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Friday, February 29, 2008 12:00 AM

Hillary at twilight

Was her campaign stop in an Ohio town called Hanging Rock a metaphor -- or a symbol of dogged defiance?

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  • Friday, February 29, 2008 09:06 PM

    Dear Kate

    You obviously weren't living in Ohio in the 1990's. The Clintons, as Dems, campaigned on a lot of promises, only to deliver too little.

    The centrist Dems, like their Republican cousins, deserve a good old-fashioned ass-whipping with the result to be voted into oblivion. It cannot be too soon.

    With union membership at an all-time low, and class consciousness pretty much near comatose, I'm not at all surprised that grandpa union dudes would slobber all over Hillary. As Malcolm X famously said "The only way they can get you to vote for a fox is to show you a wolf." My own father, whom I love dearly, fits this voter demographic; the poor old fart can't find Iraq on a map.

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