Hillary Clinton - HOT LINKS #17
By Michael Lang on Apr 20, 2008 in POLITICS
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Pennsylvania Last Chance for Clinton to Make Case
NPR - USA
Hillary Clinton speaks at a campaign rally at Wilson Senior High School in West Lawn, Pa., on Saturday. The Pennsylvania primary on Tuesday is being billed as the next significant contest in the Democratic presidential race. It’s the last big state to hold a primary this year. And both New York Sen. Hillary Clinton and Illinois Sen. Barack Obama have been scrambling to win the approval of the Keystone state’s blue-collar Democrats: Obama has gone bowling in Altoona, while Clinton talks up childhood memories of learning to shoot a gun outside her summer house in Scranton.
Obama and Clinton exchange barrages as Pennsylvania primary nears
International Herald Tribune - France
And Robert Reich, a labor secretary under President Bill Clinton, announced his support for Obama, a stinging disappointment for Hillary Clinton after another of her husband’s former cabinet members, Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico, also embraced Obama. Clinton won a surprising endorsement Sunday, however, that of the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, whose publisher and owner, the billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife, personally financed some of the investigations that led to Bill Clinton’s impeachment in 1998.
Hillary Clinton’s future may hang on mining family’s humble past
Times Online - UK
This is me in Scranton,” says the voice of Hillary Clinton over grainy black and white footage of a beaming little girl in a white 1950s dress. “This is where my father was raised and my grandfather worked in the lace mill.” The camera cuts to a shot of a clapboard house, the rustic cottage in the Pennsylvania hills near Scranton where the Rodham family spent every summer. “There was no heat or indoor shower, just the joy of family,” says Mrs Clinton’s voiceover, as the music rises to a crescendo.
‘Right-wing conspirer’ endorses Clinton
AFP -
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (AFP) — A Pennsylvania newspaper owned by billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife, once accused by Hillary Clinton of funding a "vast right-wing conspiracy" against her husband, Sunday endorsed the Democrat’s presidential run. Ahead of Tuesday’s primary vote in the gritty northeastern state, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review said the New York senator was the "smart choice" for Pennsylvania Democrats over her rival Barack Obama.
Doug Rossnow: Flash: ’60s activism predated Obama
Minneapolis Star Tribune - Minneapolis,MN,USA
Conservatives called Hillary Clinton a dangerous radical feminist forged in the furnace of the late 1960s. Now, Barack Obama’s association with one-time far-left militant Bill Ayers, his Chicago neighbor, is the target of attacks. But this time the attacks, while they have been nurtured in the right-wing media, have been voiced not by a Republican opponent, but by Obama’s fellow Democrat, Hillary Clinton. Irony of ironies.
Clinton expected to hold off Obama in Pennsylvania
Sunday Business Post - Dublin,Ireland
Pennsylvania is the first state to vote since Hillary Clinton cheated political death for the third time in this campaign by winning key contests in Ohio and Texas on March 4. In the intervening weeks, front-runner Barack Obama has often found himself on the defensive. First came a controversy over incendiary comments made by his former pastor, Reverend Jeremiah Wright.


