Clinton Says She's the Goldilocks of the Presidential Campaign

By: Fernando Suarez
Topics: Hillary Clinton

(CBS)

From CBS News' Fernando Suarez:

BROWNSBURG, IND. -- Hillary Clinton said she often feels like she's in the middle of her two male opponents, Barack Obama and John McCain. "You know, Senator Obama says 'we shouldn't do it' and 'it's a gimmick,' and Senator McCain says 'we should do it but we shouldn't pay for it,'" said Clinton in response to a woman who had concerns over the long term solutions to the gas-tax holiday. "Sometimes I feel like the Goldilocks of this campaign, not too much, not too little, just right," she said to laughter and applause.

Clinton was holding a small event targeted towards working families and women voters in a town 45 minutes outside Indianapolis. She was joined on stage by her daughter Chelsea and her mother Dorothy. Clinton said she is "incredibly overcome" when she listens to her daughter introduce her at rallies.

"Just as I'm listening to Chelsea talk about me, and of course it makes me incredibly overcome by the feeling that I think that every parent does, you look at someone who is all grown up, who is actually talking and expressing her own opinions and you can't help but think of all these pictures flashing through your head like her being born, her being a little girl, her graduating from high school and college and all of those milestones," she said as Chelsea looked on.

Toward the end of the event, Clinton's voice began to grow so hoarse that she handed the microphone to Chelsea to answer a question about health care. Clinton asked her daughter to explain her plan, something that came easily to her as she has been out campaigning for her mother for months now.

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by wikkidinsane May 3, 2008 1:08 AM EDT: Hillary Clinton advisor MICKEY KANTOR calling indiana voters sh^t
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fFZaVlUKzM; Reply to this comment


by phylblade May 1, 2008 11:09 PM EDT: So now some fool is making reparations part of BObama''s campaign? Must be one of those Republicans in African-American clothing...Rush, did you hire this one?; Reply to this comment


by oaklynne May 1, 2008 9:09 PM EDT: So she''s moved from being Rocky Balboa to being Goldilocks??? That''s rich. Her life is one big fiction.; Reply to this comment


by txgrouch2004 May 1, 2008 9:08 PM EDT: Two reasons to vote AGAINST HILLARY:

She SHOT A DUCK.

She STILL THINKS SHE''S WINNING.

Wake up, Goldilocks. Stop dreaming, NAP TIME IS OVER!!!; Reply to this comment


by txgrouch2004 May 1, 2008 9:06 PM EDT: Isn''t Goldilocks the one who walked into someone else''s house, ate their food, and slept on their beds AND SPENT HALF THE STORY COMPLAINING - yah THAT''S HILLARY! LOL!; Reply to this comment


by obambi May 1, 2008 7:04 PM EDT: Obama was sent in as a hired spoiler. He is "Bush-lite", light weight know-nothing metrosexual that is even George Bush has more political weight and substance. Too bad Jeremiah Wright came along and spoiled his spoiling of the Clinton campaign.; Reply to this comment


by beowawe09 May 1, 2008 6:31 PM EDT: Goldilocks?? this is hilarious - not a nice character in any version of the story

http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/goldilocks/notes.html; Reply to this comment


by obamasgranny May 1, 2008 6:23 PM EDT: I really feel for all of the Obama-bots!! I mean this guy is so weak and now to have lied so many times about his spiritual mentor,..God bless you people!! I understand how hard it must be to try and continue the attacks on Hillary because you feel like you have been duped by Obama!! Obama is WAY too weak to ever be elected,...but you Obama supporters are too weak to admit your mistake so you continue to support a lost cause,...Oh well,..live and learn!!

Bad Obama-Bots!! No Kool-Aid for you!!; Reply to this comment


by beowawe09 May 1, 2008 6:20 PM EDT: Goldilocks?? this is hilarious - not a nice character in any version of the story

http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/goldilocks/notes.html; Reply to this comment


by nonesoblind May 1, 2008 6:07 PM EDT: She really is good...at twisted, cynical tactics.

Goldilocks subtext: wide-eyed innocent, (white) blondie girl, who conjures up our uncomplicated, easy childhood days....

C''mon, Indiana, don''t let her insult your intelligence. Don''t let her play you like you''re simply the unsophisticated masses she can manipulate for a vote.

This is a presidential election! We need honest, facts-based discourse, not this game-playing where she changes the rules as it suits her.

We cannot afford a president who lies, who then lies about lying, who changes the rules in the middle of the game, who accuses others of what she''s guilty of to deflect attention, and the list goes on.

If she behaves in such a morally bankrupt way now, what kinds of abuse of power would be subjected to under a Clinton presidency? We cannot afford to find out...again.

Indiana, please do the right thing and vote for the superior candidate, Obama.; Reply to this comment