Clinton Charges Through Iowa, Bill Clinton Likens Attacks on Hillary to 'Swift Boat' Ads
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AMANA, Iowa — With less than two months until the Iowa caucuses, Hillary Clinton is charging through the early-voting state in an attempt to widen a lead that was recently imperiled when her Democratic opponents stepped up their game of hardball against her following last week's candidate debate.
Hillary really can't take the heat. It seems when she's in trouble, she calls Bill to the rescue. Last week, the Clintons played the gender card, now Bill is saying that Hillary has been "swift-boated."
posted by Andy W. Rogers | 10:06 PM
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It is astonishing to watch the continuing inability of the Clinton campaign to sustain a modest blow. Her debate performance last week wasn’t that bad, and the attacks against her weren’t so harsh, and the questions she got weren’t unfair at all. She didn’t handle them very well, which happens. But since then she, her husband, and her campaign team have been in a kind of panicked stupor about it which has not abated much in a week and has continued (needlessly) to draw the worst kind of attention to the candidate and provide fodder for her opposition. Potential Republican candidates are certainly taking notes on this. When (or rather, if) she faces a Republican in the fall, she’ll get pushed around a lot more frequently and forcefully than this (I hope), and she and her team seem terribly ill-equipped for it at the moment.
Not that it's easy to take a beating and keep moving, but easy or not it is absolutely essential to the task she has set out for herself: essential not only to running for president, but to serving as president effectively, as the current president could surely tell her.
Senator Clinton is in one respect astonishingly disciplined (unlike her husband). But when she does get a little off balance, it seems she has very serious trouble “moving on” (again, unlike her husband). Not a winner’s trait in politics.
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