Flip Flop Alert: Hillary Clinton Silent As Wal-Mart Fought Unions

Clinton Remained Silent As Wal-Mart Fought Unions

For 6 years Hillary was on the Wal-Mart board of directors. She remained silent as the world's largest retailer waged a major campaign against labor unions seeking to represent store workers.

Her campaign Web site now has no record of her role at Wal-Mart in its detailed biography of her.

An ABC News analysis of the videotapes of at least four stockholder meetings where Clinton appeared shows she never once rose to defend the role of American labor unions.
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The tapes show Clinton in the role of a loyal company woman.

"I'm always proud of Wal-Mart and what we do and the way we do it better than anybody else," - Hillary Clinton at a June 1990 stockholders meeting.

Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton described linton's role in pushing for more women to be hired in management positions by saying:

"We've got a very strong-willed young woman on our board now; her name is Hillary"


Yet the videotapes do not show Clinton using her role as a board member to push for better roles or treatment for women.

A former board member told ABCNews.com that he had no recollection of Clinton defending unions during more than 20 board meetings held in private.

Sharpton Tells Clinton To Shut Up !

Obama Snubs Hillary at SOTU?

Barack Obama said Tuesday he meant no disrespect by turning his back to rival Hillary Clinton during the State of the Union address Monday night.

On a plane from D.C. to Kansas, Obama and Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill said there was no snub, as observers speculated following the release of a widely circulated photo showing Clinton reaching out to Obama supporter Sen. Ted Kennedy while Obama turned away.

“I was turning away because Claire (McCaskill) asked me a question as Senator Kennedy was reaching for her … Senator Clinton and I have very cordial relations off the floor and on the floor. I waved at her as we were coming into …. the Senate chamber.

“I think there’s just a lot more tea leaf reading going on here than I think people are suggesting.”

McCaskill backed him up: “It was not a snub. I had a ringside seat. It was one of those accidents that just happened and got caught on film.”

Ask Your Doctor If Hillary Clinton Might Be Right For You! (Humor)

Has Hillary Clinton Gotten Plastic Surgery - Will She Tell The Truth About It?

Many people were focused on the look of Hillary Clinton at the Democratic Presidential Debate on June 3, 2007. People are wondering if and what cosmetic surgery Hillary may have had. Her appearance seems to move back the clock by up to ten years.

Hillary Clinton’s advisor Howard Wolfson says that the presidential candidate has not had any plastic surgery. When questioned on the subject previously, Hillary asked, “Do you want to check for the scars?”

Hillary needs to come out and speak truthfully about whether or not she had plastic surgery--truth counts. If we can't trust her to tell a simple truth like this, how can we believe what else she tells us.


Read More About What Kind of Surgery She May Have Had

Kennedy Fired Up, Snubs Clinton(s) and Campaigning for Obama

'Through Barack, I believe we will move beyond the politics of fear and personal destruction and unite our country with the politics of common purpose'

'BARACK OBAMA INSPIRES ME' - Senator, Ted Kennedy

Morrison, who famously labeled Bill Clinton as the "first black president" endorses Barack Obama

Morrison Endorses Obama for President

Jan 28, 9:27 AM (ET)
By NEDRA PICKLER
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080128/D8UEUDQ80.html

WASHINGTON (AP) - The woman who famously labeled Bill Clinton as the "first black president" is backing Barack Obama to be the second.

Author Toni Morrison said her endorsement of the Democratic presidential candidate has little to do with Obama's race - he is the son of a black father from Kenya and a white mother from Kansas - but rather his personal gifts.

Writing with the touch of a poet in a letter to the Illinois senator, Morrison explained why she chose Obama over Hillary Rodham Clinton for her first public presidential endorsement.

Morrison, whose acclaimed novels usually concentrate of the lives of black women, said she has admired Clinton for years because of her knowledge and mastery of politics, but then dismissed that experience in favor of Obama's vision.

"In addition to keen intelligence, integrity and a rare authenticity, you exhibit something that has nothing to do with age, experience, race or gender and something I don't see in other candidates," Morrison wrote. "That something is a creative imagination which coupled with brilliance equals wisdom. It is too bad if we associate it only with gray hair and old age. Or if we call searing vision naivete. Or if we believe cunning is insight. Or if we settle for finessing cures tailored for each ravaged tree in the forest while ignoring the poisonous landscape that feeds and surrounds it.

"Wisdom is a gift; you can't train for it, inherit it, learn it in a class, or earn it in the workplace - that access can foster the acquisition of knowledge, but not wisdom," Morrison wrote.

In 1998, Morrison wrote a column for the New Yorker magazine in which she wrote of Bill Clinton: "White skin notwithstanding, this is our first black president. Blacker than any actual black person who could ever be elected in our children's lifetime. After all, Clinton displays almost every trope of blackness: single-parent household, born poor, working-class, saxophone-playing, McDonald's-and-junk-food-loving boy from Arkansas."

Obama responded to Morrison's endorsement with a written statement: "Toni Morrison has touched a nation with the grace and beauty of her words, and I was deeply moved and honored by the letter she wrote and the support she is giving our campaign."

Ted Kennedy Snubs Hillary - Bill Clinton Phones In To Try To Stop It

January 27, 2008
WASHINGTON -- Senator Edward M. Kennedy will endorse Barack Obama for president tomorrow, breaking his year-long neutrality to send a powerful signal of where the legendary Massachusetts Democrat sees the party going -- and who he thinks is best to lead it.

“This is the biggest Democratic endorsement Obama could possibly get short of Bill Clinton,” said a high-level Democrat.

The Clinton campaign launched a last-ditch effort over the last few days to stop Kennedy's move, orchestrating a flood of phone calls to Kennedy from sources ranging from union chiefs to his Massachusetts constituents. The former president also called Kennedy in a vain attempt to keep him out of the race, a source familiar with the conversation said. See full article

Does what happened to the Clintons 10 Years Ago Matter?

On January 17, 1998, Matt Drudge (www.drudgereport.com) posted a story that opened the the Monica Lewinsky Scandal. He reported that Newsweek magazine had killed a story about President Clinton’s sexual relationship with a former intern. The next day he had her name: Monica Lewinsky.

It's been 10 Years. We know what happened to Bill Clinton.

Now he is campaigning tirelessly for his wife and hoping to put himself back in the White House with her.

Does this matter? After all 10 years have passed.

Ten years from now do we want to be looking back at
the potential 8 years of scandal from another Clinton
era? The past often predicts the future.

Read ALL The Details on www.againsthillary.com

Bill Clinton Says Obama is Just Like Jesse Jackson

From ABC News Senior National Correspondent
Jake Tapper's blog

Bubba: Obama Is Just Like Jesse Jackson

I can't understand why anyone would think the Clintons
are running a race-baiting campaign to paint Obama as
"the black candidate."

Clinton Gets Crushed In South Carolina - Caroline Kennedy Endorses Obama

Barack Obama crushed top rival Hillary Clinton in the South Carolina Democratic primary. Clinton came in a distant second behind Obama and John Edwards took another third place slot.

Caroline Kennedy


Obama as the victor in South Carolina also gained an endorsement from Caroline Kennedy. She compared him to her late father, President John F. Kennedy.

"I have never had a president who inspired me the way people tell me that my father inspired them," she wrote on The New York Times op-ed page. "But for the first time, I believe I have found a man who could be that president - and not just for me, but for a new generation of Americans."

Flashback to the Past and The Future? On This Day in 1998

On this day, January 26, 1998, Bill Clinton with Hillary
standing by his side, held a White House news conference:

With his fist clenched and his voice shaking,
he said:




"I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky.

Read the Story and Watch The Video

Is this the man and woman you want back in the White House running
America?

Hillary is Out of the Spelling Bee! Humor

Hillary is Out of the Spelling Bee

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,21831498-5001021,00.html?from=public_rss

First Black President (Clinton??) Sleeps During Service on MLK Day

Former President Bill Clinton was once honored as the nation's first black president Saturday at the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) Annual Awards Dinner on in Washington, DC.

On the campaign trail for his wife, Hillary, Bill Clinton fell asleep at a service from Dr Martin Luther King Jr at the Convent Ave Baptist Church in Harlem, New York.

Bill Clinton Falls Asleep During Martin Luther King Speech


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Hillary Waffles, Flip Flops, and Has Amnesia...Over WalMart

Hillary has a bit of amnesia over her ties to Walmart


Hillary and Wal-Mart: A Love Story
Posted February 7, 2006 | 10:34 AM (EST) Jonathan Tasini
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-tasini/hillary-and-walmart-a-l_b_15235.html

Excerpt:
when asked what she did about the company's benefits for workers when she served on the board, she replied, "Well, you know, I, that was a long time ago ... have to remember..."

You can't have it both ways. You can't promote an image of being an intelligent woman who has a pile of facts at her fingertips but, at the same time, you suffer a sudden bout of amnesia when asked to answer for your record. And it would be an inconvenient record to defend.

In 1992, Wal-Mart was simply smaller than it is today. But it was still huge, with $43.9 billion in net sales, 1,714 stores and 371,000 employees. Even in 1992, Wal-Mart was already the world's largest retailer.

And the board Hillary Clinton sat on was rabidly anti-union, was exploiting sweatshop labor around the world, discriminating against women workers, forcing workers to labor off the clock and destroying communities that did not want them. This should not be a shock: Clinton was a partner in the Rose law firm, one of the most active anti-union law firms in the country.

Bill Clinton Acting ‘Like a Madman,’ Says Kim Jong-Il

From the award winning Andy Borowitz Report

Former President Bill Clinton is behaving “like a madman” as he campaigns for his wife, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY), and needs to get control over his erratic outbursts, North Korean President Kim Jong-Il said today.

While the reclusive Mr. Kim rarely comments on U.S. politics, the North Korean president said that he felt “compelled” to speak out because Mr. Clinton’s behavior on the campaign trail “had gone too far.”

Read the entire report at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/andy-borowitz/bill-clinton-keys-obamas_b_80525.html

Bill Clinton's finger-wagging similar to during the Monica Lewinsky Scandal

Bill Clinton is showing his flashes of anger and is once again wagging his finger as he fights for to help Hillary in her presidential bid.


Clinton waved his finger in the face of a reporter who asked him to comment on a suggestion that Clinton campaign tactics had raised the issue of race.

Clinton said reporters were being fed such questions by Obama's campaign.

"So they just spin you up on this, and you happily go along. The people don't care about this. They never ask about it. And you are determined to take this election away from them," he said, waving his finger at the reporter. Video clips of the exchange have been viewed widely on the Internet.

The Dallas Morning News editorial page felt compelled to comment, writing that "there's something disconcerting, even diminishing, about watching a former president get down and dirty on the campaign trail."

For Americans the finger-wagging recalled Clinton's similar gesture when on television he furiously denied accusations -- later proved true -- of his having had sex with White House intern Monica Lewinsky when he was president.

See Bill's "Denial Video" BelowWatch for the finger wag!

Is Bill Clinton Abusing The Truth?

WASHINGTON (CNN) — John Kerry, the Democratic Party's 2004 nominee for president, took aim at Bill Clinton Friday, telling the National Journal the former president does "not have a license to abuse the truth."



The Massachusetts senator, who endorsed Barack Obama's White House bid earlier this month, said Clinton's criticisms of the Illinois senator have been "over the top," and suggested the former president is getting "frantic."

Targeting Clinton's recent spate of attacks on Obama, Kerry said,

"I think you had an abuse of the truth, is what happened. …I mean, being an ex-president does not give you license to abuse the truth, and I think that over the last days it's been over the top.

"I think it's very unfortunate, but I think the voters can see through that," Kerry added. "When somebody's coming on strong and they are growing, people get a little frantic, and I think people have seen this sort of franticness in the air, if you will."

More on this story at: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/01/25/kerry-blasts-bill-clinton-for-abusing-truth/

Smiling Clintons Caught with Indicted Slum Lord

As first reported on January 25, 2008 on Drudge
www.drudgereport.com




'I DON'T REMEMBER MEETING REZKO'
Fri Jan 25 2008 07:40:02
Photo surfaces of smiling Clintons with Tony Rezko.

A photo of Hillary and Bill Clinton with Chicago landlord Tony Rezko raised eyebrows today. But will the photo blunt the effectiveness of one of Clinton's most recent attack points against rival Obama.

The photo shows Rezko -- who is awaiting trial next month on federal corruption charges -- flanked by the smiling Clintons.