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Hillary and Bill Clinton have made a significant issue about how the press is treating Hillary unfairly in their hyper-critical reporting on her and their “softball” reporting on Barak Obama. Hillary maintains she has been fully investigated by the media and Barak hasn’t!

As the Tony Rezko trial begins in Chicago, Clinton and her surrogates are linking Obama to Rezko and the media is speculating about whether Obama will be called to testify as a witness in the case. Obama has always admitted he received $85,000 in contributions from Rezko which Obama has now donated to charity rather than keep.

Yet the civil fraud trial of Bill Clinton for defrauduing Hillary’s largest donor in 2000 into giving her campaign more than $1.2 million, pending in Los Angeles courts since 2003, is now preparing for a November, 2008 trial. The discovery that is now proceeding after a February 21 hearing, and the pending trial, have NEVER been announced by the mainstream media.

Hillary was able to extricate herself as a co-defendant in the case in January, 2008 after years of appeals to be protected by the First Amendment from tort claims arising out of federal campaign solicitations she made. Her abuse of the intent of California’s anti-SLAPP law after the California Supreme Court refused to dismiss her from the case in 2004 is emblematic of her contempt for the Rule of Law.

Hillary will be called as a witness in both discovery and the trial according to the trial court Judge who so-advised Hillary’s attorney David Kendall when he dismissed Hillary as a co-defendant in 2007. A subpoena is being prepared this month and will be served personally on Hillary, along with Chelsea, Pa Gov. Ed Rendell, Al Gore and other well known political and media figures.

Yet the media has refused to report about this landmark civil fraud case- brought by Hillary’s biggest 2000 donor to her Senate race, regarding allegations that were corroborated by the Department of Justice in the criminal trial of Hillary’s finance director David Rosen in May, 2005. That indictment and trial was credited as resulting from the civil suit’s allegations by Peter Paul, the Hollywood dot com millionaire Bill Clinton convinced to donate more than $1.2 million (according to the DOJ prosecutors and the FBI) to Hillary’s Senate campaign as part of a post White House business deal with Bill.

The media - except for World Net Daily- has also suspiciously refused to report on Hillary’s last FEC report regarding her 2000 Senate campaign, filed in January 30, 2006. In a secret settlement of an FEC complaint by the plaintiff in Paul v Clinton, Peter Paul, the FEC fined Hillary’s campaign $35,000 for hiding more than $720,000 in donations from Paul, and it required Hillary’s campaign to file a 4th amended FEC report.

In that report Hillary and her campaign again hid Paul’s $1.2 million contribution to her campaign and falsely attributed $250,000 as being donated by Paul’s partner, Spider Man creator Stan Lee, who swore in a video taped deposition he never gave Hillary or her campaign any money.

Lee did testify to trading $100,000 checks with Paul to make it appear he gave $100,000 to Hillary’s campaign (admission of a felony) but none of that has been reported by the “overly critical” media!

Where is the outrage from Obama that the press is engaging in a double standard relating to his possible role in the Rezko trial and his refunding the $85,000 contributed to his campaign by Rezko- which Obama has always admitted taking. The media makes no mention of Hillary’s role as a witness in Bill’s fraud trial for defrauding Hillary’s largest donor- and Hillary’s refusal to refund the $1.2 million she illegally received from Paul, which she has denied taking from Paul ever since the Washington Post asked her about Paul and his felony convictions from the 1970’s before her first Senate election in 2000?

What a coup for Montana!

Bearbait...you O'Really think he'll drop the O'Bama?

I think it is the O'Clinton lass that would fit well into Butte politics.

She has a wee bit more of the bare knuckles about her, eh?

I am sure sorry that the mess with Obama's pastor has surfaced. To see Hillary benefit from it makes me sick. See: http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/03/obamas-judgment-wright-or-wron.php

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Obama's judgment: Wright or Wrong

By - March 14, 2008, 4:11PM
By now everyone has seen some of the exceedingly provocative clips from Mr. Wright's (Obama's pastor) sermons. As an Obama supporter I am assailed by the following questions/confusions regarding the fallout of this episode. I have tried my hardest (believe me it's been excruciatingly hard)
to objectively confront the implications of our candidate's
relationship with his pastor. I persuaded myself to face these
questions by telling myself that one is nothing if one is not
intellectually honest:

1. There is an undeniable close knit 20 year relationship between the pastor and Obama. I gather, the Pastor married Barrack and Michelle, baptized his children, dedicated Obama's house, has been his "sounding board" for all that time. The title of Obama's book "Audacity of Hope" is from the Pastor's sermon. From WSJ I gather, the Pastor was one of the first people Obama thanked after his election to the Senate in 2004. That, Obama consulted him before deciding to run for president and prayed privately with him before announcing his candidacy last year. How can one distance oneself from this deep and this long a relationship? That would be akin to trying to distance yourself from half your life. Won't it?

2. The Pastor called US the number one killer, held US responsible for AIDS/9-11/Mandela's imprisonment and apartheid/Palestinian
plight/killing of innocents to bring down Castro & Libya - I mean,
it goes on and on over, not one or two, but several sermons. How do you explain how you presumably sat through such incendiary sermons with your family? Or, at a minimum, continued having a spiritual relationship despite such rhetoric?

3. Then I read that these clips directly contradict some of the things Obama has been saying about the pastor. It seems Obama said clearly that he does not regard his church to be "controversial". While addressing the Jewish Leaders he apparently explained his pastor's anti-Zionist statements as being rooted in Israel's support for South Africa when it seems those statements were never qualified as that. I don't know if anyone has more insights on this...
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Marion, I just saw on the news that Barack is sinking and Hillary is rising in the polls after the fallout with his pastor and his friend Rezko. And now there is the revelation of his support of earmark pork projects one of which directly targeted his wife's hospital.

He cannot dazzle voters with experience. All he has is to claim to have superior judgement and be the candidate of change. These problems reveal seriously flawed judgement. As to change, it looks like politics as usual.

So I ask, Without resorting to nebulous platitudes and political fingerpointing at the other candidates, what exactly qualifies Barack Obama to be president at this moment in time?

Come on Montana, your neighbors in Wyoming voted big time for Barack Obama. Our Governor endorsed him as well. I know from all I have read and researched (this has taken time for me to decide on as well) that Barack knows and loves the West. He has our greatest interests at heart and he believes that the Rocky Mountain western states know what is best for ourselves. He is encouraging us to be more self-sufficient and to develop alternative energy. He will encourage our state leaders to provide better roads, better bridges, better infrastructure and will encourage sustainable agriculture that will be far healthier and put our local farmers and ranchers back into business. He is encouraging future farmers and ranchers to get educated in agriculture and livestock along with providing money to help young farmers and ranchers get started. He really gets it. Go to BarackObama.com and look at the issues column and then go to Rural and click on it. You'll find a whole host of wonderful info there that is part of the hope through solutions that he is talking about.

We can show the East that we Westerners have the key to the future and can make a world of difference in this nation we love so dearly.

Thanks a million Montana!