Robert Reich: [Hillary] Clinton lacks 'conviction about anything'

CNN ^ | Dec. 04, 2007 | Peter Hamby

[popdonnelly]

Time to start collecting quotes for the 2008 campaign.

[Red_Devil 232]

I need my glasses! I read “carryon” as “crayon” and it made sense!

[toddlintown]

“It’s a short blog.”

Rimshot, professor!

BTW, wasn’t Reich in the Tin Man show on Sci-Fi last weekend as one of the Munchkins?

[hunter112]

Its nice to see Reich stand tall on an issue.

It'll be a relatively easy body to dispose of. Maybe only one Hefty Sack will do...

[toddlintown]

I was on the morning show with Bill Wills...talking about beer. Reich’s name didn’t come up, but I did finish the interview with a crazy urge for a bucket of frosty Coronitas.

[bert]

.....has a long-standing relationship with the Clintons....

Does long mean tall?

He was asked to stand up three times. He and Yassar Arafat were buds.

[exit82]

“It’s a short blog.”

That’s hysterical.

Imagine this Munchkin biting the hand that fed him.

[Polyxene]

This isn’t 1992. I think Her Heinous (and others) have underestimated the power of the internet (blogs, websites, You-Tube, etc.) Everything she says and does is out there for all to see, hear and read over and over and over. The MSM cannot play down and cover-up for her like they once could. You can run, but you can’t hide, witch — not anymore!

[Miss Didi]

RUSH: ...The Clintons are famous for dirty campaigns and negative campaigns, but here's the thing, folks. If Barack Obama... Look at what he's just been accused of? He's just been accused of running a slush fund, from the Clintons, by Howard Wolfson! Slush fund? Try multiple slush funds: the legal defense fund, the illegal Chinese campaign contributions back in the nineties, the Chinatown contributions this year, Norman Hsu, and the Clintons call Obama and his PAC a slush fund? I'll tell you if Barack Obama has the onions here, folks, he would stomp Mrs. Clinton on this. She is the last person in the country running a campaign to talk about ethics and money in the same sentence. If he's serious about this, if he and his camp are really serious, they're going to say more than just, "Well, look at this. They're running a negative campaign." They are going to have to turn this around on her and on her husband, and say that this is the height of chutzpah, to be accused of running a slush fund by people who have created it as a work of art and who continue to do so to this day. Campaign slush fund! He's got a golden opportunity here, folks, but it does mean that Mrs. Clinton is in somewhat of a state of panic. A lot of people think that they're a week ahead of everybody in terms of polling data and understanding what's happening, and a lot of people think that she's panicking and coming out with the claws bared at Obama and others because they've got some internal numbers that show her crashing in Iowa and maybe in some other states. It could explain it.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: I don't know how much it matters, but it's just been pointed out to me that Robert B. Reichhhh on his blog, and I just read it, is all upset at Mrs. Clinton for her attacks on Barack Obama. He doesn't understand it. He doesn't understand why she's stooping so low to challenge his courage, why she is stooping so low to challenge his health care plan, and other things. This is beneath what Democrats stand for, he says. It's alternative universe time. Anyway, I guess the bottom line of it is, is that there are some people out there in Drive-By Media circles, the Democrat Party, asking, "What is this?" They don't understand why Mrs. Clinton's turning on him. This is who she is, Mr. Reichhhh! I can't believe that all you Democrats have no clue who she really is. Obviously, you do. I think these are just warnings to her to pull back. Because they know exactly who she is and they know exactly how destructive it's going to be if she doesn't get a handle on this. You can say what you want about Obama, but he's not an unlikable guy. She is unlikable. But he's not. You know, he's running around. He's seems a nice, soft-spoken kind of guy, seems deep. He seems to care, has all the requisite requirements for a Democrat résumé. He cares, number one at the top. He's not mean. He hasn't been out there attacking anybody, hasn't done anything like that, and so Mrs. Clinton, to turn on him like this, it's like I'm telling you: There are people that think that their internal polling shows that her support is just crashing, and I'm guessing beyond Iowa. But don't think that they think they can lose Iowa and handle this, because they've pumped this candidacy of inevitability.



Show Us Some Onions, Obama...Respond to Mrs. Clinton's ridiculous hypocritical attacks.

[OESY]

Tuesday, December 4, 2007

Clinton lacks ‘conviction about anything’

Former President Bill Clinton’s name does not appear on the cover, but there is no mistaking the target of the 237-page final report released today by the independent counsel Robert W. Ray, the successor to Kenneth W. Starr. The report is intended to remind the public that prosecutors had ample evidence to file criminal charges against Mr. Clinton, if he had not struck a deal on his last full day in office in January 2001.

Just four years ago, Mr. Clinton’s affair with Ms. Lewinsky, then a 21-year-old White House intern, transfixed the nation. It was only three years ago that Mr. Clinton became the second American president to be impeached by the House, only to be spared removal after a wrenching trial in the Senate....

The report, mandated by law and released by a three-judge panel here, closes the final chapter on the Clinton/Lewinsky matter. One of Mr. Ray’s supporters said today that the report was a historical document that would remind Americans of a recent era when ‘’the Constitution was threatened.’’...

Democrats dismissed the Ray report today as a rehash of some of the most salacious aspects of the Lewinsky story. On Jan. 19, 2001, Mr. Clinton agreed to a settlement in which he avoided the possibility of indictment in exchange for admitting that he gave false testimony under oath. He also agreed to surrender his law license for five years....

Some Clinton associates wondered if there was a partisan motive behind the timing of the report’s release. Mr. Ray has told Republican leaders in New Jersey that he may run as a Republican there; he has until April 8 to file a petition for his candidacy....

John Podesta, the last chief of staff at the Clinton White House, said Mr. Clinton had assumed that he had put those charges behind him in his 2001 deal with Mr. Ray. ‘’He thought it was over,’’ Mr. Podesta said, ‘’but it’s not over.’’

The Democrats complained that Mr. Ray’s report resembled a prosecutor’s closing argument, with no opportunity given to Mr. Clinton’s lawyers to respond.


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[WesternPacific]

There are several good things that will probably come about if the hilldabeast does not get her party's nomination or if she gets beat in the general election. Just as Gore and Kerry were considered to incompetent to defeat a, so called, unpopular Republican candidate, so will the hildabeast be considered.

I believe the clintoons' historical remembrance will be more of a footnote to a tragic comedy that most dumbocrates will be eager to forget. Neither the hildabeast or the bent one has ever or will ever accomplish anything beneficial to the well being of the United States.

[glide625]

All very true; and those facts are taking their toll on all the candidates.

[A Strict Constructionist]

Well I guess the song is wrong. Short people do have a reason to live.

[kempo]

Yea, well when she wins the nomination he’ll come crawling back on his hands and knees begging for forgiveness.

[ladyjane]

Most of us have a characteristic that is not ideal. Some of us are short. Others of us are fat, have big noses, aren’t too bright, whatever.

Just being short doesn’t necessarily limit opportunities. Remember the professional basketball player who was 5’3” named Mookie.

Reich is short and seems even shorter in person. OTOH he is very bright and seems to have a happy marriage with a very bright woman. (Too bad they’re bigtime liberals.)

[MarkL]

HRC’s campaign, by contrast, is singularly lacking in conviction about anything

He's right... There haven't been any convictions. Heck... They haven't even handed down any indictments!

Mark

[A Strict Constructionist]

“OTOH he is very bright”

I could argue that his liberalism is a result of a lack of intelligence but it is most likely from hanging with the wrong crowd. I think he could be an enjoyable dinner guest if you avoid politics...a very difficult task.

[ladyjane]

There is nothing better than a very bright dinner guest, liberal or conservative. The single exception is, of course, Hillary Clinton.

[A Strict Constructionist]

You could always bring in a zoo keeper to feed her. It might be entertaining.