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<div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Breaking News: Hillary Says<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><EM><B>“I’m in …” <o:p></o:p></B></EM></SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Frankly, I was kind of hoping she wouldn’t go for it.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Why does everybody who is somebody in American politics have to run for president?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">She has just been easily reelected to a cushy six-year term as U.S. Senator from New York.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Isn’t it enough of an honor to be a United States senator?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>(I wish they’d let me warm one of those seats)</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Some will say “Alex is just a kool-aid drinking True Believer” but honestly, after years of watching these Democrats thrash about from my vantage point in the big "Blue" state of California, I don’t regret my decision to register with the California Green Party one little bit. </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">I predict Hillary will be disaster.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Clinton and Obama will be basically going after the same people – not radicals or lefties or serious activists, mind you – but the same group of bullshit Establishment “neoliberals.”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Notice how most of the article below is devoted to their fundraising among rich liberals in (where else?) New York and Hollywood! Hillary already has a huge war chest and it says here that both Hillary and Barrack want to raise $75 million this year. </SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">$75 million in 2007? </SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">The election isn't until November 2008! <SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">And I don’t know where this <B><I>thing </I></B>comes from about the Clintons being so great for African-Americans.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s a total crock!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> As an African-American Green I consider it my personal responsibility to blow the whistle on that! </SPAN></SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">These guys are going to end Republican cronyism and incompetence?</SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">I don't think so! </SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Most importantly, we will never get a serious debate about our issues because the one and only issue will be Hillary through a very long and very dreary recapitulation of all that irrelevant crap about all those Clinton shenanigans from the 1990s.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">I predict Hillary is gonna be a disaster, and thus, another opening for Greens. We are truly going to be the ONLY alternative to the pay-to-play politics of the Democrats and Republicans. </SPAN></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoBodyText2>CLINTON ENTERS '08 FIELD, </div>
<div class=MsoBodyText2>FUELING RACE FOR MONEY </div>
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<div class=MsoBodyText>Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton jumped into the 2008 presidential race yesterday, immediately squaring off against Senator Barack Obama and the rest of the Democratic field in what is effectively the first Democratic primary, the competition for campaign donations.</div>
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<div class=MsoNormal>“<SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">I’m in,” Mrs. Clinton said in an e-mail message to supporters early yesterday morning. “And I’m in to win.”<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">If successful, Mrs. Clinton, 59, would be the first female nominee of a major American political party, and she would become the first spouse of a former president to seek a return to the White House.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Her entrance into the race followed Mr. Obama’s by less than a week, and highlighted the urgency for her of not falling behind in the competition for money, especially in New York, where the battle has already reached a fever pitch.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">George Soros, the billionaire New York philanthropist, has made maximum donations in the past to both candidates, for instance, and last week he faced a choice: support Mr. Obama, who created his committee on Tuesday, or stay neutral and see what Mrs. Clinton and others had to say. In his case, the upstart won. Mr. Soros sent the maximum contribution, $2,100, to Mr. Obama, the first-term senator from Illinois, just hours after he declared his plans to run. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
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<div class=MsoNormal><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Mrs. Clinton’s presidential operation is only one day old, but she already finds herself in a breakneck competition against Mr. Obama for fund-raising supremacy in two towns that she and her husband have mined heavily for political gold: New York and Hollywood. Mr. Obama’s entrance into the race has also put up for grabs other groups that are primary targets for Mrs. Clinton, including African-Americans and women. <o:p></o:p></SPAN></div>
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