Hillary Clinton
07/05/2008 > USA
Vote Clinton, not "Barack the Magic Negro"
In an attempt to stop Barack Obama from getting into the White House, a rightwing radio presenter has been encouraging Republican supporters to vote for Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primaries in the hope of getting the supposedly weaker candidate nominated to face John McCain. Read more...
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24/04/2008 > USA
Who are these power-snatching "super" delegates?
Photos: Cheryl Biren-Wright and "serlingrod"
With neither Barack Obama or Hillary Clinton reaching the minimum amount of delegates to be elected presidential nominee of the Democratic party, the final decision will be left to around 800 party members known as "superdelegates". Does that mean months of campaigning, vote counting and bickering were wasted on less than one percent of the Democratic electorate? A superdelegate answers. Read more...
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23/04/2008 > USA
Penn primary: a blue-collar worker tells us about his first time voting
A polling station in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Photo by Sandra Miller, a farmer who's following the primaries for the Observers.
Hillary Clinton won the Democratic primary in Pennsylvania yesterday, throwing her back into the nomination race. Rather than speculate the details of the results, we give the account of Mike Ruddy, a young blacksmith and one of the much-talked- about "blue-collar workers", who voted for the first time yesterday. Read more...
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18/04/2008 > USA
Below-the-belt campaign videos
Campaigning for the American presidency just got nastier in the run-up to the Pennsylvania primary on Tuesday. The only candidate to keep out of the campaign video catfight is Republican candidate John McCain... although the ageing conservative hasn't managed to avert attacks fired in his direction. Here's our selection of below-the-belt campaign videos.
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17/04/2008 > USA
Obama - Clinton debate: "Boy did they skirt the rifle issue!"
© ABC News
Democrat candidates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton faced each other for the last time before next Tuesday's Pennsylvania primary in a televised debate last night. Our Observers in the state react to the candidates' ideas on weapons, the economy, and Obama's apparent elitism. Read more...
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11/04/2008 > USA
Clinton "so proud of Wal-Mart" footage made public
Clinton on stage with Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton
She doesn't talk about it in her speeches - or her autobiography, or the official bio on her campaign website - but Hillary Clinton was a board director of the controversial retail giant Wal-Mart for six years. Footage released on Thursday shows the presidential hopeful at a store opening in 1991 with floods of praise for the company. Wal-Mart founder Sam Walton, calls her a "great friend of ours." Read more...
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25/03/2008 > USA
"Clinton has lost. It's over"
For our Observer Joe Sudbay, Clinton has lost. This weekend, the candidate's already flailing popularity took another hit when her account of a life-endangering trip to Bosnia was refuted. Footage from the trip shows school children greeting her plane and a sing-along with Sheryl Crow. Read more...
UPDATE (27.03.08 - 17h Paris time): See the parody of the "Clinton in Bosnia" video at the bottom of the page.
Clinton arrives in Bosnia "under sniper fire". © CBS News
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18/03/2008 > USA
What Obama's "spiritual adviser" really said
A sermon by pastor Jeremiah Wright broadcast by Fox News
Since Barack Obama's close ties to black pastor Jeremiah Wright emerged in the mainstream media last week, comments deemed anti-patriotic and racist from the democratic candidate's "spiritual adviser" have dominated the news. See some of these infamous remarks straight from the horse's mouth, notably about September 11th, along with viewpoints from our Observers on both Democrat and Republican fronts. Read more...
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06/03/2008 > UNITED STATES
Did Clinton blacken Obama?
Tension seems to be mounting between supporters of Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama. A post on the political blog Daily Kos generated a firestorm of controversy. Read more…
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05/03/2008 > UNITED STATES
Jack backs Clinton
Barack Obama might enjoy the support of stars Robert De Niro, Scarlett Johansson and George Clooney, but film favourite Jack Nicholson decided to side with Hillary Clinton in a video clip, helping to pull the “doomed” democrat candidate out of what seemed like a political grave only last week. Clinton’s wins in Ohio and Texas come after 11 consecutive defeats, and an endorsement video from Nicholson. Read more and see the clip, along with the Obama takeoff, of course.
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