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3.27.08 @ 12:01AM

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BORN FIGHTING
Re: Robert Stacy McCain's Fourth and Long for Hillary:

Hillary Clinton is doing what all good politicians do -- fighting to win. Less than 200 delegates separate her from Obama and if she wins big in Pennsylvania his lead will shrink even more. So what if she wins the nomination with Super Delegates? She's playing by the rules the oligarchic Democrat party established to keep undesirables (patriotic, free-thinking, self-sufficient, pro-life, people of faith with traditional values) from winning their party's Presidential nomination. Good for her. If anything it proves she's tenacious and has fire unlike most of the spineless and limp noodle men who make up her party.

The Democrat's media stooges want her to drop out, because they're afraid each day the two "intellectuals midgets" battle Democrat chances of bamboozling voters diminishes. But who would have guessed that Obama's "magical mystery tour" would have been damaged at this late stage by his hate mongering spiritual mentor? Banal platitudes and Oprah Kumba yah fraudulence even delivered with rhetorical skill cannot make up for 20 years of bad judgment and facilitating racist hate. Geraldine Ferraro may have been right, but it was people like her turning a blind eye to Jesse Jackson's and Al Sharpton's racism that created Obama.

That Hillary has the audacity to hope she can still win the Democrat nomination may offend effete Democrat elites, but as she knows they consistently backed losers or those should have lost so why listen to them. Obama is seriously damaged and a Muskie moment is not impossible. Who knows a tirade from Michelle bashing America may convince enough Super and pledged delegates to abandon the sinking "Good Ship Lollipop" to give manic Hillary the prize. If Obama can't handle the pressure of a Democrat Presidential primary with a fawning media how's he going to handle an even tepid John McCain backed up by aggressive 527s and heroic bloggers much less a real foreign policy crisis (where cutting and running and surrender are not an option)?

As a proud "tribalist" straight-ticket conservative Republican who wants to defend America from the threats without and within I'm enjoying the "catfight." I hope it lasts beyond the August Democrat zoo in Denver. I hope the vitriol trickles down into the ranks as the candidate's partisans begin attacking each other. Bill Richardson's knife in Hillary's back was sweet, but Carville's calling him Judas was even better. All I can say is more, more, more!
-- Michael Tomlinson
Jacksonville, North Carolina

If Hillary does "plan to help families in Pennsylvania have a secure retirement," she can begin by slashing Social Security taxes and other insidious incursions by the IRS and other federal agencies when she's president. (Hillary slashing taxes?!? A Clinton cutting bureaucracy?? Not gonna happen.) She says, "It's time we had a president who puts the people of Westmoreland County ahead of Wall Street." Why must a conflict of interest between the folks of Pennsylvania and the people on Wall Street exist, or be presumed? Cannot both parties use the assets, productivity, creativity, intelligence and capital of the American public to further their own rational self-interests without conflict? Does HRC divine some higher law or principle that demonstrates the interests of the common man must conflict with those of influence and affluence? In the words of Rodney King, "Can't we all just get along?"

The junior Senator from New York (ugh!) finds no irony in asking the voters for money so she can manage her affairs while she slams Senator McCain for pledging to let the very same people have more voice in managing their finances. Hillary is a true believer, but sadly, the only thing she believes in her own self-interest. Hillary is incapable of anything but Machiavellian machinations. If she were to tell me it is raining, I would know instantly that she has an interest in an umbrella company. If the people of America are gullible enough to contribute to her campaign, well, "You can fool some of the people..." If we are foolhardy enough to elect her -- every day the odds of that happening are getting slimmer than Billy Boy on a no fat diet.

Her Majesty Clinton, "When I'm president..." Not gonna happen.
-- Ira M. Kessel
Rochester, New York

As I recently told a friend of mine, the Clintons will not be done fighting until the last gavel of the Democratic Convention has banged, the doors are bolted and locked, and everyone has headed home.

And someone goes back in, counts the silverware, and inventories the furniture.
-- A. C. Santore

"Hillary was conjuring up the gritty spirit of Joe Paterno....Trailing badly in the fourth quarter of her campaign for the Democratic nomination, Hillary may yet lose, but she seems determined not to quit until the final whistle."

Joe Paterno has been known to "work a ref," and he has occasionally benefited from a timely call before that final whistle.

Reports indicate that Bill and Hillary are working the refs, aka super-delegates. What material might they deploy in such negotiations? FBI files? Recorded phone conversations? Incriminating photographs?

Furthermore, Hillary informs us that even the elected delegates are not "pledged," opening up more targets for friendly persuasion.

Hillary might alienate the African-American vote. So what? Screw the party, McCain beating Hillary in November is better than 8 years of an Obama administration.

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