11-14-2007, 04:21 AM | #41 |
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The student from Iowa has guts to speak out and want the truth about Mrs. Clinton's campaign to be known. She tells the reporter that she felt she was treated with respect, but she needs to wait until she she is ready to get into the real world and she'll find out just how the Clinton political machine is and how the treat with those who dare speak against them.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/11/...ml#cnnSTCVideo It's about 17 1/2 minutes long but worth the watch. If anyone still believes that Mrs. Clinton didn't know about the planted questions - despite the campaign's claim to the contrary - after watching this, they are in complete denial. A control freak like Mrs. Clinton knows every detail of what's happening.
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11-14-2007, 04:25 AM | #42 | |
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Wow...she served on the boards of corporations huh? That doesn't mean she led anything. 5 Senate committes...great. Did she accomplish or lead anything? What legislation did she sponsor? Just because someone sponsors legislation doesn't mean they are an effective leader. If it's crappy legislation, they're a crappy leader. Partner in a law firm? Is that supposed to be good? Millions of people were "inspired" to follow Hitler also. Yeah, call me crazy, but I don't like dishonest, manipulative, ugly, lying, cheating, Socialist, tax hiking people to be my President. |
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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): Quote:
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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.
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So.... your position is "this happened but it's not a big deal."
I guess that's better than Cali's "La la la I'm not listening no she didn't and you can't prove it!" You're acting as bad as Snipe here, Cali. |
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Maybe you were too obsessed with Republicans to notice. But to your point, if you think image is irrelevant to a presidential candidacy, then you are kidding yourself. It's not the only factor, obviously, but given that it already is not Hillary's strong suit, this incident only makes things worse.
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Here's Camille Paglia, no Republican she.
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Perhaps she's a Republican plant after all. Everyone does it. http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/...urce=whitelist
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Why do supporters of Hillary and Obama give them a pass on their lack of executive and leadership experience?
And why are you willing to allow somebody with absolutely zero executive experience to take on the most difficult executive position in the world? If Republicans were supporting somebody that inexperienced, I'd understand the complaint. But that's the key, Democrats give anybody with a liberal card a free pass on ability or experience. Republicans do a terrible job, a terrible job, but due to the scrutiny, they usually put up persons with good experience, not always ability. I was thinking about Supreme Court nominees. The process Bush has endured has ensured that most of his nominees have been good quality jurists. When Clinton was in office, all that mattered was the liberal litmus test and whether the person was of the correct gender. Ability had nothing to do with it. And so we are here, with the two leading Democratic candidates with zero executive experience, and my well-schooled and otherwise level-headed co-posters here have no qualms giving the hardest job in the world to person of no demonstrable executive experience or skills. Even if you don't answer by a post, don't you feel just a wee bit uncomfortable with that decision? I know it wouldn't fly in boardroom, except if one were merely seeking "juice". It wouldn't fly in academia. Will a guy with no executive administrative experience be appointed as Provost of Harvard or Stanford? Experience is the best teacher and why should the Presidency be a candidate's first executive training ground? The Dems have candidates with experience, such as Richardson, but nobody has the good sense to back him.
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