Secretary of State Hillary Clinton entertained a wacky question while in Saudi Arabia recently, when someone asked if she would leave the country if, god forbid, Sarah Palin ever became president. Apparently, Saudis are just as terrified at the prospect as the rest of America. |Gothamist|
In case you somehow missed it, American student Amanda Knox was found guilty of murdering her roommate by an Italian jury late Friday in what many legal experts are calling a complete farce of a trial. Now it’s possible that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton may enter the fray to bust some Italian skulls over the whole thing. Read more »
Peace-loving, staunchly-neutral Switzerland sure has some aggressively-opinionated newspapers. Previously WOZ, a weekly Swiss rag, made Barack Obama look like the anti-Christ in a print ad. Now, the country’s leading Sunday paper, Sonntagszeitung (literally, Sunday’s newspaper), provides “the insight story” on our new president—SuperBam’s broke. True enough, though not what this former journalist would call especially insightful. At right, is a rotating outdoor billboard from the campaign featuring their inside view of the Secretary of State—Hil’s Bill, but Bill’s also Hil. Or something. Well, like here, I’m sure newspapers are also dying in Switzerland. So Sonntagszeitung? Do whatever you gotta do to sell ink, I guess. Because soon, you’ll probably be broke, too. FYI, previously in what the agency Advico Y&R calls this “Babushka principle” campaign, the paper also looked inside Bush and Putin. |Images: BestAdsOnTV|
In a purely symbolic gesture, the Obamas donated the maximum amount of money they could, $4600 ($2300 each), to Hillary Clinton’s campaign to help her pay off the more than $22 million in debt the junior senator from New York has accrued—$12 million of which she lent herself. That only leaves Clinton with a bill of $21,995,400. |AP|
Leave it up to MSNBC to parse the important issues in today’s joint Barack Obama – Hillary Clinton rally in Unity. The cable news station reported how she “patted him on the back and he kissed her on the cheek.” Also, the prominent Democrats not only sat next to each other on the plane, but they just so happened to wear matching outfits. Obama’s tie matched Clinton’s dress. But the official word from both campaigns is that this was not planned, it’s just good karma. Right!
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Senator John McCain is hoping to woo white suburban ’security moms’—who’ve pledged their undying loyalty to Hillary Clinton—away from Barack Obama with a new page on his website. Citizens for McCain features this psychologically disturbed woman holding up a Clinton campaign sign that’s been vandalized with the Republican presidential nominee’s stickers and repurposed. With these older caucasian ladies considered a key voting block and many of them supposedly fearful of a black man, McCain’s camp is trying desperately to court them. But with Clinton and Obama’s positions on many issues being almost identical, it’s hard to imagine how females with cerebral activity would even consider jumping so far across the aisle and vote for the cunt-calling Senator from Arizona. To help solidify this manic movement from right to left, they brought in the ultimate symbol of convenient aisle crossing trickery: fake Democrat Joe Lieberman offering both his face and endorsement.
A reader sends in a sighting of the Hillary Clinton for Barack Obama image we published earlier this week. This one below ground, spotted in the 23rd Street C and E station (25th Street exit). In a street art imitates life moment, the timing couldn’t be more perfect, with word that the two Democrats will be campaigning together.
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Although pundits noted Hillary Clinton’s better-late-than-never endorsement speech for Barack Obama as the official point in which the junior senator finally acknowledged defeat and threw her support behind the Democratic presidential nominee, it’s the word on the street that really counts. This wheatpasted image of a stoic Clinton rocking an Obama ‘08 cap was strategically placed next to Shepard Fairey’s ‘Progress’ poster—the one that was bombed by MARTY and later retouched by supporters—on Bowery and Houston. Close-up of the street art rendered, supportive senator after the jump.
Earlier today, a controversial Clinton/Obama Assassination exhibit was shut down in NYC by the NYPD and Secret Service. The creative instigator was hauled away and the windows were completely covered. The artist, Yazmany Arboled, who was later released after questioning, has been promoting the show heavily to the political press according to the Politico’s Ben Smith and Gawker mentions his two websites devoted to the assassinations: one for Hillary Clinton and one for Barack Obama that include extremely offensive, but “artistic” representations of the prominent Democrats. Click through both sites and view the newly censored bleeding edge work while you can. If they can shut down the physical exhibit, the virtual one is sure to be targeted next.
Just minutes after CNN cited an AP report about Hillary Clinton conceding to Barack Obama tonight, they got her campaign chair Terry McAuliffe on the phone and he said it was untrue, claiming the race will go on until Obama gets the actual number of delegates, adding there will “no surprises” tonight.
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