I Make My Hookers Talk Foreign Policy

Phone sex at the State Department:

Journalists seeking to talk a little foreign policy with high-profile Obama administration officials live from the G20 meetings in London this week were solicited for phone sex instead after ringing up the toll-free number given by the White House.

In a press release, the White House accidentally listed a sex line number for journalists seeking an "on-the-record briefing call with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and National Security Advisor Jim Jones to discuss the NATO summit."

But after dialing, a soft-voiced female recording that was clearly not Clinton asked for a credit card number if you "feel like getting nasty."

This actually happens a lot; making you realize how many phone sex lines there are. I've been part of at least one direct mailing for my day job that made this exact mistake as part of a 20,000 piece mailing.

The first call you get informing you of the mistake is priceless. Then shear panic ripples through the office as everyone struggles to find someone else to pin the blame on. Livens up a week.

The Clintons Fight To Elect Whatshisname

The Washington Post today has an amusing report from a pair of Pennsylvania Democratic rallies in which America's first black president and his junk-in-the-trunk wife momentarily forget they are trying to help elect America's second black president:

[T]here are still some tender feelings -- most publicly those of Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell, who gave a most unusual introduction to Clinton at her rally for Obama on Monday in Horsham, near Philadelphia.

"The proudest accomplishment I'll look back on is the seven-week campaign we ran for Hillary Clinton in Pennsylvania," Rendell said. About half of the several hundred people at the outdoor rally applauded.

"I have never seen a seven-week campaign catch fire the way that campaign did," Rendell went on. A smaller number of people clapped.

"It was wonderful to see people who would tell me, 'I'm never voting for Hillary Clinton,' by the end of that seven weeks were avid Hillary Clinton supporters," Rendell continued. This time nobody applauded.

Rendell was not quite done. "In Washington, D.C., if we lose all of our supporters, all the people who look out for us, there will be one man left standing," he said, "but that man will be a woman, Hillary Rodham Clinton."

Clinton tried to take over the microphone, uttering a "Whoa!" to admire the crowd -- but Rendell reclaimed the floor. "One last time!" he shouted, leading the crowd in a chant of "Hillary! Hillary!"

And this would be an Obama rally?

The sentiment was much the same in Scranton on Sunday, when Bill and Hillary Clinton joined Joe Biden and his wife at an Obama rally. Bill Clinton got nearly two-thirds of the way through his speech before speaking the words "Barack Obama," and he mentioned his wife more often than the presidential nominee.

"I expect to spend the rest of my natural life trying to show people how grateful I am [to those] who supported Hillary in her long quest this last year," the former president said. "I knew 37 years ago when I first met her that I'd never met anybody like her before and I might not ever meet anybody like her again."

Hillary Clinton, up next, had a modest proposal: "Go out and make the case, because Barack and Joe are not asking you to marry them. They are asking you to vote for them -- and vote for yourselves."

Clinton to Bow Out Tonight

AP:

WASHINGTON - Hillary Clinton will concede tonight that Barack Obama has the delegates to secure the Democratic presidential nomination, campaign officials said, effectively ending her bid to be the nation's first female president.

The former first lady will stop short of formally suspending or ending her race in her speech in New York City. She will pledge to continue to speak out on issues like health care. But for all intents and purposes, the two senior officials said, the campaign is over.

Most campaign staff will be let go and will be paid through June 15, said the officials who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to divulge her plans.

Don't fool yourself into thinking that we are done with Hillary...McCain-Clinton '08 anyone?

UPDATE: Sean Higgins e-mails:

Statement from the Clinton Campaign

The AP story is incorrect. Senator Clinton will not concede the nomination this evening.

I Shouted Out "Who Killed the Clintons?" When After All It Was You And Me

After Hillary Clinton got her clock-cleaned in North Carolina and nearly lost in Indiana Tuesday, the main question now is why they hell does she still run? Is it ego? Massive self-delusion? Or is her campaign simply so punch-drunk after 5 months of ass-whuppings that they cannot see straight?

I'm going for the last possibility after reading this press release from Team Hillary:

So Hillary’s victory in Indiana - fought out against the backdrop of an ailing economy - is all the more incredible. We started out behind in both the public and internal polls.

For example, our March 13 poll showed Hillary trailing by 8 points, while our latest poll gave Hillary a 5 point lead. [Bold in original.]

Okay, but you won Indiana by just 51-49%. So what you are saying is ... that you blew a five-point lead? And you are citing this as proof of how well you did? After Clinton blew $6 mil more of her own money on the race?

Geez, woman, wake up and smell the reality. It's over. Take your consolation prize of a life-time U.S. Senate seat and be happy.

Hillary: "I Say a Lot of Things, Not All of Them Truthful"

Clinton seems to have found herself in a spot of trouble as her own Jeremiah Wright scandal (something minor that has been circulating and percolating in the news cycles) begins to blow up.

Hillary Clinton backtracks over 'misleading' Bosnia sniper story

Hillary Clinton has been forced to retract a claim that she landed under sniper fire in Bosnia 12 years ago after a CBS video emerged contradicting her account, Hannah Strange writes.

The former First Lady was attacked by Barack Obama for exaggerating her role in foreign policy-making during her husband’s presidency, which she has frequently asserted makes her more qualified to lead than her Democratic rival.

During a speech on Iraq last week, Mrs Clinton said of the March 1996 trip: “I remember landing under sniper fire. There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport, but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.”

But the video of her arrival shows Mrs Clinton and her daughter Chelsea smiling and waving as they walked at a leisurely pace across the tarmac from a cargo plane, stopping to shake hands with Bosnia’s acting president and listen while an 8-year-old girl read out a poem.

Hillary's response?

“You know, I think that, a minor blip, you know, if I said something that, you know, I say a lot of things – millions of words a day – so if I misspoke, that was just a misstatement,” she said.

What's most shocking about this whole story isn't that a Clinton lied, but rather that Sinbad is still alive and talking to reporters. Stunning news.

Full story here.

The Hillary "Experience" Hoax

Hillary claims to have 35 years of public service experience. Simple math concludes that she is counting every year since she was 23 as being relevant, and simple common sense says that such claims are ridiculous.

At age 23, right after graduating from Yale Law School, Hillary failed the DC Bar exam. After that, she revisited Bill's overtures and moved to Arkansas to be with him. She then joined the Rose Law Firm and managed to pass the easy ARK bar exam. There she stayed while her husband became governor and did nothing political. So the 35 years of proclaimed experience need to be discounted by that time frame, which is 20 years. So Hill is now down to 15 years of experience.

Then Bill won the presidency. Perhaps this is where Hillary's "experience" began? She can take credit for being a part of the presidency but her current stance on NAFTA, a cornerstone of her husband's policy, completely contradicts her assertion that she was a major part of policy formation as she has made repealing NAFTA a cornerstone of her populist agenda. If she indeed had a say on NAFTA and is now vehemently opposed to it where was she when her husband was writing it into law?

I would love to see a woman president but this is not the right woman. As Sullivan rightly bemoaned, the Clinton campaign is The Horror Film That Never Ends.

This is Supposed to Help Clinton?

On Monday, former Attorney General Janet Reno announced she is endorsing Clinton. Reno was appointed by Clinton's husband, President Clinton. Reno, who lives in Miami, later ran for Florida governor, losing a 2002 primary to Bill McBride.

Buried at the end of an AP story titled: "Clinton Tries To Bounce Back In Florida". My question: I thought the left really, really cared about civil liberties. Do any of them remember this?

Clinton's $70BN Plan to Help the Economy

Hillary Clinton has a huge tax-payer funded plan to help the economy as it slides into recession. The problem with it is that it is backed by a belief that the government, and not the private sector, is the cure to what ails us. Amity Shlaes, in her brilliant book The Forgotten Man methodically takes down the myth that FDR saved the country by making much of the workforce government employees and instead argues that FDR slowed recovery by creating government competition to the more efficient private sector.

Enter Clinton. Her plan is to spend $70BN in the following ways:

Her $70 billion plan includes $30 billion for a housing-crisis fund to provide grants to states, cities and community groups. The money would assist families in danger of foreclosure and buy vacant properties to rent to needy families. Another $25 billion would aid low-income families facing increased home-heating costs; $10 billion would supplement unemployment assistance to workers out of jobs for extended periods, and $5 billion would be aimed at promoting energy efficiency while creating "green industry" jobs.

My one by one counters to her plan:

1) Allocating $30BN of taxpayers' money to delinquent mortgage payers is extremely unfair to property owners who are responsible and to renters, who already get screwed in the tax code. Most if not all of the delinquent payers put no money down.

2) $25BN for home heating costs. They are indeed skyrocketing, at least for Americans, as the dollar is in a death spiral. But do we need to subsidize energy costs when we are trying to to go green (see #4)? If you really want oil prices to decrease then tell the Fed to RAISE interest rates and protect the dollar.

3) Unemployment assistance, $10BN: There is no proven relationship between government assistance and employment attainment. There are already Pell Grants for the needy to take classes.

4) Creating "green jobs." $4BN for that. What is that? I can't even criticize this point as it is so vague. Perhaps Clinton could back away from her backing of anti-green Ethanol subsidies and create a bunch of green jobs for farmers who actually grow food that can be eaten.

Fox News Sticks it to Hillary Clinton

I love FoxNews.com because it has the greatest headlines. Like this totally obvious attempt to call Hillary a Nazi on their homepage.

The Leader Stumbles
Even before the first votes are cast, a series of campaign gaffes threaten Hillary's frontrunner status.

Except for Bill's Oval Office BJs, Neocons Should Love the Clintons

Radley Balko writes about how the left's powerhouse, Hillary, isn't all that distinguishable from the depressing adminstration we have right now.

After the first six paragraphs, unfortunately, I think that if he deleted the name "Hillary Clinton" and replaced it with "Rudy Giuliani" or "Mitt Romney," the article would still apply, for the most part.

Libertarians have some very valid arguments against Ron Paul's stances on abortion or immigration. He's certainly not perfect. But for me personally, I can't imagine supporting any major candidate from either party.

As the one candidate who convinces me that he really will cut the size and scope of the federal government, Paul is still the only candidate I can support. Unfortunately, his actual chances at the Republican candidacy are slim to none.

It's only my personal opinion, but I'm going to declare it right now: If it's Rudy vs. Hillary (or Mitt vs. Hillary), I'm either voting third party or writing in Ron Paul.

HillaryCare Nightmare

Hillary Clinton is proposing that every US citizen be required to purchase health insurance:

Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday that a mandate requiring every American to purchase health insurance was the only way to achieve universal health care but she rejected the notion of punitive measures to force individuals into the health care system.

She said she could envision a day when "you have to show proof to your employer that you're insured as a part of the job interview — like when your kid goes to school and has to show proof of vaccination."

Leo: Let's not parse words: Hillary is proposing that every American spend hundreds or thousand of dollars per month on health insurance in order to get employed. That might be the scariest thing I have ever heard from a candidate.

Hillary Rodham Clinton is a Murdering Thug

The Clintons are a real-life version of The Sopranos. I'm not saying that, she is. Seriously. Why she would want to imitate a mobster while running for President is beyond me. Why the press is giving more coverage to her selection of a campaign song than its entire coverage of the Ron Paul campaign is also beyond me.

Hillary Schmillary

No one I meet seems to be for Hillary Clinton yet she pulls in the big bucks, winning the first primary.

Where the money comes from, I don't know. Normally we Wellesley College gals stand by each other but on this one, from the liberal to the libertarian, we all have pause. I object on two fronts: the Iraq War vote, which was stupid and obviously politically expedient, and the fact that I hate the dynasty thing post the disastrous Bush dynasty. Can't we get some new blood?

Plus, when Hillary was at Wellesley she penned a Marxist thesis. For an interpretation of it by deceased Barbara Olson (she died on 9/11) go here.

US Presidential Dynasties, Barf

In the past few days the Hillary/Obama rivalry has gotten intense. David Geffen, a former Bill Clinton big donor, has come out against Hillary via Maureen Dowd's NYT column [available only on paid Times Select]. I don't have Times Select but Howie Kurtz of the Wa Post has a good article here.

I agree with Geffen on two points. First, it is ridiculous that Hillary will not apologize for voting to authorize the Iraq War. It is obvious to most that she voted for the War's approval because she wanted to move "right" and did not want to be seen as weak on defense in a climate of hysteria post 9/11.

Second, I am totally with Geffen that Obama's

"not from the Bush royal family or the Clinton royal family. Americans are dying every day in Iraq. And I'm tired of hearing James Carville on television."

I don't like Obama, who is a closet socialist, but I more dislike the possibility of having another legacy President.

Video Games Help Kids Fight Obesity

Think Hillary Clinton will be trumpeting this report?

PLAYING video games makes children fitter and gives them healthier hearts, a study shows.

An average teenager would burn off 27lbs in a year using the new Nintendo Wii consoles in which body movements control games. But even just sitting playing is healthier than watching TV, say researchers at Liverpool John Moores University.

Probably not. More here from The Sun.

Hillary Clinton Has Huge Knockers, No Nipples

Looks like Hillary Clinton, of "Hillary Clinton, the evil, power-mad witch" fame, finally got what was coming to her.

As reflected in the picture at left, Clinton has been turned to stone by a sinister force. Not only that, but her nipples have been exorcised from her stony veneer.

Still-fleshy husband Bill was initially devastated by the petrification, though he apparently came around once he noticed how big Hillary's boobs now were.

If this all looks familiar -- but for the nipples -- that's because it should.

[Thanks to Area Man for the tip.]

'Hillary' Bandwagon Not Exactly Gassing Up in Granite State

According to Dick Bennett, who heads the independent polling firm American Research Group, here's a sampling of the words some likely New Hampshire voters use to describe Hillary Clinton:

“Lying b[itch] . . . shrew . . . Machiavellian . . . evil, power-mad witch . . . the ultimate self-serving politician."

[Ellipsis]

“Criminal . . . megalomaniac . . . fraud . . . dangerous . . . devil incarnate . . . satanic . . . power freak.”

Satanic.

And: “Political wh[ore].”

And these are Democrats speaking!

More here.

Hillary Unveils Plan for Bigger Government

In Denver yesterday Hillary Clinton revealed the details of the "American Dream Initiative," a group of proposals under which Democrats are hoping to unite. Unfortunately, the package both dramatically increases the role of government in the individual's life while also creating new entitlement programs, such as

"baby bonds" that would create a government-funded savings account of $500 for every child born in the United States; a refundable tax credit to help provide the down payment on housing; universal health care for children; and benefits for small businesses to lower the cost of providing health insurance to workers.

Hillary Clinton Prostitutes Herself

Sure, we all know that Hillary Clinton is (ahem) positioning herself to win the White House. And when it comes to the war, government censorship, and other issues she is certainly cozying up to conservative pricks (it's a double entendre, get it?). I'm surprised, however, to learn that she is literally operating a whore house.

In work that ended last month according to D.C. building records, Mrs. Clinton, New York Democrat, spent well over $800,000 expanding and updating her Embassy Row mansion, adding a new pool house and a giant ballroomlike addition for entertaining, reporter Michael McAuliff
said.

[...]

"I like having people over to my house," Mrs. Clinton told the Daily News. And she made sure it's a nice place to visit in the sultry D.C. summers, installing three new high-efficiency air conditioners, 60 new indoor lights and 20 outside to go with her spiffed-up pool.

"It's a really good place for people to be able to come," she said. "It's easy to get to and people like coming, and I can really help raise money for other Democrats."

Now, that's my kind of fundraising.

[Via Inside Politics]

Lefties Boo Hillary Clinton, I Boo Lack of Hot Lefties

Senator Hillary Clinton was booed yesterday at the Campaign for America's Future's "Take Back America" conference. Her refusal to not call for a withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq didn't sit well with the hundreds of lefties that gathered at the conference. I missed her speech, but would have gladly booed her. Her hawkish stance was, of course, offensive. But, I was more offended by the lack of hot lefties at the conference. I went to the conservative alternative to Take Back America, CPAC, earlier this year. The women were younger and hotter. I saw far more mini-skirts and long boots. On a related note, most of the people at CPAC were under 30. Most of the people at Take Back America were probably over 30. This doesn't bode well for the left's future.