Posted on 01/04/2008 5:57:17 AM PST by jdm
It was inevitable, the media and her vast army of consultants, aides and hired attack dogs assured us, Hillary Clinton would walk all the way to the presidency with easy victories over a slate of lackluster rivals in the primaries.
To hear them tell it you would have thought her campaign was a powerful locomotive speeding down the rails to the White House, unstoppable.
Thursday night it came off the tracks, derailed by the equivalent of the little train that wouldn’t say no.
Barack Obama, a relative newcomer to national politics, a year ago largely unknown, not only defeated Hillary Clinton in their first face-to-face encounter, he walloped her, winning about 36 percent of the vote while Hillary was fighting to climb out of a third place finish, locked in a neck-and-neck battle with John Edwards, with each getting about 30 percent.
The results of tonight’s contest in Iowa confirm the speculation that Mrs. Clinton’s closet full of skeletons would emerge to haunt her as the contest developed. As early as last April, Dick Morris and Eileen McGann wrote that Hillary was rapidly losing her lead over Obama, while the number of people who viewed her unfavorably was steadily increasing.
“Hillary isn’t wearing well,” Morris and McGann wrote. “It seems as if the more people see her, the less they like her. Now, for the first time, her low likeability levels are costing her votes.”
Her attempts to soften her image and shed the popular image of herself as a vindictive, cold, calculating opportunist and remake her image into that of a soft caring human only served to convince much of the public that they are watching a contrived performance meant to conceal her true nature which on the record shows she is anything but the kind, warmhearted human being she wants the voters to think she is.
Too many remember her shocking displays of ruthlessness, such as her cold hearted dismal of the White House Travel Office staff, or her use of thuggish private detectives to harass and slander the women who had been sexually mistreated by her husband.
Barack Obama cleverly tapped into the public’s weariness with the White House being occupied by only two families since 1988, the Bush family and the Clintons. He recognized the public’s desire for new faces and new policies and he made change his rallying cry and rode it to victory.
Hillary Clinton underestimated the public’s resentment against her, and discounted their revulsion with the sleazy conduct she and her husband displayed in the White House, typified by their attempted swiping of White House furnishings and artifacts when they left the mansion, and her husband’s last minute pardoning of the likes of fugitive felon Mark Rich.
Lincoln put it best “You can fool some the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.”
Iowa may not mark the end of Hillary’s White House dreams, but it is inevitable that it is the beginning of the end.
You are correct. I certainly don't intend to ignore his success just because I dislike him slightly less than I dislike Queen Hillary.
I agree! The Clinton’s must be outed once and for all.
Hopefully they will never come back to the Mid South.
Right - America is sick of the attack dogs, and she knows no other way. Nobody is buying her warm and friendly act. All the manipulation in the world can’t conceal what she is.
This was just the first battle of a 90 day war. Both Huck-o-Bama have a new battle to fight next Tuesday. After last night, the long knives will be unsheathed and thirsty for blood. The northeastern liberals and conservatives are not the same as their Mid-western Iowan counterparts. There’s plenty of time to find Mr./Mrs. Right/Left. Thompson and Guiliani, et al, have to march thru The South to get to the White House. Obama and Clinton, et al, haver to slog thru the big northern cities to get there.......
He never admitted it, but he either did not vote that election, or he voted Republican.
Long time no see...........
An example of EXPERIENCE:
In a news conference Deanna Favre announced she will be
the starting QB for the Packers this coming Sunday. Deanna
asserts that she is qualified to be starting QB because she
has spent the past 16 years married to Brett while he played
QB for the Packers. During this period of time she became
familiar with the definition of a corner blitz, and is now
completely comfortable with other terminology of the Packers
offense. A survey of Packers fans shows that 50% of those
polled supported the move.
Then God help us all...
There are ‘irregularities’ across the board in all elections and on both sides.. that said...Democrats DID write the book on voter fraud. Expect the worst this time around.
Yup, but the current crop of RINOs are more liberal than the old conservative rats...
I am sure there is “Hell to Pay” in Senator Klinton’s war room today. (Notice how libs have war rooms for Republicans, not terrorists?)
Is there is a much darker and troubling possibility?
Obama won and Clinton lost because of their (initial) position and votes on Iraq.
Let them. Iraq is a winning issue for the right.
“I think Obama will be tough to beat in November. He is positive and resonates with people. We ignore his success at our peril”
I welcome Obama’s success and really hope he’s the rat candidate. He’s unelectable in America today, on a national level. There are more racists in America than you would guess apparently. There’s a block of Americans that wouldn’t vote for him purely on the basis of skin color. Then you throw in the “Hussien” part, being raised in Indonesia for the first 5 years of his life, educated in a madrass... that eliminates another block of voters. I wouldn’t vote for anyone who has muslim roots and started life in another country. I just wouldn’t.
Obama would make McGovern’s race for the president look like a very good effort.
I certainly hope and pray that you're right.
But I was mostly speculating on the far left which typically is more active in primary politics vs. the rank and file.
We’ll know why she thinks she lost by tonight. Whether we see or hear her husband on any media will tell the tale.
Don’t worry. Hillary will bus thousands up to NH from MA to vote for her. This Iowa kurfuffle will not be repeated!
“Hillary Clinton underestimated the public’s resentment against her, and discounted their revulsion with the sleazy conduct she and her husband displayed in the White House.”
Relax, Hillary. You’re going to be humiliated by Obama, but that will make “Hillary! The Musical” (by Andrew Lloyd Weber) even better. Glenn Close will grab the best actress award playing you. ROFLOL
All it will take is one appearence by Jesse Jackson and 2/3rds of Obama’s followers will flee...
Yep. That bit Gore in the ass more than he expected too.
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