It's All About Me

FrontPageMagazine.com ^ | August 27, 2008 | Kathy Shaidle

[ClearCase_guy]

“Barack Obama is my candidate, and he must be our president,” Clinton concluded.

She never asked her supporters to support Obama. Not once. She chose her words carefully.

[PistolPaknMama]

Missing in all of this was any discussion of the candidate’s character, the experiences that made him uniquely qualified to run the government,

Maybe because she, like at least half of the country, believes he has neither?

[cake_crumb]

"This [Hillary Clinton's speech] proved unfortunate for Barack Obama, who is yet to score any discernable bounce after Monday's widely panned convention kickoff."

Hmmm. Both amazing and ironic. Carefully choreographed, Clintonista minigates managed to successfully create the Pavlovian "It's Bush's fault!" response whenever anything went wrong, whether it was a minor traffic jam or their teenager not studying and getting a D on an important test....

Now the media are blaming every single little thing that goes wrong this election cycle on...Hillary Rodham Clinton.

They either don't want a Democrat elected this year unless it's Barack Obama, or they're not thinking through the consequences of their actions, because they may make Hillary unelectable as a backup candidate should the Obama campaign continue failing.

Obama's lack of bounce is nobody's fault but his own. It's not a vast conspiracy. Both the Clinton camp and us conservatives are jumping on the ample opportunities for derision that the Obama camp gives us every day! And why not? It's not even a challenge.

[auto power]

Watching Hillary’s facial expressions last night, it was very telling and noticeable that she was rehearsing her speech without feeling...at all. Watch her body language and her eye contact and you’ll see a definite “I’m forced to give this damn speech and I don’t believe a damn word I’m saying.....it should have been ME.”

[DustyMoment]

"I know Senator McCain has a lifetime of experience that he will bring to the White House. And Senator Obama has a speech he gave in 2002."

LOL!!! If McCain doesn't hammer the airways with that commercial from now to November, he might as well admit that he's voting for Obama. This could be the clincher for McCain.

Imagine the impact of running Hillary saying that line, then a brief look at McCain's career vs. Obama, the "community organizer".

Slam dunk!!!

[joshhiggins]

Hilary's slogan “No way, no how, no McCain” just sounds awkward.

Maybe she meant to say “No way, no how, Nobama”

[N. Theknow]

Obama = National version of Ned Lamont

[generally]

In addition to HRC’s carefully chosen words, I thought the TV commentators were also in her camp. I watched the lead up to her speech on NBC.

The overall feeling that I got from the commentators was that they knew, not just hoped, that “something” might happen. IIRC, there were words to the effect of “*IF* she can persuade her people to support Obama.” This was reapeated over and over and over.

The other theme, constantly harped on was “If HRC, who? If not now, when?” This was in reference to a woman President.

I felt like I was being propagandized both to accept (or demand) a woman President and to want one RIGHT NOW. And who might that obvious choice be?

[generally]

That was supposed to read “If not HRC, who? If not now, when?”

[cake_crumb]

"Clinton wasn’t above playing the sex card, either: for millions of women, Republican and Democratic alike, the prospect of electing the first female President evoked powerful emotions. A deferred dream that compelling won’t die after a single speech by Hillary Clinton, no matter how brilliantly crafted and delivered. And this speech was cultivated to do anything but bury them."

Poor Barack. Looks like the sex card IS more powerful than the race card this year. After all, there are only a certain number of African Americans in this country, and half of them are women. BWAHAHAHAHA (I'm out of popcorn and having withdrawl)

[ClearCase_guy]

That quote from Bill Clinton is gold. There is also a quote from Joe Biden saying that Barack Obama simply wasn't ready to be president. There is also a quote from Barack Obama saying that by 2008 he wouldn't have enough experience to run for president.

String 'em together, make a commercial: "I'm John McCain -- I agree with these 3 guys, and I approve this message."

[cake_crumb]

"Imagine the impact of running Hillary saying that line, then a brief look at McCain's career vs. Obama, the 'community organizer'."

I had forgotten all about here saying that until this article. Luckily, somebody in the McCain camp didn't.

[N. Theknow]

She never asked her supporters to support Obama. Not once. She chose her words carefully.

Well, maybe it's because she has "come to fahr and ain't no ways tarred."

And you know what I'm talkin' 'bout.

[MuttTheHoople]

She included a number of anecdotes about herself, including a touching story about a cancer stricken woman who greeted her with the word “Hillary” “painted on her bald head.”

[cake_crumb]

"Obama = National version of Ned Lamont"

I was thinking more of a cross between Liberace and Neville Chamberlain. (At least Lamont is capable of starting his own company)

[cake_crumb]

"...there were words to the effect of '*IF* she can persuade her people to support Obama.' "

That could be just the media doing what they do best: creating conflict in order to keep tense viewers glued to their station.

[aruanan]

As she spoke, tall vertical signs throughout the rapturous crowd read “OBAMA” on one side and “UNITY” on the other.

Some interesting anagrams for OBAMA UNITY:

Buoyant Aim
To Buy Mania
You Bait Man
I Am a Nut Boy
A Man Bit You

[astounded]

...”A tearful Bill Clinton repeatedly mouthed the words “I love you” from his box high above the crowd.”...

That’s true, but he was mouthing it to the hot redhead who was sitting next to him.

Did anyone besides me notice that the Bent One also hugged her waaaay longer and tighter than he did the middle-aged battleaxe who was next to Red?

[HIDEK6]

Hilary's slogan “No way, no how, no McCain” just sounds awkward.

It sounds an awful lot like, "Can I git me a huntin' license h'yar?"