WHERE WOULD THEY BE WITHOUT JUDAS?

The Clintons owed Bill Richardson - he didn't owe them! Richardson not only paid any debt, in full, to Bill and Hillary Clinton, he amassed the kind of credit that the Clintons could not repay if they had exhausted all $107 million they have earned since 2000.

By supporting and defending Bill Clinton's criminal behavior in 1998, rather than supporting and defending the Constitution, former Clinton loyalist(s) overpaid any balance due to Bill and Hillary Clinton. Facing the kind of criminal liability that would have gotten Barack Obama employed wearing orange jumpsuits and pressing Illinois license plates, Bill Clinton left Washington, DC on a victory float headed for Harlem and Chappaqua in New York with a brief stop in Georgetown to drop off his wife. Were it not for the Bill Richardsons and Robert Reichs, Hillary Clinton could very well be in Hope, Arkansas throwing plates and ashtrays at her husband. Or worse yet, she could have been cellmates with Susan McDougal while hubby Bill languished in a 9 by 12 space marking off Webb Hubbell's leftover jail cell calendar.

There is a common misconception that the Clintons have been fortunate in their enemies when, in fact, it is their friends who they have to thank for their freedom, financial fortune and present political stature.

During his impeachment, it was the so-called Judases who stood by Bill Clinton. And that multitude of faux feminists, who have cried sexism at every criticism of Hillary Clinton and railed endlessly to give Anita Hill her say in the world's court of public opinion, became deaf and dumb when a plethora of women lined up to inform the American public of Bill Clinton's sexual predatory nature - one of whom reported, on NBC News, of being raped and violently bitten by Clinton. Her credibility unshaken, friends of the Clintons in the US Senate relegated this alleged rape victim to the silent closet that women's organizations have spent decades fighting to come out of. And Mrs. Clinton, faux feminist herself, felt so outraged by a comment made by reporter David Shuster regarding daughter Chelsea, that he was suspended by NBC News. Yet, for much of her husband's political career, she stood by and watched honest, hard-working women denigrated as sluts, tramps, stalkers, bimbos and trailer trash for daring to expose her husband's predatory and adulterous predilections.

Another common misconception is that the Clintons are where they are because they run hard fighting campaigns based on an innate political genius. Having gotten to Washington, DC on only 43% of the vote, most Americans seem to disagree with that assessment. With Mrs. Clinton's negatives at a constant and continuing 50%, the voters still disagree. It is the Judases who are finally waking up from their Rip van Winkle long slumber with the hope that better late than never will not be too late.

"Get me re-Wright!"

"Over 600,000 Iraqis dead. Who are the terrorists?" Such was the maniacal sounding rant of Rosie O'Donnell in one of her final co-hosting appearances on THE VIEW. After this clear, well publicized attack on America and its military, Ms. O'Donnell was said to be in negotiations to host her own news/talk show on MSNBC - just one of the cable news outlets now playing snippets of Rev. Jeremiah Wright's sermons on a continuous loop. Should these "news" outlets, now promoting Rev. Wright as 'racist, hate monger' decide to do even a cursory investigation, they will find that Rev. Wright has a plethora of like-minded Americans among the post Sept. 11th Hollywood Democrats - supporters and donors of both candidates Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

Beginning Sept. 12, 2001 the public airwaves were met with a barrage of celebrities blaming America's thirst for oil, greed for energy, uneven support for Israel in the Middle East and general overall arrogance as the reasons that 19 brainwashed lunatics committed an unforgettable mass murder as sanctioned by their organization's head lunatic. Yet these Democratic celebrity's "words" are not being repeatedly showcased nor are their candidates of choice being hounded about their affiliations, some of whom supported the Clintons for almost 20 years.

Though hailed as brilliant in many circles, Senator Obama's speech on race has not totally extricated the blood from the water as the hunger of the sharks has yet to be satisfied. Unfortunately it is the senator's desire to take the high road that continues to enable the Rev. Wright feeding frenzy. And it is that desire to try to move forward in a spirit of unity and understanding that encompassed his speech.


But it is exactly the lack of understanding of the pastor's naysayers who basterdize the context of his sermons. That is why Senator Obama's speech was correct to identify the era(s) of being black in America that influenced Rev. Wright and many of his age. To the pastor, the chain-linked dragging death of James Byrd in Texas is Emmett Till over 40 years ago. Learning about the sudden AIDS virus is the Tuskegee Experiment just 10 years later. Twenty years after Brown v. Board of Education and 20 years after President Eisenhower sent troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, black parents and their children were being stoned and beaten in Boston, Massachusetts for trying to integrate the public schools. To Rev. Wright, seeing the senseless police assault on Rodney King by the Los Angeles Police Dept. is akin to the Alabama state police on the Edmund Pettus Bridge on Bloody Sunday in 1967. And more than 30 years after Lee Elder broke the tinted-glass ceiling at the Masters Golf Tournament in Augusta, Georgia, there are less black Americans on the PGA tour now than in Mr. Elder's day.


What is being regarded as racist, hate-mongering is not just anger, as described by Sen. Obama, it is very much suspicion. Racial profiling and stop and frisk disparities are suspiciously like post Civil War laws that jailed blacks for being unemployed. The FBI, who repeatedly shadowed Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X were suspiciously absent on the dates of their respective assassinations. And though a lack of and/or poor education are cited as factors of high black unemployment in urban centers, many of those unemployed are suspiciously able to find work as inmates earning slave wages in many of America's correctional institutions producing materials, for profit, for companies trading on Wall Street - all while we hypocritically denounce China for using prison labor on products sold in the USA.


The Rev. Wright controversy has obscured the fact that this campaign to be the Democrat's nominee for president has exposed a closeted bigotry that exists within that party. And it has compelled some black, former Clinton supporters to switch their allegiance to candidate Obama and others to hedge on their support of Mrs. Clinton. The Wright obsessed media confound themselves by focusing on Oprah Winfrey, Bill Cosby, Michael Jordan, Tiger Woods and a whole host of highly successful blacks on the American stage who are admired by all as antidotes to charges of racism. However, these stars existed, as well as endemic racism, during the time of Rev. Wright's youth also. He just called them Joe Louis, Lena Horne, Sammy Davis Jr., Duke Ellington and Ray Charles.


Marching bands of Klansmen and skinheads shouting expletive laced epithets denigrating persons of color because of their color is hate speech by hate mongers. Pointing out, in the press or in the pulpit, a deleterious history of violence that has spanned one's life is not. And having lived that lifetime witnessing the same barbarities and discrimination as existed 10, 20, and 40 years before, suspicion becomes an inherent Sixth Sense. Some degrees of those suspicions may properly be seen as character flaws, but they are not hate. And for many people of Rev. Wright's era, race, and background, those suspicions have been well-earned.


Barack Obama did not go from editor of the Harvard Law Review to presidential candidate, with impressive stops in between, locked in a vacuum. The Obama who is inspiring millions to believe in the possibility of a better America is neither the student nor the parishioner of a teacher of hate. This regrettable castigation of the 20 year relationship between Barack Obama and Jeremiah Wright fails to realize that it has helped shape the candidate admired by millions.


As many suggest he should have, Mr. Obama could very well have walked away from Rev. Wright. And instead of being that voice who inspires more millions than any politician in two decades to believe in that better America, he could have been earning a huge salary as part of any large New York law firm, but unable to catch a cab.

THE EMPRESS HAS NO PANTSUIT

In virtually a single breath and literally the same paragraph, Bill Clinton showed himself, and thus his wife's presidential campaign, to be a study in inane contradictions. He recently stated how people must enjoy picking on a girl and then, barely taking a beat, said that people who can't take tough campaigning shouldn't be in politics. Apparently the ability to sound like Gloria Steinem and Ann Coulter in one fell swoop is what commands hundreds of thousands of dollars in speaking fees.

Yet, they cannot figure it out. How could this be happening? The fool-proof candidate with the fool-proof message and the methodical organization is being soundly bested in the race to represent the future of the Democratic Party and the future of America. The poll driven Clinton political machine and the major news media are hard pressed to figure out how the smart, young, previously unassuming junior senator from Illinois has managed to turn the candidate, the message, the organization and the previous polls on their head. At every turn Senator Barack Obama has countered dubious claims of "experience" and sound bite assertions of "ready" with cool, precision-laden responses. He continues to exhibit an inherent and infectious quality of leadership which extends far beyond his amazing personal history.

He has successfully challenged the long held belief of voter entitlement because you are a red state or blue state, male or female, white or black, old or young, Christian, Mormon or Jew, Democrat, Republican or Independent. The young American with the international pedigree whose community activism took him through the streets of Chicago's South Side and whose political activism carried him to areas of southern Illinois where the ghosts of the Klan still emanate, dared to take on the invincible Clinton machine. With the support of reformed Clintonites and former Carterites plus a whole host of newly adult Americans eager to add their voices to their own future, Sen. Obama has seemingly done the impossible - melding seniors and baby boomers with Generations X and Y.

As Mrs. Clinton's fortunes weaken, she has been unable to reduce her 47% negatives after 15 months of campaigning. Also, 50% of polled voters say they would never vote for her. And after revealing how her faith carried her through her husbands scandals, she disdains that quality in voters by suggesting that "it would require a leap of faith" to vote for Sen. Obama over her. Faith was the foundation of the Declaration of Independence. It was faith that carried America through the Civil War and the Civil Rights revolution. Faith is not a bad thing. Eleanor Roosevelt should have told her that.

Mrs. Clinton's solution to a statement citing the troubling ease of the Clinton's mendacity by Hollywood mogul, and former Clinton supporter, David Geffen, was to attack Senator Obama. And her latest distortion concerning her escape from a salvo of phantom sniper fire on her trip to Bosnia not only vindicates Mr. Geffen, but may well turn Pennsylvania's large veteran population against her in that state's April 22nd primary.

Senator Obama has touched a chord of honesty among supporters and voters previously beholden to voting for the Clintons. In his book, THE AUDACITY OF HOPE, he refuses to shy away from the personal familial conflicts with the indomitable Michelle Obama, recognizing that her criticisms are constructive and beneficial to their family. He has basically put it all out there. His pluses and minuses - his hopes and dreams - and leaves it for the voters to decide.

And should he succeed in vanquishing the Clintons where they have failed, Barack Obama may even compel the VAST RIGHT WING CONSPIRACY to garner a new respect for liberals.

GERRY-MEANDERING

Perhaps the only thing more idiotic than Geraldine Ferraro's statement that Senator Barack Obama is only where he is in the Democratic presidential race is because he is black has been her repeatedly pathetic attempts to defend the moronic statement. She probably believes the absurdity that Hillary Clinton is best suited to be President of the United States based on merit and qualifications and not because she was the wife of Bill Clinton - when in fact Mrs. Clinton would not even be the US Senator from New York had she not been married to Bill.

Clinton's much publicized 2000 "listening tour" of New York counties can hardly be described as the needed cure for the state's ills that many caring, committed, hard working NY Democratic politicians have built their resumes trying to fix. And, finagling a seat on the Senate Armed Services Committee was a clear indication that her carpet-bagged backpacking trip through New York was merely a preamble to a campaign to become the nations Commander-in-Chief. However, her concern for our men and women in the military, the safety and security of the United States, and our friends and allies is morbidly false. The reaction of the Clinton White House to the rising threat of Islamist terrorism against the US at home and abroad was to cut the military budget and go after Bosnian strongman Milosevic instead - a move that was highly unlikely until the repercussions of the public revelation that Mr. Clinton was victimized by the sight of Monica Lewinsky's thong.

And now Hillary Rodham Clinton is imploring the country to believe that her White House "experience" makes her better suited to answer early morning crisis phone calls though all evidence points to the contrary. When Al Qaeda bombed the World Trade Center in 1993 the White House phone kept ringing. When Al Qaeda blew up American GI's in the Khobar Towers in 1996 the phone kept ringing. When Osama bin Laden's murderous ideologues willfully demolished two American embassies in Africa in 1998 the Clintons did not answer the crisis phone. And when the brazen Al Qaeda bombing of the USS Cole murdered 17 sailors in Yemen in September of 2000, the Clinton response was to meet the body bags at Andrews AFB, eulogize the dead, and get back out on his wife's Senate campaign trail - all while the aforementioned Al Qaeda continued to plot and rehearse the devasting Day of Infamy that would occur 12 months later. Answering the crisis phone has never been a Clinton priority.

Mrs. Ferraro's ongoing attempts to define and defend her inane statement begs the question - why did Al Gore and John Kerry get 90% of the black vote? They look nothing like Barack Obama. Bill Clinton, who has recently shown a cryptic disdain for black people, at least the ones who did not vote for his wife, received nearly 90% of the black vote. He also lacks Sen. Obama's pedigree.

By denigrating the success of Barack Obama's presidential campaign to his skin color, Geraldine Ferraro and the punditry who unsuccessfully try to justify her ignorance, subconciously denounce the successes, both public and private, of non-white Americans as undeserved aberrations rather than the well-earned outstanding accomplishments that they are.

MEATLESS PRESS

Because I am unable to take Bill or Hillary Clinton for an entire hour, even with commercial interruptions, I taped Mrs. Clinton's January interview on MEET THE PRESS. I wanted to see if host Tim Russert was going to be as easy on her as he was during his 20 or so minute interview last year during his meet the candidates segments. The overrated Mr. Russert did not disappoint. Twenty eight minutes into the "interview" I was compelled to stop. I'm not sure if it was Clinton's penchant for filibustering that caused me to gag or that Russert was letting her. Clinton's repeated diatribes generally strayed, long windedly, into areas having nothing to do with the question. And each time Russert tried to get her to a point, she went on with a refusal to be interrogated. It was at that point I had to stop and take a 48 hour break before viewing the second half.

After the grilling Tim Russert gave GOP candidate Rudy Giuliani on ethics, I was convinced that the occasionally reliable Mr. Russert would broach the subject as forcefully with Sen. Clinton. He did not! When asked about Marc Rich's pardon and the familial group association seeking pardons from her husband, the Senator replied, " I didn't know anything about that." Both times her facial expressions belied her answers.

She bases her claims of experience on the fact that her husband discussed important issues with her to get her input, yet she asserts being totally in the dark about the failures and scandals of the administration. Russert's attempt to get her to recant her charge of a "vast right wing conspiracy" in the Lewinsky perjury scandal merely brought forth Mrs. Clinton's now infamous cackle. Russert never bothered to proffer that her husband copped to the charges after leaving office, that Bill paid off Paula Jones, that her husbands attorney, Bill Bennett, had to inform a federal judge that President Clinton's sworn deposition would be recanted, and that the subsequent actions of her husband proves false her claim that he was impeached over a "private, personal matter" as she promoted in her book.

There were no questions from Russert about the Travel Office firings - who paid her losses in the year long cattle futures bonanza - why would Craig Livingstone's mother tell her friends that Mrs. Clinton got her son the job as head of White House security if it were not true - why would a career White House officer state that he saw Maggie Williams, Mrs. Clinton's chief of staff, exit the late Vince Foster's office with files if that were not true?

Sen. Clinton continues to claim that her vote on the Iraq War resolution was for inspectors, not the use of force. After beating around the bush (no pun intended) about her vote, it never occurred to Russert to remind her that Saddam Hussein controlled the weapons inspectors during both Clinton administrations and kicked them out of Iraq when he tired of them.

Her claims of having been fully vetted also ring hollow. That she has withstood the "Republican attack machine" and only she can defeat the GOP in November are the rantings of a candidate yet to answer the really tough questions from the media that she accuses of her opponent.

HERE'S WHAT I THINK - Volume 4

It is clear that the Clintons are going to use the "pimped out" comment as another Hillary Clinton New Hampshire teary moment. For her campaign to call the comment "beneath contempt" is laughable when you consider that the Clintons have denigrated women who were involved with Bill, or spoke out about his predatory nature, as sluts, tramps, stalkers, bimbos and trailer trash.

It is absurd that the Clintons, whose degradation of women is legendary, are offended by David Shuster's comment. Although Shuster's comment is also absurd, considering most adult children campaign for their candidate parents, the negativity of the comment was directed at the Clinton campaign, not Chelsea Clinton. Calling the remark "beneath contempt" is the height of chutzpah coming from the couple who claimed that using the federal treasury and its employees as an escort service was a "private, personal matter."

If MSNBC and correspondent David Shuster is guilty of anything, it is not confronting Bill and Hillary Clinton and the people who support them of this decades long practice of victimizing women which has become a mainstay of every Clinton campaign.

HERE'S WHAT I THINK - Volume 3

I'm reasonably certain that after her endorsement of Sen. Obama for president, Caroline Kennedy will not be getting the "traitor" backlash from women that Oprah allegedly received.

If her post South Carolina action does not show the absolute selfishness of Hillary Clinton to the rest of the country, nothing will. It was disgustingly disrespectful of her to leave So. Carolina after the polls closed and not stick around to thank all of the people who supported her. And does anyone believe that had the tally been closer at closing time that she would have forsaken her So. Carolinian supporters and given her victory speech from Nashville?????