Hillary’s debate gaffe? Not much of one
According to some commentors on the debates, Hillary really took a beating from her Democratic opponents. Take a look at these comments of George the First (George H. W. Bush) and Newt Gingrich. I can only respond, “Oh, really?”
Don’t get me wrong, I am not really a Hillary supporter, but give me a break, she took the ganging up by her opponents and had trouble, but to see how she really did, don’t listen to her opponents, and George 41 and Newt are harsher opponents that Obama and Edward will ever be — when it comes to the campaign for president, Obama and Edwards will be in Hillary’s corner, unlike George 41 and Newt. The real measure of how she did in the debate is in her loss of stock price at the Iowa Electronic Markets. Her stock fell by $0.02, but that was from a high of $0.72 down to $0.70, which is still less than a 3% drop, really not that much. Check out the Iowa Electronic Market and its predictions on the Democratic Convention outcome, the party nominee.
-Morris Coats
November 6th, 2007 at 10:08 pm
After reading through the comments that George H.W. Bush and Newt Gingrich made about Hillary, I am very surprised. I agree with Mr.Coats about giving these woman a break. I am not a a big Hillary supporter but she deserves credit in trying to compete in a world that is dominated by men. I think that the comments made by those two men might come back and hurt them. We live in a world were people like to fight and complain about everything. There is probably some women organization that is attempting to twist these men words and say that these men are sexist. However, I think Hillary has supporters and I beleive that if she wins her nomination then she will be a threat to the other candidates.
November 8th, 2007 at 11:41 am
From a womans perspective, I do think that they, Bush and Gingrich, were quite harsh. Yet you have to commend her for standing up as one of the first females to actually get well into a presidential race. I am not saying that I support her and her ideas because I don’t know enough about all of the candidates to make that type of decision. But when you look at it from the past… many people liked Bill Clinton. Especially african-americans. Many women will vote for Hillary for the simple fact that she is a woman. The same people that voted, and liked Bill will also vote for her. (Its like having Bill in the office one again.) So her odds seem to be above average. I commend her for standing up to all those men. They will say all kinds of things…she’s a girl, nobody wants a girl in office…and it will only show their true colors and morals of women.
November 8th, 2007 at 7:23 pm
I’ve yet to decide if I am a Hillary supporter, yet there is no doubt that her opponents Obama & Edwards had their focus on attempting to expose her negative qualities as a democatic canidate at the debate. They have been running “under the radar” negative campaigns despite giving the impression that they are focused on the issues facing the American people today. On the flip side, Hillary has made it a point to run a campaign full of detailed plans on crucial issues from healthcare to Iraq, and more recently, plans involving Energy. Perhaps Obama & Edwards should rethink abandoning the politics of hope in favor of attacks on other Democrats. If you check out the Newsweek Poll and the ABC Washington Post Poll, Hillary leds with 49 percent, a 23 point lead over Obama and a 37 point lead over Edwards.
November 11th, 2007 at 12:01 am
It looks like Bethany gets my point. Any gaffe Mrs. Clinton made hardly showed up on the radar of the “smart money” in the election. They did not think she hurt herself that much. Bush and Gingrich were wondering if she could still make it. Some others, the smart money, is pretty sure she will come out on top of the dems and will still probably beat whoever the reps. put up.
-MC
November 13th, 2007 at 4:12 am
Despite continued troubles in her campaign, such as the news of planted softball questions at town hall campaign meetings, Hillary is holding steady in the Iowa political markets, hovering above $.70. This means that the market is judging her chances of winning the Democratic nomination at above 70%. This is not so much as a waver in the market. I am still waiting for the “drop” in her support, but it has not happened yet.
-MC
November 15th, 2007 at 10:24 am
She planted questions. This is a fact that we know and yet everyone seems to brush it off. I too am still waiting for her support to drop. I am quite supprised that it hasn’t happened yet.
November 19th, 2007 at 10:39 pm
I do not agree with Bush and Newt’s comments about Hillary Clinton’s debate. I do not think that anyone’s vote will change either because of what these two men had to say; and I do not think her supporters will drop. The market still has her at about 70% of the Democratic nominations. I am not saying that I am a supporter of Hillary Clinton because I do not know a great deal about the political race. I do give her kudos for stepping up to the plate and being the first woman to run for president.
November 21st, 2007 at 10:18 pm
Britney,
Your kudos to Sen. Clinton about being the first woman to run for president is wrong, and inspired a response that turned into a blog post the night before Thanksgiving.
Thanks for the inspiration, even if it was because you missed a bit of history. While I am not in favor of separate women’s history classes, believing that the contributions of women should be mentioned in the context of the times, so, in a regular history class, but there have been other women before Sen. Clinton.
Look for my new post.
-MC
-MC