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Clinton Slipping on Trust

Clinton Slipping on Trust - WSJ.com

By AMY CHOZICK
April 1, 2008

HARRISBURG, Pa. -- In the weeks before the Pennsylvania primary, Sen. Hillary Clinton not only lags Sen. Barack Obama in the race for delegates, she also is losing ground in her effort to convince voters that she is trustworthy.

The debate over her record has left Sen. Clinton confronting her lowest approval rating since April 2006, according to a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll released last week.

According to the survey, 29% of the approximately 1,000 respondents said they had a very negative opinion of Sen. Clinton compared with 15% for Sen. Barack Obama and 12% for Sen. John McCain, the likely Republican nominee.


A Pew Research survey released last week shows 29% of Democratic voters describe Sen. Clinton as "phony," compared with 14% for Sen. Obama.

For more than a year, the Clinton campaign has tried to burnish Sen. Clinton's image, and early last month, the strategy appeared to be paying off. A stronger approval rating helped Sen. Clinton score victories in the Ohio and Texas primaries, though Sen. Obama picked up more delegates in Texas.

The New York senator suffered a setback last week when she admitted to overstating the danger she had faced on a 1996 trip to Bosnia as first lady. The incident sparked allegations that she had exaggerated her role on other issues, such as the Northern Ireland peace process, opposing the North American Free Trade Agreement and bringing health insurance to children.

Everhart Flenory, 67, a retired steelworker in New Kensington, Pa., said he used to be a Clinton supporter but plans to vote for Sen. Obama in the state's April 22 primary. "I've lost all my love for the Clintons," Mr. Flenory says. "Why'd she have to lie?"

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Kana

Only 29%? If lying about having to dodge sniper fire that wasn't there doesn't make you a phony, what does?

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Titanium Cat

She could have claimed that she was wounded!

The old I didn't lie as much as I could have so that increases my credibility trick...

Vicariously I

The Clintons seem to tell a big lie when a little one will do and a small one when the truth will do.

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"It's hard to face reality when you're busy living in the American Dream."

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SLIPPING?

Did anyone see a movie called, I think, Romy & Michelle's High School Reunion? An altogether forgettable film, but there was a hilarious scene wherein one of the two who are still hapless and hopelessly nerdy as young women tries to impress the people who thought they were hapless and hopelessly nerdy as girls by telling them that, since last they'd seen one another, her father invented the Post-It.

HILLARY CLINTON MADE UP SNIPER FIRE.

It is a fantastic thing to have done...more fantastic that she has not been laughed out of countenance.

I am faster than a speeding bullet.

Oh yeah? I am more powerful than a locomotive.

Pikers...I can leap tall buildings in a single bound.

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LIARS LIE
It's what they DO.

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i was just listening to hilllary's speech, mentioned below, live and it was really funny to hear her comparing herself to rocky, and saying she's not going to quit halfway up the museum stairs...

and then i found this article!

It's the "Rocky" Road for Hillary Clinton

Political Punch

April 01, 2008 10:13 AM

Ap_hillary_rocky2_080401_mn In a speech in Philadelphia today, Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, will compare herself to Philly icon Rocky Balboa.

"Well, could you imagine if Rocky Balboa had gotten half way up those Art Museum steps and said, 'Well, I guess that’s about far enough?'" Clinton will ask, according to her prepared remarks released to the press.

"Let me tell you something, when it comes to finishing the fight, Rocky and I have a lot in common," she will tell the Pennsylvania A.F.L.-C.I.O. audience. "I never quit. I never give up. And neither do the American people."

Um….Senator?

Rocky lost.

It was a split decision, but the judges (superdelegates?) awarded the fight to Rocky's black opponent, Apollo Creed.

ANNOUNCER: Judge Walker scores it eight-seven Creed... Judge Roseman scores it eight-seven Balboa. Judge Conners scores it nine-six Creed... Winner and still Heavyweight Champion of the World, Apollo Creed!

(As a Philadelphian, I am not going to get into Rockys II through 6.)

- jpt

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HarperLee

Thanks. I heard the Rocky speech, too.

Her lie du jour is that Obama wants her to withdraw, after Obama said Sunday that he doesn't think she should withdraw -- and after he said that he admires her tenacity.

Now HuffPo is methodically exposing her lies.

Mithrall

Something else Hillary has in common with Rocky, they are both fictional characters.

Heavy_monkey2.0

sheeesh if this series of unfortunate events (for hilary) isnt the calling card of ninja snipers, i dont know what is...