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congoboy

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  • Can a column against a woman be below the belt?

    [Read the article: Hillary without tears]
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    Nasty, hateful stuff, Ms. Paglia.

    -What is your source for the denigration of Hillary's brothers?

    -If you have been reading as many books on Hillary as you imply, you would know that she has been deeply religious and an active Methodist since her teen years where she was inspired by a progressive minister at the Park Ridge Methodist Church.

    -Hillary's health plan was unsuccessful, going from wildly popular down to defeat in great measure because of million-dollar ad campaigns launched by the same insurance industry that Obama thinks he can reason together with.

    -But Hillary's health plan also changed the agenda in this country. After that plan, the question in America was not whether we should determine to insure every person in America, but how to accomplish this goal. You can verify this by seeing that even the Republican candidates espouse this goal, while espousing plans that would take an eternity to accomplish it.

    -Is it possible that Hillary is in love with her husband, who is after all brilliant, good-looking, loads of fun to be around, and as public-service oriented as she is? Would she be the first woman to endure much to try to salvage a marriage she ultimately believes in?

    -Your cynicism is blocking your reasoning power and your venom does far from persuade.

  • If Clinton and Russert had been boxing on meet the press, the referee would have stopped the fight

    [Read the article: The Clinton-Obama contest gets rougher]
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    I am astounded by your suggestion that Russert got the better of Hillary on Meet the Press yesterday. She repeatedly caught him truncating and distorting quotes, she did not let him bully her, she parried every one of his tawdry little gotcha moments, and she made substantive, damaging comments about Obama's failure to follow his anti-war speech with action in the years after that speech was made and the war began. As one blogger has already commented, it was Russert who looked despondent and beaten at the end of that hour. He met his match, and America met its future President.