Hillary Draws Thousands In Fresno

Updated 12:05 p.m.: Thousands of people outside Fresno High School listened and cheered this morning as presidential candidate Hillary Clinton capped a campaign rally with her favorite themes: affordable health care, renewable energy and an end to U.S. fighting in Iraq.

The Clinton campaign claimed 7,500 turned out for the rally along a closed Echo Avenue, which fronts the high school. Fresno police spokesman Jeff Cardinale, however, said the crowd count was between 2,500 and 3,500.

The U.S. senator from New York took the stage, set up on the sidewalk along Echo, at 9:47 a.m. and spoke for 30 minutes.

"Let me ask you: Are you ready for change?" the Democratic candidate said, in a slightly hoarse voice, to cheers from the placard-waving audience.

Clinton, whose brief campaign stop in the Central Valley was expected to move on to San Francisco later today, touched on her centerpiece proposal of broad, affordable health care. But the loudest cheers came from her call to bring U.S. troops home from Iraq and her promise to respect the Constitution -- a slap at some of the anti-terrorism tactics used by the Bush administration.

http://www.fresnobee.com/updates/photo/story/170735.html

So, the whole town turned out, huh ? And to to top it off, a town that's mostly republican.

Wow ! What a crock of shit. :rofl:

I live in Cali too, and work w/ many Dems from the area....believe me, it aint Hillary country. And BTW, that picture definintely is not in Fresno. :rofl:

It's from the Fresno Bee. Pick that apart.

That is your point isnt it ? LOL !

Peace!

You hit my soft spot.

Praise Mary!

:rofl:

because ONLY people from Fresno belong to FR. :eyes:

The geographical bigotry on this board never ceases to astound me.

Just for the record, Fresno County went to Clinton. Twice.

LTH,
Fresno, CA

this should tell you something about Hillary's supporters. :hide:

On edit: sorry I didn't even notice the post above mine.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fresno,_California

Fresno is the sixth largest city in California. Population of 481,035.

Hardly "the whole town".

Smoke your way out of that one.

as well as their voting trends.

I'm quite surprised that YOU would come on to ME like that. Hillary Clinton is not where we should part ways. :evilfrown:

why the "so the whole town showed up" shit?

Sorry, but I read the post and didn't see who posted it. Regardless, I think it was wrong.

You are correct about the actual population. But the repukes vastly out number the Dems in the surrounding area and control most of the politcal machine. It's largely rural and is probably the largest concentration of unducumented workers in the country.

Also, I wouldn't be surprised if ANY candidate running for President would draw a large crowd, since it's not one of the places many think to stop in.

Cheers...and keep working hard for your favorite. Mine still hasn't declared.

If some people only knew what they actually looked like when they posted something really stupid.

Back to the future...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/10/19/chinatowns-dishwashers_n_69094.html

trying to avoid addressing my point.

illegal campaign donations from non-existent people?

I'm concentrating on the Obama headlining the South Carolina BIGOT TOUR!

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Unlike some people I try to stay on topic. But some people who are foaming at the mouth, don't seem to understand that.

So it's not that you support her shady donations...it's just that this isn't the right place to discuss it even when someone brings it up...but it IS the right place to talk about Obama. Right. Gotcha! :hi:

I still want to know if your joining Obama on his BIGOT tour of South Carolina, which he himself is headlining.

talk about Obama? Gotcha! :rofl:

Selective responses anyone? :rofl:

I still don't know how you feel about Hillary's shady donations from China Town, though.

the ww and william spam brigade, wooooo

Thanks for noticing. :hi: :)

You are in no position to criticize.

so I'm assuming she was for it.

ON EDIT: I also can't seem to find any polls coming out of Kentucky.

Edwards, on the other hand speaks their language and shares their concerns. Just tellin' like it is.

"Far more than the 229 residents of Columbus, Ky., greeted presidential candidate John Edwards when he made a campaign stop in the Western Kentucky town on the Mississippi River today. "At least 1,500 people showed up," reports Jose antonio Vargas of The Washington Post. "As unlikely as it seems, this event in the heart of rural America was the result of online grass-roots organizing.""

http://irjci.blogspot.com/2007/10/edwards-takes-campaign-to-tiny-columbus.html

Edwards is not well liked in those hills. The women on the other hand are over enthusiastic about Hillary, So I guess we will just have to wait and see.

http://www.workingassetsblog.com/2007/10/rural_americans_for_hillary.html

I'll betcha you didn't show yer gals and buds in the holler 'bout this.

:hi:

:hi:

:bounce:

Are we supposed to be impressed?

Like say some people are?

The crowd was so huge that they were still standing in line in Santa Cruz of Surfers For Hillary trying to get a glimpse...

:sarcasm:

:rofl:

I want to hear her "slightly hoarse" voice...

:rofl:

Man when people post about things like that, you know Their candidate is DONE.

ON EDIT: changed there to their to appease zulchzulu.

You know the difference between "their" and "there", right?

:rofl:

Your serve.

...bet money that Feingold does or doesn't endorse Obama by December?

$100.

An educated guess would be someone looking for attention, knowing by the time he listed it would have been forgotten. Well guess what? It wasn't.

Bawk bawk...

How charming...

:rofl:

I liked this part of the article:

"A group of protesters were cordoned off in an area to the side of the main rally. Before Clinton took the stage, organizers put up a 10-foot-wide, 6-foot-high barrier that blocked the protesters from view."

The picture is obviously photoshopped


:sarcasm:

http://www.workingassetsblog.com/2007/10/rural_americans_for_hillary.html

the puppet show was held in Washington DC

http://abcnews.go.com/images/Politics/clinton_invitation.pdf

Yep. Way to win friends (and votes) and influence people.

we had 15,000 in Washington Square Park in NYC for Barack Obama. i don't support Obama btw, i am kucinich through and through. i'm just saying, why are people going nuts over this?

Got there at 5:45 this morning and met up with another Dem friend. There were a lot of people, and since I do live (40 miles south of Fresno) in a red part of CA, it was good to see so many Democrats turn out. There were people of all ages and ethnicities there.

I am not a Hillary fan, but should she get the nom, I will vote for her. I was not totally impressed today, but again...it was about 3,000+ people. I was near the stage.

Am not sure why there's so much dissing of Fresno, (or is this just dissing of HRC? :shrug: ) The San Joaquin is important to the entire nation in terms of food production, cotton and more. Yes, FReepville is here, and yes, it is quite red here. And, while I would rather live in a more blue area, am personally living in this area just to be near my grandchildren.

I went to see Hillary because it was an historic moment for this often ignored area of CA, in terms of Democratic candidates, especially Democratic presidential hopefuls, coming here. Last time this happened was in 1992 when Bill Clinton came to town.

Democrats came from all over the central valley area today. This is a very big area, mostly rural, and many traveled some good distance to attend today.

Not all there were in total support of Hillary, but all of us there were joined by the one common thread: We believe in our party.

Kudos to those who attended. I was glad and proud to be in the company of so many Democrats.





I support and appreciate all of you for being here and being Democrats.
After reading so many of the negative posts here about this event, it saddens me to read such ugly comments.

Rim Job from Free republic, he lives there and thats given Fresno a bad name (unfairly) here at Du. I live in Elk Grove--you wanna talk problems--man we got some big, no HUGE problems here in Elk Grove.

regardless of the fact that the FReeps base is in Fresno.

Makes me sick to read so much disgust of Democrats gathering, if only for a chance to bash FR and/or HRC.

There are Democrats in Fresno and surrounding areas. It was wonderful to see so many of them all in one place when so many times I do feel in the political minority living in the valley.

Fiery GOP representative won't pursue 15th term
Bakersfield's Thomas -- influential leader of Ways and Means
March 7, 2006

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/03/07/MNGAFHJJLB1.DTL