tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872239785607728837.post9117651953607866274..comments2024-03-28T16:01:45.850-04:00Comments on The Brooklyn & Staten Island Independent GOP Fountainhead: Let's take it easy this Easter Sunday — I'll only bring up something about Hillary that you might have missed — And a few jellybeans about the "Raging Bull" tooGalewyn Masseyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09210379476512207622noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872239785607728837.post-36713062608880495162015-04-06T21:23:36.917-04:002015-04-06T21:23:36.917-04:00Martin O'Malley will be the next President.Martin O'Malley will be the next President.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872239785607728837.post-17527035578096099502015-04-06T16:42:23.325-04:002015-04-06T16:42:23.325-04:00It's odd that the commentator above would make...<br />It's odd that the commentator above would make an issue of such things.<br />Bringing justice to the murderers of Jean McConville would mean putting, Gerry Adams, Hillary Clinton's table mate at her Honorary Irish Award, on trial for Mrs. McConville's murder along with Ivor Bell. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872239785607728837.post-77540438719178697432015-04-06T15:19:18.266-04:002015-04-06T15:19:18.266-04:00Gary Hart is irrelevant and his opinion of Hillary...Gary Hart is irrelevant and his opinion of Hillary means nothing. Presently Hart is the U.S. Special Envoy to Northern Ireland and he obviously has done absolutely nothing to facilitate peace in Belfast if last nights 60 minutes is any measure. So tell Gary Hart to shut up about Hillary and go do his job in the North. He can start by helping to bring to justice the murderers who made the ten McConville children orphans.<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872239785607728837.post-90172328262052909302015-04-06T13:20:26.898-04:002015-04-06T13:20:26.898-04:00UPDATE: THE “GARY HART WANTS NO ‘MONKEY BUSINESS’ ...UPDATE: THE “GARY HART WANTS NO ‘MONKEY BUSINESS’ FROM HILLARY CLINTON” EDITION<br /><br />FORMER DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE GARY HART WARNS THAT AMERICA NEEDS TO BE “FRIGHTENED” ABOUT A “BILLION DOLLAR” CAMPAIGN BY HILLARY CLINTON<br /><br />HART POINTS OUT THAT 50% OF DEMOCRATS ARE NOT FOR HILLARY — AND ASKS: GIVEN ALL OF THE CLINTON CAMPAIGN CLAIMS, WHY AREN’T 95% OF DEMOCRATS ON HER SIDE<br /><br />“I’m now told the Clinton campaign intends to raise $1 billion. Now, that ought to frighten every American,” Gary Hart said. According the senior statesman and former Democratic Party superstar, speaking to interviewers from Politico, “... the post-Citizens United campaign finance environment has sullied the presidential process, [Hart] said, benefitting establishment politicians who cater to financial backers....” ( See “Gary Hart: Billion-dollar Clinton campaign should 'frighten' Americans” by Jonathan Topaz, 4/5/15, Politico [http://www.politico.com/story/2015/04/gary-hart-hillary-clinton-2016-billion-dollar-campaign-116673.html]). <br /><br />The two-time Democratic presidential candidate is alarmed by current ‘dynastic’ politics. Although he also mentioned both the names “Bush” and “Clinton,” make no mistake, good old Gary Hart was clearly speaking with an anti-Hillary voice in this interview, saying things like this: “The role of money in elections, the 78-year-old Hart said, is a driving force behind the current ‘dynastic’ nature of American politics.... If you’ve got to have a billion dollars to run for president, how many people can do that? Only the Clintons and the Bushes and one or two others.... This country is 330 million people, and we should not be down to two families who are qualified to govern.... When you create dynastic networks, you shut a lot of people out....”<br /><br />Here’s what Hart said about Hillary the candidate: “The job of a challenger is to force specificity: Here is my plan, now let’s see her plan....” When he was asked whether Clinton has not been adequately specific — he answered using the words “specific” or “specificity” ten (10) times in the half-hour interview; and the former senator said she hasn’t been “pressed” for specificity. <br /><br />His advice to prospective challengers to Clinton, like O’Malley? — Be specific on policy, play up the generational divide and aggressively court small-money Internet donors. *** Time and again, Hart spoke to the notion of 50 percent, roughly the percentage of Democrats Hart says are not supporting Clinton for president. — “If the polls say she has 50[%], there are 50[%] that she doesn’t have. … Why isn’t she at 95[%]?’...”<br /><br />Hart also went on at some length extolling Martin O’Malley, a former Hart operative from the Gary Hart good old days. Hart emphasized that O’Malley needs to run a very specific generational campaign against Hillary just like President Obama did in 2008.Galewyn Masseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09210379476512207622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872239785607728837.post-12875137653611723932015-04-06T12:21:16.478-04:002015-04-06T12:21:16.478-04:00...make that "Uncontrollable Hillary-ty Syndr......make that "Uncontrollable Hillary-ty Syndrome"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872239785607728837.post-9918143727746334462015-04-06T12:19:12.646-04:002015-04-06T12:19:12.646-04:00The commentator above has become unhinged with Unc...The commentator above has become unhinged with Uncontrollable Hillarity Syndrome. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872239785607728837.post-12814047863309078732015-04-06T12:02:50.915-04:002015-04-06T12:02:50.915-04:00Well there is an excitement and energy that the im...Well there is an excitement and energy that the impending Hillary candidacy is generating that we haven't seen in politics in years. It is something our country needs. Even locally the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce is geared up and local merchants in Brooklyn are excited. Once her campaign is in full swing this enthusiasm will expand nationally. As Robert DiNiro said Hillary has earned the presidency and she is certainly more qualified than any potential GOP candidate. She is also more qualified than any one who has ever run in our nation's history.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872239785607728837.post-45812842127260254772015-04-06T11:36:00.988-04:002015-04-06T11:36:00.988-04:00"HILLARY HAS THE BLACK VOTE"! "HIL..."HILLARY HAS THE BLACK VOTE"! "HILLARY HAS THE BLACK VOTE"!<br /><br />After telling everybody how "hipster cool" she is, are you serious? <br /><br />"Hipster cool" means white people taking black neighborhoods away from black people and thinking that's good for the blacks.<br /><br />The commentator above takes the "Black Vote" for granted, but so does the rest of the Hillary crowd. <br /><br />Everybody knows that Hillary will tri-angulate away from her black-voter base as soon as she has to. Just like hubby Bill did when he was Governor of Arkansas and again as President of the United States. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872239785607728837.post-16934683280504015682015-04-06T10:28:07.935-04:002015-04-06T10:28:07.935-04:00UPDATE: THE “THE MEDIA IS SAYING THE EMPRESS HAS N...UPDATE: THE “THE MEDIA IS SAYING THE EMPRESS HAS NO CLOTHES — AND SHE AIN’T NO LADY GODIVA” EDITION<br /><br />THE POST–E-MAILS–HILLARY LOOKS ANYTHING BUT INEVITABLE AND UNBEATABLE — PEOPLE ARE STARTING TO NOTICE<br /><br />AND NOW, NY MAGAZINE SAYS OVER AND OVER THAT HILLARY CLINTON IS NOT A VERY GOOD CANDIDATE<br /><br />THEN AFTER MAKING THAT POINT, NY MAGAZINE TRIES TWO OR THREE DIFFERENT WAYS TO MAKE THIS COUNTER-POINT ---> BUT MAYBE, IT WON’T MATTER THIS TIME <--- WHAT'S THAT ALL ABOUT ?<br /><br /><br />New York Magazine political writer Jason Zengerle did his best to thread the needle of critiquing Hillary Clinton in no uncertain terms, and still saying positive things about her and her prospects. Nonetheless, Zengerle’s article was very clear about what many of her problems really are — pretty much starting off with this: “... [O]ver the past few weeks, the country watched as Clinton dealt with the fallout from the revelation that she used a personal email server while heading up the State Department.... Her supporters worry that, even if Clinton’s private email was legal and innocent, it was a self-inflicted error that has needlessly handed her enemies yet another cudgel to wield against her. But the glee and regret among Republicans and Democrats have been most pronounced over the disastrous press conference Clinton held at the United Nations to try to put the matter to rest, which served to remind them of something many had forgotten: what an abominable candidate she can be....” (See “Is Hillary Clinton Any Good at Running for President ?” by Jason Zengerle, 4/5/15, NY Magazine/ Intelligencer http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2015/04/hillary-clinton-2016-campaign.html]).<br /><br />Zengerle quoted a Democratic operative who said, “I’m a huge Hillary Clinton fan. I hope desperately she’s the next president of the United States, because I think she’d be a great president. But after that press conference, I do have major concerns about her ability as a campaigner and to get elected.” According to the New York Magazine “intelligencer” — “The performance made a host of other recent Clinton missteps — seemingly minor at the time — suddenly loom larger in the minds of anxious Democrats....” <br /><br />Any long article that gives us chapter and verse about Hillary Clinton’s faults and foibles as a candidate for president, can’t really be saying anything good about her when it concludes like this: “The question confronting Clinton now is not so much whether she can withstand the scrutiny but the degree of the scrutiny itself. Are we so fixated on diagnosing and dissecting her weaknesses, on scouting all the ways in which she isn’t a particularly gifted political athlete, that the effort becomes, in a sense, self-fulfilling?... In the end, the strength Clinton will need most, and on which the fate of her campaign may rest, will be her ability to make us stop dwelling on her weaknesses.”<br /><br />Oh, I think I get it. Stop looking at what is wrong with Hillary Clinton and her shortcomings as a candidate for president — just make her the President of the United States, regardless of all that.Galewyn Masseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09210379476512207622noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872239785607728837.post-31628195756352418912015-04-06T07:27:00.325-04:002015-04-06T07:27:00.325-04:00Hillary has the Black vote - which is crucial. In ...Hillary has the Black vote - which is crucial. In 2016 we'll see her get over 95% of the Black vote. Between now and then there needs to e an effort to get more people registered - which her campaign will do<br /><br />Valerie Jarrett is irrelevant.<br /><br />Btw, another GOP contender is throwing his hat in the ring this week- Rand Paul. He's the one who does not believe in vaccinations I think or maybe he's the one who believes feminists caused 911 or is it he who said gays should be put in camps - oh no, that's Ben Carson. He's running too. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872239785607728837.post-68916563000233429302015-04-06T01:41:02.065-04:002015-04-06T01:41:02.065-04:00Hillary hasn't delivered that "fee" ...Hillary hasn't delivered that "fee" to Axelrod yet.<br /><br />Obamas guys are what one may call Ben Franklin democrat$Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3872239785607728837.post-55072290773124138032015-04-06T01:24:48.800-04:002015-04-06T01:24:48.800-04:00BACKFILL: THE “NOW, THAT’S THE REST OF THE STORY —...BACKFILL: THE “NOW, THAT’S THE REST OF THE STORY — OR AT LEAST SOMEBODY’S VERSION OF IT” EDITION<br /><br />ED KLEIN REPORTS THAT HILLARY E-MAIL LEAKS CAME FROM THE WHITE HOUSE AT OR VERY NEAR THE TOP<br /><br />WHEN THE DAVID AXELROD PIECE AND THE VALERIE JARRETT PIECE ARE PUT TOGETHER, DOESN’T IT START TO LOOK LIKE A BARACK OBAMA PIECE ? — THAT’S WHAT ED KLEIN THINKS<br /><br />According to long-time Hillary-basher Ed Klein, “It’s the vast left-wing conspiracy. *** President Obama’s senior adviser Valerie Jarrett leaked to the press details of Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email address during her time as secretary of state, sources tell me. *** But she did so through people outside the administration, so the story couldn’t be traced to her or the White House. *** In addition, at Jarrett’s behest, the State Department was ordered to launch a series of investigations into Hillary’s conduct at [the State Department], including the use of her expense account, the disbursement of funds, her contact with foreign leaders and her possible collusion with the Clinton Foundation....” (See “Obama adviser behind leak of Hillary Clinton’s email scandal” by Edward Klein, 3/14/15, NY Post [http://nypost.com/2015/03/14/obama-adviser-behind-leak-of-hillary-clintons-e-mail-scandal/]). <br /><br />Klein then went on to say that “... [s]ix separate probes into Hillary’s performance have been going on at the State Department.... [and] that the email scandal was timed to come out just as Hillary was on the verge of formally announcing that she was running for president....” He ominously added that “... there’s more to come.”<br /><br />On a more internal Democrat “political front,” Klein made note of the following: “Obama and Valerie Jarrett will go to any lengths to prevent Hillary from becoming president,” a source close to the White House [has told Klein]. “The [Obamas] believe that Hillary, like her husband, is left of center, not a true-blue liberal.... With Obama’s approval... Valerie [Jarrett] has been holding secret meetings with Martin O’Malley... and... Elizabeth Warren. She’s promised O’Malley and Warren the full support of the White House if they will challenge Hillary for the presidential nomination....”Galewyn Masseyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09210379476512207622noreply@blogger.com