Carville vs. Richardson

New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson endorsed Barack Obama last week. It didn’t sit well with the Clintons. Adviser James Carville said, “Mr. Richardson’s endorsement came right around the anniversary of the day when Judas sold out for 30 pieces of silver, so I think the timing is appropriate, if ironic.” That is a Carville slap right there.

Richardson responded by saying, “I’m not going to get in the gutter like that and you know that’s typical of the many of the people around Senator Clinton. They think they have a sense of entitlement to the presidency.” Bang. Take that Carville. Take that Hillary. Take that Bill. Keep in mind, Richardson served as US Ambassador to the United Nations and as Energy Secretary under former President Clinton. Richardson added, “it shouldn’t just be Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton, what about the rest of us?” Think about this. We could have a four president span that stays in two families.

Given that neither side is giving up we can expect a few more months of this.

Hillary caught in a lie

In 1996, First Lady Hillary Clinton went to Bosnia.  During the 2008 campaign Clinton has talked about her experience in the war torn country.  She said, “I remember landing under sniper fire.  There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles.”  As this video shows Hillary is flat out wrong.  The entire landing was caught on video.  No where does Clinton duck.  She is not wearing a bullet proof vest.  She doesn’t appear to be in danger.   Reporters from both CBS and NBC that were on the trip have both now said Clinton was wrong about her “sniper fire” description.

Clinton has admitted to making a mistake, but hasn’t admitted to embellishing.  She said this, “I did misspeak, the other day, you know this has been a very long campaign (laughs).  Occasionally, I am a human being like everyone else.”  A mistake due to long campaigning is getting a couple of statistics wrong.  This is a Hillary Clinton flat out lie.  You don’t mistakenly remember sniper fire when it wasn’t there.  She should just admit she was making that part up to further exemplify her foreign policy credentials.   After all, Clinton keeps campaigning on her “35 years” of experience.  I know all politicians trump up their pasts and to make themselves look better.  But, do we have to fall for it every time?

Fewer Border Crossings Show Troubled Economy

by Jim Cross/KTAR
An Arizona State University research economist says she could see rocky times ahead for Arizona’s economy a year before the real problems emerged.Dawn McLaren with the W.P. Carey School of Business said a slowdown in border apprehensions of illegal immigrants tipped her off.“When the work starts to dry up, then they don’t come,” McLaren said. “And this happened long before our slowdown. It gives us about a year’s heads-up on the turnaround.”

McLaren said illegal immigrants are highly networked.

“The one who has a job here will call home to his hometown and say, `Hey, we need more people on our construction crew, we need more people doing this type of work or that type of work.”

McLaren said as soon as more illegal immigrants start trying to cross the border, “I’ll feel better. I’ll say, `Well, here comes the upturn in the economy.’”

Authorities credit the drop in illegal border crossings to stepped up enforcement and tough employer sanctions against hiring illegal immigrants.

McLaren said Arizona may have a tougher time digging its way out of the current economic slup than it did in the 1980s.

“We had Motorola and we had Intel, we had the semi-conductor industry then that we could say, `This will pull us out of it,’” she said. “We also had affordable housing, we were really an affordable place to live.”

Written by rob · Filed Under Economy, Immigration 

Hillary Lied…Umm I mean Misspoke

March 25, 2008

Written by rob · Filed Under Videos