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Friends of Hillary speak out
Financial Times ^ | December 17, 2007

Posted on 12/17/2007 1:31:32 PM PST by Zakeet

There must be a poll out suggesting that Iowa voters just don’t know the real Hillary Clinton. What else would explain the launch on Monday of TheHillaryIKnow.com, a Clinton campaign website featuring video testimonials from “regular Americans”?

Those “regular Americans” include her longtime friends and “well-known leaders” who talk about how their lives have been changed by the presidential hopeful.

The videos also include comments from the New York senator’s constituents, including a mother with a sick child who says Clinton “worked outside of the view of the media” when she helped her daughter get the medical attention she needed.

Clinton’s team says the videos serve as a “stark reminder” that the issues discussed in the campaign affect real people.

The website offers another reminder: that the Clinton campaign seems to be struggling to overcome the “likeability” factor. Her likeability, or lack thereof, still represents a big challenge for the former first lady, who is competing with Barack Obama and John Edwards for a win in Iowa on January 3.

Mark Penn, a top Clinton strategist and pollster, told USA Today it was important for people to understand the “depth” of Hillary. But Observer wonders whether depth is a trait you can sell on a website.

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


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008election; clinton2008; democrat; election; hillary; stalinisttactics; thehillaryiknow; therealhillaryisevil
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To: rface

Isn’t that the sign they used in The Sting to single the con is on?


21 posted on 12/17/2007 1:45:55 PM PST by dblshot
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To: lawdave
Here is the comment to which I was referring:

6.December 17th, 2007 12:46 pm There are many quiet stories about Hillary. For one, she spoke at a huge affair at one point. In the audience was a woman with a child newly diagnosed with a rare and difficult, bad disease. She asked a staffer if Hillary might help. Late that night, at the end of a very long day, Hillary spent one-half hour with this woman, alone in her car, listening to her story. The next day the woman got a call from a doctor in Baltimore saying he would see the child — a visit arranged by Hillary Clinton. This is just ONE story. If readers want to know more, they should read her book and books about her and ask questions of her campaign people. Thank you for listening. This story is just one more reason why I support Hillary Clinton. — Posted by jeannie reed

Note to self: Google Jeannie Reed. Sounds like a talking point to me.

22 posted on 12/17/2007 1:46:16 PM PST by lawdave
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To: Izzy Dunne

Clinton “worked ... the view of the media” when she helped her daughter get the medical attention she needed.


23 posted on 12/17/2007 1:46:22 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Just saying what 'they' won't.)
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To: Zakeet
The videos also include comments from the New York senator’s constituents, including a mother with a sick child who says Clinton “worked outside of the view of the media” when she helped her daughter get the medical attention she needed.

Doesn't working this sound bite inside the view of the media now and with full knowledge/consent of Clinton Inc. pretty much negate the nobleness of the act?
24 posted on 12/17/2007 1:47:12 PM PST by Thoro (Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.)
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To: Zakeet
"Friends of Hillary speak out"

"Leave Hillary Alone! She's a HUMAN BEING... damn it!!! She has feelings.... Whahahaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!"


25 posted on 12/17/2007 1:48:37 PM PST by avacado
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To: dblshot
I thought they used THIS sign to indicate the con is on...


26 posted on 12/17/2007 1:49:18 PM PST by weegee (If Bill Clinton can sit in on Hillary's Cabinet Meetings then GWBush should ask to get to sit in too)
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To: Zakeet

I’m her age, but here she looks like she is old enough to be my Mother.


27 posted on 12/17/2007 1:51:03 PM PST by JimmyMc
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To: Zakeet

The Hillary I know?.....Broom rider.


28 posted on 12/17/2007 1:51:17 PM PST by AngelesCrestHighway
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To: Zakeet

“She’s a brilliant woman, a hard worker, a good wife and great mother, an asset
to us all and a wonderful leader—and she has photocopies of my FBI file.”


29 posted on 12/17/2007 1:53:27 PM PST by tumblindice ("Extraordinary lethality" my achin' a$$, give me a break Willard you tobacco/caffiene-shunning piece)
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To: weegee

I think that’s the viper strike sign. Hsssssss!


30 posted on 12/17/2007 1:53:59 PM PST by dblshot
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To: Zakeet

Take it to the bank: Polling indicated that Iowa dumbcrat’s see the beast for what she is and they are trying to present the soft side of hillary. That my friends is like trying to turn a turd into a “Baby Ruth” candy bar.


31 posted on 12/17/2007 1:54:28 PM PST by RVN Airplane Driver ("To be born into freedom is an accident; to die in freedom is an obligation..)
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To: lawdave

Jeanie Reed.

Seems she is the SPECIAL SERVICES person for a CLINTON SCHOOL OF PUBLIC SERVICE, and SMEA.

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August 2006 newsletter.pub
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Clinton School. of Public Service. He remains a Clinton Foundation board. member. .... our meetings, please contact Jeanie Reed at 834-0511 or 425-7781. ...
smea-arkansas.org/assets/pdfs/August2006newsletter.pdf - Similar pages


32 posted on 12/17/2007 1:54:46 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Just saying what 'they' won't.)
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To: Zakeet
Since I can't in my wildest dreams imagine someone who is a "friend" of Hillary(!) who isn't paid to be one, I thought this was a site with gardening tips. Silly me.

Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket
"My plants are so not thriving these days..."

34 posted on 12/17/2007 1:57:01 PM PST by Theresawithanh (This is my tagline. FRED!!!!!!)
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To: Gorzaloon

“I was brought up to respect women, if not revere them.”

Aw, Gorza, that’s so sweet! :o)


35 posted on 12/17/2007 1:59:33 PM PST by rightazrain ("Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. " -- Ernest Hemingway)
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To: Zakeet
ughh what a mug....
Looks like time for another dozen botox injections
36 posted on 12/17/2007 2:00:05 PM PST by Gone_Postal (We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat)
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To: Zakeet

That site is a Riot, Oh how the mighty fall,LOL!


37 posted on 12/17/2007 2:00:13 PM PST by cmsgop ( MURTHA: 'I think the 'surge' is working'...)
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To: UCANSEE2

Jeanie Reed.

Executive Director for SMEA of Arkansas.

I guess she couldn’t afford the medical care for her daughter.


38 posted on 12/17/2007 2:03:25 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Just saying what 'they' won't.)
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To: UCANSEE2
Exactly. Oh, sure, she didn't have a press crew on hand for the phone call, because she didn't know how it would turn out.

But she remembered her name.

She got a video crew there for this interview.

But she's not being "used", oh no, no, no!

39 posted on 12/17/2007 2:05:48 PM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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To: UCANSEE2

is Jeannie Reed the same as Jeanie Reed?

Or is it just a coincidence that there is a Jeanie Reed as Executive Director of an Arkansas SCHOOL of PUBLIC SERVICE?


40 posted on 12/17/2007 2:06:41 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Just saying what 'they' won't.)
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