Clinton: 'white Americans' Want Me!

[Peace Action]

FB may be right. She will bloody Obama so much and cause too much division in the Dem party so that Obama loses to McCain in November and she will be able to run in four years at the age of 65. If she helps Obama win in Novmeber then it is too late for her to run she will 69.

[General Duke]

No one doubts her *********, but will it stop him? I doubt it. The man needed to take down a giant, no one in the Dem;s side is as big or bad as the Clinton's.

[xiinfaniin]

Krauthammer, the WP neoccon, laments Hillary's loss

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Too Late to the Duck Hunt

A Farewell to Hillary

 

By Charles Krauthammer

Friday, May 9, 2008;

 

 

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.

 

She tried a silly plagiarism charge, then settled for the experience card. In a change election, this was not a brilliant strategy. It forced her to dwell on the 1990s, playing candidate of the past to Obama's candidate of the future. Her studied attempts to embellish her experience led her into a thicket of confabulated Bosnian sniper fire.

 

It wasn't until late in the fourth quarter that she found the seam in Obama's defense. In fact, Obama handed her the playbook with Jeremiah Wright, William Ayers, Michelle Obama's comments about never having been proud of America and Obama's own guns-and-God condescension toward small-town whites.

 

The line of attack is clear: not that Obama is himself radical or unpatriotic, just that, as a man of the academic left, he is so out of touch with everyday America that he could move so easily and untroubled in such extreme company and among such alien and elitist sentiments.

 

Clinton finally understood the way to run against Obama: back to the center -- not ideologically but culturally, not on policy but on attitude. She changed none of her positions on Iraq or Iran or health care or taxes. Instead, she transformed herself into working-class Sally-get-her-gun, off duck hunting with dad.

 

The gas tax holiday was never an economic or policy issue. It was meant to position her culturally. It heightened her identification with her white working-class constituency. Obama played his part by citing economists in opposing it. That completed her narrative: He had the pointy-headed professors on his side; she had the single moms seeking relief at the pump.

 

It was an overreach. It not only deflected attention away from the amazing Rev. Wright at the height of his spectacular return. It also never played as the elitist-vs.-working-folk issue she had wanted, because it isn't just economists who know the gas tax holiday is nothing but a cheap gimmick. Ordinary folks do, too. And the gas tax idea had the unfortunate side effect of reinforcing Hillary's main character liability vis-a-vis Obama: cynical Washington pol willing to do or say anything to win votes vs. the idealistic straight shooter refusing to pander even if it costs him.

 

The lightness in Hillary's step in the days before Indiana and North Carolina reflected the relief of the veteran politician who, after months of treading water, finally finds the right campaign strategy. But it was far too late. And the gas tax overkill, one final error of modulation, sealed the deal -- for Obama.

 

There's only one remaining chapter in this fascinating spectacle. Negotiating the terms of Hillary's surrender. After which we will have six months of watching her enthusiastically stumping the country for Obama, denying with utter conviction Republican charges that he is the out of touch, latte-sipping elitist she warned Democrats against so urgently in the last, late leg of her doomed campaign.

 

 

ps. FB waa ku salaamay! As you can read above, it's about Hillary's terms of surrender, will she demand the VP post? It will be interesting to watch...

[Baashi]

"Negotiating the terms of Hillary's surrender" is what it came down to.

 

PS: Charles, George Will, late William Buckley Jr....conservatives have number of intellectual and eloquent heavy hitters and I mean big time heavy hitters.

[STOIC]

She should at least perhaps appropriately realize no more slickness, expediency, and disingenuous left. It is time for the youthful, exuberant, and thoughtful young Obama. Move….Get out the way….Her campaign was all wrapped up in controversies and derogatory snipping. No one can wield power with an Iron fist unless of course you are military Junta from Bama. At the core of Clinton problem was her own failure to find a middle ground with the regular voters without casting O-man as an elite inexperienced candidates.

[Baashi]

Stoic according to pundits who know lil bit about the personalities involved (we're just repeating what they spoonfed us) are of the opinion that Clintons took the title of Dem leadership for granted and have a sense of entitlement of WH occupancy. Halkaa weeye halka shidadu uga timid.

 

Truth to be told this lady is hekuva tough lady and her husband is an extremely talented man. My man Obama will go down in history as the man, against all odds being black, new kid in the block and all, who defeated the popular Clintons with universal name recognition.

 

Not bad at all.

[STOIC]

Baashi,

I was reading the other day how her supporters like Harvey Weinstein of Miramax Pictures threatened Speaker Pelosi with cut-back of funds to congressional Democrats if Pelosi didn’t back off from her comment about the decision to stick with the person with the most pledged delegates. She is really an Iron-lady. The metaphor of for good or ill has permeated her psych. It is Hillary or nobody like the pundits from virtually every political perspective has concluded. What is more, her arrogance has no bounds. Instead of her to recast her image as party builder she only alienates herself from the common Democrat in the Street. If Obama wins-as he should-the first and the most obvious challenge he will face are damage done by these unnecessary prolonged primaries. Although I believe Obama eminent response to all his failings in the primaries should made sense when we get to November.

[rudy-Diiriye]

hillary is gone! shes just fighting now for vp. obama and hillary ticket will kill gacan seef ..old mcain.