rudy has duped many a person, including hannity who would rather see chavez elected before hillary. he has many of the liberal republicans fooled.....
but...more on the clintonistas.
Clintons' secret deal for power
A new book claims the Clintons made a presidential job-sharing pact. Photo / Reuters
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Bill and Hillary Clinton drew up a secret plan 15 years ago under which each of them would occupy the White House for eight years, according to a new books about the leading Democratic presidential candidate.
According to the book - dismissed by Hillary Clinton's aides - even before they were married the couple had formulated a plan to reinvent the Democratic Party and get to the White House.
That blueprint was updated, after the 1992 election that Bill Clinton won, with the proposal that Hillary would run once her husband left office.
The claim adds to the perception of the methodical, driven nature of the Clinton campaign for the presidency, a race in which Hillary is now her party's front-runner. With other allegations contained in a separate book, it also boosts a widely held belief in political circles that by the late 1980s the ClintonS' marriage had become little more than a mutually beneficial political arrangement.
The claims, reported by the Washington Post, have been dismissed by Hillary's campaign team. Spokesman Howard Wolfson said: "The news here is that it took three reporters a decade to find no news. Two overwhelming Senate victories in the toughest media market in the country demonstrated that voters have put these issues behind them."
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AdvertisementThe allegations are contained in two forthcoming books. A Woman in Charge, by former Watergate reporter Carl Bernstein, says that in 1989 the Clinton couple almost divorced as a result of his infidelity and desire to be with another woman. Hillary apparently refused to divorce him, telling her husband's then chief-of-staff: "There are worse things than infidelity." The second book, Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Clinton, is written by two reporters for the New York Times. It claims, among other things, that during the 1992 presidential campaign, a team overseen by Hillary hired a private investigator to undermine Gennifer Flowers, a former Arkansas television reporter who claimed to have had a 12-year affair with Bill Clinton.
Bernstein's book also portrays Hillary as going to great lengths to keep her husband's alleged infidelities secret. It claims when he was running for the presidency, two partners who had worked with her at the Rose Law Firm were hired to represent two other women claiming to have had affairs with her husband.
It says the lawyers obtained signed statements from the women that they had never had sex with Mr Clinton. On one occasion Hillary was present when the women were questioned.
The book also questions whether Hillary read the 2002 National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq before voting to authorise war - a vote that has caused her political problems.
spokesman for Hillary told the newspaper that the aspiring President was "briefed multiple times by several members of the administration on their intelligence regarding Iraq, including being briefed on the NIE". The comment appeared to confirm Hillary had not personally read the document, which contained caveats from elements of the intelligence community who were less than certain as to whether Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.
The book by the New York Times reporters quotes a former girlfriend of Bill Clinton, Marla Crider, as saying she had once seen a letter on his desk written by Hillary outlining the couple's long-term political plans. She says the couple referred to this as their "20-year project".
Polls suggest Hillary is only part of the way to realising that plan.
Most recent polls give her more than a 10-point advantage over her closed Democratic rival for the party's nomination, Senator Barack Obama. But pitched against Rudy Giuliani, the Republican front-runner, her fortunes appear much less clear. One poll in late February suggested former New York mayor Giuliani had a nine-point lead over the former First Lady
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