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.
It ain't the message it's the messenger. Hillary Clinton is a mediocre intellect, a mundane excuse for a human being, a do-nothing senator, and a failure as a woman. Why would any sentient human being vote for this false-front excuse for a candidate?
Fingers faster than brain, yet again.
Democrats are enthralled with the guy. They've fallen in love...
My thoughts exactly. Not one of those videos was with english sub titles or so Americans could see what she was promising them.
If I had considered voting for her, which will never happen, I would be upset that she wasn't more open on her promises.
I am bilingual and reported the stuff she said in Spanish on the videos that I found the most outrageous. I don’t think she would put that on her website. When she meets with La Raza and private, I am sure the promises are very different.
But, WI doesn’t even have that many Blacks outside of Milwaukee.
I'm sure your right, I don't trust her at all. She would say and do anything to win this election!
Then, there's also the matter of tone.
While I don't normally go in for some of the various names for Hillary Rodham, there is one that seems to somehow fit..."Screech".
Hillary has an odd " screechy" speaking voice that for some reason seems to "shout" mental instability.
It'll be interesting to see what happens in the Peoples Republic of Madison (WI) on Primary day, since this area is about to get socked - yet again - with another snowstorm!
The Ten Stupidest Things “That Woman” Has Ever Said:
10. “I have to confess that it’s crossed my mind that you could not be a Republican and a Christian.”
9. “God bless the America we are trying to create.”
8. “We have a lot of kids who don’t know what works means. They think work is a four-letter word.”
7. “He ran a gas station down in St. Louis... No, Mahatma Gandhi was a great leader of the 20th century.” –introducing a quote by Mahatma Gandhi
6. “Who is going to find out? These women are trash. Nobody’s going to believe them.” –on Bill Clinton’s bimbo eruptions
5. “If I didn’t kick his ass every day, he wouldn’t be worth anything.” –on Bill Clinton
4. “I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession which I entered before my husband was in public life.”
3. “We are going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.”
2. “I have said that I’m not running and I’m having a great time being pres — being a first-term senator.” —on her presidential ambitions
1. “I’m not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.”
http://politicalhumor.about.com/od/hillaryclinton/a/hillaryquotes.htm
And just how does that make him different than any of the other dems?
Memories, memories. I was a member of the Milwaukee Nordic Ski Club for about five years until my then-employer went bankrupt and I moved to Knoxville, TN in 1987 to take the job from which I finally retired a few years ago. We’d always pray for snow like they’re having now and often not get it. The Illinois and southern Wisconsin Nordic skiers must think they’ve died and gone to heaven.
I notice that Hillary made her statement that Obama give speeches and she gives solutions during her....SPEECH!!!
“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....”
~snorrfle!~ I LOVE to hear Morris on Hillary. You can still hear the pain in his voice, that he once trusted the tart!
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