And her Strenght too, Bill! Don't forget to mention her Strength.

Make sure you make it clear that she was deeply involved in all of the good stuff but the bad stuff was your fault.

Way toooo funnny. The clinton spin machine in action. Got one for you willie, if you want the press to talk about her experience, release your white house records. Oh, that won't happen will it. I get it, you just want the press to keep repeating that she has all this non-existent experience and any one who doesn't believe it is a "hillary-hater." I get it.

Let's move on to the future. I don't want to relive the 90's clinton drama.

Translation:

"You know all that mud we have been slinging recently, which has blown back in our faces?

You good folks in the press wouldn't mind giving us a do-over, would you? Can we just pretend that we stuck with talking about Hillary's experience and never did anything of that?

Thanks, boys!"

It seems to me that if we started seeing clips of what the candidates actually say about the issues that really concern Americans instead of clips of the sniping maybe we would all be able to make better informed decisions about who we want to vote for.

Just a thought.

lol, well played, NCSteve.

Pres. Clinton, why don't you elaborate on what experience it is you wish the media would discuss more?

Your coverage of the election trivia plays right into what President Clinton is talking about.

I am sure he had a lot more important things to say about policy and the future, but this is the sound bite we get? OK, so they are all pretty close on all the policies, who is best able to govern? How would an Obama cabinet differ from the others?

WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNHHHH!

"For 16 years, ever since the Hiss case, you've had a lot of—a lot of fun—that you've had an opportunity to attack me and I think I've given as good as I've taken.....But as I leave you I want you to know—just think how much you're going to be missing. You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore, because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference."

" Bill said, in an obvious knock against Barack Obama"

Who wrote this trash? When did Anne Kornblut start ghost writing here?

By the way, Biden and Richardson should thank the former President for his implied endorsement.

and I guess the press weren't unfair when they gave her lone access on 5 networks during Sunday talk shows.

If you want unfair, Bill, perhaps you should be whining about the Edwards' campaign coverage.

Kim,

Absolutely.

I'm just amused at the messenger in this case being part of Clinton's campaign, since that is 180 degrees away from the sort of press coverage they have been encouraging.

Helter wrote on December 4, 2007 3:46 PM:
It's starting to seem like he doesn't want Hillary to be president..........................................I agree! It has occurred to me several times, lately. Isn't it eerie?---------------1.There was no complaint about the horserace reporting when it was all "Hillary leads by 30, she is inevitable"......................................2.Part of the problem with discussing hillary's experience is lack of access to the records of her experience. Whose fault is that?-...............................3. One big issue should be---what kind of people will you surround yourself with in the oval office. Bad Advisers are people who can destroy a president---if Hillary does not fire Penn and somje of these other jerks around her, it will be another nail in her coffin of distrust....................5.Bill needs to be patient---Blitzer will provide a firewall in the last debate before super Tuesday.

President Clinton has lost all credibility on the subject of objective press coverage. He recently told a bald faced, revisionist, lie to an Iowa audience. He claimed that he was always against the Iraq Invasion.

Nothing more absurd than a blatant liar demanding objective truth from others.

But I've got to say that I thank God I live in a country where I can still fire off a disrespectful comment at a former President and not worry (much) about storm troopers kicking down my door in the dead of night and dragging me off for a dose of night and fog.

I liked it a lot better when the spouses of the contenders in the horse race kept their mouths shut. If Hillary can't tell him to shut up and sit in the corner for a few months or so to give us a break, what else is she too spineless to do?

Yeah, I voted for him twice --

Hillary/Laura '08!
Experience We Can Believe In

Something weird is going on with the Clintons right now...have lost their freakin' minds? How in the world does Bill whining like this help Hillary? Seriously...how does it help her in Iowa, NH and SC? (He should have known it would top Drudge.) It makes her look like she's a little girl and poppa Bill has to come out and walk her to school and complain for her. Hillary's ONE accomplishment in my mind is she's has been through political and personal hell and back. So if there's anyone who does NOT need someone whining for her it's her. It just reminds the undecideds and the middle (ie, swing voters) of all the bad things they remember about the Clintons. And when the undecideds and the middle are tired of you and don't vote for you, you lose elections. Ask Al Gore and John Kerry about that concept. While I can't stand the idea of a ultra-Christian like Huckabee in the White House, it's starting to become clear to me how he'd actually be able to beat Hillary.

Bill is right!
We love you Bill!

....that always gets 'em. he he
But he is right. I am amazed how horrible the coverage is. I used to watch HardD*ck with Piss Matthews but he makes me sick now.

“Clinton was elected to the Senate in 2000, her first experience of public office. Obama was an Illinois state senator for seven years before being elected to the U.S. Senate in 2004.” Do the math. In terms of experience in elective office, Obama has more. Obama 08!

So easy to take a swipe at the Clintons: no need to be left or right. Just an expert at cheapshots. Barack and John will know what it will be like in the main campaign if they win. Then we will see how all those who take cheap shots at the Clintons will cope. We Democrats will always be outmanoeuvred by the Republicans because we think our priniples and purity are more important than pragmatism. Those guys have none so they got Bush. We were busy laughing at our Gore: remember. And we sniggered at Kerry. We did that.

Oh, I would be delighted if the media would cover Hillary's record. In the Senate, some 78% of her so called successfully sponsored legislation was fluff like renaming post offices or resolutions to honor individuals. Real meaty 'leadership' stuff, that.

'Course the media would have to dig through all the carefully hyped spin covering up that bare bones reality.

Of course, they ignore her experience, b/c she's giving them too much ammo to use against her. Why report on what she's done, when she obviously doesn't want to answer those questions? The truth is that she doesn't have as much experience as Obama(do the research, I know other bloggers have shared some of it.) She's turning it into a race about Kindergarten essays and her main rivals' naiveness. She's only doing it to herself.

A new SurveyUSA poll in Ohio shows Hillary Clinton to be a stronger Democratic nominee than Barack Obama in this key swing state, and John McCain to be the best Republican nominee. Meanwhile, Mike Huckabee is enjoying his own boost in popularity:

Clinton (D) 48%, Giuliani (R) 44%
Clinton (D) 51%, Romney (R) 41%
Clinton (D) 47%, Huckabee (R) 45%
McCain (R) 51%, Clinton (D) 43%
Giuliani (R) 46%, Obama (D) 43%
Obama (D) 45%, Romney (R) 42%
Huckabee (R) 44%, Obama (D) 41%
McCain (R) 51%, Obama (D) 40%

ihatebeets said "Why is Hillary so low key when it comes to her experience in the Senate?"

Hillary has been a do nothing Senator in a DO NOTHING Congress. Hillary Lovers, name one major piece of legislation Hillary has authored, introduced and championed to passage. THERE IS NONE!!!!
She has "co-sponsored" showboat dead-end legislation. That's what politicians do to look busy and fill their websites and newsletters.

Hillary's major accomplishment in Congress and life has been to give George W. Bush the authority to invade Iraq, and then to attack Iran. She believe his LIES twice, even when many Senate colleagues read the intelligence and knew better.

Hillary's record is no more or no less than any other wife of a powerful man. Everything she has done has come by way of Bill Clinton... period.

So, Bill, by all means challenge the press to give her record more coverage.
Are you campaigning for her or against her?

Hey Hillary, there is a difference in being "tough" and being "mean." Learn the difference.

The Hillary Doll comes with
FIVE settigs:

Spin,
Cackle
Play Victim
Lie
ATTACK ATTACK ATTACK

bm: the country does not like Hillary. The country or the usual wingnuts and moonbats? This woman went and fought two elections in New York and won handily. Rudy went prostrate with Prostrate. Rick Lazio could not hack it. She was elected twice. So don't give me this country stuff. The Naderites are no better than the wingnuts. Too full of themselves and their self righteousness. Which is why Bush got the 2000 election. You folks have learned nothing anD forgotten nothing. And the Republicans will beat you at your own game.

Just released yesterday.
More people who don't like Hillary he he

The poll shows Clinton's advantages in the early contests stretch beyond the top issues. The New York senator has amassed strong support among crucial groups including female, older, less-educated and lower-income Democrats _ significant because women and older voters in particular have dominated these primaries and caucuses in the past. In Iowa though, she has only a modest lead over Obama among women.

"She knows how to deal with the opposition, she can get national health care passed and stop the war in Iraq," said Steven Arcone, 63, a geophysicist and Clinton supporter from West Lebanon, N.H.

The AP-Pew poll shows:

_Clinton essentially tied with Obama in Iowa, 31 percent to 26 percent, with Edwards at 19 percent and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson at 10 percent.

_In New Hampshire Clinton 38 percent, Obama 19 percent, Edwards 15 percent, Richardson 10 percent. The primary is Jan. 8.

_In South Carolina Clinton 45 percent, Obama 31 percent, Edwards 10 percent. Democrats vote Jan. 26.

bp
Please name any other candidate with such a high unfavorable rating.
She will be an electoral disaster for the Democratic party.
For the good of the country, she must be stopped in the primaries.

Dont be misled by her matchup polls. HRC is a disaster looking for a place to happen. 08 is not the cakewalk that many think for the dems. Hillary will make it uphill for the blue. She polls well because of name recognition, but will get blasted once the real campaign starts. The worst of all worlds, she is perceived by casual moderates as extremely liberal, but by left leaning and progressives as too conservative. She is already in bed with the enemies of freedom(Murdoch, big pharma, big insurance, etc..).
And I wouldn't minimize "Clinton fatigue". 28 consecutive years of Bush/Clinton? There is NO combination of that formula that works for me.
I respect her as a policy wonk. But she has no charisma, has shown no ability to inspire, and will start(if elected) with crippling handicaps. There will no co-operation on any policy possible by goopers w/her at helm.
Lastly, the one thing I conceded was an asset for her was Bill. But after watching him, I changed my mind on that too. Enough. I'm sick of his triangulating, grab assing, whigger act. Time for a change.

Now hang on... who on Earth doesn't know that Hillary is the candidate claiming the most experience? That experience is one of her campaign themes hasn't exactly been hidden from the American people. What's the gripe here?

OK, there are a couple comments of value. Few and far between. And talk about providing a forum that looks like it belongs on Red State. Trolls: you arent hiding it very well.

Enough with him already--he needs to go play with the Bushes-you know the ones that think he is like "another son"! Either that or continue to bury his wife with all his comments.I sense a little Fruedian stuff here since it is hardly a secret they barely live together.But can they ever play the victims! Only problem is I do not feel sorry for them-she especially is so power hungry it makes me cringe.

DemAC, continuing to call anyone who questions Hillary's experience, qualifications and honesty, a "Hillary hater" just negates everthing else you say. Everyone knows Hillary and her mean machine are in a panic and all they know how to do is attack an enemy. It is very telling that Hillary and her supporters are defining 55 percent of the Democratic party and over 60 percent of the nation as their ENEMIES.

Hillary's growing desperation and campaign disarray is an ugly thing.

Wil Burns,

People have been pushing the "black Muslim" angle against Obama since last December, and it hasn't worked. Even among Republicans, in fact--Obama has emerged as the most popular Democratic candidate among Republicans, despite these attacks.

That in general is the problem the current Republican power structure faces: they have already lost a lot of people who have stopped identifying as Republicans, and polls show that even among the remaining Republicans there is a lot of discontent and a good number are considering voting for a Democrat. Accordingly, the only real hope for the current Republican power structure is to nominate someone who can pull back those disaffected Republicans and former Republicans, or get lucky and have the Democrats nominate someone who will drive those people back.

Incidentally, all the Senators have offical senate.gov websites that, among other things, specify their committee assignments. Here are Obama's:

http://obama.senate.gov/committees/

So, they think that Obama or Edwards' experiences are being played up? They all get the same idiotic substance-less treatment.

The Clintons probably are guilty of suppressing coverage of Obama's substance, since on every one of his major speech days, they leak something to Drudge and drown out Obama's substantive and substantively different proposals from getting even a cursory consideration...

2008 Presidential Candidate Weekly Poll

www.votenic.com

The Only Poll That Matters.
Results Posted Weekly Tuesday Evening At Midnight.

Hey Bill....You want us to talk about Hillary's experiance?
Ok here goes...
She Marry's you,
Moves to the 48th ranked state on education, where you are elected Atty Gen, the Gov.
She looks the other way while you screw around, and she sits on the board at wallmart.
You get elected President.
She looks the other way while you screw around.
You lie to the Grand Jury.
You get impeached, we feel sorry for you and Hillary.
You get off,(not just the impeachment).
Hillary looks the other way, we feel sorry for her.
Hillary moves to NY.
we feel sorry for her, elect her to the senate.
Hillary votes to send 4000 American men and women to their deaths.
Hillary runs for President, get's trounced in Iowa.
We feel sorry for her when she "cries".
Hillary wins NH by 2 points.