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Analysis: Clinton Faces Likability Worry
AP ^ | December 18, 2007 | BETH FOUHY

Posted on 12/19/2007 7:31:29 AM PST by NCDragon

CORALVILLE, Iowa — It was a blunt question for Hillary Rodham Clinton at the end of a long campaign day. A young man said he knew a lot of people who just didn't like her, and he wanted to know what she could do about it.

She agreed there are people who will never vote for her. "It breaks my heart, but that is true," she said, suggesting it's just part of the game when you stick to your principles. But with two weeks to go to the Iowa caucuses, her campaign is making a bigger effort to confront the nagging matter of her likability and electability.

In recent days, Clinton has begun showing off a softer side - inviting friends, New York constituents and family members to Iowa to speak for her and attest to her warmth, compassion and hearty laugh.

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


TOPICS: Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: hillary; negatives
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To: NCDragon

“Inviting” . I did not know that was Clinton-speak for “do it or else”.


21 posted on 12/19/2007 7:38:25 AM PST by rod1
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To: NCDragon

And that “hearty laugh” thing—that was never in response to anything funny, or an actual joke. It was inappropriate, that cackle, and inappropriate laughter is a psychiatric symptom. You could look it up.


22 posted on 12/19/2007 7:38:34 AM PST by Judith Anne (I refuse to have a tagline anymore. Nope. Not gonna do it. Won't go there.)
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We don’t dislike Hillary because she “sticks to her principles”, it’s because she has no principles.....


23 posted on 12/19/2007 7:39:03 AM PST by Maverick68 (w)
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We don’t dislike Hillary because she “sticks to her principles”, it’s because she has no principles.....


24 posted on 12/19/2007 7:39:07 AM PST by Maverick68 (w)
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To: NCDragon
attest to her warmth, compassion and hearty laugh

She is ice-cold. She is heartless and has never felt compassion for anyone or anything. And her "laugh" is downright scary. She deserves to get the mange.

25 posted on 12/19/2007 7:39:21 AM PST by FoxInSocks
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To: NCDragon

She is just not a likeable person. If after all these years of seeing her, listening to her people don’t like her, they won’t now. I try not to, but when I do, I see what a huge hypocrite she is, see how easily she lies (when asked about the Obama surge she said she doesn’t pay attention to that stuff, when asked about the plants, she knew nothing about it, she was not behind the attacks against Obama, etc., etc).


26 posted on 12/19/2007 7:39:38 AM PST by psjones (u)
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To: NCDragon
"her warmth, compassion and hearty laugh"

Like Ilse Koch, without the whimsy.

27 posted on 12/19/2007 7:41:01 AM PST by Tenniel2 (The Clinton era: jackboots, plane crashes, murders - and those were the good days. (Hat tip to Bray))
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To: NCDragon

Hurling cascades of the most gutter-like obscenities at secrete service professions charged with protecting her....might cause some to pause before giving her the whole candy store.


28 posted on 12/19/2007 7:41:06 AM PST by rod1
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To: NCDragon
The Question: A young man said he knew "a lot of people who just didn't like her, and he wanted to know what she could do about it."

Hillary (thinking): "You f'n little maggot, I S____! bigger turds then you. If I had an ashtray, I take your corn fed head off with it"

Hillary Speaking: "It breaks my heart to hear ....."

29 posted on 12/19/2007 7:42:02 AM PST by Michael.SF. ("democrat" -- 'one who panders to the crude and mindless whims of the masses " - Joseph J. Ellis)
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To: NCDragon

Just yesterday, Rush said to expect The National Enquirer to act as the B52 and drop dirty bombs on Obama and Edwards.


30 posted on 12/19/2007 7:42:10 AM PST by IrishMike (Liberalism is Jihad from within)
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To: NCDragon
Clinton has begun showing off a softer side - inviting friends, New York constituents and family members to Iowa to speak for her and attest to her warmth, compassion and hearty laugh

Um...inviting people to attest to your good graces is not showing your softer side - it is asking other people to vouch that you in fact have a softer side - which we all know you do not.
31 posted on 12/19/2007 7:43:17 AM PST by steel_resolve (If you can't stand behind our troops, then please stand in front...)
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32 posted on 12/19/2007 7:44:36 AM PST by Conservative_Jedi (Give me Liberty or give me Death!!)
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To: NCDragon

Analysis: Clinton Faces Likability Worry

It is foolish and counterproductive to worry about things that can never come to pass and Hillary will never be likable.
33 posted on 12/19/2007 7:44:47 AM PST by DaveyB (Ignorance is part of the human condition - atheism makes it permanent!)
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To: NCDragon
"Clinton has also retooled her stump speech to be more personally revealing..."

I wonder what genius came up with this idea.

34 posted on 12/19/2007 7:44:55 AM PST by Savage Beast ("History is not just cruel. It is witty." ~Charles Krauthammer)
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To: NCDragon

Duh. 50% of America does not like her. Thats been apparent for months and would be a huge issue in the general.


35 posted on 12/19/2007 7:45:20 AM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: NCDragon

In a related story, satan’s approval ratings continue to remain low.


36 posted on 12/19/2007 7:45:50 AM PST by Jack Wilson
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To: NCDragon
Here's a few reasons why Hillary has a likeability problem:

"We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good."

"We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.”

"It's time for a new beginning, for an end to government of the few, by the few, for the few, and to replace it with shared responsibility for shared prosperity."

"We can't just let business as usual go on, and that means something has to be taken away from some people."

"We have to build a political consensus and that requires people to give up a little bit of their own turf in order to create this common ground."

"I certainly think the free market has failed."

"I think it's time to send a clear message to what has become the most profitable sector [oil] in the entire economy, that they are being watched."

"What I want to do is take those profits and apply them to alternative energy."

Karl Marx or Frederick Engels said none of these things; Hillary Clinton said them all.

See here for more gems from Hillary:

http://www.nohillaryclinton.com/info/movies/quotes/index.htm

No HillaryClinton

37 posted on 12/19/2007 7:46:18 AM PST by rllngrk33 (The RATs and Media are the enemy.)
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To: NCDragon

If this whole thing of Clinton’s imploding isn’t a setup so she can later be portrayed as staging a miraculous comeback, I can’t believe that these professional political handlers never noticed her total lack of charisma until now.

Or, in the words of another poster, “Duh”.


38 posted on 12/19/2007 7:46:21 AM PST by Let's Roll (As usual, following a shooting spree, libs want to take guns away from those who DIDN'T do it.)
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To: Judith Anne
She would always rather be feared than liked, but those pesky elections interfere with that.
Stalin didn't worry about being liked. Lenin didn't worry about it either. Hitler had to worry about it for a short while, but then dropped that worry after he was in power.
39 posted on 12/19/2007 7:46:41 AM PST by samtheman
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To: Shryke

LOL!! Do you watch Red Eye??


40 posted on 12/19/2007 7:47:18 AM PST by Primetimedonna ( It's SAN FRANCISCO, not Frisco. Charter member of the San Francisco Snowflakes)
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