Hill’s New Message: “Solutions, Not Speeches”
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, HillaryDelivering a major economic address ahead of the Buckeye State’s crucial March 4 primary, Clinton also slammed Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) as a lightweight, declaring: “My opponent gives speeches, I offer solutions.”Earlier in the race, Clinton defended her relationships with business lobbyists, telling a blogger convention this summer that many of them “represent real Americans.”
But she took a very different stance today as she delivered as she delivered a “Solutions for the American Economy” address to General Motors employees in Warren, Ohio.
Two days after his wife’s rival for the Democratic presidential nomination, Sen. Barack Obama, drew 17,000 people to a rally in Madison, Clinton urged those who vote in Tuesday’s Wisconsin primary to consider his wife’s experience. The Illinois senator and New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton are locked in close race.“It’s about whether you should choose the power of speeches over the power of solutions,” Clinton told several hundred people at the Italian Community Center in Milwaukee. He said his wife has worked in a bipartisan fashion in the Senate on things like securing body armor for soldiers.
Chief Strategist Mark Penn is saying it…
Penn, who said this at least twice on the call, seemed to coin the phrase to encapsulate how they will try to frame the message going forward: Clinton will draw a “clear contrast” between herself and Obama by showing that she is in the “21st Century solution business and not the promise business.”
I’m sorry, what problems does Hillary give solutions for that Obama hasn’t? Oh right, there are none. So this is what you would call…A LIE.
And listen folks, I wouldn’t write about all this if it weren’t SO bad, but this is stupid bad. I mean, this stuff is so transparently dumb it pains me to think that these people could get this far in their careers and still come up with such intellectually dishonest nonsense.
I’m also guessing that Hillary is now calling her “speeches” something different like “21st Century solutions-driven conversations.” That way she’s ALWAYS giving solutions instead of speeches.
Ugh…I’m going to go pound my head against a wall for a couple minutes…
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February 14th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
I just heard Howard Wolfson saying the same thing on The Newshour. I thought it was BS, too.
February 14th, 2008 at 9:50 pm
It’s scary, yet predictable. There’s a corresponding increase in intellectual dishonesty the more they fall behind. Fall one step behind, become one step dumber.
February 14th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
“My opponent can inspire people and all I know how to do is the same old politics that allowed the Republicans to walk all over us for the last eight years.”
If Hillary actually had solutions, ideas that I genuinely thought were better than Obama’s, I’d concede that she has a point. But the fact of the matter is, when it comes to “solutions” they’re not all that different. The difference is on issues of character and judgement. And on those two, there’s a world of difference. Hillary’s proved it with her passed actions, and she’s proved it in the way she’s campaigned against Obama.
February 14th, 2008 at 10:32 pm
s/passed/past/
February 14th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
>>>Ugh…I’m going to go pound my head against a wall for a couple minutes…<<<
Use your mousepad, it’ll hurt less. ;-)
February 15th, 2008 at 7:22 am
I agree with everything everyone said above - but remember these Clint’s have been pulling the wool over Americans eye’s for decades - no body does it better. The last few days remind me of when Coke introduced “New Coke” - it was a marketing coup resulting in huge market gains for “classic” and eventually New coke just went away - bottom line with the New Hillary. Same old taste, new packaging, and if you ignore it’s effects time and time again like we have been your teeth will fall out and you’ll fart alot - that’s the Clint’s.
February 15th, 2008 at 10:02 am
Wait wouldn’t Obama be New Coke? All marketing and hype, flashy message but no substance?
February 15th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
All Clinton is doing is helping to reinforce this idea for Republicans in the general.
February 16th, 2008 at 12:32 am
I agree with everything everyone said above - but remember these Clint’s have been pulling the wool over Americans eye’s for decades - no body does it better.
Oh, I don’t know about that . Bush got elected twice after all. And he still has a quarter of the population approving of him.