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'Hillary for president' rally draws 20 instead of hoped-for 200 Tom Kovach of Mt. Juliet tries to persuade Greg Jones, left, and Ollie O'Hanlon, 16, right, to oppose Hillary Clinton as he protests near a Hillarynow.com rally in the Germantown neighborhood. DIPTI VAIDYA / THE TENNESSEAN By BONNA de la CRUZ Staff Writer Published: Wednesday, 05/24/06 A Hillary Clinton rally drew critics of President Bush, nonpartisan voters looking for a strong leader, and people who want to elect a female president. About 20 people attended the Tuesday event, the national kickoff for Hillarynow.com, a grass-roots group pushing to draft the...

By BONNA de la CRUZStaff Writer for THE TENNESSEAN Advertisement Published: Thursday, 05/04/06 A movement to draft Hillary Rodham Clinton to run for president aims to prove Democrats can win in Southern states, and that's why they're launching their national campaign in Nashville later this month. The group, called Hillarynow.com, thinks she can appeal to the country-music and NASCAR-loving crowd associated with Southern towns such as Nashville, said Bob Kunst, the Miami Beach-based organizer. "The whole point is to go where we're not expected," Kunst said. The national kickoff will be a May 23 fundraiser for Hillarynow.com at a Germantown...

Byron York of The National Review had a great article yesterday about the devolution of the MoveOn Katrina Victims protest at the White House.Dana Milbank of the Washington Post also wrote about MoveOn's troubled demonstration.However, apparently both these fine observers of the scene had departed when the worst part of the MoveOn protest happened.As Angelwood and I stood talking and debating with malingering MoveOn protesters, a man standing about twenty or thirty feet away from us was giving an interview with an independent D.C. journalist.I recognized the man as a long time liberal activist from Florida whom we had first...

CONCORD, N.H.(AP) _ A grass roots group is unveiling a TV campaign in support of New York Sen. Hillary Clinton for president. Bob Kunst of Miami Beach, Fla., heads the group, Hillary Now!, which hopes to lay the foundation for Clinton's possible bid for the presidency in 2008. Clinton has said she is concentrating on her re-election to the Senate next year and has not openly declared ambitions for the presidency, though she is perennially mentioned as a contender. The animated commercial shows Clinton driving a garbage truck labeled "Bush's Mess." Clinton empties trash cans labeled "Iraq," "War on Terror,"...

Catholic League president William Donohue remarked as follows: “The storm is about to hit. For the most part, anti-Catholic bigots and the disaffected dissidents within the Church have been quiet. What they have been waiting for is about to happen: the week between the end of the mourning and the beginning of the conclave is upon us. And that means the Left is ready to explode. “Consider what we’ve heard already. Amidst the mostly favorable coverage by the media of Pope John Paul II, he has been branded as follows: an authoritarian who seeks to silence dissent; the enemy of...

Dear Activists/Media: So much is happening and we're in the center of this whirlwind, so please bear with us. "Dr Hide endorsing Jr. Jeckle" is nothing less than "Dr. Assisted Suicide For The Dem. Party." Gore's War on Democrats, Lieberman, Clinton, America, etc. was revealed today to his and Dean's demise and will backfire. As one who gave Gore/Lieberman 6 months of my life in going to 25 states and helping to win Fla. and then doing 650 protest/events on this stolen election, our film www.floridafightsback.com on this issue and running for Fla. gov. last year on it.......my disgust for...