Hillary Clinton: 'A fighter, a doer and a champion'

Gas isn't going to be 89 cents a gallon again. Deal with it. Look forward.

deborah, exactly. Quit pandering.

But this is an interesting dynamic. Clinton is claiming to speak for Ohioans, but what really has happened is that Howard Dean's 50 state strategy is taking effect. I submit that Obama is Dean 2.0 The little people have found a voice and it's Barack Obama. The Terry McAuliffe strategy of 50% + 1 has been superseded. We are going to relegate the Republics to a rump, regional party confined to the Banjo states. Ohio will go Dem, as will most of the rest of the country. The only question is going to be what kind of margin.

Until the Republics restrict their wingnut ideas, they will never win Illinois again. 2006 was tough for them. 2008 will be a tidal wave.

Clinton II proclaims, "I’m here today because I want to let you know, I’m a fighter, a doer and a champion, and I will fight for you.”

Four "I's" in one sentence.

Not exactly modest, is she?

I think Clinton needs to stop fighting... this is part of the problem in her campaign. Everything she does is very adversarial instead of cooperative... and as a result nothing gets done. She has had 35 years to get things done but runs into walls every time.

Obama will set us right.

why people is goint to the exteme? leave clinton alone, be fair, let her do her capmaing, what is this? if obama will asked fo reduce the gaoline to .50c I am sure you deborah will belive it

Obama = Bush = Likable

Jkan = Hitler = Moron

While voters do need to hear about who is their best champion, voters and journalists need to hear from the candidates on what they think of the economic costs of the national security judgments of recent years. The new book by Stiglitz compels such questions:

http://acropolisreview.com/2008/03/three-trillion-dollar-iraq-war-stiglitz.html

So this is Billary "Found My Voice/New Slogan" yet again moment # 5 or 6? Come on already. Cue the tears... This thing is over. Talk about pandering. Is there anything this Clinton duo won't say to try to win. Empty speeches - hmmm, who's giving them again?

"going to battle $4/gal gasoline"!!! Hillary's pandering for votes never ceases to amaze me. $4/gal gasoline is not out of line when people are buying $40,000+ cars. When gas was 1/10 the price (40 cents) a very nice car was $4000 (also 1/10). The rising price of gas is fairly even with the rise in cars. What is out of step is the price of houses. When gas was 40 cents/gal you could buy a very nice house for $40,000. Try to buy that house now for $400,000?

If she can't use our "fear" of gas prices, she can run some more "3am scare you" ads. LMAO!! Her silly 3am ad is retro the cold war. Next she'll be selling us bomb shelters.

ABC (Anybody But Clinton[s])

What I think that Hillary needs to do is put on a really big crying jag on Monday......it seems to help her. I will be glad if she looses big and the Clintons can go back to Arkansas to a retirement home, count their money and let Bill loose on the town. It is more fun.

The only way the price of oil is going to come down is for Barack to put that turban back on, fly over to Saudi Arabia and give a 'change' speech to OPEC.

Paulo

The issue is not the fight, but the tactics of the soldier:

From today's "Head of State":
http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/03/authentic-change.html

"Sunday, March 02, 2008
Authentic Change

The WP reports today that Obama has "thrown away the script" in Ohio, turning from his stump speech to a series of town hall meetings.

Ohio and Texas are tight. The contest is too close to call. This is, for a campaign, a "red phone" moment.

Note how Obama responds.

Instead of an array of tactical shifts in persona, Obama shows the strength and fortitude that he has demonstrated all along--in a kind of reverse Rove (recall that Rove was famous for taking his adversary's greatest strength and attacking it) taking his greatest ability and putting it to the side, moving from score to improvisation, to further answer the questions of the people--something he has done all along the campaign trial, but now is putting aside his greatest strength to emphasize.

Note what he could have done: He could have gone on the attack, derogating Hillary's past through the ad hominem methods all too recently seen. He could have attempted to change the presentation of his personality, in order to find the persona that consultants recommend, changing his tone, his emotions, shifting through traits like a anxious shuffle through a deck of cards, searching for the combination that would meet the seeming demands of the day. In a moment of pressure--at 3 .A.M.--he could have responded with panic and artifice.

Instead, he moves *away* from his strength, and presents himself simply before the people.

This is judgment, which arises from a known and consistent self. It does not arise, despite experience, from a self that uncertain, fearful, and therefore driven by fear, to change under the pressures of the moment.

This is what will count when genuine moments of crisis occur in our future evenings, in our 3 A.M. moments, and in the early dawn.

Cite:
Head of State
http://headofstate.blogspot.com/2008/03/authentic-change.html"

I'd like to know what is so wrong with a candidate that is concerned about the high prices of gas, one that says she's going to look into price gauging and solutions? There's nothing wrong. Nada. But shucks, why give Clinton a chance...as a single mother of five with 4 cars this makes me happy.

Obama, who prides himself on running a campaign without any mudslinging, has done more mudslinging than any other candidate. He has allowed his surrogates to spew hateful messages on blogs, to make accusations, to demean other human beings.
HE will have a lot of explaining to do when Tony Rezko, Obama's close friend for years, begins his trial tomorrow for corruption, bribery and fraud in federal court.
I read that 'ethical" Obama tried to delay the trial.
It is not surprising given the fact that the only 'record' he has is speech against the war when he wasn't even in the Senate of the United States.

Paulo, you had me at hello.

Paulo, Obama would indeed be very effective with other global leaders. Hillary has been too divisive to ever succeed at change.

Hillary Clinton: 'A fighter, a doer and a champion'

A crybaby, a whiner, a sniveling sore loser.

The Clinton legacy is going down in flames and so to is Hillary's bright future in the Senate. I for one will never forget or forgive the way she is handling herself. The last couple of weeks only confirm all the negative baggage that follows the Clintons.

"They are going to have a very hard choice to make after Tuesday if she loses Texas or Ohio," top Obama adviser David Axelrod said Saturday. "There are people in the party who are very concerned about this turning into some kind of a Bataan Death March."

The Bataan Death March continues!!!

Julia,

Socialist No. 2 is getting you excited at the possibility of Nothing. "Big Oil" is always investigated for price gouging and manipulation by the Socialist democrats every time that there is a price threshhold that is crossed. The next time that they find institutional price fixing will be the first time that they find price fixing. For what it is worth, I very much feel the $$$ zooming out of my wallet too when I approach the pump in my 24 mpg Sebring.

The other Socialist will probably "me too" this most original idea after he gets the Connecticut guy the raise that he promised for him. U gotta know your Socialists.

The 'Great Uniter's' fans show their true colors again - preaching more bile and venom as they attempt to brow-beat those of us who don't buy Obama into silence. Great endorsement of the democratic process as practiced by Obamabots. I'm wondering why they come across as so shrill and so desperate to have their version of the truth prevail. Rational debate is dying in America.

Obama, who prides himself on running a campaign without any mudslinging, has done more mudslinging than any other candidate.

Posted by: Sarah Mitchell | March 2, 2008 10:23 PM

Sarah how much does the Clinton slime machine pay you??? Please thank Hillary for trashing the democratic party. I hope it was worth trashing the Clinton Legacy in order to finish second. She is a mud slinging loser. Follow her all the way to Bataan!

Hillary should and will do what she has to do to win. Obama, is playing the game, and pretending not to be playing. It is just his strategy. American voters have proved with the election of Bush, not once but twice, that they are ignorant and easily manipulated. Stop pretending that you think you know the game. You don't! This isn't Jr High. But you are being played as though that is your intellectual capacity. Don't get caught in the predictable net. Strip down to the basics and let your voice be heard. Too many have died to give you that voice, don't waste it.

A vote for Clinton is another vote for Bush/McCain. Can't see how anyone who was against the invasion of Iraq can vote for Hillary Clinton --or John McCain. It just doesn't make sense. This is a very serious issue, and Americans all seem to forget too quickly. But one's judgment in this area is everything and Hillary Clinton showed bad judgment here to begin with! And with Hillary we will continue to have the next four years just like the past 8 Bush years, the white house will be no different with her. She has voted the same way as Bush, she thinks like him, she deceives like him, she lies like him, she hides like him, and she bombs innocent countries like him. Let's have a president with real smarts, with real vision, with real judgment, with real leadership, a president who isn't afraid to speak to leaders of rogue countries, a president who will GET THINGS DONE, a president who will get this nation back on track, who will help the poor, who will help teachers, who will help the young with education, who will get us out of Iraq, not just talk it like Clinton. Vote for Barack Obama and see the difference, he will be a president who will make the difference, all for the better, all for the people!!! Vote Barack Obama.

"Let's have a president with real smarts, with real vision, with real judgment, with real leadership, a president who isn't afraid to speak to leaders of rogue countries, a president who will GET THINGS DONE,"

Ruthie M,

A. Lincoln, T. Roosevelt, R. Reagan, and for my well-meaning Leftist friends, FDR and JFK, simply are not available. If I may add some Englishmen to the list, Churchill, M. Thatcher, Tony Blair, equally not available. There just is not anyone on your short list that even remotely fits this job description.

Based on where we are to date, NONE of you Obamaphiles would ever convince any rational person that this neophyte, lightning-in-a- bottle, flowery rhetoric, housing project media guy is anywhere within a time zone of being on this list. We need to find that Reality Universe that is so illusive for the modern liberal.

Yes, Hillary is a fighter alright, together with her de facto Co-President running mate, husband Bill.

Recall their retaining of a private detective to dig up dirt on women seduced by Bill; their ordering IRS audits on individuals and organizations critical of them; the 50+ deaths by murder, suicide, accidents and sudden illnesses of potentially damaging witnesses.

Hillary Clinton-the kind of fighter we need to lead our nation