DebateGate

I didn't want to post this because I really want Hillary to be the Democrat nominee for president.
But what the hell. Let's have some fun.

In the battleground state of Iowa (which Gore carried in 2000), Hillary loses to 4 Republicans for president.

She loses to Guiliani, Mccain, Romney, and Dr. Frist.

And I bet she'd lose to George Allen as well but he wasn't included in the poll.

Please run, Hillary!

http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060924/NEWS09/609240335/1001/SPORTS05

Now Salon.com tries to destroy Allen with a false smear...

Anti-Tobacco Activist Launches Allen Ni---- Smear

Via Salon, Michael Scherer hits Republican Senator George Allen with the "nigger" smear, even though the vast majority of fellow teammates from Allen's college football days do not support the claim. But it appears there could be more to the story of the lone identified accuser, Dr. Ken Shelton.

Over the past week, Salon has interviewed 19 former teammates and college friends of Allen from the University of Virginia. In addition to the three who said Allen used the word "nigger," two others who were contacted said they remember being bothered by Allen's displaying the Confederate flag in college, but said they do not remember him acting in an overtly racist manner. Seven others said they did not know Allen well outside the football team, but do not remember Allen demonstrating any racist feelings. A separate seven teammates and friends said they knew Allen well and did not believe he held racist views. "I don't believe he was insensitive," said Paul Ryczek, who played center in Allen's year before joining the Atlanta Falcons. "He had no prejudices, biases or anything else."

In addition to supporting a Democrat through financial contributions, which Salon acknowledges, evidently Shelton didn't tell Salon of his role in starting Tobacco Free For Life.

Why that might matter is because Allen opponents have criticized the Senator for being friendly to the tobacco lobby. Senator Allen, (R-VA), has accepted a whopping $33,000 from tobacco political action committees in just the 2005-2006 election cycle. Thats more than any other member of congress has taken from the tobacco companies in the past year.

Tobacco Free for Life (TFL) is a grass roots volunteer coalition of educators, health care professionals, survivors and victims of tobacco-related illness, and concerned individuals. Our mission is to prevent and reduce underage tobacco use through education, awareness and community efforts on a "cost free" basis to the youth and community of Henderson County.

TFL started in 1996 by Dr. Ken Shelton of Hendersonville Radiological Consultants and is currently operating out of an office on the Pardee Hospital campus. Pardee Hospital Foundation acts as TFL's fiscal agent and provides TFL with 501c3 nonprofit status.

Interesting that Shelton claims that an Allen Presidential candidacy is what made him so suddenly concerned as to begin writing down recollections several months ago. Exactly how much prodding did his memory require if this was so significant at the time?

About four months ago, when he heard that Allen was a possible candidate for president in 2008, Shelton began to write down some of the negative memories of his former teammate. He provided Salon excerpts of those notes last week.

With nothing other than anonymous sources to support Shelton's claim and the vast majority of relevant individuals contradicting the story, it might better serve Scherer if he could produce a witness without a possible political motivation. Even sources that acknowledged Allen's fondness for a Confederate Flag in his college days stated they saw no signs of racism from Allen.

two others who were contacted said they remember being bothered by Allen's displaying the Confederate flag in college, but said they do not remember him acting in an overtly racist manner.

http://newsbusters.org/node/7862

A third questioner pointed out that Republicans have regained the lead on national security. "This is what, I guess, campaigns will be about," Pelosi conceded with some reluctance. "It shouldn't be about national security."

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Shouldn't be about national security? We can't even bring drinks onto a plane unless it was bought in an airport because terrorists wanted to blow 20 airliners out of the sky. We were attacked on 9/11 and 3,000 Americans were killed. Terrorists all over the globe want to kill Americans, and the Dems don't think this race should be about national security?

I can't believe Clinton said to Wallace how he's sitting there with that little smirk like he's so clever. Or when he lunged forward and was poking at Wallace. He was apparently trying to intimidate him from asking him any more questions.

Can you imagine President Bush behaving in such a way? Saying to Matt Lauer, for example, that he's sitting there with a little smirk on his face or lunging forward and poking at him to get him to stop asking questions? I just couldn't imagine Bush losing it in that way. Can you imagine the reaction from the mainstream liberal media if he did??

Clinton has just realized what his legacy will be: he's the guy who didn't do anything against al qaeda when it was growing in strength.

Over some tough questions by Chris Wallace.

Here's the video...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UwJabtvSUQ

Notice how Clinton is wagging his finger. The last time he did that he lied to the country.

Look at Clinton's angry reaction to some pointed questions. He never acted like that before. It's because he is so used to getting fluff interviews from the left wingers who call themselves journalists, as he did through his 8 years in office.

Update: Here's the whole part of the interview where Clinton was enraged, wagging his finger just like during impeachment...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYNI5RPOlp4

I can't believe he said to Wallace that he's sitting there with that little smirk on his face.

They are like the jews chosen by the Nazi's to lead other non-suspecting Jews int the furnaces. IMHO
No one's makng an issue of his mother's religion , but rather of his shame and lifelong deial over it.
Thank you PeeWee Herman.( If that is what you are what am I seems to be your most powerful debate technique )

Funny, Kwasi Mfume’s son and perhaps Kwasi himself are apparently appeared ready to endorse Michael Steele’s senate campaign. They seem to be doing it tacitly now anyway. As you probably know, or maybe not, Mfume used to head the NAACP.

My understanding is that George Allen’s grandfather was in a concentration camp, so your reference to Nazi ovens is particularly disgusting. But keep stepping in it.

The religion of Allen’s mother has seemed to cool down a bit now on the left wing blogs. I guess even the loony left realized it was a losing issue to make a political issue over somebody’s religion. Allen will comfortably be reelected in Virginia now. He’s reopening his lead. I liked the way he handled the reporter’s stupid question. He’s definitely a top tier presidential candidate.

And PeeWee (that’s you), of course it’s a powerful debate technique to throw your own words in your face. The loony liberal left has no credibility anymore.

Falling Gas Prices Leads NBC, But Williams Raises Election Motive

The media can’t help themselves. They have to try and portray every positive news about the economy as something bad.

There’s an election motive, lower gas prices will cause inflation.

Yet NBC does deserve some credit for at least mentioning the plummeting gas prices. I saw it mentioned on ABC news as well. Some guy was ecstatic that he saved $15 at the pump. Another lady said she was going to use her savings to go to Blockbuster. It’s kind of silly that the economy has been booming for the past year, but people really didn’t recognize it until they saved some money on gas.