The outspoken proprietor of The Huffington Post, Arianna Huffington, had some extremely harsh words for senator and presumptive Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. In a Sunday post entitled “Cracking the Hillary Code,” Huffington used the occasion of the release of the film “The Da Vinci Code” to compare and contrast the recent activities of America’s former first lady: “Unlocking the latest Clinton cryptex, we find not a papyrus map but other kinds of symbolic clues: Making headlines with her warm assessment of Bush. Partying with a Who’s Who of the GOP power elite, including Karl Rove, Karen Hughes, Tom DeLay, and Bill Frist. Planning a fundraiser to be hosted by — wait for it — Rupert Murdoch.”

Huffington was just warming up, although her next statement has been obvious to many Americans since Hillary and her prevaricating husband first rose on the national scene in 1991: “It doesn’t take a dashing Harvard symbologist and a sexy French cryptographer to figure this one out. Hillary Clinton is determined to single-handedly remove every last vestige of authenticity from American politics.”

That’s like saying the sun sets in the West, Arianna. From there, Huffington continued stating the obvious, though it’s always marvelous reading the truth as written by someone from her current side of the aisle: “It’s not just the canoodling with the right. It’s the relentless, unabashed pandering in an effort to rebrand herself as a red state-friendly centrist.” Irrespective of the spot-on accuracy of this observation, it is curious why Arianna finds this disturbing, but didn’t object to the same makeover done to John Kerry in 2004. Maybe it’s too much to ask for consistency from someone that just a couple of years ago was a conservative Republican.

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THERE is a rapidly congealing consensus about Hillary Clinton among Democrats: first, that it’s hard to see how she can be stopped from becoming the party’s nominee for president in 2008 and, second, that nobody really wants her in the spot.

If this sounds familiar, it is. The Democrats had the same feelings about their past two nominees, Al Gore and John Kerry. They both lost, of course, although there will always be an asterisk next to the name Gore on that one.

Most Democrats I know also fear that Clinton could lose the White House for them again as well. In almost every straw poll, she loses by a big margin to potential rivals such as John McCain and Rudy Giuliani. About a third of the country already strongly disapproves of her. And that’s after five years of very good PR.

The inevitability argument for Clinton is a strong one. In some ways, she is now following George W.Bush’s tack in 2000. She has amassed way more money than any of her rivals - more than $US40 million ($52million) at the last count - and has a nepotistic connection to the last president in her own party. Her name recognition is through the roof.

In the latest polls of Democrats, Clinton is favoured by 38 per cent of potential primary voters. Kerry is second with 14 per cent. Chuck Todd, editor of Washington’s Hotline put her position thus: "Frankly, to call her an 800-pound gorilla would be underselling her."

She has behaved, meanwhile, as a shrewd senator, diligently tending to her constituents, especially in conservative upstate New York, while running around the country raising money for local parties and candidates.

She has positioned herself as a hawk on national security. She is doing all the right things. And she would add the glamour and excitement of being the first woman president of the US.

Where’s the catch? Catch No1 is that Americans, by and large, don’t like her and don’t want to intensify the culture wars that have ripped the country apart.

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New York Post columnist John Podhoretz is warning that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton will win the 2008 presidential election unless Republicans start focusing now on a plan to defeat her.

"If you Republicans don’t get real serious real fast, if you don’t wise up and settle down and get focused, it will be Hillary up there on the podium taking the oath of office" in January 2009, he writes in his new book: "Can She Be Stopped?: Hillary Clinton Will Be the Next President Unless …"[Editor’s note: Get this book FREE with our special offer Click Here Now]

Podhoretz says the answer to that question is yes — and he offers the GOP a 10-point plan of action to expose Hillary as the far-left liberal that she truly is.

• Smoke Her Out: "Republicans must now — right now, this week, today — declare [Hillary] the leader of the Democratic Party and insist that she become its primary voice and its primary spokesman." Enough "blather" from the likes of Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, argues Podhoretz, when Hillary is the real party leader. "On blogs and radio shows, in letters to the editor and op-eds in newspapers, and in communications with reporters, we should insist on ‘hearing it from Hillary.’"
• Make Her Vote: "One of the priorities of Republicans in the Senate should be to use their power to make her vote … on matters of controversy where she would prefer to remain silent." Podhoretz urges the GOP to introduce Sense of the Senate resolutions on parental rights, gun control and eminent domain.
• Make Her Criticize Tax Cuts: Podhoretz invokes Hillary’s infamous 2004 quote, "For America to get back on track, we’re probably going to cut [the Bush tax cuts] short … We’re going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good." The comment is "pure gold for Republicans" he writes, urging the GOP to focus an ad campaign on Hillary’s tax hikes if she wins the White House.
• Talk Up Free Trade: One of the crown jewels of the Clinton economic program was the North American Free Trade Agreement [NAFTA]. But Hillary voted against a more modest proposal by President Bush for Central America - CAFTA. The vote against free trade indicates Hillary felt the need to tack left on the issue, contends Podhoretz. "There’s a gap there. Toss her into it," he urges.
• Talk a Lot About Health Care: "Clearly the Stop Hillary movement can’t leave her alone on this matter," Podhoretz says. "If it makes her uncomfortable, her discomfort should only be enhanced" by having Republicans talking up market-oriented reform plans.
• Suggest a Pullout from the U.N.: Podhoretz notes that Hillary "has a long record of institutional support for the United Nations." He says that in 2008 her GOP opponent should float the idea of creating a new international agency to replace the failed world body. "Would Hillary be prepared," he asks, "to defend the United Nations hotly? To argue forcefully that the United States cannot do without?"
• Fight the Culture War, but with Delicacy: For all her traditional values talk during the coming campaign, says Podhoretz, Hillary "will have nonetheless handed her IOUs out to liberal groups who will expect her to deliver on their anti-traditionalist wishes once the election is over." Gay marriage will still be a hot-button issue that could put Clinton on the defensive, he says. But with the GOP unlikely to nominate another born-again Christian, Republicans will have to tread lightly.
• Run a Reform Campaign: Podhoretz says Republicans must acknowledge that "things got messy" on the ethics front on their watch. For 2008, he says, the party "must commit itself to an agenda of reform."
• Go Outside Washington for a Candidate: Podhoretz says the GOP would do well to look beyond the D.C. beltway for their next standard bearer. He doesn’t like McCain, complaining that the GOP maverick "is a creature of Washington." He dismisses arguments that Condoleezza Rice could defeat Hillary, noting: "The presidency is not an entry-level job."
• Nominate Rudy: "The events of September 11 are nearly five years in the past, and yet [Rudy] Giuliani remains the only American figure whose enhanced standing as a result of the attacks on America remains undiminished," writes Podhoretz. To get the nomination, the former New York City mayor will have to relinquish his pro-choice credentials and "declare himself opposed to abortion," he says.
• Predicting Rudy will eventually come around on the issue, he notes: "If there’s one thing Rudy Giuliani’s political career demonstrates, it’s that he’s willing to commit to a controversial course for a higher purpose … Defeating Hillary Clinton while becoming president himself - could there be any higher purpose?"

by Jim Kouri - Hillary Clinton’s claim that she wanted to be an Olympic athlete and NASA astronaut is part of an effort to humanize the NY Senator, says the editor of a controversial new quote book. What other tall tales has Hillary told?

Olympic athlete. Astronaut. Doctor. Scientist. All dream careers for the young Hillary Rodham, or so she claims…dreams squashed because NASA “[didn’t] take girls.” While all children go through phases of wanting to do something exciting and glamorous, these reminisces sound unbelievable coming from Hillary Clinton.

This according to Thomas Kuiper, editor of the new Hillary Clinton quote book “I’ve Always Been a Yankees Fan: Hillary Clinton in Her Own Words”

Earlier this week, the Associate Press published remarks by New York’s junior senator at a symposium on Title IX, the federal law prohibiting gender discrimination in certain educational programs. "I wanted desperately to be an Olympic athlete," she is quoted as saying. "…[But] I couldn’t jump, I couldn’t run, I couldn’t swim… So I wrote to NASA and said, ‘How do I sign up to be an astronaut?’ And they wrote back very politely and said, ‘We don’t take girls.’"

While NASA did not have female astronauts when Hillary was a kid, Wall Street Journal columnist James Taranto has pointed out that Sally Ride was only 3-1/2 years younger than Hillary when she became the first U.S. woman in space — a revelation which calls into question the validity of this latest public claim by the former first lady.

“This tall tale by Hillary was calculated not just to make voters feel warm and fuzzy about the senator, but to make specific points about her compassion and goodness,” claims Kuiper, whose quote book features over 500 provocative quotes carefully collected from 63 books and over 100 articles and news reports.

“As the many fully attributed quotes in ‘I’ve Always Been A Yankees Fan’ demonstrate, she is constantly trying to manipulate her image through the press. Here, she’s trying to show that she’s ‘one of the girls,’ although nothing could be farther from the truth.

“Hillary Clinton has a long history of telling whoppers," asserts Kuiper. "As I document in my book, she lead people to believe that Chelsea was near the World Trade Center on 9/11, a claim which Chelsea herself disputed. She implied that she was named after Sir Edmund Hillary, but he climbed Mount Everest years after she was born. She also said that she and Bill wanted another child, a maternal desire quickly forgotten after election time! Hillary is not just about pandering, but about rewriting history and her place in it."

“There is not an ounce of authenticity to her public pronouncements," adds Kuiper. "Hillary is attempting to rewrite the past, but the truth is out there. My book uses dozens upon dozens of independent sources to paint a picture of the real Hillary — a person who is often profane and always ambitious beyond justification.

"It’s no wonder that Hillary’s spokesman tried to change the topic when the New York Times asked him about ‘I’ve Always Been a Yankees Fan,’" he quipped.

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2008 presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton said Thursday that she was "deeply disturbed" to learn that the National Security Agency was data-mining phone records to track down terrorists.

"Like many Americans, I am deeply disturbed" over the NSA program, she said in a statement posted to her Senate web site.

"We all deserve to know why the NSA has blocked the Department of Justice from investigating the NSA’s domestic surveillance program and why it has created an enormous database of Americans’ phone records," she complained.

Mrs. Clinton suggested that using phone records to track down terrorists was unconstitutional, saying the latest NSA revelations "further demonstrate what happens to our Constitution, laws, and privacy when there is no meaningful congressional oversight of the president’s actions.

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Since 1993, when she tried to become the tzarina of government-sponsored health care, I have suspected that Hillary Clinton wanted to become the President of the United States. Since the mid-1990s — when one of her best friends, Judith Hope, moved from Little Rock to New York, and then “suddenly” became the chairman of the NY Democratic Party — I was confident that the fix was in. Since 1999, when she bilked the taxpayers in a phony “listening tour” scam to launch her campaign, there was no doubt in my mind that Mrs. Clinton was going to use a run for the US Senate as a stepping stone toward the Oval Office. Now, in 2006, the tiger is officially coming out of the bag.

I like the writings of Jim Kouri. He is reasoned, articulate, and has an amazing array of sources. In a recent column, he demonstrated that people on both the Left and the Right are trying to stop Senator Hillary Clinton from becoming president. The amazing part was that even some on the Left think that she is power-mad, and that her presidency would become totalitarian. His column was very aptly titled, “Stopping Hillary Clinton is all the rage”. (She tends to inspire rage in many people.)

The bottom line, from any angle you wish, is that Hillary Clinton must be stopped. I have dubbed her quest for the Oval Office as “The Long March”. (For those that have neglected Sun Tzu’s advice to “know your enemy”, the Long March was the key event that solidified the power of the Chinese Communist Party, and specifically the power of Chairman Mao Tse-Tung. If there is any doubt in your mind that Hillary Clinton is a solid Communist, then you simply haven’t read enough of her own words.) She has been positioning herself to run for president for many years — certainly before her 2000 senate campaign, and probably before she became First Lady. And, for those that think Bill Clinton was a dangerous Communist (he was!), I give you this analogy. If Bill Clinton was a bear in the woods, then Hillary Clinton is a mother bear running straight at you!

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Obviously, there are many American women who instinctively know that Hillary Clinton is a devoted Marxist, and as the book says, has been one since her days in college. She will not get our vote.

 But there are other women, who went through the “feminists” movement and who consider themselves still feminists and therefore think that it is time for a woman President. Maybe so— but not Hillary Clinton. Let me tell you why.

Hillary Clinton is as far from being a feminist, as a potato is from being an orange.

Hillary is not independent, just neurotic. And despite her habit of punching men from the time she could walk, she is a coward.

Not someone we should have leading the United States in this dangerous time.

First off, (this being a more serious blog from me) I was a “feminist” at one time. I read all the “feminists” books. I wanted to be independent, I fell for it all. But, what I didn’t know at the time was that I was already independent, because I had a wonderful role model.

I was the daughter of a woman who ran a printing company. It wasn’t big— there were only about thirty union employees, but it wasn’t small either. Sure, she inherited it from her father, but she learned the whole business from top to bottom. She was the President, the Vice President, the auditor…she did the bids, answered the phones, worked in the bindery, managed the payroll, and when anyone came in the door, she was the first one anyone saw.

She was the first one there, the last to leave, and she would work in the bindery on weekends. On top of that, she kept the house, did the laundry, and cooked.

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Hillary Clinton has a few problems if she wants to secure the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination. She is a leader who fails to lead. She does not appear "electable." But most of all, Hillary has a Bill Clinton problem. (And no, it’s not about that. )

Moving into 2008, Republicans will be fighting to shake off the legacy of the Bush years: the jobless recovery, the foreign misadventures, the nightmarish fiscal mismanagement, the Katrina mess, unimaginable corruption and an imperial presidency with little regard for the Constitution or the rule of law. Every Democratic contender will be offering change, but activists will be demanding the sort of change that can come only from outside the Beltway.

Hillary Clinton leads her Democratic rivals in the polls and in fundraising. Unfortunately, however, the New York senator is part of a failed Democratic Party establishment — led by her husband — that enabled the George W. Bush presidency and the Republican majorities, and all the havoc they have wreaked at home and abroad.

Of course, it’s still early. At this point in the last presidential cycle, the first hints of Howard Dean’s tr ansformational campaign were barely emerging. In 2002, the Democrats had no clear front-runner, but the conventional wisdom was betting on a handful of insider candidates with money and connections: Sens. Joseph I. Lieberman and John F. Kerry, and Rep. Richard A. Gephardt. These three were supposed to contend. The early polls gave them (especially Lieberman) the inside track to the nomination, and the media gave the rest of the field no more than its usual dismissive coverage.

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Students were assigned to read 2 books, "Titanic" & "My Life" by Bill Clinton. One smart ass student turned in the following book report, with the proposition that they were nearly identical stories!

His cool professor gave him an A+ for this report:

Titanic: $29.99
Clinton: $29.99

Titanic: Over 3 hours to read
Clinton: Over 3 hours to read

Titanic : The story of Jack and Rose, their forbidden love, and subsequent catastrophe.
Clinton: The story of Bill and Monica, their forbidden love, and subsequent catastrophe.

Titanic: Jack is a starving artist.
Clinton: Bill is a bullsh#% artist.

Titanic: In one scene, Jack enjoys a good cigar.
Clinton: Ditto for Bill.

Titanic: During ordeal, Rose’s dress gets ruined.
Clinton: Ditto for Monica.

Titanic: Jack teaches Rose to spit.
Clinton: Let’s not go there.

Titanic: Rose gets to keep her jewelry.
Clinton: Monica’s forced to return her gifts.

Titanic: Rose remembers Jack for the rest of her life.
Clinton: Clinton doesn’t remember Jack.

Titanic: Rose goes down on a vessel full of seamen.
Clinton: Monica…ooh, let’s not go there, either.

Titanic: Jack surrenders to an icy death.
Clinton: Bill goes home to Hilary…basically the same thing