The New York Times asks a question:
The Texas and Ohio presidential primaries, on March 4, have become must-win contests for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, her advisers say. So why is she just opening campaign field offices across those states?
Read it all. It’s the pre-death post mortem.
The media has already decided who should/will win. The question is whether the country will fall in line.
Pronounced "Patter-EE-koh"
E-mail: Just use my moniker Patterico, followed by the @ symbol, followed by gmail.com
Disclaimer: Simpsons avatar may resemble a younger Patterico...
The statements made on this web site reflect the personal opinions of the author. They are not made in any official capacity, and do not represent the opinions of the author's employer.
| M | T | W | T | F | S | S |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 |
| 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
| 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | ||
Powered by WordPress.
she’s behind on the scoreboard with two critical states coming up. knowing some of the people on her coaching staff, i expect a trick play of some kind, probably ugly, maybe with plausible deniability as to its author.
assistant devil's advocate (941a4e) — 2/14/2008 @ 8:39 amShe misunderestimated her opposition or misoverestimated her inEVITAbleness*. Obama made a deal with the Daley Machine, to mention one Democratic power broker, long before he announced. Instead of chasing after Hsu-money, Hillary should have spent a lot more time lining up ward-heelers all across the country.
* I know it’s “inevitability”
nk (616f8b) — 2/14/2008 @ 9:22 am“The media has already decided who should/will win.”
Yep. It’s a shame too. I just mailed in for an absentee ballot for Texas’s primary.
Never thought I’d be casting votes for Democrats, but this Obama nonsense is getting on my nerves.
Joe M. (5d215f) — 2/14/2008 @ 9:40 amThe news media is for OBama, no doubt about it.
A. Jones (7dd1d3) — 2/14/2008 @ 9:40 amIf he does succeed in winning he can raise our
taxes to pay for the AFRICAN American Agenda.
The Clinton years brought us a great economy.
I have still to find out what OBama’s plan is;
or is it just Hope?
From a nuts & bolts standpoint, Clinton’s campaign is the product of having a pollster and sycophants in charge.
Say what you will about Carvill, Begala, and Stepahnopolos, but in 1992 those guys all had experience running campaigns, and it showed in the way they manuvered Bill Clinton to the nomination and the election.
What have Mark Penn and Patty Solis ever done in terms of being professional campaign operatives?
Or Maggie Williams for that matter.
Its a mystery why Hillary chose to go that route -awarding loyalty over proven competency — when there were other alternatives like John Podesta and Harold Ickes out there. I’m sure those guys have been involved in the decision-making, but when the pressure is on and someone needs to crack heads and get things right, having rookies running a national campaign is a joke.
And she’s going to pay for it.
WLS (68fd1f) — 2/14/2008 @ 10:59 amHere’s a great little nugget of information on the buggling in the Clinton campaign courtesy of a Politico article on Ickes from last April:
[Ickes] was in the background last November, when Clinton delivered a 67 percent to 31 percent shellacking to her Republican opponent, former Yonkers mayor John Spencer. The campaign, however, blew through at least $34.4 million doing it, and supporters questioned the thousands spent on flowers and millions spent on polling and television advertisements, all of which could have been saved for the presidential campaign. (In the end, Clinton was able to transfer $10 million from her Senate race to her White House bid.)
politico
WLS (68fd1f) — 2/14/2008 @ 11:03 amScrewed up the link somehow.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0407/3595.html
WLS (68fd1f) — 2/14/2008 @ 11:04 am““The media has already decided who should/will win.”
How and when did the unholy media become God? Meh.
Dana (b4a26c) — 2/14/2008 @ 11:09 amThe MSM always thought of itself as God, Dana.
The question is, how did they convince the public?
Merovign (4744a2) — 2/14/2008 @ 11:39 amthe media hasnt decided who will win, the voters did. the clinton family drama just isnt selling the way it did in the 90s. add in hillys campaign style, flat as a pancake, no buzz at all and i am not surprised that shes lost nomination. this texas/ohio “firewall” deal sounds like rudy in florida, NOT GONNA HAPPEN.
james conrad (7cd809) — 2/14/2008 @ 12:18 pmBTW, rumor has it romney is giving McCain his delegates today so thats bout it on republican side. question is, how does McCain get after obama, surely not with johns oratory skills.
james conrad (7cd809) — 2/14/2008 @ 12:23 pmDon’t count her out yet. Hillary!™ has not spent the last seven years hatching plots and scheming for nothing.
Tom (ad8087) — 2/14/2008 @ 12:28 pmIt ain’t over yet. IIRC, HRC leads in the TX and OH polls, at least for now. And if it comes to a brokered convention … well, just look at how easily she outmaneuvered Obama on the FL and MI q’s. Count every vote!
Obama looks like a one-trick pony to me: he’s very, very good at giving empty speeches, but that’s about it. All it would take is one really bad story at this pt and … hey, are the Clintons any good at demonizing opponents? Do they have any friends in the press who’d help?
If I had to bet, I’d bet on Obama, but then, I’d’a bet on the NE Patriots, too. HRC doesn;t wanna go negative on Obama till she absolutely has to, cuz she doesn’t wanna alienate his supporters, but if it comes down to it, she sure will, cuz this is her one and only kick at the can and she knows it.
ras (fc54bb) — 2/14/2008 @ 12:37 pmI can’t wait to see how the MSM begins to cover the general campaign when Obama will, for the first time, be asked in a contested matter what “Hope, Courage, and Change”.
I’m quite certain the Communist Workers Party of American is “hoping” for a candidate with the “courage” to “change” the US into a more docile version of the Soviet Union.
I fear that Obama might share the same goals.
I think a project in the coming weeks and months will be to parse Obama’s many speeches to find out if there really is any “there” there.
WLS (68fd1f) — 2/14/2008 @ 1:08 pmIn light of this, I say, c’mon Hillary, you can must do it!!! We simply cannot afford Obama!
“WASHINGTON, February 13, 2008 — Accuracy in Media editor Cliff Kincaid disclosed today that a hugely expensive bill called the “Global Poverty Act,” sponsored by Democratic Senator Barack Obama, was quickly passed by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday and could result in the imposition of a global tax on the United States. Kincaid said that the major media’s cover-up of the bill, which makes levels of U.S. foreign aid spending subservient to the dictates of the United Nations, demonstrates the media’s desire to see Senator Obama elected to the presidency.
http://www.aim.org/press-release/aim-says-media-cover-up-obamas-socialist-oriented-global-tax-bill/
Dana (b4a26c) — 2/14/2008 @ 1:33 pmWait…
the UN gets to control how much we spend with that bill?
That’s it, who wants to join my militia?
Scott Jacobs (3c07ad) — 2/14/2008 @ 1:38 pmIs it “well organized?”
ras (fc54bb) — 2/14/2008 @ 1:52 pmEr, correction, I mean, is it “well regulated?”
ras (fc54bb) — 2/14/2008 @ 1:53 pmGlen Beck went on for quite a while this morning about the Global Poverty Act. Its actually much worse than you can imagine.
It commits the US to spending .7% of its GDP on foreign aid. That’s a HUGE amount.
It also commits the US to ratificiation of a variety of UN conventions and protocols which we have not joined — such as the International Criminal Court and others.
Its comes as close as I’ve ever seen to a REAL abdication of sovereinty to an international organization.
And its why Barack Obama will never be elected President of the US.
Bill Clinton had managed to draw back to the Dem. Party the “Reagan Democrats” — blue collar democrats for whom pocketbook issues are most significant.
When the general campaign begins to register with them the amount of money an Obama administration would cost the country, it’ll be “NO DEAL.”
WLS (68fd1f) — 2/14/2008 @ 2:29 pmRe #8&9
“You can crush a man with journalism.” – William Randolph Hearst (1863-1951)
The reverse is also true.
JayHub (0a6237) — 2/14/2008 @ 3:43 pmFrom one of the late night shows via NPR: Hillary is the tested candidate. Which is not really news considering what Billy might have been bringing home.
nk (616f8b) — 2/14/2008 @ 4:01 pmLMFAO nk!!!
Scott Jacobs (a1de9d) — 2/14/2008 @ 4:25 pm15. I took a look at Obama’s Global Poverty Act and while it looks like a lot of grandstanding baloney, I couldn’t figure out exactly where we’d be taxed. Can anybody else enlighten me.
Here’s the link to the Senate Bill (it’s short):
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c110:S.2433:
JayHub (0a6237) — 2/14/2008 @ 5:50 pmJayHub – same here. I looked at the text of the statute AFTER reading the press reports, and it was hard for me to find where this is anything more than “feel good” legislation that directs the executive to create a “plan” and get back to us.
WHere we might find a some problems is any implementing language added by amendment that begins to commit the US towards the “Millineum Project Goals”. Go google up that little beauty at the UN. Its pretty much just a wealth transfer device from the first world to the third world.
WLS (68fd1f) — 2/14/2008 @ 6:48 pmObmas Cousin
From a poster at Lie-Stoppers;
“Obama’s father is a member of the Luo tribe, who support the opposition leader Raila Odinga (who incidentally claims to be Obama’s cousin http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/7176683.stm ) It is the Luo who are are primarily involved in fighting and Killing the Kikuyu who support the president and who are killing Luo tribesmen in return.
As with the massacres, I believe the rapes are also being committed by both sides.”
********
Hmmm maybe we should be stocking up on AMMO and hoping for Obmama? 🙂
TC (1cf350) — 2/14/2008 @ 9:17 pm