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Clinton Now Under Pressure To Bounce Back Against Foes
NY Sun ^ | November 14, 2007 | RUSSELL BERMAN

Posted on 11/14/2007 9:41:48 AM PST by COUNTrecount

WASHINGTON — The pressure will be on Senator Clinton at the Democratic presidential debate tomorrow as she tries to bounce back from a weak performance last month that has cut into her lead in the polls.

Her top rivals, Senator Obama and John Edwards, head into the Las Vegas forum confident that their increased criticism in recent weeks finally has begun to inflict damage on Mrs. Clinton's campaign, which had seemed unstoppable earlier in the fall.

Messrs. Obama and Edwards have painted her as a creature of a corrupt corporate culture in Washington who is more concerned about her political standing than she is about principles, and that image has been fed in recent days by disclosures that the Clinton campaign has "planted" questioners at two of its town-hall forums in Iowa.

Acknowledging that the dynamic of the race has shifted, Mrs. Clinton is using the attacks as a fund-raising tool. Her campaign manager, Patti Solis Doyle, yesterday sent out a missive to supporters urgently seeking donations in a bid to raise $1 million by the start of the debate tomorrow night.

"The campaign has changed," Ms. Solis Doyle wrote at the top of the e-mail.

(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...


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To: Badeye
For a brief moment, I can sympathize with the old Horndog...what must living with her Highness be like ?
21 posted on 11/14/2007 10:15:51 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Go Hawks !)
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To: COUNTrecount

Looking for that ‘dead cat bounce’.


22 posted on 11/14/2007 10:15:59 AM PST by Tarpon
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To: COUNTrecount
Of course Hillary will bounce back — the media WANT her to bounce back. So, regardless of her actual performance in the next debate, it will be loudly trumpeted as a magnificent appearance.

Pass the barf bag, please...

23 posted on 11/14/2007 10:16:07 AM PST by DJ Frisat (SPAM: best in the can and in sammiches -- not for use on computers.)
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To: Cobra64

LOL. That photo always cracks me up. It never gets old.


24 posted on 11/14/2007 10:16:24 AM PST by joebuck
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To: COUNTrecount

Very few Democrats actually like clinton, but she still has one thing going for her. Namely,

What are the alternatives?

Obama?

Edwards?

It goes downhill rapidly from there.

Kucinich?

The only other candidate with any credibility is Richardson. But I doubt that he could win. And he carries a lot of baggage, including his habit of pinching and harrassing any women foolish enough to get near him.


25 posted on 11/14/2007 10:16:32 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: COUNTrecount
She's gone into her little hole. That's what happens when you turn on the lights!!

And then the flags fall over. Even Hillary dreamt about karma that night!!

26 posted on 11/14/2007 10:18:23 AM PST by Sacajaweau ("The Cracker" will be renamed "The Crapper")
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To: Miss Didi
Rush said that just like Andrew Cuomo and Toricelli were taken out by Don Vito Clintoneone, Governor Spitzer must have gotten a phone call.

Let's not forget JFK Jr.

27 posted on 11/14/2007 10:20:31 AM PST by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

‘For a brief moment, I can sympathize with the old Horndog...what must living with her Highness be like ?’

Not me, she was ugly the day he met her, she was ugly the day they married, she was ugly when he was Governor of Arkansas, she was ugly as First lady.

Nope, I don’t feel sorry for him at all. He picked an ugly woman, both inside and out.


28 posted on 11/14/2007 10:25:06 AM PST by Badeye (That Karma thing keeps coming around, eh Sally? (chuckle))
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To: boomop1

Oh, what the hell was I thinking. They were planted!!!!


29 posted on 11/14/2007 10:25:56 AM PST by hophead ("Enjoy Every Sandwich" WZ)
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To: Badeye
How will more fundraising/money help her to debate better?
30 posted on 11/14/2007 10:36:22 AM PST by Carolinamom (Every day is a gift; be thankful.)
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To: Carolinamom

It won’t. She is what she is, a media creation, same as Ho Ho Dean.


31 posted on 11/14/2007 10:37:51 AM PST by Badeye (That Karma thing keeps coming around, eh Sally? (chuckle))
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To: Badeye
"Though her face is ugly and her eyes don't match,
Take it from me, she's a better catch."
--Jimmy Soul
32 posted on 11/14/2007 10:39:04 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Go Hawks !)
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To: All
I have pseudo-blogged this ghastly parody of a woman, until I was blue in the face- click the picture and scroll back, for more than you ever wanted to know about Falling Flags, Huma, Plants & Shills, Stiffing Waitresses, "Hillary Hears a Hsu," Hillary's Thesis ( a screed penned by an idiot, and written for morons... ), and so very much more:


33 posted on 11/14/2007 10:44:59 AM PST by backhoe (-30-)
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To: COUNTrecount

This week’s edition of “No, No Bubbette!”


34 posted on 11/14/2007 10:49:42 AM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys: Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat; but they know what's best for us)
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To: Red_Devil 232

Wolf will ask Hillary the REAL tough questions:

(1) Hillary, how do you like the weather here?

(2) Do you like your hotel room?

(3) How was room service?

(4) Boxers or briefs-—er, ah, I mean-—strapless or Cross-Your-Heart type?


35 posted on 11/14/2007 10:58:55 AM PST by Liz (Rooty's not getting my guns or the name of my hairdresser.)
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To: Red_Devil 232

“Reporters who have covered the hyper-vigilant [Clinton presidential] campaign say that no detail or editorial spin is too minor to draw a rebuke. Even seasoned political journalists describe reporting on Hillary as a torturous experience... [and] recount excruciating battles to secure basic facts. Innocent queries are met with deep suspicion. Only surgically precise questioning yields relevant answers. Hillary’s aides don’t hesitate to use access as a blunt instrument, as when they killed off a negative GQ story on the campaign by threatening to stop cooperating with a separate Bill Clinton story the magazine had in the works. Reporters’ jabs and errors are long remembered, and no hour is too odd for an angry phone call. Clinton aides are especially swift to bypass reporters and complain to top editors” — senior editor Michael Crowley, writing in the New Republic.


36 posted on 11/14/2007 11:02:31 AM PST by COUNTrecount
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To: Liz

>>But while they’re attacking Hillary, she’s attacking the problems facing America.<<

Hillary’s “problems facing America” :

Tim Russert

Any media person who says anything negative about her

Clinton’s ex-White House staff

The young lady who told the truth about asking a planted question

etc. etc.


37 posted on 11/14/2007 11:46:45 AM PST by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Illegals: representation without taxation--Citizens: taxation without representation)
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To: COUNTrecount

If Hitlery perceives her campaign as being on the end of an attack look out....anything negative in her opponents past will hit the news with a big splash. Mark my words. She plays tough.


38 posted on 11/14/2007 11:48:48 AM PST by vigilence
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To: COUNTrecount

Bill Clinton asked a doctor for advice. He said he thought Hillary was trying to poison him and what he should do about it.

The doctor replied, “I’d take the poison.”


39 posted on 11/14/2007 12:37:06 PM PST by rfreedom4u (My Freedom of speech trumps your feelings!)
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To: COUNTrecount
Click to enlarge.
40 posted on 11/14/2007 2:44:47 PM PST by RedWireNut
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