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Politics : Bush Administration's Media Manipulation--MediaGate? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: stockman_scott who wrote (6181)	3/10/2006 12:16:10 PM
From: zonkie	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9838

Turns out Hillary's all the rage WASHINGTON - Anger is apparently working for Hillary Clinton. A day after telling an audience of women "there are lots of things that we should be angry and outraged about," a new poll shows her favorability rating climbing to 52%. GOP leaders have tried recently to tar the Democrat as angry, but Clinton has apparently benefitted from a backlash. The ABC News/Washington Post poll detailed yesterday found 80% approval among Democrats - a powerful number for anyone eying the 2008 presidential nomination. But the poll also found she's trailing the Republican front-runner Arizona Sen. John McCain, who hit a 59% favorable mark. "She's the Mount Everest of Democrats," said Baruch College politics Prof. Doug Muzzio. "Maybe the Republicans' fervent dream that she'll be the Democratic nominee will turn out to be their nightmare." nydailynews.com

To: stockman_scott who wrote (6181)	3/11/2006 2:39:38 AM
From: PartyTime	Respond to of 9838

Message to Karl Rove 6/23/05 23:03:39 I’m not going to get on my high horse and scold Rove for his disgusting, inappropriate, offensive, divisive statements about liberals and 9/11. Others are already on the case. No, I think I’ll take another approach. I’d like to remind Rove of how his buddy in bastardy, dirty politics and general scumbaggery Lee Atwater ended his days. It might be food for thought: Atwater’s "deathbed confession" remains controversial to this day. Many interpreted it as a renunciation of the political decade he had helped make possible. "Long before I was struck with cancer, I felt something stirring in American society," he said. "It was a sense among the people of the country -- Republicans and Democrats alike -- that something was missing from their lives, something crucial. I was trying to position the Republican Party to take advantage of it. But I wasn’t exactly sure what ’it’ was. My illness helped me to see that what was missing in society is what was missing in me: a little heart, a lot of brotherhood." For many readers, there was a credibility problem. He’s been a bastard all his professional life, said his critics, and now we’re supposed to believe him when he says he really loves us? Make no mistake: Lee still believed in the power of negative campaigning. "I prefer to call [it] comparative campaigning," he said. "Negative makes it sound as if you’re beating up on the guy for no reason, which is different from choosing symbolic platforms, like the Pledge of Allegiance or the furlough program in Massachusetts, upon which to make compelling comparisons between candidates." No, Lee wasn’t apologizing for that. "In 1988, fighting Dukakis, I said that I ’would strip the bark off the little bastard’ and ’make Willie Horton his running mate.’ I am sorry for both statements: the first for its naked cruelty, the second because it makes me sound racist, which I am not. Mostly I am sorry for the way I thought of other people. Like a good general, I had treated everyone who wasn’t with me as against me." It all catches up with you in the end, scumbag. But when you see hell looming before you at the end, don’t expect me to forgive you. I think I’ll be fresh out. dcmediagirl.com