Interesting Take on the Clinton/Obama Battle

January 18th, 2008 at 09:43am Mark Noonan

From Victory Davis Hanson over at NRO:

… lately the senator has gone wild. She egotistically claimed that ipso facto her election would bring down world oil prices. Then she claimed ownership of the surge she tried to stop, by boasting that those parochial Iraqis apparently listen to her every word, as Iraqis, the U.S. military, and the enemy all must adjust their strategy to her most current position on the war.

Then she offered a history lesson of the civil-rights movement as a way to explain the difference between her, the sophisticated and savvy parliamentarian, and Sen. Obama the inspirational naif, who, apparently in the African-American rhetorical tradition, is a useful foot soldier to rile up the masses, before turning over the real legislative work to the pros…

…The egotism is only tag-teamed by narcissistic Bill’s serial temper tantrums, finger-pointing, and revisionism. If the two keep it up, at some point I think we will see a steady surge for Obama, mostly as a cry of the collective heart to be free once and for all of these people.

I once thought it was suicidal of Obama to simply smile, talk inanely of “change,” offer no concrete proposals, and play rope-a-dope deflection to nonstop Clinton innuendo and rumor-mongering. But he may have far more insight that most of us: The more Hillary talks, attacks, cries, pontificates, and rewrites history, the more he appears sympathetic and above her petty fray as she punches herself out.

My political bellweather (otherwise known as “Mrs Noonan”), is getting rather annoyed at Hillary - and more than just the usual annoyance. There’s all those mindless platitudes to be annoyed with, but the more “nails-on-the-chalkboard” aspect is just Hillary’s voice. As Rush often points out, the more Hillary talks, the worse it gets for her - and Hanson might be on to something here. Obama just might be waiting for Hillary to destroy herself…all he has to do is stay enough in the race to deny Hillary a first-ballot majority, and the nomination will eventually be his; at the convention, if Hillary doesn’t have a first ballot majority, it stands to reason that the delegates wills swarm at the first opportunity to Obama.

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