WASHINGTON, June 12, 2007
Clinton Gets Campaign Link To Latinos
New York Democrat Announces Sen. Robert Menendez Will Serve As Co-Chair Of Her Campaign
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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.
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- 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.
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- 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. - Reply to this comment
- 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 - Reply to this comment
- "....these days require us to bring our country together." Says Hitlery Clinton, the most polarizing candidate in the race.
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- 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. - Reply to this comment
- billary clintoon...
wants to change the official language to spanish... - Reply to this comment
- Why does just the thought of a "President Hitlery" cause severe nausea?
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- There's an american dream out there fer someone.. other than you. Ya raunchy nagging good fer noth'n sons'a byytches.
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- 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!"
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- 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. - Reply to this comment
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