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Six-Shooter in a Duck Blind

By Pamela Hamilton • Apr 13th, 2008 • Category: Election 2008

Well, it’s official. Barack Obama really is out of touch with small-town America.
Today he launched into a tirade, scolding Hillary for questioning Obama’s choice of words during the now famous Bittergate fundraiser at a United Steelworker’s rally in Steelton, PA.
Obama expressed his disappointment with Hillary in this way:
“She’s running around talking about how this is an insult […]



Six-Shooter in a Duck Blind2

By Pamela Hamilton • Apr 13th, 2008 • Category: Election 2008

Well, it’s official. Barack Obama really is out of touch with small-town America.
Today he launched into a tirade about Hillary questioning Obama’s choice of words during the now famous Bittergate fundraiser at a United Steelworker’s rally in Steelton, PA.
Obama expressed his disappointment with Hillary in this way:
“She’s running around talking about how this is an insult […]



Obama’s Judgment of Small Town America a Bitter Pill

By Pamela Hamilton • Apr 12th, 2008 • Category: Election 2008

Barack Obama was at one of three $2300 ticket fundraiser’s held on April 6th. This one was located on “Billionaire Row” in Pacific Heights, a very wealthy suburb of San Francisco. During the night, Obama made what I’m sure he thought was a thoughtful observation about the working class folks of Pennsylvania:
“Our challenge is to get people persuaded that we […]



Mark Penn Resigns As Clinton Campaign Strategist

By Pamela Hamilton • Apr 6th, 2008 • Category: Election 2008

Clinton Chief Campaign Strategist Mark Penn stepped down today amid controversy surrounding a recent meeting with representatives from the Colombian government on behalf of Penn’s lobbying company Burson-Marsteller, who has been hired to promote the controversial Colombian Free Trade Agreement.
“After the events of the last few days, Mark Penn has asked to give up his role as […]



Kerry on Universal Healthcare - No We Can’t!

By Pamela Hamilton • Apr 2nd, 2008 • Category: Election 2008, Politwix Blogs

A comment on ABC’s “Last Week” made by top Barack Obama supporter Senator John Kerry was reduced to the soundbite “Senator Kerry claims that Senator Clinton’s universal healthcare plan is a ”non-starter”.
We think that his actual comment warrants further examination:
“Let me just tell you that Hillary Clinton’s plan in the United States Senate is a nonstarter, because it starts […]



Happy Easter, Hillary!

By Pamela Hamilton • Mar 23rd, 2008 • Category: Hillary Clinton

This morning my mind turns Easter, and what it means to me. In this strange political climate, it turns out that resurrection is the goal and speciality of my chosen candidate.
Hillary Clinton has become somewhat of an icon for those that, wounded by the slings and arrows of life, need inspiration to keep battling. The personal and political beat-downs that Hillary […]



Power, Self-Interest Key Principles for Obama

By Pamela Hamilton • Mar 16th, 2008 • Category: Barack Obama, Politwix Blogs

In an eye-opening portrait of Obama written by Ryan Lizza of the New Republic, Lizza examines Obama’s political roots.
 ” Every strain of black political thought seemed to converge in Chicago in the 1980s. It was the intellectual center of black nationalism, the base both for Jesse Jackson’s presidential campaigns and for Louis Farrakhan’s Nation of […]