Another Bogus "Hillary Is Calculating" Non-Story Bites The Dust

[rodeodance]

yes, a silly non-story!



http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/horsesmouth/2007/04/hillary_used_hi.php

Newsflash: Another Bogus "Hillary Is Calculating" Non-Story Bites The Dust
April 30, 2007 -- 06:12 PM EST

As you may know by now, the non-story of the day surrounding Hillary Clinton is that she apparently uses the name "Hillary Clinton" on Presidential campaign material while sticking with "Hillary Rodham Clinton" on her Senate-related stuff.

This alleged "gotcha" story was first pushed by Hearst newspapers in a piece linked (natch) on Drudge, Newsmax, Free Republic and a few other far-flung outposts in the wingnuttia hinterlands. It's now the subject of an Associated Press story -- carried by ABC, CBS, Fox, CNN and others -- that actually says in its lede that Hillary has an "identity crisis." Both the Hearst and AP stories strongly imply that Hillary's people are calculatingly using "Rodham" to speak to the New York audience while sticking with "Hillary Clinton" to appeal to the national audience. Says Hearst:

Clinton identifies herself as "Hillary Clinton" in her campaign press releases and on her campaign website. The lone mention of her maiden name is in a campaign biography that says "Hillary's father, Hugh Rodham, was the son of a factory worker from Scranton."

She continues to use "Hillary Rodham Clinton" in her New York-focused press releases and in the Senate.

Okay -- how to explain this, then?

Someone has just sent me the text of six political ads and two press releases from Hillary's 2000 and 2006 Senate reelection campaigns in New York. In all of them, Hillary is defined as -- yup -- "Hillary Clinton." From the 2006 New York campaign there's this ad:

.........

And this one:

[Captain Hilts]

1. she's not my choice, but these stories are getting tiring. nt

[rfranklin]

2. If a politician is not calculating, how good can they be?

Is the shit for brains idiot in the White House a better choice? This is to scare people who are too fucking dumb to know they've been taken for a ride by the Bush junta.

[hlthe2b]

3. Who the hell cares?

That's what I'd like to know...:shrug: What an absolutely meaningless story.

[shenmue]

4. My middle initial is on my driver's license

But I never write it when I sign my name.

So there.