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A company associated with Hillary Clinton's top presidential campaign advance staff has purchased a website domain that hints of a 2012 presidential bid for the vanquished senator from New York. HRC2012.com was bought by the Markham Group on June 8, according to whois.com Greg Hale of the Markham Group served as a key advance aide to Sen. Clinton, organizing political events for the campaign. The Markham website calls him the "lead consultant for advance and visual messaging." Partners Paul Neaville and Robert McClarty (the son of former White House chief of staff Thomas "Mack" McClarty) also worked on Clinton's advance...

At least that's what it'll look like to Obama. The Wall Street Journal reports that Carly Fiorina, former Hewlett-Packard CEO and senior adviser to Sen. John McCain, met with a group of 25 prominent supporters and fundraisers for Sen. Hillary Clinton at a private home in Westchester County, NY. The group included several so-called "Hillraisers," each of whom have raised in excess of $100,000 for Clinton's failed primary campaign. An organizer of the meeting, Amy Siskind, said that the pro-Hillary groups represented pledged to help deliver, "hundreds of thousands and maybe millions of votes," to McCain if the groups find...

Yesterday, Barack Obama tried on his most unconvincing costume–that of commander-in-chief–giving a national security speech at Purdue University and submitting his plan to keep America safe: The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee also released a nine-page document on “Confronting 21st Century Threats,” in which his campaign said the White House, Congress and some U.S. allies had succumbed to a mind-set of “conventional thinking [that] has failed to adapt to a world of new threats.” If Obama is so concerned with the rigidity of old school approaches, why did he try to stifle the most radical shift in national security thinking–the Petraeus...

Well we must apologize... Tonight on Patriot Action Live we wanted to take at least one half of the Hillary Clinton Challenge. On Saturday, appearing before the American Federation of Teachers, New York's Junior Senator, one time First Lady, and one time Democratic Presidential Hopeful Hillary Clinton, the candidate that proved it was not only possible to squander a huge lead over her rival, Illinois Senator Barack Obama, but that she was just the person to do it, said that this campaign would be a tough one, but that it shouldn't be. She would then go on to elaborate saying...

Mika Brzezinski might be an Obama backer, but she really should sit down with Hillary Clinton. The woman who turned $1,000 into $100,000 could clue her in to the workings of the commodities markets. Be it cattle or crude oil, the concept's the same: these are "futures" markets in which prices are set on traders' expectations of what conditions will be some time down the road. Mika's need for urgent remedial help on the matter became evident during the first minutes of today's Morning Joe. Ostensibly fulfilling her news-reading function, Mika veered from the prepared text to inject her own...

The world's most listened-to talk radio host, Rush Limbaugh (over 30 million regular listeners) has developed a program known as "Operation Chaos." This program is designed to get conservatives, Republicans and others to register as Democrats and cross over to vote in primary states, to keep the contest going up until the Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado. Many feel that "Operation Chaos" has helped to keep Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY), the former First Lady and wife of former President William "Bill" Clinton, in the race against the neophyte candidate Senator Barack Hussein Obama (D-IL). With Senator Clinton still...

This shirt won a contest on Hillary's site. They received 5,000 submissions and 125,000 people voted for their favorite. Hillary says. While the primary race may be over, I think the winning t-shirt -- and it won by a landslide -- still makes a wonderful statement about everything you and I accomplished in this historic race and our determination to keep fighting for what we believe in. Hmmm. Fighting John McCain? I think she may be reminding us Obama is only the presumptive nominee. The Country Music design, here, wasn't among the finalists. Go figure.

Four months from Election Day and Bob Novak says Multi-Millionaire Dem Donors are "dissatisfied" with Obama. Hillary supporters all over the country are refusing orders from Chicago to unite. Unless Obama uses that famous judgment to fix this problem, he's going to lose this election.

Michael, a reader, writes: Just thought you would enjoy the usual feminist carrying on by Hillary. Seems she expects Obama's gang to bail her out financially. Why does this sound so familiar? Mike refers me to CNN’s Jack Cafferty and provides the following excerpt: Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton may be campaigning and fund-raising together these days. But behind the scenes, there are some nasty wounds that are a long way from being healed. The New York Times reports that many Obama donors are not too eager to help Clinton pay off her estimated $23 million in campaign debt. Some...

An abortionist who claims to have destroyed more than 20,000 unborn children and who once was Hillary Clinton's OB-GYN says he is doing "God's work" when he terminates a pregnancy. "Embryos and fetuses spontaneously aborted – most, but not all of those 'canceled' by 'God' – are ... luckless human souls," wrote William Harrison, referring to an ancient poem describing the plight of mankind. "But a few spontaneous abortions occur in desired pregnancies with no discernable abnormalities. For those girls and women and their families whose circumstances would make their babies 'luckless human souls,' I 'cancel' them before they become...

  New Emperor...Same Old Clothes July 3, 2008 It’s patently absurd how liberals run around chanting “change we can believe in” when, in fact, their new would-be Emperor Obama is the same-old disingenuousness in a new suit. Obama’s version of “change” began by greasing his millionaire buddies. A quick trip to the Obama campaign website reveals that Barack just can’t wait to start bestowing his largesse on “workers’, “working families” and the “middle class”. In fact, he’s so excited about playing political “trick or treat” that he confidently promises to immediately “eliminate income taxes for 10 million Americans” and “provide 150 million workers the tax...

From Former foes Clinton, Obama present picture of unity (6/28/08): Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton embraced, praised each other and locked hands in unity Friday, hoping to persuade legions of still-skeptical Clinton backers to rally around her one-time rival. "She rocks. That's the point I'm trying to make," a grinning Obama told the throng of 4,000 squeezed into a soccer field in the small western New Hampshire town of Unity... Both candidates said their six-month rivalry, which ended early this month when the Illinois senator clinched the Democratic presidential nomination, was history. "We may have started on separate paths,...

Late last night I had a vision. No, it wasn't a vision like in one of franksolich's bizarre DREAMS. What happened is that I woke up with a start and a sudden realization that Wesley Clark is entirely a creature of the Clintons. In fact, the ONLY reason why he ran for presidential nomination in 2004 is that the Clintons wanted someone to take Howard Dean out. Clark flopped but Dean eventually took himself out with a lot of help from a White House letter released by the Clintons that showed Dean to be a complete hypocrite in opposing...

By all accounts, Barack Obama should win this election. He and his brand control the image, the message and, to a large extent, the media of this election cycle. Yes, the media. He has enough money to buy ads every day from now to election day, glossy magazines cannot wait to put his image on their covers, Hollywood types are so smitten that they wear his image on their clothing and YouTube is bursting at the seams with homages to him. It is definitely his to win -- or to lose. It all hinges on two things: likability and character.

Sen. Barack Obama began a panel discussion at Carnegie Mellon University this morning with a bunch of really smart panelists from MIT, General Motors, AOL and the SEIU. Today marks Obama's first visit to the Steel City since April 21, the eve of the Pennsylvania primary; Obama won the city of Pittsburgh proper in the spring primary, but not the state.

The MSM is sure to have a field day with McCain advisor Charlie Black's statement that a terror attack on U.S. soil "would be a big advantage" to the Republican candidate. McCain has been quick to dissociate himself from the remark, and surely Black would have been well-advised not to make it. Predictably, CNN's Jack Cafferty has been leading the charge against Black. In his "Cafferty File" question this afternoon, the CNN commentator called Black's remark "breathtaking in its stupidity" and asked viewers whether Black should be fired. View video here. I wonder if Cafferty's aware that in the course...

A Thursday afternoon meeting between Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and other members of the Congressional Black Caucus grew tense and emotional for a moment -- perhaps illustrating that weeks after Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., suspended her presidential campaign, some nerves remain frayed. Sources at the meeting said that Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, a Clinton supporter, expressed the desire that Obama and his campaign would reach out the millions of women still aggrieved about what happened in the campaign and still disappointed that Clinton lost. Obama then said, "However, I need to make a decision in the next few months...

Here is an interview Neil Cavuto did today, June 19, 2008, with a Hillary Clinton supporter for John McCain who says she is receiving threatening phone calls from Obama backers. . . (see video)

Picture Hillary Rodham Clinton wearing a black robe, standing between fellow Supreme Court justices David Souter and Stephen Breyer. It could happen, suggests one legal correspondent who covers the high court. Might a President Obama appoint the former first lady to fill a vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court? According to Tony Mauro, a correspondent for Legal Times and American Lawyer Media whose column appears today on USAToday.com, it would not be the first time a sitting president has de-clawed a past and possibly future competitor. "[H]istory tells us that a Justice Hillary Clinton is more than possible," states the...

Posterity may well remember the Hillary Clinton campaign as the nearest that a member of the female gender had thus far gotten to the nomination of a major political party. But the episode will be recalled for many other salient features as well. The first time that the wife of an ex-president had leveraged her first-lady status into a senatorial seat and then a bid for the presidency. http://www.slate.com/id/2193684/

(THE WORLD) Where’s Hillary Clinton? Chappaqua? Washington? Has she returned to Iowa? Has anyone seen Hillary since she endorsed Barack Obama before an adoring crowd of her most ardent supporters? Philippe Reines, a campaign adviser, says that “she’s enjoying some well-deserved R&R,” but only Hillary knows for sure. Her sudden and mysterious disappearance has prompted New York publisher Little Brown to announce plans to publish a picture book, Where’s Hillary, modeled after the Where’s Waldo series published in the late 80’s and reissued in the 90’s. A spokesman for Little Brown says that they hope that the new Where’s Hillary...

Hillary Clinton's mention of RFK's assassination was the final nail in the coffin of her candidacy. Along similar lines, can you imagine the howls of MSM outrage if John McCain were to suggest that he might "bring a gun" to his campaign against Barack Obama? Yet Obama has made just such a statement. Expect the liberal media to . . . yawn. Said the Dem candidate at a Philly fundraiser on Friday night, anticipating Republican attacks: "If they bring a knife to the fight, we bring a gun."

Q. What's weaker than playing the "taken out of context" card? A. Digging yourself deeper with the supposedly exculpatory explanation. Mike Barnicle managed the Daily Double today with his mishandling of the flap over the way he described Hillary back in January. Barnicle was on Morning Joe, and discussion turned to a New York Times article, Media Charged With Sexism in Clinton Coverage, that mentioned his remarks. View video here.

WASHINGTON — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was gracious in her full-throated endorsement of Senator Barack Obama. But that does not mean all is forgiven by others in the Clinton universe. For proof, look no further than Doug Band, chief gatekeeper to former President Bill Clinton. Mr. Band keeps close track of the past allies and beneficiaries of the Clintons who supported Mr. Obama’s campaign, three Clinton associates and campaign officials said. Indeed, he is widely known as a member of the Clinton inner circle whose memory is particularly acute on the matter of who has been there for the couple...

Don't know what to make of this but, at least one site, Clinton Democrats, says it is true. TAKE IMMEDIATE ACTION! Howard Dean is working to remove Hillary from first ballot at the convention! I.E he is trying to have her stricken from the record…the annals of history, and diminish the gravity of her historic place in history. Remember, Obama had Alyce Palmur removed from the ballot here in Chicago so he had no one to challenge him….SEE An PATTERN? More . . . Another commenter on this post also mentioned it. Otherwise, why would he be trying to have...

Obama has succeeded in separating the wheat from the chaff in the Democrat party. Many Hillary Democrats seem to be taking a serious, principled stand in opposing Obama in the general election. It is not that they like McCain. They just think Obama would be very bad for America. After 8 years of George W. Bush, you would think party loyalty would prevail at all costs. But you would be wrong. For these Democrats, America comes first.

Barrack Obama has women troubles, and Hillary Clinton far from the alone as a problem. Danger lurks much closer to home. First there are the 13 million disaffected women who supported Hillary not for her agenda but for her gender.  Fifteen times in her concession speech Hillary name-checked Barack Obama and fifteen times there were loud boos in the audience.  Yes, many will back Obama, but Democrats, unlike Republicans, don't fall in line.  In one poll 40 per cent of Clinton supporters said they will not support Obama; whether that turns into votes for McCain is another matter.   Then there...

On Wednesday afternoon, Hillary Rodham Clinton visited her Arlington, Va., campaign headquarters and disclosed that she would finally concede her long primary fight. That same afternoon, a fierce storm system developed over northern Virginia and unleashed a tempest of high winds, driving rain and even a tornado. The heavenly outburst was a fittingly symbolic expression of the anger and frustration that defined the last days of a candidate who once seemed to have a lock on the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.

Imagine that a conservative commentator had suggested that Hillary would rather spend time up-close-and-personal in the company of bare-chested warriors than with Bill. Cries of sexism and intrusion on privacy could be expected to echo through the media. But don't expect the MSM to blink over Mika Brzezinski having suggested the same regarding Laura and George W. With Joe Scarborough off today, Mika again was in the Morning Joe host chair. One of Willie Geist's light-hearted "News You Can't Use" items focused on Laura Bush's surprise trip to Afghanistan, and the display of the traditional Maori haka dance that New...

Say it ain't so Joe. I mean, Hillary. I don't believe it. But my friends in Obama-land, the place where all good Democrats are, or are heading to, are worried. The concern is that Hillary could take a page from the book of one Joe Lieberman, once and former good Democrat, and decide that having lost out on his party's nomination to someone he couldn't see winning a general election, the better option (for him) was to run himself in the fall. Which he did. And won. Beating the liberal Democrat who had beaten him in the primary.

Now it can be revealed. A hidden recorder taped the conversation that took place at the secret meeting between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama at Senator Diane Feinstein's home in Washington, D.C.. Here is the transcript of that historic meeting: HILLARY: Thank you for coming here, Barack. Now that the long primary campaign is over, I think it is finally time to discuss how we can unite to defeat the Republicans this November. OBAMA: Why thank you, Hillary. HILLARY: As the first step in this endeavor, I am pledging my full support to you. OBAMA: Very gracious of you....

Some endorsement! Barack Obama's greatest vulnerability as a candidate is, perhaps, his lack of national security credentials—the doubt in voters' minds as to whether he is qualified to be Commander-in-Chief. So if there was one thing Hillary Clinton could have done during her speech today to bolster Barack's resume, it would have been a clear-cut statement that, yes, she believes in his ability to be Commander-in-Chief. In the course of her speech, Hillary did manage to work in the fact that there was a Democrat qualified for that role. But, stunningly, the only person she mentioned as fit to be...

Not to be unkind, but how can one purport to conduct a serious post mortem of Hillary Clinton's failed candidacy without mentioning what would seem an obvious—and very important—factor: her personality that to many American was less-than-appealing, in a contest pitting her against the unusually charming Barack Obama? Yet David Gregory ignored the personality factor entirely in his "post mortem, Powerpoint edition" on this evening's Race for the White House. Instead, he identified—and asked his panel to comment on—these five factors: * The Iraq War Vote * Change vs. Experience * Dysfunction in the Campaign * Overconfidence * Bill View...

One of our members - Senator Blutarsky - posted a comment making us aware of this new site that has been started - Hillary Clinton Supporters for John McCain . . . Here is what they say on their site page titled "Our Plans": Our Plans It is our mission to raise money, promote John McCain. We will set up a "527" to raise money, run TV and radio ads against Obama. The Democrat party has left us out in the cold, so we are going to build a fire that they cannot put out. . .

"An ambassador is an honest man sent abroad to lie for the good of his country."—attributed to Sir Henry Wotton (1568–1639), British diplomat. If Sir Henry were around today, he might offer a corollary: a communications director is a man sent to meet with the media to fib for the good of his candidate. In the current campaign, the most blatant practitioner of the technique is Robert Gibbs, communications director for Barack Obama. As I noted here, Gibbs recently had the chutzpah [if that's the right word for the man from Auburn, Alabama] to claim that Barack Obama's resignation from...

Although it looks like Hillary Clinton may FINALLY concede this weekend, there is still a lot of antipathy towards her by many Democrats. One such person still angry at Hillary is Bob Cesca who has posted his disgust with Hillary in a HUffington POst THREAD titled, "Even In Defeat, It's All About Her." Yeah, Bob, and if she isn't given the VP slot it will still be all about her as she subtly works to defeat Obama in November so she can run again in 2012. So let us now watch the Bob and the HUffies post their disgust...

Hillary Clinton is an Ivy League lawyer surrounded by Ivy League lawyers. Anyone who saw her advisor Harold Ickes in action at the DNC Rules Committee over the weekend knows that these are folks who can and will parse every jot and tittle. When they write a letter, particularly a very momentous one, it should be taken at anything but face value. So when, as a loyal member of Hillary's email list, a message [full text here] turned up from her this morning, I was eager to read between the lines. On the one hand, Clinton did say that at...

"Hell hath no fury like a pundit ignored."NOW, the gloves are coming off. But it's not Obama-Clinton or McCain-Obama. It's Amalgamated Punditry vs. Hillary Clinton. The pundit-acracy is pissed that the former first lady ignored their advice to pack it in and just go home last night. A herd of commentators declared that Clinton would be announcing her exit from the race in her NYC speech--especially after many had proclaimed Barack Obama had clinched the Democrat nomination. Then, Clinton's speech chain-sawed the limb off. And after they all climbed out on it so confidently. The following video had some pundits...

The most entertaining political show is the little known internet live stream The Strategy Room on the Fox News website. Most of the show is very candid with the pundits opinions open for discussion and with no holds barred. (Video Included)

(CNSNews.com) - Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is facing renewed criticism regarding his national security policies as he continues his campaign for his party's presidential nomination. In a YouTube video Obama made for a liberal pacifist organization last year, the senator called for major cuts in defense spending, slowing the development of future combat systems, and cutting investments in America's ballistic missile defense program. Some conservatives have expressed surprise at the degree of Obama's proposals on the video, and this past weekend, Sen. Hillary Clinton's (D-N.Y.) campaign released an ad criticizing Obama's alleged national security inexperience and trumpeting her as the...

We were absolutely assured by news outlets, such as AP, yesterday that Hillary Clinton would finally concede last night. It didn't happen. Instead she is keeping her options open which means she either hopes that Obama stumbles sometime this summer or she will dig up some dirt on him. Perhaps there is a Michelle Obama "Whitey" tape out there somewhere but I wouldn't stake too much on its existence primarily because the main person plugging it (while blaming its eventual release on EVIL Republicans) is one Larry Johnson who has a track record of near ZERO credibility. However, Hillary's...

Updated: May 30, 2008 06:44 PM EDT Reporting from KTVQ in Billings Chelsea Clinton told supporters in Billings that the country needs to do more with gun control laws, during the final visit on her two day tour campaigning on her mother's behalf in the Magic City. During a question and answer session before seniors and other supporters at the Yellowstone County Council on Aging Office Friday morning, Chelsea said, "We also need to do more with gun control. And my mom supports- naturally what she supported in New York. Which is: we have different gun control laws in New...

It took several years in the Oval Office before it became apparent George W. Bush was not the “uniter” he promised he would be when running for office. Being a young, energetic fellow, Barack Obama (D-IL) has proved it even before he secured his party’s nomination. The Dems are so polarized along gender, racial and socioeconomic lines that a significant portion of women and white working class men are threatening to vote for John McCain (R-AZ) for president if Hillary Clinton (D-NY) is not the party’s standard-bearer (video link). In part, this is the hand that the Dems dealt themselves...

Who says there's no humor in politics? Obama communications director Robert Gibbs went on ABC's This Week today, and in one of the best bits of deadpan comedy seen since Buster Keaton, actually said that Barack Obama's decision to quit the Trinity United Church of Christ was "not political." GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: In Philadelphia, just in April, Senator Obama said of Reverend Wright "I can no more disown him than I can disown the black community." Now he's cut all ties to Reverend Wright, and left his church. What is it a mistake to wait this long? ROBERT GIBBS: No, George....

So how is that party unity thing working out for you, Democrats? Instead of the Democrat Rules Committee decision to seat the Michigan and Florida delegations and awarding them with a half a vote each ending up in the Democrats all singing Kumbaya together, it has ended up with angry accusations of betrayal against each other as Hillary continues ON TO DENVER!!! You can get an idea of how divided the Democrats are by taking a look at the infamous VIDEO of delegate Harriet Christian threatening to vote for McCain as well as this VIDEO of some really, really...

Today is Sunday, June 1st and the Puerto Rico primary voting takes place from 8:00 a.m. until 3:00 p.m. ET. Welcome to the only forum on the web in the mainland United States (that I know of!) monitoring LIVE all the details, voting, exit polling and results for today’s Puerto Rico Democratic primary! Many thanks to Jim Robinson and all of you at FreeRepublic.com for your support! Will Hillary’s popular vote tally move up substantially after today’s primary? After all, there are over 2 million Puerto Ricans eligible to vote, and there’s usually an 80-85% percent voting turnout on the...

Registry not appropriate for all states. Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton told Montana reporters Friday that she no longer favors national handgun registration and licensing, even as she supports such measures in her adopted state of New York. "What I came out for was the New York law," the U.S. senator said in a noon conference call Friday. "I don't think there is any contradiction between defending Second Amendment rights and trying to keep guns out of the hands of" criminals and the mentally ill. In 2000, as she was beginning her campaign for senator from New York, Clinton...

‘Someone wins, someone doesn’t win, that’s life,” Nancy Kopp, Maryland’s treasurer, told the Washington Post. “But women don’t want to be totally dissed.” She was talking about her political candidate, Hillary Clinton. Democratic women are feeling metaphorically battered by the Obama campaign. “Healing The Wounds Of Democrats’ Sexism,” as the Boston Globe headline put it, will not be easy. Geraldine Ferraro is among many prominent Democrat ladies putting up their own money for a study from the Shorenstein Center at Harvard to determine whether Senator Clinton’s presidential hopes fell victim to party and media sexism. How else to explain why...

Translated by me: - Anchorwoman says that Hillary is heavily favored by the Puerto Rico prison population, which voted in the span of the past 2 days (Thurs. & Fri.) - Prisoners voting are dressed in grey and blue prison garb in the video. - Prisoner #1: "Hillary gives us hope; we're going through a really bad economic crisis". -Prisoner #2: "We need a change in life. All changes are necessary in life". -Prisoner #3: "We're a U.S. territory and the relationship we have with the U.S. could benefit us from getting out of this economic rut". -Prisoner #4: "We're...