Posted on 12/03/2005 12:50:17 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
Clinton was interrupted several times during a speech at Roosevelt University Saturday morning by young adults protesting the Iraq war.
The Democratic New York Senator was the keynote speaker during the American Democracy Institute's First Leadership Development Summit.
She was there to give a speech about the power young people have in affecting policy in their communities.
Clinton did address the protesters, but she never stopped her speech.
First, a group in the balcony chanted and held signs that together read "Out of Iraq."
They were silenced after a minute or so while someone else held up a sign nearby.
Then a group elsewhere in the auditorium starting chanting.
Some of it was inaudible, but they could be heard at one point saying "Troops Out Now."
Clinton addressed them, saying she appreciates their passion and intensity, and that she would address their concerns at the end of her speech, but that she didn't believe the audience wanted to hear from them at the moment, receiving applause from the audience.
Flyers were also thrown down from the balcony, accusing Democrats and Republicans of being alike when it comes to Iraq policy...and condemning Senator Clinton for voting for Iraq invasion in 2002.
Clinton did address the war at the end of her speech...saying she wishes we could turn back time, but we can't, and we now have to create strategy based on fact.
She said the upcoming Iraqi elections are a turning point.
She said she's not for an immediate pullout, but she's not for keeping our troops there forever either.
Sounds like Hillary's feint to the center is progressing nicely. She's even fooling some 'pubbies.
She is so slow on her feet, especially for the worlds smartest beast.
My guess: the protesters were plants, there to make Hillary look less liberal.
The whole Hillary strategy is to move to the center,ignore the Left wing of her party,get elected as a moderate and then,once she gets elected,will revert to the Hillary we knew so well back in 1993!
She sure had the right answers ready to go huh? I wouldnt put that past her to plant them.
Maybe it will be a liberal convention Chicago 2008, reenacting that previous Chicago convention of 1968!!!!
"She is so slow on her cankles, but sure throws a mean ashtray accompanied by mucho headbobbing you know."
That's better....
I agree. Sounds like a "rope-a-dope" strategy on the part of the Hildebeast.
...discredit the Dems' radical Left before they cost the Dems yet another national election.
Watch for the Dems to adjust their primary schedule for 2008 such that more conservative states go first, rather than the more liberal ones (to skew the Dem primary towards the center).
They last time the Dems were in a situation like this they wound up with McGovern although I shudder to think of who would come at Hillary from the left.
Want to bet how much of this will appear on tonight's network news?
I think their message to her royal heinous is: Triangulate this bitch.
My first reaction.
My first reaction.
When it comes to ambivalence, I could go either way.
As to Hilary, we shouldn't be thinking about specifically painting her into a corner, but the administration should be keeping on the offensive about the war against these politically-motivated critics. That's actually what's needed for the good of the country and forcing peoiple like Hilary into little more than "me,too" status is just a happy by-product of that.
This is exactly what Hillary wants to have happen. It give her just th epress she wants and allows her to pretend to be in the middle. But she knows she can socializing everything in sight if she ever gets real control. Would not be surprised if the Clintonoids up the lecture interruption, in fact.
Ah, turn back time to those halcyon years when Saddam was in charge and rape, torture, and murder was the order of the day. Bush should have just allowed hundreds of thousands of Iraqis to die, just as Bill Clinton did with the Rwandans.
Plants? You mean like a Ficus or a begonia?
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