All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up. ...
Posted on 01/04/2008 5:57:17 AM PST by jdm
It was inevitable, the media and her vast army of consultants, aides and hired attack dogs assured us, Hillary Clinton would walk all the way to the presidency with easy victories over a slate of lackluster rivals in the primaries.
To hear them tell it you would have thought her campaign was a powerful locomotive speeding down the rails to the White House, unstoppable.
Thursday night it came off the tracks, derailed by the equivalent of the little train that wouldn’t say no.
Barack Obama, a relative newcomer to national politics, a year ago largely unknown, not only defeated Hillary Clinton in their first face-to-face encounter, he walloped her, winning about 36 percent of the vote while Hillary was fighting to climb out of a third place finish, locked in a neck-and-neck battle with John Edwards, with each getting about 30 percent.
The results of tonight’s contest in Iowa confirm the speculation that Mrs. Clinton’s closet full of skeletons would emerge to haunt her as the contest developed. As early as last April, Dick Morris and Eileen McGann wrote that Hillary was rapidly losing her lead over Obama, while the number of people who viewed her unfavorably was steadily increasing.
“Hillary isn’t wearing well,” Morris and McGann wrote. “It seems as if the more people see her, the less they like her. Now, for the first time, her low likeability levels are costing her votes.”
Her attempts to soften her image and shed the popular image of herself as a vindictive, cold, calculating opportunist and remake her image into that of a soft caring human only served to convince much of the public that they are watching a contrived performance meant to conceal her true nature which on the record shows she is anything but the kind, warmhearted human being she wants the voters to think she is.
Too many remember her shocking displays of ruthlessness, such as her cold hearted dismal of the White House Travel Office staff, or her use of thuggish private detectives to harass and slander the women who had been sexually mistreated by her husband.
Barack Obama cleverly tapped into the public’s weariness with the White House being occupied by only two families since 1988, the Bush family and the Clintons. He recognized the public’s desire for new faces and new policies and he made change his rallying cry and rode it to victory.
Hillary Clinton underestimated the public’s resentment against her, and discounted their revulsion with the sleazy conduct she and her husband displayed in the White House, typified by their attempted swiping of White House furnishings and artifacts when they left the mansion, and her husband’s last minute pardoning of the likes of fugitive felon Mark Rich.
Lincoln put it best “You can fool some the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.”
Iowa may not mark the end of Hillary’s White House dreams, but it is inevitable that it is the beginning of the end.
Huma...like nearly everybody else who pretends to like her...is paid (in one way or another).
BUT...BUT, this was suppose to be a CORONATION?????
I've been saying this since 1991. The more people see of Hillary!, the less they like her. Eventually the mask slips, and people see the ugliness underneath.
The difference between Hillary! and Bill is that with Bill, the mask almost never slips.
Obama won and Clinton lost because of their (initial) position and votes on Iraq.
I have no sense of how Iowa rats think other than they re-vote Harkin into office at every opportunity.
Maybe they just really hate America.
Simply a thought.
Let’s see, from my perspective, the real winner was Edwards, and the Clinton followers now are going to have to choose between Edwards or Obama, and I think most of her followers will go with Edwards..... Obama might have to change his name and drop HUSSEIN by judicial order to gain REAL credibility. Germans to show contempt disallowed the name HITLER after 1945...didn’t they?
Even so, what’s aggravating is that she got the same number of delegates as Edwards, 14, and Obama got only three more than that.
You are right about that.
The desperate Hillary is about to be unleashed and the attackes on Obama will be ferocious.
(I’m running out to buy more popcorn.)
“it is the beginning of the end.”
Not quite. She still has plenty of money and plenty of primaries to go. If she loses in New York, you can write, “The End”.
And with good reason.”
That’s part of the reason.
The other part is that Obama is very good candidate who got a lot of 20-30 year old people to show up.
This is the group that Republicans need to have on our side.
I think Obama will be tough to beat in November. He is positive and resonates with people. We ignore his success at our peril
I pray that is true.
Although Senator Clinton's ego is enormous. She really believes she is owed this election. So she won't be quitting anytime soon. She might even push it all the way to the convention.
Sounds just like carter's and klintoon's path to the presidency
All right, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up. ...
‘Barack Obama, a relative newcomer to national politics, a year ago largely unknown’
Seriously in error here.
Obama’s performance at the 04 DNC Convention brought him to everybody’s attention. He gave the single best speech by either party that summer.
AS to the beginning of the end, I hope you are right but it may be wishful thinking. The entrenched Dem establishment will not let this go by and the MSM will make all efforts to make sure it is a fluke. Look at the broadcast today on CNN.
I’ll light a candle.
hilary expels too much CO2, that’s a very bad thing. Where’s father algore?
Despite his incredible charm and charisma, I think Obama is the candidate that the Republicans will want to face in 2008. The dims will be hampered by a problem that they don’t even want to admit exists. That problem is the brown-on-black racism in the Hispanic community and the covert recism of the dixiecrats in their ranks. Recently I saw an old dixiecrat experience a “cracker attack”, livid over the possibility of a black man heading the dim ticket. Fun to watch.
Hillary came in third, yet she swamped the combined total of delegates for Obama and Edwards. Can anyone say “fixed?” I want a recount. Every vote must count!!
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