Mantis,
It was a stupid thing for Hillary to say, it has been all over the news, and Newt made an almost identical comment ten years ago and never apologised or resigned for it.
I fully understand that people on both sides try to make their opponents look like extremist. Thats how politics work--straw man arguments and a race for the middle around election time.

Pete,
For every Cindy Sheehan ther is a Pat Robertson. For every Michael Moore there is a Bill O-Reilly. For every Soros there is a Haliburton. For every Ted Kennedy there is a Tom DeLay . . .
And if it was the republican congress driving the prosperity of the 90's then I wish they would remember exactly what it was that they were doing right back then.