Well, you can’t blame Hillary. Afterall, one of these sick urchins just might urp all over her breasteses.
New Clinton campaign out to show her likability
WZZM 13 News ^ | 12/17/07 | Jill Lawrence
Posted on 12/17/2007 2:28:58 PM PST by DWar
New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, trying to warm up an image some voters perceive as cold, starts a drive Monday to showcase her personal side with testimonials from friends, associates and constituents she has helped.
The online and in-person campaign, complete with a website called TheHillaryIKnow.com, comes a day after Clinton won a key endorsement from The Des Moines Register and her chief rival in the Democratic nomination race, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, was endorsed by The Boston Globe.
The rush of endorsements comes as candidates angle for advantage in Iowa’s Jan. 3 caucuses and New Hampshire’s Jan. 8 primary. Weighing in on Iowa’s tight three-way Democratic battle for first place, the Register called Clinton “best prepared to confront the enormous challenges the nation faces.”
The Globe, circulated widely in New Hampshire, said Obama has “the leadership skills to reset the country’s reputation in the world” and “a healthy independence from the established order” at home. The freshman senator has surpassed Clinton in some Iowa polls and created buzz touring last weekend with Oprah Winfrey.
Clinton had an unfavorable rating of 50% in a USA TODAY/Gallup Poll this month, compared with mid-30s for Obama and former North Carolina senator John Edwards. She was rated least friendly of the three in a recent Pew Research Center poll.
Taking steps to fix the problem, Clinton has brought her mother and daughter to Iowa and featured them in TV ads. One of Clinton’s constituents, Shannon Mallozzi of East Northport, N.Y., was on her way there Sunday as part of the new campaign. Mallozzi has a 6-year-old daughter with an incurable brain disease called hydrocephalus. As she waited to catch a plane to Des Moines for two days of campaigning, she said she spent a half-hour with Clinton several years ago to describe the disease and ask how to encourage federal research.
“She made me feel like it was just two mothers” talking in her car, Mallozzi said, then worked with her to get action on the disease and checked up on her daughter’s health. Mallozzi said she once viewed Clinton as aloof and remote, but “she’s anything but that.”
Mark Penn, a top Clinton strategist, said that’s the message: “It’s important for people to understand the depth of Hillary, the way she has helped people.”
Citing the Register endorsement, Clinton on Sunday said she’s “picking up momentum.” Edwards, who got the paper’s endorsement in 2004, appeared on three TV talk shows to discuss a rejection he made clear he knew was coming. The Register said Sunday that “his harsh anti-corporate rhetoric would make it difficult to work with the business community to forge change.”
“They have a position. I respectfully disagree with it,” Edwards said on ABC’s This Week.
The Register and USA TODAY are owned by Gannett.
Obama’s camp circulated the Globe endorsement and the Register editorial board’s published account of its deliberations. One editor said the choice amounted to FDR vs. JFK.
It’s unclear how much impact newspaper endorsements have on voters. At the very least, however, they offer candidates the appearance of momentum and something to brag about in ads, press releases and pitches for money.
Where’s the original picture?
Where’s the original picture?
Hillary’s reference to the story - http://209.85.173.104/search?q=cache:uBmWMWxtvOgJ:www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,985857,00.html+georgetown+university+medical+center+maurice+sendak+visit+hillary&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us
GRAPHIC: Photo, tyler mallory for The Washington Post, Hillary Clinton joins Jeremy Cockerham, Jewellianna Palencia and other children of staff members at Georgetown University Medical Center for a reading by popular children’s author Maurice Sendak.
So it sure looks like the part about children of staff being used as props is accurate. Even the most hardened Hillary defender has to ask the question: Why go all that way to a children's hospital to meet with healthy children of staffers?
Did the photographer (Ron Edmonds) stray from the script?
(Is he still alive? <- joke)
The sick children have enough problems without a visit from the beast.
Thank you for your diligence and perseverence, Doug.
Okay, folks. I have been given a tip that the photo is at the entrance of the pedriatics ward, 5th floor. Someone needs to get a photo of the photo.
I know this is asking the obvious, but did you ask CWA if they have a copy of the picture?
Doug,
Thought you might find this info useful...
Was watching Die Hard (NYC School/gold heist) last night on Spike tv.
Was saying the lines as they were coming out of the actors mouths (I’ve seen it several times).
Well, now here is the surprise, as the 2 heros were driving in the Yugo, a woman in a VW convert cuts them off. Willis says “Who does she think she is, Hillary Clinton” and his partner’s reply is, “no she’d be the 43rd president” (they were just discussing who the 21st president was.)
I am pretty sure that Hillary was NOT in the original script. This looks like a product placement ad to me.
(was this placement brought to you by the Hillary campaign and approved by her?)
PS: Unrelated?
A federal judge sentenced Hollywood director John McTiernan to four months in prison Monday after refusing to allow him to withdraw his guilty plea to charges of lying to the FBI about his association with disgraced private eye Anthony Pellicano. Judge Dale S. Fischer gave the director of such films as “Die Hard” and “The Thomas Crown Affair” until Jan. 15 to turn himself in to authorities.
Anyone have corroboration of this?
I remember this story from years ago and found it during a search. I don’t know if this has been confirmed. If so, this would be interesting to share with our Dem friends who worship mindlessly at the altar of St. Hildebeast.