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    Hillary’s power lust and Dollar Diplomacy

    By: Mark Kilmer (Diary)  |  December 23rd at 04:10 PM  | 

    Secretary of State James Madison was President Thomas Jefferson’s chief advisor and stategist; his biggest effort as secretary was, of course, overseeing the negotiations and ratification of the Lousiana Purchase from Emperor Napoleon’s France in 1803. The man’s memory will have nothing on Hillary. According to the partisan New York Times, Hillary is already setting herself up to be the most powerful State secretary in | Read More »

    re: Plouffe and Obama’s fundraising juggernaut

    By: Mark Kilmer (Diary)  |  July 14th at 08:20 PM  | 

    Moe, the figures I used in that piece were from Plouffe’s vid. I had seen you mention from time-to-time that Obama’s fundraising might not be coming up with the money they needed to validate their decision to skip matching funds, but I had no idea. Now, it makes sense to me that many of these smaller donors will decided not to give another $50 if | Read More »

    David Plouffe, Obama’s campaign manager, needs our kind of money.

    By: Mark Kilmer (Diary)  |  July 14th at 12:05 PM  | 

    The big news from the Obama campaign this Monday is that campaign manager David Plouffe’s surname rhymes with Puff. Magic dragons aside, Mr. Plouffe has issued a vid in which he whines that the Obama lucrative lucre juggernaut is being outspent and will probably be outspent by the McCain campaign. It is RNC cash. Plouffe – rhymes with puff — tells us that very rich | Read More »