Comments on: Hillary Clinton: The Teflon Candidate?

Democratic Presidential Hopeful Continues To Slip Rivals' Punches

[iceman_1960]

RE: Post by AJMarine1 at 05:04 AM : Sep 28, 2007

That was below the belt on my part. I apologize.

I sank to the level of the Swift Boat crowd with that one.

[vet_sk]

She''ll never get the progessive vote. I say let the country die fast and perhaps all the internal organs won''t die - and then perhaps a good shock will wake us up and we''ll put this country back together.

...this why the country continue to spend and kill - but oh, yeah, no one hardly pays attention with their IPODS...and Iraq is 8 time zones away.

[ajmarine1]

Before that, Laura Bush made history by becoming the first First Lady with a verified vehicular homicide on her personal record.

Posted by Iceman_1960

According to the two-page accident report released Wednesday by the city of Midland, Laura Welch was driving her Chevrolet sedan on a clear night shortly after 8 p.m. on Nov. 6, 1963, when she drove into an intersection and struck a Corvair sedan driven by 17-year-old Michael Douglas.

Although previous news accounts have reported Douglas was thrown from the car and broke his neck, those details were not in the report.

The speed of Laura Bush''s car was illegible on the report. The speed limit for the road was 55.

Neither driver was drinking, the police report said.

Laura Bush and her passenger, Judy *****, also 17, were taken to a hospital and treated for minor injuries, according to an accident account printed at the time in the Midland Reporter-Telegram.

The police report indicates no charges were filed. That section of the report was left blank.

``As far as we know, no charges were filed,'''' said Midland city attorney Keith Stretcher. ``I don''t think it''s unusual that charges weren''t filed.''''

The police report was released after an open records request was submitted to Midland officials in March. City officials had declined to release the records because the victims were under 18.

She was only 17.

[iceman_1960]

"She is also super-calculating"
- Posted by AJMarine1 at 04:56 AM : Sep 28, 2007

That will come in handy on Super Tuesday.

Too bad Dubya wasn''t super-calculating when he "planned" the Iraq War.

"A further drawback is the Iraq war, which she supported in the crucial Congressional vote of October 2002. To the disappointment of liberals, she has thus far refused to disavow that vote."
- Posted by AJMarine1 at 04:56 AM : Sep 28, 2007

Not true.

Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2005
Hillary Clinton: Iraq War Vote a Mistake

For the first time since she voted to authorize the Iraq war three years ago, 2008 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton is now saying that vote was a mistake.

"If Congress had been asked [to authorize the war], based on what we know now, we never would have agreed," Clinton said, in an email sent to her supporters on Tuesday.

While saying she took full responsibility for her error, Clinton repeatedly insisted that she had been misled by "false" intelligence on Iraq''s weapons of mass destruction presented by the Bush administration."

Source (and shame on me for quoting these bums):

http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/11/29/195654.shtml

[iceman_1960]

"...on January 26, 1996, Clinton made history by becoming the first First Lady to be subpoenaed to testify before a Federal grand jury..."
- Posted by AJMarine1 at 03:19 AM : Sep 28, 2007

Not bad. She''ll also make history when she becomes the first First Lady to become President.

Before that, Laura Bush made history by becoming the first First Lady with a verified vehicular homicide on her personal record.

[ajmarine1]

If anything, the fact that Hillary is a woman is probably a plus. But she can come across as too cerebral, lacking her husband''s ability to connect emotionally with voters.

She can also seem super-calculating, a politician who changes her positions less out of conviction than opportunism. That factor could play in particular into the hands of Obama, who will portray himself as a "new" politician, unsullied by the partisan political fray.

A further drawback is the Iraq war, which she supported in the crucial Congressional vote of October 2002. To the disappointment of liberals, she has thus far refused to disavow that vote.

Then there is Bill: spouse, informal adviser-in-chief, and the most gifted natural US politician of his era. None has a better sense of the electorate - but none is more scandal-prone. If he is caught playing the field again, not only would that be a huge distraction to Hillary''s campaign. It would remind voters of the Clinton marital psychodrama that played out in the Paula Jones/Monica Lewinsky sagas. Do Americans want to go through that again? That is why even some Democrats fear she is too divisive to be elected

[iceman_1960]

"SFTodd:
"Just a suggestion." is not a complete sentence."
- Posted by namesnames at 03:44 AM : Sep 28, 2007

That''s why I gave up reading Shakespeare. All those sentence fragments of his !

"Nothing, my Lord."
"Nothing?"
"Nothing."
- King Lear

Sentence fragments. Can''t stand them. Never could.

[cleossis]

dutch farmer this is for you gone are the days of women in the kitchen. It is high time our country have a woman president. She is tough to stand in front of all these male that can just critise her but she is like a rock. She is the best candidate so far we have seen and she will be the best president ever no doubt. We all women should stand up and vote for her only our vote can get her where she can do something good for not just women but all of her children too. Men have always called women names to bring her down so they look machos. i read some comment calling her ho and a woman to be in kitchen these men do not even respect their own mother so their opinion will dont matter much anyway

[iceman_1960]

Hillary Clinton will be our next President.

More women will automatically vote for a reasonably qualified female candidate, than will admit that now to pollsters.

Even without that, she has extended her lead over the GOP candidates, even in several Southern states.

She will be our next President. And I predict she''ll turn out to be a very good one.

[namesnames]

Dutchfarmer -- I think you meant "into the kitchen" -- perhaps you could learn English before volunteering your intelligent opinions? Just a suggestion.

Posted by SFTodd at 01:00 AM : Sep 28, 2007

SFTodd:
"Just a suggestion." is not a complete sentence.