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: /p> p>Ms. Rubin's sound advice to Ms. Clinton left me cold. Why on God's Green Earth would The Spectator , even on a lark, want to provide campaign advice to Hillary Clinton? The rationale that she'll be an easier opponent in the general election is just not borne out by experience. If memory serves, the Clinton years ('92-'00) can be characterized as one sustained political campaign, with the Democratic establishment, media, and federal bureaucracy all being manipulated to maintain and consolidate their hold on political power, with an abject disregard for the rule of law as necessary. The Leninist tactics of the Clintons are legendary (as the Spectator , of all publications, surely knows). Hillary Clinton perhaps exemplifies the "ends justifies the means" approach to politics more than her husband. Indeed, Bubba is a likely disciple of Hillary and her steely, deterministic Bolshevism. Does anyone who knows the Clintons really want them around for a general election? Anyone? I don't, frankly, know a lot about Obama but he's not a Clinton. You can contribute to Barack's campaign. Give generously, while you have the chance, before it's too late. br> -- Peter R. McGrath br> Winter Park, Florida /p>

Mischief is afoot in the republic. McCain is the one, and Clinton or Obama will be the other one.

I still believe Obama was put in place to keep the leftmost wing of the Democrat Party loyal, and to neutralize Nader. But I take no pleasure in the fact that Hillary will face McCain. And I especially don't enjoy the thought that Hillary is one of the "Democrats who are the doers....and may even get something done."

One of the reasons I so dread Mrs. Clinton is that her retinue of thugs and halfwits are very good at getting things done, most of them irrational, some of them evil. Should Mr. Obama prevail, I can live with his failure to nationalize health care; I will not be hurt by the collapse of his scheme to pay reparations to everybody who wants them. But I greatly fear Mrs. Clinton's ability to achieve these things. And I really hope her plan to hand every American infant a $5,000 "college bond" will go nowhere.

As for Obama's batty advisors, remember that Mrs. Clinton once embraced -- literally, publicly -- Yassar Arafat's wife. Remember also, that she can argue the case for seating delegates from Florida, and for not seating delegates from Florida, simultaneously, on the advice of Mr. Harold Ickkes, heir to the looniest portion of Eleanor and Franklin's New Deal. And, crashing around in the underbrush, there will always be Bill.

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