Hillary Defeats Obama in PA
Tuesday, April 22, 2008 at 10:12PM Hillary Clinton won the Democratic Primary in Pennsylvania 54-46% over Barack Obama. Maybe I should care but I just don’t. Except for the Republican victory this Hillary win provided, that is, it prolongs the agony for the Democratic Party, the fiasco of these two candidates rests squarely on the DNC. Not my problem! I have the video of both Hillary and Obama victory speeches (someone should tell Barack he lost PA), but it’s a waste of my time to edit and post it. Is it possible for these two to not pander? It’s the same old same old blind rhetoric.
I did like Obama’s smear in his “victory speech” about the Bush tax cut helping the country’s wealthiest CEOs who didn’t even ask for a tax cut. He forgot to mention that the Bush tax cuts saved the post-9/11 economy and helped immensely lower middle class families like mine. Last I checked I wasn’t a CEO, nor is my husband.
Oh, and Hillary said in her victory speech that the troops deserve a commander in chief who will bring them home NOW! Meet the soldiers of the 503rd Parachute Infantry Regiment, Hillary. Apparently the soldiers in the field disagree with your plans for them.
Onward, Hillary. Drag this out for as long as you can, girlfriend!
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I was particularly taken by a comment one of them made on the campaign trail the other day about ordinary Americans not having lobbyists in Washington (I'm pretty sure it was Sen. Obama). My first thought was, "Apparently he's never heard of unions, then. Or religious PACs. Or the NRA. Ad infinitum. Even the American Legion has lobbyists!"
Sure, most Americans don't send someone to Washington to lobby personally for them, but the causes each American holds near and dear most certainly does have someone agitating on the Hill for its behalf. But no one looked below the surface of that statement... they never seem to look below the surface in ANY of the statements, or the first time Sen Obama emphasized he did not vote for the Iraq War someone would have said, "But you weren't even in Congress when the vote was taken! Of course you didn't vote for it!"
I'm rapidly getting to the point where my general health means I just have to pretend they aren't talking.
So whose your 6 figure lobbyist, Airforcewife?
Probably the guy with the American Legion, mudkitty. Also, I do believe that the Catholic League has lobbyists there as well as HSLDA - as a homeschooling parent I need all the support I can get on legislative issues.
If you think you don't have any lobbying representation, you are either blind or completely cut off from the rest of the world. Check your affiliations, you can bet dollars to donuts they've got someone up there.
Excellent points, airforcewife! This is classic for the the democratic candidates. It's as if they know no one will dig deeper and expose them, and usually no one does, at least in the MSM.
They have given "lobbyists" and "tax cuts" bad names by piggy-backing them to cheap pot shots. I was going to write a post on that very argument, that Obama didn't vote against authorization for war because he couldn't vote against authorization for war. I couldn't find anything in his state senate voting record to confirm or deny his claim. He was either lying about the vote or meant it as it applied to his state senatorial seat.
Doesn't make it right. I'm for grassroots lobbying, not professional, 6 figure, corporate lobbying.
Oh, brother!!
You try to support a family living in the DC area on "grassroots" lobbying.
Also, if you feel so strongly about it, don't donate money or work with any organizations that actually pay their lobbyists. Like, you know, the Girl Scouts. Or Planned Parenthood. Or Code Pink.
Also, don't eat at McDonald's, shop at Whole Foods, or buy Starbucks - because each of those entities is a part of various food associations that hire several lobbyists.
Most of all, don't drink wine with dinner, as wineries and restaurants that serve wine also have lobbyists. In fact, Candy Lightener, the mom who founded MADD, went to work for the restaurant alcohol corporation as a lobbyist (also, she's not entirely fond of the military, but that's a whole other issue).
Perhaps your best hope to escape this is to move to a remote cabin in Montana... Well, then you'd be represented by the Sierra Club.
Sorry, airforcewife, I'm not giving up my wine with dinner!
Excellent comments!
Oh please, Airforcewife - do you know how much poverty there is in DC?
Well, I do live in the DC area, mudkitty. And we do not make 6 figures, either.
But I'm also not against someone getting paid what a corporation feels they are worth - it's called capitalism.
I'm well acquainted with the opposite of capitalism, by the way. My husband and his mother were able to escape the Soviet Union in the late '70s and came here.
You can say that government regulation of salaries is not something they advocate.
Hey Airforce wife, if those "lobbyist" entities you cited (ie starbucks , walmart etc), are around then inevitably one must use them for what they are worth. Perhaps in a more "just" society these multi-biillion dollar entities just wouldn't exist or would be incapable of sustaining themselves, until then even those that disagree with their practices have no choice but to visit use these entities occasionally. Otherwise one gets stuck trying to play "fair" in a game thats rigged from the start. Get it?
How on earth did you get the idea I was anti-lobbyist, Mavic?
Sheesh - was it the sarcasm that threw you?