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.
Rasmussen is just out with its latest poll, showing Hillary’s lead in Pennsylvania is down to 5 points.
In the same poll a week ago, it was a 10-point spread.
Late Update: SurveyUSA also has new Pennsylvania poll out, showing Hillary with a still-healthy 12-point lead, although that, too, is down, from 19 points in the last poll.
Regardless of the breathless pundits, Hillary winning Pennsylvania is a foregone conclusion. As much of a hullabaloo as will be made, she’s not Rocky, and it’s not a comeback. What’s important is not whether she wins, but by how much. And by the looks of things, she’s getting closer and closer to the statistical margin of error (which is +/-4). Uh-oh!
Barack Obama supporter Gov. Bill Richardson, D-New Mexico, responded on Sunday to controversial comments by James Carville, saying that he would not “stoop to Carville’s level.”
It’s amazing how irrelevant one-time political guru James Carville has become these days.
“I haven’t gotten into the gutter on this. And you know, I’m not going to stoop to Carville’s level. I barely know the guy in the first place,” Richardson told Bob Scheiffer on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”
In other words: ‘Who said what about me? Whatever.’ Haha!
We here at Awesome Politics tend to practice either the politics of dancing, or the politics of mocking, but it appears that our center-right-masquerading-as-lefties-a-la-TNR friends over at TalkLeft have decided to take off the gloves and practice the politics of making shit up (sort of).
If funding an ELECTION, where no money goes to the voters themselves, can be questioned, what do we make of giving money DIRECTLY to the “voters” (the super delegates in this case)? I do not mind the donations - I mind the mendacious excuses to block the will of the voters of Michigan and Florida. The dirtiest trick of this campaign was Obama’s blocking of the revotes in Michigan and Florida. Yes, I am quite angry about that.
Big Tent Democrat is basically implying that because Senator Obama contributed to the campaigns progressive politicians who were, or became superdelegates that he is attempting to buy off the election. Then BTD tacks on the whole Michigan and Florida debacle as though it was Obama’s fault and not the fault of the jokers in those states who voted to break Democratic party rules in the first place.