BACKSTORY: The woman behind Soros' moveon.org ads (the Hillary connection)

Politically speaking, this past Thanksgiving Day could be momentous for all of us. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., was shown on hundreds of television stations across the globe visiting the U.S. military in Afghanistan and Iraq. Not only does it earn her the award for being the Queen of Keen, but also the opinion of a veteran analyst of past presidential elections. "If anybody now believes that she won't run for the White House next year they are out of their minds! That woman would not have taken the risks of being in Kabul or Baghdad, unless she was desperate for votes."

Right away, without a further thought to the holiday, a start was made on thinking through why and how Hillary would even begin to think that her trip to insurgency-ridden areas of the world would be remembered next November when we go to the polls.

The answer is money, and lots of money spent early, long before a candidate says, "Hey, vote for me!" The Hillary trick will be to use every possible wile and whim to reduce President George Bush's job approval ratings in the polls. And that takes imagination, money and a massive organization.

The strength in Hillary's campaign comes from a very political lady, Ellen R. Malcolm, who was the founder, in 1985, of the aptly named EMILY's List. This acronym tells us what we need to know: "Early Money is Like Yeast." Malcolm cheerfully explains, "It makes the dough rise!"

In its 18 years of life, EMILY-supported women candidates have won 42 seats in the House of Representatives, six U.S. Senate seats and three governor's mansions. EMILY claims U.S. Sens. Barbara Mikulski, Dianne Feinstein, Patty Murray, Mary Landrieu and a score of congressional people. The list has about 73,000 members and in 2003 raised $23 million. But don't be surprised to find that every one of these ladies is of the Democrat persuasion; after all, Ellen Malcolm is one of the grande dames of that party.

In the early 1970s, Ellen, too young then to know better, worked at Common Cause and was later rewarded by President Jimmy Carter with a job in the White House in its consumer-affairs office. When Jimmy went back to his peanuts, EMILY took over Ms. Malcolm, who coined the phrase "Don't get mad! Get elected!"

Which brings us to a new pro-Hillary group that is doing just what she wants -- attacking George Bush, and attempting to diminish his lead in the polls. This new group, America Coming Together, or ACT, is led by the one and only Ellen Malcolm. And she has help beyond the expectations of a political fund-raiser. Rallying around the Anyone but Bush cause is billionaire financier George Soros and his good friend Peter Lewis, chairman of the board of the Progressive Corporation. They each gave $10 million. Other contributions in the millions of dollars came from liberal and Left groupies, such as Lewis and Dorothy Cullman; Robbie McKay, a big name in the "motor-voter" campaigns; and Patricia Bauman, who is still hankering after a job in the environmental protection world.

ACT is well on its way to filling a $75 million campaign chest when it will begin to use the money in 17 states in the largest field operation that has ever been seen in America. It's a Democrat's dream campaign, stirring up voters on what they claim to be bread-and-butter issues that voters care about.

ACT's planners are almost as interesting as their money people, with many of them coming from the AFL-CIO and the Clinton White House. The manager of their political program and chief executive officer is Steve Rosenthal, who managed the political programs of the AFL-CIO for the past seven years. He is joined by the Sierra Club Director, Carl Pope; Andy Stern, president of the Service Employees International Union; and Gina Glanz, who was once a campaign manager for Bill Bradley.

Then, to top off this array of talent, we have Bill Clinton, Hillary, and their legal genius, Harold Ickes.

But money is all important and these Democrats appear to have cornered the market. There is a new tax-exempt foundation in the District of Columbia, the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation. It has been busy creating an infrastructure for the treatment of HIV/AIDS cases, has just consummated a major deal with drug companies in India, and has received a $3 million grant from George Soros, plus undisclosed sums from computer king Bill Gates.

Next on the hand-out list is Clinton's former chief of staff John Podesta, who now is running a Washington public affairs company, teaching at Georgetown University Law Center and running a vicious anti-Bush Internet lobbying group, MoveOn.Org, which has a membership list of 1.8 million people. Despite these clowns being able to raise some $7 million in a few days from his own many financial connections, Podesta was happy to receive $2.5 million and change from Soros.

Before Hillary Clinton can run for the presidency, she has to be asked. Possibly, rank-and-file Democrats gathered at the convention in July will seek to resolve a Howard Dean/Wesley Clark squabble by nominating the senator from New York as their standard-bearer. However, what if the Democratic National Committee suddenly became brave, and in realizing that adopting Hillary was certain death, said "no money"?

Do you really believe that Hillary would give up? No way! She could point to ACT, to MoveOn.org and the William Jefferson Clinton Foundation. Can't you hear her saying, "Harold Ickes says that this money was intended for my presidential campaign"?

And the campaign express would leave the station, with George Soros, Bill Gates, Peter Lewis and hundreds of suburban middle-class baby boomers hanging onto every carriage.

Why are they there? Because they see the political triumphs of George Bush as signs of an impending disaster; they want a nanny government to care for them, and a vote for Hillary will mean that they are "thinking people," who are still progressive.

Dateline D.C. is written by a Washington-based British journalist and political observer.

"Right away, without a further thought to the holiday, a start was made on thinking through why and how Hillary would even begin to think that her trip to insurgency-ridden areas of the world would be remembered next November when we go to the polls".

I'll tell you one reason WHYYYYY, is so that she can be introduced (with full Dogbarf and Gack terminology) before speeches to the Council on Foreign Relations and at the Brookings Institution LIKE THIS:

FROM FEB 24, 2004

MR. STEINBERG: "Good morning ladies and gentlemen and welcome to Brookings. I'm Jim Steinberg, the Director of the Foreign Policy Studies Program here. One of the things I learned--a bit to my surprise--and something I probably should have known from being on the staff--is that she's actually the first New Yorker to serve on the Senate Armed Services Committee. And I think it's a testament to her commitment to the broad issues of national security that she's going to be talking about today, that she's taken on that assignment. (Note: God Help Us!) And she also serves on the Emerging Threats and Capabilities Subcommittee, which is particularly appropriate to the issues facing us today.

In her capacity on the Armed Services Committee, she's recently traveled to two of the most important regions where our forces are now engaged, both Afghanistan and Iraq. And brings to her work in the Senate and our discussion today that first-hand experience that she gained, including visiting with the troops from the Tenth Mountain Division, which are from New York. She's had, as I said, an extraordinarily distinguished career, not the least of which she's a graduate from Yale Law School, which is another connection that brings us together, along with several others who are here today.

And she has, in her short career in the Senate and long career in public life, really demonstrated that she's one of the most powerful and forceful analysts, advocates, and speakers on the broad range of issues that face our country.

She's going to speak today on addressing the National Security Challenges of our Time: Fighting Terror and the Spread of Weapons of Mass Destruction. (Note: Oh My God!) And, clearly, there is no more important set of issues facing us in the country. And particularly today when there's such a deep debate, not only about how we need to orient ourselves to deal with these problems, but what our strategies need to be at home and abroad..."

AUGGGHHHH!!!!!! THATS WHY!!!

Do not look at or click on Butch.

I am sick and tired of people saying that just because we worship the antichrist, despise and betray America, and practice polymorphously perverse polygamy that we are somehow unpatriotic!
And I think we should stand up and shout spells in cryptic transylvanian dialects backwards while spinning our heads three-sixty and spewing ectoplasmic slime!

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