Posted on 01/04/2008 9:44:42 AM PST by COUNTrecount
While you were sleeping, the chartered jet of the third-place finisher in the Iowa Democratic caucus winged its way from Des Moines to Manchester, N.H. And it sounds like some decisions were made on that plane that may alter the course of that party's presidential race.
At her concession speech in Des Moines on Thursday night, Hillary Clinton was all gracious and determined and smiling. But hours later on that flight someone named Mark Penn, who happens to be her chief political strategist, ominously told a gaggle of reporters, including The Times' Peter Nicholas, that the campaign's focus needs to shift now onto, you might have guessed, someone named Barack Obama.
The Illinois senator happens to be the first-place finisher in those same caucuses and now Clinton, once the inevitable Democratic nominee, is playing catch-up. Things could get nasty with some pretty sharp media contrasts made in coming days, it would seem. "This has been very much a referendum on her,'' said Penn. "And people will take a harder look at the choice and the kind of president who will be needed in these times.''
Penn hinted that the Clinton campaign may be poised to mount a more aggressive campaign in New Hampshire than in Iowa. "Time and again in the Democratic primaries," he said, ...
... "you've seen people latch onto the new, seemingly fresh candidate only to then take a sobering look at the choice they have when it comes down to the end of it. I think you're going to see that again.''
He claimed that Obama's record is comparatively unexplored he suggested the news media should ask itself about taking a closer look at Obama's history. "Does everyone know everything they need to know about Barack Obama?'' Penn asked. "That's a decision you're going to make
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And may I add Oprah and her Harpo Studios (FCC come a calling?) Real ugly...Edwards is just the fluff...he can be dispatched with little or no effort (he now has a ‘love child’ out there...hmmm, wonder where that story started?). But Obama is going to take more work. Ms. Winfrey, his Church (their books too, no doubt) will all be fair game. You are right...it is gonna get real ugly.
I say BRING IT ON HILLARY. It will only hurt her! :)
Lanny Davis on Fox told the Friends that he couldn’t believe that Obama failed to thank the other Dems! He also said that Mrs. Clinton had 20 to 35 years of experience especially with Iraq.
How novel. A brand-new, untested plan. Might work. /s
Right now I would expect her to win NH. There isn’t enough time between now and the primary to changes the minds of NH dims, if that’s even possible.
Dude! How am I gonna get this soda spray offa my monitor now, huh?
And we’re really surprise at this, how?
The Clintons have given us more substantive material to work with than you could ever hope for. Mocking their looks (or weight, or wrinkles, or even that terrible cackle) is not productive or funny. More importantly, it is not right to do so - check your Ten Commandments.
LOL
Oooooh, new sheriff in town?
Hey, maybe Rielle Hunter is actually another Hillary plant. If so, expect one to pop up in Obama’s circle too. (Ok, maybe not a woman past 40 inadvertently pregnant; lightning never strikes twice rule. But somebody doing with Obama what Obama should never be caught doing.)
Hillary: “Hey Hussein, why should Americans vote for half-breed, muslim, junkie?” “Oops sorry!”
They say you can tell alot about a man by looking at his fingers.
This is great news. Let’s hope they beat the hell out of each other and spend lots of money doing it. All this forces Hillary farther to the left. So much for hanging in the middle on her way to the coronation.
He should be concerned that, maybe, they know all they need to know about Hillary Clinton and voted accordingly.
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