By Dave Lindorff

A CBS/Associated Press story
yesterday reported that the man who runs the Pentagon’s anti-missile
program, Lt. Gen. Henry Obering III, had warned incoming
President-elect Barack Obama that any reversal of Bush/Cheney
administration plans to install anti-ballistic missile missiles in
Poland would “severely hurt” American interests.

It was a classic “stupid” story of the type that we now expect to
get from our corporate media—basically a regurgitation of the statement
of one self-interested official, backed up by a few supporting quotes
from other government officials, and the usual “anonymous” official
sources, and lacking any context or opposing viewpoints.

By Dave Lindorff

There are a number of reasons why the Puerto Rican Democratic primary election set for this coming Sunday won’t matter, in terms of Hillary Clinton’s failed bid for the party’s nomination.

The main one is that she’s not going to get the big vote that she has been predicting.

Clinton, trailing Obama by about 400,000 votes nationwide with only three primaries to go, is fantasizing that she will win the lion’s share of one million Puerto Rican votes, which would put her in the lead for the nomination in terms of the popular vote, though not in the delegate count.

By Dave Lindorff

Before the West Virginia primary vote on Tuesday, it was a foregone conclusion that Hillary Clinton would sweep the state, perhaps by over 70 percent. In the event, she came close to that, with 68 percent of the vote. Now that the vote has happened, Clinton and a corporate media anxious to spin out the ratings-boosting contest as long as possible, are arguing that Obama is in trouble.

It is true that twenty percent of those voting for Clinton in this almost lily-white, low-income, low-education state said they voted for her on the basis of race, which is to say they wouldn't vote for a black man. Theirs was a vote Clinton has actively pursued. Forty percent of her backers said they would not vote for Obama in the general election if he were the Democratic candidate.

By Dave Lindorff

Is America at the mercy of an invasion of the pumpheads?

The bizarre behavior of Bill Clinton during this campaign season, which has seen this once smooth-talking and politically uber-sophisticated campaigner repeatedly stick a foot in his mouth and undermine his wife’s struggling campaign, raises the issue of whether he is suffering from postperfusion syndrome—a now recognized cognitive impairment common in patients who have undergone heart bypass surgery.

By Dave Lindorff

So Hillary Clinton, her campaign sagging as it becomes clearer and clearer that she’s not going to get the Democratic nomination unless she can destroy her opponent, insists she would have quit Barack Obama’s Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago after hearing the allegedly “hateful” words of its pastor, Jeremiah Wright.

But wait a sec. Putting aside the matter of whether what Wright said was even “hateful,” this same Hillary Clinton chose the rabidly anti-semitic Rev. Billy Graham for spiritual mentor in her time of troubles during wayward hubby Bill’s impeachment scandal, and welcomed his offer of support for her senate and presidential bids. This, of course, is the same Billy Graham who was caught on tape telling President Nixon that he thought Jews had a “stranglehold” on the American media, and that if something weren’t “done about it,” the “country’s going down the drain.”

I would like to get a web site that has gathered information regarding a comparison between the acchievments of the 8 year Clinton Presidency; ( national debt, balance of trade, employment figures, level of poverty, dispariity between have and have nots, foreign policy achievments, domestic well being including infrastructure etc.)   and the two Bush administrations as well as Reagans.

 If some one can direct me to the appropriate website I would be grateful.

 Martin Flannery

1988-2004 Election Analysis: The Submerging Democratic Majority http://www.geocities.com/electionmodel/TruthIsAllFAQResponse.htm#HistoricalElections 

The Democrats actually won all FIVE elections by an average 8.9 MILLION vote margin. That’s the True Emerging Democratic Majority. Don't believe it? Run the numbers yourself.

President Bill Clinton rocked 4,000 Milwaukeeans in a capacity crowd Friday afternoon, adding Wisconsin as the 29th state he has campaigned in this election season, after rocking Tucson last night with 8,000 in attendance. He was obviously thrilled to be back on the campaign trail, describing it as an "astonishing experience." Looking fit and healthy, he took the stage from Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle, after being introduced by the Governor's sons, Gus and Gabe. Extending thanks to the state's politicians for their support, President Clinton extended special thanks to AFSCME's International President Gerald McEntee, who backed him early on in his race for governor, when he "was running 5th out of 6 candidates" – and, quipped Bill, "Hilary and Chelsea were still undecided."

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The now-famous exchange. What got me, was later in the program, they said that Clinton was just trying to whitewash his legacy...

From MakeThemAccountable.com:

The Disney/ABC Battle Is The Lexington and Concord for Air America, New Media, and Grassroots Democracy

by Brent Budowsky

In real time, the battle over the abusive and dishonest ABC and Disney production is an epic and seminal moment in media and political history. For the first time in memory we are fully mobilized and active from progressive radio to the blogs, from political leaders to independent news sites, from Democratic leaders to truth-telling advocates and we are winning the battle of ideas.

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