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"Presumably, those two events are closed to the press as is (why?) the Beebe gala at the convention center."

I guess the best part of the event will be that it is closed to the press so that the (former) President can talk from his heart. You guys raked Asa over the coals for this. I am sure you will be fair and balanced with your criticism. Right.

ARK. BLOGI believe you are able to make this comment because we noted, and questioned, the need to close the gala. That said, as usual with Clinton, he won't be hermetically sealed in a bubble of admiring Republicans and security people as Bush was. If anything, peoople will probably get worn out hearing him talk before the day is over. Still, we don't understand what's to hide at the dinner.

I imagine the reason the Dustin McDaniel event is not publicly acknowledged by Clinton is that he does not want to be associated with some of the stupid things that Dustin says. Especially when it comes to the impact of Black voters.

At a recent event, Dustin told the crowd of Democrats that one of the best experiences of his campaign was being at an event where his young daughter was found to be playing "with some little black kids". Dustin added how great it was because without the campaign she would never have been exposed to "people like that".

I guess the McDaniels don't interact much with the black folks on their private jet or up at the Jonesboro Country Club.

When are we going to realize that Dustin is just another spoiled little rich kid trying to buy into politics. We keep hearing that the Republicans are the party of the Wealthy. That is just not the case in Arkansas.

Mike Beebe, Dustin McDaniel, and Bill Halter are all multi-millionaires. Asa Hutchinson was consistently one of the least wealthy members of Congress. Gunner Delay put his public service ahead of his law practice and faced near financial ruin for it. Jim Holt lives on the almost no money and get roundly criticized for it.

McDaniel and Halter have never known what it is like to live poor. They have never had to live paycheck to paycheck and figure out how to keep the electricity on the car insurance paid and the family fed at the same time. They just don't get it. While Beebe started poor, he has been a high roller for nearly as long as McDaniel has been alive.

This isn't Washington. The views of the traditional national parties and their stereotypical members are reversed here as it pertains to finances. I just wish you guys would acknowledge it.

Sure, Observer...you're right. Dustin is...well, Dustin.

Now, about DeLay...

You brag about his financial mismanagement as a virtue? Because he and Jesus Jim have "lived poor", whatever that means, they are more viable candidates?

Look at your stupid ass President, Observer...he has a real handle on poor people doesn't he...

Ok, the buring question is? How much...how much will Clinton raise to in effect, break the head off the nails off the coffins of the pathetic and irrelevant Republican Candidates who bravely put their names on the ballot - with Bush rotting around their necks?

The Dustin McDaniel event is a smaller event in a private home. Not all events can be public. As to the gala, it's more of a reception and not a dinner. I'm sure the dinner after the reception will be closed to the press. Perhaps the two are getting confused?

I'm looking forward to pictures of Clinton and Beebe.

ARK. BLOGSo is Beebe. Unlike many Republicans around the country, he's not running from his party's most recent president. If Clinton and Bush could be on the ballot in Ark. in 2008, who do you think would carry the state?

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Spread the name Michelle Doty among our state's teachers, and tell them to read her #8 above.

"You have to believe that Margaret Sanger and Gloria Steinem are more important to American history than Thomas Jefferson, Gen. Robert E.Lee, and Thomas Edison."

Sugar, if you don't believe Margaret Sanger is more important than any of the people you have named it's only because you haven't become pregnant "every time a man hung his pants on the bedpost." The (close) quote is a comment often made by my late mother-in-law who had 12 children, six of them surviving to adulthood.

Or is the mark of a good conservative the ability keep his wife barefoot and pregnant? News flash, sugar! It probably takes more ability and good sense not to do that.

Amen, doigotta! Those women are AT LEAST as important as the men were.

After all, considering that more than half the population was affected personally by them in incredibly profound ways, just in sheer numbers their influence is greater.

Then if you consider how entire families were affected by them, hands down they are just as important.

How many contributions made by women over the years can be attributed to their influence? Just as one example, think about bullet proof vests. The materials were developed by a woman. Lots of lives saved there. That woman may not have been working at chemistry if not for the influence of those women.