It is their way.
Posted on 05/23/2006 6:20:45 PM PDT by blam
Dull Hillary stumbles and the memory of Bill lingers on
By Francis Harris in Washington
(Filed: 24/05/2006)
Hillary Clinton may be the Democratic front-runner for the presidency but she seems to have a lot to learn about campaigning for the White House.
In a weighty speech to journalists at the National Press Club in Washington yesterday, the senator squandered an opportunity to shine before a critically important audience - the journalists who will present her to the public if, as expected, she declares her candidacy for the 2008 nomination.
It began well enough. Resplendent in a lemon yellow two-piece and expensively bejewelled, her star power was plain the moment she entered the room. Everywhere, necks craned for a sight of the immaculately coiffured New York senator.
But then she lost it. The half-hour speech was achingly dull, a meandering lecture on energy policy which left the audience stifling yawns.
It was hard not to recall the charisma of her husband, Bill, the former president, and Mrs Clinton seemed to sense things had not gone well.
As she droned towards the finish, she looked out at a silent, glassy-eyed audience and acknowledged that her speech was a little unusual. "I know this is probably more wonkish than many of you had anticipated," she said, moments after offering her plans for something called geologic carbon sequestration. "But I feel very strongly about it."
There was a murmur of laughter but only minutes earlier some of those at the breakfast meeting appeared to have slumped into unconsciousness.
Others stifled yawns, held their chins in their hands or stared at the carpet or ceiling. By the time two women peace protesters made their predictable intervention on Iraq (and were predictably carried out by Mrs Clinton's burly secret servicemen) the assembled journalists had largely stopped listening.
The melee did at least open the way for questions. Mrs Clinton was asked: "You're here to talk about energy, but most people are here because they think you will run for president." She affected surprise before offering a cautious and well-rehearsed answer, claiming that she didn't think about such things.
However preposterous her response (she has raised more than £10 million for a senate re-election battle which will cost far less), there was a respectful silence. But everyone laughed when she was asked what she would like to be remembered for if her career ended now. "I don't want it to end now," she said.
That sort of ambiguity feeds America's fascination with Mrs Clinton.
Yesterday a 2,000-word examination of the Clinton marriage in the New York Times, produced no firm conclusion other than Mr Clinton remained by far the better public performer while she was "starchy". Her performance yesterday did nothing to overturn that notion.
She will never make it through the entire campaign without showing her true witch colors. And you know what I mean ...
Great Timing Dio.......
Shhhh, you know, the RATS, you know, might, you know, figure out, you know, that she is not, you know, that, you know, smart. You know?
She could say anything and the MSM would back her. It doesn't even matter. It's all about who the MSM will promote and villify.
The sob rapist is growing a set of t*ts.
Too bad the press didn't wake themselves up and pay attention. Maybe then they'd recognize the idiocy of her ideas. And even if they didn't see it, maybe they'd at least tell us about it (instead of telling us she is dull) so that the American people can see why this woman's policies should preclude them from voting for her.
The empress is wearing no clothes...
Hillary! "Resplendent"? Oxymononic.
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Clearly, the MSM will promote Hillary for the dems and McCain for the GOP, knowing the GOP conservatives will not be able to vote for the scumbag McCain, who may as well be a commie Ross Perot.
The GOP damn well better make sure McCain isn't the nominee or Hillary may very well get elected. That's her only chance....
Maybe the author and Hillary have the feeling that she is the front runner but, IMHO, she doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of being elected president. She has more baggage than LAX. She followed pervert Bill when he was president, she follows Chuckie as a senator, she is not a leader who the country would vote for unless we're talking mind-numbed lefties in the big cities. But then again, GW and the pubbies in congress are erasing a lot of blue on the map that might enable Ms Klinton......
"Resplendent in a lemon yellow two-piece and expensively bejewelled..." Resplendent? "Her star power"? As she droned towards the finish...moments after offering her plans for something called geologic carbon sequestration."
HER PLANS??? Right out of megalomaniacal George Soros' deconstructive Institute for an "Open Society"!!!
At first I thought the guy in the picture must be Bill Clinton. He has his hands in his pockets while talking with a nice looking married woman. Long fingers. But then I thought, it can't be him. His eyes are not looking down her chest. But then I realized, it must be him because he is probably looking at a better looking woman. Hmmm. So is she. Wonder who it is? I know who it isn't!!
Hillary irritates and disgusts me. I find nothing fascinating about the woman.
She can stumble, bore, annoy, screech, and just plain be a dud and they'll love her all the more.
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