Hillary Clinton Has Her Work Cut Out for Her

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When it comes to Hillary Clinton, Americans seem to have one of two opinions: love her or hate her. I fall into an apparently rare category: general indifference. Prior to her campaign for President, I had no real emotional response to her at all. Once she started campaigning, and I saw her in person, I became more and more impressed, and was surprised by my reaction.

But there is a large swath of America who hates her with the passion of a thousand white-hot suns. Curiously, when questioned, people with this opinion tend to be very vague in their reasons. It's just a "feeling." "She wants power" is one quote I got from a Republican friend. Well, which candidate for President does not? Al Gore doesn't, I guess, but he's not running.

I can tell you why she's impressed me. She commands the room. She's articulate, smart, funny and polished. She knows what she's talking about, and appeals to both reason and emotion. When she modulates her voice, she's pleasant to listen to. But, boy, when she doesn't--as Stephanie Miller often says, she sounds like the aliens in Mars Attacks!

Unsurprisingly, she has a lot of people that are "out to get her," as you'll see in the following story.

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Vast army of 'Hillary haters' has claws out

DALLAS - Richard Collins, a wealthy Texas philanthropist, businessman and political aficionado, heaps praise on the woman he has set out to destroy, Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.).

"She looks like a winner," said Collins, sitting in his high-rise office with sweeping views of the city. "She's run a good campaign, very consistent, no mistakes.

"But make no mistake about it: Collins is just one in a vast army of professional "Hillary haters" who are banking on Clinton becoming the Democratic nominee. Like the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth in the 2004 election who denigrated John Kerry's military service in Vietnam, Collins and others are searching for just the thing that will crystallize the way voters think and feel about her.

And not in a good way. . .

Read more at: ChicagoTribune.com

This comment from the article (regarding documents that Clinton should have allegedly provided, but didn't) shows what political blindness can do to you:

"She's hiding something. This is classic Clinton sleaze," said Collins, who describes himself as a mainstream Republican and says he has Democratic friends who don't like her either. "This sort of thing is the defining character issue that will cause her to lose."

President Bush and his administration has been one of the most secretive administrations in history. They routinely deny requests--even under subpoena--for documents. And if you read any of the top Conservative blogs, you'll see that they back Bush implicitly on that issue. Just FYI.