Is Bill Hurting Hill?
Democrats around the country are all in a tizzy trying to decide whether Bill is hurting or helping Hill.
Democrats inside and outside the Clinton campaign on Sunday debated and in some cases bemoaned the degree to which former President Bill Clinton’s criticism of Senator Barack Obama last week had inflicted lasting damage on his wife’s presidential candidacy.
“I think his harsh style hurt Senator Clinton — it polarized the campaign and polarized the electorate, and it also made it harder for Senator Clinton’s positive message to break through,” said Celinda Lake, a Democratic strategist and pollster who is not affiliated with any of the candidates.
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign team, seeking to readjust after her lopsided defeat in South Carolina and amid a sense among many Democrats that Mr. Clinton had injected himself clumsily into the race, will try to shift the former president back into the sunnier, supportive-spouse role that he played before Mrs. Clinton’s loss in the Iowa caucuses, Clinton advisers said.
But Democrats said it was not clear whether the effects of Mr. Clinton’s high profile could be brushed away by having him modulate his campaign style. They said Mr. Clinton had upset some of the central themes of Mrs. Clinton’s campaign, including her appeal to women and her assertions that her time in the White House during the 1990s amounted to vital experience rather than a link to a presidency defined as much by scandal and partisan divisions as by its successes on fronts like the economy.
Despite Mrs. Clinton’s months-long efforts to build a base of support among women, Clinton advisers said they were concerned that her husband’s recent prominence may have dampened her appeal as a strong female leader. Some advisers said they feared as much after Mr. Obama won 54 percent of the vote from women in South Carolina, including 22 percent of white women and 78 percent of black women, according to polls.
Echoing private remarks by some Clinton advisers, Linda L. Fowler, a professor of government at Dartmouth College, said in an interview that she believed Mr. Clinton’s attacks on Mr. Obama had hurt Mrs. Clinton.
“Voters don’t like the idea of a co-presidency, and he became so high profile that he made people begin to see this as a possible co-presidency,” Ms. Fowler said. “It’s even more problematic because she’s a woman. It looks like she either needs him to fight the big battles for her, or she can’t keep the big dog on the porch.”
Excuse me, but I thought we had already had a co-presidency and the people were thrilled with it. This is part of Hill’s 35 years of experience she touts at every opportunity.
The problem is Obama. Hill thinks it’s her right to get the nomination and the presidency because of who she married, and Obama has the audacity to challenge her and when attacked by the former president, attacks him too.
This is sacrelige in the Democratic party.
Now the Clinton lovers from the nineties are just seeing what low down scum these two are and what they would do to get back into the White House. (Do you suppose they stashed some gold in a hidden passageway and need to get back to get it?)
These two have been thugs all their political lives and now the Democrats are just seeing it for themselves. Of course, some still think they are wonderful and Bill was indicted for having oral sex and not for lying to a grand jury.
It’s good to see them open their eyes to what mistake they would be making by putting Billary back in the Oval Office.
As the article says, they bring back memories Democrats would rather forget.
She may get her coronation at the Democratic convention yet, but if she does I believe the crown will be a bit crooked on her head.
If we make the same mistake of putting this couple back into power that we made in 1992 for eight years then we deserve all the grief we will get.
Insurance will be mandatory for everyone and will be subsidized by the government. If you choose not to participate you will be fined. Isn’t that just wonderful?
Osama bin Laden, though not yet caught by the Bush administration, will feel free again to attack whenever he wishes because he knows with Billary in office he will be treated as a criminal and not as the terrorist he is.
How many ships will he blow up, how many more planes will he turn into bombs in our cities before we realize we have gone back to the future and it’s not what we thought?
Maybe it’s strange to pray someone doesn’t get in office, but I pray every day that Hillary will not be our president. If she loses this time she can hang it up because she won’t be able to keep up the pace forever.
So, do you think the excuse for putting Bill back into mothballs will be that he’s sick and he insists she still continue with her duty to become president? He doesn’t look well, and his red-faced tantrums that are coming fast and furious are not helping him any.
Just remember the scandals of the nineties and decide if you want to go there again. If you want change, you’re going to get change because the Bush Administration will be history as of noon January 20, 2009.
Written by ~J~
Mar Says:
January 28th, 2008 at 7:14 amVisit Mar
Here we go again with the Clinton hate machine. I’ll be so glad when we’ll all have something to talk about besides this election. It will certainly be a blessing to see a Democrat in the Oval Office after 8yrs. of a do nothing Administration. Just my thoughts!
~J~ Says:
January 28th, 2008 at 2:56 pmVisit ~J~
It might be going again with the Clinton Hate Machine, but many of your fellow Democrats are just as worried about the Clintons as you are happy with them.
Cal Says:
January 30th, 2008 at 5:03 amVisit Cal
Obama supporters might want you to think that but it couldn’t further from the truth.
Happy Birthday Mar.
Sue Says:
January 30th, 2008 at 9:08 amVisit Sue
Hi Cal. Hope all is well with you!
Mar Says:
January 30th, 2008 at 10:18 amVisit Mar
I didn’t mention it. Thank you anyway.