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Politics : The Next President 2008 -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (2303)	2/27/2008 7:01:06 PM
From: longnshort	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 3215

He said he was a Muslim as a kid

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (2303)	2/28/2008 3:37:12 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 3215

Bill Clinton's Garbage Man By MICHAEL LEWIS Published: September 21, 1997 On Jan. 20 of this year, Harold Ickes left his job at the White House and returned to private life. He had been fired on short notice from his job as President Clinton's deputy chief of staff and was not fully prepared for the ordeal of departure. Just getting out of the White House takes four or five hours, even for a man who dismisses red tape with obscenities as often and as gustily as Harold Ickes does. You must pay off your debts at the White House mess, return your cell phone, fill out forms, submit to security debriefings. But for Ickes the departure was especially arduous; he left with more baggage than most. Once he'd finished with the official checkout he trundled box after cardboard box down from his office into the parking lot. Janice Enright, his White House assistant, had parked her car in the first slot beside the West Wing exit, and Ickes filled it up to the brim, several times over. In all, he carried out about 50 boxes groaning with papers: news clippings, fund-raising documents, private notes scribbled during White House meetings, private memos to the President. In one pile were detailed notes about the Asian fund-raiser in chief John Huang. In another pile was a three-ring binder that contained a brief history of fund-raising for Presidential campaigns that Ickes had compiled for the President in the summer of 1995. This was done in response to newspaper articles that accused Clinton of selling access to the highest bidder. Sensing the President was embarrassed by the accusations and might need a fall guy, Ickes also sent Clinton his resignation The President declined to accept the resignation, and there begins the most newsworthy subplot in the friendship between Harold Ickes and Bill Clinton. Right up to Election Day, 1996, Ickes continued to offer access to the President in order to raise money for the Clinton campaign. So insatiable was the candidate, and so alarmingly gifted was Ickes, that he was among the first to catch the eye of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, headed by the Republican Fred Thompson, when it began its investigation earlier this year of campaign finance. Sometime in the next couple of weeks Ickes will be hauled before Thompson's committee as it continues its mind-numbing hearings. The Senators are likely to question him ad nauseam about John Huang, Buddhist nuns, Chinese conspiracies and the fine points of soft and hard money, and Ickes says he will do his best to take the Senators seriously. At this point they are no longer trying to get at the truth,'' he says. They are just trying to catch you on perjury.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (2303)	2/28/2008 3:38:14 AM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 3215

Longtime Clinton Aide Returns to the Fray By ADAM NAGOURNEY Harold M. Ickes, leading Hillary Rodham Clinton’s fight for superdelegates, may be her last hope for winning the Democratic presidential nomination. Bill Clinton’s Garbage Man (Magazine, September 21, 1997)

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (2303)	2/28/2008 7:40:06 PM
From: Tadsamillionaire	Respond to of 3215

Race, Religion, Gender Didn't Matter So, it looks like after Tuesday's contests in Ohio and Texas Barack Obama is about to turn from likely to inevitable nominee. Going into the March 4th primaries the best we can say about where Hillary Clinton stands is that she is 0-11-2 since Super Tuesday. She has lost eleven caucuses and primaries in a row, and at best has finished in a draw on two debates (one could logically make the argument she lost both debates because she didn't slow Obama's momentum, but heck, why pour salt on an open wound!) There has been much speculation recently about why Clinton has ended up in this position, and many pundits are pointing to the difficulty of her being able to run because she is a woman. I just don't buy into that, and neither do the citizens of this country. A year ago Clinton was up 30 points in the polls; six months ago she was up 25 points in the polls; a month ago she was up 15 points in the polls; two weeks ago she was slightly ahead; and now she is significantly behind. Did the public in the last few days just now discover she is a woman???? Hardly. When Obama won Iowa the pundits were all shocked that an African American could carry a nearly all white electorate, and then when he didn't meet expectations in New Hampshire, pundits started saying it was because of some latent racism. Again, a terrible misread on where voters are. In the Republican primary, there was constant talk that Mitt Romney's failure to win was somehow linked to his Mormon religion. And then of course we find out he did better than John McCain among evangelicals at nearly every step of the way. Another misjudgment by the media and pundits of the country's acceptance of diversity. At many, many, many places along this campaign the public (and voters specifically) have been well ahead of where many analysts of this election are and ahead of how the campaign has been covered. The United States as a country has come to terms with itself over the years and is totally willing to support a woman as president, or an African-American, or someone who is a Mormon. It's time we stopped using these labels as an excuse of why certain candidates don't succeed. If Hillary ends up losing, it will be because she never had a vision or a message that resonated with the majority of voters and that many voters were looking for a change candidate, and not a candidate who held out their Washington experience as crucial. If Obama, for some unknown reason stumbles, it will be because voters no longer believed that how he conducted his campaign matched his rhetoric of hope and healing or that he made some big gaffes highlighting some preparedness argument. And Romney lost because voters believed he was not authentic in what he said along the campaign trail on a variety of issues. So, as one of the folks who covers this race, I think it's time we got past the old excuses and rationale based in a time gone by in the voters minds. I think we would all be better off catching up to where the voters already are in how they judge the leader they want. We can learn much by following the "wisdom of crowds" especially as it relates to ancient labels. huffingtonpost.com