And here is a perfect example of how Swiftboating works. You see, Swiftboating is not about telling lies about someone. No, Swiftboating is all about undermining a candidate’s credibility. Because once you make them less credible on one issue, it is easy to extend that idea to every other thing that comes out of dem mouth. With Hillary’s experience in Bosnia, Wolfson and Singer read references from the NYTimes, Reuters and others from that period of time (3/25/96?) that described the conditions that Hillary travelled under. These news sources said that no first lady since Eleanor Roosevelt had travelled to such dangerous territory. The accounts gemmed with Hillary’s own description in her book that she was forced to cut short her visits to one airbase because of fighting nearby and that children that came to meet her on the tarmac needed to be quickly escorted away. Now, I don’t know if that qualifies as sniper fire but when I think about how Wes Clark was in a caravan in Bosnia and one of the personnel carriers just behind him plummeted off the side of a mountain, killing a couple of people, I am reminded that the former Yugoslavian republics were no vacation destination. People got hurt, killed. She took some risks going there.
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March 25, 2008 at 12:49 am |
March 24, 2008
Puerto Rico Moves Up Primary
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Filed at 5:51 p.m. ET
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Democratic Party on Monday approved Puerto Rico’s proposal to scrap its caucus and hold a presidential primary on June 1. A primary will give more voters a chance to take part in the nominating process, said Puerto Rico Democratic Chairman Roberto Prats. He said caucuses were fine in previous years, when the party nominee was already settled and the only task was to choose delegates to attend the party’s national convention.
”Now it’s different,” Prats told the Democratic National Committee’s rules panel in a conference call. ”This is the first time in decades that Puerto Rico will be participating in an event of this magnitude.” Democratic Sens. Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are locked in a historic fight for the nomination that could last all the way to this summer’s national convention. Puerto Rico will have 55 delegates at stake in its primary. Only three remaining states, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Indiana, have more delegates up for grabs.
Obama leads in the race for the nomination, with 1,620 delegates, including endorsements by superdelegates, the elected and party leaders who automatically attend the convention. Clinton has 1,499 delegates, according to the latest tally by The Associated Press. Prats said Puerto Rican supporters of both candidates backed the primary.
Puerto Rico’s original plan called for selecting delegates at caucuses June 7. However, after the DNC approved the plan in December, it was discovered that the date was a typo and should have read June 1, DNC officials said. The new date means that Montana and South Dakota will hold the party’s last nominating contests, on June 3.
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Puerto-Rico-Primary.html