ADL Claims Nothing
to See Here; Run Along Now

I see that the establishment powers-that-be are getting scared of the notice the Bilderbergers are getting. It is no secret that Hillary Clinton, a natural ADL ally, is responsive to funding a militarily strong Israel as well as other national politicians. The public's suspicion and fear of the Bilderberger meetings are starting to gain notice among Washington power players. The ADL seems to link all Bilderberger watchers with anti-Semites. Notice the link to the Liberty Lobby and the "Spotlight" periodical. So predictable is the allusion that it is like watching frog legs in series doing the Can Can to the rhythmic tapping of a wire on an automotive battery. If the Bilderberger conferences are so inconsequential then why is there such a press blackout on these conferences. If large groups of baseball players or mob members were found to have a secret conference at an exclusive hotel I think the media would cover it. Also why is it independent reporters and journalists are treated so shabbily by the police? In addition there seems to be a lockdown police state surrounding these conventions. The last convention in north Georgia featured police checkpoints in the areas surrounding Lanier Lake, the site of the Bilderberger conference in 1997.

I hold the ADL in high suspicion generally as they seem to hate the First Amendment. I once talked to an ADL staffer over the first amendment in regard to their organization's pressure on the web hosting of a Neo-Nazi site. I asked if the Bill of Rights is such a wonderful thing, then why are you pressuring a private company to drop a client's web site. He kept on going about how hateful the website was. I answered that if you had any power over the whole issue you would get rid of the First Amendment. He answered that there was nothing he could do about the First Amendment. I said that by your pressuring this web hosting firm it seems that you would restrict Freedom Expression. He said that First Amendment was the law of the land. I said if you at all liked the First Amendment you would leave the web hosting company alone! He said that the ADL would keep pressuring the web hosting company. My last word was you have no love of the Constitution then.

As for Hillary Clinton, these Israel-above-all organizations are her biggest supporters. And if you are repulsed by Hillary and those who would strip our freedoms away, know that the Jews of the Third Reich had no Freedom of Speech. Banning free expression is the first step toward banning Freedom for All. Ms. Clinton has been prominent in censoring free speech in music and entertainment for the protection of the children. She and Lieberman are prime enemies of Freedom of Speech. I will fight tooth and nail to prevent Hate Speech codes being enacted in this country. Please join me by putting out of office politicians like Ms. Clinton and Mr. Joe Lieberman.


ADL Website: Debunking the Bilderberg Myth

Debunking the Bilderberg Myth

ADL has received inquiries about conspiracy theories regarding the Bilderberg group, a legitimate business entity with ties to Europe and America. The following information from the ADL's Civil Rights Information Center debunks a recurring myth, circulated via the Internet, that the group is part of a conspiracy to promote a "new world order" under their control.

Deriving its name from the Dutch hotel where it first met in 1954, the Bilderberg group is an actual, legitimate entity whose members consist of approximately 100 influential European and American figures in politics, business and academia who meet annually to discuss and advocate political, diplomatic and economic policies.

Various far-right extremists and conspiracy theorists, however, charge that the group is a shadowy force seeking to control world events, exerting allegedly dominating powers of international influence to promote a "new world order" under their control. The extremists claim that Presidential candidates of both major U.S. political parties are controlled by the Bilderberg group; among those often mentioned in such conspiracy-oriented propaganda are David Rockefeller, the Clintons and Henry Kissinger. Other Bilderberg leaders are said to be members of the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations -- groups which themselves are often central players in far-right conspiracy theories of secret efforts at domination of the world's political and financial institutions and the press. Such charges about the Bilderberg group were a regular feature in The Spotlight, the recently-defunct weekly tabloid of the far-right, anti-Semitic Liberty Lobby.

Hillary Clinton Leases Pentagon

Office Space to Reptile Aliens

If elected,I wonder if Hillary Clinton will be able to use Bill's Rolodex when it comes to selling off our infrastructure to our worst enemies. Below is Patrick Buchanan's lament over the San Diego port deal.


{excerpted under fair use]

A Chinese Naval Base -- at Long Beach
by Patrick J. Buchanan
March 13, 1997

"And last year, Johnny Chung, who gave $366,000 to the Democratic National Committee, showed up for a Clinton radio broadcast at the White House, with six Chinese in tow, including an adviser of Cosco. The president begged off being photographed with his guests, which raises a question: If Bill Clinton is leery of being seen with these characters, why is he giving them a Long Beach naval base?...

Does anyone care about national security anymore?"

Read the rest @
http://www.buchanan.org/pa-97-0313.html

[end excerpt]

Chocolate Chip Cookies

by Merry Homemaker Hillary

Hillary Clinton's Chocolate Chip Cookies Ingredients:

1 1/2 c Flour
1 c Sugar; brown, firmly packed
2 c Oats; rolled, old fashioned
1 c Shortening; vegetable
2 Eggs
1 ts Baking soda
1 ts Vanilla
1 ts Salt
1/2 c Sugar; granulated
1 pk Chocolate chips; semisweet

Hillary Clinton's Chocolate Chip Cookies Instructions:

Fat grams per serving: Approx.
Cook Time: :10 Preheat oven to 350F.
Brush baking sheets lightly with vegetable oil.
Combine flour, salt and baking soda on waxced paper.
Beat together shortening, sugars and vanilla in large bowl with electric mixer till creamy.
Add eggs and beat till light and fluffy.
Gradually beat in flour mixture.
Stir in rolled oats and then chocolate chips.
Drop batter by rounded teaspoonfuls onto baking sheets.
Bake in 350F oven for 8-10 minutes or till golden.
Cool cookies on sheets for 2 minutes.
Remove to wire racks to cool completely.
Makes 7 dozen from Family Circle's Election Bake Off (Democratic nominee:Bill Clinton)

I thought it was pretty lame that James Carville and company sent her into the kitchen after she made a comment about her career with "[I] could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas". The media noise machine made all kinds of tomcatting growls on that stay-at-home remark so she had to piddle on herself like a scared poodle to please everybody. Pretty craven. She should have told Snake-head to go bugger himself. But she has no spine, no self respect either.

Hillary Clinton Brown

Tonguing Bilderberger Butts

I read an article, summer of 2006, from the PrisonPlanet.com site of Alex Jones that mentioned that Hillary Clinton may have gone to a Bilderberger conference in Canada. But an earlier visit by Ms. Clinton to a Bilderberger conference has more substantiation, and can be found on the www.bilderberg.org website. The original source for the article is from the Charles Duncan article, "First Lady Exits Early; Bilderberg Begins," in The Gainsville, Georgia Times, dated Friday, June 13, 1997. So then Ms. Hillary has spent some quality time brown tonguing Bilderberger bums.

Dear Bartcop, again, why are we supporting this grimalkin?

All those liberal readers of The Nation, who have never lived near the Mexican border, who have never heard the word H1B, who have never heard of the San Diego ports sale to the Chinese, who think Hillary walks on water, why would you vote for someone who schmoozes with a bunch of ex-Nazi Bilderbergers? Do you like bleeding out your backend like a punked newbie in prison? Does Mistress Hillary make you feel so good after she brands you? I don't get it. Does Victor Navasky get brownie points for avoiding the discussion of Hillary's Bilderberg connections?

http://www.bilderberg.org/1997.htm

Bilderberg Meets In Georgia

by Charles Overbeck - Matrix Editor - easterisle@parascope.com

The global elite have been busy lately. Just last month, Microsoft CEO Bill Gates invited 100 of the world's political and economic heavy-hitters to a "CEO Summit" in Seattle, including Vice President Al Gore and representatives of fourteen corporate members of the Council on Foreign Relations. Representatives of the world's most powerful industrialized nations (and Russia) met in Denver on June 19 for the annual Group of Seven meeting. And on June 12, members of the ultra-secretive Bilderberg Group arrived behind tinted limousine windows for their annual meeting at a Lake Lanier Islands resort near Atlanta, Georgia.

Hillary Clinton was on hand to greet the 120 Bilderberg attendees, drawn from the highest ranks of global business, politics, media, education and finance. Charles Muller, spokesman for the Bilderberg, told the Gainsville Times that the group would be discussing "issues affecting the Western world that include China, NATO, Islam, energy, growth and corporate governance."

"The U.S. Constitution has been violated here today and will be throughout the weekend," said activist Cyndee Parker, who joined a small group of Canadian and American protesters outside the cordoned-off entrance to the hotel grounds. "World policy is being decided behind closed doors and the national news media is nowhere in sight. This is an injustice and insult to the American people."

"If this isn't any big deal, why close the doors?" asked protester Thomas Wethington. "I don't want U.S. public policy decided in private by a group of international financiers."

I hope enough internet readers stumble upon this article so that there will be a large enough mass of people to spread the word that Hillary Clinton had met with wealthy powerful individuals from all over the globe to discuss policy issues pertaining to American citizens. This should scare people away from a candidate who obviously does not have her primary loyalty with the American public. Be on notice that she met with powerful individuals to discuss in secret important decisions and strategies that the average citizen has not been privy to. Consider how likely is it that Ms.Clinton would intimately meet with average Americans to discuss policies and issues. Do you think that a group that includes a war criminal like Henry Kissinger could ask of Ms. Hillary Clinton anything of a beneficial nature for the American public? No! Never!

Like a Dead, Bloated Pig Erupting in the Noon Sun


The article I have posted is from February of 2005, but I feel it still has relevance. She was visiting with East Indian politicians and industrialists. Why was she meeting with them you ask? Doesn't a senator meet with constituents of her own state and country? It is the old question of if your lover isn't sleeping with you then who is she or he sleeping with? In addition her meeting with these Indian dignitaries was kept secret. She had a posse of 11 Secret Service agents. The article I found was in an Indian newspaper. She knew her whole agenda would smell like a road killed, bloated pig erupting in the mid day sun. She is working with global elites to take away your middle class jobs. All the while she smiles like a sumptuous, obliging whore.

Secret Low Profile Hillary visits with Indian Plutocrats

Hillary Clinton in New Delhi – plans to meet the very inner core of Indian politicians and industrialists
Sudhir Chadda
Feb. 26, 2005


People who run India have quietly put a real red carpet for Hillary Clinton as she visits New Delhi. The top politicians and industrialists have started building a very special informal relationship with the former First Lady of America who is also the most probable next President of United States.

US Senator Hillary Clinton, who is on a three-day private visit to India, kept a low profile on the first day of her trip here on Thursday. New York-based Indian American hotelier Sant Chatwal, Hillary's host, did not divulge details of her capital visit.

"Jobs for New York" Scam, Ultra New Weapons from Carlyle Group







Hillary's "Jobs for New York" has been exposed as a meetup with various Carlyle Group executives, Wall Street portolio managers, and various military contractors. Steven Greenfield is running against Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary. I have to praise him for putting up a valiant campaign against her. The New York media ignores progressive candidates against Machine Hillary. Could it be they remember husband Bill's help with the communications bill during the 90's? Keep in mind that New Yorkers and American citizens have little hope for a peaceful planet and a prosperous future as long as war hawk politicians like Hillary stay in high office. We must make it painful for Democratic politicians to adhere to the Scoop Jackson hardline. No more spending the sweat of the nation for these weapons, while destroying the productivity of our population for consumer goods. It is as if we are reproducing an economy on the scale of the old Soviet Union. In Eric Blair's 1984,the idea was put forth that the comfort and the prosperity of the people would be clamped down, so that resources could be diverted to military spending. This structure kept the population uncultured and enslaved. There were not enough resources to keep citizens
well housed and well fed; these resources were used for the latest and greatest military technologies. A democratic republic cannot exist within a garrison state.

JustHillary.com


JustHillary.com interviews Steve Greenfield


JH: Do you think Sen. Clinton should run for president?

SG: What a complex question, seemingly so simple. I think Hillary would be a terrible president, so in that sense I'd prefer that she not run. On the other hand, I'm positive she couldn't possibly win, and the 50 to 100 million dollars she'd spend in the primaries would be a serious economic stimulus that would create a lot of employment. On the other hand, I'd rather see that money going to a decent candidate or better yet, to feed hungry people or buy two year's worth of health insurance for the uninsured, so again, I'd rather she not run, but people are donating that money to Hillary of their own free will and there's no doubt that, sadly, they expect her to spend it on herself rather than on anything that will do good for the world, and that she's happy to oblige.

JH: Would you support her if she did?

SG: I would oppose her with every ounce of my energy.

JH: Have you been making much use of the internet in your campaign? Is the web useful for an insurgent candidate like yourself who is running against the party organization?

SG: I have not been exploiting the power of the web as much as I should. It is a very useful tool, and I have to step up my efforts in that area. To the degree I have been using the web it has been extremely successful.

JH: How do you expect to get your name on the ballot in September?

SG: My campaign volunteers will carry petitions.

JH: You won't have enough money to collect signatures by going the petition route and the state party won't give you a place on the ballot.

SG: It doesn't take money to petition, just people. A properly formatted blank petition can be sent to volunteers as an email attachment, or downloaded from the campaign website. And it's not as hard as you may think to get the required signatures. The 15,000 signature requirement translates into 150 volunteers being able to get just 100 signatures each. That could be done in two afternoons in front of a supermarket or post office. Of course, you build some protection against a petition challenge by going beyond the minimum, but the point is, it's not that hard, and not expensive.

JH: Why did you decide to confront Sen. Clinton in Albany last Friday and do you plan more of that?

SG: Upon entering the ballroom where the luncheon was being held, I discovered that the event had nothing to do with "Jobs for New York" as it had been billed. One of the panelists was a former Clinton Administration official and current top executive of the Carlyle Group, the nation's largest military-industrial contractor (aka merchants of death) whose directorship is a who's who of former top Democrat, Republican, and British administration officials. The others were from other top military contractors and investment portfolios. The marquee name and moderator was none other than a Senator who reliably casts votes that borrow vast amounts of money from my children to the profit of her panelists and the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent people. Unsurprisingly, they are also her most reliable campaign donors. Quite frankly, after watching a few minutes of their cozy love-fest, my blood began to boil, as any decent person's would. It was impossible to contain myself. While the voices of war were being so pleasantly and royally heeded, it became necessary that a lone voice of peace rise above and be heard.

I plan to confront Hillary at every possible opportunity.

More Outsourcing Hijinks from Hijacker Hillary


Shame, shame! Bartcop. You will not disclose Hillary Clinton's jobs exporting program for the state of New York. I have lived in the Buffalo area. It has been a city in decline for a long time. Being that it is downwind from Niagra Falls, New York, Beau Fleuve got all the infernal exhalations of that industrial furnace town without any of the benefits. Luckily, Niagra Falls is just a cemetry of brownfields now. The ghosts of children, killed off by industrial diseases, wander its doomsday landscapes. As for Buffalo, it has been mainly a bakery town for the rest of the east coast. High tech was supposed to be Buffalo's salvation with clean jobs in code development.


Hillary has played more like the evil stepmother, who sends her unloved young charges into the coal mines for a few dirty coppers. You are supposed to represent New York's citizens, Hillary, not Tata Consulting!! TaTa Consulting Services gets 65% of its revenues from its North American operations. Those are revenues that leave the country. TaTa also gets a share of all technolgy patent fees generated at American universities. Not only that, but TaTa is a consortium of companies in such areas as auto components to cell phone networks. Why are we making touchdowns for the other side?

Hillary claims that the arrangement will create jobs in the Buffalo area. You believe her, right? Look at NAFTA as approved by her husband back in the 90's. Stop believing the lies!



Corporate partner

BuffLink

Firm will look to UB for research projects that may have a commercial use

By FRED O. WILLIAMS
News Business Reporter

Buffalo's bioinformatics center signed up a new corporate partner Monday, one with capital and business ties that will help transform lab research into job-generating products, officials said.

Tata Consultancy Services, an infotech giant based in Mumbai, India, signed a research sharing partnership with UB in a ceremony Monday. It also announced the opening of a regional office in downtown Buffalo.

"TCS is an international powerhouse in the area of consulting and information technology," Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton said at the ceremony at the Hyatt. "I think this will lead to more jobs and investment here in Buffalo."

Sen. Clinton introduced the company to upstate New York in a tour last summer.

The high-powered announcement also drew Subramaniam Ramadorai, TCS' chief executive officer; Nobel laureate Herbert Hauptman, of the Hauptman-Woodward Medical Research Institute, and Buffalo Mayor Anthony Masiello.

But local competitors fear TCS could end up exporting computer tasks to India, where wages for programmers are lower.

"If they pay half what we're paying, they're in a much better position," said John Gibson, president of Computer Consulting Services of Western New York, a 30-person firm in Amherst. "Labor cost is the largest portion of our business." Gibson's firm helps companies build computer systems to manage business data.

TCS has drawn criticism for employing non-citizens with temporary work visas in the U.S., as well as for exporting software development tasks to India. The company has 5,000 employees in North America, about one-quarter of its total employment.

Company officials said TCS will be a corporate citizen of Western New York and an engine of growth here.

"When TCS comes to a community we must belong to the community, participate in the activities of the community," chief executive Ramadorai said.

The company - whose clients include drug makers Eli Lilly Co. and Johnson & Johnson - will look to UB for research projects that can be turned to commercial use, such as drug development tools.

"Research for the sake of research is not something we look at," Ramadorai said.

TCS has formed partnerships with 18 universities including Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh, the University of Southern California, Riverside, Calif., and the University of Wisconsin in Milwaukee.

Under the agreement, TCS may support research projects at UB in return for rights to commercialize the results, vice provost Bruce Holm said. License agreements for specific technology will ensure that Buffalo and New York state get a share of the work, he said.

The university is working on similar, non-exclusive agreements with other companies in Ireland and France, Holm said.

Headquartered in Mumbai, formerly called Bombay, TCS has annual sales of $880 million and 20,140 global employees. Its North American operations have 50 offices and generate more than 65 percent of total sales. TCS is part of India's Tata Group, a conglomerate of 80 companies in industries from auto components to cell phone networks.

We Are Winning in New Hampshire

Like Perseus with his mirror and lance we shall strike down the Medusa of the New World Order. Bartcop is still solidly pro-Hillary, so if you as liberal want to expiate on the calumnies of this Bush-Clinton cabel, email him at bartcop-feedback@bartcop.com. Below is an excerpted article from ChronWatch

Dems Hate Hillary More than Bush
Written by Gregory Borse
Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Who do the Democrats of New Hampshire hate more than Bush? Why, Hillary Clinton, of course.

The Boston Herald has run a story, by Business Columnist Brett Arends (go here), about focus-group polling among Democrats in New Hampshire that sheds light on a curious phenomenon from outside the Washington D.C. bubble. It seems that a very real antipathy for Hillary Clinton is growing among grassroots Democrats and that it has thus far gone largely unremarked among the party elite.



The folks at the Daily Kos were abuzz about the numbers yesterday-- go here, see 2008: Hillary Hate in New Hampshire. And many of them agreed with the “vitriol” spewed against Ms. Clinton by Dems in New Hampshire.

One Kossack, “Eugene,” put it this way:

Until the last few years many of us felt supportive of her. We rejected the right-wing smears.

And how did she repay us? By cozying up to Bush and the same right wing. Arguing we need to rethink our strong stance on abortion rights. Wasting time worrying about violent video games instead of violent Republican government. Her transparent attempts at appeasing the right led many of us to believe she was indeed Machiavellian, power-mad, utterly untrustworthy.

If she were to merely remain Senator, this level of vitriol would not exist. But she clearly seeks the presidency, and the vast majority of us DO NOT want her to be that. It's the combination then of her play for the presidency and her selling out of our basic core values that creates this disdain.

And yeah, her handlers and the beltway Dems are deeply deluded if they think this can be overcome. Hillary is the dictionary definition of unelectable.




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We will not fooled by another puppet for the Carlyle Group. The tide is turning. The liberal base is letting its voice be heard by a ferocious roar. In the name of all that is holy, I rebuke you, Hillary!

Hillary the Undercover Peace Candidate

I sense there are Democrat voters who think that Hillary is only supporting a long gradual withdrawal as a sop to centrist and red state voters. That her cautious approach is only to woo the mushy middle voters, and that she will reveal herself as a peace President. I think that a politician who cannot be straight forward about a quick withdrawal, when we really need to get out of a badly deteriorating position in Iraq as of right now, cannot be counted on to deliver once she is in office. We don't buy a car sight unseen, and we don't sign most contracts without first reading them. At least I don't. Then why should we vote for Hillary out of the vain hope that she is a stealth peace candidate?

Supporting Hillary

By Cindy Sheehan

I would love to support Hillary for President if she would come out against the travesty in Iraq. But I don't think she can speak out against the occupation, because she supports it. I will not make the mistake of supporting another pro-war Democrat for president again: As I won't support a pro-war Republican. This country wants this occupation to end. The world wants the occupation to end. People in Iraq want this occupation to end. Senator Clinton: taking the peace road would not prove you are weak. Instead, it would prove that you are the strongest and wisest candidate. As a mom, as an American, as a patriot: I implore you to have the strength and courage to lead the fight for peace. I want to support you, I want to work for you, but like many American moms, I will resist your candidacy with every bit of my power and strength unless you show us the wisdom it takes to be a truly great leader. Prove that you are "passionate" and reflect our nations' values and refusal to support imperialism, greed and torture. Senator Clinton: come out against this occupation of Iraq. Not because it is the politically expedient thing to do but because it is the humane thing to do. If you want to make Casey's sacrifice count, bring the rest of his buddies home alive.

Excerpted from the
Huffington Blog Site.

What Happened to the Good Jobs of the Future, Senator Hillary?
What Happened to the Peace Dividend?
Why Is Your Husband Hanging Out With the Warmakers?


I know hate is a strong word, but it is a good way for people to focus their attention when they use a term with strong emotion connected to it. I have this visceral revulsion for Hillary Clinton. It started when I saw her pictured with representatives of an outsourcing firm, who were having a conference in Buffalo, New York. To me it summed up her lack of regard and respect for hardworking Americans, who need good jobs. It showed me her contempt for me in a peronal, bloodlevel disdain. I know that other Americans, who have lost jobs due to outsourcing in all its varied and putrid forms from the hiring of illegal aliens, to various and sundry guest worker visa programs to execrable trade treaties. Hillary Clinton is a chief exponent of such global economics. Being that she is such a leading figure in the Senate for such economic sabotage of American citizens, it would frighten me in the extreme to have her as president.

As for the Iraqi war, I had been against it from the beginning. I would like to see it well ended. Knowing her husband's connections to the Carlyle Group I have zero confidence in Hillary bringing that war to a quick end, if she were to be elected President. There has been no Presidential candidate in this country's history, who had won election by running as a peace candidate. This record goes back to DeWitt Clinton vs. James Madison in 1812. DeWitt Clinton ran as the candidate better able to manage the War of 1812 than James Madison. He had only half hearted support from antiwar Federalists, who wanted no part in a war that would disrupt trade. DeWitt Clinton would tergiverse
the issue.

http://www.city-journal.org/html/14_1_urbanities-the_founder.html

"[DeWitt] Clinton’s one shot at the White House came with the War of 1812. British bullying on the high seas, plus American greed for Canada, led Congress to declare war in June 1812. But commercial interests in New England and New York dreaded the war, foreseeing that it would annihilate trade. DeWitt Clinton reached out to the historical enemies of the Republican Party, the Federalists, still locally strong in the Northeast and some of the middle states, and assured them that he would wind the war up. But he also let Republicans know that he would prosecute it more vigorously. In the presidential balloting in 1812, Clinton carried New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and all of New England except Vermont. His both-ends-against-the-middle strategy came up short, however, for Madison carried Pennsylvania, which, with the South and West, gave him reelection. In normal, peaceful times, no strategy could ever have secured DeWitt Clinton a nomination; outside his own mind, he was never again a candidate for president."

Hillary Clinton shows the same tendencies, except that she will promise much to liberals, but she will deliver more than a moiety of blessings to her corporate lieges. Liberal Democrats will be will be bleeding hard from every orifice for they will know they have been abused beyond all endurance!

If you have a professional degree of any sort I urge you to download
the pdf from the Indian Embassy website. Please direct your attention to page 6. "There is no way to legislate against reality. Outsourcing will continue," proclaimed Senator Clinton. Does she sound as if she will fight tooth and nail for your standard of living?

Are you against the war in Iraq? Witness her support of continued conflict in Iraq from her letter to her constituents in November 2005. Do you wonder if there will be inside information given to her husband, the senior advisor to the Carlyle Group? A few years after she leaves office, should she become president, Hillary Clinton and her husband will be very wealthy.

Are you concerned about the Patriot Act? Does your heart pine with optimism that the age of the witches will pass into memory? Do you see an enlightenment period of civil liberties, once Hillary is the chief executive? Why?? She voted for that damn vile unPatriot law without giving it a glance. All the Democrats, except for Russ Fiengold voted for that despotic code. Why does Bartcop still support that Medusa? He's a nice guy, and I read his web page from time to time, but moderation in defense of liberty is no virtue. Perhaps one could try to strike a moderate pose in Rome during the slave revolt of Spartacus. Yes, we believe Spartacus is opening up the debate on slavery, but his civil disobediance just shows how impratical and idealististic his postion is. He would only alienate the pacific, contented public with such extreme positions. We should work within the current system to affect change. You cannot work the levers of of the political machine if you alienate the moderate merchant, banker, and aspiring landholder classes. Spartacus should try to work out the best deal he can for himself, so that he can triangulate himself between his jacobin supporters and the cautious gymnasium mom vote. He would earn his freedom with some emolients if he could reassure the Roman establishment of his temperateness.

Make no mistake. I will not vote a conservative Republican into office. Jamais, nunca, never. Then again I will not vote a Joe Lieberman, or a Max Cleland into office. As for Hillary, Joe Lieberman dreams of himself going in drag as Ms. H. "Medusa" Clinton, so high is her likeability among the unimformed. I hope my small efforts will create space for a more deserving nominee for the Democrats in 2008.