Archive for June, 2007
June 30th, 2007
Official Site of Hillary Clinton for President Exploratory Committee, HillaryClinton.com, is always full of meaningful, thought-provoking information on the most dire, existential challenges facing America. If you thought HillaryClinton.com views the war in Iraq, mounting budget deficits, the sharp decline in value of the dollar, global terrorism and the export of American jobs as the most important items on the Hillary Clinton agenda, why, you just don’t know what “important” really is.
HillaryClinton.com devoted days to covering the theatrical tour de force, or rather tour de farce, of Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton acting in their own version of the Sopranos finale. That, in the Hillary Clinton universe, is what is important. Or that ridiculous “official” Hillary Clinton Campaign song contest. Which, incidentally, was won by a Canadian singer, Celine Dion. Another example of what the Hillary Clinton, Bill Clinton and Associates corporate limited partnership wants Americans to focus on.
Since Hillary Clinton thinks highly of Canadian creative talent, how about a Canadian writer. More precisely, myself, American-Canadian writer Sheldon Filger, author of “Hillary Clinton Nude: Naked Ambition, Hillary Clinton And America’s Demise.” Instead of Sopranos redux and other such inanities, “Hillary Clinton Nude” delves into really important matters for the 2008 Presidential Election, including national security, the war in Iraq, economic challenges and international developments that will affect the future of the United States. “Hillary Clinton Nude” raises these important matters, than demonstrates why Hillary Rodham Clinton is not equipped morally or intellectually to provide the caliber of presidential leadership required to confront America’s most critical challenges. HillaryClinton.com can continue to wallow on song contests and expositions on the theatrical ability of Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton. For common sense instead of nonsense on Hillary Clinton, pick up a copy of “Hillary Clinton Nude.”
More information on “Hillary Clinton Nude” can be found at
http://www.hillary-clinton-nude.com
June 29th, 2007
Watching the Democratic candidates forum broadcast last night form Howard University, I was really floored with how inept Hillary Clinton’s rivals are within her own party. Whatever one may think of her, there is no doubt that Hillary is highly disciplined, focused and strategic in her pursuit of presidential power. The large group of men opposing her for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination seemed almost impotent in comparison with the tough, cogent and concise Hillary Clinton that effectively dominated the forum. While most of her male rivals stumbled and broke the rules on limiting responses to as little as thirty seconds, while mouthing oratorical nonsense, Hillary Clinton kept within the time constraints, and gave answers that one may not have liked, but which were expertly tailored to the politics of her target audience. She even received more cheers than Barack Obama from the largely African-American audience at Howard University.
What does this all mean? Exactly what this blog has been saying all along. Hillary Rodham Clinton has a massive superiority in the race for her party’s nomination, and the supposed “threat” from Barack Obama has been largely invented by the media. Senator Clinton’s performance during the debate, and the lackluster presence from her rivals, illustrates how solidified Hillary’s lead is in the presidential contest. Combined with her staggering superiority in collecting endorsements from leading Democratic Party leaders, it again appears that everything is going according to plan. A plan that both Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton have conceived in their goal of having a second Clinton administration succeed the second Bush administration. In other words, American democracy at work.
June 28th, 2007
www.hillaryclinton.com may be for Hillary Clinton her single most important address in the 2008 presidential campaign. As the American electorate becomes more attuned to the Internet, more and more of Hillary Clinton’s celebrity campaign message is being disseminated through her website,www.hillaryclinton.com. The most recent burst of publicity for Hillary Clinton was not due to some deeply analytical policy statement, but rather through a video of her and Bill Clinton mimicking the Sopranos, initially posted on, you guessed it, www.hillaryclinton.com.
In the 2004 campaign, the Internet was still in its infancy. However, in 2008, Hillary Clinton is making it the center of gravity in her campaign. More and more, www.hillaryclinton.com is the convergence point for all the manipulation and image fabrication that Hillary and Bill Clinton are so well known for. Her initial presidential campaign message came through video posted on www.hillaryclinton.com, and Bill Clinton has made several videos praising the wife he has cheated on as the “most qualified” presidential candidate, all posted on www.hillaryclinton.com. It may be that Hillary Clinton is in fact becoming Big Sister a la 1984, with our Internet screens being the shrine on which we are all to worship every utterance from Hillary Rodham Clinton.
June 27th, 2007
A growing number of newspapers, publications and news websites are listing “Hillary Clinton Nude:Naked Ambition, Hillary Clinton And America’s Demise” among the most notable books about Hillary Rodham Clinton. These include the Chicago Tribune, Newsmax and Christian Century, among others. Clealy a diverse group, taking notice of “Hillary Clinton Nude.”
My book about the front-runner for succeeding George W. Bush as the nation’s 44th president is important to the average American because it provides essential information about Hillary Clinton that is crucial for rendering a thoughtful decision come voting day in November 2008. “Hillary Clinton Nude” is much more than an attempt to pillory Hillary. The book takes a hard look at the intenational, national security,economic and social challenges that America will confront during the next president’s term of office, and then demonstrates that Hillary Clinton lacks the essential core competencies and intuitve skills to successfully lead the nation during what may very well be an exceptionally difficult time in American history.
Despite the vast chasm of difference between Hillary Rodham Clinton and I, the two of us actually share one common objective. We are both trying to relay information about Hillary Clinton to the stakeholders of the United States who will vote in the next presidential election. There is, however, a marked contrast in the type of information each of us is propagagting. Hillary will be conveying information to you compressed into thirty-second television ads, devoid of meaningful content and shaped, packaged and processed by public relations and advertising experts to manupulate you into rendering a decision to vote for Hillary Clinton based on the most superficial of judgements. I, on the other hand, am conveying the naked truth on Hillary Clinton, with two hundred pages of thoughtful analyses and facts. My objective, unlike that of Hillary Clinton and her political machine, is to empower you into being very thoughtful and reflective when you cast your ballot for ther next president of the United States.
June 26th, 2007
One of the most important players in Hillaryland is Mark Penn. He is the CEO of the international public relations firm Burson-Marsteller, as well as president of the polling firm of Penn, Schoen and Berland Associates. You might think he has plently on his plate. But actually, he has another job, as Hillary Clinton’s chief pollster and one of her principal campaign strategists. According to reports surfacing in the media, Penn has been conducting polling on possible attack messages directed against Barack Obama and John Edwards, Senator Clinton’s most serious challengers for the Democratic nomination in 2008.
Might this be a hint of how Hillary will be spending those tens of millions of dollars she has raised for her television advertising blitz coinciding with the approaching primaries? No less an authority than Hillary Clinton herself stated publically that when she is under attack, she will “deck” her opponents. Some will say she was referring to Republicans. That might be wishful thinking on the part of some anti-Hillary Democrats.
The Clinton political machine obviously intends to wage a ruthless, aggressive campaign to secure the Democratic nomination for Hillary as soon as possible. If she indeed turns negative on her fellow Democrats duirng the primaries, take this as a trial run on a much more negative advertising strategy Hillary will unleash on the Republican Party and whoever their presidential nominee is in 2008.
If you thought Bill Clinton was “Slick Willie,” I think Hillary Rodham Clinton will surprise and shock many, as the 2008 presidential campaign season unfolds in all its glorious primary colors.
June 25th, 2007
Amid the media convulsions over billionaire politician Mike Bloomberg and his intentions, I believe that of greater significance is that a large proportion of the money elite in America, the billionaires, overly-compensated and overweight CEOs and special interest groups tied into high net worth individuals, will be investing their political capital on Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Heroine of the poor and oppressed, the selfless defender of low-income children and the downtrodden, Hillary Clinton is always looking for the big bucks to run the PR spins and advertising circuses that will convince all those constituencies of the underclass to vote for Hillary Clinton in massive droves. Now, once the election is over, who will be most likely to have President Hillary’s ear? You really think it will be the anonymous masses? My money is on the people with money, lots of money,those writing big campaign checks to Hillaryland and its political machine.
But don’t take my word for it. Look at who the key advisors are in the Clinton campaign camp. Note that her chief pollster is also the chief of a PR firm with some of the biggest and most controversial corporate clients in the land.
What will be most ironic about this wave of support for Hillary from the landed gentry is that many were undoubtedly Republicans who previously invested in George W. Bush. Well, it looks like that son of a Bush really screwed things up with the family business called America. Seems it’s time for the big shareholders to hire a new management team. You can bet behind closed doors, Hillary Clinton is doing everything possible to convince these moguls that their investments are safe with the Clinton corporation providing management services. You suppose that conversation is a little bit different than those she pompously engages in with minimum wage health workers?
June 21st, 2007
Dear Mike,
In the wake of your highly publicized leave-taking from the G.O.P., the media has had a field day speculating if this is step one in an eventual Bloomberg independent presidential campaign. You have said you don’t intend to run for president, however, we all recall that Senator Obama once made a similar pledge. In case you do feel the temptation, allow me to present a better alternative.
In the first place, despite your immese wealth, as a stand-alone candidate absent a grass-roots political party, you stand no chance at winning. Being a numbers man, you can do the math. Mr. Ross Perot discovered this to his cost, despite enormous allocations of his own personal wealth. I also don’t think you would be serving democracy or providing better answers to the nation’s problems by spending hundreds of millions of dollars just to be a spoiler. Despite the media suggestions that you would be more likely to hurt Hillary Clinton than a Republican challenger if you ran, I believe the opposite is true. The Perot campaign of 1992 clearly swung the election in favor of Bill Clinton. Being a spoiler that aids in electing a second Clinton administration would make you a curious footnote in American history, and I think you are too serious a man for such marginality.
I have a better suggestion. Use your resources and stature to help create an Internet-based third party that would function as a non-ideological executive search committee, seeking the most qualified non-politician candidate for president. After all, if your company wants to fill a senior executive position, you look for the most capable person, and ignore someone who just spends a lot of money on advertising to convince you to hire them, as will be the case with Hillary Clinton and her peers in 2008. Read my book, “Hillary Clinton Nude,” which offers details on what I see as the only hope of preventing the election of either another Clinton or a Republican equivalent. I think you may find the ideas proposed in the final chapter of “Hillary Clinton Nude” of compelling interest.
June 19th, 2007
As reported on earlier in this blog, Hillary Clinton has sought to garner campaign momentum by running a campaign song contest on her official website, in lieu of discusisng mundane and arcane matters such as the economy, Iraq War and international terrorism. To paraphrase Bill Clinton, “It’s the campaign advertising and PR, stupid.”
Today on the Hillary Clinton presidential “exploratory committee” website, we had Hillary and Bill mimicking the Sopranos finale in a clever video. Typical of the Clintons, it was all show withou even a hint of substance. All an attempt to make the Clinton couple look real cool, so we will all vote them back into the White House.
As it turned out, the Clintons teased their audience on the video, compelling those interested to click another link to discover the world-shattering news that Celine Dion’s “You and I” is the official winner of the Hillary Campaign for President song contest.
What inspiring leadership! No doubt, this all proves that Hillary Clinton is a towering genius, the most skilled example of statecraft management in all of America. The fact that I haven’t yet figured this out just goes to show you that I’m not as wise as all those thoughtful Americans that will now vote for Hillary in droves, due to her Sopranos video act and nifty song contest. What an example of American democracy at work. No doubt, the Iraqi insurgents will now lay down their arms, and beg for a further infusion of this new style of democracy.
June 17th, 2007
In the wake of the sentencing of fomer Dick Cheney chief of staff “Scooter” Libby for perjury, the media has been speculating on the possibility of President Bush pardoning him. From the pens of journalists of both the right and left, there has been a warning that Bush would tarnish what little credibility remains with his calamitous presidency. However, for pure hubris, I don’t think even Bush pardoning Libby would come close to matching the hubris of the “pardongate” scandal during the last days of Bill Clinton’s presidency.
Does anyone still remember those final days of the first co-presidency of Bill and Hillary Clinton? The sleazy pardoning of a rogues gallery of rogues? Time to refresh our memories. There was the fugitive Marc Rich, for one. He was once on the FBI’s list of the top ten most wanted, in connection with dozens of counts of tax evasion and even the charge of trading with the enemy. While still a fugitive from justice, Bill Clinton granted him a full and complete pardon. The fact that the ex-wife of Marc Rich contributed financially to the Clinton library was perhaps only a coincidence…or maybe not. Then, in the wake of Hillary Clinton’s first Senate election victory in New York, she and Bill Clinton met with supporters of convicted swindlers from the town of New Square. Guess what; those swindlers were pardoned and released from jail just before the end of Clinton’s administration. Hillary Clinton has claimed she knew nothing of her husband’s plans to pardon these swindlers. Do you believe her? Let’s just say, I feel somewhat skeptical about her denials.
Amid the continuing momentum building towards Hillary Clinton’s election victory in 2008, maybe we should all revive our memories of the “pardongate” affair. For those interested, in my book, “Hillary Clinton Nude,” there is a chapter with details about the pardon outrages of the Clinton administration. That chaper I appropriately name, ” A Terminally Unethical And Vulgar Couple.”
June 16th, 2007
The Hillaryland campaign machine, known for its tight discipline, recently surprised observers by leaking a letter from a senior staffer to Hillary Clinton, advising her to pull out of the Iowa caucus, the first lampost on the 2008 primary schedule. Was this really an unauthorized leak to journalists? This may sound conspiratorial to some, but I think that so-called leak may have been deliberate, to lull Obama and Edwards into believing that Hillary Clinton is in trouble in Iowa. If my instincts are correct, this will mean Hillary will lull her opponents into complacency, while she delivers a knockout blow in the Iowa caucus.
Ignoring the meaningless polls and media hype for Obama, and just focusing on the facts on the ground. Hillary Clinton is lining up the best political operators and talent in Iowa, as she builds a powerful voting machine on the ground. Former Iowa Governor and briefly, former presidential candidate Vilsack is a key supporter of Hillary Clinton. Vilsack and his wife will undoubtedly translate their popularity and political connections in Iowa to boost Hillary Clinton.
The media pretense that Obama and Edwards are competitive in Iowa sets them up for the kill. If Hillary Clinton should win the Iowa caucus, they both will be dealt a severe blow. Obama, in particular, will see his campaign implode, just as with Howard Dean’s 2004 campaign, after he lost Iowa.
A Hillary Clinton win in Iowa will probably mean that within the following five weeks Hillary Clinton will tie down her nomination victory in the Democratic Primaries. This is the game in Iowa that I believe Hillary and Bill Clinton are gunning for. So, despite this “leaked” campaign memo, expect Hillaryland to deploy all its immense political resources in securing a win in Iowa in January 2008.
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