Pulling out the Gender Card has Always Been part of Clinton's strategy

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071101/ap_po/on_deadline_clinton_1
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is looking for sympathy, support and political cover as her rivals show the temerity to run aggressively against the Democratic presidential front-runner. But don't feel sorry for her — Clinton is no stranger to "piling on."
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In fact, she's an expert at it.

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Ask anybody who stood on the marble floor of the state Capitol rotunda in 1990 and heard the click, clack, click of her low-heeled shoes approach the news conference of Tom McRae, a mild-mannered public servant who had the nerve to challenge then-Gov. Bill Clinton of Arkansas for re-election.

"Tom!" the state's first lady shouted. "I think we oughta get the record straight!"

McRae, a former Clinton appointee, stood a good chance of defeating the incumbent until Hillary Rodham Clinton sandbagged him. Holding a sheaf of papers, she crashed the news conference to undermine McRae's measured criticism of her husband's record.

"Many of the reports you issued not only praise the governor on his environmental record," she said, "but his education and his economic record!"

Clinton's advisers, speaking on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss internal matters, said there is a clear and long-planned strategy to fend off attacks by accusing her male rivals of gathering against her.

The idea is to change the subject while making Clinton a sympathetic figure, especially among female voters who often feel outnumbered and bullied on the job.

As one adviser put it, Clinton is not the first presidential candidate to play the "woe-is-me card" but she's the first major female presidential candidate to do it.

The victim is a familiar role for Clinton.

is an avowed Clinton Hater from years past. He'll evidently do anything -- even dishonest reporting -- to drag her down.

What did she use to "sandbag" this "measured" critic? Facts? Truth? Tell me where she lied, ducky.

AND WHY WOULD A CAMPAIGN NOT MAKE IT'S CANDIDATE A SYMPATHETIC FIGURE? Does anyone think you can get more votes by being UNSYMPATHETIC?

Take your pathetic hit piece and call me when you have something with actual intelligence behind it.

Even though the claim she made was true. It was amazing to me how she easily she slipped into calling Bill "my husband" and appearing all soft and non-threatening, the flipside of the Iron Lady persona she was better known for at that time.

Ain't got nuttin' from this century? :rofl:

saying :eyes:

What I'll like to know is who is going to be the first to call Obama on the RACE CARD. But you all know that they don't dare, they would be called racist. They can call Hillary names but hell no not Obama. Why doesn't he act like a man instead of a wimp.

and read the post about Hillary Clinton and the debate. The thing is the guy who wrote it doesn't like Hillary but he was FAIR. Something not one, never ever one of the Obama supporters will be...they love to flame and trash and the hell with the truth.

at the Obama Orchestra.

It seems to me that Hillary's enemies are always ready to play the gender card. But neither Fat Timmy or Weird Chris get exercised when John Edwards comments on what she is wearing.