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4.12.06 @ 12:01AM

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The hackneyed phrase that warns me immediately not to vote for a candidate is "I want to make a difference...." A Milquetoast aspiration if I ever heard one. What does that mean, anyhow? If I don't make the bed in the morning it makes a difference in the appearance of my bedroom. If I make a left turn in the path of an oncoming car, I have made a difference, not only for myself, but at least one other person, not of my acquaintance. But, I've made a difference! And that is what all politicians claim is their goal. Hillary, by her own admission, believes that in order to make a difference she must acquire power.

Bill Clinton acquired the most power possible for any human being on this planet and look what he did with it. Recall how he degraded it. Made a difference by doing nothing when terrorists rammed the U.S.S. Cole with a boatload of explosives, blowing 17 sailors to bits, injuring others and endangering the lives of military assigned to rescue the damaged ship. This act of statesmanship brought to us by a cheap, draft-dodging, amoral sexual predator. If that didn't send a clear signal to terrorists around the world that with Bill Clinton at the helm of the Ship of State, "anything goes" -- unnoticed, I don't know what did. The whole world knew from Day One where Bill's priorities lie, lay, laid -- take your choice...

If this harridan, by some grotesque quirk of fate winds up president and we again get "two for the price of one," as a party and as a nation we deserve what we get. And our country will never recover.

I know what she is -- having as I do, my priceless collection of TAS magazines, covering the entire disgusting eight Clinton years, but I'll still buy the book.

One lingering thought, do they still roost somewhere in the Carolinas annually for Renaissance Weekend? If so, the festivities must be funereal, at best.
-- Diane Smith
South San Francisco, California

Let's not forget another famous Hillary moment: Her namesake. "Hillary" once stated she was named after Mt. Everest conqueror Sir Edmund Hillary. The real "Hillary" was a beekeeper in New Zealand at the time of Hillary "Rodham's" birth. The summit of Mt. Everest came after the old battle axe was already out of the chute.

Sadly, the "alternative" media has only been able to rebut charges of Hillary's (and those who have) made similar outlandish statements, while the "old media" still foist her high upon their pedestal. Any self-respecting Republican has fled their office under similar or less pressure.
-- P. Aaron Jones
Huntington Woods, Michigan

The Hildabeast must be stopped in 2008 -- Steven Warshawsky is 100 percent correct in writing that "Hillary Rodham Clinton is a power-hungry utopian socialist who dreams of 'remolding' American society into something that looks just like the sclerotic, dying polities of Western Europe."

She could have been dealt with in 2006 except for the complete disintegration of the GOP in New York State under RINO Gov. Pataki, but that's another story.
-- Peter Skurkiss
Stow, Ohio

TACT ATTACK
Re: Shawn Macomber's McCain's New Tact:

Shouldn't that be "tack"? Am I the one-millionth person to point that out? Am I missing the thrust of the piece? Frankly, I don't see where either "tact" or a "new tack" is the point. It's just more McCain being McCain.

I hope it's the Web transcriber's issue and not Mr. Macomber. It's one of those cringe-inducing errors.
-- Adam Cunningham

McCain is using the liberal talking point about "rounding up" 11 million ILLEGALS. If Senators would allow INS to do their job we could slowly get them sent home or they would just pack up and go, when employers stopped hiring them. Just look how many could have been rounded up at the protests. They are ILLEGAL and should not have any rights and the parasite label is very good. Immigration is a wonderful thing if our laws are respected. I see the signs "We are NOT criminals"... well just what part of ILLEGAL do they not understand.
-- Elaine Kyle

McCain got his "pardon" when he took part in the Keating Five. That is it Senator, we only give one pardon. You have already used yours. Don't give us any more hardship!
-- unsigned

John McCain will always and forever be the [one] who foisted campaign finance on us. That simply denied us our right to free speech when it is most important, during a campaign. John McCain is no good as a hero; he only did what he had to to stay alive and no good as an American because he delivered us all into the realm of ignorance prior to elections. We would all be better off without him. Any tyrant does the same thing.
-- Gene Hauber
Meshoppen, Pennsylvania

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