Posted on 06/30/2002 6:19:26 AM PDT by NYpeanut
Promises for a 24/7 downtown? We won't count the number of times we've heard politicians talk about that concept.
Still, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton may come the closest to delivering, and we're not talking about her package of six bills from a year ago that she said would help upstate New York's economy.
The former first lady caused quite a stir along Delaware Avenue last week when she decided to walk - not be driven - from the University at Buffalo's Jacobs Executive Development Center, the former Butler mansion, to the Mansion at Delaware and Edward Street.
"The whole time, people were pulling over, chasing her down to shake her hand and get autographs," one Democratic insider said. "It was the closest political thing to Bill Clinton I've seen from her."
OK, so it's not the most exciting thing to happen in a city. But people congregating on a downtown street on a Friday night with Secret Service agents in hot pursuit?
Forget the legislative bills, senator.
You just found your strategy.
By Patrick Lakamp, with a contribution from Dan Herbeck
That just says it all, doesn't it?
Not really. One thing you can be sure of is that there WILL be another successful major terrorist attack. No matter how good our intelligence agencies are (and they ARE better than most people think!),it would be impossible for them to stop all the attacks. One more successful major terrorist attack,and there is no question about laying the blame for it on Bubba-1 or the Dims. The press and the Dims will be laying the whole blame for it on Bubba-2 and the RNC,and they are going to score hits with this strategy. They will have the media behind them,and the average American is about as close to being a deep thinker as a rock is. Bubbette! will run around screaming about how "there were no successful terrorists attacks when my husband and the Dims were in charge! This is just proof that the Reps can't handle foreign policy because all they care about is big oil and big business,not people!". She's get away with it,too. Just watch.
There is no question but that she has not just FBI files, but other political Semtex which cannot be allowed to deteriorate.
There is also no question about the info in these FBI files having less and less power as each year passes,and politicians retire or move on to other things,and witnesses die. She needs to use her dirt while it's still relevent to the people she needs to intimidate.
Make no mistake about it,she will run in 2004. The biggest proof of this came a couple of months ago when her staff started telling reporters to refer to her as "Hillary Clinton",NOT "Hillary Rodham Clinton". She ALWAYS "loses her Rodham" before a election.
If she gets Powell to run as her VP as I have been predicting all along,she wins. I was predicting Powell would have a public falling out with Bubba-2 over a issue related to Africa,AIDS,and US foreign aid money there,but Bubba-2 has lately been even to the left of most Dims on Africa. She may have to settle for somebody like McCain as her VP,and she may even win with him. Whoever she picks,it HAS to be a male with a military background who will be seen as a "modernizing and stabilizing influence" on her.
BTW,I wonder how the Bubba-2 supporters here will explain his loss to Bubbette! in 2004? She will be running to the right,and Bubba-2 will be running to the left. I'm thinking the standard "it's all a part of his secret "stratigicery" to make the Dims look bad" will have to be retired.
I'd give you large odds on that one. And I think your prognosticatin' in general is, nothing personal, lousy.
Mansion hopping - shaking hands with the little peoples.
How far is this - three blocks? Was it long enough to exercise those thighs?
Yeah, yeah, yeah....
And wherever Saddam goes in Bagdad, the crowds are there and fawning over him. Same goes with Arafat.
Does that mean that American citizens--New Yorkers, at that--are under such "Clinton" mind control that they will do the same????
After September 11, methinks they will not. After all, where were the cheers when she appeared in NYC?
If folks in the Deep South, the Middle West, the West that filled out that county-by-county vote map for George Bush in the last election feel united with New York City, surely real, authentic New Yorkers will not forget:
the 8-year policy that allowed the Al Quaeda to infiltrate our borders,
train its terrorists,
bomb our Embassy,
attack The Cole,
and cap it all off with the demolishing of the WTC---
Surely, the people of the State of New York will not voluntarily seek out the hand or help of the former "Co-President" in an election of the near future!
Oh, puh-leeeeze. Get a grip. You can't win with California, New York and the puny electoral votes of the liberal clump of states known as the Northeast. She is Mondull Redux.
Nor do I overestimate her, as you obviosly do. One of the consistent characteristics of evil is to repeatedly lie about its own inevitability. Never forget that.
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