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Hillary Clinton ignites passions, both pro and con

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.

In her other life, Zehra Ahsan, 26, is a law student and an intern in the San Francisco district attorney's office. But since earlier this year, she has spent upward of 100 hours a week, often beginning at dawn, talking to voters, driving hundreds of miles to events, handing out flyers at BART stations and networking for a woman she believes could change the course of American history - Hillary Rodham Clinton.

"It's a passion, because I think it's important," said Cogan, of Upland, who has worked with the Hillary Clinton Accountability Project, or HillCAP, and a group called the Equal Justice for America Foundation to showcase what he alleges has been Clinton's wrongdoing.

"She thinks she is destined to be the most powerful in the world … and I think there is nothing she would not do to get power."

Ahsan's view could not be more different.

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Hillary and the Nepotism Tango

Maybe it’s fitting that a woman who first sashayed into the national consciousness with an equation — “two for the price of one” — may have her fate determined by the arithmetic of dynasty.

The town is divided into two camps: those who think that, after 16 years of Hillary pushing herself forward, the public will get worn out and reject her, and those who think that, after 16 years of Hillary pushing herself forward, the public will get worn down and give in to her.

In his new book, “The Evangelical President,” Bill Sammon interviewed President Bush and his senior aides about the ’08 election. Mr. Bush told the author that Hillary Clinton would beat Barack Obama, because she is “a formidable candidate” and better known — the better to raise money.

Despite all he has done to help Democrats, W. maintains that Republicans can hold the White House. But just in case the Clinton dynasty once more succeeds the Bush one, the Texas president has been sending the New York senator messages to “maintain some political wiggle room in your campaign rhetoric about Iraq,” as Mr. Sammon puts it.

Whoever gets the White House, W. contends, faced with the prospect of a vicious Middle East vacuum, will “begin to understand the need to continue to support the young democracy.”

(As Dana Perino noted on Friday, on a different topic, “The president does not have second thoughts.”)

Some of W.’s advisers were more cutting about Hillary in the Sammon book.

“This process is not going to serve her well,” one said, adding: “She’s going to be essentially saying, ‘Elect me president after I’ve spent the last 16 years in your face. And you didn’t like me much when I was there last. Give me eight more years so I can be a presence in your life for 24 years.’”

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Rudy Giuliani’s Strategy: He’s Not Hillary Clinton

Rudy Giuliani made a simple case for his presidential candidacy Saturday to a national convention of Republican women: He's not Hillary Clinton.

Speaking to a GOP organization devoted to getting women elected, Giuliani hammered on the Democratic front-runner and said he deserved their support.

He elicited laughs as he dismissed Clinton's calls for universal health coverage as "Hillarycare" and pooh-poohed her proposal to give every American-born child a $5,000 college bond.

The former New York mayor drew sustained applause when he described Clinton's response to a recent question about Iran as incomprehensible.

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Hillary’s McGovernnomics

Hillary Clinton's White House bid re portedly is set today to receive the endorsement of the Democrats' most radical ever presidential nominee: former Sen. George McGovern, who topped his party's ticket in 1972.

Which could explain why Hillary seems to be feeling all '70s nostalgic.

Back in 1972, recall, McGovern proposed that every single American be given a $1,000 check, no questions asked, regardless of financial need.

Even his fellow Democrats ridiculed the idea - especially when McGovern admitted that he had no idea how much it would cost and how it would be paid for.

Now comes Clinton with her own 21st-century version of McGovernomics.

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Hillary Clinton shouldn’t take supporters for granted

Hillary Rodham Clinton is learning the downside of being the front-runner — more Democrats are getting antsy, finding her answers non-committal, even Republicanesque.

At the seventh Democratic debate, the audience response to her "I'm not going to answer that" stance was almost hostile.

She proved critics wrong when she worked hard to be elected twice to the Senate from New York, where she had never before lived.

Now she seems so confident of getting her party's presidential nomination that she is already moving to the center of the road to do battle with a Republican opponent, whoever that would be.

Centrism was her husband's strategy, and it ushered them both into the White House in 1993.

But that was before the war in Iraq. It was before 9/11. It was before President Bush began beating the drums to confront Iran about its nuclear ambitions. It was before Israel attacked Syria. It was before actuaries decided that providing Social Security to 80 million people is impossible without higher taxes or lower benefits. It was before her failed effort to reform health care probably doomed the nation to doing nothing for decades. It was before immigration erupted as a political issue.

Candidate Clinton, who voted to authorize the current war, refuses to say U.S. soldiers would be brought home before 2013, a position many Republicans hold. As U.S. casualties mount and all-out civil war looms, the clamor among Democrats is for the troops to come home now.

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