Hillary's Real Bad Weekend

[Botany]

Mark Penn had to leave because his company was working for
a trade agreement that Hillary was opposed to

Hillary's photo op @ the motel where MLK was shot

Obama's trend with Superdelegates ..... Obama +70
Hillary -2 over recent weeks

Hillary's telling a story about a women and her baby
who died turned out to be based on bad information

Some polls now have Obama up by 2 in PA

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And now she put out the Olympic Tourch in Paris? :rofl:

[Cooley Hurd]

1. They're on the boat deck singing "Nearer My God to Thee..."

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

7. Nah, she's still at the helm yelling, "FULL SPEED AHEAD!"

DAMN THE TORPEDOES!

[Political Heretic]

2. Obama now enjoys largest lead ever over Clinton in national polls.

That too.

[Political Heretic]

3. Oh that and this week was the week of fundraising disclosures for March

Clinton Campaign is effectively broke, with 20million raised leaving them only about 3million on hand, while Obama Campaign raised 40 million and wasn't in debt.

[Shae]

6. not to mention

that with the recent press about the Clinton campaign's financial difficulty indebtedness, many will insist on cash up front. She won't be allowed to run up a tab.

[JimGinPA]

4. Chances Are The Penn "Firing" Was Planned Weeks Ago...

To coincide with the tax records being dropped. It pushes the reporting of income from dubious sources out of the headlines, plus the fees they're paying "Jaba the Penn" are drastically reduced. And then there's this;


"Even the fig leaf that Penn would still be providing polling services to the Clinton campaign was undermined by the recent recruitment of a rival pollster, Geoff Garin."

[mod mom]

5. Don't forget Bill's ties to the Colombian deal(was the Colombian govt getting mixed messages?:

Bill Clinton was known as a free trader and was still working at gaining favor in Colombia for influential friends at a time when Chief strategist Mark Penn (WHO IS STILL ADVISING THE CAMPAIGN)was lobbying for Free Trade status.

When the Clintons Mine Big Bucks
By Steve Weissman
t r u t h o u t | Perspective

Thursday 03 April 2008

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In June 2005, Giustra provided his luxurious MD-87 jet for Clinton to make speeches in Mexico, Colombia, Chile and Brazil. According to Bloomberg News, the tour earned Clinton $800,000 in personal income. Giustra "has since put his plane at Clinton's disposal at least a dozen times to raise money for charity, his wife's presidential campaign or himself," Bloomberg reported.

American law does not permit Giustra, as a Canadian, to contribute directly to Hillary Clinton's campaign. Whether providing his plane to raise campaign money counts as a contribution, I leave to the legal eagles.

A far more telling payoff involved Colombia, which has long faced international condemnation for its well-documented violations of labor and other human rights. In the oval office and after, Bill Clinton never let this get in his way, steadfastly backing a free trade agreement with the country along with a $3 billion "Plan Colombia" to fight drug traffickers and guerrillas. As he publicly told Colombian President Alvaro Uribe and others in Bogota, he was "absolutely convinced that it was vital to American interests that Colombia succeed" against the left-wing narcotraficantes.

In September 2005, Clinton hosted "a philanthropic event" at which one of his aides arranged for Giustra to meet Uribe. According to The Wall Street Journal, the two men sat in the hallway speaking for about ten minutes. A Clinton aide later told Giustra the meeting had gone well.

Giustra wanted Colombian oil. He was working with a Canadian group that subsequently paid more than $250 million to operate oil fields in conjunction with Colombia's state-owned petroleum company. Giustra's associates - now operating as Pacific Rubiales Energy Corp. - also signed an oil pipeline deal and was invited to do further oil-development work in Colombia, the Journal reported.

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http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040308R.shtml




Also, Bill Clinton has a friendship with President Uribe to the extent that he was invited as the honoree of the "Colombia Is Passion" award. Bill Clinton returned the favor by hosting Uribe as a “featured attendee” at the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting in New York last September.

More information can be found at Al Giordiano's report here:

http://narconews.com/Issue52/article3055.html



U.S. INTELLIGENCE LISTED COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT URIBE AMONG "IMPORTANT COLOMBIAN NARCO-TRAFFICKERS" IN

U.S. INTELLIGENCE LISTED COLOMBIAN PRESIDENT URIBE AMONG
"IMPORTANT COLOMBIAN NARCO-TRAFFICKERS" IN 1991

Then-Senator "Dedicated to Collaboration with the Medellín Cartel at High Government Levels"


Confidential DIA Report Had Uribe Alongside Pablo Escobar, Narco-Assassins

Uribe "Worked for the Medellín Cartel" and was a "Close Personal Friend of Pablo Escobar"



Washington, D.C., 1 August 2004 - Then-Senator and now President Álvaro Uribe Vélez of Colombia was a "close personal friend of Pablo Escobar" who was "dedicated to collaboration with the Medellín cartel at high government levels," according to a 1991 intelligence report from U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) officials in Colombia. The document was posted today on the website of the National Security Archive, a non-governmental research group based at George Washington University.

Uribe's inclusion on the list raises new questions about allegations that surfaced during Colombia's 2002 presidential campaign. Candidate Uribe bristled and abruptly terminated an interview in March 2002 when asked by Newsweek reporter Joseph Contreras about his alleged ties to Escobar and his associations with others involved in the drug trade. Uribe accused Contreras of trying to smear his reputation, saying that, "as a politician, I have been honorable and accountable."

The newly-declassified report, dated 23 September 1991, is a numbered list of "the more important Colombian narco-traffickers contracted by the Colombian narcotic cartels for security, transportation, distribution, collection and enforcement of narcotics operations." The document was released by DIA in May 2004 in response to a Freedom of Information Act request submitted by the Archive in August 2000.

The source of the report was removed by DIA censors, but the detailed, investigative nature of the report -- the list corresponds with a numbered set of photographs that were apparently provided with the original -- suggests it was probably obtained from Colombian or U.S. counternarcotics personnel. The document notes that some of the information in the report was verified "via interfaces with other agencies."

More:
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB131/index.htm