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 Jan. 9, 2008... based on the New Hampshire primary results:Clinton wins pulls off upset victory over Obama     This cartoon/graphic is free for noncommercial use in emails, blogs, and forums.  iowapresidentialwatch.com

Bill and Hillary Clinton, who made influence peddling into an art form, are apparently at it again. The Clintons have developed a profitable and compromising connection with billionaire Ron Burkle. In the past, Burkle has contributed large amounts of cash to the Clintons’ campaigns, their legal defense fund, and to the Clinton Presidential Library in Little Rock, Arkansas. Most recently, on April 21, 2006, he hosted a fundraiser for Hillary’s Senate reelection campaign at his Green Acres (Beverly Hills) mansion. But the financial connections do not stop there. Bill Clinton is a senior advisor to Burkle’s Yucaipa Companies. Hillary is...

ABC has changed its "The Path to 9/11" television special, set for a commercial-free broadcast Sunday and Monday, because of pressure over the message it carries, according to a report on a television blog site. The network heard from a number of leading political figures, many of them Democrats, who complained of alleged inaccuracies and bias in the production, according to the report in the Los Angeles Times' CalendarLive.com website. The report said the five-hour docudrama also is in the middle of an information war between a left-wing organization that wants changes made in the film and conservative blogs defending...

WASHINGTON - A furious Bill Clinton is warning ABC that its mini-series "The Path to 9/11" grossly misrepresents his pursuit of Osama bin Laden - and he is demanding the network "pull the drama" if changes aren't made. Clinton pointedly refuted several fictionalized scenes that he claims insinuate he was too distracted by the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal to care about bin Laden and that a top adviser pulled the plug on CIA operatives who were just moments away from bagging the terror master, according to a letter to ABC boss Bob Iger obtained by The Post. The former president...

THE charge against US senator Hillary Clinton is that she cannot keep the same position on an issue. She has faced that accusation on predictable, national subjects such as Iraq and taxes. As a story unfolding in Brooklyn reveals, the senator is also capable of turning on the smallest of items. Even, it seems, on a single patch of grass. Brooklyn loves green things — recall the novel, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. Yet the borough is chronically short of green. Brooklynites watched for decades as the bits of lawn around Manhattan’s Battery Park City spread north, so that now...

Primary front-runners shun debates ALBANY, N.Y. There's just over a week to go until New York's September twelfth primaries. You wouldn't know it by the number of debates. The front-runners in the four statewide races at stake have participated in just three debates. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, facing a Democratic primary challenge from anti-Iraq war activist Jonathan Tasini, has so far refused his pleas for any such showdown. Meanwhile, state Attorney General Eliot Spitzer, who is battling Nassau County Executive Tom Suozzi for the Democratic nomination for governor, has participated in just one face-to-face debate. The one-debate format has also...

I told you people yesterday and the day before of a movie, a mini-series running on ABC on September 10th and 11th, called The Path to 9/11 and I told you that I have the DVDs. I also told you because I am in touch -- I am poor when I'm in New York -- I do not have a DVD player. I don't. My apartment's got an old media room in it, it's got a laser disk player in it, but it doesn't have a DVD. Well, actually it has a DVD player in it, but the TV doesn't...

Clintons take her campaign to the fair SYRACUSE, N.Y. Former President Bill Clinton says he's not pressuring his wife to run for president. The former president made comments at the State Fair yesterday, where Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton was capping a three-day swing through New York farm country. The trip has served to boost Clinton's visibility in the state's Finger Lakes wine region and other rural parts of central New York, a predominantly Republican region where she would need to do well if she runs for president in 2008. Former President Bill Clinton said he quote -- "didn't have a...

I’m hearing all kinds of disturbing, though predictable, stories about a Clintonista offensive against “The Path to 9/11,” an ABC documentary written and produced by Cyrus Nowrasteh ("Into the West"), and directed by David Cunningham ("To End All Wars").  I haven’t seen it yet (although I hope to this weekend), but it is already drawing rave reviews from people who have (the piece is reviewed at FrontPage, here).   Apparently, the documentary recounts the bureaucratic bungling and lack of action against al Qaeda that was pervasive prior to the September 11 atrocities.  It is by no means, I understand, pro-Bush.  It...

Once upon a time, smart Democrats defended globalization, open trade and the companies that thrive within this system. They were wary of tethering themselves to an anti-trade labor movement that represents a dwindling fraction of the electorate. They understood the danger in bashing corporations: Voters don't hate corporations, because many of them work for one.............................. To see the difference between then and now, just look at the Clintons. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Hillary Clinton sat on Wal-Mart's board; and when Sam Walton died in 1992, Bill Clinton lauded him as "a wonderful family man and one of...

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Republicans relish the prospect of Hillary Clinton running for president in 2008, just so they can vote against her, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani was quoted as saying. Giuliani, who is expected to be a leading candidate for the Republican Party nomination, described the New York senator and former first lady as a polarising force who ignited strong passions across the political spectrum, the New York Post reported. "Democrats seem to support her as their main candidate for president -- she's way ahead of anybody else -- and it seems like Republicans are just waiting for her to be...

According to Time.com, If you ask anyone around Hillary Clinton the question that everyone is asking, the answer comes back in a shot: The freshman Senator from New York is far too busy concentrating on her re-election in November to be giving even a passing thought to 2008. Thank you very much. While her opposition is fixed conservative 30% far right, her supporting base is stronger than ever. She is running and running with full vigor for the next Presidential election in 2008. And guess who will be running mate - yes her husband former US President Bill Cinton. That...

Former President Bill Clinton now enjoys a more favorable rating from Americans than does his wife, Sen. Hillary Clinton, according to a new USA Today/Gallup poll. One major reason is the gender gap: Hillary Clinton has an image problem among men. The poll of 1,000 adults conducted in late June found that 59 percent of Americans have a favorable opinion of Bill Clinton, 37 percent have an unfavorable opinion, and 4 percent have no opinion. Hillary Clinton's favorable rating is lower, at 51 percent, and 44 percent view her unfavorably. Therefore the net positive rating (the percentage favorable minus the...

Clinton Reveals Her iPod Playlist NEW YORK -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has joined the iPod generation. Motown tunes, classical music and the Rolling Stones are all on Clinton's iPod playlist, she told the New York Post for Monday editions. "I've got everything -- a total smorgasbord," Clinton said. Songs from the 58-year-old senator's youth figure heavily in the selection of about 1,000 songs, said Clinton, calling herself "a child of the '60s and '70s." The mix includes Aretha Franklin's "Respect," The Beatles' "Hey Jude" and "Take it to the Limit" by the Eagles, she said. Clinton, a possible presidential...

Kerry testing waters for ’08 presidential bid Sen. John Kerry is considering another run for the presidency. Political sources said Mr. Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat and the party’s 2004 presidential nominee, has been urged to declare himself a candidate in 2007 to prevent Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton from becoming a shoo-in for the Democratic Party’s 2008 nomination.The sources said Kerry supporters are convinced that Mrs. Clinton of New York does not have the background or expertise to make major decisions on national security, particularly regarding the war on terrorism.“There are many who feel that Hillary must be given a hard time...

  HILLARY DOES NOT RECALL, DOES NOT REMEMBER, HAS NO MEMORY, HAS NO RECOLLECTION, BUT DOES NOT BELIEVE SHE SAID IT BECAUSE SHE WOULD HAVE REMEMBERED IF SHE DID.   by Mia T, 4.24.06   "I DON'T RECALL"(THE CLINTONS COMMIT PERJURY WITH IMPUNITY) by Mia T, February 24, 2006 (viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE) audio montage, Lincoln-pose scoop: rushlimbaugh.com   'REFUSAL TO LEVEL WITH THE AMERICAN PEOPLE'... IS HILLARY 'KNOWNOTHING VICTIM' CLINTON'S MIDDLE NAME by Mia T, February 16, 2006  (viewing movie requires Flash Player 7, available HERE) audio montage, Lincoln-pose scoop: rushlimbaugh.com "The refusal of...

Carpe Mañana: The clinton Terrorism Policy('Can we kill 'em tomorrow?') FOOL ME ONCE, SHAME ON YOU! FOOL ME TWICE, SHAME ON ME!   by Mia T, 04.18.06     "In this interdependent world, we should still have a preference for peace over war,'' [clinton] said. He also reflected on his own decisions when, as commander in chief, he was urged to launch a military strike.6 "I always thought of Senator Fulbright and the terrible quagmire in Vietnam and how many times we sent more soldiers and found ourselves in a hole and kept digging because we didn't want to...

(bill + hillary) CLINTON 'CULTURE OF CORRUPTION' part twoDOCUMENTATION by Mia T, 03.24.06   HERE (bill + hillary) CLINTON 'CULTURE OF CORRUPTION' part oneby Mia T, 01.28.06   "When you look at the way the House of Representatives has been run, it has been run like a plantation, and you know what I'm talkin' about. [Note the gratuitous gerundial g-droppin'.] ... We have a culture of corruption. We have cronyism. We have incompetence. I predict to you that this administration will go down in history as one of the worst that has ever governed our country." (Miss hillary also apologized...