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HOW MANY TIMES IS HILLARY GONNA BE CONFUSED BY MEN?: Chris MatthewsMISSUS CLINTON'S 'SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE' PROBLEM - PART 3 PART 2 PART 1 by Mia T, 2.17.07 This is how she explains her vote to authorize the war: "I would never have expected any president, if we knew then what we know now, to come to ask for a vote. There would not have been a vote, and I certainly would not have voted for it." John Kerry could not have said it worse himself. 1, 2 No wonder last weekend's "Saturday Night Live" gave us a "Hillary"...

STALINIST RISING? 1HILLARY CLINTON ABUSE OF POWER (WHERE IS THE UNREDACTED BARRETT REPORT ANYWAY?) by Mia T, 2.07.07     Peggy Noonan's excellent piece in yesterday's Wall Street Journal is really the story of the death of democracy. At its core it is the description of the human double helix gone terribly awry, of a denatured protein grotesquely twisted, of two mutant, tangled strands of DNA, the basest imaginable of base pairs linked permanently, as firmly as guanine to cytosine, bill inexorably to hillary and conversely, doing what they do best, and doing it relentlessly. Killing. Killing insidiously. Killing...

Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff who is on trial for perjury and obstruction of justice, claims he doesn’t remember, or mis-remembers, some of the conversations he had with reporters concerning the former CIA employee Valerie Plame Wilson. That, Libby says, accounts for the differences between his testimony about talks with journalists like Tim Russert and Matthew Cooper and the accounts of Russert and Cooper themselves. -snip-

Hillary Clinton, the former First Lady, yesterday launched her historic attempt to return to the White House as president with the bold declaration: "I'm in. And I'm in to win."The Democrat senator for New York, who aims to become the first woman to hold the nation's highest office, announced the formation of a presidential exploratory committee, the final stage before a formal declaration, in a hard-hitting statement and video on her website. Mrs Clinton, 59, revealed her plans just five days after her main rival for the Democratic nomination, Sen Barack Obama, took the same step – as the most...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Ten years later, it still takes a village. Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is polishing up her most famous phrase as she edges closer to a presidential run. She writes in a new introduction to her book ``It Takes a Village'' that Sept. 11 and the Internet make her tome on child-rearing even more relevant today. The 10th anniversary edition of the book goes on sale Dec. 12. An early copy was obtained by The Associated Press. The new version of the book features a smiling Clinton surrounded by children. The New York senator did not appear on...

Excerpt - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has begun active consideration of a 2008 run for president and has personally asked some fellow top New York Democrats for their support in the event she goes ahead with such a campaign, a top adviser said Sunday. "As Sen. Clinton said, she was going to begin actively considering a presidential run after the election. That process has begun," said Howard Wolfson. "She is reaching out to her colleagues in the New York delegation and asking for their advice and counsel, and their support if she decides to make a run," the Clinton adviser...

Excerpt - PRINCETON, NJ -- With a resounding victory behind her -- re-elected to her U.S. Senate seat by a 67% to 31% margin -- there is now tremendous political pressure on New York Sen. Hillary Clinton to make known her previously guarded intentions in the 2008 presidential race. If Clinton does announce a run for president, it will be with the blessing of her constituents. A new Gallup Panel survey of 840 New York residents, aged 18 and older, conducted just before the election, finds that New Yorkers returned the former first lady to office not only believing she...

Hillary Rodham Clinton re-elected at a post of senator WASHINGTON - the ex-First American injury Hillary Clinton was re-elected democratic sénatrice of the State of New York. It thus confirms its base in the American political life which could carry out it to a candidature for presidential of 2008, according to media's. The woman of Bill Clinton had spent nearly 30 million dollars for her re-election campaign to the American Senate, much more than any other candidate with the various polls concerned Tuesday, and this, in spite of an adversary well little threatening for it. This last, the republican...

I have been in a couple of conversations today about my colleague Nick Anderson's most recent animated editorial cartoon. OK, I initiated the conversations. Sue me. You're going to watch Nick's animation, as you should. I bow to no one in my admiration for Mr. Anderson's talent, and I love the way he brings editorial cartooning into something resembling the present. How many other editorial cartoonists would know the Black Eyed Peas from Andy Williams? But. You knew there'd be a but. In this case, the but is a butt. I am not going to discuss the politics of the...

THE conventional wis dom is that Hillary Clinton has a lock on the Democratic nomination in 2008 but can't win the general election. Both claims are open to doubt: A new poll shows Hillary slipping in her battle for the nomination and voter turnout data underscores how serious a chance she has of winning the election if she gets nominated. The latest Fox News poll (see chart) shows her slipping among likely Democratic primary voters from an unbeatable 43 percent in mid March to a more pedestrian 32 percent in late August. The key movement seems to be from Hillary...

Hillary Clinton 2008 Presidential campaign caught up in Spiderman's web? Peter Paul vows to end Hillary Clinton's political career   Gambling911.com has learned that the Washington Times plans to revive media focus on the landmark civil fraud suit now scheduled for trial against former President Bill Clinton on March 27, 2007, with Hillary Clinton allegedly a co-conspirator.  Sportsbook.com, which offers betting odds on the 2008 Presidential race with Hillary Clinton a 3 to 1 favorite of winning (every $1 bet would pay out $3), is not expected to make any changes to these odds over the next few weeks. ...

Here’s what we know. The Bush administration was framed by Valerie Plame, the upper CIA, and the mainstream media, with the active connivance of Richard Armitage, who is well known as Colin Powell’s best friend. Armitage has now been outed, after three years of Wilson-Plame smears against the administration going without an effective answer, and the VP’s chief of staff under indictment. We also know that Colin Powell’s “right hand man,” Col. Larry Wilkerson (ret.) went on a public rampage against the Bush administration, following other foreign policy retreads from Clinton I, such as Richard Clarke, the egregious Joe Wilson...

US pop superstar Janet Jackson hopes Hillary Clinton will become the first woman president of the United States. "Hillary Clinton as president -- that would be great," Jackson said in an interview with German press agency DPA Monday. "Then she could show all those people who wouldn't trust a woman with such a job."

by Mark Finkelstein September 3, 2006 - 14:13 The general rule of thumb among political consultants is that a disapproval rating of 40% spells a candidate's near-certain defeat. Virtually no one who disapproves of a candidate will vote for him, while approving of someone is no guarantee of a vote. Hillary Clinton's disapproval rating of 44% in a recent Time magazine poll thus bodes very ill for her presidential prospects. Yet the Sunday Times of London has managed to put a rosy gloss on what would have most politicians looking for another line of work. Says the Times of the...

- Hillary Rodham Clinton is holding on to first place among several prospective Democratic Party nominees for the 2008 United States presidential election, according to a poll by Opinion Dynamics released by Fox News. 32 per cent of Democrat supporters say they would vote for the New York senator in a primary ballot, down 11 points since March.Former vice-president Al Gore is second on the list with 15 per cent, followed by current Massachusetts senator and 2004 presidential nominee John Kerry with 13 per cent, and 2004 vice-presidential candidate and former North Carolina senator John Edwards with nine per cent.

The Democrats’ chances of retaking the White House are doomed if they nominate Hillary Clinton in 2008, according to Boston Herald Business Columnist Brett Arends. Several weeks ago Arends reported that 45 percent of Democrats in New Hampshire were telling focus groups “they hate her. Hate.” Among the words used to describe Clinton were “evil” and “diabolical.” “These people will not vote for her in a general election,” Arends writes. “So you’d think the party would be throwing itself, right now, into a relentless quest for a more viable alternative... “Instead the party establishment is pouring its time, money and...

FRIENDS of Hillary Clinton have been whispering the unthinkable. Despite her status as the runaway frontrunner for the 2008 Democratic nomination for president, some of her closest advisers say she might opt out of the White House race and seek to lead her party in the Senate.

FRIENDS of Hillary Clinton have been whispering the unthinkable. Despite her status as the runaway frontrunner for the 2008 Democratic nomination for president, some of her closest advisers say she might opt out of the White House race and seek to lead her party in the Senate. The former first lady longs to return to the White House with husband Bill as consort. Only last week she told television viewers America would be led by a woman one day. “Stay tuned,” she said. First, however, she has to win the election. Some Democratic party elders — the American equivalent of...

Bill Clinton Says He Won't Pressure Wife Hillary To Run For President September 02, 2006 Former President Bill Clinton says he is not pressuring his wife to run for president. The former first couple visited the State Fair in Syracuse Friday, as part of Hillary Clinton’s three-day promotional tour through New York's farm country. "I'm in the support business," said Bill Clinton. "Whatever she does will make me happy. If she decided to serve six years in the Senate and then go help me with my work around the world, we could travel more together that would make me happy."...

Six years ago, when Hillary Rodham Clinton first ran for the U.S. Senate, Republican Rep. Thomas M. Reynolds derided her as a carpetbagger who brought nothing to New York but overweening ambition.Today, he raves about their relationship. "I've found her always willing to listen and to roll up her sleeves and go to work with me," the Buffalo-area lawmaker said in a phone call between recent campaign stops.Reynolds is no partisan slouch. He has close ties to the Bush administration and heads the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee. He has the most conservative voting record of anyone in New York's 29-member...