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To: Lane3 who wrote (59151)	4/14/2008 10:50:02 AM
From: Dale Baker	Respond to of 543091

C'mon, politics is all about getting people to project themselves onto a candidate who tries to look like what they want most and fear least. It's part of the electoral BS game they all play. So Hillary is suddenly the small-town duck-huntin' pinochle player. Right. Which is my way of saying it applies to all the candidates, present and pretty much in the past too. We don't usually know how they will actually govern until they get into office and have to play the game with all the other Beltway powers jostling them around.

To: Lane3 who wrote (59151)	4/14/2008 1:40:14 PM
From: ChinuSFO	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 543091

I think the politics of branding, name calling etc. is a think of the past. The American public embraced those Rovian politics in the 2000 and 2004, and I think they have had enough. There is a group out there that is demoralized to the extent that they are paralyzed and they don't know what they are doing. Like a confused drunk, they find themselves campaigning for their enemy, Hillary. And then there is another group lobbying on the premise that their candidate Hillary is not the better one but instead Hillary's opponent Obama is not good and cannot win and hence by default Hillary should be the "chosen one." This is the comedy of American politics today.