Hillary Clinton's Gift to the Media

Washington Post ^ | Dec.22, 2007 | Anne E. Kornblut

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In the spirit of the season, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton passed out candy canes to reporters here on Saturday. Then she took numerous questions. All this just one day after Clinton sat down for a rare off-the-record session with her traveling press corps in Manchester on Friday night.

Playing a little Mrs. Santa Claus with the media? Perhaps.

But Clinton is also in close competitions both here and in Iowa, and her advisers believe she can gain an edge if she keeps showing more of her personal side. Although she is the first to admit she is uncomfortable opening up in public, Clinton has tried her best over the last week, holding "The Hillary I Know" events with testimonials from supporters, bringing her mother and daughter onto the campaign trail and now, apparently, charming the press (arguably one of her least favorite segments of society, given her history with the media, ranking somewhere in the neighborhood of the vast right-wing conspiracy).

[uncitizen]

Funny how the Edwards LOVE CHILD story fell off the face of the earth.

Yes it is. And i've got a $10 bet riding on this thing. Has the story been confirmed?

[rod1]

That look is her...”ask me that question again and you get to duck a lamp” ...face.

[lowbridge]

and her advisers believe she can gain an edge if she keeps showing more of her personal side.

Oh please. They're doing everything possible to HIDE her REAL personal side. This "soft" side of her is the phony facade they're trying to fool us with.

[PA-RIVER]

She has the “cast eye” thing going.

I also wonder if she had some operation on one of her eyes.

I was looking at wikpedia .... It seems her closest advisors are all women, and one gay guy.

The Lesbian mafia.......

[basil]

What I don’t understand is why the press never asks her exactly WHAT her experience with foreign policy actually is. As far as I can see, it consists of her tagging along with her husband—who’s foreign policy turned out to be rather lame.

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DICK MORRIS’ ‘08 PLAY-BY-PLAY ANALYSIS!

BILL CLINTON LEAVES TRUTH OUT OF HILLARY’S BIOGRAPHY

Go to www.hillaryclinton.com and check
out Bill Clinton’s syrupy five minute ad for Hillary. He introduces the
commercial by saying that he wants to share some things we may not know
about Hillary’s background. His version of her biography is about as
reliable as if it appeared in Pravda!

So, I wanted to make a few corrections;

Bill says: Hillary never wanted to run for public office, but she did
want to work at public service.

The facts are: When Clinton was considering not running for another term
as Governor of Arkansas in 1990, Hillary said she would run if he
didn’t. She and Bill even had me take two surveys to assess her chances
of winning. The conclusion was that she couldn’t win because people
would just see her as a seat warmer for when Bill came back licking his
wounds after losing for president. So she didn’t run. Bill did and
won. But there is no question she had her eye on public office, as
opposed to service, long ago.

Bill says: In law school Hillary worked on legal services for the poor.

The facts are: Hillary’s main extra-curricular activity in law school
was helping the Black Panthers, on trial in Connecticut for torturing
and killing a federal agent. She went to court every day as part of a
law student monitoring committee trying to spot civil rights violations
and develop grounds for appeal.

Bill says: Hillary spent a year after graduation working on a children’s
rights project for poor kids.

The facts are: Hillary interned with Bob Truehaft, the head of the
California Communist Party. She met Bob when he represented the
Panthers and traveled all the way to San Francisco to take an internship
with him.

Bill says: Hillary could have written her own job ticket, but she
turned down all the lucrative job offers.

The facts are: She flunked the DC bar exam and only passed the Arkansas
bar. She had no job offers in Arkansas and only got hired by the
University of Arkansas Law School at Fayetteville because Bill was
already teaching there. She only joined the prestigious Rose Law Firm
after Bill became Attorney General and made partner only after he was
elected governor.

Bill says: President Carter appointed Hillary to the Legal Services
Board of Directors and she became its chairman.

The facts are: The appointment was in exchange for Bill’s support for
Carter in his 1980 primary against Ted Kennedy. Hillary became chairman
in a coup in which she won a majority away from Carter’s choice to be
chairman.

Bill says: She served on the board of the Arkansas Children’s Hospital.

The facts are: Yes she did. But her main board activity, not mentioned
by Bill, was to sit on the Walmart board of directors, for a substantial
fee. She was silent about their labor and health care practices.

Bill says: Hillary didn’t succeed at getting health care for all
Americans in 1994 but she kept working at it and helped to create the
Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) that provides five million
children with health insurance.

The facts are: Hillary had nothing to do with creating CHIP. It was
included in the budget deal between Clinton and Republican Majority
Leader Senator Trent Lott. I helped to negotiate the deal. The money
came half from the budget deal and half from the Attorney Generals’
tobacco settlement. Hillary had nothing to do with either source of
funds.

Bill says: Hillary was the face of America all over the world

The facts are: Her visits were part of a program to get her out of town
so that Bill would not appear weak by feeding stories that Hillary was
running the White House. Her visits abroad were entirely touristic and
symbolic and there was no substantive diplomacy on any of them

Bill says: Hillary was an excellent Senator who kept fighting for
children’s and women’s issues.

The facts are: Other than totally meaningless legislation like changing
the names on courthouses and post offices, she has passed only four
substantive pieces of legislation. One set up a national park in Puerto
Rico. A second provided respite care for family members helping their
relatives through Alzheimer’s or other conditions. And two were routine
bills to aid 9-11 victims and responders which were sponsored by the
entire NY delegation.
Here is what bothers me more than anything else about Hillary
Clinton. She has done everything possible to weaken the President
and our country when it comes to the war on terror.

!. She wants to close GITMO & move the combatants to the USA where
they would have access to our legal system.
2. She wants to eliminate the monitoring of suspected Al Qeada phone
calls to/from the USA.
3. She wants to grants constitutional rights to enemy combatants
captured on the battlefield.
4. She wants to eliminate the monitoring of money transfers between
suspected Al Qeada cells &
supporters In the USA.
5. She wants to eliminate the type of interrogation tactics used by
the military & CIA where coercion might be used when questioning
known terrorists even though such tactics might save American lives.

I can’t think of a single bill Hillary has introduced or a single
comment she has made that would tend to strengthen our country in
the War on Terror. But, I can think of a lot of comments she has
made that weakens our country & makes it a more dangerous situation
for all of us........She goes hand in hand with the ACLU on far too
many issues where common sense is abandoned. She is a disaster for
all Americans.

[Bon mots]

Funny how the Edwards LOVE CHILD story fell off the face of the earth.

It will come back the minute Hillary stumbles, don't you worry.
So will the Obama love-child story. That one waits for really big trouble in the Hillary camp.

Bill didn't flinch at starting a war and killing people to get Monica off the front page (Monica's War); and the press didn't squawk about it either. So don't think Hillary will let this story die... it did its job... but has not been beaten like a dead horse.

The beast has more weapons in her bandolier for sure. The press will set the stage for her little skits when the need arises. They always have.

[shiva]

I’ll bet Bill could think of something to do with that candy cane.

I was thinking the same thing. A candy cane with a HANDLE,wow! and it leaves no evidence 'cause you can eat it. You can't eat a cigar!

[UCANSEE2]

SO, are you gonna vote for her?

[rabidralph]

“Sen. Clinton, just where was this candy cane before you handed it to me?”

[TheSarce]

Is that Tourist Guy in the background of that picture?

[Adder]

Although she is the first to admit she is uncomfortable opening up in public,...

Good reason for that...SHE knows what a socialist beotch she is and she would hate for the rest of us to know the true depths of that.

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ABH!!!!!!!!!!

ANYONE but Hillary!

[Grampa Dave]

"P-S-S-S-S-S-T-T-T-T!! Did you hear about Johnny Edwards' love child...
Did you know that Barack HUSSEIN Obama, the MUSLIM smoked pot and took drugs?"

How dare you Blacks call this liberal a Racist!

Forty percent of Americans say they would vote to keep Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton from winning the presidency, more than twice the total for their No. 2 "anti-" pick, former New York Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani.

In a new Fox 5-The Washington Times-Rasmussen Reports survey, 64 percent of Republicans, 42 percent of third-party or independent voters, and 17 percent of Democrats said the candidate they most want to keep from the White House is Mrs. Clinton.

"Hillary Clinton is better known than any [other] presidential candidate on either side. She has a lot of people who love her and a lot of people who hate her," said Scott Rasmussen, who conducted the poll.

While Mrs. Clinton performed poorly among most demographics, younger male voters were particularly cold. More than half of the adult men younger than 40 said they would use their vote to keep Mrs. Clinton from returning to the White House.

Afterwards, Big Brown delivers the Sad Hill in her big brown and ugly pant suit to light up a meeting for her in Gilford, NH!

Then the Hill lights up the Gilford, NH Meeting with her charm and energy!

Hopefully the scenes below will happen early next year.

[KC_Conspirator]

Thats one line I saw too. What the heck? Thats tantamount to admitting Klinton is a liar and a fake.

[SkyPilot]

Excellent Post!

[SkyPilot]

Speaking of Hillary lovers in the MSM - check out this parody video of Carolyn Washburn (the editor of the Des Moines Register who had her paper endorse the Beast).

Carolyn Washburn in...The Worst Debate in Western History (Video)

She was also the debate moderator who Fred Thompson told to go to hell with her overbearing school marm "Now boys, raise your hands!"

[Carolinamom]

Hillary's alleged 35 years of experience and her mantra or vote for me for change as well as this surge of getting to know her alleged warmth is nothing but a Potemkin village....all facade hiding empty space.

Gtanted, she has a well-filled pantsuit, but that is not a qualification to be Commander-in-Chief of our armed forces. They deserve the best, and she ain't [sic] it.

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Democratic presidential candidate U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and her husband former U.S. President Bill Clinton attend church service at Mt. Carmel Missionary Baptist Church in Waterloo, Iowa, December 23, 2007. REUTERS/Jim Young (UNITED STATES)

[Ann Archy]

Obama love child story????? Never heard of it.