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In 1972, Dr. Anne Clary of Easton was interested enough in politics to stuff envelopes for Democratic presidential candidate George McGovern.

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#2
Mar 30, 2008
 
Hillary Clinton needs to stay in this race for as long as it takes in order to expose Obama for the phony that he is instead of the uniter he is being credited as. Obama tells bald face lies. For his latest example of lying take the new ad he is running in PA. This is a bald faced lie. He does take money from special interests and oil companies. Hillary's exaggeration of the Bosnia thing was not a lie. A lie in this regard would have been that she didn't go to Bosnia. Instead she embellished this trip but, she did not lie. Why don't the MSM call him on his blatant lies? No, they are two busy hiding his faults and looking for anything on Hillary. Also, in my humble opinion it seems the media makes a big endorsement out of every Obama supporter and not so much about Hillary's endorsements, i.e. the PA Governor. Americans need to take another look at Hillary. I am confident that PA voters are informed on the issues and they support Hillary. Let me just say Hillary rocks in person as well as on the trail. I was so fortunate yesterday, March 29th to personally meet her in Madisonville, KY. She is truly a remarkable American. We cannot let her or America down. All of "US" need her in order to restore our standing at home and abroad. Please join hillaryclinton.com to donate, call, join the Hillary wave across the rest of the American primaries, and bring her on to the rest of "US". Everybody please do whatever you can to bring her back to the Whitehouse. She is the only candidate qualified and committed to restoring "we the people" to peace and prosperity. With her we have no fear as to what lurks hidden in the past like some of us do with Obama, as the MSM has left no stone unturned in her past. I, for one, think we deserve the same scrutiny on Obama past life. He is after all, running for the President of the United States. Thank you.
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Mar 30, 2008
 
Clinton didn't lie about Tuzla? Give me a break. These trips overseas during her husband's administration constitute the entirety of her "foreign policy experience". Voters deserve to know precisely what Hillary's role was at the time.

http://www.youtube.com/watch...

"Obama tells bald face lies. For his latest example of lying take the new ad he is running in PA. This is a bald faced lie. He does take money from special interests and oil companies."

I've heard this argument before. Simply stated, it's a ridiculous assertion. Whenever an individual makes a political contribution, they're required by law to include information about their employer.

For example, I'm a few years out of college, and work a low level job for a financial analysis company. I need to report my financial industry employer whenever making a campaign contribution. Now, if someone were to check Senator Obama's campaign contributions by industry, those small donations I've made are lumped under the "Finance, Insurance & Real Estate" contributions. Now, obviously I'm a part of the finance industry, but it would be absolutely ridiculous to claim small donor individual contributions like mine afford the financial industry some leverage with Senator Obama (or Senator Clinton for that matter).

Fact is, the bulk of Senator Obama's campaign contributions have come from small donors, thanks to his innovative, Dean styled bottom up grassroots campaign. Hillary Clinton has relied on big donors,$2,300 plate fundraiders, and bundlers to fuel her campaign. As a result, when the campaign continued beyond Feb 5th (when Clinton expected to have the nomination clinched), her money started to run dry. Those big donors had already contributed the maximum amount, and her campaign hadn't given much attention to small donors. According to the LATimes, around 30% of Obama's campaign contributions came from individuals donating $200 or less. Just under 50% of his cash came from donations totaling less than $1000. Clinton, on the other hand, raised only about 20% of her campaign cash from small donors contributing less than $1000.(source: http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-mo... )

It's dishonest and ridiculous to claim Senator Obama (or Clinton) is somehow beholden to special interests or the oil industry, simply because individual donors from those industries happen to contribute to his campaign.

HRC fundraising data
http://opensecrets.org/pres08/summary.asp...

Obama fundraising data
http://opensecrets.org/pres08/summary.asp...
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Mar 30, 2008
 
Mary OBryan- KY wrote:
Hillary Clinton needs to stay in this race for as long as it takes in order to expose Obama for the phony that he is instead of the uniter he is being credited as. Obama tells bald face lies. For his latest example of lying take the new ad he is running in PA. This is a bald faced lie. He does take money from special interests and oil companies. Hillary's exaggeration of the Bosnia thing was not a lie. A lie in this regard would have been that she didn't go to Bosnia. Instead she embellished this trip but, she did not lie. Why don't the MSM call him on his blatant lies? No, they are two busy hiding his faults and looking for anything on Hillary. Also, in my humble opinion it seems the media makes a big endorsement out of every Obama supporter and not so much about Hillary's endorsements, i.e. the PA Governor. Americans need to take another look at Hillary. I am confident that PA voters are informed on the issues and they support Hillary. Let me just say Hillary rocks in person as well as on the trail. I was so fortunate yesterday, March 29th to personally meet her in Madisonville, KY. She is truly a remarkable American. We cannot let her or America down. All of "US" need her in order to restore our standing at home and abroad. Please join hillaryclinton.com to donate, call, join the Hillary wave across the rest of the American primaries, and bring her on to the rest of "US". Everybody please do whatever you can to bring her back to the Whitehouse. She is the only candidate qualified and committed to restoring "we the people" to peace and prosperity. With her we have no fear as to what lurks hidden in the past like some of us do with Obama, as the MSM has left no stone unturned in her past. I, for one, think we deserve the same scrutiny on Obama past life. He is after all, running for the President of the United States. Thank you.
you are very pathetic do you know that!
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Mar 30, 2008
 
gdd wrote:
<quoted text>you are very pathetic do you know that!
How much of the Obama donations, are from the billions, of a wealthy talk show host,diluted to make them look like small donors?
Dig deep feds.
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Mar 30, 2008
 
gdd wrote:
<quoted text>you are very pathetic do you know that!
And you no boubt are a rich republican,made rich off the likes of the average working poor worker,trying to make ends meet.
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Mar 30, 2008
 
Bush got the backing of the church.How warped is this country to back someone who loves to kill?
At the stroke of a pen,he can condem a person to death, as he did in Texas, and 4000 troops in Iraq.
Don't condem the other religious groops of this world,for you are no better of an example setter.
And the new guy you are going to back,the guy who looks like he is always sucking on a jaw breaker (were doomed).
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Mar 30, 2008
 
Obama - Clinton or Clinton - Obama. This is the ticket(s). Contact the campaigns and demand this. Otherwise we have four more years of Bush - McCain.
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Mar 30, 2008
 
Mary OBryan- KY wrote:
Hillary Clinton needs to stay in this race for as long as it takes in order to expose Obama for the phony that he is instead of the uniter he is being credited as. Obama tells bald face lies. For his latest example of lying take the new ad he is running in PA. This is a bald faced lie. He does take money from special interests and oil companies. Hillary's exaggeration of the Bosnia thing was not a lie. A lie in this regard would have been that she didn't go to Bosnia. Instead she embellished this trip but, she did not lie. Why don't the MSM call him on his blatant lies? No, they are two busy hiding his faults and looking for anything on Hillary. Also, in my humble opinion it seems the media makes a big endorsement out of every Obama supporter and not so much about Hillary's endorsements, i.e. the PA Governor. Americans need to take another look at Hillary. I am confident that PA voters are informed on the issues and they support Hillary. Let me just say Hillary rocks in person as well as on the trail. I was so fortunate yesterday, March 29th to personally meet her in Madisonville, KY. She is truly a remarkable American. We cannot let her or America down. All of "US" need her in order to restore our standing at home and abroad. Please join hillaryclinton.com to donate, call, join the Hillary wave across the rest of the American primaries, and bring her on to the rest of "US". Everybody please do whatever you can to bring her back to the Whitehouse. She is the only candidate qualified and committed to restoring "we the people" to peace and prosperity. With her we have no fear as to what lurks hidden in the past like some of us do with Obama, as the MSM has left no stone unturned in her past. I, for one, think we deserve the same scrutiny on Obama past life. He is after all, running for the President of the United States. Thank you.
She lied. More times than one can count. We do not need another liar in the White House. She lies, because she is power hungry.
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