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07 Mar 2006 03:02:07 PM |
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Hillarylies and scams |
'Angry' Hillary Clinton Plays Gender Victim
Breaking from NewsMax.com
Responding to Republican claims that she may be too angry to win national
office, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton told an audience Monday to wear such
criticism as "a badge of honor" and suggested that gender played a role in
the attacks.
"When you run as a Democrat, and in particular, when you run as a Democratic
woman, whether you're running at the local, state or national level, it's
likely you're going to draw some unfriendly fire," Clinton said at a
breakfast fund-raiser hosted by black and Hispanic women supporters. "People
will be attacking you instead of your ideas; they mayimpugn your patriotism;
they may even say you're angry."
She added, "If they do that, wear it as a badge of honor, because you know
what? There are lots of things that we should be angry and outraged about
these days." She cited, among other things, the federal budget deficit,
lobbying scandals in Washington, and the government's slow response to the
Hurricane Katrina disaster.
It was the latest volley in a rhetorical back-and-forth between Clinton and
leading GOP strategists that began last month, when Republican National
Committee Chairman Ken Mehlman said Clinton "seems to have a lot of anger"
and that American voters tend not to elect angry candidates.
He pointed to comments Clinton made on Martin Luther King Day, when she
called the Bush administration "one of the worst" in history, and compared
the Republican-controlled House to a plantation.
Top White House strategist Karl Rove later echoed that view, telling
Washington Times reporter Bill Sammon in a new book that Clinton could have
trouble winning the White House because there is a "brittleness about her."
Clinton, who has not yet said whether she's considering a presidential run
in 2008, has responded in various ways. At first, she called the attacks a
diversion from Republican "failures and shortcomings." And in a radio
interview last week, she said "Karl Rove spends a lot of time obsessing
about me," suggesting he spends more time thinking about her political
future than she did.
Until now, she has not said she considered any of the criticisms
gender-based, although many observers have done so.
They include New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, who said Republicans
"are casting Hillary Clinton as an angry woman, a she-monster melding images
of Medea, the Furies, harpies, and a knife-wielding Glenn Close in 'Fatal
Attraction.'"
Ross Baker, a political scientist at Rutgers University, said he agreed with
Clinton's assessment but questioned whether she should have said anything.
"I think she's right, but whether or not it was prudent to acknowledge it
this way is another thing," Baker said. "I think another politician might
have dealt with it more humorously, to defuse its influence."
For her part, Republican National Committee spokeswoman Tara Wall declined
to address the suggestion gender played a role in the attacks.
"When you vote to consistently raise people's taxes, vote against
common-sense judicial nominees and use Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday to
divide Americans along racial lines, you're likely to encourage criticism of
both your ideas and temperament," she said.
Clinton's comments came the same day Kathleen Troia "KT" McFarland, a former
Pentagon official under President Reagan, said she would seek the Republican
nomination to challenge Clinton's re-election bid this year.
© 2006 Associated Press.
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| User: "Amanda Williams" |
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| Title: Re: Hillarylies and scams |
07 Mar 2006 08:38:59 PM |
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"5437" <5437@aol.com> slobbered and gibbered in
news:gumPf.19$dH1.6@bignews2.bellsouth.net:
'Angry' Hillary Clinton Plays Gender Victim
Breaking from NewsMax.com
[... dribble flushed ...]
"NewsMax"...... rotfl.... "breaking" ... rotfl....
Just more rightard lies..... boring....
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<small but dangerous>
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| User: "Arizona Bushwhacker" |
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| Title: Re: Hillarylies and scams |
07 Mar 2006 03:11:39 PM |
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"5437" <5437@aol.com> wrote in message
news:gumPf.19$dH1.6@bignews2.bellsouth.net...
Breaking from NewsMax.com
Breaking news from Newsmax???
You can't possibly be that fucking retarded!
Hahahahahahahaha!
What an idiot!
Hahahahahahahaha!
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| User: "Don Tomlinson" |
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| Title: Re: Hillarylies and scams |
07 Mar 2006 03:29:55 PM |
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"Arizona Bushwhacker" <ArizonaBushwhacker@cox.net> wrote in message
news:JAmPf.50389$kp3.6315@fed1read03...
"5437" <5437@aol.com> wrote in message
news:gumPf.19$dH1.6@bignews2.bellsouth.net...
Breaking from NewsMax.com
Breaking news from Newsmax???
You can't possibly be that fucking retarded!
He is
Hahahahahahahaha!
What an idiot!
Hahahahahahahaha!
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| User: "Republican Death Throes" |
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| Title: Re: Hillarylies and scams |
07 Mar 2006 11:02:14 PM |
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"5437" <5437@aol.com> wrote in message
news:gumPf.19$dH1.6@bignews2.bellsouth.net...
'Angry' Hillary Clinton Plays Gender Victim
Breaking from NewsMax.com
Emu, Emu, Emu, NewsManure is NOT News. It's not even food for thoiught.
It's all lies patterned for Tax ripoffs.
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