Arkansas Blog

Ummm....did the Clinton campaign & Beebe press office's crack staff happen to proofread that first quote before the release flew off the fax? Reads like Beebe is claiming to have once been the wife of a Governor. Gives a whole new meaning to the phrase "gender gap."

"As the first lady of Arkansas, I watched Hillary Clinton stand up for working families by helping to organize Arkansas Advocates for Children and families and leading a taskforce to improve education standards across our great state," Beebe said. "As a Senator I have applauded her work to strengthen the Children's Health Insurance program, which increases coverage for our children in low income and working families.

Dear Seth and Bill,

Just sitting here ruminating on how you would cover this little lovefest if Huckabee were in office. Let's pull out a few of your old stand by's. I love this game....it's called Check Out the Media Double Standard. Here are your angles if Huckabee was governor:

Was Beebe on state time at the event?
Were his troopers with him for protection...was this appropriate at a purely political event?
What staffers were with him?
Did they submit leave sheets?
Did you FOI the leave sheets by the end of the day?
What was the total cost of staff and protection for the event?
Did you track down the head of the other party to get some front paragraph quotes slamming all of this as inappropriate use of state resources?
Did a state vehicle take the governor to the event?
What is the official leave status of the Beebe employee on leave to work for Hillary?
Is this an appropriate leave?

You see how the game is played? Come on Max...jump in...you can play too. Seth...without your little bag o cheap shots....you seem to be in the paper a whole lot less these days.

Nice question, strange. Don't expect him to do anything about it. Max is as partisan as they come.

Bill Maher's HBO special "The Decider" watch it for free on youtube before they pull it down.

His best yet. I nearly fell off the couch I laughed so hard.

Maher is the new Carlin.

NO WAY SHE CAN WIN.
READ ON AND FIND OUT WHY. . .

She will lose the presidency because she is a woman. Polls consistently show that between 5-17% of the american public would never vote for a woman for President. And I guaranty that these polls are underpolling the true figure. Even if we take the polls numbers as true, that means between 12 million and 40 million potential votes lost simply because of her gender.

Even if you put 65% of these people in the Rebublican camp that still leaves to many potential democrats and independants that she can't get. Presidential elections today are decided by very thin margins. (2000 - Gore by 543,816; 2004 - Bush by 3,012,499) This adds up to bad news for Dems in '08 with Clinton.

http://legacy.rasmussenreports.com/2005/Woman%20President.htm

ARK. BLOG: Didn't you post this exact note yesterday? If you want to buy an add to repeat a message, we'll be happy to sell you one.

"Clinton spoke briefly hitting her agenda points on health care, children, environment and energy"

An improvement. The failed promise of the Clinton Foundation to deliver a pedestrian bridge at the front door of their library fails to provide an avenue that will

1) enable folks to become more healthy, reducing the load on health care requirements
2) give children a means to safely walk to the library from NLR to LR and
3) set a superior example on environmental and energy efforts

I guess speaking about these subjects briefly is better than not talking about them at all as they have practiced for three years now when it comes to the Rock Island Bridge.

ARK. BLOG,

Do you think the theory has any merit? I recieved no comments pro or con either time.

ARK. BLOG: I think some people won't vote for a woman. But some who are inclined not to do so, might be inclined otherwise depending on the opponent. Everything is purely speculative until the final matchup is known. Countries the world over have chosen women leaders. Why we should be such wusses about it escapes me, but you can't underestimate the anxieties of the Southern white boys and their ilk -- tough talking but afraid of strong women -- who drive the Republican train. Was Maggie Thatcher up to it? Ronnnie Raygun thought so. Hillary is her match for toughness.

ARK. BLOG,

Keep in mind that most women leaders in the modern era have come out of parlamentary systems. If we operated under such a system we would have a female PM today.

My suspicion is that Dems are about to nominate a candidate with a real weak spot on the gender issue but they don't seem to know it or are not willing to acknowledge it. Furthermore, I suspect Clinton, being a strong woman, is particulary prone to this kind of bigotry.

From the article, "She said she planned to campaign in Arkansas, which she said remains a part of her."
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Yep, we're still part of her like that used toilet paper that was stuck to her shoe . . . And we got used the same way.