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America hates Hillary Clinton and Co
Telegraph (UK) ^ | November 24, 2007 | Toby Harnden

Posted on 11/24/2007 12:47:57 AM PST by Zakeet

They call it flyover country. These are the parts of the United States that the pundits and prognosticators of American politics see just occasionally - and usually from several thousand feet. It is a land where people shop at Wal-Mart, eat at Dairy Queen, work two jobs to make ends meet and have a Bible at home. They can decide on their vote with the help of talk radio, cable television and the internet - or from a combination of rumour, scraps of hard information and gut feeling.

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It is in flyover country where the 2008 presidential election will be won and lost.

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So is Hillary Clinton the "polarising" figure we hear so much of in the media? Can only a Democrat win in 2008? Is America ready to elect its first female or black president? Has the letdown of the Bush years left the average Joe Schmoe yearning for the Clintons?

With a year to go before the country votes for its 44th president, The Daily Telegraph embarked on its "Crossing America" project to find out. The answers that Julian Simmonds, photographer and videographer, and I got were often surprising. They provide little comfort for Mrs Clinton but not much more for any other politician.

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Mrs Clinton might be the frontrunner in the polls, but almost everywhere we went people questioned her candidacy. Many stated bluntly that they did not want a woman in charge.

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A Vietnam veteran in Arizona and a Florida gun-shop owner were among those who made crude jokes about America "going to war every 30 days" under a female president. We never brought up Bill Clinton's sexual dalliances, but many ordinary Americans did. "She couldn't keep her own home together, so how can we trust her to manage America?"

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: clinton; election; hillary; hitlery; negatives; poll; saveamerica; stophillary
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To: mtbopfuyn
When an outsider can understand the voting public...

Does he really understand the voting public? Seems to me he is pulling some punches with respect to HRC, only discussing the gender issue and not getting into anything scandalous with respect to her. As others on this thread have pointed out, the general tone in this article smacks of Euro socialist-elitism.

61 posted on 11/24/2007 8:41:16 AM PST by justiceseeker93
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To: cgbg

I thought it was funny. I hope they enjoyed their travel.


62 posted on 11/24/2007 8:46:21 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper (ETERNAL SHAME on the Treasonous and Immoral Democrats!)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

I agree and I also believe the author misunderstood when he said that American women will vote against Hillary because only men should be President.

American women will not vote for Hillary Clinton, not because she is a woman; she is incompetent and a fool.


63 posted on 11/24/2007 8:50:30 AM PST by freekitty ((May the eagles long fly our beautiful and free American sky.))
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To: doug from upland; ExTexasRedhead
Who will investigate this problem[?]

If government continues to refuse to do it, we citizen-patriots have shown that we will take up the slack.

64 posted on 11/24/2007 8:51:54 AM PST by justiceseeker93
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To: Zakeet

If she’s not good enough for Bill, she’s not good enough for America.

Pray for W and Our Freedom Fighters


65 posted on 11/24/2007 9:05:29 AM PST by bray (Think "Betray U.S." Think Democrat)
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To: Zakeet

I thought this sentence: “... provide little comfort for Mrs Clinton but not much more for any other politician.” was just typical of the lefties in the UK who don’t want to pile-on Hillary .. so they try to link “all politicians” into the mix.


66 posted on 11/24/2007 9:42:56 AM PST by CyberAnt (AMERICA: THE GREATEST FORCE for good in the world!)
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To: justiceseeker93

Unfortunately, we can’t indict anyone.


67 posted on 11/24/2007 9:50:40 AM PST by doug from upland (StoppingCl Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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To: dawn53

I hope that got a HUGE laugh! If it did, then it’s not a good sign for Hillary.


68 posted on 11/24/2007 9:57:06 AM PST by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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To: sig226

Yeah, but will those same union people pull another lever or push another button even though they’ve been told by their Union boss leaders to vote for Hillary?!


69 posted on 11/24/2007 9:58:31 AM PST by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
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To: CyberAnt
I thought this sentence: "...provide little comfort for Mrs. Clinton but not much more for any other politician" was just typical of the lefties in the UK who don't want to pile-on Hillary ... so they try to link "all politicians" into the mix.

That's not only a typical tactic of lefties in the UK, but it has been a very common tactic of lefties and their MSM lackies in the US for quite some time.

70 posted on 11/24/2007 10:02:04 AM PST by justiceseeker93
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To: NotJustAnotherPrettyFace

I was watching the show on the Comedy Channel, but the show had been taped in Denver and it did get a huge laugh.


71 posted on 11/24/2007 10:16:19 AM PST by dawn53
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To: Jemian
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It is not about voting for a woman. We're not even sure Hitlary is a woman.
I am not sure about that, either...
72 posted on 11/24/2007 11:32:19 AM PST by Aut Pax Aut Bellum (Always carry a spare mag...)
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To: ExTexasRedhead

” but a criminal and truly evil one would be disastrous for us, our children, and grandchildren.”

True. Look what Lyndon Johnson did to the nation.


73 posted on 11/24/2007 1:00:15 PM PST by Clintonfatigued (You can't be serious about national security unless you're serious about border security)
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To: justiceseeker93

Yes, I’ve seen that too.

The libs still think we’re too stupid to catch on.


74 posted on 11/24/2007 1:25:28 PM PST by CyberAnt (AMERICA: THE GREATEST FORCE for good in the world!)
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To: NotJustAnotherPrettyFace

I honestly believe they will stay home in droves.


75 posted on 11/24/2007 5:17:32 PM PST by sig226 (New additions to the list of democrat criminals - see my profile)
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To: Zakeet
“It is a land where people shop at Wal-Mart, eat at Dairy Queen, work two jobs to make ends meet and have a Bible at home.”

I lived in Los Angeles for almost 20 years and knew plenty of people who shopped at Wal-Mart and ate at Dairy Queen. What an elitist snob. I was born and raised in Kansas and my father was a Exeter and Harvard graduate, as was my grandfather and great grandfather. Dad left NY and vowed never to return after he fell in love with the Midwest.

77 posted on 11/25/2007 8:11:35 PM PST by peggybac (Tolerance is the virtue of believing in nothing)
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