The more we see of the Clintons and their DLC, the more similarities

we notice between them and the bullies and dissemblers of BushCo.

They have so much in common. She seems to see McCain as a role model.

For those of you who might not have seen this:

http://weblogs.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/politics/blog/2008/03/flashback_hrc_once_thought_tax.html

I'm thinking maybe "Lazio-Lite" might be a better term. If only Lazio had better name recognition ...

Hillary would be happy to see McCain at the White House than Barack Obama. It is like if I do not get it, no Democrat should get it. The Clintons are destroying the Democratic party through a malfunctionng family drama playing on the national scene. It seems as if there is a deal b/n Bill and Hillary to get the latter at the White House in compensation of the sexual foibles of the former. The Democratic Party has been held hostage and very soon, a characteristic Stockholm syndrome will emerge to the total destruction of the party.

Making Clinton "McCain-like" is a compliment. Keep it up and she will get the nomination.

Why can't everyone just grow up, find out the facts before they open their mouths, and quit treating the American voters in a way that insults our intelligence? Just give us the truth, a concept, I know from experience, with which the Clintons have difficulty.

Supporters of both of these candidates also need to cut out the name-calling and focus on the issues. One of the issues that should concern all of us is what this battle is doing to our party and our chances of putting someone in the White House who's not going to be a 3rd term for Bush!

Grow up. All of us!

The nightmare ticket!

McCain/Clinton 08

Hillary has sold me on the experience issue. If she's nominated, I think we all ought to vote for McCain. By her standard, he's clearly the most qualified.

True-but Obama is Reagan Lite. What does it take to get a Democrat around here?Oh yeah we didn't want one - Edwards or Kucinich couldn't get the funds to run against the two corporate front runners.

McCain-lite isn't too much of a stretch when you read things like this in the Washington Post:

Washington Post

Mark J. Penn is a man who wears many hats: high-paid political and corporate pollster, chief executive of an international communications and lobbying company, and chief strategist to New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's bid for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Enough connections for you?

Well, there are more. Penn's firm, Burson-Marsteller Worldwide -- with 2,000 employees and $300 million a year in revenue -- owns BKSH & Associates, the major lobbying firm chaired by Charles R. Black Jr. That's right, Black, counselor to Republican presidents, reports to Clinton's top strategist.

The connections get even more entangled. Burson-Marsteller is a subsidiary of WPP Group, a London-based advertising and PR giant that owns many of the biggest names on K Street. These include Quinn Gillespie & Associates, Wexler & Walker Public Policy Associates, Timmons & Co., Ogilvy Government Relations Worldwide (formerly the Federalist Group), Public Strategies Inc., Dewey Square Group and Hill & Knowlton.

To be more precise, Penn's parent company employs as lobbyists and advisers an ex-chairman of the Republican National Committee (Edward W. Gillespie), a former House GOP leader (Robert S. Walker), a top GOP fundraiser (Wayne L. Berman), and the former media adviser to President Bush (Mark McKinnon).

WPP's Democrats are just as well known. They include an ex-aide to President Jimmy Carter (Anne Wexler), an ex-aide to President Bill Clinton (Jack Quinn), an ex-Cabinet officer for Clinton and Bush (Norman Y. Mineta), and a former top presidential campaign adviser for Al Gore and John Kerry (Michael J. Whouley).

The range of interests represented by these people is a staggering list of corporate America's who's who, with Penn himself a longtime adviser to Microsoft.

"This is a classic example of how big money has inextricably intertwined the campaign advising and lobbying worlds of modern-day Washington with potential conflicts of interest all over the place," said Fred Wertheimer, president of Democracy 21, a watchdog group.

WPP insists that things are not quite so intertwined and that its units are strictly segregated. "The various WPP businesses are purposely run independently, and there is no risk of any conflict between clients," said Howard Paster, who is Penn's boss, an ex-aide to President Clinton and a high-level volunteer for Hillary Clinton's campaign.

"I also, personally, don't do any lobbying," added Penn, 53.

But WPP does encourage cross-referrals, especially to avoid conflicts within its firms. "We occasionally will do things with one of the other companies," said Quinn, whose firm worked with Burson-Marsteller's polling firm, Penn, Schoen & Berland Associates, on the reelection of Italy's former prime minister Silvio Berlusconi. The polling firm, of which Penn remains president, is the WPP unit that will be paid millions by the Clinton campaign for Penn's attention.

And Clinton will be happy to pay it. "He's a critical member of our campaign, and we're lucky to have him," Clinton spokesman Phil Singer said.

If you believe in America, then vote McCAIN/CLINTON in 2008!

Old news lost on most 'democratic voters' who have given up real progressivism for pandering politics and false paradigms.... Hillary is NOT McCain lite.. she is Hillary!!! And anyone who has been awake for the last 15 years or so would understand that she is as much of a progressive as Ronald Reagan's corpse. Defending Bill against Monica attacks was fine... but what happened to the list of 149 things he did as President that spit in the face of everything progressive and American. Oh, that's right... he had a big "D" after his name, so there was no other choice, right? The ignorance of the majority of Democratic voter is only eclipsed by the ignorance of the majority of Republican voters, but is probably MORE frustrating. The democratic party sold out progressives over 30 years ago, and have become more blatant and unforgiving with each passing election cycle. The will also 'eat their own' in smaller races when 'real' progressives try to affect change within the party. And without informed progressives affecting the electoral frame, whether within or without the dem. party, what else would be expected--- Hillary, Nancy, and all the dems who keep "letting us down" cannot be blamed... they crawled out of the same swamp people like Nader have been trying to drain for decades. Keep playing with your small electric gadgets and bashing real progressives, while worshiping the celebrity gossip/ soap opera politics over candidates in a two party system, with rigged elections and totally manipulated media... everything will be ok..... sure it will!

Why doesn't Hillary and Bill and their DLC group with their lies and swiftboating techniques conservative policies and self absorbed self aggrandizing nonsense at the expense of both the Democratic party and their Democratic opponents ... just make a new party like the Republican Lite? Why doesn't she just run with McCain?
Glad to see Bill has a new friend to play with ...

What qualifies Hillary to answer that phone at 3AM any more than Barack Obama? Their qualifications in that manner seem to be about the same -- almost none. And Hillary's time as First Lady doesn't count here -- not because she wasn't an important part of that White House as far as policy goes, but because she never had her National Security Clearance during those years. Which means, when the proverbial phone rang, and when Bill would have been actively involved in National Security issues in real time, Hillary would NOT have been allowed in the room -- she did have the clearance required to be there.

I would love for a Hillary supporter to answer this one. Criticizing another opponent for a weakness when you have nothing to point to to demonstrate why his weakness is really a strength of yours drives me absolutely insane. Neither candidate has had to make decisions that may cost lives -- ever! So, if that's your biggest criteria, then vote for McCain.

If Hillary won the nomination, John McCain should play that 3AM add verbatim and simply edit the picture at the end, the argument is 100% as valid against Hillary as Obama.

The only "crisis management" Obama has experienced, is trying to deal with his Rezco scandal. And yes, Hillary is like McCain in some ways. They're both tough fighters, unlike Obama, who's a weak, appeasing, compromiser.