Hillary Clinton crumbling after cruising

Daily News ^ | 12/14/2007 | Michael Goodwin

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Hillary Clinton crumbling after cruising

Friday, December 14th 2007


Hillary Clinton entered Thursday's Democratic debate in a tight battle for first place. She left in danger of finishing third in the Iowa caucus. Yikes.

It's not because she had a particularly bad debate. It's just that Barack Obama was far better and John Edwards was slightly better. If their performances are an omen for the caucus results on Jan. 3, Clinton could lose the nomination she seemed to have locked up two months ago.

Iowa's outsize importance had to be on Clinton's mind, along with mistakes in her campaign, and she came ready to battle. She was focused and leaned into her answers with confidence. She knew exactly what she wanted to say - perhaps to a fault.

Edwards stuck like glue to his message, that big corporations are bad, bad, bad. I find it tiresome, but it's a clear position that distinguishes him, and he sold it well.

Obama was just consistently better. Although he missed some chances to hammer his theme that real change can't come from Washington insiders, there was a human, personal quality to many of his answers.

The best was when, asked about a new year's resolution, he said he needed to keep reminding himself that "this is not about me."

He cited the stress on his family life, saying he took two hours off to get a Christmas tree with his daughters Wednesday, then ended with an unusual resolution for a politician - "not to be timid, not to be distracted by the fear of losing."

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The first pic looks like that 50’s sci-fi movie where they kept the head alive.

[Verginius Rufus]

What time on Jan. 3 is the Orange Bowl? The caucuses may be disproportionately attended by people who don’t care about college football.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Lordy...I wouldn’t have known this was Chelsea if you had not mentioned it.

[BenLurkin]

If PIAPS can get beat by a lightweight like Hussein Baramba then she wasn’t much to start with.

[Kenny Bunk]

1) She can't get out of the shadows of her husband.
If it had not been for her husband, not one of us would have ever heard of Mrs. William J. Clinton. And what we have heard is that she was in charge of "Bimbo Eruptions." And in charge of illegally keeping the FBI Files that kept the many opponents of her husband from throwing his shabby Arkansas arse in the street. I pity the voter who can not figure out that her candidacy is a very thin disguise for Mr. Clinton's plan to run the government again.

2) They still haven't resolved many of the scandals involving her revealed in the 1990's.
The NYT times keeps touting her "35 years of experience." The awful reality is that she has had 35 years of experience in receiving illicit funds for her husband and acting as the door man at his whore house.

3) Many of her campaign tactics turn off voters. The "plant" questioners at recent debates didn't sit too well, to say the least.
Mrs. William J. Clinton has a hard core of voters: apparently, women who do not mind that she served as a rapist's enabler. She was counting on getting 55% of the female vote and 99% of the African-American vote, plus a healthy plurality amongst the Democrats' other usual suspects. If Obama tanks, and the women perform as she expects, she still, frightenly , has a real shot. Don't relax, although it's a good sign that Hollywood and Don Imus are off her case.

4) Her legendary bad temper is getting whispered up again.
The temper worked only when she had a husband who happened to be the President. No reason to fear her now, except of course for the FBI files, IRS retaliation, etc.

[Uncledave]

Either one is eminently beatable for different reasons.

Personally, I’d rather compete with Osama, er I mean Obama. A black, muslim-educated lightweight with no experience, less of a war machine, less ability or desire (I presume) to crank out the vote fraud machine.

It’ll be a landslide.

[BlueStateBlues]

Take a look at the thread I just posted about how FR may have caused the latest Hillary-Obama War On Drugs fiasco.

Fun in the wintertime.

[Phantom Lord]

5) She never knows anything. Anytime her campaign or a campaign employee does something, she didn’t know about it.

[Phantom Lord]

If it does indeed go Ears’s way, I pray that the Clinton Inc. team exacts a incredibly vicious revenge

The Clinton's are not familiar with loss. Bill only lost twice and that was 30+ years ago and 40 years ago. Not sure what revenge they took out on anyone. But with a winning streak exceeding 30 years, and Hillary having never lost (though she has only ran twice and for a seat that she couldn't lose) I wonder what cannons they will aim upon Obama if he gets the nomination or what dirty tricks they will pull at the convention to try and prevent his nomination.

[2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten]

I’m sure the point has been made before but the “magic” that is the clintons is that they seemed invincible. It’s real Wizard of Oz stuff.

What makes her appealing to many is that she wins. As soon as this veneer is removed what’s left is the unlikeable, unscrupulous, aging, throwback who simultaneously evokes 60’s radicalism, 70’s Nixon impeachment and the clinton 90’s.

And understandably people are passing that over like picked over merchandise in an after Christmas sale at the dollar store.

“Melting” somes it up as well as anything.

[cubreporter]

so you would rather have hillleree?

[Citizen Tom Paine]

I never thought that I would see that headline in print in the US. Perhaps prayers are answered. Praise God, yet again!

[mel]

But then you have the Obama problem.
Clinton easier to take down in general election

[angcat]

Praise God, yet again!

YES THANK GOD!

[mel]

You nailed it. ha

[popdonnelly]

Nice to do my happy dance on a Friday morning.

[unixfox]

Let’s hope the headline on Drudge about the end of the Clintons is prophetic.

I don't bank on anything with the Xlintons. How many times did we hear "This could be the end for Bill" after this latest scandal?

[Uncle Miltie]

"If it does indeed go Ears’s way, I pray that the Clinton Inc. team exacts a incredibly vicious revenge."

You can count on Hillary being the Most-Vindictive-Person-On-Earth.

[Phantom Lord]

And as always, Clinton had no idea that this was going on.

[OESY]

If Red Rodham does well in a blue state, does that mean she'll turn purple?

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