As Obama gained the nomination of the Democratic party last night, Hillary Clinton scoffed and narcissistically refused to concede.

Obama Acknowledges Crowd in Minnesota

Clinton congratulated Obama — not for winning the nomination, but for running an “extraordinary race.” She recognized Obama and his supporters “for all they accomplished.”

Also, and very ungraciously, Clinton the “wicked witch” told the crowd in New York City: “Because of you, we won together the swing states necessary to get to 270 electoral votes.” “I want the nearly 18 million Americans who voted for me to be respected, to be heard and no longer to be invisible.” — translate that to: “Obama, I will crawl underneath your skin until you offer me the Vice-Presidency, so that I may accept it or refuse it and then — shove it in your face, in readiness for 2012 elections — since I have done much damage to your candidacy, and I am sure you will lose to John McCain.”

… or simply: “You must woo me if you want to prevail in November,” after all…”I have the ‘White Female Vote‘ and the ‘Bigot vote‘ in my corner!”

What does she really want?

Answer: To be [Vice-President and Co-President] come hell or high water….in her own terms.

Here are some comments from a cross-section of TV pundits:

“Clearly, she’s trying to position herself, keep her options open.” — NBC’s Tim Russert, on HRC’s speech (MSNBC).

“Well whatever that was, it wasn’t a concession speech.” — Fox News Channel’s Brit Hume

“If I were Barack Obama, if I heard that speech, I would not be very happy. … They are living in parallel universes right now.” — CNN’s Gloria Borger.

“This was a defiant speech, against all the kind of advice that [heavyweights] within the Democratic Party gave her” — Ex-White House adviser David Gergen, on whether he was surprised by Clinton’s speech (CNN).

“She did everything but offer Obama the vice presidency” — GOP strategist Alex Castellanos (CNN).

Clinton’s unwillingness to salute Obama as the presumptive Democratic nominee should be the ‘last straw‘ in my opinion, and should be the prompt he needs to deny her the vice presidential slot.

Winning an election with Hillary and Bill in tow would just be as excruciating as losing with them — to John McCain.

Obama should put his foot down — win or lose. Allowing Hillary to run with him under her own “co-presidency terms,” would thoroughly undermine Obama’s CHANGE campaign.

Hillary Clinton as Obama’s Vice President would be an act of “Terminal Insanity.”

……and if she is thinking of running in 2012 (if McCain wins this year), then if I were Obama, I would challenge her on an independent ticket….as payback for the “malicious damage” she has done to him during this primary.

Hillary Clinton is a “wild political animal,” worse than a desperate and hungry spotted hyena roaming the wilds of East Africa — she is capable of, and is very ready to break Obama’s “political bones,” in order to get what she wants — POWER!

Earlier in Kenner, Louisiana, John McBOMB also gave a speech in which he tried draw a sharp contrast with Bush — a pathetic attempt to insulate himself from the radioactive George McDUMB Bush. McCain praised Clinton but sarcastically referred to Obama as a candidate delivered to the American people by the media and superdelagates…..[MORE]

     Too Much Hug in Minnesota!

VIDEO REFERENCE

Barack Obama’s Victory Speech on June 3, 2008

Hillary Clinton Does Not Concede!

Comedian Jon Stewart’s Take

OBITUARY

Here are seven reasons why Hillary Clinton failed:
A Gannett News Service political analysis

1. A yearning for change: Clinton underestimated Democrats’ yearning for something beyond politics as usual and their disdain for the Iraq war and George W. Bush. Clinton’s 2002 vote to authorize the war became a symbol of status quo, allowing Obama, who had opposed the war, to become the agent of change on an issue that had inflamed the left.

When the nomination fight boiled down to Clinton versus Obama, the 35 years of experience Clinton constantly talked about became a liability as Obama became an exciting and plausible alternative.

“She made an initial strategic blunder by focusing on experience in a Democratic primary,” said Dick Morris, who once advised former President Bill Clinton and has become a harsh critic of Sen. Clinton. “They don’t want experience. They want change and newness. That’s why they’re Democrats.”

2. Hot and cold persona: Clinton could never seem to settle on a political style or persona. In her defense, she may have been hurt by gender bias. While Obama drew praise for his ability to invoke passion in his audiences, emotion was radioactive for Clinton. She was criticized as either too hot or too cold, rarely a transcendent figure, and not authentic. When she became teary-eyed before the New Hampshire primary, defenders saw it as a rare glimpse into her soul while detractors saw it as calculated.

She also hurt herself with false claims of ducking sniper fire during a trip to Bosnia when she was first lady. A Gallup Poll in March found half of Americans doubted her honesty and trustworthiness, twice the percentage that had the same doubts about Obama or presumptive Republican nominee John McCain.

3. Race trumped gender: When Democratic voters assessed the breakthrough aspects of having a black man or white woman head their ticket, race ultimately won out over gender. The excitement over Obama’s candidacy and the prospect of the first black nominee of a major political party brought young voters into a process they had ignored in the past. Black women, especially, were torn, but overwhelmingly settled on Obama after he won predominantly white Iowa.

Although Clinton still regularly won among women, the movement of black women and younger women to Obama cut into her strongest base, said Debbie Walsh, director of the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University.

4. Tactical errors: While Clinton focused on winning the big states, Obama racked up a delegate lead by winning most of the smaller states’ primaries and caucuses. Clinton put a lot of her eggs in the Super Tuesday basket and her campaign seemed unprepared fiscally and strategically for the fight to go on past Feb. 5, when more than 20 states voted. But no clear victor emerged that day and there were more states than that left to vote. Clinton had to lend her campaign money, and her campaign manager stepped down amid reports of infighting among her strategists.

Clinton was ill served by other advisers, whose ego clashes or professional blunders often made news. She demoted longtime “chief strategist” Mark Penn after it was revealed he was working to help the government of Colombia get a free trade agreement with the U.S. while Clinton was campaigning against the deal.

5. So close on issues: Obama outflanked Clinton on the left or successfully argued there was little difference between them on everything from ending Bush’s tax cuts for the rich to improving health care to revisiting trade deals like NAFTA. In debates, the two Democratic rivals themselves noted they had similar positions on some issues.

And while both agreed on the need to get out of Iraq, Clinton had to defend her 2002 vote authorizing the use of force in Iraq while Obama repeatedly pointed out his early opposition to the war.

“While I think that her vote on Iraq was a responsible vote, she may have underestimated the degree to which the far left in the Democratic Party is on the ascendancy,” said Gary Bauer, a longtime conservative activist and 2000 Republican presidential candidate.

As voters’ concerns dramatically shifted from the war to the economy, both candidates changed messages. Clinton was able to win some big, late primaries with an economic populist message targeting blue-collar voters, but by then she was behind in delegates. Obama painted her proposal for a 90-day gas-tax holiday as politics-as-usual pandering that wouldn’t solve the energy crisis.

6. One word: Bill: While some voters fond of Bill Clinton’s presidency saw voting for Hillary Clinton as getting two for one, others loathed the thought of the scandal-tainted ex-president back in the White House. A string of Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton presidencies also was an unpleasant thought for some. Then Bill Clinton infused race into the campaign during the crucial South Carolina primary by comparing Obama’s victory to Jesse Jackson’s in 1988. He spent later stages of the campaign hitting small colleges and small towns where he faced less media scrutiny.

7. Obama the phenom: In Obama, the candidate became the message. Obama’s national appeal, backed up by a broader and deeper national campaign strategy than Clinton had, was arguably the most important reason for her loss. As a long campaign progressed, Obama got more comfortable on the stump and in debates, drew massive crowds and evoked “Change” sign-waving, cell phone photo-snapping and swooning from supporters. Her supporters complained that the media, wowed by the phenomenon, didn’t ask Obama tough questions.

Capitalizing on the ease of Internet fundraising, Obama turned the phenom factor into a political gold mine, out-raising Clinton, sometimes at an unprecedented clip of more than $1 million a day.

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With hundreds of White Women screaming murder, the Democratic Party Rules Committee today dealt a severe blow to Hillary “Napoleon” Clinton.

Hillary wanted the whole nine yards of Michigan and another nine of Florida, irrespective of the DNC rules that were set up very clearly and agreed upon by both campaigns before the beginning of the primaries.

In other words, she wants to steal this nomination by hook or crook — including inciting White Women by invoking baseless charges of “Sexism” by the Obama campaign, and by race-baiting.

It has not and will not work Ma. Clinton!

The rulings (by vote) by the DNC today prompted Hillary’s chief delegate Harold Ickes to angrily state: “There’s been a lot of talk about party unity–let’s all come together, and put our arms around each other,” said Ickes, who is also a member of the Rules Committee that approved the deal. “I submit to you ladies and gentlemen, hijacking four delegates … is not a good way to start down the path of party unity,” adding that Clinton had instructed him to reserve her right to appeal the matter to the Democrats’ credentials committee, at the party’s convention in August.

Obama picked up a total of 32 delegates in Michigan, including super delegates who have already committed, and 36 in Florida, for a total of 2,052. Hillary Clinton correspondingly picked up 38 in Michigan and 56.5 in Florida, for a total of 1,877.5.

To Hillary I say:

It’s Over ……PERIOD!!

The party of Clinton is now Obama’s party, whether you like it or not!

You and Bill are nothing but crooks who think that the presidency of The United States is an entitlement, and even a thoroughbred black man like Obama has no business grabbing “what belongs to you.” [see Michael Pfleger video below]

Hillary…..I hope to live to see a woman become the president of The United States someday — that woman will NOT be you. You are nothing but a THUG, in the mode of the “vicious Hyenas” who call themselves Republicans a.k.a ReTHUGlicans.

Go home Hillary — and bake cookies and have tea with Bill, for that’s a sure way of keeping tabs on his “philandering self.”

The FAT LADY has sung!

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Meanwhile, Sen. Barack Obama has quit his controversial congregation, Trinity United Church of Christ, in Chicago, campaign spokesman Bill Burton said Saturday.

Inflammatory sermons by the church’s longtime pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr., forced Obama to initially defend – then denounce – his former spiritual mentor.

Then this week, Obama had to distance himself from another minister preaching at Trinity, the Rev. Michael Pfleger, who last Sunday made comments that seemed to accuse Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) of acting “entitled” because she is white…[MORE]

Rev. Michael Pfleger Mocks Hillary Clinton

Halleluhya Rev!

REFERENCES:

1. The FIX — Michigan: A Done Deal But Bitterness Lingers
2. The D.N.C. Deliberates
3. Obama Quits His Church

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What is the “Witch” of Chappaqua up to?

Despite being hopelessly behind in pledged delegates, and with practically no chance of winning this contest legally, Mrs. Clinton is still running around, drunk with “Voodoo” delegate permutations, claiming that she has won the Democratic primary.

It has also been reported that she has sent “uncommitted super delegates” a letter with polling data showing how and why she could be more competitive than Obama against John “McBOMB” McCain in the fall. In the letter she points to her wins in states like Ohio and West Virginia along with her strong showings among older women, Hispanics, rural voters and die hard “Reagan Bigots.”

She is also adamant that ALL the delegates from Michigan and Florida be seated at the August Democratic convention — falsely claiming that she “WON” the two contests, regardless of the FACT that both states (together with Clinton and Obama) agreed to a set rules before the beginning of the contest, and then went ahead and broke them. Furthermore, Florida and Michigan had ample time to fix what they messed up, but failed to do so.

A desperate Clinton, who has already inflicted so much damage, is still intent on shifting goal posts like a drunk ice hockey player, using baseless threats, lies, convoluted math and inflammatory allegations of Sexism, causing further damage to a fractured party.

Meanwhile, I have never heard Obama whine about the “Blatant Racism” and the “Death Wish” the Clintons have unleashed on him during this process — the race-baiting by Bill Clinton in South Carolina and by Hillary’s “hard-working whites” of West Virginia and Kentucky.

The list is long — See video below.

The new GOLD standard of the Democratic party has been a controlled gentleman all through.

Ma. Clinton — you deserve no sympathy!

Obama just plainly outsmarted you and the “Clinton Machine,” comprised of Bill, mayors, governors and scores of powerful political operatives who owe you an assortment of favors.

Even right-wing THUGS like Bill “O’Wino” O’Reilly, Sean “Cobra” Hannity, Rush “Fat-Drug-Addict” Limbaugh and the FOX News’s army of “MORONS IN HEAT” have chipped in abundantly, in your favor.

It’s time to give up Hillary — YOU HAVE LOST!

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VIDEO:

LAST SUNDAY: Father Michael Pfleger, a fiery liberal social activist and a white reverend at an African-American church — St. Sabina’s Catholic Church on the South Side of Chicago, and Obama ally, mocked Clinton’s tears from Trinity United Church of Christ’s Pulpit. Pfleger said: “Hillary cried because White Supremacy failed….. because she thought as a white person and wife of a former president she was entitled to the presidency,” said the priest. Watch Below:

NOTES: Father Michael Pfleger has set off Right-Wing ReTHUGlicans into another “Wright Frenzy,”…the Fox News Maggots are in FULL ATTACK mode — like wild dogs viciously celebrating an un-expected “Bonus Mating Season.“

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By: KEVIN J KELLEY

Right-wing Christian Activists in the United States are attempting to use Senator Barack Obama’s Kenyan links to discredit him.

Sen. Barrack Obama [L] & Prime Minister Raila Odinga [R]
The activists, most of them conseervative Christians, claim that Mr Obama is a relative of Prime Minister Raila Odinga, whom they describe as a “socialist who plans to introduce Sharia Law in Kenya“.

Mr Obama is leading his party’s presidential nominations and is almost certain to win against Senator Hillary Clinton.

He also stands a good chance against Senator John McCain of the rival Republican Party, thus making history as the first non-white to become a US president.

For the past two decades, American presidential campaigns have been conducted with every aspect of a candidate’s life placed under the microscope.

Analysts expect the Republicans to scour Mr Obama’s Kenyan links to find anything that they can use against him.

Some of the most widely circulated allegations originated last month in a chain e-mail from Celeste Davis, an American Christian missionary who, together with her husband Loren Davis, claims to have worked in Kenya for 12 years.

The Davises allege that Senator Obama donated nearly $1 million (approximately Ksh61 million) to the Orange Democratic Movement’s campaign last year. “Obama and Raila speak daily,” the Davises add, claiming that the two men are cousins.

Bizarre and discredited

Mr Odinga’s spokesman, Mr. Salim Lone, dismissed the allegations as bizarre and discredited.

“These are bizarre accusations that lack credibility. The allegations that the Prime Minister has socialist and pro-Mulism leanings were discussed and discredited in the last campaign,” he said.

“This is the work of right-wing activists who are trying to puncture holes in Senator Barack Obama’s campaign for the White House by attempting to resurrect allegations that were discredited in Kenya during the campaign,” he said.

Nairobi-based political scientist, Tom Wolf, an American, said that the Internet smear campaign against Mr Obama was an act of desperation.

“It just shows how desperate the Republicans are that Obama is viewed as a serious threat that they would have to use such irrelevant campaign tactics. If the Americans were worried, would they be so close to him? You recall that someone tried to use the Somali robes to discredit him,” he said.

If the Cold War were still on and communism were still alive, and Raila had spent a weekend with some communist leader like Fidel Castro, he said, it would be much more of an issue.

“But if you criticise Obama because he is related to a Kenyan leader who arrived at a compromise over the disputed election to save his nation, how would that hurt him?” Mr Wolf asked.

Mr Lone described the e-mail campaign as one of the last gasp efforts by right-wing activists in the US to dent Senator Obama’s campaign to become the Democratic Party’s standard bearer in the race to the White House.

Mr Lone, however, claimed that Mr Odinga and Senator Obama were related by blood and came from the same clan.

“It is true that the Prime Minister and the senator are related. Senator Obama comes from a family and clan to which the Prime Minister’s mother belongs, and they are cousins,” he said.

In the American sense, a cousin is the child of your parents’ siblings. But in Luo culture, the members of your father’s or mother’s clans are your cousins.

A clan would typically have hundreds of thousands of members, and the relationship is more social than biological.

Mr Obama is the son of Barack Obama Sr of Nyangoma-Kogelo, Siaya, and Ann Dunham of Wichita, Kansas.

He was raised by his maternal grandparents. In October last year, Mrs Lynne Cheney, wife of US Vice-President Dick Cheney, announced that she had discovered, while researching a book on their family, that Mr Cheney and Mr Obama were blood relatives.

They were eighth cousins, she said, with a common ancestor, a 17th-century immigrant from France.

The Illinois senator is acknowledged as perhaps the most charismatic American politician since John F Kennedy.

December election

Mr Davis and his wife, noting Mr Odinga’s contention that the December 27 presidential voting was rigged, said in their message, “As we watch Obama rise in the US we are sure that whatever happens, he will use the same tactic, crying rigged election if he doesn’t win and possibly cause a race war in America.”

A conservative Internet commentator, Michael Gaynor, speculated earlier this month that Senator Clinton’s campaign might play “the Kenya card” against Mr Obama.

Mr Gaynor says “the Kenya card” involves unspecified connections between the Kenyan-American senator and “the radical Kenyan prime minister.”

An author who succeeded in smearing Democratic Senator John Kerry in the 2004 US presidential race may also make negative use of Senator Obama’s Kenyan heritage.

A February 27 report by the McClatchy-Tribune News Service in the US says that author Jerome Corsi intends to research “Obama’s connections to Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga and Odinga’s ties to Muslim groups.”

Mr Corsi wrote Unfit for Command, a text effectively used by Republican Party partisans seeking to discredit Senator Kerry’s service in the US military during the Vietnam war.

Evidence assembled by Mr Kerry and his supporters showed that these charges were either exaggerated or flatly false.

The Davises’ allegations concerning Senator Obama and Mr Odinga “are all kinds of false,” states an online commentator for The New Republic, a respected US political magazine.

But one effect of the response to the Davises’ lies by so prestigious a magazine will be to call further attention to those lies.

Politifact, a political accuracy check maintained by two reputable and non-partisan publications – The St Petersburg (Florida) Times and Congressional Quarterly – published a detailed rebuttal of the Davises’ claims in a May 2 analysis by researcher Amy Hollyfield.

She quoted Mr Lone as saying: “This is absolutely ridiculous” in regard to the Davises’ claim that a group associated with Senator Obama donated nearly $1 million (Sh62 million) to the ODM campaign. “Mr Obama did not donate a single cent to Mr Odinga’s campaign,” Mr Lone told Politifact.

He said the group the Davises say gave the money to ODM does not exist, Politifact reports, citing several US election campaign monitoring organisations, including one sponsored by the US government.

Politifact also investigated the Davises’ claim that Mr Obama is a cousin of Mr Odinga.

That assertion is based on a BBC interview in January in which Mr Odinga said, “Barack Obama’s father is my maternal uncle.”

The BBC then asked, “You’re related to him?” Mr Odinga replied: “Yes, I am.”

The Obama campaign denies that the senator and Mr Odinga are cousins. And three Kenya experts interviewed by Politifact also dismissed this claim, Ms Hollyfield reports.

Normal sense

“To my knowledge, they are not first cousins in the normal sense,” Kenya election expert Joel Barkan, a professor emeritus at the University of Iowa, told Politifact.

“To my knowledge, there’s absolutely no relationship at all.”

Prof Barkan also took issue with the Davises’ characterisation of Mr Odinga as a “socialist.”

Such a charge is intended to incite still-virulent anti-communist sentiments among many Americans and to suggest that Senator Obama has a sinister, far-left agenda that he is concealing from US voters.

“He’s a populist politician,” Prof Barkan says of Mr Odinga, “but he’s no socialist.”

Because the Davises’ e-mail was written by missionaries long active in Kenya, “it somehow carries more credence than your average blog posting — and it’s spreading rapidly,” Politifact commented.

“But even with the credibility of a real author, the claims in this e-mail are as baseless as anything you’ve read from an anonymous blogger.”

Speaking to the Sunday Nation Saturday, Mr Lone said Mr Odinga and Mr Obama enjoy good relations.

However, Mr Lone was categorical that Senator Obama and the PM have never sat down to discuss their ideological commitments owing to the fact they play politics in different environments.

“Claims that the two have discussed their ideological commitments are completely far-fetched. The senator has Kenyan roots, but he is an American first and foremost,” he said. He further dismissed claims that Senator Obama, or groups connected to him, contributed to Mr Odinga’s campaign kitty, stating that they never received a cent from the Illinois senator.

Mr Davis and his wife claim to have preached among Muslims for 20 years, 12 of them in Kenya.

Their ministry is said to be based in Meru.

The Sunday Nation’s efforts to track them or their Kenyan ministry down Saturday were fruitless by the time of going to press.

REFERENCES:

1. Odinga says Obama is his cousin — Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga has said he is a cousin of US presidential hopeful Barack Obama.
2. Could US elect a Luo before Kenya? — It is said there is a bitter joke among Kenya’s Luo community that the United States of America will elect a member of their tribe as president before the East African country does.

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