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Yes, She Can (Maureen Dowd: Hillary busy planning her convention)
nytimes.com ^
| August 13, 2008
| Maureen Dowd
Posted on 08/13/2008 10:15:46 AM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
While Obama was spending three hours watching “The Dark Knight” five time zones away, and going to a fund-raiser featuring “Aloha attire” and Hawaiian pupus, Hillary was busy planning her convention.
You can almost hear her mind whirring: She’s amazed at how easy it was to snatch Denver away from the Obama saps. Like taking candy from a baby, except Beanpole Guy doesn’t eat candy. In just a couple of weeks, Bill and Hill were able to drag No Drama Obama into a swamp of Clinton drama.
Now they’ve made Barry’s convention all about them — their dissatisfaction and revisionism and barely disguised desire to see him fail. Whatever insincere words of support the Clintons muster, their primal scream gets louder: He can’t win! He can’t close the deal! We told you so!
Hillary’s orchestrating a play within the play in Denver. Just as Hamlet used the device to show that his stepfather murdered his father, Hillary will try to show the Democrats they chose the wrong savior.
Her former aide Howard Wolfson fanned the divisive flames Monday on ABC News, arguing that Hillary would have beaten Obama in Iowa and become the nominee if John Edwards’s affair had come out last year — an assertion contradicted by a University of Iowa survey showing that far more Edwards supporters had Obama as their second choice.
Hillary feels no guilt about encouraging her supporters to mess up Obama’s big moment, thus undermining his odds of beating John McCain and improving her odds of being the nominee in 2012.
She’s obviously relishing Hillaryworld’s plans to have multiple rallies in Denver, to take out TV and print ads and to hold up signs in the hall that read “Denounce Nobama’s Coronation.”
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TOPICS: Editorial; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; 2008dncconvention; 2008election; catfight; demagogues; democrats; dnc; dowd; hillary; obama; operationchaos; puma; wolfson
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To: Free ThinkerNY
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posted on
08/13/2008 10:18:11 AM PDT
by
ConservativeMan55
(Obama is the Democrats guy. They bought the ticket, now they must take the ride.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Hey Dowd - you got a boyfriend yet?
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posted on
08/13/2008 10:23:15 AM PDT
by
rjp2005
(Lord have mercy on us)
To: ConservativeMan55
We are now posting this article for the Guam time zone.t
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posted on
08/13/2008 10:23:31 AM PDT
by
Dr. Ursus
(( commander of the simian host))
To: ConservativeMan55
You know the rules....
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posted on
08/13/2008 10:23:46 AM PDT
by
ConservativeMan55
(Obama is the Democrats guy. They bought the ticket, now they must take the ride.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Just because you run things like you are Napoleon doesn't mean you're crazy...
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posted on
08/13/2008 10:23:54 AM PDT
by
weegee
(Hi there.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Odd. I posted this article at 9:44 this morning and it was deleted. WTF?
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posted on
08/13/2008 10:24:05 AM PDT
by
DogBarkTree
(The correct word isn't "immigrant" when what they are doing is "invading".)
To: Dr. Ursus
It’s like the Olympics, consider it a rebroadcast on the lunch hour for higher viewings...
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posted on
08/13/2008 10:24:36 AM PDT
by
weegee
(Hi there.)
To: ConservativeMan55
Yes, the no purple shoes rule!
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posted on
08/13/2008 10:25:16 AM PDT
by
Dr. Ursus
(( commander of the simian host))
To: Free ThinkerNY
To: Dr. Ursus
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posted on
08/13/2008 10:30:00 AM PDT
by
ConservativeMan55
(Obama is the Democrats guy. They bought the ticket, now they must take the ride.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Oooh, I love a good catfight.You go, Maureen, you go girl!
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posted on
08/13/2008 10:33:08 AM PDT
by
colorado tanker
(Number nine, number nine, number nine . . .)
To: ConservativeMan55
Something tells me you have a few pictures in reserve!
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08/13/2008 10:35:27 AM PDT
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Dr. Ursus
(( commander of the simian host))
To: ConservativeMan55
The Obligatory “I’d hit it”
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posted on
08/13/2008 10:35:44 AM PDT
by
guardian_of_liberty
(We must bind the Government with the Chains of the Constitution...)
To: ConservativeMan55
The Obligatory “I’d hit it”
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posted on
08/13/2008 10:35:47 AM PDT
by
guardian_of_liberty
(We must bind the Government with the Chains of the Constitution...)
To: Dr. Ursus
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posted on
08/13/2008 10:37:37 AM PDT
by
ConservativeMan55
(Obama is the Democrats guy. They bought the ticket, now they must take the ride.)
To: guardian_of_liberty
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posted on
08/13/2008 10:38:01 AM PDT
by
ConservativeMan55
(Obama is the Democrats guy. They bought the ticket, now they must take the ride.)
To: Free ThinkerNY
Maureen, drinking Doubles don’t make it a party.
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posted on
08/13/2008 10:48:59 AM PDT
by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
To: guardian_of_liberty
The Obligatory “I’d hit it”Twice, no less! ;>))
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posted on
08/13/2008 10:49:22 AM PDT
by
CedarDave
(What do Obama and Osama have in common? Both have friends who bombed the Pentagon.)
To: ConservativeMan55
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posted on
08/13/2008 11:57:41 AM PDT
by
TheBattman
(Vote your conscience, or don't complain about RINOs!)
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