Sweet Little Lies

Axelrod is up to his old tricks again.  If you can’t spin the media to report things the way you want them to, just feed them outright lies.   That is the case when it comes to the reports of Hillary saying that she doesn’t want her name put into nomination at the Convention in Denver.  Alegre has been all over this story since this morning:

The Daily News is claiming Hillary’s decided to release her delegates at the convention.  They’re making this stuff up guys.  Take a look at this article and you’ll see that this so-called source is unnamed, and that the writer admits that spokeswoman for Hillary’s team – Kathleen Strand (the only person named in this POS article) has stated that no decisions have been made at this time.   This article is nothing but innuendo and fabrication – I’m guessing it’s a slow news day at the Daily News so they tossed this out to drum up some chatter.

Think about it – after all she’s been through in this campaign, does anyone really think she’d leak this monumental story to a paper like the Daily News?  It’s laughable!

Well, it just so happens that we have our very own reliable source, right here at The Confluence who got the story straight from the source.  At a fundraiser last night, this is what Hillary had to say about having her name put up for nomination:

Puma-SF, on August 1st, 2008 at 2:00 am Said: Edit Comment
Man, I have a ton of pictures and tomorrow SimoFish will publish the video she took while Hillary was speaking.

Originally it was labeled an event to help pay down her debt but some how it morphed into a unity event. Hell, there were about 10 Pumas that I know for sure but I’m sure there were more. Afterwards we all stood around and told each other our pen names.

She said that she thinks it would help unify the party if her name was put into nomination and that she wants her supporters and delegates to be recognized and heard.

I shook her hand. I hugged her and I told her to sign the petition that she would win and that we had her back.

Here is video from the event via SimoFish/Sky Dancing in a Man’s World

Of course the report from Puma-SF makes much more sense given that Hillary has said exactly the same thing in the past on the subject.  Alegre did a little more digging at got the real story:

Meanwhile we’ve contacted Hillary’s New York office and we were told that this report is not true.

Of course that didn’t stop the blogger boyz and Arianna from spreading the lie throughout the blogosphere.   It seems this is an attempt to distract from Obama being called out on blatantly injecting race into the campaign by suggesting John McCain will try to convince voters he is scary because he is “not like the presidents on the dollar bills”.  After initially denying it, and actually having the nerve to suggest that it was McCain playing the race card, Axelrod actually let slip that Obama was indeed referring to his race.  Alegre said it best:

They got caught with their pants down on playing the race card.  Now suddenly we see this garbage and it’s up on HuffPo?  I’m convinced they’re pushing this story just like they pushed bloggers to play the race card over McCain’s ad.  Mark my words AxelRove’s behind this and it’s only a matter of hours before the Blogger Boyz start pushing this story as fact and demanding that Hillary release her delegates.

Maybe we can call the paper and ask that they run a retraction of that article or at least take it down from their online version.  They won’t of course but we could still ask. ;o)

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So final word on this subject? NO TO RELEASING HER DELEGATES!!!! Axelrod will not be the one who decides whether or not our 18 million voices are heard.  In fact, we, the VOTERS made that decision months ago.  As far as I’m concerned Hillary herself does not own those votes, we do.   And we want a fair and open convention.  Nothing less. 

In other news, it looks like cracks are forming in Barack Obama’s once rock solid base of support in the African American community.  Maybe chastising black men on Father’s Day, or pandering to the right on issues like the death penalty are finally starting to have an affect.  Or maybe they’re just starting to realize that he never really had anything to offer them in the first place.   Maybe they talked to the people who lived in the slums of Obama’s Illinois state senate district.

For more than five weeks during the brutal winter of 1997, tenants shivered without heat in a government-subsidized apartment building on Chicago’s South Side. …

Rezko and Mahru couldn’t find money to get the heat back on.

But their company, Rezmar Corp., did come up with $1,000 to give to the political campaign fund of Barack Obama, the newly elected state senator whose district included the unheated building.

Whatever the case, they’re starting to ask some questions:

During his speech, Obama was interrupted by three men who stood up with a banner asking, “What about the black community, Obama?” Many in the crowd began chanting, “Yes, we can,” the Obama campaign mantra to counter the criticism.

Obama told the three that they would have a chance to ask questions after he had his opportunity to speak. A town-hall organizer later took the banner from the three.

During the question-and-answer period, Obama called on one of the men who held the banner, who chastised the candidate for not speaking out more about predatory lending and its impact on the black community, Hurricane Katrina’s destruction and the fatal shooting of an unarmed man on his wedding day in New York.

Obama defended his record, saying he had spoken out on all those issues. “I may not have spoken out the way you want me to speak out,” he said. And as the crowd stood and applauded, Obama stressed the need to be respectful, saying, “the only way to solve the problems in this country is if we all come together — black and white …”

Typical Obama response…”I am right, and you are wrong”. ”You just don’t want to hear what I have to say”.  Dare I say that is a touch, presumptuous???  And please Barack, you suggesting that we need to work together, black and white, is enough to make me want to vomit…Why don’t you go tell it to your good friend Ludacris? 

Can we have Hillary back now, please???!!!