Posted on 02/13/2006 5:54:51 AM PST by Neville72
The London Times reviews the performance of the presumed front-runner for the Democratic ticket in 2008 and finds her performance wanting. Gerard Baker, the editor for its American desk, notes that Hillary Clinton not only cannot connect well in her appearances but cannot even escape the long shadow cast by her husband and most potent political asset:
Few deny that Mrs Clinton is razor-sharp and politically savvy. But even supporters worry about her personal skills, at least before a large audience. She is a somewhat wooden speaker with a hectoring style at times more reminiscent of Al Gore than her husband. And unlike Bill, she projects a lofty, distant air that has been likened to the Queen of Sheba in a power suit. Last weekend Ken Mehlman, the Republican National Committee chairman, homed in on Mrs Clinton’s personality, saying that she was too angry. His aim was both to pinpoint her weaknesses and to needle her, and it seems to have worked. ...
The hope in her camp is that people will believe that Mrs Clinton has her husband’s political strengths and none of his weaknesses. The growing fear is that she incites the same level of loathing and suspicion as her husband always did, but has none of the charm and personality to deflect it.
Hillary has always come across as a scold and a cold fish on the stump, where Bill may only truly find himself in that setting. He has always had a grace and flow to his appearances that served him well on most occasions. His charm finds its best and most productive outlet there, while Hillary usually sounds rather tight and forced. The comparisons will not make her look any better, and if she has Bill at the same events with her, he will continue to upstage her every time. That only plays into the suspicion that Hillary will run as an end-around to the 25th Amendment to garner Bill his third term in office.
Democrats need to find a national candidate with less baggage than Hillary. Almost half of the electorate doesn't want anything to with the Clintons ever again, and about half of what's left doesn't think Bill is worth casting a vote for Hillary. Rasmussen's last poll demonstrates that Hillary might win in the primaries, but she will get shellacked in a national election and probably would be the biggest get-out-the-vote incentive for the GOP in years. When the London Times plays Lloyd Bentsen to Hillary's Dan Quayle, her negatives no longer can be portrayed as Republican wishful thinking.
I do also. So right there you have a few.
When is Saturday Night Live going to parody Hillary with a a huge ass eating a bucket of chicken? How come this supposed great comedy comedy show has never ONCE poked fun at her obesity and ghoulish looks? Not once?
You hit the nail on the head with that one.
I will give Hillary some credit though, she's got that "rode hard and put away wet" look down cold.
Huh? The 25th has nothing to do with 3 terms.
In the medieval castles of Europe, an oubliette was situated beneath a trap door at the entrance. When a lever was pressed, an intruder standing on the trap door was dropped into the oubliette, from which there was no exit, and left there to die and be forgotten.
That's what we need to do with the Democrat Party.
"And there is a very real possibility that that might just happen again since there are many disgruntled conservatives. A solid 3rd-party candidate might be able to scoop allot of them up."
And return a Democrat to White House again. The Perotistas
just don't seem to learn, or perhaps they don't give a d**n as long as they cast their dissenting vote against a viable Republican candidate.
Third parties do NOT work. Even the guys who are going to contribute to the NRA and let that august organization speak for them don't get it.
She is sharp having the FBI Files to intimidate people.
I think it is the nice turn of her ankle. :-)
The problem with Hillary pulling off the 'Perot Gambit' is that any 3rd party candidate will have to come from the right and the more likely 3rd party candidate scenario in '08, especially with HRC nomination, will come from her left.
Is it wonder after her collusion with Ng Lap Seng, Yah Lin "Charlie" Trie; Wang Mei Trie, John Huang, Johnny Chung, Liu Tai-ying, Bin Liu, Irene Wu, Nora Lum, Shi-Zeng Chen, General Ding Henggao, Lt. Gen. Huai Guomo, "Col. Xu", William Peh, PRC Defense Minister Chi Haotian, China Resources chairman Shen Jueren, Bao Peide, 5th Vice Minister of the PRC, Zou Jia Hua, Vice Minister National Technology Planning, Bernard Schwartz, Zhu Roug-ji, Vice Premier of National Finance, .Liu Ju-Yuan, Minister of China Aerospace Corporation (made both satellite orbiter version of Long March and the nuclear tippled missile version for the PLA), Ms Melinda Yee, Ira Sockowitz, Leon A. Panetta, Mark Littleton, Neal Ainley and convicted Miami drug trafficker Jose Cabrera, along with Hillary's ongoing ties to James Riady and the Lippo Bank-Lippo Group & Lippo Pacific in Indonesia---Hillary has no chance of winning anymore elections.
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U S Congressional Record/Senate
106th Congress
June 23, 1999
pgs. S7483-S7486
The Clinton National Security Scandal and Coverup
Senator James Inhofe
(righ column, top)
Congratulations for knowing what an oubliette is. I bet you even know what "hoist by his own petard" really means.
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We can add our terrorist enemy No. 1 during the Vietnam War, Communist North Vietnam Dictator HO CHI MINH, to the list of HILLARY's collusions as well.
Bringing about for all of us to see in the end:
Pictures of a vietnamese Re-Education Camp
http://www.Freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308949/posts
And make no mistake, with HILLARY back in our Oval Office...
...it could all happen HERE.
Signed:.."ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer
Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_set1.htm
http://www.lzxray.com/guyer_collection.htm
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BTTT
'MAKE IT A RULE' -- PLACE YOUR ORDER FOR OSAMA WITH CLINTON and CO.
(HEAR HILLARY + BILL MAKE THEIR PITCH)
ON THE FICTIONALIZED MEMOIR (HEAR HILLARY IN SF)~PART TWO~
THE (oops!) INADVERTENT ADMISSIONS OF HILLARY AND JANE IN SAN FRANCISCO
THE (oops!) INADVERTENT ADMISSIONS OF BILL + HILLARY CLINTON (HEAR HILLARY IN SF) ~PART ONE~
'HIATUS' FOR HILLARY?
for the birds
(THE INCOMPETENCE OF HILLARY CLINTON)
HILLARY FLUNKED D.C. BAR EXAM
"the smartest woman in the world" sought less competitive venue
HILLARY!?? WHAT IS THIS MORIBUND LOSER DOING IN THE POLITICAL ARENA, ANYWAY? (bill's bud explains)
If every American woman who has a big ass -- or thinks she does -- votes for Hillary in sympathy, she will be elected by a landslide. If you don't want to see Prez Hillary, I'd avoid that line of attack.
lol/ bttt
Bill Clinton is a sociopath--a bad person but genuinely charming in personal interactions. Hillary lacks the charm.
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