MetaFilter posts tagged with hillaryclinton

Criminalizing Homosexuality in Uganda.

idiopath — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 01:33:09 -0800

The Ugandan government is considering a law that would criminalize homosexuality, advocacy for gay rights, or even failing to report homosexuals to the govenment. And death for HIV+ gays. And who is behind this? An American group with purported ties to the administration called the Family. via

Army overthrows Honduras president

shetterly — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 14:16:28 -0800

Army overthrows Honduras president in what some fear may be Obama's First Coup d'Etat. A troublesome circumstance: Key leaders of Honduras military coup trained in U.S. But condemning the coup with many others, Hillary Clinton says, "The action taken against Honduran President Manuel Zelaya violates the precepts of the Inter-American Democratic Charter and thus should be condemned by all." Earlier on metafilter: A School for Torture and Is the CIA tampering with Venezuelan elections?

100 Days of Obama: the Flickr Potustream

East Manitoba Regional Junior Kabaddi Champion '94 — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 20:39:32 -0800

After one hundred days, the wait is over: Pete Souza's Gargantuan Presidential High-Definition Executive Flickrdump is here. Warning: If you put it on fullscreen you won't get anything else done for a while.

Hillary Clinton to accept Obama's offer of secretary of state job

defenestration — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:50:05 -0800

Hillary Clinton plans to accept the job of secretary of state offered by Barack Obama, who is reaching out to former rivals to build a broad coalition administration, the Guardian has learned.

More lipstick!

humannaire — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 23:06:22 -0800

Tina Fey as Sarah Palin on SNL [advert precedes video]

Keeping it in "The Family"...

vhsiv — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:12:39 -0800

Diane Rehm talks to Jeff Sharlet Sharlet and his book, "The Family" have been discussed previously here on the blue, but he was interviewed this morning by Diane Rehm on WAMU, here in D.C. (And no, this isn't a self-link, just a follow-up to a couple of interesting threads that have gone up in recent months.)

...oh look everybody, a black lady voter....

orthogonality — Mon, 26 May 2008 16:06:31 -0800

"'Hello pig farmers!'... oh look everybody, a black lady voter... I am going left with the political thumb pointed down... I am now the center of attention...." Rosemary Watson's impersonation of Hillary Clinton in That Hillary Show is dead-on perfect. Listening to the clips with your eyes closed, it's nearly impossible to distinguish the actor from the politician. Right down to the trademark Hillary chuckle. Except that Rosemary Watson's Hillary is far funnier.

The story of the Democratic primaries so far, boiled down to seven minutes.

goodnewsfortheinsane — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:10:22 -0800

The Democratic Primary Season in 7 Minutes.

Political Ties To a Secretive Religious Group

ericb — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:25:19 -0800

“For more than 50 years, the National Prayer Breakfast has been a Washington institution. Every president has attended the breakfast since Eisenhower, elbow-to-elbow with Democrats and Republicans alike.”^* The event is sponsored by a secretive Capitol Hill group known as “The Fellowship,” (aka The Family)* “For 15 years, Hillary Clinton has been part of [this] secretive religious group that seeks to bring Jesus back to Capitol Hill.” An exposé of the group 'The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power,' by Jeff Sharlet will be published in May. [NBC video]. From Jeff Sharlet's book jacket:

“They are ‘the Family’—fundamentalism’s avant-garde, waging spiritual war in the halls of American power and around the globe. They consider themselves the ‘new chosen,’ congressmen, generals, and foreign dictators who meet in confidential ‘cells,’ to pray and plan for a ‘leadership led by God,’ to be won not by force but through ‘quiet diplomacy.’ Their base is a leafy estate overlooking the Potomac in Arlington, Virginia, and Jeff Sharlet is the only journalist to have written from inside its walls. The Family is about the other half of American fundamentalist power—not its angry masses, but its sophisticated elites. Sharlet follows the story back to Abraham Vereide, an immigrant preacher who in 1935 organized a small group of businessmen sympathetic to European fascism, fusing the Far Right with his own polite but authoritarian faith. From that core, Vereide built an international network of fundamentalists who spoke the language of establishment power, a ‘family’ that thrives to this day. In public, they host prayer breakfasts; in private they preach a gospel of ‘biblical capitalism,’ military might, and American empire. Citing Hitler, Lenin, and Mao, Doug Coe, the Family’s current leader, declares, ‘We work with power where we can, build new power where we can’t.’ Sharlet’s discoveries dramatically challenge conventional wisdom about American fundamentalism, revealing its crucial role in the unraveling of the New Deal, the waging of the Cold War, and the no-holds-barred economics of globalization. The question Sharlet believes we must ask is not ‘What do fundamentalists want?’ but ‘What have they already done?’”

Kaos vs Control

misha — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:15:42 -0800

Rush Limbaugh may be facing indictment for a fifth-degree felony after encouraging Republican voters to cross party lines and vote for Hillary Clinton ("Operation Chaos"), but if you hurry you can still buy the shirt. Previously.

No, it's literally raining McCain.

EarBucket — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 20:57:12 -0800

You've probably seen Hillary4U&Me or Hillary In The House, but you should know that Senator Clinton's supporters don't have a monopoly on awesome/hilarious propaganda. Witness Barack OBollywood and The McCain Girls in "It's Rainin' McCain!"

Plagiarize a Presidential Candidate

anotherpanacea — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 13:57:53 -0800

Hillary Clinton's senior thesis is available online. (pdf) How the Clintons wrapped up Hillary's thesis Hillary, Soros, Alinsky, and Rush Race between Clinton and Obama surfaces radically different views of politics, citizens’ roles

I Dream of Hillary... I Dream of Barack

Fuzzy Monster — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 08:26:12 -0800

I Dream of Hillary... I Dream of Barack. The world's first metaphysical poll on the Democratic contenders. Complied by Sheila Heti.

this was our president

kliuless — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 09:25:14 -0800

Bill Clinton on Charlie Rose - on display: Thoughtful Visionary as well as Political Animal; cf. Howard Dean and Jimmy Carter.

Falling

growabrain — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 08:50:16 -0800

Hillary Clinton Falling In pantsuit or Bikini. Made by Planet Dan. That is all. (Previous empty suit)

The Fellowship's long-term goal is "a leadership led by God—leaders of all levels of society who direct projects as they are led by the spirit."

orthogonality — Sun, 09 Sep 2007 21:07:37 -0800

[Her] prayer group was part of the Fellowship (or "the Family"), a network of sex-segregated cells of political, business, and military leaders dedicated to "spiritual war" on behalf of Christ,... The Fellowship believes that the elite win power by the will of God, who uses them for his purposes. Its mission is to help the powerful understand their role in God's plan.

Whose prayer group? Hillary Clinton's.

"This was what college students did before Facebook."

kliuless — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 12:49:59 -0800

Hillary Clinton as Lisa Simpson!? Not sure if I put my finger on it, but that's my impression reading some excerpts from letters Hillary Clinton wrote to a high school friend whilst in college. I've been entertaining Barack Obama as Lincoln -- an impression he's actively cultivated (so, another Simpsons tie-in :) -- and I welcome uncanned glimpses into candidates' formative years to get a better idea of their 'character' (as if they're running on character and 'bio') so it was great to read her reminisce on her childhood: "I'd play out in the patch of sunlight that broke the density of the elms in front of our house and pretend there were heavenly movie cameras watching my every move."

Low Cost Media and Distribution || High Impact Message Delivery

ericb — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 14:40:00 -0800

"Why should candidates, or issue groups, spend millions on traditional advertising when they can generate hundreds of thousands of hits from simply uploading a video? Take, for example, the Hillary Clinton campaign's use of a Soprano’s spoof to unveil a campaign theme song....she generated a stunning amount of favorable press and television coverage (not to mention millions of dollars worth of free advertising)."^* A well produced video distributed on the Web can have great impact. For example, in a dispute last year a United Steelworkers union video forced Goodyear back to the bargaining table. A new video produced by the International Association of Firefighters may have impact on Rudy Guiliani's campaign for President. "...[The video's] release on the Internet hints at a broadening effort to spread [the union's] dim assessment of the Mayor and has already drawn comparisons with the campaign by the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth against John Kerry in 2004."^*

Don't Stop

box — Sat, 19 May 2007 08:51:46 -0800

Help pick Hillary Clinton's campaign theme song. Previous presidential theme music discussion here.

Foxy 'doch hosts hill funder

delmoi — Fri, 19 May 2006 23:50:55 -0800

Rupert Murdoch Is the CEO of Fox News's parent company, News Corp., and owns a controlling interest. So it might surprise you that he's hosting a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton. Is he simply rewarding a reliable big-business vote, Or does he see a change in the winds? He tends to support who's ever in power, including "Liberal" Tony Blair and the Chinese Government. Or maybe he's just being friendly.

Dueling Pundits on 2008

bardic — Sun, 07 May 2006 09:47:48 -0800

Why Hillary Can't Win (by Markos "Kos" Moulitsas). Why John Can't Win (by Byron York). (via)

Plus ca change

twsf — Fri, 28 Apr 2006 05:56:49 -0800

Do the Democrats need just one big idea, one that may sound familiar from Hillary Clinton's time as First Lady when she was hanging out with Amitai Etzioni, Michel Lerner and other advocates of "communitarianism". Or is this just not the right historical moment?

Or, maybe not

orthogonality — Thu, 09 Mar 2006 14:57:13 -0800

Democratic Party leaders become relavent, take couragous position on war, civil liberties, and other issues vitally important to country's future.

Media Blacklists Net-based Filibuster Push

troutfishing — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 07:07:11 -0800

Media outraced by Bloggers, Kerry appeal to netroots galvanizes suprise drive against Alito On Google News, you'll read how US Democratic Senators Obama and Biden are against a filibuster. Old news. They've agreed to support it. Encouraged by direct appeals by Senators. Kerry and Kennedy to internet activists, a blizzard of calls, emails, and faxes, organized via the Daily Kos and other blogs - with tactical direction from Kennedy - have helped flip the positions of several Democratic senators, and as of Saturday some claimed the push was already within 2 votes of forcing continued Senate debate on the Alito nomination. In fact, the pro-filibuster bloc might have started with 37 votes Meanwhile, today, Morning Edition, which declined to run the filibuster push as a top story and failed to mention the internet effort, asked Senator Kennedy on Senator Hillary Clinton's opposition to the filibuster: actually, she joined the effort last Friday [ see main link ] : D'oh !

Hillary Clinton for V.P.?

Rastafari — Wed, 30 Jun 2004 15:14:32 -0800

Hillary Clinton as Kerry's V.P.? Let the speculations begin...