Posted on 09/11/2015 1:56:50 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
For nearly a quarter-century, Hillary Rodham Clinton has played an outsized role in the nations consciousness as an advocate and a political survivor. Her presidential campaigns favorite way to describe her is as a fighter.
But something surprising has emerged in public opinion about the former first lady, senator and secretary of state. Asked to name something tangible that Clinton has actually accomplished, many voters come up blank.
In polls and focus groups, Republicans are sensing a vulnerability in Clintons record that could compound the difficulties she is facing with the controversy over her decision as secretary of state to use a private e-mail account and server rather than a government one.
When Bloomberg News posed the question in May to a focus group of 10 Iowa Democrats, they praised Clinton for strength, experience and competence but could not recall a single thing she had done.
Some Democrats say that they have only a vague sense of Clintons actual accomplishments. Liberal activist Arnie Arnesen was the Democratic nominee for New Hampshire governor in 1992, and she often crossed paths with the Clintons as Bill Clinton made his first bid for the White House. But all these years later, Arnesen said: I dont really know Hillary. I know Hillary under Clinton. I know Hillary under Obama. And in the Senate she was a workhorse, not a show horse. What does that mean? It means she didnt take a leadership role....
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Wonderful, just absolutely wonderful. Now Tumulty of all people is seeing the light.
I will thank you for posting this. Doesn’t it feel great going after the establishment?
Happy Amb. Stevens Day to everyone!!!!
Hillary is like a Seinfeld episode. A career about nothing.
She'll probably have our bird whacked. (My mother in law has a parakeet who we all love)..
"Video" frauds: Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton
"Workplace" violence memorial at Fort Hood, TX [13 dead, 42 wounded]
I know.... I know.... she's managed to expose herself as a self-serving, a-hole hypocrite.
I know, I'm being way too kind on the criminal.
Yes, that is his name..!
Not to worry, its just the significant wash created by her approach to the docking area. Approaching mass displaces air!
“And in the Senate she was a workhorse, not a show horse. What does that mean?”...............
It means she is full of horsesh%t.
Oh my!
: )
Hillary should complain.
No one likes her.
It means she was collecting favors & cash so she could profit in the future by selling access while claiming to be a champion for the powerless. Funny thing is happening on the way to payola the Democrats don’t want her and there are cracks in the media fortress protecting her. I’m rooting for Slow Joe to enter the race. See Joe Run! Run Joe run!
Hillary campaign staff meeting memo: We need to make more stuff up.
( Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system).
What crap. Hillary accomplished a lot. It shows how stupid liberals are.
Had Vince Foster killed
Retrained high ranking career military officers as house servants and wait staff
Destroyed the reputations of rape victims
Advocated for their rapist
Was instrumental in the deaths of thousands of American servicemen by tying their hands via ROEs that benefited terrorists.
Directly caused the deaths in Bhenghazi
“Liberated’ large numbers of FBI files from oppressive FBI control
Spent several hundred million dollars in travel resulting in zero net gain and considerable financial/influential loss to America
Contributed to the deaths and mental suffering globally of homosexuals and their families by promotion of a mental illness/deadly disease as a human right.
One could go on, literally for hours naming her actual accomplishments so I find the liberal silence on the issue rather curious.
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