Not surprisingly, Bill and Hill are out in Iowa matching each other lie for lie. I guess they think the people in Iowa are even more stupid than the rest of the Democrats. I guess they think whatever they say will be accepted as truth in Iowa. Of course they all have Alzheimers and no memories. I know that ABC is really pushing for Hill. See attached:

Clinton Calls on Powell
From: blogs.abcnews.com

November 27, 2007 11:59 AM
Author: Ed OKeefe

ABC News’ Eloise Harper and Teddy Davis Report: Hillary Clinton often talks about sending her husband around the world to conduct diplomacy but on Tuesday, the Senator said she would also call on Colin Powell.

“I have said I won’t even wait until I’m inaugurated, but as soon as I’m elected I’m going to be asking distinguished Americans of both parties — people like Colin Powell, for example — and others who can represent our country well, including someone I know very well,” Clinton told the predominantly black audience after receiving the endorsement of dozens of South Carolina ministers.

Contacted by ABC News’ Teddy Davis, Gen. Colin Powell was tight-lipped Tuesday when asked if he is open to Clinton’s invitation.

“I have not seen what she has said. I don’t know the context of it,” Powell told ABC News. “I have admiration for Mrs. Clinton but I have no comment.”

Powell, a well known Republican who served as President George W. Bush’s first Secretary of State, turned heads in political circles earlier this year when he confirmed that he has met twice with Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

Despite having met with Obama twice, Powell told ABC News that he is not an adviser to any presidential candidate. Rather, he said that as a former Secretary of State he makes himself available to candidates of both parties.

In addition to having met twice with Obama, Powell said that he has also met with two Republican presidential candidates: Arizona Sen. John McCain and former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson, whom he described as “a neighbor.”

Asked if he had ruled out a pre-primary endorsement in the presidential race, Powell left the door open.

“I’m going to do, what I’m going to do,” Powell told ABC News.

Clinton’s mention of Powell is rare and it comes as former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was doing some defending of her own.

But at the same time the candidate was seemingly offering a bipartisan olive branch, she also touted her electability against the Republicans.

“There are some on the Republican side who are not exactly my fans,” Clinton said. “I am well aware of that. I’ve been fighting them for years and I’ve been the recipient of all those incoming attacks.”

“I’m still standing,” Clinton declared.

One of those 1990s foes, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., who led the effort to impeach former President Bill Clinton, predicted on “Good Morning America” that Senator Barack Obama, D-Ill., would win Iowa by a “surprising margin”.

You can read excerpts from that interview here or watch the full video here.

The endorsement from the ministers is important for Clinton in this state, where almost half of South Carolina’s Democratic primary voters are African-American.

The fight for votes in South Carolina and the rest of the primary states is expected to intensify in coming weeks. In early December, Obama will campaign with Oprah Winfrey, while the former First Lady continues to dispatch her husband to build support.

It’s so nice when the press takes a stand. You can bet they won’t be lambasted by the Clintons after what one of their Democratic talking heads said about Tim Russert from NBC - that he needed to be killed because of pushing a hard question on Hill. The press should be apolitical and not afraid to ask questions of any candidate and their machines, whether private detective staff, I say their private detective staff, when actually it is Hillary’s staff used to keep an eye on Bill and get dirt on Bill’s victims by means of and not excluding house break-ins, killing of cats, inducing fear, suicide incidents, Filegate, Travelgate, etc.

Actually, if Bill Clinton killed Hillary and said it was an accident, the Democrats would insist HE take over the race. I can just hear Alan Colmes shaping this, like only he can do, to make everything the Democrats do the right thing - it’s not just Alan, but Kirsten Powers and others like Sheppard Smith, Maura Liasson, Juan Williams and Mort Kondracke.

I saw Chris Wallace’s interview with Fred Thompson and saw Thompson acting sullen like a Democrat, then complaining afterward, as the Democrats do, about FOX being so bad. FOX News has more liberals than all the other networks have Conservatives in total - you can probably triple that figure. If you counted all the liberals on FOX, you would find they out-number the Conservatives. If Thompson can’t take criticism, he then is too much like the Clintons.

Huckabee is too much like Jimmy Carter. Now he is saying if he is rising in the polls, it’s due to prayer and God’s intervention. That is one HELL of an ego! I have known a lot of Baptist preachers in my time - a lot of them in my family. And taken in total, their morals would be lower than those of politicians, lawyers, or the press. In other words, a lot of them are just plain rascals. It’s harder to catch them in a lie because they are masters of using their audience, especially the wives. Huckabee’s attitude towards taxes takes away his claims of being a Conservative. Also, his explanation of the ethics violations charges while he was a Governor SUCKS. Another problem is that he is from Hope, Arkansas - sound familiar?

The CEO of the Red Cross resigns after being caught in an adulterous relationship with one of his staff. He is paying well by losing his $500,000 yearly salary. Liberals are standing up for him saying that his morals shouldn’t matter as long as he was doing a good job. This is apparently similar to the case where a liberal woman said, after Clinton’s fiasco with Monica, that she would do the same for him as well because he was such a good President. I am sure this CEO’s wife will stand by her man as Hillary did, but Hillary don’t bake cookies.

I see where George Soros and moveon.org are turning their private investigators loose on Rudy Giuliani. See attached:

Giuliani billed obscure agencies for trips
By: Ben Smith
November 28, 2007 09:43 PM EST

As New York mayor, Rudy Giuliani billed obscure city agencies for tens of thousands of dollars in security expenses amassed during the time when he was beginning an extramarital relationship with future wife Judith Nathan in the Hamptons, according to previously undisclosed government records.

The documents, obtained by Politico under New York’s Freedom of Information Law, show that the mayoral costs had nothing to do with the functions of the little-known city offices that defrayed his tabs, including agencies responsible for regulating loft apartments, aiding the disabled and providing lawyers for indigent defendants.

At the time, the mayor’s office refused to explain the accounting to city auditors, citing “security.”

The Hamptons visits resulted in hotel, gas and other costs for Giuliani’s New York Police Department security detail. Giuliani’s relationship with Nathan is old news now, and Giuliani regularly asks voters on the campaign trail to forgive his “mistakes.

It’s also impossible to know whether the purpose of all the Hamptons trips was to see Nathan. A Giuliani spokeswoman declined to discuss any aspect of this story, which was explained in detail to her earlier this week.

Asked about this article after it was published on Wednesday, Giuliani said: “It’s not true.”

He said he had 24-hour security during his eight years as mayor because of “threats,” adding: ” I had nothing to do with the handling of their records, and they were handled, as far as I know, perfectly appropriately.”

The practice of transferring the travel expenses of Giuliani’s security detail to the accounts of obscure mayoral offices has never been brought to light, despite behind-the-scenes criticism from the city comptroller weeks after Giuliani left office.

The expenses first surfaced as Giuliani’s two terms as mayor of New York drew to a close in 2001, when a city auditor stumbled across something unusual: $34,000 worth of travel expenses buried in the accounts of the New York City Loft Board.

When the city’s fiscal monitor asked for an explanation, Giuliani’s aides refused, citing “security,” said Jeff Simmons, a spokesman for the city comptroller.

But American Express bills and travel documents obtained by Politico suggest another reason City Hall may have considered the documents sensitive: They detail three summers of visits to Southampton, the Long Island town where Nathan had an apartment.

Auditors “were unable to verify that these expenses were for legitimate or necessary purposes,” City Comptroller William Thompson wrote of the expenses from fiscal year 2000, which covers parts of 1999 and 2000.

The letter, whose existence has not been previously reported, was also obtained under the Freedom of Information Law.

Long Island bills

The receipts tally the costs of hotel and gas bills for the police detectives who traveled everywhere with the mayor, according to cover sheets that label them “PD expenses” and travel authorizations that describe the trips.

New York’s mayor receives round-the-clock police protection, and there’s no suggestion that Giuliani used his detail improperly on these trips.

Many of the receipts are from hotels and gas stations on Long Island, where Giuliani reportedly began visiting Nathan’s Southampton condominium in the summer of 1999, though Giuliani and Nathan have never discussed the beginning of their relationship.

Nathan would go on to become Giuliani’s third wife, but his second marriage was officially intact until the spring of 2000, and City Hall officials at the time responded to questions about his absences by saying he was spending time with his son and playing golf.

The receipts have languished in city files since Giuliani left office, apparently in part because of City Hall’s decision to bill police expenses to a range of little-known city offices.

“There is no really good reason to do this except to have nobody know about it,” Carol O’Cleireacain, a Brookings Institution senior fellow who was budget director under Giuliani’s predecessor, David Dinkins, said of the unusual billing practices.

A Giuliani spokeswoman, Sunny Mindel, declined to comment on any aspect of the travel documents or the billing arrangements.

A Giuliani aide who would speak only on the condition of anonymity denied that the unorthodox billing practices were aimed at hiding the expenses, citing “accounting” and noting that they were billed to units of the mayor’s office, not to outside city agencies.

The aide declined to discuss Giuliani’s visits to Long Island.

The trips themselves were a departure for a mayor who had prided himself on spending every waking moment in the city and on the job, and offer a glimpse into the dramatic and controversial finale to his tenure in office.

Receipts show him in Southampton every weekend in August and the first weekend in September of 2001, before the terror attacks of Sept. 11 disrupted the routines of his city.

Both the travel expenses and the appearance that his office made efforts to conceal them could open Giuliani to criticism that his personal life spilled over into his official duties and his expenses grew in his final years in office.

It is impossible to say which of the 11 Long Island trips indicated by credit card receipts were to visit Nathan and which were for other purposes.

Eight of those trips, however, were not noted on Giuliani’s official schedule, which is now available in the city’s municipal archive and contains many details of Giuliani’s official and unofficial life.

The billing practices, however, drew formal attention on Jan. 24, 2002, when Thompson, the city comptroller, wrote the newly elected mayor, Michael Bloomberg, a confidential letter.

One of his auditors, he wrote, had stumbled upon the unexplained travel expenses during a routine audit of the Loft Board, a tiny branch of city government that regulates certain apartments.

Broadening the inquiry, the comptroller wrote, auditors found similar expenses at a range of other unlikely agencies: $10,054 billed to the Office for People With Disabilities and $29,757 to the Procurement Policy Board.

The next year, yet another obscure department, the Assigned Counsel Administrative Office, was billed around $400,000 for travel.

Increasing costs

“The Comptroller’s Office made repeated requests for the information in 2001 and 2002 but was informed that, due to security concerns, the information could not be provided,” said Simmons. Thompson took office in 2002.

Thompson also warned that travel costs had increased by 151 percent in Giuliani’s final fiscal year, to more than $618,000, a number which also includes police security on campaign swings for Giuliani’s abortive 2000 Senate run and trips to Los Angeles by Donna Hanover, who remained Giuliani’s wife and the city’s official first lady, in the fall of 2000.

Most of that travel also was billed to obscure agencies, though portions — much of it trips to and from Washington by Giuliani deputies — were accounted for more conventionally, with a more visible charge to the mayor’s office.

Thompson suggested Bloomberg “review … the cost of mayoralty travel expenses, given your administration’s focus on fiscal constraints.”

A spokesman for Bloomberg, Stu Loeser, said: “When we received the letter from the comptroller, we referred the matter to the Department of Investigations, as we would in any case like this.”

A spokeswoman for the Department of Investigations declined to comment.

The executive director of the Loft Board referred Politico to Bloomberg’s office for comment.

The first trip to Southampton appearing in the travel documents runs from Aug. 31 to Sept. 1, 1999.

Four police officers spent the night at the Atlantic Utopia Lifestyle Inn, according to an approval request for official out-of-city travel, billing the city $1,016.20.

Giuliani’s private schedule, available from the municipal archive, lists no events on Long Island that day.

The New York Post reported the following year that Giuliani “had long weekend visits with gal pal Judi Nathan at her Southampton, L.I., condo last summer, according to neighbors who said the mayor did little to conceal their relationship.”

The neighbors called their relationship and their time in Nathan’s two-bedroom condo overlooking Noyack Bay “an open secret.”

“Several residents of the condo sometimes asked Giuliani’s driver and members of his security entourage to turn off their car engines,” the Post reported.

That first trip was followed by at least 10 more, according to the travel and credit card documents.

One of those trips, on Aug. 20-21, 1999, included a fundraiser on the evening of Aug. 21. Giuliani’s four-man detail arrived 24 hours early, billing the city $1,704.43 at the Southampton Inn, according to their approval request.

More trips followed in the summer of 2000, after the mayor’s affair with Nathan became public and they were seen together publicly in Southampton. The trips accelerated in the summer of 2001, when he visited Southampton every weekend in August, as well as on Sept. 2.

Many of the trips show expenses only for gas, though his police detail billed the city $1,371.40 for the nights of Aug. 3-4, 2001, at the Village Latch Inn in Southampton.

Giuliani’s police detail also spent a night in Palm Beach, Fla., according to the bill for the American Express card under Giuliani’s name. The detectives spent $1,714.99 at The Breakers, a sprawling hotel and resort.

There is no indication that Nathan visited Palm Beach. Giuliani’s aide did not recall the trip.

The 2001 travel expenses were billed to the Assigned Counsel Administrative Office, a little-known unit of the mayor’s office involved in programs that provide lawyers to poor defendants.

None of the 2001 trips to Southampton appear in Giuliani’s official schedule. However, the schedule does contain a potential clue to his destination. Before three of them, Giuliani paid a visit to his barber, Carlo Fargnoli, on York Avenue near the mayor’s official residence, Gracie Mansion.

I will close this to be able to watch the CNN/YouTube debacle that the Republican candidates allowed themselves to be subjected to. May God continue to bless the USA and save us from Hillary.