Hillary goes for the jugular!!!......

[Roxy66]

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/06/nyregion/06cnd-hillary.html?pagewanted=1&ei=5090&en=b58541f817436370&ex=1275710400&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

"I know it's frustrating for many of you; it's frustrating for me: Why can't the Democrats do more to stop them?" she continued to growing applause and cheers. "I can tell you this: It's very hard to stop people who have no shame about what they're doing. It is very hard to tell people that they are making decisions that will undermine our checks and balances and constitutional system of government who don't care. It is very hard to stop people who have never been acquainted with the truth."

"The press is missing in action, with all due respect," she said. "Where are the investigative reporters today? Why aren't they asking the hard questions? It's shocking when you see how easily they fold in the media today. They don't stand their ground. If they're criticized by the White House, they just fall apart.

"I mean, c'mon, toughen up, guys, it's only our Constitution and country at stake," she said. "Let's get some spine."

This is some good stuff!!!!!
:toast:

[linazelle]

1. Thanks for posting the whole quote...earlier poster only put up

the "hard work" portion, and then criticized her. We've been talking forever about getting somebody to speak up and when they do, some nut here criticizes the one who speaks. Go figure. And go Hillary!

[Greybnk48]

2. good for her--but watch what they do with this

who wants to bet that the "media's" response to Hillary will be to further (try) to eviscerate her for speaking out.

[linazelle]

4. you are right on target...they will use anything to go after her nt

[Roxy66]

7. I cant wait for the media to bring it up tommorrow....

It's creating platform for these things to be discussed....even if the MSM tries to distort it

[Cleita]

3. Good for Hillary. It looks like Barbara Boxer started a trend

and the Dems one by one are starting to grow a spine and follow her lead. Let's hope this grows and grows.

[seabeyond]

5. good stuff, good for her, thanks hillary, ......

may send her an email in the morning. we have to let these people know we appreciate it when they say it like it is. and it is refreshing to seee that our senators get it, and not in a vaccuum

[silverweb]

6. OMG, that's awesome!

Go, Hillary! Tell it like it is!

And NO APOLOGIES for telling the truth!!!!

Man, with Hillary and Dean and Boxer out there making waves, maybe some of the spineless ones will get a clue. Is it too much to hope for?

:woohoo:

On edit: Included the greatly deserving Sen. Boxer with the bold truth tellers.

[Roxy66]

8. I think Bill and Hillary have a plan...

Bill's out there smoothing things over as the middle man, and Hillary is starting to get down and dirty....

[lonestarnot]

15. Opposites attract you know...votes...are those vote machines dead yet?

[Imagevision]

26. Bill & Hillary a plan? - better get those Diebold's out of there!!

[Ladyhawk]

9. Now, if only she would walk the walk as well as talk the talk. n/t

[ronnykmarshall]

23. I just love your sig line.

Your bird looks so sweet.

[okieinpain]

10. wow, she just might get my vote after all. I still don't think she has

a chance in hell at winning. but if this is the way she's going to go about it, then I'm willing to give her my vote.

[insane_cratic_gal]

11. Maybe she's reading DU

I just want a presidential candidate that's going to kick that republican Nominee in the balls.

Up until that statement, i've been finding her lack luster play it safe politics to be uninspiring

I can say balls because I how oftens does a female Rep actually make it past round 1?

[lonestarnot]

16. LOL patriarchy is the neo ideology...

[Daphne08]

17. I just want our country back, and I want my grandchildren to

be born in a democratic republic!

[dalloway]

12. my guess....Kerry's gonna make a big spash soon

and what about that NYT article on the DSM due out this week--what's up with that folks?

:shrug:

My guess is the bandwagon's coming and everyone's jumping on!!!

Am I right, folks?

[AngryWhiteLiberal]

13. Not bad...of course this isn't going to make me forget her Iraq War vote.

It's going to take more than a few encouraging words to warm my heart to oft-DINO Hillary.

JB

[bvar22]

14. Not my favorite Democrat, but

GO HILLARY!!!
Give them hell.
Wish I could have heard this blistering attack in person.

:toast:

[LisaLynne]

18. That's great.

I agree -- we post here and say how we want people to speak up and when they do, there's a lot of criticism of them. So, I'm just going to add my voice to the "Way to go" camp! Let's keep this up. The fact is -- the Repugs are wrong. They are doing their best to destroy America. I don't know what you could say about them that would be going too far, honestly. Well, okay, I can think of a few things, but they involve goats, cream cheese, and a stack of Nancy Drew books. ;)

[suziedemocrat]

19. WOW - that makes me actually want to vote for her!! n/t

[BiggJawn]

20. Meanwhile, in the REST of the MSM.....

"Jacko Jury still Deliberating"
"Thousands search for missing Pretty White Girl in Aruba"
"Fisherman somewhere bit by SHARK!"

Need I go on?

[Jacobin]

21. Is this the same Hillary who said the insurgents were losing?

gimme a break.

Why didn't she 'toughen up' and join the 130 other congresscritters who voted against IWR?

Pure rubbish and rhetoric. Pandering. Makes me want to puke.

[Catfight]

22. Hillary cops-out and whines.......

Arianna

On The Blog Now
After months of desperately trying to get in touch with her inner red-stater, Hillary Clinton appeared at the first major fundraiser of her re-election campaign yesterday and offered the 1,000-strong crowd a heaping helping of Democratic red meat, lashing out at Republicans. The trouble was that for all the partisan speechifying, it was almost exclusively empty rhetoric that she was dishing out. Throughout her speech, Hillary adopted the tone of a powerless activist whining about those in power rather than a high-profile member of the World’s Most Exclusive club. The low point came when she blamed much of the Republicans’ success on a too timid press corps.

Of course she’s right about the mainstream media abdicating their investigative role... but, c’mon, it’s not like Senator Clinton and her congressional cohorts are powerless to look into things. In fact, that’s what the constitution says they are there for. It’s called Congressional oversight, HRC... I mean, if you are so worried about the missing $9 billion in Iraq, why not demand that the GOP pals you’ve famously been making in the Senate create a modern Truman Committee and, if they refuse, keep bringing it up every day until they do.

huffingtonpost.com click on links at the top of DU and choose Blogs to read more

[Eloriel]

24. I have to say...

she's 100% right.

As usual.

[G2099]

25. Did Hillary, like Kerry, vote for the War?

If she did then she will just be another Kerry. Kerry's voting for the war impaired his campaign

[LightningFlash]

27. Make no mistake, I see right through it.

Hillary is rediculously close to being a republican and loves to do something I have observed as, "pandering". I'm not saying others don't do it but Hillary R. Clinton does it in a way which is very extra obvious.

Not more than a few weeks ago she was praising the brother Jerry Falwell clan, until that was no longer popular to do. Now she is chastising them, etc. just to rock up ratings.

If it's any indication, Hillary has always been pretty close to the right. I don't think she was ever "liberal left" or "centrist", because she has some very specific beliefs and no one questions those beliefs.