"Remain calm! All is well!"
Posted on 02/14/2008 7:18:39 AM PST by iowamark
MCALLEN, Texas -- With Spanish music blaring, Sen. Hillary Clinton campaigned across South Texas yesterday with a more populist message, as her new campaign manager sought to reshape a campaign that has lost eight straight primaries in a week.
Maggie Williams, a confidante of Mrs. Clinton from when she was first lady, has moved to assert her control following the departure last weekend of former campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle. Ms. Williams is running a daily conference on what ads to put up and expanding the inner circle with advisers from the old Clinton White House.
See more about key staffers and how they fit into the Clinton campaign. But the campaign has something of a shellshocked feel, as staffers privately chew over a blowup last week where internal frictions flared into the open. Clinton campaign operatives say it happened as top Clinton advisers gathered in Arlington, Va., campaign headquarters to preview a TV commercial. "Your ad doesn't work," strategist Mark Penn yelled at ad-maker Mandy Grunwald. "The execution is all wrong," he said, according to the operatives.
"Oh, it's always the ad, never the message," Ms. Grunwald fired back, say the
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I hope to see a similar picture soon, except with Hillary modeling the bag. ;-)
When I read about the JKF love child article yesterday here on FR, my first thought was “Obama is being compared to the Kennedy, was endorsed by a Kennedy, so maybe the CLintons are trying to disparage the Kennedy name in a backslap to Obama”...
An Illinois man claims homosexual sex and drugs with Barack Obama in 1999 while Obama was a state legislator. The guy says he is willing to take a polygraph and challenges Obama to do the same.
http://mrsircy.blogspot.com/2008/01/obama-could-be-in-big-big-trouble.html
Kroft: Who is Gennifer Flowers? Do you know her?
Bill Clinton: Oh, yes.
Kroft: How do you know her? How would you describe your relationship?
Bill Clinton: Very limited, but until this, you know, friendly but limited . . . .
Kroft: Was she a friend, an acquaintance? Does your wife know her?
Hillary Clinton: Oh, sure (chuckles).
Bill Clinton: Yes. She was an acquaintance, I would say a only friendly acquaintance . . . .
Kroft: She is alleging and has described in some detail in the supermarket tabloid what she calls a 12-year affair with you.
Bill Clinton: That allegation is false!
Hillary Clinton: When this woman first got caught up in these charges, I felt as I've felt about all of these women: that they . . . had just been minding their own business and they got hit by a meteor . . . . I felt terrible about what was happening to them. Bill talked to this woman every time she called, distraught, saying her life was going to be ruined, and . . . he'd get off the phone and tell me that she said sort of wacky things, which we thought were attributable to the fact that she was terrified.
Bill Clinton: It was only when money came out, when the tabloid went down there offering people money to say that they had been involved with me, that she changed her story. There's a recession on, you know.
Kroft: I'm assuming from your answer that you're categorically denying that you ever had an affair with Gennifer Flowers.
Bill Clinton: I said that before. And so HAS she (finger pointing for emphasis)!
Kroft: You've said that your marriage has had problems, that you've had difficulties. What do you mean by that? What does that mean? Is that some kind of – help us break the code. I mean, does that mean that you were separated? Does that mean that you had communication problems? Does that mean you contemplated divorce? Does it mean adultery?
Bill Clinton: (head shaking) I think the American people, at least people that have been married for a long time, know what it means and know ...
Kroft: You've been saying all week that you've got to put this issue behind you. Are you prepared tonight to say that you've never had an extramarital affair?
Bill Clinton: (head shaking) I'm prepared tonight to say that any married couple should ever discuss .... I'm not prepared to say that about anybody. I think that the . . . .
Kroft: . . . That's what you've been saying essentially for the last couple of months.
Bill Clinton: . . . You go back and listen to what I've said. You know, (arm around Hillary) I have acknowledged wrongdoing. I have acknowledged causing pain in my marriage...but not...Look, I have said things to you tonight and to the American people from the beginning that no American politician ever has. ... I think most Americans who are watching this tonight, they'll know what we're saying; they'll get it, and they'll feel that we have been more candid. And I think what the press has to decide is: Are we going to engage in a game of "gotcha"? . . . I can remember a time when a divorced person couldn't run for president, and that time, thank goodness, has passed. Nobody's prejudiced against anybody because they're divorced. Are we going to take the reverse position now that if people have problems in their marriage and there are things in their past which they don't want to discuss which are painful to them, that they can't run?
Kroft: You're trying to put this issue behind you, and the problem with the answer is it's not a denial. And people are sitting out there -- voters – and they're saying, "Look, it's really pretty simple. If he's never had an extramarital affair, why doesn't {he} say so?"
Bill Clinton: That may be what they're saying. You know what I think they're saying? I think they're saying, "Here's a guy who's leveling with us." . . . I've told the American {people} more than any other candidate for president. The result of that has been everybody going to my state and spending more time trying to play "gotcha."
Hillary Clinton: There isn't a person watching this who would feel comfortable sitting on this couch detailing everything that ever went on in their life or their marriage. And I think it's real dangerous in this country if we don't have some zone of privacy for everybody . . . .
Kroft: . . . I agree with you that everyone wants to put this behind you. And the reason the problem has not gone away is because your answer is not a denial . . . .
Bill Clinton: It's not? ... And let's take it from your point of view, that won't make it go away. I mean if you deny, then you have a whole other horde of people going down there offering more money and trying to prove that you lied. And if you say yes, then you have just what I have already said by being open and telling you that we have had problems. You have, "Oh good, now we can go play 'gotcha' and find out who it is." Now, no matter what I say, to pretend that the press will then let this die, then we are kidding ourselves. I mean, you know, this has become a virtual cottage industry. The only way to put it behind us, I think, is for all of us to agree that this guy has told us about all we need to know. Anybody who is listening gets the drift of it and let's go on and get back to the real problems of this country . . . .
Kroft: . . . {The} question of marital infidelity is an issue with a sizable portion of the electorate. According to the latest CBS News poll . . . 14 percent of the registered voters in America wouldn't vote for a candidate who's had an extramarital affair.
Bill Clinton: I know it's an issue, but what does that mean? That means that 86 percent of the American people either don't think it's relevant to presidential performance or look at whether a person, looking at all the facts, is the best to serve. (finger pointing)
Kroft: I think most Americans would agree that it's very admirable that you've stayed together – that you've worked your problems out and that you've seemed to reach some sort of understanding and arrangement.
Bill Clinton: Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute. You're looking at two people who love each other. This is not an arrangement or an understanding. This is a marriage. That's a very different thing.
Hillary Clinton: You know, I'm not sitting here – some little woman standing by my man like Tammy Wynette. I'm sitting here because I love him, and I respect him, and I honor what he's been through and what we've been through together. And you know, if that's not enough for people, then heck, don't vote for him (smirking)
Kroft: . . . One of your campaign advisers told us the other day, "Bill Clinton has got to level with the American people tonight, otherwise his candidacy is dead." You feel like you've leveled with the American people?
Bill Clinton: I have absolutely leveled with the American people! (finger pointing at camera)
Hillary is at least a two bagger...
> Speaking of JFK love children,, The Clinton Legacy.
“Is that a replica of obama holding the lamp leading up to their house? Or one of the African Americans they have given work to?”
lol. Could be Hillary’s jockey. :-)
LOL -
That, and the fact her office was all packed up when she came into work after Super Tuesday should have been a warning sign...and the BUS ticket home...
“It is now win at all cost so look for the mud slinging to intensify.”
Got that right. Her Heinous will be the poster child for “The Woman Scorned”. She will be a beotch on wheels. I would sure hate to be one of her minions right now!
As Dennis Miller said, “She (Hillary) has been cheated on more than a blind woman playing Scrabble with a bunch of gypsies.”
Me too.
"Oh, it's always the ad, never the message," Ms. Grunwald fired back
Maybe it's because your candidate is abhorent to the majority of the American electorate?! Like Ann Coulter said, you can change the ads and repackage the dog food, but if the dogs don't like the food, there's not much you can do.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/browse?more=1970248
Now that’s funny
With Spanish music blaring,.....
That should help her Thighness be Mexican!
I wouldn’t put it past them.
"Some Hispanic leaders had written to Mrs. Clinton that it would be "troubling to many" if Ms. Solis Doyle, the first Latina to run a presidential campaign, was removed because of primary losses that were other people's fault. The campaign urged Ms. Solis Doyle, whose parents and siblings emigrated from Mexico, to state publicly that she wasn't forced out. Ms. Solis Doyle told reporters: "This is my decision, my choice,...."
I think Hispanics will notice and not believe Solis went by choice and it will chill their enthusiasm.
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