The Trail: A Daily Diary of Campaign 2008

I believe Kathleen Willey is an honest, gutsy American telling the truth. What she has to say matters alot. As any American would be for exposing the truth about our leaders. America is for the people and by the people. The people are suppose to be the rulers, that is why we have 4 year terms. Anymore than 8 years is dictatorship. We need new blood in the White House. Barack Obama, Romney, Guilani anyone of them would be great. And better than ole' Hill.

You have to be deaf, dumb and blind to want the Clinton's back in the White house. They had their 8 years. And they did not do a good job. There are more scandals and crimes connected to them, than any other presidency. I would love to have a woman in the White House but not Hillary. What has she even accomplished as a junior senator? Not much accept fundraising skills to become president. I believe it would be a grave mistake for our country to risk another Clinton term. Anyone else will be better.

Again we have front seats at the Battle of Images. Heartless Hillary, assisted by Willy-Waving William, is going to mess up our lily-white country with another dynasty. The radiant image of Ronald Reagan, who tripled our national debt in only eight years and the dim echo of Bush the First, who remained "out of the loop" for four, are overshadowed by Edwards' haircut and Kucinich's ears.

Why can't we as a nation - grow up?
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The U.S. Mint's 2007 Gift Catalog lists a new series of First Spouse Bronze Medals. Are they setting the stage for First Spouse Bill Clinton or just dissing other non-spouse family members - like James Buchanan's niece, Harriet Lane - who assumed the First Lady role?

Remember when Bill Clinton wanted to change the term limits so that "someone" who had been president could not run three terms in a row, but after a year away could come back again? Right now Bill Clinton is running for his third term by moving back into the White House. Do we want the "two for the price of one" again? That is what we will get if Hillary is elected. Again -- Bill Clinton is a disgrace, and America's dirty joke.

Haven't we had enough of Willie and Hilly. After almost 18 years of strange,bizarre and downright foolish behavior. PLEASE: Enough, already

The last thing this country needs is a re-hash of the 90's. On the same note, that includes letting the Clintons back into the White House. I am a conservative, but the most important thing to me is that we get a LEADER in the White House who this country can rally behind. When was the last time we really had someone like that? Kennedy? I believed in Reagan, but at the time the left hated him. The USA needs an inspiring candidate. Other than Obama or Huckabee, is there anyone even running for the office?

Now that Hillary was forced to admit she wouldn't remove troops from Iraq during her first term can we all agree on "No more Bushes, No more Clintons?

We need change in Washington, not the same two families in the White House with the same record of corruption for another 4-8 years.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SN5dqJHEnyE

I am a democrat who looks forward to the day when the Clinton Wing of the Democratic party no longer has control of it. I wish Bill and Hillary Clinton would just disappear so we would no longer have to hear about them or hear anymore of their lies and deceptions.

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I'm going to vote for Hillary just to pizz you nut cases off! How can anyone possibly write that she'll hurt the country,like you haven't hurt it enough.
Get a life you morons,your party has brought this country to the brink of destruction and you worry about the Clintons.LMFAO!
It seems to me that the country was in pretty darn good shape when Bill was the President. How's your boy doing,you know,the worst president in history! He doesn't have a clue yet you follow him off the cliff. Keep following and writing this garbage,it's only going to bite you in the azz this time. One of you wing-nuts explain how Hillary is going to destroy this country and how georgie boy hasn't hurt this country more than make it better.
And while your at it,explain how we are going to pay for this war...by raising taxes then blaming the Dems???????????
Pathetic !

You know why the Clintons inspire so much hate? Because they win.

No matter which Democrat gets nominated (or elected), he or she will become the victim of the right-wing political assassination machine. It's not a question of if but of how ridiculous it will get. Sure, Hillary will be attacked. So will President Obama or President Edwards. The real question is, who can take it? Who can come through the general race on top?

The answer, I think, has a lot to do with who has already done so.

***And didn't the Republican prosecuters decide not to persue the matter because, after all, she was only lying about sex?***

no. charges were not pursued because wiley was determined to be an unreliable witness. and, yes, it was the decision of a republican prosecutor.

the village can't wait to relive their glory days of sniffing out that blue dress.

let's leave it to the iowa waitress who had the unfortunate circumstance to get caught in a reporter's (made-up) tale of woe to make the obvious point:

Reporters ended up contacting the waitress, Anita Esterday, at her home in Iowa yesterday.

Ms. Esterday said she did not understand what all the commotion was about.

"You people are really nuts," she told a reporter during a phone interview. "There's kids dying in the war, the price of oil right now -- there's better things in this world to be thinking about than who served Hillary Clinton at Maid-Rite and who got a tip and who didn't get a tip."

Didn't Willey admit to lying under oath about sex on a matter that came up after she made her charges against Bill Clinton? And didn't the Republican prosecuters decide not to persue the matter because, after all, she was only lying about sex?

The WaPo site has 10 most memorable quotes and by coincidence one of them is about Monica. While Gore did not ask for Bill's help for his presidential bit, Hilary might have mixed feelings when Bill is an integral part of her presidential image and message.

And at least one Clinton transgression, or at least emission, left a stain on a certain blue dress. Some things are a matter of public record. Just read the Starr Report.

Clinton Hate is alive and well. And there are Hater Haters as well. Maureen Dowd can't write about Hillary without being accused of fueling a vendetta.

The waitress tip story sound like one of those "unrebuttable lies" that Eric Altman rails against. For more on Dowd, Clinton, and lies see this:

http://dowdreport.blogspot.com/2007/11/blogwatch-hillary-and-harpy.html

I suppose that if Sen. Clinton is elected President, we'll be treated to regular doses of Hillary-the-Harpy. Eugene Robinson today notes that the Republican core remains staunchly loyal to President Bush, even as nearly everyone else has moved away. Those core Republicans will vent lots of spleen if any Democrat is elected, but Hillary would get special treatment.

This blog was interesting to say the least
In my opinion Willey is pulling this whole thing way out of proportion just to cause "Clinton hate". It's sad how someone is making money off of story like this. Is there actual, hardcore, definite evidence that the Clintons had anything to do with the cat thing any way?

This blog was interesting to say the least
In my opinion Willey is pulling this whole thing way out of proportion just to cause "Clinton hate". It's sad how someone is making money off of story like this. Is there actual, hardcore, definite evidence that the Clintons had anything to do with the cat thing any way? Achenbach is right the nation is doing well to think an other matters rather than past foolishness.

Yet another reason why Hillary, if nominated, will lose in '08. The right wing nut jobs that helped Bush get 50% of the vote twice will relive the 90's and the foibles of Bill gleefully. These attacks will energize their base and increase turn out enough for Hillary to lose. Even if I'm wrong and Hillary is Pres., we will have 4 years of such diviseness and rancor that this country will be weaker than it is now. Those that fought the battles of the '60's are still fighting those same battles. That generation has lost their right to lead the nation. They have been divided into the same camps for the last 40 years and will be divided for the rest of their lives fighting the same battles time and time again.

Given the irrational hatred that the far-right has for the Clintons, I fear that it is inevitable that these moldy issues from the past century will be trotted put once again. (That is, assuming Hillary gets the Democratic nod.) For although the rehashing of old hatreds and grudges perfected by the "Swift Boat" group of the last election may have generated quite a stink, they also worked. Still, one can hope.

Mr Achenbach nails it. What the people who earn their bread whipping up Clinton hatred, Hannitty is prime example, don't get is that most of the public are tired of this stuff. It really does fall into the realms of "The Clintons may have poisoned my cat." At the end of the day this sort of stuff is going to help her. The blogosphere was a alive with stories about how Clinton was too stingy to tip a waitress in a diner. The story was a complete invention by Drudge or another one of these Clintonmaniacs but the said waitress while being pursued by the press over this said as I remember you guys are nut, we've got kids dying in Iraq, oil at $100 and you're worrying about whether a waitress in a diner got a tip. Would that the press had as much sense of proportion as the waitress but I suppose that's too much to expect.

Mr. Achenbach has accurately reported, in tone and substance, this story. Would that the rest of the political media do the same. Taking bets on how soon, and with what frequency, Hillary Clinton and other Democratic candidates are asked to respond to Mrs. Willey's book.