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Newsweek: How Hillary Would Govern - 9/9/2007 10:45:41 AM

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Sept. 17, 2007 issue - Hillary Clinton has been in politics long enough to know the value of the word "change." In 1992, her husband's political guru, James Carville, hung a white sign in the Clinton campaign war room that read CHANGE VS. MORE OF THE SAME. Bill Clinton won the presidency that year with 370 electoral votes.

Over the course of the summer, she watched her rivals for the Democratic nomination try again and again to define themselves as change and Clinton as the status quo. ("We're more interested in looking forward, not backward," Barack Obama told reporters. "And the American people feel the same way.") But she would not cede the change mantle, no matter how large her lead in national polls, not in an election where the voters were fed up and angry, not when Obama was saying "change" was what he was all about and John Edwards was running a tough populist bid. "The campaign was watching Obama and Edwards peddling this false choice of change versus experience," says someone close to the campaign who did not want to be identified discussing internal matters. "They realized, wow, this is a great opportunity to emphasize one of her strengths"—or, more precisely, it was an opportunity to argue that her years in the capital gave her the experience to make change happen. Triangulation, anyone?

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RE: Newsweek: How Hillary Would Govern - 9/9/2007 10:56:55 AM

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I think that that big ugly guy "Alex" on "Ice Road Truckers"
would probably be a better President than Clinton, Abbadabba, or Edwards and he's Canadian.
"Huh, Huh, Huh!"

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RE: Newsweek: How Hillary Would Govern - 9/9/2007 11:38:55 AM

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Hillary would be a hold my nose vote.

I never vote Republican because I never agree with their platform at all and they are worse for the economy overall than the Dems.

Plus, I am a choice voter.

This year I am a Universal Healthcare voter. And I will stay one until we either get it or I leave this miserable sinking country to its own devices.

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