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Friends of Hillary speak out
Financial Times ^ | December 17, 2007

Posted on 12/17/2007 1:31:32 PM PST by Zakeet

There must be a poll out suggesting that Iowa voters just don’t know the real Hillary Clinton. What else would explain the launch on Monday of TheHillaryIKnow.com, a Clinton campaign website featuring video testimonials from “regular Americans”?

Those “regular Americans” include her longtime friends and “well-known leaders” who talk about how their lives have been changed by the presidential hopeful.

The videos also include comments from the New York senator’s constituents, including a mother with a sick child who says Clinton “worked outside of the view of the media” when she helped her daughter get the medical attention she needed.

Clinton’s team says the videos serve as a “stark reminder” that the issues discussed in the campaign affect real people.

The website offers another reminder: that the Clinton campaign seems to be struggling to overcome the “likeability” factor. Her likeability, or lack thereof, still represents a big challenge for the former first lady, who is competing with Barack Obama and John Edwards for a win in Iowa on January 3.

Mark Penn, a top Clinton strategist and pollster, told USA Today it was important for people to understand the “depth” of Hillary. But Observer wonders whether depth is a trait you can sell on a website.

(Excerpt) Read more at ft.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008election; clinton2008; democrat; election; hillary; stalinisttactics; thehillaryiknow; therealhillaryisevil
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You can see how "likeable" the World's Smartest Woman is HERE.

1 posted on 12/17/2007 1:31:34 PM PST by Zakeet
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2 posted on 12/17/2007 1:32:59 PM PST by Hegemony Cricket (Although most dead people vote democrat, aborted babies, if given the choice, would vote Republican.)
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To: Zakeet

Those who don’t like Hillary also know her.


3 posted on 12/17/2007 1:33:24 PM PST by weegee (If Bill Clinton can sit in on Hillary's Cabinet Meetings then GWBush should ask to get to sit in too)
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To: Zakeet

Planted constituents?


4 posted on 12/17/2007 1:33:41 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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No thanks, I don’t like her.

At all.


5 posted on 12/17/2007 1:33:52 PM PST by Badeye (No thanks, Huck, I'm not whitewashing the fence for you this election cycle)
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“Mark Penn, a top Clinton strategist and pollster, told USA Today it was important for people to understand the “depth” of Hillary.”

Depth...right. Like that can of soup way in the back of the cupboard.


6 posted on 12/17/2007 1:33:55 PM PST by Slapshot68
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Those “regular Americans” include her longtime friends and “well-known leaders” who talk about how their lives have been changed by the presidential hopeful.

My life has been changed by her. Really.

I was brought up to respect women, if not revere them.

Here is one I utterly loathe.

7 posted on 12/17/2007 1:34:07 PM PST by Gorzaloon
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Clinton “worked outside of the view of the media” when she helped her daughter get the medical attention she needed.

Do you have any idea how clueless you sound when you say this ?

Why do you think your comments are ON the video, silly?

And why is your freakin' U.S. Senator involved in getting medical care for YOU?

8 posted on 12/17/2007 1:34:40 PM PST by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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All the “regular” people they knew are DEAD!


9 posted on 12/17/2007 1:35:35 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Slapshot68

I don’t know Hillary at all.

I mean, I know that her husband blows sax.

But I have no clue as to what instrument she plays.


10 posted on 12/17/2007 1:35:41 PM PST by weegee (If Bill Clinton can sit in on Hillary's Cabinet Meetings then GWBush should ask to get to sit in too)
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She has friends?

I'm truly SHOCKED ! ! ! ! ! !

11 posted on 12/17/2007 1:35:56 PM PST by BOBTHENAILER (One by one, in small groups or in whole armies, we don't care how we do it, but we're gonna getcha)
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12 posted on 12/17/2007 1:36:17 PM PST by rface (kooky inside and out)
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She’s the boss’s wife who throws her weight around. She’s the women who made it by getting married... it’s why professional women don’t back her, and men don’t back her, and anyone who’s dealt with the “boss’s wife” type, doesn’t trust her...


13 posted on 12/17/2007 1:37:41 PM PST by GOPJ (Dems! Would you trust a pilot's wife to land a plane just because she's a frequent flyer??)
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Any man who would vote for Hillary is either gay or p-whipped.


14 posted on 12/17/2007 1:38:40 PM PST by petercooper ("Daisy-cutters trump a wiretap anytime." - Nicole Gelinas - 02-10-04)
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The videos also include comments from the New York senator’s constituents, including a mother with a sick child who says Clinton “worked outside of the view of the media” when she helped her daughter get the medical attention she needed

I was just reading a different thread on the "Softer Side of Hillary." If you go to the main article and read the comments that follow, a poster pushed this same story as a personal anecdote. Seems like a plant to me. Just more of Hillary manipulating the media.

15 posted on 12/17/2007 1:39:15 PM PST by lawdave
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She’s the boss’s wife who throws her weight around. She’s the women who made it by getting married... it’s why professional women don’t back her, and men don’t back her, and anyone who’s dealt with the “boss’s wife” type, don’t trust her...


16 posted on 12/17/2007 1:39:22 PM PST by GOPJ (Dems! Would you trust a pilot's wife to land a plane just because she's a frequent flyer??)
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Hillary Clinton is the kindest, bravest, warmest, most wonderful human being I've ever known in my life.

17 posted on 12/17/2007 1:42:47 PM PST by KarlInOhio (Government is the hired help - not the boss. When politicians forget that they must be fired.)
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Well it’s getting deeper. Can’t wait for the Hillary raised my dead child from the grave and when we ran out of wine at my wedding Hillary came through stories.


18 posted on 12/17/2007 1:43:21 PM PST by dblshot
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One sick puppy, she doth try to pull the wool over the regular people.


19 posted on 12/17/2007 1:44:34 PM PST by boomop1
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“Mark Penn, a top Clinton strategist and pollster, told USA Today it was important for people to understand the “depth” of Hillary.”

Mark Penn then remarked,”And I know everyone will forgive Obama for selling cocaine to kindergardners, and pimping Nuns out as prostitutes.”

(/sarc)


20 posted on 12/17/2007 1:45:06 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Just saying what 'they' won't.)
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