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PACs

A list of the top PACs - Political Action Committees for each party - do you see any trends? Top 20 for each party are listed (from www.opensecrets.org)

Republican:
National Auto Dealers Assn
$1,497,000
AT&T Inc
$1,430,950
American Bankers Assn
$1,401,200
National Assn of Realtors
$1,345,500
Associated Builders & Contractors
$1,275,500
National Beer Wholesalers Assn
$1,152,500
United Parcel Service
$999,090
National Assn of Home Builders
$974,500
Every Republican is Crucial PAC
$934,500
Credit Union National Assn
$926,799
Honeywell International
$857,116
American Dental Assn
$854,450
Freedom Project
$825,398
Koch Industries
$804,500
AFLAC Inc
$798,000
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
$762,500
Blue Cross/Blue Shield
$675,050
Associated General Contractors
$651,000
Union Pacific Corp
$636,969
Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp
$626,500 (side note - they're still around???)


Democrat:
Intl Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
$2,614,300
Operating Engineers Union
$2,237,457
American Assn for Justice
$2,160,000
Air Line Pilots Assn
$1,963,000
Machinists/Aerospace Workers Union
$1,893,800
Sheet Metal Workers Union
$1,842,510
Laborers Union
$1,782,000
National Assn of Realtors
$1,776,500
Plumbers/Pipefitters Union
$1,739,975
Service Employees International Union
$1,732,200
American Federation of Teachers
$1,684,250
United Food & Commercial Workers Union
$1,653,353
International Assn of Fire Fighters
$1,623,900
American Fedn of St/Cnty/Munic Employees
$1,615,593
Communications Workers of America
$1,590,409
National Air Traffic Controllers Assn
$1,522,975
Carpenters & Joiners Union
$1,396,700
Ironworkers Union
$1,396,550
Teamsters Union
$1,393,550
National Beer Wholesalers Assn
$1,274,000

We all knew it would happen ...

Clinton was used in a McCain ad. To all those who said her negative ads would not do any harm in the general election - I say foo-ee to you.

We all knew it would be used against Obama in the general election - the party leaders told her to stop to no avail.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/08/2328204.htm

I believe this is what prompted the princess to go out and campaign for the first time on behalf of Obama later.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7550501.stm

I'm still worried what the ego-maniacs are going to do at the Convention. With Bill steping up just before Obama, who knows what his senial self will say.

Obama - Edwards = Maybe

The RTE is reporting that Edwards would consider running for VP if asked by Mr. Obama. This would be interesting, but I do no know how I feel about the two running together.

Others on my short-list for VP are:
1) Jim Webb - VA Senator
2) Patty Murphy - WA Senator - voted against Iraq
3) Debbie Stabenow - MI Senator
4) Maxine Waters - CA Representative
5) Al Franken - commedian - strike against him
6) Michael Moore - too controversial
7) Howard Dean - WAAAAAHHHHHHOOOOOOO!
8) Christine Todd Whitman - former NJ Governor (R)
9) Patrick Murphy - PA Representative
10) Jim Jordan - OH Representative (R)

Republicans on the Obama ticket would balance out the former democrat on the McCain ticket.

November Elections

With Hillary, I feel that there are only a few options which she will follow:

1) get the nomination - most likely not going to happen but it is the only thing she will accept.

2) fight to and beyond the convention - if she is not nominated at the convention I forsee her doing one of two things: (a) legally challenging it, (b) becoming an independent and running on her own.

All of these options will destroy the democratic party. IF she does the legal battle route there is a very good chance there will be no democratic candidate for November. If she is an independent, then she will split the democratic vote and thusly hand the presidency to the Bush 3rd term - McCain...

She feels it is HER party and SHE can do whatever she wants with it. That is why she cannot accept what each of these groups has to say - unless it is what SHE wants to hear. Is she 2 or in her 60's, I forget... I can just see her stomping around hotel rooms yelling "MINE, MINE, MINE" at the top of her lungs...

While Obama is fighting a battle against McCain for over the past month and not dealing with Clinton; Clinton is still only really fighting to stay in a race which has been over since at LEAST the 6th of May.

Hillary Update

She finally quoted Karl Rove today. I called it months ago! :( Just drop out already! You are only benefiting the Republicans. But that is your new plan, isn't it. Stay in so Obama cannot run against the Republicans in Nov. Then you can try again in 2012 - the end of the world year... Especially if SHE wins then...

B!tch!

GREEN PARTY

BTW: Cynthia McKinney is the leader for the Green Party Nomination…

She is (1) a woman, and (2) of African ancestry... Also has many great things going for her. Therefore, she may win the nomination of the Green Party over Nader. But we shall see...

Although not one of my suggestions from before, she does rank pretty high in people who could actually get changes to occur.

She is most notable for introducing Articles of Impeachment (surprise for something OTHER than a BJ in the Oval Office - novel idea!)...

"At the end of the 2006 legislative session, McKinney introduced articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush as (H Res 1106), which makes three charges against Bush: manipulating intelligence and lying to justify the war in Iraq, failing to uphold accountability and violating privacy laws with his domestic spying program.

The second article also makes charges against Vice President Dick Cheney for helping to "fix" the intelligence in order to justify the Iraq War, and against Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for making false statements concerning Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction program."

The Green Party can finally win - if they want to!

The green party could actually win this time around.

Nader needs to step down from Presidential candidate to VP and ask Gore to be the Presidential candidate.

The two of them can do alot of good for our country; however, Nader does not have the charisma to win an election - I think he's proven this time and time again.

IF Hillary steals the nomination (Bush-esque) then I will NOT vote for the clintoncrats again. It isn't like the dem's have been doing anything good in the congress since winning, so why would they start to do so now - especially under such a corrupt leader.

Hillary = McCain with only a minor amount of self-control...

Hillary, the cry-baby, gets a good woman to step down

FOR TELLING THE TRUTH!

http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0307/uselection.html?rss

They are the campaign that would stoop to ANY level in order to win. They're even ready to sabotage the entire democratic party chances by trying to defeat Obama. For one example, McCain is a much better person to be President than Obama... They've used FEARmongering almost all the time now...

The Clinton campaign is burning more bridges than Sherman in Georgia and this will come back to haunt the party for many years to come.

BTW - she "won" in Texas because of the Republicans pushing to have their minions vote for her instead of giving votes to McCain who had already won. So she is the choice of the Republicans, acts like a Republican, and is doing shady Republicanesque things...

What's that thing about a duck? "quack" said the Clinton campaign...

Hillary the b!tch.

Hillary used the story reversed to win in OH - but if I were in OH, I would DEMAND a revote and would never trust this b!tch again.

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/080306/w0306117A.html

She is so Republican it isn't even funny - FEARmongering, using reversed news stories, and deception are now par for the course. But hey, if any democrat even looked at what she's said on the floor of the Senate, they would have never even given her ONE vote let alone have her as the "change" candidate.

She's voted for nearly all of the items that Bushie wants - whether it be right away or with minor tweaking...

Hillary encouraged to drop out of race... ... ...

Well, people are calling for Hillary to drop out of the race...
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23309178-1702,00.html?from=public_rss
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23309251-1702,00.html?from=public_rss

She will not, probably not even after TX and OH...