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Clinton laugh, Giuliani phone stir campaign
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Posted on 10/02/2007 1:13:50 PM PDT by Hi Heels

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - What does Democrat Hillary Clinton's laugh have in common with Republican Rudy Giuliani's cell phone?

Both are causing waves on the U.S. presidential campaign trail for the leading candidates in each party.

For Clinton, her tendency to burst out in a giggle during some public appearances has generated political tongue-wagging.

The New York senator, often seen as an overly serious candidate, has been showing some personality lately.

She laughed at times during questioning on Sunday morning television shows more than a week ago and then hooted with laughter when asked to respond to a critical comment from a rival candidate at a debate last Wednesday in New Hampshire.

It has become so frequent that Frank Rich, a liberal columnist for The New York Times, said the laugh seemed to be the Clinton campaign's method of heeding complaints that she is "too calculating and controlled" and compared it to Democrat Al Gore's long kiss with his wife Tipper during the Democratic National Convention in 2000.

"Now Mrs. Clinton is erupting in a laugh with all the spontaneity of an alarm clock buzzer," Rich wrote.

Comic Jon Stewart on "The Daily Show" last week likened her to a robot with a robotic voice saying, "Humorous remark detected -- prepare for laughter display."

Presidential scholar Stephen Hess of George Washington University said Clinton's ability to laugh indicated she was becoming more comfortable as a candidate.

Regardless of whether it is genuine or not, "It's terrific that you're able to laugh given what one goes through in a campaign," he said.

RUDY AND HIS CELL PHONE

Then on the other hand there is the case of Giuliani and his cell phone.

It rang just as Giuliani was addressing the National Rifle Association recently, and he pulled it out of his pocket and chatted to his wife, Judith, in mid-speech.

The incident had some of the NRA members rolling their eyes and even some of Giuliani's supporters thought it was a silly display.

The former New York mayor has since explained the reason why he took the call and denied it was a calculated move -- even though reports circulated he had done it at least once before.

"Quite honestly, since September 11, most of the time when we get on a plane, we talk to each other and just reaffirm the fact that we love each other," he told the Christian Broadcasting Network.

Hess called it a bizarre incident.

"This man is a candidate for president talking to an important group, and it should have his undivided attention and you should at least turn off your cell phone," he said.


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Dontcha just love the MSM? "she's showing some personality!".... ppffftt.... She's shrieking like a lobotomized chicken, that's what's she's doin'....
1 posted on 10/02/2007 1:13:54 PM PDT by Hi Heels
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To: Hi Heels

Hillary’s laugh wasn’t a laugh at all. It’s what you call a cackle.


2 posted on 10/02/2007 1:16:24 PM PDT by TheThinker (Foreign campaign contributions should be criminal. This is not democracy at work.)
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To: Hi Heels
Well, we've got a war going on, social security is going bankrupt, an invading army is pouring over our southern border, and we've killed 50 million babies over the past few decades -- so my questions are:

which presidential candidate has the worst phone etiquette, and which one has the most annoying laugh?

3 posted on 10/02/2007 1:17:30 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (The broken wall, the burning roof and tower. And Agamemnon dead.)
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To: Hi Heels

I miss Bob Newhart.


4 posted on 10/02/2007 1:19:39 PM PDT by soupcon
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To: Hi Heels
For Clinton, her tendency to burst out in a giggle during some public appearances

That wasn't a giggle. It was a nervous cackle she uses when not asked a softball question.

5 posted on 10/02/2007 1:20:05 PM PDT by SIDENET (I don't want to find "common ground" with a bunch of damn leftists.)
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To: SIDENET

Dick Morris said she’s counseled to laugh instead of getting angry. By laughing, she turns off the body language of anger.

So you can assume whatever she laughed at, she’s gonna get you for later.


6 posted on 10/02/2007 1:27:21 PM PDT by I still care ("Remember... for it is the doom of men that they forget" - Merlin, from Excalibur)
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To: Hi Heels

The majority of real voters are laughing and scared of Hillary Clinton extremely annoying B**hy laughter. Her meanness, her arrogance, her screeching voice, her scary facial gestures, and her laughter are going to crush her in the general elections let alone her socialism, her huge flip flops on major issues, and per extreme left wing liberalism on fiscal and social issues. Neither her nor the media are going to change it.


7 posted on 10/02/2007 1:28:13 PM PDT by jveritas (God bless our brave troops and President Bush)
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To: soupcon
I miss Bob Newhart.

Saw his show on TVLand last week. More laughs in 30 minutes than I had watching TV in 2 years.

8 posted on 10/02/2007 1:30:05 PM PDT by AU72
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To: I still care

As usual Dick Morris always describes whatever Clinton does as smart and powerful when in reality this laughter and many other things she does are a killer for her chances to become President.


9 posted on 10/02/2007 1:30:22 PM PDT by jveritas (God bless our brave troops and President Bush)
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To: Hi Heels
This from a woman that once expressed admiration for Hitlers delivery method...

She is crudely aware of not only her image problems but her delivery as well...

The RNC had best make her pay for such foolishness with an ad suggesting that she is something less than serious in the face of the problems we face today...

Somthing along the lines of "The war on Terror, it's not a laughing matter"...

If you ask me she just stepped in it...a no win situation...if she goes back to being the Beast she reaffims thhat criticism..if she continues laughing...she is open to the other criticism...

Lately I'm not confident she will pay a price...

10 posted on 10/02/2007 1:31:14 PM PDT by Khepri (Sure, we want to go home. The shortest way home is through Damascus and Teheran.)
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To: Hi Heels

Maybe she thinks it sounds Presidential. Her husband had a similar laugh, and even President Bush has what could be described as a “cackle,” though his sounds less forced.


11 posted on 10/02/2007 1:33:07 PM PDT by Kleon
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To: Hi Heels

Look, it thinks it’s human!


12 posted on 10/02/2007 1:33:10 PM PDT by freedomson (Tagline comment removed by moderator)
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To: Hi Heels

THE “CACKLE”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZTB62AaH-4


13 posted on 10/02/2007 1:33:15 PM PDT by Former MSM Viewer ("We will hunt the terrorists in every dark corner of the earth. We will be relentless." W 2001)
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To: Hi Heels

lobotomized chicken, who knew LOL.

Rudy is trying to recover from the NRA head fake, won’t work. It’s the principles stupid, US Constitutional first principles — and Rudy is coming up short.


14 posted on 10/02/2007 1:33:23 PM PDT by Tarpon
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To: TheThinker
Hillary's laugh wasn't a laugh at all. It's what you call a cackle.

Exactly!

"double double toil and trouble....."

15 posted on 10/02/2007 1:34:24 PM PDT by Churchillspirit (We are all foot soldiers in this War On Terror.)
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To: Hi Heels
She laughed at times during questioning on Sunday morning television shows more than a week ago and then hooted with laughter when asked to respond to a critical comment from a rival candidate at a debate last Wednesday in New Hampshire.

Well that is one way of avoiding an answer

I guess her handlers figure it is better than a couple of hundred "I don't recalls"
16 posted on 10/02/2007 1:36:19 PM PDT by uncbob (m first)
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To: Kleon

A woman laughter is not a man laughter, big difference between the two. When a woman laughs like Hillary Clinton it is called a “b*** laughter”.


17 posted on 10/02/2007 1:36:38 PM PDT by jveritas (God bless our brave troops and President Bush)
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To: Former MSM Viewer

Man that is sad

She keeps that up she is toast


18 posted on 10/02/2007 1:38:30 PM PDT by uncbob (m first)
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To: I still care

That’s what I was thinking -

the laugh misdirects her and her observers from her

“HOW DARE YOU!”

reaction.


19 posted on 10/02/2007 1:40:42 PM PDT by MrB (You can't reason people out of a position that they didn't use reason to get into in the first place)
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To: Hi Heels

A “giggle”? Not. Anyone who minimizes Hilary’s weirdness is missing the fact, fair or not, that a woman who wants to be the first female president is going to be scrutinized very closely by the American public. In this case that cackle makes her seem a bit wacky.


20 posted on 10/02/2007 2:10:44 PM PDT by Williams
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