Colbert: Hillary’s campaign strategy like US Iraq strategy

[Ichingcarpenter]

The seemingly endless, intractable presidential campaign is a lot like the Iraq war, Comedy Central host Stephen Colbert joked during his show last night.

After winning Pennsylvania’s primary on Tuesday, Hillary Clinton’s vow to continue her bid carries more weight, but observers still say she faces next-to-impossible odds to defeat Barack Obama, who holds an effectively insurmountable lead in pledged delegates and votes.

“Hillary is doing well enough to stay in the fight, but there’s still no clear path to victory,” Colbert said.

Sound familiar?

On The Colbert Report, Wednesday night’s word was “Iraq The Vote.”

The host went on to explain that Clinton “went into this campaign using many of the same strategies we used when we went to war”: overwhelming force she hoped would lead to a quick-and-easy Super Tuesday coronation, resistance of calls to withdraw from the race after losing 11 straight contests, a “surge” of victories in Texas, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

Problem is, even with her recent wins, not enough states remain to put Clinton over the top in the delegate or vote counts. Again, Colbert parallels the Iraq effort.

“When the Army started running out of soldiers, they simply lowered the standards for recruitment,” he says. “So, if Hillary is running out of states, she should simply ask to lower the standards for statehood. … Surely there’s some other big state that could win her the nomintaion.” (”State of denial?” The Word board asks.)

Stephen Colbert devotes his “The Word” segment to a comparison of Hillary Clinton’s Pennsylvania win and the US strategy in Iraq.

http://rawstory.com/rawreplay/?p=883

Video:http://www.comedycentral.com/colbertreport/index.jhtml

[NJmaverick]

1. They nailed it!

[Mme. Defarge]

2. It all hinges now on

PUERTO RICO!

[AtomicKitten]

3. You and Colbert to the Greatest Page!

[lapfog_1]

4. But the primaries are MUCH better...

There are benchmarks (2025 delegates).

There is a timetable ( June 3 it's all over ).

And there is an exit strategy (Hillary goes back to being the junior senator from New York).

[Bigleaf]

5. Winner, winner, chicken dinner!

And yes, I did see the movie 21.

[Kurovski]

6. To Colbert & the Colbert writers, RawStory, Ichingcarpenter, &

functioning minds everywhere. :toast: K&R

[Avalux]

7. OMG! I was thinking that this morning!

And I didn't watch Colbert last night. Weird!

[Ichingcarpenter]

9. When Stephen does "The Word" and its anti Clinton... you know she has

lost it.

[AllexxisF1]

8. BRAVO

EXACTLY.

[Sick_of_Rethuggery]

10. Both Jon and Stephen were...

dead right (on) last night...

[Ichingcarpenter]

11. Both of their OPs were on similar themes of Hillary being delusional

and she needs to drop out.

[JAbuchan08]

12. They're certainly dead

to me that is :evilgrin: