Posted on 04/24/2008 12:44:25 PM PDT by Dems_R_Losers
"This election," Bill Clinton said in the hours before the Pennsylvania primary, "is too big to be small." It was a noble sentiment, succinctly stated, and the core of what Democrats believe — that George W. Bush has been a historic screwup as President, that there are huge issues to be confronted this year. But it was laughable as well. The Pennsylvania primary had been a six-week exercise in diminution, with both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama — and Bill Clinton too — losing altitude and esteem on an almost daily basis. Even as he spoke, the former President was in the midst of a tiny, self-inflicted absurdity, having claimed in a radio interview that the Obama campaign had played the "race card" against him. And that was the least of the damage.
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But that was nothing compared with the damage done to Obama, who entered the primary as a fresh breeze and left it stale, battered and embittered — still the mathematical favorite for the nomination but no longer the darling of his party. In the course of six weeks, the American people learned that he was a member of a church whose pastor gave angry, anti-American sermons, that he was "friendly" with an American terrorist who had bombed buildings during the Vietnam era, and that he seemed to look on the ceremonies of working-class life — bowling, hunting, churchgoing and the fervent consumption of greasy food — as his anthropologist mother might have, with a mixture of cool detachment and utter bemusement. All of which deepened the skepticism that Caucasians, especially those without a college degree, had about a young, inexperienced African-American guy with an Islamic-sounding name and a highfalutin fluency with language.
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
“...Caucasians, especially those without a college degree, had about a young, inexperienced African-American guy with an Islamic-sounding name and a highfalutin fluency with language.”
Time is such trash. I won’t give them the web hit. The sentence above shows their snotty condensation towards regular people, “especially those without a college degree”. It is exactly the same attitude that Obama has towards us and the real reason why regular people don’t trust him. Like Time, ideology and party trumps what is good for the country (just look at Obama’s stance on capital gains taxes). They’re nothing but scum writing about scum.
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the smarmy American-flag-pin question from an “average citizen”
Like the picture of his without his hand over his heart for the anthem. It matters to me and many others.
Well said.
THe Clinton Modus Operandi
Deny...they denied Obama was winning
Delay...The successfully delayed him winning
Destroy...They will destroy him after June 2, such that he will be so damages that the super-delegates can’t vote for him as the party nominee.
Bank on it.
Early release?
Joe Klein, the author of the sentence above, is standing too close to recognize it, but the democratic party can't "break free of those stereotypes" because it is a stereotype.
There was a “HUGE” turnout for the democrat primary to select the best Marxist idiot
The fact that so much enthusiasm was shown for two American hating left wingers is downright depressing
THAT IS THE REAL STORY
Typical liberal. He thinks if it is not important to him , it’s not important.
By August the RATS will be ready to nominate the first person through the convention center door rather than these two idiots.
Klein is worried they got character questions. Well at least the candidates weren’t dodging sniper fire while clinging to guns with bitterness during the debate. or maybe they were?
Both parties could do that, and they'd be better off.
All of us would be better off.
George W. Bush has been a historic screwup as President
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but not nearly as much as his predecessory! Bill Clinton’s legacy will go down as the impeached one, Monica’s boy toy.
GWB is not a ‘historic screwup’ by any rational measure. That’s nothing but a LW mantra.
I was quoting from the article’s second line. Here’s the entire first sentence: “It was a noble sentiment, succinctly stated, and the core of what Democrats believe — that George W. Bush has been a historic screwup as President, that there are huge issues to be confronted this year.”
Didn’t mean to give you the impression that I think GWB is a screwup of any kind. In fact, history will be much kinder to him than the MSM. And I personally cannot think of a single person I’d rather have had in the Oval Office on 9-11.
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