Hillary Clinton Reiterates Mortgage Bailout to Hollywood Crowd
February 1st, 2008
Hillary Clinton once again called for a 90 day moratorium for mortgage foreclosures on owner occupied homes and a 5 year freeze on interest rates on sub-prime mortgages at the star studded political event at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles. The idea does not receive the same applause on Wall Street as it did on Hollywood Boulevard last night. Speaking from the floor of NASDAQ last December Hillary called on the investment community to find an alternative to their legal redress being careful to note this wasn’t a quick fix for the industry: Read the rest of this entry »
Hillary Clinton couldn’t get out of South Carolina fast enough after a resounding political defeat at the hands of Barack Obama supporters who garnered 55% of the vote for the Illinois Senator compared to her 27% in Saturday’s Democratic Primary. She ignored the typical conciliatory speech which usually includes expressing gratitude for supporters in favor of heading off to Tennessee to generate a facade of success that will prove to be hollow by the time voters there place their vote amongst the multitude of other primaries slated to take place on “Supper Tuesday,” February 5th. She’ll have more to cry about when she finds her public has seen through her divisive campaign and rejected it’s viscous tactics. 
Politics garnered most of the front page of last Sunday’s Los Angeles Times as might be expected in this Presidential Primary season. The major story was titled 
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The party of Political Correctness found itself adrift with the theme of race reverberating through the media coverage of the battle between Democratic Presidential candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton in the week leading up to the Michigan Primary. Hillary’s statement about Lyndon Johnson’s Presidency making the civil rights legislation of 1964 possible was seen by some as diminishing the role played by Martin Luther King. 
Barack Obama all but had the 2008 New Hampshire Presidential Primary wrapped up according to pollsters, the political pundits, the Obama camp as well as the Clinton camp. Every body but the voters. Consensus among the polls was that Obama’s lead was safely beyond the margin of error, as high as 10 percentage points in some cases. However, the earliest results indicated something different was coming about. When the day was done Hillary Clinton would finish with 39% of the Democratic vote to Barack Obama’s 36%. 
Governor Mike Huckabee took time to garner hunting garb for the photos appearing in the local media before tomorrow’s Iowa Caucuses. Image is everything in his campaign to capture the votes of Evangelical Christians and gun rights advocates that dominate Republican politics in the state of Iowa, particularly among caucus goers. When substance finally comes into play the folksy vanier will wear thin and his support will wither. 
Benazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan on October 18th of this year greeted by welcoming crowds of political supporters estimated to reach 200,000. Her procession in a staged rally for her homecoming was attacked by a suicide bomber killing 140 of her supporters but missing Benazir. She would not be so fortunate this last Thursday when she was assassinated with another 20 supporters dying from the bomb blast little two months after her triumphant return. 
Consider, if you will, the political fallout from the outing of Valerie Plame. Unless you’re a regular attendee at Georgetown cocktail parties you may not have known that this compelling blond was once a covert CIA agent. If not, the January 2004 cover photo on Vanity Fair with husband Joe Wilson in a Jaguar convertible could have given you a clue. Hard to identify with those shades though. Since Ms. Plame hasn’t been part of any mission within a time frame that would qualify her as outed by the story Jim Novak released no one was really subject to prosecution. Scooter Libby’s sentence, after all, was the result of his questionable testimony. As Special Prosecutor Patrick J. Fitzgerald described it Libby “told a dumb lie and got caught.” But a special prosecutor had been appointed none the less and someone had to hang. 
Democratic Presidential Candidate Hillary Clinton can hardly afford the misguided oddities flowing out of the mouth of husband Bill Clinton in addition to those she has inflicted upon herself. Once considered the embodiment of political genus, the former President has portrayed his wife as the little woman victimized by a bunch of rambunctious boys after fellow candidates attacked the former Iowa front runner in a televised debate. In his own words,