DFU SONG - CHRISTMAS 2007: The Christmas Song (Hillary plotting by an open fire)

NOTE: as I have traditionally done, Christmas songs telling the news of the day will only be the secular songs.
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Hillary sits by an open fire...plotting how to stop Barack
For cocaine talk, she blamed the GOP...hey, Hillary, that's such a crock

'Cause she called up Harold Ickes on the telephone...she told him what he must do
They are the best cutting enemies down...hey, Barack, they'll get you

Out in the public displaying sweetness...it's for the children, not her own power and fame
But you must know that it's all an act...as she plays her game

So, Obama, heed the warning...it's not hard to see the clues
She's stabbing you in the back while she says Merrry Christmas to you

Obama Reveals Teen Drug Use In His Memoir

POSTED: 9:51 am EST December 13, 2007

CONCORD, N.H. — Bill Shaheen has resigned as co-chairman of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential campaign, reported WMUR-TV in Manchester, N.H.

The resignation comes in the midst of fallout over comments Shaheen made regarding candidate Barack Obama’s past drug use.

Shaheen earlier said he regrets having made the comments.

In an interview with The Washington Post, Shaheen said the Democratic party should beware of picking Obama as its candidate because Republicans could dredge up his past.

In his memoir, “Dreams from My Father,” Obama wrote that as a teen he smoked marijuana and drank alcohol, and occasionally would snort cocaine.

The Clinton campaign said it had nothing to do with the comments, and Shaheen himself is now backing away from them.

The Obama campaign called the remark a sign of desperation because of Clinton’s slide in the polls.

In Iowa, Democratic presidential rival John Edwards said he wants “nothing to do with that kind of politics.”

Hillary's Buttboy Shaheen:

"I would like to reiterate that I deeply regret my comments yesterday and say again that they were in no way authorized by Senator Clinton or the Clinton campaign. (Yeah, ok, whatever you say.) Senator Clinton has been running a positive campaign focused on the issues that matter to America’s families. (What? Like higher taxes, bigger government, destroying healthcare, grabbing our guns, our property and our freedom?) She is the best qualified to be the next President of the United States because she can lead starting on day one. (She and Bill already have a plan to surrender to terrorists.) I made a mistake and in light of what happened, I have made the personal decision (influenced by the threat of Fort Marcy park) that I will step down as the Co-Chair of the Hillary for President campaign. This election is too important and we must all get back to electing the best qualified candidate who has the record of making change happen in this country. That candidate is Hillary Clinton.” (and if she loses, I'm toast.)

Clinton Fires Adviser for Obama Comment (Flying Monkey Takes Hit For Team!!)
AP ^ | Dec 13, 2007 | PHILIP ELLIOTT

Posted on 12/13/2007 5:15:16 PM PST by Anti-Bubba182

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) - A top campaign adviser to Hillary Rodham Clinton resigned Thursday, a day after suggesting Democrats should be wary of nominating Barack Obama because his teenage drug use could make it hard for him to win the presidency.

Clinton herself apologized to Obama as they waited to fly to Iowa for a debate.

Bill Shaheen, a national co-chairman for Clinton and a prominent New Hampshire political figure, had raised the issue during a Wednesday interview, published on washingtonpost.com.

“I made a mistake and in light of what happened, I have made the personal decision that I will step down as the co-chair of the Hillary for President campaign,” Shaheen said in a statement released by the campaign Thursday. “This election is too important, and we must all get back to electing the best qualified candidate who has the record of making change happen in this country. That candidate is Hillary Clinton.”

Shaheen, an attorney and veteran organizer, had said much of Obama’s background is unknown and could be a problem in November 2008 if he is the Democratic nominee. He said Republicans would work hard to discover new aspects of Obama’s admittedly spotty youth.

“It’ll be, ‘When was the last time? Did you ever give drugs to anyone? Did you sell them to anyone?’” said Shaheen, whose wife, Jeanne, is a former New Hampshire governor and is running for the U.S. Senate next year.

“There are so many openings for Republican dirty tricks. It’s hard to overcome,” Shaheen said.

Clinton personally apologized to Obama when they were on the tarmac at Washington’s Reagan National Airport Thursday morning, preparing to fly to Des Moines for a debate, according to aides to both candidates.

“Having been on the receiving end of unfair attacks for years, she doesn’t think this is what the campaign should be about,” said Clinton spokesman Jay Carson. “She told him she wanted to win the presidency, but not through tactics like that.”

Clinton’s campaign said it had nothing to do with Shaheen’s comments.

Obama’s campaign did not have a direct comment on the conversation or Shaheen’s ouster.

However, Ned Helms, an Obama co-chairman in New Hampshire, said he saw a pattern after the recent resignations of two Clinton volunteer coordinators in Iowa who had forwarded e-mails raising questions about Obama’s religion.

“When you see a pattern of people making statements and the follow-up statement, ‘Oh, that wasn’t authorized,’ it doesn’t take a genius to see that there’s a thread going on here,” Helms said.

Obama wrote about his teenage drug use in his memoir, “Dreams from My Father.” His rivals have largely remained silent on the subject.

“Junkie. Pothead. That’s where I’d been headed: the final fatal role of the young would-be black man,” Obama wrote. Mostly he smoked marijuana and drank alcohol, he wrote, but occasionally he would snort cocaine when he could afford it.

New polling shows Clinton and Obama basically tied in New Hampshire. A CNN-WMUR-TV poll conducted by the University of New Hampshire shows Clinton at 31 percent support, Obama at 30. The same poll had Obama trailing by 20 points in September.

Clinton’s campaign has distributed its first flier that criticizes Obama’s health care plan for leaving 15 million people without insurance. TV ads following the same theme also have been prepared.

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