To help with her debt relief effort. A conversation with Hillary and Bill.
America Ferrara will host.
For details go to:
www.hillaryclinton.com/hillarylive
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“Acid attacks and wife burnings are common in parts of Asia because the victims are the most voiceless in these societies. Naeema Azar, above, was attacked by her husband after they divorced. Her 12-year-old son, Ahmed Shah, looks after her.” by NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Please go here to learn more and take ACTION to help fight violence and terrorism against women and children:
http://pumaparty.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=5875
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20081130/pl_politico/15967;_ylt=ArKjZEu.X5XD3xd84I3ELPHLLJ94
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Hello everyone!
It has been a tough slog this election season. We’ve worked so hard for what we believe in and we’ve made some great friends along the way. Although many of us needed a little time off, and have taken it, there is still so much work to be done. It is obvious that Hillary has some of the most dedicated, intelligent, fun loving folks in the electorate backing her. It just so happens that after what happened in the primaries many of us no longer can honestly identify ourselves as Democrats, so “Clinton Dems” doesn’t really fit so well.
We’ve decided to migrate the site to a new home, http://hillcrats.com. It will be a forum format with the ability to add events and meetings to a calendar area and send private messages to friends you meet on the site. We are still putting the site through it’s paces before contacting all our Clinton Dems with a formal invitation to join, but I hope you will all help me work the kinks out by going over and registering and giving me your feedback.
Please check it out! I hope it will become a great way to keep in touch with our HillCrat pals.
Keep fighting!
Pam
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For the one who is feeling sad and stressed out:
1. Crying is healthy and important. It’s a proven stress reliever. Actual stress hormones have been found in tears, so it is good to cry and release the anxiety.
2. Write down everything that is bothering you. From the election, to your job, to your family and friends, to the paint color of your walls, to even memories that nag at you. Just write *everything* that is bothering you down.
3. Next, you will be your own friend and logically respond to each problem with a solution. There is always a solution, even if you do not like it. Just be your own friend–your own mother and answer what is bothering you with a solution. You will feel empowered afterward, because now you have a plan, and a numerical list of goals to achieve.
4. Studies show that tackling small goals greatly relieve pressure. Do you have a junk drawer that is bothering you? Sort it out. Does your clothing closet need to be organized? Try on your outfits, get rid of things you haven’t worn for over a year, and throw them in a pile for charity. Organizing the home, and removing *stuff* from the home helps clear the mind.
5. Have you been neglecting correspondence or bills or “paper stuff” that has piled on. Write down a To Do list on “catch up” stuff. Call your friends and family and/or email everyone within one week. Organize your bills in files and tackle which ones are most pertinent.
6. Baby yourself. Take a quick run to the store, and get yourself some candles, and new facial masks, and lotions, and goodies. Make an appointment to get a haircut and get your nails done. Or even a massage.
7. Surroundings: Bigger changes. House clean. Caught up with organizing the “catch up” stuff. Feeling more in tune with oneself and those you care for? Now is the time to check out your digs. Wanna change around the furniture for fun? Put up a new picture? Change the curtains? Change something in your home so that you feel more in tune with home. Buy some new plants.
8. Express yourself! Journal and keep a diary–it is really good. Vent out the day in your journal. Express your feelings–complain, or write about something you liked that day. Even if it’s little. No matter what, express it. Journal, paint, make a collage of feelings or goals. Let it out artistically, even if you feel you aren’t an artist, you are. Like music? Break out the tunes and dance.
9. Nature. Go for little walks and try to just be in peace and see nature. Be in nature. If you live in a city and that’s not as easy, consider going to the park and just relaxing…noticing the little things like when you were little.
10. What made you happy when you were little? Tap into that and either pursue it or enjoy some variant of what you liked when you were little. Even if it means simply volunteering for something you wish you had been involved with–well, you can still be!
11. Exercise. This can count as those nature walks, or yoga, or full on aerobics and weight lifting. First start with 3 X a week of 1 hour of movin’ whatever it is. It is probably the single most self esteem boosters–and stress relievers. Work it.
12. Nutrition: Need to start looking into what foods and vitamins can help you feel less sad and stressed. Need to take multi-vitamin every day, and consider taking B Complex vitamins daily (it helps with sadness and stress), and then consider Fish Oil or omega 3 to help with the stressed out heart. Those are just three pills daily and it can make a difference. Also, check out: “Nutritional Blockbusters That Fight High Blood Pressure” http://bighealthtips.com/articles/FD209.html Write down some of these foods and go ahead and get them at the store and incorporate them into your menu.
13. Last, and certainly not least: Know you are loved and cared about and thought of, and it’s ok to give yourself a break. It’s ok to say no. It’s ok to be selfish.
14. We all go through it and you are not alone. NEVER feel alone. We are all just humans. It’s going to be ok, sweetheart.
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I am bothered by the giddiness of some Clinton Democrats here about the prospect of having Hillary accept the Secretary of State post. Let me remind you of the following:
1. Hillary will unnecessarily let go of her political power by accepting this post.
Hillary got the most number of votes in the primaries. She is still the most popular Democrat. Why are we so excited with the prospect of stripping her of every political capital she has rightly earned because of this by accepting a very restricting role? As Secretary of State, she will not be able to campaign for others, she cannot raise funds for other candidates and she cannot build her coalition. She will not be able to do anything except that which Obama will allow her to. Is this the straight-jacket that you want her to wear?
2. Hillary will not be more effective as Secretary of State than she will be as an independent senator.
As Secretary of State, she will effectively relinquish any independence she enjoys and will simply become the mouthpiece of Obama. We don’t know who Obama really is. What we know of him is scary. Why should we be happy with having Hillary become straighjacketed with her post. As Senator, she can influence policy in a bigger way because of her political power and because of her independence. As Secretary of State, she may be asked to defend policies that she doesn’t agree with and sell it to a dubious public and get the flak for it but not the credit if anything goes well. Witness Condi Rice and Collin Powell.
3. Hillary will lose security of tenure if she becomes Secretary of State.
As Senator, she has all the tenure in the world. She can carry her position for so long as she wants it. If she relinquishes her post now, it may not be possible to get it back as a new Democrat Senator might take her place. As Secretary of State, she can be replaced at any time by the Obama camp for any reason. Again, why are some Clinton Democrats excited over this prospect?
4. By accepting this post, Hillary will make moot whatever reservations she may have had over the way the media AND the Obama camp shat on the Clintons during the elections.
Let’s not forget the unprecedented nature of the bias and misogyny that the Obama camp and the media displayed against the Clintons and for Obama. I have a feeling that right now, everyone is realizing how much they have wronged the Clintons.
After the elections, they have come to realize that all the shit that they threw at the Clintons were proven untrue. Conversely, all the things that were said of Obama - Ayers, Wright, etc.. are appearing to be confirmed. The media and the Obama camp absolutely NEED this. And they need the Clinton Democrats to feel grateful over the offer and forget about the things they’ve done. (I can’t understand why)
There are consequences to what they have done and they know that they will need the Clintons for the re-election effort in 2012. (they’re already thinking about that now, make no mistake about it) Clinton will not run - but Obama is and they need Clinton to make it work. As early as now, that’s already their consideration. They know it will be a rough 4 years and they want a unified Democratic Party without the apologies. The media wants to be excused of their tremendous bias without addressing it. This is why this is being bandied about.
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This is the grandmother he pretty much threw to the wolves in April while defending Rev Wright. He called his grandmother “a typical white person”. It also came out that he didn’t even visit his own MOTHER before she passed away!! ?? He went to see his grandmother before the election, but with him, it’s hard to know how much was real and how much was for the election. If his grandfather is no longer alive - cos we didn’t see anyone from that side of his family at all on the podium on election night or nomination night - then his grandmother was the last on his caucasian side.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081114/ap_on_go_pr_wh/biden
Of course he does. What we will have in the White House is an empty suit with a lot of ego.
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The Secretary of State post is beneath her. It is an insult to offer it to her right now. It is like Obama telling Hillary - “You are not qualified to be President OR Vice President! Take the Sec of State post and STFU!”. Moreover, she will be in a very precarious position of being there when the shit hits the fan. As Sec of State, it is her job to defend the disastrous presidency that is Obama’s. She can be dumped at anytime and made the sacrificial lamb. She would only give this sham of an administration the credibility that it desperately needs. She should not touch this with a ten foot pole. Instead she should stay in the US Senate snipe at them by releasing her own policy pronouncements. She would make more history by being a leader in the Senate.
The only reason that the Secretary of State post is being bandied about is because the Obama camp knows that the rift hasn’t been healed. They know that Clinton democrats would not forget the misogyny and race-baiting that happened during the primaries. They know that we won’t forget how they denigrated the presidency of Bill Clinton. They know that they got lucky this time around when Obama is not running on anything. They know that if not for the economic crisis, they would have lost this election despite all their advantages. In 2012, when he has to run on how well he has governed the swing of Clinton democrats will determine the election. They know that the Clinton democrats will be more of a factor next time around.
I still say that the best position for her would be in the Senate where she can just wait until the Obama administration implodes. She will be tainted by the failure that will be the Obama administration if she joins them.
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Here is a page to publicize stories that ARE worth reading, by journalists who ARE at least trying to be honest and fair and informative (whether the stories allow comments or not).
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/13/arts/television/13hoax.html?_r=4&hp&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
It was among the juicier post-election recriminations: Fox News Channel quoted an unnamed McCain campaign figure as saying that Sarah Palin did not know that Africa was a continent.
Eitan Gorlin as the phony McCain adviser Martin Eisenstadt.
Who would say such a thing? On Monday the answer popped up on a blog and popped out of the mouth of David Shuster, an MSNBC anchor. “Turns out it was Martin Eisenstadt, a McCain policy adviser, who has come forward today to identify himself as the source of the leaks,” Mr. Shuster said.
Trouble is, Martin Eisenstadt doesn’t exist. His blog does, but it’s a put-on. The think tank where he is a senior fellow — the Harding Institute for Freedom and Democracy — is just a Web site. The TV clips of him on YouTube are fakes.
And the claim of credit for the Africa anecdote is just the latest ruse by Eisenstadt, who turns out to be a very elaborate hoax that has been going on for months. MSNBC, which quickly corrected the mistake, has plenty of company in being taken in by an Eisenstadt hoax, including The New Republic and The Los Angeles Times. [....]
An MSNBC spokesman, Jeremy Gaines, explained the network’s misstep by saying someone in the newsroom received the Palin item in an e-mail message from a colleague and assumed it had been checked out. “It had not been vetted,” he said. “It should not have made air.”
[click on the link above for the whole story]
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Here are some related stories linked on that same page. I haven’t vetted them.
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http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/11/12/politics/horserace/entry4596620.shtml?source=search_story
As voters left the polls on Election Day, many were asked how they would have voted if the election match-up were between Hillary Clinton and John McCain rather than Barack Obama and McCain. 52 percent said they would have backed the former Democratic candidate; 41 percent would have voted for McCain, wider than Obama’s 7-point margin over McCain.
Interestingly, 16 percent of McCain voters said they would have voted for Clinton, the Democrat, if she had been her party’s nominee.
[click on the link above for the whole story]
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Who Were Those Clinton-McCain Crossover Voters?
http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/11/12/politics/horserace/entry4596620.shtml?source=search_story
As voters left the polls on Election Day, many were asked how they would have voted if the election match-up were between Hillary Clinton and John McCain rather than Barack Obama and McCain. 52 percent said they would have backed the former Democratic candidate; 41 percent would have voted for McCain, wider than Obama’s 7-point margin over McCain.
Interestingly, 16 percent of McCain voters said they would have voted for Clinton, the Democrat, if she had been her party’s nominee.
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# 43% of these voters who supported McCain but would have backed Clinton if she were in the race described themselves as Independents. 31% were Republicans; while 26% were Democrats.
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# 58% of McCain voters who would have supported Clinton if she were a candidate said their candidate’s personal and leadership qualities was more important in their vote; 36% said it was their candidate’s positions on the issues.
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Hey Clinton Democrats:
I know that the election just ended and that all of us are trying to recover. However, I have some very exciting news! Hillary’s right hand man (no, not Bill), Terry McAuliffe, has announced his exploratory committee to run for Governor of Virginia in 2009. Yes, VA has a governor’s election next year. Terry McAuliffe was a tremendous and staunch supporter of Hillary and us as supporters of Hillary all the way up through the last battle. I think it would be tremendous if he got early money from grassroots Hillary supporters.
I just gave 10 dollars to his campaign, and I’m looking for someone to match me. You can learn more about Terry McAuliffe at http://www.terrymcauliffe.com and you can match my donation at https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/terrysfriends
You can also join the facebook group “draft Terry McAuliffe for Governor” and you can join my yahoo group “Terry McAuliffe for govenor” in order to keep up with the campaign.
Im not a paid staffer, I am just a huge supporter of Terry McAuliffe and I am so excited that someone is running whom I’ve met, who is personal friends with the Clintons, who maintained their loyalty to Senator and President Clinton even when it wasn’t cool or convenient and is therefore someone in the Democratic Party that I can support and trust. So I hope you will join me in supporting Terry McAuliffe for Governor of VA in 2009 and donate 5 or 10 dollars today.
Angela D.
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By Ani Cross-Posted at NoQuarterUsa.netI think it is most ironic that the Republican Governor of California said the following:
Schwarzenegger tells backers of gay marriage: Don’t give up
The governor expresses hope that Proposition 8 would be overturned as protesters continued to march outside churches across California.
This story was filed today by Michael Rothfeld and Tony Barboza of none other than the Los Angeles Times.
Curiouser and curiouser that the ‘Governator,’ Arnold Schwarzenegger, you know, the guy who was campaigning in Ohio for his Republican buddy, Senator John McCain, would be the one to tell GLBT constituents to not give up:
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Sunday expressed hope that the California Supreme Court would overturn Proposition 8, the ballot initiative that outlawed same-sex marriage. He also predicted that the 18,000 gay and lesbian couples who have already wed would not see their marriages nullified by the initiative.
“It’s unfortunate, obviously, but it’s not the end,” Schwarzenegger said in an interview Sunday on CNN. “I think that we will again maybe undo that, if the court is willing to do that, and then move forward from there and again lead in that area.”
With his favorable comments toward gay marriage, the governor’s thinking appears to have evolved on the issue.
Wow. It is unfortunate that our President Elect, Barack Obama has not “evolved on the issue,” but instead is trying to have it both ways. He said he was against Prop. 8 but also that he is against gay marriage. How do you do that exactly? Sort of like his original position about the AIG bailout – he’s for it and against it. Confusing.
The numbers proved that Obama’s AA and Latino voters certainly helped in the passage of Prop 8. Do we really believe if Obama had the guts to come out and unequivocally say that Prop 8 was wrong, period, Californians would have seen the same result?
Please see American Girl in Italy’s excellent article on the subject, African Americans Have Suffered at the Hand of Racism and Bigotry and Are in Turn Bigots.
How unfortunate that along with women getting kicked in the teeth this year, GLBT voters did as well, by a candidate who wanted to have his cake and eat it, too.
According to ABC News, 11/2/08, Obama Says He Is Against Same-Sex Marriage But Also Against Ending Its Practice In Calif.
Obama told MTV he believes marriage is “between a man and a woman” and that he is “not in favor of gay marriage.”
So ABC News reporters quoted Obama on what they referred to as his “nuanced position” on gay marriage.
Nuanced – is that something like horse hooey? A distant cousin to Joe Bidens’ “rhetorical flourishes?”
At the same time, Obama reiterated his opposition to Proposition 8, the California ballot measure which would eliminate a right to same-sex marriage that the state’s Supreme Court recently recognized.
“I’ve stated my opposition to this. I think it’s unnecessary,” Obama told MTV. “I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that’s not what America’s about.”
So wait a minute – by sending such a ridiculous mixed message to his supporters, what did he think they would do? If he really had any guts, he would have unequivocally said he opposed Prop 8 and not temper it with this kind of religious, moralistic caveat.
Contrast this with Governor Schwarzenegger:
Schwarzenegger publicly opposed Proposition 8, which amends the state Constitution to declare that “only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.”
On Sunday, he urged backers of gay marriage to follow the lesson he learned as a bodybuilder trying to lift weights that were too heavy for him at first. “I learned that you should never ever give up. . . . They should never give up. They should be on it and on it until they get it done.”
The governor’s position on the fate of the existing same-sex marriages aligns him with California Atty. Gen. Jerry Brown, who has said he believes that the state Supreme Court will uphold the existing marriages as valid.
The 14-word constitutional amendment does not state explicitly that it would nullify same-sex marriages performed before the Nov. 4 election, although proponents say it will. Legal experts differ on this point.
Schwarzenegger’s comments came as protesters took to the streets for a fifth day in a row, sometimes marching to Catholic and Mormon churches that supported passage of the ballot measure.
For all I know, Schwarzenegger is playing politics too, but he is a Republican. Gay rights are not supposed to be top on the Republican agenda. Remember? I thought Democrats were supposed to lead the charge on that one. Not so much, I guess.
Does anyone think if it were Senator Hillary Clinton, she would be doing a two-step on this one. She has always marched in the gay pride parade – and stands up very publicly for gay rights. Oh, what could have been. Sigh.
Some churches, to be sure, assailed Proposition 8 as discriminatory.
“We will continue to bless same-sex unions here until we can legally celebrate same-sex unions again,” the Rev. Ed Bacon told 1,000 congregants during Sunday services at All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena, which has blessed same-sex unions for 16 years.
After the service, Bacon and other clergy members held a news conference on the church steps. They were surrounded by gay and lesbian couples, some standing with young children.
“I know these couples. I know their relationships,” Bacon said, addressing a phalanx of television cameras. “They should be celebrated, rather than disparaged. . . . In the eyes of God, these people are married.”
I wonder how Mrs. Governator, Maria Schriver, she of the Kennedy family progressives, die hard Democrat and die hard Obama supporter squares Obama being so wishy washy on this issue. I also wonder how Mrs. Governator reconciles that Barack Obama spent valuable time and money courting evangelicals, campaigning down south with the likes of Donnie McClurkin, an “ex-gay man reformed through prayer.”
Many of Obama supporters are very happy to declare that the ends justifies the means when they turn a blind eye to any of his primary and election shenanigans. I wonder how his GLBT supporters likewise think his historic election justifies him courting groups that wish to deprive them of their rights.
I sincerely hope that Prop. 8 will be repealed. How interesting that a Republican Governor is willing to stand up and make a public statement about GLBT rights that is more progressive than our “progressive” Democratic President Elect.
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Barack Obama: Renegade
Wife, Michelle Obama: Renaissance
Daughter Malia Obama: Radiance
Daughter Sasha Obama: Rosebud
Joe Biden: Celtic
Wife, Jill Biden: Capri
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RENEGADE:
(Dictionary.com)
1. a person who deserts a party or cause for another.
2. an apostate from a religious faith.
–adjective 3. of or like a renegade; traitorous.
(Merriam-Webster)
1 : a deserter from one faith, cause, or allegiance to another
2 : an individual who rejects lawful or conventional behavior
(wiktionary)
1: an outlaw or rebel.
2 : a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.
(askOxford.com)
• noun a person who deserts and betrays an organization, country, or set of principles.
• adjective having treacherously changed allegiance.
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Now I know alot of the fears the majority of individuals have about Obama’s ‘birth records’… yet a new horrid thought cross my mind. I fear that the claims against Obama… could be a sign that our country is drifting away from our own American ideals. Before you flame… please read on.
According to our own government, inorder to become a ‘natural born citizen” one of the following must be true: A) You must be born in the United States or B) You must have at least ONE parent who is an American citizen. Obama’s mother was an American Citizen, thus passing that birth right on to her child. This is undeniable, and can not be argued, unless of course you can prove Obama’s mother was not a United States citizen.
The part that comes into question; however, is whether or not Obam relinquished his citizenship when he moved out of the country. If he relinquished it, he’d no longer be considered a natural born citizen by our own law. True fact. The time inwhich this relinquishing of his rights would have occurred (if it did at all, I’m speaking hypothetically here) would have been when Obama was under the age of 18. This in itself brings up an interesting point: If the relinquishing of his rights happened while he was a minor, he would have had no say in it. Which creates a dilemma. Can the American people in good faith keep a person from holding an office because of a decision his parents made? I know it’s the law that you must be a natural boun citizen… but denying that citizenship to an individual because his/her parents forced him/her to revoke it… seems a little bit non-American to me. But maybe that’s just me…. or maybe it’s because that’s precisely what every other socialist/communist country does… food for thought.
Feel free to post opinions.
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