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Neckline headlines Clinton adviser in a snit
Waterbury Republican-American ^ | August 2, 2007 | Editorial

Posted on 08/03/2007 11:49:00 AM PDT by Graybeard58

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is angry with The Washington Post for reporting on her cleavage after she wore a black top with a low neckline on the Senate floor. But always the opportunist, she is using the story to try to boost her presidential campaign.

A fundraising e-mail from campaign adviser Ann Lewis urges potential donors to "take a stand against this kind of coarseness and pettiness in American culture." Focusing on women's bodies instead of their minds is "insulting. ... It's insulting to our daughters �” and our sons �” who are constantly pressured by the media to grow up too fast."

That's rich. This is the same Ann Lewis who as White House communications director helped craft the "nuts-and-sluts" strategy Bill Clinton used against women who said he had groped or raped them, according to The New York Times. And this is the same Ann Lewis who complained bitterly that when Anita Hill lodged false sexual-harassment charges against then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas, "she found herself savagely attacked; her integrity, morality, sanity called into question ... . This sends the message that if you step forward, especially against someone who holds power, you will be victimized again by his friends and allies."

Ann Lewis is the next-to-the-last person who should gripe about cultural coarseness and children being pressured to grow up too fast. After all, didn't she help her old boss try to convince a whole generation of young people that oral sex isn't sex?


TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: anitahill; annlewis; clarencethomas; cleavage; clinton2008; dnctalkingpoints; hillary; nothirdterm; nutsandsluts; thebiglie; zogbyism
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To: Graybeard58

21 posted on 08/03/2007 12:43:04 PM PDT by traditional1
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To: Cagey; MotleyGirl70; Larry Lucido; lesser_satan

(sitting on the subway)

Hillary: I’m not ashamed of my body.

Jerry Seinfeld: That’s your problem, you should be.


22 posted on 08/03/2007 1:06:57 PM PDT by Mr. Brightside
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To: Graybeard58

I think the story was given to the WaPo PRECISELY to generate ‘outrage’ by the supporters of Hillary Clinton. They certainly didn’t seem to have a problem with them trying to trash Jeri Thompson as a ‘trophy wife’. I guess that’s what gave them the idea to create a story about Her Heinous.


23 posted on 08/03/2007 1:07:19 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: Mr. Brightside
That's hot


24 posted on 08/03/2007 1:33:14 PM PDT by BJClinton (Vick’s only hope now is an all-cat jury. ~BlazingArizona)
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To: Graybeard58
A fundraising e-mail from campaign adviser Ann Lewis urges potential donors to "take a stand against this kind of coarseness and pettiness in American culture." Focusing on women's bodies instead of their minds is "insulting. ... It's insulting to our daughters �” and our sons �” who are constantly pressured by the media to grow up too fast."

If Hillary, and professional women in general, want to be taken seriously, they will dress modestly. If you don't want someone to look, then don't show it off.

25 posted on 08/03/2007 2:07:25 PM PDT by randita
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To: weegee

It isn’t often one sees a picture with an odd number of boobs in it. ;)


26 posted on 08/03/2007 2:25:38 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle ("Proudly keeping one iron boot on the necks of libertarian faux 'conservatives' since 1958!")
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To: Graybeard58
It's insulting to our daughters and our sons who are constantly pressured by the media to grow up too fast.

Tell that to Democrat Barack Hussein Obama who thinks sex education in kindergarten is a good idea.

27 posted on 08/03/2007 2:50:22 PM PDT by RJL
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
It isn’t often one sees a picture with an odd number of boobs in it. ;)

Odd? I only see two: him and her.

28 posted on 08/03/2007 4:24:05 PM PDT by HKMk23 (Nine out of ten orcs attacking Rohan were Saruman's Uruk-hai, not Sauron's! So, why invade Mordor?)
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To: OpusatFR

Yeah, well, my wife can grouse as much as she wants, when the curtains are closed, I’ll wear what I like. I don’t look in the mirror when I’m not clothed so it doesn’t bother me.

Hillary would go braless in a tank top if it would guarantee her the WH. Ouch, gotta wash that image from my brain.


29 posted on 08/03/2007 4:24:26 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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To: Graybeard58

“Focusing on women’s bodies instead of their minds”

I’m confused. Wasn’t that what Hillary was trying to get us to do by wearing something low cut?


30 posted on 08/03/2007 5:11:03 PM PDT by sageb1 (This is the Final Crusade. There are only 2 sides. Pick one.)
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