Posted on 04/09/2008 10:28:11 AM PDT by cdchik123
Hillary Rodham Clinton wants voters to decide the nomination based on who can coolly and competently run the country. She had better hope they don’t study her recent campaign too closely for the answer.
Clinton has overseen two major staff shake-ups in two months. She has left a trail of unpaid bills and unhappy vendors and had to loan her own campaign $5 million to keep it afloat in January. Her campaign badly underestimated her main adversary, Barack Obama, miscalculated the importance of organizing caucus states and was caught flat-footed after failing to lock up the nomination on Super Tuesday.
It would be easy to dismiss all of this as fairly conventional political stumbling — if she hadn’t made her supreme readiness and managerial competence the central issue of her presidential campaign.
But since she has, a growing number of Democrats are comparing the Clinton and Obama campaigns — their first real exercise in executive leadership — and rendering harsh assessments of her stewardship.
In twin columns in Tuesday’s Washington Post, left-of-center columnists Peter Beinart and E.J. Dionne Jr. condemned Clinton’s overall management of the campaign and inability to build a durable message and infrastructure. It’s a common theme in Democratic circles these days.
“Any time you are involved in a long campaign, there are going to be major substantive and procedural gaffes,” says former Democratic Rep. David Bonior, an uncommitted superdelegate who served as the campaign manager to John Edwards. “The question is how a campaign handles those gaffes and how a candidate handles them. And I think it’s fair to say that Sen. Obama has handled [his] problems better than Sen. Clinton.”
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Boniers actually saying something unhelpful to a Clinton. What fun and novelty abounds.
Hillary could get a big boost from the Media by giving her campaign the money to pay off the vendors she owes. Naaaaa....she wouldn’t do that.......just because it’s the right thing to do.
Hillary could get a big boost from the Media by giving her campaign the money to pay off the vendors she owes. Naaaaa....she wouldn’t do that.......just because it’s the right thing to do.”
How much $$$ does Hillary have left in her bank accounts for campaigning??
How much money does she still owe vendors and suppliers of items used during the campaign???
Deduct the $5 million she loaned to her own campaign.
Tell me how much less she has in the bank than she owes to suppliers, etc.
THIS is the person to stabilize the whole nation’s economy????
She cannot even sweep her own back steps.....
Well, it’s fun to see Billary stumble.
Bill was a good political operative in his day.
The world has changed with the internet and bloggers and “You Tube” type sites.
They can’t play their political games in the dark anymore. They are being called on their lies/misspeaking. They are being called on their ongoing campaign to marginalize Obama as merely a black candidate who can’t win the general election.
And I would love to know how Hillary will balance the federal budget when she has no grasp of her own campaign funds. Does she really have a good grasp of basic economics? Or is she blinded by her own ideology and the need to raise taxes to spend money to cure every social ill?
"You know, 3AM happens nearly every night in the White House and you know I can't remember ever hearing the phone ring the night that Chicago was nuked. You know it might have. But you know, the phones ring a lot in the White House and they all sound alike."
Maybe if Hillary doesn’t get the nomination, or if she does but loses the general election, some of these former Clintonites may have the courage to write tell-all books. I’d love to see that happen.
She will quit at that point in early May.
Good bye Hillary. You could have conceded with class as Mitt Romney did, but you had to show what a classless act you are and have been for a long time.
Comeuppance is a difficult thing, isn't it Hillary?
Again, good bye Hillary. You may now go the way of McGovern, Carter, Mondale, Hart, Dukakis, Gore, and Kerry — “Nobody cares what you think,” in the words of Nicholson in his latest movie.
“Any time you are involved in a long campaign, there are going to be major substantive and procedural gaffes,” says former Democratic Rep. David Bonior, an uncommitted superdelegate who served as the campaign manager to John Edwards. “The question is how a campaign handles those gaffes and how a candidate handles them. And I think it’s fair to say that Sen. Obama has handled [his] problems better than Sen. Clinton.”
...and “Pony Boy” Edwards. Right Dave?
Dave?
Dave?
She thought she could do a spring time victory lap and just waltz to the White House with her shrill voice, her ugly pantsuits, her buffoonish political instincts, and her questionable femininity that plays mainly to the Barbara Mikulski’s of the world. She thought the mommy staters and traditional degenerates would all vote for her on cue. She also expected the media to lap up her bilge and cover her lies and miscues like they always have. Not this time. They found a commie they love even more.
The day Hillary pulls out should be declared a national holiday.
Right on. The Clinton’s will always be looked upon as scum.
***"Hillary's forces have acted like the heavy, pompous galleons of the imperial Spanish Armada, outmaneuvered by the quick, bold, entrepreneurial ships of the English fleet."***
Old lead bottom, Hillary, can't navigate her own ship, can you imagine her and her rapacious band of scalawags navigating the ship of state?
She’s NOT quitting!! She’s going to the convention.
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