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Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Hillary's 'Just a Girl' Sputtering Over Spitzer
Posted by: Mary Katharine Ham at 8:50 AM

The most important minutes of the debate?


The couple in which Hillary really sounded like a fool over the Spitzer license fiasco. She was flustered, she was incomprehensible, she was exceptionally shrill, and transparent enough in her clumsy dodging that she had the entire audience laughing at her by the end of the question.

Where was the vaunted Clinton calculation, the suave political acumen? As with many things about the Clintons, it's always been a bit overblown.

Now, in defense mode, and surprised by Tim Russert's tough questioning (which I wrote about in my column), Hillary advisers are now crying foul, saying Russert was "borderline unprofessional" in his attempts to get Hillary to actually answer questions. Yesterday, her website was posting missives from Obama's campaign, trying to stick him with the "going negative" label before the debate even started.

Newsflash, Hill. You're a front-runner, and if you can't take the occasional hard question the liberal MSM manages to wring from its agenda-driven coverage, you're in over your head. And, you look it.

Is she really gonna play the "I'm just a girl" card so obviously? I've never liked her, but I figured she was tougher than that. Not when the going gets rough, apparently. And, it's rough, even according to the media.

Time sticks her behind Edwards, Obama, Biden, Dodd, and Richardson in their assessment. Ouch. C- for the lady:
The failure of her performance was cumulative, however, so only those watching the whole debate would see how weak her evening was. If she loses the nomination, tonight will go down in history as the first step to her defeat — no fatal "Dean Scream" catastrophe, but far from her finest moment, to say the least.
Hill showed tremendous potential for crumbling under pressure last night, and the Democrat field as a whole was largely strident, stilted and mostly humorless. I'm now feeling kinda pumped to see her up against a Republican nominee.
This is for you, Hill.



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lge writes: Saturday, November, 03, 2007 2:02 AM
Hillary, Parsing and Moaning
First she tap-dances around the issue for a few minutes, and makes everyone "parse" her meaning (i.e., try to figure it out).

Then she whines and moans about how everybody's picking on her, it's a vast left-wing conspiracy, it's a "gotcha" moment if a moderator asks her a question.

"Oh these boys won't let me be. Poor, poor, pitiful me. Woe, woe is me."
'Tis Himself writes: Wednesday, October, 31, 2007 3:47 PM
The real For the Ages mystery...
... of this campaign is how Hillary's FX people get her to look so good for these debates. Tomorrow she'll be looking like her Brunhilda self again but somehow they pull these miraculous transformations for the debates.
There has to be a few exsanguinated prepubescent girls around someplace...
one hot minute writes: Wednesday, October, 31, 2007 2:32 PM
clarification

I meant to write, "They won't identify the EXISTENCE OF Islamo-fascists which there's enormous evidence of..."
one hot minute writes: Wednesday, October, 31, 2007 12:59 PM
Amnesty for space aliens !

These people were actually talking about space aliens in a presidential debate.
They won't identify the Islamo-fascists which there's enormous evidence of, but they WILL talk about little green men in flying saucers !
By the way, you just know the Dems would favor giving amnesty to the space aliens.

Did you see Hillary's deer-in-the-headlights look in her eyes when she was getting attacked by Obama, Johnny $400 Haircut, etc. ?

I love it.
She's thin-skinned, and she's in the wrong line of work.

This is why we want her to be the Donkey nominee.
We're going to carve her up like a Thanksgiving turkey.

tdau1997 writes: Wednesday, October, 31, 2007 10:07 AM
I enjoyed that...
the write-up and the article were good. Thanks for taking one for the team.
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