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By Tom Scocca
By John W. Dean
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Hillary Clinton’s campaign team is battening down the hatches in preparation for Tuesday night’s Democratic debate in Philadelphia and launching a pre-emptive strike to offset a potential pile-on from certain other presidential hopefuls who’ve been zinging her of late. Meanwhile, Republican candidate Mitt Romney has also joined the fray.
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By Marie Cocco — Republicans almost suffered strokes over Hillary Clinton’s health insurance plan. Now that the screams of outrage have subsided, a close examination reveals that the GOP alternatives are either nonexistent or unworkable.
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The “Daily Show’s” Samantha Bee investigates whether America is ready for a woman president, “Sex and the City” style.
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By Bill Boyarsky — As Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama know well, this season’s crop of presidential candidates can’t ignore the super-famous, the super-rich, or those fund-raising impresarios known as “bundlers” in their quest for the White House—and that campaign trend isn’t likely to change anytime soon.
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By Bill Boyarsky — The Bush administration’s hit job didn’t work. Despite all the Republican efforts to stop the liberal grass-roots organization ACORN, its workers continue to trudge the streets of urban America, signing up voters in places where the Bush people never venture.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Say what you will about John Edwards’ expensive haircut, he’s been an integral player in changing the national conversation on poverty.
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By Jon Wiener — The Pulitzer Prize-winning Washington Post reporter on Watergate has just published “A Woman in Charge,” a biography of Hillary Clinton, for which he interviewed almost 100 of her friends and enemies. Carl Bernstein spoke recently with Truthdig’s Jon Wiener about the first former first lady to make a bid for the presidency.
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theonion.com
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The vast economic rift between the top and bottom tax brackets is a major cause for concern, and it’s not just those at the lower end of the income spectrum who are paying attention.
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A new poll finds that more young Americans (ages 17 to 29) are favoring liberal politics and Democratic candidates than ever before. The percentage of young Americans who support issues such as abortion, the legalization of gay marriage, and universal healthcare is significantly higher than the figure for the general public, according to The New York Times.
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In the latest round of “Divvying Up (Democratic) Hollywood,” presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton emerges triumphant, having landed a very big fish indeed: überdirector Steven Spielberg. A campaign information source for Clinton, HillaryHub.com, confirmed Spielberg’s choice on the website on Wednesday.
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Sen. Hillary Clinton was gearing up on Thursday for a young Hollywood campaign fund-raiser—and not a moment too soon. Time magazine reported from the Cannes Film Festival that “Oceans 13” studs George Clooney and Matt Damon are enthusiastic about Barack Obama’s ‘08 presidential bid.
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Stephen Colbert targets Hillary Clinton, who would rather revoke the authorization for the war than admit that voting for it in the first place was a mistake.
Posted on May 9, 2007
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Hillary Clinton and other presidential candidates might do well to heed the cautionary advice of former President Bill Clinton, who warned of coming disasters of both the man-made and natural varieties. He spoke during a conference Friday at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
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Hillary Clinton has come under fire for her relatively hawkish stand on the war, but the candidate made an aggressive move Thursday to counter that perception. Joined by antiwar Sen. Robert Byrd, Clinton announced plans to de-authorize the war, saying: “If the president will not bring himself to accept reality, it is time for Congress to bring reality to him.” Update: Kucinich calls out Clinton…
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Robert Scheer sits down with Gore Vidal to hear his take on the upcoming presidential campaign, religion and the future of the American empire in this first installment from Truthdig’s series of interviews with the iconic author and historian. Watch the clip
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The folks at Gallup have noticed a unique trend in the race for the White House: Hillary Clinton’s numbers have been heading steadily down. In fact, no other candidate, whether Republican or Democrat, shows as clear and consistent a trajectory. Time for a May surprise?
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Barack Obama surpassed expectations Wednesday with the announcement that his campaign raised $25 million in the first quarter, almost as much as Hillary Clinton with her record $26 million. Though Clinton pulled in more overall, Obama had twice as many individual donors and outraised the front-runner online.
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By Andy Borowitz — The satirist provides an overview of new state-of-the-art software that will enable voters to customize Sen. Clinton’s positions on a host of issues.
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Hillary Clinton has easily set a fundraising record, pulling in $26 million between January and March. The Clinton campaign would not publicly say how much of the money it plans to save for the general election. A number of pundits have predicted this will be the most expensive election in American history.
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After calling on her vast army of supporters and contributors, it was only a matter of time before Arianna Huffington was able to identify Philip de Vellis as the creator of the wildly viral (and funny) anti-Hillary commercial everybody is talking about (watch after the jump). It turns out he worked for a firm employed by the Obama camp, though his boss swears he had nothing to do with the account.
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Someone apparently unrelatedrelated to the Barack Obama campaign created a parody of Ridley Scott’s classic “1984” Apple commercial, with Hillary Clinton in the role of Big Brother. In true Youtube fashion, it was quickly followed by a video response with Obama as the bad guy.
Update: Original video creator’s identity exposed!
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Looks like Hillary Clinton’s plan for withdrawing American troops from Iraq comes with a caveat. Clinton says that, if she becomes commander in chief, she would maintain a whittled-down U.S. military presence in Iraq—a strategy she believes would jibe with the Democrats’ proposed resolution to bring our forces home by March 31, 2008.
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By Ellen Goodman — Hillary Clinton unavoidably began her campaign as the female candidate. But with time and controversy she has emerged as the establishment figure, leaving issues of gender and electability more or less by the wayside.
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By Chris Hedges — Many have dismissed Ralph Nader’s recurring candidacy as an “ego trip,” but veteran journalist Chris Hedges argues that the activist and agitator has in fact taken a consistent and necessary stand against the consumer fraud of American politics.
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salon.com
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Truthdig tips its hat this week to David Geffen, the powerhouse producer who decided on principle to break ties with Hillary Clinton and support Barack Obama’s bid for the White House instead.
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By Amy Goodman — The senator’s attitude toward critics is reminiscent of Bush’s famous invitation to terrorists, and may prove to be just as big a blunder.
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By Joe Conason — Even with the benefit of years of hindsight, The New York Times has failed to accept responsibility for its role in hyping the phony Whitewater accusations against the Clintons.
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By Marie Cocco — Primary voters and pundits should stop browbeating Clinton over her Iraq war vote and instead take a hard look at her and the other candidates’ plans for Iraq.
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By Robert Scheer — In light of her hawkish posturing and consistent support of the war for all the wrong reasons, the best advice on Hillary’s campaign comes from the candidate herself: If you’re against the war, vote for someone else.
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Truthdig / Zuade Kaufman
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The former Air America CEO and music mogul discusses the significance of the Dixie Chicks’ Grammy win; Al Gore’s prospects for 2008; and the liberals’ responsibility to “blow the wind” of change.
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By E.J. Dionne, Jr. — Barack Obama probably won’t best Hillary Clinton unless he trumps her efforts on the Internet.
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Bill Clinton’s favorability rating has reached its highest level since 1998, 63 percent, closing in on the former president’s all-time high. While the Clintons have shared similar numbers over the years, trends show Bill’s popularity steadily outpacing that of his wife.
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By Joe Conason — Sen. Clinton can best recover from her vacillation on Iraq by demanding that Bush use diplomacy with Iran.
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By Marie Cocco — “If running against Washington is going to be the winning appeal in the 2008 election ... then Obama should be careful what he wishes for.”
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While speaking at a rally in Iowa, Hillary Clinton tried out a tactic she may come to rely on during the campaign—humor. Responding to a question about the bad men of the world, Clinton made a veiled reference to her notorious marital difficulties, and sent the crowd into an uproar.
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The sheer pleasure of getting lessons in etiquette from Karl Rove and the right-wing media passeth all understanding.
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By Andy Borowitz — The political satirist reports that the president also proposed erecting a 700-foot fence around Hillary Clinton.
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The spinmeister in chief gave the Arab country advice on how to allay concerns about its pending takeover of major U.S. ports. (Clinton did this at the same time his wife was railing against the deal—just in case anyone mistakenly assumes that the N.Y. senator takes all her cues from the ex-prez.)
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In an excerpt from the book “Strategery,” to be published Monday, Karl Rove says the following of the former First Lady: “Anybody who thinks that she’s not going to be the candidate [in 2008] is kidding themselves.”
Posted on Feb 27, 2006
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By Molly Ivins — I’d like to make it clear to the people who run the Democratic Party that I will not support Sen. Clinton for president.
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The president categorically rules out any run for office by his wife, Laura Bush. | story
Now the only ones to worry about are his twin daughters; his nephew, George P. Bush; and his mother, Barbara “Antoinette” Bush, who had such thoughtful things to say about Katrina evacuees.
Posted on Jan 20, 2006
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How telling that the Nobel Peace Prize has been granted to the United Nations agency that Bush kicked out of Iraq after it failed to find weapons of mass destruction that he just knew were there. See BBC story. Meanwhile, there are some Democrats who have some explaining to do….
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