Hillary and McCain

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“Our sense right now,” Mr. Halperin says, “is that McCain would beat any Democrat including Hillary Clinton, and Clinton would beat any Republican except for McCain.”

-- Maureen Dowd for The NY Times

Yeah, we should probably have the decency to hold off until after the 2006 elections to talk about the presidential contest, but we know the race for the White House is a full-time sport now, and we started talking about it when Bush squeaked out another dubious election in 2004. But it is early days. And still interesting.

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Hillary and McCain

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“Our sense right now,” Mr. Halperin says, “is that McCain would beat any Democrat including Hillary Clinton, and Clinton would beat any Republican except for McCain.”

-- Maureen Dowd for The NY Times

Yeah, we should probably have the decency to hold off until after the 2006 elections to talk about the presidential contest, but we know the race for the White House is a full-time sport now, and we started talking about it when Bush squeaked out another dubious election in 2004. But it is early days. And still interesting.

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Julia Wilson: Teen by Day, Assassin by Night

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Upset by the war in Iraq, Julia Wilson vented her frustrations with President Bush last spring on her Web page on MySpace.com. She posted a picture of the president, scrawled "Kill Bush" across the top and drew a dagger stabbing his outstretched hand. She later replaced her page on the social-networking site after learning in her eighth-grade history class that such threats are a federal offense.

It was too late.

-- Don Thompson for the Associated Press

You really cannot joke about killing the president, not even on MySpace and probably not on LiveJournal. Or else big, bad g-men will come by and leave you in tears, too.

Of course, this blog has the utmost respect for our leader and couldn't even think such a thing, but I can see how some enthusiastic young minds might get excessive in their political criticism.

They really are paying attention to these blogs.

( AP Story )

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Julia Wilson: Teen by Day, Assassin by Night

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Upset by the war in Iraq, Julia Wilson vented her frustrations with President Bush last spring on her Web page on MySpace.com. She posted a picture of the president, scrawled "Kill Bush" across the top and drew a dagger stabbing his outstretched hand. She later replaced her page on the social-networking site after learning in her eighth-grade history class that such threats are a federal offense.

It was too late.

-- Don Thompson for the Associated Press

You really cannot joke about killing the president, not even on MySpace and probably not on LiveJournal. Or else big, bad g-men will come by and leave you in tears, too.

Of course, this blog has the utmost respect for our leader and couldn't even think such a thing, but I can see how some enthusiastic young minds might get excessive in their political criticism.

They really are paying attention to these blogs.

( AP Story )

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