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Mark Steyn: Obama makes Hillary look like Bill Richardson
OC Register ^ | 2.23.08 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 02/23/2008 6:34:32 AM PST by knews_hound

On the day that Margaret Thatcher was toppled by her own party, I ran into an old friend, a hard-core leftist playwright, Marxist to the core, who wasn't as happy as he should have been. He jabbed me in the chest. "You bastards on the right!" he fumed. "You wouldn't even let us be the ones to drive the stake through her heart."

I'm sure in America's Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy there are similar mixed feelings. The Clintons have met their Waterloo but it's not some doughty conservative warrior who gets to play Duke of Wellington, only some freshman pap peddler of liberal boilerplate whom no one had heard of the day before yesterday.

Such are the vicissitudes of politics. I see from the gay newspaper the Washington Blade that, as the headline writer put it, "Clinton Leads Among Gay Super Delegates." Only in the Democratic Party. I don't know how many supergays it takes to outvote the nonsuper primary and caucus voters from Maine to Nevada to Hawaii. They may yet pull Sen. Clinton's chestnuts out of the fire, but they're looking pretty charred and indigestible right now. Unlike the Fall of Thatcher, it's nothing so glamorous as an act of matricide, but just the nightly hell of a tired vaudeville act that can no longer find the spark.

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To: egginanest

A picture paints a thousand words. Great photo.


41 posted on 02/23/2008 7:44:37 AM PST by littlehouse36 (I miss Hillary already.)
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To: hosepipe

Michelle Obama makes Oprah look like Barbara Bush.


42 posted on 02/23/2008 7:46:21 AM PST by littlehouse36 (I miss Hillary already.)
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To: knews_hound

Excellent. Although every time I read him I have to repeatedly go to Dictionary.com.


43 posted on 02/23/2008 7:46:48 AM PST by manic4organic (Send a care package through USO today.)
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To: Charles Henrickson

LOL!

Exactly what I pictured when I read that line.


44 posted on 02/23/2008 7:47:15 AM PST by maggief
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To: knews_hound; dighton; Billthedrill
Hillary is what the Clintons look like with their pants up.

Steyn-a-roonie.

45 posted on 02/23/2008 7:47:33 AM PST by aculeus
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To: knews_hound
Can Barbra Streisand and the Supergays get Hillary airborne again?


46 posted on 02/23/2008 7:56:58 AM PST by maggief
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To: knews_hound
If Steyn says it's over, it's over. Unfortunately, he doesn't quite conclude that - nor can he. Obama could still have an unfortunate "accident".

Nobody in his right mind would ever count the Clinton's "out".

47 posted on 02/23/2008 8:00:27 AM PST by Gritty (Bill gave the party an appetite for slick lounge acts and this time Barack's delivering it -Mk Steyn)
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To: Gritty
Nobody in his right mind would ever count the Clinton's "out".

Very true. I would not count Shrillary dead until I saw her bleached bones lying in the sun - and even then, I'd check dental records.

48 posted on 02/23/2008 8:10:14 AM PST by Slings and Arrows ("Those who surrender personal liberty for lower global temperatures will receive neither."--weegee)
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To: MeekOneGOP; potlatch; devolve; ntnychik; dixiechick2000; nicmarlo; calcowgirl; knews_hound; BKO; ...

"Livarsi `na pietra di la scarpa!"

49 posted on 02/23/2008 8:21:19 AM PST by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: knews_hound
"Go back to that Staples Center entrance in 2000, and try to imagine Hill walking that walk. How far would she get before the applause died away and she'd be padding that endless corridor to no audible accompaniment but the clack of her heels?"

The image of Hill waddling the distance is more than anyone could stomach - especially to any applause!!

50 posted on 02/23/2008 8:24:38 AM PST by LADY J
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To: PhilDragoo
"Livarsi `na pietra di la scarpa!"

huh???????

51 posted on 02/23/2008 8:25:51 AM PST by nicmarlo (A vote for McRino is a false mandate for McShamnesty)
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To: knews_hound

bttt


52 posted on 02/23/2008 8:27:25 AM PST by Vinomori
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To: nicmarlo
Carlos [Marcello] started stomping around the room, ranting and screaming about what he was going to do to the younger Kennedy brother. "Livarsi `na pietra di la scarpa!" he shouted. Translated from Sicilian it meant: "Take the stone out of my shoe!" He looked at Becker and said, "Don’t worry about that [expletive deleted] Bobby, he’s gonna be taken care of!"

/ Ron Brown >

53 posted on 02/23/2008 8:32:46 AM PST by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: knews_hound
"Go back to that Staples Center entrance in 2000, and try to imagine Hill walking that walk. How far would she get before the applause died away and she'd be padding that endless corridor to no audible accompaniment but the clack of her heels?"

The image of Hill waddling the distance is more than anyone could stomach - especially to any applause!!

54 posted on 02/23/2008 8:32:59 AM PST by LADY J
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To: C210N; hosepipe

“As for the U.S. 2008 presidential race, Mr. Soros, who gave $18 million to Democratic advocacy groups seeking to defeat President Bush in 2004, said he supported Barack Obama.”

http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/01/27/george-soros-backs-obama-but-hedges-his-bets/

“However, Soros’ backing Obama will put pressure on Clinton to move left. That takes her off her gameplan and may cast her march toward the nomination as more dogfight than coronation parade.”

http://64.233.169.104/search?q=cache:F3Uvdn_VPg8J:dailypundit.com/%3Fp%3D23995+soros+hillary+obama+money&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=7&gl=us

Hillary pissed Soros off with her not left enough stand on Iraq and Iran. This goes back to before the 2006 elections with Soros flexing his muscles.

I am convinced that the reason Obama is winning (has won?) is the backing of Soros and Move On.


55 posted on 02/23/2008 8:35:12 AM PST by dervish (Mugniyah - paybacks a b_tch)
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To: PhilDragoo

Funny, it doesn’t mention “la strega”.


56 posted on 02/23/2008 8:36:01 AM PST by reg45
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To: PhilDragoo

ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

ty


57 posted on 02/23/2008 8:37:26 AM PST by nicmarlo (A vote for McRino is a false mandate for McShamnesty)
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To: reg45; PhilDragoo

lol!


58 posted on 02/23/2008 8:37:57 AM PST by nicmarlo (A vote for McRino is a false mandate for McShamnesty)
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To: C210N
he (McCain) is a Soros-light. McCain was a useful idiot to Soros WRT campaign finance “reform”, but on most other issues, he is anathema to Soros.

Huh?

Specifics please, and be prepared to defend:

-McCain-Feingold (excused, you already identified him as a "useful idiot" - your words)
-McCain-Lieberman
-McCain-Kennedy
-McCain-Edwards

59 posted on 02/23/2008 8:42:02 AM PST by The Citizen Soldier ("There is only one reason to be a Christian: because it's true" – Francis Schaeffer)
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To: knews_hound

LOL. Nobody says it better than Steyn.

He hits the nail on the head with accuracy, humor, and a bit of compassion for Hillary at the end.

I’m thankful if Obama has saved us from the Clintons. Now, if we can just be saved from him!


60 posted on 02/23/2008 8:43:04 AM PST by LucyJo
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