You said charisma transplant?
Posted on 05/23/2006 6:20:45 PM PDT by blam
Dull Hillary stumbles and the memory of Bill lingers on
By Francis Harris in Washington
(Filed: 24/05/2006)
Hillary Clinton may be the Democratic front-runner for the presidency but she seems to have a lot to learn about campaigning for the White House.
In a weighty speech to journalists at the National Press Club in Washington yesterday, the senator squandered an opportunity to shine before a critically important audience - the journalists who will present her to the public if, as expected, she declares her candidacy for the 2008 nomination.
It began well enough. Resplendent in a lemon yellow two-piece and expensively bejewelled, her star power was plain the moment she entered the room. Everywhere, necks craned for a sight of the immaculately coiffured New York senator.
But then she lost it. The half-hour speech was achingly dull, a meandering lecture on energy policy which left the audience stifling yawns.
It was hard not to recall the charisma of her husband, Bill, the former president, and Mrs Clinton seemed to sense things had not gone well.
As she droned towards the finish, she looked out at a silent, glassy-eyed audience and acknowledged that her speech was a little unusual. "I know this is probably more wonkish than many of you had anticipated," she said, moments after offering her plans for something called geologic carbon sequestration. "But I feel very strongly about it."
There was a murmur of laughter but only minutes earlier some of those at the breakfast meeting appeared to have slumped into unconsciousness.
Others stifled yawns, held their chins in their hands or stared at the carpet or ceiling. By the time two women peace protesters made their predictable intervention on Iraq (and were predictably carried out by Mrs Clinton's burly secret servicemen) the assembled journalists had largely stopped listening.
The melee did at least open the way for questions. Mrs Clinton was asked: "You're here to talk about energy, but most people are here because they think you will run for president." She affected surprise before offering a cautious and well-rehearsed answer, claiming that she didn't think about such things.
However preposterous her response (she has raised more than £10 million for a senate re-election battle which will cost far less), there was a respectful silence. But everyone laughed when she was asked what she would like to be remembered for if her career ended now. "I don't want it to end now," she said.
That sort of ambiguity feeds America's fascination with Mrs Clinton.
Yesterday a 2,000-word examination of the Clinton marriage in the New York Times, produced no firm conclusion other than Mr Clinton remained by far the better public performer while she was "starchy". Her performance yesterday did nothing to overturn that notion.
You said charisma transplant?
OMG, can't you just see the debates between MRS BILL CLINTON and Algore???
Ha ha somehow it reminds me of that phone commercial where the suit says "Just my little way of stickin' it to the man" and the flunkie says "but you are the man, so you're . . . stickin' it to yourself." And the man says
"maybe."
Can't you just see those two playing those parts back and forth?
Well... we have to now. We're on "the list." LOL
Something is up. The liberals have the knives out for Hillary. Maybe like Algore is their favorite once more.
wonder what size bra HE wears.......sheesh.....
wonder what size bra HE wears.......sheesh.....
Wonder if this speech was cleared thru the environmentalists. Doesn't appear so. He hee he. Wait till they have their say. "You want to dig where?"
So, who's the bimbette with Bubba?
I saw some pics from this event a few threads down. Resplendent? Immmaculately coiffured??? She looks like old cheese.
The very thought of someone having to debate Algore again is repulsive.
Poor dumb cluck is too stupid to know she's too stupid to ever be permitted to mutter any unscripted utterance. --brian allen
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COPYRIGHT MIA T 2006You talk about lock step. AOL commie news has a fawning picture of their beloved couple every time you fire up the computer.
Not true. Here's the poll you cite. 3.7 percent is all who would vote for her, mostly trolls.
How would you vote if it's McCain vs Hillary in '08?
Third Party
37.7%
McCain
37.1%
Sit it out
13.3%
Undecided
8.2%
Hillary
3.7%
This doesn't seem right to me.
Code words for the Clinton's involvement in the "oil for food program"..............
It sounds like her thighness is proposing making all mining of petroleum and coal illegal.
Just what a subversive would want to do to help cripple America.
A vote for a third party candidate IS a vote for hillary.
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It is no accident--and the Sheehy hagiography notwithstanding, it is certainly not because of any patriarchal society--that this reflexive kleptocrat never sought office. 
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My two cents' worth--and I think it is the two cents' worth of everybody who worked for the Clinton Administration health care reform effort of 1993-1994--is that Hillary Rodham Clinton needs to be kept very far away from the White House for the rest of her life. Heading up health-care reform was the only major administrative job she has ever tried to do. And she was a complete flop at it. She had neither the grasp of policy substance, the managerial skills, nor the political smarts to do the job she was then given. And she wasn't smart enough to realize that she was in over her head and had to get out of the Health Care Czar role quickly.... there is no reason to think that she would be anything but an abysmal president.