What Clinton Wishes she could say

[emilyg]

Why, ask many Democrats and media commentators, won’t Hillary Rodham Clinton see the long odds against her, put her own ambitions aside, and gracefully embrace Barack Obama as the inevitable Democratic nominee?

Here is why: She and Bill Clinton both devoutly believe that Obama’s likely victory is a disaster-in-waiting. Naive Democrats just don’t see it. And a timid, pro-Obama press corps, in their view, won’t tell the story.

But Hillary Clinton won’t tell it, either.

A lot of coverage of the Clinton campaign supposes them to be in kitchen-sink mode — hurling every
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/9564.html

[dkf]

1. Yeah and she was so right on Iraq and on this campaign.

She doesn't get the big things right...nor the small things either.

Her judgment is godawful.

[FrenchieCat]

2. Hillary wishes that she could say, Look, Obama is a Black guy.....

and nobody is gonna elect a Black guy (I wish!). Plus, I am due this nomination by virtue of being my husband's wife, and so I'll make up whatever it takes, or I'll pile on when and where I must, even if I have to agree with the Republicans or make shit up.

[GarbagemanLB]

3. Meanwhile, Hillary, with the highest negatives of any candidate, is flawless and has no weaknesses..

[patrice]

4. Funny, there's a lot of people who think the same thing of her.

First off, I am an Edwards supporter, because I liked his message to Labor and I think the South would have loved him and I would like reconciliation with the South. I thought and still think Edwards could win more easily than HC or BO. But Edwards is out of it.

All of us live in communities of people whom we know and with whom we do discuss our votes. I hear more against HC than I do against BO.

Please give us credit for having evaluated our efforts for BO relative to the possibility of failure and for having made mature informed decisions about the various probabilities involved.

[NJmaverick]

5. ROFLMAO!!!! This is rich, the idea that hillary has an semblence

of self restraint

[babylonsister]

6. Hillary Clinton poses as victim of political correctness

http://www.jedreport.com/2008/04/hillary-clint-6.html

Hillary Clinton poses as victim of political correctness


There's lots of chatter today about "What Clinton wishes she could say," the VandeHei & Harris piece ticking off the reasons that Hillary Clinton remains in the race.

The striking thing about the article is that the authors themselves never directly say why she can't "rip off the duct tape." Implicitly, the explanation is fear of so-called "reverse racism."

In that sense, the subtext of the "wishes she could say" idea is that Clinton is, yet again, a victim. This has been the story of their political career: victim this, victim that. Now the Clintons are saying they are the victims of racial intolerance? Puhlease.

To the extent Clinton doesn't want to address this stuff head-on, the reason is that in comparison to Obama, her own case is flimsy. Remember what happened when she accused Obama of not being ready to be president? Tuzla. Northern Ireland. NAFTA.

There's more out there about here that people don't know -- it's not just Colombia and Kazakhstan. It's also Bill Clinton's paid relationship with a Chinese company now participating in the Tibetan crackdown. It's the relationship between her staffers, her husband, and the United Arab Emirates, specifically the Dubai Ports deal. It's the next Sniper Fire. It's her lies about NAFTA, Iraq, and more. We have no idea what else might erupt. And to the extent we know what we're going to get -- we know it won't be the truth.

By telling reporters off-the-record that "she can't say" why Obama is unelectable, the Clinton campaign encourages reporters to focus on Obama without considering her own weaknesses; they masterfully manipulate the media into carrying Hillary's water without them even knowing it.


Link to big dawg's relationship with China here:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3151514

Link to Clintons, Penn, and UAE here:
http://www.jedreport.com/2008/04/not-just-colomb.html