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To: Gush who wrote (13219)	12/19/2007 11:58:35 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 25737

Clinton Karma By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY \| Posted Wednesday, December 19, 2007 4:20 PM PT Politics: With Bill Clinton's bridge to the 21st century far behind, Web surfing is rendering triangulation obsolete. When Al Gore invented the Internet, he didn't do the Clintons any favors. Both are slipping. Sen. Hillary Clinton has had built-in advantages over her rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination, factors that have made her appear as the indomitable front-runner until recently. As a former first lady more involved in policymaking than perhaps any previous president's wife, she had name recognition. That, in turn, allowed her to build a huge advantage in fundraising. She was also reviled on the right, a big plus in appealing to the Democratic Party's liberal base. And she had in her corner one of the most skilled politicians of our era: husband Bill Clinton. The 42nd president got himself out of scrapes almost no one else could have. They ranged from sex scandals both before and after he arrived in the White House to a broad ideological realignment favoring the Republican Party, manifested in the GOP's capture of both chambers of Congress two years into the Clinton presidency. Whether it was Newt Gingrich, Gennifer Flowers or independent counsel Ken Starr against him, Clinton managed to stay standing. Could Hillary lose with him providing advice and support? The answer, in blogospheric 2007, is that she just might. Polls for the early contests show that the trademark Clintonian slickness has become a serious liability in the Internet age. Consider just some of the karma now coming back to get the Clintons: • Hillary's campaign's pettily complaining about opponent Barack Obama aspiring to the presidency as a kindergartner. • Her support for a half-dozen different positions on driver's licenses for illegal aliens. • Planting shills at Hillary rallies to ask pre-arranged questions. • One of her campaign's national co-chairmen having to resign after scandalously suggesting that Obama might have been a drug dealer in his youth. • Her husband's claim several weeks ago he was opposed to invading Iraq "from the beginning" when he undeniably supported President Bush's 2003 invasion. The Iowa caucuses are notoriously unforgiving to candidates who vacillate or misrepresent themselves. All voters need to do is check the Web to confirm the liberties the Clintons take with the truth. Their recent howlers fit the pattern of Hillary claiming to have been named after the conqueror of Mt. Everest years before his feat, and Bill's "vivid" childhood memories of black church burnings in Arkansas that never took place. Politicians are learning that personal computers have become the ultimate lie detectors.