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April 05, 2005
Hillary Clinton Still Fighting “Right-Wing Attack Machine”
Look at this article in the New York Times.
In a fund-raising e-mail message sent out on Thursday, Mrs. Clinton's campaign also said her critics were preparing an advertising campaign against her similar to the one orchestrated by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, a group that attacked Senator John Kerry's Vietnam service during the presidential election."The right wing is already getting ready, naming Hillary as their 'No. 1 target' and boasting about their 'Swift Boat' style ads," said the e-mail message, which was sent by Ann F. Lewis, the director of communications for Mrs. Clinton's campaign committee, Friends of Hillary. "Help us show the right wing that we will be ready and able to fight back."
Is “Swift Boat” style here supposed to mean “truthful” style?
In many respects, the fund-raising letter is a fairly standard piece of campaign literature, employing the kind of scare tactics that Republican and Democratic politicians routinely use to mobilize their supporters.That said, the fund-raising solicitation exposes a side of Mrs. Clinton - fiery partisan - that she has rarely displayed in the four years since she arrived in the Senate, where she has won over many Republican colleagues with a nonconfrontational and even cordial style.
Clinton a fiery partisan? Who woulda thunk it.
As a contrast, see these two articles.
First, this one from the AP is about how Clinton has been collaborating with GOP leaders.
[Kenneth Weinstein of the Hudson Institute] said Republicans' joining Clinton on issues or at events is relatively normal, especially as the former first lady has tried to move to the political center."She's not Ted Kennedy," he said, referring to the Massachusetts liberal Democrat.
Then see this one from the New York Post about Clinton’s silence on the Schiavo debate.
AS THE nation bitterly debates the Terri Schiavo case, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has tried to stay above the fray, refusing to take sides and staying as quiet as possible.Some strategists say that's smart as she revs up for a 2008 presidential race and helps her move to the center just like her very public push to reach out to right-to-lifers on abortion. Others say it's a big blunder.
(Check out the Hillary Watch catagory for more stuff Hillary Clinton has been up to.)
Posted by illuminaria at April 5, 2005 06:33 PM