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McCamy Taylor

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Fri Jun-06-08 01:51 AM
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Hillary Loves You

. I. Things She Has Done and Said

"I have said throughout the campaign that I would strongly support Sen. Obama if he were the Democratic Party's nominee, and I intend to deliver on that promise," Sen. Hillary Clinton said in an email Thursday. Had people like Pat Buchanan and Rep. Jim Clyburn bothered to study her history, they might have discovered that one of the things she is known for is sticking to her guns. Once she makes up her mind to so something, she does it. And she is as consistent as Jif peanut butter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rvhrh0yHhd8&feature=related

“I am honored to be here with Barack Obama….” From February, 2008.

In Sept 1995, she spoke at the United Nations Fourth World Conference on Women. Her speech is considered historic. Here is a link with video and a transcript.

http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/hillaryclintonbeijingspeech.htm

These abuses have continued because, for too long, the history of women has been a history of silence. Even today, there are those who are trying to silence our words. But the voices of this conference and of the women at Huairou must be heard loudly and clearly:
It is a violation of human rights when babies are denied food, or drowned, or suffocated, or their spines broken, simply because they are born girls.
It is a violation of human rights when women and girls are sold into the slavery of prostitution for human greed -- and the kinds of reasons that are used to justify this practice should no longer be tolerated.
It is a violation of human rights when women are doused with gasoline, set on fire, and burned to death because their marriage dowries are deemed too small.
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If there is one message that echoes forth from this conference, let it be that human rights are women’s rights and women’s rights are human rights once and for all. Let us not forget that among those rights are the right to speak freely -- and the right to be heard.

In 1996, Clinton would become the first First Lady since Eleanor Roosevelt to travel into a war zone in order to raise awareness, increase troop morale and build up support back home for the humanitarian effort in Bosnia in response to the genocidal killing of 8000 men and boys by Serbs the year before. (links in my journal). Later, she would travel back to the Balkans in order to facilitate the freeing of civilians who were in danger of becoming war casualties. She also visited Northern Ireland and has been praised for her efforts in helping to broker the peace in that region as First Lady.

http://www.irishecho.com/newspaper/story.cfm?id=18626

In a series of statements compiled by labor and fair employment advocate Inez McCormack, Clinton was lauded for her "decade-long support" of the peace process.
"We believe it is important for others to know the pivotal role Mrs. Clinton played in helping us in Northern Ireland at critical junctures in the peace process. She supported us over many years and we will always be grateful to her," said McCormack
"Hillary Clinton took risks for peace in asking me and others to bring women and communities from both traditions to affirm their capacity to work for common purpose," McCormack said.
"She used her immense influence to give women like me space to develop this work and validated it every step of the way. This approach is now taken for granted but it wasn't then. She told us that if we take risks for peace, she would stay with us on that journey. In my experience, it took hard work, attention to detail and a commitment of time and energy which she delivered steadily and where needed over the last decade," McCormack added.

. II. Things She Has Not Done or Said

Obama’s campaign staffers or surrogates including Keith Olbermann have denounced Hillary Clinton for the actions of known right wingers including Bob Novak, Matt Drudge, the Moonies and Fox News. In none of these cases did Hillary Clinton personally step in to object to these baseless accusations which benefited the Obama camp by portraying Clinton as a dirty trickster. Had she raised a stink, they would have benefited the right wing even more by dividing Democrats in the same way that CREEP divided Democrats in 1972 by launching attacks at one Democratic candidate and attributing them to another as per Pat Buchanan’s plan for Dick Nixon . A few days ago, a right winger admitted being the source of a photo of Obama in African garb which Matt Drudge originally swore came from Hillary. Just to remind everyone, here is how the photo was greeted.

http://thinkonthesethings.wordpress.com/2008/02/25/hillary-clinton-campaign-circulates-photo-of-barack-obama-in-somali-clothing-on-kenya-visit/

Barack Obama’s campaign this morning sharply criticized Hillary Clinton’s campaign for reportedly sending a picture to the Drudge Report of the Illinois senator that showed him in African dress, with Obama campaign manager David Plouffe accusing Clinton of engaging in “shameful, offensive fear-mongering.”
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“We will not be distracted,” Williams said.

Keith Olbermann was distracted. He all but accused the Clinton team of planting the photo. That is because Keith Olbermann is an idiot who thought he was helping Democrats by dividing them.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23355275/

However, Clinton kept her cool during these obvious right wing attacks on the Democratic primary.

"We will not be distracted"

"Eleanor Roosevelt understood that every one of us every day has choices to make about the kind of person we are and what we wish to become. You can decide to be someone who brings people together, or you can fall prey to those who wish to divide us. You can be someone who educates yourself, or you can believe that being negative is clever and being cynical is fashionable. You have a choice." Hillary Clinton

Axelrod and his staff have also issued multiple memos (which they have tried to deny issuing so you know that they are not proud of them). He and Obama should be grateful that Hillary Clinton is a team player. Robert Kennedy hated Humphrey forever after the 1960 election. Ted Kennedy and Jimmy Carter never really made up in 1980.

"I will fight against the division politics of revenge and retribution. If you put me to work for you, I will work to lift people up, not put them down." Hillary Clinton

In only one instance, did Hillary Clinton object in public to deceptive flyers put out by the Obama campaign. ("Shame on you, Barack Obama") This was after the campaign had repeatedly used Harry and Lousie style tactics to attack her universal health insurance plan in order to scare Democrats, even after her campaign had issued pleas with them to stop. That is because universal health care is one of the things that matters to Hillary Clinton, because Hillary loves us and cares about the public health .

"We need to be as well prepared to defend ourselves against public health dangers as we should be to defend ourselves against any foreign danger." Hillary Clinton

. III. Hillary Loves the Axelrods

Today, as Axelrod basks in his profession’s highest glory — shaping a historical presidential campaign — he is experiencing one of its nastiest turns: in a tiny and ideologically promiscuous world, you often need to go to war with your friends. (If Obama hadn’t run, Axelrod says, he would have sat out this presidential race, and he says he told all of his other former clients that early on; he hasn’t had much interaction with them since.) There is Dodd, and there is Edwards, but perhaps most poignantly, there is Hillary Clinton. It’s a matter of epilepsy. David and Susan Axelrod have three children in their late teens and early 20s. Their eldest, Lauren, has developmental disabilities associated with chronic epileptic seizures and now lives in a group home in Chicago. But for years her illness required enough of her parents’ time that it kept Susan Axelrod out of the work force and kept David from moving to Little Rock during the 1992 presidential campaign. Susan and two other mothers of children with epilepsy started a foundation, Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy (CURE), which Susan runs, to promote research and raise funds for a cure. Because of David’s political work, they have had political celebrities do fund-raisers: Bill Clinton, Tim Russert, Obama. But few have done as much for the foundation as Hillary Clinton.
It was January 1999, President Clinton’s impeachment trial was just beginning in the Senate and Hillary Clinton was scheduled to speak at the foundation’s fund-raiser in Chicago. Despite all the fuss back in Washington, Clinton kept the appointment. She spent hours that day in the epilepsy ward at Rush Presbyterian hospital, visiting children hooked up to machines by electrodes so that doctors might diagram their seizure activity and decide which portion of the brain to remove. At the hospital, a local reporter pressed her about the trial in Washington, asked her about that woman. At the organization’s reception at the Drake Hotel that evening, Clinton stood backstage looking over her remarks, figuring out where to insert anecdotes about the kids. “She couldn’t stop talking about what she had seen,” Susan Axelrod recalled. Later, at Hillary Clinton’s behest, the National Institutes of Health convened a conference on finding a cure for epilepsy. Susan Axelrod told me it was “one of the most important things anyone has done for epilepsy.” And this is how politics works: David Axelrod is now dedicated to derailing this woman’s career.
“Life can be tragic,” Axelrod told me by phone from Chicago the day before Obama officially announced his candidacy, “but it is important to focus on the moments when it is rapturous.” Political consultancy is often understood, from a distance, as a science of cynicism, but from up close it can look instead like a ruthless form of love.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/magazine/01axelrod.t.html?ei=5124&en=c8e20f4144cbf908&ex=1332993600&partner=newsvine&exprod=newsvine&pagewanted=all

Now watch this video as Axelrod blames Clinton for Bhutto’s death. Is this one of his “rapturous” moments?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylDrp9Tqj2I&feature=related

IV. Hillary Is a More Loving and Forgiving Person Than Most of Us

In the dog eat dog world of ego driven politics, it is good to have a few people like Hillary Clinton around who keep their eyes on the prize.

That’s why I’m in this race, to fight for your future, and that's why whatever happens, I’ll work as hard as I can to elect a Democratic president this fall. The state motto of Kentucky is, “United we stand, divided we fall.” Words that have a special place in our history. They inspired American revolutionaries to unite the colonies, to defy an empire and create a new nation, to invent a new form of government, of the people, by the people, for the people. And they have bound our nation together in service and sacrifice, even in our darkest hours.

We will come together as a party, united by common values and common cause; united in service of the hopes and dreams that know no boundaries of race or creed, gender or geography. And when we do, there will be no stopping us. We won't just unite our party; we will unite our country and make sure America’s best years are still ahead of us. Thank you, and G-d bless you and G-d bless America.

http://kydem.blogspot.com/2008/05/sen-hillary-clintons-speech-to-kentucky.html

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