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Clinton Hears Voices from Beyond: 'Keep Going'

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February 13, 2008 11:48 AM

ABC News' Eloise Harper and Kate Snow Report: In McAllen, Texas this morning Senator Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., said she wasn’t giving up on her race for the White House. 

Speaking about her work in South Texas as an organizer for George McGovern’s 1972 presidential campaign, Clinton said two strong Texas women inspired her -- Congresswoman Barbara Jordan and Texas Governor Ann Richards.   

Clinton said they taught her about courage and determination.  Then she suggested that she is hearing from them even as her campaign struggles to compete after a string of losses.

"I can hear their voices saying, 'You keep going!  You give the people a real choice about the future!'" she said at a campaign event. 

Jordan was the first black woman elected to the Texas state legislature and served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1973-79.  She died in 1996.  Richards, a larger-than-life Governor, passed away in 2006.

After eight losses in a row, Clinton sharpened her attacks on her rival today. 

"We need real results not more rhetoric.  We need to get back in the solutions business," Clinton said to the cheering crowd with a huge Texas flag behind her stage.

"There is a very important choice and a big difference in the candidates in this race. I am in the solutions business.  My opponent is in the promises business. I think we need answers not questions,” Clinton said.

Clinton continued focusing on what her campaign sees as her strength -- substantive policy changes that she would offer as president. 

“I have solutions to these big economic challenges.  The question today is does Senator Obama? A plan that fails to provide universal healthcare, fails to address the housing crisis and fails to immediately start creating good  paying jobs in America again will not turn the economy around and provide the real relief our people need.”

In this new stump speech, Clinton made clear that voters in Texas should take nothing for granted and reminded them repeatedly that they need to come out for her on March Fourth -- a day she called “a turning point day.”

“I have to be elected president to work to give you a VA hospital right here in the valley, I have to be elected president to achieve universal healthcare,” she said.

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You said it well, Virginia Voter. The two of them think, walk, and talk like pure-bred Socialists, and that in fact is what they are.

I think their followers are just happy not to have to do any thinking on their own of the consequences of their choices. I dislike being insulting, but Osama's and Clinton's fans are just drugging themselves.

There is no queen to give things to people, the president has a quite limited role in directly solving problems, and people are responsible for themselves.

Also, the government does not create jobs, people. What exactly is wrong with your brains, anyway, that you cannot grasp this?

Posted by: Yupdatsme | Feb 13, 2008 4:28:07 PM

After my post yesterday:" Hillary Clinton, Welcome to Texas -The Lone Star State- where Ann Richards' spirit lives on." I knew Hillary Clinton would mention a Texas leader like Ann Richards she always admires. Many of us remember Ann Richard speech during the 1988 Democratic Convention: "Poor George, he can't help it, he was born with a silver foot in his mouth."

Posted by: Angel | Feb 13, 2008 4:39:49 PM

Ole Girl Hill is hearing voices all right! But, they are not saying keep going!

It's time for her to pass the torch onto Obama. The Clintons have enough scandal to last a lifetime....their scandal is enough to embarass this nation for a lifetime. The Repulicans can look in Obama's background all that they want...there is nothing to find. He wroteverything that there would be to find in his book, The Audacity to Hope. If Hillary wants to keep bringing up Rezco, let her. We can talk about Monica, Jennifer, whitewater, McDougall...and the list goes on.

Posted by: J Mba | Feb 13, 2008 7:05:29 PM

Okay, I have to ask what really is meant by the comment that Hillary has taken the GOP's best shots and is still standing?

Do the people repeating this really think its possible to knock someone over with insults?

Clinton was a partisan warrior, battling against what she called the VRWC. She now is running for a nomination among those who were on her side of those spats. So the fact that she's a serious candidate for the nomination isn't proof of defeating the Republicans - its just proof that she's among friends.

The difference is that she seems to running to return to her partisan warrior role. Some like that approach. Others say they want to get past all that.

Posted by: Paul | Feb 13, 2008 7:46:04 PM

What's Eleanor Roosevelt saying these days?

Posted by: Beez | Feb 13, 2008 11:00:57 PM

Go Hillary! I support you all the way - we are behind you.

Posted by: Julia | Feb 13, 2008 11:49:55 PM

Well, the voice from the Beyond that Clinton says she's hearing must not belong to Molly Ivins, another dearly departed strong, progressive Texas woman. In early 2006, Ivins penned these thoughts about why she would not support Hillary Clinton's bid for the Presidency:

Posted by: Jalane | Feb 14, 2008 12:04:51 AM

hearing those voices of dead people again.

just what we need for president.

hillary is delusional.

Posted by: deroy | Feb 14, 2008 12:58:58 AM

Obama loves to tout his "superior" judgment.

Let's see, he'd meet with world leaders with no preconditions.

He'd invade Pakistan, a soverign nation with REAL WMDs, nuclear weapons, if he had intelligence on his desk that told him the location of Bin Laden... risking the collapse of the military regime that keeps those nuclear weapons safe.

He keeps touting his judgment, but without three or five advisors in his ear telling him what to say, his first instinct is often very, very wrong.

He may not want to be bogged down in the minutiae of foreign policy, but I'd rather have a policy geek like Hillary than a naive optimist like Barack.

Posted by: theo | Feb 14, 2008 2:11:21 AM

It must have been great fun to sit around ABC thinking of the most insulting, belittling, stupid, and inaccurate heading that you could give to this story.

Posted by: DeanOR | Feb 14, 2008 2:35:02 AM

I read a great column in which the author summarized Hillary's campaign as "Vote for Hillary, think of all she's been through." Not quite compelling enough for my vote.

But as Martin Dillon said, Hillary has the bad luck of running when a rare guy like Obama has stepped into the fray. Any other year, against guys like John Kerry and Dean the Scream, she would have won hands down. But she has shown her true colors with Obama, and they aren't pretty. I liked her before the campaign, but now would never vote for her for any office. The Clintons are sleazy and will do anything to win.

Posted by: Cris | Feb 14, 2008 9:51:34 AM

Hilary, you go get em girl! Ann Richards would be putting on her leathers and revving up her Harley to expose that sham Obama. He's as sleazy as they come: it just that the media are so wide-eyed about him they haven't exposed him yet. But the Republicans will just you wait and see. Obama is the biggest Scam being carried out on gullible American people at the moment.

Posted by: London | Feb 14, 2008 10:25:21 AM

Clinton's Obama strategy:

Having meticulously planned their coveted return to the White House for several years now, the Clintons will certainly not exit the scene with grace or dignity. This is the political duo that honed "The Politics Of Personal Destruction" into an artform; and, most certainly will not tolerate, who is in their mind, the "upstart Obama" to derail Hillary's pre-choreographed coronation.
With regards Slick's comments on Obama's Iraq record; and, the draft dodger's false accusation of flip flopping on the Iraq issue against Obama: It was actually Hillary who was the serial flip-flopper on this issue. Obama to his credit, as a matter of conscience, refused to deny American troops the funding for the bullets and equipment that they required to survive in ongoing combat. Hillary, on the other hand, with no such compelling principles, was one of only two U.S. Senators who voted to deny funding for essential equipments for our troops who they had "previously" voted to commit to lethal combat. A despicable breach of trust with the young men and women laying their lives on the line in defense of our Nation. Obama made the classical rookie error of not responding to Slick's false accusation, which he could have easily turned to Hillary's well deserved detriment
Barrack and his supporters best be prepared for the "Political Lynching" that will rival anything previously witnessed in Presidential politics. Further, the Clinton's methodical playing of the "Race Card" will promote a permanent schism between the Black and Hispanic communities. Despicable, and destructive to any semblence of National cohesion painfully achieved.
Slick and Hilla-the-Hun, the Perpetual Victim, have repeatedly demonstrated a vicious mud-slinger demeanor that is unprecedented whenever their political dynasty has been threatened in the past. Just ask anyone of their innumerable victims.

Greg

Posted by: Greg Neubeck | Feb 14, 2008 11:23:34 AM

Not only are the voices of Ann Richardson and Barbara Jordan beckoning her to continue but millions of women’s voices from around this country are joining the chorus, screaming for her to continue against the forces of biased sexist media and misogynist statements, that are unbelievable to those of us who thought we had previously been called all the hateful names available. Our voices are joined by the millions of women who fought similar battles with similar odds and similar lack of support and yet moved women, yes even those opposing these movements, ahead. For the young women who fall in line with Obama and think that Hillary is “old news” and the “status quo”, be reminded that she was his source as Hillary campaigned for Obama, raised money for Obama, advised him when he came into the senate, and was friends with his family. More likely than not, you will get the same treatment from the Obama camp if he wins the nomination. BTW the new polls show Hillary substantially ahead in Ohio and PA.

Posted by: AmazonTraveler | Feb 14, 2008 11:34:29 AM

301,139,947 - current population of U.S. – we can identify two that were less than perfect, Ann Richards and Hillary Clinton. Ann Richards when she was alive was a former alcoholic (which she admitted), Hillary Clinton was cheated on by her husband but even worse still she forgave him - the audacity that she could hope they could work through that and make it. of course both of these women had and have hope, strength and courage. Michelle Obama has stated they wouldn't attempt this run for presidency again if Barack is not successful this time. they don't think it would be good for him to associate with those jaded folks in Washington it seems. (then too that's a long time to simply vote present.) Obama likes to highlight McCain’s age (half century of service), well McCain might have been earlier to run for President had he not first served his country and spent 5 years as a POW.

Posted by: american2 | Feb 14, 2008 12:20:42 PM

Now Hillary is talking to dead people. Soon she will be crying again to win our votes. Why would we want to put the corrupt Clintons back in office? This country needs real change and Obama can do it. Let's Vote for Obama and close down the corrupt house of Clinton once and for all.

Posted by: sonya | Feb 14, 2008 12:44:24 PM

We always knew she was deranged now as he campaign is tanking she is starting to crack up in public.

Posted by: Adam | Feb 14, 2008 3:52:24 PM

“You give the people a real choice about the future!" I can hear their voices (both?) saying. I can hear their voices saying: you're going to lose ... you're going to lose. Make no mistake about it, Hillary Clinton is running the primary race for two – two for Texas, you might say. Ann Richards wouldn't touch that with a 10 ft. pole. My contention is that people, who don't know Hillary, might vote for her. However, anyone who does know Hillary would never vote for her.

Knowing what I do about Texas & Ohio, I also can't imagine that either the lone star state, or the buckeye state will fall prey to Hillary Clinton. I'm no political oracle, but common sense says the punishment Hillary is taking at the polls, has to do with deep-seated distain on the part of the voter. Bill & Hillary Clinton’s character issues?

Posted by: Peggy McGilligan | Feb 14, 2008 5:33:40 PM

The only delusional people here are the ones who took the very common figure of speech Clinton used and tried to twist it into something negative -- starting with the reporters/editors who posted this in the first place.

People, if you can't grasp that she did not say she literally heard "voices from beyond," you need some remedial education.

Posted by: Noelle | Feb 14, 2008 7:14:49 PM

Hillary is done! If Ann Richards were to say anything to her it would be "Get me another bottle of single malt scotch if you're coming over honey. We can drink it together here in my bathtub."

Posted by: Johnnyb | Feb 15, 2008 12:39:03 PM

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