm. Ayers

Fox News

THE SPIN:

Obama was asked about Ayers as part of a discussion of his patriotism in a presidential debate Wednesday night in Philadelphia.

Obama responded that Ayers, now a professor at the University of Illinois, is “a guy who lives in my neighborhood” but hasn’t endorsed him and doesn’t regularly exchange ideas with him.

“And the notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values, doesn’t make much sense,” Obama said.

Clinton seized on Ayers as “an issue that certainly the Republicans will be raising.” She pointed out that Obama and Ayers served on a charity board together and brought the 9-11 terrorist attacks into the mix by noting that an interview in which Ayers denied any regret for the radical group’s bomb-making happened to appear on the day of the attacks.

THE FACTS:

Ayers was part of the Weather Underground when a bomb the group was making exploded at a New York townhouse. Three people were killed. He fled and spent years as a fugitive. He met and married fellow fugitive Bernadine Dohrn during that period.

The two surrendered in 1980 and were never prosecuted. They now teach at Chicago universities.

Ayers and Obama both served on the board of directors of the Woods Fund, a Chicago-based charity that focuses on developing community groups to assist the poor. A variety of business executives, journalists and academics serve on the board.

When Obama was organizing his first race for the state legislature, the incumbent lawmaker he hoped to replace introduced him to her supporters and urged them to back Obama. One introductory event took place at the home of Ayers and Dohrn, according to published reports.

read about Ayers and Obama

Clinton Employs Broad Attacks in a Key Debate

By ADAM NAGOURNEY and JEFF ZELENY APR. 17, 2008
NYT

PHILADELPHIA — Senator Barack Obama found himself consistently on the defensive as he and Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton met Wednesday night in a tense debate that left him parrying questions and criticism on issues including values, patriotism and his association with onetime radicals from the 1960s.
It was the first time the two candidates had shared a debate stage in seven weeks, and it came six days before a primary in Pennsylvania that could determine whether Mrs. Clinton can continue her quest for the Democratic presidential nomination. It could also prove to be the last debate between them.
Accordingly, Mrs. Clinton did not let an opportunity pass as she repeatedly challenged Mr. Obama on his record and views — assisted, as it turned out, by aggressive questioning by the two moderators from ABC News, Charles Gibson and George Stephanopolous.

The result was arguably one of Mr. Obama’s weakest debate performances. He at times appeared annoyed as he sought to answer questions about his former pastor, his reluctance to wear an American flag pin on his lapel and his association in Chicago with former members of the Weather Underground, a radical group that carried out bombings in the 1960s that were intended to incite the overthrow of the government. ..

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More On "Bitter Remarks"

from ABC Political Punch

N.C. Clinton Adviser Bashes Obama 'Small Town' Remarks While Introducing Bill

April 11, 2008 9:53 PM

ABC News' Sarah Amos reports that at North Carolina Wesleyan College in Rocky Mount, N.C., Clinton campaign North Carolina chieftain Tom Hendrickson, a former state party chair, made much hay out of the "small town" comments made by Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill.

Hendrickson was introducing former President Bill Clinton.

"I normally just come and talk about President Clinton and Senator Clinton at these, but today Senator Obama was out at a fundraiser at I guess a brie and chardonnay crowd in San Francisco," Hendrickson said. "But his quote talking about small towns in Pennsylvania -- and which applies to small towns across eastern North Carolina -- which is why it is relevant to this tour we are doing today. And his quote is 'and it is not surprising that they cling to guns and religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them, or anti-immigrant or anti-trade as a way to explain their frustration.'

"I listened to that quote and I got mad," Hendrickson said, "and I wanted to reach out to Senator Obama and say senator, we are from the rural part of eastern North Carolina. We are very proud of our heritage, we are proud of who we are. We are not frustrated. We are not bitter. We turn to our faith because we believe, and we hunt and fish because it is part of our culture and we enjoy it.

"And we do that because that is who we are and I say that today because as this campaign goes on and on it is about choices, it is about change. We are going to hear the master in a little bit tell you what you, why, what you need to hear about his wife Hillary Clinton. But I wanted to take this time to mention this to you because you will hear more about this as time goes on and it is really time to really evaluate these candidates up close and personal."

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The Clinton Campaign Publishes Reaction From Pennsylvania Mayors.

Read Press Release from Campaign

"Bitter" for Obama...

12 reasons 'bitter' is bad for Obama
By MIKE ALLEN | 4/12/08 5:04 PM EST

Photo: AP

A Clinton comeback was looking far-fetched. But operatives in both parties were buzzing about that possibility Saturday following the revelation that Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) told wealthy San Franciscans that small-town Pennsylvanians and Midwesterners “cling to guns or religion” because they are “bitter” about their economic status.

Obama at first dug in on that contention Friday after audio of the private fundraiser was posted by The Huffington Post. Altering course, on Saturday in Muncie, Ind., he conceded that he “didn’t say it as well as I should have.” And he told the Winston-Salem (N.C.) Journal that “obviously, if I worded things in a way that made people offended, I deeply regret that. ... The underlying truth of what I said remains, which is simply that people who have seen their way of life upended because of economic distress are frustrated and rightfully so."
Bitter,Bitter read more at Politico

Article submitted by Bitdog from the "The Smirking Chimp" web site.
in reference to an article by Marcy Winograd at OpEd News.

"Fortunately, this latest outrage by the Obama campaign has a somewhat happy ending; all of the delegates purged from California's bloc seem to have been reinstated. But if Obama thought these devoted supporters might have harbored plans to defect to Hillary Clinton's camp, he may have pushed his fear one step closer to realization.
What exactly was behind Obama's purge of delegates in California?
by Michael Kwiatkowski

Stop me if you've heard this one. Yesterday MyDD reported that the Obama campaign had wiped over nine hundred delegates in California from its list of chosen representatives for the national convention in August. Ostensibly, this was done to ensure only Obama loyalists would represent the senator from Illinois at the Democratic National Convention. No big deal, right? After all, Hillary Clinton's campaign did a similar purge.

The problem is this: while Clinton trimmed only fifty or so delegates, down from an initial 950, Obama wiped roughly half of 1,700. Furthermore, whereas Clinton appears to have carefully screened the delegates to be excluded, Obama's purge list appeared random -- activists with solid credentials and who worked tirelessly to campaign for their candidate were eliminated, while those who did little or nothing got to stay on the list to go to Denver..."
read article at Op-Ed

From The Editorial Team, April 8, 2008

The Charlotte4Hillary Editorial Watchdogs

noted an article on Rev. Jeremiah Wright that we felt needed our response. Read the following article from The Charlotte Observer...read article

Carmina, Charlotte4Hillary, like many others, is lost in this comparison of Wright to the great Martin Luther King, by bringing to mind this quote from his famous speech in Washington, D.C.

"I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."...Martin Luther King.

Liz Classen ( author of the article in question) also compares Rev. Wright to Gandhi, the "Great Soul", and the biblical prophets, Isaiah and Elijah.

Here are responses from our Editorial Team:

Carmina's letter:
Re: Wright's Gift to America (April 8, 2008)

I recently had a letter published in this forum stating my view that Barack Obama's 20-year membership in Rev. Wright's church called into question his judgment and his ability to unite the country. Afterward, I received hate mail at my home, citing the letter and calling me a racist. The sender did not have the courage to sign their name. I have lived my whole life with an open mind and an open heart, so I'm confident enough to speak my mind. The article states "As Southerners, known for politeness, these conversations can be painful." Perhaps this is why so many people have whispered to me that they are afraid to speak out against Obama for fear of being labeled racist.

Grace's letter:

Liz Clasen writes in Wright's Gift to America that Wright is not a hate-monger. I take exception to her remarks.

I've seen him speaking "politically" from the pulpit.

His portrayal of Hillary Clinton as if she were an oppressor of poor black people is hateful and grossly inaccurate. She has spent years in public service improving the lives of the poor of all colors.

Citing Obama as a black boy raised by a single mother is true. However, the picture that he calls up is not the privileged prep-school, ivy league upbringing Barack experienced. Rev. Wright didn't pay attention when Obama ignored his poor, black constituents when they were shivering in the apartment buildings owned by his fundraiser Rezko without heat during cold Chicago winters. He may not be white, in Rev. Wright's eyes, but he is the rich and privileged oppressor that Wright hates.

Is Rev.Wright’s gift hypocrisy?

Exclusive Poll: Obama Loses Ground With Pa. Men

Barack Obama lost ground among certain groups of voters in the battleground state of Pennsylvania during the last week, according to a new poll.

If the Democratic Primary were held in Pennsylvania Tuesday, Hillary Clinton would beat Obama by 18 percentage points, according to the results of a SurveyUSA poll conducted exclusively for NBC 10 and three other TV stations across the Keystone State.

The poll concluded that the results were nearly identical to one of its polls released a month ago, stalling the momentum Obama picked up at the end of March.
Read more on NBC...

Work Hillary Supporters; Work For Our Next President!

Come on Charlotte4Hillary! 'Let's fight the good fight'! Use your emotion with conviction, and we will deliver N.C. to Hillary!

Thank you, New York! Protest April 11, 2008

Obama The Bamboozeler

It's The Biased Media, Yes It Is...

More Obama Baloney from "The Charlotte Observer"

Written Action Needed in Response to this vilifying article in "The Charlotte Observer."

Reaction Needed to This!

Written reaction thus far:

As a former resident of Barack Obama's state Senate district in Illinois,
I fail to understand how 2/3 of NC voters give Barack Obama "high marks
for his ability to connect with voters." Not only did I never meet
Obama when I resided two blocks from his home in Chicago; I know Obama
failed to represent constituents who lacked heating and sanitation
services as a result of the dereliction of Obama's political patron, the
indicted slumlord Antoin "Tony" Rezko. Obama failed to report the actual
amount of money indicted political fixer Rezko raised for Obama when
questioned by the Chicago Sun-Times. Obama said it was "between $50,000 and
$60,000" in December 2006, when a Chicago Sun-Times investigation seven
months later revealed that it was actually $168,308. Now Obama claims
it was $250,000. Obama's shifting explanations force me to question his
trustworthiness, especially as he and Rezko jointly purchased the
mansion in which the Obama family resides in 2005 when everyone in Chicago
knew Rezko was under federal investigation.

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> Here's my letter to the CharOb -
>
> Re: NC Voters' top concern: Trust (April 5, 2008)
>
> Who could NC voters possibly trust more than Hillary Clinton? No
candidate has ever been vetted more thoroughly; we know everything there
is to know about her. It is also common knowledge that no other
candidate has ever been treated more unfairly in the media in any presidential
race. I trust Hillary because she has demonstrated her leadership and
ability to make positive changes in the lives of American working
families for 35 years. No other candidate can make this claim. Were the
people being polled the same ones who trusted George W. Bush in 2004? Wake
up North Carolina! Trust the facts, not the hype.

Carmina
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More from Jyoti
My response:
I don't know why the poll shows that people in North Carolina don't trustHillary.
My woman's intuition tells me that I can trust her. It's the poll that should not be trusted.
Jyoti

Here's my letter. Hope everyone else takes action.
I take exception to Jim Merrill's article on Senator Clinton's supposed lack of trustworthiness. She is vetted, but continues to be trounced upon by the media with a viciousness that most sensitive and intelligent women will never forget. These same women will be cognizant of this when voting. Your hasty generalization of poll results(without giving much detail about which actual polls you are citing)serve only to inflame an audience already pummeled with hasty, careless opinions presented as "news.".
...Trisha

This is what I wrote to the Observer.

North Carolina voters should not be fooled by the media's bias statements against Hillary Clinton.
Hillary is trustworthy and a fierce candidate for the Presidency. It is hilarious that Obama is “considered trustworthy.”
Obama’s response to his association with Rev. Wright and Tony Rezko is an indication of his inability to tell the truth on these matters.
What else does Barack Obama have to hide?

Fran

Hillary In Memphis, Tn., April 4,2008

"...I believe we should appoint a cabinet level position that will be solely and fully devoted to ending poverty as we know it in America. A position that will focus the attention of our nation on the issue and never let it go. A person who I could see being asked by the president every single day what have you done to end poverty in America? No more excuses." Senator Hillary Clinton, April 4, 2008, Memphis, Tn.

Strategy Meeting 4-03-08, Charlotte4Hillary

Charlotte4Hillary met for a strategy meeting soon after attending the opening of Senator Clinton's local campaign headquarters in Charlotte, N.C. Note the unique T-shirt sported by one of Hillary's greatest supporters!

Rise, Hillary. Rise!

Watch Clip HRC Headquarters

A Message to N.C.

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Senator Hillary Clinton Agrees to CBS News Debate
No confirmation from Obama camp, debate would be CBS' first of the campaign.
By Marisa Guthrie -- Broadcasting & Cable, 4/3/2008 4:45:00 PM

Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) has accepted CBS News’ invitation for a debate on April 27 in North Carolina, her campaign confirmed Thursday.

The network has yet to get a confirmation from Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.).

The Democratic contenders will meet April 16 in Philadelphia for an ABC News debate moderated by Charles Gibson and George Stephanopoulos. It will be the 21st debate of the longest primary season on memory.

If Obama agrees to the CBS News debate, it will be the first for the network. CBS Evening News anchor Katie Couric and Face the Nation’s Bob Schieffer are scheduled to moderate.

Once Again, "Electability"...from USN

Key Republican Gives Clinton an "Electability" Boost
April 01, 2008 03:25 PM ET | Permanent Link

Hillary Clinton's campaign has pounced on a statement by a key Republican in order to undermine the "electability" claims of her Democratic rival, Barack Obama.

Clinton strategists are pointing to the remarks of Oklahoma Rep. Tom Cole, chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee, in the New York Times Magazine on Sunday in which he said Obama would be an easier target in the fall campaign if he becomes the Democratic presidential nominee. Clinton strategists are using Cole's remarks as part of their effort to persuade "superdelegates" to side with Clinton because Obama would supposedly be a risky choice. In addition, the Clinton forces argue that many Democratic candidates would need to "disown" Obama's liberal policies in order to survive in their states or districts.

Cont. USN

Battling For Every Vote in Pennsylvania

Democrats Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are battling for every vote in Pennsylvania's presidential primary.

With the state's crucial primary slated for April 22, gay and lesbian voters in Philadelphia have drawn attention from the battling candidates. By one count, those voters makes up five percent of the city's Democratic electorate. In a tight race, even such a small demographic could make a big difference.

NPR On Winning The LGBT Vote

Just Do It

Phone Banking for Clinton: Just Do It

by anna belle, Tue Apr 01, 2008 at 09:55:26 PM EST

Evening folks! I'm just back from my first phone banking at Hillary Clinton's New Albany Headquarters in Indiana. What a trip! I talked to all sorts of people tonight, including one memorable conversation I had with a non-supporter who was pissed about Kyl-Lieberman, and whom I had the pleasure of setting straight (in the friendliest of terms, of course!), and who I think might just take the second look at that vote as I encouraged.

These are the trenches, people, and it's where YOU need to be. Why? Because it's where she (and we) needs you! Join me below the fold for the details of why.

The biggest reason Hill needs you is that you are one of those in the know about her record. I volunteered tonight with some amazing people, including a 75 year old woman from NA, a couple of 50-ish ladies from NA and Corydon, as well as the grown son of one of these women. Lovely, lovely people who will work tirelessly, but not exactly up to snuff when fielding the question about Kyl-Lieberman, like I did tonight. Here's how it went:

Read On...

Indiana Voters Not Happy With Obama

Obama Speech Fails to Assuage White Indiana Voters

Heidi Przybyla Tue Apr 1, 10:00 AM ET

April 1 (Bloomberg) -- Andrea Helmer was interested in Barack Obama until she heard sound bites of his fiery pastor's sermons. Last week, she volunteered for Hillary Clinton's campaign in Indiana.

``As things came out regarding some of the things his pastor has said, I got concerned,'' said Helmer, a 36-year-old respiratory therapist and mother of two in Evansville, Indiana.

Interviews with dozens of Democrats in this overwhelmingly white region -- where voters will go to the polls in the May 6 primary -- suggest residual concerns over the controversy involving Obama's former pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright.Read more...

From Fran, Charlotte4Hillary

On tonights' CNN news, Lou Dobbs asked viewers the following question.
Do you believe there is a media bias against Hillary Clinton and in favor of Barack Obama? So far the results are:
Yes 72% 13789
No 28% 5397
Total Votes: 19186

CNN Poll

Be sure and quick vote on site!

......"Rise, Hillary. Rise"

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I’ll rise. ....Maya Angelou

continued...

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Quote of A Lifetime

"If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation."
Abigail Adams, in a letter to John Adams, March 31, 1776