http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04/16/hillary-clinton-on-workin_n_97017.html
Hillary Clinton On Southern Working Class Whites In 1995: “Screw ‘Em”

When they call the Obama campaign, they'd be surprised to find out that the Clinton campaign is lying about Obama's health care plan.

$250,000? So they will get one ad played during Wheel of Fortune?

NAFTA and Columbia Trade agreements:

Hillary is trying to distract people from hearing about how she still has Mark Penn on her payroll, and that Bill Clinton has been paid $800K from pro Columbia Trade deal agents.

Hillary is the Bride of Unfair Trade Deals.

When Clinton and allies are done with these relentless attacks, can we all agree that Obama has met the test?

It's going to be hard for Senator Clinton to argue that he's not "tested" when she seems to spend the better part of each day launching attacks.

I thought this 527 was established to be "pro Democrat" anyway. Now it's just a surrogate for Clinton?

$250,000? LOL!

Slow news day at Deadender Points Memo...

I love how Hillary-Joe has her own attack groups, just like Bush always has.

Yeah, it fits.

"Call Barack Obama"

So basically, this add wants people to harass him about something that isn't true.

So it's a bad thing that a candidate spends money putting themselves forward? Then doesn't that reflect five-times worse on Obama who is outspending Hillary five to one in Pa.?

By the way, independent analysts have said that Obama's plan leaves off 15 million Americans. Some analysts say the number could be higher. The ad is not false.

As far as it being negative, who cares? When Obama isn't being directly negative himself, he's accusing Hillary of being negative, which is a negative attack in itself. Plus he's posing as a martyr, which is very unattractive for a candidate running for the office of President. He calls Hillary "Annie Oakley", and they says she's attacking him. It's getting old.

Bruce Springsteen endorses Obama for president

http://brucespringsteen.net/news/index.html

By JOAN LOWY – 1 hour ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rock star Bruce Springsteen endorsed Democratic Sen. Barack Obama for president Wednesday, saying "he speaks to the America I've envisioned in my music for the past 35 years."

In a letter addressed to friends and fans posted his Web site, Springsteen said he believes Obama is the best candidate to undo "the terrible damage done over the past eight years."

"He has the depth, the reflectiveness, and the resilience to be our next president," the letter said. "He speaks to the America I've envisioned in my music for the past 35 years, a generous nation with a citizenry willing to tackle nuanced and complex problems, a country that's interested in its collective destiny and in the potential of its gathered spirit. A place where '...nobody crowds you, and nobody goes it alone.' "

The bard of New Jersey is known for his lyrics about the struggles of working-class Americans, particularly in the economically ravaged factory towns of the Northeast.

Springsteen and his E Street band were part of the Vote for Change tour, a coalition of musicians opposed to the re-election of President Bush in 2004. He wrote the anti-war ballad "Devils and Dust" about Iraq.

Springsteen did not directly mention Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Obama's rival for the Democratic nomination, in his letter, but appeared to take issue with her recent criticisms of comments made by Obama about working-class voters in small towns in Pennsylvania and controversial statements by his pastor.

"Critics have tried to diminish Senator Obama through the exaggeration of certain of his comments and relationships," Springsteen wrote. "While these matters are worthy of some discussion, they have been ripped out of the context and fabric of the man's life and vision ... often in order to distract us from discussing the real issues: war and peace, the fight for economic and racial justice, reaffirming our Constitution, and the protection and enhancement of our environment."

That's what you call "ripping Obama"?

Is there a feinting couch at TPM these days for all of you delicate flowers?

Come on guys! How about a post about those "screw'em" comments? You sure jumped on Obama's "bitter" comments - how about some equal reporting here. I'm watching to see who has the balls to post it first.

This 527 thinks it's being smart, getting around finance limits (which in itself is creepy and should shame Hillary but won't). They are most certainly too clever by half. They are wasting money on a loser in the nomination fight that could be spent towards the general election and taking the Presidency this November. A fool and his money... no ambassadorships for them.

Obama didn't insult anybody! HILLARY did! This according to the ex Republican Greek botoxed hack's crappy biased and unreliable website, from a book by an author who says he was the only one in the room! I'm sure Olbermann will spend 3 hours talking about it with 4 Clinton jock sniffers tonight. Can't wait!

The Clinton Campaign Implosion Continues!

I'm not posting this (simply) to knock Hillary for her recent faux-outrage. Rather, this whole affair recounted at HP, and generally this recurrent challenge for the modern Democratic Party, is very interesting in itself:

[Following the shock of the 1994 Republican take-over of Congress, enabled in great part by southern blue-collar Democrats...]

"Screw 'em," she told her husband. "You don't owe them a thing, Bill. They're doing nothing for you; you don't have to do anything for them."

The statement [...] was prompted by another speaker raising the difficulties of reaching "Reagan Democrats." It stands in stark contrast to the attitude the New York Democrat has recently taken on the campaign trail [...].

[...] Harry Boyte, the director of the University of Minnesota's Center for Democracy and Citizenship who was at the retreat, told The Huffington Post: "[Hillary Clinton] sees herself as the champion of the oppressed, but there is always a kind of good guy versus bad guy mentality. The comment before that was that 'the Reagan Democrats are our enemies and they weren't on our side,' and she was agreeing with that comment. She said we should write them off: screw them."

[...]

Perhaps even more telling than Hillary Clinton's proclamation, however, were the words from her husband that followed. As reported by Barber, Clinton "stepped in, calm and judicious, not irritated, as if rehearsing an old but honorable debate he had been having with his wife for decades."

Bill Clinton: "I know how you feel. I understand Hillary's sense of outrage. It makes me mad too. Sure, we lost our base in the South; our boys voted for Gingrich. But let me tell you something. I know these boys. I grew up with them. Hardworking, poor, white boys, who feel left out, feel that our reforms always come at their expense. Think about it, every progressive advance our country has made since the Civil War has been on their backs. They're the ones asked to pay the price of progress. Now, we are the party of progress, but let me tell you, until we find a way to include these boys in our programs, until we stop making them pay the whole price of liberty for others, we are never going to unite our party, never really going to have change that sticks."

If the tone and tenor of the above sounds familiar, it's because the message, Boyte says, is remarkably similar to what Obama was trying to convey in his now controversial remarks about small town America [...].

How does Obama's plan not insure 15Million when it is completly voluntary?

Anyone can purchase the health care.

What happens to those 15M under Hillary's plan are they FORCED to purchase health care they can't afford?

Does she garnishee their wages or what? Are they forced into financial committments when they seek care?

How awful.

Hopefully Obama will address this at the debate tonight.

The latest poll, out today on the Washington Post shows that Hillary's negatives have gone sky high, which means that she has no chance of ever winning a general election campaign.

You will not see TPM drawing much attention to this:

Poll Shows Erosion Of Trust in Clinton

By Anne E. Kornblut and Jon Cohen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, April 16, 2008; A06

PHILADELPHIA, April 15 -- Lost in the Hillary Rodham Clinton campaign's aggressive attacks on Barack Obama in recent days is a deep and enduring problem that threatens to undercut any inroads Clinton has made in her struggle to overtake him in the Democratic presidential race: She has lost trust among voters, a majority of whom now view her as dishonest.

Her advisers' efforts to deal with the problem -- by having her acknowledge her mistakes and crack self-deprecating jokes -- do not seem to have succeeded. Privately, the aides admit that the recent controversy over her claim to have ducked sniper fire on a trip to Bosnia probably made things worse.

Clinton is viewed as "honest and trustworthy" by just 39 percent of Americans, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll, compared with 52 percent in May 2006. Nearly six in 10 said in the new poll that she is not honest and trustworthy. And now, compared with Obama, Clinton has a deep trust deficit among Democrats, trailing him by 23 points as the more honest, an area on which she once led both Obama and John Edwards.

Among Democrats, 63 percent called her honest, down 18 points from 2006; among independents, her trust level has dropped 13 points, to 37 percent. Republicans held Clinton in low regard on this in the past (23 percent called her honest two years ago), but it is even lower now, at 16 percent. Majorities of men and women now say the phrase does not apply to Clinton; two years ago, narrow majorities of both did.

Just asking, but...

Last week there was a report that some senior Democrats were lowering expectation on BOTH candidates health care proposals, in light of that, is the reality that Hillary's plan is LESS likely than Obama's to get passed?
In which case, has anyone asked Elizabeth Edwards if she supports Hillary's plan unconditionally, and also, should someone ask Hillary if she believes the plan is passable?
[Gotta say for the record though: McCain's Walmart plan sounds SOOOOO appealing doesn't it? Gallbladder removal on special all week, get it out now while its cheap!!!]