Liberals upset by Hillary’s hedging (Clinton's strange bedfellows) CAPTION TIME!

The Financial Times ^ | 5/12/06 | Holly Yeager

[Libloather]

Liberals upset by Hillary’s hedging
By Holly Yeager
Published: May 12 2006 15:26 | Last updated: May 12 2006 15:26

This week’s revelation that Rupert Murdoch will host a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton’s Senate re-election campaign put the punditocracy in a tailspin. But it should not have come as much of a surprise.

Yes, the former first lady used to complain that her husband was under attack from a “vast right-wing conspiracy” that surely included the conservative media mogul’s News Corp. And yes, when she ran for the Senate in 2000 his New York Post did all it could to derail her.

“It was absolute holy war,” said Michael Tomasky, editor of The American Prospect, a liberal magazine, and author of a book about her first campaign. “They were taking swipes at her in the sports section.”

But Mrs Clinton – the undeclared but still frontrunning Democratic candidate for president in 2008 – has been engaged in a long, slow effort to tone down her liberal reputation. In that respect, she is every bit the political heir to Bill Clinton, who introduced “triangulation” to American politics.

Her hedging seems to have few limits.

During a meandering public chat this week at the National Archives in Washington, Mrs Clinton declared herself “a big fan” of the Three Stooges, the slapstick comedy group that entertained generations of young Americans.

When Allen Weinstein, the US archivist, said the world was divided into two groups of people, those who loved the Three Stooges and those who loved the Marx Brothers, Mrs Clinton replied: “Being a politician, I like them both.” (At the same forum, she said President George W. Bush had “a lot of charm and charisma”.)

Could Mr Murdoch also be accused of trying to have it both ways?

[Libloather]

“It’s beyond disturbing yet not surprising to see something like this happen,” read one comment on the liberal DMIBlog...

NOW they catch on. That only took - what - 15 years?

This is the book jacket for Thomas D. Kuiper's 'I've Always Been a Yankees Fan: Hillary Clinton in Her Own Words,' one of many books about Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton. For someone who insists she is only thinking about her re-election campaign this year, Clinton has attracted the attention of conservative authors offering a host of new books aiming to slow her path to the White House. (AP Photo)

U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton discusses the negative impact of the Bush/Enzi health bill and women's access to contraception and abortion prevention efforts while at a news conference in the U.S. Capitol in Washington, May 10, 2006. REUTERS/Larry Downing

Banners of actor Christopher Reeve and his wife Dana hang on stage as Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) speaks at a rally calling on Congress to pass the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Act on Capitol Hill in Washington May 2, 2006. The proposed legislation advances cooperation in research, rehabilitation and quality of life programs for people living with paralysis. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque

A new portrait of former first lady Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY) sits on an easel after its unveiling in Washington, April 24, 2006. The portrait of Sen. Clinton, by artist Ginny Stanford, will hang in the newly-restored National Portrait Gallery with one of her husband by artist Nelson Shanks. The gallery holds the only complete portrait collection of U.S. presidents outside the White House's own. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Former first lady Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY), L, waves to a well-wisher in the crowd as she and former U.S. President Bill Clinton stand next to a new portrait of Clinton in Washington, April 24, 2006. Portraits of the two will hang in the newly-restored National Portrait Gallery, which is scheduled to reopen July 1. The gallery holds the only complete portrait collection of U.S. presidents outside the White House's own. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

[digger48]

They just can't help themselves. Draping themselves in the bedcurtains of dead folks.



But then again, that is a large part of their constituency

[trashcanbred]

Looks like some sort of salute going on there...

[BenLurkin]

Hey . . . it's a gold-plated WANTED poster:

[concerned about politics]

Maybe he wants her to run so the democrats will lose. Another candidate would be harder for Republicans to beat.
Hillary has a very shady history, and all the Republicans in Washington have to do is bring out her health care reform package. It's absolutely fascist. Even the moderate democrats would flee the DNC for life if they were to hear her evil health care plan!
Not only that, but Bill the perv would be tagging along behind her. Who'd want a the disgraced, impeached, blatant liar messing up the oval office sink again with his sterile seed?

[Kenny Bunkport]

"Don't cry for me, Arkansas."

[maine-iac7]

The gallery holds the only complete portrait collection of U.S. presidents outside the White House's o

Is she pushing it - is she a U.S. president yet?

Side from that, as a portrait artist, I would say this pose and placement is awkward ...

in other words - it fits

[maine-iac7]

oops - pressed the post button by mistake and didn't get the portrait in - - here again:

Aside from that, as a portrait artist, I would say this pose and placement is awkward ...

but then - that fits?

[streetpreacher]

It's catchy...

 

[Mr. Silverback]

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[Tzimisce]

Looks like a sneak preview of the Da Vinci Code.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Looking more and more like Eva Peron every day!!!!!!

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

As I said just above.... Hillary! looking more and more like Eva Peron.

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

LOL - GMTA (see my posts above).

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Hillary at her new "Eyes Wide Open" listening tour:
"Can you tell I just got my Botox injections just yesterday?! I was in line right behind Nancy Pelosi!"

[Choose Ye This Day]

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[*sigh*]


Mem-o-ries...

Good times. Good times.

[Bonaparte]

“They were taking swipes at her in the sports section.”

I guess the sports editor had to say something about her phoney claim to have always been a Yankee fan -- just like her claim to be Jewish -- or her claim to be named after a mountain climber who hadn't climbed the mountain by the time she was born.

[Kenny Bunkport]

Outstanding!

[A CA Guy]

Beware Vampillary.

[A CA Guy]