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The New York Times reports that the Obama campaign has asked Hillary Clinton to speak to her disgruntled loyalist female voters who may be inclined to support Sarah Palin’s ticket. Hillary will be campaigning for Obama in Florida soon, as she had agreed to do before Palin was put on the GOP ticket. But her aides have informed the Obama campaign that they shouldn’t count on her, because she has “a busy fall.” The O campaign will also be turning to a bunch of Midwestern female governors, like the riveting Kathleen Sebelius of Kansas and the charismatic Janet Napolitano of...

Remember during the Democrat presidential primaries when Howard Dean cynically decided to use the “Jesus Strategy” on the campaign trail to tell voters how much he loved Jesus in order to gain votes for himself? That routine worked about as well as John Kerry putting on an Elmer Fudd duck hunting outfit in order to attract the votes of Ohio gun owners. YEAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHH!!!! The public can easily see through such antics which always end up BACKFIRING on candidates who try to exploit them. However, the DUmmies NEVER learn as you can see in this THREAD titled, “Clinton 2008 -thump...

With increasing regularity, leaders of the National Democratic Party are seeking support for their economic agenda in, of all places, the Bible. Failed presidential candidate John Kerry, for example, persists in appealing to the New Testament book of James. "Faith without works is dead," he intones, suggesting that "works" here includes the works of lawmakers as they spend other people's money. In like manner, Nancy Pelosi, the House minority leader, is wont to quote the teaching of Jesus that "[i]nasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me."...

Message to the Republican base: Howard Dean, the new chairman of the Democratic National Committee, says he's coming after you. In an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press" on Sunday, Dean said Democrats are "reaching out all over the place, speaking to all kinds of people - and he specifically mentioned evangelicals and Catholics. "I've been to 18 states. Of those, eight of them have been red states," Dean said. "We're trying to get our message out everywhere. We are going to go after the Republican -- what they think is the Republican base. We're going to go after red...

Except for the very original advise he received from Clinton: assail Bush on domestic issues! Now why would Clinton set Kerry up to walk straight into this minefield? After all, when Clinton was running for reelection in 1996: The unemployment rate was 6.2 percent. Today, under Bush, it’s 5.4 percent – with 1.7 million new jobs created and a record of steady job growth for the last 12 months! The inflation rate was 2.6 percent. Today, under Bush, it’s 1.9 percent! ·The mortgage rate was 7.81 percent. Today, under Bush, it’s 5.86 percent – at a 20-year low! And let’s...