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New York Senator Hillary Clinton acknowledges a 3-minute ovation during the Democratic National Convention 2008 at the Pepsi Center in Denver, Colorado, August 26. Democratic women Senators appears on stage at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado, August 26, 2008. U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) is expected to accept the Democratic presidential nomination at the convention on August 28. US Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama watches New York Senator Hillary Clinton addressing the Democratic National Convention on a TV screen in Billings, Montana on August 26. Vice Presidential candidate Senator Joe Biden (R) (D-DE) stand at the podium...

NEW YORK (AP) — Local prosecutors are investigating whether political fundraiser and contributor Norman Hsu, a fugitive from a California theft conviction for 15 years, stole millions of dollars from an investment fund. A spokeswoman for Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau said Wednesday that lawyers for the fund, Source Financing Investors, referred the matter to her office last week "and we are investigating whether funds were misappropriated." The spokeswoman, Barbara Thompson, said Hsu contributed $2,000 to Morgenthau's last re-election campaign. She said the district attorney has put the money into an escrow account pending the outcome of the investigation. Source...

On September 7th we noticed that the scandal in the Democrat Party over illegal campaign donations was barely getting any coverage in the print media and the internet. Well, apparently, TV news isn't doing any better still. It's so obvious, even the juggernaut of the left, The New York Times, has taken note of how few network news reports have aired on the Hsu scandal... though not making a big deal of it, naturally. The news media is doing their level best to deep six the story to benefit Hillary, it seems. If the Hsu fits, anyway. (Do I have...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20381551/site/newsweek/ In September 2006, during a famous encounter with Fox News anchor Wallace, Clinton erupted in anger and waived his finger when asked about whether his administration had done enough to get bin Laden. “What did I do? What did I do?” Clinton said at one point. “I worked hard to try to kill him. I authorized a finding for the CIA to kill him. We contracted with people to kill him. I got closer to killing him than anybody has gotten since.” Clinton appeared to have been referring to a December 1999 Memorandum of Notification (MON) he signed that...

A political fund-raiser from California, who was arrested last week but had remained hospitalized in Grand Junction while federal and state authorities worked on his extradition, was discharged from the hospital today and booked into Mesa County's jail, authorities said. Yung Yuen "Norman" Hsu, 56, was arrested last Thursday after becoming ill on an Amtrak train while traveling from San Francisco to Denver. He was booked into Mesa County's jail on an outstanding warrant from California because he does not have any local charges, sheriff's officials said. He is expected to be extradited to San Mateo County, Calif., and he's...

New details emerged yesterday about the finances of the mysterious Democratic fund-raiser Norman Hsu, with the revelation that a private equity fund representing about 100 investors in New York gave him $40 million this year for a loan pool he said would generate a high rate of return. The investors were notified this week that their money might be in jeopardy, in light of disclosures that Mr. Hsu defrauded investors in a Ponzi scheme 16 years ago in California and faced accusations that he engaged in similar conduct more recently, a Manhattan lawyer for the fund said. The lawyer, Seth...

VOTE SMARTMY RESPONSE TO'VOTE DIFFERENT'(Obama-Apple 1984 Ad Mashup)by Mia T, 3.10.07 COPYRIGHT MIA T 2007

Accent lessons By Michelle Malkin   ·   March 07, 2007 10:02 AM Inspired by Hillary Clinton's command performance in Selma, Alabama, Hot Air presents: My Fair Lady, Southern Style: VIDEO -http://hotair.com/archives/2007/03/07/my-fair-lady-southern-style/ Or here at YouTube -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xk7hFnB4JnA HILARIOUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

GONE WITH THE WIND(miss hillary's 'plantation' blunder) by Mia T, 01.18.06           "When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation, and you know what I'm talkin' about. [Note the gratuitous gerundial g-dropping.] ... We have a culture of corruption. We have cronyism. We have incompetence. I predict to you that this administration will go down in history as one of the worst that has ever governed our country." (Miss hillary also apologized to a group of Hurricane Katrina evacuees in the audience "on...

HILLARY DOES SELMA (phony drawl 'n Saul, y'all)missus clinton's magically appearing thesis actuated 1 (details in part 2, coming soon) by Mia T, 3.06.07  "When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation, and you know what I'm talkin' about. [Note the gratuitous g-dropping. (Shades of Selma...)] hillary clinton Martin Luther King Day Monday, January 16, 2006 Canaan Baptist Church of Christ Harlem, New York City   "It's time for us to come together. It's time for us to rebuild a New Orleans, the one that should be,...

WHY HILLARY'S MAGICALLY APPEARING THESIS IS LIKE CLINTON'S FOLEY HIT JOB (and not like her Rose Law Firm billing records)     by Mia T, 3.03.07       illary's thesis hit the fan just in time to stop the bleeding. Another week of falling stars 1 and dropping numbers 2 and Barack Obama would have missus clinton dead and buried before the IRS 3 could say "David Geffen." 4 The means of delivery was MSNBC "investigative" reporter Bill Dedman's scoop, 5 Reading Hillary Rodham's hidden thesis. The online article announced to the world that ms. rodham's senior thesis,...

CLINTON vs. GORE + GEFFEN: POST-OSCAR ANALYSIS(HAS HOLLYWOOD DUMPED HILLARY?)CLINTON-GEFFEN IMBROGLIO-PART TWO PART ONE:WHY THE GEFFEN IMBROGLIO SIGNALS CLINTON'S END 'HILLARY'S STRATEGY--NOBODY GETS TO CRITICIZE HER' -- CHRIS MATTHEWSwith a WARNING FOR DAVID GEFFEN by Mia T, 2.26.07 ot sure whose stage presence is more ridiculus, hillary's or Al's. But at least Al Gore doesn't try to sound human. To understand why this is such an advantage for Gore, simply consider missus clinton's recent 'conversation' (with herself). It was risible. Unintentional theater of the absurd: The villain a soulless, angry, arrogant scold oozing cloying, saccharine-coated evil, pulsating to the...

Does the media have any backbone to question Hillary about her latest scandal from her 2000 Senate campaign that still is unresolved? Haven’t you heard about it? It’s only the largest campaign finance fraud in U.S. history which Hillary seems to have threatened the media from talking about. While Hillary has started her "Conversation with America Tour", no one in the media has dared to bring up her involvement in this ongoing case. She has been given a free pass by both the media, and the Senate Ethics committee that has refused to even hear this case. So much for...

WHY THE GEFFEN IMBROGLIO SIGNALS CLINTON'S END'HILLARY'S STRATEGY--NOBODY GETS TO CRITICIZE HER' -- CHRIS MATTHEWS with a WARNING FOR DAVID GEFFEN by Mia T, 2.22.07   hy did hillary clinton take the bait? The answer is actually quite simple: David Geffen's comments to Maureen Dowd topple the clinton machine's extravagant, fanciful and elaborate construction and expose the candidate for what she is: Defective. Fatally defective. How is hillary clinton fatally defective? Let me count the ways: the clintons' documented abuse of power 4 (redacted via clinton abuse of power!) the clintons' terrorism failure 3. the clintons' 1 rape of...

  HAVE RICHARD MELLON SCAIFE, RUPERT MURDOCH AND CHRIS RUDDY REALLY JUMPED SHIP?(AND WHAT ARE THE CLINTONS PROMISING THEM, ANYWAY?)  by Mia T, 2.23.07 ince leaving the White House, the clintons have been hard at work trying to flip some of the 'vast right wing conspiracy.' What are the clintons promising them? Are these seemingly compromised people simply hedging their bets? Or are they on board with the clintons? Or is this story standard-issue clinton-machine disinformation? Speaking of which, from The New York Times last week: Back when Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was first lady, no one better embodied...

WASHINGTON - If Hillary Rodham Clinton wins the presidency, some top Democrats would like to see her husband, former President Bill Clinton, appointed to serve out Hillary’s unexpired Senate term.

HOW MANY TIMES IS HILLARY GONNA BE CONFUSED BY MEN?: Chris MatthewsMISSUS CLINTON'S 'SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE' PROBLEM - PART 3 PART 2 PART 1 by Mia T, 2.17.07 This is how she explains her vote to authorize the war: "I would never have expected any president, if we knew then what we know now, to come to ask for a vote. There would not have been a vote, and I certainly would not have voted for it." John Kerry could not have said it worse himself. 1, 2 No wonder last weekend's "Saturday Night Live" gave us a "Hillary"...

STALINIST RISING? 1HILLARY CLINTON ABUSE OF POWER (WHERE IS THE UNREDACTED BARRETT REPORT ANYWAY?) by Mia T, 2.07.07     Peggy Noonan's excellent piece in yesterday's Wall Street Journal is really the story of the death of democracy. At its core it is the description of the human double helix gone terribly awry, of a denatured protein grotesquely twisted, of two mutant, tangled strands of DNA, the basest imaginable of base pairs linked permanently, as firmly as guanine to cytosine, bill inexorably to hillary and conversely, doing what they do best, and doing it relentlessly. Killing. Killing insidiously. Killing...

Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff who is on trial for perjury and obstruction of justice, claims he doesn’t remember, or mis-remembers, some of the conversations he had with reporters concerning the former CIA employee Valerie Plame Wilson. That, Libby says, accounts for the differences between his testimony about talks with journalists like Tim Russert and Matthew Cooper and the accounts of Russert and Cooper themselves. -snip-

Hillary Clinton, the former First Lady, yesterday launched her historic attempt to return to the White House as president with the bold declaration: "I'm in. And I'm in to win."The Democrat senator for New York, who aims to become the first woman to hold the nation's highest office, announced the formation of a presidential exploratory committee, the final stage before a formal declaration, in a hard-hitting statement and video on her website. Mrs Clinton, 59, revealed her plans just five days after her main rival for the Democratic nomination, Sen Barack Obama, took the same step – as the most...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Ten years later, it still takes a village. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is polishing up her most famous phrase as she edges closer to a presidential run. She writes in a new introduction to her book ``It Takes a Village'' that Sept. 11 and the Internet make her tome on child-rearing even more relevant today. The 10th anniversary edition of the book goes on sale Dec. 12. An early copy was obtained by The Associated Press. The new version of the book features a smiling Clinton surrounded by children. The New York senator did not appear on...

Excerpt - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has begun active consideration of a 2008 run for president and has personally asked some fellow top New York Democrats for their support in the event she goes ahead with such a campaign, a top adviser said Sunday. "As Sen. Clinton said, she was going to begin actively considering a presidential run after the election. That process has begun," said Howard Wolfson. "She is reaching out to her colleagues in the New York delegation and asking for their advice and counsel, and their support if she decides to make a run," the Clinton adviser...

Excerpt - PRINCETON, NJ -- With a resounding victory behind her -- re-elected to her U.S. Senate seat by a 67% to 31% margin -- there is now tremendous political pressure on New York Sen. Hillary Clinton to make known her previously guarded intentions in the 2008 presidential race. If Clinton does announce a run for president, it will be with the blessing of her constituents. A new Gallup Panel survey of 840 New York residents, aged 18 and older, conducted just before the election, finds that New Yorkers returned the former first lady to office not only believing she...

Hillary Rodham Clinton re-elected at a post of senator WASHINGTON - the ex-First American injury Hillary Clinton was re-elected democratic sénatrice of the State of New York. It thus confirms its base in the American political life which could carry out it to a candidature for presidential of 2008, according to media's. The woman of Bill Clinton had spent nearly 30 million dollars for her re-election campaign to the American Senate, much more than any other candidate with the various polls concerned Tuesday, and this, in spite of an adversary well little threatening for it. This last, the republican...

I have been in a couple of conversations today about my colleague Nick Anderson's most recent animated editorial cartoon. OK, I initiated the conversations. Sue me. You're going to watch Nick's animation, as you should. I bow to no one in my admiration for Mr. Anderson's talent, and I love the way he brings editorial cartooning into something resembling the present. How many other editorial cartoonists would know the Black Eyed Peas from Andy Williams? But. You knew there'd be a but. In this case, the but is a butt. I am not going to discuss the politics of the...

THE conventional wis dom is that Hillary Clinton has a lock on the Democratic nomination in 2008 but can't win the general election. Both claims are open to doubt: A new poll shows Hillary slipping in her battle for the nomination and voter turnout data underscores how serious a chance she has of winning the election if she gets nominated. The latest Fox News poll (see chart) shows her slipping among likely Democratic primary voters from an unbeatable 43 percent in mid March to a more pedestrian 32 percent in late August. The key movement seems to be from Hillary...

Hillary Clinton 2008 Presidential campaign caught up in Spiderman's web? Peter Paul vows to end Hillary Clinton's political career   Gambling911.com has learned that the Washington Times plans to revive media focus on the landmark civil fraud suit now scheduled for trial against former President Bill Clinton on March 27, 2007, with Hillary Clinton allegedly a co-conspirator.  Sportsbook.com, which offers betting odds on the 2008 Presidential race with Hillary Clinton a 3 to 1 favorite of winning (every $1 bet would pay out $3), is not expected to make any changes to these odds over the next few weeks. ...

Here’s what we know. The Bush administration was framed by Valerie Plame, the upper CIA, and the mainstream media, with the active connivance of Richard Armitage, who is well known as Colin Powell’s best friend. Armitage has now been outed, after three years of Wilson-Plame smears against the administration going without an effective answer, and the VP’s chief of staff under indictment. We also know that Colin Powell’s “right hand man,” Col. Larry Wilkerson (ret.) went on a public rampage against the Bush administration, following other foreign policy retreads from Clinton I, such as Richard Clarke, the egregious Joe Wilson...

US pop superstar Janet Jackson hopes Hillary Clinton will become the first woman president of the United States. "Hillary Clinton as president -- that would be great," Jackson said in an interview with German press agency DPA Monday. "Then she could show all those people who wouldn't trust a woman with such a job."

by Mark Finkelstein September 3, 2006 - 14:13 The general rule of thumb among political consultants is that a disapproval rating of 40% spells a candidate's near-certain defeat. Virtually no one who disapproves of a candidate will vote for him, while approving of someone is no guarantee of a vote. Hillary Clinton's disapproval rating of 44% in a recent Time magazine poll thus bodes very ill for her presidential prospects. Yet the Sunday Times of London has managed to put a rosy gloss on what would have most politicians looking for another line of work. Says the Times of the...

- Hillary Rodham Clinton is holding on to first place among several prospective Democratic Party nominees for the 2008 United States presidential election, according to a poll by Opinion Dynamics released by Fox News. 32 per cent of Democrat supporters say they would vote for the New York senator in a primary ballot, down 11 points since March.Former vice-president Al Gore is second on the list with 15 per cent, followed by current Massachusetts senator and 2004 presidential nominee John Kerry with 13 per cent, and 2004 vice-presidential candidate and former North Carolina senator John Edwards with nine per cent.

The Democrats’ chances of retaking the White House are doomed if they nominate Hillary Clinton in 2008, according to Boston Herald Business Columnist Brett Arends. Several weeks ago Arends reported that 45 percent of Democrats in New Hampshire were telling focus groups “they hate her. Hate.” Among the words used to describe Clinton were “evil” and “diabolical.” “These people will not vote for her in a general election,” Arends writes. “So you’d think the party would be throwing itself, right now, into a relentless quest for a more viable alternative... “Instead the party establishment is pouring its time, money and...

FRIENDS of Hillary Clinton have been whispering the unthinkable. Despite her status as the runaway frontrunner for the 2008 Democratic nomination for president, some of her closest advisers say she might opt out of the White House race and seek to lead her party in the Senate.

FRIENDS of Hillary Clinton have been whispering the unthinkable. Despite her status as the runaway frontrunner for the 2008 Democratic nomination for president, some of her closest advisers say she might opt out of the White House race and seek to lead her party in the Senate. The former first lady longs to return to the White House with husband Bill as consort. Only last week she told television viewers America would be led by a woman one day. “Stay tuned,” she said. First, however, she has to win the election. Some Democratic party elders — the American equivalent of...

Bill Clinton Says He Won't Pressure Wife Hillary To Run For President September 02, 2006 Former President Bill Clinton says he is not pressuring his wife to run for president. The former first couple visited the State Fair in Syracuse Friday, as part of Hillary Clinton’s three-day promotional tour through New York's farm country. "I'm in the support business," said Bill Clinton. "Whatever she does will make me happy. If she decided to serve six years in the Senate and then go help me with my work around the world, we could travel more together that would make me happy."...

Six years ago, when Hillary Rodham Clinton first ran for the U.S. Senate, Republican Rep. Thomas M. Reynolds derided her as a carpetbagger who brought nothing to New York but overweening ambition.Today, he raves about their relationship. "I've found her always willing to listen and to roll up her sleeves and go to work with me," the Buffalo-area lawmaker said in a phone call between recent campaign stops.Reynolds is no partisan slouch. He has close ties to the Bush administration and heads the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee. He has the most conservative voting record of anyone in New York's 29-member...

Former President Bill Clinton said during a visit with his wife to the State Fair on Friday that he isn't pressing her to run for president. "I don't have a view on this," he said to reporters after he and his wife spoke to more than 500 people at a luncheon she hosted at the fair. "I'm in the support business. Whatever she does will make me happy," the former president said. "If she decided to spend her six years in the Senate and then go help me in my work around the world and we could travel together that...

ALBANY - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said yesterday she hopes America is ready for a female president - and gave her strongest hint yet at whom she has in mind when she blurted out, “Stay tuned.” Clinton, who was on a three-day upstate New York campaign swing, made the provocative comment to ABC's "Nightline," which reaches a national audience. Asked if America is ready for its first female chief executive, Clinton responded, "It just depends on when and if that happens. Stay tuned." Her coy remark immediately renewed speculation that the former first lady, heading to an easy re-election victory...

NEW YORK — Just over half of Americans believe Sen. Hillary Clinton is prepared to be the first female president of the United States, according to a new FOX News poll. In addition, Clinton is the preferred choice of Democratic voters for their party’s 2008 presidential nominee; on the Republican side, former NY Mayor Rudy Giuliani barely edges out Ariz. Sen. John McCain for frontrunner billing. Opinion Dynamics Corporation conducted the national telephone poll of 900 registered voters for FOX News from August 29 to August 30. The poll has a 3-point error margin. A slim 51-percent majority of voters...

Aug 31 2:35 PM US/Eastern By MARC HUMBERT Associated Press Writer SENECA FALLS, N.Y. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, standing outside an abandoned knitting mill that will become the new home of the National Women's Hall of Fame, said Thursday she hopes America is ready for its first woman president. "It just depends on when and if that happens," the former first lady said. "Stay tuned." Clinton continued to duck questions about whether she will run for the White House in 2008, saying yet again she is completely focused on her re-election this year. But Clinton said that when it comes...

WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani are America's top choices to run for president, but a new poll says the Democratic senator faces a tougher fight than the GOP ex-mayor in getting nominated. Giuliani and Clinton each are the first choice of 32 percent of their parties' voters, the survey by RT Strategies and the Cook Political Report found. But 49 percent of Democrats think Clinton can't win a general election. "That's a huge number," said pollster Tom Riehle, who explained he asked that question because Clinton's biggest barrier to winning the Democratic nomination is the wide belief in...

When chess buffs get bored, they sometimes fool around with a game called “suicide chess.” The rules are similar, but the goal is to lose all your pieces. If you need an illustration, just watch the Democrats. How else do you explain the fact that so many of them are seriously considering nominating Hillary Clinton for president in 2008? Earlier this month I revealed here that even 45 percent of Democrats, in “purple” New Hampshire, tell focus groups they hate her. Hate. Among their comments: “B-tch . . . political wh-re . . . evil . . . diabolical.” It...

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Washington Whispers It's Gingrich's to Lose in 2008 Sorry, Hillary. And Big John, you might have missed your chance in 2000. That's because a new and innovative poll from John Zogby about 2008 presidential candidates finds former Republican Speaker Newt Gingrich way out front of fellow GOP-ers like Sen. John McCain and also finds moderates like former Virginia Gov. Mark Warner far ahead of libs like Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. Here's the unusual thing about the Zogby poll released to Whispers: When questioning likely primary voters, only brief biographies and not names were given. In other words, voters picked the...

The Salt Lake Slick Tatletail headlines this piece about a disturbing request for a demonstration permit: Protest permit alarms Arab's USA terrorist' CAIR is a special target as the officials have such a big mouth they cannot be missed But it isn't only USA Arab community who should be alarmed. ------------ START QUOTE ------------ Members of USA's Arab community are alarmed by a proposed demonstration that will call for "Death to Arab's". A man - whose name wasn't available Thursday - has applied for a free-speech permit from Salt Lake Sluice to demonstrate on sidewalks near City Hall on Wednesday....

Thirty-nine percent (39%) of Americans say they would definitely vote against Senator Clinton if she is on the Presidential ballot in 2008, a one point drop from two weeks ago. Twenty-nine percent (29%) said they would definitely vote for her, a number which has remained steady from our past two surveys (see trends).

This much can be said right now about the early 2008 primary and caucus schedule for Senator Hillary Clinton: It looks, as Damon Runyon might have put it, more harrowing than somewhat. When the Democratic National Committee met in Chicago over the weekend, they approved a calendar that figures to empower four states—voting over a 15-day period in January 2008—to reduce the pack of candidates to no more than two or three, probably with a clear front-runner among them. Iowa, as always, will lead off with its caucuses, followed five days later by caucuses in Nevada. The New Hampshire primary...

According to Time.com, If you ask anyone around Hillary Clinton the question that everyone is asking, the answer comes back in a shot: The freshman Senator from New York is far too busy concentrating on her re-election in November to be giving even a passing thought to 2008. Thank you very much. While her opposition is fixed conservative 30% far right, her supporting base is stronger than ever. She is running and running with full vigor for the next Presidential election in 2008. And guess who will be running mate - yes her husband former US President Bill Cinton. That...

The S.C. Republican Party’s sponsorship of “An Evening Honoring Rudy Giuliani” last week spoke volumes. It reflected what some said is a shift in attitude toward GOP candidates with more liberal views on social issues. There’s a greater degree of tolerance and acceptance, party officials said. Giuliani, who rose to national prominence for his take-charge performance after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, supports gay rights, gun control and legalized abortion, which puts him at odds with most Republicans. Nevertheless, he has traveled the country extensively on behalf of GOP candidates this year while acknowledging his own interest in a possible...