I vouch for her
I thouroughly examined her
and she's not only merely dead
but truly and sincerely dead
Posted on 02/27/2008 5:37:25 AM PST by vietvet67
You don't have to love Hillary Clinton to feel her pain. By the end of Tuesday night's debate, she knew she had failed to change the dynamics of a race slipping away from her. The deflated look on her face telegraphed acceptance, even resignation.
But any sympathy is tempered by the fact she has only herself to blame. Her uneven performance, punctuated by one of the strangest complaints I have ever seen in a presidential debate, likely dashed her last hopes of victory. The self-pity behind the complaint was shocking and unappealing.
She started by being feisty - to a fault. The first 14 minutes were devoted to health care, her signature issue. Yet she was on the defensive and kept interrupting the moderators because Barack Obama skillfully focused on the requirement in her plan that every American purchase health care, whether they want it or not. It is a fair attack because Clinton has never explained how she would enforce that requirement or say what the penalties would be; she didn't last night, either.
Clearly frustrated by that rocky start, she began her answer to the second question, on NAFTA, with the complaint. "Well, can I just point out that in the last several debates, I seem to get the first question all the time? And I don't mind," she said, clearly minding.
Then she made the mistake worse with a foolish rehearsed line: "And if anybody saw 'Saturday Night Live,' you know, maybe we should ask Barack if he's comfortable and needs another pillow."
Wow. Woe is her. What a blunder. This is political malpractice of the first order.
This bomb was far worse than her "change you can Xerox" line of last week. This was a petulant whine. There was rustling in the audience, but mostly there was an awkward silence of the kind you notice when someone has said something weird or inappropriate. Creating discomfort in voters over your pain is not a traditional formula for victory.
Obviously, Clinton believes the press is biased in favor of Obama. It's a charge her team has made frequently. Yet her raising it with a victim's tone came off as a plea for sympathy - not an endearing quality in someone who wants to be President. A President is supposed to feel sympathy for the people, not the other way around.
There was one other noteworthy exchange. Asked about the endorsement he got from Louis Farrakhan, the Nation of Islam leader who makes frequent anti-Semitic statements, Obama said he had renounced those remarks. He went on to say he was a staunch friend of Israel and cited its "special relationship" with America. He concluded with the touching note that many American Jews were instrumental in the civil rights movement, and that, as President, he hoped to restore what he called a "frayed" bond.
No complaints there. Or here.
mgoodwin@nydailynews.com
Yes, I do. Are you saying that he along with some of the others were deep sixed by the Clintons?
“Can’t you just hear her handlers, backstage, after the debate... “You scored big, Hillary. You really have him on the ropes! You were wonderful out there!!!”
As they chisel the makeup off her face.
But the Clintons have a long history of having enemies have 'issues' where they have accidents.
It's nothing compared to the pain she has given me for many years, but she is not allowed to feel it. Touch me there and I'll slap ya ...
I read somewhere that Obama will have Edwards as his Attorney General....
Oh, my!
A HomeBoy and a PrettyBoy. :^D
Hate to tell ya, but Harvard Law School grads go about as far in the nincompoop direction as Harvard Business School MBAs do. And McCain graduated near the bottom of his class at the Naval Academy, which is a good school but not Harvard. So it might not be the blowout you think.
Good post, Phil.
You have to wonder about anyone who would hitch their wagon to her falling star.
Obama cannot take his “hope” and “change” into a two party debate and expect to not look like a fool. If someone asks him a specific question on foreign policy or what his solution to a particular economic problem is, “We need change” is not an intelligent answer..............
When I saw her whine about being asked the first question in all the debates, I immediately thought that anybody leaning towards voting for her had just changed their minds.
It was the defining moment of the debate for Clinton!
Anyone else notice how she dropped the name of every city in Ohio? Twice, I think? For a moment, I thought Hussein was debating a Thomas Bros. or Mapquest employee.
Next time I will use a water pistol.
Can you still get them without a FFL?
She can’t fall far ENOUGH after all she’s done to undermine and corrupt the executive branch. How she had that arrogant “don’t look at me” and treated her staff and secret service personnel like low-life scum when she is the trailer trash queen just makes me puke. No, I want her to flame out and am sure there are many who are privately clapping at these turn of events that were forced to work under her regime.
Paperwork and background checks required. Having a CCW saves time though. Water pister it is.
Good “about” Remembrances from two brave but fallen warriors.
I don't have a connected t.v., so I wasn't able to watch the debates; but I likely read maybe a hunderd or so responses on the live thread, just to get a feel for what was going on. It seemed the consensus was, in those few posts I read, that shillery wasn't doing very well....at all.
Aw.......shucks!
(crossing fingers behind back)
(of course....it IS frightening to think about Obamasama winning.....)
LOL!!!!
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