Clinton in Iowa - says she's 'Tough Enough'

[Debi]

http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071103/NEWS09/71103007/-1/caucus

Oskaloosa, Ia. -- Hillary Clinton told a crowd here today that she’s tough enough to take the heat in the political kitchen.

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Her kitchen comment brought cheers from a crowd of about 300 people at Nelson Pioneer Farm and Museum. It is symbolic of a tough week in which her main Democratic presidential rivals pounced on her answers and called her an issue dodger after her performance during the debate in Philadelphia.

Political commentators generally agreed it was one of her weakest debate performances this year. She indirectly acknowledged those criticisms, telling the audience she expects to encounter more of the same.

“With 60 days left until the caucus, things are going to get a little hotter, because obviously the campaign is going to get heated up and speeded up,” Clinton said.

“I remember very well what Harry Truman once said . . . ‘If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.’ Well, I feel real comfortable in the kitchen, so the heat is going to get hotter and hotter.”


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Ottumwa resident Mary Amborn said Clinton redeemed herself Saturday.

“She was talking like a politician” at Tuesday’s debate “and that was what I was looking for today,” Amborn said. “She sounded much better today. I think she needed a lesson and the guys gave it to here and it just made her stronger. Iowa women are tough and they want to see tough. That’s going to be a hell of a job.”

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[MethuenProgressive]

1. "Iowa women are tough and they want to see tough." Go Mary!

It's always nice to hear from real people and not this or that blogger.

[sandnsea]

2. Bluster isn't toughness

Toughness is taking a stand on an issue and letting everybody know what the stand is, not hemming and hawing and blustering about 'toughness'.