chesswarsnow
03-11-2008, 09:49 PM
Sorry bout that,
1. But another Liberal gets hammered over playing where he should not tread.
2. The old Dog Billy Clinton tried it, he got a pass.
3. Now this new guy Spitzers has been trying it.
4. It blew up in Hillary's face again.
5. This time she can't forgive it, it wasn't her man.
6. So this will hurt her more this election year, for her.
7. Bad timing, it will ruin her chance, in the end.
8. She didn't need this, but she got it, and it will do a hatchet job on her chances.
9. She should of threw his ass out, when she had her chance, things may be different now if she had.
10. But now she goes down the shitter this time for real, to bad.
11. Heres a link:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/11/AR2008031102833.html?hpid=topnews
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After all, it was Spitzer who, in the view of her advisers, caused the slide that put her where she is today, fighting from behind for the Democratic presidential nomination. A question about his proposal to let illegal immigrants get driver's licenses tripped her up in a debate in late October and ended 10 months of unquestioned dominance in the race for the nomination.
Now, his apparent involvement with a prostitution ring has not only distracted attention from her efforts to take down the front-runner, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), it has brought back unhelpful memories of her own husband's dalliances in office. There on cable television again were pictures of Bill Clinton hugging Monica Lewinsky. And the image of Spitzer's wife standing painfully by his side while he acknowledged unspecified wrongdoing could not help but remind some of Hillary Clinton's own stand-by-her-man moment.
How this will all play out remains unclear, of course. Spitzer has so far resisted entreaties to step down in the face of rather sordid allegations, much as Bill Clinton resisted calls for his resignation in 1998 after news of his trysts with the onetime White House intern. Spitzer's reluctance to leave can only guarantee that the story will live on in the hungry vortex of cable television, talk radio and the Internet. It may be that most voters long ago discounted Bill Clinton's infidelities when making their minds up about his wife's qualifications for president. It may be that voters conclude that Spitzer's indiscretions have nothing at all to do with whether Hillary Clinton can effectively serve as president. And it may be that Spitzer ultimately does resign, allowing the political dialogue to move on.
Yet this certainly is not the way Clinton's strategists would have mapped out this week on the campaign trail. They want voters to be thinking about that 3 a.m. phone call in terms of who is ready to handle a crisis in the White House, not in terms of where an unfaithful husband might be catting around town. And, sure enough, the late-night comedians wasted little time linking the Spitzer case to the Clintons. Jay Leno joked last night that Spitzer's scandal "means Hillary Clinton is now only the second angriest woman in the state of New York." David Letterman offered a Top 10 List of excuses Spitzer might cite, including the No. 1 excuse: "I thought Bill Clinton legalized this years ago."
Hillary Clinton was asked about the case late yesterday and, predictably enough, tried to brush it off without comment. "I obviously send my best wishes to the governor and his family," she told reporters. Still, it is hard to imagine that will be the last time she is asked about it. She could hardly want to be there on camera, once again being asked to account for yet another man in her life who couldn't live up to his marriage vows. And what will Bill Clinton say when he is inevitably asked to comment.
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1. But another Liberal gets hammered over playing where he should not tread.
2. The old Dog Billy Clinton tried it, he got a pass.
3. Now this new guy Spitzers has been trying it.
4. It blew up in Hillary's face again.
5. This time she can't forgive it, it wasn't her man.
6. So this will hurt her more this election year, for her.
7. Bad timing, it will ruin her chance, in the end.
8. She didn't need this, but she got it, and it will do a hatchet job on her chances.
9. She should of threw his ass out, when she had her chance, things may be different now if she had.
10. But now she goes down the shitter this time for real, to bad.
11. Heres a link:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/11/AR2008031102833.html?hpid=topnews
"
After all, it was Spitzer who, in the view of her advisers, caused the slide that put her where she is today, fighting from behind for the Democratic presidential nomination. A question about his proposal to let illegal immigrants get driver's licenses tripped her up in a debate in late October and ended 10 months of unquestioned dominance in the race for the nomination.
Now, his apparent involvement with a prostitution ring has not only distracted attention from her efforts to take down the front-runner, Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.), it has brought back unhelpful memories of her own husband's dalliances in office. There on cable television again were pictures of Bill Clinton hugging Monica Lewinsky. And the image of Spitzer's wife standing painfully by his side while he acknowledged unspecified wrongdoing could not help but remind some of Hillary Clinton's own stand-by-her-man moment.
How this will all play out remains unclear, of course. Spitzer has so far resisted entreaties to step down in the face of rather sordid allegations, much as Bill Clinton resisted calls for his resignation in 1998 after news of his trysts with the onetime White House intern. Spitzer's reluctance to leave can only guarantee that the story will live on in the hungry vortex of cable television, talk radio and the Internet. It may be that most voters long ago discounted Bill Clinton's infidelities when making their minds up about his wife's qualifications for president. It may be that voters conclude that Spitzer's indiscretions have nothing at all to do with whether Hillary Clinton can effectively serve as president. And it may be that Spitzer ultimately does resign, allowing the political dialogue to move on.
Yet this certainly is not the way Clinton's strategists would have mapped out this week on the campaign trail. They want voters to be thinking about that 3 a.m. phone call in terms of who is ready to handle a crisis in the White House, not in terms of where an unfaithful husband might be catting around town. And, sure enough, the late-night comedians wasted little time linking the Spitzer case to the Clintons. Jay Leno joked last night that Spitzer's scandal "means Hillary Clinton is now only the second angriest woman in the state of New York." David Letterman offered a Top 10 List of excuses Spitzer might cite, including the No. 1 excuse: "I thought Bill Clinton legalized this years ago."
Hillary Clinton was asked about the case late yesterday and, predictably enough, tried to brush it off without comment. "I obviously send my best wishes to the governor and his family," she told reporters. Still, it is hard to imagine that will be the last time she is asked about it. She could hardly want to be there on camera, once again being asked to account for yet another man in her life who couldn't live up to his marriage vows. And what will Bill Clinton say when he is inevitably asked to comment.
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