“The dramatic reduction in violence has opened the way for a return to something approaching normal political and economic life for the average Iraqi,” McCain said.
Hillary Clinton is at it again, this time making stuff up about health care. You know what this reminds me of? The current administration. Who’s to say she wouldn’t lie us into a war just like George W. Bush? I mean, she can’t even keep her campaign straight.
Over the last five weeks, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York has featured in her campaign stump speeches the story of a health care horror: an uninsured pregnant woman who lost her baby and died herself after being denied care by an Ohio hospital because she could not come up with a $100 fee.
The woman, Trina Bachtel, did die last August, two weeks after her baby boy was stillborn at O’Bleness Memorial Hospital in Athens, Ohio. But hospital administrators said Friday that Ms. Bachtel was under the care of an obstetrics practice affiliated with the hospital, that she was never refused treatment and that she was, in fact, insured.
“We implore the Clinton campaign to immediately desist from repeating this story,” said Rick Castrop, chief executive officer of the O’Bleness Health System.
How does Hillary expect superdelegates to believe her if she makes up little lies like this to burnish her image? She’s not as bad as Dubya, but it sure comes off like she’s trying. Pathetic.
It looks like Hillary Clinton has really stepped up the hypocrisy to new ridiculous levels. She was against campaigns dealing with foreign governments before she was for it. Here’s what The Jed Report had to say:
For the past month, Hillary Clinton has repeatedly attacked Barack Obama because one of his economic advisers met with Canadian officials in Chicago to discuss NAFTA. Now the Wall Street Journal reports that her own chief campaign strategist did the very same thing on a new free-trade agreement with Colombia.
“Hillary Clinton’s chief campaign strategist met with Colombia’s ambassador to the U.S. on Monday to discuss a bilateral free-trade agreement, a pact the presidential candidate opposes.”
Colombian President Alvaro Uribe revealed his worry about the US presidential contest this week to the Bogotá daily El Tiempo: “I deplore that Senator Obama, aspiring to be president of the US, ignores Colombia’s efforts.”
This is the same President Uribe who just happens to be a client of Clinton Campaign Chief Strategist Mark Penn.
You can’t make this stuff up, it just gets delivered on a silver platter.
Paul Weinstein Jr., a senior fellow at the DLC’s Progressive Policy Institute who teaches public policy at Johns Hopkins University, and Marc Dunkelman, the DLC’s vice president for strategic communications, argue that either Clinton or Obama will have to propose at least some spending cuts if they want to take advantage of President Bush’s record of deficit spending.
“They have to offer some really specific proposals on spending to pass the smell test,” Weinstein said in an interview. “That would give them some credibility, and voters would not be so easily scared that they’re just interested in raising taxes.” (Emphasis not mine)
Oooh, I’m so sorry Mr. Big Important DLC Man. I’m soooo very sorry that my progressive candidate has not passed your ’smell test’. I am not sorry, however, that my candidate has not fallen into your trap of corporate servitude, and horrendous record on just about everything.
Memo to the DLC: You are not Democrats. Democrats don’t care what you think. We were trying to do a keg stand and you blew up the party with a bunch of center-right-but-super-hawkish nonsense a la TNR. Get out. Don’t come back. There’s a party for people like you, it’s called the Republican party. That’s where we sent the Dixiecrats, now go sit with them.
