“Hillary Bitchslapped Me”
Phil Klein:
NEW HAMPTON, Iowa — Hillary Clinton is working hard to counter her image as an arrogant Ice Queen. At campaign stops, she laughs at her own jokes and regales the audience with tales of herself as a little girl who stared into the sky with binoculars hoping to catch a glimpse of Sputnik as it passed by.
“Give me a fair reading as to who I am, not who somebody says I am,” Clinton pleaded with a room full of Iowa voters as she wrapped up her remarks at a campaign stop here on Sunday.
But just moments later, in a rare stumble for her highly-choreographed campaign, Clinton demonstrated that people’s long-standing impressions of her are right on target.
During the question and answer period, Randall Rolph, a retired Democratic voter from Nashua, Iowa, confronted Clinton on her recent vote in favor of a U.S. Senate resolution calling on the Bush administration to declare Iran’s Revolutionary Guard a terrorist organization. The measure has been greeted with suspicion by war critics who view it as a document that President Bush could use as a pretext to launch an attack on Iran.
“Why should I support your candidacy if you haven’t learned from the past?” Rolph asked, referring to her 2002 vote to authorize the use of military force in Iraq.
Clinton first thanked him and then countered that, “the premise of the question is wrong.” So far, so good. But after offering a description of what was in the resolution, Clinton smugly and dismissively accused him of having been fed the information, saying “obviously somebody sent [it] to you.”
Rolph didn’t let it pass. “I take exception, this is my own research…”
“Well, then let me finish telling you…” Clinton screamed.
“Nobody sent that, and I am offended that you would suggest it,” Rolph snapped at her.
Realizing she had committed a blunder, she backed off. “Then I apologize,” she said. “I apologize, it’s just that I’ve been asked the very same question at three other places.”
Later, she patronizingly told him “I respect your research,” but instructed him that there were two versions of the bill, and she opposed an earlier draft that had harsher language.
“We just have a disagreement,” she concluded. “I know what I voted for, and I know what we intended to do with it.”
The crowed filled with supporters may have applauded, but Rolph was turned off.
He said he came into the event uncommitted, but ruled out voting for Clinton after she insinuated that he was a patsy even though he had spent the morning on government websites looking into the question himself.
“It was an insult,” he fumed following the event. “It was basically calling me stupid. That I can’t think on my own. That I don’t have the ability to research or come up with a coherent or concrete thought on my own. How dare she!”
He continued, “She never did answer the question. She just, what I say is, bitch-slapped me.”
Whether this incident does any damage to the well-oiled Clinton machine remains to be seen. But one thing it does make clear is that no matter how scripted Hillary is, over the course of a long campaign, she will not be able to mask her contempt for average Americans who dare to challenge her.
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“tales of herself as a little girl who stared into the sky with binoculars hoping to catch a glimpse of Sputnik as it passed by”
That tells me quite a bit about our aspiring communist
October 8th, 2007 at 6:57 am“It was basically calling me stupid. That I can’t think on my own. That I don’t have the ability to research or come up with a coherent or concrete thought on my own. How dare she!”
You’re mad cuz you got yelled at?
October 8th, 2007 at 9:01 amThat’s mild dude. Two years from now it’s off to the re-education camp for you.
Or the Gulag.
Got a good shovel?
Wait until she dictates who your doctor is, how much more you will pay in taxes, How much more government will take over your lives, takes your firearms away, takes away portions of the first amendment rights,…
We aint seen nothing yet.
October 8th, 2007 at 9:19 am“I apologize, it’s just that I’ve been asked the very same question at three other places.”
Maybe people who think for themselves and do their own research and it does not take very much research come to the same conclusion. You are a big fat liar.
October 8th, 2007 at 3:41 pmMess pretty much has it down. Consider this.
October 8th, 2007 at 5:44 pmThis childrens health insurance bit is an old republican bill that the democrats have expanded to include a larger voting block. That is, not just poor children. It’s a step on the ladder to getting more people dependent on government medical care. And more people to vote democrat/govt medical care. The next step is a winning vote for goverment socialized health care. Hillary care.
They have a strategy and it will work unless beaten.