Posted on 12/07/2003 3:44:56 PM PST by backhoe
The purpose of this post is to begin providing links, tools, and tactics which we can all use to educate the public, fellow citizens, and neighbors about Hillary Clinton.
It is a work in progress- I have provided a starting point, but want others to chime in with more links, stories, and information.
It is the product of conversations with a number of other members, from which several salient tactical points emerged:
1- keep it as contemporary as possible- the old Whitewater and similar items are stale and dead to the public.
2- keep it civil, please- within the board guidelines, or better. We are trying to convert the mushy middle, and stridency puts them off. Badly.
3- source or reference everything. Authenticity is critical to such an effort.
Here's where it started:
Reacting to pressure from public-interest groups as well as criticism from fellow Democrats, the Clintons have decided to open Hillary's White House records to the public by the end of February. The Clinton library will break the seals and begin publishing records in January, and all records will likely be available by the time the primaries have settled the question of the Democratic nomination:
The Clinton library is readying a trove of detail about Hillary Rodham Clinton's eight years as first lady in the White House for release in late January, government lawyers said in a court filing. ...Even so, the documents appear likely to become public within a month of their release by the archives, as the general election heats up in February.
The New York Democratic senator faces growing questions about her husband's resistance to releasing some documents from the Clinton administration, which ended nearly seven years ago.
Bruce Lindsey will have the final word on whether documents get released. He has 30 days to challenge the release of any document, after which Bill Clinton and George Bush can block release as well. If no one objects, the documents will get released by the National Archives 30 days after the review period starts, which appears to be scheduled for January.
This could cause lots of problems for Hillary, and in a strange way strengthen the perception that she is an incumbent in this race. Since she's decided to run on her "experience" in the White House, she will have to defend the administration's record on just about everything -- as well as her own activities on policy-making. No incumbent has ever had to run on the record from a presidential library in this manner, and undoubtedly the Republicans have already begun to hire opposition researchers to peruse the records quickly for damaging information.
Her backers, however, will insist that the Clinton record will be an asset in the next presidential race. We shall soon see. At the least, the American electorate will have the information necessary to evaluate this vast experience that Hillary has claimed for herself in this candidacy.
This article is wrong on several points:
1. Millions of liberal-Democrat voters listen to talk radio, conservative talk radio, and thus get a lot of news from it.
2. Talk radio is the ONLY way to shame lib-Dem-loving national reporters into asking tough questions of normally ‘hands-off’ Hillary.
3. It is essential for anyone with ears to hear the blatant corruption and catastrophe that is systemic in the Clinton machine.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6470450895164255089
Mena Fiasco
BTTT
Who will take on Hillary?--Anyone who can read, take a few notes, remember a few details, and who has a basic understanding of human nature, has more than enough knowledge at hand, and skills to destroy Hillary. Cackles is a bomb with a fuse, and the people running against her keep hoping the media will set it off. Go after the kook. Do it in public, and be ready to restrain her.
Hillary Clinton shakes off shots, still leads poll
OBAMA BACKER'S PAPER RIP (when in doubt, Queen Hillary pleads stupidity)
George H.W. Bush: Friendship With Bill Clinton Doesn't Translate to Support For Hillary
U.S. unions ready to push new laws if Dems win big
Wait times for Canadians needing surgery hit an all time in 2007(Debate over!)
Feminists split on HRC sexism defense
Very little is known publicly about Hillary Clinton's traveling chief of staff, Huma Abedin. This month's Vogue reportedly suggests she has been "close" to John Cusack and Lance Armstrong while others - perhaps inevitably - wonder just how close she is to HRC. Some on the right are concerned at her having been raised in the Saud terror entity. The best observation I have come across, however, is from comment at Gawker.
Eerie. So, which would be presidential nominees are most likely to be Cylons? It looks like a packed field.
C-Span's "In Depth" hosts a three-hour encounter with ur-neocon, David Horowitz. I only knew the man's work through FrontPage Magazine and his criticism of contemporary academia. I had no idea of the particulars of his biography or horrifying early experience with the Black Panthers.
I particularly enjoy his description of leftism as a form of religion and specifically a form of Pelagianism with the United States as the great obstacle to the creation of heaven on Earth.
Related: Horowitz appears on Charlie Rose via the Jawas.
http://www.instapundit.com/--SO THIS WEEKEND I TRAVELED TO NASHVILLE to attend a law clerks' reunion marking Judge Merritt's 30th anniversary on the bench. It was a good time, and the Judge looked great. There wasn't a lot of political talk, but I heard a long-term "yellow dog" Democrat say that he would never vote for Hillary no matter what. "I'd sooner vote for a third term for George W. Bush." And another person said that she was hearing a lot of anti-Hillary talk in Boston, which should be pretty Hillary-friendly territory.I'm not crazy about Hilary, but I don't feel the visceral hatred that some people do. But some people really do feel that visceral hatred, and interestingly quite a few of them are Democrats.
"What's that about licenses again?"
“Filegate consists of the over 900 FBI files which were illegally acquired by the Clinton-Gore White House and the misuse of other government files protected by The Privacy Act, in order to gather information to smear political adversaries and critics.”
First, let’s look back a prescient column by Peggy Noonan from a few months ago, via the Wall Street Journal’s Opinion Journal:
This recent and all too typical poison pen article from the pretty in (Pepto-Bismol) pink website Hillary Is 44 would seem to bear out Ms. Noonan’s suspicions:
Monday, November 5th, 2007
Do we really want a woman who is this petty, this vindictive, this duplicitous to be the President of the United States?
November 7, 2007 @ 2:43 pm
Slip of the tongue? Yesterday on CNN’s “The Situation Room” Hillary Clinton spoke about what she would do about licensing illegal immigrants when she is president again. Watch:
I think the fact that governors are being forced into this position is really unfortunate. They should not be making immigration policy. The federal government should be making immigration policy and that’s what I’m going to try to do as president again and I do not believe that in the context of federal immigration reform that that would be an issue that governors would have to contend with.
You have probably heard by now Mr. Clinton’s defense of his wife’s latest gaffe wherein he referenced “Swift-Boating.”
If not, here is the text, courtesy of the DNC’s Associated Press:
Well let’s look at the ad the Saxby Chambliss camp put out about Max Cleland, courtesy of YouTube:
See if you can find where Mr. Cleland was ever compared to Saddam Hussein or Bin Laden, like Mr. Clinton falsely claimed above, and as he has so often falsely claimed elsewhere.
For instance, here is Mr. Clintion propounding the same lie practically word for word three years ago, via the very prestigious William J. Clinton Foundation’s website:
Two Different Women ... (Margaret Thatcher / Hillary Clinton .... Steel / Dirt)
LICENSE BILL MAY SIDESWIPE HILL (forces Hill to vote on licensing)
HILLARY'S LICENSE TO LOSE? (licensing: the date-rape drug in Dims hip pocket)
HILLARY! UNCENSORED - guest editorial in new conservative newspaper at Colorado State Univ
Top 10 Most Outrageous Liberal Media Quotes From the Last 20 Years
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