Posted on 10/31/2007 3:18:31 PM PDT by neverdem
The usual flood of editorials and blog posts after a major presidential debate were particularly harsh on Hillary Clinton this morning following Tuesday night’s Democratic debate at Drexel University.
Opinion leaders said her performance reinforced negative stereotypes that Clinton is shrill, calculating and evasive.
Here’s a round up of what some of those opinion leaders are saying:
Mark Halperin, Time Magazine - [She] fell off the tough-shrill balance beam onto the "shrill" side — with a THUD. More defensive than usual, and at times too political and too hot tempered. Borderline disastrous moment at the end when she gave an equivocal answer about drivers licenses for illegal immigrants in New York; it opened the door for her opponents to pounce by turning it into a character issue — and pounce they did. The failure of her performance was cumulative, however, so only those watching the whole debate would see how weak her evening was. If she loses the nomination, tonight will go down in history as the first step to her defeat — no fatal "Dean Scream" catastrophe, but far from her finest moment, to say the least.
Nedra Pickler, Associated Press -Gone was the Clinton who laughed off their answers and joked about how she's lucky to be getting so much attention from all these men at her age. Clinton clearly had decided she must defend herself from rivals who are right on her heels in...
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Roger Simon, Politico - In a debate against six Democratic opponents at Drexel University here Tuesday, Clinton gave the worst performance of her entire campaign. It was not just that her answer about whether illegal immigrants should be issued drivers’ licenses was at best incomprehensible and at worst misleading. It was that for two hours she dodged and weaved, parsed and stonewalled.
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sad thing is, i doubt it makes a bit of difference.
is there anything that says the Anti Christ must be a man?
They aren't stereotypes. They are character flaws..............
...for two hours she dodged and weaved, parsed and stonewalled.
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IOW, she was Clintonian. Obama really smacked her down, IMO. I hope he keeps an eye on his cat. Did you notice how she was glaring at Hair when he was critical?
If elected POTUS (God forbid), she'll never survive a press conference..
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Hillary can do no wrong with her people....just as Bush can do no right with the same people.
Remember what the FIRST Clinton administration did about the WH Press Corps when they took over in ‘93?.............
Can you imagine what she must have been thinking? I’m sure there were tons of F words.
You asked is there anything that says the Anti Christ must be a man?
To which I always respond... Is there anything that says the Anti Christ must be one person???
The Anti Christ...
I am so sure I could not listen to her address this nation as our President - she sounds like an old crow out there!
Well then she won’t have press conferences. If she has a press conference, she will find a way to control the participants and questions. Never question the Queen or the Pope (of global warming).
She looked like a crow in that crusty black pantsuit.
“...Obama really smacked her down...”
but then he made up to her .. IMO
Speaking of Halloween....
“...Obama really smacked her down...”
but then he made up to her .. IMO
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Do you remember what he said that made you think that?
the truth, was showning through....the *itchs' spells weren't working last night.
Of course Hillary, like a true liberal, will play the “victim” card and say that everyone is “ganging up” on her ‘cause she’s a woman.
If elected POTUS (God forbid), she’ll never survive a press conference..
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Surely, you don’t think she’d get anything but softballs lobbed her way!
No third terms. The whole Bush/Clinton polarization needs to be put out to pasture. Political dynasties are for 3rd world dictatorships. Another Clinton administration would be the end of reasoned national dialogue. JMHO.
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