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Clinton in panic mode
Toledo Blade ^ | Dec. 24, 2007 | Staff

Posted on 12/24/2007 12:00:23 PM PST by jdm

SEN. Hillary Rodham Clinton has lost the air of inevitability that once surrounded her campaign for the Democratic nomination. It remains to be seen whether she's willing to lose her soul in her quest for the presidency.

Only a month ago, her main rival, Sen. Barack Obama, was dismissed as a "lightweight" by the political establishment. Now he has a slight lead over Senator Clinton in Iowa and New Hampshire and is believed to have a good chance of winning South Carolina.

Magic Johnson's recent endorsement aside, the advantage Senator Clinton once enjoyed over Senator Obama among African-Americans has disappeared. He's even cut into her support from women.

The Clinton campaign has reacted to this change in fortune by going into what can only be described as panic mode. Using political surrogates, campaign apparatchiks, and an increasingly indignant former president, the senator's nomination drive has engaged in a level of innuendo remarkable in its sleaziness.

Days after the firing of a campaign worker who passed along e-mail suggesting Senator Obama was a Manchurian candidate, Billy Shaheen, the co-chair of the Clinton New Hampshire campaign, said Senator Obama would be vulnerable to Republican attack because of his admitted drug use as a teenager. Mr. Shaheen resigned and Senator Clinton apologized.

Shortly after that, former President Bill Clinton questioned Senator Obama's credentials to be president after praising his "tremendous political skills. " In that vein, former Sen. Bob Kerry of Nebraska cited Senator Obama's "Islamic" name and background in Indonesia as a valuable asset to the United States.

It was a disingenuous and back-handed compliment, for which Senator Kerry has apologized. But it wasn't as tacky as the comment by former United Nations ambassador Andrew Young, who told a predominantly black audience that Bill Clinton was "blacker" than Senator Obama and that...

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To: jdm
"It remains to be seen whether she's willing to lose her soul in her quest for the presidency. "

Stop right there.

21 posted on 12/24/2007 12:18:01 PM PST by OKSooner
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To: jdm
It remains to be seen whether she's willing to lose her soul in her quest for the presidency.

She already lost her soul in her quest for a GRAMMY.

I wonder what people who make real audio books feel about that.
22 posted on 12/24/2007 12:18:17 PM PST by Question Liberal Authority (Al Gore and Osama Bin Laden have the same position on global warming, for the exact same reason.)
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To: Cowboy Bob; All
How is it that the child of a Muslim and an Atheist is a Christian?

Just asking..."

Madrassas School Veterans for Truth

23 posted on 12/24/2007 12:18:24 PM PST by musicman
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To: jdm
It remains to be seen whether she's willing to lose her soul in her quest for the presidency.

Objection . . . assuming a fact not in evidence.
24 posted on 12/24/2007 12:19:13 PM PST by Xenalyte (Can you count, suckas? I say the future is ours . . . if you can count.)
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To: jdm

When the Clinton campaign hits panic mode you will start seeing her opponents committing suicide and dying in airplane crashes.


25 posted on 12/24/2007 12:21:37 PM PST by sport
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To: Spok

I’m waiting for the “He cheated on his wife” just a day or so before the primaries and caucus’s.


26 posted on 12/24/2007 12:21:57 PM PST by theDentist (Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
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To: Spok

Any dirty trick that Hillary pulls on Obama will be blamed on Republicans by November.


27 posted on 12/24/2007 12:23:02 PM PST by Question Liberal Authority (Al Gore and Osama Bin Laden have the same position on global warming, for the exact same reason.)
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To: Dionysiusdecordealcis

Bob Kerrey will always be remembered for his bon mot:

“Clinton’s an exceptionally good liar.”


28 posted on 12/24/2007 12:23:14 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Spok

they already have the madrassa photos “photo shopped”

and they have your attention to tabloids too, huh

nothing is by chance w/ the devil


29 posted on 12/24/2007 12:23:16 PM PST by advertising guy (If computer skills namedo us, I'd be back-space delete.)
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To: jdm

“Hillary Clinton losing her soul?”

Uh huh.


30 posted on 12/24/2007 12:24:26 PM PST by Attention Surplus Disorder (We've checked, and all your zeroes are OK. We're still working on your ones.)
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To: jdm

IMHO the msm wants to show Hillary who’s the boss. When it gets right down to crunch time they will start the white wash with all the puff stories and fall in line right behind her.


31 posted on 12/24/2007 12:24:46 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: All

Who wants to elect a bag lady for President.


32 posted on 12/24/2007 12:25:12 PM PST by UCFRoadWarrior (Duncan Hunter for President: Lets Build That Border Fence)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

Bill for First Lady

http://billforfirstlady.com/

(I never get tired of this!)


33 posted on 12/24/2007 12:27:17 PM PST by i_dont_chat (Your choice if you take offense.)
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To: Cowboy Bob
How is it that the child of a Muslim and an Atheist is a Christian?

Since everybody elses religion's, oops make that on the Republican side is such a big deal, I looked at the one for the church Obama allegedly belongs to.

Scary reading. I can see where some of it is coming from if they feel so disenfranchised, but would Obama be for the rest of us or not? It's very African-centric, not just Afro-centric. Just how much is he for America and other races.

Is he using his charisma and rising star status for his own (hidden) agenda?

34 posted on 12/24/2007 12:27:18 PM PST by Aliska
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To: ClearCase_guy
Sweet!

;>)

35 posted on 12/24/2007 12:27:46 PM PST by Who is John Galt? ( "He therefore who may resist, must be allowed to strike." - John Locke, 1690)
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To: jdm

A funny thing happened on the way to the Coronation, they found out who she is.

Pray for W and Our Troops


36 posted on 12/24/2007 12:27:53 PM PST by bray (Let's Bring Christ Back to Christmas)
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To: jdm

I remember she said she had it sewed up, we’ll see. I no the smear machine and the bride machine is hard at work to secure delegates.


37 posted on 12/24/2007 12:28:30 PM PST by boomop1
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To: Churchillspirit
When will this “Empress” realize that she has no clothes?

Please, Hillary Clinton with no clothes is an image I do not want in my mind.

38 posted on 12/24/2007 12:28:48 PM PST by jalisco555 ("The only thing we learn from history is that we never learn from history." Winston Churchill)
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To: UCFRoadWarrior

“Hag” lady or “Fag Hag” lady? “Drag” lady? No, “DRAGon Lady”!


39 posted on 12/24/2007 12:29:33 PM PST by Republic Rocker
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To: Churchillspirit
When will this “Empress” realize that she has no clothes?

MY EYES!!! MY EYES!!!

Have you no mercy?

40 posted on 12/24/2007 12:31:07 PM PST by Ancesthntr
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