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As longtime Freepers remember, The NY Daily News is the house organ of the clinton dynasty. They were bill clinton's most loyal supporters, through thick and thin, and especially during the impeachment scandals. They also were hillary's most assiduous and sycophantic backers during her senate campaign.

In what has always seemed to me a symbolic gesture, the plutocratic leftist who owns the Daily News played poker with Bill Clinton on his plane on a flight from Washington, and the two of them laughed publicly together when House Leader Newt Gingrich, who had been consigned to quarters in the rear of the plane, was forced to exit the plane through the rear door while publisher and president emerged triumphantly at the front.

Considering all this history, it's inconceivable that the Daily News would run this article without the explicit consent of Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Presumably, too, this explains why criticism of McAuliffe for his egregious mistakes in the 2002 campaign have been almost nonexistent in Democrat circles and Democrat-controlled media. Hillary needs her stooge McAuliffe in place if she is to run in 2004.

It's a bit surprising, since the 2008 election seems to offer her a better shot. But evidently they recognize a reality (which I have spoken of earlier in the forum): that Hillary risks being a has-been by 2008. She can't afford to wait too long. She would have a very hard time holding onto power and control of the DNC for that long, against the ambitions of other Democrat candidates, without having some real powerbase.

Time will tell, but this article is certainly a big straw in the wind.