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No shrinking violet, Michelle Obama, the 43-year-old wife of presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., told "Good Morning America" that she is a strong, professional woman and that her husband's ability to deal with her is one of the reasons Americans should elect him president. Called Obama's closest adviser and his daily reality check, Michelle was raised on the south side of Chicago and is a graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law school. Today she juggles a career, duties as a wife and mother of two little girls and the role of campaigner. I don't want to paint...

Sen. Hillary Clinton has put together an army of 50 staffers and more than 20 consultants as she prepares to do battle for the 2008 Democratic nomination for president. Included in those ranks is acclaimed Washington, D.C., hairstylist Isabelle Goetz, who has collected $3,000 in recent months to clip the former first lady’s locks. Federal fund-raising records reveal that Clinton paid $1,500 to Goetz in April and another $1,000 in May. She passed off both sessions as "media production” expenses, according to the New York Post. Goetz, the favored stylist of John Kerry, also got $405 from Hillary’s campaign in...

Hillary gets a pass, DeLay is assailed Posted: May 14, 2005 1:00 a.m. Eastern WorldNetDaily.com It's really a good thing that Sen. Hillary Clinton is a Democrat. If she were a Republican, she would have been the topic of dire front-page headlines in the New York Times and at the forefront of "CBS Evening News" broadcasts over the past several days with her name being connected with a shadowy political fund-raising imbroglio. What's that? You say you weren't aware that Mrs. Clinton was at the center of a significant controversy? No surprise there. Like I said, she's a Democrat. So...

At the JospephBeth in Shaker Heights (just south of Cleveland) bookstore Hillay was signing her Books. Is it just me or is this like the phony "listening tour" before her Senate run. We had 5 Freepers there myself, DollyCali, Commiewatcher; Common Tator; and TypeLouder (he guys am I missing someone?). In addition there were two very nice ladies who joined us to hold signs. In addition, a Right to Life group, had a large contingent with very attention getting signs...very attention getting. And lastly, there were two guys from the 92.3 Xtreme radio morning show; they were there with signs...

DUBLIN, Ireland (AP) - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton began a two-day visit to Ireland Tuesday that was designed to build business ties between Ireland and New York, and shore up support among Irish Catholic voters back home. The Dublin Chamber of Commerce invited the New York Democrat and was paying for her trip, which was postponed from November because of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. On Tuesday, in a sign of the high status the Clinton name retains in Ireland, she was meeting separately with Irish President Mary McAleese, Prime Minister Bertie Ahern and Foreign Minister Brian Cowen - an...