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Dick Morris circulates an email letter containing his very insightful commentary. A few excerpts from today’s:
THE KENNEDY-CLINTON SPLIT
...The recent effort by the Kerry Campaign to keep Hillary off the stage during prime time, coupled with their selection of Senator John Edwards as a Vice Presidential candidate are opening shots in this fight which will likely escalate into a full fledged feud.
When Kerry chose Edwards, a charismatic future contender for the presidency, he knew that he was investing in an opponent for Hillary when she goes for the top job herself.
...Hillary, of course, was entitled to a prime time speech. Apart from her husband, she is the most popular Democrat in the nation and she has addressed both of the last two conventions. The fiction that the women Democratic Senators caucused and decided to anoint Senator Barbara Mikulsky of Maryland to speak for them fooled nobody. To suggest that Hillary should mutely stand behind Ms. Mikulsky nodding in agreement was a statement to the Clintons – “this isn’t your party anymore.”
The split began in the fall of 2003 when Kerry was floundering in the face of the Howard Dean surge. The Clintons had bet on Kerry and even sent Chris Lehane, who had played a key role in their Lewinsky-impeachment defense, to be the Massachusetts Senator’s chief campaign consultant. But as Kerry faltered, the Clintons bailed out on his candidacy and pushed General Wesley Clark into the race as their candidate. The former president was quoted in public as saying that his wife and General Clark were the two most outstanding Democrats in the nation. Clinton loyalists like Bruce Lindsay and Harry Thomason took their cue and went to work for Clark. But the unkindest cut of all was when Chris Lehane walked out of the Kerry campaign, attesting to the Massachusetts Senator’s lack of viability and joined up with Clark.
In rushed Ted Kennedy to save the day, sending Kerry Mary Beth Cahill of his Senate staff to steer the faltering campaign. Kennedy’s pivotal role in the Kerry campaign was evident from his up front and public position by his colleague’s side on the night he won the New Hampshire primary. Indeed, as Kerry was all but clinching the nomination, who introduced him to the victory rally? Ted Kennedy.
The Clintons cold shouldered Kennedy throughout their Administration correctly realizing that he was radioactively liberal to the average American voter.
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Have our soldiers and the french soldiers died in vain during WW11? They willingly gave their lives so the french people could be free to openly profess their faiths. Now the leaders of France have made it a crime to wear emblems or medals or headwear that represent the beliefs of their citizens. It is as if they spit on the graves of what should be our HONORED dead.