Clinton Gets Campaign Link To Latinos

New York Democrat Announces Sen. Robert Menendez Will Serve As Co-Chair Of Her Campaign

(AP)  Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton announced on Tuesday that New Jersey Sen. Robert Menendez will serve as co-chair of her presidential campaign, providing her with a strong link to the Hispanic community.

In a joint news conference, the New York senator said she appreciates Menendez' support and called him "the embodiment of the American dream."

"The support of Latino Americans is especially important to me because these days require us to bring our country together," Clinton said.

Menendez, a Cuban-American and former member of the House leadership, was appointed in December 2005 to fill the Senate seat of Gov.-elect Jon Corzine. Menendez was re-elected in 2006, defeating Thomas Kean Jr., the son of the former Republican governor, in a hard-fought and expensive race.

Clinton raised money and campaigned for Menendez during his re-election bid.

Menendez is one of just three Hispanics in the Senate, along with Republican Mel Martinez of Florida and Democrat Ken Salazar of Colorado.

Menendez said he trusts Clinton to get the United States out of a "mismanaged and misguided" war in Iraq.

"As someone who voted against the Iraq war, it is my judgment that Sen. Clinton is the leader best able to move us forward and out of this war," he said.

Clinton has been widely criticized for her vote to authorize the war in 2002. On the campaign trail, she has promised to end the conflict if elected president.

The Menendez endorsement follows that of another prominent Hispanic Democrat, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. Both California and New Jersey are among several large states hosting primaries on Feb. 5, 2008.

[sclaires]

If Hillary Clinton is going after the Hispanic vote, I wonder how many illegal aliens will sign up to vote for her. This is the time to make sure that all the voters are CITIZENS and not illegals. And make sure that they have valid Social Security numbers instead of made up ones or ones stolen from senior citizens and the dead.

[randalds]

If you answer me, no need to do the name calling, demeaning stuff all in caps. Just try and be civil.
Posted by janem4 at 07:09 AM : Jun 13, 2007

Actually I never post in all caps. You must have me confused with someone else. No I don't advocate one party rule, I just advocate a balance. The republicans have the extreme right wing christian hillbilly vote, so it'd be nice for us to have the thinking Hispanic votes on our side. Besides it's one of your heroes (Karl Sieg heil! Rove) who was trying to create what he called a "permanent republican majority". Sort of blew up in his pudgy face didn't it? Couldn't have happened to a more deserving piglet then him.

[lars008-2009]

IT IS TIME TO DEFEAT FASCIST NAZI ISLAM ONCE AND FOR ALL%u2026

In 1786, Thomas Jefferson, then U.S. ambassador to France, and John Adams, then American Ambassador to Britain, met in London with Sidi Haji Abdul Rahman Adja, the Dey%u2019s ambassador to Britain, in an attempt to negotiate a peace treaty based on Congress%u2019 vote of funding. To Congress, these two future presidents later reported the reasons for the Muslims%u2019 hostility towards America, a nation with which they had no previous contacts.

%u2026that it was founded on the Laws of their Prophet, that it was written in their Koran, that all nations who should not have acknowledged their authority were sinners, that it was their right and duty to make war upon them wherever they could be found, and to make slaves of all they could take as Prisoners, and that every Musselman (Muslim) who should be slain in Battle was sure to go to Paradise.

Sound familiar?

Thomas Jefferson and James Madison defeated the fascist nazi muslims 200 years ago
And again 100 years ago with Theodore Roosevelt
Tunisia in 1881 by France and Libya in 1911 by Italy. By then most of the Islamic world was under Christian domination. With the Ottoman Empire defeated in WW1, secularist Turkish rebels in 1923 overthrew the last Islamic Caliphate,
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/story.aspx?6bdec278-6a71-4436-bc4d-29d1c54b0ad7

[gunownerdan]

"....these days require us to bring our country together." Says Hitlery Clinton, the most polarizing candidate in the race.

[infidel_us]

Oh yeah.....I'm sure Hitlary would LOVE to have millions of illegals in here. They would become the new democrat underclass ("undocumented Americans"), according to Harry Reid.

The socialism of America.

[lars008-2009]

billary clintoon...

wants to change the official language to spanish...

[gunownerdan]

Why does just the thought of a "President Hitlery" cause severe nausea?

[donnie900]

There's an american dream out there fer someone.. other than you. Ya raunchy nagging good fer noth'n sons'a byytches.

[donnie900]

Yer bucktoothed and spoiled! And thats a fact, jack. Yer 300 lbs of flubber sit'n on a bidet eat'n beef jerky going: "I'm starving! I'm starving!"

[donnie900]

They did. They just don't no more. I mean, you guys ain't just got the higher wages. But you got the racist claims and the environmental claims and the democrat 7 year itch over iraq when everybody knew the guy was crooked as all hell.. You guys just do anything.. not to work.

You don't have to be a peckker scientist to understand that they're gonna go to India where they pay 25 cents an hour, and to hell with yaz.

[pepperp1]

Bush can beg for his bill all he wants, Senator Reid has taken the debate off the floor and given it squarely back to the repugs where it started. This was a ruse anyway Bush giving the base some group target with hate, candidates something to differ with BGII on other so they can look tough, and corporate donors a shot at legal slave labor. The immigrants are being played and so are the American people as usual, why would you believe this man at this stage on anything really. Enforce the laws, protect the borders, add police, and now get rid of the do nothing GOP crony Immigration Judges who are sitting on their unqualified duffs to drive up fake crime rates to frighten the sheepeople. Senator Sessions is right on this issue Bush should just go away and take the AG with him. Grip about the unions of today all you want but their history helped build prosperity in this country for many.
Impeach the AG.

[donnie900]

Look at it this way, Jackie: There's a mexican immigrant out there gonna take Bush's job.

[donnie900]

My grandad told me he had to buy his boss a case a beer just so he could work that day. Now its backwards. Now the unions got too big. Like somebody gotta little kitty cat pet that turned out to be a african 800 pound lion, and the only ******* place fer it anymore is the god damned zoo.

[donnie900]

Our union rep would come in his hair slicked back, and this pungent smell'a old spice on him, like he were a god damned moviestar. And I'd laugh, and walk away. And go do my job.

[donnie900]

There's a lot of things I like about the union. A chance to talk about the job and stuff. A chance to meet people and have barbeques. And most bosses are afraid of them, and will listen to them. But theres a lot of things I really really don't like about the union too. How tough they think they are. How "knowledgeable". How they'll complain about little things like they were the customers, and not the service. And especially how union members use seniority as a kind of a "I ain't gotta work no more" scheme. Like it were the longer you've been there, the less work you gotta do. A self appointed king and queen. Ordering everybody around .. Just another boss. A dime a ******* dozen.

[rharrin1]

Thompson is looking good - I will never give my vote to someone who sells out their country and
dismantles the workers of this country for a caste society.
Posted by coffeehead at 03:14 PM : Jun 12, 2007

And I suppose you didn't vote for bushie, you know the imitation president that is pushing for votes to get this sellout to be a success.

[donnie900]

"Your party wants and needs more victims, that's the deal, nothing else. However, there already has been rumblings from the AA population, think it was a baseball player, who came out and said "the league needs to recruit more black players but they go after the hispanic players because they can control them". Interesting. Already grumlings about the new victims moving to the head of the line."

Well, I imagine its not just baseball, but a lot of things. There's so much politics in everything now, you see? Cops wanting publicity to look like heroes (when they get 40,000 dollars a year and a badge), baseball players (when they get like 10 million dollars a year), and everybody. Why do you need that "violation of rights" speech? When you got a job? When you got food on the table? Why do you need all that politic?

I'll tell ya why: Because you gotta be poor not to be a spoiled brat punk. They'll work their butts off for the boss, and you won't.

[mike71067]

"Now it's your hero King George that is pushing for another wave of MILLIONS of illegals. Do you see a pattern here or is your head to far up your arse to see it's the Republicans pushing this. Sure Clinton is trying to take advantage, but it's the Repubs driving the boat!"
-Posted by skyhawk761 at 07:08 AM : Jun 13, 2007

I never said that the Republicans weren't pushing this. They, along with a few smart Democrats, are driving this boat. It's disgusting. I say "smart Democrats" because they know this whole immigration deal is splitting the Republican party. That said, Hillary would like nothing more than the guaranteed support of the Hispanic voting bloc, even if it means pandering to them in obviously disingenuous ways.

[mike71067]

Of course Hillary is courting the Latinos. If she gets their votes, and those of the currently ILLEGAL aliens who may receive amnesty from our useless government, the Democrats will be able to complete their vision of an American welfare state. This will cause even more people to rely on the government for everything, and the Democrats will effectively be able to control those people and will always get their votes. Hillary is socialist scum.

[skyhawk761]

janem4, we have had a one party rule for the past six years and I didn't hear the right complaining while they were in power. I don't like the whole lot in Washington right now and I think we need to flush the toilet and get rid of the whole bunch. We have a problem with BOTH parties, they are not there for us, only for themselves. As long as they keep us divided and fighting among each other they will go on doing business as usual. Since we seem to never vote out the incumbents, I think it's time to give the Dems a chance, minus Hillary.