Posted on 11/26/2005 5:04:48 PM PST by blam
Hillary engages Clinton double act for White House
By Philip Sherwell
(Filed: 27/11/2005)
Hillary Clinton has enlisted her husband to attack the White House over Iraq in an attempt to shore up her sliding support among Democrat activists.
The New York senator, who is expected to run for the White House in 2008, has been alarmed by a drop in her opinion polls ratings as she pays the political price for backing President George W Bush's decision to topple Saddam Hussein.
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Her hawkish stance was originally a useful way to shed her liberal reputation, but has become an increasing political liability as America's mood has swung against the war.
Anxious that criticising the way the occupation has been handled could expose to the accusations of "flip-flopping" - a charge that cost John Kerry when he ran against President Bush last year - she is leaving the task to her husband. As political positioning for the 2008 polls begins, it will be him, not her, who placates the Democratic Left with attacks on Mr Bush's Iraq policy.
The new double act is being seen as a variation of President Clinton's old "triangulation" strategy, where he positioned himself between Democrats and Republicans, that helped win his second term in the White House in 1996. Political observers believe that the Clintons are now engaged in 'triangulation" over Iraq.
Dick Morris, the political strategist who masterminded President Clinton's re-election but is now an outspoken critic of Sen Clinton, said: "Bill and Hillary are playing a pas-de-deux in satisfying both the Left and the Centre of the Democratic Party.
"For the first time in their careers, they can really be all things to all people - Hillary, a hawk voting for the war; Bill, a dove blasting the decision to wage it. Should the elections in Iraq really turn the corner and give that nation a working democracy and America a way out of Baghdad, Hillary can always say she was there from the beginning. But should the casualties only mount, she can join Bill on his Leftist perch."
But Mickey Kaus, a leading conservative Internet blogger, predicted that any attempt by the pair to equivocate over Iraq would backfire. "The new trick won't work," he wrote.
Sen Clinton's dilemma shows that both Democrats and Republicans are suffering angst over the invasion, as US troop casualties pass the 2,000 mark and calls escalate for a prompt withdrawal.
The American women who are going to tip the election in 2008 don't care if she's right to Attila the Hun or to the left of Angela Davis, they'll vote for what she presumably doesn't have between her legs. I'm afraid the First Female Chancellor is coming to the US. Run for the hills, children!
I just had a horrible thought. What if Hillary gets nominated on the Dems ticket for President and she picks her hubby as her running mate? Is that even possible?
No, this indicates that Her Thighness is suffering angst in trying to figure out how to appeal to the majority of Americans who want to stay the course in Iraq, while not overly alienating the moonbats that have pretty much taken over her party.
Meanwhile, back in the Senate, the missus, the other half of the clinton construct, maintains her hawkish pose (though not without bird problems of another sort). Yet another example of the clinton conflation ploy, (see SCHEMA PINOCCHIO: how the clintons are handling the hillary dud factor), this variant allows "clinton, the construct" to hold two mutually exclusive positions simultaneously, thereby enabling the missus to avoid in '08 the trap that repeatedly ensnared the ever 'nuanced' Kerry in '04. Do you now understand how stupid the clintons think you are? A CALL TO IMPEACH CLINTON IN ABSENTIA |
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"I just had a horrible thought. What if Hillary gets nominated on the Dems ticket for President and she picks her hubby as her running mate? Is that even possible?"
I've heard both interpretations of the 22nd Amendment. I'm not sure.
Whether or not he can technically serve as VP, there's nothing stopping her from declaring him to be a "co-President", naming him Secretary of State, or doing anything else that she chooses.
Unfortunately, there are a lot of Americans who don't like Hillary, but do like Billy Jeff, and might fall for this ruse.
LMAO !!....You are outstanding Mia !!!.........Awesome !
Stay safe !!
Uh mm, no. - There is a law against having a president's relative in his cabinet.
It was passed shortly after the last president to have his brother in his cabinet had died.
And that was Misters John and Robert Kennedy.
" There is a law against having a president's relative in his cabinet."
If Hillary Rodham can lie and re-write the laws that got a former President impeached, then Hillary Rodham Clinton will find a way to get around this little snag.
Should be no problem for a professional liar like her.
Sorry it's getting late.....should have said:
"ALMOST got a former President impeached" or
"Would have got a former President impeached".
"A quicky divorce should do the trick. :-)"
I guess that would work but then she'd/he'd probably lose the old biddy's vote. The ones that think they're both sooooo wunderful. The same ones that think the democratic party is still the same as in the days of old.
"America's mood has swung against the war. "
LIE, pure and simple. Caught you!
"What if Hillary gets nominated on the Dems ticket for President and she picks her hubby as her running mate?"
I heard she's going for President and he's going for United Nations head. My nightmare is a little different from yours. I pray we awaken to find it was only a nightmare.
Clinton made a speech recently in front of an audience of Arab students at Dubai University in the United Arab Emirates. He said that we were wrong to attack Iraq and that most of Saddam's sidekicks were " good and decent people." It was simply sickening to read about a former president, even Slick Willie, stooping to such depths on foreign shores. This speech was in direct contradiction to what Hillary has been saying; talking heads on the same BEAST saying the opposite - what gives? She can't have it both ways
Read on:
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/11/17/93029.shtml
He made comments recently opposed to the war, she made comments that were the exact opposite.
The next day, with a "deer in the headlights" look, she blubbered when told what Bill Clinton said.
Its here on free republic, and its pretty recent.
If it was supposed to be a "Sister Soljah" moment, then they had a serious screw up.
She had that look like she had no clue and then stammered.
Sometimes, regardless of her political ambition, her and Bill give the impression, that they really don't coordinate anything, and need a 3rd party to help them (Carville has hinted at it, and Dick Morris says it outright).
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