Clinton Surrogate Botches Appearance On Meet The Press

[catgirl]

Jason Linkins:

One of the big problems with the fact that the Democratic primary process continues to grind on and on and on and on with nothing new on the horizon until Pennsylvania -- unless some other governors would do us all a solid and get caught screwing some whores again -- is that the media is running out of campaign surrogates with whom to talk. The A-Listers have long passed, and the B-Listers all said crazy things about how lucky black people are and how God hates America for Hiroshima. That's why we were saddled with the jowly drone of Bill Bradley today, his voice as dynamic as a bowl of week-old wheat crackers, boring us to tears today on Meet The Press. And yet, this is a net win for the Obama campaign because of the the gaffe-filled performance of Nita Lowey for the Clinton campaign.

Highlights? Yeah, we've got them. First up, here's Lowey making the case for Clinton based upon their oft-hyped "some states are more important than other states" strategy. Except she confuses "Ohio" -- which Clinton won -- with Iowa, a state that Obama won back in January and then apparently re-won this week when some Edwards delegates shifted to his side.

snip

LOWEY: Now, you and I both know that no one since 1960 has won the presidency without winning Iowa. We know you have to win Iowa, we have to win Pennsylvania, have to win Florida, they are key states that are critical to getting the number of votes in the electoral college, and I think right now, frankly, it's a tie.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/16/nita-lowey-worst-clinton_n_91756.html

[K Gardner]

1. LOL.. I heard that Iowa gaffe and cracked up. She looked VERY uncomfortable with the TPs she was

evidently given to repeat ad nauseum. No one corrected her on it, either.

[Cha]

11. Nita musta gotten cornfused

forgetting that hilary got 3rd place in Iowa with Obama winning the first caucus state and then she got 2nd place after Obama cemented the win in Iowa where the hilary talking points were.. "Iowa doesn't count".

Nita had too many lies to keep straight.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

18. Piss-poor performance.

[slinkerwink]

2. She also committed to releasing tax returns on the 15th of April

[SwampG8r]

10. really?

what year on april 15th did she say
because it is hard to believe but
hillary will let april 15 pass and say she didnt mean this year

[Cha]

13. Exactly...we'll be waiting with

bated breath for hilary's tax returns and bil's library donor list.

[slinkerwink]

15. her surrogate committed to the 15th date which was stupid

b/c the Clintons said, "around April 15th or after April 15th."

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

19. Guess it'll take that long to forge new ones.

[mmonk]

26. 2007 or the ones everyone has been waiting for.

[maddiejoan]

3. That's okay

Obama, himself, said he won Michigan earlier.

People make mistakes and garble words.

:shrug:

[Saturday]

4. No, say it isn't so, Obama gaffed? LOL nt

[Hawkeye-X]

5. Proof and link of the statement?

[mucifer]

6. Here it is:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x106147

[Saturday]

7. Oh you doubting Obama fans.

Here's one, also from Huffington as OP's is.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/05/david-gregory-gives-obama_n_90130.html

[catgirl]

22. That was definately a slip of the tongue

I'm sure he was thinking he WILL win Michigan (on June 3rd). : )

[maddiejoan]

23. obviously

it was a goof.

People make goofs.

I don't even know why you made this a thread.

:)

[catgirl]

29. Are you sure she didn't really mean Iowa?

She repeated enough that I think she really thought Hillary won Iowa.
It's not a big deal and it wasn't meant to be a flame thread. : )

[Mother Of Four]

8. ....

[bluestateguy]

9. Gerald Ford won Iowa in 1976. Michael Dukakis won Iowa in 1988

Someone didn't do their reading assignment before coming to class.

[sniffa]

12. She also claimed the race was tied

and the tie-breaker should be the important states. :rofl:

[Cha]

14. That's what burns me ..."Important states"?!!

Whadda strategy and a early view of how ol hilary would run her decider presidency if we would only let her.

[XemaSab]

24. Doncha know, only the states with TWO senators count.

:banghead:

[bowens43]

16. Even if she had the state right, the argument is stupid.

To argue that because Hillary won the Ohio primary that Obama can't win Ohio in the GE is ridiculous. Nor is the fact that hillary won the Ohio primary an indication that she can win Ohio in the GE. It's typical of the nonsensical arguments and spin that hillary's campaign is using as a last resort.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

21. Precisely right.

[morningglory]

17. I enjoyed Bradley's answer to the first question: "How do we know who the

winner is? Delegate count, vote count, states won? Lowey: "talking point, talking point, talking point, talking point, yadayadayada ..." Bradley: "Yes." Just yes, the most votes. I hadda laugh.
Edited to add that I enjoyed Bradley's controlled, flat tone. It is similar to Obama's un-hysterical, I am just telling the plain truth, here. No Tweety hysterics, Hillary eyes-big-as-saucers, strained smiles. Just the truth, ma'am. P.S. do you notice Tweety is giddy, and can't wipe the smile off his face. He loves being the pundit in the center of the universe in his eyes, with the contest going on and on.
Edited again to add that I thought I heard her use "Democrat" twice where she could have used "Democratic". Odd.

[slinkerwink]

20. thank you for agreeing with Obama campaign! He won Iowa, therefore he's President!

[Gore1FL]

25. I have to admit she was worthless

She came off as not having anything to say, but saying it anyways.

[AZBlue]

27. Not only did she get the state wrong, she got the "fact" wrong too!

[Barack_America]

28. Glad to hear that the Clintons will release their taxes ON APRIL 15th.

They're beholden to this now, unless, of course they'd like to publicly backtrack on that.

[BklynChick]

30. she was really embarassing, and i live in nyc!

[Cha]

31. It's kinda de rigueur for a

hilary surrogate to embarrass themselves spouting the hilaryworld talking points. I can't wait until this is history and we can read about the very first mistake hilary made was voting for the IWR without reading the 90 page NIE because the blood lost is the bottom line.

[Major Hogwash]

32. What a fucking asshat - another example of incompetence from the Hillaryous campaign.

Fucking stupid, bumbling fools, fucking up on a daily basis on national tv.

Sort of like the Bush administration.

LoL