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By Robert Wilonsky, Friday, Feb. 22 2008 @ 9:33AM
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Categories: It's Gettin' All Political Up in This Piece
KDFW-Channel 4
Hundreds gathered this morning for Hillary Clinton's rally in Oak Cliff

Schutze is at the Hillary Clinton gathering in an Oak Cliff parking lot, where Dallas County Commissioner John Wiley Price just exited the stage to strains of "Taking Care of Business," and Jim sends back this report: The event was very "last-minute and half-assed," according to Jim, who, along with other reporters with whom he spoke this a.m., guesstimates the crowd at between 300 and 400. Organizer Ralph Isenberg, who owns the Bank Tower parking lot in which Clinton will speak shortly, is inside his building watching on a security cam and insists it's much, much higher -- around 1,500. (Look at KDFW-Channel 4's streaming video, and you'll see something that feels far more local than national -- like, say, a council race, maybe?)

CNN is also reporting at this moment that traffic's backed up near the Trinity River because of an accident involving a Dallas police officer thrown "30 feet" from a motorcycle; a reporter traveling with the senator says Clinton was caught in the traffic. Clinton began speaking at 9:33.

Update: The Dallas Morning News, at 10:22 a.m., reported that the officer thrown from his motorcycle was killed after crashing into a concrete wall. As CNN mentioned earlier, the accident occurred at 9:20 a.m. on the Houston Street viaduct. Says The News, via WFAA-Channel 8, "A veteran Dallas police officer escorting Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's entourage to a rally in Oak Cliff lost control of his motorcycle and was killed Friday morning."

Isenberg, a fund-raising buddy for former Dallas Mayor Laura Miller, says he was contacted late last night by Clinton campaign workers, who had originally planned to stage the rally in a different location. Only, turned out it was too close to an early-polling place, so they had to move it; Isenberg and Clinton folks were out in the parking lot last night with a tape measure. Reports Schutze: "The podium is 1,182 feet from the polling place." And what does Isenberg get out of the deal? Says Jim: "He says what he gets out of this is a handshake from Clinton." With that small a crowd, sounds like you can get one too. --Robert Wilonsky

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Comments (8)

Nico says:

Hmmm . . . Obama's rally sure seemed thoughtout an genuine . . .

Posted On: Friday, Feb. 22 2008 @ 10:35AM
Toots says:

Sad to hear about that officer.

Posted On: Friday, Feb. 22 2008 @ 11:18AM
Jack Jett says:

I just heard the Clinton cut the Fort Worth
rally short so she could go be with the family of the officer in Dallas.

Posted On: Friday, Feb. 22 2008 @ 11:32AM
JILL says:

OBAMA IS A Fraud! His wife is mean and a racist!

Posted On: Friday, Feb. 22 2008 @ 8:29PM
chandra perera says:

Can Obama catch Osama? How can Mr. Obama be a good candidate for the presidency with zero foreign policy experience? Remember we elected one before without a clue? I feel this whole Obama thing is mostly without substance and lot of it ─media hype. Every political event that Mr. Obama attends is such a media savvy, scripted and orchestrated affair. His arrival, getting on the stage, the background faces, all of it done on cue with the help of consultants and managers like in a movie production, with perfect pitch and timing for the newscast footage, for the maximum effect—reminiscent of Hitler’s big frenzied rallies in Berlin─ using all the elements of the stagecraft. Although he’s extremely short on substance, in these days of slick marketing, Mr. Obama has so far proven that he’s great at running campaigns. Remember we’ve tried that one before? What we need right now is substance, substance and more substance to deal with worsening problems in the country, rather than all the foolish talk, and Obama style phantasmagoria. US is now 40th in the world in infant mortality, in longevity 41st! We are quickly on our way to becoming a third world country! Someone said that US has become “the richest third world country in the world!” What we need now is a person like Hillary Clinton who has a sober manner and a practical head on her shoulders. Mr. Obama is so dependent on media to prop him up, and Mr. Obama’s image seemed so well manufactured for the consumption and the manipulation of the public, his politics looking more and more like a Hollywood production than a real life political event. While Mr. Obama’s message is about change, what Mr. Obama really does seemed to be steeped in corporate media that cheered us along in a very big way to the quagmire in Iraq. Mr. Obama also claims to be MLK and even JFK, without having done tiniest fraction of the vast accomplishments of MLK or JFK. Do you really want to go back to those tragic times of American history? Mr. Obama even lacks a sustentative legislative record. But for American media, deeds have little value if you have the right image. I watch Mr. Obama’s rise in alarm for the sake of America’s future. His hubris is unsurpassed in American politics. I find him and his message without a clear political logic or details, more suited for TV audience, no discussion of issues, programs or policies, rather his speeches are full of name dropping and all sorts of claims, rich in platitudes and slogans. How come Mr. Obama’s embracing the Kennedy Camelot of the 60’s is considered going forward by the media, and if Hillary Clinton looks back to the 90’s for guidance─ now that’s considered going backwards?

Posted On: Friday, Feb. 22 2008 @ 11:15PM
chandra perera says:

The main argument that Mr. Obama make is that he is going to bring the entire country together by getting rid of the lobbyists and special interests. He says no progress can be made until then. Mr. Obama himself has received more than quarter of million dollars from Pharmaceuticals/Health Products Industry.
Clinton:$269,436
Obama:$261,784
Romney:$260,535
Guilliani:$138,850
Kucinich: A measly $5,100
The reason there’s so much division and polarity in Washington is not because special interests have taken over our government, but mainly because of nobody interacts with each other anymore. Senators, congressmen used to bring their families to Washington. Their families went to same church, had the same baby sitters went to the same parties, gatherings, children went to the same schools, no matter what your political stripe was there was communion and interaction. Then there was life beyond politics, and that was twenty years ago. Now, including Mr. Obama doesn’t have his family in Washington. No one interacts with each others outside of politics, that’s why there is a so much division and polarization. Everyone is stuck in their own little box including Mr. Obama. Mr. Obama himself is a part of the problem. His argument may be 15% percent true at best.

Posted On: Friday, Feb. 22 2008 @ 11:43PM
shirley says:

GOD HELP AMERICA IF OBAMA GETS THIS NOMINATION

Posted On: Saturday, Feb. 23 2008 @ 12:30PM
john k. says:

Her comments at Ft.Worth were "Half Fasted".However, the going back to Dallas to meet with the dead officer's family was better than President Bush ever did in Albuquerque.Hawaii,or New orleans. It got my vote.

Posted On: Saturday, Feb. 23 2008 @ 5:27PM

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