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Wyoming Democrats set to caucus Saturday available
Mar 8, 2008, 7:11 GMT
Washington - With every delegate vote important in the razor-edge scramble for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination, the western state of Wyoming prepared to hold caucuses later Saturday.
The battle between Senators Barack Obama, 46, and Hillary Clinton, 60, took an increasingly nasty tone in the run-up to caucuses in Wyoming on Saturday and primary voting on Tuesday in Mississippi.
Only a handful of delegates are up for grabs in both states. Clinton lags behind Obama in the state and super delegate count by less than 100 out of the 2,205 needed to take the nomination at the party convention in Denver in August.
She has 1,424 delegates compared to Obama's 1,520, according to CNN.
Only Democrats will be caucusing on Saturday. Centre-right Republican Senator John McCain sealed his grip on the nomination on Tuesday with primaries in Ohio, Texas, Vermont and Rhode Island.
With the race so close, there is pressure for repeat voting in two states whose primary results were dismissed because of their early timing in January - Florida and Michigan.
Florida Congresswoman Corrine Brown is especially indignant that Florida primary voting was discounted, given the sense that many Floridian votes went uncounted in the 2000 presidential election that put George W Bush into the White House.
'To ignore us is unacceptable,' Brown said in broadcast remarks.
The big questions is how to pay for a re-match. The Democratic National Committee, which refused to recognize Michigan and Florida results because they defied a calendar schedule, is also refusing to pay for the costs.
Obama on Friday was forced to distance himself from a foreign- policy advisor who called Clinton 'a monster' in an interview with The Scotsman newspaper, referring to the New York senator's campaign tactics.
Samantha Power, a Harvard University professor, called her remarks 'inexcusable' and said she would resign from the campaign.
Obama on Wednesday had credited Clinton's 'negative' campaigning with carrying her to recent victories, and challenged the former first lady to release her 2006 tax returns and documents that would shed light on her role in husband Bill Clinton's White House.
Clinton aides accused Obama's inquisitions of 'imitating Ken Starr,' harking back to the independent prosecutor that investigated Bill Clinton's indiscretions and scandals in the White House through the 1990s.
Clinton herself charged that she and Republican candidate John McCain, who secured his party's nomination on Tuesday, were the only candidates with enough national security experience to lead the country in a time of war.
Obama is expected to win the contests Saturday in Wyoming and Tuesday in Mississippi, after which the two candidates will have more than a month to prepare for the last big-state primary in delegate- rich Pennsylvania on April 22.
Under Democratic rules, delegates are assigned proportional to the vote, meaning a candidate can lose the majority vote but still get a sizeable number of delegates.
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Here is another Big Lie. Politicians never, but never, tax the rich. Not even the badly misnomered 'liberal' politicians ever tax the rich. They always tax the middle classes and the working classes.
business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/money/tax/article1996735.ece
AWAKE THOU THAT SEEPIST!
You are being lied to constantly by your Peerless Leaders.
...Ken might have been an asshole, but that didn't mean the Clintons didn't have it coming.
Ken Starr was hired precisely because the Clintons fored the US attorney investigating White water.
You know....just like Alberto Gonzales, except THEY were guilty.
Even then, the Clintons:
Obtained 500 FBI files on their political enemies
Sold influence to the chinese and russians for campaign funds
Got MFN status for China as a result
Pardoned 4 Puerto Rican terrorists who never asked for a pardon
I Obama wants to bring this up, so be it!
Man you are so full of hate I don't know how you can exist.....
Hate is a lack of love.
That being the case, I would have to say yes. Do I hate people? Yes, some, in that I do not love them. Osama, Castro, would be at the top of the list. Do I hate, say, Hillary? Curiously, after reading 'Bloodsport' I came away felling sorry for her, but do not love her.
Anyone who tells you they do not hate is kidding, at least, themselves. In this nation, it is your god given right to do so. I'm only being honest with you.
Now, how to act on this hate? That is the question.
'Hate is a lack of love.
That being the case, I would have to say yes. Do I hate people? Yes, some, in that I do not love them. Osama, Castro, would be at the top of the list. Do I hate, say, Hillary? Curiously, after reading 'Bloodsport' I came away felling sorry for her, but do not love her.
Anyone who tells you they do not hate is kidding, at least, themselves. In this nation, it is your god given right to do so. I'm only being honest with you.
Now, how to act on this hate? That is the question.'
What an idiot---hate is not your problem, lack of brain cells is!
'Anyone who tells you they do not hate is kidding, at least, themselves. '
I really never truly hated anyone until 9/11. Even now I think 'hate' is a wasted emotion. It does more damage to you then it does to the people you hate.
Occasionally, it also has more to do with the 'hater' then it does with the target of her hate.
Re the above, that was for pperfect, not SP4.
Who cares?
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NoharnessMar 8th, 2008 - 10:08:19
Quoting the article:' Samantha Power, a Harvard University professor, called her remarks 'inexcusable' and said she would resign from the campaign.'
No, her remarks were right on target. Her resignation and the reaction of our so-called press to her remarks is what is inexcusable. The Clintons really are monsters. Take a hard look at them and you will realize just how true the remark was.
For the Clintons, ninety percent of us are just 'little people'. We are creatures from whom they can squeeze cash and buy votes. That's it, period. When the cameras are on and one of them happens to single you out you will be treated as though you were a victim of every bad thing in the world from which ONLY The Clintons can save you. After the Klieg lights go out, you are nothing. You're just little people again. You can see this in their faces every time you observe them, especially when you watch Hillary.
The reason Senator Obama has done so well against the Clintons is, like every master salesman, he genuinely likes ninety percent of the people he meets. Don't get me wrong, I dislike his ideas intensely, but the man himself is so sweetly agreeable that it is nearly impossible not to like him. When the Klieg lights go off, Obama will keep right on treating you with genuine respect. The Clintons respect no one nor anything.
RE:' Clinton aides accused Obama's inquisitions of 'imitating Ken Starr,' harking back to the independent prosecutor that investigated Bill Clinton's indiscretions and scandals in the White House through the 1990s.'
This is ridiculous, given that it is The Clintons who have adopted the so-called 'Kitchen Sink' strategy. Who is REALLY behaving like Ken Starr? Why, it's The Clintons, that's who!
RE:' Clinton herself charged that she and Republican candidate John McCain, who secured his party's nomination on Tuesday, were the only candidates with enough national security experience to lead the country in a time of war.'
Uh-huh, yeah, right! Will Bill be there alongside her when the phone rings at 0300? Probably not. How did Hillary obtain this invaluable experience? Through Osmosis? Give us a break, you silly Nag! I have to give the female half of this MONSTER credit for chutzpah. She certainly has no qualms about lying with a straight face and it is positively daring of her to lay her foreign affairs 'experience' out alongside John McCain's for all and sundry to examine.
Anyone falling for these two boobs is really good at living in La-La-Land despite the intrusions of reality.
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