Hillary Compares herself to JFK in New Hampshire Today

[illinoisprogressive]

from Taylor Marsh

Vote Hillary: 'We'll never know unless we try'

If that's Hillary's new slogan, she's screwed. However, with the new schedule focusing on New Hampshire, she'll likely get a pass. Armstrongs' post is instructive.

But what a difference a few months and a hot presidential campaign can make. Even Bob Dole now refuses to "bet the farm" on Hillary winning the Democratic nomination and will now only commit to betting his barn.

In New Hampshire, it is clear that Hillary is assessing Mr. Obama's rise and her leveling out, with Edwards remaining steady after some tough challenges, and they've come up with a new strategy to explain it all. Camp Hillary is now going to assert that their candidate is the underdog. In doing so, Hillary invokes a sacred comparison, John F. Kennedy. If Romney can, why not Hillary?

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton invoked the campaign of the nation's lone Catholic president, John Kennedy, last night as she talked about her challenge in becoming the first female commander-in-chief.

"He was smart, he was dynamic, he was inspiring and he was Catholic. A lot of people back then <1960> said, 'America will never elect a Catholic as president,' " the White House hopeful told the New Hampshire Democrats' 100 Club fund-raiser here.

"But those who gathered here almost a half century ago knew better," she said. "They believed America was bigger than that and Americans would give Sen. John F. Kennedy a fair shake, and the rest, as they say, is history."

Noting women are "the majority" of voters and are in the workforce in "record numbers," she added, "So when people tell me 'a woman can never be president,' I say, we'll never know unless we try."

Kennedy's name is most often invoked by supporters of Clinton's main Democratic rival, Sen. Barack Obama, usually comparing their charisma. ... ..

HILL: I'M THE JFK OF 2008
VOWS TO BEAT ODDS

http://www.taylormarsh.com/archives_view.php?id=25267

[Rusty MacHenry]

1. Hillary

I knew Jack Kennedy, I served with Jack Kennedy and you sir are no Jack Kennedy.

[Drum]

2. lol! nt

[Purveyor]

3. The more I watch her, the more I think "isn't going to happen for her"...n/t

[Dems Will Win]

7. She's running a surprisingly bad and defensive campaign

watching her fake a preacher accent was pretty "Hillarious"!

[Dave From Canada]

14. I'm not sure at this point in time it's even really a campaign.

It seems a tad bit early for all this stuff. Right now, the way things are going, I wouldn't be suprised if someone declared themselves for 2012.

[spag68]

4. First of all

Why do you people despise Sen. Clinton? She has done a great job here in NY, and that includes getting upstate to vote for her. She is the most electable of our candidates, although not my first choice, I would vote for her. I thought DU was going to lay off the circular firing squad deal? By the way, it was Saturday.

[papau]

5. I agree - this dump on Hillary crap is getting old - those into a circular firing squad can't seem

to discuss issues.

[MannyGoldstein]

6. 'Ask not what your country can do for you;

ask what you can do for me. Cash and major credit cards accepted.'

[Cha]

9. She may be talking about JFK

as being a catholic and her a woman in her reference to John Kennedy but it reminds me that Kennedy was into diplomacy and a peaceful way and she is a hawk.

"For example, she opposes the international treaty to ban land mines. She voted against the Feinstein-Leahy amendment last September restricting U.S. exports of cluster bombs to countries that use them against civilian-populated areas. She opposes restrictions on U.S. arms transfers and police training to governments that engage in gross and systematic human rights abuses, such as Egypt, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Israel, Pakistan, Cameroon and Chad, to name only a few. She insists upon continuing unconditional funding for the Iraq war and has called for dramatic increases in Bush’s already bloated military budget. She has challenged the credibility of Amnesty International and other human rights groups that criticize policies of the United States and its allies."


http://www.commondreams.org/views07/0309-23.htm

[ElizabethDC]

8. That headline is so misleading

she wasn't really comparing herself to JFK, she was talking about breaking barriers and looking past labels. What she's saying is, since people came to terms with having someone Catholic in the White House, hopefully they can come to terms with having a woman in the White House.

[MethuenProgressive]

10. An anti-Hill post from Illinoise?

Mrs Obama? Is that you? :D

[caligirl]

11. The voter should be the one drawing comparisons to JFK, not the candidate

trying to paint yourself in the colors you want to be seen in isn't nearly as effective as the voters seeing and believing a candidate is what they really are.

[Bluebear]

12. What a bullshit headline. She was in no way comparing herself to JFK.

She was talking about barriers, and the author knows it.

"invoked the campaign of the nation's lone Catholic president" is what was written.

[MonkeyFunk]

13. And people have to ask

"are there idiot liberals"?

Clinton in no way, shape or form compared herself to JFK - the "comparison" was a fever-induced hallucination of a New York Post writer.

If Obama mentions that Lincoln was also from Illinois, is he comparing himself to Lincoln? Of course not.

I'm sick of the fucking haters here - defend your candidate all you want, but to adopt the cheap lies and distortions of the right wing against ANYONE who might be our candidate is foolish, and you're being played.