Posted on 12/09/2007 9:11:05 AM PST by LdSentinal
To appreciate Hillary Clinton's fundamental political problem, consider the 11 Democrats from Philadelphia who gathered last week to discuss the U.S. presidential race, almost all of whom would vote for her in a general election.
The focus group was moderated by an expert on such forums, the Democratic pollster Peter Hart. The participants were informed and enthusiastic about their party's prospects, had no interest in the Republicans or third-party candidates and were about equally balanced between the front-runners, Clinton and Senator Barack Obama of Illinois.
When Hart pushed the group during a two-hour conversation about the strengths and weaknesses of the two candidates, a different picture emerged.
Obama, they worried, can't win the nomination; voters aren't ready for an African-American president (a point expressed most directly by the two black women participants), and he may not be sufficiently experienced.
A couple of victories in Iowa and New Hampshire would cure most of those problems.
Those are a lot tougher to overcome.
It was revealing, too, when Hart pushed them to envision these senators as leaders of the country or, as he put it, their "boss." Obama, they say, would be inspirational, motivating, charismatic and compassionate. After praising Clinton's experience and intelligence, they say she would be demanding, difficult, maybe even a little scary.
Candor and authenticity were repeatedly cited. "I don't feel like I look at her and see someone who's telling me the whole truth," said Allison Lowrey, a 30-year-old human resources consultant from Philadelphia. "I'd like to see her approach a problem without the polls" helping her make a decision, said Andrew Alebergo, a 39-year-old tanning-salon operator.
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Will the Hillary cackle be the Howard Dean scream?
There are no words to adequately describe the utter dispicableness of this vile and detestable woman
Maybe Rush or Hannity could put up some soundbites.
Funny that you see all these stories in a UK PAPER, but NEVER in a U.S. one, isn’t it?
Not surprising, the Klintonistas are media darlings in this country. The most failed (ok, Carter was worse) and scandalous presidency of the 20th century they still sing his praises. Baffling.
There’s still time for her to have her “scream” moment
more like a “screech”, though.
Her inability to lie convincing, when caught in a lie, will eventually catch the true Beast on tape that the media can’t ignore.
Bubba is a pathological liar
Hillary is a calculating one
Anybody who sees an elected official as their "boss" is already a slave. Peter Hart is contemptible.
Everybody knows one thing she's definitely lying about:
She pretends to love and admire her husband so she can get elected but actually despises him...
I don’t see any problem .. we already know the American media is willing to betray their country to support Hillary.
They are hanging themselves .. I wouldn’t get in the way.
Ouch!
Wonder if she has anything in the bag for Oprah?
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
That she thinks that the Press is hostile to her is symptomatic of her paranoia and demand for complete control. If she gets elected, we will have censorship like we have never seen before. Talk radio would be the first to go.
There has been a change in Hillary when giving a speech. In the past, she sounded more like Hitler. Starting out soft spoken and reasonable. As her talks went on, she would get louder and louder and blamed everything on the President.....even though he isn’t running. I think her people have forced her to tone it down. One thing I see coming.....if Obama continues to get more and more popular, Hillary will blame her own people, start yelling and screaming at them. At that point, they will leave her in mass.
BJ Clinton’s baggage is a joke.
If I had one iota of artistic ability, I would have BJ on
his last day in office with one in tray with Chinese and
other money and two out trays.
One out tray with secrets and the other with pardons.
A packed suitcase behind him with Hillary sticking out
holding White House china.
Quite a little problem for a pathological liar, not to be a convincing liar that is.
One of Hillary's biggest problems is that she must conceal her most diabolical plans until after the presidential election. Thus, absolutely everything she campaigns on MUST be a lie.
(She can't come out and say she's going to do a full Hugo.)
Sometimes you even have to “click” an Al Hunt column to get some insights into the lunatic liberal mindset — that’s what this article does rather effectively, I suspect. It points to the Dems delicious dilemma: cast their lot with the inexperienced Obama (I loved Dick Armey’s very unpolitic conclusion: “He’s a joke!”) or go with the completely untrustworthy, calculating, divisive, and horrible person they know Hillary to be.
Way to go, Al! You’ve finally don’t some honest reporting. Put this down as a first!
I further predict that when that happens, a divorce will soon follow.
Shocking! This by is Al Hunt? (But note it’s in the Paris newspaper, or is it London?)
Another interesting part is that these “concerns” of Hitlery’s supporters are not likely to melt away with clever advertising, as, say, concerns about Obama’s lack of experience could do, because they are about the very core of the problem the RATs and everybody else in the world has with this woman.
People are Republicans because of what they believe.
People are Democrats because of who they are (black, women, gay, etc.)
I did my own version of that a while back:
Hitlery must never, but never be elected to the presidency. Such an event would signal the end of the Republic and usher in tax heavy socialism big time. Everything conservatives stand for and vote for would be destroyed by the Clinton twosome. I cannot imagine anyone worse than those two ghastly people in power again!
People are Republicans because of what they believe.
People are Democrats because of what they want you to believe.
Actually, truth be told, she jealous of The Bent One 'cause he has plenty of babe-toys to play with and she doesn't.
LOL!
And you could title it “How I Spent My Last Day On The Job.”
Her cleavage will be her salvation.
75% of the voters will not vote for anyone with cleavage.
The only question is what will Hilda-beast be doing about a year from now?
If being first lady for eight years counts as experience then I guess that all of the wifes of CEO’s are qualified to run the companies their husbands currently run. NOT
Kirby
For later.
You really nailed it here. It explains a lot about the pair. BJ could get away with it, because he actually believed his own lies. Hillary can't, because she doesn't.
It would be nice to be optimistic but it's too early to think the Hildabeast has been mortally wounded. The media occasionally will have a couple of weeks of dumping on the Clintons (like after the pardons in 2001), only to re-form as a phalanx to defend the Clintons against all attacks, and that may happen again. Mainly they want to ensure a Democrat victory in 2008--so if Hillary can make Obama and Edwards seem unviable, then she will become their favored candidate, even if they don't like her much as a person.
No experience for both. Has nothing to do with Obama being black. Besides he is not completely black; he is white too. No experience being being a leader; way to young; has been involved in Chicago politics. Seems to have some baggage regarding a house and/or land he bought for a song through a favor. Raised in Muslim faith. Father was a Muslim.
We all know about Hillary. No experience, crook, liar, thief, protector of rapist husband. Has nothing to so with being a woman.
Watch their people try to fix these problems.
The Dems won't use the astoundingly elitist statement because they agree with her. I hope the Republicans use it.
BTW is that hand posture the Chinese F-u or the American F-u?
Hillary has already told you everything you need to know and that is that she is going to take things away from you for the common good.
(1) Her cackle is used to allow her to seem human, to show us she can laugh, but it frightens children...and not just at Halloween.
(2) She doesn't care about people...she claims we have all these problems that are the result of "this administration" when, in fact, Congress is the legislative part of our government. The president can do little about health care financing unless Congress authorizes money to do so or authorizes a "program" requiring people to purchase basic health insurance.
(3) She is the female version of Vladimir Lenin, that is, she wants to ascend to power so she can implement her far, loony-left socialist-communist agenda.
(4) People are comparing her with the other dwarfs and are finding that even Kucinich is "likable" but her likability factor is ZERO.
(5) She is unable to work a gathering of more than about ten select people. You won't find her in diners in New Hampshire unless the patrons of the diner are ALL left-wing, card-carrying Democrats.
(6) People see her shills asking questions for exactly what it is--a dirty-trick worse than ANYTHING Dick Nixon ever did--and rightly blame her for being a conniving ferret.
(7) They see her people floating a paper Obama wrote in the second or third grade about how he wanted to be President some day--what kid in second or third grade did not pick one of the handful of occupations (fireman, policeman, doctor, President, etc.) from a list given to them by the teacher to write their mini-essay (It's a rare child who does NOT picture himself or herself in each occupation he or she learns exists.) as being very UNPRESIDENTIAL. In fact, such junior high school students would likely be offended by such a tactic for home room representitive on the student council.
Simply stated, Hillary Clinton is Hillary Clinton's own worst enemy. Her unfavorable rating is at or above 50%. Stick a fork into that turkey (or is it ham?) to see if she is done.
I thought the International Herald Tribune was a joint publication of the Washington Post and the New York Times. Is that no longer true?
Polls that she controls.
Problem with the polls controlled by a Democrat is they're normally w.r.o.n.g. Just ask Gore and Kerry.
Do you realize that by Hillary's reckoning, when she's elected, she will be bringing a total of 24 years of presidential experience to the White House: Hillary - 8, Bill - 8, Chelsea - 8 = 24
No, because it is too short and not really prominent like Howie’s scream. I’d guess she’d be undone, graphically, with a inadvertant swear word or a swipe at someone, something uncontrollable like when she runs into a really tough jam during a debate and she’s standing there without a net.
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