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Posted on 02/17/2008 10:35:36 AM PST by 3AngelaD
Who was it that defined neurosis as repeating the same mistake again and again, and expecting a better outcome each time? That's really what the Clinton campaign is doing in its post-Chesapeake primary strategy. Now Hillary defines Obama as the candidate who makes speeches, while she is the one who provides "answers" and "solutions." Why is Hillary embracing this new line? It's not that she has any great record of solutions or answers of which to boast, but rather that she wants to highlight Obama's lack of a legislative record. Once again, she and her campaign geniuses are making the same mistake they made when they decided to use the experience as their defining difference with Obama. It's not that she had much, but they sensed an opportunity to highlight that he had even less.
Of course experience not only didn't work. It backfired massively. By co-opting the experience tag, Hillary bought into the status quo and left Obama to be the agent of change. A candidacy that could have excited tens of millions of women, the first serious prospect of a female president, became merely a boring part of the status quo, shorn of its novelty.
Hillary's claim to be the solution-person won't work either for the same simple reason: She hasn't passed any. If she were McCain, she could tout a long history of legislative success on key issues and herald her ability to pass bills and engineer progress. But she hasn't done that....
As a first lady, Hillary's sole important legislative involvement came during the first two years of her husband's presidency when she sought to pass her ill-conceived health care reform, an effort that failed so miserably that it cost her party control of the House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years. Between 1995 to 1997, she was largely absent from the White House, traveling the world, promoting her best selling book and helping to raise funds. She never attended strategy meetings and her only intervention in the singular legislative achievements of Bill's administration -- welfare reform and the balanced budget deal -- was privately to urge a veto of the former and to oppose the latter because it provided for a cut in the capital gains tax. Hillary returned to the White House in 1998 to oversee the defense to the Lewinsky scandal...
In the Senate, she has largely spent her time raising funds for herself and other Democrats (in hopes of attracting the votes of super delegates)...
Her legislative accomplishments in her first term in the Senate were almost entirely symbolic....In her second term, she has spent full-time campaigning for president...So who is she kidding? If she wants to hit Obama with a negative based on his inexperience and limited legislative record, she should go right ahead. But to pretend that she is the "solutions" and "answers" person while he gives speeches is absurd....
While polls still show Hillary leading Obama in Texas and also in Ohio, her lead will likely fade and likely disappear by the time their primaries are held two weeks hence. If Obama wins in Wisconsin, he'll probably also carry Ohio, a state with very similar demographics. Neither state has much in the way of Hispanic voters (Only 2% of Ohio is Latino) or recent immigrants, the two key groups that gave Hillary the edge in California, Arizona, and New Mexico.
Hillary’s never run a state, or a business, her campaign’s in shambles. Why would anyone trust her to run a country?
She’s right about one thing.
He gives great speeches — which by default is an admission that she gives boring ones.
I agree with her — his speeches are good, hers are incredibly lame.
Same about Obama even more so.
Neither D Rat candidate has any experience that relates to being successful executive much less any legislative accomplishments. Both are nothiong more than symbolic examples of the bankrupt D Rat party. This election will be won by those voting agains these 2 fools.
Coming back to read this later. I have to finish clearing the snow/ice off the driveway before the next wave comes in later tonight!!!
At least Obama can run his campaign - and his marriage. Hillary can’t even do that.
I guess I’m in the minority, but I don’t think he gives great speeches. I believe that most lefties think he gives great speeches, but to me they are vacant and boring and phony.
Oh come on! Who can honestly say they HAVEN'T had drug and gay-sex parties with up-and-coming black muslim politicians from Chicago?
I know I have!
“Have you seen the Larry Sinclair YOU TUBE accusations of drug use and Gay Sex about Obama?”
You are clearly just spreading around this rumor to help Obama win the Democrat base voters, arent you? We can see through that a mile off. All we need is a bimbo eruption and the ‘new JFK’ will win this walking away. LOL.
The people who would care about that aren’t going to vote for him anyway, and the people who are going to vote for him don’t care about that. I think he has other, much more vulnerable weak points.
72 here now going down to 61 tonight brrrrrr.
GOOD description of Obama’s speeches. He sounds like a revival tent preacher.
His delivery is great. There is just no content, no substance, not even the distant glimpse of a policy or an idea — except to raise taxes. Every time he talks about “change,” about that jar in the kitchen where I deposit pennies, and have a feeling he’s coming after it.
Finding her voice or just crackling.
woman - experience - change - answers - solutions
I agree. Hussein’s speeches are like an emotional pop song. The nice melody lures some in, mesmerizes others.
but when you read the lyrics without hearing the music, you see how meaningless it is. And as with many pop songs, they sound like they about love but are really rooted in hatred.
Well, let him wow and lure and mesmerize until he gets the nomination, then we can point out that the king is wearing no clothes, or that behind the sheep mask is the face of a wolf. .
I know college graduates who only recently became aware of the electoral college. We’re not a very detail oriented society at this point in time. That said, delivery is at least as important, if not more important than substance in American politics.
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