Everyone is entitled to their own opinion and Ms. Parks makes her opinion known without stooping to the ridiculous and baseless charges, i.e. plagiarism, theft of delegates and such, that others use to assuage their wounded feelings.

If she doesn’t like Howard Dean, she’s certainly entitled to that opinion. I wasn’t too impressed with Mr. Dean either, the way he let Hillary continue to raise a stink about the Michigan and Florida votes without doing something about it.

I enjoyed her post.

1. the unauthorized use or close imitation of the language and thoughts of another author and the representation of them as one’s own original work.

Senator Obama never used another author’s thoughts without permission. Governor Patrick stated that he had urged Senator Obama to use the phrase in his speeches, therefore the charge of plagiarism does not stand.

This is yet another of Hillary’s ridiculous charges that have nothing to do with issues, but everything to do with the politics of distraction and personal destruction. Rather than talk about real issues, she chose to use a little Republican sleight of hand and distract people with non-issues.

This is one of the reaons that her campaign failed and one of the things that convinced me that she did not have the qualifications to be the party’s candidate. She took every opportunity to sink to the lowest depths possible. That’s why her campaign turned so many people off and that’s why she lost. It is no coincidence that her ratings began to go up when she turned to Senator Obama after one of their debates and said, “It’s been an honor to be here with you.” It doesn’t mean that she has to kowtow to anyone. It does mean that people appreciated it when their candidates acted like human beings and recognized and respected the humanity in each other, rather than taking their plays from the Dick Cheney Laundry List of Dirty Tricks.

In addition, I don’t know how people can point to Senator Clinton as a role model for modern women. Her husband has, by all reports, continued his philandering activities and yet she stays with him. Don’t get me wrong. I respect President Clinton’s accomplishments while in office and certainly point to him as a shining example of what good Democratic leadership can do. However, the fact of the matter is that she has continued her marriage to this person who has humiliated her publicly and privately. What does that say about her as a role model for the modern woman? Not much, I’m afraid.

Though I believe that she made an indelible mark for women’s suffrage by the race she ran, the manner in which she ran it was underhanded, distracting and did not do the American voter any service at all.

It was just more of the same, and I’ve seen a lot of elections, so I know what I’m talking about.

She lost it because she didn’t have the horses or principles to get it done.

“The DNC has none- they overturned, illegally, the results of the MI primary.”

Michigan did not have a legal primary. It violated the DNC rules, rules that everyone had agreed to beforehand, by holding their vote too soon. Since they did this, according to the legal rules, their votes were forfeit.

I’m not saying that the rule is right or wrong, I’m saying that those are the rules that were in place at the time, along with the written agreement signed by Senator Clinton that she would not participate in such elections.

Hillary violated her signed agreement. How you can get beyond that is beyond me. Therefore, raising this huge stink about counting the votes should never have come up. Barack didn’t raise a stink about it because he was following the rules.

So, Hillary violated her written word, improperly participated in an improper election, then comes around and says that the votes should count. This is like the criminal who robs a bank, has the money confiscated, (because it doesn’t belong to him), then has the cheek to sue for return of the money because it was in his possession.

The person without principles here is Hillary Rodham Clinton. She should not have participated in the Michigan election, as she swore she wouldn’t. She should not have kicked up such a big fuss about not getting the votes from an election that, according to the rules, didn’t count.

She forced the hand of the DNC and they did the best they could. This is why I voted for Obama, among other reasons. How disingenuous do you have to be to do something like that?

For me, these are not the qualities I would seek in a presidential candidate, the ability to agree to something then to go back on your word, then to have the gaul to complain about it.

Those are the kind of things that George W does and no self respecting Democrat should, but Hillary did. How does that qualify her for office?

It doesn’t.

Have you had any unwanted pop ups lately? Have you loaded any new software lately? Have you loaded any new games? Have you changed hardware? Did you have a power outage lately? Have you removed and reloaded your BHO’s (browser helper objects, like Adobe Reader’s plugin that helps you read PDF files from within Internet Explorer) lately? Have you done a complete virus and spyware scan? Have you had a power brownout, which is usually more damaging than an out and out power failure? Are you a conscientious computer user who has installed a UPS, (uninterruptible power supply), to your system to help condition the power your computer gets? Do you have adequate virus and spyware protection that is up to date and active?

All these questions need to be answered before you go around saying that someone has hacked into your system.

I have left dissenting comments on Huffington before with no ill effects at all.

Senator Obama went out of his way to be polite to Senator Clinton at each one of their debates. His campaign focused on the issues, not on the person, unlike her campaign, which went out of its way to portray Senator Obama as an elitist and a snob, ideas that had nothing to do with the race and which failed to address any of the issues. http://www.usatoday.com/news/politics/election2008/2008-04-13-clinton-reax_N.htm

When given an opportunity to serve Senator Clinton in a like manner on the ABC debates, Senator Obamas response to the question of whether he trusted Senator Clinton was a gentle, “I think Senator Clinton deserves the right to make some errors once in a while. Obviously, I make some as well.”

I also find it quite interesting that the Hillary supporters trumpet far and wide their support for every vote being counted, then make the claim that she won the popular vote. The only way to make that work is to discount, that is, not count, that is, disenfranchise all those voters who participated in caucuses.

In addition, the entire idea that Senator Obama somehow stole votes is ludicrous. Senator Clinton violated her signed statement and participated in an election that she should not have. Senator Obama followed the agreement he had made. It was Senator Clinton making a huge fuss out of something that should never have been an issue that provoked the meeting on July 31st. Since the meeting had to be held because of the fuss she was making, they had to come away with some decision on something that they shouldn’t have been voting on in the first place. They did the best they could. Senator Obama had the votes to force a 50/50 split, but he didn’t. The delagate issue was Senator Clinton’s responsibility, not Senator Obamas because she was the one who made a huge furball from it. Don’t blame Senator Obama for something which he was not the author of.

The fact is that there are a certain number of people who got all starry eyed over having a woman be elected. Well, she lost it. She lost it not because she’s a woman but because she ran a bad campaign, a campaign that was based on the old Republican style attack dog politics that turned people off.

She lost it because she couldn’t figure out how to run a good campaign and couldn’t be flexible enough to change to fit what people obviously wanted, though she tried. But her attempts were always based in that personal attack mode and she just simply failed.

Get over it. Obama won, he ran a better campaign, he’s a better candidate.

Those of you who are really fed up and disgusted with politics as usual and wants to get back to basic Democratic beliefs and actions in a party, please come check us out at newwomensparty@yahoogroups.com.

You’ll be glad you did.

When Obambi loses by a landslide, do NOT come back and try to make us the scapegoat by blaming us or HRC. It’s Obambi’s misogyny and DNC failed leadership that will be to blame.

There are thousands more examples of the overwhelming, blatant misogynistic hate speech. Just substitute Obamabi for HRC’s names and the whole country would be in race riots if no one in the entire Democratically controlled Congress or DNC spoke out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcdnlNZg2iM&feature=related

Comment by UniversityofIowaJR | 2008-06-09 06:59:00

the young people supporting Hillary, are the ones that usually can’t think on their own to well, usually have security issues, and have a sense of entitlement to revolution of some kind and a sense that their parents get them whatever they want.

I agree fully. Same with the older ones – too busy clinging to their good book. They would support a candidate who voted to impeach Bill over (without saying it) the black guy.