Here’s a clock that counts the minutes since Hillary Clinton answered a press question

[Ichingcarpenter]

It has been 31,041.8 minutes and counting
Since Hillary Clinton has answered a question from the press


Last question answered: April 21, 2015, 3 p.m. (or so). Question and response on "Clinton Cash" book reported by WMUR in New Hampshire.

We will, of course, update this post -- and the timer -- in the event that Candidate Clinton answers another question. Fingers crossed!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/05/12/heres-a-clock-that-counts-the-minutes-since-hillary-clinton-answered-a-press-question/

Hillary's statement on the Trade Deal as a former Senator and SOS
is ...................................... no where.


Remember what Martin Luther King Jr said.

[Bonobo]

1. I'm waiting for the app. nt

[Jesus Malverde]

14. lol

[bluestateguy]

2. I'm glad she treats the elitist news media with dripping contempt

The media doesn't speak for me or the American people.

[ucrdem]

3. That's what I mean about Hillary having the chops to fight the VRWC.

Eight years ago a countdown routine like this would have riled up her campaign. Now the world collectively yawns.

[Ichingcarpenter]

4. Oh. you now speak for the world but Hillary can't speak for herself

interesting.

[ucrdem]

7. I'm not knocking your post which is fne

but we both know what's going on here.

[Ichingcarpenter]

6. What and where is her statement on the Senate trade bill?

that doesn't take much..

[yardwork]

25. That's the whole point of avoiding the press now.

This is politics. If she talks to the press then she has to tell them her position on TPP. That's a no win situation for her.

[cali]

8. she's creating a narrative that could be damaging

It's an unforced error

[geek tragedy]

29. No, the press and people who already hate her guts

are trying to create a narrative.

The same people here whining about her not talking to Chuck Todd or Chris Wallace are the same people who reflexively criticize and dismiss anything she says anyways.

They are mad because she is not giving them ammunition and fodder for more attacks. Not one of them actually cares what she has to say, only about how they can use it against her.

She knows that.

[cali]

32. hyperbole much? And I have no problem with her eschewing Chuck Toad or Wallace

there are other reporters and media outlets.

Sorry, she is giving them ammunition. There's really no way she can avoid it, I'll grant you that, but she can mitigate it somewhat.

She isn't.

[geek tragedy]

40. The email nontroversy bounced off her.

And this is about 1/100 of the importance.

Let the Republicans draw the early attention. So far they've all face-planted in interviews.

It is very, very, very early. The election is 17+ months away.

[cali]

43. I agree that it's early, but this is the kind of thing that hearkens

back to 2007 and 2008 and was a major issue for her.

As for the email nontroversy, as you put it, it only had a small negative outcome, but as you said, it's it's way early. I hope it continues to be a non-issue, and it won't be during primary season, but it's foolish to believe that it doesn't have the potential to be damaging in the general, and sometimes drip, drip, drip in and of itself can be damaging.
Also, the tedious email thing isn't over:

http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2015/05/judge-sets-september-deadline-on-clinton-records-207024.html

[DemocratSinceBirth]

47. They are also the same people who whine about Chuck Todd and Chris Wallace./NT

[geek tragedy]

49. Well, those complaints are legit . . . nt

[leftynyc]

11. I feel the same way

She's seen the polls on how nobody trusts the media anymore. I don't blame her for keeping them at arm's length. She has more reason to distrust them than just about anyone.

[leftofcool]

22. +1

[frylock]

85. sounds like a winning strategy

[AtomicKitten]

5. It seems her strategy is to skate on largely name recognition.

The first debate isn't until August. Her stealth candidacy is a bizarre strategy, but it will be interesting seeing how long she can hold out not taking questions from the press.

[Tanuki]

18. The election is 18 months away. Get a grip.

I don't see how taking time to put her message out there on her own terms first is so terrible. I wouldn't be in a big hurry to throw myself to a pack of salivating jackals either. Any investigative reporter worthy of the name will find plenty to write about in the mean time.

[AtomicKitten]

36. Good lord, someone needs to get a grip alright.

Last edited Wed May 13, 2015, 08:25 AM - Edit history (1)

Not exactly sure how 'bizarre' accelerated to 'so terrible' but having declared one's candidacy for the highest office in the land implies opening oneself up for scrunity. This isn't a beauty pageant. Any reporter worth their salt has questions for the candidates. So, yes, ducking questions from the press is odd particularly in light of the fact that her declared challenger is so open and forthright with the press. In comparison, she appears timid, unprepared, and not ready for prime time.

[NYC_SKP]

94. OMG they told you to "get a grip"!

Comedy gold, this primary season!

[AtomicKitten]

98. you can't make this stuff up

Last edited Wed May 13, 2015, 09:44 PM - Edit history (1)

[Fred Sanders]

101. YES......the caterwauling into the wind for an election a year and a half away is ludicrous.

[AtomicKitten]

103. It's 8-1/2 months until the first Democratic primary ludicrously scheduled 2/1/16 in Iowa.

[Segami]

9. I hope you're using an Atomic Clock....

...some here might challenge your clock's minute count accuracy.

[Thinkingabout]

10. This could be a dual app, count down until Bernie travels to different places and sits down

and has a face to face discussion with ordinary people.

[Ichingcarpenter]

12. Brunch with Bernie..........

Thom Hartmann's weekly town hall meeting with US Senator Bernie Sanders


From C-SPAN's Q&A, Brian Lamb asks Thom Hartmann why he gives an hour to Sen. Bernie Sanders every week on his radio show and why does Sen. Sanders agree to do it. Hartmann explains that he's willing to put Sen. Sanders on because he's one of the only politicians out there willing to take unscreened questions and answer them honestly. He feels Sanders does it because he actually cares about representing the voters in his state and truly believes in his message.

Isn't it amazing that somehow a dirty stinking hippie self-proclaimed Democratic Socialist can manage to win redder than red parts of his state with the W signs formerly posted all over it as Hartmann noted that Bernie somehow managed to do? Gee, I wonder what the Democrats could learn from this if they decided to quit trying to either act like or appease Republicans?

If you want to watch the rest of this hour it is available at C-SPAN's web site


Been going on for 6 years

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

28. ... as soon as his handlers hand-select a few manageable ordinary people.nt

[Thinkingabout]

37. Yes this would work.

[FlatBaroque]

30. yah

'cause he's so uncomfortable around people.

[Thinkingabout]

39. Get him out there

[FlatBaroque]

42. Sorry. Won't happen

He's pretty much a recluse. Word is he sits at home and obsessively works on his hair all day, trying to get it just right.

[Thinkingabout]

51. How about Bernie and his followers running his campaign and Hillary will continue to run her

Campaign. She has hers covered.

[cali]

34. Bernie does that every freaking week

has for over a decade. He takes calls every Friday on the Thom Hartmann show, Brunch with Bernie. And Bernie is actually renowned for sitting down and having discussions with UNSCREENED regular people. I've been at several pot luck dinner meetings and town halls with him. If there's one thing Bernie does on a scale that no one in Congress can match, it's retail politics. Has he done this on the campaign trail since he announced? Yes, he has.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/bernie-sanders-says-he-will-register-as-a-democrat-if-needed-for-primary-fight/2015/05/02/39dc71f6-f02d-11e4-8666-a1d756d0218e_story.html

Why do you want to broadcast how little you know about him? That old saying comes to mind: Better to remain
silent...

Now if only HRC would venture out of her insular little bubble.

[OilemFirchen]

56. Thom who?

[cyberswede]

62. Sanders is going to be at a community event in Iowa on May 29th.

It's a meet & greet at an individual's home in a small town. Probably be some ordinary people there.

[Thinkingabout]

63. Good for him

[MaggieD]

13. Awesome!

The less attention she gives the corrupt corporate media the better!

[stonecutter357]

16. ?

Good let them froth at the mouth

[betsuni]

17. Hillary Clillary dock

The mouse ran up the clock.
The clock struck one,
The mouse ran down,
Hillary clock is stupid and I'm embarrassed to see it here, that anyone besides Republicans would give it the time of day.

[yardwork]

24. Those two things are not mutually exclusive.

We might be seeing Republicans giving it the time of day here.

[betsuni]

38. Yes, unfortunately true.

Too many right-wing mice, not enough cats.

[sulphurdunn]

19. It's part of "Triangulation"

The Clinton's invented the term and raised the concept to an art form. It's about being a rightist and projecting centrism to progressive suckers who will conclude you're a better choice than the farther right republican.

[Android3.14]

20. This is why we will lose with HRC

Few like her
Few trust her
Few think she can face the unscripted scrutiny of the people she claims she wants to represent

[OKNancy]

27. If you really believe that, you need to step away from the DU bubble

or stop reading right-wing news. One or the other

[leftofcool]

41. Yea sure, because only 86% of Dems support her.

[Dawgs]

53. She needs more than 86% of the D vote. n/t

[SidDithers]

21. ...

Sid

[yardwork]

23. Unrec for misappropriation of MLK words from Birmingham jail.

It was a smart strategy for Hillary to avoid taking a public position on TPP when it looked possible it would be defeated. This is politics. The goal is to win. The media are not are friends.

[betsuni]

45. [phone] nt

[geek tragedy]

26. I doubt MLK jr would give a shit about a

politician not talking to the press.

Talk about misappropriation.

[Bobbie Jo]

44. Totally.

Misappropriation, indeed.

Especially with this crowd.

[betsuni]

46. [phone] nt

[vi5]

31. I have many reasons to dislike her....

This isn't really one of them.

[99Forever]

33. If someone can't face the homefield press...

... how in the hell are we supposed to think they can function effectively on the world stage against REAL enemies?

[woo me with science]

35. Huge K&R This is the sham democracy of oligarchy.

Oligarchy needs no statement of agendas. Oligarchy needs no political process where candidates must speak to or are accountable to voters.

Oligarch politicians are there for the faux-democracy show, not to actually communicate with voters. Talking about the agenda is only a nuisance because it riles up the proles.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

48. Dirty Laundry

[Ichingcarpenter]

50. The 13 Questions Hillary Clinton Has Answered From The Press

It has been a month, and the candidate has answered just 13 reporter questions (at least that we've been able to find, building on the work of National Journal). And you can quibble about whether some of the answers were really answers.


1 "You lost Iowa in 2008. How do you win this time? What's your strategy?" Welker asked.

Clinton's reply, as she walked toward an open van door: "I'm having a great time. Can't look forward any more than I am."


Campaign finance plan

A pair of Washington Post reporters spotted her outside of an unannounced event and asked about campaign finance reform. The answers weren't substantive.

According to the Post, she said "We do have a plan. We have a plan for my plan."


http://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2015/05/13/406250488/the-13-questions-hillary-clinton-has-answered-from-the-press

[FlatBaroque]

55. As we read this

focus groups are bing scrambled like SWAT teams - "WE NEED POLLING INFORMATION ON THIS ISSUE...STAT".

[NYC_SKP]

96. Comedy Gold!!! "We do have a plan. We have a plan for my plan."

[Evergreen Emerald]

52. There is 1.5 years before election

Why should she talk to the press? She is talking to people one-on-one. When it is time, she will talk to them.

Frankly, it does not matter what she says, it will be twisted into a negative anyway.
I can see it now, "How dare she continue to hog the press, she is using her name recognition to get all the attention."

It is all so much BS for one morning.

[randome]

74. You called it. 18 fricking months to go and she's not being 'responsive'?

The GOP clown car isn't even gassed up and ready to go yet!
[hr][font color="blue"][center]Birds are territorial creatures.
The lyrics to the songbird's melodious trill go something like this:
"Stay out of my territory or I'll PECK YOUR GODDAMNED EYES OUT!"[/center][/font][hr]

[Autumn]

54. Maybe she can get elected on her name alone

[Marr]

57. They've learned their lesson from last time.

The more people hear Hillary Clinton, the less they like her. If she wins the nomination, and her Republican competition is anything more nationally palatable than Ted Cruz, she's going to be trounced.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

59. "A dream is a wish the heart makes"

[Marr]

67. That would be more appropriately directed at yourself.

What I described is true, according to the numbers. Her popularity has declined over time in previous campaigns. The more people hear from her, the less they like her.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

71. I don't think so.

( I don't believe she would be a underdog to any Republican but Ted Cruz. There is certainly no empirical evidence to suggest that is the case.)

[Marr]

73. Compelling argument. /nt

[DemocratSinceBirth]

75. Waiting...

(Waiting for empirical evidence that if "her Republican competition is anything more nationally palatable than Ted Cruz, she's going to be trounced." )

[Marr]

82. You post nothing but pictures, and demand data?

lol, right.

I thought it was fairly clear that what I said was my personal opinion, based on my view of Clinton's support as being a mile wide and an inch deep. He record as a centrist means she can't credibly run to the left, and the people she'll depend on (conservative Democrats and moderate Republicans), would be easily lured by a moderate Republican-- someone like Jon Huntsman, for instance.

Also, you never requested data in your initial response (nice edit, by the way), so I don't know where that 'patiently waiting' crap is coming from.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

84. What do you mean?

You went from arguing that if:

"Hillary Clinton wins the nomination, and her Republican competition is anything more nationally palatable than Ted Cruz, she's going to be trounced. "

to you arguing that a candidate who was trounced in the 2012 Republican primaries and isn't even running or is just like him:

""... someone like Jon Huntsman , for instance."

can trounce Hillary.


Which is it?

Is it any Republican but Ted Cruz can beat Hillary as you originally suggested or just Jon Huntsman or his ideological twin:

P.S. If you want I will name at least seven major issues, maybe more, where HRC will be diametrically opposed to and to the left of Republican opponent.

[Marr]

86. You don't know who the Republican nominee will be anymore than I do. /nt

[DemocratSinceBirth]

87. I know that he/she will be to HRC's right on at least a half dozen key issues./NT

[Marr]

88. Sadly, no, you don't.

You don't know who it will be. If it's a moderate, they could be pretty well aligned with Clinton on key issues, or she could be about an inch to their left.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

90. You can bookmark this post...

If I am wrong I will grind my laptop into little pieces and eat it on youtube...

The Republican 2016 presidential nominee will not get to Hillary's left on

-choice
-marriage equality
-paid leave
-raising the minimum wage
-protecting and expanding the Affordable Care Act
-opposing turning Medicare into a voucher program
-opposing turning Medicaid and Food Stamps into block grant programs
-immigration reform
-opposing raising the minimum age to receive Social Security.
-negotiating with Iran

I say that with one hundred percent confidence because no such Republican exists, at least not one who is running for president.

[OilemFirchen]

58. Which questions from the press...

has she not answered?

Just curious.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

65. Directly from the original poster

1 "You lost Iowa in 2008. How do you win this time? What's your strategy?" Welker asked

The fate of the republic hangs on her answer.

[OilemFirchen]

68. Which, of ourse, she did answer.

I would've done the dismissive hand wave. But I'm not Clinton.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

72. She is smart to ignore the press and talk to the people./NT

[Codeine]

60. Circular firing squads make DU suck. nt

[JTFrog]

61. Did the admins sell this site to FOX or Jimbob recently?

Seriously....

I can't really tell the difference anymore on most days around here.

Pretty sad.

[randome]

66. Yes, it is.

[hr][font color="blue"][center]Birds are territorial creatures.
The lyrics to the songbird's melodious trill go something like this:
"Stay out of my territory or I'll PECK YOUR GODDAMNED EYES OUT!"[/center][/font][hr]

[steve2470]

77. +1 nt

[Iliyah]

80. Who needs fake news when you have hundreds of threads posting and re-posting

RW garbage, plus the constant bashing of HRC and Pres O is RW heaven.

[GusBob]

81. 31 Recs for something so shallow, petty, superficial and meaningless

the "D" in DU cannot be misinterpreted for "deep thinkers"

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

64. Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please. Mark Twain

[Fla Dem]

69. But the questions are so predictable...Benghazi, personal e-mails/server- Clinton Foundation. All

questions designed to generate headlines for said press without elevating the dialogue.

[Lil Missy]

70. Good for her. A smart move.

[upaloopa]

76. She will be our nominee and all your posts

will be forgotten as dust in the wind. We need to beat the Repubs and Hillary can do that.
Remember your best chance at get what you want comes from the 4 Supreme Court Justices Hillary will nominate in her two terms as president.
Don't risk giving those appointments to some Koch lackey like you are doing.

[Ichingcarpenter]

79. 3 Ad Hominem attack in one paragraph

[NYC_SKP]

95. "All your posts are belong to us!"

[OregonBlue]

78. It's a very long time until the election. Right now she is out talking with people one on one. The

press is trying to create a scandal where none exists. She will have a very long time to be asked questions and answer them in the next 18 months. We don't need to buy into the b.s. press narrative.

[Autumn]

91. Does ordering a burrito from the server at Chipolte count in your one on one scenario?

Because that was the extent of her discussion with that person.

[OregonBlue]

99. I assume you really don't like Hillary. She went to a fast food restaurant, they didn't recognize

her, she ordered a burrito or whatever and they paid and left. OMG, what a bitch.

[Autumn]

100. That's a terrible thing for you to say about her. I simply pointed out a perfect

one on one conversation she could have had since you said she's talking to all these people one on one.

[OregonBlue]

102. I didn't say she was talking to EVERYONE one on one. I mean Hillary is good but everyone in

the midwest is a bit much even for her.

[NCTraveler]

83. Good for her. She is a leader, not a follower.

Fuck the right wing msm. Never seen so many here fighting for the right wing msm to get theirs. While you might not understand it, she is working to control the message. Not give the right wing media what they want.

[Orsino]

89. A few months from now, no one will remember this stupid clock. n/t

[OilemFirchen]

97. What clock?

[Katashi_itto]

93. K&R