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Originally Posted by Tex
There is a real reason why this is particularly damaging to Hillary, outside of the "everyone does it" defense being offered here.
She's got a reputation for being manipulative, controlling, and cold-calculating ... more so than the other candidates. Besides this story we had Drudge breaking a story about Wolf Blitzer being warned by the Clinton campaign to not "go Russert" on her; that is, to not ask tough questions.
Yesterday afternoon Hugh Hewitt had Jonathan Alter on his show, a VERY left Democrat reporter. Hewitt asked him a hypothetical, "Who would you rather cover, Obama or Clinton?" and Alter said Obama, partly because he's new and partly because she's hard to cover.
Then we have this from the New Republic, a leftist magazine (via Brit Hume):
So this goes beyond an "everyone does it" ethic where Hillary just happened to get caught. It serves to reinforce an image with the public that she would like to overcome.
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The fact that you think these things are "issues" only speaks to how badly Republicans are imploding. Keep living in your own spin, and you are going to lose--big time.
Real issues are not whether Senator Clinton is being aggressive and assertive (things that male politicians get away with without comment), or even if she's being unusually controlling (or "cold" like mama bear in Goldilocks?). Real issues are my health care premiums going up 70% in the last few years. Real issues are the K-12 education system needing a complete overhaul. Real issues are corporations trying to control the creation of content on the Internet. Real issues are the energy situation.
If, as your and Nor Cal's posts evidence, the Republicans stay in their partisan groupthink, their lunch will be eaten.
McCain and Huckabee are your best bets at a decent go of things. They might actually put forward some actual strategies to address real issues.