Track Hillary Clinton on Americans Elect!

Our friend Brian Augustine found that HRC has been added to Americans Elect .  I signed up and am tracking her.  If you have a little trouble with step 2, be persistent.  I had to do it three or four times before I finally got to step 3.  

Let's all register and start tracking her!  Let's show our Hillary some love!

Note:  I am new to this and not completely sure how it works, so comments from people with helpful information are welcome!

Video: New Hampshire for Hillary 2012 from Boowitch13

Here's a great Christmas gift from Boowitch13.  Her work is always outstanding.  This speaks for itself!  Please share!  Let's do it right this time!

Hillary Robocalls and a Petition

Reported robocalls, which I have tried (and failed) to post here are connected to this petition site.  (If I can figure out how to post the MP3 here above the fold, I shall.  If I cannot, maybe Jen can figure out how to share it in the thread since she put it on Facebook.)

Sign the petition! 

YES! 
I support Hillary Rodham Clinton to be our next President.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton should be the Democratic Party’s 2012 Presidential nominee. 
Run Hillary Run!

GO TO THE PETITION SITE AND SIGN!!!!>>>>

Media Reads on a Hillary Run: Caddell and Schoen Part II

Well finally Caddell and Schoen have published the long-awaited part two to their November 21 WSJ op-ed.  We applaud loudly!  Without further ado, here you go!

New Hampshire voters should draft Hillary

By PATRICK H. CADDELL and DOUGLAS E. SCHOEN | 12/18/11 10:15 PM EST

We argued in a recent Wall Street Journal op-ed piece that President Barack Obama should stand down and let Secretary of State Hillary Clinton run as the Democratic presidential nominee in 2012.
We are now calling on Democratic voters nationally — particularly in New Hampshire — to organize a write-in campaign for Clinton. This is something that New Hampshire voters have a long history of doing.

We advocate this Draft Hillary movement not because of the desire to make political mischief — but to put the country on the right course.

Read more >>>>

Saturday Night Hillary Encouragement: Tell Hillary We Need Her!

Last weekend I posted this conversation between my friend Rumana and President Clinton as Rumana related it on Facebook.   It took place in the Chappaqua library at  President Clinton's book signing, and Rumana was speaking for all of us.

I said to him hello Mr. President me and my friends want to know if Hillary will run, and I mean in 2012 and not 2016. He paused for a sec. And said she keeps saying no but if she gets enough encouragement maybe she will change her mind.
I said you should go to S4h FB page and see we are encouraging her. He put his hand on my shoulder and said if lot more people encourage her maybe she will run. I said Mr. President we are talking about 2012 please do something. He said she needs to know you are there for her and I said please tell her. ;)

So this weekend again,  Mme. Secretary, we want you to know that we are here for you. We never left you. Here and on my Facebook wall  (the one Rumana told President Clinton to look at) we again are posting our words of encouragement.   We hope you have a chance to read them all.  We are ready.  We have stayed together over four years ... for you. 

You asked us that question on August 26 2008.  You asked us if we were in it for you or for the people you told us about in your speech.  In a blog that I have since allowed to go defunct  I responded to your question.  This is part of what I said in that post.

There are those who will argue that this denouement was her own doing. Well, I guess it was her fault for running, for reaching out as she did, for listening, for offering hope, for speaking to the issues people put before her, for getting to know so many people, for letting us get to know her, for working so indefatigably, and so cheerfully that 18,000,000 of us voted for her. Worse, so many of us chose her not just by the regular, simple, intellectual method of analyzing platform issues but also because we got to see the real Hillary inside shining out and fell in love.

So when she tells me to ask myself if I was in this for her or for those people she met and told us about, I have to say for both. When she says she'll work her heart out for Obama, I know she means it and has been doing that for months. She asks me to support and vote for Obama, and all I sense are the constraints on her to unite the party. And, you know, if I really thought that would fix things in the country I would do it in a NY minute.

The things that were wrong in the country are even worse now than in 2008.  We are not better off. The people you spoke of in that speech are not better off. We are worse off.   We, who voted for you, knew then that you could fix this country.  You have continued working your heart out for the nation and this administration and are the best Secretary of State I have seen in my life, but we need you on the domestic front.  We love you.  We know you hear us and that we are not invisible to you.

Poll: Should Obama Quit and Endorse Hillary? Weigh in and encourage HRC!

Here is a poll from U.S. News & World Report.  HRC is polling above 70% to replace Obama as I post this.  Weigh in and let our girl know we really need her right now!

Washington Whispers

-Paul Bedard

Whispers Quiz: Should Obama Quit, Endorse Hillary?

December 13, 2011 RSS Feed Print
Two Democratic pollsters, Jimmy Carter's Pat Caddell and Bill Clinton's Doug Schoen, recently offered a provocative proposal that is still catching steam: President Obama, facing possible defeat in 2012, should step down and endorse Secretary of State Hillary Clinton as the Democratic nominee. Even Mitt Romney would bet $10,000 that it won't happen, but what do you think of their idea?

GO TO THE PAGE AND WEIGH IN >>>>

Please, Hillary, Run!

On this blog there is a long archive which,  at some point in August,  I began entitling "Media Reads on a Hillary Run."   The comment threads on those posts are chock-full of comments from HRC's supporters who wish she would run again for POTUS and not wait until 2016 to do so.  Many of us are dissatisfied to the point of infinite frustration with the way Barack Obama has squandered his golden opportunity to bring real change as he promised.  Most of us did not vote for him and did vote for HRC.

The list of reasons is long, but encapsulated comprises:

1. The Leadership Deficit:  Obama's inability to break the shell of his West Wing office and reach out to the opposition in a human and social fashion.  He would have been far more effective with the GOP had he approached them as human beings, had a few people, Boehner, McConnell over for lunch, and given Lisa Murkowski a congratulatory call for her amazing write-in victory,  than he proved to be by having them over for secret meetings where he lectured and adopted the stance of "the adult in the room."

2.  The Stalled Car:  For a long period last year,  he and his speech writers really liked that car metaphor, but the truth was that the car was stalled.  It stalled over the Gulf  oil spill and the jobs the government could have generated with a CCC type effort to clean up the gulf.  In fact, from day one, jobs should have been a priority but were put on a back burner for a badly flawed and wanting health care plan wherein he withdrew the single payer option.

3.  The Phenomenal Collapsing President: Every time the Republicans stood shoulder to shoulder, Obama simply laid down on the tracks and gave the GOP what they wanted (or he thought they wanted)  before they even demanded it.  He was,  according to John Conyers, the one who offered up the social safety nets on a silver platter before they even brought up that subject during last August's budget crisis.  The GOP candidates are correct.  Obama is an appeaser.  Not in foreign policy.  He appeases them on domestic issues without even being asked.  We have seen almost three years of this!

4.  The Hesitation Blues:  How long must we wait?  Obama left for an August vacay saying he would introduce a jobs bill after he got back .. after Labor Day.  Americans who are out of work could not afford that wait.  They do not have vacations,  and,  while Labor Day is a holiday for those of us who have jobs, they have no holidays.  It is simply another day when they cannot look for a job. In the foreign policy arena, he waited longer than necessary to establish the No Fly Zone in Libya, and we do know that HRC rounded up a posse to change his mind.

So this evening I have no media articles to prompt this post.  Instead I have a short conversation between my friend Rumana and President Clinton this afternoon at a book signing in Chappaqua.  Here is Rumana's synopsis:

I said you should go to S4h FB page and see we are encouraging her. He put his hand on my shoulder and said if lot more people encourage her maybe she will run. I said Mr. President we are talking about 2012 please do something. He said she needs to know you are there for her and I said please tell her. ;)

So this is OUR golden opportunity!  Please comment here, but also at the Facebook page.  President Clinton, and maybe even our preferred candidate, Hillary Rodham Clinton,  will be looking there for our encouragement.  Let's go all out this weekend  and let her see the support that is out here!  


Hillary, may we have this dance?  You are the best hope to put this country back on the rails.  You are the best qualified for this hands down!  We need you!  Please, please listen to us.  Please run!!!!