Dull Hillary stumbles and the memory of Bill lingers on

The Daily Telegraph ^ | May 24, 2006 | Francis Harris

[MadIvan]

Excellent. This may encourage Gore to make a run for it, and we will have a Democrat civil war.

Regards, Ivan

[MadIvan]

Ping!

[Robwin]

"...the senator squandered an opportunity to shine before a critically important audience..." Excuse me if I chuckle at the idea they are "critical" of Hillary in any way.

[Screamname]

.... who will present her to the public if, as expected, she declares her candidacy for the 2008 nomination.

Which I predict she will declare on 6/6/06.

[D-fendr]

should be "who will represent her to the public.."

[YaYa123]

I flipped into C-Span just as the event was ending and saw Hillary wearing that "lemon yellow" silk pantsuit. I swear, an exact replica of what she wore standing behind Clinton when he did his finger wagging, "I did not have sex with that woman...Ms Lewinsky" declaration.

She often wears pastel colored, silk pants suits reminiscent of what she sported as First Lady. Turquoise, peach, but you think she'd avoid that yellow one.

[Coldwater Creek]

Mrs. Clinton will not run. She lives by the polls, and if they are the same as today, she will stay in her present position.

[beyond the sea]

"That sort of ambiguity feeds America's fascination with Mrs Clinton."

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"America's fascination with Mrs Clinton" --- "fascination"? --- where was the BARF ALERT?

;-)

[Recovering_Democrat]

...the journalists who will present her to the public if, as expected, she declares her candidacy for the 2008 nomination...

Bunk. The leftwingnut "journalists" (aka propaganda practitioners) and the lunatic base will come out in full force for Hitlery.

Oh, they might stage some very public "spats" or critiques of Clinton (like the "marriage" story on the front of the NY Slimes earlier this week) but make no mistake...the left's utter contempt for traditional values and conservatism, for strength in foreign policy and freedom from government confiscation of your labor will drive them to promote the junior senator from New York to the Oval Office.

I don't think they'll succeed--but they will definitely try.

[gakrak]

Looks like the circus may come to town. As I recall Algore and Hitlary don't particularly like each other. Can we use the word hate in the same sentence with them? LOL. Amen.

[monocle]

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."

This report is merely a precursor of what we can expect if Hillary when annouces she is running for the presidency. The report is mildly critical of her delivery of the speech, but, by and large, is laudatory of Hillary.

I boldfaced "wonkish" in the cited passage because I think Hillary appears to be laying the groundwork and signaling the media that she is indeed the "smartest woman" in the universe. This ploy is exactly what has transpired in too many elections in the past. The only Republican candidate that I can recall as being considered reasonably bright by the media is Richard Nixon. On the other hand, the media has made a list of inellectual giants out of the likes of Adlai Stevenson, Jimmy Carter, Michael Dukakis, Bill Clinton, Al Gore and John Kerry.

[leadhead]

As I recall Algore and Hitlary don't particularly like each other

Ya think Dodd is going to slide through while these two phonies fight each other to death?

[SkyPilot]

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.

Sheesh. When some wacko protester confronts Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld, it is front page news.

Numerous front page stories about Rumsfeld's protester

Hillary's boring speech gets protested, and the reporters still yawn and hardly bothered to tell us.

[jebeier]

If you remember, Bubba got his "serious" ticket punched at the 1988 Democrat National Convention. His achingly long speech was so dull, some delegates have still not woken up, 18 years later. From that day on, he was labeled as a "serious thinker" and "policy wonk". After that he could parade down Main Street in a clown costume with his penis hanging out and the MSM would still intone seriously about his "intellectual credentials".

I submit to you that Hillary! is pulling the same move here. This speech was aimed at the Press Corps, and meant to convince them that she was a serious thinker about policy. It accomplished that mission. From now on, whenever she makes a really stupid statement (which she does, on average, every 18 minutes) the MSM will scratch it's collective head and wonder how such an intelligent woman could say such idiotic things.

The Clintons have only one playbook, and they keep running the same plays over and over again. Eventually the Cowboys figured out how to stop the Redskin's Counter Trey. We 'Pubbies have to learn how to stop these plays.

Look for Hillary! to stage her own "Sistah Souljah" moment sometime within the next two months.

[crazycat]

What's worse is this is written in a suposedly right wing paper.

They should be ripping into her, instead of giving her a pass.

[Sacajaweau]

One of the big media dudes said that if Hillary WAS SMART, she'd just stay in the Senate for 20 years. Sounded like a BIG "No Confidence" in winning the Presidency.

[Coldwater Creek]

I certainly do not think that Mrs. Clinton is the smartest woman in the World, but she certainly is political savvy!!

[Gorzaloon]

should be "who will represent her to the public.."

I marvel at peoples' politeness. Being a classless clod, I would have said,

"who will pimp her to the public.."

[Robert A Cook PE]

But, but, but, ...

This is the unbiased, CRITICAL national press corpse. (Er, corps.)

[Sacajaweau]

Hillary doesn't know sh** about her subject. She got on the ethanol wagon as if she has invented it. It's been around for years just like wind and solar power. It's getting people like the Kennedy's to permit such uses.

Our "snob" town didn't want a windmill in their back yard either. "Unsightly" they said.

We have a windmill down the road a bit. Very cool and I have yet to see a bird be attacked by the windmill. I have seen a robin deadbreast laid out under my patio door!!