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Dick Morris: Hillary's 'Talking Dog' Wearing Off
NewsMax columnist and political strategist Dick Morris, in a review of Monday's Democratic Party presidential debate, says Hillary Clinton’s "talking dog syndrome” is wearing thin on the electorate, which may hamper her efforts in future contests.
Morris, a former political adviser to President Bill Clinton, thinks Hillary — the only woman among the candidates — has scored points with viewers in earlier debates because they were unfamiliar with seeing her in such a setting. Now, several debates later, this no longer works to the New York senator’s advantage.
"The effect of seeing a woman holding her own, addressing issues, being articulate, what Hillary calls in her memoir 'the talking dog syndrome,' which isn't that the dog talks well, it's that the dog talks at all, that is now wearing off,” Morris said.
Morris, appearing on Fox News Channel’s "Hannity & Colmes” immediately following Monday’s CNN/YouTube debate, thinks Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois got the best of the Democratic field during the debate, which featured questions submitted in video form via YouTube.
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"I think Obama really got his act together,” Morris said. "[He] is finally learning how to use a debate to project issues.”
Morris believes Obama scored particularly well against Hillary when he challenged her directly on issues such as special interests and healthcare.
"When he turned to her [Hillary] and said, 'I'm the only candidate not taking special interest money,' or when he was aggressive with her in confronting her on the special interests in the healthcare industry, when you have Michael Moore's movie on that, I thought that that was excellent. I think he's finally learning to get his act together.”
As for another top-tier Democrat in the race, former Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina, Morris was not so kind. "I think Edwards — people are just seeing the snake oil salesman," Morris said.
Morris has co-authored "Outrage: How Illegal Immigration, the United Nations, Congressional Ripoffs, Student Loan Overcharges, Tobacco Companies, Trade Protection, and Drug Companies Are Ripping Us Off . . . and What to Do About It," with his wife Eileen McGann. The book, which remains on the New York Times best seller list, hits a raw nerve with "both Democrats and Republicans [who] are disgusted with Congress and with their own party." Some of that voter outrage may be vented during the primary season, which may surprise some of the leading candidates for 2008.
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