Regards, Ivan
Ping!
"...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.
Which I predict she will declare on 6/6/06.
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.
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"America's fascination with Mrs Clinton" --- "fascination"? --- where was the BARF ALERT?
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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.
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.
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.
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.
What is this? Sounds like drilling for oil.
Her voice is like a dull screech of chalk on a blackboard.
I think most any personable Republican can beat her.
A forensic team is already following hillary, ready to dissect her campaign when it dies in early 2007.
moments after offering her plans for something called geologic carbon sequestration. "But I feel very strongly about it whatever the Hell it is?."
I pray Gore and Kerry give it another run...
Can we start the rumor that Hillary is a dull-do?
Leni
A truly smart person can make a speech that communicates information and is also engaging. She can't. No personality.
I have never feared the Witch and always felt she would set the all-time record for negative turnout if she did mangage to get the nomination. She is dumber and duller than a box of rocks, when unprotected and having to think on her feet, as in a very long presidential run.
He doesn't need encouragement. He's already running. Problem is, I think he'll win the nomination and will be harder to beat in the general election than most people here think.