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NASHUA, New Hampshire (Reuters) - New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, reeling from defeat in Iowa at the hands of Barack Obama, urged Democratic voters on Friday not to build up "false hopes" by choosing an inexperienced presidential candidate. In Iowa, which kicked off the process of choosing the next U.S. president with its caucuses on Thursday, the former first lady finished a disappointing third, nine percentage points behind Obama and narrowly behind former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards............" ........."We can't have false hopes. We've got to have a person who can walk into that Oval office on day one and...

Both Clintons are making the case that theirs was a co-presidency -- an echo of Bill Clinton's controversial statement during the 1992 campaign that voters would get "two for the price of one" .... ...the Clintons regard any discussion of the Nineties to be good for them, evoking memories of a booming economy and a time when the United States enjoyed greater popularity around the world..... For all his talk about the 1990s, though, the former president does not go into great detail about the role his wife played in his administration, instead simply leaving the impression that she was...

Clinton tries to extend Big Mo/turn-the-page storyline with Monday TV appearances on all six morning shows from Iowa.

United States Constitution, Amendment 22: No person shall be elected to the office of the President more than twice, and no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once. So what of Hillary's "experience" that enables her to be a qualified President? Why does she NOT want to release the relevant documents from Bill's administration that would confirm her "experience?" Maybe the reason isn't that the documents show...

When the hostages had been released and their alleged captor arrested, a regal-looking Hillary Rodham Clinton strolled out of her Washington home, the picture of calm in the face of crisis. The image, broadcast just as the network news began, conveyed the message a thousand town hall meetings and campaign commercials strive for — namely, that the Democratic presidential contender can face disorder in a most orderly manner. "I am very grateful that this difficult day has ended so well," she declared as she stood alone at the microphone. Little more than three hours later, just in time for the...

<p>Until recently, the biggest thing going for Hillary is that she has appeared "inevitable." This is no accident. Mrs. Clinton may not be as naturally gifted as her husband, but she does have access to his playbook. One of Bill's more brilliant strategies when he ran in 1992 was to campaign as if he were already the nominee. It gave an otherwise little-known governor the legitimacy to sideline his opponents.</p>

I've seen up close the two Clintons America knows. He's a big smile, hand locked on your arm and lots of charms. "Hey, come down and speak at my library. I'd like to talk some politics with you." And her? She tends to be, well, hard and brittle. I inherited her West Wing office. Shortly after the 2001 Inauguration, I made a little talk saying I appreciated having the office because it had the only full-length vanity mirror in the West Wing, which gave me a chance to improve my rumpled appearance. The senator from New York confronted me shortly...

SIOUX CITY, Iowa — Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton’s campaign admitted Friday that it planted a global warming question in Newton, Iowa, Tuesday during a town hall meeting to discuss clean energy. Clinton campaign spokesman Mo Elliethee admitted that the campaign had planted the question and said it would not happen again. "On this occasion a member of our staff did discuss a possible question about Senator Clinton's energy plan at a forum,” Elliethee said. “However, Senator Clinton did not know which questioners she was calling on during the event. This is not standard policy and will not be repeated...

The Internet is helping so-called "Hillary Haters" prepare for battle should Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton become the Democratic presidential nominee. A vast army of the self-proclaimed "haters" is repackaging old news and rumors for use on the blog-loaded Internet, the Chicago Tribune reported. Among them is Richard Collins, a wealthy Texas philanthropist, businessman and political aficionado who openly aims to destroy the presidential ambitions of the New York senator. Collins, 60, is behind StopHerNow.com, a snide Web site with a cartoon called "The Hillary Show," a satire portraying Clinton as a mean and unforgiving talk show host, the Tribune reported....

SENATOR CLAIMS: BOXER/CLINTON WANT 'LEGISLATIVE FIX' FOR TALKRADIO All I can access at this point.

DC Chapter dusted off our old anti-Hillary signs, made some new ones, and FReeped the former Wicked Witch of the West Wing. This was at her Club 44 (she would be the 44th President) campaign event in Washington, DC on June 6, 2007 per this announcement. Over four years ago, former First Lady and junior Senator from New York, Hillary Rodham Clinton embarked on a tour promoting her Living History book. The book was about the great achievements (Midnight Basketball) and failures (healthcare, Waco, Whitewater, Elian?) of the Clinton administration, together with The Bill and Hill Soap Opera (Monica et...

Not long ago, a campaign had a couple of options for getting out word of a big endorsement: a press release to political reporters, or maybe a calculated leak to a big local paper. But Wednesday morning, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's campaign broke the news of Hollywood icon Steven Spielberg's endorsement on a new website the campaign runs, HillaryHub.com. The campaign later e-mailed reporters suggesting they check the site. HillaryHub isn't a typical campaign site. With a simple, three-column look, occasionally edgy headlines and links to a blend of videos, reports from newspapers and blogs and campaign memos, it's a...

A new biography of Hillary Rodham Clinton alleges she masterminded efforts to cover up Bill Clinton's draft record during the 1992 campaign - and coolly executed a "20-year project" to place both spouses into the Oval Office regardless of their marital woes. "Her Way," a decidedly unauthorized biography written by longtime New York Times reporters Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta Jr., also reveals that Clinton chose not to read a critical National Intelligence Estimate on Saddam Hussein's weapons programs days before casting her controversial 2002 vote authorizing the Iraq war. The book portrays Clinton as a politically savvy manipulator...

Uh-oh. Don’t look now, but somebody who wants to be President forgot to take their medicine. It remains uncertain as to whether the failure to follow the prescription will be politically costly. But the Senator formerly known as Hillary Rodham Clinton seems to be caught in another little conflict, and this one could be a problem with, shall we say, “the faithful.” By “the faithful,” I mean the left-wing contingency within the Democratic Party that long ago abandoned any historic, western understanding of the relationship between the human person and the earth (an understanding that is so commonplace for most...

According to the Associated Press, Hillary Clinton is proposing a $10 billion to provide voluntary pre-kindergarten. ""I want every 4-year-old regardless of parental income to have access to high quality pre-K because it not only enhances their academic preparation, they stay in school longer, they have fewer behavioral problems," she says. "There is a lot of evidence that this saves money over the long run and economists and others have validated what experts in early childhood education have told us for a long time." I think the "experts" Mrs. Clinton is alluding to must be her pals at the National...

Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has dropped the use of her maiden name "Rodham" in her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. Clinton identifies herself as "Hillary Clinton" in her campaign press releases and on her campaign website. The lone mention of her maiden name is in a campaign biography that says "Hillary's father, Hugh Rodham, was the son of a factory worker from Scranton." She continues to use "Hillary Rodham Clinton" in her New York-focused press releases and in the Senate. Clinton appeared surprised last week when asked why her presidential campaign had dropped her maiden name. Clinton laughed, shook...

MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa (AP) - Hillary Rodham Clinton said Saturday that if she is elected president, she would make her husband a roaming ambassador to the world, using his skills to repair the nation's tattered image abroad. "I can't think of a better cheerleader for America than Bill Clinton, can you?" the Democratic senator from New York asked a crowd jammed into a junior high school gymnasium. "He has said he would do anything I asked him to do. I would put him to work." Clinton spoke at a town hall-style meeting Saturday where she took questions from about 200 people....

Americans of all political persuasions are coming to the sad realization that our first lady - a woman of undoubted talents who was a role model for many in her generation - is a congenital liar. Drip by drip, like Whitewater torture, the case is being made that she is compelled to mislead, and to ensnare her subordinates and friends in a web of deceit. 1) Remember the story she told about studying The Wall Street Journal to explain her 10,000 percent profit in 1979 commodity trading? We now know that was a lie told to turn aside accusations that...

  WHY HILLARY'S IOWA MISSTEP CAN SINK HERMISSUS CLINTON'S SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE PROBLEM by Mia T, 1.29.07 ell, it didn't take long for missus clinton, off-leach—(sort of)—to step in it. On reflection, it will become clear that what is being spun as a little Iowa faux pas is in fact a huge blunder with national implications and the potential to sink the clinton candidacy. All the more surprising when one realizes that the visit to Iowa by this Thatcher pretender,1 this wannabe-commander-in-chief, 2 was more a micromanaged toe-dip than a bold foray. Watch the blunder as it unfolds. Notice...

Fox News Channel says it has obtained controversial unseen footage from ABC's miniseries "The Path to 9/11" and will air the video during "Hannity's America" on Sunday night. Before "Path" aired in September, Democrats and former aides to President Clinton demanded changes to the miniseries, which revolves around the events leading up to the September 11 attacks, saying that it contained fictionalized scenes and unfairly blamed the Clinton administration for failing to capture or kill Osama bin Laden. Ahead of "Path's" broadcast, ABC was said to have made minor edits, including altering a scene in which an actor playing Sandy...

As Hillary Clinton is being touted as a presidential candidate for the 2008 election we should take the time to reflect on her co-presidency that did so much to humiliate and degrade America. Let us not forget how the mainstream media covered up — and still is — those Clinton White House scandals that severely compromised US security and put at risk the lives of millions of Americans. I am of course alluding to the transfer of sensitive military technology to China. This technology greatly improved the accuracy of Peking’s ICBMs that are now targeting American cities. Being the outrageous...

"I don't want any lies in there parading as the truth, that's all." With that, on the fifth anniversary of 9/11, former President Bill Clinton (the man impeached by the House of Representatives for lying under oath), struck again. Before the airing of ABC's docudrama "The Path to 9/11," former members of the Clinton administration and several Democratic senators complained about the docudrama's "fabrications" and "lies" in letters to Robert Iger, CEO of Disney, ABC's parent company. Former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright urged ABC to cancel its scheduled airing on September 10 and 11. She called a scene in...

ITHACA-Hillary Clinton is the face of liberalism for most of America. Democrats trumpet her as their standard-bearer. Republicans use her as a bogeywoman to scare up dontations.But in Ithaca, the “most enlightened city in America,” some residents think Hillary is…you will not believe this…a puppet of President Bush.Writing in the Ithaca Journal, Ithaca resident Mona Sulzman complains: our junior senator in U.S. Congress has been, and continues to be, very much “George's.” Unequivocal and continuing support for the war in Iraq, a pandering focus on flag-burning legislation, resistance to single-payer health care for all, and a willingness to dilute hard-won...

In an effort to improve her image among liberal bloggers who are angered by her refusal to renounce her vote...U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) has hired Peter Daou, one of the most prominent political bloggers...[excerpt]

As the title says, I find FR to have some of the most informed, creative, wonderful people I've ever come across in cyberspace. I find you helpful, talented, knowledgable, and immensly involved. Having said that, I find it disturbing that we're wrong about so many things- in some cases WAY wrong. Case in point, the constant harpings that the MSM is nearling extinction... It's NOT, in fact, the lib media has become even more emboldened and committed to defeating the conservative agenda, now that FOX and Talk Radio are so popular. Most folks still get their news from 10 second...

LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas -- Former President Bill Clinton says if his wife becomes president in 2008, his role would be to quote "do whatever she wants" because that's what a good citizen would do. Clinton spoke to about 500 journalists in his former home of Little Rock, Arkansas, yesterday. He says he doesn't know if his wife, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, would run for president in two years, but predicted that a woman could win the most powerful office in the world. Asked what his role would be if his wife became president, Clinton said, quote, "I'll do whatever she...

A recent poll reveals that out of the group of politicians who are regarded as contenders for nomination as presidential candidates, more Americans fear Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) than any other contender -- Democrat or Republican. According to a just-released Fox News/Opinion Dynamics poll, when asked which candidate frightens you the most, 36% told pollsters Sen. Hillary Clinton. The closest to Clinton's 36% number was former New York City mayor Rudy Guiliani with 17% of Americans saying he frightens them. Lower on the list with single digits were former Vice President and loser 2000 presidential candidate Al Gore with...

Sen. Hillary Clinton said the discussion of gay marriage in Congress this week is a priority of the "political machine of the White House and the Republican majority" but her constituents put other concerns first. "When I travel around and speak with people whom I'm representing, they worry about everything from terrorism to gas prices to the cost of health care to energy independence," Clinton said Monday at a fundraising luncheon. "There's a long list. What we're going to do this week is not on the list. It is unfortunately on the list of the political machine of the White...

New York Post columnist John Podhoretz is warning that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton will win the 2008 presidential election unless Republicans start focusing now on a plan to defeat her. "If you Republicans don't get real serious real fast, if you don't wise up and settle down and get focused, it will be Hillary up there on the podium taking the oath of office" in January 2009, he writes in his new book: "Can She Be Stopped?: Hillary Clinton Will Be the Next President Unless ..." Podhoretz says the answer to that question is yes -- and he offers the...

Last week ABC announced it was yanking Commander in Chief, the highly-touted series about the first American female president. It had fallen to No. 64 in the Nielsen ratings, so taking the show off life-support was only a matter of time. Commander in Chief was not a TV series in the usual sense. Rather it was a nationally-televised focus group, designed to test out issues, talking points, and applause lines for Hillary Clinton’s stealth presidential campaign. The lead script writer was Steve Cohen, whose ties to the Clinton family go back to 1991. After a stint in president Bill Clinton’s...

10. "It's been said, and I think it's accurate, that my husband was obsessed by terrorism in general and al-Qaida in particular." (Hillary telling a post-9/11 world what a great commander in chief her husband was; Dateline, NBC 4/16/2004.) 9. "I have to admit that a good deal of what my husband and I have learned [about Islam] has come from our daughter." (Circa 1996, at a White House function, Hillary proudly tells some Muslim groups she is gaining a greater appreciation of Islam because Chelsea was then taking a class on the "religion of peace"; TruthInMedia.org 8/8/1999.) Note: See...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former U.S. President Bill Clinton is "The Most Influential Man in the World," according to Esquire magazine. The magazine has designated him as "the most powerful agent of change in the world" despite his lack of electoral standing and the fact he was laid low by a heart attack ahead of last year's presidential election. The magazine highlights Clinton's accomplishments in its December issue, which goes on newsstands on Thursday, profiling the world's "Best and Brightest" men and women. Since leaving office, Clinton has been so active that his post-presidency amounts to "a third term" for...

16 November 2005 DUBAI - The United States made a “big mistake” when it invaded Iraq, former President Bill Clinton said on Wednesday, citing the lack of planning for what would happen after dictator Saddam Hussein was overthrown. “Saddam is gone. It’s a good thing, but I don’t agree with what was done, “ Clinton told students at the American University of Dubai. “It was a big mistake. The American government made several errors ... one of which is how easy it would be to get rid of Saddam and how hard it would be to unite the country.” Clinton...

Senate candidate Jeanine Pirro's spokesman Mike McKeon was right on target Friday when he blamed Hillary Clinton's "attacks dogs and their surrogates" for digging up a four-year-old campaign contribution from a Connecticut company with alleged mob ties. On Saturday, the New York Daily News, which gave the story major coverage, vigorously denied any Clinton connection, insisting, "The News obtained the information from campaign and court records and had no contact with Clinton or any of her aides in drafting the story." The truth is, the News - along with the rest of its mainstream brethren - doesn't need to get...

 Why hillary clinton should never be allowed anywhere near the Oval Office... or any position of power--THE SERIES REASON 1: MISSUS CLINTON HIRED JAMIE GORELICK by Mia T, 5.13.05 Reverse Gorelick by Mia T, 4.15.04QUINN IN THE MORNING (ESSAY DISCUSSED)(MP3, REAL, WINDOWS MEDIA, WINAMP) (viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE)thanx to Fixit for the audio Once the clintons' own U.S. attorneys were in place, once the opposition was disemboweled by the knowledge that their raw FBI files had been in the possession of the clintons, once domestic law enforcement was effectively blinded to foreign data by Gorelick's...

  KLEIN BOOK CAUSES HILLARY TO (oops!) CONFIRM "THE TRUTH ABOUT HILLARY"CLINTON'S REACTION EXPOSES FASCISTIC MINDSET, TEXTBOOK CASE OF PARANOIA + MEGALOMANIA an amazon.com review   by Mia T, 7.3.05 Regarding missus clinton's profound dysfunction, her textbook case of paranoia and megalomania are fast becoming impossible to conceal... even from the most casual observer. And this is the case less because of the Klein book than because of hillary clinton's realtime reaction to it. By resorting to her old standbys, absolute media control and terror, i.e., blackmailing and other threats, the clinton 'secret police,' blackballing and censoring, hillary clinton exposes...

City's bid leaders praise her decision to join the delegation for Wednesday's vote by the International Olympic Committee. NEW YORK - Other cities are bringing presidents, prime ministers and royalty to Singapore in hopes of landing the 2012 Olympics. New York is bringing Hillary Rodham Clinton. The city's bid leaders praised the decision by the New York senator and former first lady to join the delegation for Wednesday's vote by the International Olympic Committee. "I think there is no question that everyone here will know who she is," said Dan Doctoroff, the bid chief and deputy mayor. "All over the...

Never Forget:   A Song for Hillary The whole world will be dancing in the streetwhen Hillary Rodham Clinton takes her Senate seat.No carpetbagger is she;she's a human Statue of Liberty.Hillary, Hillary, Hillary!We're so glad for the joy that she will bring. We can always count on her to do the right thing.She's faithful and honest, too.Thank God she's happened to me and you.Hillary, Hillary, Hillary! No matter what the voices of deception say,Vote Hillary Clinton on Election Day.No matter the problems, big or small; she will tackle and solve them all.The whole world will be dancing in the streetwhen...

In an unusual move, Sen. Clinton's staff immediately and publicly condemned the book. Quietly, they also have been contacting television programs to keep Klein off major shows. So far, the TV censorship effort has worked, with major networks such as Fox, MSNBC, NBC and others canceling scheduled appearances with Klein. For example, after Fox News canceled three scheduled appearances with Klein on its top-rated shows, Fox spokeswoman Irena Briganti claimed to the New York Times that interest in Klein's book at her network had "been tepid at best." She also said that after Klein's interview on "Hannity & Colmes," the...

HILLARY FOR PRESIDENT ? (Be careful what you wish for !) There is no denying NY Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has the intelligence,presence, determination,and political connections to be a viable candidate for President in 2008. The Democratic Party might well respond favorably this time to the idea of a woman in the Oval Office,and,from what I've seen of the Republican possibilities,she might very well be a shoo-in. I have an idea we will still be entangled-to at least some degree-in Iraq and Afghanistan.The situation in these two countries is not something apt to just fade away with elections,constitutions,or the opening...

On Sunday, June 26 at 11:00 am and at 11:00 pm The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Go to Become President Edward Klein Description: Author Edward Klein appears on the Jim Bohannon Show, a live radio call-in show, to discuss the life and political prospects of Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY). Mr. Klein is the author of "The Truth about Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Go to Become President." Author Bio: Edward Klein is the former foreign editor of Newsweek and former editor-in-chief of The...

Who is really happy about Edward Klein's new book "The Truth About Hillary"? If you believe the big media, it's the "right wing" and websites like NewsMax.com. But we hear the book may also be well received among some Democrats, a high-ranking party insider in Washington tells NewsMax. Could these ranking Democrats include Teddy Kennedy, John Kerry, Al Gore and Howard Dean? As NewsMax's Insider Report has revealed before, these four liberal Democrats - the so-called "Gang of Four" -- detest Hillary Clinton and have pledged to stop her no matter what from getting the Democratic nomination. Each member of...

Democrats are demanding that White House adviser Karl Rove immediately retract and apologize for comments that liberals responded to the Sept. 11 terrorist strikes by wanting to ``prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers.'' ``The one thing New York has had since Sept. 11 is unity,'' said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y. ``To inject politics into this and to defame a large number of people'' is outrageous, he said. ``It's not what New York and America is all about.'' Rove, Bush's chief political adviser, said in a speech Wednesday that ``liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks...

Last night I watched the rebroadcast of the Senate Armed Forces committee hearing on Iraq, and this morning I had breakfast with an old friend who is well connected in NYC Dem circles. Despite the riveting confrontation between the Swimmer and Rummy, and the pathetic display by Sheets, the really interesting moment occured when Hillary Clinton' turn occured. In brief...she totally blew it, BIG TIME...

Right wing stepping up war on Hillary Clinton Monday, June 20, 2005 By DICK POLMAN PHILADELPHIA - These are dark days for the conservative activists who despise Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, and they're itching to brighten their mood by taking her down. Much to their horror, she appears to be shedding her 1990s image as a leftist Lady Macbeth, winning plaudits as a hawkish senator who talks about God and breaking bread with many of the same Republicans who impeached her husband. It's gotten to the point where a Fox News poll last week found that her national favorability rating...

www.HillCAP.org INTRO and EPISODES 1-10 11- $2,000 Returned, We Keep the 2 Mil, Meet Bill on AF One with More 12 – Hillary’s Laundromat at 88 3rd Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 13 - How Is David Rosen Like Sally Field? 14 - Lying Chart of Sandler Was Like Unwelcome Visiting Relative NOTE: This is the 15th episode in a series of stories regarding the events surrounding Hillary Clinton’s 2000 Hollywood fundraiser, and the business relationship of entrepreneur Peter Paul, the impeached William Jefferson Clinton, and Hillary Rodham Clinton, perpetrator of the largest campaign finance fraud in the history of Western...

www.HillCAP.org INTRO and EPISODES 1-10 11- $2,000 Returned, We Keep the 2 Mil, Meet Bill on AF One with More 12 – Hillary’s Laundromat at 88 3rd Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 13 - How Is David Rosen Like Sally Field? 14 - Lying Chart of Sandler Was Like Unwelcome Visiting Relative 15 – If Rosen Didn’t Do It, Who Did It? NOTE: This is the 16th episode in a series of stories regarding the events surrounding Hillary Clinton’s 2000 Hollywood fundraiser, and the business relationship of entrepreneur Peter Paul, the impeached William Jefferson Clinton, and Hillary Rodham Clinton, perpetrator of...

Hillary Clinton receives honorary degree, presidential 'charge' CHARLES ODUM Associated Press Posted on Sat, May. 14, 2005 Democratic U.S. Sen. and former first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton applauds the just graduated women from Agnes Scott College as she joins them for a group photo after the graduation ceremony at the school in Decatur, Ga., Saturday, May 14, 2005. Clinton was on hand to deliver the commencement speech and accept an honorary degree from the all women's college. (AP Photo/John Amis) DECATUR, Ga. - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday told Agnes Scott College graduates that all women must "decide what...

Hillary Clinton has moved to the centre in preparation for 2008. It's become a cliché — so self-evidently true that it shows up not merely in editorials but in news articles as well. One of the reasons it's so uncontroversial is that it seems innocuous, even flattering. But, in fact, the "Hillary shifts to the centre" line isn't innocuous at all. It's crucial to the campaign that conservatives will wage against her in coming years. That campaign is likely to revolve around character. In the 1980s, Republicans demonized Democrats as ultra-liberals. But once Bill Clinton moved the party to the...