Posted on 11/03/2007 4:03:49 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
CLAREMONT, N.H. - Hillary Clinton, momentarily sliding the gender card back in the deck, said Friday her presidential rivals "aren't piling on because I'm a woman. I think they're piling on because I'm winning."
Then she quipped: "I anticipate it's going to get even hotter, and if you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen - and I'm very much at home in the kitchen."
Front-runner Clinton, on a two-day swing through New Hampshire on the heels of a debate in which foes charged she waffled and stumbled, said she wasn't deterred by criticisms of being too "nuanced" - read: too evasive.
"I will continue to say what I believe," Clinton said. "And sometimes it may not be as artfully presented as I would wish, but I think some of the challenges facing our country and some of the difficult issues we have to grapple with are not so easily answered in a 15-second hand-raise or sound bite."
One Democratic rival, former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards, scoffed Friday: "I have a really simple rule: If you get asked a yes or no question, you don't give a yes and no answer."
And Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois challenged Clinton during a "Today" show appearance.
A day earlier, Clinton spoke about competing "in the all-boys club of presidential politics."
Obama recalled that when he was under fire, "I didn't come out and say, 'Look, I'm being hit on because I look different from the rest of the folks on the stage.' "
The New York senator, who formally filed papers Friday for New Hampshire's January primary, took another stab at questions on Gov. Spitzer's plan to let illegal immigrants get driver's licenses - the debate issue that caused her the most heartburn.
Clinton said governors responsible for road safety and security are trying to deal with the "failure of this [Bush] administration to pass comprehensive immigration reform," and in the absence of federal action, "I believe it's unfortunate that states feel like they have to do this on their own."
Again, Clinton took no clear stand for or against Spitzer's plan. She added, though, that when Spitzer "was with Michael Chertoff over the weekend, the Department of Homeland Security said, 'Well, we're not for it, but we're not against it.'"
Chertoff actually said he opposed licensing illegals but could not stop states from doing so.
And that reality just might change with another Clinton administration.
The Clintons attacked the MSM unmercifully in the 90s and MSM only fawned all the more frantically.
Which makes one wonder, what are the internal poll results that this is in response to? Her screw-ups in the debate must really be resonating...
You haven't even begun to feel the heat yet honey ...
Next: Hillary authors bill to shut down youtube.
Just watch out for Hillary’s flying monkeys.
“If hillary does get elected (which I doubt) we will all need a four year supply of birth control pills (’cause we are all going to get fu*ked)”
There are only 3 ways Hillary can get elected.
1. Everything remains the same and she steals Ohio. (They set that fight up after 2004)
2. Third party candidate. (Ron Paul)
3. Conservatives stay home (Rudy is candidate)
BTW, John Kerry served in Vietnam.
Rush Limbaugh needs to start drilling Hillary! about the woman thing like he drilled Kerry about the Vietnam thing.
Chertoff actually said he opposed licensing illegals but could not stop states from doing so.
Then she quipped: “I anticipate it’s going to get even hotter, and if you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen - and I’m very much at home in the kitchen.”
Yes, the witch has her waffle iron on high heat and is turning out burnt waffles as fast as she can flip them out. Maybe she can get someone up in NH to donate lots of maple syrup because her product is very bitter.
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