Rivals rip Clinton's use of planted questions

newsday ^ | 11-11-07 | martin evans

[doug from upland]

Rivals rip Clinton's use of planted questions BY MARTIN C. EVANS | martin.evans@newsday.com 9:31 PM EST, November 10, 2007

DES MOINES - Hillary Rodham Clinton, who came to Iowa Saturday for a critical pre-caucus gathering of 9,000 Democratic Party loyalists, found herself fending off criticism from her presidential rivals for using planted questions during at least two campaign appearances, including one earlier this week at an Iowa biodiesel plant.

John Edwards said the Clinton campaign's use of a planted question was deceptively inconsistent with a free democracy, and likened the practice to past campaign appearances by President George W. Bush, from which protesters have been barred.

[the invisib1e hand]

she’ll turn it into a virtue before it’s all said and done.

[lowbridge]

bump

[Freedom2specul8]

Right, and edwards is all clean, and so are all the other dems..

[sinanju]

Edwards know he’s not going to win. Obama still thinks he can win without getting his knuckles bloody.

[ErnBatavia]

Gonna be interesting to see who she picks as her running mate...probably not one of the bruisers.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

This has been a well-known Klinton tactic going back to the ole days in Little Rock. I'm pleasantly surprised that this is getting reported, though. Hillary isn't getting the easy ride in the press that Bubba did (or as easy anyway).

Hillary is notoriously bad at thinking on her feet, that's why she hasn't done a single press conference as a senator. The very few that she did as First Lady, when she was the healthcare czar, were total disasters.

[doug from upland]

They both hide behind their wives’ skirts.

[FormerACLUmember]

Are the testicle-free complete losers who make up the rest of the democrat candidates actually squeeking with their cute little tiny voices?

Protesting the Clintons’ blatant theft of the nomination? OOOOH Hillary is quaking in her boots!

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

She’s probably got a girlfriend lined up. That way, it’s not suspicious when Hillary is traveling, staying in hotels, and spending every waking moment with her.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Agreed. As a DemonRat, Edwards has never gotten a free ride. /rolls eyes

[Candor7]

Planted questions and planted answers. Wow.

Hillery , I hope you do get the Dem nomination. Your fat butt is about to become a Republican ham breakfast.

Hillery is an arcane political light weight , attempting to ride into office on the coatails of an unfaithful, sick husband.

A vicarious presidency is what Hillery represents, and she will never beome president.

[bannie]

O.

But I thought everything was ok.

I thought everything was "taken care of."

I thought hillary said that "it won't happen again."

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAHAHAHAHAAAAA!

Clintons cheat. It is simply who they are.

Without cheating, they would not be clintons.

[doug from upland]

Be careful of the thing for which you wish. She is the favorite right now to be the next commander in chief. Her voter fraud will be massive. Millions of young airhead women will vote for her who are not now being polled. They have cell phones.

[cowboyway]

The incident is likely to revive concerns that Clinton, who generally avoids news conferences, is uncomfortable handling difficult media questions and relies on closely scripted events to avoid going off-message.

Worlds smartest woman...................

[Dilbert San Diego]

Let’s hope that these young air headed Valley girls don’t register to vote. The young have a low voter participation rate. Being so air headed, they could respond to a simplistic appeal to vote for Hillary just because she’s a woman.

[doug from upland]

When I went undercover to a Hillary organizational meeting to get her California playbook, I was amazed at the young women who will vote for her because she is a woman. The Clinton campaign will have multiple registration booths on every college campus in this country. They are so organized that it is scary. Yes, the young airheads, who have no clue that her husband is a rapist and she an enabler, are going to vote in unprecedented numbers.

[LasVegasMac]

Are the testicle-free complete losers who make up the rest of the democrat candidates actually squeeking with their cute little tiny voices?

Lol...lol...lol...

Best one I've read all day.

You get a gold star!

[xtinct]

Give the nitwit (Hillary Rodham Clinton) a break !!! She is incapable of answering ad hoc questions. (According to Bay Buchanan's, The Extreme Makeover of Hillary Rodham Clinton, she can absorb data but she's unable to formulate that data into articulate information on her own. She has a campaign staff of 600 people to do that for her. So, of course the questions and answers are scripted in advance.)

roflmao

[Jacquerie]

Your fat butt is about to become a Republican ham breakfast.

I hope you are right. The problem is that The Beast will never, ever show up for a freewheeling debate with any of the GOP candidates. Any of them would destroy her in the first 30 seconds.

In a perfect world the GOP candidate would refuse to attend a canned, "give us the questions prior" appearance and hammer her for refusing to confront her opponent. It is low hanging fruit, waiting for us to grasp.