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Election 2008: Sen. Hillary Clinton shared on Tuesday her vision of the U.S. economy under her executive stewardship. She should change her party affiliation — or the name of her party. Speaking in New Hampshire, Clinton acknowledged that instead of the "ownership society" that George W. Bush has promoted throughout his presidency, she prefers a "we're all in it together society" where prosperity is "broadly shared." This is the sort of "it takes a village" rhetoric that tickles the ears of the left, and which can't give up its romantic notions of a collectivist utopia. Dreams of the left, however,...

Sen. Clinton Promises Better Focus for Hurricane Recovery NEW ORLEANS Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton told local civic leaders Friday that, if elected, she would enact a broad range of initiatives to quicken the recovery of the hurricane-devastated region. The New York senator's proposals included the appointment of a recovery manager who would report directly to the White House and whose sole responsibility would be to better organize federal aid to the region. Clinton said the Gulf Coast has been neglected by the Bush Administration since the disaster. "This is upside and backwards," Clinton said, referring to the President's...

Any time I write something about Hillary Clinton I hear catcalls from the left accusing me, alternatively, of obsessing over her or unfairly attacking her. Truthfully, none of us has obsessed over her enough, considering she is far and away the frontrunner in the Democratic presidential field and could be the next president. More than that, conservatives have a duty to spotlight Hillary's record, since the mainstream media (MSM) almost always give her a pass, throw her softballs and ignore her highly relevant past, especially as co-president. Contrary to her vaunted image, Hillary rarely says anything that isn't programmed and...

RUSH LIMBAUGH: 80% CHANCE HILLARY IS GOING TO BE NEXT PRESIDENT

As New York Senator Hillary Clinton spoke with a teacher's union group about her plan for universal preschool and health care, one teacher stood up to say she liked Clinton's haircut. “It is more Hillary Clinton than Dorothy Hammel,” said Kelly MacDonald, an English teacher at Manchester Central High School, to Clinton. That prompted Clinton to spend more time than she usually does joking about her changing hair styles. “There is so much fascination with my hair that I told Bill when he was president that if he wanted to get some international incident off the front page I would...

"Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y. speaks during a presidential forum on health care coverage, Saturday, March 24, 2007, in Las Vegas. The Forum was sponsored by the Center for American Progress Action Fund and the Service Employees International Union."

Democratic front-runner Hillary Clinton on Monday snapped up a key political endorsement in the crucial early-voting state of Iowa... Former Iowa governor Tom Vilsack and his wife Christine signed up to work for the New York senator, adding their state-wide political network to her cause ahead of January's Iowa caucuses, the first party nominating contest. ... He said Clinton could "begin from the very first day as president to repair the tarnished image the United States has had during the (George W) Bush administration". Narrow lead The announcement will help Clinton - already with a narrow lead in the state...

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is working hard to master the ins and the outs of the Unites States military, the NEW YORK TIMES is planning to report. Editors have set a Tuesday Page One placement for Pat Healy's detailed dispatch, newsroom sources tell the DRUDGE REPORT.. Of all the early problems Bill Clinton faced as president, few stand out to Hillary as more aggravating and avoidable than his rocky relationship with the military, her advisers tell Healy. Hillary, in effect, has been practicing her salute: "She has cultivated relationships with generals and admirals, prepped herself on wartime needs and strategy...

This is incredible. Listen to the audio. After listening to this blatant phony and fool, I thought to myself: "And the Democrats and the Media dare to criticize Bush?" I would be monumentally embarrassed to be a Democrat after listening to this.

Chris Matthews Calls Hillary Clinton ‘Dukakis in a Dress’ Posted by Noel Sheppard on January 21, 2007 - 21:53. With the love-fest that is currently going on over Sen. Barack Obama (D-Illinois), it is certainly no surprise when a group of mainstream media members gets together to discuss Hillary Clinton’s shortcomings. Yet, it is quite odd to hear someone like Chris Matthews state that the current frontrunner for the 2008 Democrat presidential nomination – and a former first lady – is a female incarnation of one of the biggest left-wing failures in decades (video available here courtesy of our friend...

Skip to comments.I have tried for years to find a nurse or doctor who would go on record about this. If any of you in the DC area can find such person who is willing to risk Hillary's wrath and go on record, the damage to her might be immense. ============================================== THE REAL HILLARY CLINTON: Episode #2 - Children in the Hospitalvarious sources | 12-22-02 | dfu Posted on 12/22/2002 7:49:44 AM PST by doug from upland NOTE: the survival of our Republic is threatened by two things -- fundamentalist Islamic terrorists and Hillary Rodham Clinton. President Bush is leading...

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Were all the pundits wrong about Hillary's strength? by Chris Reed at January 17, 2007 10:50 AM For years, the assumption has been nearly universal that Hillary Clinton would have an easy path to the 2008 Dem nomination. She had the money, the establishment support and the great goodwill among Democrats for the first Clinton administration going for her. Well, maybe everyone was wrong. Reason Online's David Weigel makes the case:   Anyone But Hillary   David Weigel | January 17, 2007, 1:20pm Rasmussen Reports has been polling the Democratic field, and today they measure the strength of Hillary...

Hillary Clinton regards fellow Senator Barack Obama as her biggest obstacle to the Democratic nomination for president in 2008, and is already mapping out strategy to derail an Obama campaign. Clinton believes enthusiasm for an Obama run would diminish as voters get the message about his lack of experience in government and foreign affairs. In meetings with fellow Democrats, Clinton and her aides – without mentioning Obama by name – stress that experience will be a major factor in determining a successful candidate during difficult times, "an argument that her team will no doubt make in a stronger way against...

The possibility that a potential Democratic presidential primary matchup between Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama could lead to a Clinton-Obama ticket is raising concerns in GOP circles that it might be unbeatable. While Democratic strategists are more skeptical of the success of a ticket composed of two minorities, some Republican advisers to the White House and leading 2008 hopefuls Sen. John McCain and Rudy Giuliani see the ticket as an easy winner built on the enthusiasm it would generate in Democratic circles.Their theory is that Clinton would stand a good chance to pick up the states that Sen....

Our long national nightmare is nearly over. With Barack saying he might run, with Hillary reported to "be making phone calls to New Yorkers," with Evan Bayh and Sam Brownback getting less coy by the day and with Tom Vilsack actually announcing his candidacy (the correct pronunciation of his name "that's vill-sack, not vile sack"), the 2008 presidential campaign is about to start. -snip- After two grueling years legislating in the Senate, this man, whose seasoned judgment the world will be relying on for its very survival, assesses that this is the optimum moment for him to lead the world....

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that it was great her fellow Democrat, Sen. Barack Obama, is thinking about running for president. Polls show Clinton is the front-runner among potential 2008 Democratic presidential contenders and she said Friday during a debate that she has also been thinking about running. "I think it's great that anybody thinks about whatever they want to do in the future," she said when asked about Obama during a campaign stop at a senior citizens' center just north of Albany. "I'm focused on my campaign. I'm focused on reaching as many voters as possible, talking about...

ROCHESTER, Oct. 20 — Facing a barrage of questions about her national ambitions during the first Senate debate on Friday night, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton firmly maintained that she was focused on her work in Congress and had made no decisions about running for president. But her Republican opponent seized on her aspirations at every opening, accusing her of already abdicating her responsibilities to New York. In a lively but cordial hour of exchanges, Mrs. Clinton steered toward substantive answers about foreign and domestic policy, and was sharply critical of the Bush administration’s handling of the war in Iraq. One...

Sen. Hillary Clinton has spoken up in support of her husband Bill’s defense of his anti-terror efforts, saying she’s tired of Democrats being pushed around on national security issues. "I just think that my husband did a great job in demonstrating that Democrats are not going to take this,” she said on Monday in remarks reported by Newsday. In a heated discussion with Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday,” Bill Clinton said that as president, he did more than many of his conservative critics to pursue al-Qaida, and alleged that President Bush didn’t try to stop terrorism in the eight...

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Senator Hillary Clinton reached out today to a core group of supporters _ women _ in her front-running bid for a second term, a race many see as a prelude to a run for president in two years. The former first lady planned campaign stops at the site of the new home for the National Women's Hall of Fame in Seneca Falls and a restaurant in Moravia to host lunch for a new group _ "Moms for Hillary." The events served as a reminder that Clinton, who was inducted into the women's hall in 2004, made history in 2000 by...

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It may not be all uphill for Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton in a run for president. The former first lady - who already appears unbeatable in her re-election bid this fall - has come out as the top Democratic White House hopeful, according to a Time magazine poll released on the publication's Web site today. According to the poll - which will hit newsstands tomorrow - Clinton would be the only Dem to make it a real race against GOP favorite Sen. John McCain. The poll shows a statistical dead heat, with McCain getting 49 percent of the vote to...

Hatin’ on Hillary: N.H. Dems lambaste Clinton By Brett Arends Boston Herald Business Columnist Monday, August 7, 2006 - Updated: 02:56 AM EST MANCHESTER, N.H. - Dick Bennett has been polling New Hampshire voters for 30 years. And he’s never seen anything like it. “Lying b**** . . . shrew . . . Machiavellian . . . evil, power-mad witch . . . the ultimate self-serving politician.” No prizes for guessing which presidential front-runner drew these remarks in focus groups. But these weren’t Republicans talking about Hillary Clinton. They weren’t even independents. These were ordinary, grass-roots Democrats. People who identified...

Two of America's top authors, John Irving and Stephen King, made a plea to J.K. Rowling on Tuesday not to kill the fictional boy wizard Harry Potter in the final book of the series, but Rowling made no promises. "My fingers are crossed for Harry," Irving said at a joint news conference before a charity reading by the three writers at New York's Radio City Music Hall. The author of "The World According to Garp" and a string of other bestsellers said he and King felt like "warm-up bands" for Rowling, who is working on the seventh and last book...

HARRY Potter may die in the next book in the series because author JK Rowling wants to kill him off, it was claimed last night. Actor Jim Dale - the voice of the teenage wizard in the US audio books - believes the seventh and final instalment will spell the end for Harry. He made the astonishing claim after meeting with the writer to discuss his characterisation of the parts. The revelation will shock millions of die-hard Potter fans. He said: "She's lived with Harry Potter so long she really wants to kill him off." Predictions about the fate of...

Tonight, when "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" descends upon bookstores, millions of children will flutter in delight. But the sixth entry in the franchise may well please discerning adults, too. ...snip... In the fifth book, "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix," something interesting happened. The author, J.K. Rowling, abandoned the mystery genre and gave her readers something more challenging: a historical allegory. Through sleight-of-hand, Ms. Rowling took a children's book and transformed it into a parable about 1930s England. We've heard a lot recently about London and the Blitz. Ms. Rowling's unfolding saga may illuminate that dark...

HILLARY STOKES '08 FIRE WITH RED-HOT SPEECH By IAN BISHOP ----------------------------------------- HILLARY CLINTON Photo: Rick Dembow April 11, 2005 -- MINNEAPOLIS — Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton bowled over the Democratic faithful in the key 2008 presidential swing state of Minnesota with a fiery weekend stump speech that had fans hailing her as the "great hope" to take back the White House. "She speaks her mind and she's a leader," swooned Debra Manninen. "She's our great hope." Party faithful here devoured Clinton's brand-new, red-meat material in her first major political speech Saturday night since the November 2004 election, which aides said...

COMATOSE WOMAN RECEIVING FLUIDS Florida Governor Orders Feeding Tube Reinserted By JACKIE HALLIFAX, AP CLEARWATER, Fla. (Oct. 22) - Acting on orders from Gov. Jeb Bush, a hospital began giving fluids to a brain-damaged woman Tuesday, six days after her feeding tube was removed in one of the nation's longest and most bitter right-to-die battles. A judge later rejected a request by the woman's husband to overturn the governor's order. ( click here to read rest of article)Reuters file Terri Schiavo, shown here with her mother in 2001, has been in a vegetative state since suffering a heart attack in...

Secret copy of fifth HarryPotter book found in field In safe hands ... copies of JK Rowling’s new HarryPotter novel — not due out until June 21 — at The Sun’s HQ RELATED STORIES • Sun Says By MIKE DARVILL and THOMAS WHITAKER TOP secret copies of the new Harry Potter book were handed to The Sun yesterday — after being found in a field. Two first editions of JK Rowling’s The Order of the Phoenix — not due out until June 21 — were discovered by a reader in Suffolk. The magical fifth instalment of the smash-hit series about schoolboy wizard...