I simply do not understand the rush to determine a democratic presidential nominee. Sure, John McCain is on the trail, raising money and talking about his platform, but the dems could be doing the same, rather than sniping. It seems they are getting more press because of the race than McCain.
We don’t stop March Madness after half time even when the game is a blow out. We don’t even stop that godforsaken “sport” of nonsensical ice skating when a skater falls and we know its over. Judas Priest! They run those worthless races for weeks. I am an Obama supporter, but I do not think that we should prematurely end the race. Clinton has a right to run until the end, and I think we should support her in doing so.
Otherwise we run the risk of disenfranchising her supporters and we don’t need or want to do that. They are disenfranchised enough with all that “sniper fire” brouhaha that came about. There is a reason we have a convention. Leave the poor woman alone and let her run her campaign, despite the fact that I really think she has no chance. You never know.
Leave it to the Dems to run a perfect opportunity into the ground.
We don’t stop March Madness after half time even when the game is a blow out. We don’t even stop that godforsaken “sport” of nonsensical ice skating when a skater falls and we know its over. Judas Priest! They run those worthless races for weeks. I am an Obama supporter, but I do not think that we should prematurely end the race. Clinton has a right to run until the end, and I think we should support her in doing so.
Otherwise we run the risk of disenfranchising her supporters and we don’t need or want to do that. They are disenfranchised enough with all that “sniper fire” brouhaha that came about. There is a reason we have a convention. Leave the poor woman alone and let her run her campaign, despite the fact that I really think she has no chance. You never know.
Leave it to the Dems to run a perfect opportunity into the ground.
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The now-retired general counsel and chief of staff of the House Judiciary
Committee, who supervised Hillary when she worked on the Watergate
investigation, says Hillary’s history of lies and unethical behavior goes back
farther – and goes much deeper – than anyone realizes.
Jerry Zeifman, a lifelong Democrat, supervised the work of 27-year-old
Hillary Rodham on the committee. Hillary got a job working on the
investigation at the behest of her former law professor, Burke Marshall, who
was also Sen. Ted Kennedy’s chief counsel in the Chappaquiddick affair.
When the investigation was over, Zeifman fired Hillary from the committee
staff and refused to give her a letter of recommendation – one of only three
people who earned that dubious distinction in Zeifman’s 17-year career.
Why?
“Because she was a liar,” Zeifman said in an interview last week. “She was
an unethical, dishonest lawyer. She conspired to violate the Constitution, the
rules of the House, the rules of the committee and the rules of
confidentiality.”
How could a 27-year-old House staff member do all that? She couldn’t do it
by herself, but Zeifman said she was one of several individuals – including
Marshall, special counsel John Doar and senior associate special counsel
(and future Clinton White House Counsel) Bernard Nussbaum – who
engaged in a seemingly implausible scheme to deny Richard Nixon the right
to counsel during the investigation.
Why would they want to do that? Because, according to Zeifman, they feared
putting Watergate break-in mastermind E. Howard Hunt on the stand to be
cross-examined by counsel to the president. Hunt, Zeifman said, had the
goods on nefarious activities in the Kennedy Administration that would have
made Watergate look like a day at the beach – including Kennedy’s
purported complicity in the attempted assassination of Fidel Castro.
The actions of Hillary and her cohorts went directly against the judgment of
top Democrats, up to and including then-House Majority Leader Tip O’Neill,
that Nixon clearly had the right to counsel. Zeifman says that Hillary, along
with Marshall, Nussbaum and Doar, was determined to gain enough votes on
the Judiciary Committee to change House rules and deny counsel to Nixon.
And in order to pull this off, Zeifman says Hillary wrote a fraudulent legal
brief, and confiscated public documents to hide her deception.
The brief involved precedent for representation by counsel during an
impeachment proceeding. When Hillary endeavored to write a legal brief
arguing there is no right to representation by counsel during an
impeachment proceeding, Zeifman says, he told Hillary about the case of
Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, who faced an impeachment
attempt in 1970.
“As soon as the impeachment resolutions were introduced by (then-House
Minority Leader Gerald) Ford, and they were referred to the House Judiciary
Committee, the first thing Douglas did was hire himself a lawyer,” Zeifman
said.
The Judiciary Committee allowed Douglas to keep counsel, thus
establishing the precedent. Zeifman says he told Hillary that all the
documents establishing this fact were in the Judiciary Committee’s public
files. So what did Hillary do?
“Hillary then removed all the Douglas files to the offices where she was
located, which at that time was secured and inaccessible to the public,”
Zeifman said. Hillary then proceeded to write a legal brief arguing there was
no precedent for the right to representation by counsel during an
impeachment proceeding – as if the Douglas case had never occurred.
The brief was so fraudulent and ridiculous, Zeifman believes Hillary would
have been disbarred if she had submitted it to a judge.
Zeifman says that if Hillary, Marshall, Nussbaum and Doar had succeeded,
members of the House Judiciary Committee would have also been denied
the right to cross-examine witnesses, and denied the opportunity to even
participate in the drafting of articles of impeachment against Nixon.
Of course, Nixon’s resignation rendered the entire issue moot, ending
Hillary’s career on the Judiciary Committee staff in a most undistinguished
manner. Zeifman says he was urged by top committee members to keep a
diary of everything that was happening. He did so, and still has the diary if
anyone wants to check the veracity of his story. Certainly, he could not have
known in 1974 that diary entries about a young lawyer named Hillary
Rodman would be of interest to anyone 34 years later.
But they show that the pattern of lies, deceit, fabrications and unethical
behavior was established long ago – long before the Bosnia lie, and indeed,
even before cattle futures, Travelgate and Whitewater – for the woman who
is still asking us to make her president of the United States.
Run Hillary Run
Keep bringing out the best in others who would expose your trail of complicities and deceits.
▪ The cattle futures scheme
▪ Travelgate
▪ Whitewater
▪ Hillary’ billings as legal counsel to the Madison Guaranty Savings and Loan and the Castle Grande deal
▪ The missing billing records
▪ The cover-up of Vince Foster’ death
▪ The illegal request by her proté, Craig Livingstone, for 900 confidential FBI files on Republican opponents (many of whom –surprise! –were audited by the IRS)
▪ A never-ending earthquake of bimbo eruptions
▪ Drum roll here –Monica Lewinsky
and
“The Clintons have engaged in brute behavior for decades, much of it a matter of record,” says writer and publisher Emmett Tyrrell, who includes both the Mr. and the Mrs. in his indictment, listing the following:
▪ Abusing the presidential pardon power
▪ Being caught taking money from the shadowy Norman Hsu this year and from other dubious Asian figures in the 1990s
▪ Bullying the press, political opponents, prosecutors and the women who caught Bill's eye
▪ Suppressing a recent GQ story about how their bullying continues to this day
▪ Employing private investigators to harass and intimidate political opponents and the women the former president either had affairs with or abused
▪ Using the White House, most notably the Lincoln Bedroom, to reward donors
Let Barack make the run with the new ideas and a whore lot less controversies. A President needs to focus on his role as leader of a country not dodging press(ing) questions of the past. Let's get on with the future.
Anon: It's "Clinton" or "Mrs. Clinton" to you, and also "Obama" or "Sen. Obama." I would emphasize a former point of mine about the importance of language. You called all of the white guys by their last names.
Jack: I agree she should run as long as she wants. It's unfortunate that those with enough ambition to run for President also have so much ambition that they will stop at nothing to get elected. These two need to show each other more respect, stop the sniping, and do what they can to be sure the supporters of one are ready to become supporters of the other when the nomination is decided.
"Ms." Sky Girl,
Why did you write Mrs. Clinton and not Sen Clinton, yet you did not call him Mr. Obama but instead Sen. Obama?
With reference to my blog, some corrections are in order. I only called Barack by his name in the last paragraph. I made reference to him in the spirit of his being the one with the least amount of baggage of the three. If I read it right, "Mr. Jack" was the one who called Sen. McCain as "McCain" neither using Mr. nor Sen.,
in his second reference,(a little double standard here?) The Run Hillary Run was the Title of Mr. Jack's Blog. Your criticism should have been addressed to "Mr." Jack as well for it was he who used the term Clinton. (Sorry, but you seemed to be quick to pass the blame to the wrong person.) Oops I forgot maybe you are more familiar with Mr. Jack than me. All other references to the Liberal Repesentatives of the Quest for President were penned by other authors, Mr. Jeifman and Emmett Tyrell. Clarification: these, in parenthesis are my comments of this blog response. (Run Hillary Run
Keep bringing out the best in others who would expose your trail of complicities and deceits.) and (Let Barack make the run with the new ideas and a whore lot less controversies. A President needs to focus on his role as leader of a country not dodging press(ing) questions of the past. Let's get on with the future.) I believe that Mr. Sen. Barack Hussein Obama is going in the right direction of the convention. I hope I included them all, name and titles.
I give respect and titles of respect to those who gain my respect. I do not hand it out like candy at a carnival. The beauty of this country is our freedom of speech and expression. Please note that I have used the Ms. as my token of respect for your response even though this is our first contact.
Mr. Anon: Total mistake on my part. I went back in and changed Mr. to Sen. for Obama, got interupted by my kids, and forgot to go back and change Mrs. to Sen. for Hillary. That's all. Total mistake.
I just think consistency in how we refer to people is important.
P.S. Do you have a name or a blog to refer to?
A name to refer to,
a blog refer to,
any valid sources to refer to?
A pretty nasty attitude to refer to--oh, sorry, that seems to speak for itself.
As far as trusting any candidate, I don't. They are politicians, after all. Was it Mark Twain who said something about anybody who wanted to be president shouldn't be?
What does concern me, and not just anonymous' original comment but throughout the web, is the lack of any hard sources. You say it, and put quotes around it, so it's true?
HellLLLLOOOOoooo...
Now, all the jibing aside, I would like to know where you get your info, as I am interested in learning more. But I am from Missouri, anony--you are going to have to show me.
Hello Run Deep,
First part of my response comes from the source:
www.jzeifman.com - Hillary's supervisor and the other comes from http://www.townhall.com/columnists/
EmmettTyrrell/2008/03/27/
hillarys_latest_whoppers
The major news media seems to disregard or choose to neglect anything that does not conform to their agenda. That is why these blogs, radio and print et al have so much importance as our freedom of speech is enhanced to be more instantaneous in reporting. That is why politicians must discipline themselves, for everything they do is under instant scrutiny and they will be held accountable. We as the populace can now be better informed. I trust our great system of expression. To be subjected to one line of thinking, dogma or whatever without a reliable alternative is to be indoctrinated and that is dangerous for a people.
Show-me, Missouri's motto, is the expression of those who want facts not fantasies and for that reason Missouri is such a pivotal state in elections.
This anonymous commenter is either a Clinton hater, or rabid Obama supporter, and his sources have been discredited. Remember, we the taxpayers paid millions of dollars for Ken Starr's no-holds-barred investigation of the Clintons regarding all of those allegations and no charges were ever filed.
From the 2/18/96 Washington Post review of the Zeifman book:
WITHOUT HONOR
In 1973 Jerry Zeifman, chief counsel to the House Judiciary Committee, decided to keep a diary of the "extraordinary events" surrounding the impeachment of President Nixon. Now, Zeifman draws on that diary to give us Without Honor: Crimes of Camelot and the Impeachment of President Nixon, in which he accuses government officials of obstructing the impeachment inquiry. Their reason? Not any sympathy for the besieged Richard Nixon, but a desire to protect the reputation of John Kennedy. Zeifman's book will surely excite conspiracy buffs on the lookout for sinister coverups in high places. But those wary of such unsubstantiated theories (myself included) will find Zeifman's book an unconvincing, if imaginative, tale of intrigue...
The lack of evidence makes this theory hard to swallow. Zeifman's most reliable source -- his diary -- contains few revelations and seems little more than a chronicle of his suspicions and speculations.
And from MediaMatters.com 4/4/08
"Limbaugh repeats assertion by Watergate committee counsel Zeifman that he "fired" Clinton -- an assertion reportedly contradicted by Zeifman himself"
...Contrary to what Calabrese now writes, Zeifman was quoted in a November 4, 1998, Scripps Howard News Service article, published in The Sacramento Bee, as saying, "If I had the power to fire her, I would have fired her."
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