Updated and Bumped
Momentum is building. Google hits 1,680,000 entries for the phrase “the greatest campaign finance scandal in American history.” Hillary Rodham Clinton is now at the top of the heap. Keep it going folks!
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“the greatest campaign finance scandal in American history”

Now that this phrase has been published by a respected member of the MSM, and, as such, is now in the LexusNexis search database, it seems appropriate to associate that phrase with the person to whom it refers: Hillary Rodham Clinton.

I received a ping from FReeper “Spirit of Allegiance” this morning which pointed to an article which featured our pal, “Dougfromupland.”

The article was in the San Francisco Chronicle’s on line edition. Here is the introductory paragraph of the article about “the greatest campaign finance scandal in American history.”

In his other life, Douglas Cogan, 59, is a San Bernardino County commercial real estate broker. But for years, the conservative Republican has spent thousands of hours painstakingly researching what he calls “the greatest campaign finance scandal in American history” by a woman he calls one of the most dangerous political figures the country has ever seen - Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Since it appears that Google has enabled “google-bombing” again, I thought it might be interesting to get the phrase, “the greatest campaign finance scandal in American history,” permanently associated with Hillary Rodham Clinton. That is the purpose of this post. And, if any of you bloggers out there want to join in, just copy+paste this post at your blog, or pass it along in the comments section of your favorite blogs. The more the merrier. I’m going to track-post it to Linkfests, and post it at FR and Hannity. I’ll also activate every tag I have ever used to associate it with this post. Heh.
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Saw this video posted over at Pirate’s Cove.

It really makes me wonder……

What hope do we have that moderate Muslims will find the courage to separate themselves from radical islamics, when in our own country, Democrats refuse to separate themselves from radical leftists.

The convergent force of the radical left with radical islamics is the mortal enemy of representative democracy and personal liberty.
It’s time to change the political conversation in our nation, before it’s too late.

see also, James Lewis at
American Thinker

Stix sends this reminder

(Originally published 9/11/06)

Four events today have helped to shape this entry, and have made this day one to remember.

First was the cnn.com stream of 9/11 “As It Was”. It took me back in time in the way that only television can. I was there, or more precisely, I was here, watching the events unfold, knowing the outcome, but glued to the broadcast nonetheless. Thank you CNN. Ya’ll did a great job.

Second was the plethora of images and content on the internet itself. Photographs, commentaries, recollections, prayers, memories and thoughts that have had five years to grow into a certain perspective.

Third was the actions and words of President Bush. From the compassion shown to the surviving families of the dead, to his Address to the Nation, the President reminded me yet again why I voted for him, and why he is the right man to lead the country in this most difficult time.

The fourth was the conclusion of ABC’s The Path to 9-11. As I mentioned last night, this was a well-acted, made-for-TV movie that hammered home one central theme: Whether we recognize it or not, this country is at war with an enemy that is determined to kill or convert us. There was no deviation in that theme tonight.

Politically speaking, the movie revealed both winners and losers. And, as powerful a medium as television is, those who will be viewed as losers have and will protest loudly of certain historical innacuracies in this dramatic re-creation. Personalities, and politics held sway over principles during the 90’s as well as into the new Administration. The cancer of Political Correctness, lack of interdepartmental communication, and a Judiciary interpreting a set of laws that were designed for a people who are law-abiding, not for those who wish to manipulate them for criminal advantage, painted a visual recipe for the inevitable failure to connect the dots.

There were winners as well. I came away from the movie with a different outlook on Richard Clarke. A man caught in the middle of a Clinton Administration more concerned with style over substance, and a Bush Administration which with a certain arrogance, dismissed his expertise as well as his interest in cyber-security as being a necessary holdover from the previous administration, but one that would no longer have the ear of the President. Also, Masood, the leader of the Northern Alliance, was one of the show’s more interesting characters. I laughed at his characterization of bin Laden as a poseur, who would rush Schummer-like to the cameras to have his picture taken beside the burned-out shells of Russian tanks (which he had no hand in destroying). Masood’s charismatic leadership, and the working relationship that he developed with the CIA field agents proved to be both a valuable source of intelligence in pre-9/11 days, as well as the template for the ouster of the Taliban afterwards.

On a final note, towards the end of the Clinton Administration, a scene in which a recommendation was made for a full scale invasion of Afghanistan was shown. That recommendation was dismissed with the line, “No President would ever begin an invasion during his last three months in office.” I thought about that line as I listened to President Bush re-iterate his “Bush Doctrine” earlier. “We make no distinction between the terrorists and the nations who harbor them.” I also thought about the gathering threat posed by a nuclear Iran, and that this confrontation may come sooner rather than later, and the realization that we are in the early days of this Epic Struggle became very clear.