Shocka: Hillary embellishes her background to liven up stump speech
posted at 2:13 pm on May 11, 2007 by Allahpundit
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So tiresome, and even counterproductive in that it ends up reminding people how apparently uncomfortable she is with her actual background. Geraghty rattles off a few past examples but neglects to mention her Yankees/Cubs straddle, the incredible disappearing southern accent, or even the ever evolving surname, which began in Arkansas as “Rodham,” then became “Rodham Clinton,” and now appears to have settled on “Clinton” or no surname at all. You’re an upper-class, highly educated feminist from the midwest, Hillary. Own it.
Update: For once, it’s hard to disagree with the nutroots:
Instead of being embraced by liberal blogs as the first serious woman presidential contender, Clinton has been labeled an “opportunist,” the candidate more interested in getting elected than in standing on principle. “Her model of doing politics is based on pandering to individual groups,” said MyDD’s Matt Stoller…
“To most bloggers, authenticity is an important criterion. There is an allergic reaction to hypercautious politicians,” The Huffington Post’s Arianna Huffington wrote in an e-mail. “Hillary Clinton’s problem with the blogosphere is that she has been so calculating that you can smell it. Every thought has been processed through multiple channels in her and her consultants’ brains. It’s so fabricated.”
Of course, some groups think she hasn’t pandered enough.
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“I was born a poor black child…”
saint kansas on May 11, 2007 at 2:24 PM
How can you tell Hillary’s lying?
KelliD on May 11, 2007 at 2:26 PM
My answer is….her lips are moving.
KelliD on May 11, 2007 at 2:28 PM
Her kankles sweat?
sunny on May 11, 2007 at 2:32 PM
I’m telling you, right now, you’re hearing it from me again. She will Divorce BJ for news time as well as to silence some criticism.
- The Cat
P.S. I’m almost temped to say she assulted me, but like I won’t. :)
MirCat on May 11, 2007 at 2:34 PM
Since we deemed Kerry to be “Waffles” can we just call her “Kankles” from now on?
omnipotent on May 11, 2007 at 2:36 PM
Hey, everyone just settle back.
Let’s have a conversation.
Gottafang on May 11, 2007 at 2:38 PM
aren’t all politicians like that? you make a speech to some veterans lobby group, you talk about THEIR issues. next you go to the Chinese American lobby group, you talk about issues relevant to THEM… and so on and so on.
it’s nice to see that Fred! is so “principled”… but he hasn’t gone making speeches in his presidential bid to different groups. he’s just been throwing it out there.
AlexB on May 11, 2007 at 2:57 PM
When her lips move?
Jaibones on May 11, 2007 at 2:57 PM
…”A female version of Obama”? Eek. Would she wear a burqa?
tickleddragon on May 11, 2007 at 2:57 PM
Man, any clumsy phrase in order to avoid Dems real inconvenient truth – identity politics.
Stephen M on May 11, 2007 at 2:58 PM
Late on the draw.
Anywho, she learned this habit of pathological lying from the master, Bill “the rapist” Clinton. The stories of his pointless, pandering lies, great and small, are legend.
These people live in a strange dream world, where reality exists only in their minds.
Jaibones on May 11, 2007 at 3:00 PM
When she started hyphenating her name (Bill’s 2nd term?), that’s when I figured she was preparing for a future presidential bid and wanted to eventually drop the name Clinton (since the marriage was purely business) and run under her “true” name.
She went into the foray thinking there was not going to be a foray and would easily clinch the Democrat nomination. This was before Obama of course, and now that the speech dialect pandering isn’t paying out for her, she is resorting to riding the rest of the journey atop the white steed known as Clinton.
mojowire on May 11, 2007 at 3:00 PM
Jesus, these people are just waking up? I have known this since she and BillyJ came on the scene. These two people are serial liars, always have been and always will be. If she doesn’t get the nomination she will drop him like a hot tamale. He will not be of any use to her anymore and he’s gone. But neither of them will ever go away. They are like the Kennedy bunch – they will be here telling tall tales as long as they can breath.
OBX Pete on May 11, 2007 at 3:00 PM
Was that making excuses for Hillary?? If you say they’re all like that, I beg to differ. Hillary is like a souped-up, steroid-filled, super Politician. She IS a living example of the Politician stereotype.
If there is a human woman in there – she’s been long supressed for political gain.
tickleddragon on May 11, 2007 at 3:01 PM
Not
Paris Hilton Hillary
abinitioadinfinitum on May 11, 2007 at 3:02 PM
Which is why, of course, I don’t consider her the first woman candidate.
There is no Hillary, only Zuul (the Politician)
tickleddragon on May 11, 2007 at 3:02 PM
She lies even when the truth is a much better story.
BacaDog on May 11, 2007 at 3:05 PM
Hillary couldn’t tell a hot, steamy cows*it from a French chocolate crêpe, but she’d claim to make you any one of them, if you’d vote for her.
Entelechy on May 11, 2007 at 3:08 PM
This is just proof that she’s an immortal. She obviously grew up in Chicago before the 20s.
There can be only one! She already killed the Kurgan, she’s out for clan McCloud blood now!
Veeshir on May 11, 2007 at 3:08 PM
Mircat…Is ‘assulted’ a combination of ‘assaulted’ and ‘insulted’ ? If it is you just invented a great new word !
DoctorDentons on May 11, 2007 at 3:18 PM
Entelechy, kedves, this is an old Magyar proverb! Now that a ‘Hungarian’ is President of the Fifth Republic, the crepes-cow pie connection will be….solidified
I love the selective Awareness of the Huffpost freaks, but you all know that they won’t take it much further. They will hold their noses and vote for Hillary, screeching at any Republican along the way
and as a personal note to “AlexB”: get a life or get a message or get a clue–something to actually make sense
Janos Hunyadi on May 11, 2007 at 3:34 PM
Well yeah. That’s why we don’t trust any of them.
I think the politician that is successful is the one that has his own vision for the furture, communicates that to the public in a way that energizes them to be part of his vision.
Look at the greats…
Lincoln, FDR, Kennedy, ML King, Reagan etc. Our problem is that the important events of our day are pretty clear and there really is no direction other than national security that makes any sense.
The only thing holding Mitt! back is a fresh, strong, message on the GWoT that resonates with the american people.
csdeven on May 11, 2007 at 3:36 PM
Now, let’s give her credit. She looks pretty good for being in her 90’s. She still gets around pretty well…..oh, wait. Nevermind. I was thinking of Sir Edmund Hillary.
amerpundit on May 11, 2007 at 3:39 PM
Mitt wishes that were so…
Entelechy on May 11, 2007 at 3:41 PM
Not necessarily. She wants this so-o-o-o-o bad she’ll have to stick with him for some period of time on the way to 2012. She’s in a real bind. She can’t stand to be with him, but without him, her political charisma is inadequate to cross the finish line. Rock vs. Hard Place.
eeyore on May 11, 2007 at 3:42 PM
When I worked in Dallas, Hillary came to a bookstore near me to hype “her” book, “It Takes A Village.” The first lie was her claim that she had written it herself, when in fact she only wrote the foreword. She did not give credit tot he ghostwriter, as is commonly done.
So her loyal fans lined up to get a real, authentic, autographed book from their heroine Hillary. However, she was not sitting at a table autographing books like authentic authors usually do. She handed out books she claimed she had already signed. That was the second lie.
About a week after her book event, a disgruntled Hillary fan wrote an angry letter in to the Dallas Morning News. She had gotten together with her Hillary fan pals and compared books, only to discover that some of the autographs were perfectly identical. After more comparison, they realized that their books had not been signed by Hillary, but by an autograph machine. Closer inspection revealed that three different signatures had been used to fool her fans.
That was a perfect Hillary moment: Smiling and shaking the hands of her fans while giving them a book she didn’t write bearing an autograph she never signed while looking them straight in the eye. Hillary thinks she can fool all the people all the time.
Tantor on May 11, 2007 at 3:48 PM
“I ain’t no waaaayyyyyyyssss tired…” She has so many dialects that she should put them on a CD-Rom. What pandering!
Neocon Peg on May 11, 2007 at 3:53 PM
Yes, that’s all we need now, for Bubba to “turn his machine on”
Rick on May 11, 2007 at 4:04 PM
She won’t drop Billy. He’s too popular. They aren’t even together now, necessarly. I garantee they haven’t shared a marital bed in years. Show me a pic of them not on stage sharing a loving look.
Mazztek on May 11, 2007 at 4:06 PM
That is a great story…it tells so much.
right2bright on May 11, 2007 at 4:15 PM
Yes, yes that’s exactly what I meant. I’m just kewl like that. (looking around to see if anyone believes me)
- The Cat
MirCat on May 11, 2007 at 5:13 PM
If Mitt! could take the GWoT issue and make it his own, the other issues would pale in comparison. He has the executive experience that a president needs and a fiscal record that plays very well.
csdeven on May 11, 2007 at 6:21 PM
You guys forget the single biggest reason Hillary! will likely never, ever divorce Bill: as his “wife” (in the contractual sense of the word only), she remains the wife of a former President – complete with all the trimmings afforded to a former First Family, for the rest of their lives. Think about it: how many freshman Senators show up to their first day of work complete with a Secret Service escort? IMHO, that escort carries a lot of clout. Or do you think it mere coincidence that Obamassiah had to secure a Secret Service escort of his own recently? Normally, such escorts are only provided to candidates only after being nominated by their respective parties, not during primaries.
Hillary! could remain married to Bill in the Warren Buffet sense of the word, living a completely separate life, so long as the contract remains legally intact. So while I wouldn’t put it past her, at some point during the primaries, to “suddenly” put on a tear-jerker about how “naughty” Bill is, once again, and perhaps threaten divorce (as a political sympathy gambit, to “humanize” her a bit), I personally believe that Bill could f*ck a proverbial goat, and as long as his behavior doesn’t put his bennies as a former President at risk, she won’t care less.
Wanderlust on May 11, 2007 at 10:27 PM
This is starting to remind me of one of my favorite episodes of The Simpsons, where the consultants are standing over the cartoonist’s shoulder trying to come up with a cool new character:
MEYERS
No, no, no! He was supposed to have attitude.
SILVERMAN
Um… wh-what do you mean, exactly?
MEYERS
Oh, you know, attitude, attitude! Uh… sunglasses!
EXECUTIVE
Can we put him in more of a “hip-hop” context?
KRUSTY
Forget context, he’s gotta be a surfer. Give me a nice shmear of surfer.
EXECUTIVE
I feel we should rastafy him by … ten percent or so.
Silverman redraws Poochie. They’re still not totally satisfied.
MEYERS
Hmm… I think he needs a little more attitude.
Silverman blackens in Poochie’s sunglasses.
EXECUTIVE
Oh yeah, bingo. There it is, right there!
saint kansas on May 12, 2007 at 5:23 AM
Does this mean something similar to Fred!?
OBX Pete on May 12, 2007 at 9:21 AM
This is characteristic behavior of the person who was named for the conqueror of Mt. Everest five years before he did it. The only thing Everest about her is the size of the snow-job she’s trying to pull on everyone.
flutejpl on May 12, 2007 at 9:41 AM
Hillary was raised in nearby Park Ridge, a very affluent suburb of Chicago and a very old one. There have not been farm fields in Park Ridge since BEFORE the beast was born. Another one of her lies as everyone in the area knows.
How many more lies will we have to suffer with this person who knows no bounds? God help us if she is elected.
bjb on May 12, 2007 at 11:23 AM
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Well, don’t look now ‘cuz your day’s about to take a turn for the worse…
On Drudge:
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BILL CLINTON TO TAKE MORE PUBLIC ROLE IN HILLARY CAMPAIGN; own campaign plane, press corps and schedule of events in crucial states while Hillary Clinton is barnstorming in others… MORE…
filmed a five-minute video…
(End of Message /Story Developing per Drudge 4:45 PM on 5-12-07)
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NightmareOnKStreet on May 12, 2007 at 4:47 PM
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