Did speculating about it to a reporter have an ulterior motive?
Possibly, Certanly, it was a mistake in these days when every breath anyone takes anywhere near a condidate is analyzed fifty different ways.

But let’s not put iwords into his mouth. He did not say it was a stain on Obma’s character. He only pointed to a possible political liability.

There is something weird about people’s obseesion with Hillary. The way people just KNOW what she is thingking and plotting at every moment approaches the psychotic, IMO.

I’ve never been a fan, but I’m more a fan of Hillary’s thatn I am of this insane allocation of every evil motivation on earth to her. That is what truly repels me.

She is a politician.

I just watched the Dem debate. There isn’t a single one of them, nor of the Repubs, who is not coldly calculating how every word helps or hurts his prospects. Only Hillary is the cold calculator, though, to hear folks speak.
Edwards speaks as if he would wipe corporations out of the American landscape. How realistic is that?
Obama appears to promise he will change Anerican politics with merely the force of his character. Can anyone believe that?
Goals are great’ they are essential., Knowing just how bloody the battle can be to bring even the tiniest change should count for something.
What’s more, whoever the next president will be, that person had better be calculating or he won’t survive Washington for more than a week.

I’m alarmed by some of Hillary’s votes in the SEante. My opinion is based on that, not on whether she is warm and cuddly.
I’m not looking for a friend. I’m looking for a president.

She flubbed some debate questions. I’m interested in her complete postions, not on how glib she can be in 10 sex. sound bites.

I’m still not crazy about Hillary. But I think she is a realist. A realist with the right goals works better for me thant a candidate who makes heart warming speeches and makes promisses no one can deliver.

And one ot these days I’ll make up my mind for whom to vote.

What it implies is that I can’t be plastered with simple labels, which you do ad hominem and with mind-numbing regularity.

my politics are usually left of center and I certainly have looked forward to the end of the Republican presidential interregnum

Revealing and unsurprising — did anyone else see this, and what it implies about what is “normal”?

Likability counts for next to nothing as far as I am concerned. Smarts and toughness counts. A heart on the right side of the issues counts.

Good — then to meet all three criteria you cannot honestly support someone like Eliot Spitzer [retch]

If she says nothing…shes weak…….if she says anything shes smearing or a racist.

The facts are…….Obama did drugs. Bush had to fess up to his……..Obama should have to face up to his. Obviously they did not hinder Bush so they should not hinder Obama.

Yet Hillary is in a no win situation. The hype of her candidacy for 8 years CANNOT match the reality. Anything less then 65 percent in numbers and she is losing, worthless and a failure.

She is the victim of her own success. The greatest miscalculation in the history of Politics. Had she deflected a run for President for the first 4 year. Not rule it out but put a damper on it then she would have done much better today……..as it is after 8 years we are TIRED of hearing about Hillary.

Having Willie Horton running around your neighborhood resonates on Main Street……..what one campaign operative says about candidate wraps tomorrow’s fishbones.

Please note, this is the second time that I’ve agreed with the content of a post by Shaun Mullen.

I hear what you are saying on party votes. A too like McCain although as in allegations made re HRC and Romney that they constantly change their opinion to suit voters, this charge sadly applies to McCain too and I dont really know where he stands anymore compared to the attractive candidate of 2000. My personal interest is in the Supreme Court which i think needs to be elevated on everyone’s list of important presidential issues. It was my greatest fear of a W election (who could have seen 9-11 coming) but so many people found W so likable and wanted to have a beer with him. Likability counts for next to nothing as far as I am concerned. Smarts and toughness counts. A heart on the right side of the issues counts. I am personally determined to do everything I can to avoid another Alito, Scalia, Roberts, Thomas nomination which will tip the Court for decades in a direction I dont want to go. In that respect, my decision will almost certainly be a party decision this time out.

Any politician is fair game for past indiscretions, but what HRC has done through her proxy is especially perverse because (1.) Obama himself has made a clean breast of his indiscretions, and (2.) the proxy “warned” that Republicans will engage in fear mongering and character assassination while doing that very thing on Mrs. Clinton’s behalf.

FYI, I addressed the sickos who have gone after Bill and Hill here just last week.

Finally, candidates have to earn my vote; they don’t automatically get it because of their party affiliation. I vote for more Republicans than Democrats because they typically field better candidates and the state and local level where I live.

Hillary has not earned my vote, but she has 11 months to do so. If McCain is the GOP nominee he too will have to earn my vote, but I could see voting for him over Mrs. Clinton if push comes to shove.

http://ajliebling.blogspot.com/2007/12/blackening-obama.html

So there you have it. I have been a supporter of Bill since 1991 when I saw that he too was a fighter and could win. I have sympathies for his much maligned wife who has done precious little to deserve the crud thrown at her other than preserve her marriage. I am open to Obama and like some of what he offers. But I dont find any return similar thoughts from Dems who hate her, and I am mighty offended by what I have heard from bloggers and voters about HRC over the past few months and I am not alone. How do we get out of this mess? I dont know.

Lastly, she has not run as an incumbent, I have never heard her say she was inevitable or had some sort of entitlement. I have heard a lot of Dems and dumb talking TV heads say that, but never her.