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Four years after leaving the White House, Hillary Clinton plots her return.
WSJ ^
| 12/9/04
| Peggy Noonan
Posted on 12/09/2004 9:22:30 AM PST by MB6.3
We have been writing lately about Republicans. Let's pay some attention to Hillary Clinton, just for fun.
I wrote a book about her more than four years ago. The idea came from a friend, a bright former-Republican-now-Democrat who thought my Wall Street Journal pieces on Mrs. Clinton's looming senatorial candidacy could be turned into something longer that made the case against her. I immediately thought: Yes, that could make a difference. I went to my publisher, who agreed, and I hit it hard, speaking to Mrs. Clinton's friends and enemies, scouring the record. What I concluded was that Mrs. Clinton was an unusually cynical leftist political operative who had no great respect for the citizens of the United States or for America itself, but who saw our country as a platform for her core ambitions: to rise and achieve historic personal and political power both with her husband and without him.
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Very nice update on our favorite dim.
1
posted on
12/09/2004 9:22:30 AM PST
by
MB6.3
To: MB6.3
I hope the B crashes and burns. I can't stand the woman.
2
posted on
12/09/2004 9:24:54 AM PST
by
blakep
To: MB6.3
---a snake may change its skin, but it's still a snake--
To: MB6.3
She has no chance of being nominated.
4
posted on
12/09/2004 9:27:25 AM PST
by
angkor
To: MB6.3
Fascists are what fascists do, not what fascists say.
5
posted on
12/09/2004 9:28:43 AM PST
by
Roccus
To: MB6.3
I wish I could marry Peggy Noonan's beautiful writing.
6
posted on
12/09/2004 9:29:36 AM PST
by
linear
(You men can't fight in here - this is the War Room!)
To: MB6.3
She is a dirtbag just like her 'husband'.
7
posted on
12/09/2004 9:31:06 AM PST
by
FairfaxVA
(SELECT * FROM liberals WHERE clue > 0. Zero rows returned!)
To: MB6.3
Always remember what Bill Clinton did after he lost re-election to the governorship in 1980. He joined the choir in the only local church whose services were broadcast on television throughout Arkansas every Sunday morning. You could turn in every Sunday and see him in his robe, with his music book, singing spirituals.
Tremendous article by Peg. Hiltery learned much from her better half.
To: eastsider; Liz; 1Old Pro
Bump for a great read! Noonan - on target.
9
posted on
12/09/2004 9:40:00 AM PST
by
NYer
("Blessed be He who by His love has given life to all." - final prayer of St. Charbel)
To: MB6.3
We cannot let up on this woman. We cannot forget she's out there trying to "remake" herself into a centrist when, in fact, is she every bit a socialist (and sometimes smells of communism). She'll do anything to get elected in 4 years. I have faith that if we work together as we did with the Bush presidency, we can expose her deviousness. Just because we're 4 years out doesn't mean we should sit back and wait a while.
10
posted on
12/09/2004 9:49:11 AM PST
by
peacebaby
(smoked and enhaled)
To: MB6.3
Hillary Clinton plots her return. Is Carville going to be her chief flying monkey?
11
posted on
12/09/2004 10:04:15 AM PST
by
KarlInOhio
(In a just world, Arafat would have died at the end of a rope.)
To: KarlInOhio
Yes, and his little dog Toto, too.
12
posted on
12/09/2004 10:05:56 AM PST
by
peacebaby
(smoked and enhaled)
To: NYer
Noonan's a jewel, but she is so way off base in this piece...Two points, to make my case..
1.Since they left the WH, other than for a campaign appearance, I'll pay $100 to any person who can site an instance where she's gone into a church on Sunday, just to pray. It hasn't happened anywheres around here in Chappaqua..and there are over 20 different churches within a 15 minute drive of her house..
2. No way peopel are NOT gonna think about letting Bill back in the WH, and the Oval Office...Bush has re-established dignity and decorum to the WH, and we're gonna let that POS back inside. Folks have blotted out the memories, but the will NOT be happy about having to deal with it again in advance..
13
posted on
12/09/2004 10:11:49 AM PST
by
ken5050
(Ann Coulter needs to have children ASAP to propagate her gene pool. Any volunteers?)
To: MB6.3
To: ken5050
She's got roughly 3 years to become a 'moderate' Democrat.
As far left as the Dem's are today, that is not such a tough order to fill. She's already started and her party will 'help' her transformation because they're 'gettin more socialist by-the-minute.
No matter how unelectable she looks now... 3 years is 'forever' in the minds of many Americans.
15
posted on
12/09/2004 10:39:27 AM PST
by
johnny7
(“My voice is for War!” -George Armstrong Custer)
To: MB6.3
Maybe she's hoping to go back for more furniture. Those period pieces can be pretty expensive in the antique shops.
To: MB6.3
Peggy Noonan huh?
The association I have with her is an article she wrote entitled "Why Clinton Will Be a One-Term President."
So much for her credibility as a sage.
To: ken5050
Will be tough to pass herself off as "Christian" but not difficult to market herself as "religious". There are many kinds of religiosity today which makes her able to connect with many who hold that any path to God is equally valid.
I have the darker view of HRC. From her time in the Arkansas leadership post and her time in the White House....we know this: The Clintons operate as Mafia or Commintel Leaders. They KILL people who might squeal or who oppose them. Not usually high profile people (but they were forced by desperation to do away with Vince Foster and Ron Brown). But they eliminated many less visible "problems". This is more difficult now that they do not control law enforcement either in a state or in the nation. However, they have many allies in foreign nations and could recruit hired guns from there. We just must remember these people, the Clinton Communist Crime Family are killers, pure and simple.
I bet Peggy Noonan would not print such a statement. Doesn't mean it isn't true.
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posted on
12/09/2004 12:46:15 PM PST
by
Freedom'sWorthIt
(Pres Bush to Chilean Security stopping Agent: "He's with me." And, Mr. President, we're with YOU!)
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