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Trailing in N.H. Polling, Clinton Takes More Control of Campaign
Washington Post ^ | 1/6/08 | Anne E. Kornblut and Shailagh Murray

Posted on 01/06/2008 8:50:54 PM PST by jimbo123

HAMPTON, N.H., Jan. 6 -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, slipping further behind her chief rival in the Democratic primary here, has taken direct control over her strategy and message as she scrambles to block the ascent of Sen. Barack Obama.

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In an unscheduled conference call with senior aides on Sunday morning, Hillary Clinton took what her advisers described as an unprecedented level of control over the direction of the daily message -- issuing orders rather than soliciting advice. According to one participant in the call, Clinton did not explicitly relieve any advisers of responsibilities, but made it clear that she intended to reorient her campaign toward sharpening her differences with Obama on the trail.

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To: kbennkc

(Sorry, had another brain cloud.)

“Are any of these charges false ? Just asking .”

No. They are all true.

But only a couple of them are about Obama.


41 posted on 01/06/2008 9:32:30 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Just saying what 'they' won't.)
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To: GeronL
"Hillary is a control freak, how can she take more control of something she already controls totally??"

yitbos

42 posted on 01/06/2008 9:38:33 PM PST by bruinbirdman ("Those who control language control minds. - Ayn Rand")
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To: jimbo123

Time for a little blue on blue.


43 posted on 01/06/2008 9:44:07 PM PST by lp boonie (Good judgement comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgement)
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To: jimbo123

About time.Now she can really flop.


44 posted on 01/06/2008 9:45:33 PM PST by fatima (Free Hugs for Christmas:))
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To: jimbo123
issuing orders rather than soliciting advice.

THAT is Hillary's nature. She bosses the "little people" around, and NOBODY better cross her, or they'll end up in a park playing a fatal game of Russian Roulette.

45 posted on 01/06/2008 9:50:38 PM PST by NRA2BFree ("The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves!")
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To: DWar
That’s why I want EDWARDS to do better.

Obama is scary ... he just might pull it off.

46 posted on 01/06/2008 9:51:03 PM PST by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
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To: org.whodat
Yep... Anybody taking bets on which will do the most flying? (the epithets or the ash-trays, that is)

And, why in the world would these PC idiots still have ash-trays around, anyway? Sets a bad example for the children, don'tcha know...

Oh, and better not let any of those FJB's get within a hundred feet of the witch (if they know what's good for them, that is)... Except maybe Sid Vicious... They were made for each other...

47 posted on 01/06/2008 9:51:30 PM PST by The Electrician ("Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.")
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To: GeronL

I hope she’s really pretty effective at what she does, when she takes the helm.

What we need, is for Hillary to come back after Obama and take it into the convention.


48 posted on 01/06/2008 9:53:18 PM PST by unspun (God save us from egos -- especially our own.)
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To: bruinbirdman

How long has Hillary been planning to be POTUS? 65 years? It seems longer.

She has brilliantly assembled the A TEAM of political advisers.
Imported exotic domestic luxuries from far away Saudi Arabia.
Her regal team has been far better trained than ordinary teams.

Still, in the heat of the political battle, this is a job only for... Super Washington Woman; and that dear friends, is what happened to the boys in Vietnam. Don’t let history repeat itself.

If we put up another RINO, it’s all over.


49 posted on 01/06/2008 10:11:25 PM PST by captain anode (78% of us FREEPERS could practice better manners.)
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To: jimbo123

They are merely preparing her for taking “charge” of her comeback.


50 posted on 01/06/2008 10:13:11 PM PST by I_like_good_things_too
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To: mylife
Shrillary: From now on, everyone takes orders from me, nobody is allowed to think for themselves...
But, Shrillary, the voters want to get to know the real you!
Shrillary: I don't care what the voters want, they will get what I give them!
51 posted on 01/06/2008 10:15:41 PM PST by Stayfree (*************************FredD.ThompsonforPresident.com)
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To: nmh

I can’t stand Hillary Clinton, but, I think that whoever the GOP nominee is, he will have an easier chance of beating Hillary than beating Obama. But, I think either of them CAN be defeated.


52 posted on 01/06/2008 10:17:31 PM PST by no dems (FRED THOMPSON: The only Conservative running who can beat Hillary or Obama.)
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To: jimbo123

Seig Heil! /sarc


53 posted on 01/06/2008 10:20:23 PM PST by AmericanInTokyo (Your FR Pledge: Bookmark It Today! "I Won't Support Mitt/Rudy/McCain/Huckster in General Election")
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To: I_like_good_things_too

Let’s count the dead bodies associated with the Clintons in their rise to the White House and during their eight years in office. Not including everyone on board flight 800, there are over over 100 dead bodies on the the Clinton path through the White House. No other Presidency has killed so many people without conducting a miliatary war! Both Clintons should have been imprisoned many lifetimes over for their crimes...what does it take?????


54 posted on 01/06/2008 10:23:02 PM PST by Stayfree (*************************FredD.ThompsonforPresident.com)
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To: tcrlaf
If you read the leftist blogs, like KOS or Huffington, the storm of outright RACISM and HATRED being released is uuterly astounding...

These are comments from KOS alone in regard to OBAMA, from the last 24 hours:

“Children’s Crusade”
“Happy Talk, Hope, and Fairy Dust Don’t Win Elections”
“You Don’t Bring “Kumbaya” To A Gunfight”
“Campaign of False Hopes”M
“Homophobe”
“Muslem”
“Coke-User”
“Aldulterer”
“Dirty”

Watching the Democratic Party rip it’s own throat out is a simple pleasure, and we ALL knew it would eventually come to this.

Gee..kind of like some here talk about Rudy.

55 posted on 01/06/2008 10:25:30 PM PST by Irish Eyes
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To: Husker8877
I would so prefer fighting Obama for the presidency than the Clintons, because the Clintons bring nuclear weapons to the fight and they’ve proven they will gladly use them.

I so agree. This is a chance to kill two birds with one stone. Of course Hillary will never go away - she'll become the new Ted Kennedy. Knowing she will never be President she would need to face reality and choose to bite the bullet and become the bulldog of the Senate for life.

Maybe Obama would be harder to beat because no matter what you think of his politics, he is many times more likeable than Hillary. But he has staked positions that are McGovernish and so loses that advantage of likeability. And ironically it will be the racists within the Dem party that will not vote for him that could very well make the difference. Not to mention if Hillary is put out to pasture she will probably be pulling strings to sabatoge Obama to open up a 2012 run and/or to at least retain their power structure unbroken that an Obama or Edwards presidency would destroy. It would possibly be where in such a scenario in 2012 that Hillary wouldn't run but would have a manchurian candidate that they would be puppetmasters of.

56 posted on 01/06/2008 10:40:38 PM PST by torchthemummy (“America Will Not Reject Abortion Until America Sees Abortion” -Father Frank Pavone)
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To: captain anode
"How long has Hillary been planning to be POTUS? 65 years? It seems longer."

How long have the Manchurians been planning? The Toon is far from toast; her race has just begun. She begins with overwhelming forces.

"If we put up another RINO, it’s all over."

It is the time for the stalwart.

yitbos

57 posted on 01/06/2008 10:56:46 PM PST by bruinbirdman ("Those who control language control minds. - Ayn Rand")
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To: nmh
The gimmicrats speak of “change,” by which they mean a return to the unspeakable insanity of the late Sixties. Replace LSD with Hillary Care, destroying the morale of the military, gay marriages, the squared circle....
58 posted on 01/06/2008 11:03:25 PM PST by ashtanga
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To: ilgipper
Obama, the mulatto who is somehow black, seems never to have placed a razor to his cheek. Yet his voice says that he has reached puberty...I just do not know what to make of the gimmicrat candidates. Edwards, the fetus channeler, seems the most unhinged of all. By the way, I do not care what Barrack NOT THAT HUSSEIN Obama happens to be, I only want the media to say what it is. If he were three quarters Asian, would he still be black, or Black as the MSM have it? I am just a snake handler from flyover country, so forgive my provincial concerns.
59 posted on 01/06/2008 11:14:33 PM PST by ashtanga
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To: mylife

“Obama is gonna get his ass ripped. He is a lightweight contender. The lightest of all the Dems”

Seems like people said that about Jimmah too...Jimmah Cahrter


60 posted on 01/07/2008 12:18:18 AM PST by billmor (Encourage.....don't discourage)
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