Clinton Chats With The Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy?
The news out of Pennsylvania today was that Hillary Clinton weighed in on the Reverend Jeremiah Wright controversy when she told a newspaper editorial board, "he would not have been my pastor … You don't choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend."
But somewhat lost in the hubbub over this latest jab at Obama was the very fact that Clinton was meeting with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review editorial board at all.
Published by billionaire conservative activist Richard Mellon Scaife, the Tribune-Review is known for its opinion page, which tilts heavily to the right. During the 1990s, the paper published a series of stories examining the case of Vince Foster, the former White House Deputy Counsel whose 1993 death was ruled a suicide after several investigations.
The Tribune-Review was at the forefront of conspiracy theorists who speculated that Hillary and President Clinton may have been involved in murdering Foster and covering up his death. As late as 2002, the Tribune-Review published a column suggesting Hillary Clinton's presidential aspirations would be tampered due to the Foster "cover-up."
Asked at a news conference this afternoon what it felt like to sit in the heart of the "vast right-wing conspiracy," Clinton laughed.
"It was actually very pleasant … " she said. "I said in the beginning when I arrived that it was obviously somewhat counterintuitive for me to be there, but it was a good discussion."
But somewhat lost in the hubbub over this latest jab at Obama was the very fact that Clinton was meeting with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review editorial board at all.
Published by billionaire conservative activist Richard Mellon Scaife, the Tribune-Review is known for its opinion page, which tilts heavily to the right. During the 1990s, the paper published a series of stories examining the case of Vince Foster, the former White House Deputy Counsel whose 1993 death was ruled a suicide after several investigations.
The Tribune-Review was at the forefront of conspiracy theorists who speculated that Hillary and President Clinton may have been involved in murdering Foster and covering up his death. As late as 2002, the Tribune-Review published a column suggesting Hillary Clinton's presidential aspirations would be tampered due to the Foster "cover-up."
Asked at a news conference this afternoon what it felt like to sit in the heart of the "vast right-wing conspiracy," Clinton laughed.
"It was actually very pleasant … " she said. "I said in the beginning when I arrived that it was obviously somewhat counterintuitive for me to be there, but it was a good discussion."
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See all 47 CommentsI noticed in many of your comments you make sexist statements. Is sexism an issue with you? And if you are a sexist does that not skew your ability to be reasonably rational?
Based on the last two polls and referring to the last poll by gallup; 50% of Hillary supporters would vote for McCain if Obama is nominated, 40% of Obam followers would vote for McCain if Hillary is nominated. Based on these polls neither candidate wins. It is four more years by the Bush zerox.
Blkpresident
Would you dispute that Moses and the Jews were slaves under the Egyptians? Slavery knows no particular race. It seems endemic to the human animal along with genecide. When the word slavery comes to mind most people think of poor black people enslaved by some arrogant white master, which is true, but not stereotypical.
I tried to put this on HRC site & they never posted it - guess they don''t want her supporters to know the truth about her "Church".
ENJOY!
Why not help Africa when we have helped Iraq, china , latin america. 2 million africans have been ravaged with murder, rape , disease , displacement . Or are you part of the problem Wright is speaking about.........seems like it pushed one of your buttons.
Posted by besscannon at 10:34 PM : Mar 25, 2008"
Rev. Wright, like many others including Rev''s Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell, blamed America for bringing on 911 because of our abusive foreign policies.
There are a lot of articles floating around that claim that a bill H.R. 15090 dedicated money in 1969 for research and development of a retro-virus by the US military and that this virus was tested on black Africans in the early 70''s which led to the present HIV epidemic. Considering the history of experiments by the US government on blacks over the past century, it is understandable that the black community is skeptical with regards to any outbreak of disease that affects them.
Do a little research, it might do you some good.
Posted by BLKPRESIDENT at 09:38 AM : Mar 26, 2008"
Actually that is correct, white slaves from Scotland and Ireland were here in the states as early as the 1640''s. Scots and Irish were commonly sold into servitude from the Roman era up to the middle 1700''s. After the 1745 rebellion in Scotland many Jacobites were sold into slavery in the southern US states, sold in Nova Scotia and transported to Australia.
Obviously this was not as widespread and endemic as black slavery but it certainly did happen.
Where is it documented that the Scotch and Irish were enslaved before the Africans here in America? You can''t be serious, right? More importantly than that, Why would you waste your vote on a soccer mom when you can vote for a man?
McCain and Clinton...
Charlie Black and Mark Penn...
What a TEAM!
The fact that those things were in the speech makes completely guilty of hate against our country. He says they are committed to Africa and Obama has said he wants to send 7% of our treasure to Kenya which amounts to $635 Trillion. We have spent enough overseas! Our country needs help now. Iraq has taken us broke, will Obama borrow more from China to build up Kenya? He is a dyed in the wool lying hypocrite! Only non-thinking fools are voting for him. We haven''t time to tutor this greenhorn how to run the country.
We need a president that knows from day one what to do. Don''t make a tragic mistake and put the wrong person in our oval office,
please! If Obama is the nominee, I will vote for McCain.
21-point lead the largest so far
(Raleigh) News & Observer
Hillary Clinton in N.C. on Thursday
Barack Obama is way up in the latest Democratic tracking poll.
A survey by Public Policy Polling showed the presidential candidate with 55 percent to rival Hillary Clinton''s 34 percent in North Carolina.
The results came after two high-profile speeches by Obama: One on Iraq in Fayetteville, and another in response to video of his minister, Rev. Jeremiah Wright, condemning America.
"This 21 point lead is the largest he has shown in any NC polling to date, and an indication that the Wright controversy isn''t causing him any long term harm at least in this state," wrote pollster Tom Jensen on his blog.
The automated poll of 673 likely Democratic primary voters was conducted on March 24. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.8 percent. The Democratic polling firm is based in Raleigh.
In the March 17 poll, Obama led 44 to 43.
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- Hillary lied about landing under sniper fire when she went to Bosnia. No "misspeak" until press broguht it out.
- Bill lied under oath during Monica case.
- Hillary Clinton is hiding hir tax return.
- Clinton and NATO were not interested in establishing peace in the balkans, resulting in Bosnian war.
- Bill and Hill invited Rev Wright to white house (if he is such a hate monger, then why invite him to white house?).
- Bill sent airforce and navy seals to Haiti and almost caused an all out civil war when Jimmy Carter was there getting a peace deal signed.
- Bill was more interested in attacking N. Korea instead of dialogue and peaceful resolution. He didn''t care to give Carter permission to travel to N Korea for talks.
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