Mrrick's Blog

Here are some interesting tidbits;
>Hillary's biography.
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>  Remember that this man was Bill Clinton's primary and closest
adviser for
>years and was felt to be the primary reason for Clinton's political
success
>(Clinton's Karl Rove?).
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>                             DICK MORRIS' '08 PLAY-BY-PLAY ANALYSIS!
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>                    BILL CLINTON LEAVES TRUTH OUT OF HILLARY'S
BIOGRAPHY
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>Go to www.hillaryclinton.com <http://www.hillaryclinton.com/>
><http://www.hillaryclinton.com/> and check
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>out Bill Clinton's syrupy five minute ad for Hillary.  He introduces
the
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>commercial by saying that he wants to share some things we may not
know
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>about Hillary's background.  His version of her biography is about as
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>reliable as if it appeared in Pravda!
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>So, I wanted to make a few corrections;
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>Bill says:  Hillary never wanted to run for public office, but she did
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>want to work at public service.
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>The facts are: When Clinton was considering not running for another
term
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>as Governor of Arkansas in 1990, Hillary said she would run if he
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>didn't.  She and Bill even had me take two surveys to assess her
chances
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>of winning.   The conclusion was that she couldn't win because people
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>would just see her as a seat warmer for when Bill came back licking
his
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>wounds after losing for president.  So she didn't run.  Bill did and
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>won.   But there is no question she had her eye on public office, as
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>opposed to service, long ago.
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>Bill says: In law school Hillary worked on legal services for the
poor.
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>The facts are:  Hillary's main extra-curricular activity in law school
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>was helping the Black Panthers, on trial in Connecticut for torturing
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>and killing a federal agent.  She went to court every day as part of a
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>law student monitoring committee trying to spot civil rights
violations
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>and develop grounds for appeal.
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>Bill says: Hillary spent a year after graduation working on a
children's
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>rights project for poor kids.
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>The facts are:  Hillary interned with Bob Truehaft, the head of the
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>California Communist Party.  She met Bob when he represented the
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>Panthers and traveled all the way to San Francisco to take an
internship
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>with him.
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>Bill says:  Hillary could have written her own job ticket, but she
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>turned down all the lucrative job offers.
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>The facts are: She flunked the DC bar exam and only passed the
Arkansas
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>bar. She had no job offers in Arkansas and only got hired by the
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>University of Arkansas Law School at Fayetteville because Bill was
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>already teaching there.   She only joined the prestigious Rose Law
Firm
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>after Bill became Attorney General and made partner only after he was
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>elected governor.
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>Bill says: President Carter appointed Hillary to the Legal Services
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>Board of Directors and she became its chairman.
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>The facts are:  The appointment was in exchange for Bill's support for
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>Carter in his 1980 primary against Ted Kennedy.  Hillary became
chairman
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>in a coup in which she won a majority away from Carter's choice to be
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>chairman.
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>Bill says:  She served on the board of the Arkansas Children's
Hospital.
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>The facts are:  Yes she did.  But her main board activity, not
mentioned
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>by Bill, was to sit on the Walmart board of directors, for a
substantial
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>fee.  She was silent about their labor and health care practices.
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>Bill says: Hillary didn't succeed at getting health care for all
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>Americans in 1994 but she kept working at it and helped to create the
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>Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) that provides five million
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>children with health insurance.
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>The facts are: Hillary had nothing to do with creating CHIP.  It was
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>included in the budget deal between Clinton and Republican Majority
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>Leader Senator Trent Lott.  I helped to negotiate the deal.  The money
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>came half from the budget deal and half from the Attorney Generals'
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>tobacco settlement.  Hillary had nothing to do with either source of
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>funds.
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>Bill says:  Hillary was the face of America all over the world
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>The facts are: Her visits were part of a program to get her out of
town
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>so that Bill would not appear weak by feeding stories that Hillary was
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>running the White House. Her visits abroad were entirely touristic and
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>symbolic and there was no substantive diplomacy on any of them
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>Bill says:  Hillary was an excellent Senator who kept fighting for
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>children's and women's issues.
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>The facts are: Other than totally meaningless legislation like
changing
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>the names on courthouses and post offices, she has passed only four
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>substantive pieces of legislation.  One set up a national park in
Puerto
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>Rico.  A second provided respite care for family members helping their
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>relatives through Alzheimer's or other conditions.  And two were
routine
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>bills to aid 9-11 victims and responders which were sponsored by the
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>entire NY delegation.
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>  Here is what bothers me more than anything else about Hillary
Clinton.
>She has done everything possible to weaken the President and our
country
>when it comes to the war on terror.
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>1.  She wants to close GITMO & move the combatants to the USA where
they
>would have access to our legal system.
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>2.  She wants to eliminate the monitoring of suspected Al Qeada phone
calls
>to/from the USA.
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>3.  She wants to grant constitutional rights to enemy combatants
captured
>on
>the battlefield.
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>4.  She wants to eliminate the monitoring of money transfers between
>suspected Al Qeada cells & supporters In the USA.
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>5.  She wants to eliminate the type of interrogation tactics used by
the
>military & CIA where coercion might be used when questioning known
>terrorists even though such tactics might save American lives.
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>I can't think of a single bill Hillary has introduced or a single
comment
>she has made that would tend to strengthen our country  in the War on
>Terror.   But, I can think of a lot of comments she has made that
weakens
>our country & makes it a more dangerous situation for all of
us........She
>goes hand in hand with the ACLU on far too many issues where common
sense
>is
>abandoned.   She is a disaster for all Americans.