A fiery Hillary Clinton goes on the attack at debate

NY Daily News ^ | November 16th 2007 | By MICHAEL McAULIFF and IAN BISHOP

[johnny7]

Sen. Hillary Clinton took no guff from her Democratic challengers at Thursday night's debate in Las Vegas, landing effective counterpunches when Sens. John Edwards and Barack Obama tried to bash her.

[johnny7]

[traditional1]

There was NO debate...it was a staged Hildabeast lovefest by CNN....nothing more.

[ReleaseTheHounds]

Let’s not forget the required BARF ALERT!

[LS]

I don't believe in conspiracies, but these answers are too pat to think that there wasn't SOME rehearsal, either with the other candidates or with the press. "Gender card?" "asbestos pantssuit?" Come on.

If there wasn't anything rehearsed then it says the other Dems really are dumb and dumber, like the coach who doesn't make any half-time adjustments.

[InvisibleChurch]

Well, at any rate, her “cackle-disgronificator” was working well last night.

[doodad]

I love the quote they are playing on the morning news here. She mentions not minding being challenged on her record. Excuse me? What record Mrs. Clinton? You are a junior Senator from a blue state whose only mission while in office has been to seek higher office. Or do you mean your legal eagle record? What was it, seven court appearences in over a decade?

Give me an ever loving break.

[jdm]

As Malveaux said in an interview about her position as an African American journalist, “When I think of my grandparents and I think about the time of segregation, I think what would they think of their grandchild sitting in that seat, that CNN seat in that small little [White House] briefing room? There [are] only about 20 seats and I’m sitting in one of them. It’s so important that I feel like I’m representing people who couldn’t even imagine that we could be in that kind of position.”

You're a journalist. Your role is to report; not to "represent" people or some ethnicity. Sheesh.

[henkster]

I didn’t watch (this would have been bad for my TV set). So, why did her opponents go back to the license issue? How stupid; she’s had two weeks to gin up a response to that issue.

The only way you attack is the change the play on your opponent and keep them off balance. She’s got so much more dirt they could have brought up. Chinese bribery for one. They needed to move off the license issue and hit her with something new, that she’s not ready to respond to. Edwards’ and Obama’s handlers are incompetent if they didn’t direct them that way. Going to this social security issue and the “corrupt political system” issue just is just white noise that triggers no visceral reaction of revulsion.

[RegulatorCountry]

These MSM cheerleaders need to pay a tad more attention to their superlatives, here ... fiery, attack, Clinton? Roll out the tanks, I’m sure there are still a few religious “nuts” around, somewhere.

[fatnotlazy]

I only got to see a small segment with Bill Richardson where he was given some stats about the decline in the number of casualties and does that mean that the surge is working? And of course, he said no. Straight out of the moveon.org and related moonbat organizations’ mantra. My guess is that Mr. Richardson had to be heavily indoctrinated and spend hours trying to remember the dogma.

[LucyJo]

"Near the end of the debate, the former First Lady even managed to poke fun at the claim that she can't give a straight answer, thanks to an audience member who asked if she likes diamonds or pearls."

Wonder what are the odds that was one was planted?

[henkster]

Not making half-time adjustments is the same point I made in post #8; it’s pretty obvious, I guess.

[From One - Many]

I’m sure there are still a few religious “nuts” around, somewhere.

I am certain nearly all the religious "nuts", supporting hillary, are in the death cult of islam, or china, or the uninformed. A true believe supporting hillary is difficult to imagine.

[CPOSharky]

Let’s not forget the required BARF ALERT!

Having "Hillary" in the title is the same as "BARF ALERT."

[SampleMan]

I watched a few snippets of the “debate”. All I could think was:

We are a free and industrious people, socialist drivel does not become us.

[BBell]

I don't think her "African American" looks got her the Job. I just read that she is actually French-Creole. I somehow don't consider that African American.

[Tarpon]

I wonder if she was thinking about all the Democrat segregationists who were keeping her down? Like Hillary Matters best friend and BJ’s mentor, notable segregationist Sen Fulbright(D-AR)?

[surrey]

Didn’t see it. What was her response? Probably both.

[traditional1]

Exactly. No one EVER challenges her when she spouts that “in my 35 years of experience” crap; where she has held NO elected executive office, no experience other than a token Senator from a deep blue BDS-infested state, no EXPERIENCE other than silencing bimbo eruptions and illegally holding subpoenaed records for TWO YEARS, illegally conducting firings of staff to put in cronies, illegally obtaining FBI files on opponents, and a trail of bodies of opposition from Little Rock to Washington, DC, and all the way to the mountains of Dbrovnik, Bosnia.

[gracesdad]

“If there wasn’t anything rehearsed then it says the other Dems really are dumb and dumber, like the coach who doesn’t make any half-time adjustments.”

ALL candidates on both sides rehearse with substitute questioners and opponents. Of course those lines didn’t just come up — she was fed them by her handlers long before the debate and just looked for a place to use them. It’s not a conspiracy. It’s standard debate tactics known to any high schooler.