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To: Road Walker who wrote (368134)	1/24/2008 11:02:43 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1578815

Well some dems have finally opened their eyes and seen the real Bill in the last few months. Why haven't you ?

To: Road Walker who wrote (368134)	1/24/2008 11:06:34 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1578815

"One of our favorite Bill Clinton anecdotes involves a confrontation he had with Bob Dole in the Oval Office after the 1996 election," the Wall Street Journal says in an editorial. "Mr. Dole protested Mr. Clinton's attack ads claiming the Republican wanted to harm Medicare, but the president merely smiled that Bubba grin and said, 'You gotta do what you gotta do.' "We're reminded of that story listening to Barack Obama protest his treatment by the now ex-President Clinton on behalf of his wanna-be-president wife. ... "Now he knows how the rest of us feel," the newspaper said. "The Illinois senator is still a young man, but not so young as to have missed the 1990s. He nonetheless seems to be awakening slowly to what everyone else already knows about the Clintons, which is that they will say and do whatever they 'gotta' say or do to win. Listen closely to Mr. Obama, and you can almost hear the echoes of Bob Dole at the end of the 1996 campaign asking, 'Where's the outrage?' "This has been the core of the conservative critique of the Clintons for years. So it is illuminating to hear the same critique coming from Mr. Obama and his supporters now that his candidacy poses a threat to the return of the Clinton dynasty. Even Democrats are now admitting the Clintons don't tell the truth — at least until Mrs. Clinton wins the nomination."

To: Road Walker who wrote (368134)	1/24/2008 11:07:06 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1578815

Tricky tactic "Hillary Clinton will undoubtedly lose the South Carolina primary as African-Americans line up to vote for Barack Obama. And that defeat will power her drive to the nomination," Dick Morris writes in the Hill newspaper. "The Clintons are encouraging the national media to disregard the whites who vote in South Carolina's Democratic primary and focus on the black turnout, which is expected to be quite large. They have transformed South Carolina into Washington, D.C. — an all-black primary that tells us how the African-American vote is going to go," Mr. Morris said. "By saying he will go door to door in black neighborhoods in South Carolina matching his civil rights record against Obama's, Bill Clinton emphasizes the pivotal role the black vote will play in the contest. And by openly matching his record on race with that of the black candidate, he invites more and more scrutiny focused on the race issue. "Of course, Clinton is going to lose that battle. Blacks in Nevada overwhelmingly backed Obama and will obviously do so again in South Carolina, no matter how loudly former President Clinton protests. So why is he making such a fuss over a contest he knows he's going to lose? "Precisely because he is going to lose it. If Hillary loses South Carolina, and the defeat serves to demonstrate Obama's ability to attract a bloc vote among black Democrats, the message will go out loud and clear to white voters that this is a racial fight. ... That will trigger a massive white backlash against Obama and will drive white voters to Hillary Clinton."