I will be Queen over Amerika, see I have the suit and my lawyers are ready"
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Posted on 01/22/2007 12:20:38 AM PST by MadIvan
Hillary Clinton will embark on her campaign for the presidency this week by portraying herself as a tough and disciplined politician “who has shown she can take a punch”, according to sources close to the frontrunner for the 2008 Democratic nomination.
Their strategy is to contrast her battle-hardened experience with the hype surrounding the “untested” Barack Obama, who, they suggest, may turn out to be a “shooting star” that falls back to Earth.
Mrs Clinton today hosts the first in a series of online “video chats” with voters as part of a warmer, more engaging approach than that previously associated with the former First Lady. This weekend she will also meet small group of activists in Iowa, whose caucuses begin the nomination process, amid polls showing that she trails both Mr Obama and John Edwards in the state.
Advisers acknowledge that she is so well-known that it will be difficult for them to transform her image with the American public, many of whom regard her as cold and calculating.
Instead, they hope to turn such negatives into positives and chip away at the more than 40 per cent who say that they could never vote for her. Mark Penn, her pollster, said: “Hillary is the one potential nominee who has been fully tested . . . She is not just strong, but the strongest Democrat in the field. Hillary is the only one able to match or beat the Republicans after years of their partisan attacks on her.”
Aides have denied that they were spooked into announcing her bid for the presidency earlier than planned because of the rapid rise of Mr Obama, who declared his intentions last week. They were swift to highlight a new ABC-Washington Post poll yesterday that gave her 41 per cent support, against 17 per cent for Mr Obama and 11 per cent for Mr Edwards.
For all Mrs Clinton’s advantages in fundraising and political muscle through the network built around her husband, Bill Clinton, her campaign continues to be haunted by questions about whether she is electable. She will have to steer a careful course to avoid the mistakes made by two former frontrunners for the Democratic nomination. In 1972 Ed Muskie lost out to George McGovern, mainly because of activist anger over his support for the Vietnam war. In 2004 John Kerry initially backed the Iraq invasion before voting against spending the $87 billion needed for it, helping him win the nomination but allowing Republicans to brand him as a “flip-flop” politician.
Mrs Clinton, who supported the Iraq war in the Senate, has recently sought to strengthen her criticism of President Bush’s conduct of it. She wants a cap set on troops serving there but has stopped short of saying that she would cut funding for them. “I’ve tried to be responsible” she said in an interview broadcast yesterday, without “engaging in heated rhetoric”.
When Mr Edwards last week suggested that it was “no longer enough to study your options and keep your own counsel” on Iraq, Mrs Clinton’s spokesman testily accused him of negative campaigning. But Mr Obama remains infuriatingly nice. This weekend her office had to deny being the source of false allegations that he had attended Islamic schools as a child, while he was welcoming Mrs Clinton’s entry into the presidential race, saying that he regarded her not as a competitor but as an ally.
One of her supporters said: “Nobody wants to be seen to having a shot at Barack right now. He’s a very difficult opponent.”
In the running
11-8 Hillary Clinton (D) 9-2 John Edwards (D) 5-1 John McCain (R) 9-1 Barack Obama (D) 11-1 Rudolph Giuliani (R) 20-1 Mitt Romney (R) 20-1 John Kerry (D) 20-1 Condoleezza Rice (R)
Sounds like she hasn't been cooked enough.
Regards, Ivan
Ping!
"Clinton aims to show she is tough and a bit tender"...in the ankles, maybe!
Let's cook her some more; the phony bitch....
She's flaky on the outside and pink on the inside.
Don't we usually throw out things that are spoiled. I think this should be a priority.
Like a cheap piece of meat!
I will be Queen over Amerika, see I have the suit and my lawyers are ready"
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..after spotting a lesbian supporter she's saying to herself.."I wonder if I can get that heifer on my campaign staff, she's got bigger cankles than I do"
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I'm sure the media will begin reporting her devotion to Saul Alinsky and how he developed her political views.
She just can't help herself.
She's a phony, a liar and a carpetbagger. Everyone can see through her except New Yorkers.
hmmm, not to help her but my idea would be for her to dress up like Zena the Warrior Princess - with a sword in one hand, a baby in the other -- while breast feeding!
I think that would be a winner 
She is an old piece of shoeleather and about as interesting.
Regards, Ivan
Maybe she needs some marinade.
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