Posted on 12/24/2007 12:00:23 PM PST by jdm
SEN. Hillary Rodham Clinton has lost the air of inevitability that once surrounded her campaign for the Democratic nomination. It remains to be seen whether she's willing to lose her soul in her quest for the presidency.
Only a month ago, her main rival, Sen. Barack Obama, was dismissed as a "lightweight" by the political establishment. Now he has a slight lead over Senator Clinton in Iowa and New Hampshire and is believed to have a good chance of winning South Carolina.
Magic Johnson's recent endorsement aside, the advantage Senator Clinton once enjoyed over Senator Obama among African-Americans has disappeared. He's even cut into her support from women.
The Clinton campaign has reacted to this change in fortune by going into what can only be described as panic mode. Using political surrogates, campaign apparatchiks, and an increasingly indignant former president, the senator's nomination drive has engaged in a level of innuendo remarkable in its sleaziness.
Days after the firing of a campaign worker who passed along e-mail suggesting Senator Obama was a Manchurian candidate, Billy Shaheen, the co-chair of the Clinton New Hampshire campaign, said Senator Obama would be vulnerable to Republican attack because of his admitted drug use as a teenager. Mr. Shaheen resigned and Senator Clinton apologized.
Shortly after that, former President Bill Clinton questioned Senator Obama's credentials to be president after praising his "tremendous political skills. " In that vein, former Sen. Bob Kerry of Nebraska cited Senator Obama's "Islamic" name and background in Indonesia as a valuable asset to the United States.
It was a disingenuous and back-handed compliment, for which Senator Kerry has apologized. But it wasn't as tacky as the comment by former United Nations ambassador Andrew Young, who told a predominantly black audience that Bill Clinton was "blacker" than Senator Obama and that...
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I was truly hoping that the witch would’ve had the nomination wrapped-up before her campaign started falling apart. Now there’s a significant chance that either Obama or the Breck Girl could get it. While I don’t think that they’ll win, you never know - they don’t have 48% of the population ready to crawl over broken glass to vote against them.
Young is a dumbass.Remember when he said SAWB in atlanta as mayor?What a fool.
I can see why -- that's a riot!
Oh no you just had to go there did’nt you.
When is someone going to start reminding the public that the ghost writer who authored “It Takes a Villiage” had to threaten a lawsuit in order to get paid?
Does the Devil have a soul?
“Does the Devil have a soul?”
Not just a soul, but billions of souls.
LOL. Sooooo true.
It’s beyond rational belief that after 9/11 a Muslim can even poke his/her head out in public in the USA let alone run for president.
Such should provoke pitchforks and torches.
I'm on the verge of having, "too much fun", watching this.
I used to commonly refer to Hillary as “the Witch” until I realized that it was an insult to all the witches I’ve ever met in my life!
I think you misunderstand.
His father was Muslim, his mother atheist, and he claims to be a Christian. The poster was asking how it worked out that Obama claims Christianity, with a background like that. He wasn’t saying that Obama is Muslim, which is what you seemed to conclude.
Anyway, there isn’t a Muslim running for President. Not yet, anyway, but give it time.
I am WOMAN.... I am in-VIN-ci-ble!!!
It’s not so much whether he’s a Muslim... It’s whose side he’s on. And it’s the wrong side.
Long since lost.
Ack! Now I have to go rinse out my mind's eye!!!
Born without one.
I still think that Edwards will be the one for the notoriously racist Democrats. They may try a woman or a black for vice pres, but they will certainly nominate a white male for the presidency. That is what they have always done, and they won't be able to help themselves when the actual vote takes place. I would bet 10 to 1 on odds like that.
Soul? Soul? We don' need no stinkin' soul. We are Hillary.
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