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On Econ Tour, Clinton Says She's a 'Big Believer in Attitude'
March 31, 2008 4:19 PM
ABC News' Eloise Harper Reports: A gum-chewing Hillary Clinton greeted truck drivers outside in rainy Harrisburg, PA. The drivers were protesting the high oil prices – and Clinton stopped to share their frustration and explained to a few of them what she will do address their concerns, including opening up the petroleum reserve to ease the high prices temporarily. Clinton stood in the rain for about 10 minutes taking questions and listening to these concerns before stepping into a diner to hold an economic roundtable.
On the forth day of Clinton's 'Solutions for the American Economy' tour (or as her advisers put it "Econ-a-palooza") the Senator addressed the economic news today. However, more interesting, was a possible insight to the way the Senator's thinking about the race for her party's nomination. When speaking to a young woman who voiced her desire to pursue a career in medicine, Clinton urged the woman not to give up.
"This will work out. I am a big believer in attitude. You know sometimes it looks pretty daunting but you have to believe you will be able to make it work for you to get the resources you need that something will happen and hopefully one of the things that will happen is that I will get elected president."
Clinton neglected hitting her Democratic rival, instead focused her efforts on the Republican frontrunner. "Senator McCain recently gave a speech on the economy and best I could determine his plan was not to have a plan. If he got the 3am call on the economy he would just let the phone ring and ring and ring."
Clinton left the attacking of her opponent to the Mayor of Harrisburg, Steven Reed. "Senator Clinton didn't just show up on our doorstep in 2008 and say 'I'd like to be president because I think it'd be a neat thing.' She's been busy working for us for years and years and years and frankly, I'm getting a little tired of people who try not to give her credit for that." He continued "Senator Clinton has been working for us and it didn’t start when she became a candidate for president. It didn't even start when she became a candidate for the United States Senate in our neighboring state. She's a Pennsylvanian who cares about American values and Pennsylvania values."
Addressing the news from the Treasury Department ,Clinton said “Today the administration through the secretary of the treasury has announced that finally the Bush administration is going to take some action to better regulate the financial markets. Well after years of a wait-and-don't-see approach to the regulatory failures that let to the housing and the credit crisis they've announced a plan that comes late and falls short."
Clinton said, "No amount of rearranging the deck chairs can hide the fact that our housing and credit markets are in crisis and they are sinking deeper every day."
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I don't want a gum-chewing President.
I finally want some style and class and intelligence in the White House.
In other words, the Obama family.
Posted by: PeterM | Mar 31, 2008 4:41:48 PM
She has been working and working to b the president and she thinks we owe it to her she has waited 8 years.She is quite the can't say lady for she is not that .A hit is not out of the questions for the Clinton's they have done it before....I put nothing past those two.
Posted by: h | Mar 31, 2008 4:53:19 PM
While I get that the Clinton campaign has fundraising issues when their fundraisers call someone (and this means you "Steve") and they say that they are in the middle of planninmg their aunt's funeral you do not continue your pitch and end with "have a great day". This will drive not only a donor away but a voter as well.
Posted by: Eric | Mar 31, 2008 4:55:46 PM
William Ayers and Rev Wright - Obama is doomed in the general. I'm a proud Democrat but I will never support someone lacking any sense of judgement over their brief and unimpressive political career. Do your homework and jobs Dems and nominate someone who can win in Nov.
Posted by: jeff | Mar 31, 2008 5:05:35 PM
Jeff, well put; I totally agree with you!
Posted by: Cindy | Mar 31, 2008 5:10:14 PM
"hile I get that the Clinton campaign has fundraising issues when their fundraisers call someone (and this means you "Steve") and they say that they are in the middle of planninmg their aunt's funeral" Eric, you can't blame Senator Clinton for that. That's quite silly. I've donated 6 times to the Clinton campaign and I've never once received a phone solicitation from them. Just because it's true for you does not mean it's true for everyone else.
Posted by: Drew | Mar 31, 2008 5:11:33 PM
I would never vote for either democratic candidate. That said, I do believe Clinton is the victim of far left politicians -- mostly, the elite east coast liberal establishment. There's no doubt Obama is more to the left and less to the center than Clinton.
Then, there's the media. It's well known that they lean far to the left -- that, by their own admission. I can't see how anyone who reads the papers or listens to CNN or NBC could possibly believe Hillary is getting a square deal.
So, Hillary will probably loose. The left is betting her followers will be bound to the party enough that they'll rally around Obama. I don't think that will happen. I think there will be ample resentment about how the media and special interest manipulated the coverage and, consequently, the election.
I'm laughing all the way to the polls!
Posted by: Surelock Homes | Mar 31, 2008 5:17:31 PM
At Hillary Clinton's appearance last Saturday in Indianapolis, she asked for questions. One of the randomly picked questioners in the crowd did not ask a question but instead said as follows: “When I think of Hillary Clinton, I can’t help but think of Queen Esther. You were brought to this position to make a difference and to make a change and just like Queen Esther who took a stand and did what was right for the Jews, I believe you will do what’s right for America.” I agree with the man in the crowd in Indianapolis. Senator Clinton will do what is right when she is elected President. Senator Obama does not yet have the judgment, the experience or the wisdom to be President. Go Hillary!
Posted by: Rebecca | Mar 31, 2008 5:32:44 PM
Hillary Clinton, in Ohio it was Beer now it's chewing gum what next?
Posted by: Lookup | Mar 31, 2008 5:43:07 PM
Yeah,
I saw/heard that Queen Esther comment. And lo and behold Mrs. Clinton knew all about Queen Esther and went on to further mention how this is one of her favorite books in the Bible and Esther's courage. Please, if this wasn't a planted question I don't what is.
Posted by: John | Mar 31, 2008 5:44:40 PM
Hillary Clinton will be history (gone from the race) in 60 days.
Posted by: Lookup | Mar 31, 2008 5:45:40 PM
to PeterM -- "style, class, intelligence", and this is how you describe the Obama family? Are you kidding me? Michele Obama, who says that this is the first time she is proud of her country, who wrote a vile, racist thesis. BH Obama, who associates with a racist, anti semitic, anti American pastor, and refuses to dissociate with him or that church? THIS is the style, class, and intelligence you want to bring in the white house? Good Lord, have Americans just gone nuts????
Posted by: Justice | Mar 31, 2008 5:50:44 PM
Hillary Clinton will raise much less money than Obama when their respective campaigns report.
Posted by: Lookup | Mar 31, 2008 5:51:19 PM
Obama is a pathological liar. he lied about his knowledge of Wright. He lied about his family's history in a Selma Alabama speech. He lied about his father's association with Kennedy. LIES, LIES, LIES. All of you are getting on Hillary, and yet you seem to forget that Obama has a long long long pinochio nose.
Posted by: Justice | Mar 31, 2008 5:54:12 PM
OH PLEASE PETER. I DONT WANT A PRESIDENT AT A 5 AND DIME DRINKING A YUENGLING EITHER....OR BOWLING IN THAT RIDICULOUS OUTFIT. OR LYING ABOUT WHAT JOHN MCCAIN SAID ABOUT OUR PRESENCE IN IRAQ. CHANGE YOU SHOULD NOT BELIEVE IN.
I don't want a gum-chewing President.
I finally want some style and class and intelligence in the White House.
In other words, the Obama family.
Posted by: tony | Mar 31, 2008 5:58:36 PM
Vote for Obama if you will, but we here in Massachusetts already have his twin as the governor. Deval Patrick ran on the same platform: hope and change. We fell for it. We are losing hope and there is no change. Patrick was out last week looking for a publisher in NY for his autobiography. Sound familiar? These guys are so nothing, that's why Massachusetts went for Hillary.
Posted by: Milo, MA | Mar 31, 2008 6:10:58 PM
If you want to cure the economy, have universal health care and fund not three but FOUR major wars; (Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and IRAN) and stop inflation just print more money! Uh, wait a minute??? Doesn't that just make the problem worse? Ya think!!!
Posted by: cba | Mar 31, 2008 6:11:39 PM
My new favorite person is Steven Reed. THANK YOU! Finally someone is speaking out for Hillary. She is not someone who just popped up out of the middle of nowhere. She has been working for the American people for YEARS and everyone is COMPLETELY forgetting about all she has done for us.
Posted by: Rachel | Mar 31, 2008 6:32:28 PM
The Clintons are like annoying guests at a party that overstay their welcome.
The gum-chewing personna presented to truck-drivers is just another version of the Bosnia deception. Both examples provide insight of how manipulative the Clintons can get as they focus on each micro-demographic group.
Accents for African Americans, glass ceilings for working women, and claims of personal roots in Pennslyvania, Arkansas, Illinois, and New York. Tell them what they want to hear. There's a fine line between a tough ploitician and an outright con artist.
The definition of a con artist is someone who can perfectly imitate the actions of an honest person.
Except when you get caught in a lie.
Posted by: Gorgon '08 | Mar 31, 2008 7:07:29 PM
Hillary claims she is the candidate to get us out of debt....someone better teach her how she can get out of hers first.
Posted by: stacy | Mar 31, 2008 7:18:43 PM
How can Hillary claim to be the one to fix our economy when she can't even fix her campaign's financial problems?
Posted by: maggie | Mar 31, 2008 7:20:39 PM
Hillary Clinton, in Ohio it was Beer now it's chewing gum what next?
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Maybe a Ducana Donuts photo op,sitting on a tractor, feeding a cow or bowling a whopping 37?
Posted by: tiredofit | Mar 31, 2008 7:22:10 PM
Hillary's solution for her debt is by refusing to pay the small business owners in Ohio and other states that provided their services to her campaign.
Seems Hillary also feels entitled to their wages...and doesn't have to pay up if she doesn't feel like it.
What is all this talk about "fighting for the us?" Sound more like "fighting with us."
Posted by: jonathan | Mar 31, 2008 7:24:00 PM
Hillary quit steeling from the American People!
Posted by: jonie | Mar 31, 2008 7:25:22 PM
Hillary quit stealing from the American People!
Posted by: jonie | Mar 31, 2008 7:26:03 PM
Hillary is loves to stereotype...
1st is it was acting like a black woman in a southern church.
2nds it was eating a taco in Nevada.
3rd it was crying in NH...playing the gender card.
Now it's chewing gum like a stereotypical trucker.
She's got us all pegged.
Posted by: jj | Mar 31, 2008 7:53:51 PM
Rebecca-
Don't give Hillary too much credit without really analysing what she has done for this country:
she supported and lobbied for NAFTA, inspite of what she says, and it cost us thousands of jobs.
she sent our troops to a war that never should have been waged and did it without reading the intelligence on it, and it cost us thousands of American lives.
so before you go crowning her, you need to really tak into account all her failures.
Posted by: stacy | Mar 31, 2008 8:03:46 PM
Justice-
Hillary got caught in her own lies...so does that mean you hate her, too?
Posted by: jj | Mar 31, 2008 8:05:21 PM
Who can trust Hillary on the economy after you've seen how she runs her campaign?
I mean the Hillary Campaign skipped out on its bill from a food bank they used at a campaign event. It's almost like stealing from the homeless.
Posted by: The Commander Guy | Mar 31, 2008 8:18:53 PM
Obama has to chew Nicorrette gum to help him with his cigarette habit. last week he was actually chewing gum and speaking to the reporters on his press plane. His mouth was not closed; the gum was visible.
What does that prove? Nothing. Don't make a negative case against Hillary and gum when your candidate does the same.
Posted by: Pauline | Mar 31, 2008 9:36:58 PM
I have been watching the issues on all the candidates carefully. I have been a big fan of Obama all the way and have even given a little money to his campaign. But right now I am very upset at both candidates. Hillary wants to bail out the homeowners who are having their homes foreclosed on to the tune of millions and millions of "newly raised" money. Meaning higher taxes of course. In addition she wants to spend another 100 million on COUNSELING for these folks. The whole thing is CRAZY. And Obama says he wants to help bail them out too. I say "we can't afford it and people who are dumb enough to buy houses based on two incomes, with no money down and a balloon mortgage deserve to loose their home". Don't we care about personal responsibility any more at all? In an early speech Hillary said she wants to freeze interest rates for 5 years. When I heard that I thought that was one of the dumbest statements of all time. It shows a complete lack of understanding of how the system works and that is why I supported Obama. But now, he is starting to sound like as big a nut as her. McCain is looking better and better.
Posted by: Bea | Mar 31, 2008 10:02:04 PM
I am supporting Hillary all the way. Yes, I enjoy the handout from her through your high taxes. I might be obnoxious but I am at least honest. What do you support her for? Isn't that because she is "caring". You want her care (check) as much as I do. Admit it.
Posted by: DCVoter | Mar 31, 2008 10:19:03 PM
Lovely, I have been away tending to family emergencies and I come back to find someone has once again decided to impersonate me. Petty games people play online LOL
Posted by: The Real DCVoter | Mar 31, 2008 10:36:33 PM
Steven Reed said it and we believe it. Why would you take a chance on the other candidate who is so ill prepared? And Hillary is right about the importance of attitude. She knows what it takes, and she has the knowledge, the intelligence, and the experience to match a great attitude. Anyone who knows her life story knows that she works as hard as those truckers do. She truly is an American story of success!
Posted by: georgia | Mar 31, 2008 11:13:36 PM
What the heck has altitude to do with the economy?? High prices? High interest rates? Economic conferences in Telluride?
First McCain says he's not well versed in economics, then Hillary tries to BS her way again...
What's that?
Oh, she said attitude?
Whoops, sorry!
But then again, what's ATTITUDE got to do with economics either? Supply and demand of sunny outlooks? A "positive" yield curve?
Altitude or attitude... it's just filler in the petfood of politics.
Posted by: Gorgon '08 | Mar 31, 2008 11:52:54 PM
Clinton is clearly the most qualified, the most caring, and the most accomplished candidate for the Presidency. Unfortunately, the glass ceiling is still as clear as can be and will likely inhibit her chances to win the nomination just like in the workplace where women continue to be discriminated against. It isnt always intentional, it is inherent to our culture.
But if she were to have a speech addressing sexism in this country she would be labeled a whiner as she was when she (after months of biased coverage) objected to the MSM bias in campaign coverage. Do we really need a history lesson? Probably but it would do her more harm than good because of the level of accepted sexism prevalent in our society.
We the voters need to set aside our bias and judgment of women who are survivors of martial infidelity... not participants. If your woman friend or family member's husband or boyfriend cheats on her, do you blame her? No, you blame the cheater. If you tell your sister that her husband is a cheat and she stands up for him until she sees proof (or he admits it), do you fault her for having a seemingly irrational reaction at first? No, you understand and respect her commitment. If your dad cheats on your mom and she decides to honor her vows, do you judge her harshly for that decision? Most people dont, they respect her decision even if they think they would not do the same... it is hard to know what any of us will do given that situation. Does being cheated on have anything to do with one's ability to perform a job like a CEO, COO, Business Owner, Governor, Senator, or even President? No, it shows a strength of character and the ability to endure.
It is time to unlearn the prejudices we have been taught and start acting like true Americans who believe in equal rights and equal opportunity for all regardless of race or gender.
Everything that Senator Clinton has accomplished and learned are not because of Bill Clinton but are in spite of him. The left wing of the Democratic party have been furious since 1992 when the centrists in the party took control. They continue to fight her in the Senate and in this race. They use the same tactics as the RNC and Karl Rove to continue blocking the pathway. The DNC is controlled by the left wing and continues to place hurdles along the path. Will we the voters continue to do the bidding of left wing, the RNC, and the right wing or will we get smart and start voting based on what our brains tell us is the right thing to do (just like the union members who stood up to the strong-arm tactics in Nevada)? The eagle for the country cannot fly on one wing alone. We need a centrist and Obama has the most liberal voting record in the Senate. Clinton is the centrist we need to bring about smart change!
Posted by: The Real DCVoter | Apr 1, 2008 12:12:33 AM
Does the Mayor of Harrisburg think that saying that Hillary Clinton has been working for us for years and years
means anything?
Working at What? Doing What?
Another Bogus claim of experience from
Hillary and her Lackeys!
It would be nice if Hillary Clinton and her supporters would become
"Big Believers in Telling the Truth"!
Posted by: reaganfan | Apr 1, 2008 12:53:41 AM
Gotta be a reason Obama consistently wins caucus states. My guess, dirty shenanigans. Problem is, the General Election is not a caucus. With no chance at dirty shenanigans how will empty-suit Obama win?
Get ready folks for four more years of Republicans because a lot of us are not voting for Obama in the general election.
Posted by: Milo, MA | Apr 1, 2008 8:36:56 AM
Obama has not earned the right to be President. Do we want America to think that all you have to do is act like a slimy used car salesman and skip actually working hard and you can become the President of the USA. If Obama is the Nominee then I will no longer have any respect for the Democratic party. Not only will I vote against obama but I will protest this racist, arrogant man.
Please no racists -- 2008!!!
Posted by: Steve | Apr 1, 2008 2:48:18 PM
I still cannot believe how some of the American people still supports Obama. I don't know how they cannot see thru this man. He is nothing but an empty suit, a used car salesman, a great actor who is worthy to be nominated an Academy Award (for his role in the famous March 18th speech) and a great orator. The MSM is not allowing the American people to know who and what he really is (Larry Sinclair, Reszko, Wright, Ayers, Khalidi and Farrakhan to name a few). It is unfortunate to live in this day in age where the media controls everything you see and hear. Their bias against Hillary Clinton is undeniable. The main reason why the Clinton's have not yet given up is because they care and love this country. That's why they fight with everything they have. Everyone is not perfect. Hillary Clinton is not perfect but she is the best candidate for this country.
Posted by: bpatz3 | Apr 1, 2008 5:56:07 PM
What does gum chewing have to do with this report? It presents an image for some reader to go off on someone in a personal way that has nothing to do with the issues of the economy.
No matter what people read, someone is always willing to find a little wedge to distort someone's character. I guess it is all in your attitude. Attitudes are a good key to success for anyone. Hillary showed much compassion for the young woman who wants a medical career, and for the truckers who are facing an economic crisis with high diesel prices. I admire Hillary's knowledge on the issues and her strong solutions for restoring strength in our economy. We certainly need her knowledge and abilities now.
Posted by: georgia | Apr 2, 2008 12:36:05 AM
Thanks, Milo MA, your post just reminded me that I need to watch the video again, because it says more than any news article possibly could about the phoniness we are dealing with. Those who did not watch both side by side, and fully, never quite understood the irony of it all. Classic!
Posted by: georgia | Apr 2, 2008 12:43:02 AM
Bea how could McCain look better than Obama when McCain said, "I don't know too much about economics" duh...
Posted by: tiredofthelackofknowledgeofvoters | Apr 2, 2008 4:56:16 PM
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