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Clinton: No miracle required

Posted by Foon Rhee, deputy national political editor May 22, 2008 02:42 PM

Hillary Clinton says she doesn't need divine intervention to pull out the Democratic nomination.

But she does need to nearly sweep the remaining undeclared superdelegates, and to get the Democratic National Committee to rule her way.

"I do believe in miracles, but it would not take a miracle. It's such a close race," Clinton says in an interview to air today on Telemundo, a Spanish-language network.

She is trying to convince superdelegates -- party and elected officials -- that she would be more electable in November than Barack Obama.

Her supporters will also appear before the DNC's rules committee on May 31 to count the disputed votes and delegates from the Florida and Michigan primaries, which she won. She has even hinted that she's willing to go all the way to the national convention in Denver in late August to make sure the Florida and Michigan delegates are seated.

Without a change on the two disputed primaries, it appears likely that Obama could reach the current 2,026 delegates needed to clinch the nomination by the final primaries in Montana and South Dakota on June 3. He is within 60 now, according to the latest Associated Press tally, while Clinton trails Obama by 185 delegates.

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    Posted by COl. [retd] A.M.Khajawall May 22, 08 02:54 PM
  1. I believe that Hillary has if anythng disqualified herself for the V.P. slot and has not earned it. She and Bill since Day 1, or at leasst after Iowa, began to fuel a racial and gender division within the Democratic Party and the country as a whole. She has aligned herself more with McCain and the Republicans than with the Democratic Party! She has been cold and calculating, devoid of conscience in some instances. It would be very unwise for Barack to pick Hillary as a running mate. Their word is not their Bond and they cannot be trusted to live up to earlier intentions as in the battle for votes which she earlier signed off on and said these votes would not count.

    Hillary is whining. But not only is she whining, she is distorting the facts. Clintons made a big deal about Barack whining and said "if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen." I think they should take their own advice!

    Posted by Angellight May 22, 08 03:11 PM
  1. If VP goes to anyone but Hillary, count on John McCain in the White House. Women are tired of being the stalwarts of the Democratic party, only to have the Committee continue to push these left-leaning liberals into the top spot. Hillary is the only reason the Dems might get back into power. Let's see if the DNC is smart enough to realize that.

    Posted by LonghornMama May 22, 08 03:40 PM
  1. Sorry folks, I still say Hillary would be best.

    Posted by david May 22, 08 03:41 PM
  1. It's a miracle that she thinks it is not a miracle, but then again, given all the amazing things coming from her campaign over the past few months, it would be a miracle if she thought or at least said that it wouldn't take a miracle!

    Posted by Eugene May 22, 08 03:43 PM
  1. Gee, I think my kids would like to go live in Hillary's house. "But mom, I know the rules and the consequences, but it just isn't faiiiirrrrrr" would go a long way in her world if they apply the logic that she does with MI and FL. They would like to think that the rules don't apply to them, too, and get torqued when they are enforced as promised too!

    MI and FL were not fair contests anyway, as they broke the clear rules of the party and that influenced who bothered to vote and how they voted based on the belief that they didn't count. Clinton exploited this so she could have whining rights. If she wants these states to be seated, she needs to drop all her stupid demands that the results stand "as is" or that balloting be limited to those who voted in the illegitamate primaries, and either agree to a total open revote primary or shut up.

    Posted by infoferret May 22, 08 03:47 PM
  1. sher nomination is the worst possible scenario for our nation. she thinks that if the citizens hear her rhetoric enough that they will believe it.

    Posted by trey May 22, 08 03:55 PM
  1. Hillary Clinton keeps complaining that all the Florida and Michigan votes should be counted although she agreed, before she was losing, that Florida and Michigan shouldn't count.

    But AFTER she gets Florida and Michigan back in, she THEN wants the voters' votes not to count. She wants the super delegates to overrule the majority of the voters, because the majority chose Obama.

    So, first count the votes. Then, ignore the votes. This is Hillary Clinton's argument.

    Can anyone take such a candidate seriously?

    Posted by AnitaB May 22, 08 03:56 PM
  1. It would take an act of God, and if it happened, "miracle" would not be my first choice of words.

    Posted by SJB May 22, 08 03:58 PM
  1. I’m 35, and have been following politics for quite a while, and I’ve never been so disappointed with a politician I’ve admired and respected. Yesterday’s tactics weren’t just wrong, they were offensive. For that matter, they seem to be part of a deliberate strategy to tear Democrats apart and ensure a defeat in November.

    For several weeks, I’ve appreciated the fact that Clinton considers herself the superior candidate, and has kept her campaign going in the hopes, from her perspective, of saving the party from itself. But after yesterday, it’s become impossible for me to consider Clinton’s intentions honorable. Her conduct is not that of a leader.

    Instead of trying to help bring the party together — Election Day is 24 weeks away — Clinton went to Florida to argue that if Barack Obama is the Democratic nominee, his nomination will be illegitimate. And if the DNC plays by the rules Clinton used to support, it’s guilty of vote-suppression — comparable to slavery, Jim Crow, and Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe.

    It is disgusting for HRC to co-opt the Civil Rights struggle after weeks of transparent appeals that whites won’t vote for the black guy which JUST SO COINCIDENTALLY took form during the Appalachian primaries (which conveniently occurred after North Carolina, the last state with a large black population)

    It really is disgusting, and yet another nail in the coffin of what used to be Bill and Hillary's positive legacy to the party. She is now being openly mocked across the media and political spectrum. But I'm sure mentioning that is "sexist", and that everyone criticizing the joke her campaign has become is sexist as well.

    Posted by SMS May 22, 08 04:11 PM
  1. The DNC rules allowed a re-vote. Barack Obama could have agreed to a re-vote and he refused. Since the punishment was just to move the date of the election, not necessarily to completely disenfranchise the voters and since a re-vote is now impossible, the standing vote should now be counted.

    The voters did nothing wrong and those states have already been disenfranchised long enough. It's time to stop stalling and hear the voice of the people.

    Hillary Clinton did win those states! If it were Obama who had won them, you can be sure his supporters would be clamoring to count the vote.

    Posted by CJ May 22, 08 04:14 PM
  1. I am appalled and in shock of the amount of hatred for women in this country. Even women hating other women. Since before the New Hampshire primary the men-media-mob have relentlessly attacked Hillary and quoted bogus polls to incite failure in her nomination. There are even books about her and the writers of these books were hired on Television Political Shows as analysts.

    It is no surprise even the party turned their back on her for support of a black man. After all black men got the right to vote before women. A black man may be president before a woman and women will continue to earn less than $1 man’s Dollar.

    Don’t we learn?

    Posted by campana01 May 22, 08 04:21 PM
  1. The DNC rules allowed a re-vote. Barack Obama could have agreed to a re-vote and he refused.

    I don't think Obama is Presidential.

    He runs away from facing Hillary in debates, declares victory without winning, looks for VP before the nomination is over.

    I am confused about what Obama's hidden AGENDA is for the US.

    Posted by Jkan May 22, 08 04:46 PM
  1. Hillary is surrounded by the voice of reason and that voice says bow out now.

    It's a little sad to see her self-destruct in full public view; just a little!

    Perhaps it’s payback time for all the (often innocent) people the Clinton Machine has run over in the interest of power mongering?

    http://klintons.com

    Posted by Bob May 22, 08 05:08 PM
  1. "Hatred of women" what a joke. It truly saddens me that such a large contingent of very respectable and very intelligent women have espoused the theory that sexism is the cause of Hillary Clinton's failed bid for the nomination, when the real reasons are right before our eyes. Yes, there were some who mocked her laugh, made pantsuit jokes, etc, and those people are stupid and deserve to be repudiated for their immature and immaterial attacks on Clinton. But I am deeply skeptical that those ploys had the slightest bit to do with her current situation.

    I for one (yes I am male) supported Hillary for a long time. I think she has a very solid record as a senator, spoke coherently and thoughtfully on many policy issues, and showed the intellect and judgment to lead this country.

    Then I watched month after month of dirty political attacks, outright and deliberate lies, policy shifts, pathetic transparent pandering, fake southern accents, and a litany of other things that made me transition from deep respect to utter disgust. It will take a lot for HRC to win back my respect. And her gender has absolutely nothing to do with it. For the record, the only person who I think has acted more dishonorably than her during this campaign, is her husband.

    Others have said this and it's true. Hillary's people did not run for her the campaign that she deserves. I truly hope she spends the coming years rebuilding her reputation and runs a more honorable and honest campaign the next time around.

    Posted by SJB May 22, 08 05:28 PM
  1. Let's get the facts clear, people. In Michigan, a re-do primary was nixed by the County Clerks (the people who actually run elections) because there was no way they could run an election on short notice on top of the May school elections in Michigan (voting machines and ballot boxes have to be sequestered after an election until all possible challenges are resolved).

    There was an alternative, consistent with Democratic party rules: to have statewide or county caucuses in Michigan (where all democrats could vote, including those who crossed over to the contested Republican primary rather than waste their vote in January). Clinton and her "superdelegates" who created the Michigan mess blocked that effort. They only want "enfranchisement" of their supporters.

    Posted by BobinMich May 22, 08 05:38 PM
  1. What was this Campana01 talking about?? Are you from this country? Do you know anything about the history of race in this country?? It took a Civil Rights Act signed in the mid 60s for a black person to even walk down the same street as a white person and hold his/her head up without fear of being lynched so we can actually be treated like human beings like every other race in this country. The fact that HC even mentioned sexism shows the kind of sour grapes and level of entitlement she thought she had. Obama ran a classy campaign and stayed on his message from start to finish. If Hillary had ran a better campaign she would have won, end of story, she didn't and she lost. Too bad get a helmet and move on, it nothing to do with her being a woman and it had nothing to do with Obama.

    Florida and Michigan shouldnt even be on the topic of peoples minds, and if you blame anyone go blame Hillary's Campaign they were the head of the Party and helped devised the rules and penalties that she agreed to WHEN she thought she was going to be annoited the Democratic Nominee. It takes planning and organization to compete in primaries and Obama's campaign really did nothing and he removed his name from the ballot in Michigan and his supporters didnt even have a chance to vote for him, either it was Clinton or Dodd on the ballot, so if I am Obama, I wouldnt agree to a damn thing and in Florida, Obama would have had a staff and ground force there months in advance and campaigned there hard and he didnt do neither other than making one appearance. Sorry HC, but the rules are the same rules Bill became President under and the DNC has appeased you enough, step aside and go do your job in the Senate like you promised to do and make the New Yorkers lives better. You havent done anything to help them. The fact that people try to compare Hillary's situation to the plight of blackmen and women in this country who have suffered through 450 years of slavery and degradation because a blackman came out of nowhere and out worked, out campaigned and out classed the so called Hillary Clinton Juggernaught is absolutely ridiculous.

    Go Obama, Stay On Your Message..

    Posted by mryounginflorida May 22, 08 05:45 PM
  1. RULES:

    Many rules are changed to fit the intent they try to serve. A vote in a primary can be every bit as important to an individual (or more so) than a vote in the general election. After all one might prefer to live under either McCain OR Clinton than Obama (I use this as example - switch the names around if you like). The votes in Florida and Michigan should be counted.

    Posted by Billw May 22, 08 06:05 PM
  1. Democrats can win in November if the superdelegates switch their votes to HIllary Clinton. It's that basic. Elections are for winning. Obama is a loser.

    Posted by Andrew Austin May 22, 08 06:12 PM
  1. People keep saying that Hillary is destroying the party and that they can't respect her for it and that she is not showing the qualities of a leader - I actually feel just the opposite. Hillary believes she is the strongest candidate - and she is in my opinion as well. If any of you had spent well over a year building a campaign, and if all your days were grueling while working towards a goal - I don't think you'd give up without a good fight either. Hillary is fighting because she knows she is more electable than Obama. If Obama grabs this nomination he will NOT beat McCain unless Hillary is on the ticket with him. She is displaying qualities that show she will fight for this country. She should definitely not give up and concede to a worse candidate taking over the country. Why in the world would she do that? Sure, it may unify the party - but the COUNTRY is more important than the democratic party's unification - and this country will suffer under Obama or McCain.

    Posted by Mike May 22, 08 06:13 PM
  1. Let's not forget the comments Obama made LIVE in an interview which is up on youtube right now when he was elected Senator a few years back. He specifically stated he had RULED OUT running for President in 2008 because he believes that one should have enough experience when applying for a job and if he wanted to be President he would need to have been campaigning already. Talk about a HYPOCRITE. Now he has enough experience?? Right, Obama. Leave the experience to Hillary - she breathes it.

    Posted by Mike May 22, 08 06:16 PM
  1. No one counted on this nominating process being such a mess. As to MI/FL, Obama got permission from the DNC to run a national ad in FL for two weeks. He should have won more votes given he was allowed to campaign. He should not have been allowed this privilege, but should have had to run state specific ads. BO did block a revote! The money and time was worked out, but Obama wanted caucuses, which disenfranchise, and Hillary(and all informed voters) wanted primaries. Even Lou Dobbs said caucuses are a joke. If you are afraid of primaries, then you are afraid to have a true result. Obama has stated numerous times, counting FL/MI won't change a thing...then why doesn't he MAN UP for once?!?! He appears weak and afraid! I agree the party leaders should be fined or face some other penalty, but to hold the voters accountable for the party leaders actions is a bit ridiculous. Many FL voters have posted on other sites they were told not to worry, their votes would count. This is why they showed up in record numbers. My sister, a Republican, can't believe the DNC isn't going to count FL. If Obama supporters want to have a chance at FL in the fall, they had better count them now. FL/MI voters hold Obama primarily responsible for blocking the revote, and for now disenfranchising them when given the chance to count them. The rules state 1/2 the delegates won't be seated...it says nothing about not counting votes. Go ahead, Obama supporters, you're showing your naivety about the fall election.

    Today, I saw a map of the US, and how Clinton/Obama fair against McCain on a state by state basis. Obama, taken on a state by state basis, loses worse to McCain then I even predicted. Clinton clearly wins the general. There is very little Obama can do to improve his chances, afterall, he has heavily outspent Hillary, and everybody pretty much knows him now. The Republicans won't play soft powder puff with him as Hillary was forced to do, so his image will be even more incredulous!

    When a nomination process ends the way this one has, the superdelegates are suppose to vote for the candidate best able to win the general. Hillary has won 75 % of the primaries since Feb. She is clearly the stronger candidate now. She has won the pop vote if you actually add all the votes. The super d's are so afraid of upsetting all the young folks and the AA. Wouldn't it be better to upset their naive selves than to lose the general?!?! You all ask why Hillary stays in ...she damn well believes in what she is doing!! She knows she has the best chance to win in Nov...She also knows how the Republicans will play in the general. Don't say she didn't warn you neophytes and sycophants.

    Posted by kmb08 May 22, 08 06:18 PM
  1. No one counted on this nominating process being such a mess. As to MI/FL, Obama got permission from the DNC to run a national ad in FL for two weeks. He should have won more votes given he was allowed to campaign. He should not have been allowed this privilege, but should have had to run state specific ads. BO did block a revote! The money and time was worked out, but Obama wanted caucuses, which disenfranchise, and Hillary(and all informed voters) wanted primaries. Even Lou Dobbs said caucuses are a joke. If you are afraid of primaries, then you are afraid to have a true result. Obama has stated numerous times, counting FL/MI won't change a thing...then why doesn't he MAN UP for once?!?! He appears weak and afraid! I agree the party leaders should be fined or face some other penalty, but to hold the voters accountable for the party leaders actions is a bit ridiculous. Many FL voters have posted on other sites they were told not to worry, their votes would count. This is why they showed up in record numbers. My sister, a Republican, can't believe the DNC isn't going to count FL. If Obama supporters want to have a chance at FL in the fall, they had better count them now. FL/MI voters hold Obama primarily responsible for blocking the revote, and for now disenfranchising them when given the chance to count them. The rules state 1/2 the delegates won't be seated...it says nothing about not counting votes. Go ahead, Obama supporters, you're showing your naivety about the fall election.

    Today, I saw a map of the US, and how Clinton/Obama fair against McCain on a state by state basis. Obama, taken on a state by state basis, loses worse to McCain then I even predicted. Clinton clearly wins the general. There is very little Obama can do to improve his chances, afterall, he has heavily outspent Hillary, and everybody pretty much knows him now. The Republicans won't play soft powder puff with him as Hillary was forced to do, so his image will be even more incredulous!

    When a nomination process ends the way this one has, the superdelegates are suppose to vote for the candidate best able to win the general. Hillary has won 75 % of the primaries since Feb. She is clearly the stronger candidate now. She has won the pop vote if you actually add all the votes. The super d's are so afraid of upsetting all the young folks and the AA. Wouldn't it be better to upset their naive selves than to lose the general?!?! You all ask why Hillary stays in ...she damn well believes in what she is doing!! She knows she has the best chance to win in Nov...She also knows how the Republicans will play in the general. Don't say she didn't warn you neophytes and sycophants.

    Posted by kmb08 May 22, 08 06:44 PM
  1. Hillary's campaign strategy was flawed from the get-go. Her (mostly male) advisers focused exclusively on the "big" states and anticipated a Super Tuesday grand-slam. They failed to accurately evaluate the climate of the country and underestimated Obama's grassroots strategy. Instead of embracing the energy and enthusiam he was able to generate for the Democratic Party, Hillary instead chose to ridicule it. She was the original front-runner and the primary contest was her's to lose. And, she has. Consequently, she has resorted to misrepresenting the facts and manipulating the process. She has utilized tactics that only Karl Rove would admire. I no longer support her and my opinion of her has plummeted. I question both her administrative abilities and her judgement. I am horrified to think that this is how she would handle the Presidency. I, like many other women, have been waiting my entire life to see a woman become the President. Hillary has demonstrated to me that she is not worthy of that role.

    Posted by Deborah J. May 22, 08 07:16 PM
  1. This is about winning at all cost for Hillary. Agree to the rules then change them if they don't work for you is her motto. If she cared so much about the FL and MI votes she would have complained about this from the very beginning. She thought it was going to be a walk in the park. Surprise surprise she is losing BIG. Now she is really concerned about the voters in FL and MI. That is a joke. The only thing that has changed since she agreed to the rules set forth by the DNC is she is losing. Last week she tried to make the case that she should win the nomination because more hard working white people are voting for her. Well their supervisors are voting for Barack. Barack would be a fool to pick her. She cannot be trusted. If her supporter have gotten so caught up in the spin let them suffer 4 to 8 more years of the very thing she has campaigned against by voting for Sen. McCain.

    Posted by Pissed off Democrat May 22, 08 08:07 PM
  1. sen. joe lieberman, an ex-democrat-turned independent-turned-closet republican, may be endorsing mccain, but it's his scathing putdown of obama that sticks, searing obama all over his political persona.


    the other side is seeing hillary's role as the real democrat avenger.

    i read marie cocco’s sympathetic, yet, well-thought out feature (“the ‘not clinton’ excuse”) on hillary’s quest for the us presidency--& i cried.


    earlier, i also got to read in another major us paper krissah william’s equally magnificent article on hillary, & was i moved, especially when krissah demolished obama’s “intolerable logic” that to be old means to be boring and “mean,” & to be young is to be “fresh and inspiring,” & that only the young can institute “change,” (though thomas sowell has totally shot down obama’s “change” (an ‘old newness,’ as sowell puts it) shibboleth as nothing more than the rehashing of old, ineffective programs.


    finally, the us media understand hillary rodham clinton.
    no, i should say, many in the us media are now beginning to understand hillary.


    the fault in the us media’s almost sadistic penchant to lambast hillary at every turn in this dems’ nominating contest lies in two reasons, the first one buttressing the second.


    the us media attacks hillary not simly for the satisfaction of their sadistic pleasure, but for the wrong reason that what they want to see is a PERFECT WOMAN CANDIDATE, no warts & other imperfections. of course, hillary can’t be that woman, as no one. not even a man, can be perfect enough, only God is.

    the second reason is the more damning for the us media: they want ALWAYS that a man should be us president, the hopeless misogynist that many in them are.


    the us media are unable to take the cue from the american whites who, in the course of hillary’s indefatigable efforts to show her real self, her brilliance & all her best qualities to the american electorate, have now begun to warm up to her, & to realize that, in hillary’s self-deprecating description of herself, she “isn’t bad at all,” but even more importantly, she’s far & away the better candidate compared to the wet-in-the-ears, hemming-&-hawing, duplicitous (ever read that piece on barrack gaffes by national review?), even more imperfect, nay, fatally flawed obama.


    we admire the firm resolve, albeit puny efforts of some women to defend hillary against the sexist, utterly vulgar & personal attacks of many in the us media & her enemies in her quest for the us presidency. the 74-year-old gloria seinem, icon of the women's movement, “riled some younger, pro-obama feminists with a(n) op-ed (piece) suggesting that they were in denial about america's persisting "sexual caste system."

    we also knew of the righteous & well-founded critique of sen. barbara mikulski on the role that the omnipotent u.s. press/media played in destroying hillary rodham clinton & her presidential bid.


    we also doff our hats off to the best-known feminist group - the National Organization for Women - before its political action committee endorsed clinton in march 2007.
    NOW's president, kim gandy, sees clinton's determination and combativeness as among her strongest attributes.
    " gandy knows some feminists dismiss clinton as a woman whose political ascension depended on her husband's career, but she rejects that thinking.
    "she might have been president instead of him if things had gone a little differently," gandy said. "no one will ever know whether her marriage to bill clinton held her back politically as much as it moved her forward…it's hard to imagine that anytime soon there will be another candidate as extraordinary as hillary clinton," she said.


    gloria feldt conveyed similar sentiment.
    "i'd feel very sad to miss this enormous opportunity to bring the united states of america into the circle of nations that have had women as their leaders," she said. "i feel strongly when you have the opportunity to support a women so clearly qualified and capable, do it. do it for your daughter."


    finally, cocco, in her piece, asked: “clinton cleared the hurdles often cited as holding american women back, yet she is unlikely to surmount the final barrier. so you have to wonder. is it something about hillary, or something about us?”


    the answer, dear brutuses (of the us media), lies in your character & destiny, not in hillary’s. change the first, & you’ll have a better shot at a brighter future not only for yourself, but for america & its great people as well--& for the world. it’s not yet too late, give hillary a fair shake, wake up to the fact that only she can beat mccain, that she is, in fact, the best candidate—among men & women—who can carry today’s america’s burden w/ great wisdom & aplomb.


    Posted by jennifer potenciano May 22, 08 08:50 PM
  1. September 2, 2007
    Clinton, Obama and Edwards Join Pledge to Avoid Defiant States
    By JEFF ZELENY
    PORTSMOUTH, N.H., Sept. 1 — Three of the major Democratic presidential candidates on Saturday pledged not to campaign in Florida, Michigan and other states trying to leapfrog the 2008 primary calendar, a move that solidified the importance of the opening contests of Iowa and New Hampshire.
    Hours after Senator Barack Obama of Illinois and former Senator John Edwards of North Carolina agreed to sign a loyalty pledge put forward by party officials in Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton of New York followed suit. The decision seemed to dash any hopes of Mrs. Clinton relying on a strong showing in Florida as a springboard to the nomination.
    “We believe Iowa, New Hampshire, Nevada and South Carolina play a unique and special role in the nominating process,” Patti Solis Doyle, the Clinton campaign manager, said in a statement.

    Posted by Joyce May 22, 08 09:39 PM
  1. After 20 years, I am just more than a little tired of the divisive, confrontational Bush and Clinton families. Both have run this country into the ground and allowed big businesses to export our jobs overseas just to line the pockets of the rich. This is not the Roman Empire and the presidency is not hereditary. It's not her turn nor her right to be president. She is corrupt, sleazy and doesn't care about anyone but herself and her own ego power trip. And to all the women screaming "it's not fair, it's our turn": boo hoo. Try being gay in this country. The sympathy train has left the station and you're not on it.

    Obama will win in November. There are enough energized young adults, minorities and college educated voters eager to take this country in a new direction to ensure that he does.

    Posted by Steven May 23, 08 12:01 AM
  1. Every African American child or minority will forever know after this election that they should hang up their hopes and dreams to be President of the United States. That it is a "White's Only Position". Every child that is in a school which teaches about the Presidential Election and the Electoral College is learning that rules don't count. Every American who has proudly recited the Pledge of Allegiance with pride, can stop....because if Clinton prevails in this disgraceful spectacle, then we lose as a country any further thought of One Nation, Under God, Indivisible, With Liberty, And Justice for All! Senator Clinton has proven herself unworthy of the office of President of the United States, or any other office. She has disgraced herself, our party, our country, and all women.

    Posted by Linda Taylor May 23, 08 12:33 AM
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