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The Clinton’s should probably swap memos more often. Bill supports one thing, Hillary supports another. Bill says one thing, Hillary says another. Of course, we could also talk about the rest of her entourage that supposedly speak for her, but generally seem to say the opposite of what she’s declaring.

This past weekend, we had the gaffe by her Chief Campaign Strategist, Mark Penn, who went to Columbia, wearing his lobbyist hat to broker a deal with the Colombians, that, apparently, Hillary is against. Well, it turns out that Bill was all for it.

Now, it appears that Bill and Hillary are at odds about whether or not folks should boycott the Olympics in China. Hillary just came out declaring that President Bush should not go, while last summer, Bill talked Steven Spielberg out of boycotting the Olympics as their “Overseas Artistic Director”.

It seems that Hillary, the presidential candidate, should have the last word on what comes out of her campaign, but, with people who claim to speak for her, coming out and contradicting what she says, one has to wonder if her presidency will be just as incoherent.

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Tags: Bill Clinton, democrats, Dezzi's Posts, Hillary Clinton, Mark Penn, presidential campaign, presidential candidate, presidential primary, senator clinton

Is there anybody this Ho won’t schlep with? I don’t know about you, but when somebody has it in for my family, does everything in their considerable power to destroy everything we’ve worked to achieve, does it publically and does it dirty, I would NOT be pals. I would not forget, and I damn sure wouldn’t pander.

Of course, I’m not Hillary Clinton. The picture is priceless.

That’s Richard Mellon Scaife! Yesterday! Jeebus, I need a shower after looking at that. For those with short memories, Scaife was THE MAN orchestrating the Clinton attacks. From Salon, 4/7/1998:

The man whom Time magazine, in its latest issue, calls “the ultimate patron” of the Clinton haters has been identified by Salon and the New York Observer as a key funder of the $2.4 million Arkansas Project, a four-year effort organized through the American Spectator magazine to discredit the president. Scaife foundation money, as Salon has reported, has also allegedly been used to pay key Whitewater witness David Hale and to help bankroll Paula Jones’ sexual harassment case against Clinton. - Salon

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Tags: Bill Clinton, Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton, in bed with your enemies, Jet's Posts, Richard Scaife, swiftboaters

Rachel, step-mom to PraetorOne, is giving us her pov on Hillary this morning. Please welcome her to Sirens Chronicles. She also contributes to the Coalition for a Democratic America~Dusty

I wish that the Hilary supporters in this country would realize that their candidate comes with a 48 to 52 negative approval rating. Sadly, however, the obsessive old white women who so obsessively continue to support her are so eager to run a woman–ANY WOMAN–for President that they haven’t bothered to ask the all important question: Is she the right woman at the right time? Certainly the time is right, but this is clearly the wrong candidate. For all intents and purposes, Hilary leaves the impression that the only thing that matters at any given time is Hilary; that she is obsessed with power and that the only thing she holds precious is herself. Now I admit, that could only be the way she comes off. Those who know her well say that she is one of the warmest and most caring people you could ever hope to find. I only wish that side of her nature would come through on the campaign trail. From what I’ve seen, however she presents a facade which suggests that she is cold, manipulative, and addicted to power.

That said there are very real reasons to distrust Hilary Clinton. Harry S. Truman once suggested that if you run a real liberal against a conservative the real liberal will almost invariably win. Likewise, if you run a moderate or a moderate conservative as a liberal the real conservative will almost invariably win, and we are now dealing with the latter example. We need to remember that Bill and Hillary are products of the Democratic Leadership Convention, the DLC which is little more than a debating society for Conservative, corporatist “Democrats.” In other words they aren’t Democrats at all; they are Lite Republicans and they have done more to split and weaken the Democratic Party than any sex or financial scandal.

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Tags: 08 Election, Bill Clinton, democrats, DLC, hillary, Presidential Candidates, Rachel's Posts

Ironically, it was Ms. Morrison that dubbed Bill Clinton the “First Black President”:

In an October 1998 essay in The New Yorker, Morrison wrote: “Years ago, in the middle of the Whitewater investigation, one heard the first murmurs: white skin notwithstanding, this is our first black president. Blacker than any actual person who could ever be elected in our children’s lifetime.”

Ms Morrison is a Nobel Prize winning author. I love my irony served up hot and fresh in the morning..don’t you?

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Tags: 08 Election, Bill Clinton, endorsement, Hillary Clinton, Presidential Candidates, Toni Morrison

Tuesday night, prior to counting the first NH vote, the pundits pretty much had Hillary Clinton on life support. She won..not by a landslide, but she clearly beat Obama and wiped the street with John Edwards.

Whatever you think of Hillary and her politics, one thing is abundantly clear; she is riding on the coattails of her husbands eight years as President. A good yardstick of what will happen under a Clinton44 reign can be read in those ancient tea leaves of Clinton42’s era. My point-of-view is that, as progressives, with Bill Clinton we were in the frying pan and the heat was on high. We then jumped into the fire with the election of George Bush..but I digress.David Morris dissects the first Clinton’s time in office very well this week in an Alternet article. I also tear into the Clinton’s, the DCCC and the Clinton’s personal democratic PAC known as the DLC here.

Bill Clinton, with the flourish of his pen, changed the course of all telecommunications. He signed into law the Telecommunications Act of 1996. This act allowed a free-for-all to take place with the blessings of the federal government, and I might add..without one iota of oversight or public hearings on the massive changes that would take place. Within three years, we went from having 13 Teleco’s down to 5 huge conglomerates that control everything. The FCC lost control of the public airwaves as well thanks to the Teleco Act of ‘96. Two corporations, Infinity and Clear Channel sucked up a majority of the radio stations and consequently killed roughly 1100 of them in the process that didn’t ‘perform well’ if you believe the two corporations. Clear Channel is all about the Benjamin’s and its crystal clear if you read the series of articles at Salon by Eric Boehlert. Check out this quote from a Buzzflash writeup about the giant conglomeration that owns anything and everything regarding advertising and music:

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Tags: 08 Election, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, lobbying, PAC, Presidential Candidates, The Corporotocracy

Bill Clinton used it several times today in New Hampshire when he was swarmed by Ron Paul wingnuts. From MSNBC’s First Read:

KEENE, NH — Several Ron Paul supporters shadowed a much larger Clinton entourage as Bill Clinton greeted supporters downtown. The former president later called them “nuts.”

During his third stop of the day, the former president posed for pictures and shook hands as he strolled down Main Street on this unseasonably warm Primary Eve day. Across the street, a few Paul supporters shouted his name.

Eventually, Clinton stopped outside a bakery, offered some remarks, and took questions. As he was answering one on Iraq, one of the Paul backers interrupted and shouted that the Sept. 11 attacks were an inside job, and that the U.S. didn’t need to be in Iraq and Afghanistan.

When he dropped an F-bomb, the crowd booed. Clinton, who had tried to talk over the man, gave up.

“You wanna know what I think?” Clinton said. “You guys who think 9/11 was an inside job are crazy as hell. My wife was the senator from New York when that happened. I was down at Ground Zero. I saw the victims’ families. You’re nuts.”

That’s telling em Billy!

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