Posted on 05/05/2008 9:50:25 PM PDT by The_Republican
Life is short, but campaigns are long. And during the course of them, each candidate will have impressive and pathetic moments. But underlying the highs and lows, there are the fundamentals. The fundamentals of the Obama-Clinton race were on display Sunday morning.
Hillary Clinton went on “This Week With George Stephanopoulos” incarnating her role as the first Democratic Rambo. The Clinton campaign seems to want to reduce the entire race to one element: the supposed masculinity gap. And so everything she does is all about assertion, combat and Alpha dog dominance.
A few questions in, Clinton rose from her chair and loomed over Stephanopoulos. The country hasn’t seen such a brazen display of attempted middle-aged physical intimidation since Al Gore took a walkabout on the debate stage with George Bush. It was like watching someone get elbowed in a dark alley by their homeroom teacher.
But her attempt to take over the show was nothing compared with her attempt to dominate the truth. For the first 30 minutes, she did not utter a single candid word, including, as Mary McCarthy would say, “and” and “the.”
She peddled her sham gas-tax holiday and repeated her attempt to blame Indiana’s job losses on outsourcing and Nafta. Stephanopoulos asked her to name a single economist who thinks a tax-holiday plan would work, and the daughter of Wellesley and Yale took the chance to shove the geeks into their lockers: “I’m not going to put my lot in with economists.”
When Stephanopoulos pointed out that Paul Krugman, a Times columnist, has raised doubts about the plan, Clinton lumped Krugman in with the Bush administration and said she wasn’t going to listen to the people responsible for the last seven years.
This wasn’t just shameless spin, it was shamelessness with a purpose.
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HIllary shameless????????????
Ah where have all these people been? Ms ‘it’s all a vast right wing conspiracy’ doesn’t even know the meaning of the word “shame”.
Ironically, Paul Krugman, who Hillary threw under the bus and then drove over him multiple times, has been one of her BIGGEST Champions and supporters.
I wonder if he changes his tune.
I would be he won’t. He is smart. He hopes to get somethingt out of President Hillary and that is important to him. Unlike Jeremiah Wright, who threw his parishoner under the bus and tried to end his political career by doing everything he can to hurt him.
That is the Luck of Klintons and Tragedy of Obama.
Brooks is in rare form, here. I got a chuckle out of his painting of Shillery and Obambi.
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