Some of you may be influenced by the endorsements of print media. Others may be persuaded by political leaders. As for me, I like the way Coplay Dems think. This is from their executive board.The 2008 Presidential election is the most important Presidential election since the 1930's when Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected to clean up the mess created by Republican administrations.
We believe our nation can not afford another four years of Republican rule. We have another Republican mess to clean up.
We have two excellent Democratic candidates in Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. The race appears headed to roughly a tie.
We, like many of you, have received numerous phone calls from both camps asking who we are supporting this Tuesday.
We suggest when you get these calls asking you who you support, consider saying the following, "I am supporting the Obama - Clinton ticket, or the Clinton - Obama ticket". The caller will then say to you, "Oh, you are undecided." Consider answering the caller this way, "No, I have decided and I want to see both of them on the ticket, and I don't care if they don't get along. They won't be living in the same house in Washington. But, together they will win. If we win we can have positive change for our country."
Please take the time to vote this Tuesday. After the primary and throughout the Summer, talk to your neighbors, and friends. Get them energized to vote in November for a Clinton - Obama ticket or Obama - Clinton ticket.
The Republican dirty tricks machine will be in full force this year. They will, like in 2000, do anything to win up to and including stealing the election. We must fully understand this is about winning the White House to improve our country.
We believe a Clinton - Obama ticket, or Obama - Clinton ticket will win. If you agree, send this email to all of your Democratic friends and Democratic groups. The stakes are too high. Join us to start the movement to unify our party with a ticket consisting of two great Americans - Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Thank you for reading this and have a great weekend.
And, do not forget the Coplay Democratic Club "Spaghetti Dinner" Friday, 4/25/08 from 4-7 PM at the American Club of Coplay pavilion, 300 Cherry Street, Coplay. For tickets, $10. send me an email [Billleiner@aol.com] or call 610 751-2745.
The Executive Board of the Coplay Democratic Club ....
Nate Kromer, Secretary
Belinda White, Treasurer
Rachel Luckenbill, Vice President
Bill Leiner Jr., President
Barack doesn't belong on the ticket for the same reasons he doesn't deserve the nomination. Hillary is the best choice for President and like Mayor Panto of Easton said today at Liberty High School -- "the only two words I want to hear in January are "Madam President."
ReplyDeleteShe will make small town America an agenda priority.
I'm not quite sure why Hilary "deserves the nomination." What has she done, politically, to deem her worthy of the most powerful office in the free world?
ReplyDeleteI'm not saying Barack is the answer, but I'm lost as to why is best choice?
Timothy,
ReplyDeleteAs someone who is urging Republicans to support a candidate in a heavily Democratic district, I suggest you might think several times about one of these Democratic choices. Although I don't care much for Obama's Pa. campaign, I believe he represents a new approach to politics. His inspirational approach could help us at a time when we are suffering financially and in the world's eyes. Hillary Clinton is also a voice for change and has very specific approaches to global warming, health care, our energy dependence, the home mortgage crisis and our trickle down tax system, in which not much is trickling down. I also admire McCain's command of foreign policy and his independent style. I don't think he's anything like Bush.
If truth be told, all three are the "best answer." Many of my friends will be voting for Barack while I intend to vote for Hillary, in whom I have just a bit more confidence. Throughout her campaig, she has ceaselessly addressed every issue very specifically, anmd I direct you to her web page for details. The're impossible to miss.
What's sad is to see Barack, who can be so inspirational, make accusations that Clinton's style is "slash and burn." If either Clinton or McCain said something like that, they would be pilloried, but Obama is something of a MSM darling right now.
As far as McCain is concerned, he is a man of integrity who puts his beliefs over political expedience, even when it comes to Iraq. I have to respect that. But his age works against him.
Timothy,
ReplyDeleteOne other point. Mayor Sal Panto has it right - Hillary Clinton will restore an urban agenda that is sorely lacking right now, and that is very much to the detriment of places like A-town and Eston.
Hillary simply cannot tell the truth.
ReplyDeleteHere's her scorecard:
Admitted Lies
• Chelsea was jogging around the Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. (She was in bed watching it on TV.)
• Hillary was named after Sir Edmund Hillary. (She admitted she was wrong. He climbed Mt. Everest five years after her birth.)
• She was under sniper fire in Bosnia. (A girl presented her with flowers at the foot of the ramp.)
• She learned in The Wall Street Journal how to make a killing in the futures market. (It didn't cover the market back then.)
Whoppers She Won't Confess To
• She didn't know about the FALN pardons.
• She didn't know that her brothers were being paid to get pardons that Clinton granted.
• Taking the White House gifts was a clerical error.
• She didn't know that her staff would fire the travel office staff after she told them to do so.
• She didn't know that the Peter Paul fundraiser in Hollywood in 2000 cost $700,000 more than she reported it had.
• She opposed NAFTA at the time.
• She was instrumental in the Irish peace process.
• She urged Bill to intervene in Rwanda.
• She played a role in the '90s economic recovery.
• The billing records showed up on their own.
• She thought Bill was innocent when the Monica scandal broke.
• She was always a Yankees fan.
• She had nothing to do with the New Square Hasidic pardons (after they voted for her 1,400-12 and she attended a meeting at the White House about the pardons).
• She negotiated for the release of refugees in Macedonia (who were released the day before she got there).
With a record like that, is it any wonder that we suspect her of being less than honest and straightforward?
Does anyone else find it ironic that the first sentence of one of the paragraphs states that the "Republican dirty tricks machine will be in full force," and then the second sentence states that the Republicans will try to "steal another election?"
ReplyDeleteNot one place in this Democratic literature does it state WHY Clinton and Obama would be a good team, but they managed to take up space slamming the Republicans.... Pot??? It's Kettle calling!
JR
The very reason why an Obama/Clinton ticket would not work appears on this blog! The hate/dislike for one is concentrated on both! We need a north/south ticket!
ReplyDeleteRs should sit quietly while their opponents continue to shoot at each other. Neither D has been criticized for his or her solid liberal credentials (they've only differed on ten Senate votes out of almost 200).
ReplyDeleteIt doesn't get any better than this for McCain. He gets free negative ads, courtesy of his eventual competitor's competitor, and an opportunity to appear above the fray and quickly close a substantial fund raising gap.
Hillary? Barack? The outright winner in PA is already John McCain.
The very reason why an Obama/Clinton ticket would not work appears on this blog! The hate/dislike for one is concentrated on both! We need a north/south ticket!
ReplyDeleteI'm afraid you're right. Obama and Clinton clearly detest each other. McCain is emerging the victor.
Does anyone else find it ironic that the first sentence of one of the paragraphs states that the "Republican dirty tricks machine will be in full force," and then the second sentence states that the Republicans will try to "steal another election?"
JR, This is a letter from Dems to Dems. Do you expect it to be throwing lilacs and roses at Rs?
Anon 12:28,
Those whoppers don't seem like such a big deral to me. it appears that you are motivated by a desire to get rid of Clintons more than by a desire to elect a president. Factcheck.org reveals both have their ups and down.
Bernie,
ReplyDeleteI am a moderate. There is no reason why I wouldn't vote for one candidate just because of their political party.
I do not quite understand why Hilary "deserves" the nomination over Obama as Anon said at 10:05 last night. I just do not understand that logic or argument.
I agree that all three would make a difference.
Problems with Allentown and Easton (and other cities that are /much/ worse off like Camden and Trenton) are not because of who the President is or isn't but because of decades and decades of electing liberal leaders who, while they say they care for the poor and down and out, do absolutely nothing for them all the while using a mayorship or city council position to further personal interests. They tell the people not to worry and not to think and that city hall will do everything for them. And what does that get you? Two generations of people who cannot think or support themselves. This ideology has taken over the schools in cities too and now it had bred children who can't think either. Blame Bush if you want, but that's like blaming you the CEO if you suck at your job.
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