It's all over but the crying for Hillary

Edmonton Sun ^ | Sun, March 2, 2008 | LISA VAN DUSEN

[COUNTrecount]

There was a moment toward the end of the Democratic presidential debate in Cleveland last Tuesday when it was easy to feel sorry for Hillary Clinton.

The former First Lady hadn't done much since the top of the show to endear herself to anyone who wasn't already voting for her, what with the health care hectoring and the whining about always going first and the old evil eye trick.

But as Barack Obama was talking about how Mrs. Clinton doesn't owe anyone an explanation as to why she's a worthy opponent, the sad reality of Hillary Clinton's predicament conjured a fleeting wave of sympathy.

Mrs. Clinton's careening campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination is already shaping up to be the most thoroughly autopsied in the history of modern democracy and the body's not even horizontal yet, much less cold.

While superdelegates madly plot to find a "Here's your husband, what's your hurry?" strategy for getting the Clintons to go away quietly without resorting to a stun gun and a net if she loses both Texas and Ohio March 4, the campaign forensics nuts (including yours truly), are already arguing over the COD.

Under the original Clinton campaign plan, the first week of March after Super Tuesday would have weeded out the last of the also-rans, including that silver-tongued pain-in-the-ass Obama. Mrs. Clinton would now be reminding Americans of how crumbly and corrupt and hotheaded John McCain is. Instead, she's still trying to convince Democrats that Barack Obama should be ashamed of himself.

INCONSISTENT MESSAGE

Much of the premature Monday morning strategizing about the Clinton campaign (it ain't over 'til March 5 and just maybe, if she wins somewhere, anywhere, March 4, not even then) focuses on the wildly inconsistent message, the Bill factor, the fundraising incompetence, the overspending.

But every one of those issues is really about arrogance: We don't need a message, we're running as the incumbent; we have one of the most popular presidents in history as our understudy; and we don't need little-people money, we have wealthy friends who'll buy access.

The Clinton campaign was run from right out of the gate as though it were just an unseemly formality, an inconvenient hurdle between the Clintons and their right to recapture a legacy tragically derailed by what Mrs. Clinton euphemistically called in an interview last week with a Christian broadcaster, "What happened during the '90s."

Senator Clinton and her braintrust never took Barack Obama seriously as a threat, despite all the signs after his 2004 Democratic convention speech that everyone else in Washington did. Which may mean that the one-way conversation they had with the American people about race before both New Hampshire and South Carolina was just the retail manifestation of a cherished article of faith; that many Americans wouldn't vote for a black presidential candidate.

RACIAL CODE

Maybe that's why much of what was said by Hillary and Bill in January smacked of racial code intended to remind Americans that they were seriously contemplating doing precisely that, as though it hadn't dawned on them already.

At the same time, Bill Clinton knew a star when he saw one because he'd been one himself. The former president wistfully told a New Hampshire crowd the day before the primary, "I can't make her younger, taller, male . . . there's a lot of things I can't do." In other words, not only is she no me, but if people want change so badly they're willing to vote for a black man, then we're cooked because he's got everything else going for him, too.

They never had a strategy beyond riding back into town on a wave of Clinton nostalgia, female pride in a historic first and Bush fatigue, and they never had a ground strategy beyond Super Tuesday. The flailing that has filled the vacuum since then has been so weird at times that Mrs. Clinton has looked more like Wile E. Coyote trying to outwit the Roadrunner with yet another Acme just-add-water contraption than the hare sleeping on the roadside as the tortoise coasts by.

In a different world, Hillary Clinton would have been the renegade, the change agent and the historic first. In this world, Obama decided to run for president this time. That she didn't see him coming may say more about her judgment, her experience and who she is than just about anything else she's ever done.

[yoe]

Michelle Obama: Angry black harridan
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: February 26, 2008

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[Conspiracy Guy]

Yes indeed : )

[prov1813man]

I believe the Obama train hits the weak bridge this Tuesday and she takes it all the way from there. I cannot see them allowing him to win.

Yes, and, in true twilight zone fashion, many of our own are helping in her resurrection in some misguided strategy to "keep the battle alive". ANY actions that help keep her viable increase the possibility that we will be dealing with the clinton's in the Whitehouse again. WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG !!

[goldstategop]

Hillary's arrogance, inflated sense of entitlement and inflexibility caught up to her fast. The World's Smartest Woman couldn't even run a competent national presidential campaign! Oh well. No one will miss her, that's for sure. Good riddance!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Miss Didi]

RUSH: “If Barack Obama becomes president and therefore Michelle Obama becomes first lady, his biggest problem is going to be her mouth.”

[CAluvdubya]

Thanks for the link...very interesting

My grandmother used to say, "If you want to know where the manure is – wait until the wind blows in your direction." The stench of Barack Obama's reality is permeating the political arena, with the recently revealed truth of how he and his wife actually feel about the country he aspires to lead....by Mychal Massie

[Condor51]

It's all over but the crying for Hillary

It's All Over (Now) (midi 3:35)
INTRO: D, C, then G.
(Boogie Repeat x2)

Billy use to stay out all night long
Made me cry, he done me wrong
But I was gonna be POTUS so all was fine
But the table's turned, and I'm gonna cry

'Cause I once was leading, but it's all over now
'Cause I once was leading, but it's all over now

He used to run around with every gal in town
Spent all his time playin' his half-a** games
He put me out, it was a pity how I cried
But the table's turned, and I'm gonna cry

'Cause I once was leading, But it's all over now
'Cause I once was leading, but it's all over now

(Instrumental Break)

I used to wake in the morning, all alone in bed
When a Bimbo would erupt, I'd ease his aching head
But now Obama's here, gettin' every vote in town
I'm losing all my voters, to that newbie clown

Well I once was leading, but it's all over now
Well I once was leading, but it's all over now
Well I once was leading, but it's all over now
Well I once was leading, but it's all over now

(repeat to fade)

Sorry Hill all your (commie) plans are going up in smoke.
Try again in eight years - when you're 68 years old

© Rolling Stones

[Eric in the Ozarks]

“...stungun and a net.” Great line.

[canuck_conservative]

Can’t wait to read the future book about Hillary’s campaign:

“CLUSTERF*** 08”

[CAluvdubya]

I sooooo agree! I hope “they” don’t try to hush her up (not that I think Obama really can). She can do as much damage as Tereeeeeza!

[NoControllingLegalAuthority]

Once their position and power is gone they will have no friends at all.....................

Those who climb over bodies and stick shivs in people as they rise in power have no safety net on the way down. They will fall long and hard and even their "friends" will cheer as they plummet.

Once people no longer fear you, they laugh at your pain and pathetic thrashing about.

The Clintons are now living in full-blown humiliation. They are a joke.

The two sociopathic grifters have been out-conned.

Obama has done a brilliant remake of "The Sting."

[SampleMan]

Obama could have totally destroyed Hillary during that debate with one easy line. After she started whining about always getting the first question, and there was that awkward pause, he could have interjected and said, “If it will make Mrs. Clinton (not Senator) feel more comfortable, I’d be happy to answer the question first.” And then without pausing, he should have started to answer it.

She would have been made to look incredibly weak and would have had to demand back what she had just rejected, or sit like a fool through his answer.

This tells me that Obama’s not that quick. Reagan would have driven a steak through her heart right then and there and her poll numbers would have dropped 20% overnight.

[SampleMan]

Obama could have totally destroyed Hillary during that debate with one easy line. After she started whining about always getting the first question, and there was that awkward pause, he could have interjected and said, “If it will make Mrs. Clinton (not Senator) feel more comfortable, I’d be happy to answer the question first.” And then without pausing, he should have started to answer it.

She would have been made to look incredibly weak and would have had to demand back what she had just rejected, or sit like a fool through his answer.

This tells me that Obama’s not that quick. Reagan would have driven a steak through her heart right then and there and her poll numbers would have dropped 20% overnight.

[mkjessup]

I hope you’re right. Let’s discuss it again Wednesday morning.

Sounds good to me, and don't forget what happened to the LAST junior Senator from New York who ran for President 40 years ago, if God has a sense of humor, lightning DOES strike twice!

LOL ;)

[Conspiracy Guy]

Let’s hope the repeat is a metaphor.

[mkjessup]

Let's hope the repeat is a metaphor.

I don't know, I've never heard of a Metaphorian before, do they have a country of their own?

[Caipirabob]

OH LOL! Too funny! "Hold me closer Tony Danza" - I can practically hear Paul Begala singing...

[Conspiracy Guy]

Country nothing. They have their own planet.

[Conspiracy Guy]

: )

[tips up]

Agree. Obama is way to the left (of the entire US Congress, and that’s no small feat to be that far left), but he seems like a decent guy. Nice family. And he truly believes what he says. All this is in contrast to the Witch and Bubba.