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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tonto who wrote (19228)	12/16/2007 10:15:35 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224755

Hillary on Stilts--see all the fun videos at newsbusters.org >Hillary on Stilts By Mark Finkelstein \| December 16, 2007 - 20:11 ET It's been a rough day for Hillary. First, as noted here, she was drummed from pillar to post on ABC's "This Week." NewsBuster Noel Sheppard then detailed here how Chris Matthews' crew raked her over the coals. Now, completing Hillary's troika of tribulation, the CBS Evening News has gotten into the act. The development being reported was ostensibly positive for Hillary: the Des Moines Register today endorsed her. If CBS had stopped there, it would have been a plus for the Clinton campaign. But unfortunately for Hillary . . . the Evening News decided to play clips of Clinton on the stump in Iowa. First came Hillary at her platitudinous worst, somberly informing the crowd that "the road to the White House for the next president begins here in Iowa." I'm guessing Hawkeye State caucus-goers didn't need that pointed out to them. But it got much -- much -- worse. Words can't express just how stilted Hillary was in a subsequent clip. Just when Clinton should have been at her most Comeback-Kid ebullient, Hillary exuded all the joie de vivre of an undertaker in a cold December rain. "I was especially honored by the endorsement this morning of my candidacy by the Des Moines Register. It was an important event in this process, and I am [excruciating pause] very grateful." View it here and try to imagine, in contrast with Hillary's downer of a delivery, how Bill would have played the same good news. Can a presidential candidate so lacking in the basic tools of the politician's trade be successful? —Mark Finkelstein is a NewsBusters contributing editor<