I am offering up this post as helpful tip for the [tag]Clinton campaign[/tag].

I admit I am apolitical at work, but I still watch the debates and read [tag]Newsweek[/tag]. And, I did watch the debate between [tag]Hillary Clinton[/tag] and [tag]Barack Obama[/tag] on Tuesday night.

For those of you who want to be a leader in your company, learn from Hillary. She was asked a question, before Obama, and started whining like a fifth grader who is always called on first in Geography class…”why do I always have to answer, first, Mr. Russert?” Not her proudest moment. Like someone said, I can’t imagine [tag]Margaret Thatcher[/tag] acting all put-out when she had to answer first.

Anyway….

I was really watching the debate because I wanted to see if Hillary could come up with some way of sticking a pin in the Barack Obama balloon. In debates past, both [tag]Lloyd Bentsen[/tag] and then [tag]Ronald Reagan[/tag] did just that against their challengers. For those of you who weren’t born yet, here is what they did.

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What Hillary needs to do is hire [tag]Jay Leno[/tag], [tag]Jon Stewart[/tag], [tag]Robin Williams[/tag], [tag]John Cleese[/tag] or Ellen (who would probably do it for free, winkwink) to come up with a zinger, a memorable line, that makes everyone laugh while cutting him. It can’t be that hard.

Here are ten lines I came up just for fun, gratis. If you hear any of these lines before March 4, please let me know.

[tag]10 Zingers for Hillary Clinton to use against Barack Obama[/tag]

1. I have handled big things like health care and even cute little Monicas…being President will be easy.

2. I know pain too. Chelsea was more than six pounds and I thought she’d never come out.

3. Oh Barack, we know, we know, life was tough. We get it, boo-the-frickin-hoo.

4. If I am tough, I’m a bitch. If I am nice, I am not tough enough. Fifty percent of you out there know what this is like.

5. I have been working with ‘the other side’ ever since “I have a headache tonight, dear” started working for me.

6. Is this one of those conspiracies again?

7. Screw “I feel YOUR pain, America.” The time for talking is over.

8. I’m like your mom. You hated her from time to time, but you still ate her cookies.

9. Bill was a good talker, too. But I still don’t trust him with hot women.

10. Look, I married a good talker. Barack might be fun to date, but don’t marry him, America.

The most famous one liner has to be Walter Mondale’s [tag]“Where’s the Beef?”[/tag] line he used against Gary Hart. Here is the original Wendy’s commercial of the same name. Hillary needs one badly.

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