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Clinton: $2.3B in earmarks
By Manu Raju and Kevin Bogardus
Posted: 04/28/08 08:08 PM [ET]

TheHill.com - Clinton: $2.3B in earmarks

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) has requested nearly $2.3 billion in federal earmarks for 2009, almost three times the largest amount received by a single senator this year.

The total amount Clinton requested greatly surpasses the $837 million secured last year by Sen. Thad Cochran of Mississippi, the ranking Republican on the Appropriations Committee who took home the largest dollar amount of earmarks in the current fiscal year’s spending bills. In those bills, Clinton secured $342 million in earmarks.

oh yeah - she'll straighten out the economy!
(insert sacrasm here)

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O.K., I will say it: Goddamn America! (Reverend Wright made the distinction that he meant "Goddamn America's policy; I mean
"Goddamn the corporate-controlled mainstream media.")

We have a media that should be covering her deranged promise to obliterate Iran, her huge contributions from oil, defense, and
healthcare lobbies, her husband's receipt of huge donations for his library from questionable donors, her membership in the secret D.C. cult-like group called The Family or The Foundation, her new alliance with Richard Mellon Scaife, her sympathy for the Black Panthers when she was at Yale (documented in Carl Bernstein's biography) -- and this new story about her earmarks, which no one
but The Hill has covered.

From a recent article by Tom Hayden in The Nation,
Tom Hayden Looks at Clinton's 60s Past -- Is Hillary Lying Again:

In The Nation, former 60s radical Tom Hayden — in an essay called “Why Hillary Makes My Wife Scream” — hammers Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, for attacking Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, for his association with former Weather Underground member William Ayers. “Hillary is blind to her own roots in the sixties,” Hayden writes. “She was in Chicago for three nights during the 1968 street confrontations. She chaired the 1970 Yale law school meeting where students voted to join a national student strike again an ‘unconscionable expansion of a war that should never have been waged.’ She was involved in the New Haven defense of Bobby Seale during his murder trial in 1970, as the lead scheduler of student monitors. … She wrote that abused children were citizens with the same rights as their parents.

“Most significantly in terms of her recent attacks on Barack, after Yale law school, Hillary went to work for the left-wing Bay Area law firm of Treuhaft, Walker and Burnstein, which specialized in Black Panthers and West Coast labor leaders prosecuted for being communists. Two of the firm’s partners, according to Treuhaft, were communists and the two others ‘tolerated communists’. Then she went on to Washington to help impeach Richard Nixon, whose career was built on smearing and destroying the careers of people through vague insinuations about their backgrounds and associates. …

“All these were honorable words and associations in my mind, but doesn’t she see how the Hillary of today would accuse the Hillary of the sixties of associating with black revolutionaries who fought gun battles with police officers, and defending pro-communist lawyers who backed communists? Doesn’t the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, whom Hillary attacks today, represent the very essence of the black radicals Hillary was associating with in those days? And isn’t the Hillary of today becoming the same kind of guilt-by-association insinuator as the Richard Nixon she worked to impeach?”


[From a pro-Hillary website: To tar Hillary Rodham Clinton with the political passions of almost thirty years ago is unfair. But it is fair to tar Barack Obama for sitting on a board with William Ayers and to have accepted a $250 contribution from him for a state campaign.

It is O.K. for the pundits to spend two days alternating between The Jeremiah Wright Problem and The William Ayers Problem.

At least in 2004 the Swift Boat ads were paid for by 527.

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When an intelligent, truthful man appears, he will be easily identified by the confederacy of dunces arrayed against him. Jonathan Swift