Day: January 4, 2008

Hillary gets booed at a Dem party dinner.

Hillary was twice booed. The first time was when she said she has always and will continue to work for “change for you. The audience, particularly from Obama supporters (they were waving Obama signs) let out a noise that sounded like a thousand people collectively groaning. The second time came a few minutes later when Clinton said: “The there are two big questions for voters in New Hampshire. One is: who will be ready to lead from day one? The second,” and here Clinton was forced to pause as boos from the crowd mixed with cheers from her own supporters. “Is who can we nominate who will go the distance against the Republicans?”

It’s gonna be a long weekend…

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2008 Election, Campaign, Hillary Clinton, New Hampshire

This, and this.

I hope we get our priorities straight one of these days. People tripping over themselves, putting others in danger, driving maniacally just to get one photo – we’re a lost society. There are so many important things happening in this world, and yet America is consumed by this sick girl. I hope she gets the help she needs, soon.

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Britney Spears, Kevin Federline, Paparazzi, Pop Culture

Hillary Clinton’s staff started dissing Iowa minutes after they were “wheels up” and on their way to New Hampshire. Here are just a few of the quotes:

“The worst thing would be to over count Iowa and its importance,” said chief strategist Mark Penn.

“Iowa doesn’t have a record of picking presidents.”

“Iowa is so small, it’s like a mayor’s race in a medium-sized city,” traveling press secretary Jay Carson said.

“It wouldn’t be wise to put too much emphasis on it (the Iowa Caucus).”

Wow. Way to go Hillary. Voters didn’t caucus for you, so what do you do? You minimize the value of their vote. How brilliant.

Come November, I think Iowans will have the last laugh.

More: “Now things’ll get nasty“.

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2008 Election, Campaign, Hillary Clinton, Iowa Caucus, Politics

Grab your kevlar and watch your back, Barack.

Hillary Clinton was on Friday planning an increased campaign role for her husband and more direct attacks on Barack Obama’s political inexperience as she battled to prevent her rival for the Democratic nomination building up an unstoppable momentum.

Her supporters recognised that she was fighting for survival as she headed into next Tuesday’s crucial New Hampshire primary, which she must now win to stop the Obama bandwagon from building on its striking success in Iowa on Thursday.

She promised to “sharpen the contrast” between herself and Mr Obama, particularly on economic policy where Clinton officials believe Mr Obama’s agenda is “most vague”.

“The stakes couldn’t be any higher,” Mrs Clinton said in an e-mail to supporters. “Events couldn’t be moving any faster. With everything on the line, let’s show them what we’re made of.”

Like shrapnel from a IED, Hillary’s surrogates will flood the airways this weekend with every amount of flak they can drum up in an attempt to wound the Obama campaign ahead of the primary in New Hampshire. While Hillary strives to “warm up” her personality and strengthen her likability percentage, she’ll need to simultaneously plot the coordinates of her attack on Barack. It’s risky warfare, to be sure. Unfortunately for Hillary, it’s much easier for her to be nasty with a stone-cold look and monotonous tone than it is to be convincing with a smile and folksy remark. New Hampshire knows it, and so does most of America. If she can’t pull out a win on January 8, her “inevitability” will be “history”.

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2008 Election, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, New Hampshire, Politics

When the truth comes out of the mouth of Bill Clinton, it’s worth noting.

ABC News’ Kate Snow Reports: Bill Clinton says his wife can be a “comeback kid” just like he was.

“Absolutely,” President Clinton said in a brief interview with ABC News.

“Remember I lost here,” Clinton added, referring to New Hampshire. (Bill Clinton placed second in New Hampshire in 1992 behind Paul Tsongas.)

He then quickly listed off his other losses from memory: “South Dakota, Maine, Maryland, Colorado, before I ever won a state,” he said.

So what can Hillary Clinton do to come back?

“Run that hard here,” said her husband. “She’s got a better profile here. They know more about her now than they did about me then. And I think she’ll be fine. We just get out and go.”

Bill Clinton did express one concern about the shortened time frame for campaigning in New Hampshire. New Hampshire’s primary is next Tuesday, January 8– just five days after the Iowa caucuses.

“I just wish we had ten days instead of five,” Clinton said.

And the truth is in that last sentence. In essence, Bill is signaling that New Hampshire could easily fall in the loss column for Hillary, and that there may not be enough time to turn that around. He has good reason to be concerned.

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2008 Election, Hillary Clinton, Politics, New Hampshire