Topic: hillary

We've shined our spotlight on Kathleen Sebelius, Janet Napolitano and Claire McCaskill. Now, it's Shirley Franklin's turn. Rarely is a mayor so outstanding that she is lauded not only as a great leader of her city, but mentioned as a possible presidential candidate. Well, that's Shirley Franklin for you. Along with leaders like Kathleen Sebelius and Hillary Clinton, the White House Project,...

The Wall Street Journal's Washington Wire reported on July 16, 2008, 6:04 pm: McCain Surrogate Fiorina Meets With Clinton Supporters The McCain campaign dispatched its top female surrogate Tuesday to meet with about 25 disaffected supporters of Sen. Hillary Clinton...

The Politics of Fear By Barry Blitt The cover is supposed to be "satire" defined as: 1. 1. A literary work in which human vice or folly is attacked through irony, derision, or wit. 2.The branch of literature constituting such works. See synonyms at caricature. 2. Irony, sarcasm, or caustic wit used to attack or expose folly, vice, or stupidity. The cover the New Yorker...up and down, nodding, yes that cover sure has nailed the Obamas! Who thought up this cover? Hillary Clinton? Is she still ru...

By Nancy Bennett of Portland, Oregon. Nancy is the political director for Planned Parenthood Advocates of Oregon. Why is Sen. John McCain so uncomfortable? Last week, Sen. McCain struggled to answer a basic question: did he have an opinion on whether it was unfair that health insurance companies cover Viagra, but not birth control. It was the perfect opportunity for Sen. McCain to follow...on his pledge to court Hillary voters and show that he cares about the health care needs of women. But, he blew it. He...

by Dick Morris After almost six weeks of a constant Obama lead, generally in the five- to seven-point range, Scott Rasmussen’s daily tracking poll records two consecutive days of a tie race (July 12-13) and a one-point Obama lead on July 14. What happened to the Democrat’s lead? Part of the slippage is Obama’s fault and part is McCain’s gain. Obama has carried...ago, he opposed it. • After specifically saying in the primaries that he disagreed with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s (D-N.Y....

Is U.S. ready to serve? — chicagotribune.com "We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set," he said Wednesday. "We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."He said he would make federal assistance conditional on school districts establishing...that should be a concern for you. Think about such an organization with a President Gingrich or Hillary in charge...

since his immaculate conception, bloggers have openly mocked the obamessiah for throwing everything and everyone under his short bus -- and we've enjoyed every moment of it of course. this morning as i was reading to catch up on overnight news, i came across this interesting article. it seems there is yet another victim -- his own anti-war left -- set asidein obama's race to the center for your...can ill-afford to sing from the same activist hymnal that propelled him, ever so narrowly, past Hillary Clinton. So it is that to the h...

... by Walter Brasch Barack Obama spent the Fourth of July in Montana. A Red State. A state that few think he can win. A state that gave huge margins to George Bush the past two elections. But here he was. On Independence Day. Marching in a parade. Hosting a picnic for hundreds. Trying to rally support for his Presidential run. Trying to show that he can appeal to voters of every political,...to forsake some of his principles for the greater principle?do whatever it takes to get elected. Hillary Clinton moved more to the cent...

The formal vetting process is underway. That's when veep candidates submit to the deep probes of the presidential nominee in what is probably, in YouTubey 2008, a pretty fine-grained investigation. Hillary? Not so much. On Fox, former Clinton chief strategist Howard Wolfson indicated that Hillary Clinton is not being formally considered as Obama's running mate, in that she has not been...

When Sho Dozono was running for mayor, I noted that his campaign slogan, “Sho gets it. Sho gets it done,” left a lot to be desired. Starting with the meaning of “it.” As the Obama campaign has gone wobbly on us in recent days, it is now clear that its two campaign slogans, “Change we can believe in” and “Yes, we can!” are equally vapid. What, precisely is...in the Oregon primary. Ironically and sadly, I’m feeling about Obama the way I felt about Hillary (and Bill) Clinton. It has to do...