Political Football

The 11/28 “youtube” debate was promoted as Republicans sending in questions.  So much for that…  at least 4 of the more pointed questions were sumbitted by clearly Democrat citizens - it would have taken almost NO research time to uncover that information – follow the links below to read the details.  

1) Gay question linked to Clinton 

Link to documentation of summary above 

2) Abortion questioner is declared Edwards supporter

3) Log Cabin Republican questioner is declared Obama supporter

4) Lead toy questioner is a prominent union activist for the Edwards-endorsing United Steelworkers

click on this line to read another article about the debate

And so the revolutionary facade of the great YouTube Experiment has fallen in spectacular fashion: Many of these questioners weren’t the ordinary Americans as advertised by CNN at all. Many in fact were activists, partisans and ideologues, who unsurprisingly gamed CNN, when they weren’t making total fools of themselves.

to read the entire article, click here 

Oh yeah, and Clinton the male was in town a few days ago and stirred up some dust of his own.

Link to article below

Bill Clinton stumbles on stump for wife

By Jill Lawrence
USA TODAY 

WASHINGTON — It was a partial clause in a sentence uttered in Muscatine, Iowa. But Bill Clinton’s assertion Monday that he’d opposed the Iraq war “from the beginning” triggered outbursts across the political spectrum.From the left, the right and the media establishment, the judgment was the former president had committed a gaffe that could hurt his wife’s presidential bid.“Bill Clinton Rewrites History on Iraq?” wondered ABC News’ Political Radar blog. “A political blunder of monumental proportions,” Dan Spencer wrote at the conservative Redstate.com. At liberal DailyKos .com, the headline was “Bill Clinton’s ‘truthiness’ problem.”Clinton’s comment, reported by the Associated Press, came in a discussion of tax cuts for wealthy Americans during wartime. “Even though I approved of Afghanistan and opposed Iraq from the beginning, I still resent that I was not asked or given the opportunity to support those soldiers,” he said.New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign posted quotes Tuesday from Bill Clinton in which he highlighted his reservations about using force. Before the war started in 2003, he said that “we don’t invade everybody whose regime we want to change” and that if Saddam Hussein disarms, the United States should seek regime change by helping his rivals.“As he said before the war and many times since, President Clinton disagreed with taking the country to war without allowing the weapons inspectors to finish their jobs,” said campaign spokesman Jay Carson.Clinton was more oblique in Little Rock and Iowa City less than a week after the invasion. “Whatever our politics” and “whatever your views,” he said, it was time to support President Bush and the troops.Bloggers, however, posted quotes that underscored Clinton’s support for Bush and concern about Saddam. For instance:•In April 2003 in New York, Clinton said “Saddam is gone and good riddance” and Bush shouldn’t be criticized “for trying to act” on the belief that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction.

•In May 2003 at Tougaloo College in Jackson, Miss., he said that “I supported the president when he asked the Congress for authority to stand up against weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.”

The hubbub comes as polls show Hillary Clinton and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama neck and neck in the race to win Iowa’s leadoff nomination contest. They were tied at 29% in a Strategic Vision poll of Iowa Democrats released today.

University of Iowa political scientist Peverill Squire said Clinton’s remark may revive concern about his wife’s vote to authorize war. “It’s undoubtedly a distraction,” he said.

Obama gave a strong anti-war speech in late 2002, while he was a state legislator. Asked Tuesday about Clinton saying he opposed the war from the start, Obama laughed and said: “If he did, I don’t think most of us heard about it.”

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