The point being missed, totally overlooked here, is that Hillary took her attack on Obama's speeches straight from the Republican playbook used by Deval Patrick's Republican opponent in the governor's race. She used the "same words." So to critized "the same response" to the same tactics is what --
hypocritical!!

So if it didn't work in the Mass campaign, why would the Clinton try the same tactic and expect it to work for them? Because the media is giving them assistance? This just shows more desperation from the Clinton Camp.

Two Questions:

Has Obama ever held a single job for more than 4 consecutive years?

Has Obama ever worked (in any number of jobs) for more than 7 years without taking a multi-year break?

This guy might survive the campaign, but his record suggests not a lot of horsepower on the job. Nevermind executive experience, this guy has a serious deficit of work experience of any kind.

One of the (few) constitutional requirements for presidents is they must be at least 35 years old on taking office. Seems reasonable - probably ensures some degree of minimum maturity and work experience. But, of course, most serious 35 year olds have more work experience than Obama (despite his being 11 years older).

At best this guy might be qualified to be a bureaucrat or work for some sleepy not-for-profit.

http://tinyurl.com/2mb5f4

Is it a stereotypical criticism of a black politician to say that he/she is all speeches? It's beginning to look that way. If they are sharing notes and coming up with a united response then they are reacting to something they commonly face. Kind of like my sisters and I have a standard response to a blonde joke.

The character Congressman Santos in the West Wing Season Six when he launched his bid for the White House also gave a good speech on HOPE, maybe Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick got it from him and this specific episode.

Anyway no one owns hope, or the idea of it.

Also there really is nothing new under the sun.

Hillary never gave credit to Barbara Feinmann Todd for ghostwriting "It Takes A Village." That has been well documented.

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2003/0707/096.html

Hillary is credited as being the author. She was supposed to give credit to Feinmann Todd...she did not.

I warned all Obama supporters last week who were proudly prancing around the web fighting to claim the mantle of frontrunner that this would happen. Frontrunners get taken down...even by baseless, senseless, irrelevant stories such as this one. Hillary can't beat McCain, he even has my vote and that of all my colleagues, friends, and family over Billary. It is extra special for all so called reporters to take down Obama and maintain the country's white patriarchal rule ; it is something their subconsciouses relishes even when they try to hide it from their readers and viewers.

To the naively overzealous supporters who couldn't get talked down soon enough, welcome to your status as front runner...it will only get worse for our candidate and he may just lose the nomination because there are many factors at play here and the strongest one is the one that has been present for over four hundred years in this country. Let's continue to fight the good fight but take the medicine as it comes. We can still triumph if we hone our message, get our boots on the ground, VOLUNTEER like there will be no tomorrow, and VOTE (we don't need anymore embarrassing opportunists like "ObamaGirl").

I warned all Obama supporters last week who were proudly prancing around the web fighting to claim the mantle of frontrunner that this would happen. Frontrunners get taken down...even by baseless, senseless, irrelevant stories such as this one. Hillary can't beat McCain, he even has my vote and that of all my colleagues, friends, and family over Billary. It is extra special for all so called reporters to take down Obama and maintain the country's white patriarchal rule ; it is something their subconsciouses relishes even when they try to hide it from their readers and viewers.

To the naively overzealous supporters who couldn't get talked down soon enough, welcome to your status as front runner...it will only get worse for our candidate and he may just lose the nomination because there are many factors at play here and the strongest one is the one that has been present for over four hundred years in this country. Let's continue to fight the good fight but take the medicine as it comes. We can still triumph if we hone our message, get our boots on the ground, VOLUNTEER like there will be no tomorrow, and VOTE (we don't need anymore embarrassing opportunists like "ObamaGirl").

It's hard to tell who Hillary is running against. Obama or Patrick?

I don't think Obama is going to end up with the nom.

I sensed a shift a few days ago.

My dear Obamacans, I detect a disturbance in the force.

Hillary was right, Obama is the showhorse, and she is the workhorse.
Obama's baptist rivial style of speaking has never turned me on. I think I had enough of the religious right, and family values since Bush has been in office. The Obama Camp did
a hit job in SC, claiming the Clintons are racist, yet in every speech I hear from him,
it's Selma, Ala, MLK,slaves, civil rights, page after page. You gotta be careful what you
say, should you mention his middle (birth name)
you become the target of racism.

It matters when he sells himself to be
the agent for change, and can't deliver in his own words.

SO FUCKING WHAT !!!!!

A year ago, Obama was just one of over a half dozen Democratic candidates. The reason this wasn't reason for 'cause or complaint' back then is because nobody was paying attention.

Now that he's the front-runner he's under the spotlight. Something he needs to get used to and understand that everything he says and does will be under far more scrutiny than it has been in the past. That's the price of being the front-runner - you get vetted whether fairly or otherwise.

the clintons are pathetic.
but the bright side is they will lose Texas and it will finally be over for them.


bill can hang out with old man bush and hillary can finally get her divorce.

this was her one and only shot....and she missed..

I just hope she doesn't continue to embarrass herself by holding onto Obamas pant leg as he walks to accept the nomination.

what a horror she is.

Who was it that defined neurosis as repeating the same mistake again and again, and expecting a better outcome each time? That"s really what the Clinton campaign is doing in its post-Chesapeake primary strategy. Now Hillary defines Obama as the candidate who makes speeches, while she is the one who provides "answers" and "solutions."
Why is Hillary embracing this new line? It"s not that she has any great record of solutions or answers of which to boast
Of course experience not only didn"t work. It backfired massively. By co-opting the experience tag, Hillary bought into the status quo and left Obama to be the agent of change. A candidacy that could have excited tens of millions of women, the first serious prospect of a female president, became merely a boring part of the status quo, shorn of its novelty.
Hillary"s claim to be the solution-person won"t work either for the same simple reason: She hasn"t passed any. . She hasn"t walked the walk so now she cannot talk the talk.
As a first lady, Hillary"s sole important legislative involvement came during the first two years of her husband"s presidency when she sought to pass her ill-conceived health care reform, an effort that failed so miserably that it cost her party control of the House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years.
Between 1995 to 1997, she was largely absent from the White House, traveling the world, promoting her best selling book and helping to raise funds. She never attended strategy meetings and her only intervention in the singular legislative achievements of Bill"s administration " welfare reform and the balanced budget deal " was privately to urge a veto of the former and to oppose the latter because it provided for a cut in the capital gains tax.
Hillary returned to the White House in 1998 to oversee the defense to the Lewinsky scandal and the impeachment attempt, but the Clinton administration essentially folded its legislative efforts during those years and hung on for dear life.

No portfolio of accomplishments there.

"But there is no fresh news here: in fact, this rhetorical connection between the two pols was noted by the Boston Globe way back in April of 2007."
So it was reported on "way" back in April than I guess it doesn't mean anything?
Come on. It could be said by copying an other's campaign that you a bit of a phony. If this was about Clinton there would be a fire storm.
Obama not so much.