Posted on 01/13/2008 4:26:20 PM PST by Sub-Driver
‘I Get a Little Wonky’
It was not a smart assumption, the senator says in an interview, for her or her staff to think voters knew the real Hillary Clinton from her Senate campaigns. By Jon Meacham NEWSWEEK Updated: 4:04 PM ET Jan 12, 2008
In a nondescript classroom on the grounds of the Electrical Training Institute of IBEW Local 11, amid the stuff of a campaign-event holding room—bottles of water, tea, a Sharpie laid out next to a few placards and photos that need autographing for local supporters—Hillary Clinton sat down with NEWSWEEK's Jon Meacham for an interview that ranged from her childhood in suburban Park Ridge, Ill., to John Wesley, Reinhold Niebuhr, Martin Luther King Jr. and, of course, Barack Obama. Edited excerpts:
Meacham: The line in your victory speech in New Hampshire that jumped out at me was "I listened to you, and in the process I found my own voice." What did you mean? Clinton: Well, the election in New Hampshire was the most intense political and public experience I've ever had. It is four days where I had to do everything I could to make my case to the voters of New Hampshire. I was 13, 15 points down; Barack had done an excellent job of organizing in Iowa. What I realized is that the reason I do this, why I get up every day, why I believe in our country and the importance of leadership, was not getting across the way that I wanted it to. I get so focused on what I want to do as president that I get a little wonky. I get a little out there, with details, with five-point plans for this and 10-point plans for that,
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“I get so focused on what I want to do as president that I get a little wonky.”
God Help Us! I loathe this woman and her sexual predator of a husband. I hope I live long enough to see one or both of them doing a Perp Walk in bright orange jumpsuits and handcuffs.
That makes 2 of us, Diana!
Yep. We’re on the same page on a lot of issues, aren’t we? :)
a quote from Karl Marx after writing the Communist Manifesto??
Las Vegas is now essentially run by illegals who do all the slave work for the builders, lawn-care companies and especially the big political donors, the major hotels and casinos (they own Harry Reid and the Mayor plus all City officials). If the illegals were to be chased out by the INS, Vegas would have to close down (not a bad idea!)
In british slang, "wonky" means "out of whack" or "haphazard". I had an English girlfriend who said this when I was putting a dog cage together and it came out with weird angles and wouldn't stay together. She said it was "all wonky"
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