Posted on 05/08/2008 6:19:49 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
By the time Hillary Clinton figured out how to beat Barack Obama, it was too late. When she began the race in 2007 thinking she was in for a coronation, she claimed the center in order to position herself for the real fight, the general election. She simply assumed the party activists and loony left would fall in behind her.
However, as Obama began to rise, powered by the party's Net-roots activists, she scurried left, particularly with her progressively more explicit renunciation of the Iraq war. It was a fool's errand. She would never be able to erase the stain of her original war vote and she remained unwilling to do an abject John Edwards self-flagellating recantation. It took her weeks even to approximate the apology the left was looking for, and by then it was far too late. The party's activist wing was by then unbreakably betrothed to Obama.
But going left proved disastrous for Clinton. It abolished all significant policy differences between her and Obama, the National Journal's 2007 most liberal senator. On health care, for example, her attempts to turn a minor difference in the definition of universality into a major assault on Obama fell flat. With no important policy differences separating them, the contest became one of character and personality. Matched against this elegant, intellectually nimble, hugely talented newcomer, she had no chance of winning that contest.
She tried everything. Her charges that he was a man of nothing but words came off as a petulant, envious attack on eloquence. The power to inspire may not be sufficient to qualify for the presidency, but it is hardly a liability.
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>as long as there is a shred of, dare I say...hope?
Heh. thank you for the chuckle - bill
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Good post potlatch -
Yes Hillary....youve come too far, now GO AWAY and take that Hillbilly philanderer and your kid with you...
...you’d better watch out...el rushbo will punch you out if you say bad things about Hilary...
Thank you devolve.
[Loyalty is so fleeting! ]
It sure is to politicians.
Not to normal people
I can only imagine the stress Hillary is going through now, disbelief is more like it.
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I have a hunch the remaining Clinton people who are still with them and loyal - will make Obama suffer thru November and beyond
And Hillary has years left in the US Senate
Ted Kennedy
John Kerry
Nancy Pelosi
Chris Dodd
Tom Harkin
Leon Paneta
- and many more -
They will all suffer the wrath of the Clintons
When Obama gets swamped - and exposed - they will be blamed for picking a radical closet Muslim with terrorist relatives (his Kenyan cousin) and friends
Hint to Bill Clinton:
Find a way to show that Barack Hussein Obama Junior never registered for US Selective Service as required by federal laws
There are no exemptions
An odd resume for a man who wore a gray “USMC” t-shirt when playing basketball on April 25, 2008
Obama will be the cause of no democrat black ever becoming President for the next 50 years
I’ve read too many scary scenarios about why Hillary is still staying in the race. Most to do with putting her and Bill in certain prime positions, the Supreme Court was even mentioned.
You’re right, Hillary can always do the ‘I told you so’ bit. But truthfully, her people haven’t exposed that much about Obama.
His own book is more revealing as to his “true” beliefs.
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Hillary going on Fox News Channel with Bill O’Reilly really got the looney left democrats annoyed
Oddly if she had done it at the beginning of the primaries she would have differentiated herself from Obama, Ol’ Bomber, Rezco & Wright
Stayed mum on healthcare - taxes - Iraq
Hillary would have retained much of the Independents - Reagan democrats - Jews
Obama would always get 92% of blacks
McCain would not get Independents, blacks, Reagan democrats
Now it is OK to say this
But Hillary forgot to use the Bill Clinton “centrist” image
She burned campaign money and took blacks and unions for granted
Karl Rove could have managed Hillary and swept the primaries and the November general election
But she listened to herself and many women staffers and took MoveOn.org and Koz and democrats for granted
Obama cannot win in November with:
11% US blacks - many are convicted felons who cannot legally vote
The urban college educated “Elitists”
Obama has the McGovern/Dukasis/Osama Coalition
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Hillary going on Fox News Channel with Bill O’Reilly really got the looney left democrats annoyed
Oddly if she had done it at the beginning of the primaries she would have differentiated herself from Obama, Ol’ Bomber, Rezco & Wright
Stayed mum on healthcare - taxes - Iraq
Hillary would have retained much of the Independents - Reagan democrats - Jews
Obama would always get 92% of blacks
McCain would not get Independents, blacks, Reagan democrats
Now it is OK to say this
But Hillary forgot to use the Bill Clinton “centrist” image
She burned campaign money and took blacks and unions for granted
Karl Rove could have managed Hillary and swept the primaries and the November general election
But she listened to herself and many women staffers and took MoveOn.org and Koz and democrats for granted
Obama cannot win in November with:
11% US blacks - many are convicted felons who cannot legally vote
The urban college educated “Elitists”
Obama has the McGovern/Dukasis/Osama Coalition
Good comments devolve. I couldn’t get to this earlier. So slow I’m surprised I got here now!!
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