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Clinton: I Have Earned Every Wrinkle
March 04, 2008 6:37 AM
ABC News' Eloise Harper Reports: Senator Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., making a final push before critical votes in Ohio and Texas (not to mention Rhode Island and Vermont) says she has earned every wrinkle.
"Granted, I am a little older and I have earned every wrinkle on my face and I feel just as energized about what we are doing," Clinton told a crowd of supporters on Monday in Austin.
Watch the VIDEO HERE.
The Senator continued to push her message of experience at her last rally in Texas before the voters go to the polls on Tuesday.
She was joined on stage with her daughter Chelsea Clinton and longtime friends/celebrities Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen (who earlier in the day told voters that Clinton "does girlfriend really, really well.")
In a marathon of television interviews on Tuesday, Clinton made appearances in every major market in Ohio (including Toledo, Columbus, Cleveland, Cincinnati, Dayton and Youngstown) and several in Texas. She also spoke with Spanish-language networks Telemundo and Univision.
Although several tried, Clinton resisted questions about whether she will get out of the race depending on Tuesday's results.
"Would you drop out or would you continue on if Ohio doesn't go your way," asked the CBS affiliate in Youngstown, Ohio.
"I think it's important we let the people of Ohio vote," Clinton replied.
"Do you buy in at all to the opinion that you actually need a double digit win in this state to keep the campaign alive," questioned ABC affiliate KXXV in Waco, Texas.
"No, I sure don't," Clinton responded.
The tactic, it appeared, remained largely the same as in recent days: the former first lady questioned Obama's opposition to the North American Free Trade Agreement or NAFTA in Ohio, emphasized her experience in both states, and made particular mention of her first political job as an organizer for then-Democratic presidential contender Sen. George McGovern.
There was some fun amidst the do-or-die drama.
In yet another affiliate interview, Clinton was asked which actress she would like to play her in a movie.
"Obviously somebody incredibly attractive," she said before adding, "Obviously, I have given no thought to that."
At one point, the interviews had to be halted for a coughing fit -- yet another sign of the long road both candidates have been traveling for over a year in pursuit of the still elusive Democratic nomination.
For all the latest from the campaign trail, read The Note every morning exclusively on ABCNews.com. And for updates throughout the day, all day, from every campaign and candidate on the trail, check out the Political Radar.
March 4, 2008 in Bush, George W., Kucinich, Dennis, Tancredo, Tom | Permalink | User Comments (96)
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I don't care whether it's Hillary or Obama at this point, they're both fine candidates and I would rather have either of them (or, preferably, both of them) at the helm and soon. Let Texas and Ohio do this democratically, if it drags on to a brokered convention so be it. Anyone who believes that Saddam Hussein caused 9/11, that some second-class Americans don't deserve weddings, or that the Iranians will give us flowers after another quick six-week war if we elect John "Bomb Iran" McCain, please, by all means, vote Republican. The rest of you? Vote for change, but work for it too, because that change will require the sweat of every single one of us who wants it, no matter whose smiling face is on the label, Hillary's or Obama's.
Posted by: friendlyskies | Mar 4, 2008 9:24:22 AM
As an Ohio Republican I voted for Obama this morning. Democrat poll workers were a little upset, but I wasn't alone as there were quite a few other republicans crossing over. We all had the same motive. Get rid of Hillary now. We do not march to the Limbaugh toon. Limbaugh is an entertainer and his endorsement means little. (Democrats are infatuated with entertainer endorsements.) We will all be voting for McCain in the general.
Posted by: Bigmarunga | Mar 4, 2008 9:25:54 AM
OneDayAtAtime
Obama was running for a U.S. Senate seat from Illinois in 2004. The Senate approved Iraq war resolution Oct, 11, 2002 Please help me which rally are you talkin about?
Posted by: Waggdogg | Mar 4, 2008 9:33:00 AM
The title: Clinton: I Have Earned Every Wrinkle
The title should read: I have earned Every Wrinkle the hardway and not the smartway.
I lost a 25 point lead and I am kicking myself all the way to bank everyday. Bill got $20 million dollars from his Billionaire buddy!!!
Posted by: BILL5321 | Mar 4, 2008 9:37:04 AM
If experience is so important why is
it that long time (democratic)senators or governors don't get the nomination?
Posted by: aloysious | Mar 4, 2008 9:39:29 AM
As shown by the "Steve smith" memo above, many of the attackers on these blogs are disenfranchised Republicans. These folks disenfranchised themselves by voting for George Bush, who created eight years of destruction and a nine trillion dollar deficit. They continue to perpetuate ignorance by interfering in the Democratic party nominating process. If they had any accountability and humility they would be hanging their heads in shame, instead, and would keep their mouths shut for the next eight years, while the Democrats repair the country.
Posted by: WestCoastMessenger | Mar 4, 2008 9:45:37 AM
Simply look at Hillary's record, and it's obvious why the American electorare is rejecting her. Reviewing Hillary's methodical playing of the "Race card", and "The Perpetual Victim" against Obama; her inability to control her own campaign finances; and, her recent commentary on: Iraq; Pakistan; Energy Policy; her stated intention to confiscate the profits of American energy companies; the need for her to control the 14 Trillion $ American Economy from her White House Politburo (this from a woman who hasn't managed so much as a corner vegetable stand, or for that matter her own marriage; but, of course you could count Whitewater, and her tenure as "Madam" and Bimbo Containment Chief for Bill's White House Brothel); her Marxist statement in San Francisco: "We're going to have to take more from you, and give it to others for the common good."; Illegal Immigration; Taxes; Infanticide; Massive new Government spending; Multi million $ Senate earmarks for supporters of Hillary's Presidential campaign; Garnishing of your wages to fund her coveted Socialized medicine program; and, the Clinton's history of emasculating the military, verifies that this grievously flawed woman would be the female version of the Jimmy Carter debacle that gave us the Ayatollah Khomeini who ushered in rampant Islamic radicalism; block-long lines at our gasoline stations; a severely hollow military; and, a record Misery Index. Only much worse. Considering all of Hillary's recent gaffes, e.g. "I voted FOR IT (referring to the Bankruptcy Bill); but, I was glad to see that it didn't pass."; and, her increasingly frequent crying jags, one has to wonder if excessive use of Botox has affected her mental stability. It's no wonder that her campaign staff is shielding her from reporter and audience unscripted questions. The prospect of Madam Hillary as President; in a word: TERRIFYING. Greg Neubeck
Posted by: Greg Neubeck | Mar 4, 2008 9:52:32 AM
BILL CLINTON didn't lock up the nomination until JUNE...KERRY
didn't lock up his until middle of MARCH...if neither candidate has the required votes...WHY shouldn't ALL American citizens be allowed to be counted????? THAT'S the DEMOCRATIC way!!!!!
Posted by: jeleanoro | Mar 4, 2008 9:52:41 AM
Hey "Jenny", I find it fascinating that Obama supporters weren't calling for Obama to jettison the race when he was 105 delegates behind. And please, YOU do the math. Even if Obama wins 65 per cent of the remaining contests he will not have enough elected delegates to win the contest. The superdelegates will be the ones that decide the outcome. That is several weeks away. By that time voters may completely sicken of Obama's repeatable canned message, and realize that he's just another empty suit.
Posted by: WestCoastMessenger | Mar 4, 2008 9:52:42 AM
These people on here pretending as republicans that they are in control. Hillary has finally got the media to start questioning obama. NAFTAgate, REZKO trials, one speech given when he was running for STATE SENATE does not make him ready or with good JUDGEMENT his stupid answer to any Foreign policy.
Posted by: toby | Mar 4, 2008 9:58:08 AM
westcoast
We already see how the democrats are repairing the country. Democrat-controlled congress (includes Obama and clinton)is making sweeping repairs,attending to such issues as ridding baseball of steroids and investigating minor republicans. What happeded to all the promises of stopping the war, a health care bill, and impeaching Bush-Cheney? Obama talks about making changing faces in Washington, isn't that where he serves. Maybe he has done so little in the Senate that he considers himself an outsider.
Posted by: Bigmarunga | Mar 4, 2008 9:58:34 AM
Reminds me so much of '76. Carter ran on a platform of change, and he certainly did change things.
Thanks to him, we saw interest rates of more than 20%, inflation at better than 10. And he allowed the Ayatollah Khomeini to return from exile in France to take power in Iran, which let the fundamentalist Islamic terror genie out of the bottle. (We'll be paying dearly for that blunder over the next century.)
Anyway, I have no doubt that Obama will usher in a period of "change" in America.
And if you're stupid enough that that's all you're looking for, you deserve whatever you get.
Posted by: Gregorio | Mar 4, 2008 9:59:00 AM
Obama is not the candidate of change. He is the candidate of 1970s policy. He would not only send this country down the gutter with his horrible economic policies, but would likely usher in a new era of Republican dominance in 2012 as a result. We do not need another Jimmy Carter.
Posted by: JS | Mar 4, 2008 10:07:56 AM
You can't keep blaming Hillary for hurting the Democrat party, it is the Obama supporters doing it when they continously tell Clinton supporters to back down. I hate to tell you people this, but you are divisive - you are going to need those Hillary supporters if, and it is a BIG IF, Obama wins the nomination. You might not want to totally alienate them from the Democrat Party by telling them their candidate is not worth it because you are in essence telling them they are not worth it. Even yesterday, Obama gets some hard questions from reporters on his past actions and he blames it on Hillary - did he really think he was going to get by in this whole campaign - not jsut the primaries - without ever being asked any hard questions? He weasled out - the man is any empty suit who cannot even explain his own position.
Posted by: Danielle | Mar 4, 2008 10:09:08 AM
Sometimes the media simply tell the truth, which can be very refreshing. Here's the Toledo Blade on our wrinkled Hillary:
"Voters during this primary process have come to know the real Hillary Clinton, and many have not liked what they've seen. Try as she might to project a warm personal image, she has come across mostly as a coldly calculating individual.
Moreover, her candidacy reminds voters of how the Clintons in effect looted the White House of expensive china, furniture, and other items when they left in January, 2001. And, if that weren't enough, they set up a gift registry to furnish their new home in New York. In contrast to such political royalism, Mr. Obama, his wife, and their two daughters live much closer to the reality of ordinary people."
Do I have to add which candidate the jounal endorsed? Haha.
Posted by: Medium | Mar 4, 2008 10:10:07 AM
Hillary keeps talking about her experience! She has manufactured it. She doesn't have any experience. She is great at fooling SOME OF THE PEOPLE!!!!!! Have her tell us about Peter Paul's one million dollar donation. She NEVER gets the tough questions. Her greatest experience is that she fools so many people. SEND HER BACK TO ARKANSAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Janet | Mar 4, 2008 10:13:45 AM
Hillary keeps talking about her experience! She has manufactured it. She doesn't have any experience. She is great at fooling SOME OF THE PEOPLE!!!!!! Have her tell us about Peter Paul's one million dollar donation. Go to google and type in Hillary Exposed Peter Paul and you will see the video. I wish she would explain that one! She NEVER gets the tough questions. Her greatest experience is that she fools so many people. SEND HER BACK TO ARKANSAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Janet | Mar 4, 2008 10:13:55 AM
Facts are facts. This is about the number of delegates -- nothing else. Hillary has to get 62% of the vote in all of the remaining states to reach the required amount. That is not possible, especially since in the last 11 contests, she has reached 40% ONLY ONCE.
Even if she somehow manages to pick up 15 delegates on Obama tonight (which will be very difficult given Texas' system), she will still be close to 100 delegates behind with Mississippi and Wyoming looming next and both solidly in Obama's camp.
Simple facts of mathematics -- Clinton has about as much chance of winning as a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest. After tonight, if she has not SIGNIFICANTLY cut into Obama's delegate lead, Bill Richardson will endorse Obama tomorrow and encourage the DNC and Super Delegates to do so as well. She HAS to win very big tonight or it's over -- no matter how she tries to spin it
Posted by: Gary Mialocq | Mar 4, 2008 10:22:33 AM
Go ahead, Hillary, bring all your celebrities flunkies around! The simple fact is that it just shows how tweakin' desperate you are at this point to connect with actual real world people. The only problem is all you have is the Hollywood schmoos on your side. Can't you find anybody under 50 willing to support your lame candidacy? You've got no chance. Stay in the race as long as you wish - that's definitely your right. Just remember that it's going to screw the Dem Party up for the general election and only prolong your inevitable failure.
Posted by: J. T. Bigglesworth | Mar 4, 2008 10:31:11 AM
this is great, crats going at each other, what is so great about this is because crats don't think and simply react emotionally this will not end today it will go on and on and on. This can not end well for the crats, bad feelings at the convention are assured. We should loose this year, after the mess our congress made we sure deserve to. But because crats are a party of Oprah watching idiots, who are mostly unable to engage in rational calculation they will tear each up other for us. Even if it ends today the Clintons politics of personal destruction have hurt Obamma.
If a crat that is capable of rational thought exists, and this is a questionable proposition, you will see that you are getting what you deserve, because we have been telling you that the Clintons were no good for years, now you see that we were right.
Just think crats if you had turned on Clinton over Lewinsky, he would have been impeached, President Al Gore would have beaten Governor George Bush and the Clintons would be gone.
Once again crats, you got played.
And crats you have to admit you are the incompetent party as we represent a minority of the country maybe 20 to 30 percent and we can still beat you.
You can damn bet in in country clubs all over America the incompetence of the crats is being laughed at.
ROFLMAO
Posted by: BubbaRedNeck | Mar 4, 2008 10:36:35 AM
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