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Cool Hillary shines in hostage crisis ["Dress Rehearsal" for President Alert!]
TimesOnline.com ^ | 12/02/07 | Tony Allen-Mills

Posted on 12/01/2007 6:58:46 PM PST by melt

BY modern American standards it was a very minor crisis, but a bizarre hostage-taking episode at one of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign offices in New Hampshire on Friday offered the former first lady an unexpected opportunity to display her leadership qualities.

Clinton was far from the scene and never at risk from a mentally unstable man who eventually surrendered to police after holding three campaign workers hostage. Yet her calm demeanour and authoritative response to a potentially ugly drama was yesterday earning her widespread praise.

Clinton followed the incident from her home in Washington, then flew to New Hampshire to meet the workers once they were released. A local man identified as Leeland Eisenberg was taken into custody and the bomb he claimed to have strapped to his chest turned out to be warning flares.

The incident followed a series of bitter exchanges among presidential candidates of both parties over who is the best equipped to lead America at a time of terrorist threats. Clinton has been mocked for suggesting that her experience as first lady qualified her for the presidency. “She has never run anything,” noted Mitt Romney, the former Republican governor of Massachusetts.

Yet several campaign analysts noted yesterday that Clinton did not put a foot wrong as the hostage drama unfolded. “There was a sense that this was a dress rehearsal of how she was going to deal with . . . [a] crisis as president,” noted Robert Thompson, a media specialist at Syracuse University.

Larry Sabato, director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics, told the Politico.com website that Hillary managed to “look and sound presidential” as she joined police at a New Hampshire press conference.

(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bill; crisis; eisenberg; hillary; hillaryscandals; nh2008; president; sabato
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To: ElkGroveDan
"Tell us the names of your people who were held hostage Senator. Which of them had families and how long have they been working for you?"

Very valid point. I remember when the Pubbie Congresswoman was asked the name of the last constituent killed in Iraq. The Pubbie answered honestly that she didn't know. The reporter then states the name, the name of a hero that actually wasn't a constituent of the Congresswoman. An obvious "Gotcha!" moment.

If Hillary had been asked your pair of questions an instant outcry from pols, MSM would be broadcast from sea to shining sea.

61 posted on 12/01/2007 9:23:28 PM PST by torchthemummy ("A Tagline Presidential Endorsement Forfeits A Presumption Of Objectivity")
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To: TigersEye

Well I think she is a bully & I don’t know how much I really believe this whole thing. I don’t care if it seems strange to wonder but after all the bodies etc why can’t I wonder if this whole thing was a bunch of bs?


62 posted on 12/01/2007 9:25:46 PM PST by pandoraou812 ( Its NOT for the good of the children! Its BS along with bending over for Muslim's demands)
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To: melt

Post 1 should have the caption: “We’ve taped our cheat sheets to the inside of our eyelids so no one will know.”


63 posted on 12/01/2007 9:27:35 PM PST by 444Flyer (NEVER take a "mark" to "buy or sell"!Jos24:15, Rev 22:17,John 3:1-36, Eph 6, Rev 12:11, Jer 29:13-14)
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To: DGHoodini

64 posted on 12/01/2007 9:29:05 PM PST by CJ Wolf (The Founding Fathers never intended a nation where citizens pay nearly half of everything they earn)
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To: pandoraou812

I don’t know. There are plenty of nutcases out there. Hillary is the BS IMNHO.


65 posted on 12/01/2007 9:33:51 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: CJ Wolf
Now there's the stuff of nightmares.
Freddy Krueger has nothing on Hillary.
66 posted on 12/01/2007 9:39:07 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: TigersEye
Well that is true too. I just think it was no big deal. She wasn’t there & there was no reason for her to do anything...She isn’t in charge of anything right now anyway either. So all she did was wait. But I still say if Huma was in there she would have had that guy by his you know whats asap.
67 posted on 12/01/2007 9:42:46 PM PST by pandoraou812 ( Its NOT for the good of the children! Its BS along with bending over for Muslim's demands)
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To: melt

Tony Allen-Mills

“I have a French wife, as should everyone.”

“I’ve worked alone for much of my professional career, and have become slightly strange as a result.”

http://tampen.typepad.com/about.html


68 posted on 12/01/2007 10:01:24 PM PST by kcvl
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To: CJ Wolf

(Grins)


69 posted on 12/01/2007 11:00:28 PM PST by DGHoodini (The Dems no longer have the humanity to grasp that there are things worth dying for.)
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To: melt

For as much as the left HATES Jesus they try to make Hillary Jesus at every turn.

Not only did she do nothing about it...I assert that she was glad it happened and is busy trying to harness its emotional power. Once more proving she is the empties pantsuit in history but brilliantat manipulation of ignorant left wing masses.


70 posted on 12/01/2007 11:07:47 PM PST by ICE-FLYER (God bless and keep the United States of America)
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To: lonestar

And best of all, it got the attention off Bill’s stupid war comments.


71 posted on 12/02/2007 12:31:16 AM PST by MHT
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To: melt
Clinton was far from the scene and never at risk

End of story. Just a bizarro take by the fawning MSM.

72 posted on 12/02/2007 12:33:01 AM PST by montag813
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To: montag813

She didn’t fly to NH because she knew the psycho had been secured. She flew to NH because she knew the press had been secured.


73 posted on 12/02/2007 4:09:15 AM PST by winged1
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To: melt

...even though SHE WASN'T!

74 posted on 12/02/2007 4:15:47 AM PST by johnny7 ("But that one on the far left... he had crazy eyes")
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To: melt

75 posted on 12/02/2007 9:03:56 AM PST by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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To: melt
Iowa will be tough on Hillary, but I think she takes the nomination though

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76 posted on 12/02/2007 9:13:09 AM PST by enewsreference (http://www.enewsreference.com)
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To: Candor7

To be fair, would any of us (who were alive then) want to be remembered for what we wore in the ‘70s? The whole decade was a sartorial disaster, blending from hippie to disco.

A decade or so ago, bell bottoms made a brief fad comeback. I said not just no, but hell, no. I survived that once, and I’m not going back there, man. Because, to paraphrase Yoda, bell bottoms lead to open shirts with gold medallions. Medallions lead to leisure suits. Leisure suits lead to suffering. So take your desert boots and Hush Puppies down the road. We’ve done that here, and we’re long since over it.

Your picture of Bill and Hill doesn’t look all that dissimilar from pics I have of my mom and dad. Though they were shorter than the Clintons. If you didn’t experience the 1970s on the ground, you don’t know what it was like. It was hell, I’m telling you. HELL! For the love of God, you have no idea how wide the lapels were! Oh, and the mirror balls. And the gimmicks — the Limelight, Atlanta’s answer to Studio 54, had a plexiglass dance floor with live sharks circling beneath.

The horror ... the horror ...


77 posted on 12/02/2007 9:30:11 AM PST by ReignOfError
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To: glorgau
What happened? Did Waco turn out peacefully?

Eventually.

When the compound and its occupants were reduced to ash, it got real damn peaceful.

78 posted on 12/02/2007 9:31:31 AM PST by ReignOfError
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To: DennisR
Exactly which leadership qualities did she display. Did she try to talk to the hostage taker? Me thinks not. Instead, she said she was in contact with the hostages’ families. Woohoo! What leadership!!!

The cops advised against talking to the hostage-taker, because it could escalate the situation. Hilary took that advice. It was the right call.

Does that mean she should be president? Of course not. But trying to turn this incident against her is a waste of effort that would be better spent elsewhere.

79 posted on 12/02/2007 9:37:31 AM PST by ReignOfError
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To: ReignOfError
You are correct about the 70s for every one who was not in the military.

This freak was more than into bell bottoms and long scraggly locks. He was a bonafide protected draft dodger.

Which is why I posted the picture. While most Americans his age were wearin the Big Green , this POS was token and joken at Oxford in Britain. And he should never have been president for that very reason among many others. That one alone should have been enough.

Likewise Hillary doesn't even know what true service to her country really is.

80 posted on 12/02/2007 2:50:18 PM PST by Candor7 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Baghdad_(1258))
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