A SHORT ARTICLE, BECAUSE IT IS CHRISTMAS

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OK, HERE IT COMES

All hell is breaking loose now, as somebody is running "ADS" saying Howard Dean cannot beat President Bush and no one seems to know who is running these ads. May I suggest that everyone look at Oh, how about Hillary or at least one of the different groups set up by the Clinton people to help Hillary get drafted into the race in 2004? I know this would seem like a novel concept, the Clintons doing something "sneaky" but it sure seems to make sense to me.

Hillary and her crew are hard at work behind the closed doors of the Democratic Party and are doing what they're supposed to be doing. Helping Hillary and hurting anyone else that might get in her way. This is vintage Clinton "hardball" politics. It is for all the marbles and nobody plays this game better than the Clintons.

If only people could know what I know and see what I see! If they could, they would see an incredible game being played out right under everyone's noses and very few, if any are actually paying attention to it. To his credit, President Bush is proving to be a much more illusive and formidable target than his father, George Bush, Sr. was but the Clintons keep floating trial balloons to identify his weak spots in preparation for the feature match in the general election in 2004.

I don't know how well President Bush will be able to keep ducking the bullet but I do know how hard the Clintons will keep taking shots at him until something sticks. As for Howard Dean, well he had better be real careful because the Clintons will use him for cover until they are ready to destroy him.

Oh well, it is Christmas in Presidential politics land 2004 and we will all have to wait to see who has been naughty or nice.

By the way it is Christmas or at least it will be next week, so let me tell all of you that there will not be a Nichols Notes next week. We will do, as I hope all of you will and celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ with our families and then we will be back strong the next week.

Merry Christmas and May God Bless to all on this joyous day,

THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK

Christmas is a very joyous time and the time for all of us to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ.it is also a time to think about other important things in life. such as your friendship. Your friendship has been one of God's nicest gifts to me.