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Why Does Hillary Want To Be President, Anyway?
rove.com ^ | Dec. 11, 2014 | Karl Rove

Posted on 12/11/2014 8:40:42 AM PST by PROCON

So far it looks like Mrs. Clinton would have at least as many problems in 2016 as she did in 2008.

There have generally been two reactions to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Dec. 3 statement at Georgetown University that America should try to “empathize” with our nation’s “enemies.”

One camp holds that Mrs. Clinton simply chose the wrong word to express a banal thought—that the U.S. must understand its enemies. The other camp says her State Department record demonstrates she herself lacks the empathy to know how to deal with America’s adversaries or allies.

Both responses are true, yet I have another observation about her speech: It is further evidence Mrs. Clinton is at best a mediocre presidential candidate. She was lackluster in 2008 and worse today. The stiff, off-putting style is familiar. What’s more surprising is how sloppy, ill-prepared and tone-deaf she has become.

If Mrs. Clinton intended to say we must understand our adversaries—their motivations, methods and goals—she should have said so. If her speechwriter’s draft was unclear, she should have ordered a rewrite. If she can’t summon warmth and wit now, how will she display a winning personality in her umpteenth hundred event, assuming she becomes a candidate?

The empathy quote was memorialized on video. It may come back to haunt her: Sounding like President Obama on foreign policy isn’t going to help her win in 2016, when the world is likely to be more chaotic and American interests even more threatened.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 2016election; 2016elections; abortion; benghazi; deathpanels; election2016; hillaryclinton; karlrove; libya; obamacare; zerocare
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To: PROCON
Just what we need.
Another Affirmative Action president who doesn't understand the meaning of everyday words.

And Hillary is supposed to be the smartest woman in the world?

At least the liberal media rumpswabs will be able to keep their jobs when Obama is finally gone.
They will be needed to tell us what Hillary meant to say.


21 posted on 12/11/2014 8:50:36 AM PST by Iron Munro (D.H.S. has the same headcount as the US Marine Corps with twice the budget)
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To: PROCON

hillary is a distraction - warren is being groomed to be prez, not hillary.


22 posted on 12/11/2014 8:50:37 AM PST by camle (keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
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To: stephenjohnbanker
POWER

And to set up a Dynasty, but you know more like the Carringtons not the Robertsons even though everyone knows she is more like Edith in the Bunkers!

23 posted on 12/11/2014 8:52:17 AM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: PROCON
Because the left wing coven she hangs out with told her she should.
They think she is in the right place and with enough name recognition to win an election.
I shudder at the thought they may be right.

24 posted on 12/11/2014 8:53:53 AM PST by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: PROCON

It depends, today there doesn’t appear to be any particular reason, but for most of her life there was.

Hillary used to be known by those in the know as the political radical, the true leftist in the family who wanted to totally change America, she is the radical activist, Bill was the narcissistic psychopathic salesman, who just kept selling himself, until he ended up doing two terms as president, as more of a consequence, rather than as an all important mission to implement policy.


25 posted on 12/11/2014 8:55:06 AM PST by ansel12
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To: stephenjohnbanker

and greed.


26 posted on 12/11/2014 8:56:15 AM PST by rfreedom4u (Do you know who Barry Soetoro is?)
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To: Mastador1

Methinks you underestimate Edith!


27 posted on 12/11/2014 8:57:54 AM PST by rfreedom4u (Do you know who Barry Soetoro is?)
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To: PROCON

Because she’s never done any damn thing in her life of note......................


28 posted on 12/11/2014 9:03:35 AM PST by Red Badger (If you compromise with evil, you just get more evil..........................)
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To: rfreedom4u
Methinks you underestimate Edith!

So you're saying she wasn't bland and screechy?

29 posted on 12/11/2014 9:03:49 AM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: PROCON

Because Bilderberg wants her to.


30 posted on 12/11/2014 9:19:24 AM PST by CivilWarBrewing
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Power is only part of it. Money is another big part of it. One thing leftists lover even more than micromanaging the lives of the peasants is mining them for dollar extraction.


31 posted on 12/11/2014 9:19:35 AM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: PROCON

She has an agenda.


32 posted on 12/11/2014 9:22:58 AM PST by sanjuanbob
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To: PROCON

She has shown that she is incompetent.
She has demonstrated that she has a deeper physical liability, than Roosevelt’s bad legs.
She has demonstrated that her Communist indoctrination, coupled with her ever-present drive to ‘get over’ being the wife of a sexual predator, makes her dangerous for the rest of America.


33 posted on 12/11/2014 9:24:05 AM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: Vigilanteman

Very true. When it comes to love of money, the left has no equal. See Warren Buffett.


34 posted on 12/11/2014 9:24:26 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (The only people in the world who fear Obama are American citizens.)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

for the children! /sarc


35 posted on 12/11/2014 9:27:33 AM PST by cantbetooconservative (I miss Ronald Reagan)
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To: PROCON

Hillary the Unready - Unfit to Testify, Unfit for Office


36 posted on 12/11/2014 9:28:10 AM PST by Ray76 (Who gave the stand down order? Benghazi? Ferguson?)
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To: camle
You might be right. I think 0bama trusts Warren more.. By trust I mean SHE can be trusted to KEEP BARRY'S MANY CRIMES COVERED UP, whereas Hillary might allow a leak or two to make herself look better.

I think the Dems are planning a MAJOR 'courting of single females' all over again with Warren, the War on Women, Sandra Fluke speeches, giant 'estrogen rallies' and other massive gatherings where hypnosis and catharsis sweep through a sea of "vaginas for Liz".

37 posted on 12/11/2014 9:29:03 AM PST by CivilWarBrewing
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To: PROCON

Power, pure and simple


38 posted on 12/11/2014 9:29:40 AM PST by rightistight
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To: PROCON

Hilary = Obama = Warren = backed by same subversive left wing domestic and foreign MONEY .... LIKE SOROS, Rothschilds, the UK Royal Family and others with an agenda... harmful to the USA


39 posted on 12/11/2014 9:33:02 AM PST by zzwhale
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To: PROCON

“Reporters have largely overlooked Mrs. Clinton’s blunders, but it is not inconceivable that at least some of them may start holding her accountable to the standard they apply to gaffes uttered by Republican hopefuls.”

Rove, like other RINOs, longs for the day that the left will love them and the liberal media won’t attack them.

This is the problem with todays Republican party.


40 posted on 12/11/2014 9:36:16 AM PST by headstamp 2
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