She will NOT be ignored!!!
Posted on 02/29/2008 7:14:33 AM PST by jdm
What's worse in politics than being attacked? Being ignored -- and Hillary Clinton wants it to stop. She wants back into the national discourse after mostly being overlooked since the debacle of Super Tuesday:
There was a time not long ago when Hillary Clinton dominated the discourse in both parties’ presidential contests.
Now, she’s struggling to get her message out and remain part of the campaign conversation as the media and her remaining rivals, Barack Obama and John McCain, stampede toward a general election matchup that seems more and more likely. ....
Today, though, after a post-Super Tuesday string of wins by Obama, Clinton hardly draws notice from the Republican party. The daily barrage of press releases from the Republican National Committee almost exclusively targets Obama. McCain, the presumptive GOP nominee, makes almost no reference to Clinton in his campaign appearances, instead zeroing in on Obama’s record.
Oddly, I had thought to write about this exact phenomenon at some point today. Over the last two weeks, hardly any releases about Hillary Clinton have found their way into my e-mail. The RNC's missives have focused on Obama exclusively, no mean feat considering his thin track record. Even blog readers have stopped sending Hillary material, a sure sign that she represents no real threat to either Obama or John McCain.
That makes Hillary pine for the days of her "vast right-wing conspiracy" fantasy. As Mike Huckabee once said, you know you're over the target when you're taking flak. When the flak aims at someone else entirely, you know you're over. Hillary needs some media oxygen to keep her campaign alive, especially in Texas and Ohio, but Obama has kept the spotlight on himself.
The example given by the Politico amply demonstrates this. Hillary thought she could capture some attention by announcing her February fundraising number -- a very impressive $35 million. It briefly created some buzz about a comeback, but Obama's campaign responded within hours that he had raised close to twice that much. Not only did that take the spotlight away from Hillary, but it reinforced the perception that she keeps falling further behind.
Hillary once complained about media-fueled controversies that surrounded her and Bill. Now she'd put up with a scandal or two if it managed to focus the media and the opposition in both parties back on her campaign. She has discovered that obscurity is worse.
Sorry hillary, I’m already taken. And even if I weren’t — NO THANKS!
In tne words of the famous Roseanne Barr, “I don’t care what they say about me as long as they spell my name right.”
LOL
She will NOT be ignored!!!
Congressman Billybob
Latest article, "The NY Times' Latest Hatchet Job on McCain"
If I was x42, I’d be worried that Hillary was aiming for the ultimate sympathy vote.
Bye-bye Hillary. You're finished.
Hillary ‘08
Changing the rules so you don’t have to.
tks
“So much for the firewall.”
It’s been penetrated by the Obama virus.
With help like this, she will need more than a VRWC.
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She wants you....
Lately it’s more like:
Hillary 08: So hard for a Woman to run for President
Yeah, ABC.com http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/02/clinton-playing.html
says it is hard running as a woman. Black man? He has it easy.
What a bunch of pap
The smartest thing Barack Obama's campaign has done is to give Hillary no openings to play the victim. She is now desperately trying to make herself a victim of media bias, but that ain't selling. Unless she can figure out a way in the next 24 hours to make herself a victim of Obama, she is done.
Hillary Clinton really has no positive or plausible message about herself and why she should be President of the United States, and never did.
People also need to give the Democratic voters some credit for having some sense as well. A whole lot of them knew that Hillary would start a general election campaign with the highest negative ratings in history, higher than anyone who has eve won an election. They knew that she could unify the Republicans better than their own nominee could. They knew that the campaign would be nasty and brutal, and here comes Obama promising something nicer and better and unifying. He held out a lifeline to fearful Democrats and they have grabbed it.
Exactly. She’s always talking about this election being a first historically. I personally think this would be history making ONLY if Barack Obama being AFrican American won the Presidency. Women have gotten into a lot over the past 30 to 40 years. I think this would go down as the biggest stride EVER in American history with all nationalities voting for Obama. hillleree will lose this nomination. History is in the making and she should just be happy with second place in it all.
We’ve had enough of her whining, and crying, and complaining about it not being “fair” or a “level playing field.” Come on hilllereee....they have been as fair to you as you have been to President Bush. Now you know what it is like to be attacked. You and your ole willie were geniuses at it but now you have met your match. It’s a time in history that is NOT in your favor. Suck it up!
Obama will be the party’s nominee and hopefully on Tuesday this will shut her down and she will LEAVE.
Time for Bill to accept another rape charge so their combined Clinton ratings will improve.
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