Clinton Speaks at Puerto Rican Medical Center Before Hitting Flat Bed Truck for Canvassing
ABC News’ Eloise Harper reports: “Buenos dias,” said Hillary Clinton when greeting a small audience at a medical center in San Juan, Puerto Rico. “I am dressed for our caravanning, which starts right after this event,” said the New York senator, who was wearing a bright purple top and white pants.
“I have had the most wonderful experience campaigning in Puerto Rico. I am so privileged to represent one million Puerto Ricans in New York, and I have enjoyed the many times marching in the Puerto Rican Day Parade. Campaigning in Puerto Rico is like one long Puerto Rican Day Parade.”
Clinton spoke about the health insurance program she worked on when she was first lady, stating, “The bill that we passed that I helped to lead in passing would have treated Puerto Rico equally and expanded the children’s health insurance program and it was vetoed. I will sign it,” she said. Clinton also spoke about the universal health-care plan she would offer as president.
She answered several questions Saturday before heading off to canvas in seven municipalities through San Juan. She will be standing on a flat bed truck weaving her way through town as she will greet, wave and meet with locals. Last weekend Clinton hit the beach. This weekend, she will make her way through the city.
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Go Hillary! We love you for your hard work and ‘I’ll fight for the people no matter what it takes’ attitude. Keep up the good work and your great spirit. Thank you and God Bless you!
Posted by: Voter | May 31, 2008, 11:30 am 11:30 am
Go Hillary … Your being in the race has been a fresh of breath air for the real change.
Hillary 08!
Posted by: Meg | May 31, 2008, 12:31 pm 12:31 pm
BKMC,
Hope you realize that your rants over the last several months have solidified that fact that Hillary supporters will never, ever support your canidate. Not EVER.
NOBAMA
Posted by: SadStateOfAffairs | May 31, 2008, 12:44 pm 12:44 pm
The expected low turnout of voters and the apathy in Puerto Rico towards the american candidates is evident.
Other facts: Spanish speaking, latin american and catholic. Puerto Rico is a nation! (non sovereign but still a nation by all sociological/political standards) Puerto Rico belongs to the latin american family of nations and acts and behaves like one because it is one. The US press is not covering the opposition to this primary in Puerto Rico (independence supporters, nationalists and the center left wing of the ruling party are going to held a protest march that day along with a boycott) that is why many here in america are surprised with the yawns this primary is causing over there.
Posted by: Luisa Rios | May 31, 2008, 12:44 pm 12:44 pm
If one quater of them show up to vote will be a big deal.She is a lost cause,what she don’t understand about the word LOST I don’t know/Other then being a bi— ….Time to ride the wagon back to NY and stay there…She won’t be in New York very long either to many black people toes she and BILLY steeped on I hope they run her out of town on a rail …..I hope they get what they both deserve is the name Clinton means nothing…..She will be remembered for this and it will not be on the good side either,,,,,You made your bed lady lay in it…..
Posted by: older person | May 31, 2008, 12:52 pm 12:52 pm
Take it all the way to the convention, Hillary. You have one half of the democratic party behind you!
Rise, Hillary, Rise ’08
A Proud, Black Hillary Supporter
(It ain’t over until the lady in the pantsuit says so!)
Posted by: LeeLee07 | May 31, 2008, 12:54 pm 12:54 pm
i think its time to hang up the pant suit hill you might be able to manipulate the people in pr with your lies but not us we all see through what a liar and cheat you are and the only person you care about is YOU well you no what hill i use to support you but throughout this process i have really seen your true colors and frankily im glad you lost hillary no way in 08
Posted by: angie | May 31, 2008, 1:02 pm 1:02 pm
Taking it to the convention is a waste of time. Going INDEPENDENT is the only way to go. Hillary for PRESIDENT !!!
Posted by: Paulus | May 31, 2008, 1:07 pm 1:07 pm
Taking it to the convention is a waste of time. Going INDEPENDENT is the only way to go. Hillary for PRESIDENT !!!
Posted by: Paulus | May 31, 2008, 1:07 pm 1:07 pm
Just a reminder for those who seem to have forgotten:
OBAMA LAUNDRY LIST OF LIES
1.) Selma Got Me Born – LIAR, your parents felt safe enough to have you in 1961 – Selma had no effect on your birth, as Selma was in 1965.
2.) Father Was A Goat Herder – LIAR, he was a privileged, well educated youth, who went on to work with the Kenyan Government.
3.) Father Was A Proud Freedom Fighter – LIAR, he was part of one of the most corrupt and violent governments Kenya has ever had
4.) My Family Has Strong Ties To African Freedom – LIAR, your cousin Raila Odinga has created mass violence in attempting to overturn a legitimate election in 2007, in Kenya. It is the first widespread violence in decades.
5.) My Grandmother Has Always Been A Christian – LIAR, she does her daily Salat prayers at 5am according to her own interviews. Not to mention, Christianity wouldn’t allow her to have been one of 14 wives to 1 man.
6.) My Name is African Swahili – LIAR, your name is Arabic and ‘Baraka’ (from which Barack came) means ‘blessed’ in that language. Hussein is also Arabic and so is Obama.
7.) I Never Practiced Islam – LIAR, you practiced it daily at school, where you were registered as a Muslim and kept that faith for 31 years,until your wife made you change, so you could run for office.
8.) My School In Indonesia Was Christian – LIAR, you were registered as Muslim there and got in trouble in Koranic Studies for making faces (check your own book).
9.) I Was Fluent In Indonesian – LIAR, not one teacher says you could speak the language.
10.) Because I Lived In Indonesia, I Have More Foreign Experience – LIAR, you were there from the ages of 6 to 10, and couldn’t even speak the language. What did you learn, how to study the Koran and watch cartoons.
11.) I Am Stronger On Foreign Affairs – LIAR, except for Africa (surprise) and the Middle East (bigger surprise), you have never been anywhere else on the planet and thus have NO experience with our closest allies.
12.) I Blame My Early Drug Use On Ethnic Confusion – LIAR, you were quite content in high school to be Barry Obama, no mention of Kenya and no mention of struggle to identify – your classmates said you were just fine.
13.)An Ebony Article Moved Me To Run For Office – LIAR, Ebony has yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn’t, and never did, exist.
14.) A Life Magazine Article Changed My Outlook On Life – LIAR, Life has yet to find the article you mention in your book. It doesn’t, and never did, exist.
15.) I Won’t Run On A National Ticket In ‘08 – LIAR, here you are, despite saying, live on TV, that you would not have enough experience by then, and you are all about having experience first.
16.) Present Votes Are Common In Illinois – LIAR, they are common for YOU, but not many others have 130 NO VOTES.
17.) Oops, I Misvoted – LIAR, only when caught by church groups and democrats, did you beg to change your misvote.
18.) I Was A Professor Of Law – LIAR, you were a senior lecturer ON LEAVE.
19.) I Was A Constitutional Lawyer – LIAR, you were a senior lecturer ON LEAVE.
20.) Without Me, There Would Be No Ethics Bill – LIAR, you didn’t write it,introduce it, change it, or create it.
21.) The Ethics Bill Was Hard To Pass – LIAR, it took just 14 days from start to finish.
22.) I Wrote A Tough Nuclear Bill – LIAR, your bill was rejected by your own party for its pandering and lack of all regulation – mainly because of your Nuclear Donor, Exelon, from which David Axelrod came.
23.) I Have Released My State Records – LIAR, as of March, 2008, state bills you sponsored or voted for have yet to be released, exposing all the special interests pork hidden within.
24.) I Took On The Asbestos Altgeld Gardens Mess – LIAR, you were part of a large group of people who remedied Altgeld Gardens. You failed to mention anyone else but yourself, in your books.
25.) My Economics Bill Will Help America – LIAR, your 111 economic policies were just combined into a proposal which lost 99-0, and even YOU voted against your own bill.
26.) I Have Been A Bold Leader In Illinois – LIAR, even your own supporters claim to have not seen BOLD action on your part.
27.) I Passed 26 Of My Own Bills In One Year – LIAR, they were not YOUR bills, but rather handed to you, after their creation by a fellow Senator, to assist you in a future bid for higher office.
28.) No One Contacted Canada About NAFTA – LIAR, the Candian Government issued the names and a memo of the conversation your campaign had with them.
29.) I Am Tough On Terrorism – LIAR, you missed the Iran Resolution vote on terrorism and your good friend Ali Abunimah supports the destruction of Israel.
30.) I Am Not Acting As President Yet – LIAR, after the NAFTA Memo, a dead terrorist in the FARC, in Colombia, was found with a letter stating how you and he were working together on getting FARC recognized officially.
31.) I Didn’t Run Ads In Florida – LIAR, you allowed national ads to run 8-12 times per day for two weeks – and you still lost.
32.) I Won Michigan – LIAR, no you didn’t.
33.) I won Nevada – LIAR, no you did not.
34.) I Want All Votes To Count – LIAR, you said let the delegates decide.
35.) I Want Americans To Decide – LIAR, you prefer caucuses that limit the vote, confuse the voters, force a public vote, and only operate during small windows of time.
36.) I passed 900 Bills in the State Senate – LIAR, you passed 26, most of which you didn’t write yourself.
37.) My Campaign Was Extorted By A Friend – LIAR, that friend is threatening to sue if you do not stop saying this. Obama has stopped saying this.
38.) I Believe In Fairness, Not Tactics – LIAR, you used tactics to eliminate Alice Palmer from running against you.
39.) I Don’t Take PAC Money – LIAR, you take loads of it.
40.) I don’t Have Lobbysists – LIAR, you have over 47 lobbyists, and counting.
41.) My Campaign Had Nothing To Do With The 1984 Ad – LIAR, your own campaign worker made the ad on his Apple in one afternoon.
42.) My Campaign Never Took Over MySpace – LIAR, Tom, who started MySpace issued a warning about this advertising to MySpace clients.
43.) I Inspire People With My Words – LIAR, you inspire people with other people’s words.
44.) I Have Passed Bills In The U.S. Senate – LIAR, you have passed A BILL in the U.S. Senate – for Africa, which shows YOUR priorities.
45.) I Have Always Been Against Iraq – LIAR, you weren’t in office to vote against it AND you have voted to fund it every single time, unlike Kucinich, who seems to be out gutting you Obama. You also seem to be stepping back from your departure date – AGAIN.
46.) I Have Always Supported Universal Health Care – LIAR, your plan leaves us all to pay the 15,000,000 who don’t have to buy it.
47.) I Only Found Out About My Investment Conflicts Via Mail – LIAR, both companies you site as having sent you letters about this conflict have no record of any such letter ever being created or sent.
48.) I Am As Patriotic As Anyone – LIAR, you won’t wear a flag pin and you don’t put your hand over your heart during the Anthem.
49.) My Wife Didn’t Mean What She Said About Pride In Country – LIAR, your wife’s words follow lock-step in the vein of Wright and Farrahkan, in relation to their contempt and hatred of America.
50.) Wal-Mart Is A Company I Wouldn’t Support – LIAR, your wife has received nearly a quater of a million dollars through Treehouse, which is connected to Wal-Mart.
51.) Treehouse Is A Small Company – LIAR, the CEO of Treehouse last year, made more than the CEO of Wal-Mart, according to public records.
52.) University Of Chicago Hospital Pay Is Fair – LIAR, your wife’s pay raise was nearly 150% her already bloated rate and the hospital is a Non-Profit Hospital, which made $100,000,000 in the last 3 years. They overcharge blacks VS whites for services, and overcharge everyone in general by 538%!
53.)I Barely Know Rezko – Only 5 Billed Hours – LIAR, you have known him for 17 years, and decided to do a real estate deal with him during a time when he was proven to be under investigation. Despite this, you divided your property and had them take off $300K before the mortgage problems started. Then Rezko’s wife buys the lot beside it that you can’t afford, saving you $625,000.
54.) My Donations Have Been Checked Thoroughly – LIAR, you only gave back Hsu ($72K) and Rezko (first $66K, then when caught lying $86K, then when caught lying again $150K and now caught lying YET AGAIN OBAMA, it’s $250k) their money when publically called on their involvement in your campaigns.
55.) My Church Is Like Any Other Christian Church – LIAR, your church is so extreme, the pastor who married you, Rev. Wright, just got done blaming the US for 9/11 and named Louis Farrahkan their person of the year.
56.) I Disagree With My Church All The Time – LIAR, you still have yet to repudiate Wright, who married you and your wife, and you still donate large sums of money to assist the church in furthering its message – hatred and revenge. You donated in 2006 alone, $22,500 to the church that you so terribly disagree with. That is nearly $500 PER WEEK – that sure is disagreement, Senator Obama.
57.) I Have Clean Connections Despite Rezko – LIAR, you are not only connected to Exelon and Rezko, you are also connected to Hillary PAC supporter Mr. Hsu, AND an Iraqi Billionaire of ill repute, Nadhmi Auchi, who ripped off people in the Food For Oil, Iraqi deal. Seems Mr. Auchi may have helped Obama buy his million dollar property long before Obama had millions of dollars. Wonder what favors Mr. Auchi expects, when Obama leaves Iraq free to be taken over by special interests such as him.
58.) I never heard sermons like Rev. Wright’s, that have been in videos all day, You Tube – LIAR! 3 days later during your Mea Culpa BS speech you said “Did I hear controversial statements while I sat in that church? Yes I did.”
59.) The Passport Invasion is a conspiracy to find dirt on me! – LIAR. Your own Campaign Foreign Policy Advisor is the CEO of the company that looked into your records. PS – You had them look into yours to hide the fact you looked into Clinton’s and McCain’s more than a year before!
60.) Rev. Meeks has nothing to do with my campaigning – LIAR. Rev. Meeks appeared in ads for your Senate Campaign, donated to you, and helped raise money, then AND NOW. PS – He also seems to despise America.
61.) My wife didn’t mean America is ignorant, she was just using a phrase – LIAR. Again, MicHELLe’s comments perfectly sync with Wright’s, Meeks’, and Farrakhans, both in language, anger, and direction.
62.) I am very Anti-Terror – LIAR. [03/30/2008] One of your good pals is long time radical and terrorist William Ayers, with whom you have been seen in the last 12 months and who has helped the now jailed khalidi, Professor at Columbia who invited Ahmadinejad to the University, to raise money for Palestinian terrorism attacks against Israel. PS – Your church published a pro Hamas Manifesto – guess you weren’t there on THAT Sunday either? How lucky for you.
63.) I have the best plan to cure the Mortgage Crisis – LIAR. [03/30/2008] You and your campaign buddy Penny SubPrime Bank Collapse Prizker have had your little fingers full of subprime cash – Obama has taken $1,180,103 from the top issuers of subprime loans: Obama received $266,907 from Lehman, $5395 from GMAC, $150,850 from Credit Suisse First Boston, $11,250 from Countrywide, $9052 from Washington Mutual, $161,850 from Citigroup, $4600 from CBASS, $170,050 from Morgan Stanley, $1150 from Centex, and last but certainly NOT LEAST – Obama received $351,900 from Goldman Sachs. I am sure that cash all came from folks who knew the subprime loan they had was a dream, eh?
64) I played greater role in crafting liberal stands on gun control, the death penalty and abortion – LIAR – [03/31/2008] It was found that Obama – the day after sitting for the interview – filed an amended version of the questionnaire, which appears to contain Obama’s own handwritten notes added to one answer. Read Obama had greater role on liberal survey
65) I did NOT play the race card: – LIAR – [03/31/2008] Obama was the first to play the race card. According to Phialdelphia Inquirer, Quietly, the storm over the hateful views expressed by Sen. Barack Obama’s pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, has blown away the most insidious myth of the Democratic primary campaign. Obama and his surrogates have charged that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has deliberately and cleverly played the race card in order to label Obama the “black” candidate. Read more here
66) I did not take money from oil companies: – LIAR – [03/31/2008]
THE FACTS: True enough, Obama does not take money from oil companies. No candidate does. It is illegal for corporations to give money to politicians.
Corporations, however, do have political action committees that collect voluntary donations from employees and then donate them to candidates.
Obama doesn’t take money from PACs. He also doesn’t take money from lobbyists.
But he does accept money from executives and other employees of oil companies and two of his fundraisers are oil company executives. As of Feb. 29, Obama’s presidential campaign had received nearly $214,000 from oil and gas industry employees and their families, according to an analysis by the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics.
Clinton had received nearly $307,000 from industry workers and their families and Republican Sen. John McCain, the likely GOP presidential nominee, received nearly $394,000, according to the center’s totals.
Two of Obama’s fundraisers are Robert Cavnar, the chairman and chief executive of Houston-based Mission Resources Corp., and George Kaiser, the president and CEO of Tulsa-based Kaiser-Francis Oil Co. Source: Associated press via Yahoo News
67) “I don’t think my church is actually particularly controversial,” Obama said at a community meeting in Nelsonville, Ohio, earlier this month. – LIAR – But yesterday, he told a different story. “Did I ever hear him make remarks that could be considered controversial while I sat in church? Yes,” he said in his speech yesterday in Philadelphia.
68) Look at my education record in Illinois – LIAR – In reality, Obama never really championed the local councils. He supported them behind the scenes and only eventually came out publicly on their behalf. When he did weigh in, he came down on the wrong side of the debate-against protecting principals from unwarranted dismissals and in favor of keeping councils independent, no matter what.
In the end, the resolution of the conflict between the two sides didn’t alleviate anyone’s concerns. Instead, it prolonged a turf battle that seems to have dragged down academic progress in the years since.
Much more so than we might believe.
1. Reports emanating from Africa allege his mother was in Kenya with his ARAB Kenyan (NOT Black Kenyan) father – this is clearly shown in Kenyan Govt. Registry documents which list the father as an Arab Kenyan – at a very late term of her pregnancy and was not allowed on a flight to return to HAWAII.
She gave birth to him in Kenya, immediately got on a plane and then registered him as being born in Hawaii.
2. He is NOT an African American at all but an Arab American and cannot claim African minority status, which by US Federal regulations require a person to have 1/8 (one eighth) of the minority blood (12%).
From his mother he has 50% white blood, from his father he has 43.25% Arab BLOOD and from his MATERNAL GRANDMOTHER he manages to hold onto 6.75% African or Black heritage blood.
Rise, Hillary, Rise ’08
A Proud, Black Hillary Supporter
(It ain’t over until the lady in the pantsuit says so!)
Posted by: LeeLee07 | May 31, 2008, 1:08 pm 1:08 pm
Paulus – That works for me too!:D
Rise, Hillary, Rise ’08
A Proud, Black Hillary Supporter
(It ain’t over until the lady in the pantsuit says so!)
Posted by: LeeLee07 | May 31, 2008, 1:10 pm 1:10 pm
Correction: if she is in PR, it is ‘la vida dolce’. The Puerto Ricans are emblematic of the dynamo emerging in the Caribbean economically and culturally. We will be proud to have Puerto Rico as the 51st State should they so choose.
I must get back to Old San Juan and buy a cuatro to add to my collection of axes.
Posted by: len | May 31, 2008, 1:15 pm 1:15 pm
BKMC is a republican troll who is succeeding in dividing the democratic party, just like his helpmates, and making sure that the black man he doesnt want as POTUS doesnt get elected. Hes no Obama supporter.
Posted by: mitch | May 31, 2008, 1:47 pm 1:47 pm
I agree with that, mitch. I am a Hillary supporter (not party apparatchik) and will support Hillary only for president, but that stooge you referred to is definitely a Republican troll.
There will no coming together for most Hillary supporters with the Pelosi left wing of the Dem party that supports Obama.
Regardless of what Hillary does to try to work with these people to help Obama win in November, we will have nothing to do with it.
It is country first, Hillary second, and no longer a Dem Party for me.
Hillary ’08
Posted by: rd | May 31, 2008, 2:14 pm 2:14 pm
Repeat after me 3 times and the OBAMA fever will go away …. :
“A BHO voter is someone who reads “Audacity of Hope”. An anti-BHO voter is someone who understands BHO”
- paraphrasing Ronald Reagan -
Posted by: csquan | May 31, 2008, 2:42 pm 2:42 pm
This was not democratic, it was dictatorial! I watched the whole debate, just as I have followed the whole warped campaign. I listened to Sen Bill Nelson and the passionate words of Sen Joiner and was encouraged, believing that the so called Rules Committee would get it right. I listened to Harold Ickes at the end of the debate, at a loss for words because of the total injustice. By this time I was broken hearted by the travesty of justice, because the decisions have totally negated the rights of the voters. You may think it’s unimportant, it’s only a primary, but it’s a matter of principle! DNC such a shame on you! I hope Hillary challenges this and takes it to the August Credentials Committee, because this has been a total stitch up throughout!
Posted by: Di | May 31, 2008, 8:20 pm 8:20 pm
For the one who has worked so hard and given so much for the country, you deserve to be the president.
Hillary 08
Posted by: John_Lai | June 1, 2008, 9:16 pm 9:16 pm