Can you say Helloooo Senator Clinton!

-- byebye Rudy (@ .), May 10, 2000

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I haven't seen the details (I'm out in Oregon), but if the subject line is an accurate summation, then the NY GOP must ditch Giuliani at once and replace him with the next best choice (by acclamation). Else Hillary is in snug and no doubts about it.

Personally, I think Hillary would be an interesting addition to the Senate. 1 out of 100. She'd add a different perspective. It remains to be seen how well she would pick a staff and move up in the ranks to be a mover once Bill is permanantly relegated to retired President. My hunch is, she'll either become a huge force, or she'll flame out big time inside of 4 years. No timid church mouse, she.

-- Brian McLaughlin (brianm@ims.com), May 10, 2000.

Brian,

Talk about the lesser of two evils. The First Lady is somewhere to the left of Mao. She oozes the typical liberal arrogance... she is convinced she knows how better to run my life than me. We discuss her policies in detail if you wish. On the issue of character, she is a political animal to the marrow. She has tolerated a libertine of a husband... and I strongly suspect for reasons of personal ambition.

-- Ken Decker (kcdecker@worldnet.att.net), May 10, 2000.

Ken, aw hell, the Senate could use some shaking up. Hillary can't cast more than one vote, with 99 others to balance her out. Right now, Paul Wellstone is the only really fringe senator, and he's not exactly Che Guavara is he? The Senate hasn't had a real fire-breathing liberal for decades. What's the harm in some political theater for a change?

I'm not exactly wed to the party of Newt. No more so than the party of Teddy K. I'm voting Green in the next general election every chance I get. So, blame it on my upbringing if you want. The Libertarians strike me as yo-yos. They don't understand the habitual channels of power.

-- Brian McLaughlin (brianm@ims.com), May 10, 2000.

Isn't Guiliani a Republican? I thought only Democrats had sex!

How are the Republicans going to vote now? They hate Hillary because her husband had an affair with a staffer, and now Guiliani has an affair with a staffer, so they're going to have to hate him too. Hmmm, maybe they can talk Kenneth Starr into running.

-- Hawk (flyin@high.again), May 10, 2000.

Hillary considers the Internet/free speech to be a threat? Do you really want her in the Senate?

From Drudge Report's "Transcript" (on the far right column, about 2/3rds down the page).

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"The first lady of the United States recently addressed concerns about Internet during a cyberspatial Millennium Project press conference just weeks after Lewinsky broke. She said, "We're all going to have to rethink how we deal with the Internet. As exciting as these new developments are, there are a number of serious issues without any kind of editing function or gatekeeping function." I wonder who she was referring to."

"Mrs. Clinton continued, "Any time an individual leaps so far ahead of that balance and throws the system, whatever it might be political, economic, technologicalout of balance, you've got a problem. It can lead to all kinds of bad outcomes which we have seen historically."

-- Deb M. (vmcclell@columbus.rr.com), May 11, 2000.

Deb-

Maybe she is referring to installing porn filters on library web browsers.

Are you opposed to this, or do you think children have the right to unfettered access to any and all sexual graphics?

-- (@ .), May 11, 2000.

You popped the top on a BIG can of worms, @. Ever hear of parental supervision? The worms they be wigglin'.

No love lost for Hilary, but Rudy confiscates personal property like a regular communist politburo chieftain.

-- Bingo1 (howe9@shentel.net), May 11, 2000.

@,

Maybe she is referring to installing porn filters on library web browsers.

I refer you to the 2nd paragraph, again:

"Mrs. Clinton continued, "Any time an individual leaps so far ahead of that balance and throws the system, whatever it might be political, economic, technologicalout of balance, you've got a problem. It can lead to all kinds of bad outcomes which we have seen historically."

-- Deb M. (vmcclell@columbus.rr.com), May 11, 2000.

That doesn't sound like any porn filter I've ever heard of. It's about controlling the press, to stop information that *she* doesn't like, because it upsets the political, economic, etc... balance. That's NOT porn - don't kid yourself. (Besides, if Bill & Hillary are pro-partial birth abortion, then how can they have any negative say against porn - it's freedom of choice, right???)

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Are you opposed to this, or do you think children have the right to unfettered access to any and all sexual graphics?

-- (@ .), May 11, 2000.

I am against pornography, however, I am more firmly against the government ruling everything in my life. It is up to *me* to decide what is good and right for my family - not Joe Schmoe in the White House, Senate, H.R. or in the WTO.

If I wish to maintain my freedom by allowing filth on some of the web sites, well that's the price of freedom. I may not like what these porn people do, but freedom of speech IS a freedom permitted by the Constitution, equally applied to ALL people. The Bill of Rights isn't supposed to be selectively applied.

If we refuse to treat ourselves as adults and accept responsibility (that's what's at stake: monitoring ourselves or letting the government do it for us), then soon, we will have no say over any of our actions...

-- Deb M. (vmcclell@columbus.rr.com), May 11, 2000.

There once was a Mayor named Rudy

had sex with a staffer named Judy

Afternoon delight

sky rockets in flight

Now Rudy and Judy are moody

-- (hillary@home.laffin'), May 12, 2000.

Actually, to be fair, Rudy is just as much a confiscator of property as Billary. Consider his automobile grabs if you are stopped for DUI in NYC...without a trial, and no questions asked. I think we'd end up in the same place no matter which one of them got elected. I think it might take a few months longer with Rudy at the helm: in hell, in a handbasket.

-- liu (lookitup@dictionary.com), May 12, 2000.