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Hillary...; She gets so much bad press...
Topic Started: Apr 19 2006, 09:59 PM (363 Views)
Bernard
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...from the conservative media.

Although I'm not sure I would vote for her for president--it depends who else might run--here's something positive... I especially love the last paragraph, so true, so true.


Clinton Wins Firefighters' Endorsement

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: April 19, 2006
Filed at 5:15 p.m. ET

NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City's two major firefighter unions announced Wednesday they were endorsing Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's re-election bid, praising her work on their behalf after the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks that killed over three hundred firefighters and may have left many more with debilitating respiratory ailments.

''She's been a leader out front on World Trade Center health issues, and God knows New York City firefighters were exposed more than any other group,'' said Steve Cassidy, president of the Uniformed Firefighters Association. Cassidy presented Clinton with a bright blue UFA jacket outside a Brooklyn firehouse as Peter Gorman, president of the Uniformed Fire Officers Association, looked on.

''I am honored to stand here with the representatives of the finest fire department in the entire world,'' Clinton said. ''I'm deeply moved and very much impressed by the dedication, hard work and courage of firefighters of this city.''

While polls show Clinton with a commanding lead over the two Republicans vying to challenge her -- former Reagan-era Pentagon official KT McFarland and former Yonkers Mayor John Spencer -- the unions' endorsement of Clinton is still significant.

Firefighters attained nearly a mythic status in this city after the 9/11 attacks. Both unions endorsed Clinton's Republican opponent, former Rep. Rick Lazio, in the 2000 election, and the UFA endorsed President Bush in 2004.

Cassidy shook off questions about those endorsements and their refusal to support Clinton six years ago.

''Firefighters are skeptical of everybody,'' he said. ''In general, politicians have to win our support, and she has done that.''

Among other things, Clinton has pressed for increased federal funding for research and treatment for emergency personnel and residents exposed to airborne contaminants after the 9/11 attacks.

The matter has taken on more urgency since last week, when a coroner ruled that the death of a 34-year old police detective from respiratory ailments had been directly related to his recovery work at the Trade Center site.

On other matters, Clinton again refused to say whether she planned to run for president in 2008, saying she remained focused on her re-election bid. And she did not say whether she believed embattled Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld should resign, despite the calls from many retired generals for him to do so.

''That's for the president to decide. As far as I can tell, Secretary Rumsfeld is doing what the president wants him to do,'' Clinton said, adding that many decisions Bush and Rumsfeld have made about the conduct of the war ''defy understanding.''
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they are union government workers - why wouldn't they vote democrat?
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The AP is the "conservative media"? On what planet?
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Apr 20 2006, 07:41 AM
On what planet?

Hillaryworld.
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Bernard
Apr 20 2006, 01:59 AM
...from the conservative media.

Kinda like the World Champion Cubs? :shrug:
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I do not like Hillary's politics.

She is a politician. She is a liar. She is a socialist to the extreme.

I cannot understand why some people think she is so intelligent. I find her severely lacking in intelligence, logic and integrity.

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Apr 20 2006, 09:25 AM
She is a socialist to the extreme.

Maybe in America. In the grand scheme of things, she's pretty moderate.
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Plus, you don't have to worry about her getting a BJ and then lying to 300 million people about it.
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Maybe in America. In the grand scheme of things, she's pretty moderate.


if she were running for office in, say, Belgium you would see a much truer picture of Hillary.
"Any man who would make an X rated movie should be forced to take his daughter to see it". - John Wayne


There is a line we cross when we go from "I will believe it when I see it" to "I will see it when I believe it".


Henry II: I marvel at you after all these years. Still like a democratic drawbridge: going down for everybody.

Eleanor: At my age there's not much traffic anymore.

From The Lion in Winter.
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Mark
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Oh! I forgot that she is power hungry in the extreme and will say and do just about anything to obtain and stay in power over others.

I cannot stand that attribute in humans.
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Oh, we're talking humans now? I thought we were talking Clintons. I'll try to keep up. :doh:
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Apr 20 2006, 05:43 AM
Oh! I forgot that she is power hungry in the extreme and will say and do just about anything to obtain and stay in power over others.

I cannot stand that attribute in humans.

Kinda like what McCain is now doing; oh, and let's not forget Guilliani:

From The Advocate:

Rudy Giuliani appears to be distancing himself from pro-gay past

There are signs that former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani may be trying to distance himself from his reputation for supporting abortion rights and gay equality as he eyes a possible run for the Republican presidential nomination in 2008. In a 1999 Interview with CNN's Inside Politics, then-mayor Giuliani said, “I’m pro-choice. I’m pro–gay rights”

But as the midterm election draws near and Giuliani gets closer to what many believe will be a shot at the presidency, the former mayor is campaigning for some very antichoice, anti–gay rights GOP candidates. Some political experts say he's "mending fences."

On Tuesday, Giuliani appeared at a rally for U.S. senator Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, a vocal opponent of gay rights, who has said that states should regulate homosexuality "the same as they regulate human sexual contact with animals." Giuliani said of Santorum, "In any age you don't have many leaders. Senator Santorum is one of them."

The New York Times reports that Giuliani will head to Iowa later this month to campaign for U.S. representative and gubernatorial candidate Jim Nussle. Nussle is also an opponent of gay rights, having voted for the federal constitutional ban on same-sex marriage in 2004 and a ban on adoptions by gays in Washington, D.C., in 1999. Iowa is also home of the first national presidential caucus—and one of the first stops for most presidential candidates.

And earlier this week former Christian Coalition leader Ralph Reed announced that Giuliani would headline a fund-raiser in May for Reed's campaign for lieutenant governor of Georgia.
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Apr 20 2006, 09:43 AM
Oh! I forgot that she is power hungry in the extreme and will say and do just about anything to obtain and stay in power over others.

I cannot stand that attribute in humans.

Which politicians can you think of that aren't power hungry? Idealogues and fanatics, maybe. Saints preserve us from those. Do-gooders? Ditto.
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