The Tears Were Fake, But the Rumors Were True
Or, Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Obama?
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Before the New Hampshire primary, when it looked like Hillary!™ Clinton was going down to a second consecutive humiliating defeat at the hands of Barack Obama; the rumors of her campaign’s impending doom were thick. I speculated at the time that the rumors were a campaign rouse designed to rally Clinton’s supporters to “save” her candidacy.
And then the waterworks came.
I believed upon seeing the video that Clinton’s tears were crocodilian and I still do. When she won the primary unexpectedly, I, like many others, thought it confirmed that the rumors were just a well-played part of the low expectations game. But on second thought, I have become convinced that Clinton’s crying game is evidence that her campaign really was in turmoil, and that a big loss that night could have finished her off.
Read on…
By pulling out the handkerchief, Clinton had to know that she was reaching for a gun with only one bullet. How could she possibly get that emotional again, even if it was genuine, without it hurting her? Either she would be labeled as unable to handle the pressures of the presidency, or her initial fakery would be seen for what it really was.
Furthermore, although she has had a history in the Democratic primary of accusing the old boys’ network of ganging up on her, she really must have wanted to save that crying jag for the general election. If it’s a one shot deal, best to use it when it can do the most good. The fact that the damsel in distress card came out early shows that Clinton’s campaign thought it was in big trouble. So, she went all in. And the rest is history.
Yes, I believe that we came tantalizingly close to a primary campaign without the Clintons. Some have commented that it would be in the eventual Republican nominee’s favor for Clinton and Obama to have a long, bloody primary battle. Such a spectacle would result in a weakened opponent for the general election. I am sympathetic to that school thought. But it is based on the belief that Obama, the beneficiary of an early Clinton collapse, is unbeatable by the Republican unless significantly weakened by the Democrat. I disagree.
I don’t believe that Republicans should be afraid of running against the big bad Obama. The Senator from H.O.P.E.™ is making his campaign on a promise to deliver a different kind of politics. He is selling himself as an agent of change, unique among all of the politicians in the country. But what are his positions? He wants to raise taxes, talk to America’s enemies, expand the role of the Federal government, nationalize healthcare, and so on. In other words, he’s just a liberal. Nothing more. That he is not generally recognized as such is a testimony to how little people actually know about him. But in the course of an election campaign, when he is contrasted against a lone Republican, especially a conservative Republican, they will find out.
It’s easy to forget, since the primary campaign has been going on for close to a year, that there are still ten months to go until the presidential election. Obama will have to get through all that time without doing anything typical for a politician, and a Democratic one at that. He will have to make policy proposals that will be debated. He will have to react to events. He will have to vote. Every time he takes a position, issues a reaction, or votes in the Senate in the way a standard-issue liberal would, a little more of the bloom will come off the rose. Obama is a teenager in political terms. He thinks he has a fresh answer for everything. But he will find out right along with America that the new politics is not really new. It’s just better packaged.
Clinton is the seven-headed hydra of presidential politics. If she can be slain in the Democratic primary, so be it. Bring on the Obama. Republicans should not be afraid.
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Hillary was indeed panicked and something is still a tad strange in New Hampshire.
...(should she be the eventual nominee) if the primary battle lasts a while.
She has such a naturally unpleasant personality, it will not wear well for nine months leading up to November.
Better for her if the media is covering a horse race, not the horse.
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa
Nothing that happens with Mrs Clinton is an accident .
Nothing is genuine- everything is scripted and planned.
If the lights went out and the Shrew was in the room you'd better grab a chair and get your back to the wall .
Obama ... well good luck getting to November. Two names... Vince Foster and Ron Brown .... .
Did I just say that ?? Nah! That is just a long echo from the '90s .
The last thing this country needs are those two nihilists back in power.
She is a socialist and he is a sociopath and they enable each other .
I remain convinced that Barack Obama = Republican blowout defeat. I want Hillary. That will be the clash of the ideological titans. The 1960s anti-war left vs. the silent majority. This is our chance to vanguish the "summer of love" once and for all. We will win against Hillary - I'm convinced of that.
(BTW, I stole that "my friends" line in the subject from Senator John McCain).
“.....women and minorities hardest hit”
My husband deals with quite a few old-school Dems here in Tennessee. To a man, they vow to vote Repub--for the first time ever--rather than vote for EITHER Obama or Hillary. They won't even say Edwards' name, much less consider him.
I do wonder what is wrong with the women of NH. I was also bemused by Rush's comments on at least one female pundit's remark that (I paraphrase) women never should have been given the vote. Call me a female neanderthal but I've often said the same thing. Sometimes women just don't have the sense they were born with.
That emotional drama of Hillary's was beyond fake and I lack all respect for anyone who tries to claim otherwise. Hillary is only sincere when she is a shrieking fishwife termagant (Rush's clip of her screaming that she/they have the right to question any administration). We know about her f-bombs and I was hearing in 1993 about lamp-throwing in the WH (a schoolmate was married to a Secret Service agent on WH detail at the time). That is the real Hillary: hell on wheels testicle-lockboxer. The emotional one is as fake as Elaine's um humm's with Jerry. Come to think of it, maybe it's NH's men that were fooled.
P.T. Barnum sure was right.
And to stay on topic -- it's really too bad her campaign didn't die there in NH but I think we can beat her or Obama, too. I'd just like it to be with a conservative.
You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
1st 5: "shrieking fishwife termagant"
2nd 5: "hell on wheels testicle-lockboxer"
3rd 5: "Elaine's um humms"
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. - Frank Zappa
My oldest daughter found a video (possibly on Youtube, I haven't checked), in which a guy with a camera wandered around a college campus asking female students to sign a petition to "end womens suffrage". A surprising number of students signed immediately.
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Jimmy Kimmel was the one doing it. A few women called him on it.
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I don't claim to know everything about the Clintons, but having watched them operate for roughly 16 years now I believe that the one genuine emotion both share is ambition for power. If you spend your whole life wanting power, sacrificing everything else for it, wouldn't you be a little broken up if you find yourself thwarted while on the cusp of gaining your ultimate goal? In other words, the emotion may have been genuine even if the reason for the emotion was false.
Hang all traitors and secessionists! Hang them high!
- Me
It is so disappointing to see you espousing this opinion. Women "don't have the sense they were born with"??? I am of course assuming that only applies to Democratic women. As a conservative, I would venture to guess you like Coulter, Malkin, Matlin, etc.? Or should they just shut up and cook dinner?
As to women not deserving to vote, I can guarantee you the GOP hopes to have you at the polls, but perhaps your principles should preclude you from participating.
Really: Is this how you plan to promote conservatism?? As the movement to take away the right to vote??
"at some point, the truth must be known..."
I don't understand this. *I* get verklempt when I talk about the future of this country, since 9/11 I can't even hear the national anthem without having to fight back tears. That doesn't qualify me to be president, and it doesn't qualify shrillary.
Look, she's been bulding up to this run at the presidency for the last 30 years, and she was watching it all swirl around the bowl because people she thinks of as a bunch of hicks in flyoverland preferred a kid who's barely out of his acne years. Choking up in that situation is certainly expectable and I don't hold it against her, but it doesn't change the fact that she shows signs of being a pathological liar who's completely ignorant of economics and thinks that 9/11 was Americas high point in foreign policy because it made people like us.
Is the American public so shallow that her performance in that diner actually changed anyone's mind about her? I just can't bring myself to beleive that.
Then again, maybe that's why I'm not a politician.
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"You can't save the Earth unless you're willing to make other people sacrifice" - Scott Adams (speaking through Dogbert)
... who found the whole outcome of the NH Democratic primary beyond strange? Every poll seemed to point to an Obama victory, perhaps by a strong margin, and yet Hillary came up with the win when she needed it most. The GOP polls weren't wrong, but the Dem polls were. Why?
Hang all traitors and secessionists! Hang them high!
- Me
since you mention it, I did hear that to register to vote in NH you only need to represent that you intend to live in the state w/in the next year. Could the Hillary machine have signed up 10,000 ringers from border states? Not unthinkable.
Oh, so you thought that all those ballots the Sec of State had to deliver at the last minute due to "high turnout" were blank? That never occurred to me..... /sarcasm off.
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moved a lot of same day registration voters into southern NH.
NH left itself open to this sort of semi-legalized ballot box stuffing by following the constant bleat of democrats to lower ballot and voter security measures. The democrats are not friends of liberty.
http://www.judicialwatch.org/judicial-watch-announces-list-washington-s-...
Almost a Who's Who and many are running for President including #1 Clinton, #5 Giuliani , #6 Huckabee and #8 Obama. Are we a pathetic nation or what? This is as you can see an unbiased list from a non profit. Are any of these someone we really want for President???
Hillary is well Hillary.
Giuliani is a NY power broker guy, nuff said.
Huckabee destroyed taxpayer equipment, what did he hide? Suing the states ethics commission looking out for the taxpayer!! TWICE
Obama like Harry Reid and Clinton, shady real estate deals, campaign business in taxpayer facility Bill Clinton/Gore)
You'd cry to if you were married to that guy, all the while waiting your turn to be president. Then you finally get your turn and it is all about to go away by some upstart whose name you hadn't heard of five years ago is about to roll you.
Very real tears...Very real.....