Did Hillary's Attack Today Help Her?

[ericgtr]

Just to get an idea of what people think of this.

[tekisui]

1. I was embarassed for her.

She and her campaign are the real shame.

[lligrd]

2. If It Does, I'll Be Sorely Disappointed In The Party nt

[tyne]

4. I found it

really hard to watch. It made my buttocks clench.

[marylanddem]

3. She's such a freaking drama queen but it's all a big freaking act.

Can't stand the woman & look forward to the day she and Bill get divorced and leave us the hell alone.

[mudesi]

As if someone "just handed the mailers" to her

It was completely calculated, as usual.

[bunkerbuster1]

5. It hardly matters.

This thing is over but for the shouting. Anyway, Hillary has to make some kind of effort--she's got people counting on her.

[dkf]

27. All you Hillary supporters...she's doing this for you.

I do think that at the last debate she personally realized what an uphill battle she was in.

That was Hillary being real and authentic.

But after she was done, she realized all the people in her campaign and all her supporters need her to fight it out to the last dog dies and went back into "fighting Hillary" mode.

She's got backbone I will say that for her. But I have never connected with her, never felt like I got a sense of her as a human being. And, more importantly, I haven't got a vibe from her that she had a generosity of spirit, like I do from Obama. Even when Obama shook her hand after her last bit at the debate, I saw the empathy that he felt for her.

She spent too many years in the spotlight. It killed all the spontaneity and realness in her. If she wants to win the Presidency, she needs to get it back...

[bunkerbuster1]

28. Please. She's not going to win.

This thing is over; she's just making a good show of campaigning at this point.

Frankly, I have no problem with her pointing out how cheezy that Obama direct mailer is. It's a fair point.

[dkf]

29. I don't think she can do it this time. I'm thinking later.

I doubt she will ever give up the dream...

[whatchamacallit]

6. Hells no!

[LadyVT]

7. These polls are silly. The vast majority of people here are for Obama.

[scheming daemons]

14. Just like the vast majority of the people outside of DU too.... that's why he's winning...

....

[Unbowed]

19. Very true. n/t

[mtnsnake]

32. The consistently wrong poll results of anything Clinton are proof of how willing people are to lie

through their teeth at the drop of a button.

The blatantly incorrect results of any poll about Hillary or Bill only reinforces how quickly most people on DU don't hesitate to lie their asses off. Integrity is not a virtue here, that is for sure.

[Madam Mossfern]

8. I can see her new slogan now

"Shame on you Barack Obama"
Sorry, but that sounds like a very mean school marm.

[NoBushSpokenHere]

9. The more I get to know her the more proud I am that I chose Obama as my candidate :) nt

[NoBushSpokenHere]

10. The more I get to know her the more proud I am that I chose Obama as my candidate :) nt

[Oleladylib]

11. Of course it did!

[Johnny__Motown]

12. She was already going down in flames, now the fuel tank has burst

I love extending a metaphor

[Unbowed]

13. It was not a good thing for anybody.

Except McCain. He probably enjoyed every word of it.

[Madam Mossfern]

15. dupe

sorry, I'm just too impatient.

[Maddy McCall]

16. These polls are silly. They're nothing more than representative of who supports whom.

[thoughtcrime1984]

35. 88% Obama, tilting more to him with each silly poll. nt

[Eric J in MN]

17. Yes, she made a good point that she didn't call NAFTA a "boon"

...and that they Obama campaign flyer saying she did is misleading.

(And I voted for Obama.)

[SKKY]

24. That's the only thing that I think can stick...

...but I'm sure somewhere she said that NAFTA has been good for America, so at least Obama will be able to prove that's how she feels (or felt), even if the quote was misaccurate.

[loveangelc]

18. I think it's kind of sad. Her back is against the wall and her going negative on Obama doesnt work.

I guess she hasn't figured that out yet. She was "honored" to be with Obama and now she's "shame on you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" lol.

[rocktivity]

20. No, because she's been going through campaign strategies the way Condi goes through shoes.

Had she been negative right out of the gate, this would have seemed logical if a little overdue. Credible or not, it comes across as yet another attempt to quickly make up ground--and, very unfortunately, another one of her "personalties." Better she should talk about why people SHOULD vote for her rather then why they shouldn't vote for Obama.

:headbang:
rocknation

[Quixote1818]

21. It's like they are throwing all kids of things against the wall to see what sticks.

but nothing ever sticks.

[rocktivity]

30. More important, everybody KNOWS that she's just trying to "make something stick!"

That's what automatically sucks any credibility out of it.

:headbang:
rocknation

[Blue State Bandit]

22. This is another case of Hillary attacking Obama with...

acusations of unseemly tactics that she herself is guilty of!



This is a copy of a mailer she sent out in Wisconsin.

Read the full mailer http://abcnews.go.com/images/Politics/mailer.pdf">PDF here.

[Forkboy]

23. None of her attacks have helped her, and they still don't get it.

I always thought she was smart, but watching her try the same failing tactics over and over hints that maybe I was wrong about that.

[workinclasszero]

25. Hillary ought to be ashamed of herself but

liars never are.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/david-sirota/hillary-clinton-pretends-_b_86747.html


Hillary Clinton Pretends She Never Praised NAFTA



Hillary Clinton has made statements unequivocally trumpeting NAFTA as the greatest thing since sliced bread. The Buffalo News reports that back in 1998, Clinton attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and thanked praised corporations for mounting "a very effective business effort in the U.S. on behalf of NAFTA." Yes, you read that right: She traveled to Davos to thank corporate interests for their campaign ramming NAFTA through Congress.

On November 1, 1996, United Press International reported that on a trip to Brownsville, Texas, Clinton "touted the president's support for the North American Free Trade Agreement, saying it would reap widespread benefits in the region."

The Associated Press followed up the next day noting that Hillary Clinton touted the fact that "the president would continue to support economic growth in South Texas through initiatives such as the North American Free Trade Agreement."

[pkz]

26. sorry got to say it...

I hate whiney women...I think it makes her look weak
Plays into every single bad remark I used to defend her for.

uck! I saw a bumper sticker today that said "Life's a bitch, don't elect one"

I thought that very mean and sexist, but ohhhhhh, I bet they sell now.

What a shame.

[TexasObserver]

31. K&r

[Tropics_Dude83]

33. Drama queen is a good description

I had never thought of it that way but you're right. Bill Jan 26, 1998 was a drama queen as well.

[NJSecularist]

34. The board has weighed in

Overwhelmingly

It's a shame Hillary shot herself in the foot again.

[tishaLA]

36. in a way yes....because they got

her national--and local--attention. She can't buy ad spots like Sen Obama can, so this coverage puts her in front of the American people. And she thinks she gains by making him look dirty.