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This is fantastic! The MSM has made MILLIONS mis-quoting the Clintons.
Now, Jake Tapper has been called to the carpet by legislators themselves... and CORRECTED.
Are you proud of this level of "journalism," Jake?
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re: "Please post 1 qualification Hillary Clinton has to be President!
Being First Lady doesn't count!"
Posted by: reaganfan | Dec 17, 2007 12:42:48 AM

Hey, reaganfan, you are a typical Republican. You demand ONE qualification, and then try to define the friggin' "unacceptable" qualifications yourself.
LOL!

How's THIS for ONE Clinton qualification:

I support Senator Clinton because idiots like you don't.

Alot of Negative comments about Hillary this cycle were generated by Chris Matthews. He may know alot about alot of things. One of them is to throw a bucket of slop out there to see what sticks the most. Since we have seen all the candidates have something in their pasts, accentuating the negatives works in Chris Matthews favor. It is after all his bread and butter. He threw it out there that a disruntled liberal was behind all those church burnings in the South. That didn't pan out for him. So what he puts out there about Hillary should be taken with a grain of salt. Also,you don't have to like Hillary to vote for her, but she does have a record to look at. People voted for Bush coz they could have a beer with him,how's that working for our country? And one more thing Democrats don't attack others like the other side. Some of you Republican snipers better check your heads, your roots are showing.

All of you Hillary supporters keep talking about her qualifications to be President and say that she is the most
qualified Democrat to be President!
Please post 1 qualification Hillary Clinton has to be President!
Being First Lady doesn't count!
There is no major piece of legislation with her name on it!

hey bill, insetead of putting your wife out there for us, could you afford us the same luxury you afforded yourself and push for monica lewinski to become president? i mean, if you dont even want your own wife, and she isnt doing it for you anymore, why are you wishing her on us?

Well this just makes me sad.

You didn't even pay lip service to the subject matter of the question. That is, the use of signing statements. Because Clinton's answer is thoughtful and probative.

Instead, you try to paint Clinton as a fraud. And obviously, you didn't do your research.

Then, you take a swipe at the people who wrote in in Clinton's defense. Taxpayer dollars at work? How about my ad dollars at work? You work for free Jake? I didn't think so. Please do a better job. More substance, less unsubstantiated innuendo, please.

Once again, Hillary will only divide this nation. She just doesn't have the leadership capabilities to inspire this country. The reason that Obama is rising in the polls is that he has the charisma to inspire others. Honestly, the only way the Democrats can loose the presidential race is to nominate Hillary.

Alvin - First, Clinton's healthcare program was introduced in the 90's and was a total and unworkable failure. Most in congress recognized it to be far to expensive to ever succeed. An economy breaker... She has NO plan for the decifit which was not created by Bush. the deficit has been around (and growing) since before Carter. And yes it even grew under Clinton (by almost 3 trillion dollars. She also has not provided an exact explaination on how she will handle the issue of troops in the middle east. As far as her being a "proven leader" - She failed to fix public education in Arkansas - in fact, it got much worse while she was trying to "fix" it. She has not plan for the comming Social Security crisis. She voted for the war in Iraq then called it Bush's "Lie"... Read, listen, think for yourself, and I think you will see the reality. She is NOT what we need.

bronxboy- "Think about it. Which candidnt will have the strength!!! to Kick A in the US and Rebuild the Damaged rep. of the US around the World! Name the Republican or Democrat and we'll debate..." Are you serious? Rebuild our damaged rep?? She stole money in Arkansas, failed at improving our schools, was complicant in Vince Fosters death, called out her attach dogs on anyone who tried to sully Bill (Jennifer, Kathlene, Paula..et al) and made sure they were completly destroyed. She failed at Healthcare, fail to pass any major legislation as a Senator, and since running for pres has been embroiled in one scandal after another (planting questions, having her minions slur the other candidates then fall on their sword for her, a $300,000 + illegal fund raising scandal in chinatown that no one will even talk about, the HSU incident, won't release her white house coorispondance, flip flops on Iraq, won't talk to reporters)... yeah I'm sure she will restore everyone's faith in the US.....

SENITOR CLINTON, IS A PROVEN LEADER A CANIDATE THAT HAS COMPASION AND UNDERSTANDING OF THE POOR, MIDDEL CLASS AND PEOPLE IN GENERIAL. SHE HAS PERPOSEED A VERY GOOD HEALTH CARE PROGLEM A VERY GOOD SULUTION ON GETTING THE TROUPES HOME, SHE KNOWS BEST HOW TO TURN THE DEFFICE AROUND IN WHICH PRESIDENT BUSH HAS CREATED, WHICH HAPTENS TO BE BAD FOR THE U.S OF A.. SO THANK ABOUT IT AND I'M SURE YOU BE FOR SENITER CLINTON FOR PRESIDENT WHEN IT COMES TIME TO VOTE THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME VOTE CLINTON 2008:

The only reason why Obama went with the "politics of change" and the "politics of hope" is that he hasn't accomplished anything. Whenever I hear it from them, I usually translate it as the "politics of non-achievement".

He has done NOTHING. He is the least qualified candidate since World War II.

Mr Hakes - "Jim Rod - that's swell, but every single one of the Swift Vet's claims against Kerry were proven false. Stop spreading lies and dishonoring the service of another Vet for partisan purposes.. You're a disgrace to the uniform." Sorry to say this sir, but that is simply not true - you are the ones spreading the lies now. But I won't call you or anyone else a disgrace to the uniform.. not even Kerry. But sir, It is a fact that he came home on a purple heart that he wrote himself. The medical record for the injury (not combat related) is a matter of record. His testimony before congress about atrocities he witnessed were proven false. Because he wasn't there. he spoke of being in Cambodia during Christmas, but then wrote in his own biography that he was on R/R at that time. Wake up sir - partisanship is clouding your judgement.

Wanna know how the first caucuses and primaries will affect the outcome? Its in how many people who are supporting hillary now actually know anything about her. How many of them are just "going along" with who they perceive to be the strongest.Those are the ones who dont rely on their own intellect but rely on following the crowd who will switch to Obama.

The Homeland Security Qualified Act bill was the work of clinton. For me, I will give her credit for it because she was the one that introduced the aforementioned bill after Hurricane Katrina.
Presumbly,it failed due to other in the Senate don't want for her to take the credit especially Republicans.

Let be realistic, the wordings in the AKaka' bill almost the same of the bill that Hillary wrote. Why the Homeland Security Committee members couldn't come out with a bill after Katrina, but after Hillary.

More to this,i am of the conviction, that they used hillary's work to take the credit. This is plagiarism.
Before I leave, I am pleased to acknowledge the media especially, Cnn, ABC, NBC and CBS are carrying on yellow journalism against Hillary. WE don't hear and read negative artices against Obama, despite , all the errors he made and continues to make politically. These are some of the reasons,I always tune to international channels because i don't get any educative materials local channels.

Enough talk--lets go with somebody that does the walk! His name is Ron Paul and 100% constitutional. Are any of the rest of the wannabees? What--you don't like the Constitution of the United States?

Is that not the document they all swear to defend against all threats FOREIGHN and DOMESTIC then forget they took the oath when they step off the stage. Is that not discribing all the rest that have sworn this oath? These are the people running for the President of the United States--You really believe any of them???

What part of the Constitution is so hard to understand? A fourth grade education is all that is required!

You need a degree in colledge to turn it upside down and make it something it never was and sell it to a dumed down American.

Twenty plus years we have a man running for president in 2008 that has lived up to his sworn oath to the Constitution of the United States of America and no-body mentions him.

If we are to elect people to the greatest nation in the world we need leaders of trust--not partys or celebraties.

Ron Paul is the only candidate that has followed his oath of office and has 100%
constitutional voting record for twenty years in congress.

You don't have to wonder if he is muslem--you don't have to worry about the white house furnitutre--you don't have to wonder about or boarders--you don't have to worry about the money shrinking that is in your wallet--because he knows that the greatest threat is, not Iran or N. Korea.

It is the fraudulent Federal Reserve printing money with no oversite and nothing backing the money they print.

It is not federal and nothing about it is American. They have financed both sides of any war we have been in since 1913. They are a private banking cartel.

For almost 100 years Americans have lived under something that should never have happened--Congress giving up its duty to coin our money and back it with Gold and silver. There is no way they can transfer that responsability to private bankers> Wake up!!! You are slaves to the people who print your worthless money for you __Against the constitution mandate that Congress is the only body that can do that unless there is a amendment to the Constitution.

The Congress and senate know this--the president knows this--as Americans do we know this? Have we no place on the internet to find the Constitution so we can read the Constitution Of The United States of Amerrica and decide for ourselves? Are we really that lazy???

I hope we are not because freedom hinges on this election. It is not a game--voting is every Americans duty to be informed and get the best America has to offer--not what they place in front of you to pick from--a party or what they offer you at the expense of other Americans that will be billed for it later.

You can send all your false accusations and complaints to her personally at the White House once she is elected and becomes your president. Don't forget to correctly address your false accusations to Madame President.

Has anyone realized just yet that this version of Clinton is no different than the first one who is duly noted as a convicted liar?

I don't understand what all the hub-ub is about. We all know what President Bill Clinton did, I mean we got two for the price of one didn't we? What a pair of liers they are. I have never seen a president with so many people who died, mostly suicides so they say. Beleive there were over 40 or so befoe they took the office futniture and messed up all the computers in the white house before they left town. Good people why don't we repeat our mistake again? She didn't get all she wanted out of the white house yet!

Fool Me once, shame on you - fool me twice, shame on me - No, Hill, not this time, sweetie - bless your heart.

I can't wait until Hillary is President (cackle, cackle). I trust her completely. I live to listen to her tell me what she is going to do with the mess this country is in and I am so excited to be living in this moment when a woman will change the dynamics of the oval office and run you idiots in circles. Hooray!!!! Hooray!!!!

Tim, if you haven't noticed yet, lots of news media including this one are biased. They fail to realize that their credibility goes down the drain when they do that. They are in love with the power they have, much more so than the truth. Its a very sick game they play with people's heads.

Daniel Onail, you obviously don't keep up with current world affairs. The Clintons are anything BUT a disgrace to this country. Bill Clinton has helped countless numbers of people all over the world with the work he does for people suffering from AIDS and other diseases. The Clintons are loved wordwide for good reason. We as a country would be idiots to not elect Hillary at this time in history. . .then again, we elected GWBush two times. We'll either move forward and in the right direction and elect Hillary or we'll continue punishing ourselves and the rest of the world by electing another GWBush or worse. . . probably worse since that seems to be the pattern.

Hillary is not the most qualified and most electable. Biden, Dodd and Edwards are all more qualified and more electable. Obama would make a great V P.

I have read as many magazines and newspapers as possible about every candidate in order to learn as much about each one that I possible can.
I have watched and listened to both the Democratic and the Republican debates on television and have been thoroughly disgusted at the “staging” of these debates.
I find that presently the only 2 viable Democratic contestants at this stage are Hilary Clinton and Barrack Obama.
I have come to the conviction that my vote for Clinton would be a vote for the status quo, or “politics as usual”.
The opinion that I have come to is that Obama’s “inexperience” in the political arena might be a plus for the American citizens, whose government is, after all, supposed to be “of the people, by the people and for the people”. And those in office at present with “experience” certainly do not give me the confidence a citizen should have in his government. Washington, Adams and Jefferson never had any experience as presidents either and they didn’t do so badly. They had intelligence, a feel for the people and a great desire and conviction that ALL men are created equal.
I feel that those in the federal government have not been exactly “role models” to lesser State, County, and Local government office holders as all seem to think that “public servants” has turned into a “me first” for all rights and privileges and to hell with the “people” The “haves”, “powerful” and “experienced” have created “outsourcing” to the detriment of Americans. The “haves”, “powerful” and “experienced” have allowed “illegal” immigration to the detriment of Americans citizens. I feel that it is now time for the citizens of the United States to let the government know that it has the power, not those in office. That they sit in office only because we, the people, allow them to do so, and when the majority of the people speak, public officials should listen to us, rather than the lobbyists who put more money in THEIR pockets and take a living wage out of the pockets of the people.

The Clintons are a disgrace to this country.
Everyone around them takes the fall and they know nothing about it(not us)
Sandy Berger is a convicted felon yet they say he's just an unofficial member of the team. Scandles abound with this candidate but she didnt know what her campaighners were and are continuing to do. Will she tell us if shes president she didnt know God help the USA

After reading all these comments, I have a couple of things to say. HRC is not the person we need in the White House. If you read the book "Unlimited Acces" by Gary Aldrich and "Target" by Kathleen Willey, you will see why. She also will be just like her husband (I guess he is)in case we are attacked. She won't do nothing; just like he did when the Cole was bombed. That is why 911 happened. I really don't know who I am going to vote for yet, (I do have one in mind)but I need to listen to more of their debates. I know who I am not voting for and that is Clinton, Baden,Romney,Paul,Huckabee,or Edwards. God bless this country to watch over all of us, and God Bless our troops.

It is so socially accepable at this time for liberals and democrats to express that conservatives and republicans are absolute idiots because of their views or concerns.... what is amazing is that when we attempt to express our opinions we are shouted down or told to shut up... amazing how all of my experience and education is sumed up as being ignorant and stupid... with that said, all I really would like to know is Hillary's resume and practical experience in written form... and any documentation that proves that she has actually achieved these things... no different than of what I have to prove when i am interviewing for a new job.... she and other candidates need and should have the same scrutiny... In my research of her background I have not found anything that is intellectually accepted as "most experienced" in the venue of presidentual candidate.

I guess this depends on how you define "pass". No senator passes any bill, it takes 51 senators to do that. Presuming she voted for the bill, then she has just as much right to claim she "passed" it as every other senator who voted for it does. It may have been more accurate to say "we passed it", but that is a matter of semantics.

She never claimed authorship and the man whose language was in the bill, Sen. Akaka, claims that Clinton took the lead on push for this so that certainly gives credence to her claim to have had a role in this being in the bill.

This is way overparsing a statement.

Here is the kind of woman I'll cast my vote for the office of President. One who like that security officer at the church in Colorado, can immediately identify a deadly threat and meet that deadly threat with her own deadly force without having to consult an opinion poll first. Let's elect a president who makes our ENEMIES WOULD NOT VOTE FOR!

WE NEED CHANGE; VOTE CLINTON PRESIDENT.

Uh, I don't recall. Um, I don't recall. Duh, I don't recall (repeat over 40 times). Grand Jury Testimony on Record.

Does anyone really think an idiot like her could actually EVER be elected? Let alone run the greatest superpower on earth?

She can't even figure out what's going on under her own nose (Monica) "just a Republican conspiricy". She's an idiot period. Unelectable period. End of story. Duh, I don't recall.

Get a brain Dems.

"Its (sic) time we elected a woman."

Sure. Just not THAT woman.

About the only thing Obama supporters can do now is bash Hillary. She's the most electable and qualified so they are all angry that she still holds 2-1 leads in the more populated states. Get over it! Its time we elected a woman. Women had to fight long and hard just to be able to vote in this country. They deserve to have a president and Hillary is the best candidate hands down. She also deserves to be president for all the biased news media that has gone against her and all the Hillary basher attacks she's had to endure for months now. Someone like Obama would run and hide or move out of the country if he was bashed for a fraction of what Hillary has endured. Obama is non electable anyway.

"We are hearing that there is a noticeable sag in Hillarys poll numbers every time she speaks.If she would just not talk, she could win this thing!"

You mean follow the path of the wife of the previous president of Argentina. No press conferences. No debates. Gets voted in to replace husband. Shes a socialist as well.

Look to Hillary to follow this path. The MSM flunkies wil give her a pass.

Stop creating controversy in politics where there isn't any just to get more viewers. This isn't helping the democratic process. Give us real news.

Seeing the Mrs C word has introduced Executive Orders into the debate... I'm wondering will any "journalist" challenge her faulty memory. After all she was so intimately involved with the day to day decisions taken by her husband's administration, maybe some brave soul will dare as her about this...

After all, is she can recall Mr Obama's activities in kindergarten, is it too much to ask she remember what her co-President did a mere eight years ago?

Clinton's Executive Orders
March 8, 2001
President Clinton merely took an existing executive privilege and vastly expanded it to allow him to make laws while sitting in the Oval Office.

For twenty years, President Jimmy Carter held the record for the most number of 11th hour executive orders. Outgoing presidents have been notorious for stepping up their activity in the Oval Office just before they have to turn out the lights. But Jimmy Carter set the bar so high it seemed unlikely that anyone would surpass his record. President Bill Clinton, however, did just that. His flurry of last-minute executive orders broke the Carter record that stood for twenty years.

During his two terms as president, Bill Clinton averaged about one executive order each week. By doing so, he was able to effectively legislate from the Oval Office. He wrote executive orders to set aside large tracts of land as national monuments. He wrote executive orders to restructure federalism. He wrote executive orders adding "sexual orientation" to laws on federal hiring. He wrote executive orders prohibiting federal contractors from hiring permanent striker replacements. In other words, he exercised a legislative function: he made laws.

Tim ---"The truth is that Hillary was the first to propose this idea in the Senate. She did so in a bill she introduced on September 6, 2005, just days after Hurricane Katrina. The requirement that the FEMA director be qualified was later incorporated into the 2006 Homeland Security funding bill, which passed the Senate unanimously and became law." ----It is also true that her bills failed (miserably) it wasn't until other members of the Senate rewrote the bills in a platform that could achieve passage that they were actually passed -- so in reality - it was not her bill - she failed to get a bill passed that actually was passed when rewritten by someone with more understanding of haw to get things accomplished within the process -- again I am still waiting for someone to explain to me how she has "experience"

Ralph --- "And it infuriates you, I know. But the fact of the matter is she is more qualified and she is what the country needs. All you need is to look at the facts objectively and you'll see what the overwhelming number of Democrats are seeing" ---- Why don't you go ahead and state some of these "facts" -- we are all listening....

I just hate intellectual laziness whenever I see it.

To those who still criticize the Clinton camp for unreleased documents: it's either you are incredibly stupid folks or you don't even bother to educate your ignorance on the subject.

The release of the documents is covered by Federal Law and is under the SOLE dominion of the Presidential Archive. Hillary Clinton and Bill are not stopping the release of the documents. Check factcheck.org for the real score on this issue.

Are Obama supporters all like this?

"My goodness, its eye opening to see Hillary's minions dispatched to write comments on a website bolstering her fictions. She must be in high panic regarding her "rightful" assendence to the Oval Office."

It's eye-opening to see Obama's minions trot out Obama talking points and lies as if people with half a brain would actually believe it. You WISH the Hillary camp actually panics.

The fact is, Hillary is still on top and overwhelmingly so. The only way Obama would win Iowa is if he cheats. It will become the Illinois caucus if Obama gets away with it. But even with that, Hillary would still win, with hands tied behind her back.

And it infuriates you, I know. But the fact of the matter is she is more qualified and she is what the country needs. All you need is to look at the facts objectively and you'll see what the overwhelming number of Democrats are seeing. The problem with Obama supporters like the author of this article is that they just won't look at the facts. And it's funny because you are acting like Bush in so many ways and yet you supposedly hate him. Pathetic.

In the Senate and House, the only thing an individual can pass is gas. It takes a collective vote in favor of, or against legislation. Legislation can be introduced by an individual, but it isn't passed by that person alone. Therefore any statement by a member of congress that begins with "I passed..." is both misleading and inaccurate.

Jim Rod..I too was standing in the same ranks and marched through the jeers and spit. JE...If you weren't there then shut up. BTW I am not fonda Fonda-Hanoi Jane and both her and Kerry needs to be exciled as traitors.

Did Ya Hear - _S-l-i-c-k- -W-i-l-l-a-r-y-says she invented the Internet - - - - - - heheheheheh she is quite a fool..

When did "we" become "I"? Read the actual quote:

"... If you're going to have a FEMA director, it should be somebody with experience handling emergencies ... we actually had to pass it through the Congress. And when George Bush signed the bill it was part of, he specifically used a signing statement to say, 'I don't have to follow that, unless I choose to. ..."

When she said "WE," my automatic assumption was that she meant "Congress," not herself.

Her campaign aide should have realized that too, and commented accordingly.

If Hillary's so clean, why doesn't she cough up her memos from the Clinton library, why doesn't she explain Hsu, accepting campaing money from toddlers, dead people, and drug dealers and manufacturers her husband pardoned, why doesn't she realize we see right through her: She's DISHONEST to the gills.

My goodness, its eye opening to see Hillary's minions dispatched to write comments on a website bolstering her fictions. She must be in high panic regarding her "rightful" assendence to the Oval Office.

I'm really surprised at the level of stupidity that comes in when people try to criticize Hillary. Everything is rumor-based - not fact based.

"The truth is that Hillary was the first to propose this idea in the Senate. She did so in a bill she introduced on September 6, 2005, just days after Hurricane Katrina. The requirement that the FEMA director be qualified was later incorporated into the 2006 Homeland Security funding bill, which passed the Senate unanimously and became law."

Also, I second John's post:

"Now that you have painstakingly challenged Hillary's claim on this bill, will you perhaps investigate the fact that Obama authored a resolution deeming the Iranian army a terrorist organization earlier this year with Lieberman?... Then he skipped the recent vote and criticized Clinton for voting for it. Perhaps an expose on that would be warranted for the sake of unbiased journalism."

The journalists have ceased to be journalists and instead have become partisan hacks for Obama - this article is disgusting in this regard. Obama has made a number of very inaccurate and misleading statements that questions his character and integrity and we hear none of it from the MSM. It's high time that you become true to your journalistic principles.

We are hearing that there is a noticeable sag in Hillarys poll numbers every time she speaks.If she would just not talk, she could win this thing!

Akaka added some particularity to Sen. Clinton's basic idea, which passed. Anyone would say that 5 years is
"significant experience." And it is also clear that Sen. Clinton first proposed the provision and was its most forceful advocate. The substance of that provision was incorporated into the bill that passed. The overreach belongs to Jake Tapper (not for the first time), not Sen. Clinton.

Pepsiholic, just to add to your comment, it is also worth noting that Kerry said the "memory which is seared -- seared -- in me" that on Christmas Eve 1968 he was in Cambodia when President Nixon said there were no American troops in Cambodia. BUT Nixon didn't take office until Jan 20, 1969.

you get my point? If you can't believe someone over little things like this why in the heck do you think they can be trusted with the great power of the Presidency. The fact is Lincoln was right. Let no one of questionable integrity lay their head to rest in the white house.

Daddy, we could try to justify GW to you but your probable hatred and bias against him (from all your liberal TV couch potato TV watching) would redner it a useless waste of our time. GW has been great. What a relief the Clintons weren't in office after 9-11. We wouldn't have had tha attack and ohers prior if Clinton had actually done something serious to defend us beforehand instead of emboldening the enemy that much further. We were doomed after he took office...oh and note, how the economy began a rapid decline 6 months before he even left office! Thank goodness GW restored it..and while waging a war to protect us and thus, 7 years later we have not had another big attack on our homeland.

You are so Disgusting,your bashing Senator Clinton shows your immature,childish self.GROW UP folks,if you keep up this HATE online you are giving the election to another incompete Republican like Bush.STOP IT for the country,if you can't be decent leave the country.

To all that say this is just semantics, I say that depends on the meaning of the word just.

The anti-clinton forces amuse me with their psycho babbling moron in the whitewash house that they have failed to explain to us as of yet.

JE from the UK is misinformed. Clinton is less electable than John Edwards or Barack Obama. Poll after poll of head to head matchups show that Clinton does no better than Obama or Edwards against any of the republican candidates. Let's put that lie to rest. Hillary Clinton is the NO MORE likely to win the general election than anyone else.

Here's some more updates about the truth. Jake Tapper should do his homework better before making aquisitions. He should apologize to Senetor Clinton also.

The truth is that Hillary was the first to propose this idea in the Senate. She did so in a bill she introduced on September 6, 2005, just days after Hurricane Katrina. The requirement that the FEMA director be qualified was later incorporated into the 2006 Homeland Security funding bill, which passed the Senate unanimously and became law.

UPDATE: Statement from Sen. Barbara Mikulski:

Senator Clinton has been at the forefront of reforming FEMA from Day 1. Her proposal, from the beginning, was to raise the qualifications for the FEMA Director. As a senior member on the Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee, I was proud to co-sponsor her legislation and was pleased to see that her proposal was included in the final bill that went to the President, who unfortunately vetoed it using a signing statement.
UPDATE II: Statement from Sen. Frank Lautenberg:

When Senator Clinton introduced her proposal to make FEMA more independent and strengthen qualifications for its Director in 2005, I was proud to cosponsor her measure and promote it in committee. Following Katrina, Senator Clinton was the most forceful advocate on the Senate floor for competence and independence at FEMA. As a former member of the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee, which oversaw FEMA and DHS, I was happy to see her long-standing proposal to improve the FEMA Director's qualifications become law. Unfortunately, President Bush ignored her reforms with his signing statement.

Hillary Clinton, like her husband, Honest Bill, is mendacious slime. She can trick New Yorkers into thinking that she's a winner, but the dog won't hunt in "fly-over country."

While I may not be a Clinton supporter, I concur with Jordan that this is not unlike what critics of Gore did to him concerning his statements about the internet. Had Clinton added "helped pass," or "aided in passing" we wouldn't be reading this blog post now. It's all semantics.

I love it when democrats say "Swift Vet's claims against Kerry were proven false"

WHAT??? You mean he actually was in Cambodia on Christmas with the Cambodians shooting at him OR was he sitting peacefully in his boat 50 miles away... according to his diary. Remember, that illegal incursion into Cambodia, illegally ordered there by President Nixon was what caused him to be who he is today... or so he says.

OBTW... why was Kerry's "honorable" discharge signed by the Carter administration???

It's ironic that if Hillary's resume and "experince" was from a college grad getting a job, that person would be immediately suspect, or fired on the spot for all the padding and taking credit from one's peer's accomplisments, not the least of which being her husband's!

Can you get more dishonest a politician than these two?! I wonder if they love "Catch Me if You Can," a movie right up her alley?!

This is why Ron Paul is such a breath of fresh air.....a truly honest and humble politician......anybody who does not vote for him deserves what they get.....

Passed... voted for... supported... lobbied for... who cares? As long as she voted for the version that did pass, and did not vote clearly against the concept at any other time, then this is really a matter of semantics and a word chosen on the fly. Making a big thing about it is like repeating the bogus story that Al Gore claimed to have "invented" the Internet. (He actually claimed - correctly and truthfully - that he "took the initiative" in legislation to "create" it in the form we know it today.) To the general public, "passed" and "consistently voted for" are pretty much the same thing in campaign-speak. The real issue, anyway, is the way that signing statements are being used by the Bush administration to subvert the clear and Constitutional role of Congress in making law. Bush seems to feel that he is above both Congress and the Constitution. It is he - not Hillary - who needs to be taken down a notch.

Hilary as to quote Imus is "satan". She is not Bill. She will do evil things to alot of people who get in her way and question her. She is in no way a victim or vunelarable as she sometime portrays herself. It would be devastating to our country to have someone with her abilities to be President and have that kind of power. She already abused her power when she was First Lady.

I refuse to buy in to the media beat down of Hillary. She's got my vote. I don't care if Ophrah dances a jig for Obama, he's not the one. Hillary is the best choice for AMERICA. We have a HUGE clean up to do and it will take both her and Bill to get us anywhere near OUT of this quagmire of muck the GWB administration has gotten us in to, people. Think for your selves and don't let the media melt your brain.

john Hughes,

I'm also originally from across the pond (London), but live Sateside now and let me tell you, nothing compares to the awful shoddy business that the old Trsotsky Labour loved to do to Thatcher. Most American politicians couldn't sink to that level of Scargill and his likes.

Anyway, I am a Republican (can vote here as I have citizenship now) but will be voting for Obama, if he gets the nomiation but would never ever consider the lies of a notehr Clinton WH. Obama simple has more pull than most of our conservative candidates...except on the war issue I suspect. I have many conservative freinds who really do like OBama, think an African American President would be good for the country (as would a woman..but not Hillary!) and are all for Obama as he is personally a noble/family man. If Hillary wins the nomination the Dems will be sure to lose the election..on ein which the y should esily win! I know most of the GOP wish for a Hillary nomination and sure election loss. I'd rather have Edwards than the Arkansas Hillbillies. the thought of Willie's slick maneuverings and lies with him back in the WH but this time with no real responsibilites makes many of us feel sick.

When will you Hillary fans see the true Hillary.?. She is not Bill Clinton. (not that he was a good thing, but some seem to think he was).. Hillary will flip flop here way into power... WAKE UP AMERICA.. HILLARY IS A BAD PERSON WHO WILL WALK ON ANYONE TO MAKE A NAME FOR HER SELF!!!

The MSM in the tank for GWB!! Good grief, didn't your Mother teach you not to lie?
Huge, bald-faced, monster lie!!!!
Indicative of what is the matter with the Dem party...

Why is the media so obsessed with playing "gotcha" all the time? All they do is tear everyone down all the time. Do they ever ask themselves what we'll be left with after they're done tearing everyone down? This is how we ended up with that fool Bush. This is why I hate the media!