Hillary Clinton Shedding Polarizing Image

Minneapolis Star and Tribune ^ | 11/21/04 | Judy Holland

[DrQuinn]

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Recent polls show the public's image of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., gradually morphing from sharply controversial First Lady to centrist, constituent-minded senator. Although still a polarizing figure, the first-term legislator could use the makeover to position herself for a White House run in 2008. Political strategists say Clinton has impressed Senate colleagues and constituents by working on New York issues while taking moderate or conservative stances on controversies such as the war in Iraq. "A majority feel positive toward her," said Lee Miringoff, director of the Marist Institute for Public Opinion in Poughkeepsie, N.Y. "She's being seen as being more effective and sticking to her job. She's managed to shape her role in a way that's more acceptable. She's in a transition."

[Humidston]

CONDI WILL CLEAN THE FLOOR WITH MZZ CRUSTY.

[punster]

Now, that we have established Hildabeast is a snake in the grass, it would help to classify what kind of snake in the grass. My guess is an asp, because she is exactly what would slither out of an asp hole.

[Squantos]

Ummmm ........Why ?

[Ptarmigan]

Huh? Hillary is polarizing period.

[Cowboy Bob]

We just HAVE to get Condi to run!

That's right! I'll never forgive Reagan for not choosing a female VP to run against Geraldine Ferraro - it cost him the election.

Oh, wait...never mind.

[Hattie]

Polls say this? How many of us here believe any of the polls after the months of garbage polls we have been through?

[Arizona Carolyn]

Oh, I know and the funds are already available thanks to the Clinton Library unending funds.

[Arizona Carolyn]

I heard that!!!!! Made my blood run cold!

[weenie]

"Let me know when she sheds a few pounds...and gets her horsey teeth fixed...Bill"

[alrea]

The Beast is greasing the skids.

but will she say "tax cut" ?

[MadIvan]

Never interrupt your opponent in the middle of him / her making a mistake. This mistake is fatal - they're trying to reinvent Hillary as if the national memory is so short as to not remember what she has been.

Regards, Ivan

[theDentist]

A turd by any other same still has a foul stench about it.

[puppetz]

[69ConvertibleFirebird]

I consider myself an evangelical Christian, really a Christian conservative, if you want to know the truth,...

BWAAAAHHHHHHHH.... HHHHAAAAAaaaaaaa.... HHHHaaaaaaaa..... Hhhaaaaaaa....
Oh, that's a good one! Mrs. Clinton is so funny at times...

When she says "God" she **is** referring to herself, correct?

Next she'll be saying "When I served in Vietnam..."

[oceanview]

the good news is - if we defeat her in 2008, the Democratic party as currently constructed, will implode. they can hold it together for one more cycle - one more cycle of lies and media distortion, to try and get the Clintons back in there. If they fail in 2008, it all unravels.

[Dawgreg]

Don't fall for this sham..........once a 'she devil' always a 'she devil'......It's what she and Bubba do best....morph into something they're not to fit the moment. I wish these people would just go away..............far away.

[MHT]

I think that there's enough footage of her ranting and raving, lambasting conservatives, yelling about abortion and health care that it won't take the Swift Vets to expose her for the real micro-managing socialist she is. After all, why won't she release her senior thesis from Wellesley? Is that her master plan for how she would run things if she got to the top?

Real Christians will be able to see through her. They know her by her actions as well as her words. Did she enable and abet and support her adulterous husband? Was it easier for her to let him do his thing and be a martyred enabler rather than work toward a real Christian marriage? Did she make false accusations about those calling him on his lying and ever apologize for her false testimony? Didn't she prove that she didn't employ honorable business ethics when it came to her company's billing records, making money in the commodities market, etc? Wasn't her lying behavior proof of her thievery?

She can talk the talk all she wants, but she can't prove that she's ever walked the walk!

[WorkingClassFilth]

Nope. Unless, of course, it means further confiscatory taxes on the rich. Even then, it will be a momentary dodge.

[abigailsmybaby]

Pulling wool over sheeps eyes. She is who she is and no "transformation" will change that.

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Just because. I'm cyberstalking you. Actually I'm going to be so busy soon I won't be able to ping a thing.