Hillary “Rocky” Clinton in Philadelphia
Senator Clinton has been telling Pennsylvania voters that she’s in this race to the very end to fight for them, and now she’s adopting the mantle of the Keystone State’s biggest fighter - Rocky Balboa.
In excerpts of a speech she’s set to give to the AFL-CIO in the City of Brotherly Love, Senator Clinton says “just as it’s getting time to vote here in Pennsylvania, Senator Obama says he’s getting tired of it. His supporters say they want it to end.”
“Well, could you imagine if Rocky Balboa had gotten half way up those Art Museum steps and said, “Well, I guess that’s about far enough?”
“Let me tell you something, when it comes to finishing the fight, Rocky and I have a lot in common. I never quit. I never give up. And neither do the American people.”
She also promises to take the fight to the Republican nominee. “I know taking on Senator McCain in November won’t be easy. The Republicans aren’t going to give up without a fight. And no matter how beautiful your rhetoric, the Republicans aren’t going to turn off their attack machine – it doesn’t have an off switch,” she says.
“But one thing you know about me is that when I say I’ll fight for you, I’ll fight for you. I know that there will be hurdles and setbacks between now and November. But I also know that I’m ready. I know what it’s like to stumble. I know what it means to get knocked down. But I’ve never stayed down, and I never will.”
Read the full excerpts below, including her plan to create 3 million new jobs rebuilding America’s infrastructure and a $10 billion emergency reconstruction fund.
Senator Hillary Clinton
Pennsylvania A.F.L.-C.I.O.
April 1, 2008
No one knows better than our unions what it means to fight for the underdog. Every day, you are standing up for workers who need someone to stand with them. And I’m in this race for the very same reason – to fight for everyone who needs a champion in their corner.
* * *
After seven disastrous years of George Bush and Dick Cheney, the stakes in this election couldn’t be higher. And the need to change course couldn’t be more urgent. But John McCain is only offering more of the same.
John McCain admits he doesn’t understand the economy – and unfortunately he’s proving it in this campaign. He looked at the housing crisis, and he blamed consumers. And his plan for the economy is to extend George Bush’s tax cuts for billionaires and give a new $100 billion corporate tax cut. The Bush/McCain philosophy could not be clearer – the “ownership society” really means “you’re on your own.”
But don’t take my word for it. Even Republican Senator Mel Martinez gave Senator McCain’s economic plan an “incomplete” when he said: “where I think he fell short…is the fact that we need to do some things that can help families, that can help people.”
You know, sometimes when that phone rings at 3am in the White House it’s an economic crisis. It seems like John McCain would just let it ring and ring and ring.
Well that’s not good enough for the families I meet every day who are struggling in this economy. Like the little girl who stood up at a town hall meeting and asked me what I was going to do “about people and children that don’t have any food or houses?” I started to commend her on her concern for those less fortunate, when she interrupted me and said, “I’m losing my house.”
I think we’ve had enough of a President who didn’t know enough about economics, and didn’t do enough for the American middle class. We’re ready for a President who will meet the challenges of our time.
Now I know taking on Senator McCain in November won’t be easy. The Republicans aren’t going to give up without a fight. And no matter how beautiful your rhetoric, the Republicans aren’t going to turn off their attack machine – it doesn’t have an off switch.
But one thing you know about me is that when I say I’ll fight for you, I’ll fight for you. I know that there will be hurdles and setbacks between now and November. But I also know that I’m ready. I know what it’s like to stumble. I know what it means to get knocked down. But I’ve never stayed down, and I never will.
Now, this is one of the most important elections we’ve ever had. There is so much at stake. But just as it’s getting time to vote here in Pennsylvania, Senator Obama says he’s getting tired of it. His supporters say they want it to end.
Well, could you imagine if Rocky Balboa had gotten half way up those Art Museum steps and said, “Well, I guess that’s about far enough?”
Let me tell you something, when it comes to finishing the fight, Rocky and I have a lot in common. I never quit. I never give up. And neither do the American people.
We have a lot of work to do together, and we won’t get it done by quitting or walking away. We’ll do it by staying and fighting and standing up for what we believe in.
But I don’t need to tell that to all of you. No one knows better than organized labor how important it is to have a fighter on your side. When you send someone to that bargaining table, you need the strongest, toughest, most determined person you’ve got. Not someone who is just going to talk about problems. But someone who will roll up her sleeves and get the job done.
And that’s what you need in your President. A President who will work as hard for you as you do for America. And if you give me the chance, I will be that President.
You know that’s what I’ll do because that’s what I’ve always done.
Alongside labor, I fought for and passed an extension of unemployment insurance in the wake of September 11.
Alongside labor, I’m fighting on behalf of the brave and patriotic workers who came to Ground Zero after September 11 and then got sick because the air wasn’t safe to breathe.
Alongside labor, I’ve fought for the collective bargaining rights of DHS employees, DOD employees, TSA screeners, and public servants like our firefighters and police officers.
Alongside labor, I’ve supported the Helmets to Hardhats program, to help veterans get good jobs after their service. And I’m working with my good friend, Congressman Murtha to expand this great program.
And I’ve fought alongside labor in my home state of New York – home to one out of every seven union members in America. I’ve urged CEOs to return to the bargaining table, encouraged employer neutrality in organizing campaigns, urged construction companies to hire local union workers, and joined workers on the picket line.
And I’ll keep standing with you, fighting with you, and speaking out for you every single day as President of the United States.
* * *
I’ll fight for every single job in America – and create millions of new, high paying jobs that can’t be outsourced. President Bush has stood by and watched as we’ve lost 3 million manufacturing jobs. And he’s done nothing about the loopholes in our tax code that actually encourage companies to ship jobs overseas.
Meanwhile, Senator McCain believes business as usual on trade is just fine. He says that some lost jobs “are not coming back,” and that seems fine with him too.
Well I think it’s time for a different approach.
Today, I am announcing that my aggressive infrastructure agenda will create 3 million jobs over the next decade. After the failed levees in New Orleans and the tragic bridge collapse in Minnesota, we don’t need any more devastating wake up calls. And you don’t need to look any further than I-95 to know how widespread this problem is.
We’re trying to run today’s economy on yesterday’s infrastructure – and we’re jeopardizing tomorrow’s prosperity. So I will rebuild America – by rebuilding, repairing and modernizing our infrastructure.
And I want to salute the work of Governor Rendell on this issue. He has not only made great strides here in Pennsylvania but has been a national leader on infrastructure. I look forward to working hand-in-hand with him as President.
My Rebuild America plan will create a $10 billion Emergency Repair Fund to identify and repair critical infrastructure problems in our bridges, tunnels and roads. We’ll modernize transportation systems in our cities and protect the environment by investing in public transit and inter-city rail. We’ll connect America with a national broadband infrastructure. And we’ll create a National Infrastructure Bank and use bonding authority to make the long-term investments in every dimension of public infrastructure – from seaports to highway systems to canals and levees.
In World War II we had War Bonds. Maybe it’s time we ask Americans again to play a part in rebuilding America.
These projects will strengthen our economy - and create room for our economy to grow. And we can put at least 3 million Americans to work – in good jobs, with good benefits, at prevailing wages.
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“JUST LIES - By: BARACK HUSSIEN OBAMA!”
1.) Selma Got Me Born - LIAR, your parents felt safe enough to have you in 1961 - Selma had no effect on your birth, as Selma was in 1965.
2.) Father Was A Goat Herder - LIAR, he was a privileged, well educated youth, who went on to work with the Kenyan Government.
3.) Father Was A Proud Freedom Fighter - LIAR, he was part of one of the most corrupt and violent governments Kenya has ever had
4.) My Family Has Strong Ties To African Freedom - LIAR, your cousin Raila Odinga has created mass violence in attempting to overturn a legitimate election in 2007, in Kenya. It is the first widespread violence in decades.
5.) My Grandmother Has Always Been A Christian - LIAR, she does her daily Salat prayers at 5am according to her own interviews. Not to mention, Christianity wouldn’t allow her to have been one of 14 wives to 1 man.
6.) My Name is African Swahili - LIAR, your name is Arabic and ‘Baraka’ (from which Barack came) means ‘blessed’ in that language. Hussein is also Arabic and so is Obama.
7.) I Never Practiced Islam - LIAR, you practiced it daily at school, where you were registered as a Muslim and kept that faith for 31 years,until your wife made you change, so you could run for office.
8.) My School In Indonesia Was Christian - LIAR, you were registered as Muslim there and got in trouble in Koranic Studies for making faces (check your own book).
9.) I Was Fluent In Indonesian - LIAR, not one teacher says you could speak the language.
10.) Because I Lived In Indonesia, I Have More Foreign Experience - LIAR, you were there from the ages of 6 to 10, and couldn’t even speak the language. What did you learn, how to study the Koran and watch cartoons.
11.) I Am Stronger On Foreign Affairs - LIAR, except for Africa (surprise) and the Middle East (bigger surprise), you have never been anywhere else on the planet and thus have NO experience with our closest allies.
12.) I Blame My Early Drug Use On Ethnic Confusion - LIAR, you were quite content in high school to be Barry Obama, no mention of Kenya and no mention of struggle to identify - your classmates said you were just fine.
13.)An Ebony Article Moved Me To Run For Office - LIAR, Ebony has yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn’t, and never did, exist.
14.) A Life Magazine Article Changed My Outlook On Life - LIAR, Life has yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn’t, and never did, exist.
15.) I Won’t Run On A National Ticket In ‘08 - LIAR, here you are, despite saying, live on TV, that you would not have enough experience by then, and you are all about having experience first.
16.) Present Votes Are Common In Illinois - LIAR, they are common for YOU, but not many others have 130 NO VOTES.
17.) Oops, I Misvoted - LIAR, only when caught by church groups and democrats, did you beg to change your misvote.
18.) I Was A Professor Of Law - LIAR, you were a senior lecturer ON LEAVE.
19.) I Was A Constitutional Lawyer - LIAR, you were a senior lecturer ON LEAVE.
20.) Without Me, There Would Be No Ethics Bill - LIAR, you didn’t write it,introduce it, change it, or create it.
21.) The Ethics Bill Was Hard To Pass - LIAR, it took just 14 days from start to finish.
22.) I Wrote A Tough Nuclear Bill - LIAR, your bill was rejected by your own party for its pandering and lack of all regulation - mainly because of your Nuclear Donor, Exelon, from which David Axelrod came.
23.) I Have Released My State Records - LIAR, as of March, 2008, state bills you sponsored or voted for have yet to be released, exposing all the special interests pork hidden within.
24.) I Took On The Asbestos Altgeld Gardens Mess - LIAR, you were part of a large group of people who remedied Altgeld Gardens. You failed to mention anyone else but yourself, in your books.
25.) My Economics Bill Will Help America - LIAR, your 111 economic policies were just combined into a proposal which lost 99-0, and even YOU voted against your own bill.
26.) I Have Been A Bold Leader In Illinois - LIAR, even your own supporters claim to have not seen BOLD action on your part.
27.) I Passed 26 Of My Own Bills In One Year - LIAR, they were not YOUR bills, but rather handed to you, after their creation by a fellow Senator, to assist you in a future bid for higher office.
28.) No One Contacted Canada About NAFTA - LIAR, the Candian Government issued the names and a memo of the conversation your campaign had with them.
29.) I Am Tough On Terrorism - LIAR, you missed the Iran Resolution vote on terrorism and your good friend Ali Abunimah supports the destruction of Israel.
30.) I Am Not Acting As President Yet - LIAR, after the NAFTA Memo, a dead terrorist in the FARC, in Colombia, was found with a letter stating how you and he were working together on getting FARC recognized officially.
31.) I Didn’t Run Ads In Florida - LIAR, you allowed national ads to run 8-12 times per day for two weeks - and you still lost.
32.) I Won Michigan - LIAR, no you didn’t.
33.) I won Nevada - LIAR, no you did not.
34.) I Want All Votes To Count - LIAR, you said let the delegates decide.
35.) I Want Americans To Decide - LIAR, you prefer caucuses that limit the vote, confuse the voters, force a public vote, and only operate during small windows of time.
36.) I passed 900 Bills in the State Senate - LIAR, you passed 26, most of which you didn’t write yourself.
37.) My Campaign Was Extorted By A Friend - LIAR, that friend is threatening to sue if you do not stop saying this. Obama has stopped saying this.
38.) I Believe In Fairness, Not Tactics - LIAR, you used tactics to eliminate Alice Palmer from running against you.
39.) I Don’t Take PAC Money - LIAR, you take loads of it.
40.) I don’t Have Lobbysists - LIAR, you have over 47 lobbyists, and counting.
41.) My Campaign Had Nothing To Do With The 1984 Ad - LIAR, your own campaign worker made the ad on his Apple in one afternoon.
42.) My Campaign Never Took Over MySpace - LIAR, Tom, who started MySpace issued a warning about this advertising to MySpace clients.
43.) I Inspire People With My Words - LIAR, you inspire people with other people’s words.
44.) I Have Passed Bills In The U.S. Senate - LIAR, you have passed A BILL in the U.S. Senate - for Africa, which shows YOUR priorities.
45.) I Have Always Been Against Iraq - LIAR, you weren’t in office to vote against it AND you have voted to fund it every single time, unlike Kucinich, who seems to be out gutting you Obama. You also seem to be stepping back from your departure date - AGAIN.
46.) I Have Always Supported Universal Health Care - LIAR, your plan leaves us all to pay the 15,000,000 who don’t have to buy it.
47.) I Only Found Out About My Investment Conflicts Via Mail - LIAR, both companies you site as having sent you letters about this conflict have no record of any such letter ever being created or sent.
48.) I Am As Patriotic As Anyone - LIAR, you won’t wear a flag pin and you don’t put your hand over your heart during the Anthem.
49.) My Wife Didn’t Mean What She Said About Pride In Country - LIAR, your wife’s words follow lock-step in the vain of Wright and Farrahkan, in relation to their contempt and hatred of America.
50.) Wal-Mart Is A Company I Wouldn’t Support - LIAR, your wife has received nearly a quater of a million dollars through Treehouse, which is connected to Wal-Mart.
51.) Treehouse Is A Small Company - LIAR, the CEO of Treehouse last year, made more than the CEO of Wal-Mart, according to public records.
52.) University Of Chicago Hospital Pay Is Fair - LIAR, your wife’s pay raise was nearly 150% her already bloated rate and the hospital is a Non-Profit Hospital, which made $100,000,000 in the last 3 years. They overcharge blacks VS whites for services, and overcharge everyone in general by 538%!
53.)I Barely Know Rezko - Only 5 Billed Hours - LIAR, you have known him for 17 years, and decided to do a real estate deal with him during a time when he was proven to be under investigation. Despite this, you divided your property and had them take off $300K before the mortgage problems started. Then Rezko’s wife buys the lot beside it that you can’t afford, saving you $625,000.
54.) My Donations Have Been Checked Thoroughly - LIAR, you only gave back Hsu ($72K) and Rezko ($150K) their money when publically called on their involvement in your campaigns.
55.) My Church Is Like Any Other Christian Church - LIAR, your church is so extreme, the pastor who married you, Rev. Wright, just got done blaming the US for 9/11 and named Louis Farrahkan their person of the year.
56.) I Disagree With My Church All The Time - LIAR, you still have yet to repudiate Wright, who married you and your wife, and you still donate large sums of money to assist the church in furthering its message - hatred and revenge. You donated in 2006 alone, $22,500 to the church that you so terribly disagree with. That is nearly $500 PER WEEK - that sure is disagreement, Senator Obama.
57.) I Have Clean Connections Despite Rezko - LIAR, you are not only connected to Exelon and Rezko, you are also connected to Hillary PAC supporter Mr. Hsu, AND an Iraqi Billionaire of ill repute, Nadhmi Auchi, who ripped off people in the Food For Oil, Iraqi deal. Seems Mr. Auchi may have helped Obama buy his million dollar property long before Obama had millions of dollars. Wonder what favors Mr. Auchi expects, when Obama leaves Iraq free to be taken over by special interests such as him.
58.) I never heard sermons like Rev. Wright’s, that have been in videos all day, You Tube - LIAR! 3 days later during your Mea Culpa BS speech you said “Did I hear controversial statements while I sat in that church? Yes I did.”
YES, WE CAN… WRIGHT…
YES, WE CAN… REZKO…
YES, WE CAN… FARAKKAN…
BARACK HUSSIEN OBAMA ARE FULL OF LIES AND DECEPTIONS.
HE IS A SNAKE IN A SUIT…
SNAKES ARE LETHAL… BE CAREFUL FOLKS…
“TELL ME YOUR FRIENDS ARE, AND I TELL YOU WHO YOU ARE”….
Obama lies again on his TV Ad:
http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2008/03/31/clinton-camp-obama-oil-ad-is-crude-lie/
I have no clue why any democrat would even consider voting for Barack Huessien Obama, the experience pales horribly compared to Hillary Clinton. In fact I think the Democratic Party gave him all the notes on Heath Care program so they would have common ground. He has not a clue on how to make this work. Zero foreign policy. Only supported by senior Democrates so they can steer him in their favor if he should get elected. NOT A CHANCE
Obama - Punished with Babies and STD’s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYNv-GD4Y48&feature=related
Neither liberal democrat candidate is motivated by love of country.
America First!
WORM: What OBama Really Meant
“the middle American woman who gave up everything to marry an Arkansas man who was the biggest long shot in the world, but through grit made it all the way to the White House, then to millionaire status and beyond, all the while fending off the biggest right-wing attack machine ever amassed. Republicans promise the dream. Bill Clinton lassoed it, and the elite Obama Democrats look down at him for how he did it, though he made the economy work better for working class men and women than any Democrat in modern history.”
This is the money line. I’ve been thinking for weeks about how Hillary did what she was supposed to:
she left her career and moved to Arkansas for the man she loved, supported him thru his career, and now she finally has HER shot….. (and along comes some young smooth-talker and tries to upstage her…)
Danielle,
She gave up nothing. Political aspiration has been her entire life. It consumes her.
I don’t vote for liberal socialists - I don’t care what they look like or where they’re from. Within the arena of ideas, and within the scope of the American experience, liberal socialism is not the recipe for success in any American venture.
Obama and Clinton are, at the least, socialists wearing a democrat label. They both fail to meet traditional American values by any measurement, and are therefore, ineligible for my vote.
[...] Inevitably, in Philly: [...]
so tell me brian how did the country do when he was president there were jobs for people and there was a surplus not a big whole in the econemy like this so called pres.takes us to war and not even getting the one behind the attack on the u.s. think he said home land security but the border at mexico is basically wide open you are just as safe as before 911 kind of scary aint it just think of that the only thing bush did was destroy the american way of life
iwill vote for mccain over that anti american obama look he even hates babies
i believe she is for the people more than obama is , he had his lawyers make sure there was no revote.the dnc should do the right thing , let floridas votes count and have a redo in michigan.i am glad clinton comes back at obama when he lies no one else will ,hannity does a nice job and i think he is fair.he cant even tell the truth in his ads, any thing to make himself look good.it only shows the american people that he is a fraud.yes i understand that most politicans lie, but he takes the cake.i think if all of his flaws came out sooner he would not of made it this far, the american people would not of been fooled .he played us for suckers, what is sad is this election has become a contest between dem. voters as to i want my side to win over yours.even if this means , it doesnt matter if we choose the right canidate for the job.they are messing with there own fate.clinton has flaws also , but his out weigh hers tremendiously.out of all the canidates we had he is the biggest flip flopper we have had.he has decieved us all.his lack of character is now showing, and if he becomes the nominee , mccain will chew him up and spit him out.
I WANT TO MAKE A PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT.
I would like to say in front of everyone that I have been unfairly mean to AMERICAN cONSERVATIVE. I have accussed him unjustly, lied about him, tried to make him look like a jerk and other improper things for which Im not proud of. I never realized that everytime I trashed American Conervative I was just demeaning myself. I know there is nothing I can say or do that would give you any satisfaction for all the abuse and torment I,ve put you through but let me just pass something on to you from the bottom of my heart. Are you ready?
APRIL FOOLS MAGGOT
So here’s my theory. In a state known for hidden racism, she uses the iconic film to conjure up “the great white hope” who is most famous for taking on of course black super boxer Apollo Creed. This way she is able to get race on the able but not seem like she is, since the last two times she tried that it backfired. Same old race politics.
to founder guy,
Of course she had political aspirations. So does Obama that is why he is lying so much. You wouldn’t be in politics unless that is where you want to be. That was really a lame answer. Obama is also proving that he is the same as most politicians. He will lie and lie some more to get what he wants. I am sure he knows that if he gets the nomination then the democrats can not possibly win. We get more and more on him everyday. Change is his platform but the change he will bring will also be the destruction of this country.
If anyone remembers correctly, Rocky lost his first fight. Just like Hillary is going to do.
Good compilation by “Comment by Kikz”. Thanks.
To Danielle:
Wow, Hillary sounds to good to be true. Now if Hillary can run the country like her successful marriage…what a wonderful country this would be..Imagine, two young lovers, getting married, fighting their way to the top together, living on years and years of wonderful, loving married bliss.
LOL…You’ve been reading too many “chick” paperback books. She can’t even keep her marriage together…she actually claimed she believed Bill…what a DOLT. Either she’s a pin head that can be manipulated by a smooth talker like Bill. (After years of knowing him), or she’s a “gold digger” hoping for her own power trip on her husbands coattails. You can’t have it both ways!
thinkingriddles
She is talking about not giving up when you are down, leave it to an obamamaniac to try to turn every comment to be about race, geez the pin heads are coming out of the woodwork.
Yet another Obama lie….
A new ad by Sen. Obama running in Pennsylvania falsely claims that Sen. Obama does not accept money from the oil industry. In the ad, Sen. Obama says, “I’m Barack Obama and I don’t take money from oil companies or lobbyists and I won’t let them block change anymore.”
According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Sen. Obama has received over $160,000 from the oil and gas companies. Two major bundlers for his campaign — George Kaiser and Robert Cavnar – are oil company CEOs. Sen. Obama has accepted money from Exxon, Shell, BP, Chevron and just about every other major oil company. Just last month, Sen. Obama accepted another $8,400 from ExxonMobil, $12,370 from Chevron and $6,500 from British Petroleum.
AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
Hey I noticed yesterday you’re little girlfriend ( Paul from kissmy..) was throwing a complete “hissy-fit”. What could I have possibly said that got her panties in such a bunch. I don’t know what it was but she sure felt the need to defend you ( she just doesn’t know you yet). Well you may want to inform you’re “friend” that AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE BY ANY OHER NAME IS STILL AN AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE
Yea you all keep saying he is not racist. While you at it look up Wright,Meek both spiritual advisers to Obama. Poor black man raised by a single mom? Nothing this candidate says is true,look it up not even the JFK and Obama’s dad connection is true it is nothing but a lie!
What Barack is saying here is that the resentment of black America is justified, but the resentment of white America is a myth manufactured and manipulated by the conservative commentariat. Barack is attempting to de-legitimize the other side of the argument.
Where does this child of privilege who went to two Ivy League schools, then spent 20 years in a church where racist rants were routine, come off preaching to anyone?
http://www.vdare.com/buchanan/080327_obama.htm
PEOPLE KNOW WHO YOU ARE VOTING FOR!
edfeeney: I don’t agree with American Conservative on alot of thing either. But aren’t you over doing it? He support of Mitt Romney is, I know messed up, but there are alot of people that supported Mitt Domney. Why do you pick on just him? I have debated with alot of Mitt’s supporters( esspecially Dean), they all claim that his a fiscal conservative. He is not, please do research and debate them on this issue. Also debate them about whether his is a social conservative. He is not.
Hillary and Bill have not released their tax returns since 2007. Since that time, they have taken millions of dollars from UAE, the same people who support terrorists. That is why she won’t release them. I’m sure her staff is thinking up ways to delay it until after PA.
Hillary got her $5 million loan from the same people who wanted to take over our ports, Dubai ports. That’s who is funding her campaign.
Hi,
I wanted to login and let everyone know I’ve been wrong. I’ve been wrong to throw so many stones at candidates who are trying to improve the US considering how terrible my Republican candidates have performed and behaved.
I’m sorry for the way I’ve treated people on this blog and feel badly I’ve treated folks with a distinct lact of respect. Everyone has an opinion and I should have respected peoples opinions more. I didn’t mean to make anyone feel badly (well, actually I did) and I am sorry.
I am sorry I’ve given Americans a bad name through my intolerable behaviour.
Sincerely,
Andylit
Ed Feeny, you certainly are the Dice Clay of bloggers.
Sir, I know Andylit, you are no Andylit, funny though.
So, riddle me this Batman? Ms. Clinton gets crucified for being retarded about Bosnia and Mr Obama gets caught in one dumb situation after another and everyone is picking on him if it is questioned, how does this happen?
Let’s see, just this week, I didn’t fill out that questionnaire and I don’t want my kids punished with a baby.
Well, we are getting punished with your mother’s baby!
Jesse Jackson Jr.-from Chicago=Co-Chairman for Obama’s campaign
The natural reminder here is O.J. (Simpson), how does an African American candidate
attack a white woman?
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Barak Obama-from Chicago
The quote below is taken from Obama’s book, “Dreams of My Father”:
There was something about him that made me wary,” Obama wrote. “A little too sure of
himself, maybe. And white.”
“I can no more disown him (Wright) than I can my white grandmother - a woman who helped raise me,
a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves
anything in this world”.
Said his grandmother is a “typical white person” who has fears about black men.
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Michelle Obama-from Chicago
Michelle Obama’s thesis … is unavailable until Nov. 5, 2008, at the Princeton library.
Though she came from a black working-class neighborhood in Chicago, she writes that
“my experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my ‘blackness’ than ever before.
She further suggests that even if she assimilates into white society after Princeton,
she will “remain on the periphery of society: never becoming a full participant.”
“Blacks must join in solidarity to combat a White opressor”.
“For the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country because it feels
like hope is finally making a comeback,”
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Oprah-from Chicago
When Oprah opened her school for girls in Africa, she was asked a question that
she wasn’t prepared to answer. The question was, “Why don’t I see any white girls?”
Her response was with distain on her face was, “Oh, I don’t care about no white girls.”
It seems that the Oprah’s racism is demonstrated through her girls school that was opened
in Africa which is almost exclusively an all black school. When asked about this she claims
that she does not have to appease the white people in the country. Yet, in another news clip
she declares that she will not rest until every ‘black boy’ and every ‘black girl’ has had a
chance to prove their worth.
Oprah brags with her friend Gayle King on XM satellite radio about how she has an almost
all white staff, and calls them “good white folks.”
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Wright-from Chicago
“God d— America, that’s in the Bible for killing innocent people,” he said in a
2003 sermon. “God d— America for treating our citizens as less than human. God
d— America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme”.
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James Meeks-from Chicago
Called white American mayors “slave masters,” and referred to black preachers and
politicians who “protect” the “white man” as “house n-ggers.”
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Moss-from Chicago
Otis Moss the 3rd, was the man you see slapping Wright on the back in encouragement
as Wright was celebrating the September 11th attacks. If Obama is correct that his
church is collectively not an anti-American, anti-White, pro-Hate church, then why
is Otis Moss the new pastor, why does Otis Moss not agree with Obama that the Youtube
Wright comments were despicable. Why was Otis Moss cheering on Jeremiah Wright when he
was celebrating the September 11 attacks on America.
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Farrakahn-from Chicago
(The Nation of Islam: The Relentless Record of Hate Part 7):
Everywhere I go I wanna give the white man hell from the cradle to the grave. This is
a new generation of blacks and we say to you, white man, you either stop or drop.
He said of whites, “White people are potential humans—they haven’t evolved yet”
He suggested that the levies in New Orleans were bombed by the “white man” in order to
flood black neighborhoods.
He referred to the white man as “the anti-Christ”.
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Quannel X-from Chicago
Through special youth programs, the Nation of Islam has appointed a youth Minister to
reach the younger audiences of Farrakahn. National Youth Minister for the Nation of
Islam Quannel X is quoted as saying “This is the time of the black man’s rise and the
white man’s demise.”
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You wanna let these racists from Chicago run the United States?
Do you really think these Chicagoians will take America’s best interest to heart.
They all share something in common………….they share allegiance to their own black race above all other things.
[...] perhaps the most absurd analogies of all-time, Hillary Clinton compares herself to Rocky Balboa: Senator Clinton has been telling Pennsylvania voters that she’s in this race to the very end to [...]
Yea barack, did you make notes on it first then hand it to someone else to fill out, or did someone fill it out then you made notes on it?
You friggin liar, you are so busted
You tell 58 lies and we hardly hear about it, but hillary tells 1 big fish story and its all over the news for weeks
One of the hallmark’s of Hillary Clinton’s Campaign for the presidency is her commitment to health care for all. She has stated many times and at many venues that she feels that everybody must be covered by healthcare regardless of rather they can afford the premiums or not. Therefore I am sure that you will find it interesting that HILLARY HAS NOT PAID FOR HER OWN WORKERS HEALTHCARE FOR THE PAST 3 MONTHS AND OWES AETNA $292,000.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0308/9274.html
I know that Hillary’s campaign is broke, but so are a lot of Americans. Yet you will find her in debate after debate telling us that Healthcare Insurance needs to be mandatory. How can she have the moral authority to lead on this issue when she is not even paying for her own workers insurance.
I’ve been duped by conservatives and republicans all my life. This election cycle has has given me the gift of clear understanding of the new direction America must take. I’ll fully support whomever the democrat nominee is, and here’s why:
1 - I should pay more taxes. My effective tax rate of 45%, considering federal, state, local, sales and property taxes, isn’t high enough.
2 - Everyone should have exactly the same amount of money, same type of living quarters, same conveyances, and the same access to health care regardless of their own personal initiative.
3 - National defense isn’t that important, because we should talk to those who hate us, find out why, then change to accommodate their point of view.
4 - The Constitution is a living breathing document, and should be changed to include language identifying the special needs of homosexuals, transexuals, and bisexuals.
5 - Public schools should teach whatever the federal government mandates, and parents should have no say in that. References to Christian virtues should be stricken from all cirriculum.
6 - All criminals should be given three chances before being punished.
7 - Abortion on demand should be legal.
8 - Taken an oath of office, or being put under oath in court should be optional.
9 - The amount of profit a company can make should be capped by the federal government.
I think the founding fathers had good ideas for their time, but things have changed, and we should change our principles to fit the way we live today. It’s not that big a deal.
Like it or not, Hillary has largely been reduced to a marginalized candidate by Obama’s outstanding success. Don’t believe it? Click on the following link to be taken to Hillary’s website and then click on Hillary TV. While you are watching Hillary TV, please take a close look at the crowd. You will find:
With the exception of the podium dignataries, the vast preponderance of the rest of the crowd is women.
The women shown appear to be at least in their 50’s, or their grandaughters.
Most telling of all, the signs shown deal with Hillary being a woman.
Hillary seemed to be making greater inroads when she was the candidate of the broader Democratic party member. Perhaps this is the primary reason that she is broke, with the $3 million raised in March going to cover previously accumulated debts.
The Senator forgets that Rocky lost that first fight with Apollo.
Founder Guy,
Perhaps we could follow Denmark with their unionized military. The one where they get to make “personal” modifications to their uniforms. Where they get “overtime” pay. And where for the last few years invasions during the last few months of the year could not occur on Sundays as the miliary was not working due to budget shortfalls.
Hey chuck,
Let’s hope she retires after this loss. Maybe she can get a job trading cattle futures. It would be interesting to see how she does on her own. I’ll bet she won’t be able to turn $1000 into $100,000 again. She’ll probably end up owing her broker money and then try to get out of paying her debts.
Jim
Proudmale,
As a recent convert to liberal secular humanism, I’d support your idea of a unionized military.
Andylit,
Can you back me up on that?
Now I have not posted for a while so I should get some leeway on the length of my post:) Plus I have seen longer ones.
Concerning the Library:
This article is by Don Van Natta Jr., Jo Becker and Mike McIntire.
“…The foundation has closely guarded the identities of its donors — including one who gave $31.3 million last year.
Now, the secrecy surrounding the William J. Clinton Foundation has become a campaign issue as Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton seeks the Democratic presidential nomination with her husband as a prime source of strategy and star power. Some of her rivals argue that donors could use presidential foundations to circumvent campaign finance laws intended to limit political influence.
Mr. Clinton himself echoed those concerns this fall when he pledged to make public future donors if Mrs. Clinton was elected president. While disclosure is not legally required, failure to do so, Mr. Clinton said, would raise “all these questions about whether people would try to win favor with her by giving money to me.”
Even so, past donors should remain private, he insisted, “unless there is some conflict of which I am aware, and there is not.”
But an examination of the foundation demonstrates how its fund-raising has at times fostered the potential for conflict.
The New York Times has compiled the first comprehensive list of 97 donors who gave or pledged a total of $69 million for the Clinton presidential library in the final years of the Clinton administration. The examination found that while some $1 million contributors were longtime Clinton friends, others were seeking policy changes from the administration. Two pledged $1 million each while they or their companies were under investigation by the Justice Department.
Other donations came from supporters who had been ensnared in campaign finance scandals surrounding Mr. Clinton’s 1996 re-election campaign.
In raising record sums for her campaign, Mrs. Clinton has tapped many of the foundation’s donors. At least two dozen have become “Hillraisers,” each bundling $100,000 or more for her presidential bid. The early library donors, combined with their families and political action committees, have contributed at least $784,000 to Mrs. Clinton’s Senate and presidential coffers.
The foundation and Mrs. Clinton’s political campaigns have been intertwined in other ways. Terry McAuliffe, who led the foundation’s fund-raising and sits on its board, is now Mrs. Clinton’s campaign chairman and chief fund-raiser. Cheryl Mills plays a similar dual role, sitting on the foundation board and serving as the general counsel to Mrs. Clinton’s campaign. And Jay Carson recently traded a communications position at the foundation for a job as her campaign’s press secretary.
As the scope of the foundation expanded from the Clinton library into issues like treating AIDS in the developing world and addressing global poverty and climate change, and Mrs. Clinton moved closer to announcing her candidacy, the pace of giving quickened. Last year, contributions reached $135 million, a 70 percent increase over the previous year. Two-thirds came from just 11 donors.
The $31.3 million donation, which was previously undisclosed, came from the Radcliffe Foundation run by Frank Giustra, a Canadian who has made millions financing mining deals around the world. Mr. Giustra has become a member of Mr. Clinton’s inner circle, joining him on global trips and lending him the use of his private MD-87 jet.
For weeks, Clinton Foundation officials had suggested that the $31.3 million contribution listed on its tax return did not come from a single donor. They then said it came from a single source, but declined to identify it. Wednesday afternoon, a representative of Mr. Giustra contacted The Times and acknowledged the Radcliffe contribution.
This year, Mr. Giustra announced separate plans to give the Clinton Foundation $100 million, plus half of his future earnings from natural resource business ventures, for a joint project to spur economic growth in poor Latin American mining communities. Taken together, the contributions make Mr. Giustra one of the foundation’s largest benefactors, if not the single largest.
The Times’s findings are based on tax documents filed by the Clinton Foundation and by groups that contributed to it, interviews with donors and people with direct knowledge of the foundation’s activities, as well as federal government records and an analysis of campaign finance data.
In a statement, the foundation said, “Donors did not seek, nor did President Clinton give, favors from the federal government,” adding that most of the contributions came after Mr. Clinton left office. “President Clinton is grateful for the support the foundation has received from more than 100,000 donors,” which helped provide AIDS medication for 750,000 people, fight climate change, combat childhood obesity and build heath systems around the world, the statement said.
In a separate written response from Mrs. Clinton’s campaign, a spokesman, Phil Singer, said, “Senator Clinton is not involved in the fund-raising or operations of the Clinton Foundation.” Mr. Singer noted that President Clinton’s promise to disclose future donors should his wife become president went beyond what the law required.
To limit the influence of any single donor, federal election law prohibits foreign donations to presidential campaigns and limits Americans to $2,300 per election. But presidential foundations are free to accept unlimited and anonymous contributions, even from foreigners and foreign governments. Indeed, the Saudi royal family, the king of Morocco, a foundation linked to the United Arab Emirates, and the governments of Kuwait and Qatar have made contributions of unknown amounts to the Clinton Foundation.
“The vast scale of these secret fund-raising operations presents enormous opportunities for abuse,” said Representative Henry A. Waxman, Democrat of California, who introduced a bill to force disclosure of presidential foundation donors. The bill passed the House, 390-34, in March but stalled in the Senate.
Building a Foundation
In June 1999, as the Clinton administration wound down, Mrs. Clinton told friends gathered in the White House solarium that wealthy donors had offered to establish a foundation for her. But she was set on running for the Senate in New York. That same month, Mr. Clinton and his chief fund-raiser met for dinner with 40 executives at La Grenouille, a French restaurant in Manhattan. The president had a vision for a charitable foundation that would tackle problems domestic and foreign, several former aides who helped establish the foundation said.
But first, Mr. Clinton had to raise money for his presidential library, which would ultimately cost $165 million. He found a ready pool of library donors in people and companies with matters before the government, many of them loyal Democratic contributors.
On October 6, 1999, the charitable arm of the Anheuser-Busch Companies gave $200,000, the first of five payments over five years totaling $1 million, according to records filed by the company’s foundation. Less than a month earlier, the company, the country’s leading beer maker, had scored a major victory when the Clinton administration’s Federal Trade Commission dropped a bid to regulate beer, wine and liquor advertising that critics said was aimed at under-age drinkers.
Francine I. Katz, a company spokeswoman, said the donation was unrelated to any government action and that its foundation had contributed more than $360 million to a wide array of organizations, including the Bush, Truman and Johnson presidential libraries.
William A. Brandt Jr., a bankruptcy lawyer in Chicago and prolific Democratic fund-raiser, pledged $1 million in May 1999. At the time, the Justice Department was investigating Mr. Brandt’s testimony to Congress about a $10,000 per couple fund-raiser he had held for the president’s 1996 re-election campaign. At issue was whether he had lied when he denied promoting it as an explicit opportunity to lobby a top bankruptcy official at the event.
In August 1999, the Justice Department determined that “prosecution is not warranted.” Mr. Brandt, who is now a Hillraiser, did not respond to several phone and e-mail messages.
Bernard L. Schwartz, another major Democratic contributor who was then chief executive of Loral Space and Communications, gave $250,000 and pledged $750,000 more in 2000. At the time, investigators were trying to determine if Loral had improperly provided satellite technology to China. Under the Bush administration, Loral agreed to pay a civil fine of $14 million to settle the case. Mr. Schwartz, who is now also a Hillraiser, said that his donations were unconnected to Loral’s troubles and added that he had contributed to other presidential libraries.
Familiar Donors
Toward the end of the Clinton administration, Dr. Richard Machado Gonzalez and his lawyer, Miguel D. Lausell, both major Democratic donors in the 1996 presidential election, were pushing the president to increase Medicare reimbursements to hospitals in Puerto Rico, like the one owned by Dr. Machado. Mr. Lausell pledged $1 million to the library in 1999, eight months before Mr. Clinton proposed increasing Medicare payments to Puerto Rico for the second time in his administration. Dr. Machado gave the foundation $100,000 about six months later.
In the interim, the president appointed Mr. Lausell to the board of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, which helps American companies with foreign projects.
Jeffrey Farrow, who coordinated issues involving Puerto Rico for the president, said the administration felt Medicare unfairly penalized Puerto Rico by paying a lower rate there than in the 50 states. Although Congress rejected the proposed increase, Mr. Farrow said “they didn’t have to contribute the way they did in order to get our attention.”
Both men are supporters of Mrs. Clinton, and Mr. Lausell serves as a senior adviser on Latino affairs. Dr. Machado did not return calls seeking comment, and efforts to reach Mr. Lausell through the campaign were not successful.
A fledgling telecommunications company, NextWave Wireless, was battling the Federal Communications Commission when library fund-raisers tapped its chief executive and a major investor. NextWave had promised to pay $4.74 billion for cellphone licenses, but when it declared bankruptcy before completing its payments, the F.C.C. threatened to put the licenses up for public auction, which would have ruined NextWave.
Over three consecutive days in December 1999, with a decision imminent, the library logged a $100,000 pledge from NextWave’s chief executive, Allen Salmasi, and a $100,000 contribution plus a $1 million pledge from Bay Harbour Management, a major investor in NextWave.
The agency ultimately repossessed NextWave’s licenses, prompting a court battle that the company won. Bay Harbour’s co-owner, Douglas Teitelbaum, who declined to comment, never fulfilled his promise to contribute the additional $1 million. Mr. Salmasi did not respond to an e-mail message or to calls to a company spokesman.
Mr. Clinton also found support for his library among some people who figured in the Democratic fund-raising controversies dating to the 1996 elections that involved White House sleepovers, coffees for big donors and money funneled from the Chinese government.
Among them was Farhad Azima, an Iranian-born aviation executive whose involvement in the Iran-contra scandal — one of his companies flew military equipment to Iran in the 1980s — prompted the Democratic National Committee to return a $143,000 donation in 1997. The party later accepted the money. Mr. Azima pledged $1 million to the library.
Another $1 million pledge came from Eric and Patricia Hotung. Mr. Hotung is a Hong Kong businessman who in 1997 was granted a meeting with Mr. Clinton’s national security adviser after Mr. Hotung’s wife, Patricia, an American, offered $100,000 to the Democrats.
Nine of the original library donors received presidential appointments to organizations like the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities and the United States Holocaust Memorial Council. In his final days in office, Mr. Clinton appointed two of the donors, the businessmen Mark S. Weiner and Vinod Gupta, to the board of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.
A Joint Effort
At a Democratic debate in September, when Mrs. Clinton was asked whether the foundation would disclose its donors, she indicated that the decision was not hers. “Well, you’ll have to ask them,” she replied, referring to the former president and his staff.
But Mrs. Clinton’s effort to distance herself understates the extent to which the foundation was a joint enterprise from the start.
Shortly after the Clintons left the White House, close advisers convened meetings at the couple’s Washington home to map out Mr. Clinton’s future as a philanthropist.
Mrs. Clinton played an important role in shaping both the foundation’s organization and the scope of its work, said Karen A. Tramontano, a senior adviser in the Clinton White House and the foundation’s first chief of staff.
Advisers also were acutely aware that the foundation’s operations — and any perception of a conflict — could harm Mrs. Clinton politically. “She and I would speak frequently,” Ms. Tramontano said. “She had a lot of ideas. All the papers that went to him went to her.”
Early on, donations to the library caused perception problems. The day after he left office, Mr. Clinton was embroiled in a scandal over his 11th-hour pardon of the financier Marc Rich, who fled the United States in 1983 to avoid tax evasion and other charges. A Congressional hearing later revealed that the pardon came after Mr. Rich’s former wife, Denise Rich, contributed $450,000 to Mr. Clinton’s library.
That spring, Mrs. Clinton co-sponsored legislation to publicly identify donors to foundations of future sitting presidents. She referred to that legislation in the debate three months ago, although the bill had died in committee.
Beyond the revelation of the Rich donation, the names of some other donors emerged after the library opened in November 2004, when a New York Sun reporter found a partial contributor list displayed on a public computer there. The list, with neither amounts nor dates, disclosed donations from the Saudi royal family and other foreign sources. After the Sun story, the computer plug was pulled.
As the foundation has evolved into global philanthropy, it has attracted more large donors. Among them are Tom Golisano, an iconoclastic billionaire from upstate New York, who gives the foundation $3 million to $5 million a year, according to Mr. Golisano’s confidants; Stephen Bing, a Hollywood producer and a Hillraiser, who contributed stock worth $10,028,614 in 2005; Sir Tom Hunter, a Scottish businessman who began donating $10 million a year in 2006 for economic development in Africa; and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which said it had given or pledged $23,145,677 since 2005, mostly to support AIDS work and an effort to reduce the costs of malaria drugs.
Throughout, Mrs. Clinton has offered “good, specific ideas” to the foundation when Mr. Clinton asks her to attend planning sessions, said Ira Magaziner, a top foundation executive and longtime Clinton adviser.
Comment by chuck
April 1st, 2008 at 1:06 pm
The Senator forgets that Rocky lost that first fight with Apollo.
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and then kicks butt in the end. and thats what counts, who wins in the end.
Not sure she watched the end of that movie - you know, when Rocky lost….
Nothing says “change” like securing a million dollar earmark for an organization employing your wife.
In 2006, the Chicago Tribune reported that Mrs. Obama’s compensation at the University of Chicago Hospital, where she is a vice president for community affairs, jumped from $121,910 in 2004, just before her husband was elected to the Senate, to $316,962 in 2005, just after he took office.
go figure
Reply to jd regarding “and then kicks butt in the end. and thats what counts, who wins in the end.”
Rocky lost last his last fight to Mason “the line” Dixon in Rocky Balboa.
And that’s all that matters. Hillary is going down. And not on Bill.
Hillary keeps on fighting despite the ods and destruction she is causing. For that, I thank her.
In other news: Sylvester Stallone endorsed McCain. The real Rocky knows a winner when he sees one.
What
Obama
Really
Meant
WORM about babies: I….errr….didn’t mean that babies are….errr…punishment….what I meant was….ahhh….Hillary’s running a dirty campaign….ummm…yeah…..Senator Clinton hates babies
Its a good thing that white, American, Jewish, Italian, babies can’t vote because he’s butchered that demographic!!!
Please help us support MI and Fl
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/seatourdelegates/index.html
Comment by Jim
April 1st, 2008 at 1:40 pm
Reply to jd regarding “and then kicks butt in the end. and thats what counts, who wins in the end.”
Rocky lost last his last fight to Mason “the line” Dixon in Rocky Balboa.
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Didnt see that one, only the original, and that was a split decision
I Loved the new Rocky flick!
The bad guy in that movie and the plot and characters kinda reminds me of why we need to fight for our freedoms ….Obama is as naive on the bad guys as those missonary’s were at the beginning of the movie…and Hillary..well I think she understands somewhat ..it depends on which moment and what the voters thoughts are on it. Now McCain he knows exactly what it means ..he reminds me of Rocky!!!!
Any REAL boxing fans out there? Does Hillary or any of her supporters remember that the infamous fighter ROCKY, lost his first fight to the black guy!!! Ah ha
[...] When the going egts rocky, Hero of Tuzla seizes on fictional fighter. [...]
You may be surprised at the results if you answer honestly. That may be tough for secular humanists, however.
http://www.speakout.com/VoteMatch/#sec0
WHAT I PRAY FOR….
Strapped for cash and outresourced by the Obama cult, Hillary Clinton takes Pa. by a good 20 pt margin.
I want to watch Blitzer’s face turn pale when he tries to spin this victory, I want to watch John King turn the state map every shade of blue to try to explain what happened. I want to watch C Matthews turn purple, see Dick Morris have a mini-stroke on Fox…
Next, I want to see Clinton take the podium, thank Pa, and then name all of the Democratic “elite” who have tried to hijack this campaign and have told Clinton what women have heard for years: SHUT UP AND SIT DOWN.
This sentiment is often followed by: Concern yourself with the house. Don’t meddle in things you don’t understand. Cook dinner.
After naming this group of self-interested losers, I want Clinton to look directly in the camera, smile, and then give Dean and thugs the FINGER, a real New York Hello — heck, why not a double-barrel Italian salute!
Hillary Clinton is not going anywhere.
So shut up and cook your own dinner.
Dust: I read your comments towards Ed Feeney. Though I disagree with your opinions towards Romney, I completely agree with you about debating the issues. I have asked Ed Feeney numerous of times to debate me on the issues. He never does and probably never will. He continues to make ridiculous post which is fine because everybody knows who he is and the type of things he says. Maybe he will come around.
As far as Romney is concerned, we have debated plenty on wheither he is a economic conservative. So i do not feel the need to discuss that any further. However, you continue to bring up that he is not a social conservative. Yes he did change his mind on the issue of abortion, but had a 100 % pro-life record as Govenor. Another thing, are you going to call the great Ronald Reagon a non social conservative? He also changed his opinion of this issue late in his life. A big part was because of the influence of William Buckley. And lets not forget that it was William Buckley’s long time publication THE NATIONAL REVIEW that endorsed Romney, not Huckabee. This endorsement came months before William died and would therefore have to sign off on that endorsment. So if you are going to say Romney is not a social conservative because he changed his mind than you better say Reagan was also not a social conservative.