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Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Hillary Tries to Communicate Coldness, Inaccessibility Early in Race

Posted by: Mary Katharine Ham at 1:52 PM

I know people think I'm crazy, but I don't think Hillary's nearly as politically skillful as she's given credit for, and she's considerably more grating than anyone ever gives her credit for-- hence, not as big a threat as people think. I just can't imagine Americans listening to that robot-voice day in and day out for a year and then voting for listening to it for another four years.

Michelle Malkin notices a hint of Hillary's political skill:

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's presidential campaign excludedreporters for the Bay Area's two largest ethnic newspapers from afundraiser Friday at the Sheraton Palace Hotel -- a perceived snub thatled to days of harsh coverage...

...Reporters from Sing Tao and Chinese-language daily World Journal,as well as the smaller China Press were denied entry to the noonfundraiser.

It turned out that the three papers had not been included in themailing list for a press advisory sent out two days ahead thatinstructed media representatives to check in by 11:45 a.m. WorldJournal reporter Portia Li said she arrived about 10 minutes beforenoon.

Vote for Hillary! The coldness and inaccessibility will be as universal as the bad health care!

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Honesty is the best policy writes:	Thursday, March, 01, 2007 6:33 PM
CeeCee
I think you are right about Ann's popularity -- "whoa man! A hard core conservative female who likes guns! Add a NASCAR poster and I'm in heaven!' Just being a little sarcastic with the above but if a guy can't make a comment without qualifying it with some "positive" comment on how hot someone looks... well it is hard to take their posting very seriously. The comments about Michelle Malkin are so juvenile I can hardly stomach them. When she went to Iraq one of her fans actually posted something along the lines of "Be careful over there - we need you here to lead the way -- some people are more important than others and we can't afford to lose you" -- I guess the GI escorts were okay for injury but not Queen M.... I often wonder what guys would do if someone a little older or (arguably) less attractive (say Janet Reno) made a conversion to one party or the other. I bet they wouldn't get near the attention that the 30 something blog savvy women get. In one of the blogs from the CPAC they said there was a huge line of guys waiting to meet Malkin.
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JoJo writes:	Thursday, March, 01, 2007 6:14 PM
Moderate Hick
You're right, both sides have their share of Extremes..(Sounds like a Motown singing group)and each side thinks the other has more. I haven't been doing this long enough to notice bloggers choosing looks over ideas, but it fits and I believe it. what else could explain the giddy popularity of Ann Coulter?
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Honesty is the best policy writes:	Thursday, March, 01, 2007 3:22 PM
CeeCee
I agree with you to some degree but think that the same can be said for the leftie blog sites as well. The problem is that the "extremes" of both parties only love themselves and forget that 50-60% of the voters consider themselves moderate or slightly right or left of center. The blogs are a popularity contest in many ways. It is funny how the younger guys tend to pick the women bloggers based on looks (and often comment on the good looking "conservative" or "liberal"). Common themes are dark conspiracies (left has the whole Halliburton-Bush-Cheney planned 9/11 thing) and (right is buying into there are plans to make the north american continent one republic or Hillary wants to turn the country into a socialist state) Ach! Adult supervision - where is it in the blogosphere?
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JoJo writes:	Thursday, March, 01, 2007 12:24 PM
z-z-z-z-z
The reason these blogs get so boring is that the constant rail against liberals turns into an echo chamber of banal repitition and mutual validation of the usual canards. There are blogs today that accuse liberals of doing something evil with Whole Food Groceries, wanting to destroy the ten commandments, and wanting, as Coulter says, "wanting mass starvation and wholesale destruction." Why don't you all grow up and discuss real issues? It seems that the only way you have of shoring up your ideology and identity is by demonizing the left and then comparing yourselves to the babyish image you have created. If thisa forum were about real issues and ideas it could be genuinely interesting.
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Fiddler1 writes:	Wednesday, February, 28, 2007 3:09 PM
Hillary
Grating and politically myopic? Yup, sounds right to me.
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foobarista writes:	Wednesday, February, 28, 2007 2:28 PM
Nice move...
Those Chinese newspapers are widely read here in Silicon Valley. She's not well-loved here and could be broadsided by someone like Richardson or Obama in the primary if they make a few trips to the area if she's not careful. Richardson, in particular, is working hard to set up an organization here and Hillary better watch it. The WJ chiefly targets Mandarin-speakers with its regions, while Sing Tao targets Cantonese. One wonders if her campaign knows even this...
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