HILL ON A HOT SEAT; A FEW TOUGH QUESTIONS (she's swilling purple kool-aid with her cooked goose)

NY POST ^ | November 3, 2007 | Jonah Goldberg

[TomGuy]

Ears Osama [toughen up, Guy!] reminds me of Kerry, when he responds to a question or gives a speech. He can ramble on and on for minutes and say nothing that is comprehensible.

Hillary, on the other hand, can take 4 sides of the same issue and still remain noncommittal in half that time.

[Fishtalk]

Okay.....here’s the scoop on that NY question. I caution this is speculation and speculation only.

I think that Hill’s people talked to Russert et al and warned NOT to ask a question about Spitzer’s plan re the driver’s licenses. The logic was that as a senator from NY, to ask a question that would have her challenging the Governor of the state she leads would be to unfairly pick on her.

After all, would the question about Spitzer have as much impact if it was given to, say, Bill Richardson? For any other candidate could answer philosophically without danger of offending the governor of their state. any other Dem candidate could take the high road without having to slap the Governor of their state in the face on national TV.

I think that somebody in Russert’s group, maybe NBC...somebody, agreed that it would be unfair to spring that question on Hillary and I think that Russert or somebody having second thoughts decided to change their mind.

This is why the Hill campaign came out full blasting at Russert. She was NOT expecting that question, as any fool can see.

See, the Clintons, all they have to do to control what we hear and see about both Hill and Bill is threaten to cut off all contact with a particular media mode that would offend them. Witness that magazine that got such a threat re a promised interview with Bill but not if they went after Hill.

The media fears being cut off from the elite Bill and Hill more than exploding IED’s. In their narrow DC world, Bill and Hill have access to everyone who matters, which is not you or I yon ladies and gems. Well perhaps YOU, but definitely not I.

Only thing is, Hill now NEEDS the media and I think NBC or maybe Russert himself took a chance and went after her the way he would have for any other candidate and you know they would have. If Biden’s Governor Nanny Minner was espousing driver’s licenses for illegal aliens you can bet they’d be honing in on Hairplugs first thing.

THIS is my summary of what this flap is all about. Queen Hillary has had years of complete strangling control of the media and now, well things are a little different. I know she’s got wonderful spinners on her campaign but no way will they ever keep her true self away from the American people.

Opinions, brickbats, compliments?

[Pure Country]

Why are we assuming that her prep team didn’t do their job...probably Hillary thought she had a better answer. Right now, she is the best player on the republican team—kind of like the basketball player who scores a goal at the wrong end of the court.

[Bookwoman]

“I think that Hill’s people talked to Russert et al and warned NOT to ask a question about Spitzer’s plan re the driver’s licenses. “

I think this right on target. It was a question she didn’t want to deal with and is used to being mindlessly obeyed when she bullies people. If it is true that she didn’t prepare for it (an obvious question for a NY senator in or out of the debate) then this is a pretty good explanation. Her confusion is probably more that she was disobeyed than that she didn’t know what to say!

Never forget that Russert is from the Buffalo, NY area originally - an area that has been particularly decimated economically. Hillary made all kinds of promises to get elected and has done less than nothing for this area. People there are really angry - feel betrayed.

I’m wondering if the public facade is starting to crack. Even Dems don’t like her, but they are toeing the line because of fear of retribution. Power goes a long way. There will need to be a lot of erosion before the dam breaks, but I’ve been seeing evidence of erosion. They are not in as tight control of the media thanks to the blogs and the Freepers who just won’t quit (THANK GOD!!!)

[spectre]

Finally, she has to answer some questions. We need more debates :)

"Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and leave no doubt."

Speak, Hillary..speak.

sw

[yazdankurd]

rudy/fred over hillary/richardson

[Travis McGee]

Between them, the 9-11 hijackers had 63 validly issued driver's licenses.

Eight of them were even registered to vote in American elections.

Under federal "motor voter" law, anyone receiving a driver's license automatically may register to vote.

Nothing but the "honesty" of illegal aliens prevents them from breaking one more law, and voting in American elections.

Yet Hillary Clinton thinks we should give driver's licenses to illegal aliens.

[puroresu]

Gosh, I wonder which party they voted for? </s>

[Suzy Quzy]

Her good friend, Eliot's IDIOCY , is the NOOSE around her neck! ILLEGALS getting driver's license is ONLY so they can VOTE ILLEGALLY!!!

....Justice Dept....VOTE FRAUD ALERT,

[Suzy Quzy]

Will RUSSERT seem apologetic on his Sunday show??? Methinks he will!! he doesn’t want to die young.

[Travis McGee]

Pretty sad to see the ‘rats depending on illegal alien voters.

[Miss Didi]

RUSH: ...There clearly are some media people who are not happy with what she's done. Now, not saying that that's permanent, not saying that she won't be able to get them back with threats and whatever else that she has in the arsenal. But you have to understand how these people look at both Clintons. They are on pedestals, particularly Bill. But these are the sixties generation representatives. This is the last chance, the sixties radicals, to actually take over and run the country. This is it. This is it for the baby boomer generation in terms of running for president. Certainly is it for the Clintons. Throughout the public life of the Clintons, they have been idolized, as a cut above, as special. They have been coddled; they have been protected; they have been looked upon with utter awe by their contemporaries in the Drive-By Media.

Mrs. Clinton is basically running for president because it's her turn, because she has eaten all these excrement sandwiches over the years being married to Bill. She gave up her feminist career at Wellesley, went to Yale, met this guy, went to the sticks of Arkansas -- that's what elites think of it -- and she had to live down there for all those years in Arkansas, had to be the breadwinner while Clinton's out you-know-what with you-know-who, and it's excrement sandwich after excrement sandwich. It's just her turn. If her last name weren't Clinton, nobody would even think of her as an executive, somebody that could run the health care of America. What's happened here in this debate on Tuesday night, you had a major defection from the Drive-Bys in Tim Russert. Tim Russert went after all of these people, but particularly Mrs. Clinton, with questions that she hasn't been asked before. She doesn't like that.

I guarantee you that the Clinton camp is steaming at Russert and at NBC, and they let it be known to a couple people how angry they were. But now sort of the bloom is off the rose. Mrs. Clinton, who has, undeservedly, by the way -- these people in the media and elsewhere are true believers. They think that the Clintons are above normal human beings in intelligence, in strategy, trickery, achievement, accomplishment, they can't lose. Sort of like kids idolize sports figures and make heroes out of them before they even know them, it's a natural thing, and I think that's the way a lot of people look at the Clintons.

Now, Hillary has blown it. She has really disappointed them. First with lack of answers -- these people in the media are liberals, and they want to hear it. They don't want to hear full-fledged, but they don't like this hedging. They don't like having to cover this. You can see the impatience in a lot of print journalists' work on Mrs. Clinton. They also don't like the fact that now she's playing the girl, now she's playing the victim. That is genuine; they are disappointed; she has let them down. They want to be able to hear a lie delivered flawlessly. That's where she doesn't have the substance and talent of her husband. Bill used to be able to give them every lie they wanted to hear as smooth as if it was the truth from God. And they sat there knowing full well it was a lie, or lies, but they marveled. Mrs. Clinton can't do it. Mrs. Clinton does not have one-tenth the substance, nor the skill, nor the talent of her husband in that regard. This campaign of hers, I'll guarantee you something, the Democrats want to shield from the country what they really think about illegal immigration, Mrs. Clinton is going to have to shield the country from what she thinks about everything if she has any hope of getting elected. And she'd have to do that for 13 months, folks.

Will people let her get away with that for 13 months? She's not the first lady now. She is on stage as the preemptive favorite to win the Democrat nomination. She has this aura of inevitability around her. She's not going to get away hedging, taking both sides or no side of an issue for 13 months. The press is not going to be satisfied. Now, it may well be in this instance, I mean don't misunderstand, they're not going to defect from Mrs. Clinton in terms of support, they may get over this, and we may have Hillary, in her next debate, whether it is or not, may be labeled as a stunning grand-slam home run, wow, what a comeback. Probably will be something along those lines. I think that something's happened here. I think the bloom is off the rose, there's not so much awe; there's a little disappointment that the press has in her because she just doesn't have it. And to go through 13 months without telling us one thing what she wants to do isn't gonna fly.

BREAK TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: Folks, my sense of this is that a big bubble has been burst here, inside the Democrat Party. Mrs. Clinton can only go so far as the aura of invincibility will take her, as the aura of inevitability will take her -- and the biggest enemy, the biggest threat to the aura of invincibility is Mrs. Clinton herself, and her inability to appear invincible, her inability to appear inevitable. This performance of hers in this debate, I think, has shaken a lot of people up. They were willing to overlook her negatives being at 49%. Nobody's ever been elected president with negatives that high. This business on immigration, that was just one of the most undisciplined answers, especially when she blurted out (paraphrased), "We needed that comprehensive immigration reform. We needed amnesty." She's been trying to cover that up, like she tries to cover up all the rest of her agenda, and inside the campaign people now announcing that they've had this long-held strategy to Go Girl, the first time she's attacked and hit. This does not appear invincible; this does not appear powerful. This is not Clintonesque. I think we'll not know for quite a while, but I think in the bowels of this party, and in a lot of other places, the bloom's off the rose and there is serious concern here about her and her candidacy, and don't forget: One of her big problems is her husband is always lurking around, too, and, by comparison, she just doesn't meet up with those expectations. She just doesn't compare. She doesn't have the substance; she doesn't have the talent -- not the kind of talent the Democrats are looking for.

[Miss Didi]

I think her pal, Eliot the Steamroller, wants to be president himself in 2012 and wishes Mrs. Clinton would go home and bake cookies.

[Suzy Quzy]

Eliot will do himself in....if the Clintonoids don't take him out before! The cat';s out of the bag....the ILLEGALS getting driver's licenses is so they can VOTE DEMOCRAT!!!

VOTER FRAUD!!!!It's what all this is about!!

[Califreak]

If they don’t like Hillary, they will vote for Bill again through Hillary.

Clinton supporters stated that on a local nooz piece last night.

They have absolutely no clue.

They think Bill & Hill are the greatest thing since sliced bread.

[murron]

I think she was anticipating the question. Her original reply sounded rehearsed. What she didn’t anticipate was the Breck Girl and the other Dems calling her on her non-answer, and that’s when she lost it, and had to ad lib, which she is not skilled at.

[EQAndyBuzz]

“She’s gonna rue the day she posed for that pic.”

She will deny ever meeting Spitzer. And the media will go, “ahhhhhhhhhhh.”

[Liz]

As Norman Hsu would say:

"I feel pretty, oh so pretty.......a picture is worth a thousand words."

[Liz]

...... Democrats want to shield the country from what they really think about illegal immigration......

Hillary has a huge problem. Hillary's 24/7 hyphenate pander is reaching back to bite her presidential ambitions.

Clinton voted 10 times so far this year in favor of any and all illegal immigration measures, including the infamous DREAM act.

She has reflexively pandered to illegals since Day One---it even got her into the Senate when Bill pardoned anything with a hyphen including Puerto Rican FALN terrorists that got her latino votes. She favored Spitler's licensing knowing it gets illegals into voting booths.

Hillary missed the boat on this one........the illegals issue has escalated into voters seeing this as a huge US soverignty giveaway.