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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If I could do that cross-out thingy I would change the name to Hellery.
Yeah those sun roof levers can be killer.
“In addition to that there is also the “because it’s time for a woman” crowd.”
If you look (on TV) at the typical woman who supports Hillary!, it’s predictable: overweight, menopausal, grey hair, mad at men in general, probably has a degree in social welfare, etc.
My 80 year old mother supports Hillary (and she’s not overweight LOL). But Mom does believe if Republicans had their way, women would lose the right to vote, could only get jobs as secretaries, blah, blah, blah. Mom bought into the Germaine Greer/Betty Friedan propaganda.
I can’t discuss politics with my mom. :)
That's exactly right. One of the attractions to being a machine politician in New York is the intimate, almost incestuous association with Big Media. I suspect that when Her Majesty was considering which state she would condescend to being elected from, that was a big factor. And, too, it was felt throughout the Clinton administration that media had put him in office ("it's the economy, stupid") and hence owned him, or at least access to him.
Obama is even more a creature of the media than BJ Billy, and Hil doesn't like it. Without a strong hand on the media levers her team becomes merely mortal (like all of the Republicans are and have been for the last few decades). That would be an immense loss of prestige and hence power for the New York machine.
It isn't happening. There are eight years of chits to call in and eight years' worth of bodies buried whose locations are on the Clinton rolodex. Obama is going to have to make a lot of promises to a lot of people in record time to avoid the avalanche. I don't think his team is up to it. Hil's is - that's what they do.
The NH primary is this Tuesday January 8th. Doesn’t give them much time to sling mud....
That's a message we yelled to Condit staff during our demonstrations.
They ignored the message and were last seen walking down the road, kicking a can, and talking to themselves. :)
Which commandment did he break?
Perhaps B. Hussein better keep an eye out for airborne lamps (nyuk, nyuk, nyuk).
Also this. Considering her (to this untrained eye) paranoid psychosis, Hillary is a big blamer. So, who is she blaming for her resounding LOSS last evening?
(Hint, it's NOT her.)
I have a feeling that many of Obama's supporters are not going to care what her people say about him, and are going to be very angry with her for bringing it up
Lanny Davis, the sycophant's sycophant, a toady who gives toadies a bad name!
And I thought she had 35 years experience as an advocate for children? Not with Iraq....
Edwards' best strategy is to stay out of the Clinton/Obama fight. I think he might be smart enough to do that
Seems to me that's what they did to Hillary.
An end to Lanny Davis would be victory enough.
Pray for W and Our Victorious Troops
“do you really want a coke fiend educated in a madrassa to be your candidate?” - a Hillary ad coming soon to a TV near you
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I can’t wait to see her come completely unsoldered in front of the cameras.
Considering that she’s already floated rumors that he’s a closet Moslem and a dope-dealing crackhead, it’ll be interesting to see what “nasty” looks like.
Trouble for Hillary is that it’s HER party that has years of experience of responding to any single slight criticism of a black person with reflexive howls of racism, blah, blah, blah. Obama’s crowd will turn this on HIllary with a vengence and the media will run with it. It happend in Iowa with the drug thing and it will happen again.
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