Well the press let stuff like this pass when yours truly Bush ran for President. This is dealing with conduct and character. I am glad the reporters are looking at everything a candidate says. We went through this years ago. It is about time the press dose its job. This shows she is telling a big whopper!! She said, this is not their practice. She got caught in another lie. Principle is the key here. If she lie about small stuff, what will she lie about in the white house. She needs to through Bills play book in the trash along with that stupid finger wagging. LOL

Oh, oh, OHHHHHHH! God yes Arianna! Give me more Clinton bashing! MORE! Oh god yes!

This is JUST WASTED energy. WHO gives a crap? This isn't FEMA where lives were on the line and property lost, this is a Q & A session.

What you morons fail to realize it that no matter the question, Hillary still has to take a stance on it. It isn't as IF she is falsifying intelligence to take us to war.

GET A life.

One thing is absolute...

Hillary Clinton has no comcept of the meaning of "Grace", in any sense of the term.

Make *NO* mistake about that part.

If you have ever been to one of these events, you know that people drone on and on with irrelevant, self-serving questions. God, I heard one guy's entire life story at one of Hillary's campaign events. Campaign stops could go on forever if people are allowed to ask anything they want. Stick to the issues or it turns into an endless meeting, just like the jobs from hell we all hate!

Interesting observation: In a recent event with Obama here in Iowa, he spoke for a long time, took a few questions. In contrast, John Edwards speaks briefly and answers lots of questions. Edwards also visits the most rural areas in Iowa, more than any other candidate.

Thrns out this isn't as unique as Clinton would want us to think

"After the event," she said, "I heard another man ... talking about the question he asked, and he said that the campaign had asked him to ask that question."

http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/11/13/clinton.planted/index.html

If a candidate is scared to be asked questions by the constituency, how are we to trust them in a crisis when facing Ahmadinejad or any other Hitler wannabe?

Scripting Q&A sessions isn't democratic, its disingenuous and indicative of an aristocratic mentality, where candidates believe they are above interacting with the unwashed masses.

Do you want a self-anointed erudite leading this country? Then continue to vote for the Bush/Clinton dynasty, or any of their like-minded ilk.

Well, OK...here's an ass of a rat. That's all I'm giving.

On yesterday's show Joe Scarborough as much as admitted to doing this when he was running for Congress and said it is a common campaign practice. The White House does it all the time in press conferences. It even used a gay prostitute, Jeff Gannon, in the past to ask puffball questions.
Funny how it is only when Hillary's campaign does it that everyone goes ballistic. Whatever you think of this practice, it is clearly a double standard.

I have served on several campaign committes for trustworthy candidates running for local, state wide, and national offices and none of them used this practise. It takes real courage to let voters ask the questions that they choose and in return, give the people real answers. Billary would rather try to hit soft ball questions down the throats of the people.
When she wakes up each morning, she looks in the mirror and asks "who can I fool today!

OK. Since the cat is now out of the bag, I have a confession.

I was sent a plane ticket by the Clinton campaign and told to fly to Iowa and ask Clinton the following questions one day before the primary.

Here are the talking points:

"Mrs. Clinton, if Osama Bin Laden came to Little Rock to challenge you to a duel at the OK Corral, as president would you:

A. Have your secret service team gun him down.

B. Invite him over for dinner and poison his drink, or

C. Grab your Single Action Revolver and take him up on his duel request, then gun him down on network TV in front of a cheering national audience with the song "Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darling" in the background!!!???"

I was going to fly out to Des Moines in a few weeks. But, I got a call last night from the Clinton campaign to call it off (for some reason...not sure why).

my question is, after gaining the Senate seat and working for the state of New York for some years now, what has she done for the children and families there? Anything?

So let me get this straight, she only planted TWO questins here entire career, and got caught both times?

Please.

Russert was the first journalist to EVER ask her a question, that wasn't straight from the talking points.

Does anyone know when and where the rally will be held the night Saint-a-tor Clinton brings the man on crutch out of the audience to make him walk again and do the jig as he throws his crutch away?

I'd really like to be there for that one.

FOfor those using the bush does it defense,think about it. lokk at what a great job he has done as president. do you want a candidate that follows his lead? as for the it's always been done argument the status quo sucks. and if the others are doing it. they are just as wrong and should recieve equal outrage dem or repub. and maybe if she had made her positions clearer maybe she would be cut a little slack .

Hillary backers are starting to sound like the Bushies. How can you defend this silly (yet bothering) behavior?

Apparently she REALLY means it this time. She promises not to get caught planting questions at another campaign event ever again.

It's dishonest when Bush loads up his "townhall" meetings with Bushies who've signed a loyalty waiver.
It's dishonest when they put a phony reporter in the White House press room to ask softball questions (Gannon).
It's dishonest for FEMA to hold phony press conferences.
It's dishonest for Mrs. Clinton to have planted questions.
The truth should always matter.

OK, let me sum up all the comments on this post.

Hillary's boot lickers: "It's Ok everyone does it"

Sane people: "I dont want another dishonest president"

It should not be 'OK' to do this -- just because the OTHER SIDE or OTHER GUY/GAL does it.

It's no different then having the questions for a test BEFORE the test is taken. It's plain WRONG. I don't care WHO does it.

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I'd make a contribution to any democratic candidate who 'planted' questions which were actually meaningful and would provide voters with real valid information as to where the candidate stands about a number if issues. Would that be okay to do? If so, maybe we should all kick in and ask some really important and relevant questions. What do you think?

The Clintons love co-opting the GOP agenda and their tactics like planting questions. Honestly, this shit has probably happened long before modern times, but in times past, they were more clever about it....

Let me guess the spin by the Clinton campaign:
- Clinton did not personally know about any of the prearranged questions or authorize them. In fact these are only a few questions among the 100s - no, make that 1000s - no make that millions of questions Clinton answers every day. And this type of thing has never happened before and the campaign has taken steps to see it never happens again, and has dealt with the staffers responsible for this - and by "this" I mean GETTING CAUGHT!

The same people who are upset when Bush does these types of things are now ok with it. What hypocrites!