i'm wondering when Hillary Clinton morphed into John Edwards? since when is she such a rampant populist? after she's pushed NAFTA and accepted all the campaign contributions possible from the big lobbies?

it would be funny if it weren't frighteningly schizophrenic.

Fair enough. I guess we will see how effective this is. I am not sure that folks in OH are really so unsophisticated as to believe that the 2005 energy bill (as opposed to growing demand in China & India, or supply disruptions engendered by the instability in the middle east which has resulted from the invasion of Iraq) is really the reason for higher fuel prices.

They know what to target. Heating bills are astronomical here.

On the calender on the right.
BO in San Antonio @ 10AM
BO in Houston @ 11AM

I bet his teleportation device burns thru a bunch of energy.

It says that employees of energy companies donated $650,000.00 to Senator Obama's campaign.

Wow. Now that is very scary. You really have to worry when a Candidate is accepting campaign contributions form Gas Station Attendants, and Power Meter Readers.I sure hope he did not accept any contributions from gasoline delivery drivers, or pipeline workers. He will be really in trouble if has accepted small donations from power plant workers or security personnel.

That kind of behavior is unacceptable. He should learn from his far more experienced opponent, and just stick to taking large donations from Washington based Corporate Lobbyists.

From the Center for responsive politics:

This is beautiful, Hillary is somehow impervious from accepting twice as much as Obama from the Oil industry?

Oil & Gas:
Top 20 Recipients

Election cycle: 2008 List Top 20: All Recipients Presidential Candidates Senators Members of the House Senate Candidates House Candidates All Members of Congress
Rank
Candidate
Office
Amount

1
Giuliani, Rudolph W (R)
Pres
$640,158

2
Romney, Mitt (R)
Pres
$389,163

3
Cornyn, John (R-TX)
Senate
$278,830

4
Clinton, Hillary (D)
Pres
$267,650

5
McCain, John (R)
Pres
$234,485

6
Richardson, Bill (D)
Pres
$199,275

7
Thompson, Fred (R)
Pres
$161,754

8
Domenici, Pete V (R-NM)
Senate
$152,750

9
Inhofe, James M (R-OK)
Senate
$141,500

10
Obama, Barack (D)
Pres
$133,090

11
McConnell, Mitch (R-KY)
Senate
$122,050

12
Landrieu, Mary L (D-LA)
Senate
$90,650

13
Roberts, Pat (R-KS)
Senate
$89,550

14
Paul, Ron (R-TX)
House
$88,154

15
Pearce, Steve (R-NM)
Senate
$77,500

16
Barton, Joe (R-TX)
House
$76,741

17
Boren, Dan (D-OK)
House
$74,200

18
Pryor, Mark (D-AR)
Senate
$70,700

19
Conaway, Mike (R-TX)
House
$70,350

20
Dole, Elizabeth (R-NC)
Senate
$65,800

I guess they chose today to throw the Kitchen Sink just like New Times predicted. I predict they will drop out March 04th, 2008 and claim they did everything they could to their supporters.

Hillary will do or say anything to get elected.

i wish Americans would grow up and wake up about the feasibility of nuclear power. if we want to solve our immediate energy needs as efficiently as possible, the only real course is nuclear. this isn't my view, this is the view of environmental and energy scientists. there have been numerous articles in publications like Scientific American, Science, and Popular Mechanics (obviously biased by lobbyist groups!) about the possibilities of nuclear power serving as a stepping stone to true renewables while those technologies are in stages that aren't capable of mass production and/or distribution.

Obama is ahead of the curve on this one, and at the very least its a debate we should be having, rather than demagoguing the issue into loggerheads on the extremely important question of how to reduce or alleviate global warming.

I love it.... Hillary is really starting to fight back against obama.... about time....

Its time to start throwing those attacks against him....

Its time to start showing america who they really are voting for.

GO HILLARY!!!

Lets get this thing on the road.....show that we can win, show that you can fight not only obama but John Mcain as well.....:)

New Polls tonight :

Texas

Obama is leading by 3% according to Fox News

Ohio

Clinton is leading by 8% according to Fox News

Its funny Obama has won 11 staright wins and yet the race is this close in Texas and Ohio..... shows that the democrates aren't sure who they want to have as president.

Hillary raised 35 million this month and today is not over........ hillary supporters keep giving... lets try to reach 40 million before Feb. is over.

I almost gave up on Hillary but i feel change in the air:)

I have to disagree. I don't love the idea of nuclear power, but the cold, hard fact is that it is nowhere near as environmentally destructive as any other current energy source. We should research "truly" green alternatives as urgently as possible, but until they're ready for wide-scale use, we could have a Chernobyl once a year and leave all the waste exposed in the Mojave and still do less damage, both to the biosphere as a whole and to human health directly, than oil, coal, and natural gas. By many orders of magnitude.

And there's only been one Chernobyl in 50+ years of commercial nuclear power generation, so the reality is even more stark. More people die in the US in one year from bronchial diseases and cancer related to oil and coal than are likely to ever die from the commercial production of nuclear power from now until the end of time. It's just a fact.

The Clintons don't agree with Rovian tactics... Except when they do.

Maybe they can meet in Ohio and debate her campaign tactics.

Whatever...

Clinton campaign: Obama must answer for Rezko
by Rick Pearson

FORT WORTH, Texas — Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign says rival Barack Obama has a lot of questions to answer about his relationship with indicted Chicago political insider Antoin “Tony” Rezko, whose federal corruption trial is scheduled to start the day before critical primaries in Texas and Ohio.

Howard Wolfson, Clinton’s chief spokesman, also told reporters today that if Obama doesn’t sweep the primaries on Tuesday, it will show that Democrats want the contest to continue. The answer belies earlier statements from top Clinton aides that she needs to win delegate-rich Texas and Ohio to stay in the race.

Rezko, a real estate developer and fundraiser for several politicians, including Obama, Gov. Rod Blagojevich and the late Cook County Board President John Stroger, goes on trial Monday on charges he used his connections to allegedly further a scheme that involved kickbacks in exchange for contracts that were pocketed or paid to others to make contributions to politicians, including Obama.

Both Obama, Illinois’ first-term senator, and Blagojevich, the state’s two-term governor whose self-styled reform administration has been beset by a multitude of federal investigations, have not been charged with any wrongdoing. Obama’s campaign has donated to charity more than $150,000 in allegedly tainted donations.

Wolfson, trying to meld the roles of campaign spinmeister and federal prosecutor, said “question after question after question after question has neither been posed or answered in any serious way by Barack Obama” about his relationship with Rezko.

“Now the (Rezko) trial is beginning and I think it will be more difficult for him to avoid these very serious questions,” Wolfson said.

“What is the nature of the relationship? How many fundraisers were held? How much money was raised? How many meetings were attended? What was said at those meetings? Did Tony Rezko attempt to get jobs for Obama allies?” Wolfson asked.

Wolfson said the Clinton campaign was as forthcoming as possible about disputed donations connected to fundraiser Norman Hsu, who was sentenced in early January to three years in prison after a judge refused to throw out a 1992 no-contest plea to fraud.

“I can guarantee you that if the shoe were on the other foot, so to speak, no pun intended, I would have been getting those questions left and right and having to come up with answers that were satisfactory to a very serious and dogged press corps,” Wolfson said.

In the government’s case against Rezko, prosecutors allege kickback payments were diverted to others to make campaign contributions to Obama’s 2004 Senate campaign because Rezko had already made the maximum federal contribution. Obama is not named in the government’s document but his campaign has not disputed that Obama is the politician who received the money from Rezko allies, something backed up by campaign disclosure records. Money linked to the straw donations has already been contributed to charity, Obama aides said.

Clinton campaign officials also denied any threatened legal action against Texas Democratic officials over the rules for Tuesday’s post-primary caucuses, when about 30 percent of the state’s convention delegates are chosen. Texas officials said Clinton officials had several questions about procedures for the caucuses and said they felt that a lawsuit might be threatened. Clinton aides said they wanted the rules in writing.

With the Clinton campaign facing what had been considered must-win victories in both Texas and Ohio on Tuesday, her aides sought to deflect the pressure to the Obama camp, which has won 11 consecutive nominating contests.

“Sen. Obama has every advantage coming into Texas and Ohio,” Wolfson said, adding that if he is unable to win those states along with Rhode Island and Vermont who are also holding contests that day, “it sends a very clear signal that Democrats want this campaign to continue and there is some concern and dissatisfaction with Sen. Obama’s campaign.”

Clinton has been holding a slight lead in Ohio, while the two have been neck-and-neck in Texas, according to recent polling.

Posted by Mark Silva on February 29, 2008 1:30 PM

I have to really say that i hope the news start talking alot about this between know and voting day and i'm glad that the trail will begin the day before:) I hope this helps hillary clinton:)

Coal vs. nuclear is a straw man. A better way to look at it is Amory Lovins' "Mighty Mice" paper - https://www.rmi.org/images/PDFs/Energy/E05-15_MightyMice.pdf

The hyper-sensitivity of Obama and his supporters to any policy discussions that involve criticism of Obama's posiitions is telling. I wonder if they consider Obama's attacks on Clinton's record "negative campaigning" as well. Moreover, this mailer hardly "masks" Clinton's acceptance of donations from the oil industry; everyone knows they exist. This mailer merely educates people that Obama is no different in his acceptance of money from the oil and gas industry, and supported the Energy Bill.

I encourage people to stop using all capital letters, and tone down the venomous language toward Clinton and her supporters: "desperate,"
"crazy person," "do or say anything," "Hillary = GW," "schizophrenic," "craggy old bird woman." These are improper, and Obama supporters would not stand for similar pejorative statements about and ad hominem attacks against their candidate.

I've never seen a bunch of more naive views.

In 2 years, everyone will be pining for the days of $4/gal gasoline.

Here's the fact: there *are no* alternative energy sources to sustain our present mode of life.

In WWII, Germans, desperate for sources of fuel, stripped whole forests of trees. Given the choice, we will do the same. The environmental movement is one born of wealthy and luxury in this country. I say this as someone who studies the environment. The only real way to save the environment is to stop having children. Unfortunately that would end our exponential grow in consuming goods as well - not to mention, go against programmed biological urges.

What happens when there isn't enough oil to drive industry, much less be used as inputs to the ag and pharma industries, will be the sole preoccupation of the next president by 2011. Be very afraid when the petro-dollar concept dies, because that will send the economy into a ruinous state where greenbacks are worthless and we've reduced ourselves to importing everything, because we have outsourced everything.

I'm sorry this is apocalyptic, but it's becoming more and more of a reality every day.

The election of a female president of the United States must have been long overdue. And Mrs. Hillary Clinton is the best-qualified, female candidate in the U.S. history until now.

Other countries such as Germany, Great Britain and even less-developed countries, such as India, Pakistan, the Philippines, etc... have already elected some of their women as government heads, but the longest democracy like the United States is still uneasy about whether to elect a woman as President!!

Shame on you America!

What a hypocrite! She's taken more donations from Energy company employees and yet puts out this flier. Unbelievable! I hope the MSM picks up on this - this is as phony as her plagiarism claims.

Please....this is a discussion site. Hillary Camp screaming Rezko will not make it anymore true than the first million times you screamed it.

Of course, if you would like to go the guilt by association route, I've got a great peter paul video to show you. I don't believe that one either, but that actually has Hillary cavorting with criminals on tape.

Still want to talk about corruption?