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MASON CITY, Iowa — Hillary Rodham Clinton’s appearance here Monday at the home of Dean Genth and Gary Swenson — one of the first gay couples to marry in Iowa — spoke volumes about the political pitch and style of her nascent presidential campaign. Even as a global celebrity and the overwhelming Democratic front-runner, Clinton is doggedly focused at this early stage on highlighting her progressive values and on what she called “people-to-people connections” — aggressive organizing in the state where she placed a disappointing third in the 2008 caucuses. The event — the first of Clinton’s two-day visit —...

Hillary who? Bloody-minded London traffic warden defies five furious secret service agents to give Hillary Clinton a ticket Westminster City Council warden puts penalty notice on her Mercedes Clinton was attending an event at Chatham House to pick up an award Given £80 fine for failing to buy a ticket while parked in £3.30/hour bay Photographer claims he saw one agent flashing his badge to warden Councillor: 'We have to be fair to everyone, regardless of their status' By Mark Duell PUBLISHED: 08:19 EST, 15 October 2013 | UPDATED: 11:21 EST, 15 October 2013 This is the extraordinary moment that...

ABC News' Kirit Radia reports: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton lost her cool Monday after a Congolese student, speaking through a translator, asked her what "Mr. Clinton" thought about a Chinese trade deal with the Democratic Republic of the Congo. "You want me to tell you what my husband thinks?" Clinton replied, clearly irked by the thought of being her husband Bill's spokeswoman.

Here is video of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton today in the Congo letting her placid facade down for a moment and showing the Hillary we always knew was there. She thought she was being asked what her husband would think about an International Financial matter, but it turns out the translator was actually asking what President Obama thought. Pity the poor translator. Hillary flashed with anger and said, "You want to know what my husband thinks? My husband is not the Secretary of State." . . . . . (Watch Video)

LAHORE: US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has ruled out the possibility of an undemocratic or military government coming into power in Islamabad, saying that a weak government in Pakistan will be harmful for India too, an Indian TV channel reported on Monday. “There is no appetite, at least as we speak today, to return to a non-democratic, military government,” she said in an interview with the channel. Talking about Pakistan’s nuclear assets, Clinton said that at this time, the nuclear command-and-control structure was well managed. “Now that is something that we are all concerned about. It’s one of the...

Part 1:  Hillary Clinton's Michigan Power-Play Part 2:  Hillary Clinton Wins MichiganPart 3:  Hillary Clinton Wins Florida (Uncontested) Part 4:  Hillary Clinton and the superdelegates (Part Four in a series examining how Hillary's campaign goes beyond the voting booth and into the very power structure of the Democratic party itself.)  The Democratic Party has 4,049 delegates scheduled for its convention Whoever wins needs 50% + 1, or 2,025 delegates.  3,253 of these delegates are up for grabs in the primary election voting process, but 796 are given to party leaders, insiders, advisors, and top contributors.  These super-delegates can vote...

Mrs Hillary Clinton, Senator from New York State, is one of the leading contenders for the Democratic Party’s nomination for President of the USA in 2008. But a question arises, as she is the wife of a former two-term President, whether her candidacy is legally allowed under the US Constitution and American law. America’s first President, George Washington, held office for two consecutive four-year terms and declined to run for a third term in 1796. From that time onwards to Franklin D. Roosevelt, it became a constitutional custom in the USA that no President would serve for more than two...

Democratic presidential candidate Senator Hillary Clinton gestures at Amana Colonies in Amana, Iowa November 6, 2007. After a stormy couple of weeks Clinton will attempt to right the ship on Thursday night at a campaign debate with her rivals. REUTERS/Joshua Lott/Files

This incident of Hillary planting questions in the audience so butresses my thesis in this video 10/1. It's funny how people made her out to be such a political genius for all those years as she rode her husband's coat-tail. It must really irk her deep down inside and that's not very deep (but pretty wide). It must hurt her as a feminist to know that she wouldn't be where she is without the skills of her husband and that she is not the consumate politician that people assumed (without merrit) that she was for all those years. Did you...

Per Fox News, Sen. Hillary Clinton recently sent a letter to an assistant SECDEF condemning the war and Bush and demanding to know what plans the Pentagon has for our inevitable defeat. The Pentagon replied that she was out of line and that it was unacceptable to be discussing a defeat when the US is involved in winning the war. Hillary has just send a huffy note to SECDEF Gates demanding that his subordinate be punished for not kissing her ass. LOL!

Presidential hopeful Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-NY, center, holding her 'Person of The Year' award stands with cast members Stephanie J. Block, left, who plays Grania and Linda Balgord, right, who plays Queen Elizabeth I at the Irish America Magazine's award ceremony honoring the nation's top 100 Irish Americans at The Pirate Queen Broadway show, Sunday, March 11, 2007 in New York. (AP Photo/Stephen Chernin)

Six Arrested Outside of Sen. Clinton's Office Tuesday January 30, 2007 11:35am Capitol Hill (AP) - U.S. Capitol Police have arrested six people outside the offices of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. Sergeant Kimberly Schneider says the six people were demonstrating outside of the New York Democrat's suite of offices in the Russell Senate Office Building around 11 a.m. Senate rules prohibit such demonstrations inside of buildings located in the U.S. Capitol complex. Schneider says the people are being charged with disorderly conduct.

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Hillary Rodham Clinton, a possible presidential run waiting in the wings, was kicking off her bid for a second Senate term with what was certain to be a rousing send-off Wednesday from delegates to New York's Democratic state convention. The former first lady was to begin her convention coronation with a breakfast for supporters and delegates at Buffalo's downtown convention center. Her husband, the former president, will join her for the convention. For Democrats at the convention, it was a new era. "There is no question about it, she came in six years ago and she...

10. "It's been said, and I think it's accurate, that my husband was obsessed by terrorism in general and al-Qaida in particular." (Hillary telling a post-9/11 world what a great commander in chief her husband was; Dateline, NBC 4/16/2004.) 9. "I have to admit that a good deal of what my husband and I have learned [about Islam] has come from our daughter." (Circa 1996, at a White House function, Hillary proudly tells some Muslim groups she is gaining a greater appreciation of Islam because Chelsea was then taking a class on the "religion of peace"; TruthInMedia.org 8/8/1999.) Note: See...

HILLARY RAISES BIG BUCKS IN TEXAS BUSH COUNTRY. Senator Clinton did a great deal of fundraising around the country in March, and her private fundraising schedule -- which was passed along by a source -- shows that she raked in big bucks in that most impenetrable of red-state strongholds: Texas. The schedule lists a dozen events in four states, in the space of just two months, March and April. This is very significant, because all the activity shows just how determined Hillary's advisers are to stockpile an enormous campaign warchest at a time when she is facing only token opposition...

What Christians should do regarding illegal immigration has been an ongoing debate for a long time. Recently, Christianity was entered into the debate over immigration bills being worked on in the US Congress by Senator Hillary Clinton. Hillary basically advanced the argument that opposing illegal immigration is "un-Christian" and claimed that such enforcement would be the same as making the Good Samaritan and Jesus criminals. Missing from Hillary's comments were quotes from the Bible. While immigration from Mexico is of course not mentioned, there are issues that illegal immigration bring up that are mentioned in the Bible. 1. Taxes Matthew...

<p>Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday said she will turn down the vice presidential candidate slot if it's offered to her by Democratic presidential candidate Sen. John Kerry. Mrs. Clinton was asked in an NBC "Today" show interview what she would do if Mr. Kerry, Massachusetts Democrat, asks her to be his running mate. "Well, I don't think that will happen," Mrs. Clinton told Katie Couric in the interview, taped earlier this week and aired yesterday. "I've made it clear I don't want that to happen, and that my answer will be no if it does happen. I'm not ... I'm not prepared to do that." Political strategists had varying opinions of what her remarks mean. "People are looking for hidden motives every time she opens her mouth," complained Democratic analyst Donna Brazile, who said the remarks are consistent with Mrs. Clinton's stated goal of running for another Senate term. "[T]hat's where she's going to keep her focus," Ms. Brazile said. Others said Mrs. Clinton, who was elected in 2000 as the junior senator from New York, has her sights set on the presidency, and her remarks yesterday back that up. "My sense is that she doesn't like to play second fiddle to anyone and you're seeing that in this decision," said Republican strategist David Winston. "She's a pretty ambitious, focused person. I'm not sure that vice president is what she views as her goal." Mr. Winston said he assumes Mrs. Clinton, "would identify the best situation for her [to run for president] is an open-seat presidency, and therefore she's looking at 2008." Under this scenario, Mr. Kerry would lose this year's election and Mr. Bush would be leaving a two-term presidency in 2008, so there'd be two new candidates vying for the office — a more favorable environment for a challenger than facing a sitting president, he said. "I'm not implying that she wants Kerry to lose ... but in terms of the most favorable for her, that's the most favorable," he said. Mr. Winston said turning down an opportunity to be vice president means Mrs. Clinton runs the risk Mr. Kerry will win, thereby complicating her potential plans to seek the presidency in 2008. On the other hand, if she were to be Mr. Kerry's running mate this year and they lose, that also could hurt such plans, he said. Democrats strongly dismissed all this speculation. Democratic strategist Simon Rosenberg, president of the New Democrat Network, said it's "far-fetched and silly" to say Mrs. Clinton's statements on the "Today" show indicate some "grand strategy" of a presidential run in 2008. "If she was strategizing about how to be the [presidential] nominee for the future, she should do everything she could to be vice president," he said. He said a vice presidential slot is a good jumping-off point for a presidential run, plus keeping her name in the mix as a potential vice president would give her much-coveted national attention over the next months.</p>

Freep this Newsweek poll--Kerry vs.Bush. Also questions regarding gay marriage.

You'll never guess which female admirer is paying attention to Bill Clinton now: his wife. Speaking to a gay-rights group the other night, Sen. Hillary Clinton mooned over her newly buff husband. True, Bubba may not have the six-pack abs of some of the guys who attended the Empire State Pride Agenda dinner at the New York Sheraton. But, after the slimmed-down Bill pledged his support to the group via video, Hillary got up to confirm that "he's been working out. I hope you noticed." Amid laughter, she added, archly, "The next time you see him, tell him I noticed."...

The most widely heard complaint regarding Rush Limbaugh's observation that African-American quarterback Donovan McNabb received more favorable press coverage than he deserved goes something like this: Right or wrong, Limbaugh shouldn't have interjected McNabb's race into the argument. But if Rush's critics really mean what they say, where were they two months ago when New York Sen. Hillary Clinton declared in the midst of a speech on civil rights that she was glad she grew up in the segregated suburbs? Addressing the American Constitution Society on Aug. 3, Mrs. Clinton criticized Republicans for idealizing "the 1950s white suburbs for...