The Weaknesses Of Hillary Clinton
Posted at 7:20pm on Nov. 14, 2007 Howard Fineman Strikes Again
By Dan McLaughlin
Howard Fineman weighs in with a column that makes an important point - that Hillary's mirthless, control-freak nature runs the risk of seriously alienating voters. But Fineman's column has some really horrendous howlers:
1. I missed the part where McCain got waterboarded by Karl Rove. Did the media not cover that episode?
2. Fineman also misses the point that Hillary's 1992 coverup of Whitewater (and of the futures-contract issue) was successful; one more scandal in 1992 might have been too much. I'm sure the Clintons preferred dealing with Bob Fiske and Ken Starr to not being president.
3. Fineman spins the Gore-like tale of the mythical likeable Hillary who exists, like Snuffalupagus, only when not observed.
Posted at 2:52am on Nov. 1, 2007 In Which Republicans Learn Something Valuable
By Pejman Yousefzadeh
I didn't watch Tuesday night's debate between the Democratic Presidential candidates, but it appears that Hillary Clinton had quite the bad night:
We now know something that we did not know before: When Hillary Clinton has a bad night, she really has a bad night.
In a debate against six Democratic opponents at Drexel University here Tuesday, Clinton gave the worst performance of her entire campaign.
It was not just that her answer about whether illegal immigrants should be issued driver's licenses was at best incomprehensible and at worst misleading.
It was that for two hours she dodged and weaved, parsed and stonewalled.
And when it was over, both the Barack Obama and John Edwards campaigns signaled that in the weeks ahead they intend to hammer home a simple message: Hillary Clinton does not say what she means or mean what she says.
And she gave them plenty of ammunition Tuesday night.
Asked whether she still agrees with New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer's plan to give driver's licenses to illegal immigrants, Clinton launched into a long, complicated defense of it.
But when Chris Dodd attacked the idea a moment later, Clinton quickly said: "I did not say that it should be done."
Read the whole thing. Indeed, Senator Clinton found herself caught between a rock and a hard place on the issue and she lost points thanks to the inconsistent way in which she gave answers as well as her general tone and demeanor.
Read on . . .
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