<p>“Sometimes, people need suing.”</p>
<p>And having worked in health care professional regulation for almost a decade, I can tell you firsthand that it is pretty much the only thing that works to keep you safe.</p>
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<p>Yep. He sure is puuurdy. If only he weren’t so darn “ultra-liberal”.</p>
<p>I just get the feeling that nothing about Hillary is truthful or genuine. If I shook her hand at a candidates’ night, I would probably think I had some type of compulsive disorder because I would feel the need to immediately go wash my own hand. That’s probably the best way to describe how I feel about her. But then again, it could just be me. 
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<p>I knew you’d take the bait. Are you bald? Are you jealous of Edward’s hair and good looks?</p>
<p>Come on, fess up.</p>
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<p>No. After all, I liked “the big galoot” – and, boy was he a charmer introducing his wife to the Washington fundraiser the other night.</p>
<p>As far as hair, I will admit to favoring the Guiliani/Cheney look…</p>
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<p>They are politicians. That’s like saying you don’t like NFL football players because you have the feeling they are big. To enjoy the sport, I think you have to accept professional politicians for what they are.</p>
<p>By US Senate standards, I don’t think Clinton would even budge the disingenuous meter. She’s not a drunk. And, there’s never been whiff of a bribery charge. For the most part, she hasn’t tried to wheezle out of her prior positions. Those three things alone put her near the front of the class.</p>
<p>A lot of women hate Hillary because her husband cheating on her reminds them of their own vulnerability. </p>
<p>I think it’s one of the reasons Jerry Falwell says that fundamentalists would be more motivated to fight Hillary than Satan. Fundamentalist culture stresses that women are to be dependent on men economically and even for an identity. For example, when women write to James Dobson heart-broken that their husbands have left them for another woman, Dobson insists that his staff address the woman as “Mrs. [Husband’s name]”, no matter what she herself wants to be called, in order to reinforce that she has no identity without her absent husband.</p>
<p>So fundamentalist women, who you would expect to be the most appreciative of Hillary for forgiving her husband and keeping her marriage together, paradoxically hate her the worst–because she’s a reminder of all they stand to lose if their husbands stray–and they stand to lose more than most.</p>
<p>“And, there’s never been whiff of a bribery charge.”</p>
<p>That’s because Mrs. Clinton has always determined that her best defense has been to blame everything on the “right-wing conspiracy” theory - before any charges have been “officially” finalized. :eek:</p>
<p>Dorothy_ParkerX : so what is the big deal?..every one gets made over before they go on TV.</p>
<p>This could be a “whiff” of bribery in the minds of the right-wingers I suppose…</p>
<p>"Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign reached a deal to pay a key South Carolina black leader’s consulting firm more than $200,000 just days before he agreed to endorse her run for president, it was revealed yesterday. </p>
<p>The arrangement involves South Carolina state Sen. Darrell Jackson, a well-connected African-American leader and pastor whose support is coveted by national campaigns.</p>
<p>Jackson confirmed to The Post yesterday that his public-relations firm struck a deal with the Clinton campaign just days ago for a contract worth up to $10,000 a month through the 2008 elections.</p>
<p>Jackson had also been in talks with Sen. Barack Obama’s campaign about endorsing him and entering into a consulting contract for more than $5,000, sources said - raising questions about whether Jackson’s endorsement was bought by a higher bidder. "</p>
<p>It depends on what the definition of bribery is! :o</p>
<p>When I looked up “bribery”, this is the definition that popped up:</p>
<p>"the practice of offering something (usually money) in order to gain an illicit advantage "</p>
<p>But it’s a licit advantage. Services sold and being rendered.</p>
<p>“That’s like saying you don’t like NFL football players because you have the feeling they are big. To enjoy the sport, I think you have to accept professional politicians for what they are.”</p>
<p>I don’t know about that. There are some 5’9" guys in the NFL, and it’s legit to respect them more than the guys who are 6’5". I’m pretty spoiled, having grown up in Illinois – going back to Paul Simon and now with Durbin and Obama, I’m used to my senators standing about 5’5" on the “professional politician” scale. But whatever the reason, I see a lot of shades of gray when it comes to how fake and deceptive politicians are, and I don’t think they should all be painted with the same brush.</p>
<p>Somewhat related to the thread topic (how technology is going to change the campaign), myspace is being used by some of the candidates to try to appeal to younger voters. Whether it’s an asset or a liability remains to be seen.</p>
<p>McCain’s myspace campaign got some poetic justice administered to it today for leeching bandwidth from another site (forcing that site–Newsvine–to pay extra to support visitors to McCain’s site), using Newsvine’s images without permission, and using some of its freeware without giving credit as required. </p>
<p>What was the poetic justice? Since McCain (or his staff) was hotlinking to an image on Newsvine’s site, Newsvines owner just changed their image on their own page, causing everyone visiting McCain’s page to see a statement affirming McCain’s newfound support for gay marriage–between attractive females.</p>