Hillary attacks words : "Words are cheap"

[peoli]

Senator Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., hit hard at her top rival at a GM plant in Lordstown, OH, saying, "Speeches don't put food on the table. Speeches don't fill up your tank, or fill your prescription, or do anything about that stack of bills that keeps you up at night."

Clinton continued, "Some people may think words are change. You and I know better. Words are cheap. You can't just talk about the special interests. You have to take them on."

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/02/clinton-sharpen.html

Attention:

Writers!
Therapists!
Actors!
Educators!
Sign Linguists!
Historians!

WORDS ARE CHEAP!

[TexasObserver]

1. Words are cheap, but selling out is not. Look at her lobbyists contributors.

She's NO HAT and ALL PRATTLE.

[Labors of Hercules]

17. "Speeches don't put food on the table. Speeches don't fill up your tank, or fill your prescr..."

um. Forgive me if I'm wrong but, wasn't this sentence part of her SPEECH????

So, according to her SPEECH, SPEECHES don't mean shit, so why should I listen to her speech then if speeches are meaningless?... unless of course I disagree with her about speeches, in which case why the hell would she be making a speech that I either have to disagree with or agree with her that it is meaningless and a waste of her time and energy that should be devoted to putting food on my table, filling my tank and prescr???... OH FUCK IT! I GIVE UP!!!

I'm so confused...

[Leopolds Ghost]

30. Don't imagine a pink elephant.

[Alter Ego]

58. OH MY GOD I JUST DID.

WEIRD.

[SharonAnn]

52. Barak = Where the rubber meets the sky, Hillary = where the rubber meets the road

Where the rubber meets the road is where things actually happen, where things actually get done.

[burythehatchet]

63. Hillary=where the rubber meets the road and America becomes road kill. nt

[Mz Pip]

2. And debaters!

[JimGinPA]

3. The Problem Is She Does Take Them On...

As allies & donors.

:rofl:

[NeedleCast]

4. Looks Like the "Attack!" switch has been flipped

We'll see how that works.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

5. "Obama is a hopemongerer. He's only winning in red states."

"Now lets hope we win in Texas, but hope is all we have left."

[Leopolds Ghost]

31. "I would cut down every tree in the forest to get at the devil." Where then, my lord will you hide?

"HOPE is another word that will not avail us..."

[MannyGoldstein]

6. Didn't She Say That "Lobbyists Represent Real People"

So which are the special interests whose asses are going to get kicked - the special interests who *don't* have lobbyists?

WTF?

[LSparkle]

7. Here comes the slime ...

She's just jealous because SHE CAN'T GIVE A GOOD SPEECH -- and NEITHER CAN BILL (despite what HE may think).

[BootinUp]

8. She is right. nt

[BeyondGeography]

26. But, then again, words are cheap

[Leopolds Ghost]

32. Cost $100 per word if you have a good speechwriter. n/t

[BeyondGeography]

56. So words put food on the table after all

Who knew?

[Zynx]

9. The presidency is not a novel, a movie, or a play.

I agree with her on this point.

[Leopolds Ghost]

33. No, but the public face of the permanent campaign presidency is Kabuki Theater

Which has no bearing on what these guys will say to lawmakers behind the scenes when elected... sadly :(

[psychopomp]

67. Right there!

What Leopolds Ghost said. :bounce:

[Carolina]

10. which means that speech she gave

explaining her IWR vote was worth a plugged nickel.

She's such a POS

[Carolina]

11. and where was she

when it comes to taking Bush on over the past 7 years on Iraq, on Gitmo, on Abu Ghraib, on habeuas corpus...

Oh she's been speechifying, too, but we know here words mean squat!

[Yael]

23. Forget all that -- she had the chance to take him on on Tuesday and she punted.

FISA

[Faygo Kid]

12. "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed"

"Some people may think words are change. You and I know better. Words are cheap." - Hillary

Oh, really?

"...In spite of the difficulties of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream.

I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal...

...I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight...

...From every mountainside, let freedom ring.

When we let freedom ring,...we will be able to speed up that day when all God's children...will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we're free at last!"

You're gonna lose big relying on that argument, Hillary.

[Leopolds Ghost]

35. Apparently, Lincoln didn't do shit either.

His Emancipation Proclamation was just words on paper. It took an act of Congress to get things done.

Come to think of it, the President has NO Constitutionally recognized power to influence how the laws are written or how they are enforced except... words. :crazy:

[I Vote In Pittsburgh]

43. Good point. Martin Luther King Jr. is a great example of speech having a huge impact n\t

[Faygo Kid]

54. There are so many others. Lincoln. FDR. JFK. Bryan. Washington. Truth. Darrow. RFK. Malcolm X.

To say that words don't matter is to deflate everything I want this nation to stand for. I despise this statement from Hillary. She will lose because of this statement. Words DO matter. No matter how much hate is spewed here and elsewhere, this older Boomer knows in his heart that words matter.

[smalll]

13. It's a great line.

Some people may think words are change.
You and I know better: words are cheap.
You can't just talk about the special interests,
You have to take them on.

Hits a lot of key points. And for heaven's sake, trying to dredge up various professionals who might be offended by the "words are cheap" statement: stretching!

(And what exactly are "Sign Linguists" ???? Deaf people? I think the word you just missed might have been "translators.")

[Hutzpa]

59. I know, you DO have to take on Special Interest

by they taking you on their paylist. Why not?

:silly: :crazy:

[flordehinojos]

14. yes they are ... and it is the action and the works that accompany them that gives them their value

and worth ... i do believe hillary knows what she is talking about, and i also believe that it is very easy to promise the moon, or sell any moonshine about being a leader, a compassionate conservative, or whatever and not deliver. the nation is filled with con artists and con artistry ... hillary, on the other hand, delivers.

[Hutzpa]

60. Delivers What?

Speech! remember she said "talk is cheap"


:shrug:

[Shine]

15. It's a good angle for her to take w/ respect to Obama's oratory skill

I'm not in one camp or the other, I'm just agreeing that she makes a valid point.

[grantcart]

16. as predicted we are now officially in stage V

Stage I When you do not have the best position on the war - prevaricate

Stage II When you do not have the clear voice of leadership - triangulate

Stage III When you do not have the momentum - trivialize the election just lost

Stage IV When you do not have anywhere to go - instigate a smear on the supporters as unthinking cultists

Stage V When the supporters embrace the slur and turn it around - start backing up the dump truck and release a load
against the leader who has sparked a fire across the country.

Stage VI When this desperate tactic is reviled - step aside as the great locomotive of history barrels by you and you turn to watch history pass you by.

[TexasObserver]

21. Team Hillary is done, but they'll try everything to pull it closer.

I think it shows what a classless act she is.

[Yael]

24. How much more reviled does it need to get before we hit stage VI?

[grantcart]

28. well the cult thing lasted 2 weeks so stage V should last until March 5

[Tatiana]

49. We've still got a ways to go... n/t

[workinclasszero]

57. Stage VI ...

Almost there...so close...I can see it coming!!

GOBAMA!!!

[EffieBlack]

18. "Just Words . . ."

Just words.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. Just words. We have nothing to fear but fear itself.

Just words.

Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country.

Just words.

I have a dream.

Just words.

Let me say it before you do: I am no Dr. King, no President Kennedy, no FDR, no Thomas Jefferson. But I do know that the right words, spoken from the heart with conviction, with a vision of a better place and a faith in the unseen, are a call to action.

Deval Patrick
October 15, 2006

[Yael]

19. She's going to take on the special interests? The ones who are funding this sham of a campaign?

Talk about words being cheap.

:rofl:

[TwilightGardener]

20. Rove at work--attack his strength. That's all she's got left.

[anamandujano]

27. Point out his weakness, he's all talk.

[TwilightGardener]

29. 800 bills sponsored in the Illinois Senate--

here's the "walk" to go with his talk:

http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2007/07/29/us/politics/20070730_OBAMA_GRAPHIC.html

[anamandujano]

39. Are you including the one where he compromised with the nuclear power plant

folks, thus burning his constituents whose cause he took up?

Is that the one on environment about buying energy from "renewable resources?"

[TwilightGardener]

48. LOL! Can't refute my point in the face of facts, so go off on a tangent.

[Jed Dilligan]

22. Last I checked, every piece of legislation since the dawn of civilization

was composed entirely of words.

[Leopolds Ghost]

37. To be fair, that is why I'm a (civil) libertarian

Like Thomas Jefferson I understand that while this may be a nation of laws
not of men, but those laws are ultimately nothing but a contract between
free men (or women), written on paper for ease of recollection (which
is indeed how the Anglo-American justice system works -- on the basis of
precedent, not absolute interpretation, and thus independent of the
arm of government that dictates and enforces the laws.)

Nation states are not reality, they are a mere social fact -- a
multi-media shared hallucination, like money or art. They have
no meaning to the birds in the field...

...or to any creature so technologically advanced as to not rely or
depend on US law "on paper" for support and protection (you don't
need to look to UFOs for that... just go to Switzerland or the
Cayman Islands and ask yourself whether US law applies to the
trans-national super-rich, with their private jets, sovereign
wealth accounts and international lawyers).

[Jed Dilligan]

38. It would be nice, wouldn't it?

Having a social contract, I mean.

[Leopolds Ghost]

44. In the old days people actually argued about whether the social contract was

merely the evolution of a Conan-style arrangement between the haves and
the have-nots. "You give me bread, and my men won't kill you."

Some have argued that the haves have ALWAYS depended on the consent of the have-nots for the source of their power... "we give you bread, you protect our village from the OTHER warlord." That could well be.

We have now entered a period in the course of human technological evolution
where the haves no longer need the have-nots, except to keep them fed, entertained,
and in check.

Nobody speaks of a social contract between the richest and the poorest, or of social justice.

Instead, we're all expected to fight each other over WORDS and IDEAS, postmodern-style.

Words and ideas about a lifestyle we have increasingly less control over.

[Jed Dilligan]

46. I'm trending hard Lacanian on this primary process

Read DU and you'll find it's a fight for the phallus, and little else.

[Leopolds Ghost]

47. Fight For The Phallus

Great name for a new Indiana Jones movie

(in which Harrison Ford runs for president to prevent a statue of Hermes
from falling into the wrong, um, hands.)

[Stuckinthebush]

70. Not true at all...

In 1967, Representative Robert Johansonen (D - Maryland) submitted HR 132 entirely in the form of creative dance.

It was tabled.

[anamandujano]

25. What a scathing attack !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 111 !!!!!!!!!!!!! 1 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Is this how the campaign is going to answer the Repukes?

:popcorn: The GE is going to be fun after all.

[slick8790]

34. I don't know where she gets her words.

But my word prices have been climbing these past few years. Why are no candidates from either party putting forth word-plans? Words a universal human right, and we are the only nation in the world where we can't give adequate words to everyone! And you know it's Bush's fault. He's doing so well he can even make up his own words!

[high density]

36. I wish she'd give us fewer words.

This scorched earth shit she's doing is not amusing.

[anamandujano]

40. Obama and his supporters don't want her to talk at all. They want to sling mud

and get upset when she defends.

You guys are what John Edwards said.

[high density]

42. Defends? She's the one on the attack these days

Sorry if you can't see that.

[I Vote In Pittsburgh]

41. The venom spitter admits her speeches are not as effective as Obamas n\t

[zulchzulu]

45. Hillary has proven her words are cheap many times...look at her war votes

She has actually said she voted for bills thinking they wouldn't pass.

:shrug:

[meow mix]

50. those dam Words! a pox on Speeches!!

[Blarch]

51. Well...

Obamas words seem to be more dangerous tha bullets. She better not let the dog out, Bill attacking just doesn't go over well.

[Hutzpa]

66. Looks like the dogs been leashed n/t

[IrishBloodEngHeart]

53. Why has she spent the last year giving speeches then?

how ridiculous. She hasn't done anything the past year but give speeches, but talk is cheap. That is comical.

[saltpoint]

55. Actually I think Sen. Clinton could do with a couple of new speech writers.

The ones she has now aren't very good, IMO.

[burythehatchet]

65. Hey man, when did you join the cult?

:) That's good. Makes me feel better about Barack.

[saltpoint]

68. "the cult" !!! LOL.

I'm not a Hillary hater. I can make a strong case for her candidacy, and the more vitriolic her detractors, the better my defense.

But Obama is getting it done. Axelrod appears to have better instincts than Bill Clinton's old political chums and operatives, at least in the current nomination contests.

I think his coattails are longer than hers and I think John McCain should probably concede now. It will save him a lot of trouble and embarrassment later!

Go, Mets.

[burythehatchet]

72. His organization skills are impressive indeed...and the Mets

full squad reports tomorrow!!

[BigDDem]

61. "Words are cheap" = "Attack!"

Time for Team BO to run and hide under the bed, dont forget to whine and pout before you go.

God forbid he get the nomination, you have no idea what "attack" is.

[burythehatchet]

64. Hopefully you all will share your abundant wisdom and help when

we are cowering under the bed, having naively thought that we knew what to do.

:scared: Be there for me. :hug:

[BigDDem]

73. I'm happy to share my abundant wisdom and do so often

and that's not a fairy tale. (Don't cry, it's ok!)

[GumboYaYa]

62. I was thinking the same thing...to me words have always been powerful.

Whatever happened to the pen being mightier than the sword. Words and the ability to share them with others were the driving force of the Age of Enlightenment. Do Tom Paines' words mean nothing in the history of our Nation?

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

Words, words, words...all so meaningless.

[Carolina]

69. Excellent!

Hillary can't win on her words or record; she's such a tool.

[Thepricebreaker]

71. Wow if this is the best she has - its over.. n/t

[HughBeaumont]

74. So is labor, apparently.

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/GC01Df03.html
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/538674.cms
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/593175.cms

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UhLBSLLIhUs
Hillary pushes for more h1-b visas and outsourcing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cLNOSGM2jK4
Hillary Clinton's hypocrisy (part 1)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgdrh2Bc95M
Hillary Clinton's hypocrisy (part 2)

Seriously: talking to Lordstown workers about how she'll fix their plight when all the while her husband signing 41's NAFTA is partially responsible for it (the other part being GM's greedy and short-sighted execs)?

SHAME.