Posted on 09/10/2007 7:12:43 AM PDT by presidio9
Hillary Clinton has been in politics long enough to know the value of the word "change." In 1992, her husband's political guru, James Carville, hung a white sign in the Clinton campaign war room that read CHANGE VS. MORE OF THE SAME. Bill Clinton won the presidency that year with 370 electoral votes.
Over the course of the summer, she watched her rivals for the Democratic nomination try again and again to define themselves as change and Clinton as the status quo. ("We're more interested in looking forward, not backward," Barack Obama told reporters. "And the American people feel the same way.") But she would not cede the change mantle, no matter how large her lead in national polls, not in an election where the voters were fed up and angry, not when Obama was saying "change" was what he was all about and John Edwards was running a tough populist bid. "The campaign was watching Obama and Edwards peddling this false choice of change versus experience," says someone close to the campaign who did not want to be identified discussing internal matters. "They realized, wow, this is a great opportunity to emphasize one of her strengths"or, more precisely, it was an opportunity to argue that her years in the capital gave her the experience to make change happen. Triangulation, anyone?
And so through the month of August, Clinton's aides drafted new language that could expand the definition of change to include a woman who'd been in Washington, D.C., for 15 years. "You bring change by working within the system," Clinton finally declared on Labor Day weekend. "You can't pretend the system doesn't exist."
Hillary Clinton has always put great faith in The System. Hugh Rodham's dutiful daughter stayed up late finishing homework assignments and kept Barry Goldwater's "Conscience of
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
Now, let’s wait and see if Newspeak will do a story on Obama, Thompson, Biden, Romeny or Guililani in this same vein..............
Using fear, intimidation, dominance and narcissism - that was easy. NEXT!!!!
Remember, she’s always surprised.
She was “surprised” to learn about Norman Hsu.
She was “surprised” when her brother was selling pardons.
She was “surprised” to learn of her husband’s affairs.
She was “surprised” to learn about Chinese donations during the 1990’s.
I have watched for some time now, more and more Democrats pulling away from Hillary. For one, they are afraid of her. They know that if she gets in the Oval office, none of them will be safe and she’ll turn on them when she throws a fit. As it turns out now, the Democratic party really has no one that is qualified for the Oval office.
There is a lot of wrapped tight mental stuff going on with her. No telling how she holds it together. Further, who’s her daddy? Can you imagine the freak leftoids that are hiding behind the curtains, saying ‘pay no attention to the people behind her Highness’?
Forget the Beast From the East, its her crew that should make you very, very afraid.
Gee - sus! It's the old 'she's just the hard-working high school nerd. But working for you and me!' approach. Gimme a break! She's a megalomaniacal, thin-skinned, vindictive, responsibility-ducking, power-mad, socialist who thinks she knows what's best for the 'little people', with unknown psychological issues caused by selling her soul and staying married to a man who is at best a serial philanderer, and more probably a serial woman-abuser and at worst a rapist. She also has no particular love of country nor appreciation of the military.
But I understate....
At the end of a meeting with key senators in the health-care fight, Clinton urged participants to publicly denounce Cooper. One participant in the meeting, who would not be identified for fear of alienating the Clintons, says Clinton had brought a political aide with a video camera so they could record their denunciations on the spot.
Lenin wannabe. Psychopath. And this appears in Newsweek, a Democrat house organ!
I know they'll fall into line after the convention, but this kind of thing is rather memorable.
Are you kidding me? Newsweak has been alternating between Obama and Hillary puff pieces all summer long; but also have plenty of hate-Bush material too.
Yes. She’s either very stupid or a lying POS.
The Dhimmicratz are running against George Bush. But the Republicans are running against each other................
I'll feel better when she's in court long enough to know the value of the color orange.
My correction: Bill Clinton won the presidency that year with only 43% of the vote.
Who will be Hillary’s Perot?
Guiliani, Mitt or Paul?
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