Hillary suddenly vulnerable as bruises start to show...

[Wabash]

Flags come crashing down on Clinton after Veterans Day press conference...

November 12, 2007 9:05 AM

ABC News' Eloise Harper and Rick Klein Report: It's been a rough stretch for Hillary Clinton -- a tough debate performance, a lost voice, and the revelation that the Clinton campaign had been coaching questioners at events.

Then, on Sunday, everything started falling down around her.

After a very Presidential-esque news conference - Clinton turned around to leave the reporters and their peppering questions. A staffer swooped open a curtain, and chaos ensued. Four large American flags came crashing in front of Senator Clinton as she headed for the door. In a controlled panic, the staffers and the Senator attempted to catch the flags before they fell to the ground.

"I think the bases are not weighted enough," Clinton said as she propped flags back up. One of Clinton's aides quickly summoned the advance man in charge to assist in the crisis.

Clinton's spokesperson shifted back and forth between the cameras and the flag commotion before looking right at the cameras and saying, "Thanks everyone."

There were no planted questions to worry about, but on this Veterans Day the flags dropping all around the Senator created quite a stir among the press before Clinton fled the scene.

There's more on Clinton's recent woes -- and whether the former first lady is looking more vulnerable than inevitable these days in The Note.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/11/falling-flags.html

I don't know if this is an Omen for Clinton.....or for us!:idea

[Wabash]

BY MICHAEL McAULIFF
DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU

Monday, November 12th 2007, 4:00 AM

Sen. Hillary Clinton is under extra pressure since a dismal performance at the Philadelphia presidential debate, and looks to stay ahead of the 'boys'...

Sen. Hillary Clinton is under extra pressure since a dismal performance at the Philadelphia presidential debate, and looks to stay ahead of the 'boys'...
... such as fellow Democrats John Edwards, Chris Dodd and Barack Obama.


DES MOINES - Where did Hillary Clinton's mojo go?:hotdog

That's what her campaign has to be asking after a rough two weeks. And more importantly, they have to be wondering how to recapture that fading aura of an unstoppable juggernaut.

Top Clinton strategist Mark Penn doesn't own up to his candidate suffering a dip, but he admits it's been tougher of late.

"The opponents went negative, and that created a new dynamic and a different set of headlines," Penn said.

The new dynamic emerged at the debate in Philadelphia two weeks ago, but didn't just spring from sharp criticism by her opponents. Clinton stumbled by offering fuzzy answers to some questions and refusing to take a stance on Gov. Spitzer's license plan for illegal immigrants.:akbar

Then Camp Clinton's damage control backfired as she was pounded for suggesting the "boys" ganged up on her. And Bill Clinton brought more scorn when he said the attempt to get an answer out of his wife on licenses verged on John Kerry Swift Boat territory.:rofl

Now Penn and company plan to stick to the high road, talking about Clinton's strength, experience and vision for America, fund-raising at a torrid rate and deploying Bill Clinton more.

They're also launching counterattacks, calling her opponents mudslingers.

"I think it's sinking in to the electorate that people who had pledges to not attack Democrats were abandoning those pledges," Penn said.

Clinton remains way ahead in national polls, though some have shown a slip and a survey in early voting New Hampshire out yesterday showed a tightening race there.:yay

The focus for staving off any Clinton collapse, though, starts in Iowa, where the candidates wooed party faithful at the state Democrats' biggest event of the year over the weekend.

Iowa Democrats said they didn't feel Clinton is headed down yet, but many thought the bruises were starting to show over her immigration nonposition and a new flareup over revelations that Hillaryland planted questions in two "conversations" with voters.:wink

"I've turned a little more negative on her because of the immigration issue," said Terry Edwards, a trucker from Waukee, Iowa. "She flip-flops on that. I'd like to know where she stands."

"She's vulnerable, definitely," said Paul Willis of Thornton, Iowa, who said Clinton has what it takes to win, but could also implode. "As people get to know the other candidates, they're saying, 'Maybe there is a second choice.'"

Some Democrats saw damage from the attacks but liked Clinton more.

"I think it is hurting her, although for me, it's made me feel a little better toward her," said Roy McCoy, of Riverside, Iowa. "I don't like bullying."
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/2007/11/12/2007-11-12_hillary_clinton_suddenly_vulnerable_as_b-2.html

McCoy apparently doesn't know the difference between bullying and answering tough questions. She's not running for the local tea club for christsake!!

[Ringo]

Why is it so hard?????? She is inept, she is a CRIMINAL, she is an ENABLER of a SICKO Treasoner, she is totally wrong for any job in Govt!!!

When will she open her Archives as ORDERED, why hasn't it been enforced, when will they exhume Foster to find the truth as well as Ron Brown??:sparks:police:police:police