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Demeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-29-08 09:33 AM
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The Regressive Antidote on the Hillary Factor
http://www.regressiveantidote.net/Articles/Sickenme_Flimflam_Clinton.html


GO READ THE WHOLE THING--I LEFT OUT MOST OF THE REALLY GOOD STUFF BECAUSE IT WAS TOO CATTY FOR THIS FELINE TO POST! MEOW! IT'S WORTHY OF THE DAILY SHOW, IT'S THAT GOOD!


....What kind of gall does a person have to have to call your opponent unready to be commander-in-chief after the very best case you can make for your Iraq vote is that you were duped worse than an 1870s Kansas farm boy at the traveling circus? That, of course, is an outrageous lie anyhow, and the truth – that she voted for war as a ticket to the White House – is actually infinitely worse (which is why it is also equally well hidden). But just for the hell of it, forget about that and just take her at her word. Most all of the world’s population, including half the Democrats in Congress, knew Bush was heading directly to war, and was lying profusely about his motives for the invasion. Do we really want a president who couldn’t figure that one out? Or one who has the nerve to even show her face for a debate on foreign policy five years later? Is this what she means when she says “I’m tested”? Question: Are you still “tested” if you failed the test abysmally?

Meanwhile, please forgive me for being impertinent, but I’m told that it takes a wee bit of organizational skill and management experience to run something as vast and recalcitrant as the United States federal government. The biggest thing that Hillary has ever run is her presidential campaign, and all she’s done with that is run it into the ground. This race was her to lose, and she has. And not just because she’s a lousy candidate with no message other than “Restore the Queen”, either. Her campaign has been, in addition, a true management disaster. The Obama people have out-organized, out-hustled and out-smarted the feeble Clinton brain-trust every step of the way. It’s hard for the mind to even imagine how ineffective someone like this would be at the much bigger task of being president. Unless, of course, you happen to have lived through the 1990s.

Many people have wondered why the Clintons have run such an abysmal campaign in general, and why, in specific, they can’t seem to do anything else besides continually play the experience card and carp on Obama for absurdly insignificant supposed transgressions like plagiarism or his kindergarten transcripts (they’re joking, right?). The answer is simple, though. There’s nothing else for them to do. They did the emotion thing. That bought a few delegates. They did the race thing. That lost a slew of delegates. They sent Bill out there and all he managed to do was to remind people that the only thing a Clinton ever cares about is himself. What else is there? There are few political differences between the two candidates, to the point where Hillary’s attempts at making a federal case about his healthcare plan’s deviations from hers only seem comical and desperate. Because they are. Meanwhile, at a personal level, he’s charismatic, she’s not. He’s got integrity, she doesn’t. He attracts independent and even Republican voters, she repels them and would go into the general election already way in the hole. He’s not a Clinton, she is. No wonder she plays the faux experience card. It’s the only difference between the two of them that doesn’t immediately redound in Obama’s favor, even if it’s completely bogus anyhow.

And no wonder it’s all been falling apart for them. Americans are only stupid some of the time, and she seems to have caught the wrong point in the cycle. Hillary has now lost the last eleven contests in a row, always offering some excuse for why this one didn’t count or that one wasn’t really a fair test. It’s gotten so bad that a week or two ago even Bubba admitted that if she doesn’t win Ohio and Texas, she’s through. Despite the fact that that was already the understatement of the century, now the New York Times is reporting that in fact they’ll keep on campaigning even if they lose both states.
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ixion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-29-08 10:17 AM
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1. a truly excellent read
the only thing the author forgot to mention was how the Clintons continued the GOP 'war' on drugs, thus paving the way for its ugly younger brother, the so-called 'war' on terror.
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Demeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-29-08 12:05 PM
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2. Lunch Kick!
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Demeter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-29-08 05:59 PM
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3. Dinner kick!
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