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Clinton in panic mode
Toledo Blade ^ | Dec. 24, 2007 | Staff

Posted on 12/24/2007 12:00:23 PM PST by jdm

SEN. Hillary Rodham Clinton has lost the air of inevitability that once surrounded her campaign for the Democratic nomination. It remains to be seen whether she's willing to lose her soul in her quest for the presidency.

Only a month ago, her main rival, Sen. Barack Obama, was dismissed as a "lightweight" by the political establishment. Now he has a slight lead over Senator Clinton in Iowa and New Hampshire and is believed to have a good chance of winning South Carolina.

Magic Johnson's recent endorsement aside, the advantage Senator Clinton once enjoyed over Senator Obama among African-Americans has disappeared. He's even cut into her support from women.

The Clinton campaign has reacted to this change in fortune by going into what can only be described as panic mode. Using political surrogates, campaign apparatchiks, and an increasingly indignant former president, the senator's nomination drive has engaged in a level of innuendo remarkable in its sleaziness.

Days after the firing of a campaign worker who passed along e-mail suggesting Senator Obama was a Manchurian candidate, Billy Shaheen, the co-chair of the Clinton New Hampshire campaign, said Senator Obama would be vulnerable to Republican attack because of his admitted drug use as a teenager. Mr. Shaheen resigned and Senator Clinton apologized.

Shortly after that, former President Bill Clinton questioned Senator Obama's credentials to be president after praising his "tremendous political skills. " In that vein, former Sen. Bob Kerry of Nebraska cited Senator Obama's "Islamic" name and background in Indonesia as a valuable asset to the United States.

It was a disingenuous and back-handed compliment, for which Senator Kerry has apologized. But it wasn't as tacky as the comment by former United Nations ambassador Andrew Young, who told a predominantly black audience that Bill Clinton was "blacker" than Senator Obama and that...

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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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To: Graybeard58
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101 posted on 12/24/2007 3:24:19 PM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: jdm

It would be rewarding to see the Dems dining upon one another more than the cannibalization now going on inside the GOP but sadly I’ll not hold my breath.


102 posted on 12/24/2007 3:30:16 PM PST by Muleteam1
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To: jdm
One of my faves...


103 posted on 12/24/2007 3:42:32 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Spok

According to Muslims he is. And I am wondering why no one is willing to point that out.

Muslims do not recognize conversions. Under Islamic law, there are no former Muslims. There are infidels, Muslims and apostates.

Would a Muslim King, President or Prime Minister even be allowed to meet with an apostate Muslim under Sharia law? What sort of pressure could Muslim rulers be expected to exert on Obama to force him to “return to Islam”. What sort of fatwas could be expected from Muslim clerics regarding Obama?

Why is this topic absolutely verboten? It seems to be both relevant and timely.


104 posted on 12/24/2007 3:59:45 PM PST by Ronin (Bushed out!!! Another tragic victim of BDS.)
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To: reformjoy; Alamo-Girl; All

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NEVER FORGET

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” ‘Rule-making for others, Rule-breaking for herself’

...is HILLARY’s lifetime M.O. “

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...wrote Political Columnist MICHAEL BARONE, U.S. News & World Report Magazine - 1999

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NEVER FORGET

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105 posted on 12/24/2007 4:09:32 PM PST by ALOHA RONNIE ("ALOHA RONNIE" Guyer/Veteran-"WE WERE SOLDIERS" Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.lzxray.com)
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To: tcrlaf

Interesting analysis. I noticed that Newsweek is featuring John Edwards very prominently. I wonder if he is the MSM’s dark horse if Hillary stumbles.


106 posted on 12/24/2007 4:46:36 PM PST by boop
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To: jdm
It remains to be seen whether she's willing to lose her soul in her quest for the presidency.

Thanks for the chuckle.

107 posted on 12/24/2007 4:48:38 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: Cowboy Bob

Maybe he figured out God’s message. Just saying.


108 posted on 12/24/2007 4:56:11 PM PST by nomorelurker (keep flogging them till morale improves)
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To: jdm
...campaign apparatchiks...


109 posted on 12/24/2007 5:20:07 PM PST by Libloather (Hillary donors find their way to the cover of Time. And the very next day they're doing it...)
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To: Zuben Elgenubi

I don’t know what Young meant, but what he said was that Clinton had probably DATED more Black women than Obama.


110 posted on 12/24/2007 5:31:26 PM PST by altura (Go, Fred!)
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To: Grampa Dave; potlatch; devolve; MeekOneGOP; ntnychik; Seadog Bytes

111 posted on 12/24/2007 6:24:00 PM PST by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: PhilDragoo

Lol, good graphic Phil.


112 posted on 12/24/2007 6:26:06 PM PST by potlatch ("Life may not be the party we hoped for, but while we're here we might as well dance!")
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To: sport

I do agree! I don’t know what her comrades think they’ll get in return for their loyalty.

Hillery FLYS all alone.

Her stage, her victory, her power.

Selfish-witch!


113 posted on 12/24/2007 7:15:43 PM PST by reformjoy
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To: musicman
“Kerry was smeared by the Swift Boat veterans?”

Gee. That cartoon is unbiased, isn’t it?

Now, it is (trying to) hit Obama, the republicans (Swift boat vet’s), or making a back-hand smear of Mrs Clinton - by exaggerating the Obama Islamic ties?

114 posted on 12/24/2007 7:28:28 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Ancesthntr
Now there’s a significant chance that either Obama or the Breck Girl could get it. While I don’t think that they’ll win, you never know - they don’t have 48% of the population ready to crawl over broken glass to vote against them.

And that little fact is what their strength is: Actually, Obama’s weakness (experience) is a double-edged tool - Mrs Clinton can’t claim experience either! And the more people talk with each other - rather than the MSM's "assumed" authorities - who uniformly IGNORE her vulnerable lack of experience at doing anything - the poorer her campaign becomes. Her supporters simply can't argue that she has experience either.

115 posted on 12/24/2007 7:35:45 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but Hillary's ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Aliska
Don't you know only Mormons do that.
116 posted on 12/24/2007 7:45:25 PM PST by redangus
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To: Churchillspirit

LOL Merry Christmas


117 posted on 12/24/2007 8:25:14 PM PST by HANG THE EXPENSE (Defeat liberalism, its the right thing to do for America.)
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To: redangus
Don't you know only Mormons do that.

Do what? Secret hidden agendas? I don't know what to say that might not be taken the wrong way, like in kidding, so keyboard, don't you do it!

118 posted on 12/24/2007 8:25:26 PM PST by Aliska
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To: ALOHA RONNIE

Thanks for the ping!


119 posted on 12/24/2007 9:45:18 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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To: PhilDragoo

No problem for Hill. Her morality dead voters will love Hill even more for having an affair with an Muslim Skank.


120 posted on 12/25/2007 7:22:52 AM PST by Grampa Dave ("Ron Paul and his flaming antiwar spam monkeys can Kiss my Ass!!"- Jim Robinson, Sept, 30, 2007)
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