Hillary Booed In New Hampshire
It officially just got worse for Hillary Clinton. In the biggest New Hampshire "100 Club" dinner in history, she was booed twice by fellow Democrats.
By comparison Hillary was twice booed. The first time was when she said she has always and will continue to work for "change for you. The audience, particularly from Obama supporters (they were waving Obama signs) let out a noise that sounded like a thousand people collectively groaning. The second time came a few minutes later when Clinton said: "The there are two big questions for voters in New Hampshire. One is: who will be ready to lead from day one? The second," and here Clinton was forced to pause as boos from the crowd mixed with cheers from her own supporters. "Is who can we nominate who will go the distance against the Republicans?”
This was Hillary trotting out negatives in a thinly veiled format - and the voters did not like it one bit. Let's rephrase that: The party loyalists did not like it. Not one bit. They told her so, emphatically.
Clinton may very well be in worse shape than even I thought at this point. She could very well implode completely if she gets hammered in New Hampshire.
By Maggie, Friday, 4 January , 2008 @ 11:05 pm
Gaius -
I totally agree with your last paragraph …
ANYTHING she does or says from Iowa on out will NOW be seen as phoney and pandering (and rightfully so). Her shrill voice just became the shriek of the banshee and will be shunned as the kiss of death.
THIS woman just simply thought and believed she was OWED the presidency. And if I have to hear one more sound bite from her about her 35 years of experience (including * in the WH) … UGH!
And as empty suits go, SHE had more filling hers than Obama does!
By Uncle Pinky, Friday, 4 January , 2008 @ 11:24 pm
She can’t hold her mud if people laugh at her. She lashes out and makes unforced errors.
Remember when she started imploding? It was when she got caught flat-footed, contradicting herself and trying to rationalize it away. Everyone was chuckling and she shriveled up like a boggart in the Harry Potter books. (Yes, I read them. I won’t even offer an excuse.)
She’s a very mediocre intellect who has been successfully masquerading as a thinker. When this is pointed out to her she starts sputtering and flailing. “Why can’t they see that I’m the bestest and the prettiest and the smartest? They’re mean and I’m going to sulk.”
If the other candidates were not so afraid of her oppo teams and smear machines, they could have brought her down much earlier.
This witch is killed with laughter as opposed to farmhouses or water.
By Clarence Spell, Friday, 4 January , 2008 @ 11:54 pm
Remember, this was an audience divided by their advocacy for individual Democratic contenders. So while it’s true that they were Democrats, they were not all for a single Democratic candidate. I don’t draw too strong a conclusion about this happening.
Let’s see what Tuesday brings.
I suspect (and I strongly hope) that Senator Clinton will not do well in NH, nor in the subsequent primaries, as I have little regard for her record or her policies.
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By Flash Gordon, Saturday, 5 January , 2008 @ 12:45 am
An Obama presidency would be pretty awful but it will be oh so delicious to see Hillary crash and burn. Imagine, the Clinton national soap opera finally over.
By NortonPete, Saturday, 5 January , 2008 @ 8:51 am
I think you are right. Worse than anybody thought. I read what appearred to be a eyewitness account with a little more detail in the nypost. It looks bad.
By feeblemind, Saturday, 5 January , 2008 @ 12:43 pm
The way I read the stories, it was Obama partisans that did the booing. The spin lies in the headlines. ‘Hillary booed at Dem dinner’. That headline cannot possibly help her.
By martian, Saturday, 5 January , 2008 @ 2:16 pm
It’s going to be fun to watch. I think she IS going to implode for all of the above listed (from everyone) reasons. I’m just waiting to see how many of the other Dem front runners she can drag down with her. If she can take both Obama and Edwards down, the Dems don’t have anyone else who can stand up to any of the Republican top 5.