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It is getting more likelier that the world most powerfull nation- USA of course is going to have a female president come November 2008. Despite all odds and against perceptions, Hillary Rodham Clinton is pulling all stops on her road to the White house. I know a lot of us blacks and african Americans are rooting for Obama, but i personally think that Hillary will make a better president than Obama. I am not an Obama supporter and i can't support him because he is black. I just honestly think that he is a greenhorn while Hillary has cut her political tooth and has the backing of her husband and former pres Bill Clinton.
Just bumped into this news this morning and decided to share it with my people here.
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WASHINGTON — Presidential hopeful Hillary Rodham Clinton for the first time wins the support of 50% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents, a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll finds, and she commands the most enthusiastic backing of any contender in either party.
The survey, taken Friday through Sunday, depicts a landscape for 2008 that seems to be moving toward Clinton in particular and Democrats in general. Democratic voters are more committed to and energized by their field of candidates than Republicans are.


POLL RESULTS: Clinton widens lead

"Democrats can count on highly motivated voters who will turn out, and the Republicans will have to create that energy from somewhere over the next year," says Mark Blumenthal, editor of the non-partisan pollster.com. But he cautions on Clinton's positive results: "These perceptions can turn around in a great big hurry if you lose an early primary."

At least for now, though, the news is almost all good for Clinton.

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She continues to widen her lead over rival Barack Obama, now 50%-21%, her biggest edge since spring. Former North Carolina senator John Edwards is at 13%. What's more, two-thirds of Clinton's supporters say they are "certain to support" her.

Fewer than half of the supporters of any other candidate in either party are firmly committed.

For Clinton, reaching the threshold of 50% support may have some value. Only once has a presidential candidate received as much as 50% support in a Gallup Poll and then gone on to lose his party's nomination. That was Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy in 1980.

"Some of the other campaigns have tried negative strategies that have backfired while she has continued to be out there saying where she wants to take the country," says Mark Penn, Clinton's chief strategist. Obama has sharpened his criticism of Clinton's judgment in voting to authorize the Iraq invasion in 2002, and Edwards has faulted her recent vote to designate Iran's Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist organization.

Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani continues to lead the GOP field at 32%. Former Tennessee senator Fred Thompson has 18%, Arizona Sen. John McCain 14%, and former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney 10%.

Still, 53% of Republicans say they "might change their mind" about which candidate to support.

In the survey, Democrats benefit from an enthusiasm gap. Regardless of whom they support, 64% of Democrats say they would "enthusiastically" vote for Clinton as the nominee; 49% say that of Obama. In the GOP, 51% would enthusiastically back Giuliani, 38% McCain, 37% Thompson and 25% Romney.

Meanwhile, the survey found that winning the Nobel Peace Prize apparently doesn't bring a political bounce. While 48% of Democrats say they would like Nobel laureate Al Gore to run for president, that's 8 percentage points lower than in March. When his name is included in the horse race, the former vice president finishes third, behind Clinton and Obama.

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1. Born Hillary Diane Rodham on Oct. 26, 1947, in Chicago to Hugh E. Rodham, who owned a drapery making business, and Dorothy Howell Rodham, a full-time homemaker. Her parents were Republicans.

2. When she was 12 years old, she wrote to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, asking how she could become an astronaut. She received a reply saying that NASA didn't accept women in the astronaut program. Her mother comforted her by saying that her eyesight was much too bad anyway.

3. While at Wellesley College in Massachusetts, she became head of the local chapter of the Young Republicans. While there she slowly turned leftward in her politics, campaigning for Eugene McCarthy for president, organizing the school's first teach-ins on the Vietnam War. She wrote her senior thesis on poverty and community development. She graduated in 1969 with a degree in political science.

4. She appeared as a contestant on the television quiz show College Bowl.

5. In 1969, she appeared in Life magazine after giving the first commencement speech by a student at Wellesley. She received a standing ovation after shocking the audience by criticizing the first speaker, Sen. Edward W. Brooke.

6. In the summer of 1970, she heard Marian Wright Edelman speak, inspiring her to volunteer to work for Edelman's Washington Research Project, which later became the Children's Defense Fund. While there, she interviewed the families of migrant laborers and reported her findings to Walter Mondale's Senate subcommittee. This began a lifelong friendship and commitment to children's issues.

7. While at Yale in Connecticut, she first noticed Bill Clinton while he was trying to convince a group of classmates that they didn't need shots to visit Arkansas. He boasted that Arkansas "has the biggest watermelons in the world." They first met in the law library after Hillary approached Bill and said, "Look, if you're going to keep staring at me, and I'm going to keep staring back, I think we should at least know each other. I'm Hillary Rodham. What's your name?"

8. In 1974, she went to Washington, D.C., as one of only three women out of 43 lawyers to work on the inquiry into the possible impeachment of President Richard Nixon.

9. When Hillary Rodham and Bill Clinton were wed on Oct. 11, 1975, she kept her maiden name, not realizing it would become a controversial decision. After her husband's defeat for re-election in the 1980 Arkansas gubernatorial election, she changed her surname to Clinton. Voters had questioned their marriage's stability.

10. In 1977, she joined the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock. After her husband's successful gubernatorial bid in 1978, she continued working at the firm, becoming Arkansas's first professional first lady. In 1980, she became the firm's first female partner. In addition, she gave birth to their daughter, Chelsea Victoria Clinton, who was named for Joni Mitchell's song "Chelsea Morning."

Hy Mrs Dolly, today is my birthday too. Happy birthday to you and thanks for sharing it with me. Many more blessings to u and may God protect us all.

Poll Shows Clinton With Solid Lead Among Democrats

By Dan Balz and Jon Cohen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, July 23, 2007; Page A07

By a wide margin, Democrats view Sen. Hillary Clinton (N.Y.) as the party's candidate best positioned to win the general election, and she holds a double-digit lead over Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) in the race for the nomination, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News Poll.

Clinton enjoys a substantial edge over Obama among the 4 in 10 Democrats who said that in assessing presidential candidates, strength and experience are more important than new ideas or a new direction. Even among the 51 percent who prefer a change-oriented candidate, the core message of Obama's campaign, Clinton runs even with him.

It may be equally important that Clinton's initial support for the Iraq war is not proving a significant impediment to her bid. Clinton has drawn criticism this year for refusing to apologize for her 2002 vote authorizing the use of force, but the poll shows her leading among Democrats who support a deadline for withdrawing U.S. forces as well as those who oppose a deadline. She has a 51 percent to 29 percent lead over Obama among those in favor of a complete, immediate withdrawal.

Obama has sought to make his initial opposition to the war an asset in his campaign, but Clinton has become increasingly vocal in criticizing President Bush's management of the war and now supports a timetable for the start of troop withdrawals.

The poll comes as Democrats assemble in Charleston, S.C., tonight for their fourth debate of the year. The two-hour debate, sponsored by CNN and YouTube, will feature questions posted on YouTube, a video-sharing site, by people from around the country in what is likely to be one of the most innovative debate formats to date.

With almost six months of hard campaigning before the first primaries and caucuses, the Democratic race is far from settled.

To close the gap with Clinton, Obama will need to convince more voters that he is the best candidate to offer the country a new direction after the partisan wars of the past decades. He must also neutralize Clinton's advantage among those who emphasize strength and experience, or draw significant numbers of new voters to the primaries. The nomination battle could also be decided on the question of who Democrats believe has the best chance of recapturing the White House after eight years of Republican rule.

Clinton is a polarizing figure, which has raised questions about whether she could win a general election. But Democrats appear to dismiss that argument. Asked which Democratic candidate has the best chance of winning the general election in November 2008, 54 percent said Clinton, more than twice the percentage saying Obama (22 percent). Nine percent think former senator John Edwards (N.C.) would be most likely to win. Among Democratic-leaning independents, 44 percent said Clinton, 25 percent Obama and 11 percent Edwards.

Republicans and independents are less convinced that Clinton has the best shot. Among independents, 35 percent cited Clinton as the Democrat with the best chance of beating the GOP nominee and 29 percent said Obama. Among Republicans, 37 percent said Clinton and 33 percent Obama.

At this early stage, Clinton remains the candidate to beat in the Democratic field.

Overall, 45 percent of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents support Clinton to be the party's nominee, with Obama second at 30 percent. Edwards, whose hopes for winning depend heavily on a victory in the Iowa caucuses in January, is at 12 percent. Clinton's margin over Obama has been generally steady since February, just after the two candidates launched their presidential bids.

FOR HILLARY CLINTON, the presidency is not in the bag. Even winning the Democratic presidential nomination is considerably less than a sure thing. But of the 18 Democratic and Republican presidential candidates, Clinton is the most likely to be the next president. And she did nothing last night in the bizarre presidential debate in Charleston, South Carolina, to alter that.

Clinton managed to maintain at least the outward appearance of seriousness in a debate that included a taped question from someone dressed as a snowman, another from a sanctimonious Planned Parenthood official who asked if the candidates had talked to their kids about sex, and an especially silly one about whether the candidates would be willing to be paid the minimum wage as president. Most of them lied and said yes.

This was the first of six debates sanctioned by the Democratic National Committee. Based on this one, there's a long and tedious season of yakking ahead in the presidential race. With You Tube providing the questions and the candidates offering special one-minute commercials, the idea was to make last night's debate livelier and more fun. Often, though, it was merely unserious, excessively cute, and frivolous.

There was a key moment, however, and once again it pitted Clinton, the New York senator, against Barack Obama, her counterpart from Illinois. The question was whether they'd promise to meet in the first year of their presidency with the leaders of such enemy nations as Cuba, Venezuela, North Korea, Iran, and Syria.

"I would," Obama said, foolishly showing
his inexperience, and perhaps his naivete as well, in foreign affairs. After all, he said, President Reagan called the Soviet Union an "evil empire" and still talked to Soviet leaders. "I think it's a disgrace we haven't talked" to leaders of the five anti-American countries, Obama said.

Clinton benefited from getting to answer after Obama, and she made the most of it. She said, firmly and coolly, that she wouldn't promise to meet with them. Clinton said the new president had to be careful not to be exploited by hostile leaders for propaganda purposes and not to do anything "that would make the situation worse." Before any meeting, she'd have to know "what the way forward would be."

The verdict on whose answer was better, Obama's or Clinton's, came from John Edwards, the next candidate to speak. He echoed Clinton.

As anti-Iraq war as Clinton has become, she also refused to be drawn into competition with the other candidates over who favored the earliest and most complete withdrawal of American troops. She said it must be done "safely and orderly and carefully," and not merely as quickly as possible.

Clinton said she was "agnostic" on expanding the use of nuclear power and didn't get a chance to spell out her plans on health care. Bill Richardson, eager to out-pander his foes, said "every American deserves the right to the best quality health care." He didn't say how this would be achieved.

The other candidates? Obama, exciting on the stump, was dull in the debate. Mike Gravel seemed quite taken with himself, for no good reason. Dennis Kucinich also exuded enormous self-regard. Edwards oozed insincerity, especially when he said anyone who voted against Clinton because she's a woman or Obama because he's African-American shouldn't vote for him. Joe Biden and Chris Dodd gave reasonable answers, the kind you'd expect from liberal Democratic senators.

For Clinton, the important thing in debates is that she doesn't say anything that gets her in trouble or seriously jeopardizes her chances against the Republican nominee. And she succeeded. She may actually have helped her campaign a bit.

Still, there's nothing inevitable about Clinton's winning the Democratic nomination. She's just closer to gaining the presidential nomination than any candidate in either party. In other words, she's got a better shot at being the Democratic nominee than Rudy Giuliani or Fred Thompson have of becoming the Republican presidential choice.

And then there's the general election race, which favors the Democrat candidate, assuming it's either Clinton or Obama. Yes, Clinton has incredibly high negatives. One national poll found recently that 52 percent of Americans said they'd never vote for her for president. But don't be fooled. The political environment is likely to trump that sentiment.

Unless the national mood changes by November 2008, Democrats will have a large advantage in attracting independent voters. They will have a more excited and involved base. They will have more money. And after the immigration fiasco, they will have the support of a larger chunk of the Hispanic vote than in 2004.

Again, all this doesn't mean Clinton is odds-on to succeed George W. Bush in the White House. It does mean, though, that she has a better chance than anyone else.

-----Culled from Washington Post and THE WEEKLY STANDARD

Bee has become so saturated that she is becomin repulsive. She reveals more of her body that it looks like its all about her body. Must women always show their body to sell their albums? Rii on the other hand has taken the shine off Bee at least for now. Her "umbrella" duet with Jay-Z has just broken records in the UK havin stayed at nos:1 spot for 10 consecutive weeks. Atleast she offers sumthing fresh with little flesh.DIG.

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i have heard it before and it tends to be true that women uses coded language to express thier feelings to the opposite sex. i want the ladys to tell if these ones are actually true.[font=Lucida Sans Unicode][/font][b][/b]

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WHAT ABOUT
""LOST WITHOUT U""" BY ROBIN THICKE
DOESNT IT MAKE U WANNA LIE DOWN AND JUST CRY ABOUT LOVE?

can u marry someone as tall as they are?

laudate:
Please has there been any newspaper report which states that Segun Adeniyi has accepted the job of Special Adviser to Yar'adua?

Does anyone have a link to such a report? Kindly paste it here.

OGA SHEGUN ADENIYI HAS ALREADY ACCEPTED TO SERVE IN YARADUA'S GOVERNMENT. HE SAID SO HIMSELF IN HIS COLUMN.

faith, why is it a hard thing? why is it that christians find it hard to say what they believe, why is it that christians say one thing and do the opposite. why cant we stand on what we believed instead of on circumstances??

All of u might be right. But i am more inclined to believe the worst. Remember when Remi Oyo was the President of Guild of Editors until OBJ asked her to come and chop. B4 then she was an adent OBJ critic, she even challenged OBJ that he doesnt have to lord it over people bc he was elected, that she too was elected a president of a body(guild of editors).
But we all know what happened when she eventually joined the OBJ,s boat.
Shegun's sell out will be more disastrous tha Remi's. He should just watch it. I look 4ward to him coming back to Thisday after his "tenure" like he promised. He better not join the gov than mess up and come up to say he is coming back to Thisday after selling out. I wont read thisday again. Imagine Remi Oyo serving as an editor in Thisday or Guardian, They will authomatically loose readership. SHEGUN BEWARE!!!

Dis Guy:
they'll resurface during election period and ofcourse when they get their money back from last campaign

Na wah oo. Fresh Democratic Party is still existing. Atleast their office at Adeniyi Jones ,Ikeja is open everyday. Meetings are held there at regular basis and new members are being registered on a daily basis.

tlops:
I think this problem can be solved if the tribunal is given a time constraint.

What the hell should we care if the dates of gov vacation in office is scattered so far as justice was done and seemed to be done as the anambra case suggests. In USA governors have different dates of election from presidential. So why shld we care, seriously?

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I CANT BELIEVE IT. HAHAHAHAHAHA
I AM JUST THINKING WHAT WILL BE GOING THROUGH THE MIND OF THE SELF ENGRAVED "FOUNDER OF MODERN NIGERIA" IN HIS OTA RESIDENCE,
  GOD REALLY NO DEY SLEEP!
 WHERE IS MAURICE THE MIRACULOUS IWU? I WISH HE VACATES OOFICE AS SOON AS ANDY LEAVES ANAMBRA. GOOD RIDDANCE TO BAD RUBBISH. SO MUCH FOR PDP-POWER DRUNK PARTY.

I totally agree with the fact the Melchizedek is not God nor is he an Angel as Tayo D pointed out.
 He is just a man that God deliberately leaves out his genealogy so that he can use it as an adumbration to explain the priesthood of Jesus Christ.
 He was the King of Salem( a non-theocratic state at that time) which means that the people of Salem knew about him even if we dont. He was the priest of the most high God, which means that he was chosen among men. So if he was God or Angel then he wouldnt have been King of a country. Angels dont rule men and God couldnt have been the king of Salem at a time that he was dealing with Abraham and his contemporaries.
 But since Abraham paid tithe to him, then it means that God had always been in contact with people apart from the covenanted Abraham. Infact i read somewhere the Job is a contemporary of Abraham. If that is true then it means that God has always had dealings with men that we dont even hear of. I am fully convinced that Melchizedek was given birth to by a woman we dont know, the son of a man we dont know and a priest of God that God chooses in His infinite wisdom to reveal nothing about his geneology.

in your candid opinion, who is the best minister under obj's maladministration??

Please this is my own resume. Help me post it. God bless u much.

I have the fears about Obama and Republicans confirmed that in their own debate last night. they didnt even mention Obama, all they saw was Hillary, and it indicates something, Obama can make all the nice speeches and acts, but when push comes to shove, they wont count him in. Just like someone said, they wont say it, they wont vote a blk man as american next pres.
The only thing i see from the republican debate is that they can only win if americans will support the war, but as far as i am concerned and with facts on the ground right now, they wont win.

Hillary Rodham Clinton is going to make history as the first fem pres of usa. I watched the CNN democratic debate last night and i must confess that she made a big impression on voters. Most of them started rooting for her. Even when she was attacked by John Edwards about initially supporting the war in iraq, the way she diffused the imminent bomb was very professional nobody else said anything to that effect again.
I think we shld start embrasing this idea sooner than later. Bush has blindly squandered the goodwill america had b4 and immediately after 9/11. It will take a totally new set of thinking, the one Hillary is offering for america to stand tall again. This will enable her to stand up to Iran and solve the mid east loggjam.

Hillary Rodham Clinton is going to make history as the first fem pres of usa. I watched the CNN democratic debate last night and i must confess that she made a big impression on voters. Most of them started rooting for her. Even when she was attacked by John Edwards about initially supporting the war in iraq, the way she diffused the imminent bomb was very professional nobody else said anything to that effect again.
 I think we shld start embrasing this idea sooner than later. Bush has blindly squandered the goodwill america had b4 and immediately after 9/11. It will take a totally new set of thinking, the one Hillary is offering for america to stand tall again. This will enable her to stand up to Iran and solve the mid east loggjam.

Hillary Rodham Clinton is going to make history as the first fem pres of usa. I watched the CNN democratic debate last night and i must confess that she made a big impression on voters. Most of them started rooting for her. Even when she was attacked by John Edwards about initially supporting the war in iraq, the way she diffused the imminent bomb was very professional nobody else said anything to that effect again.
 I think we shld start embrasing this idea sooner than later. Bush has blindly squandered the goodwill america had b4 and immediately after 9/11. It will take a totally new set of thinking, the one Hillary is offering for america to stand tall again. This will enable her to stand up to Iran and solve the mid east loggjam.

laudate:
No mind them, jare. Has history not vindicated you?

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This line of reasoning by Afam is very mischivious. What the hell does it matter if Jeff stage managed the news item? We still do have millitants in Niger Delta. This line of argument would ave made sence if there was no millitancy in the niger delta region. To celebrate the sacking of Jeff is misguided and downright stupid. I just dont know why people does not have a sence of proportion anymore.