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17 January 2008

Welcome to Hill Force One

Blog_hstrange_2 Hillary Clinton amused press aboard her plane as it prepared to take off from Las Vegas by breaking into a flight attendant routine peppered with Hillaryplane033009ap campaign in-jokes.  Click here to watch this classic in the making.

Though should things fail to go her way in Nevada and South Carolina over the coming days, she may regret tempting fate with the following one-liner: "And in the event of an unexpected drop in poll numbers this plane will be diverted to New Hampshire."

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She's trying SO HARD to get an online reaction like Ron Paul but, it's just not happening....... She really doesn't get that what she's lacking isn't "quirkiness" but substance..... Not to mention, a soul......

Posted by: Mikester | 21 January 2008 at 08:46 PM

I think she was funny. Why can't we give credit to people when it's due? Even if you don't support her, you don't have to criticize every last thing she does.

Posted by: Andrew | 30 January 2008 at 05:26 AM

I liked it, she was funny. She is getting better with age.

Posted by: David | 06 February 2008 at 04:38 PM

She's the best one for the Country now; even if you don't like her you need to face the facts......she'll win!!!!!

Posted by: Veronica Lima | 13 February 2008 at 11:20 PM

All Canadians are, willy-nilly, stakeholders in the US presidency. As such, what fills me with a kind of horror is the prospect of Sleazy Bill being back in the White House, even if only as First Gentleman.
So, in this grotesquely expensive amd somewhat seedy soap opera, the Primaries, I am, somewhat feebly, rooting for Barack . . .

Posted by: Richard Gallant, Ottawa | 22 February 2008 at 05:38 PM

Dream on Alice .

Posted by: Frank | 23 February 2008 at 12:20 PM

Well the Clintons are up to their dirty politics as usual. She seems to be getting desperate. I wonder why?

Posted by: angelita denton | 26 February 2008 at 12:38 AM

Contribution:
Please reexamine your stand on illegal immigration!
These so called illegal Immigrants from Mexico are the backbone of our Agricultural Economy. Without them we will be paying 10 times as much for our agricultural produce. These beautiful people are willing to do backbreaking labor under conditions that no Pampered American could survive. For wages that no American would be willing to work for. They deserve every consideration and break that we can give them to achieve full citizenship and every right to all public assistance along the way.
As a Westerner we recognize them as the People who were here before their land was stolen from them. Practically every significant place on the map out West is named by a Mexican/Spanish name. America is built upon the sweat and tears of Immigrants who are willing to do the work, that no (decent American would do) We need to change the thinking, that projects these hard working, beautiful people as a threat to our economy.
Let Give them the validation, and rights the deserve. I have worked in the so called garbage patch picking cantelope under 110 degree heat of day for less then minimum wage. Try it sometime, I don't think you can do it. Bruce Goodall

Posted by: Maximus Eucharist | 28 February 2008 at 02:59 AM

Last Chance for Our generation!
It is the last chance for any self proclaimed intelligent person who grew up in the 60 - 70s
to fulfill the battle cry of our generation
(We won't get fooled again!) "The Who"
Barack will bring the change and healing we (waited for Love to bring.) "Jackson Brown"
(As all their leaders are cast away) "The Band"

Posted by: Maximus Eucharist | 28 February 2008 at 03:10 AM

Pleease, people!!!! Do you want to be taxed, charged for socialized health care?

Do you want to have the terriorists come back to the US?

Take off the blinders, look up the candidates voting records...do you agree with how they voted? Or do you just listen to their speaches and decide if they sound good?

Study your choices....and don't be blinded by what you are hearing. What changes? Have you looked up Hillary's pork spending?
Have you looked up what Obama has voted for?

Do you think any of the three Senator candidates should be out on the campaing trail instead of earning the wages we pay them? Do you ever write to them or call them and voice your opinions?

Let's began to get really serious about this election. AND....pray about it!

Posted by: Marianne | 29 February 2008 at 10:44 PM

hillary is not hillarious, but i praised her efforts. i guess she knows her weakness and was trying to change - or at least show us that she can.

Posted by: diana | 02 March 2008 at 06:28 AM

When all the dust settles in November, I'll be happy to have either one of the Democratic candidates in office. ANYTHING to keep the RepubliCANTS out of a third term!!! I don't care if McCain does unite the parties...I don't want him to have a chance in the first place. He's a republiCANT and that says it all right there.

Posted by: Julie | 06 March 2008 at 06:58 PM

The democratic parrty has invalidated the vote of the states of Florida and Michigan because of the timing of the elections. If they don't want my vote in February, They won't get it in November.

Posted by: Mike McEleney | 12 March 2008 at 04:33 PM

If Hillary wins and Bill is "appointed" to fill her senate seat and either live to retire they would get two US Presidential retirement checks, two US Senate retirement checks and a retirement check from the State Of Arkansas. They might not get a SS check, Bill earned $40,000,000.00 in the past 6 years. Hillary, as a NY Senator comes under the Congressional Retirement and Staffing Plan - she receives her Congressional salary until she dies.

To fulfill Hillary's required NY residency to be a Senator they purchased a million dollar plus house in Chapaqua N.Y. Mortgage payments are around $10,000.00 monthly. Hillary and Bill are entitled to Secret Service
protection for life. An extra residence "had" to be built on their acreage to house these Secret Service Agents. The Clinton's charge the Federal Government $10,000.00 monthly rent for the use of the extra residence.

Taxpayers are paying the Clinton's salary, mortgage, transportation, safety and secutity, and the salaries for their 12 man staff.

I definitely am voting for the Clinton's - maybe I can learn how they do it!!!

Posted by: Barbara | 19 March 2008 at 06:34 PM

Although, Sen. Obama's race probably has something to do with the way the powers at be and the media are treating Him. I think what these people are really afraid of is his call for change. Obama was the first candidate that I remember to call for change. Since that call has resonated with the voters, now Sen. Clinton is using the word. It is also unfair that Sen. Obama is being distracted and penalized for something someone else said. I believe that this distraction is a smokescreen that is being put up because people do not want change. Much to the Clinton's delight is the fact that they still have not produced the names of the contributors to the Clinton's library. If there is nothing to hide, why not release them and move on? Anyone who believe that the Republicans will not crucify Sen. Clinton over all of the possible illegal and certainly unethical things that the Clintons may have done (revealed and not yet revealed) is not looking at this presidential race realistically. Also, Sen. Obama is being tripled teamed- Bill who may want to be president again by proxy, Hillary who seems to be power hungry and Chelsea who also may feel she is somehow entitled to the presidency in the future- yet he is still standing , that shows he has a strong will, a strong character and a commitment to the American people.Once truth that Sen. Clinton spoke, was when she stated that the world is watching. The world is watching to see how America is treating Sen. Obama who is a half minorty citizen, since we have the habit of telling everyone else how to treat their citizens.

God bless America

Posted by: Buckman | 05 May 2008 at 04:48 PM

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