Posted on 05/04/2008 9:44:10 PM PDT by Utah Girl
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton is waving her fists across Indiana, signing autographs on boxing gloves.
“We need a president who’s a fighter again,” Mrs. Clinton said at a rally on Thursday, adding that the next president must understand what it is like to “get knocked down and get back up: that’s the story of America, right?”
In recent days, Mrs. Clinton has chided the experts for “counting me out” and Senator Barack Obama for his inability to “close the deal” and declared that no one was going to make her quit. “She makes Rocky Balboa look like a pansy,” North Carolina’s governor, Michael F. Easley, said in endorsing her, and a union leader in Portage, Ind., praised her “testicular fortitude.”
This kind of language and pugilistic imagery, however, also evokes the baggage that makes Mrs. Clinton such a provocative political figure. For as much as a willingness to “do what it takes” and “die hard” are marketable commodities in politics, they can also yield to less flattering qualities, plenty of which have been ascribed to her over the years. Just as supporters praise her “toughness” and “tenacity,” critics also describe her as “divisive,” “a dirty fighter” or “willing to do anything to win.”
The critics include supporters of Mr. Obama who subscribe to the notion, pushed by their candidate, that Mrs. Clinton, his opponent in the race for the Democratic nomination, represents the fractious politics of the past.
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Say what you will about McCain, but he really took the punches and got back up again ... what has she fought? Political opponents?
And the Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, of which I am a proud member.
truth is that Mrs. Clinton’s entire life IS politics and she can’t bear the thought of what that life might be like without hope of living in the white house ever again. Boo-hoo...
Dear Mrs. Clinton,
Go get a personal life and leave us Americans ALONE! We don’t want you controlling us just because you don’t have anyone at home to control! (Bill doesn’t count because he lives in a separate house!)
BJ Clinton.”You better put some ice on that”!
The latest Hillary makeover. I thought “Religious Hillary” was the most entertaining.
““We need a president who’s a fighter again,” Mrs. Clinton said at a rally on Thursday, adding that the next president must understand what it is like to “get knocked down and get back up: that’s the story of America, right?” “
What about crying?
As opposed to the soothing presence of Mr. Obama and the Reverend Wright, and the clean, fresh politics of the South Side of Chicago
Obama is the biggest political hypocrite I've ever seen. He talks like he's a uniter but tolerates hate speech in his own church and brings along his children to hear it.
You definitely know the measure of a man when you see how he raises his children and what he teaches them.
Either he believes what Wright spews or he simply doesn't care how his children turn out. I don't want either type of man in the WH.
“Yep, that’s what I want, a president who carries around boxing gloves to show how tough they are. Rolling my eyes. Who is Hillary!’s advisor??? “
Yeah, with stuff like that you’d almost think Dick Morris is giving her political advice..He also suggested she wear an Army uniform to look like she’s Commander in Cheek...Chief...
Wesley Clark is giving her military advice which she really likes: if we tangle with the Iranians, she’ll have the Air Force drop a load of boxing gloves on them...
It's staggering to me that he is still considered politically viable after being revealed as a wholesale charlatan. "You can fool some of the people all of the time..."
Obama is the “Enemy Within America.” Wright and B.O. are embedded with the islamic terrorist groups, to include the NOI.
The only White people voting for Obuma are elitist(s),trailer park stank(s) and the usual wigger(s) of malcontent.
Just The Facts,
NSNR
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