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Subject: A Sports Analogy

Hillary Clinton has taken the plunge into the game of sports metaphor, lately making some football references about being the "best quarterback," and talking "offense" and "defense." According to a 4/26 CNN report:

"We're going to hit some of those balls out of this stadium and out of our country stadium," she announced, wielding a bat. "We're going to round the bases, we're going to score a lot of runs and we're going to feel really good about the home team, namely the American team, the team we're all a part of!"

Here's an analogy she might enjoy. Let's say the New York Yankees are in the pennant race, but losing to the Chicago White Sox. The National League is already decided, with the Arizona Diamondbacks getting rest and preparation after sweeping their series, But the Sox and the Yankees slug it out to 3 games to 2, with the White Sox leading in the best of 7.

In the middle of Game 6, with the Sox slaughtering them, the Yankees suddenly claim that they should just be given the pennant and sent to the World Series because their wins were bigger wins, and because they would surely have a better chance at beating the Diamondbacks than the White Sox would; and that the umps and commissioner should take that into consideration. Also, the Yankees boasted that they had in fact scored more runs in the season than the White Sox, if you count the All-star Game and the pre-season exhibition games. But of course, you don't.

Dear BuzzFlash:

If there was any lingering doubt that a large percentage of the American population on the right are gullible and pathetically susceptible to moronic statements provided they emanate from the right mouth, mine was removed when we heard some of our Limbaugh Lemming co-workers saying that we Godless traitors on the left (my emphasis, not theirs, but you know that's what they think) think that the astronomical gas prices are the fault of the oil companies. Well, shut my mouth. I guess it takes a special enlightened person to reach the conclusion that the oil industry isn't responsible for setting its prices, quotas, etc.

I'm sure this statement of idiocy came from Limbaugh or one of his clones, and I imagine they blame the Iraqi insurgents for it to justify our staying in the war for as long as possible. But to me, being the clueless unpatriotic leftist guerilla that I am, have concluded that saying the oil companies have no input on gas prices makes about as much sense as saying dogs have nothing to do with the dog food industry. There is no logic behind it at all.

Why don't you say gas prices are the fault of woodpeckers, as long as you're going out on that ridiculous tangent? Then of course, being May 1, one of the lemmings just had to ask us leftist Marxists if we were going to celebrate May day. Right, so if we don't kowtow to Limbaugh, we're communists. And anybody still has to ask what's wrong with this country?

Scott
Fayetteville, Ar.

Subject: Rev Wright

With the Bush Administration conflating church and state, a transfer of power and millions in budgeted funds were directed towards religious institutions for government services. The Republicans are projecting that Obama might continue this trend but steer the funds away from evangelical churches to radical black churches. This Reverend Wright issue is just another scare tactic, and why isn't the media illuminating this narrative?

Larry Bergsneider
Phoenix, Arizona

Hi Buzzers,

I can hardly believe what has happened to my country. A country that I have sworn to protect in USMC. Last evening I was sitting outside local convenience store and three cops were swarming the streets. On their second pass they asked me if I saw anyone walking in this direction. I said I did and they wanted me to describe him. Why, I asked, what did he do? They said someone saw a person pissing in public. I responded, you should tell me who you are looking for, and I will tell you if I saw him.

Embarassed the cop loooked away and quickly spotted someone walking in different direction then the person I saw earlier. The cop questioning me said to other officer, "look there goes someone with a t-shirt."

If you don't think this is bizarre, then you deserve the actual government you have.

Scott
AZ

I read that Bush is blaming the Democrats for all the problems of the nations currently, overlooking that his party and friends held power for so long and got us in this fix. And that he wishes he had a magic wand to fix it.

If he had a Magic Wand, he'd be "Dictator for life." If we had a Magic Wand his and Cheney's bum a##es would be out of there and in Gitmo.

Mike Curtis, who's sure there's a spot in hell waiting for our leaders
Greenbrier, Ark.

I have recently been having a dialogue with an old friend who is far to the right of me. I have been working for peace and wondered if I could find any common ground with him. Then I heard about his "hero," Rush Limbaugh, "Operation Chaos," and Rush's wish that violence breaks out at the Democratic convention.

I realized our goals are different. I am more aligned with the teachings of Jesus ... "love thy enemy," "turn the other cheek," etc. Funny thing, though, he's the one claiming to be a "Christian." I am an agnostic! Go figure.

Rob Moitoza
U.S. Navy Veteran
Seattle, WA

Subject: You Might Be An Elitist If ...

... you are intelligent, well-educated, and think that your president ought to be smarter and better-educated than you.

... you don't vote for someone just because they wear a lapel pin, knock back whiskeys with beer chasers, drive a pickup with a gun rack, or have tobacco juice running down their chin.

... you entertain the thought that people who do vote based on the above just might get the kind of government they damn well deserve.

... you get the fact that, when a candidate appeals to your fears and prejudices, provides easy answers to hard questions, and mentions Rev. Wright just a bit too often, what he/she is really saying is that he/she thinks you're pretty darned stupid.

... you want a candidate who treats you like an adult and tells you that we won't solve the high price of gas by eliminating the gas tax for the summer, because (1) that will increase demand and actually drive up the price of gas, and (2) that candidate can't make it happen this summer because he/she won't be president until January.

... you wonder why someone with two Ivy League degrees, a great family, and the ability to have any kind of life he/she wants would want to subject himself/herself to the politics of personal destruction that comes with being a candidate for any public office (and are just a little thankful that someone would).

... you're smart enough to know that the media would rather dwell on the trivial than on the important, because they think/hope that the general public is too dumb to know the difference.

... you think that the leader of the free world ought to be among the "elite" in terms of intellect, character, insight, and leadership - and that, just maybe, "average" won't cut it this time around.

A BuzzFlash Reader

Ever notice how the bodies pile up whenever the govt. whores use call girls? If hooking were legal, then we wouldn't have these problems. My heart goes out to her family. My hate goes out to whichever govt agency actually killed her.

keblackwood
Jersey City NJ

Why don't you link to Krugman's column about Obama lauding the Repubs on Social Security?

Larry
Normal IL

[BuzzFlash Note: Which column? Here's Krugman's recent stuff.]

And that's how the big kid--err, president supports the troops--err, kids--err, victims--err, heroes--err,...

Will Wyche
Palm Springs, CA

Subject: Oh, It's Author John Hagee

This book would burn a hole in Gloria Steinem's hands if she were to pick it up...

http://www.amazon.com/What-Every-Man-Wants-Woman/dp/1591855578/

Tom Joad

Subject: Hell Hath No Fury Like A Woman Scorned!

Hey BF... you've devoted so much positive attitude to Obama's side - you've neglected any commentary on the people who side with Clinton. Clinton has a Krugman endorsed Health Plan, she talked about an economic policy long before our current dilemma, and Hillary's defense ideology doesn't scare me. I'm a veteran and though my beliefs are not exclusive they are somewhat a representation of a whole; at least from the reading I have absorbed. While in the military (8 years) I voted for Reagan x2 and then Bush Sr. soon after I discharged. But then my tide was changing and I registered as an Independent to vote for Bill Clinton x2. I felt a satisfaction that I contributed to some degree of better government. After all the vitriolic brainwashing I underwent in the military, I finally emerged somewhat as a citizen. In that same sense you have to realize that citizens have that same sense of caution, I've come to a rational sense of, except theirs is irrational. Yes Clinton is on this - but she's a FIGHTER and this is significant. I could go on... but BF I really appreciate your venue.

Michael Chevalier
Cedar Rapids, IA

Subject: Gender Arguments

One of your contributors argues in favor of women in power.

Generalizing about an entire group has obvious pitfalls: Note, for example, Nancy Pelosi, who advertised herself as a devoted Catholic mother, yet used her power to prevent the criminals in the administration from being impeached.

To generalize by party, gender, race, socioeconomic class, is to evade the real question of reform: Which lies in questions of character, how to keep criminals out of office, and above all, how to prevent corporations from hijacking our governments.

A BuzzFlash Reader

Why doesn't BuzzFlash have an easy and direct method to donate directly to the cause?

Your website offers value added news and I have viewed it for years, but have never contributed. You seem to offer the option of only overpriced merchandise that I don't have time to read instead of pure donations.

Why don't you have a button called "DONATE" on the homepage that prominently directs the viewer to a method of securely donating, or to a physical address to donate to your website?

I'd be more than happy to oblige.

A BuzzFlash Reader

[BuzzFlash Note: Your excellent suggestion is appreciated. Look for the "Donate" feature in a few days. In the meantime, we have this DONATE NOW! link that you can click near the top of the BuzzFlash Store home page.]

This is interesting... Kerry (who knows a thing or two about ad nauseum repetition in the media of an unfair story) goes on the counter-offensive for Obama...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/04...

Tom Joad

Subject: Two Crimes Against Humanity Committed In Our Names

"The first, almost three decades ago, involved a young Vietnamese peasant who happened to step on an unexploded mine while he was working in the field."

"The outcome being?"

"There he was, lying on a cot, his left leg amputated below the knee."

"Which never would have happened had our government kept its word and provided the Vietnamese with whatever information they needed to clear their fields of unexploded land mines."

"And the second crime against humanity?"

"Has to do with four year old Ishmael sitting in a crib in a Baghdad pediatric hospital, emaciated, pot-bellied, too weak to stand yet vital enough to make eye contact with a visitor."

"With the child's eyes somehow telling the visitor 'If you really care then do something about it.'"

"As if Ishmael knew that over the next decade the U.S.A.-backed U.N. sanctions would take the lives of a million of his fellow Iraqis, half of whom would be children."

"Yet the slaughter continues."

"What can we do about it?"

"We can elect a president who'll end the Iraq War, negotiate with Iran plus turning things around here at home."

"And then what sort of world?"

"It'll be up to us."

A BuzzFlash Reader

Subject: Any Guess How Much Nonstop Airtime These Quotes Will Get?

Hi BuzzFlash,

To Tim Russert,

The next time you have John McCain on your show, are you going to spend the first 15 minutes asking John McCain about G. Gordon Liddy?

After all, McCain has been going after Obama about Ayers and the MSM has been going after Rev Wright and Obama.

For instance Tim, you could kill a lot of valuable time when you ask and play in an endless loop the following quotes by John McCain's good buddy, G. Gordon Liddy ...

G. Gordon Liddy: John McCain Finds His Own Radical (huffington post)

Liddy, on Vietnam:

"I wanted to bomb the Red River dykes [sic]. It would have drowned half the country and starved the other half. There would have been no way the Viet Cong could have operated if we had the will-power to do that."

Liddy, advising Branch Davidians how to defend themselves from ATF agents during a radio show:

"If the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms insists upon a firefight, give them a firefight. Just remember, they're wearing flak jackets and you're better off shooting for the head."

Liddy, on the impact Adolf Hitler had on him as a child:

When he listened to Hitler on the radio, it "made me feel a strength inside I had never known before," he explains. "Hitler's sheer animal confidence and power of will [entranced me]. He sent an electric current through my body."

Any bets on "how much" round the clock, endless loop, nonstop coverage that these quotes by McCain's good buddy will get played / shown on every network of the "Liberal Media"; along with a picture on the televsion of McCain and Liddy together as these quotes are shown?

Liberal Media? What Liberal Media?

Tom Wieliczka
Windsor Locks, CT

Ugh, well...let's See, Sen. C, Okinawa, Europe, Korea were defensive, not illegal aggressive wars, war crimes, and crimes against humanity involving the American government! ...besides, they didn't bring home real terrorism the way this one will soon.

Will Wyche
Palm Springs, CA

"How is that?"

"Being without health insurance is a killer."

"Cause of death?"

"No access to health care."

"Attributed to?"

"Medi-Cal budget cuts."

"Brought about by?"

"The Iraq War."

[From "Halt Medi-Cal Cuts, Lawsuit asks." - Wednesday's LA]

A BuzzFlash Reader

Subject: Wednesday, May 7, 2008, it was disclosed that over the past month, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton loaned her campaign $6 million. Curious. After the Pennsylvania primary, Clinton's campaign talked about record on-line donations totaling $8.3 million (see attached New York Times article), but was that in addition to the $6 million she loaned her campaign over the last month, or did she or a surrogate at some point "misspeak" again?

I think we can all agree that Hillary Clinton is not the best at math. I don't think you need to be a genius, however, to understand that $6 million plus $8.3 million equals $14.3 million, and that's not too shabby for one month. Did she get the money from both places, herself and on-line donations? If from both places, where did all the money go? If in fact from one place, why did they lie? What's the real story here?

April 23, 2008: The Caucus: Clinton Campaign Reports Surge of Online Donations

Patricia A. Weller
Emmitsburg, MD

At this point, I looking forward to the departure of the Bush/Cheney regime. We need someone as president who will not be another Bush.

The question of amount of experience is of no importance to me whatsoever! Difference is the driving key-word for me.

Obama and Clinton recognize much of what has gone wrong these past eight years although their remedies may differ.

These are the questions which I would like to ask each of them:

1. Will you assure that an energy policy will be developed which will allow input from entities other than oil industry executives, and that such development will be made fully public?

2. Will you get our troops out of Iraq without extended delays?

3. Will you restore our involvement in organizations which seek to resolve world problems,i.e., global warming, nuclear proliferation, environment, economies, trade, health?

4. Will you restore the constitutional rights which this administration has ignored and taken from us?

5. Will you work to close GITMO and other such prisons which practice torture and abuse of human rights?

6. Will you address the incredible neglect of our infrastructures? Over 50 bridges have been closed in this state since GWB took office and many highways have suffered neglect.

7. Will you stand up to the corporations and industries which exploit the majority of us and enrich themselves outrageously? Which send our jobs to other countries, which avoid taxes through gimmickry?

8. Will you work to develop an educational structure which will focus on educating our kids better than the ridiculous No Child Left Behind catastrophe?

9. Will you appoint department heads who have the qualifications to perform the purported functions of FEMA, FDA and such?

10. Will you listen to us instead of only being influenced by lobbyists and corporate fat-cats?

11. Will you use diplomacy and communication to resolve differences with other countries before rushing into needless wars?

Creed Ballew
Arkansas

I looked up Loren and Celeste Davis on the internet and found their website.

As an evangelical Christian myself the moment I see a ministry named after the principal minister I have suspicions. It's a peculiar American approach to things to have a ministry named after you, especially when you do it yourself.

I also think the word "evangelical" is misapplied here, since to be evangelical is to have a type of theology which I do not see operating in these organisations.

David Ashton

Thought you might find this interesting. Just like the Clintons and the media keep spinning her win in PA [MSNBC's Norah O'Donnell did this just the other night] as 10% when in fact it was 9.2%, we should alert people of the final results from IN:

Final Indiana Results:

This just in from the Obama campaign. The final vote tally for Indiana has been certified the results are as follows:

FINAL INDIANA TALLY - As per Indiana Sec. of State is:

Hillary Clinton: 637,814 / 50.4%

Barack Obama: 626,642 / 49.6%

Diff. = 11,152 votes (less than 1 %)

http://mirroronamerica.blogspot.com/2008/...

No doubt now she won because of help from Limbaugh.

R. J. Crane
Topple Bush

When Obama visited the House of Representatives this week, he made it clear his business was about reconciliation. He visited with all the weight of a presumptive nominee, but there was no gloating, no snide remarks, no hints to the Clinton camp that they should pack it in. He was careful to engage, not alienate. There was, nonetheless, no doubt that he was the nominee, and people treated him as such.

This style bodes well for a nation whose former nemesis imploded under its own bloated weight, whose former "satellite" nations now flock to our side. We don't have to gloat. We don't have to jump up and down and scream "Yea, America." The world expects us to lead, and we can actually do this with a bit of temperance. We don't need to bash ideological opponents, or shoot our way through every negotiation with a foreign state. You can be strong without having to prove it every five minutes. Just like if Obama had gone up to the hill and needled Clintonites about their dwindling resources, such an act wouldn't be interpreted as strength, but as a bully's insecurity.

Benedict Parkinson

Subject: Reuters - Speculators boost oil price

Near record-high oil prices contain an element of speculation and there is sufficient supply in world markets, Royal Dutch Shell's Chief Financial Officer Peter Voser said on Tuesday. Oil hit a record high of $119.93 on Monday as investors fretted over supply disruptions in Nigeria and Britain. "There is a lot of equity being switched into commodities, that is ... more the speculative element rather than actually the fundamentals," Voser said at a press conference following first-quarter results that beat forecasts. "We have enough product and enough crude." Producer countries have also blamed speculation for oil's rally ...

Shell: speculators boost oil price, supply adequate (4/29, Reuters)

... talked to a writer and asked about the dollars drop and oil costs. I read last year the dollar had dropped 37% after 2001, gee what happed that year. He said he believed that about 40% of oil cost is from the bush dollar. Somewhere I read that a 1% drop in the dollar = 4 dollars.

D Brown 

It's tempting to imagine that Hillary's annoying tenacity would actually be an asset in the White House. Imagine all that....well, fortitude, working for us, pushing back against our equally tenacious problems.

Yes, stubbornness can be a good thing, but not Hillary's type. What comes to mind is Hillary's health care boondoggle of the early 90's, the way she cut down anyone who opposed her. Indeed, her presidential campaign is beginning to greatly resemble that earlier incarnation of Queen Hillary against the world. Senator Bill Bradley, who should have been a natural Hillary ally, recalls the first lady telling him that the White House would "demonize" anyone who came against her health care plans. "That was it for me in terms of Hillary Clinton," he would later remark.

I think we can all relate.

A BuzzFlash Reader

According to the MSM, Hillary Clinton is THE blue collar candidate, the real man in the Democratic competition, the champion of ''testicular fortitude'' because she is obviously tenacious, persistent and never calls it quits. That's precisely my main reason for siding with Barack Obama: Senator Clinton has a long history, both personal and political, of being gullible, easily lied to, making wrong choices as a result and sticking with those choices to the bitter end.

On the war in Iraq, she swallowed the neocons' lies hook, line and sinker, changed her deluded views only slowly and reluctantly, and even now does not accept full responsibility for being a sucker for Republican propaganda and for her general lack of judgment and vision on this issue. The same pattern is present in her troubled relationship with Bill Clinton: either he pulled the wool over her eyes for years, or she accepted his sexual antics because she had long-term political goals; either way, she demeaned herself by standing by a man who lied to her, cheated on her with countless bimbos and humiliated her publicly and repeatedly.

Not only was she abused and cuckolded by the Bush administration, as well as abused and cuckolded by her husband, but in both cases she rolled over and accepted the unacceptable, equally reluctant to break up with her powerful abusers and to admit her own errors.

Character issues are essential in a presidential candidate, and in order to evaluate those character issues, private behavior cannot be off limits--the main psychological pattern in Hillary Clinton's behavior is one of persistence and stick-to-itness, yes, but persistence and stick-to-itness when abused, delusional and lied to. This pattern is expressing itself again in her refusal to give up fighting for the Democratic nomination at the risk of sabotaging the Democratic campaign, while it's clear that her victory is now mathematically impossible.

Persisting when wrong and delusional is no virtue, it's just plain mulish. After eight hellish years with a delusional, mulish President, wouldn't it be nice to have a President with a tad of common sense and an adequate grasp on reality for a change? As much as I would love a woman President, Hillary Clinton does not fit that bill by a long shot.

Below a commentary/post that has been 3 months in the making... the distilled nastiness of the Hillary campaign! Thanks, BuzzFlash, for being among the very first to note her awful scorched-earth campaign!

Over at HuffPost, Thomas Edsall wrote: "Clinton's success among white voters is very likely to continue to raise questions concerning Obama's viability among whites, who play a larger role in general elections than in Democratic primaries."

Obama was doing JUST FINE with "white voters"... until the Rev. Wright video hit the endless network media loop, the media trying to do with the Rev. Wright video what they had done to Gov. Dean with the "Dean Scream."

The good news is that Hillary's base "race-baiting, gas-tax-pandering, gun pandering, beer pandering, 'nuke Iran', make friends with Murdoch and Richard Mellon Scaife campaign" highlighted what we "Democratic wing of Democratic Party" voters have been saying (shouting) for years - that the top levels of the inside-beltway DC Democrats have become entirely too cozy with Big Business, corporate America, K St. lobbyists, Wall St. loan sharks... & especially the major-media pooh-bahs, who at every opportunity tout the "Tax cuts for wealthy in time of war, screw the peons" agenda. (Not to forget the "More War Now" lobby.)

We Democratic voters don't reflexively hate corporations - just when their greed and influence is so strong that they can blatantly lie to us.

I was staying at a home near a big city that had no cable TV... so I had no choice but to watch the 3 or 4 broadcast channels. The "news" content of their Network nightly newscast was... ZERO! Twenty minutes of weather, twenty minutes of local-interest stories and banter between the anchors, and twenty minutes of commercials was all you get for watching. One night, they did a full 5 minute (plus) segment on... a Dachsund dog that had recovered from cancer surgery! NO similar time is ever spent on our WOUNDED, TRAUMATIZED, returning war VETERANS! It is beyond simply shameful and disgraceful.... we are into the realm of the German media during WWII, a relentless propaganda machine to white-wash the regime and ignore the "disappeared," even our own war-hero veterans, whose coverage would make the media's pandering for tax-cuts for the rich and the glitzy story of the day look, well, shameless.

Another example of the media's absolutely content-less 'news' coverage is that Obama blew out Hillary in North Carolina by over 200,000 votes, while she prevailed in Indiana with less than 20,000. (And many of those were probably Republican "ditto-heads" crossing over to make mischief in Dem. primary, with no intention to vote Democratic in the fall.) http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/dates/#20080506

200,000 to 20,000.... you might think that a 20 to 200 vote would make a compelling, easy-to-explain media news story? Not so with our PURPOSELY UNINFORMATIVE major-media "news".

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SO, you have a network media that is inherently uninformative; a network media with a vested interest in keeping the "HORSE RACE" or "knock-down, drag-out battle between two heavyweights" going, simply so they can pose another teaser of a 'news' story that has "Obama down" or "Clinton up" lead for that day's headlines....

All the above just as a preamble to the worst aspects of Hillary's campaign, how right across the board, from Race-Baiting to Fear-mongering to blatant Bush-Cheneyesque corruption and insider no-bid, no-oversight profiteering contracts, Hillary ran her campaign as a Karl Rove Republican fear-and-smear, race-baiting and fear-mongering campaign.

Hillary's "obliterate Iran" comment TOPPED anything Bush or Cheney have said to date... pretty amazing, given that Cheney's "Attack Iran Now!" comment brought the 2007 AIPAC convention to its feet in a standing ovation. http://www.aipac.org/2785_2859.asp

Let's face it, a huge portion of Hillary's once "INEVITABLE!" campaign war-chest came from making promises ... promises for consideration as Ambassador or other government positions in a future Clinton administration ... or even worse, more blatantly Bush-Cheneyesque whispers of favorable tax breaks, or (worse yet) huge insider, no-bid contracts dealt out to her big-biz supporters. (Come to think of it - JUST WHAT did Hillary promise Murdoch and Scaife?)

I can still barely believe that the Obama campaign did not even bring up - Bill Clinton's TEN MILLION DOLLAR PAYOFF for lobbying Kazakhstan's version of SADDAM HUSSEIN for a billion-dollar uranium mining contract in that brutally oppressed country! http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/us/politics/31donor.html

(Note: almost impossible to believe, the $10 million payoff Bill Clinton got for lobbying that Giustra/Kazakhstan uranium deal, is only the down-payment of a $130 million, ONE-HUNDRED-AND-THIRTY-MILLION DOLLAR payoff, mining financier Frank Giustra has pledged to the Clinton foundation, according to the Times reporting, at the expense of political opponents in Kazakhstan and and human rights advocates worldwide.)

And the above doesn't even mention President Clinton's ill-advised approval for the sale of Indiana company Magnaquench Techologies to China, a company that manufactured the rare-earth magnet electric motors vital to US fighter jets and rockets, a company that has now completely closed its doors in Indiana and moved lock, stock, and barrel to China!

http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=4757257

Regardless of how much Bill and Hillary tout their campaign to heartland, working-class America, their real message was undeniable: the DC and corporate fat-cats will continue to get fat, making billions of dollars off of taxpayer's and strapped consumers' wallets.... and the only "shaking up" Hillary would do, is to continue SHAKING DOWN big donors.

(Not to mention, Hillary shamelessly pandered her support for the ridiculous 18-cent per gallon gas-tax holiday - an estimated whopping $27 per family in tax savings between labor day and memorial day, which would, #1, rob desperately needed jobs from desperately needed highway and infrastructure repairs; and #2. would never in a million years get by the George Bush veto pen between now and November, Hillary's cheap promises notwithstanding).

Shameless pandering, shameless shakedowns, shameless race-baiting, shameless fear-mongering, shameless cozying up to Murdoch and Scaife, Bill Clinton cozying up to Kazakhstan's murderous dictator for a $130 million payoff... how is the real essence of the Hillary 2008 campaign any different from the Karl Rove led campaigns of George W. Bush in 2000 and 2004?

A BuzzFlash Reader

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