UPDATED: Cleaver calls for cool-down in Clinton-Obama rhetoric
U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, D-Kansas City, told the Post-Dispatch in an interview Saturday that he’s keenly concerned that the presidential campaigns of Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama are crossing the line.
Here’s the story we ran Sunday.
Here’s Cleaver’s comments to Associated Press on Friday.
Cleaver, who is headlining this weekend’s Democrat Days event in Hannibal, said he ”is asking national party chairman Howard Dean to help cool the rhetoric before Democrats ruin their chances to win the White House.
“In a letter, Cleaver urges Dean to appoint a special committee of party luminaries to mediate squabbles, such as the fight over seating Michigan and Florida delegates and the heated pursuit of superdelegates.
“Cleaver says the prospect of a seven week ‘fist fight’ over the Pennsylvania primary sends chills down his spine.”
Cleaver, by the way, has endorsed Clinton.
#10 Nick,
The only people who pay any attention and are affected by those “national rankings” by partisan or special interest groups are their members/subscribers. The average voter doesn’t give a rat’s butt about that.
No thanks, Garrison. I’m too old and don’t need the money. You sure are familar with the address though…maybe you should enlist…or boycott. But no you would rather disrespect all the soldier’s past and present efforts and risk another 9/11 attack because of your irrational fear of guns.
Garrison- I send plenty of money and care packages to the troops..I don’t need to enter the city, North County nor North St. Louis to make my contribution to the war.
You are the one constantly shooting off your mouth…one day someone may direct something more at you with your poor, opinionated personality.
What have you shown for our country except blogging this site continually.
I’ll continue to show my support for the soldiers by supporting McCain you fool. Maybe if you did some volunteering you could get out of the house and do something productive.
How will you support them…by blogging all 7 people on this site?
It’s all the hate in these blogs that drive open minded bloggers like me away. We can agree to disagree without the personal attacks. When people resort to personal attacks they do so because they have no debate left in their bags. Hate wears thin in a hurry.
#2, your claim that the democrats “detest contested primaries in which real people get to choose the nominee.” To what do you base this assumption? We’ve many contested primaries throughout the state. Lt. Gov, Page and Carter, AG Koster, Harris and Donnelly, Treasurer Simckes, Zwiefel, 9th Congressional, Baker, Gaw, Bode and soon Jacobs. This list does not even include the State Senate, nor the house races with many contested primaries as well.
What was offered to Lt. Gov Peter Kinder to get him NOT to run for Gov.? What about Hanaway and AG? Why are they not following their dreams of running for higher office? It takes courage to go against your own party regardless of which party you are in. It’s encouraging to me to see so many candidates working hard to win the primary. Contested primaries are the truest test of a democracy. Not the strong armed tactics of ANY political party suppressing competition for office.
Marie, you should be commended for your support of our troops. I have a question for you. What were your feelings about the purple heart bandaids passed out at the Republican National Convention in 2004? As an election judge I was very upset to see a man come through the polling place that I worked at with a purple heart bandaid on his hat.
I’m not sure if it’s the same group that attacked Kerry for his service in Viet Nam but there is a group attacking Senator McCain http://www.vietnamveteransagainstjohnmccain.com/ What you do if POW pajamas were passed out at the Democratic National Convention in 2008?
Another question for you? What are your thoughts on the privitization of our Veterans Hospitals? Now that they are “for profit” many of our wounded warriors are having to pay for their lunches and phone calls while recooperating in these for profit hospitals. Our troops were sent off to a war without the proper protective gear. Our president spent how much to do a tail hook landing on an aircraft carrier 36 miles off the coast of San Diego and proclaim “Mission Accomplished”. How does that make you feel?
The Local union I work for has donated over 800lbs of toiletries that have been donated by our members. We’ve sent over 800 50 qt. coolers to the brave men and women serving in Afghanistan and Iraq. The coolers are jammed packed with everything from tea and coffee to socks and baby wipes. Even girl scout cookies when we can get them. We send the packages to anyone serving. I was even standing in line at a Post Office one time and a lady was in front of me with a small child on her hip and another clinging to her leg. She placed a small box on the counter and asked how long for it to get to Iraq for her husband’s birthday. I asked her if she would share his address with me so our union could send him something. She did we did and he receved a cooler care package. Thats just one local from our area, all the locals of my union are doing similar things for our troops.
It is possible to hate the war and still love the troops. It is possible to question the leadership provided by this president without questioning the patriotisim of our troops.
Had to delete a post by Garrison because used a certain four-letter word not allowed on this site. (Combining it with another word doesn’t cut it.)
Feel free to repost the comment without the offending word.
Sorry Jo….
Next time I’ll use “carpola”.