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Clinton seeks to rebound after Iowa defeat
Jan 4, 2008, 16:14 GMT
New York Senator and Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton (L) stands with her husband, Bill Clinton (R), and daughter Chelsea (C) during a campaign event in Nashua, New Hampshire, USA, 04 January 2008. New Hampshire will vote in the United States\' first presidential primary on 08 January 2008. EPA/JUSTIN LANE
Washington/Des Moines, Iowa - Hillary Clinton, seeking to rebound from her disappointing loss in the first state contest for the Democratic presidential nomination, hit the campaign trail in the next battleground state on Friday.
Less than 12 hours after Senator Barack Obama captured the Democratic contest in Iowa and former governor Mike Huckabee prevailed in the Republican race, Clinton joined the host of Republican and Democratic candidates in New Hampshire fighting for votes in the presidential primary set for Tuesday.
'Are you ready for the next five days?' Clinton shouted to rally in Nashua, New Hampshire after taking the microphone from her most ardent supporter, former president Bill Clinton.
Clinton, who only weeks ago appeared to be gliding to the Democratic nomination, needs to regain the momentum after finishing third in Iowa with 29 per cent of the vote, behind Obama, who won 38 per cent, and former senator and 2004 vice presidential candidate John Edwards, who took 30 per cent of the vote.
Although New Hampshire's population is only about 1.3 million, the north-east state is seen as crucial for candidates to gain momentum in the state-by-state voting in the coming weeks to determine the Republican and Democratic presidential nominees for the November 4 election.
The next big contest is in Florida on January 29, followed by the February 5 super Tuesday when voters in 21 states, including heavyweights California and New York, head to the polls.
Obama, hoping to become the first African-American president, arrived in New Hampshire riding his strong showing in Iowa, telling a rally that he was the real candidate of change.
'We are using unity over division and sending a powerful message that change is coming to America,' Obama said.
On the Republican side, the Baptist preacher and former Arkansas governor Huckabee capitalized on support from conservative evangelicals to handily defeat former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, widely regarded as his party's frontrunner along with former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani.
Huckabee took 34 per cent of the vote, finishing nine points ahead of Romney.
'Tonight what we have seen is a new day in American politics,' Huckabee said at a victory rally following the Iowa vote.
Obama's breakout victory in Iowa is the culmination of his campaign for most of 2007 to challenge Clinton, wife of the popular former president and long seen as the centre-left's top contender.
Clinton, however, was still leading in statewide polls in New Hampshire and could hold on to her frontrunner status if she performs well in the crucial northeast state.
The three top Democrats had been locked in a tight race ahead of the Iowa caucuses.
Obama, whose father was from Kenya, is a Chicago lawyer and community activist whose personal charisma and positive style catapulted him to national prominence after he won a US Senate seat for Illinois in 2004. His success Thursday night came in a mostly rural state with a more than 90-per-cent white population.
Huckabee's win marked a serious blow for Romney, who had hoped that an Iowa victory would propel him to dominance in other early voting states because his biggest rival, Giuliani, mostly ignored Iowa to focus on New Hampshire and other key states. Giuliani finished with only 3 per cent of the Iowa vote.
Huckabee's upstart campaign caught fire in late autumn, as he performed well in several of the numerous candidate debates. Polling showed that religious conservatives in the right wing of the Republican Party looked to Huckabee - an ordained Baptist minister - amid their lingering doubts about the more liberal records of Romney and Giuliani on social issues.
The Iowa result shows that 'people really are more important than the purse,' Huckabee said, referring to how Romney had vastly outspent him..
Romney focussed on the fact that he and Huckabee had beaten candidates with much greater name recognition before the campaign began - Giuliani and Arizona Senator John McCain.
Romney is locked in a tight battle in New Hampshire with McCain, who drew 13 per cent of the votes in Iowa and was the top Republican vote-getter in New Hampshire in 2000.
McCain finished effectively in a tie for third place with Fred Thompson, a former senator from Tennessee and part-time actor.
Two veteran Democratic senators, Chris Dodd of Connecticut and Joe Biden of Delaware, announced late Thursday that they would quit the race after each finishing with less than 1 per cent in Iowa.
It remains to be seen whether Edward's second-place finish can revive his campaign, which had stalled in the months leading up to Iowa.
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...I'll bet she will!
Obama - the only person folllowing Clinton's advice...
She appeared overconfident, and in a close race like this, momentum is everything. Bill is already working hard in New Hampshire, and the real question is how Obama would draw in large states like New York, where Hillary is an incumbent.
Either Senator Clinton or Senator Obama would be a fine President, but Clinton may draw more attacks from the GOP. Obama needs to demonstrate that he can get that 'fire in the belly' that voters like to see in the general election.
I think Edwards is outmatched here, and his core message is out of date. Might become a good Veep, if he could provide electoral votes.
sp4 is really sucking ass now.
sp4 ..you need to be put away
do we in america need a president?
and the answer is a big fat NO
...that's what he made you for...not that we ever would, but you are welcome, on behalf of America, to go f--k yourself!
SP4 you are stooping to bev's level, and that's even bad for you! Let the trailer trash spout off the only way they know how - with crappy language - no intelligence there!
I do believe that somone just farted. Oh, that was just sp4, again.
So, sp1/4 speaks for america. Delusions of grandeur, again.
..but none of that makes me wrong.
Do you have other talents except making yourself appear like a fool SP4 ?
I imagine your answer ,must be something like ...No ,but that doesn't make me wrong...
You are correct. If I responded to every empty head on this site because his disagreement with me prompted an empty response like 'you're a fool', I'd be responding forever.
...with SPfool is not that people disagree with him. It is the fact that he is in disagreement with the world. He is a very disagreeable entity.
Just Say NO To Billary in 2008!
The Clintons suck. We have had a Clinton or a Bush in office for 20 years. It's time to move on.
Vote for Obama so maybe Al Sharpton will shut the F**k up!
'The main problem...
...with SPfool is not that people disagree with him. It is the fact that he is in disagreement with the world. '
Well in this case what he said was that an idiot can go screw herself and in this case I agree with him. So that makes you incorrect and no, you do not speak for the world.
What you idiot(s) do when you tag along behind SP4's posts and complain that he said something without bothering to devote any thought or effort in rebutting what he said is make him look like a frigging statesman by comparison to your own stupidity. If you find him annoying I am sure that makes his night, if you find him annoying but can't articulate a reasonable counterargument that probably just pleases him even more.
Here-here. I could not agree with someone more. The constant name calling only makes him happy. Fools get their kicks in the strangest ways.
First off, SPfool never says anything intelligent. When people who know try to inform him he gets abusive. If he gets abuse in return, then that's fine by me. Secondly, as you appear to be an apologist for a fool, all that needs to be said is: pull your head out of your anal orifice, breath some oxygen for a change instead of explosive gasses, and shut the F**k up until you have something germain to say about the thread. So take your holier than thou attitude and bugger off, moron. 'Idiot' right back at you.
By all means, speak your mind! All the insults just make the win bigger! There is nothing I love more than, with one simple premise, having these tinfoil hatted nazis in their mom's basements go on an empty rampage.
You know why? It is living proof of the fact that liberals are:
Intolerant of any one's views but theirs - look at the empty hate mail I get. Seriously, how many of these do you read where an angry neocon goes off? hardly any! Most of these are libnazis freaking about some one's point of view that disagrees with theirs! Just look above!
Bigoted - They are completely biased. They are willing to compromise their own beliefs and views to simply hate conservatives.
Completely unhappy about everything - they hate your car, the size, the number of kids you have...everything! Liberal guilt drives their worldview.
So please opine! Be as bigoted as you want! Every time you do, it just proves the point.
Nope, that was just SPfool farting again.
that was only put on to piss sp4 off and it worked.
SP4 has blockaded himself by believing that anyone who calls him an idiot must be one for doing it. These people are mentally ill, and it's a waste of time to rebut him, as he regards it as attention being paid.
Quote a few such sick people attach themselves to political fringes, as they find others like themselves for company.
SP4 refuses to deal with facts, since they would upset his preconceived notions as to plots against him. He sees a couple of crooks ruining the country and envies them, and in order to justify his presence, then attacks THEIR enemies, since he thinks it's all about HIM, in the first place.
A psychotic thinks 2 + 2 = 5.
A neurotic KNOWS that the answer is 4, but he HATES it.
'First off, SPfool never says anything intelligent.'
For the sake of argument assume that is true. Who is the bigger fool, the fool or the fool who follows the fool?
'When people who know try to inform him he gets abusive.'
Prove it. All I have seen is you whining that he is saying something that you disagree with. A bit sanctimonious, aren't you? Too bad you can't back that up with a clever counterargument.
'If he gets abuse in return, then that's fine by me.'
All you are doing is making yourself look like an idiot.
'Secondly, as you appear to be an apologist for a fool, all that needs to be said is: pull your head out of your anal orifice, breath some oxygen for a change instead of explosive gasses, and shut the F**k up until you have something germain[sic] to say about the thread.
Aaaah, so that is trying to 'inform'?
'So take your holier than thou attitude and bugger off, moron. 'Idiot' right back at you.'
Just trying to 'inform you' that you are a moron, you seem to be the last to catch on to that little fact.
Hope you get hit by a bus you stupid animal.
By the way, does anyone know what this article was about? LOL
'Who is the bigger fool, the fool or the fool who follows the fool?'
What are you on about, fool. You're fooling no one. You have got to be another one of SPfools's multiple personalities. The structure of the posts, the flaming, the complete drivel are so similar that it can't be coincidence. What an idiot you must be, if you are not SPfool, to defend a Class A moron.
we don't have any bus's in our area just clean country living on our 300 acre ranch with our man made lake and all
SP4, try not to let all the garbage get you down. When you toss out facts, assume that some of them are getting thru and keep fighting the good fight.
Like anything will get SP4 down!
Will do! When you read the drivil pointed at me, that mean's we've hit a nerve.
'we don't have any bus's in our area just clean country living on our 300 acre ranch with our man made lake and all'
Fine, go drown.
this article was about???????
wow, SPfool has a fan club. even if they are just figments of SP's imagination.
sounds like it's about drowning a bus or something like that
Actually I'm a real live woman-not a figment. And I've been around long enough to recognize a bunch of losers. Probably the same group that sat around with their little loser friends back in high school-no dates-no friends-no social lives whatsoever. They sat around trashing the jocks and homecoming queens (by the way that would be me) and made themselves feel oh so much better by putting winners down-well waaaawaaa.
It is doubtfull that you are a REAL woman. A REAL woman wouldn't have anything to do with mentally deficient persons like SPfool. If you WERE a homecoming queen, get over it. That's for losers.
Yup, a real live homecoming queen. Oh, wow. I am damned near creaming my jeans. As for jocks, they're nothing but a pack of testosterone filled, braindead, steroid monkeys. If that type is your hero, Kathy, darling, then you are f**ked up beyond belief. And that makes anything you say unbelievableas well as irrelevant.
One caucus won't tell the story. There is a lot of time for these candidates to be shuffled back and forth, and a lot of people might be in for a big surprise in the end. And Homecoming Queen! - what a real claim to fame......LOL
Hillary's campaign is close-minded and insular. Her advisors are a bunch of psychophants who live in Hillaryland. Witness what Chelsea said to a nine-year-old kid who is a reporter for a school newspaper and wanted to ask her some questions. Despite being on the campaign trail with her mom she politely informed the budding Edward R. that she didn't talk to the press and even though you're cute that includes you too. What kind of goofy comment is this? Didn't do too much to soften mom's image now did it? Control the message and you can control the people. Hillary is a carpetbagger who voted for the war, she didn't even read the reports that questioned the validity of the evidence Bush was jamming down our throats. She really has no clue what she'll do if she's elected president. Among all the candidates she should be the most prepared because of the 35 years of 'experience' she has had a politician but she seems to walk the middle of the road seeking to offend no one. There is a difference between being a centrist and being afraid. A centrist draws from both sides and synthesizes both positions and creates a compromise that reflects the best all ideologies has to offer. Ms. Clinton tries to be everything to everyone and ultimately fails to be of service to her own cause sort of like her daughter who shows up and smiles. Why is she there? Like mother like daughter play it down the middle.
Beltway Greg
The little girl in question was supposed to find out what it was like to be a reporter so why should she be treated any differently. Chelsey was only being honest, and if the so-called little girl wanted to learn the ropes, then she needed to be treated like any other reporter. Most 9 year old girls wouldn't have much of a clue what was going on in this election anyway - give her a couple more years to make it a better learning experience.
'...yeees, this is th president....oh, heloo senatah....whah yees....ah saw th Iowa ree turns....most impressive....if yur nahme is Obama....
...senatah...calm down...it's a joke senatah...it's too earlah t' be pissed off senatah...that don't happin until afta the conventions....well...maybah not fer yoou....no....Bill cin't stay in th Lincoln bedroom...well..unless he has a thousand dollahs fer the republican party handy...heh heh heh...great idea you two had huh?....
...n' senatah.....y' knoow ah cin't hep ya none....well...ah could but I ain't gonna anyways...s' ya gotta git on th horse an keepfloggin it until ya git ree sults...yeees..ya cin use Karl Rove if ya want...ah hear he's...available....ol Dick might hep too...jes don't let im in with hiis skattah guun....nooo, Laura's busy ma'am.....
N' senatah, yoou jes git out thire an earn fer thim constuituants...yeees..that'd be New Yorkers senatah...you remembah thim don't ya...th one's with no health insurance...yeah...thim...
'one otha thing senatah...we found sum brief cases in ol Dicks office when we moved in....reeel heavy ones...one with chinese writtin on it...an another with russian all over it....yes ma'am...right unda th desk...mah desk?...nooo, all thire wuz uda thire wuz a humidor with sum salmon flavored cee gars....funny, ah like smokin em...can't figure out why, ....but they's reel satisfyin...ya knoow....?'
'senatah, calm doown...ya git that sandy Bergah ovah heah with thim pants o his...suuure we know about him...use im all th tahme!...thim damn pants o his! Haell, he jes shoves it all in thire an walks out lahke he owns th place!....bet thire's a color TV in each laeg!...how d ya think we got rid o thim CIA tapes? Thit boyh dee livers!'
'Best t president Clinton...well, th otha one...tell im ta come ovah fer coffah some tahme bee fore ah leave office. Ya hang in thire senatah, go kick a rock or sumpin...'
... your boyfriend needs his meds. He's slipped into another delusional state.
Such ranting,SP4,is not what I call hitting a nerve,it is just toddler's babbling.And you actually politicians are made up of that kind of stuff?
How could you even possibly think that kind of literature is even relevant or meaningful .I'm sorry you are so alienated from basic perception of the real world .I guess there is no hope for you.
Get over your old wrinked has been self, already.
real women put it in for us real guys.hahahahahahahahah
Could not agree more! Le tme write one that match's your sense of reality!
Just for you Tonny:
'hello...yes, this is the president...oh, good morning senator Clinton...yees, saw it on TV last night....sorry about the outcome!...no, Laura was disappointed too! what? No, I think Dick was asleep, but I'll see him in the morning and ask him.'
'...Mrs' Clinton! Of course I'd never interject! I feel heartfelt sorrow at lying to you over those darned WMD's! I never thought it would imapct your election to office! After all, if you could get New Yorkers to vote for you, what would stop the rest of the democrats!? Heck, you're the gold standard for success'
'Please Mrs. Clinton....I don't want any bad blood between us. I'll have Laura do a lunch for you, cameras and all, just to make it up to you. We can even do a bill signing, and you're invited to the girls weddings! Gosh, it'll be great! You can even stay in the Lincoln bedroom! No...no charge...we quit doing that after you left! Gotta go...Pakistan you know...all the best to President Clinton...nice sound, huh?'
Please get SP4 his meds. He has gotten into another psychotic state.
how SP4 gets so excited when he is typing a retort, that he misspells and can't use the correct wording? Hillary has a lot left in her - don't count her out just because she is a woman and a Democrat!
...when I hit a nerve, these empty headed posters resort to my distaste for the Bill Gates Safety Net for Bad Spellers? Honestly, when you use it, do you libnazis feel like you've hid the fact that you and Dan Quayle have more in common than you'd like?
I don't count Hillary out. In fact, if the Clinton's have one admirable quality, and I'd say they only have ONE, it would be their utterly magnificent ability to campaign.
That, of course, does not redeem them for their utterly crooked ways i.e. FBI records scandal, White Water, Chinese and Russian campaign funds scandals, Mr. Hsu's 'monee bundro'ing,' etc., etc.
I wonder when Obama will remind the voters of these? By all means Barak, wait until the last minute! Maybe Dan Rather can cook you up some phony documents for it, after all, he has the experience!
By the way, how's the spelling?
...how impressed SPfool is with himself? Ever notice how SPfool always tries to get in the last word? Ever notice how insecure the psychotic SPfool is?
...that when Libnazis disagree with you they, suddenly, become Psychologists? Labeling people as crazy is the fascist way of debating an issue.
The Libnazi church does this repeatedly. If you defame their prophets, or their doctrine, you will be labeled:
Stupid-(Bush in 2000)
Crazy - See Above (Bush in 2004 after he beat the, supposedly, smart guy)
Radical-(Bush now, because the first two did not stick)
Go now, my children...go and carry out your jihad. Bow to Harvard 5 times daily and worship Al Gore. Label your enemy as infidels. If you say it enough, the masses will begin to believe you.
somebody get SP4 some medication. He is totally neurotic.
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MariJan 4th, 2008 - 17:10:41
And rebound she will!
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