George Will: Hillary Clinton - Looking For a Metric

RCP ^ | May 8th, 2008 | George Will

[The_Republican]

Hillary Clinton, 60, Illinois native and Arkansas lawyer, became, retroactively, a lifelong Yankee fan at age 52 when, shopping for a U.S. Senate seat, she adopted New York state as home sweet home. She may think, or at least would argue, that when she was 12 her Yankees really won the 1960 World Series, by standards of "fairness," because they trounced the Pirates in runs scored, 55-27, over seven games, so there.

[Just mythoughts]

Wouldn’t the 1919 World Series be a more fitting analogy given these two contenders come from Chicago???

[bill1952]

Which one is shoeless Joe?

[Question Liberal Authority]

The baseball analogy is flawed because it assumes that you aren’t just making up all of the rules as you go along.

[littlehouse36]

Wouldn’t it be funny if Obama used the Supreme Court precedent (compliments Bush 2000) to halt Hillary’s creative vote counting.

[Just mythoughts]

Which one is shoeless Joe?

Depends on which day of the week it is given the cast of characters from old Bubba Bill to the Rev J Wright with Howie Dean and Ayres in the middle.

[Just mythoughts]

Actually since the money man $oro$ in the campaign 2008 has funded ALL the candidates he will be the winner no matter who actually wins the election.

[dr_lew]

She’s “sort of tied” because Obama hasn’t won! ... and can’t win! as Rush points out. It’s all in the hands of the superdelegates ... as Rush points out. By refusing to give up, she’s forcing the SD’s to do their dirty work, although I don’t think she’s angling for political martyrdom. Why aren’t all the SD’s just declaring for Obama? That would end it.

[Rummyfan]

She may think, or at least would argue, that when she was 12 her Yankees really won the 1960 World Series, by standards of "fairness," because they trounced the Pirates in runs scored, 55-27, over seven games, so there.

Unfortunately, baseball's rules -- pesky nuisances, rules -- say it matters how runs are distributed during a World Series. The Pirates won four games, which is the point of the exercise, by a total margin of seven runs, while the Yankees were winning three by a total of 35 runs. You can look it up.

Will's best column in a long time....

[Maurice Tift]

... his manner lulls his adversaries into underestimating his sheer toughness -- the tempered steel beneath the sleek suits.

  He's not tough! He fell to pieces and ran from a press conference. He can't answer the simplest questions about capital gains taxes. He's such an easy target, but no Republican will hit him, much less pummel him. McCain won't hit him. If everyone is afraid to touch him, he'll just walk to the White House.

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[sportutegrl]

The baseball analogy is flawed because it assumes that you aren’t just making up all of the rules as you go along.

You mean like Calvin Ball?

[Bender2]

Re: You can look it up

I did:

1 Yankees – 4, Pirates – 6 October 5 Forbes Field
2 Yankees – 16, Pirates – 3 October 6 Forbes Field
3 Pirates – 0, Yankees – 10 October 8 Yankee Stadium
4 Pirates – 3, Yankees – 2 October 9 Yankee Stadium
5 Pirates – 5, Yankees – 2 October 10 Yankee Stadium
6 Yankees – 12, Pirates – 0 October 12 Forbes Field
7 Yankees – 9, Pirates – 10 October 13 Forbes Field

[ballplayer]

You can listen to Obama for just so long and he gets old ,His words do not Match his history of actions,That is his problem .HE TALKS THE TALK BUT THERE IS NO WALK THE WALK

[Cyropaedia]

Maybe Hillary should have hired Bill James rather than Mark Penn...

[Rummyfan]

It was a titanic series, won by Bill Mazeroski’s homer in Game 7.

[Dilbert56]

....and dividing Obama's delegate advantage in caucus states by pi multiplied by the square root of Yankee Stadium's ZIP code.

Intrigued, our resident dweeb calculated the square root of Yankee Stadium's zip code as 102.23.

[Just mythoughts]

You can listen to Obama for just so long and he gets old ,His words do not Match his history of actions,That is his problem .HE TALKS THE TALK BUT THERE IS NO WALK THE WALK

I completely agree, the sound of his voice reminds me of those go to sleep cds of the sound of waves hitting the shore.... sounding out the word 'C H A N G E'. Obama is like listening to 'softest' rap sink. The 'au-da-ci-ty- of ch-ange'.

[detch]

I agree it’s George Will’s best column in awhile.

The clarity of words mixed with unusual insight that was a trademark seemed to have been missing recently.

I’ve always enjoyed his writings, but sometimes he’s a hard read...

[detch]

I agree it’s George Will’s best column in awhile.

The clarity of words mixed with unusual insight that was a trademark seemed to have been missing recently.

I’ve always enjoyed his writings, but sometimes he’s a hard read...