Posts with the tag 'Hillary Clinton'
Prior to having to swallow her pride and endorse:
I think that there is a certain phenomenon associated with his candidacy, and I am really struck by that because it is very much about him and his personality and his presentation. And that’s perfectly legitimate in politics, or any other walk of life, but I think it dangerously oversimplifies the complexity of the problems we face, the challenge of navigating our country through some difficult, uncharted waters. We are a nation at war. That seems to be forgotten.
Forgotten, indeed - by Democrats and their MSM cheerleaders. But this is the real world - not liberal-land - and we will have a real campaign where there will be a man, John McCain, who is massively better qualified and, additionally, unafraid to keep calling to mind Obama’s manifest unfitness for the most powerful office in the world.z
Tags: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Loser Watch
June 7th, 2008
The end of the end is upon ua?
So, what does Hillary do when she hangs up the gloves? I don’t see her as Obama’s running mate. Politically, it isn’t the smartest move by Obama. So, does Hillary return to the Senate (remember, that job she was actually elected to do) with all the new baggage she carries from this election season? The Clinton Machine is broken, and the Clinton Brand has been severely (and perhaps permanently) damaged. Congress is full of Democrats who Hillary will see as having stabbed her in the back… and these Democrats will see her as the one who unnecessarily prolonged the Democratic primary … perhaps hurting the party’s chances of victory in November.
I don’t know. If I were advising Hillary, I wouldn’t be rushing back the Senate. I’d stick it out to the convention and hope something extraordinary happens that could somehow turn her luck around.
Tags: Hillary Clinton
June 5th, 2008
Looks like all the signs are pointing to it.. but I’ll believe it when I see it.
Hillary Rodham Clinton will concede Tuesday night that Barack Obama has the delegates to secure the Democratic nomination, campaign officials said, effectively ending her bid to be the nation’s first female president.
Obama is 40 delegates shy of clinching the nomination, but he is widely expected to make up the difference Tuesday with superdelegate support and votes in South Dakota and Montana. Once he reaches the magic number of 2,118, Clinton will acknowledge that he has secured the necessary delegates to be the nominee.
The former first lady will stop short of formally suspending or ending her race in her speech in New York City.
Is it really over for Hillary, or does she have some trick up her sleeve?
UPDATE: According to The Hill, Hillary’s campaign is still saying she won’t drop out tonight.
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s (D-N.Y.) campaign spent much of the morning creating mass confusion as to what the evening could bring.
Terry McAuliffe, Clinton’s campaign chairman, said on MSNBC that he thinks Clinton would concede if Obama passes the delegate threshold Tuesday night.
Since those comments, however, and a subsequent story by The Associated Press that repeated that the former first lady was set to concede, the Clinton campaign has pushed back, asserting that the New York senator has no intention of dropping out Tuesday night.
UPDATE, by Mark Noonan: She didn’t quit. Not even slightly. Interesting.
Tags: Barack Obama, Democratic Nomination, Hillary Clinton
June 3rd, 2008
The media seems eager to write an unhappy ending for Hillary… but somehow, I’m not convinced she truly is planning to call it quits. This story seems to suggest she’s strategizing her campaign’s end.
Negotiations are understood to be taking place between the Obama and Clinton campaigns about the Illinois senator helping to repay some of the massive debt incurred by his rival. One of Hillary Clinton’s donors said that the former First Lady’s campaign was as much as $40 million in the red.
In a conference call with major donors this afternoon, contributors were told by Harold Ickes, a senior Clinton adviser, that she was unlikely to pull out of the race until the issue of her massive debts was resolved. The New York senator has lent her own campaign at least $11.5 million.
One source close to a major donor said: “It’s not about the vice-presidency or any other position she might get. It’s about the money – in particular the Clinton family money.” The Obama campaign might have to reach deeply into its well-stocked coffers in order to secure the full support of Mrs Clinton and her husband Bill in the November general election.
So, is it over? If i had to wager money, I would put my money on ‘no.’
Tags: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton
June 2nd, 2008
From Jonah Goldberg over at NRO’s The Corner:
From a reader:
Mr. Goldberg and staff,
I have recently realized that I feel little if any Clinton hatred anymore. I guess I still think Bill is sleazy, but I have come to view Hillary in a neutral or even somewhat positive way. I am wondering if you feel the same way (I know you had more direct experiences with the Clintons in the 90’s). For the last several months, Hillary has been given the “Republican treatment” by the media. Obama is the new Bill Clinton, the one the media and the intelligentsia will defend and adore to all lenghts. Hillary is now evil, just as the first Bush and Bob Dole were evil. Maybe I delighted in this turn of events for a while, but now I guess I feel like Hillary has been through a purgatory of sorts. Wondering if you feel the same way.
Me: “And staff?”
Anyway, I know what the reader is getting at, but I’m not really there. For the record, I never had much hatred for Hillary Clinton. I never liked her much, and still don’t. But my biggest gripe with her was with the completely unwarranted celebration of her as an impressive person. It seemed to me in the 1990s she was the subject of enormous projection. It was simply asserted that she was charismatic, charming, exciting etc. And I never saw it. Not even a little. I still don’t. I find her to be completely charmless. At times, that feeling of “What am I missing” could grow into full-blown anger or even hatred, particularly when she was getting away with so many lies and benefiting from so many other mendacities. But, generally, such feelings were short-lived.
It still gets me how people downplay Clinton corruption - shady land deals, illegal fundraising, serial lying, perjury, obstruction of justice, that sort of thing - but I do have to say I feel a bit of sympathy for Hillary Clinton these days. She has, indeed, gotten the “Republican treatment” from the left and the MSM…and while I’m not nearly as famous - nor even remotely as big a target - I, too, have felt the brunt of scurilous campaigns of slander and intimidation. Its disheartening to be the object of hatred and scorn, merely for not being a person blessed by the left.
My clearly favorable opinion of citizenship for illegal aliens? My sympathy towards my fellow Americans who are gay? My distaste for large corporations? My willingness to massively increase education spending? My opposition to the death penalty? Its all nothing - because I’m not in lock step with the left, I’m just an evil, racist, sexist, homophobic, bigoted tool of the PNAC/NeoCon cabal of imperalist oppressors of the masses/rapists of the environment. I expect leftwing opposition, but I can’t for the life of me figure out why so many of my fellow Americans choose to hate me because I’m conservative. But for Hillary, it has to have really hurt a lot - she is a leftist. Down the line she’s a dyed-in-the-wool socialist who wants to completely change American society in a leftwing manner…but because she won’t apologise for her pro-war vote in 2002, she’s been anethematised on the left…she’s hated by them as much as I am, and it doesn’t matter how much she kowtow’s to them on all other leftwing positions, they’ll go on hating her for that one, small diveregence from leftwing orthodoxy. A lifetime’s devotion to the cause, all for naught because the left will not allow even an iota of independence - Stalinists to a man, woman and “other”, the left doesn’t tolerate dissent.
Hillary, however, can have her revenge - and, actually, do a bit of service to her nation. She can run as an independent. I’ve never thought she would, but what love or loyalty does she now owe that left and that MSM which has so cruelly turned on her in favor of a slick-talking con-artist? Not a bit…
Tags: Hillary Clinton
May 28th, 2008
Hillary scores big victory Kentucky while Obama has won a majority of pledged delegates.
Clinton won Kentucky by more than 30 points, but Obama’s share of the state’s 51 delegates was enough put him over the threshold, according to CNN estimates.
Obama’s top strategist, David Axelrod, said this was an “important milestone,” but not the end of the trail.
A candidate needs 2,026 delegates to win the Democratic nomination. Obama has 1,932 total delegates, while Clinton has 1,753.
After Kentucky’s results came in, Clinton thanked her supporters for handing her a victory “even in the face of some pretty tough odds.”
“Tonight we have achieved an important victory,” Clinton said in Louisville.
“It’s not just Kentucky bluegrass that’s music to my ears. It’s the sound of your overwhelming vote of confidence even in the face of some pretty tough odds.”
Clinton beat Obama across all age groups, income groups and education levels in Kentucky.
Eighty-nine percent of Tuesday’s voters in Kentucky were white, according to the exit polls. Among them, Clinton won 72-22 percent. Nine percent of the voters were African-American and they overwhelmingly broke for Obama, 87-7 percent.
While Camp Obama may be patting themselves on the back for hitting their milestone, there’s some bleak news that may or may not influence superdelegates:
The exit polls from Kentucky also suggest a deep division among Democrats. Video Watch how Clinton’s win could affect the race »
Two-thirds of Clinton’s supporters there said they would vote Republican or not vote at all rather than for Obama, according to the polls.
Forty-one percent of Clinton supporters said they’d cast their vote for John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, and 23 percent said they would not vote at all.
I’m looking forward to November.
Tags: Democratic Nomination, Hillary Clinton, Polls, Superdelegates
May 20th, 2008
The list of what we can no longer criticize about Barack Hussein– (oops) — Obama continues. Even if it’s the truth. Now it just so happens that whatever his wife says is beyond reproach:
Earlier, Obama told critics in an interview aired on ABC’s “Good Morning America” to “lay off my wife.”
The Illinois senator was responding to an online ad run by the Tennessee GOP that, during a four-minute video, replays six times Michelle Obama’s comment that “for the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country.” Michelle Obama has clarified her remark, saying she meant she is proud of the public’s engagement in this year’s political process. Obama called the ad “just low class.”
Obama said that if he wins the nomination, Republicans “can say whatever they want to say about me, my track record. But, he added, “if they think that they’re going to try to make Michelle an issue in this campaign, they should be careful, because I find unacceptable the notion that you start attacking my wife or my family.”
This would be fair enough if Michelle Obama didn’t insert herself and her words as part and parcel of her husband’s campaign. But in that very same interview, Michele Obama did just that:
In the joint interview, Michelle Obama said, “We’re trusting that the American voters are ready to talk about the issues.” She also denied speculation that she has ruled out a place by Clinton on her husband’s ticket.
“There’s no way that I would say ‘absolutely not’ to one of the most successful and powerful and groundbreaking women on this planet,” Michelle Obama said. Empathizing with her as someone who raised “a phenomenal daughter” while in politics, she said, “I think the world of Hillary Clinton,” and added, “I know how hard, just in the little bit of exposure I’ve had to this, what she’s had to deal with and what she’s accomplished.”
Word to Michelle Obama: If you can’t take the political heat, then get the hell in the kitchen and bake some cookies.
Tags: Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, Obama
May 19th, 2008
Interesting report:
A question submitted from the online audience asked Bush whether he felt he had been misled about Iraq as he made the decision to go to war.
“‘Misled’ is a strong word,” he said. “Not only our intelligence community, but intelligence communities all across the world shared the same assessment. And so I was disappointed to see how flawed our intelligence was.”
“Do I think somebody lied to me? No, I don’t. I think it was just, you know, they analyzed the situation and came up with the wrong conclusion,” he added.
He acknowledged concerns about leaving the unfinished Iraq war to a Democratic successor. Both Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton have said they will bring troops home if elected.
Bush said his “doomsday scenario of course is that extremists throughout the Middle East would be emboldened, which would eventually lead to another attack on the United States.”
Also in the interview to an online audience, Bush:
- Said more is known about global warming than when he first took office in 2001. Asked if it was real, Bush said, “Yes, it is real, sure is.” Still, he defended his opposition to the Kyoto treaty on climate change. “I could have supported a lousy treaty and everybody would have went, `Oh, man, what a wonderful-sounding fellow he is. But it just wouldn’t have worked.”
- Criticized the Democratic-led Congress, claiming it had dragged its feet on trade, on renewing surveillance powers and failing to respond appropriately to the housing crisis. “And so I would call them stalled. I would call them, so far, good at verbiage and not so good at results.”
- Said his Christian faith increased while in office, saying he sought to understand his weaknesses, better himself “and get closer to the Lord.”
- Criticized former President Carter for advocating what he called a “blame-Israel-for-every-problem” mentality to the Middle East.
President Bush also expressed sympathy for both Obama and Hillary over their gruelling primary fight, and opined that race will only be a factor in the fall if the MSM makes it so - something I agree with; especially if Obama is slipping in the polls by October, the MSM will try to guilt trip America into voting Obama by claiming in polls and surveys that anti-Obama sentiment is actually anti-black sentiment.
I’m telling ya, good people, we’re going to miss this man once he leaves office - he has been the most honest, most dedicated and most kind-to-his-opponents man we’ve ever had in office. I know those who hate him will disagree with this, but that is just one of the sadder aspects of the past 8 years that as we’ve been confronted with challenge and President Bush has risen to it, some people made it their business to turn Bush into the enemy.
Tags: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, Jimmy Carter, pre-war intel, War on Terrorism
May 14th, 2008
The media is calling it a symbolic victory. What do you think? Looks like Camp Hillary sees things differently.
Clinton’s aides contended that her strength with blue-collar voters—already demonstrated in primaries in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Indiana—makes her the more electable candidate in the fall.
“After tonight, we will have one more proof point, if you will, that Hillary Clinton is the strongest candidate Democrats can nominate,” said Ann Lewis, an aide to the former first lady. “We’re going to go back starting tomorrow and talk to those superdelegates who are still uncommitted and say, ‘You know what? She is the candidate who expands the electoral map.’ You look at West Virginia, you look at Kentucky, you look at Arkansas, you look at Tennessee. You look at what’s at stake and that’s a very powerful argument.”
Clinton arranged a meeting with superdelegates for Wednesday.
And so it goes.
UPDATE, by Mark Noonan: In my view, Democrats are very scared. All over TV and radio and even here on the blog, the endlessly repeated talking point is that if we GOPers want to win, we have to stop talking about Obama’s questionable past and associations…meaning that the Democrats have done polling and focus groups and found out that Obama’s past and associations are radioactive when brought up against McCain. Democrats have to get Obama’s past off the table - one might think this would turn them towards Hillary, but she’s got her own radioactive past and failure to nominate Obama would probably mean a collapse in the number of black voters in November, with incalcuable consequences down ballot for the Democrats.
UPDATE, by Mark Noonan: From Patrick Ruffini via NRO’s The Corner:
Wow. Obama only wins 53% of WV DEM PRIMARY VOTERS in a matchup with McCain
This means that Obama can’t win West Virginia…and likely means that he won’t be able to win a single Southern State, all else being equal and nothing massive changes between now and November (which is a loooong way off). Bad news for Obama - and for the Dems, who may have picked a loser.
Tags: Hillary Clinton, Primaries, Superdelegates, West Virginia
May 13th, 2008
They really want her out of the race over there in liberal-land:
The New Republic
Family Ties
by Jeff Sharlet
Hillary Clinton’s evangelical cabal.
Post Date Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Lost in the hysteria over Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s remarks is the fact that the current race offers a rare snapshot of the three great strands of American political religion. It’s ironic that Wright occupies center stage, since, in the twenty-first century, his is by far the weakest of these–a progressive Christianity which stretches from the Social Gospel to black liberation theology, a big tent of liberal and left religion that’s not very crowded anymore. John McCain’s problem pastor, a Texas pulpit-pounder named John Hagee, stands in for a more familiar faith: populist fundamentalism, a crowd-pleasing mix of hellfire and the kind of prosperity preaching that encourages followers to ante up to the Lord in both spirit and dollars. And then there’s Hillary Clinton’s religion: the third strand of political faith, the least understood and arguably the most powerful.
Clinton, an evangelically inclined Methodist, is by far the most religiously rooted and theologically astute of the three candidates, a Christian intellectual schooled in the cold war religion of Reinhold Niebuhr’s post-leftist years. Don Jones, her youth pastor and a lifelong spiritual mentor, calls the faith he instructed her in then and which they still share a third way between old-school fundamentalism and liberal Christianity. It’s not centrism, though; Jones describes it in terms of Burkean conservatism, after the eighteenth-century reactionary philosopher’s belief that change should be slow and come without the sort of “social leveling” that offends class hierarchy.
That’s the crux of the conflict between the progressive Christianity that’s broad enough to encompass both Jeremiah Wright and Jimmy Carter, and the elitist variation long embraced by Hillary: The former dreams always, if imperfectly, of challenging power, while the latter works to reaffirm it. Clinton’s faith is not the liberal version of Christianity that Democratic leaders have traditionally invoked–instead, her version, exemplified by her alliance with a shadowy network of powerful conservative Christians, is steeped in the kind of establishmentarianism that she has otherwise tried to distance herself from throughout the primary season.
I didn’t know we had an “evangelical cabal” in America - certainly not one which embraces Hillary Clinton. This is really getting rather weird, isn’t it? I can understand why lefties don’t like her, but why does the round peg of Hillary’s liberalism have to be fitted into the square hole of evangelical Christianity? Is it that lefties really cannot ever admit to themselves that one of their own might be wrong? Is it that if you are on the left, error (as defined by the left) is proof that you are actually of the right?
Of course, we do have the example of fascism before us - a clearly leftwing ideology (founded by the Italian socialist leader Benito Mussolini) was somehow translated into a right-wing phenomena merely because the left didn’t want to confront the fact that Fascism was a merely nationalist form of garden variety socialism. Now the left doesn’t want to confront the fact that Hillary Clinton - a leftwing liberal if there ever was one - is one of theirs…so, she’s being recast as a closet Republica, closet conservative and closet evangical religious right nutcase…part of a “cabal” designed to do evil in the world.
These people really are sick - and I mean really, mentally ill. We can’t trust them with power - no more than we’d trust a denizen of the lunatic asylum with power. Until the left gets a grip on reality, they can’t be trusted with so much as a burnt out match.
Tags: Hillary Clinton, liberal lies
May 12th, 2008
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