The victim card, the female card, and the media bias card have all been played to cover HRC’s poor debate performance, the first two in the immediate aftermath of the debate.

Ms. Clinton has touted her “35 years of experience” as a major qualification to be the Democrat nominee. Like other Democrat candidates, she has decried the “stunning record of secrecy” of the Bush administration; her campaign Web site vows to bring a “return to transparency” to government. But Clinton’s appointment calendar as First Lady, her notes at strategy meetings, what advice she gave her husband and his advisers, what policy memos she wrote, even some key papers from her health-care task force—all of this, and much more documenting her years as First Lady, remain locked away. source

So, what happens when she is asked about this by Tim Russert?

MR. RUSSERT: Senator Clinton, I’d like to follow up because, in terms of your experience as first lady, in order to give the American people an opportunity to make a judgment about your experience, would you allow the National Archives to release the documents about your communications with the president, the advice you gave, because, as you well know, President Clinton has asked the National Archives not to do anything until 2012?

SEN. CLINTON: Well, actually, Tim, the Archives is moving as rapidly as the Archives moves. There’s about 20 million pieces of paper there and they are moving, and they are releasing as they do their process. And I am fully in favor of that.

Now, all of the records, as far as I know, about what we did with health care, those are already available. Others are becoming available. And I think that, you know, the Archives will continue to move as rapidly as the circumstances and processes demand.

MR. RUSSERT: But there was a letter written by President Clinton specifically asking that any communication between you and the president not be made available to the public until 2012. Would you lift that ban?

SEN. CLINTON: Well, that’s not my decision to make. And I don’t believe that any president or first lady has. But certainly we’ll move as quickly as our circumstances and the processes of the National Archives permits.

According to Newsweek’s Michael Isikoff, “Nearly three years after the Clinton Library opened—and more than 21 months after its trove of records became subject to the Freedom of Information Act— barely one half of 1 percent of the 78 million pages of documents and 20 million e-mail messages at the federally funded facility are public.”

Today, the Big Dawg, himself, weighed in, and threw down the media bias card…..

The AP is reporting Bill Clinton said Friday that a letter he wrote to the National Archives was to expedite release of his papers, not slow the process or hide anything as rivals are suggesting in criticism of his wife.

Russert’s question “was breathtakingly misleading,” Bill Clinton said.

“Tim’s question was entirely on the mark.”, Barbara L. Levin, spokeswoman for NBC, said.

Both of them cannot be telling the truth. It is linguistically impossible, UNLESS, in ClintonWorld, it depends upon the meaning of “was.”

Like any good sleight of hand artist, HRC’s protests conveniently change the subject, and distract the audience long enough for the illusion to work. They also completely miss the point. The fact remains that the Clinton campaign is unwilling to provide the evidence, other than her own word, that her years as First Lady provided her with the experience which qualifies her to be President of the United States of America.

With her already high negatives, Mrs. Clinton’s refusal to provide transparency is likely to have the effect of more people agreeing with Mike Huckabee’s assessment, “There is nothing funny about Hillary Clinton being President.”

What say you? This is the Friday Free Speech Zone, aka The World Famous Friday Open Thread.

WFFOT: Because a Star Trek film without William Shatner is like an Open Thread without a music video.

Byron York says, Hillary wants you to see those papers. Really
Sources:
Debate transcript
Video of Russert asking HRC about releasing the records

Newsweek, “Papers, I don’t see any papers”

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Leopard, the latest update of the Apple Mac operating system OS X, goes on sale on Friday.

The release ends months of waiting for Mac fans, after Apple pushed back the launch to finish development on its much-hyped iPhone.

Early reviews for Leopard have been positive with veteran technology writer Walt Mossberg calling it “evolutionary, not revolutionary”.

Apple is hoping to build on recent strong sales of its Mac computers.

In the last three months, Apple sold 2.2 million Macs, up 400,000 on its previous best quarter.

The company is touting Leopard as a Vista-beater, pointing to new features not found in the new operating system (OS) from Microsoft that drives many PCs.

Aren’t you excited? I thought so.

So, as fires continue to burn in California, and authorities find a live grenade at the Mexican embassy in New York, and Feds warn of shoe bombers again, and the Daily Pos kids are advocating conversion to moon god worship, and so on, and so on……..
We come to another Friday, time for The World Famous Friday Open Thread: A Free Speech Zone.

WFFOT: Better thread than dead……..

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Ho-Lee Cow!

This is the World Famous Friday Open Thread, a Free Speech Zone. Comments, questions, trackbacks, links, etc. are welcome.

WFFOT: Your thread in times of tumult and concern.

Authorities discovered envelopes full of letters from politicians, including one Fed-Ex envelope devoted to letters from Hillary Rodham Clinton, thanking Mr. Hsu, who was her biggest fund-raiser. source

Among the items in Norman Hsu’s personal collection of Clinton memorabilia: CDs of presentations made by Hillary Clinton as well as an envelope of thank-you notes from the Democratic presidential front-runner.

The contents were revealed the day after the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York said it found a saxophone signed by Bill Clinton and about 200 bottles of fine wine and Champagne. The Red Cross said Mr. Hsu purchased the instrument at auction for $26,000 at an event for the group attended by both men in October 2005.

The prosecutors’ inventory of seized items provided a glimpse into Mr. Hsu’s life. In September, the U.S. attorney in New York charged Mr. Hsu with running a Ponzi scheme that allegedly cost his investors $60 million. He was also charged with pressuring investors to donate to candidates, and reimbursing some, which is illegal. Mr. Hsu has said he didn’t reimburse people for donations. He is being held in California on a separate, 16-year-old grand-theft charge also involving an alleged Ponzi scheme.

It has been 33 days since Hillary Rodham Clinton promised to return $850,000 in dirty money from Democrat swindler, Norman Hsu. There are no reports that she has fulfilled her promise.

It has been 984 days since John F. Kerry promised to sign SF 180 and make his service records public.

And the count continues…..

This is the World Famous Friday Open Thread. WFFOT: An oasis of Free Speech in the blogosphere.

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It’s time to stop pretending that Republicans get a fair shot from NBC and MSNBC.

They haven’t been given one in the past.

There’s no reason to believe they will be given one in next week’s debate in Dearborn, Michigan, either.

Here is just the most recent example:

Raw partisanship from Chris Matthews was in full display at his 10th anniversary shindig for his signature show, “Hardball.”

Chris Matthews had barely finished praising his colleagues at the 10th anniversary party for his “Hardball” show Thursday night in Washington, D.C. when his remarks turned political and pointed, even suggesting that the Bush administration had “finally been caught in their criminality.” source

After years of breathless reporting on such non-stories as “The Downing Street Memos,” Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame, championing the Democrat cause at each and every opportunity, Matthews’ latest rant rivals the disgusting Keith Olberman for shear hatred and vitriol.

Matthews continued, “They’ve finally been caught in their criminality.” He did not specify the exact criminal behavior to which he referred, which is another trademark of the so-called “objective journalist.”

The Republican Party should stop elevating these merchants of political hatred by giving them platforms of respectability under the thinly veiled guise of “objective journalism.” They are neither objective, nor journalists. Until NBC steps up to demand that its news division stop practicing partisan politics, Republican candidates are under no obligation to help them with their ratings, or to bolster their credibility.

Nor are Republicans under any obligation to buy the products of the commercial sponsors of the news division.

To the Republican National Committee: Cancel this debate.

Update:

This is the late, late Thursday nite, but close enough to Friday to be the World Famous Friday Open Thread.

Threads should be seen and not heard. See the thread.

Have a good weekend y’all.
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