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    • James Wolcott: Three Witches Stirring the Same Pot

      Posted by Billbar from vanityfair

      Where Madonna feigns martyrdom on a neon crucifix, Hillary need only to let a wee diamond cross gleam as the symbol of her faith to madden the midnight hags. She dangles the bait, and their crocodile jaws snap. For them, no professional of religious faith from a liberal Democrat can be sincere, unless he or she is black (then it's assumed their handclaps rock to a gospel beat).

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    • Clinton Equivocates on Torture

      Posted by Billbar from blogs.nydailynews.com

      Despite her apparent opposition to torture, Hillary Clinton said in a Daily News editorial board meeting yesterday that the practice is acceptable in some circumstances. She was asked about the "ticking time bomb" scenario, in which you've captured the terrorist and don't have time for a normal interrogation, and said that there is a place for what she called "severity," in a conversation that included mentioning waterboarding, hypothermia, and other techniques commonly described as torture. Asked again about these methods, she said: "In those instances where we have sufficient basis to believe that there is something imminent, yeah, but then we’ve got to have a check and balance."

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      Hillary Clinton Has Invited You to Ridicule Her Facebook Profile

      Posted by Billbar from Rolling Stone

      A website typically understood as a borderline creepy forum for confirming new friendships, announcing weekend party plans and stalking hot acquaintances is now a legitimatized platform for down-to-earth, middle-aged legislators (read: computer illiterate) to interact with youth constituents on their own turf. New York’s Junior Senator Hillary Clinton tags “Chappaqua, NY” as her hometown, Democratic Presidential hopeful Evan Bayh’s “interests” include “Middle Class,” “War On Terror” and “Grater’s Black Raspberry Ice Cream,” while Pennsylvania’s politically doomed senatorial incumbent Rick Santorum lists and sporadically capitalizes his favorite campaign issues like “Stay in Iraq until the Job is Done,” “Free Trade IS Fair Trade,” and “Build a fence to protect our borders!”

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    • Seductive advice from New Labour's spiritual godfather

      Posted by Billbar from commentisfree.guardian.co.uk

      It was like watching a onetime champion racehorse come out for a midday canter. Bill Clinton barely broke a sweat as he effortlessly adlibbed a speech from a few notes, allowing himself a ramble around the course of global politics, ranging from Machiavelli to the wisdom of African folklore - and still wowing a Labour party audience that has come to embrace him as one of their own. They lapped up his attacks on George Bush, both explicit and implicit - not least his almost throwaway declaration that "we can't kill, jail or occupy all our enemies." When he explained that it was cheaper to give the children of the poorest countries access to clean water or free schooling than it was to fight a war - and that it would do a better job of preventing terrorism - his words were drowned in applause.

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      Sen. Clinton disputes Rice's comments

      Posted by Billbar from Seattle Post-Intelligencer

      "I think my husband did a great job in demonstrating that Democrats are not going to take these attacks," Hillary Clinton said Tuesday. "I'm certain that if my husband and his national security team had been shown a classified report entitled 'Bin Laden Determined To Attack Inside the United States' he would have taken it more seriously than history suggests it was taken by our current president and his national security team."

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      2001 memo to Rice contradicts statements about Clinton, Pakistan

      Posted by Jeff from Rawstory

      Rice is Busted: However, RAW STORY has found that just five days after President George W. Bush was sworn into office, a memo from counter-terrorism expert Richard A. Clarke to Rice included the 2000 document, "Strategy for Eliminating the Threat from the Jihadist Networks of al-Qida: Status and Prospects." This document devotes over 2 of its 13 pages of material to specifically addressing strategies for securing Pakistan's cooperation in airstrikes against al Qaeda and the Taliban in Afghanistan.

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    sgtwildey comments on:

    Clinton backs Obama and bows out

    Whew. She made me nervous there for a while. If she became president I would have became Austrailian.

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    11:55 am 6/08/08
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    j1o2n3a4s5 comments on:

    WSJ Says Insiders in Both Camps Dismissive About Dream Ticket: Clinton Records At Issue

    i’d like to see a Bright or Kucinich as VP

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    4:24 pm 6/05/08
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    theauthor comments on:

    WSJ Says Insiders in Both Camps Dismissive About Dream Ticket: Clinton Records At Issue

    He will probably pick a conservative democrat. Webb’s name has come up a few times.

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    9:47 am 6/05/08
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    creifman comments on:

    WSJ Says Insiders in Both Camps Dismissive About Dream Ticket: Clinton Records At Issue

    I do not think he will even ask her.  Why people think its as simple as pulling together their two groups of supporters is beyond me. Its much more complex, not to mention that he needs a more conservative voice to attract votes from McCain . . . I expect to see a caucasian male on the ticket . . . any guesses?  

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    9:23 am 6/05/08
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    theauthor comments on:

    WSJ Says Insiders in Both Camps Dismissive About Dream Ticket: Clinton Records At Issue

    Does Barack really want Bill down the hall all day, peeking in and looking over his shoulder?

    If Obama loses to McCain, Clinton can run again in 4 years while she is still young enough.

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    5:45 am 6/05/08
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    Jwgardner comments on:

    Clinton to Endorse Obama

    And yet, there will continue to be a large number of her votership claiming to speak for everyone when they insist they’ll never vote for that "empty suit"/"inadequate black man"/"socialist" – no matter how much reconciling she does now (which I honestly doubt will be much).

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    8:17 pm 6/04/08
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    Jwgardner comments on:

    Clinton Kennedy Assassination Reference: Raises Bobby's Death To Explain Why She Stays In Race

    So which is it… the campaign or the supporters? And why drag mental health into the equation, when that’s clearly a very dangerous subject to raise given the behaviour HRC has exhibited could just as readily be attribued to psychological stresses of varying degrees?

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    8:42 pm 5/25/08
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