Clinton Compares Obama to a Blank Screen

[sabra]

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

ABC News' Eloise Harper Reports: In an interview with ABC's Cynthia McFadden, Sen. Hillary Clinton, when asked about the Barack Obama phenomenon, used a quote from Obama to describe her opponent. "I think the best description actually is in Barack's own book" Clinton said, "where he said that he is a blank screen and people of widely different views project what they want to hear." Clinton continued saying "he just hasn’t been around long enough." Clinton continued saying "But with the blank screen it gives you a chance to just really infuse it with whatever you hope for, whatever you want without knowing."

You can watch the entire interview on ABC's "Nightline" airing tonight at 11:35 pm ET.

Clinton was asked her reaction to the many women around this country who say they feel sorry for her. "I think a lot of woman project their own feelings in their lives on to me." Clinton stressed that it is a hard what she is doing but she gets up every day and thinks about what she is going to do – not dwelling on past mistakes, or what will happen if she loses Texas or Ohio.

When asked if Clinton was surprised by the outcome of how the race has shaped up, Clinton said she wasn’t but "he might be, because I think that he believed that he could, once he won Iowa, wrap it up. Then I won New Hampshire" Clinton said. When pressed on how she ever hated being treated as the front runner – Clinton complained that nothing has changed. "I’m still being treated like that – in terms of people coming after me."

[thepurpose]

1. Well. That really doesn't work either. What else ya got?

[babylonsister]

2. Well this sure hasn't changed my opinion of her. nt

[high density]

3. Sorry, but the "be afraid of the new guy" meme isn't working on me

I like the fact that Obama isn't as entrenched in DC as Hillary Clinton is. That's one of the reasons I liked Clark so much in 2004.

Try something else.

[LisaM]

4. IOW, Clinton quotes Obama calling HIMSELF a blank screen.

I think you should change the title of this thread.

[cali]

5. She claims that he said it in his book

I don't recall it, and I flat out don't believe her. She's desperate and she's resorting to one lie after another- like the one about how she knew a year ago it would come down to a battle in Texas

[DemGa]

6. That quote is easy to find

“I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views,” Mr. Obama wrote in “The Audacity of Hope, his I’m-running-for-president book. “As such, I am bound to disappoint some, if not all, of them.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/us/politics/24obama.html

[DemGa]

9. “As such, I am bound to disappoint some, if not all, of them.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/us/politics/24obama.h...

[LisaM]

12. Well, now you have some links to prove it

so I don't think you can say she's resorting to a lie.

[Skip Intro]

7. Actually, Obama compared himself to a blank screen, as Hillary noted.

or are we just supposed to pretend we didn't see that?

[Faygo Kid]

8. ". . . he just hasn’t been around long enough." Sad argument.

What a shame to run a campaign based on that line.

It will all be over soon, and I hope she goes on to do great work in the Senate.

[MadBadger]

10. 2 years have changed, he's no longer a blank screen

[DemGa]

13. You want a President who you just admitted was a "blank screen"

two years ago? Oh my.

[USA_1]

11. Screens? ''Touch-screen machines headed for junk heap''

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_news/story/437705.html


``If you wanted to buy your very own touch-screen voting machine, you are out of luck.

Starting next week, thousands of the controversial machines across Florida will be picked up, hauled to a warehouse and broken up for parts if they can't be sold back to a voting equipment manufacturer.

Florida's top election official announced Thursday that the state has reached an agreement with a Tampa electronics recycler to pick up nearly 30,000 ATM-style voting machines that have been used in 18 counties...``


Does this mean everybody's vote will be counted??

[ShaneGR]

14. Thread title is misleading, Obama actually called himself that...

Just pointing that out.

[rug]

15. Barack Rorschach

[DemGa]

17. LOL!!

[ElsewheresDaughter]

20. ~ * ~......................

:spray: :rofl: :spray:

[jillan]

16. Wait - it was Obama that called himself a blank screen - Hillary just picked up on it.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

18. Obama's record is exactly like that too.......

[Forkboy]

19. His book is total fair game.

And that's the trouble with writing books about yourself. :)

[smalll]

21. WOW. It's a good line to call him a blank screen. It's just great that he said that about himself!

Hillary needs to use these words in a campaign commercial - here's the quote:

"I serve as a blank screen on which people of vastly different political stripes project their own views ... I am bound to disappoint some, if not all of them."

A lot of visuals of Obama and his big rallies, fast jumps and quick cuts, making it a little queasy, ask the what's-it-all-about question. Then maybe slow down, somber up the mood, and read out that quote with shots of Obama speaking and a member or two of the Obama Youth (Ladies' Auxiliary) in tears. Fade into a screen of TV "snow."

[rug]

22. A new logo.

[DemGa]

23. OMG that's funny!