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When the Angels message board gets sick of fighting over the name change, they move onto politics and argue over Bush. Lately, the liberal posters have been hitting Hilary too. They say that She is a republican wrapped in a democrate's clothes. I disagree but I have noticed that Mrs. Clinton is positioning herself with the same "third way politics" that her husband won with (which is in my opinion, the easiest way for Dems to win elections). William Saletan of Slate, on her recent speech that addressed abortion:

Note the concluding words: faith, responsibility, family. This is the other side of Clinton's message: against the ugliness of state control, she wants to raise the banner of morality as well as freedom. Pro-choicers have tried this for 40 years, but they always run into a fatal objection: Abortion is so ugly that nobody who supports it can look moral. To earn real credibility, they'd have to admit it's bad. They often walk up to that line, but they always blink.

Not this time. Abortion is "a sad, even tragic choice to many, many women," said Clinton. Then she went further: "There is no reason why government cannot do more to educate and inform and provide assistance so that the choice guaranteed under our constitution either does not ever have to be exercised or only in very rare circumstances."

Does not ever have to be exercised. I searched Google and Nexis for parts of that sentence tonight and got no hits. Is the press corps asleep? Hillary Clinton just endorsed a goal I've never heard a pro-choice leader endorse. Not safe, legal, and rare. Safe, legal, and never.

2008 here we come.