You mean of she's not allowed to steal, Dems will start feeling sorry for Palin? Would you start feeling sorry for Palin?

No. McCain is the Anti-Christ, because the Anti-Christ wants to control Babylon (Iraq) for a thousand years.

Carmella was not impressed with all the kissing, laughing and whispering that Hill and Bam were diligently doing for the cameras, so that the moment could produce, as Obama press aide Robert Gibbs put it on "Larry King Live," "a great picture."

When it was Obama's turn to speak, Carmella announced loudly, "I wish I had ear plugs." Then, as Obama tried to ingratiate himself with the Hillary partisans in the crowd by saying that because of the New York senator, his daughters "can take for granted that women can do anything that the boys can do and do it better and do it in heels," Carmella put her fingers in her ears.

As Obama tried to curry favor with Hillary, looking over at her sensible, sturdy shoes and marveling, "I still don't know how she does it in heels," Carmella tore up a tissue and stuffed it in her ears.

Afterward, Carmella got her idol to autograph her sign, telling the smiling Hillary, "You're going to be the next president."

She told The Times that she and her friends were all voting for John McCain and that Hillary was just doing what she had to do.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/opinio n/29dowd.html?hp

The Dem candidates have a choice to make. They can either campaign in Florida (this is just for the primary) for delegates that don't count, or they can spend their time campaigning in other states trying to win delegates that do.

I was really just thinking in terms of the Iraq war. The article says all the people mentioned above were part of a hawkish group called "the national-security Democrats" and besides Biden and Clinton, Richardson is also listed. Now he's trying to out "anti-war" the rest of them. It's puzzling, I don't know why the change came about. Like you asked, could he be just trying to help Clinton by making her look more moderate?

Yes, it is kind of strange, since Richardson always has been one of the DLC warhawks. This article put John Edwards in there. I don't know if he's still with them now.

At sixty-two, Biden has a cheerful vanity and an exuberant restlessness that make him seem far younger. Since the election, he has become a leader of a modest-sized faction--"the national-security Democrats," in the words of Richard Holbrooke, an ambassador to the United Nations under President Clinton--that includes the most hawkish members in the Democratic Party. Among them are Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former Vice-Presidential candidate John Edwards, Senator Evan Bayh, of Indiana, and Governor Bill Richardson, of New Mexico, along with a number of Clinton Administration foreign-policy officials, now in exile at think tanks scattered about Washington.

http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2005/03 /21/050321fa_fact

Watch the video, and you won't need to ask "what the point is".

Bill Clinton has always been a great friend and supporter of the Bushes. Here's what Bill had to say about his 25 year relationship with Bush Sr.

Former President Bill Clinton discussed his relationship with President Bush's father last night on CBS LATE SHOW.

Clinton: "I think we're good friends. I like him very much. I've always liked him. When he was vice president, I was still a governor. We worked together on a number of things. He hosted the governors, in 1983...at Kennebunkport."

When they made an announcement about raising funds for Tsunami relief in Houston former First Lady Barbara Bush "announced us. And she said she has started to call me son. I told the Republicans there, I said don't worry, every family has one, you know, the black sheep. I told them, this just shows you the lengths the Bushes would go to get another president in the family. I wish I could get them to adopt Hillary."

I don't need to ask any spouse. I can just listen to Hillary's words about the war from her own mouth.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYATbsu2c P8

Here's another picture of her with her two best friends:

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/07/05 altitude-drop-for-lieberman-hawk

On Wednesday with her frequent ally Lieberman again at her side, Clinton helped unveil a bill requiring an increase in the size of the Army from its current authorized strength of 502,400 to 582,400 by September 2009.

Lieberman is the principal sponsor of that bill.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8573139/

Here's how they did it to John Kerry, and how they'll do it Hillary too.

By early February 2004, rove could see that Iraq was turning into a potential negative. The violence on the ground continued. The U.S. military had more than 100,000 troops there and would require that many or more for some time. American soldiers were being killed at too high a rate, and they haven't reached a political settlement. Turning the government over to the Iraqis looked shaky. The failure to find any weapons of mass destruction, and Bush's and Tenet's public acknowledgments that the intelligence might have been wrong, were potentially big setbacks.

Previously, Rove had claimed he was salivating at the prospect that the Democrats would nominate former Vermont Governor Howard Dean in the 2004 presidential race. But Dean had imploded and Senator John Kerry, the Massachusetts Democrat, had won 12 of the first 14 Democratic primary contests and it looked like he was headed for the nomination. Politics is a game of recovery, adaptability and optimism. So Rove had a new line.

"The good news for us is that Dean is not the nominee," Rove now argued to an associate in his second floor West Wing office. Dean's unconditional opposition to the Iraq War could have been potent in a face off with Bush. "One of Dean's strengths though was he could say, I'm not part of that crowd down there." But Kerry was very much a part of the Washington crowd and he had voted in favor of the resolution for war.  Rove got out his two-inch-thick loose-leaf binder titled "Bring It On". It consisted of research into Kerry's 19-year record in the Senate. Most relevant were pages 9-20 of the section on Iraq.

The record was that Kerry had been all over the map. Sounding like a method actor who believes his lines, Rove offered some readings from the Kerry record.

"Iraq has developed a chemical weapons capability," Rove quoted Kerry saying in October 1990, according to the Congressional Record. Saddam has been "working toward" development of WMD or "had all those abilities," Kerry had said in January 1991. (Of course, this turned out to be true as the U.N. weapons inspectors discovered after the 1991 Gulf War.) In 1998, as a member of the Intelligence Committee, Kerry said that Saddam was "pursuing a program to build weapons of mass destruction" and in October 2002, he said, "I am prepared to hold Saddam Hussein accountable and destroy his weapons of mass destruction." And, "The threat of Saddam Hussein with weapons of mass destruction is real....He has continued to build those weapons."

Rove's eyebrows were jumping up and down as he read. "My personal favorite," he said, quoting Kerry on March 19, 2003, the day the war started: "I think Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction are a threat, and that's why I voted to hold him accountable and to make certain that we disarm him."

"Oh yeah!" Rove shouted. And that had been on National Public Radio! He had it on tape. So here is a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee saying Saddam had the stuff. And the Bush campaign argument would be as follows: "You're looking at the same conclusion, and if you accuse him of misleading the American people, What were you doing? Are you saying, I was duped?"

Of course, when the aftermath of the war turned sour, Rove noted, Kerry started backing away, arguing that he had voted not for war but only to give the president the power to threaten war. More starkly, Kerry had said on Meet the Press in August 2003 that the congressional resolution "we passed did not empower the president to do regime change, we empowered him only with resect to the relevant resolutions of the United Nations." Well, Rove and the rest of the country knew the resolution clearly gave the president approval to use the military in Iraq.

Rove was gleeful. "It's on tape!" he said, "and we've done testing on it, and you put out there, literally you take the footage of him saying some of this stuff and then have him in the exchange with Chris Matthews saying I'm anti-war and people say, 'What a hypocrite!'".

Kerry would have, and did have, answers. His main response was that Bush did not press hard enough or long enough with the U.N., that he did not build a legitimate global coalition, that he did not plan for the aftermath, and was too eager to go to war when Saddam was isolated and weak.

But Rove believed they had Kerry pretty cold on voting to give the president a green light for war and then backing off when he didn't like the aftermath or saw a political opportunity.

Whatever the case, Rove sounded as if he believed they could inoculate the president on the Iraq War in the campaign with Kerry. It remained to be seen, but Rove was certainly going to try.

This article in the New York Observer about Free Republic banning Giuliani supporters says they want Hillary to win because the believe it's the only way they can return to "the glory days" when Free Republic, Rush, and all their ilk reined supreme.

one popular theory holds that the Free Republic is secretly hoping for another Clinton presidency that would send its Alexa ratings soaring back to levels it hasn't experienced since its halcyon days of the Clinton impeachment, when a since-soured relationship with blog pioneer Matt Drudge and overwhelming anti-Clinton sentiment in Republican ranks helped make Free Republic one of the hottest Web sites in the nation. It hasn't recovered that luster since the Bush administration took over.

"It's not a conspiracy theory, it's an observation," said one blogger, who describes himself as a half-hearted Mitt Romney supporter. "They've still got a brand name that means something, but they're not what they were in terms of real-world impact. A Hillary presidency would get them there."

http://www.observer.com/2007/free-republ ic-purge-conservative-web-site-bans-giul iani-supporters?page=1

"Too many DLC-BDs (Blue Dogs) aren't able to practice their love with Bush all across this country."

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/07/05 altitude-drop-for-lieberman-hawk

Sorry, but smearing people with lies if they dare tell the truth (and that's how they did it) is not what I want "in the White House".

Nah. She helped him cover it up. During the 92 campaign, it was her job "to destroy" (her words)all the women who came forward telling tales of what Bill had done to them. George Stephenopuolos tells all in his book, "All Too Human".

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&s a=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=res ult&cd=1&q=George+Stephanopoulos +All+Too+Human&spell=1