Bill Clinton takes aim at the press
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- December
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Former President Bill Clinton doesn’t seem happy with the press’ coverage of the 2008 presidential campaign, especially the coverage of his wife’s candidacy.
Clinton, during a campaign stop in New Hampshire today, said he couldn’t understand why the media was not focusing more on Hillary Clinton’s experience – especially when its compared to her top rival, Barack Obama.
“One percent of the press coverage was devoted to their record in public life,” Clinton said, according to an Associated Press account of his remarks at Keene State College. “No wonder people think experience is irrelevant. A lot of the people covering the race think it is (irrelevant).”
Read more “here.”:http://apnews.myway.com/article/20071204/D8TAQ9503.html
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You can’t always get what you waant…
you can’t always get what you waant
but if you try sometime
you may find
that you get what you need
The Clinton campaign is getting the best media coverage for any campaign. They shouldn’t complain about the experience coverage because even on the campaign trail the only time she mentions it is to say the word rather than give specific examples. Why? because she didn’t do much in the Clinton White House. Meanwhile Bill Richardson did more in the Clinton White House and has more experience and people don’t even know who he is.
This blog has turned musical today.
For the Clintons, we bring you the Castaways
in about 1965….”Liar, Liar.”
we republicans love to see bill whine…he thinks
tbat his wife is “entitled” to be president simply
because she is his wife and is smart…meanwhile
those observing her recent negative campaign effort
directed at Obama are shocked that she would stoop
to that level…however it is clear that “inevitable”
no longer describes mrs clinton
“Hillary 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.� In terms of experience in elective office, Obama has more. Obama 08!
not being a democrat, I am glad you guys have to
deal with both clinton whose only experience is
watching…and Obama who has virtually no executive
experience of any kind..I will agree that Obama
is a talented young poltician who has a great
future…I am in the market for a seasoned
political executive who has the skill and judgment
to guide this country through one of the most
difficult times in its history…
Bill Richardson has more experience than any Democrat or Republican running. 12 years in Congress, UN Ambassador, Energy Secretary & He is Governor of New Mexico. Im sure with Mr. Edelman’s experience he is aware that the race is anything but decided and that it is not a 3-way race. In Nov. 1991 Mario Cuomo was the front runner & In Nov. 2003 Howard Dean was the front runner so anything goes.
Kevin Davis has a very good and cogent point, which all here should remember. It was just four years ago, but can anyone recall that Gov./Dr. Dean was indeed not only the Dem frontrunner—but the leading money raiser and media darling? How quickly that evaporated.
In late 1991, Gov. Cuomo, Hamlet of the Hudson, was in fact the front-runner for the Dem presidential nomination. Clinton wasn’t yet a factor. The late Paul Tsongas was ahead of Clinton in many polls.
In late 1975, few among the informed guessed that a former one-term governor of Georgia would capture the 1976 Dem nomination, much less become president. Jerry Brown and Frank Church kept it close in an exciting primary season, while RWR was battling Ford, nearly to success (in the closest convention vote in modern history).
And, in early 1980, before New Hampshire, former Texas governor John Connally was presumed to be the GOP nominee in 1980—again, the darling of the moneyed crowd, and of a lot of the news media. Ford was considered then, as Al Gore is today, to be the former executive for whom the nomination would have been his for the asking.
In 1960, many Democrats believed Adlai Stevenson would earn a third shot at the presidency, before Joseph Kennedy’s spending splurge, and Bobby Kennedy’s immaculate campaign management, thrust JFK over Lyndon Johnson, Stevenson, and a field of qualified others, including Hubert Humphrey.
You can take this yield back to 1952, when Sen. Robert Taft was favored over Gen. Eisenhower, until the powers within the Republican Party (and George Galllup himself) tilted the pre-primary system toward Ike.
Here’s a suggestion, for fun: go get the late Fletcher Knebel’s “Dark Horse”—one of the finest political novels ever written—- and enjoy the coming political season.
Thanks Tim Hays for finally noticing my point. The Republican Primary traditionally has been more predictable but this year it is more unpredictable than the Democratic primary. It is worth noting that the only times the polls were right a month before the Iowa caucus were in 1980, 1992 (Iowa native Tom Harkin won) & 2000