Posted by
Steve on Tuesday, November 13, 2007 3:36:32 PM
It seems like Mrs. Clinton is seeding the audience with questions. Then she selects the ones that have the pre-printed questions and she hits the answers out of the park. Of course, she knows nothing about the planting of questions. But, she picked out the people with the pre-selected questions from among all the people in the audience. Now, either everyone had been given a question or she was told who to pick to ask a question.
Her protestations that she did not know about planting questions falls pretty flat. She is a control freak Mrs. Clinton knows everything that goes on with her campaign down to the last paper clip. For her to say that she does not know of the planted questions is a flat-out lie. She knew about the questions, she had to have the prepared answers. She knew who had the questions and made the selections of the people with the questions. So she should not insult my intelligence by saying that she does not know anything about planting the questions in the audience.
This is typical for a politician that wants to appear like they have a command of the issues, but does not. Mitt Romney has the “Ask Mitt Anything” meetings. She has to appear to be at least as competent as Mitt Romney on the issues. If she had a “real,” “Ask Mrs. Bill Clinton Anything” night, she would be in big trouble. She would not be able to answer more than one or two questions and those poorly. She would be made to look like the fool she really is. To give the appearance of competence, she fakes an “ask her anything” night and got caught. That actually makes her look even worse than she did before she tried to pull the fake. This is on the heels of FEMA pulling off a fake news conference during the fires recently. Whenever someone does that they look terrible.
Mrs. Bill Clinton has had a bad month. She got asked a question at the last Democrat debate that she did not want to answer, so she skated around it without answering it. She then got a follow-up question from Tim Russert that said she did not answer the question. Then John Edwards and Barak Obama called her on the carpet for not answering the question. After being made to look the fool on national TV, she whined that she was being picked on because she was a girl. Bill Clinton even said the “boys” were mean to her. Bill Clinton actually called Barak Obama a “boy”. Since Barak is black that is a demeaning thing to call him.
Now her campaign has to deal with this planted question issue. They are trying hard to brush this issue under the rug, but the college student in question is articulate. By being articulate and not afraid to speak out, the problem is not going away. They are going to have to fire some staffer to “rid” themselves of the person that planted the question.
They have compounded their problems by boasting to the Drudge Report that they told Wolf Blitzer to not gang up on Mrs. Clinton in the next Democrat debate. Wolf now has a problem. If he goes easy on her, he bowed to pressure from the Clintons and loses his integrity. He can be tough on her and anger the Clintons. If you anger the Clintons you may get a one way trip to Ft. Marcy Park. What will Wolf do? If I was threatened by the Clintons, I would have to stand up to them. My line of questioning would be friendly but would require her to fully and completely answer all of the questions put to her. That may very well mean the one way trip to Ft. Marcy Park, but I could never let intimidation tactics work. My integrity is something I could not allow to be taken from me. My life will end at some point. My integrity is so sacred that I could never let anyone take it from me. My integrity is more important than life itself.
The good part about a one way trip to Ft. Marcy Park would be that everyone knows the Clinton’s threatened me. If I was found like Vince Foster, the fingers would point directly at the Clintons. That would make it all worth it.