"As a friend of mine said the other day, I'm the most famous woman that nobody knows."

[DeepModem Mom]

WP: Clinton Dives in Media Waters
Effort to 'Humanize' Presidential Hopeful Fast Underway
By Anne E. Kornblut
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, January 23, 2007; Page A02

With a call to "let the conversation begin," Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) fielded a handful of pre-selected questions from voters on her presidential campaign's Web site last night, speaking into a video camera as she held forth on movies ("Out of Africa" makes her top three), her football-fanatic brothers and her "nice middle-class upbringing in a suburb of Chicago."

The effort to "humanize" Clinton, as her advisers have put it, was in full swing just two days into her presidential campaign.

In a carefully controlled setting where inquiries about affordable tuition and health care counted among the tougher topics, she reminisced, in response to a question about Hurricane Katrina, about walking the streets of New Orleans on visits when she and her husband lived in Arkansas. She acknowledged that her position papers on energy policy were too "wonkish" for a Web chat and said she turns to her daughter, Chelsea, for "advice and support in every way."

The online chat came amid what, for Clinton, is a media blitz at the outset of her campaign for president. She appeared on all three major television networks last night, is scheduled to appear on the morning shows today, and will hold two more online discussions on her Web site tonight and tomorrow. This weekend she will head to Iowa, which she has not visited for several years....

On CBS, she told anchor Katie Couric that voters who doubt her ability to win should reserve judgment. "I would say: Give me a chance," she said. "As a friend of mine said the other day, I'm the most famous woman that nobody knows."...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/22/AR2007012201303.html

[lapfog_1]

1. The thing about Hillary is...

when she made that list of her top 3 films, I'm bettin that she checked them out with a few "focus groups" to see how they rate them.

So I'd have a lot more respect if she said "National Lampoon's Vacation" or "Alien" or something else.

And they shouldn't have to "humanize" someone who is, at least genetically, already a human.

She's being "handled" just like Gore was in 2000. It's all about never making any mistake or pissing off someone. It's a loser.

Nobody had to "humanize" Bill.

[Apollo11]

2. We know her Senate votes and public statements

That's enough of a basis for us to assess her political judgement - or lack of it.

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