Diamonds vs. Pearls??

[BornagainDUer]

Shit!!! If Clinton gave a shit about anything but her own popularity she should have told the asshole asking the question to shut up and GET SERIOUS!!!

When the fuck are these people going to GET SERIOUS!!??

[bahrbearian]

1. I want it all , its mine mine mine. Just like Jesus taught.

[Swamp Rat]

2. Real questions vs CNN propaganda

If Hillary was really smart, she would have answered a different question. ;)

[gaspee]

3. Thank you

I am shocked at the DU threads where DU'ers then go on to give their own preference as to which shiny object they like best. ***ing INSANE.

The correct answer would have been a totally appalled... excuse me? done with a perfect sneer of contempt and outraged that she would even be asked that question.

[Maven]

5. Not a good strategy.

Although the proper reaction is the one you described (and I totally agree with you), she had to play along and answer. Otherwise, the next day everyone would have paid even MORE attention to it and criticized her for being bitter/uptight/elitist/angry/mean/etc. Better just to give a dumb answer to a dumb question and move on.

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[BornagainDUer]

28. Yer, always one to suggest a lie is better than the truth.

what a cynical soul you are

:eyes:

[Xipe Totec]

4. Give the young woman a break

Maria Luisa, the UNLV student who asked Hillary Clinton whether she preferred "diamonds or pearls" at last night's debate wrote on her MySpace page this morning that CNN forced her to ask the frilly question instead of a pre-approved query about the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository.

"Every single question asked during the debate by the audience had to be approved by CNN," Luisa writes. "I was asked to submit questions including "lighthearted/fun" questions. I submitted more than five questions on issues important to me. I did a policy memo on Yucca Mountain a year ago and was the finalist for the Truman Scholarship. For sure, I thought I would get to ask the Yucca question that was APPROVED by CNN days in advance."

Now, Luisa is getting "swamped" with critical e-mails.

http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2007/11/diamond_v_pearl_student_blasts_1.php

[aquart]

7. OP is blaming Clinton, not the idiot questioner.

[Xipe Totec]

10. OP refered to Maria Luisa as "the asshole asking the question"

I take exception to that statement.

[BornagainDUer]

8. Fuck Maria Luisa! She did the goddamn deed FIRST now she

tries to boost her ratings among the dissenting. If she had any balls she would have told the story BEFORE or DURING the circus. It's like the people who volunteer to go to Iraq, find out it isn't their cup of tea--how the hell could they not know what it was about in the first place--then have their loved ones whine and cry in public.

Any population of people who are so cowed by the limelight have a serious mental problem. Deferencitis?

FUCKING QUIT!!

[aquart]

6. Now she's condemned because of a frivolous question she DIDN'T plant?

Nobody on that platform wasn't serious. Nobody endures this petty humiliation day in and day out for a frivolous reason.

You hate her. You don't actually know why. So you condemn every insignificant thing she does. SHE does.

[Gabi Hayes]

9. thanks for the reminder....I'm going to read a book and listen to this.

getting too angry these days:

just by chance you crossed the diamond with the pearl.
you turned it on the world.
That's when you turned the world around

[BornagainDUer]

12. Fuck the whole thing. There are no heroes in this cathode ray crock of shit!!

[Hoof Hearted]

13. Hypertensive much?

Yeah, it was frivolous. You wanted Hillary to yell at her for not asking a serious question? Yeah, that would have worked out nicely.

[BornagainDUer]

16. Even on a purely political level it would have shown that Hillary

can take charge. Americans want a leader who does not pander to this trivial shit!

[hisownpetard]

14. She should have said what my mother said when someone posed a really distasteful question:

Well, if you'll forgive me for not answering that question,
I'll forgive you for asking it.

[Hoof Hearted]

15. So she could come off as snob? Not a good idea.

It was a frivolous question, not a distasteful one. The young lady didn't ask her if she preferred pads or tampons for God's sake.

[gaspee]

17. It's distasteful

Because that question assumes that as a woman she would have an answer to that question. Are men asked a stupid question about shiny baubles?

[Hoof Hearted]

20. No, they get stupid questions about boxers or briefs. Stupid, silly, frivolous.

but not distasteful.

[gaspee]

21. wait a minute

Some moron asked a *presidential candidate* boxers or briefs? I know pop culture stars get asked that... but presidential candidates?

[Maven]

22. Yes. Another kid in an MTV interview asked Bill Clinton if he preferred boxers or briefs.

And he answered the question (boxers), and was similarly criticized for participating in frivolity.

[hisownpetard]

26. If you listened to Hillary talking about how 90-yr-old women come up to her after her campaign

speeches and say how their mothers were not allowed to vote, and now they may live to see
the first woman President in America; and if you listen to her talk about the "boys club"
and how difficult it's been for women to make any headway and gain entry into that
all-male bastion, then I think a question about whether she prefers diamonds or pearls
(and that being the last question of the debate, as well) did not serve the purpose
of advancing women as serious candidates.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

18. It's a running joke from 1992, stupid.

:P

[pinto]

19. It was a throw away, 20 second question at the end of a spirited debate.

There were questions about foriegn policy vis-a-vis Iran, Social Security, health care, the Iraq debacle, immigration, oh, and the Bush administration...

just sayin'

[BornagainDUer]

23. It also smacks of consumerist elitist shit values, which of course

Clinton would know something about.

[AntiFascist]

24. Perhaps she would like roses and champagne to go with those diamonds and pearls...

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0707/S00058.htm

[mrreowwr_kittty]

25. Her breezy answer makes me suspect she was expecting it all along

She didn't react at all like someone would to a surprise question. She didn't miss a beat. Not that I really care since these debates are nothing but American Idol anyway.

[applegrove]

27. I agree it was a bad question.