Posted on 02/26/2008 7:23:00 AM PST by jdm
The Hillary Clinton campaign has begun to throw everything they have left in the cupboard against Barack Obama as the window of opportunity begins to close on their candidate. Mike Allen and John F. Harris at Politico report that the campaign has also begun to turn on itself in its last throes on the national stage, and as polling numbers continue to drop nationwide:
With a week to go before climactic tests in Texas and Ohio, Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign team has slipped into full recriminations mode.
Looking backward, interviews with a cross-section of campaign aides and sympathetic outsiders suggest a team consumed with frustration and finger-pointing about the apparent failure of several recent tactical moves against Barack Obama.
Looking forward, it is clear Clinton’s team has only a faint and highly improvisational strategy about what to do over the next seven days. Simply put, there is no secret weapon.
At Tuesday night’s debate in Ohio, aides are mapping plans for drawing persistent attention to Obama’s record without attempting any knock-out punch theatrics that could backfire.
Many recent decisions have done exactly that. This has left the campaign awash in anger over who is to blame.
The Clintons never got the message this cycle. They won in 1992 with James Carville fist-in-face tactics, but in sixteen years, people have tired of it. They want candidates who focus on themselves, not on their opponents. Both Barack Obama and John McCain managed to figure this much out, as did Mike Huckabee to a certain extent. They talked about their own narratives, while their opponents floundered by talking about others.
Hillary should have stuck with her own narrative. When she did that, she controlled the race. Only after she panicked after that disastrous November 2nd debate, in which she flip-flopped on drivers licenses for illegal aliens, did she come out hard against Obama. That's when her campaign started discussing his kindergarten essays as evidence of his supposedly overweening ambition. Until then, she ruled the polls.
This will be instructive in the general election. With two candidates who seem to understand this mood in the American electorate, the question will be whether any negative or "contrast" politicking will work. The first candidate who can successfully manage it will win the election.
Kitchen sink? When was the last time SHE was ever in a kitchen?................
"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
I thought her projectiles of choice were ashtrays!
Maybe they’ll start throwing knives.
Avoid Fort Marcy Park at all costs!!
If anyone is to blame its Hillary. She is a control freak with an ego the size of the moon. Pointing the finger at others is what she knows how to do, and when she gets nervous, she runs home to mama...
The Clintons are more like the hairy gunk in the grease trap UNDER the kitchen sink
Doesn't Hillary look serene facing possible defeat?
A brokered convention is good for the party
Find a way to insert 'Obamination' into your writings
We don't know where that turbaned photo of Obama came from
The age difference between McCain and Obama.
If Hillary can win in Ohio, she can win the nomination
B.O. can't flip the red states
Yeah, yeah I know. Who can win an election with a bootie this big?
I guess this is all Hillary has since Obama is too young for her to have the FBI file amongst those 904 she had...what kind of gear does Obama wear to avoid incoming ash trays?
She’ll still be around trying to get on TV to “advise” the people. Bill once said that there is no one anywhere who can get the American people to “change” themselves like HRC can entice them to do. But I guess Oprah outwitted HRC this time.
These are two of the most beloved people in America. No wonder America is in big trouble.
“Bill once said that there is no one anywhere who can get the American people to “change” themselves like HRC can entice them to do.”
What does this idiot smoke?
There is some consternation, but, if McCain had published the photo of Osama/Obama or made the comments about the "skies opening up" they would have been on him like scent on feces calling for an investigation or his impeachment in advance.
She had better not get too strident. If she pisses Obama off he might not put her nomination in for a seat on the Supreme Court.
Wait a minute, I think if you’re talkinga about the Clinton’s, you must mean the washroom sink, right???
“Kitchen sink? When was the last time SHE was ever in a kitchen?................
Looking for signs of bimbo eruptions?
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