Posted on 11/14/2007 9:41:48 AM PST by COUNTrecount
WASHINGTON The pressure will be on Senator Clinton at the Democratic presidential debate tomorrow as she tries to bounce back from a weak performance last month that has cut into her lead in the polls.
Her top rivals, Senator Obama and John Edwards, head into the Las Vegas forum confident that their increased criticism in recent weeks finally has begun to inflict damage on Mrs. Clinton's campaign, which had seemed unstoppable earlier in the fall.
Messrs. Obama and Edwards have painted her as a creature of a corrupt corporate culture in Washington who is more concerned about her political standing than she is about principles, and that image has been fed in recent days by disclosures that the Clinton campaign has "planted" questioners at two of its town-hall forums in Iowa.
Acknowledging that the dynamic of the race has shifted, Mrs. Clinton is using the attacks as a fund-raising tool. Her campaign manager, Patti Solis Doyle, yesterday sent out a missive to supporters urgently seeking donations in a bid to raise $1 million by the start of the debate tomorrow night.
"The campaign has changed," Ms. Solis Doyle wrote at the top of the e-mail.
(Excerpt) Read more at nysun.com ...
Looking for that ‘dead cat bounce’.
Pass the barf bag, please...
LOL. That photo always cracks me up. It never gets old.
Very few Democrats actually like clinton, but she still has one thing going for her. Namely,
What are the alternatives?
Obama?
Edwards?
It goes downhill rapidly from there.
Kucinich?
The only other candidate with any credibility is Richardson. But I doubt that he could win. And he carries a lot of baggage, including his habit of pinching and harrassing any women foolish enough to get near him.
And then the flags fall over. Even Hillary dreamt about karma that night!!
Let's not forget JFK Jr.
‘For a brief moment, I can sympathize with the old Horndog...what must living with her Highness be like ?’
Not me, she was ugly the day he met her, she was ugly the day they married, she was ugly when he was Governor of Arkansas, she was ugly as First lady.
Nope, I don’t feel sorry for him at all. He picked an ugly woman, both inside and out.
Oh, what the hell was I thinking. They were planted!!!!
It won’t. She is what she is, a media creation, same as Ho Ho Dean.
This week’s edition of “No, No Bubbette!”
Wolf will ask Hillary the REAL tough questions:
(1) Hillary, how do you like the weather here?
(2) Do you like your hotel room?
(3) How was room service?
(4) Boxers or briefs-—er, ah, I mean-—strapless or Cross-Your-Heart type?
“Reporters who have covered the hyper-vigilant [Clinton presidential] campaign say that no detail or editorial spin is too minor to draw a rebuke. Even seasoned political journalists describe reporting on Hillary as a torturous experience... [and] recount excruciating battles to secure basic facts. Innocent queries are met with deep suspicion. Only surgically precise questioning yields relevant answers. Hillary’s aides don’t hesitate to use access as a blunt instrument, as when they killed off a negative GQ story on the campaign by threatening to stop cooperating with a separate Bill Clinton story the magazine had in the works. Reporters’ jabs and errors are long remembered, and no hour is too odd for an angry phone call. Clinton aides are especially swift to bypass reporters and complain to top editors” — senior editor Michael Crowley, writing in the New Republic.
>>But while they’re attacking Hillary, she’s attacking the problems facing America.<<
Hillary’s “problems facing America” :
Tim Russert
Any media person who says anything negative about her
Clinton’s ex-White House staff
The young lady who told the truth about asking a planted question
etc. etc.
If Hitlery perceives her campaign as being on the end of an attack look out....anything negative in her opponents past will hit the news with a big splash. Mark my words. She plays tough.
Bill Clinton asked a doctor for advice. He said he thought Hillary was trying to poison him and what he should do about it.
The doctor replied, “I’d take the poison.”
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