Too experienced?
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.
I was at a Bill appearance on Friday in Texas. There was a large crowd wanting to see him, but no enthusiasm for her. I heard many people remark that they were really hoping Obama will come to town. Bill's events are charged up - but with hero worship for him. Hillary is only secondary.
Stemwinder, schmembinder. The emperor has no clothes!
The Krintons are polluting Austin as we speak.
Global warming, where are you when NotJustAnotherPrettyFace needs you?
Too experienced?
Hey, I used to see you all the time on the threads but not lately! I thought maybe you were in the wave of Giulianiites that left in a huff when their guy didn’t get enough traction here. Glad you are still around.
I wish someone who understands Hispanic would go to her website and watch the Hispanic videos and let us know what she is promising them.
Morris makes a career out of writing about the Clintons
He has a great scam going
He does a good job of delivering speeches written by somebody else. If you listen to the details the speeches are mostly cliches.
I wonder if Tony Robbins is one of his speech writers?
That picture always makes me think of Guarding Tess, only Tess wasn’t nearly as wrinkled.
Well, I’ve been busy living life, but life took a break, so here I am. :)
Do you listen to them, or read them? Obama seems to be good at saying nothing, but with good delivery. If you just read his speeches, you notice that there's nothing of substance
She is also telling them she will "end the war in Iraq," change our stance before the world and have a decent respect for the opinions of humanity, which Bush doesn't have....Interview with Telemundo -- "It is unrealistic to enforce our immigration laws. I will speak out against the demagoguery aimed at Hispanics." The videos are hideous. Frankly, there isn't a lot of substance there. She is promising them a lot, but not really telling them how she would deliver. She would offer them free English classes, supports the DREAM ACT that would allow illegals to attend U.S. colleges on in-state tuition, and would change the immigration laws to allow family reunification {this baffles me, because they already do.} She would extend Medicaid and SCHIP coverage to all legal resident children and pregnant women {this baffles me, too.} A lot of national nanny stuff. She will bring education to the 77 million children around the world who don't have access to schools. I don't think she is dumb enough to put the most outrageous stuff she is promising them on her website.
It is his grand calling in life, isn’t it? Pretty funny. I would like to know the true back story of what caused such great enmity.
I don’t care about it one way or another. Just another example of what is coming out of the wood work at this point.
"Sometimes you want to go..." Welcome back!
“72 here now going down to 61 tonight brrrrrr.”
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Uhhh, are you talking about virgins?
She looks like Mayor Richard J. Daley of Chicago, circa 1974.
His speeches are good — especially if you have a hankering banal, sophomoric, inane, vacuous tripe.
Yuuuckkk. Ridden hard, put away wet.
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