Monday, October 23, 2006

Starting the hate early

Hillary Clinton's Republican challenger is getting personal and it's not pretty: He says the senator used to be ugly - and speculates she got "millions of dollars" in plastic surgery.

"You ever see a picture of her back then? Whew," said John Spencer of Clinton's younger days.

"I don't know why Bill married her," he said of the Clintons, who celebrated their 31st anniversary this month.

Noting Hillary Clinton looks much different now, he chalked it up to "millions of dollars" of "work" - plastic surgery.

"She looks good now," he said.

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Howard Wolfson, an aide to Clinton, who turns 59 Thursday, said the senator has never had plastic surgery. But he declined otherwise to respond to Spencer's comments.


What's funny about this to me, and apparently to Henry at Crooked Timber,
is the idea of Hillary being an icon for Democratic Presidential Hope. Hillary Clinton is a popular senator. Her connection to Bill has helped her as much as her own political persona has, BUT she is not the end all be all answer to getting a Democratic President. Among liberals and Dems, she's not number one, and yet the conservatives are already beginning the mud throwing contest because apparently they feel that Hillary is the Democrats primary choice.


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