Voices grow louder in the anti-Clinton chorus

[babylonsister]

Voices grow louder in the anti-Clinton chorus

November 4, 2007

BY CHUCK RAASCH and BRIAN TUMULTY

GANNETT NEWS SERVICE

CHERAW, S.C. -- The sheen of inevitability that Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has cloaked around her presidential candidacy has been suddenly and fiercely challenged.

As the 2008 presidential campaign comes into focus for many Americans, will attacks on the New York senator's veracity, consistency and honesty hurt her, or backfire on her opponents? Will Clinton's less enthusiastic supporters take a second look at her character?

Or will they dig in further for her, seeing the questions about her character as evidence that her opponents are being overrun by the potential first female president's rendezvous with history?

One thing appears increasingly certain: Less than two months before the first real votes are cast, the intensity of attacks on the Democratic senator's character is de facto proof that both Democrats and Republicans consider her the front-runner going into 2008.

She has greatly helped create the impression of being the one to beat, not only by virtue of polls, but in the way she has campaigned.

She is trying to come across as a battle-scarred trailblazer, running a campaign that has all the look and feel of an incumbent president -- down to the Secret Service protection and carefully controlled media access.

Most improbably of all, she's portraying herself as the true change agent, despite 16 years in the national spotlight.

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http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071104/NEWS07/711040621/1009

[ruggerson]

1. More MSM garbage creating the race instead of reporting on it

they so desperately want SOMETHING that will make them some money.

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. freep.com?? LOL

Better tell everyone it is the Detroit Free Press. :hi:

[populistdriven]

3. exactly! why are we posting articles from free repubelick as news?

:P

[ClassWarrior]

4. Did you even read the post you answered?

That's the web address for the online version of the Detroit Free Press.

:eyes:

NGU.

[populistdriven]

8. :D - yea - funny huh?

[MADem]

5. No, that IS the Detroit Free Press. The similarity in name, though, is unnerving.

I don't think much of these "opinions disguised as news" articles, though, about ANY of the candidates.

Tell us what they did, what they said, and what the venue was. Beyond that, they need to get the hell out of the way, and keep their halfassed opinions out of their work product!

[papau]

7. Wonder if this would've run if Free Press was still Knight Ridder instead of Gannett (USAtoday)?

??

[Bitwit1234]

6. Yep Obama supporters so they could dish the shit out there louder

bought themselves megaphones. They are really swimming on the bottom of the swamp now, but the lower Obama sinks the dirtier they sling the bullshit.

[Adelante]

9. I've lost count of the threads I've seen today

where you step in and call out Obama supporters in some nasty way. Maybe step outside and breathe.

[ClassWarrior]

10. Ain't that the truth?

NGU.

[Dawgs]

12. Boy, you Hillary supporters really are scared.

[wiley]

18. If anyone in this country is not scared, they must be in a coma.

Don't you think? I'm kinda wondering if we'll even have voting rights next November. Potable water sources are kind of making me shiver as well.

[wiley]

15. Sadly, Public support for Obama seems to be morphing into consoling or pity.

I just don't think he even has a chance at this point. He may get the Republican protest vote, but not a lot. Besides supporting Clinton, I've moved into supporting some real Democrats for Senate and House seats.

[illinoisprogressive]

11. it is a good article in the Free Press. I do agree with it.

[AtomicKitten]

13. Sing it loud.

I am grateful to Edwards for opening up this race.

[wiley]

14. WaPo says Senator Clinton has incredible support. I see it everywhere.

...."Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y.) leads the race for the Democratic nomination with 49 percent, followed by Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) at 26 percent. Former senator John Edwards (N.C.) has 12 percent. Obama bounced back from a low of 20 percent in last month's Post-ABC News poll.
Clinton has held generally large double-digit leads in Post-ABC News national polls throughout the campaign, but the competition appears tighter in Iowa. There, polls of likely caucus-goers indicate a tight three-way contest for delegates among Clinton, Obama and Edwards.

Clinton's national front-runner status is built on her advantages on several key attributes, all of which may yield dividends in the state-by-state contests.

Three-quarters of Democrats view Clinton favorably, which is somewhat higher than the results for Obama (67 percent) or Edwards (62 percent). More than twice as many have a "strongly" positive impression of Clinton as have that view of Edwards. And most of those who would back Clinton in their state's primary or caucus, "strongly" support her.

A majority of Democrats see Clinton as the strongest leader of the three top candidates, and she has the edge over Obama and Edwards as being best on the issues and the closest representative of the party's core values. Notably, given the increasingly sharp debate among the candidates over foreign policy, Clinton is seen as the best able to handle the situations in Iraq and involving Iran, by margins of better than 2 to 1."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/04/AR2007110401111_2.html?hpid=topnews

[depakid]

17. By citing the Post for that proposition- you just lost any credibility you may have had

Might as well cite Fox "news."

Sheesh.

[Perry Logan]

16. Talk about INEVITABLE! Make way for Clinton II.