Here's why Hillary flipped out today...

[Renew Deal]

I saw the video of Hillary getting emotional about the two mailers. The mailers are nothing new. They've been around for a while, and in fact, have been in Ohio for at least a couple weeks. If she had a problem she could have brought it up in the last debate. Here's the real story about why Hillary flipped.

1. The last debate. Hillary intentionally or unintentionally appeared to be conceding to Obama. The "I'm honored to be here with Obama" bit didn't come out as intended. It has been been termed as "valedictory." It looked like she knew it was over, and word went out that way.

2. Obama's got money and he's using it. Obama is able to go deep with voters. He can hit them with multiple pieces and multiple ads. He's able to expand the electorate.

3. Hillary is broke. Hillary cannot reach voters the way Obama can. Her options are to use free media such as press conferences and debates. She's trying to tell voters to not believe the mailers because she can't match them with her own mailers. BTW, direct mail is very effective. Also, Obama is advertising in Vermont and RI. Hillary isn't in any meaningful way.

4. Hillary's campaign is negative and everyone knows it. Hillary's xerox remark was profoundly negative and didn't play well. 54% of Wisconsin voters said that Hillary's attacks were unfair. She's trying to turn that around by saying that Obama is the one that is truly negative.

5. Hillary is desperate. With the union endorsements and superdelegate action, it's getting bad for Hillary in a hurry. Some are suggesting she might be out by March 4. This is all bad news for Hillary. She's desperate to change the narrative and desperate to look like she's not quitting.

That's what's going on today...

Obama has resources to counter Hillary's hysterics. The #1 thing he can do is drag out the unions to back him up on health care and NAFTA. This would play well for him.

**Note: If you have a problem with "hysterical", substitute one of these words:

agitated, berserk, beside oneself, blazing, carried away*, convulsive, crazed, crazy, delirious, distracted, distraught, emotional, excited, fiery, frantic, frenzied, fuming, furious, impassioned, impetuous, incensed, irrepressible, mad, maddened, nervous, neurotic, overwrought, panic-stricken, passionate, possessed, rabid, raging, rampant, raving, seething, spasmodic, tempestuous, turbulent, uncontrollable, uncontrolled, unnerved, unrestrained, uproarious, vehement, violent, wild, worked up*

http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/hysterical

[CountAllVotes]

1. remember The Teamsters Union!

and you don't mess with them please. }(

:dem:

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[Leopolds Ghost]

17. According to my Home Almanac, reprinted in the 1970s

Hysteria is a women's ailment that can be cured by a home remedy such as a
(!) poultice (!)

On Edit: Mood swings are a symptom of "female hysteria" according to the Almanac.

Home Remedy: Chew up bark, herbs, squirrel, and mix in a kettle...

[tbyg52]

39. Hysteria actually *is* a sexist term, at least in its root

which is the same as "hysterectomy."

[nolabels]

59. My my sisters mother in law would make possum pie in earlier years

Thank goodness we don't live anywhere near them

The role adults get to play in this hysteric thing seems kind of overrated :shrug:

[sniffa]

3. Good points

Her campaign is in its last throes.

[babylonsister]

4. Except it seems she has her own mailers floating around Ohio, which

makes her a hypocrite on top of everything else.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4729128

[gateley]

56. Don't know if this particular one is going around Ohio or not, but....

[tekisui]

5. Free coverage. She's broke, and can't afford to keep up.

[progdog]

18. Bingo! n/t

[rosetta627]

60. Savvy insight tekisui

She is running out of (legitimate) options.

[TwilightGardener]

6. Excellent analysis--especially the part where she's not able to counter

Obama's ads and mailers with enough of her own, so she makes an outrageous and emotional attack in the hopes it will get a lot of free air time for her--she's pulling a version of a "Huckabee"--remember when he held a press conference to NOT air a negative ad, which he then aired in the hopes that the press would run it?

[woolldog]

7. She's having mood swings.

She's one person at the beginning of the debate, another person in the middle of the debate, and yet another at the end. And today, she's someone else. It makes her look psycho.

[Metric System]

14. Mood swings? Ugh.

[Forkboy]

41. Well, that's women for ya.

:eyes:

[woolldog]

51. Men have mood swings too

for example, John McCain. He doesn't have the emotional stability to be president, imo.

[krkaufman]

55. Yeah, McCain swings between angry and bitter. n/t

[Forkboy]

63. It was sarcasm.

Tough room.

[amborin]

57. misogyny

so many men like yourself have issues with women

the thought of a woman in a position of power terrifies these men

so many Hillary haters suffer this weakness

they are little boys still angry at mommy, and lashing out at every other woman they meet

[Forkboy]

62. It was sarcasm.

:eyes:

[cliffordu]

64. Well, let me just say...

My wife thinks you're full of crap.

[K Gardner]

8. That's a very nice, rational post Bleachers, thanks. Only one problem..

you used the word, "hysterical". I'm told that's sexist :-) :hi:

[Renew Deal]

9. Ahhh

That's all BS.

[cloudythescribbler]

29. "hyster" is the ancient Greek word for uterus -- like "hysterectomy" &c nt

[Renew Deal]

31. OK, so pick one of these words

agitated, berserk, beside oneself, blazing, carried away*, convulsive, crazed, crazy, delirious, distracted, distraught, emotional, excited, fiery, frantic, frenzied, fuming, furious, impassioned, impetuous, incensed, irrepressible, mad, maddened, nervous, neurotic, overwrought, panic-stricken, passionate, possessed, rabid, raging, rampant, raving, seething, spasmodic, tempestuous, turbulent, uncontrollable, uncontrolled, unnerved, unrestrained, uproarious, vehement, violent, wild, worked up*

http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/hysterical

[jgraz]

66. OK, then Hillary was totally testerical yesterday.

Better?

[Levgreee]

10. bullcrap, it's like we can't use a third of the English language

[monmouth]

15. Yeah this PC crap is getting on my nerves. If someone wants to call

me a bitch or whatever, go for it. Words are used to describe for the most part... I referred to HRC as a "shrill shrew" because that's how she sounded to me. Very bad PC I was informed...Tough s*^t..

[Schema Thing]

11. Also, her True Believers will rally around her if she can make them believe

she is being persecuted.

And by "rally around", I mean "send money". We gots bills t'pay!

[KAZ]

32. Ah, someone finally nails it. I think the whole episode..

.. was clearly aimed at the faithful, and freeing up some of their dollars. It seems she's given up on everyone else. To me, this means she has finally seen the writing, and she's trying to shake the money tree one last time, in order to clear up some campaign debt.

[ORDem]

44. You mean the 20%'rs? n/t

[ruggerson]

12. Hey Bleachers

You did see the fact that there were two, not one, Michelle Obama speeches, and one did not have the word "really" in it.

In other words, the other day when you went ballistic on me for simply posting a Boston Globe story - turns out they were correct.

[Renew Deal]

13. I heard about a possible second one.

I didn't see it. I saw an edited video of the one where she said "really."

[ruggerson]

23. Here you go

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EGjR81pFJI4

now will you give me back that twenty minutes of my life? :)

[Renew Deal]

24. Thanks

;)

[ruggerson]

35. that's all I get?

"thanks?" :)

[boston bean]

16. he made a very disgusting and rude sexist joke that he became of ashamed of then and deleted it

himself.

seems he going back to his sexist behavior now.

He likes to call hillary hysterical.

He hasn't learned a lesson, his sexism is nicely engraved deep within his soul. he doesn't even know it.

[Renew Deal]

20. Get over it.

So now you know what's in my soul? lol

And if you don't like hysterical, consider one of these.

agitated, berserk, beside oneself, blazing, carried away*, convulsive, crazed, crazy, delirious, distracted, distraught, emotional, excited, fiery, frantic, frenzied, fuming, furious, impassioned, impetuous, incensed, irrepressible, mad, maddened, nervous, neurotic, overwrought, panic-stricken, passionate, possessed, rabid, raging, rampant, raving, seething, spasmodic, tempestuous, turbulent, uncontrollable, uncontrolled, unnerved, unrestrained, uproarious, vehement, violent, wild, worked up*

http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/hysterical

[dicknbush]

33. How about SHE'S TELLING THE TRUTH!

[Renew Deal]

34. Actually, she's not

But that's another matter.

[dicknbush]

38. Oh that' yur opinion such as it is!

[bagrman]

61. If there were 2 speeches then why was it necessary for the Rt. wingers

to edit a copy on the Net, by sloppily removing the word really and just leaving the R.

[quantass]

19. Good Analysis OP

[Tom Rinaldo]

21. You just made a cogent case for why Clinton's charges made good political sense

given her current circumstances, and God knows Hillary Clinton is not the first leading political figure whose campaign ran very low on cash. Thinking back to others who have faced these circumstances two names spring quickly to mind: John Kerry and John McCain.

Then you go and describe it all as "Hillary's hysterics."

[scheming daemons]

25. I'm just glad she had this embarrassing public display now... and not as our candidate in the fall..

that would've been devastating for us in the general election.

[jazzjunkysue]

48. "Ready to pitch an hysterical wifey fit on the first day." n/t.

[L0oniX]

65. I don't think it was the first time ...judging by this picture.

[karynnj]

40. There's were at different times

Kerry faced low cash twice. The first time before Iowa when the media was counting him out - he loaned himself money and the campaign took off. The other time was due to McAuliffe's incompetence in scheduling the convention 5 weeks before the Republican one. This was the first year of McCain/Feingold and led to Kerry having to stretch his money over 13 weeks while Bush could still use unlimited primary money for the first 5 of them.

McCain may still suffer for his money problems as there are questions of whether he could opt out of campaign financing - unlike HRC that lack of money did not deter him from beating the well funded Romney.

(I would prefer not hearing hysterical - because she wasn't and because it is a word that does seem more used for women - though women are in reality no more likely to act in that manner.)

[cloudythescribbler]

22. Bleachers -- u post lots of good stuff, but remember WE'LL NEED HILLARY'S SUPPORTERS TO STOP McCAIN

For some reason that I don't completely fathom, McCain is running VERY competitively with both HRC and Barack Obama in the polls. Why he would poll so well in a country that OVERWHELMINGLY has become disgusted with the war in Iraq that McCain is gung-ho about pursuing baffles me. Now let's see -- it isn't his charisma; he isn't a particularly squeaky clean avatar of reform, even though the media has promoted that idea. He isn't exactly inspiring or anything else I can think of. Apparently the media have been treating him very very nicely, preening his image (the image is the bait, trillions for the Iraq War is the hook).

If Obama gets the Democratic nomination, which now seems likely, though not inevitable, we will need to win over the whole of the support that Hillary got in the primaries. Thinly disguised gloating "analysis" in my arrogant opinion is exactly the thing that can turn Democrats if not into Repuke voters than at least into non-voters or completely passive and unenthusiastic rather than donating voters. It seems to me that BOTH HRC and Obama represent a modicum of hope for better things in this country, in my view Obama a greater likelihood of greater good. I would be appalled to see McCain get in in Nov and then spend the trillions we need to eco-industrialize, provide affordable quality healthcare for all, improve the school system ... on a war that the US should never have started in the first place and that I have ABSOLUTELY opposed since before it was launched. PLEEEEZ folks, including fellow Obama supporters, DON'T DO OR SAY STUFF THAT CAN ONLY BE LIKELY TO HELP McCAIN IF OBAMA GETS THE NOMINATION. We MUST win this one, after going completely in the wrong direction for the past 7 years.

[rodeodance]

42. not many are aware of this fact--instead they just continue with the demeaning comments.

[MethuenProgressive]

26. More sexist code words from the Obama camp.

Did youi grab your nuts and spit after posting this?

[Renew Deal]

27. lol

That's hysterical. :D

[flyarm]

54. oh thats another duzy winner!! give this persona an prize!!got me laughing here!!

feels nice to giggle instead of being "hysterical" over the blatant sexism here at du!!..off to continue giggling..i have that picture so clear in my mind!lolllllllll

like the pitcher on the pitching mound ..playing with his balls,..and then licking his fingers!

fly..woooooooooooooooooo...

[rug]

28. Have you got that flyer to post?

[Renew Deal]

30. I don't but...

I've seen them on the internets. You can probably find them with a little googling.

[NoBorders]

36. A well reasoned assessment

makes sense. thanks.

[NC_Nurse]

37. This isn't going to help her, it's too late and her negative attacks have no

teeth. She's just making herself look bad.

[XemaSab]

43. I prefer the word rabid.

:)

[ErnestoG]

45. I'm very happy she lost it today.

It clearly demonstrates how devolved her campaign is and what sort of "leader" she would be. Can you imagine a person like that with their finger on the trigger of this nation's military?

NO MO BUSHES. Not even one with a D in front of their name.

[Cleita]

46. Imagine a sexist word being used on DU. Tsk. Tsk.

Like that never happens. :sarcasm:

[jazzjunkysue]

47. She would not display this attitude if she still thought she had a chance.

Now we know she know's she's lost. Regardless of the substance of the mailers, or the substance of her argument, she knows she's finished.

What a relief. Obama will be our next president. The long dynasties are over.

[PM7nj]

49. I feel bad for her

Hillary has never really lost, and she doesn't know how to handle it. I don't know why she is doing this, it is ruining her reputation.

[Laelth]

52. Welcome to DU!

:dem:

-Laelth

[Mme. Defarge]

50. POW comes to mind ...

piece of work in Hillary's case.

[NJmaverick]

53. Your post makes too much sense

Hillary bots will never listen to it.

[longship]

58. Good analysis -- R&K

I think you've got the measure of the situation.

Furthermore, you did make a sincere and intelligent effort to defuse the inevitable sniping about your choice of words.

:kick:ed