Will Hillary let Edwards' insults slide again or will she lay a can of whupass on him tomorrow night

mtnsnake

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Wed Nov-14-07 10:16 PM
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Poll question: Will Hillary let Edwards' insults slide again or will she lay a can of whupass on him tomorrow night

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oldtime dfl_er

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Wed Nov-14-07 10:23 PM
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1. I'd like to see her come out tough tomorrow

I think it could elevate the debate.

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Colobo

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Wed Nov-14-07 10:26 PM
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3. I want to see Hillary and Edwards cancel each other out.

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silverweb

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Wed Nov-14-07 10:29 PM
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5. Ditto.

Wouldn't it be sweeeet? :D

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Basileus Basileon

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Wed Nov-14-07 10:46 PM
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12. Hopefully like matter and antimatter. nt

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silverweb

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Wed Nov-14-07 11:10 PM
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16. Yup!

Clinton-Edwards/Matter-Antimatter: :nuke:

_{Disclaimer: Figurative nuke only. Your perspective may vary. I like and respect Edwards and all the other candidates... and have vowed to enthusiastically support the final Democratic nominee.}

In the meantime, I'm 100% behind my guy in this horse race!

:kick:

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MannyGoldstein

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Wed Nov-14-07 10:25 PM
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2. I Think Clinton's Out Of Her League

She's got a rabid velociraptor going after her soft, soft underbelly. I'll be impressed if she can OmniSpeak her way out of this.

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mtnsnake

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Wed Nov-14-07 10:33 PM
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6. Yeah right. If she wanted to, she could have Pouty crying his eyes out on stage.

So far she's been merciful toward him. After what happened to him at the Mellencamp concert when he got booed off the stage last week, she might just take some pity on him instead. It's a hard call. Should be interesting.

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Joe the Revelator

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Wed Nov-14-07 11:18 PM
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17. I've yet to see her make any unscripted comments...

Its hard to make someone cry as you refer to your crib notes.

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Kurt_and_Hunter

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Wed Nov-14-07 10:27 PM
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4. She will not rise to the bait

Edited on Wed Nov-14-07 10:27 PM by Kurt_and_Hunter

Any digs will be oblique

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Cameron27

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Wed Nov-14-07 10:40 PM
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7. I agree.

I'd love to see her take the gloves off, but it may not be in her best interest to get too negative. She'll probably throw in a few digs, but I don't expect much more than that.

She could clobber him if she wanted too, I don't doubt that for a second.

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Kurt_and_Hunter

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Wed Nov-14-07 10:41 PM
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8. She will probably try to score side-ways points on her focus on republicans

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ddeclue

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Wed Nov-14-07 10:41 PM
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9. She's gonna get her a** kicked again...

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gateley

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Wed Nov-14-07 10:44 PM
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10. What happened to their alliance when they were best buds talking about

narrowing down the field of candidates?

It's a shame they aren't getting along any more.

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IndianaGreen

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Wed Nov-14-07 10:46 PM
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11. Hillary will have her claws out tomorrow.

Hillary is best served by showing she can slug it out, than by whining, or blaming the media, or worst yet, have her philandering husband come to her rescue.

Show them you got claws, and that you are willing to use them, Hillary!

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Tellurian

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Thu Nov-15-07 03:03 AM
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26. Hillary is more the surgical strike type..

with a slight smile, three of four words assembled in the right order will take them out at the knees.

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BootinUp

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Wed Nov-14-07 10:47 PM
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13. He's not enough of a threat

to bother with.

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Clintonista2

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Wed Nov-14-07 11:32 PM
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22. Exactly

She's not going to confront him unless she percieves him to be a real threat. He barely polls high enough to be considered first tier.

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Andromeda

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Wed Nov-14-07 10:58 PM
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14. I think she'll defend herself tomorrow.

One can only take so much nonsense from people who talk the talk but can't walk the walk.

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Cameron27

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Wed Nov-14-07 11:02 PM
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15. That's something she has to do this time,

Edited on Wed Nov-14-07 11:03 PM by seasonedblue

she can't let them try to take her apart again without a fight. I just don't think she'll start the attacks.

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Andromeda

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Wed Nov-14-07 11:27 PM
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19. Correct...

I don't see her starting a fight but I do believe she'll respond to attacks.
(I'm keeping my fingers crossed!):scared:

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Tellurian

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Thu Nov-15-07 03:15 AM
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27. I agree, all she'd have to do is point a fly swatter at Edwards

and he'll cringe saying,..."not the hair!"

Neither Obama or Edwards could be mistaken for the Marlboro Man.

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mtnsnake

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Thu Nov-15-07 10:59 AM
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29. I also agree with you. Part of her mystique is that she has an uncanny ability to fight back

The only problem for her is that she's not quite as used to punching back at her own people as she is to all the rightwing nutjobs that she's leveled in the past, but if Edwards continues with his foolish ways, Hillary will have no alternative to strike back so his ridiculous charges don't stick.

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DrFunkenstein

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Wed Nov-14-07 11:20 PM
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18. Maybe She'll Treat Him Like Kerry After the Botched Joke

Give him the ole swift boat treatment...

Times Herald-Record
November 02, 2006

Sen. John Kerry was the only Democrat Sen. Hillary Clinton didn't have kind words for at a campaign stop here yesterday.

Clinton said Kerry's now-infamous "joke" about how college students can avoid a tour of duty in Iraq was "inappropriate."

http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061102/NEWS/611020323

She really gave him a nice uppercut in the immediate run up to the midterm elections. Of course, now that she is the frontrunner, she wants Democrats to love each other.

At least Edwards is playing fair and saying it to her face, instead of stabbing her in the back (at the expense of the Dems running in the midterm elections).

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Cameron27

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Wed Nov-14-07 11:32 PM
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21. That wasn't the best thing she could have said,

but Howard Dean made two statements about the joke, and the first one was almost exactly the same as Clinton's. I've yet to see him taken apart for it.

I thought it was a mis-statement btw, not a joke.

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zulchzulu

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Wed Nov-14-07 11:28 PM
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20. Other

She'll cackle him so his hair falls off.

:crazy:

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MalloyLiberal

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Wed Nov-14-07 11:57 PM
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23. She'll lay a can of whupass probably

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Beacool

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Thu Nov-15-07 02:17 AM
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24. I think that she will ignore Edwards

except to rebut if she thinks that he's misrepresenting something that she has said. I do wish that she let the hypocritical guy have it (hedge funds, Johnny?), but I think that she'll resist the impulse........for now.

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PresidentObama

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Thu Nov-15-07 02:21 AM
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25. Insults? You mean accurate criticism.

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Perry Logan

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Thu Nov-15-07 06:56 AM
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28. I think she'll kick back and watch Edwards screw things up all by himself.

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Tellurian

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Thu Nov-15-07 11:41 AM
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30. We're running a 'count the blinks' contest..

they say, when someone is blinking while they are talking, they are not telling the Truth.

My number is '649' for the blinker.

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Cameron27

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Thu Nov-15-07 12:14 PM
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31. I'm not being snarky, (well maybe a little)

but Edwards has so many tics that I find myself turning away during close-ups. I know that Hillary's voice gets on some people's nerves, but for me it's Edwards' inflection up at the end of sentences that aren't questions. He does it all the time lol. It's funny how different these silly irritations are around here, if Clinton's voice wasn't such a hot topic, I wouldn't have brought it up.

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geek tragedy

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Thu Nov-15-07 12:18 PM
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32. She'll dismiss him as a pest. n/t

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Cameron27

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Thu Nov-15-07 12:38 PM
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33. Well Trippi's game is to inflate Edwards

into Clinton's main opposition, so the more she ignores him, the more he attacks. This time she has to counter-attack because he's building his ad campaign around a distortion of her statements & policies.

Obama better wake up to Edwards' strategy, he can do real damage without causing too much backlash IMO, but he shouldn't let Edwards overtake him. It might hurt him to tag-team Clinton again, those attacks have got to be close to the saturation point, no?

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