Socks the Cat 's spin team!!!! SCST

[link to www.timesonline.co.uk]

From The Sunday Times
October 21, 2007
Ouch! Hillary Clinton's softer image is clawed over dumped cat Socks the cat
Sarah Baxter

AS THE “first pet” of the Clinton era, Socks, the White House cat, allowed “chilly” Hillary Clinton to show a caring, maternal side as well as bringing joy to her daughter Chelsea. So where is Socks today?

Once the presidency was over, there was no room for Socks any more. After years of loyal service at the White House, the black and white cat was dumped on Betty Currie, Bill Clinton’s personal secretary, who also had an embarrassing clean-up role in the saga of his relationship with the intern Monica Lewinsky.

Some believe the abandoned pet could now come between Hillary Clinton and her ambition to return to the White House as America’s first woman president.

Clinton has been boosting her prospects in the past week with some homespun references to her gender as part of a series of events with the theme Women Changing America, during which she chatted girlfriend-to-girlfriend and mom-to-mom with female voters.

The softening of Clinton’s image seems to be working. Her chief strategist, Mark Penn, predicts that up to a quarter of Republican women will vote for her. She leads Democratic rivals in the polls by 26 points and is scooping up more donations to her war chest from Wall Street and defence contractors than any candidate from either party – an unmistakable indicator of who they think will win in 2008.

Clinton’s treatment of Socks cuts to the heart of the questions about her candidacy. Is she too cold and calculating to win the presidency? Or does it signify political invincibility by showing she is willing to deploy every weapon to get what she wants?

“In the annals of human evil, off-loading a pet is nowhere near the top of the list,” writes Caitlin Flanagan in the current issue of The Atlantic magazine. “But neither is it dead last, and it is especially galling when said pet has been deployed for years as an all-purpose character reference.”

Flanagan’s article, headed No Girlfriend of Mine, points out that Clinton wrote a crowd-pleas-ing book Dear Socks, Dear Buddy: Kids’ Letters to the First Pets, in which she claimed that only with the arrival of Socks and his “toy mouse” did the White House “become a home”.

Being Clinton, she also lectured readers that pets are an “adoption instead of an acquisition” and warned them to look out for their safety. (Buddy, the chocolate labrador, it should be noted, bounded into a road soon after leaving the White House and was promptly run over.)

Despite these misadventures, Peggy Noonan, President Ronald Reagan’s former speech-writer, believes Clinton is doing a good job of humanising herself. “I am not saying she has learnt to be herself,” she observed. “I think after a year on the trail she has learnt how not to be herself, how to comfortably adopt a skin and play a part.”

Perhaps the cautionary tale of Socks the cat will make a difference. “Hillary’s insistence that we follow her example in pet ownership, when she really should be on Cat Fancy’s Most Wanted List, makes her a tiresome bore,” Flanagan writes.

“But exploiting the emotions of good-natured people – well, that’s just another example of her three-decade-long drift from the girl she once was to the woman that circumstance and ambition have made her.”
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Ok, settle down, I know it's Sunday but this could be damaging.
We all know Hillary is a drug importing, lesbian, murdering bitch but you and I know it's our job to fool the great mass of morons out there. It's so easy I sometimes feel guilty getting paid. Just kidding!
Now this Socks thing is looking bad. We all ready have a team working on the SOB that leaked it. I'm thinking a car crash. Suicides are becoming cliché.
Ok, any got anything?? Yes, go ahead Johnson....
'Well, I haven't had much time but how about this, Hillary found out that Socks was actually the head of the feline branch of al-Qaeda. We could call it al-Catda. And was in direct contact with Osama. Socks was enlisting and training suicide cat bombers that were going to blow up
pet shops. Thus striking at the heart of American values and our way of life. Hillary found out and at great risk to her self didn't turn Socks in but was having Socks watched so she could bring down the whole terror net. Thus saving America. What do you think'???
I LIKE IT! We'll just flesh out the bones a little and phony up some documents and I think it will fly. Alrighty then , let's hit the bar, I am so freaking hungover I could puke!!!
Good job Johnson.....As a bonus I'll make sure you get that cute eight year old you have had your eye on..