Blue Crab Boulevard

Just Not Getting It

Earlier today, I posted about a new Rasmussen poll that indicated that American voters were most definitely refusing to buy the “Hillary Clinton as victim” game that her campaign has been trying. Hillary’s campaign, however, appears unable to change course and are trying to play the victim card yet again, this time preemptively.

CNN's Wolf Blitzer has been warned not to focus Thursday's Dem debate on Hillary. 'This campaign is about issues, not on who we can bring down and destroy,' top Clinton insider explains. 'Blitzer should not go down to the levels of character attack and pull 'a Russert.'' Blitzer is set to moderate debate from Vegas, with questions also being posed by Suzanne Malveaux… Developing…

Again, can someone please explain to me, how asking the junior Senator from New York state whether she agrees with the governor of the state (and a close political ally) on the question of drivers licenses for illegals is even remotely wrong, never mind some sort of vicious, Nazi-like, personal assault on truth, decency, and Hillary Clinton's integrity? I really, really, don't get it.

It is not apparent that Hillary or her campaign staff understands just how weak trying to head off uncomfortable questions makes her seem. Then again, the campaign staff did not consider how foolish planting friendly questions in already friendly crowds would look, either.

Bad Ideas, Politics | Gaius Tuesday, 13 November , 2007

By mockinbird, Tuesday, 13 November , 2007 @ 4:22 pm

No sir, I can’t explain it or even understand it completely myself.
I know I don’t want a “victim” President of the United States.
Hillary wasn’t much on healthcare program.
She took valuable things from our White House when she left.
Her first term as a Senator from NEW YORK, of all places; she didn’t do much.
In Arkansas, as a Yale trained lawyer, She and her husband bungled a real estate investment. Then, her only real foray into capitalism, she buys ONE cattle futures contract and clears $90,000+, which had the futures contract appreciated that much actually, would have made a pot roast about $110.00 or so.
It just goes on and on; and now she does not want “uncomfortable ” questions.

If she is elected President; with a hammer in one hand, and a sicle in the other, she will make our country, America, into the hammered and the sickled.
By syn, Tuesday, 13 November , 2007 @ 4:31 pm

I regret and apologize for my own apathy during the Clinton years; I have learned my lesson and will never make that error again.

The Clintons are not good, honest people.
By feeblemind, Tuesday, 13 November , 2007 @ 5:20 pm

The HRC campaign machine has begun to blow smoke and leak oil. Be interesting to see if damage control will succeed or if the machine will eventually blow up.
By jpg, Tuesday, 13 November , 2007 @ 7:38 pm

If Blitzer really wanted to make his bones, he should out of the chute ask Hillary if she disavows or agrees with what her campaign has warned Blitzer not to do. That would be fun.
By Mockinbird, Wednesday, 14 November , 2007 @ 12:05 pm

Hillary is a cardboard cutout figure in a pastel pantsuit.