Posted on 12/24/2007 12:00:23 PM PST by jdm
SEN. Hillary Rodham Clinton has lost the air of inevitability that once surrounded her campaign for the Democratic nomination. It remains to be seen whether she's willing to lose her soul in her quest for the presidency.
Only a month ago, her main rival, Sen. Barack Obama, was dismissed as a "lightweight" by the political establishment. Now he has a slight lead over Senator Clinton in Iowa and New Hampshire and is believed to have a good chance of winning South Carolina.
Magic Johnson's recent endorsement aside, the advantage Senator Clinton once enjoyed over Senator Obama among African-Americans has disappeared. He's even cut into her support from women.
The Clinton campaign has reacted to this change in fortune by going into what can only be described as panic mode. Using political surrogates, campaign apparatchiks, and an increasingly indignant former president, the senator's nomination drive has engaged in a level of innuendo remarkable in its sleaziness.
Days after the firing of a campaign worker who passed along e-mail suggesting Senator Obama was a Manchurian candidate, Billy Shaheen, the co-chair of the Clinton New Hampshire campaign, said Senator Obama would be vulnerable to Republican attack because of his admitted drug use as a teenager. Mr. Shaheen resigned and Senator Clinton apologized.
Shortly after that, former President Bill Clinton questioned Senator Obama's credentials to be president after praising his "tremendous political skills. " In that vein, former Sen. Bob Kerry of Nebraska cited Senator Obama's "Islamic" name and background in Indonesia as a valuable asset to the United States.
It was a disingenuous and back-handed compliment, for which Senator Kerry has apologized. But it wasn't as tacky as the comment by former United Nations ambassador Andrew Young, who told a predominantly black audience that Bill Clinton was "blacker" than Senator Obama and that...
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It would be rewarding to see the Dems dining upon one another more than the cannibalization now going on inside the GOP but sadly I’ll not hold my breath.
According to Muslims he is. And I am wondering why no one is willing to point that out.
Muslims do not recognize conversions. Under Islamic law, there are no former Muslims. There are infidels, Muslims and apostates.
Would a Muslim King, President or Prime Minister even be allowed to meet with an apostate Muslim under Sharia law? What sort of pressure could Muslim rulers be expected to exert on Obama to force him to “return to Islam”. What sort of fatwas could be expected from Muslim clerics regarding Obama?
Why is this topic absolutely verboten? It seems to be both relevant and timely.
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NEVER FORGET
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” ‘Rule-making for others, Rule-breaking for herself’
...is HILLARY’s lifetime M.O. “
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...wrote Political Columnist MICHAEL BARONE, U.S. News & World Report Magazine - 1999
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NEVER FORGET
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Interesting analysis. I noticed that Newsweek is featuring John Edwards very prominently. I wonder if he is the MSM’s dark horse if Hillary stumbles.
Thanks for the chuckle.
Maybe he figured out God’s message. Just saying.
I don’t know what Young meant, but what he said was that Clinton had probably DATED more Black women than Obama.
Lol, good graphic Phil.
I do agree! I don’t know what her comrades think they’ll get in return for their loyalty.
Hillery FLYS all alone.
Her stage, her victory, her power.
Selfish-witch!
Gee. That cartoon is unbiased, isn’t it?
Now, it is (trying to) hit Obama, the republicans (Swift boat vet’s), or making a back-hand smear of Mrs Clinton - by exaggerating the Obama Islamic ties?
And that little fact is what their strength is: Actually, Obama’s weakness (experience) is a double-edged tool - Mrs Clinton can’t claim experience either! And the more people talk with each other - rather than the MSM's "assumed" authorities - who uniformly IGNORE her vulnerable lack of experience at doing anything - the poorer her campaign becomes. Her supporters simply can't argue that she has experience either.
LOL Merry Christmas
Do what? Secret hidden agendas? I don't know what to say that might not be taken the wrong way, like in kidding, so keyboard, don't you do it!
Thanks for the ping!
No problem for Hill. Her morality dead voters will love Hill even more for having an affair with an Muslim Skank.
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