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Friday, November 02, 2007
Stop whining and take it like a man!
As Ron Fournier of the Associated Press writes, the Clinton campaign has taken the line that poor lil Hillary is getting bashed by all those big bad boys running against her.Rather than rebut her rivals' charges or confront the issues with facts and details, Clinton accused her rivals of ganging up on her.Oh, geez. This is supposed to make her more appealing to voters - that she's a victim of a few little criticisms from men in her own party? Since when is victimhood a quality we look for in our leaders? If I were a Democrat I'd wonder that if a few jabs from her Democratic rivals sets her whining about piling on, how is she going to take what the Republicans will surely throw at her in the general election.
She released a cleverly edited video showing rivals John Edwards, Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Chris Dodd uttering her name in rapid-fire succession to the strains of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro.
The video then cuts to the words, "The Politics of Pile On."
Her top strategist, Mark Penn, told supporters on a conference call that Clinton needed their help to survive "this six-on-one to try to bring her down."
In the call, first reported by The Hill newspaper, pollster Penn said he had already detected backlash from female voters.
On Thursday, the senator returned to her all-female alma mater, Wellesley College, and called it a place that taught her to compete "in the all-boys club of presidential politics."
Clinton's advisers, speaking on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss internal matters, said there is a clear and long-planned strategy to fend off attacks by accusing her male rivals of gathering against her.
The idea is to change the subject while making Clinton a sympathetic figure, especially among female voters who often feel outnumbered and bullied on the job.
And how would she take the criticism that an American president usually gets from foreign critics? For whatever you think of George W. Bush, can you picture him complaining about "piling on" from his Democratic, Republican, or foreign critics?
And why are these aides telling reporters about their strategy of playing for feminine sympathy? I can never understand why political operatives go and spill the beans to reporters with this meta-commentary on their supposedly clever political tactics.
Hillary did much better when she dismissed her critics with a laugh about their focus on her. She should shrug off such criticisms instead of playing the poor little woman beset by six men. I find it insulting that this supposed to appeal to women and make them feel so sorry for her that they want to vote for her. Do women really vote for a candidate that they feel sorry for? I guess so; after all, she won a senator's job partly because people felt sorry for her for her husband having cheated on her so publicly. I would be ashamed to have either of my daughters play the victim card to get a job. I certainly wouldn't support anyone for commander in chief who acts like other politicians shouldn't be allowed to criticize her.Labels: Hillary Clinton
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As Ron Fournier of the Associated Press writes, the Clinton campaign has taken the line that poor lil Hillary is getting bashed by all those big bad boys running against her.
And how would she take the criticism that an American president usually gets from foreign critics? For whatever you think of George W. Bush, can you picture him complaining about "piling on" from his Democratic, Republican, or foreign critics?
And why are these aides telling reporters about their strategy of playing for feminine sympathy? I can never understand why political operatives go and spill the beans to reporters with this meta-commentary on their supposedly clever political tactics.
Hillary did much better when she dismissed her critics with a laugh about their focus on her. She should shrug off such criticisms instead of playing the poor little woman beset by six men. I find it insulting that this supposed to appeal to women and make them feel so sorry for her that they want to vote for her. Do women really vote for a candidate that they feel sorry for? I guess so; after all, she won a senator's job partly because people felt sorry for her for her husband having cheated on her so publicly. I would be ashamed to have either of my daughters play the victim card to get a job. I certainly wouldn't support anyone for commander in chief who acts like other politicians shouldn't be allowed to criticize her.
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As Ron Fournier of the Associated Press writes, the Clinton campaign has taken the line that poor lil Hillary is getting bashed by all those big bad boys running against her.
Rather than rebut her rivals' charges or confront the issues with facts and details, Clinton accused her rivals of ganging up on her.Oh, geez. This is supposed to make her more appealing to voters - that she's a victim of a few little criticisms from men in her own party? Since when is victimhood a quality we look for in our leaders? If I were a Democrat I'd wonder that if a few jabs from her Democratic rivals sets her whining about piling on, how is she going to take what the Republicans will surely throw at her in the general election.
She released a cleverly edited video showing rivals John Edwards, Barack Obama, Joe Biden and Chris Dodd uttering her name in rapid-fire succession to the strains of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro.
The video then cuts to the words, "The Politics of Pile On."
Her top strategist, Mark Penn, told supporters on a conference call that Clinton needed their help to survive "this six-on-one to try to bring her down."
In the call, first reported by The Hill newspaper, pollster Penn said he had already detected backlash from female voters.
On Thursday, the senator returned to her all-female alma mater, Wellesley College, and called it a place that taught her to compete "in the all-boys club of presidential politics."
Clinton's advisers, speaking on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss internal matters, said there is a clear and long-planned strategy to fend off attacks by accusing her male rivals of gathering against her.
The idea is to change the subject while making Clinton a sympathetic figure, especially among female voters who often feel outnumbered and bullied on the job.
And how would she take the criticism that an American president usually gets from foreign critics? For whatever you think of George W. Bush, can you picture him complaining about "piling on" from his Democratic, Republican, or foreign critics?
And why are these aides telling reporters about their strategy of playing for feminine sympathy? I can never understand why political operatives go and spill the beans to reporters with this meta-commentary on their supposedly clever political tactics.
Hillary did much better when she dismissed her critics with a laugh about their focus on her. She should shrug off such criticisms instead of playing the poor little woman beset by six men. I find it insulting that this supposed to appeal to women and make them feel so sorry for her that they want to vote for her. Do women really vote for a candidate that they feel sorry for? I guess so; after all, she won a senator's job partly because people felt sorry for her for her husband having cheated on her so publicly. I would be ashamed to have either of my daughters play the victim card to get a job. I certainly wouldn't support anyone for commander in chief who acts like other politicians shouldn't be allowed to criticize her.
Labels: Hillary Clinton
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