A Newly Confident Clinton Focuses More on Economy Than on Obama

[DeepModem Mom]

WP: A Newly Confident Clinton Focuses More on Economy Than on Obama
By Anne E. Kornblut
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, January 18, 2008; Page A09

....Abandoning the defensive crouch she assumed in the days before rebounding from her defeat in the Iowa caucuses with a victory in the New Hampshire primary, Clinton has resumed her role as the forceful aggressor in the Democratic presidential race, showing few signs of vulnerability, and playing down her emotions in favor of a heavy emphasis on policy details.

In swings across Nevada and California over the past few days, the senator from New York has returned to one of her favorite subjects -- the economy -- while her advisers have been mounting a fierce behind-the-scenes effort to undercut Obama and lower expectations for Clinton. She did rounds of interviews about the economy, took questions from pastors, traveled to the San Fernando Valley to meet college students and took questions again from voters, concentrating on California, the biggest prize of Super Tuesday on Feb. 5, even as the Nevada caucuses loom this weekend.

In some ways, Clinton has returned to her pre-Iowa days. Though quoting the Bible Thursday (at a church service in Compton), she also drifted back toward specific (and notably liberal-sounding) promises: payments of $650 per person to help people, especially seniors on fixed incomes, pay utility bills; mandatory preschool; a $30 billion fund to help communities cope with the mortgage crisis; a $200 million program over five years to help communities transition ex-convicts back into society....

Clinton acknowledged that she is amid a fierce fight for the Democratic nomination, but did not mention her chief rival by name. In her stump speech, she has mostly scaled back her more explicit contrasts with Obama. The references to having the "strength and experience" to be president "on Day One" have largely given way this week to remarks about people's economic worries, and her speeches have been filled with anecdotes she has heard from voters on the campaign trail. The word "change" has been replaced by far greater emphasis on the "middle class."...

In shifting into a full-throttle emphasis on the economy, Clinton is once again following in her husband's steps. She has not used the phrase "It's the economy, stupid," which defined Bill Clinton's presidential campaign in 1992, but her approach is strikingly similar. She encourages voters to consider their own interests as they think about how to vote, and offers examples of how her proposals will help them....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/17/AR2008011703519.html

[joeybee12]

1. She should focus on the economy...Iraq, dumbo and Condo-liar's

mess of the world stage all figure into our stumbling economy.

[madrchsod]

2. tough woman hillary?

"Abandoning the defensive crouch she assumed", "Clinton has resumed her role as the forceful aggressor",
"showing few signs of vulnerability," "playing down her emotions",
"she is amid a fierce fight for the Democratic nomination", i stopped after that....

what is she?




did anne write ad copy before she joined the post?

so it`s tough woman hillary ...never let them see you sweat?

maybe

"Wintour takes Clinton to task for being behind the times. "Imagine my amazement, then, when I learned that Hillary Clinton, our only female president hopeful, -->had decided to steer clear of our pages at this point in her campaign for fear of looking too feminine<---. The notion that a contemporary woman must look mannish in order to be taken seriously as a seeker of power is frankly dismaying."


http://www.wwd.com/issue/article/121588?page=0
WWD.com Fashion news, retail news, beauty news and more from Women's Wear Daily

hillary has done 6 photo shoots for wintour

it really is a sad state of affairs when women have to look mannish to be taken seriously...

[Rock_Garden]

3. As soon as Hillary mentioned her economic stimulus package, everyone else copied her.

Within two days all the candidates were using that phrase, and now Bush is using it, too.