2008
Posted on 11/1/2007, 10:27:25 PM by george76
Edited on 11/1/2007, 10:45:01 PM by Admin Moderator. [history]
Finally, what the media have been panting after, lusting after and devoutly wishing for: a crack in Hillary's armor!
A couple of stumbles in the Dems' seventh debate, and the journalistic sharks are circling. If not for that, all we'd have to work with is Dennis Kucinich's UFO sighting. Roughing up a presidential front-runner is so much more down to earth.
Hillary Clinton... botching of the Spitzer question was a clear mistake. The substance--whether she backs the New York governor's plan to give driver's licenses to illegal immigrants--is not insignificant.
But it was her utter inability to take a position that will launch a thousand stories on the media's most negative rap against HRC:
She's a triangulator. A trimmer. A carefully calculating pol who says what people want to hear. A canny candidate who is allergic to specifics.
That image could damage Clinton long after everyone has forgotten about her specific answer on MSNBC. Remember the Bush ad that showed John Kerry windsurfing left and right in a flip-flopping metaphor?
The Boston Globe...
"Hillary Clinton won't say how she will fix Social Security. She spurns a deadline for withdrawing troops from Iraq. She's for free trade, except when it doesn't work. She defends her home state's issuing of driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, but doesn't really like the idea."
Andrew Sullivan ...
"The obvious loser was Senator Clinton. Her constant calculation, careful parsing, avoidance of direct answers to direct questions: all these were reminders of a pure politician. She's obviously capable, extremely intelligent, and so hollow you could almost hear the focus-grouped platitudes echo within her.
She also lost that new-Clinton benign smile, that newly poll-tested glow. Instead we got an occasionally droning, lecturing, and unrelenting stream of tight-faced opportunism."
ouchies...
Their goal is giving Bill his 3rd and 4th terms.
” The substance—whether she backs the New York governor’s plan to give driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants—is not insignificant. “
Thats all Howie needed to write. If there was ever an issue important to New Yorkers and one where we should expect our senators to take a stand, this is it. No excuses.
Blood in the water..................
She is revealing herself to be nothing more than...
...President Clinton’s wife.
Not to worry, the coronation of Queen Hillary as the Dem nominee will go ahead as scheduled.
Her advisers obviously told her that if this question came up she should turn it around and Blame Bush for the lack of “comprehensive immigration reform.” Anybody with two brain cells knows that Bush wanted this bill. She used the word “administration.” Liar.
The cracks have always been there, but the press has denied their existence, lacked any curiosity, or expended any time or effort to examine the cracks. Now that Hillary inserted her own foot in her own vicious mouth, the lazy giant is waking up.
The Empress has no clothes.
And why should Hillary be exempt from media scrutiny? Or is it that ‘pile ons’ are designed only for Republicans?
She actually looks fairly attractive in pastel pink. Pastels are her best color palette. The severe black pantsuit, black eyebrows and russet red lipstick (like she wore in the debate) are not becoming at all. She must think she has to wear the dark colors to appear more serious.
EWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!
She was trying to be a New Yorker with the black pantsuit.
All of these articles talk about how badly Clinton did, but I have yet to read one gushing about how well the other candidates did. In other words, it remains all about Clinton. The other candidates did little to distinguish themselves outside of attacking her, and I expect little to change in this race.
The only Democrat that didn’t pile on her the other night was Bill. [Credit to the Tonight Show].
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