{"id":4217,"date":"2007-12-28T11:36:00","date_gmt":"2007-12-28T11:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/12\/clinton-not-taking-questions.html"},"modified":"2007-12-28T11:36:00","modified_gmt":"2007-12-28T11:36:00","slug":"clinton-not-taking-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2007\/12\/clinton-not-taking-questions.html","title":{"rendered":"Clinton not taking questions"},"content":{"rendered":"

Her imperial majesty isn’t accepting questions<\/a> from reporters or the peasants who come to hear her speak:<\/p>\n

As she races through Iowa in the days before next week’s caucuses, Hillary Clinton is taking few chances. She tells crowds that it’s their turn to “pick a president,’\u2019 but over the last two days she has not invited them to ask her any questions.
\nBefore the brief Christmas break, the New York senator had been setting aside time after campaign speeches to hear from the audience. Now when she’s done speaking, her theme songs blare from loudspeakers, preventing any kind of public Q&A.
\nShe was no more inviting when a television reporter approached her after a rally on Thursday and asked if she was “moved’\u2019 by Benazir Bhutto’s assassination. Clinton turned away without answering.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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