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On June 1, The New York Times published a front-page article titled, ONE PLACE WHERE OBAMA GOES ELBOW TO ELBOW. The feature detailed Barack Obama's love for pickup basketball, his jersey-tugging style, even the time he hit a long game-winning shot after getting fouled. The Obama camp clearly welcomed the humanizing glimpse at Obama's life; his rivals, probably not so much. In an ordinary campaign, that might have been it. But this is no ordinary campaign--not when Hillary Clinton is a candidate. And so, the Clinton team let Times reporter Patrick Healy, who covers the Hillary beat, know about their...

Lest any of the Democratic candidates forget, tangling with Hillary Clinton comes at a painful price. That, in short, was the message her campaign sent this week to Mrs. Clinton’s rivals after her rapid-response press operation rapidly humiliated Barack Obama, her closest competitor for the Democratic nomination, by turning his own campaign’s attacks against him. By obtaining and then leaking to The New York Times a not-for-attribution opposition-research memo that the Obama campaign had distributed to reporters, Mrs. Clinton’s press office forced several public apologies from Mr. Obama and his campaign, all without Mrs. Clinton so much as publicly mentioning...

KIDS ASK DOUG FROM UPLAND about Hillary?s campaign finance fraud - No. 1 NOTE: this is No. 1 in a series of letters as I answer children's questions about Hillary Clinton's campaign finance fraud. ============================================ Dear Doug from Upland, My teacher just loves Hillary and thinks she can do nothing wrong. I don?t quite understand it, but my dad says that Hillary is a switch-hitter and that is why my teacher likes her. I heard my parents talking about Hillary and some lying weasel named Howard Wolfson who has been lying about her campaign money for over six years. Why...

MANAGING THE MESSAGE HILLARY'S CHOICE BY JOAN OLECK Behind the scenes of several campaigns, the latest of which put a First Lady in the U.S. Senate, Howard Wolfson has suffered the slings and arrows of political fortune-always with a greater good in mind. he called him "Wolffie." And he called her "Hillary." But the road Howard Wolfson A.M. '91 traveled to such intimacies with the First Lady of the United States, as communications director for her New York U.S. Senate campaign, was pitted with potholes from the start. During his very first one-on-one with her, in June 1999, he was...

WATCH IT ON YOUTUBE On July 11, 2000 occured a incredible conference call. Participating were Peter Paul, Kelly Craighead, David Rosen, Aaron Tonken, Jim Levin, and Howard Wolfson. They discussed the event planned for three days before the DNC's August convention in Los Angeles. They discussed the event costing more than a million dollars. Although Peter agreed to pay for half of it, when Cynthia Gershman bailed, he paid for the whole thing. Ultimately, is cost around $1.6 million. Three days after the event, Hillary had Wolfson tell the WashPost and all of the voters that they would take...

DUBAI DUETS Late Friday, Department of Justice lawyers in the Office of Legal Counsel were attempting to determine if former President Bill Clinton had registered as an "Agent of a Foreign Principal." Federal statute requires that anyone -- even a former President -- doing political or public affairs work on behalf of a foreign country, agency or official must register with the Department, and essentially update his status every six months. It was not clear the Clinton had done so. If his status is less clear, here is what we do know: If Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton did not know...

In a private meeting at her Chappaqua, N.Y., home on Friday, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton offered to help Ned Lamont in his battle to unseat Senator Joseph I. Lieberman by sponsoring a fund-raiser, campaigning by his side and lending him one of her top political strategists. That strategist, Howard Wolfson, said Mrs. Clinton wanted to throw her considerable political weight behind Mr. Lamont because the national Republican Party “is clearly invested in Ned Lamont’s defeat.” “I think they are going to do what they can to see him defeated,” Mr. Wolfson said, adding that he was particularly concerned with “Bush-Cheney...

Declaring himself a "non-combatant," U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman, in remarks at a New Haven press event Friday, raised anew the question of whether his "independent" candidacy will help Republicans hold onto three Congressional seats in Connecticut -- and control of the U.S. House of Representatives. Lieberman -- who after losing an Aug. 8 Democratic primary to Ned Lamont has launched a third-party bid to hold onto his seat in the Nov. 7 general election -- was asked whether he still endorses Diane Farrell, Joe Courtney and Chris Murphy, three Democrats looking to unseat endangered Republican incumbents Chris Shays, Rob Simmons...

ORIGINAL STORY FOR FREE REPUBLIC Joined at the hip: FReepers, you are seeing this in print for the first time. Note to CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, FOX NEWS, WASHPOST, NY TIMES, LA TIMES, CHICAGO SUN TIMES, MIAMI HERALD, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, HOUSTON CHRONICLE, MIAMA HERALD, MINNEAPOLIS RED TRIBUNE, SANTA CRUZ DAILY PRAVDA, ETC. - call me if you would like to report the story. Along with his boss, Hillary, Howard Wolfson has so far been successful in the conspiracy to cover up Hillary's role in the greatest campaign finance fraud ever involving a United States senator. Three days after the...

Let Sleeping Beauties Lie By Dorothea Israel WolfsonPosted August 2, 2006This essay appeared in the Summer 2006 issue of the Claremont Review of Books. Click here to send a comment.   A review of The Norton Anthology of Children's Literature: The Traditions in English edited by Jack Zipes, Lissa Paul, Lynne Vallone, Peter Hunt, and Gillian Avery  Parents have always fretted about what to read to their children, and experts have always been ready with advice. In their educational writings, John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau together mentioned only three books worthy of a child's mind. Locke recommended Aesop's...

HOWARD WOLFSON KNOWS WHAT PETER CONTRIBUTED.....BUT HILLARY DOESN'T? WHAT B.S. MIDI - YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO BE SO NICE (scroll down to Lovin' Spoonful) Paul didn't have to be so nice...financially, stick out his neck He gave a million bucks in-kind...it's not like he gave a check Hillary sent a note of gratitude Bill shafted Peter and began the feud...legal feud Paul didn't have to be so nice...we would take what we could get The FEC got false reports...we hoped you would forget Hillary sent a note of gratitude Bill shafted Peter and began the feud...legal feud Paul didn't...

I can't post an excerpt because it's in pdf format, but this is the Guardian Ad Litem's report to Gov. Bush in re: Teresa Marie Schiavo. I don't know if it's been posted before, but it should be required reading, especially for those who suggest that her husband never took any rehabilitative action on her behalf.

A REPORT TO GOVERNOR JEB BUSH AND THE 6TH JUDICIAL CIRCUIT IN THE MATTER OF THERESA MARIE SCHIAVO Pursuant to the requirements of H.B. 35-E (Chapter 2003-418, Laws of Florida) and the Order of the Hon. David Demers, Chief Judge, Florida 6th Judicial Circuit regarding the appointment and duties of a Guardian Ad Litem in the matter of Theresa Marie Schiavo, Incapacitated. Respectfully Submitted Jay Wolfson, DrPH, JD, Guardian Ad Litem for Theresa Marie Schiavo 1 December 2003 On 31 October 2003, pursuant to the requirements of Florida H.B. 35-E (Chapter 2003- 418, Laws of Florida) and the order of...

Pataki Takes Third Vacation Since the November Elections By MICHAEL COOPER Published: February 19, 2005 LBANY, Feb. 18 - Gov. George E. Pataki and his wife, Libby, are taking their third vacation since the November elections, spending an extended holiday weekend in the Dominican Republic, aides to the governor said on Friday. The governor left Thursday night, they said, and plans to be back in New York City on Tuesday morning. Over the Christmas holidays, the Patakis and their children spent more than a week traveling through central Europe, including Hungary, the home of Mr. Pataki's ancestors. And in November...

If Chief Justice William Rehnquist retires next year, President Bush likely won't face a tough battle over his successor. So reports the New York Times, citing consultant Howard Wolfson and "other Democrats." The Times attributes this to the Democrats' desire to soften their image as pro-abortion zealots. The court has a 6-3 majority in favor of Roe v. Wade, and Chief Justice Rehnquist is among the dissenters. Why should the Democrats spend political capital merely to run up the score? Anyway, this is a battle the Democrats would almost certainly lose. With only 45 senators..., they would need the support...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23 - Democratic leaders say their party needs to de-emphasize the issue of abortion rights, concerned that Republicans have hurt the Democratic Party by portraying it as an uncompromising champion of abortion. In interviews and public appearances since Election Day, Democratic officials have said that the party should open its doors to abortion opponents and that candidates should make abortion a less central focus of future campaigns. Party leaders said they were not abandoning their fundamental support for abortion rights, but said Democrats should consider accepting some restrictions that enjoy popular support - like parental notification when teenagers...

Terry McAuliffe arrived at the Democratic National Committee headquarters at 6:30 a.m. on Sept. 1, ready to keep a happy spin cycle spinning. "I walked into my office and there, sleeping on my couch, was none other than Howard Wolfson," said the D.N.C. chairman. In khakis and a rumpled shirt, the long, lean Mr. Wolfson had just settled into a deep sleep on the brown leather sofa after putting the finishing touches on "Faces of Frustration," a 51-second split-screen montage of President George W. Bush looking pissed off while Senator John Kerry looked Presidential, all to a jumpy jazz soundtrack....

WHEN WHEN WHEN are the Republicans going to assault Kerry for not signing the @#$%^#ing Form 180 and releasing all his records as Bush has? Is there an October Surprise of our own coming from Rove? Every time I see the Dems on TV claim Bush is hiding something about his Guard service I want to vomit at the double standard; what's worse is John Gibson had a perfect opportunity to ask the question and he didn't do it.

Here Today, Gone Tomorrow By ADAM NAGOURNEY Published: April 9, 2004 Even by the standards of the revolving door that is sometimes the John Kerry campaign, the arrival and departure of Howard Wolfson – the high-powered political consultant from New York – had to be a record. Mr. Wolfson arrived at Mr. Kerry’s campaign headquarters on Monday to work as a communications consultant. He was on a train back to New York on Friday to return to his post at a political consulting firm. Mr. Wolfson said that his sudden departure from the campaign should not be taken as any...

(Thread 11) Link back to thread 10 (Nov. 24-30) .Contained in Thread 10: Who can be a guardian, 1993 letter from Bob Schindler to Michael Schiavo, Palm beach Post editorial and FReeper response, T'wit's song about Schiavo and Felos, transcript of Lee Webb's (CBN) interview with Kate Adamson, partial timeline of Terri's case, the story of Martin and Anne Shapiro and the report on Terri's birthday party, . Click on pic for Terri's website . This thread serves as a place for posting all new general information and references, along with links following Terri's case, plus information on cable...