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Friday, August 22, 2008 12:00 AM

GOP: Here's to Hillary's big party!

Nothing would delight Republicans more than for the Clintons to upstage Barack Obama at the Democratic National Convention.

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  • Friday, August 22, 2008 07:43 PM

    Thinking for oneself...

    They capitulated to decade-old GOP Hillary hate talk: she's divisive, phony, negative baggage and untrustworthy.

    No, the old GOP hate talk against Hillary was that she was the living incarnation of Satan, Stalin, and Hitler and had some hidden death squad knocking off rivals while plotting some grand socialist utopia.

    The rest of us realized that she was untrustworty, divisive, phony, etc from actually watching her career over the years. We weren't blinded by Bill Clinton as the great and shining star leaving his wife to fill some great political dynasty. Just because the Right Wing attacked Hillary doesn't mean she automatically qualifies as a Saint, nor does it mean that half the party follows in lock-step with the Clintons.

    If anything look beyond the insular world of petty party rivalries to see where the election will really be decided.

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