Things sure are getting weird with Hillary. And I don't just mean the arresting spectacle of the 60-year-old presidential candidate in her suit and good jewelry knocking back Whiskey and yukking it up with some working-class fellows in an Indiana bar. Hey, I'd be driven to drink too if my poll numbers were plunging as rapidly as the Dow. And if I got booed by a labor crowd in Pittsburgh the next morning when I was only trying to point out how un-elitist and non-bitter I was.
Really, how rude!
Come to think of it I might be confusing the timeline and details of those events. My memory's not so good. But apparently neither is Hillary's, as evidenced by her repeated telling of Bosnia snipers firing on her entourage at the airport when they, um, didn't. Oh, if only I had John McCain's sparkling facility for getting facts straight, like his impressive grasp of Sunnis and Shiites and who's fighting whom in Iraq.
But, seriously, Hillary's desperation for blue-collar votes and her tiresome attacks on Obama are leading her down some awfully treacherous trails. Last night's debate made her look positively petty and peevish. Why does she insist on linking Obama to personalities that have no relevance to his candidacy or character? Like former '60s radical William what's-his-name, a guy most Americans have never heard of. For that matter, when did George Stephanopoulos, who came across as flacking for Hillary all night, start channeling Sean Hannity?
Speaking of transformations, Hillary has gone through some startling personality changes herself. This incarnation took its latest form when she morphed into a gun aficionado while wistfully recalling an episode from her childhood. To wit:
"You know, my dad took me out behind the cottage that my grandfather built on a little lake called Lake Winola outside of Scranton and taught be how to shoot when I was a little girl," she told a group of supporters.
You know, some people now continue to teach their children and their grandchildren. It's part of culture. It's part of a way of life. People enjoy hunting and shooting because it's an important part of who they are. Not because they are bitter."
No, but they are a bit miffed over losing their jobs to outsourcing, their homes to rip-off mortgage artists, having to shell out $4 a gallon for gas while the oil companies continue to rake in record profits and pay a good chunk of their taxes for a war they don't want in Iraq.
I just hope Hillary doesn't start marching in front of some Planned Parenthood in the Heartland to appeal to the right-wing. Or suddenly profess her concern for the "unborn" as John McCain did the other night during the Hardball college tour before a crowd of Villanova students. Her base could have issues with that.
According to the latest Washington Post poll, they may already be disenchanted with her. Sixty-two percent of voters believe that Obama is better able to win in November, while only 31 percent now say Clinton is more electable. And 58 percent say they don't think she's honest and trustworthy. Not good.
Well, at least now I know where Hillary stands on gun control. I think.
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If you are an Obama supporter, will you support Hillary should she win the nomination???
If you are a Hillary supporter, will you support Obama should he win the nomination??
FYI people: the things that you are complaining about now: high a$$ gas prices, Iraq war, our tax money being sent to Iraq instead of being spent at home, possibly more wars, HORRENDOUS economy, wiped out middle class... etc etc... These are the things that McBush will offer you for the next four years!!!
Hillary and Obama are about 95% similar on their policies... so if you are supporting either because of their policies, (which should be the case) then a vote for the other won't hurt you!!
Our goal is to win the WH, bc so far, after 7+ years of GOP nonsense, our country has been sliding down down down... the rich get richer, the middle class wiped out, the poor get poorer...
A vote for McCain bc your candidate didn't win is childish and ridiculous... if you agree with his policies, by all means vote for him...
I won't vote GOP ever... bc they do NOT CARE ABOUT US AVERAGE JOES!!!!!
I am very unhappy with her Iraq war vote, but I am willing to give her the benefit of the doubt that she will pull our troops out!
I know for a fact McBomb won't do it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exsmFDYyK4U
Hillary in her own words promoting NAFTA.
Hillary in her own words talking about Iraq.
Hillary in her own words talking about the importance of character.
Hillary in her own words acknowledging that voters are tired of politicians who lie.
Hillary in her own words insulting stay-at-home-moms that bake cookies.
Hillary in her own words talking about elitism.
Hillary in her own words talking about Bill's $800,000 for speeches supporting Columbian free trade.
People who like this video, may also like "Hillary's Inner Tracy Flick":
http://slatev.com/player.html?id=1377935786
Go Obama.
How the heck do we trust her to bring the troops home?
Carol
I don't support her bc of her Iraq war vote... My husband serving a third term, over 4000 dead, and my husband's personal friends dead bc of utter nonsense...
I understand she didn't launch this debacle on her own, but she helped pave the way for GW SHRUB... and any politician that voted for this clusterfu^% will not have my support.
I bet that sly old Hillary will work the Botox angle into her health care pitch.
She should run as McCain's running mate.
Barack Obama leads McCain in Michigan 43 to 41% with 8% undecided, but Hillary is losing to McCain in Michigan 46 to 37%. Barack Obama is clearly the Democrats strongest candidate against McCain in the general election. I copied and pasted the poll below, and the Link is here:
http://www.mlive.com/elections/index.ssf/2008/04/obama_does_better_against_mcca.html
Monday April 14, 2008
LANSING, Mich. (AP) -- A new poll shows Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama doing better against Republican John McCain among Michigan voters than Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton.
The poll by Lansing-based EPIC-MRA shows 43 percent of the 600 likely voters polled back Obama, while 41 percent back McCain. Eight percent say they'd vote for independent candidate Ralph Nader, while 8 percent are undecided.
McCain leads Clinton 46 percent to 37 percent. Ten percent say they'd vote for Nader and 7 percent are undecided.
Fifty-nine percent have a favorable opinion of McCain, while 55 percent feel that way about Obama and 45 percent about Clinton.
The poll was conducted April 3-8. It has a margin of sampling error of plus or minus 4 percentage points.
A lot of things about things the Clinton years were great. We Democrats appreciate it. But it was eight years ago! Also, I remember how out of touch George H. W. Bush sounded in 1992 when he only wanted to talk about how wonderful things were going. By not admitting that the middle class has been slipping, through Republican and Democratic administrations, and that corporate consolidation and free trade have undermined the American worker, Senator Clinton sounds like she's speaking from a distant ivory tower.
Even as she praised Gov. Ed Rendell for preventing more home foreclosures in Pennsylvania, I wondered what the voter from that state who did lose her or his house was feeling. But the statistics say things are fabulous! If the approval ratings were up and the economic numbers basically good-- for Bill Clinton that was always good enough. Hillary Clinton showed last night she would continue that mindset. To our detriment.
She is the SAME divisive, lying politician. Her 'spots' won't change.
So if you oppose this war, vote for a pro-war Democrat. Get Hillary in there, and make sure she favors a continued involvement. Some people say the football team, the Washington Redskins, are the real game in D.C., but I say, that among Republicans, Clinton bashing is the number one sport on the Potomac.
It won’t be a god-fearin peace, or one based on reason or intelligence, but rather a grubby partisan peace. But what the hell, “Minister’s Questions” really isn’t so high toned either.
A partisan peace is better than no peace at all.
Which is to say, politicians make strange bedfellows, and a partisan piece is better than no piece at all.