Hillary Holds Hard Hitting Q&A With Bloggers: Well Not Really

[Exilednight]

This past Friday, Senator Clinton held a conference call (audio here), that was suppose to be a Q&A, with bloggers. What was suppose to be a chance to answer questions to those of the political blogosphere quickly turned into a Hillary love-fest to allow her followers to get their Clinton, politiperv-fetish on.

It opens with a Hillary surrogate going over her fund raising totals, but fails to include the tens of millions that her campaign is in debt for, or the fact that many vendors aren’t being paid. Some of these vendors are small companies that are mom & pop establishments who print up the fliers for her campaign, or non-for-profits who rent out hall space to hold rallies, both of whom that run on razor thin budgets and use one months income to pay off the previous months expenses …..but don’t worry, Hillary is ready to run our economy on day one, even if she can’t run her campaign finances for the past year.

The same surrogate then goes on to tell those invited in to the call - needless to say, I wasn’t, although I couldn’t imagine why - that they are doing great work at praising the Senator, and that their work on the “front lines” was not going unrecognized. Hold on; wasn’t this suppose to be a Q&A? I’m sure these bloggers are objective and do not have a blind loyalty to Hillary. After-all, they’re claiming to be citizen journalist.

This was followed by a quick going over of the rules to asking questions. Wait, there are rules to asking questions on a conference call that is purposely designed to allow the operator to control who is talking, thus preventing people from shouting over one another with their questions? Why do you need rules when the candidate has complete control?

Read the rest here: http://notesunderground.wordpress.com/2008/05/18/hillary-holds-hard-hitting-qa-with-bloggers-well-not-really/

[Frustratedlady]

1. I heard that and couldn't believe it, either.

My initial opinion was that Hillary needed a boost to her ego and I didnt' change that opinion throughout the recording. Actually, it was rather sad.

I, too, felt that the rule review at the end was senseless. After all, this wasn't a pre-school of children receiving their first lesson in herding.

As far as I could figure, the conference call was self-aggrandizement at its finest.

[papau]

2. I guess Obama fans do not hear or see what they do not want to see

[Exilednight]

3. Meaning? n/t