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Clinton’s Personal Pitch

Desperate, the candidate tries to connect emotionally with voters.

By Suzanne Smalley | Newsweek Web Exclusive
Feb 22, 2008 | Updated: 3:47  p.m. ET Feb 22, 2008

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  • Posted By: Press Release @ 03/04/2008 4:58:13 AM

    Hillary is not who you think she is ...This is RAPE ...This is a Child... This is Wrong ....I can not voet for Hillary
    In 1975, a 27-year-old Hillary Rodham, acting as a court-appointed attorney, attacked the credibility of a 12-year-old girl in mounting an aggressive defense for an indigent client accused of rape in Arkansas - secured a lenient plea deal for Taylor after a New York-based forensics expert she hired "cast doubt on the evidentiary value of semen and blood samples collected by the sheriff's office."
    http://sweetness-light.com/archive/hillary-versus-the-allegedly-raped-child

  • Posted By: Johndavidprince @ 03/02/2008 3:01:33 PM

    When we give up Public control of what used to be the Commons we are giving up our Democracy, our Liberty, our Independence to set out own destiny. Thus we give up the ideal of "We the People" in the Preamble of the Constitution. Why should we move toward a Nation controlled by trilateral multinational corp's. and business instead of " We the People"? That is what I want to hear about in this ellection.

  • Posted By: Johndavidprince @ 03/02/2008 2:58:10 PM

    Cont: I fear we are loosing whaht makes us free; the control of the citizen over not only the government but the wonership of our Nation. Soviet Socialist Communism is when government has direct ownership of production and resources. Fascism is when industry or corporations own the gov't. and the commons. Our Representative Democracy allows the Citizen to have direct control or ownership of land, water, and law.

  • Posted By: Johndavidprince @ 03/02/2008 2:54:03 PM

    What we should be talking about more is Privatization and how it effects the Public Domain. The common ownership of our basic necessities is being privatized. Thus removing them from our control. Our water our mineral rights, our schools are either under threat or are being sold to the highest bidder. Do we still value what is Public, what is common to all citizens, our control of not only our homes and land but also the rivers and resurces around us?

  • Posted By: observer101 @ 02/27/2008 8:39:49 PM

    What debate?..nothing new...Ask her about Iraq she changes topics. I noticed how unnerved she looked when asked questions she didnt want answered..With an attitude like " How dare you commoner! ask me...QUEEN CLINTON ROYAL of NEW YORK those questions"...Now Obama blocked her silly attempts of trying to start her rhetoric w/ him. Hes really tactful in handling her bull....But Id still vote McCain!

    • Posted By: Jrmapu @ 02/29/2008 1:56:45 AM

      Did we see the wrong debate? She answered the Iraq question. Her healthcare is still one of the best. She's fine. She is so hated by many that no one can see this woman's integrity and her patriotism. I don't see Obama or McCain for that matter worrying about our youth. She has penned a plan for impoverished children. She wants to right what has been wrong all these years. And I think you are one of those people who are voting against Hillary getting the nomination. Than go over to McCain.

  • Posted By: observer101 @ 02/25/2008 11:19:39 AM

    Wow After todays Billary campaign stunt with the Obama Picture, she should really get the votes she wants. All they need now is a blue dress and an intern from Obamas staff , then the Clintons have this one in the bag....oh wait

    • Posted By: Jrmapu @ 02/25/2008 12:39:24 PM

      I hope for the sake of this country, the Clinton campaign is not responsible for this. That would be ashame. But oh well, this is politics. All of his laundry will be coming out. I'm pretty sure theres more and the media will be digging.

      • Posted By: observer101 @ 02/26/2008 3:43:03 PM

        Golly, you have the same reaction that hill probably had when she found out bill was a cheating freak..." I hope its not true...if it is oh weeellll".

        • Posted By: Jrmapu @ 02/29/2008 1:33:50 AM

          Dirty politics is what Obama is against but his team is doing it. That stunt is out of character for Hillary. That's all I'm saying. And YES oh welllllll.

  • Posted By: eddiewhere @ 02/28/2008 4:12:06 AM

    THIS DEBATE WAS NO DRAW. OBAMA CLEARLy WON THIS DEBATE. IT ACTUALLy WAS A LOT LIKE THE SATURDAy NIGHT LIVE SKIT. OBAMA GAVE TREMENDOUS ANWERS TO NUMEROUS QUESTIONS. HILLARy WAS COMpLAINING AND CUT OFF By COMMERICIAL BREAKS AND TIMMy RUSSERT. TIMMIy IS FUNNy GUy . HE MADE ME LAUGH THROUGHOUT THE DEBATE.
    HILLARy AppEARED WEAK ON NAFTA AND THE IRAQ WAR. OBAMA GAVE TREMENDOUS ANSWERS TO THESE ISSUES AND STOLE THE FOREIGN pOLICy ISSUE FROM HER.

    THE QUESTION CONCERNING HILLARy'S TAXES WAS THE TURNING pOINT FOR ME BECAUSE IT WILL SHOW THAT A LARGE pORTION OF THE MONEy THEy RECIEVED WAS FINANCED By INTERESTS IN DUBAI AND OTHER ARAB FINANCIERS. THIS IS A FACT,
    SHE CLEARLy WAS UNCOMFORTABLE WITH THE TAX ISSUE AND HAD A HARD TIME GIVING A STRAIGHT ANSWER.

    HILLARy'S MAIN pOINT IN THE DEBATE WAS THAT SHE WAS A FIGHTER. WHAT HAppENED,
    OBAMA TURNED IT AROUND ON HER By pOINTING OUT THAT SHE FOUGHT WITH FACTIONS WITHIN HER OWN pARTy AND EXCLUDED pEOpLE LIKE BRADLEy FROM THE DISCUSSION ON HEALTH CARE. HE pROVED THAT HILLARy'S FIGHTING ATTITUDE WILL NOT GET BILLS THROUGH BOTH HOUSES.

  • Posted By: Jrmapu @ 02/28/2008 12:38:21 AM

    The fat lady hasn't sung yet. Then and only then will it be over. I would lose respect for Hillary if she dropped out now. There is still hope AND she still have a chance. Obama has been getting a free ride. One more thing if people really like his xerox speeches, they'll love the xerox results. Hillary won Massachusettes for a reason even though the deck was stacked with the support of the Governor, John Kerry, and the Kennedy's (Caroline and Teddy) for Obama.

  • Posted By: ports @ 02/27/2008 9:34:50 PM

    Obama always speaks so haltingly with no sef assurance at all. Then comes out with something that shows he doesn't really k now what to say and is searching for words. This is on any subject. Hillary speaks with assurance and as though she knows her subjects well. That comes from experience. Say what you like, she does have much more knowledge than Obama and knows how to impart it to the questioner. observer101 is just a frustrated Republican trying to mess with the democrats because he knows that the democrats are going to take the White House next year. Sorry fella but as they say, "that's the way the cookie crumbles".

  • Posted By: observer101 @ 02/26/2008 3:51:19 PM

    Notice how when Bill starts talking (supporting his wife his loves so much that he sleeps with with other women to show her), that he always adds "When I am elected President again"...What the heck, I thought Hillary was running?

    • Posted By: ports @ 02/27/2008 4:05:10 AM

      That's a lot of milarkey. He has never said that. You are telling lies.

      • Posted By: observer101 @ 02/27/2008 9:04:16 PM

        Try youtubeing, Bill Clinton stumps for Hillary Clinton 1/26/08 Independence, Mo.

      • Posted By: observer101 @ 02/27/2008 8:33:33 PM

        You are blatantly ignorant and HAVE to be a paid Clintonite to be saying Bill never said that. He sure did.

  • Posted By: xjerseygirl @ 02/26/2008 5:49:32 PM

    Can someone please enumerate Clinton's challenges, as in her 'with all the challenges I've had'? Is she speaking of her wayward husband or what?

    • Posted By: observer101 @ 02/27/2008 9:02:15 PM

      Probably her mental challenges. Bad atittude, Defensive, crying ( like all presidential candidates do), then being nice, then defensive, then offensive...Those are the challenges she is probably referring to. Shes not exactly straight in the head with those tactics..And some ppl want this person as head of the most powerful nation in the world....Thats ludacris in itself.

  • Posted By: ports @ 02/27/2008 4:08:30 AM

    I watched the debate this evening and Hillary did a fantastic. This woman is certainly presidential material. She had her facts and stated them completely and articulately. She had to debate the questioners as well as Obama but she did a fantastic job handling both.

  • Posted By: bluethunder1962 @ 02/25/2008 2:52:12 PM

    Jrmapu, ports, GTX13, holyroller are all the same user. Look at this person???s use of language and same dullard arguments. Will the real user, please stand up. Please use just one posting name as we know you are going on these rants with different user names to create support for your own arguments. Get some help, man.

    • Posted By: observer101 @ 02/25/2008 4:28:22 PM

      I believe "ports" a wanna be woman. Ive seen several post of hers/his across different Newsweek comment areas. And they all seem to be the same rants under diff id's also....Must be a Clinton plant, sent to make there party look foolish somemore..Keep up the good work "ports".

      • Posted By: ports @ 02/25/2008 6:27:23 PM

        I am no ones "plant" as you accuse but thank you for the compliment.

        • Posted By: observer101 @ 02/26/2008 3:44:22 PM

          Im sure I can come up with more "COMPLIMENTS" for you. :)

      • Posted By: ports @ 02/25/2008 6:45:08 PM

        You just proved a point I have been trying to get through for some time now. Many people are so strongly against Hillary Clinton because she is a woman running for president and you would not vote for a woman. If a person expresses herself with any positive strength, she must be a he. I feel sorry for people like you. What it must be like living with such prejudices. Such hatred for the opposite sex. I just hope you don't have any children who have to grow us hearing your prejudices.

      • Posted By: bluethunder1962 @ 02/25/2008 4:48:15 PM

        O.k. I'll take ports off the list. The language and rants are fairly alike. However, the other three do have the same illogical rationale for their viewpoint and I'll bet they are the same person. I did hear that they have Clinton-paid trolls to go out and write posts like this. So, we'll see. I noticed that whenever a new article comes up they, after planting their nut job boms, take off with the speed of a bullet and start their same rhetoric. I hope she's paying them well, because I heard she's almost out of money.

    • Posted By: Jrmapu @ 02/25/2008 6:46:24 PM

      I just got home from work, you know the thing you have to do to live. I try to get on when I am home. I assure you I am as real as can be. You must be an Obama or McCain plant. Ummmm.

    • Posted By: ports @ 02/25/2008 3:11:08 PM

      It's called being educated. I teach. I want the best for the people that I love and for all Americans. Try it, you'll like it.

  • Posted By: ports @ 02/25/2008 7:36:08 PM

    Hillary's points are up in Ohio. This is going to bring out all the meanness in people and you will see a lot of it as in the following with trenton sims . Ohio and Texas, show the world that you have insight and vote for Hillary. You will not regret it. She is going to stabilize our economy and bring prosperity to all of us. Don't let the naysayers dissuade you. We have a great opportunity here to get back what we have lost. She is the one who can do it. Trust her and you won't regret it.

    • Posted By: observer101 @ 02/25/2008 8:22:05 PM

      Sure what ever...you are so delusional...Do you ever get off of here?...It seems you post every few minutes like you have no life...I rather enjoy seeing you go around spouting praises for a polititian that could care less about you or your rather mundane job of sitting on the net eating bons-bons, poking at the keyboard and swearing to the almighty Clinton bible "to do you best for Bill and HIS country"....wow.

      • Posted By: GTX13 @ 02/26/2008 12:22:04 AM

        THE POT CALLS THE KETTLE BLACK !!

      • Posted By: ports @ 02/25/2008 11:09:39 PM

        You seem to be on the internet pretty often yourself. I just wish you had something interesting to read. Your blog is pretty uninformed and repetitious. Not to mention, you seem to have a store of anger against the world.

    • Posted By: Jrmapu @ 02/25/2008 8:14:33 PM

      Also in Pennsylvannia....... Follow our lead America! Hillary is the hope for the future. Plus she is 100% American made. All her dirty laundry has been told time and time again. Obama's is just starting. So is his half-sister, and wife. You know the one that pronounced for the first time in her adult life she knows what it feels like to be American? What was she before than, oh yeah, one of Farrakkhan's followers. And still is for the last twenty years.

  • Posted By: eddiewhere @ 02/25/2008 8:35:54 AM

    LATINO'S ARE Loyal VOTERS. THEy WILL SAVE HILLARy . THERE IS GOING TO BE AN uproar because of the power and influence of the LATINO VOTE. THERE IS NO DOUBT HILLARy WILL WIN TEXAS AND OHIO.

    WHEN I THINK OF HILLARy I THINK OF My MOTHER. ROCK SOLID on my side no matter what. SOMEONE WHO KNOWS WHAT IS "GOING ON" AND ALWAyS HAS My BEST INTEREST AT HEART. I IDOLIZE MICHAEL JORDON. HOWEVER I WOULD VOTE FOR My MOM OVER MICHAEL JORDON. WHy I KNOW HER. MOST AMERICANS WOULD CHOOSE THEIR MOM OVER JORDON FOR president

    • Posted By: shelobo @ 02/26/2008 2:42:26 PM

      READ HERE just how much the Clintons cared about the hispanics and cubans and other defenseless young WOMEN......http://foro.univision.com/univision/board/print?board.id=wqba&message.id=28344&page=1&format=all,and ........and she says she is for the women ,really ,NOT true ,as this site is a UNIVISION site ,and they posted it back in 1999 ,WHY suddenly is UNIVISON for the Clintons (Univision donated to her campaign this time around ),when in 1999 they exsposed the dark side of them and their FRIENDS?Latinos every where need to be leary of the devil masquradeing as as their savior !!!!

  • Posted By: shelobo @ 02/26/2008 2:37:21 PM

    Texas and Voters all over America need to REMEMBER ,the tears are on automatic when it comes to HILLARY,when it comes to politics there are none .Back in 1999 there was a incident concerning the Clintons and their corrupted evil friends and the trafficking of women by their friends......read it at (UNIVISION....,http://foro.univision.com/univision/board/print?board.id=wqba&message.id=28344&page=1&format=all,and )who BTW is listed as one of her campaign donors !!I am a Texan and I care about the HUMAN side of politics ,and the dark side of politics !!Shouldn't ANY candidate be focusing on the issues and the facts concerning the Clintons years in power ,after all ,if we get her we once AGAIN get Bill.America has lost the american dream all in the name of NAFTA ,the votes of YES to this war !!Where are Hillarys tears for the people in Ohio and Texas's JOBS,loss of their homes and mainly the DEATHS OF YOUNG AMERICANS in this war, that their survivors have no dream now because SHE DID VOTE YES ALONG WITH MANY OTHER POLITICANS !! WAKE up Texas and Ohio and AMERICA,it's not about HER tears ,it's all about OUR TEARS!!!

  • Posted By: Jrmapu @ 02/26/2008 12:54:19 AM

    Here's a comment for Hillary believers:
    The fat lady hasn't sung yet. Then and only then will it be over. I would lose respect for Hillary if she dropped out now. There is still hope AND she still have a chance. Obama has been getting a free ride. One more thing if people really like his xerox speeches, they'll love the xerox results. Hillary won Massachusettes for a reason even though the deck was stacked with the support of the Governor, John Kerry, and the Kennedy's (Caroline and Teddy) for Obama.

  • Posted By: observer101 @ 02/25/2008 8:38:34 PM

    I scrolled down and saw another post "ports" made". My response to you is I could care less if a woman was elected for President. As long as she was a truthful serious straight talking candidate. Not some waffler, that changes what she believes depending on what state she is in. And the fact that a would be President would sit and cry to get want she wants?...Gimme a break. Thats a sad example for ANY candidate to be setting. The problem is that She expected in the beginning to be a shoe in for the nomination and when she found out she had to actually be truthful and WORK to get the votes, she realized she had some serious competition and cried and threw fits. Notice how hardly anyone bought into it later....Well except you Ports....So to stick it to you again...I would vote for a woman as long as it isnt her, WHINING, TWO FACED, LYING, DESPERATE butt.

    • Posted By: ports @ 02/25/2008 11:06:24 PM

      Since all that you can do is talk offensively, no one can take what you say very seriously. You just don't matter.

      • Posted By: GTX13 @ 02/26/2008 12:44:23 AM

        DON'T COUNT YOUR CHICKENS BEFORE THEY ARE HATCHED !!!...

  • Posted By: Trenton Sims @ 02/25/2008 7:05:39 PM

    On SUNDAY??
    OH No She Didn't.??

    SHAME ON YOU HOLLARY !!!
    For Todays (SUNDAY) Sacrelege, blasphemy, and Atheism..
    Mocking the Christian belief in Salvation.
    Poking fun and Sarcasm at Believing that Heaven can Open up the sky to those who believe. Laughing at the notion that there are Celestial Angelic Choirs in the Heavens, Hurling sarcasm at those who would believe they can hear. Laughing at Hope.. Laughing at GOD..!!!
    Hillary..Can you say Moses?
    Did he not part the Red Sea and free his people from the Pharoh?
    Who are you Hillary Rodham to tell us all not to believe that all things are possible through our Lord Our God?
    It is dillusional to Hope The Lord God would ever extend his ever redeeming, ever forgiving ever everlasting Love to Our Nation? To America and her United States Citizens??
    Its dillusional On SUNDAY to think this could be possible ?? 2/24/08
    One thing is certain..It won't be possible under your leadership. You are a non-believer.
    I suppose that deceased Dallas Police Officers family should abandon any HOPE for his Salvation. His life was lost performing a difficult and demanding job too. There aint NO GOD coming for him either. Right Hillary??
    May God have mercy on your immortal soul Hillary Rodham.
    SHAME ON YOU HILLARY RODHAM
    The Lord works in mysterious ways....
    And today God exposed your true dark soul to the world. And In so doing, the Nation and the World will be better served.

    • Posted By: GTX13 @ 02/26/2008 12:11:00 AM

      SORRY, YOU MAY NOT BE A CHRISTIAN AS YOU TALK ! PROBABLE YOUR MASTER IS A LUCIFER ! MANY WORDS WILL FILL A BUSHEL ! BUT FOR SURE THE HELL IS PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS !!!

    • Posted By: Jrmapu @ 02/25/2008 8:02:50 PM

      May that police officer and his family find peace at this time of thier loss. Shame on you TrentonSims. This is a family in morning. God does work in mysterious ways and if it is his will that our country be sacrificed at the hands of Farrakkhan through Obama than so be it. At least with the republicans we know we will be at war. With Obama and his "speeches", doublespeak, stumbles, and his lack of knowledge of the real issues, we are waiting ducks to be shot.

    • Posted By: ports @ 02/25/2008 7:31:31 PM

      The only blasphemous person here is you. Poking fun? Just what is it you are doing if not poking fun at someone else's beliefs. What lies you tell to further your goals. What happened to the facts? Or are you incapable of stating them. It is obvious that you are incapable of the truth. If you cannot debate with truths, you are useless to anyone. We all know what you are. Anyone reading your "baloney" knows it too.

  • Posted By: ports @ 02/25/2008 6:51:27 PM

    I have watched Hillary Clinton and her campaign over the last few weeks and I am very I am more than ever convinced that she is the person who will help our country out of it's woes. It is time to show her that the nation is backing her . We need the kind of leadership that will give us health care, an end to the war and great economic strength. I cannot even imagine the problems what we will have if she weren't are the helm when this is over. I strongly believe she is the only candidate who will give us all of that.

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