Posted on 10/07/2007 4:33:21 PM PDT by slowhand520
CLINTON GETS SNIPPY WITH IOWAN OVER IRAN
Chuck Todd
From NBC/NJ's Athena Jones NEW HAMPTON, Iowa -- At a campaign stop here, Hillary Clinton sparred verbally for several minutes with a man who pressed her on her recent vote to call Iran's army a terrorist organization. Randall Rolph, from nearby Nashua, asked why he should support Clinton's candidacy when she did not appear to have learned any lessons from having voted to authorize force in Iraq. Clinton thanked him for the question and explained her Iran vote would lay the groundwork for using diplomacy and sanctions to pressure that government. Clinton accused the man of being a plant who had been sent to ask the question, to which he took exception, saying the question was a result of his own research. "I apologize," Clinton said, explaining that she had been asked the very same question in three other places. The crowd applauded when the senator ended the back and forth by saying the two had a disagreement and offering to put Rolph in touch with her staff, who could provide him with the text of the legislation, which she suggested he had misunderstood. After taking several more questions, Clinton ended by saying she valued these kinds of conversations and urging Iowans to support her in the caucuses. "I'm taking nothing for granted," she said. "I hope I'll be able to earn your support." Rolph said after the event that he was a registered Democrat who had come with an open mind but that he would not be supporting Clinton after the way she responded. "Who in this room believes we aren't going to attack Iran before Bush leaves office?" Rolph said.
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I hope that you are right. The ONLY way this will happen is if the EVERY Republican votes for the Republican nominee. That means voting for the nominee even though he might not be your first choice.
I don’t know. I think she will win. Just because everybody is being spun and flung and cut away from the real issues. Thus polarizing the room temperature IQ’s and giving her just enough margin to win.
I keep wondering what has she done to qualify? Other than being married to Bill Clinton and riding on his coat tail. She has done nothing of any importance. No one wants to discuss that. However, they do try to impose this Utopian image of how great things are gonna be with her. Which to me wreaks of pure Stalinist propaganda. Yet she will win.
Many people often wonder how Adolf Hitler came into such a position of power. I wonder if the same will be asked when Hilary becomes president? We live in interesting times.
Boy I have read 3 different versions of this story and the American Spectator is the only one which actually gives the quotes and describes the real tenor of the moment . This guy was really ticked off and he let it be known he was insulted that the paranoid one would question his integrity. I recommend reading the Spectator version
A liberal is a Liberal is a Liberal....
It happens everywhere else in the world, a coup here is inevitable.
I have a feeling you are correct with the coup statement. I have been in the military for over 30 years. I an many others have stated that we will not serve under another clinton administration. We were under funded for eight straight years and are just now getting back into a working military.
I know that the Air Force, Army, Coast Guard, Marines and Navy all suffered during that period. Most of the miitary people would do anything to clean up the mess in congress right now, as we are having funds cut again. There are too many other give away programs the libs want to expand, but screw national defense.
Moonbat Rolph was only following up on what he’s been fed since 2003... can’t blame him for not applying his lessons.
Interesting ...
You're full of crap. I mean that with all due respect.
He might not be a plant but after The Pantsuited One has her way, he soon will be.
Yes, and a disaster for the country.
His cat is a dead man!
Don’t be ridiculous.....our great military men will resign or retire or not sign up at all!
Lies and deceit from Hitlery??? All you Right Wing conspiracy nuts!! (sarc/off)
“every one else is a plant”
Your post is the best answer I have seen this year. You have great insight.
True, but it won't matter to the sheeple. Remember Hillary's first campaign for the Senate? Lazio generally wiped the floor with her, but it didn't matter and the media and the Hillary camp spun it as a "mean-spirited Republican" attacking a woman. That and star power put Hillary into office, and likely will again. There is a sizable fraction of the electorate still in love with the Clintons, and Clintonophilia generally results in brain rot.
God help us all if this monster and her evil master (Bill) get into office. The US wont survive.
If things continue as they are now (the media in love with Hillary!, and Republicans eating their own) then she will, probably by a landslide of historic proportions. And you're right, we won't survive another Clinton Administration, at least not as a Constitutional Republic where individual liberty is valued.
Hillary Clinton is the meanest, nastiest, most arrogant, most fake, most dull, most uncharismatic person to run for President. The voters will realize this at an early stage of the campaign and before they know anything about her socialist politics, her huge flips flops, and her extreme left wing stand on social issues. The majority of voters will be turned away by her horrible character, her very annoying unbearable to hear nasty and screeching voice, her bitc** laughter, and her scary wide open mean eyes. She cannot change her character no matter how much she tries and the liberal media cannot cover it for her no matter how much they try.
No-one got this on a camera phone? Didn’t post it on Youtube? Does Hillie ban camera phones at her rallies?
So as not to offend, I’d like to submit of Hillary Approved Questions....
1. Paper of Plastic?
2. Cappucino or Latte?
3. One lump or two?
Any other questions will be ignored and the questioner asked to kindly leave the building.
The comparison of her ascension to power is accurate. That does not make her the same as Adolf.
I do hope you are right.
How right you are. Here is a snip: (Link below)
Clinton first thanked him and then countered that, "the premise of the question is wrong." So far, so good. But after offering a description of what was in the resolution, Clinton smugly and dismissively accused him of having been fed the information, saying "obviously somebody sent [it] to you."
Rolph didn't let it pass. "I take exception, this is my own research..."
"Well, then let me finish telling you..." Clinton screamed. [heh heh]
"Nobody sent that, and I am offended that you would suggest it," Rolph snapped at her.
Realizing she had committed a blunder, she backed off. "Then I apologize," she said. "I apologize, it's just that I've been asked the very same question at three other places."
Later, she patronizingly told him "I respect your research," but instructed him that there were two versions of the bill, and she opposed an earlier draft that had harsher language.
"We just have a disagreement," she concluded. "I know what I voted for, and I know what we intended to do with it."
The crowed filled with supporters may have applauded, but Rolph was turned off.
He said he came into the event uncommitted, but ruled out voting for Clinton after she insinuated that he was a patsy even though he had spent the morning on government websites looking into the question himself.
"It was an insult," he fumed following the event. "It was basically calling me stupid. That I can't think on my own. That I don't have the ability to research or come up with a coherent or concrete thought on my own. How dare she!"
He continued, "She never did answer the question. She just, what I say is, bitch-slapped me."
Whether this incident does any damage to the well-oiled Clinton machine remains to be seen. But one thing it does make clear is that no matter how scripted Hillary is, over the course of a long campaign, she will not be able to mask her contempt for average Americans who dare to challenge her.
Significant differences in the reporting. Sadly though, the majority of sheeple won't hear about it at all.
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