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Hillary's Ignominious Finale
Yahoo ^ | Feb. 26, 2008 | Marc Cooper

Posted on 02/27/2008 6:08:45 AM PST by COUNTrecount

All in all, it was a rather ignominious, belittling way to almost certainly close out the Clinton Era. Hillary would have done much better to spend the 90 minutes of Tuesday night's Ohio debate by repeatedly reading and re-reading her valedictory, closing remarks from last week's Texas match-up during which -- for a few shining moments -- a Good Hillary seemed to radiate with the grandeur of an honored First Lady and potential president of the United States.

But with her national poll numbers now slipping into a double digit lag behind Obama, with her last-ditch firewalls in Ohio and Texas rapidly crumbling, her political future quickly eroding, it was the Bad Hillary who dominated in what could very well be the final presidential debate of the season.

Thirty-five years of selfless public service, if we are to believe her campaign rhetoric, deserved more than this tin-pan finale. Clinton, in her best moments, is certainly capable of something more than a torrent of peevish, petty, picayune, and intellectually dishonest bickering and parsing.

Instead, Senator Clinton chose to remind us why she is losing the nomination that she was once so very sure would inevitably be hers. The smell of a loser permeated the entire low-energy event as Clinton tried to pick apart this or that phrase uttered one time or another by her rival.

Obama's been on a wild tear, continuing to surge and streak and -- to dip into the conventional wisdom -- it's hard to see anything that Clinton did Tuesday to stem his rising tide.

You'd think that Clinton could leave the national political stage with some larger, meaningful gesture. But, unfortunately, the only memorable line that she spoke tonight was a poorly constructed joke, surely written by a staffer.

It's taken me a decade and I'm still stumped trying to figure out what the meaning of "is" might really be. And yet Hillary tossed us the latest Clintonesque head-scratcher during the debate when she asked me -- and the millions watching -- to ponder the "difference between denouncing and rejecting."

I'm not sure which one of these acts of contrition her rival Barack Obama engaged in when asked by the moderators his view on the Reverend Louis Farrakhan. But whichever one it was, it was apparently the wrong one -- according to Senator Clinton.

Likewise, when it came to universal health care. Though Obama has adamantly campaigned on that promise from his first day on the stump, he was actually opposed to universal health care. At least, according to Hillary who belabored the point (to not say she beat it to death) for the first, torturous sixteen minutes of the debate.

And after repeatedly ignoring pleas from moderator Brian Williams to curtail her health care harangue, after extending and re-extending her remarks, Clinton then portrayed herself as a hapless victim of media bias by comparing Williams' questioning to a satirical sketch that aired over the weekend. "Well, could I just point out that in the last several debates, I seem to get the first question all the time? And I don't mind," she said with a grimace. "You know, I'll be happy to field them but I do find it curious. And if anybody saw Saturday Night Live, maybe we should ask Barack if he's comfortable and needs another pillow."

Rimshot!

Or was that a car crash?

Either way, time to bring in the mop-up crews. It's over.


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KEYWORDS: inevitability
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1 posted on 02/27/2008 6:08:48 AM PST by COUNTrecount
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To: COUNTrecount

Even die-in-the-wool democrats were suffering from Klintoon fatigue. Obama gets better numbers (from democrats) because he provides them with an alternative.

One Mrs. Clinton gets out of the way, then we will see if indeed we have a horse race.


2 posted on 02/27/2008 6:13:53 AM PST by Dustoff45 (A non-posting Freeper produces far fewer spelling errors)
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To: COUNTrecount

It is becoming more and more obvious as to why her ‘Health Kare’ program failed. She is an absolute dunce as a leader.


3 posted on 02/27/2008 6:20:48 AM PST by Don Corleone (Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
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To: COUNTrecount

“You’d think that Clinton could leave the national political stage with some larger, meaningful gesture.”

Nope. It’s unfolding just the way it should.

She should simply shut up and go bake some cookies.


4 posted on 02/27/2008 6:21:53 AM PST by EEDUDE
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To: COUNTrecount

The way they let her off on releasing her tax records was disgraceful. They must contain really damaging info like Bin Laden donated 5 million to Bill’s Liebrary and massage parlor.


5 posted on 02/27/2008 6:22:05 AM PST by Hacklehead (Crush the liberals, see them driven before you, and hear the lamentation of the hippies.)
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To: COUNTrecount
I hope she's a better mother than she is a presidential candidate.

Maybe someone should ask her that question.

6 posted on 02/27/2008 6:23:11 AM PST by Crawdad (I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no class.)
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To: COUNTrecount

The moment Wililams brought up the videos of Clinton playing nice at the last debate and then, the next day, shrieking like a banshe over Obama’s campaign mailing, it was over.

I do believe the media had a big hand in sinking her campaign. They overemphasized Bill’s fairly innocuous remarks, and showed her in the worst light.

To use a Seinfeld Quote: “Not that there’s anything wrong with that.”

The Clinton got Clintinized by her own longstanding methods.


7 posted on 02/27/2008 6:24:00 AM PST by OpusatFR
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To: OpusatFR

She is like a car wreck. You don’t want to look, but you can’t help yourself.


8 posted on 02/27/2008 6:26:03 AM PST by nukecheese (Paper or plastic? Who cares! We work at the nuke plant.)
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To: COUNTrecount

I ALMOST felt sory for her had I not been so EMBARASSED!


9 posted on 02/27/2008 6:26:15 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion.....The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Dustoff45
Obama gets better numbers (from democrats) because he provides them with an alternative.

Well.... he seems to offer them an alternative, which isn't quite the same thing.

10 posted on 02/27/2008 6:26:21 AM PST by r9etb
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To: OpusatFR

The Clinton’s are really LOW CLASS....Obama at least acts like he has class...he’s a cool customer without the SLEAZY SLICKNESS.


11 posted on 02/27/2008 6:28:12 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion.....The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Dustoff45

“Obama gets better numbers (from democrats) because he provides them with an alternative.”

I disagree. The media has chosen the donk nominee.


12 posted on 02/27/2008 6:31:13 AM PST by chessplayer
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To: COUNTrecount
She sounded exactly like I expected.

A whiny old b!tch that's not getting her way.

Politics ain’t pretty, and it goes way back past the Clintons, but Hillary embodies all the ugliness and divisiveness we've endured since the early 90's.

13 posted on 02/27/2008 6:31:58 AM PST by digger48 (http://prorev.com/legacy.htm)
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To: COUNTrecount

Barrack might have won my vote if he had replied (after the whine) “better put some ice on that!”


14 posted on 02/27/2008 6:33:57 AM PST by ReleaseTheHounds ("The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.")
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To: chessplayer

Obama has received a million more votes in the primaries and won 11 straight. The MSM may have a lot of influence, but not that much. Hillary is just a poor candidate who has shot herself in the foot time and again. There is a reason why her negatives approach 50% and it has nothing to do with the MSM. Get the hook.


15 posted on 02/27/2008 6:34:00 AM PST by kabar
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To: Don Corleone
She is an absolute dunce as a leader.

Ah, but you must remember...

She is an absolute experienced dunce as a leader.

16 posted on 02/27/2008 6:40:19 AM PST by N. Theknow (Kennedys: Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat; but they know what's best for us)
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To: COUNTrecount

“You’d think that Clinton could leave the national political stage with some larger, meaningful gesture.”

She will leave (kicking and screaming), all right — with a one-finger salute!


17 posted on 02/27/2008 6:40:35 AM PST by Polyxene (For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel - Martin Luther)
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To: Polyxene

B I N G O !


18 posted on 02/27/2008 6:51:53 AM PST by SgtSki
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To: Ann Archy

Hillarys final embarrassment has to be this morning when ‘Morning Joe’ showed a full shot of her enormous rump.


19 posted on 02/27/2008 6:53:14 AM PST by Maumee (wt)
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To: EEDUDE

and go bake some cookies.

Which will be terrible.


20 posted on 02/27/2008 6:53:35 AM PST by Adder (hialb)
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