Posted on 01/28/2006 11:11:54 PM PST by NormsRevenge
Even 3,000 miles away from Washington, Hillary Clinton couldn't resist zinging the Bush administration to a friendly San Francisco audience Saturday night.
``I've been absolutely amazed -- everyone should -- at the level of arrogance and incompetence,'' she said to wild applause. ``I don't believe I'm alone in that.''
The most-talked about undeclared presidential candidate for 2008 -- whom President Bush himself described Friday as ``formidable'' -- appeared before an audience of 1,800 at the Masonic Auditorium on Nob Hill for an interview with former NBC TV host Jane Pauley.
Aides say the event was designed to show that the ex-first lady and current New York senator is more than just an ardent campaigner.
Pauley's first question to Clinton was why does she think Americans would now accept a female president, as recent polls suggest.
``There's a feeling that it's time,'' she said. ``In the 21st century, people have come to accept individuals on their merits.''
The crowd reacted to that with resounding applause.
But her San Francisco welcome was not all rosy. Clinton showed up more than 30 minutes late to meet the liberal-leaning San Francisco Bar Association crowd. As happens at virtually every stop she makes outside the Beltway, the senator was met by anti-war protesters. About two dozen stood in the rain in San Francisco on Saturday, some wearing big theatrical ears, to decry her refusal to call for an immediate troop withdrawal from Iraq. They carried signs reading: ``Hillary, You Are Not Listening'' and ``End the War Now.''
About five minutes into the interview, three protesters stood in the upper balcony and yelled ``Hillary, stop supporting the war,'' and they were quickly escorted away.
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Appeared? It's not like she just poof appeared, I mean- she does have her broom but it has a very small radar signature and might not have been noticed.
`I've been absolutely amazed -- everyone should -- at the level of arrogance and incompetence,'' she said to wild applause. ``I don't believe I'm alone in that.''
You're right 'Hill'.
I was absolutely amazed at your arrogance when YOU demanded that Marine 'Two' do a 180 while in the air and go back to where you where previously speaking because YOU left your sun glasses there. And 'Hill' isn't 'forgetting' ones sun glasses sort of incompetent?
Wait I know, you have 'people' to do those little things for you, right? If so I trust you reprimanded them accordingly for their incompetence, like beheading them.
Did she have her girlfriend with her?
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