Posted on 12/07/2003 3:44:56 PM PST by backhoe
I *think* he is better- started giving him doxycycline from an old abcessed tooth 'scrip, sugar water, vitamins. His little mate has been beside herself, chirping & squawking & dancing everytime she sees me. They both are acting more normally now.
The fly in the ointment may be his age- he's 28 years old, and I understand cockateils usually live about 15 years. He's survived my first wife, my Dad, my Mom, and numerous other relatives and friends, but it may be time for him to fly off to that other World beyond the stars.
Hillary Clinton- archives, comments, and opposition research
various FR links and stories and posters | 12-07-03 | The Heavy Equipment Guy
To wit: one of the things that Hillary has done in the past is to seed her opposition with wildly unfavorable stories against her...stories that turn out to be nonsense just in time to make her look like a victim while making her opposition look like liars. The "vast right wing conspiracy" never existed, for instance. She never spat on a White House staffer. Bill Clinton never sacrificed babies in Haitian voodoo rituals, either.
So full frontal attacks on her are problematic.
Nonetheless, she does have legitimate weaknesses.
Number one amongst her weaknesses would be Issues. Policy wise, Americans deserve better than to elect a pro-abortion woman. Likewise, we want Medicare reform, not fully nationalized Hillarycare. Nor do we want her anti-gun nonsense much less her enviro-radicalism. We don't need our next American President to be kissing Yasser Arafat's wives, either.
Next we have policy mistakes. Why did she want us to go into Bosnia and Kosovo without the UN, and why are we still there? Why did she want a "quick end" to the Branch Davidian siege in Waco? Why did she want to duplicate Canada and Europe's failed health care systems where tens of thousands of elderly perish at the first sign of a Summer heatwave? Why was she against building new logging roads to serve as firebreaks in our national forests?
And then we have legitimate, proven, non tin-foil scandals:
Who hired Craig Livingstone? Who fired the White House Travel Office staff, and why? How did her federally subpoenaed Rose Law Firm billing records turn up only *after* various time limits had expired...in her White House living room? What's the real story behind her $100,000 cattle futures trade, and why has she never again tried to make such trades?
There's also at least one irrefutable federal crime. She violated the federal Open Meetings Act with her closed door meeting with Ira Magaziner.
And that's enough. We don't need anything else on her. The goal isn't to throw so much mud at her that she starts to look dirty, after all. The goal is to promote freedom by besting our adversaries, and we don't want to start looking for every little scam or rumor that comes our way about her because IF we do, she'll burn us by hooking us up with a fake scandal that will wind up making her look like a victim while simultaneously discrediting *ALL* of us who are against her.
You can look at the posts on FRee Republic and already see some of the tin-foil nonsense about Hillary coming out of the woodwork like termites and cockroaches in a bad B horror movie.
We're smarter than that, people.
Add it up and it's a lot more time than even writers spend on book promotion.
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