The many sides of Hillary
Last Thursday's primary debate in Texas between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama was supposed to provide Clinton a chance to find a chink in Obama's armor. Unfortunately for Clinton, she never really succeeded. And maybe that's why her campaign seems to have grown more aggressive, tossing strategy out the door in favor of shooting blind and hoping something makes a dent. (So far, it's mostly resulted in friendly fire.)
The New York Times calls it a "five-point attack." Politico calls it "highly improvisational". A Clinton aide christened it the "kitchen sink" method. If you want to judge for yourself, here are some gems from the past few days:
The xerox zinger: In the debate, Clinton defended her accusation that Obama plagiarized Massachussetts Gov. Deval Patrick. "Lifting whole passages from someone else's speeches is not change you can believe in, it's change you can Xerox," quipped the junior senator from the Empire State, who has never lifted a phrase in her life. That didn't go over so well with the audience, judging from all the boos.
Kiss and make up: Later in the same debate, Clinton practically sang an ode to Obama. "I am honored -- I am honored -- to be here with Barack Obama," she said, offering her hand to her opponent. Awww... But wait, there's more:
Whatever happens, we're going to be fine ... I just hope that we'll be able to say the same thing about the American people. And that's what this election should be about.
A gesture of concession? Hardly. More likely it was a move to undo the damage wrought by the Xerox quote -- and to woo back key demographics, especially white women. That sugarcoated moment earned her a standing ovation.
Oh, oh, do the one of Barack, that's my favorite: The warm fuzzy feeling soon wore off, though -- instead of sticking to her "ready on day one" pitch at a Sunday rally in Rhode Island, Clinton did her best Obama impression (gesticulation included) for an appreciative crowd:
I could just stand up here and say ‘Let’s just get everybody together, let’s get unified.’ The sky will open, the light will come down, celestial choirs will be singing and everyone will know we should do the right thing and the world will be perfect.
Straight out of "Karl Rove's playbook": At a rally in Ohio, a supporter handed Clinton pamphlets the Obama campaign was distributing on her healthcare plans -- information she called misleading. "Shame on you, Barack Obama," she scolded afterward, brandishing the offending fliers at reporters. (Who wants to bet that supporter was prompted?)
My best constituents are black! In a more passive-aggressive show of strength, Clinton was the only candidate to appear at the annual State of the Black Union in Louisiana last weekend (Obama offered to send his wife Michelle instead). There's nothing better than courting a reluctant demographic and kicking your rival under the table at the same time.
What's in a turban? Obama staffers wigged out at a Drudge report that Clinton campaign members had been circulating photos of the Illinois senator donning local dress in Kenya. It's not like he's the first public figure to don the local garb -- check out Calvin Coolidge in a Native American headdress. The campaign took hours to deny any role in their distribution, but given the long leash Clinton has given to overenthusiastic staffers (up until she fires them) it's hard to take them at their word.
How many kitchen appliances do you think she's got left for tonight's showdown? Post your thoughts below.


Hillary has become a clown, trying one trick after another, desperately trying to win the voting population's approval. She is actually quite funny.
Posted by: Annelie | February 26, 2008 at 06:21 PM
Hillary go home!!!!
Posted by: lisa | February 26, 2008 at 06:32 PM
Clinton is capable and knowledgeable in doing good change than a candidate who most preferred to make change out of promises. Its better to think of the country's future rather than personal preferences.
Posted by: Anna | February 26, 2008 at 06:34 PM
People are unhappy with bad mouthing from those seeking such sacred an office and can see through distractions. The winner may take the highroad by meanigful dialogs and submitting a presidential posture. No new issues may come up and deeper clarafications in public interest of the older ones may be fruitful. It is a textbook situation to add new chapters with for all sides of the political sciences..where as significant history seems already in the making. Either a woman or an african american both minorities at doorstep of democratic presidential nomination.
Posted by: Raji Rab | February 26, 2008 at 06:36 PM
Your media is extremely unfair to trade a lady and a man. Even though Obama has no ability and guts to lead the country to prosper but the media is promoting him. I as a human being disdust all your coducts. One thing is extremely clear: Hillary is a strog leader whether she is a presidet or not. However, Obama will brig disaster to his supporters if he is elected. His only desire is to be elected ad he does not show and prove any desire beyond that and no any desire to bring good for you who cover their eyes to support him.
I am sorry about your support.
Posted by: Deborah Liu | February 26, 2008 at 06:50 PM
So tired of listening to media men rag on Hillary. This election process has been totally discriminating! When will they get it? I
Posted by: Lynn | February 26, 2008 at 07:03 PM
Hillary continues to try to find her voice - or whatever might resonate with voters. One gets the impression that she is willing to say virtually anything to get the nomination. Her vacillation between praising and vilifying Obama is pathetic evidence of her desperation.
Posted by: Jim Allen | February 26, 2008 at 07:08 PM
HRC blows hot and cold depending on the audience! She lacks strong convictions on any subject of note, and is short on integrity. She takes positions depending on their popularity and backs away when it is convenient to do so. She accuses others of what she herself is implicated. She makes claims she has never sustantiated. Will the real Hillary please stand up to be recognized ! Or are doomed to deal only with the 'alter ego' certainly not the 'xerox copy'!
Bukou
Posted by: Obukohwo Urhiafe | February 26, 2008 at 07:09 PM
I have heard many news organizations charac terize the "zerox" zinger as unpopular because of the boos. But who was booing? Obama supporters, that"s who. I'm for Hillary and thought it was just great. So please stop generalizing where Mr. Obama is concerned. The same with the turban and the Hussein thing with McCain. Obama doesn't need to defend himself because YOU will do it for him. Has it ever occurred to YOU that the Obama camp leaked the photo? There are some of us non-Obama supporters who don't need you to tell us who to vote for.
Posted by: Tony Gilder | February 26, 2008 at 07:12 PM
The more I watched the Ohio debate, the more I lost respect for Senator Clinton! I agree, a lot of her so called experiences came from her husbands time in office. Yes as First Lady she had to work on committiees and such. And if Senator Obama is elected, his wife becomes First Lady and will have to support her husband the same way, therefore gaining the same "experience"! I think that if Sen. Clinton were a man she would be known as "one of the good old boys" club members! When the campaigns become " dirty, hitting below the belt fighting, I must draw the line! How can you expect me to believe that after the election you all will come together for the benefit of all Americans! How you run your campaigns is how I see you. Don't keep telling me you are this really good person, the way you come across-" what you see if what you get"
Posted by: Glenna Bays | February 26, 2008 at 07:14 PM
They are all Liers and You know it Vote for Nader
Posted by: charles | February 26, 2008 at 07:24 PM
USA is democratic country. Let people decide who will be next president and not media. I think media should stop manipulating polls as they did in last two elections.
Posted by: ajay desai | February 26, 2008 at 07:29 PM
What is up with the media?
Why is a competent, intelligent, assertive woman threatening to the media? Is it simply to sell papers or get hits to sell ads?
Posted by: iammonique54 | February 26, 2008 at 07:31 PM
I am for the first time in many years actually excited about casting my vote for a canadite. I believe Barack Obama to be honest, intellegent, understaning of the many complexities we face as Americans - but most important, this man uses common sense when discussing our foreign policies. He's not afraid of seeking peace, analyzing. He's a thinker. I like him. I look at Senator Clinton and see just another political gladiator, one who will say anything to win. Doesn't she understand that many people see through this deception, and what about her ill-spiritness? Are Americans not sick of this kind of crock? What experience? I once worked for Legal Aid - defended neglected and abused children, met with countless mothers who lived in the projects, invited minorities to my home (to suprise my parents) but, that doesn't make me Mother Teresa, nor a canditate for the presidency. Bill was the president. Her health care reform failed, miserably! NAFTA, a pet project of her husband's which she, on record, supported, turned around and bit us in the ass. If Hillary Clinton receives the nomination, in spite of the will of the people, I may just switch parties. Ralph? My hopes and dreams for my grandchildren lie with Barack Obama.
Posted by: Annie K. Brooks | February 26, 2008 at 07:32 PM
Get off the stage, Clintons.
Time has passed y'all by.
Like a comet.
Posted by: Chuck | February 26, 2008 at 07:32 PM
First, Ms Liu, get an "n" fer cryin out loud...
Come next January the housing market will still be in a state of depression, gas prices will still be climbing, the value of the dollar will still be in the toilet, and we will still owe China more than we can afford to pay. I wonder why the Chinese haven't forclosed yet?
No matter who gets elected, dem or repub, woman or man, black or white blind crippled or crazy NOTHING IS GOING TO CHANGE! The rich will continue to fleece the populace and since we are governed by the rich and powerful for the rich and powerful guess who gonna make out? IF you said the rich give yourself a cookie...
Posted by: Brian | February 26, 2008 at 07:35 PM
People are free to post this article of mine where they want to as the Hill-Bill-EES have stooped to a new low with their racism by disengenuity approach (using pictures of Barack Obama in traditional Somali garb on an official business). Clinton could neither manage her campaign nor manage her first campaign manager nor her second campaign manager (Maggie Williams who now tries to rationalize a racist fear-mongering approach), trying to smear Barack Obama using photos of him donning a traditional Somali outfit while on an official visit to Somalia. Nor can Clinton manage her campaign budget (so pathetically inept that she let her team burn through 135 million dollars! The reality is that Hilary Clinton`s leadership skills are the real fairy tale as this article shows:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/arianna-huffington/clinton-obama-and-the-be_b_88349.html
As far as leadership goes, the Hilly-Billy voted for the Iraq War - 'nuff said!!!
Her experience counts for squat since she has shown such bad judgement that 4000 young Americans have died while tens of thousands more were grieviously injured (not to mention 600,000 plus Iraqis dead). Pn top of that she could not even manage her own campaign efficiently and blew tghrough 135 million dollars like a drunken sailor.
If Clinton cannot even manage her campaign, cannot even allocate her campaign budget effectively (well over 135 million dollars), so that she would have had money after Super Tuesday to run in other primaries instead of being broke to the point that she has to lend her campaign money (11 straight subsequent losses), she is unfit to lead the USA. The reality is that Clinton could not manage 135 million dollars in a Democratic primary (when normally 25-40 million dollars are more than enough), she is totally unfit to manage the trillion dollar plus budget of the USA. This is exactly what Clinton's previous donors are saying. Of course, Clinton will blame her advisers but the reality is that the buck stops with her and she has done a pathetic job of managing that. She will mess up the economy worse than Bush because despite slogans of leadership, she has not been able to manage her own team (plagued by infighting and hubby Bill`s racism), apply a consistent message (her persona changes day by day), and once more manage her campaign budget. All of the above reflects not leadership but rather incompetence of an order that is unbelievable. The fact is that if she wasn`t a former First Lady riding on the coattails of her husband (when it suits her, heh,heh,heh...), after 11 straight primary losses she would have already been consigned to the trash heap of history. As these links show, Clinton cannot neither manage her campaign properly nor prevent in-fighting among her staff nor provide direction and leadership consistently nor manage a budget in an intelligent way. Given all the above, when I hear Clinton yammer about experience and leadership, I just roll my eyes and can simply wonder then if all that she says is true, then how come Barack Obama (a relative new-comer), can develop and organize a campaign so much better than the Hill-Bill-EEE?
I am voting for experience and leadership that you can trust. I am voting for Barack Obama because as the links below show, Barack Obama offers leadership and experience which Americans can trust unlike Clinton's (which cannot even manage her own campaign and budget let alone the USA's trillion dollar budget). The reality is that Clinton's so-called experience is a fairy tale seeing as how ineptly she managed her campaign:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080224/EDITORIAL/778229066/1013
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/opinion/24rich.html?ref=opinion
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/21/AR2008022102159.html?hpid=opinionsbox1
Senator Obama --During the first eight years of Senator Obama's elected service he sponsored over 820 bills. He introduced:
233 regarding healthcare reform,
125 on poverty and public assistance,
112 crime fighting bills,
97 economic bills,
60 human rights and anti-discrimination bills,
21 ethics reform bills,
15 gun control,
6 veterans affairs and many others.
His first year in the U.S. Senate, he authored 152 bills and co-sponsored another 427. These included:
- the Coburn-Obama Government Transparency Act of 2006 (became law),
- The Lugar-Obama Nuclear Non-proliferation and Conventional Weapons Threat Reduction Act, (became law),
- The Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act, passed the Senate,
- The 2007 Government Ethics Bill, (became law),
- The Protection Against Excessive Executive Compensation Bill, (In committee)
Senator Clinton -- Senator Clinton's, who has served only one full term (6yrs.), and another year campaigning, has managed to author and pass into law, (20) twenty pieces of legislation.
1. Establish the Kate Mullany National Historic Site.
2. Support the goals and ideals of Better Hearing and Speech Month.
3. Recognize the Ellis Island Medal of Hon
4. Name courthouse after Thurgood Marshall.
5. Name courthouse after James L. Watson.
6. Name post office after Jonn A. O'Shea.
7. Designate Aug. 7, 2003, as National Purple Heart Recognition Day.
8. Support the goals and ideals of National Purple Heart Recognition Day.
9. Honor the life and legacy of Alexander Hamilton on the bicentennial of his death.
10. Congratulate the Syracuse Univ. Orange Men's Lacrosse Team on winning the championship.
11. Congratulate the Le Moyne College Dolphins Men's Lacrosse Team on winning the championship.
12. Establish the 225th Anniversary of the American Revolution Commemorative Program.
13. Name post office after Sergeant Riayan A. Tejeda.
14. Honor Shirley Chisholm for her service to the nation and express condolences on her death.
15. Honor John J. Downing, Brian Fahey, and Harry Ford, firefighters who lost their lives on duty.
Only five of Senator Clinton's bills are more substantive:
16. Extend period of unemployment assistance to victims of 9/11.
17. Pay for city projects in response to 9/11
18. Assist landmine victims in other countries.
19. Assist family caregivers in accessing affordable respite care.
20. Designate part of the National Forest System in Puerto Rico as protected in the wilderness preservation system.
In Conclusion, , you now have the facts straight from the Senate Records vault.
Posted by: shlomo amir | February 26, 2008 at 07:42 PM
To all Americans, watch out your voting to a wrong candidate who happens to be Barack Hussein Obama, a muslim. Please vote wisely. Hillary Clinton is the best candidate for Americans who can bring change and ready to lead the country.
I think americans are now stupid they don't look at the qualication and background of the candidate. You are forgetting that the muslim attacked your country. This will happen again if you elect Barack Obama for president, he's a weak leader.
Posted by: josephine | February 26, 2008 at 07:58 PM
Come on people. Name one this Hillary Clinton has accomplished. She has been pushing healthcare reform since the 90's. We still don't have healthcare reform. Can someone please list all of her accomplishments and experience. Please. I beg one of you intelligent comment writers to list it, so that way I will know. He doesn't have experience. We have experience now and look where it has this country. Nowhere! At least he has a message and it's not "shame on you."
Posted by: Deitra | February 26, 2008 at 08:03 PM
Time after time Billary is shooting into the gallery of the blind without hitting a single shot home... it is getting desparate and exhasperating, very unlady like if she wants to play the gender card, but most of all she acts like she doesn't get it that Obama has it and is bringing it home, because he has the vision to see this childish demeanor through; he is more chivalrous towards her that she is willing to accept; after all the ranting and raving there should be some resignation to accept to bow out and that he is what America needs to move forward; fighting across the aisle is not what we can afford for another four or more years. This is not doing us any favors as Americans in America or to save our image in the world. This drama needs to stop!
I'm sorry Hillary you had the notion you had it all and it was a dear mistake.
Posted by: JanWN | February 26, 2008 at 08:11 PM
Watching the debate tonight was a eye opener if you haven't made up your mind as to who you would support. I have to say Hillary is not presidential material! I felt the little segment where each candidate is seen giving some speeches was funny. Especially the one where Hillary is seen pontificating and gesturing as if the sky was about to open up. This was a clear "mocking" of Obama, which I believe was a stupid thing to do. Hillary is a "COLD" and devisive person. This is right after she says to the country that she is "honored" to be next to Obama. What a clown. You couldn't be more two-faced than what she has displayed. One thing about this whole primary season, it has revealed the true Hillary for the country and the world to see. And let me tell you, it is not good.
Posted by: Carlos | February 26, 2008 at 08:29 PM
Hillary just doesn't get it. her time has gone by she has pulled every stunt in the book and its not working. Go home to new york i bet they don't want you there either
Posted by: glp | February 26, 2008 at 08:33 PM
The media has helped to create the aura around Obama and McKain and has profoundly poked at everything Hillary. She has been pilloried and scrutinized for years. The lack of deference for a First Lady who was the first lawyer and person of substance in that role, who worked hard to evolve herself into her Senatorial seat deserves more respect. Though a clearly astute politician, Obama has not shown any original ideas. He is not close to being in her league. She started the healthcare conversation during the Clinton years, her passion and plan for Universal Healthcare are a keystone of who she is. As a woman President, she would be the better shift for this country: her plans are better, she does her homework..she will get healthcare thru and our country will be elevated because of it.
Posted by: LaurenR1 | February 26, 2008 at 09:25 PM
I am a little tired of people saying that this election is discriminatory, and that people are judging Hillary because she is a woman. This election is about who is the best candidate. Barack in his ability to inspire and his ability to appear presidential and substantive in this debate proved that. This is the reason that the younger generation is not thinking about this election in terms of who is black and who is white or who is male and who is female but who will be better able to unite this country and move foreword, not look back. If Hillary Clinton loses, it is not because she is a woman, it is because she was beaten by a better candidate. So, please stop trying to say that the person who was the heavy favorite for MANY MANY months is somehow the victim of unfair treatment.
Posted by: Matt W | February 26, 2008 at 09:33 PM
The democratic nomination may be proof that no matter what is actually said or done - the press will put the positive spin on Barack and the negative spin on Hillary. The press is making this nomination by repeating their message over and over to the public who will believe anything once it is repeated often enough. I fear this may be the year the press succeeded in molding public opinion and changing public opinion on something that was too important.
Or it could be we prefer someone who is more personable (form) over someone who is telling us what we need to hear and not just what we would like to hear (Hillary).
I am voting for HIllary because she is the only one of the Presidential candidates intelligent enough to understand complexity and offer solutions. We all have the choice to vote for consistency (Barack had to be pushed to reject Farrakhan's endorsement and is waffling on public financing) and substance.
Let's prove we Americans can think for ourselves and vote Hillary.
Posted by: Carrie | February 26, 2008 at 10:37 PM
Hillary's deepest resentment comes from her sense of entitlement and privelage going all the way back to her privileged origins on Chicago's North Shore. And her position is being challenged by whom? Someone who has lived and worked ,not on behalf of himself, but of others less fortunate from the wrong side of Chicago. Her reactions show all the bristling reaction of someone faced with the temerity of a Barack Obama to whom she is really saying: Keep in your place. The South Carolina primary wasn't just a watershed: it was a revelation and unmaksing of Hillary's real sentiments. Why doesn't she just come out and call Obama "boy".
Posted by: Barry | February 26, 2008 at 10:46 PM
Geez, I was so for Hillary at the beginning of this campaign... but over time just cannot stand her attacks and accusations .....her campaigns lame tactics use of both gender and race cards. Her campaign people are so so lame... Us Americans are a bit smarter than you think. I just can't stand it... and I for one do not want to see someone like this lead our country....
Posted by: Jenny | February 26, 2008 at 11:27 PM
she has anti charisma... a bad air about her...
Posted by: David lee | February 27, 2008 at 01:56 AM
I say let us all unite and get back at the media and vote up like crazy for Hillary. If we don't we are all going to rue the day voting for a man who is only half American and most Americans don't know anything about. People are just voting for him because of the prejudice media machine telling them to do so. Remenber the rich and shady people (and the media)who are backing Obama don't need to rely on hope and change so they can afford to put their money behind him. The rest of us cannot pay our bills on hope. Remember that when you have to pay the high tax bill he has presented. Be smart America and put your vote behind Hillary before its too late.
Posted by: BLOCKobama | February 27, 2008 at 02:07 AM
For cryin' out loud! Stop beating up on the little white girl!
Since when America allowed that kind of behavior toward our female citizens to go on without cryin' out loud for it to stop. So Stop! Stop criticizing Hillary. Yes, she beautifully spoke at the Black State of the Union Forum and where was Obama? He showed all yall Black folks something didn't he after he got your votes.
He told yall to kiss his ass and went on about his business and offered to send his black wife who could better blend in that "ghetto atmosphere." Too bad Michele isn't the one running for President instead of her husband. She and Hillary have guts.
Posted by: Concern | February 27, 2008 at 02:34 AM
The lair shall learn to speak the truth! This includes the Billary team, and friends.
May God bless us all, and restore our Souls from fear to Peace...
Obama/Edwards 2008
¡La guarida aprenderá hablar la verdad! Esto incluye al equipo de Billary, y a amigos. El dios de mayo nos bendice todos, y restaura nuestras almas del miedo a la paz... Obama/Edwards 2008
Posted by: Elijah | February 27, 2008 at 02:48 AM
Hillary is lost. We do not want an erratic person as President. The way she engage people (destroying others that don't listen her non sense), is distrative and not healthy for the Country.
I am Republican...but I will vote for Obama.
Yes we can!
Posted by: pedro | February 27, 2008 at 03:11 AM
What I see is a Hillary hellbent upon securing the nomination by fair means or foul. She obviously lacks Obama's people appeal and his perceived integrity. The more people see her, the less they like her. But no matter, she wants the nomination and she "deserves" the nomination and by George she'll never give up until the Party takes the nomination from her clenched teeth. Why does this woman want to run for President so bad? Does she not know that 45% of the nation's voters dislike her intently?
Posted by: Sooku | February 27, 2008 at 03:32 AM
Hillary is simply useless:
-she fails to accounts campaign funds entrusted by supporters.
-she readily throws blame at helpless subordinates for any losses.
-she failed as a First Lady when endowed with worldly resourses at White House to inspire Bill who had to turn to Monica.
-she readily steals credits at whatever cost to benefit herself. She stole the limelight at Texas debate by displaying crocodile tears for American victims devastated by roadside bombs abd snipers in Iraq war, which is of her own doing by giving vote to Bush going to war in Iraq.
-she is an oppurtunist of the highest order who readily changes position at whatever cost to benefit herself. Currently she is campaigning to rewrite NAFTA signed by Bill and denying that she had earlier supported NAFTA which has resulted thosands of jobs moving offshores from Texas and Ohio.
Posted by: ishak abdulhalim | February 27, 2008 at 04:00 AM
Interesting article in today's THE TIMES in London UK.
Posted by: politics12 | February 27, 2008 at 04:42 AM
Democrats need to start realizing that there is much at stake here, and crazy Clinton has a much poorer chance of winning a general election against Obama than does McCain. In that contest, I'd vote Nader. Dems in the coming contests need to favor electability in their decisions.
An independent woman (and independent thinker) who re-registered as a Democrat to vote for Obama, I will not vote for Clinton, even if she wins the nomination with the help of connected, establishment Dems in the guise of super-duper-delegates.
There are many of me out there. Clinton is not a woman of integrity. She is a narcissistic, power-mongering, obnoxious egomaniac. If she's elected, every decision will be based on whether it will get her reelected.
I want to see a woman president in my lifetime, but, please, not this woman. What an embarrassment to women. I would like to see Obama get a little tougher with her, and call it like it is, instead of being quite so gracious. But I guess his graciousness is why he'll be able to build a coalition to get things done, which she will not.
Posted by: teacher | February 27, 2008 at 05:59 AM
Correction:
Democrats need to start realizing that there is much at stake here, and crazy Clinton has a much poorer chance of winning a general election against McCain than does Obama. In that contest, I'd vote Nader. Dems in the coming contests need to favor electability in their decisions.
An independent woman (and independent thinker) who re-registered as a Democrat to vote for Obama, I will not vote for Clinton, even if she wins the nomination with the help of connected, establishment Dems in the guise of super-duper-delegates.
There are many of me out there. Clinton is not a woman of integrity. She is a narcissistic, power-mongering, obnoxious egomaniac. If she's elected, every decision will be based on whether it will get her reelected.
I want to see a woman president in my lifetime, but, please, not this woman. What an embarrassment to women. I would like to see Obama get a little tougher with her, and call it like it is, instead of being quite so gracious. But I guess his graciousness is why he'll be able to build a coalition to get things done, which she will not.
Posted by: teacher | February 27, 2008 at 06:03 AM
Hillary really pulls out all the stops when she accused the media of being tough on her. Poo hoo!!! Lets not forget the only reason she made it as far as she did is because she IS A WOMAN!!!!! If she were a man, would any of you white women so adamantly throw your support behind her??? No way, she was given a free pass to basically be coronated the Democratic presidential candidate, and had an Ex-president and the entire democratic machine behind her? What happened? Hillary happened. She is a total and utter fake, and the country sees it. The less exposure she gets the better, she is downright unlikeable, and ruthless. The more she talks, the worse it gets. Kind of funny, you can't make a pig into a racehorse.
And the whole experience bit. Does she really expect the world to believe that because she is a first lady, that it is the same as being president? And she has proven that she is unable to perform. The whole healthcare blunder, she blames the failure on the insurance lobby. Lets look at the facts, she had a democratic house and congress, and she was married the president!!!! The stars were all aligned!!!! How much more can you ask for? And she failed, because she can't get along with anyone, would be useless as a president. You can't make a pig into a racehorse, and she is proof.
Posted by: Sam | February 27, 2008 at 06:31 AM
Hillary looked and sounded her usual pathetic self. When she uses her plastic smile her face looks like it will crack at any minute. When she speaks her voice is shrill and annoying. I don't want to see that face or hear that voice for 4 yeas. It's over.
Clintons GO HOME!!!
Posted by: kathy walsh | February 27, 2008 at 07:10 AM
Calvin Coolidge had good reason to wear an Indian head dress--he was part Indian, a fact which he mentioned in his autobiography and of which he was proud. (As far as I know, he was the first president to state publicly his Native American heritage.) Indians were also grateful to Cal for on June 2, 1924, he signed legislation making them U.S. citizens. He used his executive authority on occasion to wave for civil service requirement so that Native Americans could assume goverment positions. The Coolidge administration followed a policy stressing education and assimilation, which unfortunately was abondoned under the New Deal.
Posted by: sage of oxford | February 27, 2008 at 07:46 AM
Dear Editor in Chief: The Los Angeles Times is quickly becoming the Fox News of the Democratic Party. The shift is obvious. In order to save the future reputation of the L.A. Times, I seriously suggest that the organization rethink its mission.
Posted by: Dean | February 27, 2008 at 08:25 AM
Regardless of Hillary's experience and ability, it's time the country moved past the Clinton-Bush era. A McCain-Obama election would present us with an entirely new choice. We could finally turn the page on a dark period of American politics.
Posted by: Hunt | February 27, 2008 at 08:43 AM
Hillary: going, going, gone!
Posted by: Mauricio Galvão Anderson | February 27, 2008 at 09:06 AM
Hillary voiced her opposition to President Bush's pardoning of Mr. Libby, she failed to voice her opposition to her husband as he handed out 140 Presidential Pardons on their last days in the White House. Is this the first-hand experience she garnered while she was in the White House?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Clinton_pardons_controversy
This list of Pardons include individuals charged with cocaine possession, cocaine distribution, bank fraud, medicaid fraud, tax evasion, wire fraud, tax evasion, securities fraud, armed robbery, etc etc..
http://www.usdoj.gov/opa/pardonchartlst.htm
According to Wikipedia, "In March 2000, Bill Clinton pardoned Edgar and Vonna Jo Gregory, owners of the carnival company United Shows International, for charges of bank fraud from a 1982 conviction (the couple were already out of jail, but the prior conviction prevented them from doing business transactions in certain states). First Lady Hillary Clinton's youngest brother, Tony Rodham, was an acquaintance of the Gregorys, and had lobbied Clinton on their behalf.[11] In October 2006, the group Judicial Watch filed a request with the U.S. Justice Department for an investigation, alleging that Rodham had received $107,000 from the Gregorys for the pardons, in the form of loans that were never repaid, as part of a quid pro quo scheme.[12]"
And what about the substantial donations to the Clinton Library and Hillary's senate Campaign by fugitive Mark Rich, who was pardoned by the Clintons...
Susan McDougal was pardoned for her role in the Whitewater scandal.
Roger Clinton, Bill's half-brother was pardoned on drug charges.
Does the Pardon process work or is it shamefully abused? What are Obama's thoughts on this topic?
Best regards,
James Miller
Posted by: James Miller | February 27, 2008 at 09:27 AM
Please, having a supporter hand her a pamphlet is "Karl Rove" type tactics? Did you write that? No, more like Karl Rove tactics is accepting the word of Matt Drudge that "the Clinton campaign was circulating" a picture that had already been on right-wing web sites. What Hillary did was react to a Harry & Louise-type smear, and what Obama said afterwards, that it is "entirely accurate," is Rove-like.
Here's what happened. 9 horses in the races, all perceived, at least, to Hillary's left. She moves left, forcing the pack to the rail. Obama made his move rounding the turn ON THE RIGHT; first, repeating Republican lies about Social Security, and then using the MSNBC liars to dredge up all the stuff about Bill and Hill that had been lying dormant because, after all, it was ten years ago. But the multimillionaire Reagan Democrats at MSNBC were partisans, as they proved again last night.
Rove? We'll see him in the general election. Hillary was defeated by typing her like they did with Gore, and Kerry: he or she is a flip-flopper, a liar, an unstable personality who WILL DO ANYTHING TO WIN; Obama will be Dukasisized: he's an alien to us, with swarthy skin and strange customs. You watch. That's Rove. If Obama supporters think that the Clintons have exhibited Rove-like tactics, they've got some big surprises coming. I certainly hope the Chicago pols behind Obama's campaign realize the difference. If they don't, they're sunk.
Posted by: Jim H | February 27, 2008 at 12:01 PM
@James Miller. Hey, everybody that Clinton pardoned had already faced a trial, or been sentenced and done their time. Even Mark Rich was pardoned if he returned and paid his civil fines. The uproar made it impossible for him to come home and accept the pardon. But hey, the press was outraged by this. On the other hand, Libby was looking at four years or so, and the question there was, will he give up Rove? The vice-president? The president? Bush, like his father, pardoned people in the middle of an active investigation that made it impossible to go after them as the criminals they are.
Bill's brother had done his time. Now he has his record expunged. The circus couple had done their time, and now can do business.
HW Bush pardoned the Iran-Contra conspirators while the special prosecutor was still in business and the target of the investigation was HW Bush. And he pardoned Armand Hammer, one of the sleaziest individuals to ever have a U.S. passport.
Posted by: Jim H | February 27, 2008 at 12:10 PM
Hillary's reference to the SNL skit on a debate was completely justified, and this blatantly biased opinion article is merely one additional proof of many others in the media. Shame on you, Los Angeles Times.
Posted by: Y10 | February 27, 2008 at 12:24 PM
When Obama becomes President, he will have to make a tremendous CHANGE. He will have to establish a new Cabinet Post. He must return to the Medivial Era and appoint his "Court Jester" to his cabinet. The person to be appointed must accept CHANGE and be ready for the first question: HRC.
Posted by: JB Perdomo | February 27, 2008 at 01:39 PM
"Regardless of Hillary's experience ..."
What experience?
As head of the assassination team that tried to trash the character of any woman who dared to expose BubbaJeff's sexual predations?
Posted by: Chuck | February 27, 2008 at 04:49 PM
Miss Hillary is toast.........she won't last to March 4th
Posted by: Vectorpedia (Rick) | February 28, 2008 at 05:15 AM