Posted on 11/06/2007 7:52:53 PM PST by RDTF
AMANA, Iowa — With less than two months until the Iowa caucuses, Hillary Clinton is charging through the early-voting state in an attempt to widen a lead that was recently imperiled when her Democratic opponents stepped up their game of hardball against her following last week's candidate debate.
The frontrunner's worries that opponents Barack Obama and John Edwards could outflank her in the heartland have set her to hiring 100 new staff in Iowa and possibly doubling that army by election night on Jan. 3.
It also has led to a back and forth about fair play that has even dragged husband Bill Clinton into the fray.
The former president has denounced attacks on his wife, likening criticism of her positions on issues to the attack ads by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth that helped sink John Kerry's White House hopes in 2004.
"We saw what happened the last seven years when we made decisions in elections based on trivial matters. When we listened to people make snide comments about whether Vice President Gore was too stiff. And when they made dishonest claims about the things that he said that he'd done in his life. When that scandalous Swift Boat ad was run against Senator Kerry," Bill Clinton told some 3,000 members of the American Postal Worker's Union at a convention in Las Vegas on Monday night.
"I had the feeling that at the end of that last debate we were about to get into cutesy land again," he continued. "I think it's fine to discuss immigration. We should. ... But not in 30 seconds, yes, no, raise your hand. This is a complicated issue."
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Hillary enabled the rapist and the rapist enables her a career she herself could never qualify for.
Kind of like a mutual parasitic relationship going on there.
...”likens them to swift boat ads.” Oh, then they’re true?
“Bill Clinton Likens Attacks on Hillary to ‘Swift Boat’ Ads”
No, Bill, Hillary did not shoot herself to get out of Vietnam.
I’ll say it again...
Swiftvets = best money and time I ever spent
Will somebody somewhere ever be able to point out just exactly was wrong with the “Swift Boat” ads?
I think the technical term is "symbiosis." :)
Hillary deserves to be “Swift-boated” for real.
Yes, the Clintons are reminiscent of that eight-limbed kid in India. Radical measures are surely called for.
They worked.
Hilly clearly can’t take the heat. Too bad this came up now. I wanted her to get the nomination then get slayed in the general (a McGovernesque defeat would have been appropriate). Now we may have to run against Silky Pony or Osama.
a couple of kool aid drinkers came out in Kerry’s defense and called those honorable men liars - and half of the nation believed them.
Swift boat ads were 100% TRUTH...something Slick Willy has a problem with.
I’ll say it again...
Swiftvets = best money and time I ever spent
Damn straight . No .
Well stated.
I wonder if we could send Her Thighness to Cambodia...
The bent one's forked tongue will be catching fire for daring to speak the honored name of the Swiftees.
“My voice is getting a little worn down. I’ve been talking for about 10 months. Especially the last four days,” she said Tuesday in Amana.
Can you imagine what the AP would make of Fred Thompson saying such a thing?
Well, while Her Thighness is into cutting and running, she was never in Vietnam except when she was there with her hubba bubba in 1998 or so.
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