Webloggin » Clinton Maintains that Calling on Plant in Audience was Chance

Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton is trying to deflect responsibility for having any part in planting audience members at campaign stops by still maintaining that “she knew nothing about the planted questions“.

Imagine that, Hillary Clinton just happened to call on the very same person that was planted in the audience with a question by mere chance. She had no idea who the plant was. That’s some luck. Just like the time she made her first commodities trade in 1978 using money she didn’t have in her account.

Is it just me or are you starting to get the feeling that Hillary Clinton is the luckiest darn girl on the planet?

In fact Hillary Clinton has been having this very same kind of luck her whole life. The Washington Post reminds us of how lucky Hillary Clinton was when she turned $6,300 into over $100,000 after only 10 months in the market, nearly 16 times her initial investment!

Hillary Rodham Clinton was allowed to order 10 cattle futures contracts, normally a $12,000 investment, in her first commodity trade in 1978 although she had only $1,000 in her account at the time, according to trade records the White House released yesterday.

The computerized records of her trades, which the White House obtained from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, show for the first time how she was able to turn her initial investment into $6,300 overnight. In about 10 months of trading, she made nearly $100,000, relying heavily on advice from her friend James B. Blair, an experienced futures trader.

The new records also raise the possibility that some of her profits — as much as $40,000 – came from larger trades ordered by someone else and then shifted to her account, Leo Melamed, a former chairman of the Merc who reviewed the records for the White House, said in an interview. Washington Post, May 27, 1994

That makes it pretty clear. Hillary Clinton is just “lucky”. Just like the Dunkin Donuts commercial where everyone goes to get “coffee”. Only now Clinton is calling this sort of luck “passion”.

DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) — Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton says she’s “driven by my passions” to get things done and suggests her image as a calculating politician comes from her pragmatic focus on results.

“It’s a passion that I carry with me every single day,” Clinton said Monday in an interview with The Associated Press. “I also know that I live in the real world and I have to figure out how we’re going to get these changes done.”

The price she pays for pragmatism is to sometimes be viewed as calculating, the New York senator said.

“I see it as harnessing my passion to actually get results and make a difference in people’s lives,” she said. “I care deeply, but I also know I’ve got to build coalitions, I’ve got to bring people together. That’s what I’ve been doing and that’s what I will do.”

In the interview, she dismissed suggestions that revelations her campaign had planted questions during campaign stops in Iowa reinforced any image for calculation.

“I think in campaigns things happen and you just go on, and that’s certainly what I’ve done for 35 years and it’s what I’ve done for eight years in the White House and now seven years in the Senate,” said Clinton. She has indicated she knew nothing about the planted questions, but some of her rivals have cited the issue to argue she is less than genuine.

“People can look at my record,” said Clinton. “My whole life, going back 35 years has been driven by my passions for improving the lives of children and families, making our country fairer and more equal and creating opportunity for people.” - AP

There seems to be a whole heck of a lot of passion going around the Hillary Clinton camp these days. She was passionate and pragmatic when she pal’d up with federal fugitive Norman Hsu as a fundraiser. Just like that lucky encounter with the Hasidic men that Bill Clinton pardoned. They managed to pull in many votes for Hillary’s New York Senate run. Hillary Clinton is also got lucky in the Peter Paul case by getting a judge to keep the case focused on her husband. And who can forget the lucky chance encounter with Sikh Indian-American businessman Sant Singh Chatwal? He’s the lucky fundraiser that fleeced the American taxpayers by over $11 million dollars when Chatwal abruptly settled a case with the U.S. government after running a $500,000 fundraiser for Hillary Clinton in 2000.

Thankfully we learn from Mrs. Clinton that she has spreading all this luck on the children. But as she said, we just go on. Aren’t we lucky too?

I wonder how long that luck will hold up. The American left has been calling George Bush a liar for the last 8 years and the mainstream media has been backing them up with vigor. Where will they be on Hillary? Will her luck hold up?