Posted on 01/20/2007 2:32:19 PM PST by MindBender26
As many FReepers know, I’m spent many years in TV network news. I polled old friends and acquaintances today and with one exception, all agreed that Hillary Clinton’s announcement today that she is running for President (yawn) is a HUGE misstep.
First, she did it at a time guaranteed to get her minimum television exposure. The Saturday HUT (Homes Using Television) numbers are miniscule. When was the last time the Saturday Noon News was a “must see” for anyone?
In addition, anyone watching TV today or tomorrow is probably a man and he is tuned into sports. Not Hillary’s target audience!
She should have announced on 4:00 P.M on Thursday, after appearing earlier in the day on GMA, Today, CBSMN, and especially “The View” to coyly announce that she just might have something importance to announce “soon.”
By announcing at 4:00 on a Thursday, she would have been the lead story on all that evening’s newscasts. Thursday is often the second highest rated show of the week. Then she would have been topic #1 that night and all day Friday. She could have been back on the AM shows and The View on Friday, perhaps even a quick Oprah appearance. Friday night’s national news shows would have been all reaction stories, a visit to her hometown, yada yada yada, etc. She would have owned 36 hours of prime TV.
As it is, she chose the absolutely worst time. The Sunday AM shows will be all over it, but no undecided voters watch those shows. She will get no mojo or movement from them. By Monday, it’s old news.
Next her method of announcement. She posted it as a statement on her website.
Idiotic.
She could have gathered 2000 screaming, sigh waving supporters on the Capitol steps, balloons, a band, etc. Could have been a huge hoop de do! CNN, FNC and others would have covered it live, etc. As it was, nothing! In the words of one senior editor, “She mailed it in!”
Next, she has based her campaign on “Stopping Bush.” That’s got about 30 days worth of legs. In addition, everything she says for the next 20 months will be seen as “political.” She just threw away any chance she had of being seen as a healer or “statesman” like. Politically, she just painted a huge target on her back. Every time she says word one on any issue, an “independent” third party spokesperson can rake her over the coals, and the Republicans can stay above it all.
Finally, everyone sees it for what it is. She panicked over Obama.
He is a 60 day flash in the pan, this year’s Weasley Clark or Howard Dean. America is not about to elect a Black, Muslim-trained, admitted cocaine-using man President, no matter how good he looks on TV… this month.
The media loves him…. this month. The media that loves him now will fill the air with “investigative stories” about him next month. By April at the latest, he will be very old news
Bottom line on that issue; Hillary stood eye to eye against a totally non-electable presidential candidate…. from her own party…. and she blinked!
Mark Halperin at ABC is gushing over her announcement, but everyone else is saying “Huh?”
Another said, "She has been planning this for 20 or 30 years, and this is her best shot!?!?" "What's next, shooting Santa Claus on Christmas Eve?"
Actually, unless Gore has definitely said he's not running, he didn't sound so sure about it a couple of weeks ago when Charlies Gibson kept lavishing him with the "Aw shucks, ya' oughta run, you could win it hands down" gushings. Gore hemmed and hawed, avoided a definite statement and left his options open for all intents and purposes.
consider the source.
Subject: Barack Hussein Obama
Barack Hussein Obama was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Barack Hussein Obama Sr. (black muslim) of Nyangoma-Kogelo, Siaya District , Kenya , and Ann Dunham of Wichita , Kansas . (white atheist ). Obama's father, Barack Hussein Obama, Sr. was a radical Muslim who migrated from Kenya to Jakarta , Indonesia . He met Obama's mother, Ann Dunham-a white atheist from Wichita , Kansas -at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. Obama, Sr. and Dunham divorced when Barack, Jr. was two. His mother married Lolo Soetoro -- a Muslim -- moving to Jakarta with Obama when he was six year s old. Within six months he had learned to speak the Indonesian language. Obama spent "two years in a Muslim school, then two more in a Catholic school" in Jakarta . Obama takes great care to conceal the fact that he is a Muslim while admitting that he was once a Muslim, mitigating that damning information by saying that, for two years, he also attended a Catholic school.
Obama's spinmeisters are now attempting to make it appear that Obama's introduction to Islam came from his father and that influence was temporary at best. In reality, the senior Obama returned to Kenya immediately following the divorce and never again had any direct influence over his son's education. Dunham married another Muslim, Lolo Soetoro who educated his stepson as a good Muslim by enrolling him in one of Jakarta 's Wahabbi schools. Wahabbism is the radical teaching that created the Muslim terrori sts who are now waging Jihad on the industrialized world. Since it is politically expedient to be a Christian when you are seeking political office in the United States , Obama joined the United Church of Christ to help purge any notion that he is still a Muslim.
Hope you find this interesting,
Hillary
If so, those things won't really help him in the primary and probably not much in the general.
Surely you jest Sarge.
She'd kill to be pres. in fact she has killed to become pres. And we all know it.
this is the best thing that could have occurred. who thinks bill can be good for 20 months?????
I think the true PTB used Obama to flush Hillary out of hiding. With two years to go, she doesn't need to build up name recognition as most of them do when they declare, she needs to hide her flaws which will be more evident.
It's ok to play the female in distress with Lazio walking to her podium, but that won't fly when you control the world's biggest military.
Whoever is behind the true choice the dems really want running is behind Obama's celebrity to push Hillary front and center way too early.
And make believe she doesn't know it.
A little detail she'll address in her first 100 hours.
Mr. X's observation on seeing that screen capture:
"I'm In....THE CLOSET"
Very interesting thread this morning speculating on when her presentation might have been taped...check the spring/summer foliage outside the window.
That's hillarious.
Her consultant obviously told Sam Brownback the same thing.
Seriously, I thought this was a continuence of the Clinton Friday Document Dump (tm).
Richardson is VERY dangerous as a VP nominee. He is Anglo to Anglos, Hispanic to Hispanics.
He has some personal baggage, and treats staff HORRIBLY.... but....
It is my understanding that She did not announce her candidacy. She announced a decision to form an exploratory committee on Moonday.
She still has opportunity to stage the production you speak of.
She would give up the Senate seat for three jobs:
Prez,
CJ-USSC
and Sec General of the UN.
Yeah, but the "pseudo surprize" is gone.
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...with a pitchfork.
I worry that her overconfidence is based on the fact that she cheats, so she knows that she'll win.
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