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Home Front: Politix
Clinton in panic mode
2007-12-25
Senatrix Hillary Rodham Clinton has lost the air of inevitability that once surrounded her campaign for the Democratic nomination. It remains to be seen whether she's willing to lose her soul in her quest for the presidency. Only a month ago, her main rival, Sen. Barack Obama, was dismissed as a "lightweight" by the political establishment.
He hasn't gained any weight since then, but Madame Clinton has lost some.
Now he has a slight lead over Senator Clinton in Iowa and New Hampshire and is believed to have a good chance of winning South Carolina. Magic Johnson's recent endorsement aside, the advantage Senator Clinton once enjoyed over Senator Obama among African-Americans has disappeared.
"O'Bama's starting to hurt us with the race constituency. We need a Negro."
"How about Magic Johnson?"
"Good idea, if he can be persuaded. See what we have on him."
He's even cut into her support from women.
"We're hurting with women, too. We'll need one of them."
"How about your mother?"
"I'm sure we have something on her. She should come around easy enough."
The Clinton campaign has reacted to this change in fortune by going into what can only be described as panic mode. Using political surrogates, campaign apparatchiks, and an increasingly indignant former president, the senator's nomination drive has engaged in a level of innuendo remarkable in its sleaziness.

Days after the firing of a campaign worker who passed along e-mail suggesting Senator Obama was a Manchurian candidate, Billy Shaheen, the co-chair of the Clinton New Hampshire campaign, said Senator Obama would be vulnerable to Republican attack because of his admitted drug use as a teenager. Mr. Shaheen resigned and Senator Clinton apologized.

Shortly after that, former President Bill Clinton questioned Senator Obama's credentials to be president after praising his "tremendous political skills. " In that vein, former Sen. Bob Kerry of Nebraska cited Senator Obama's "Islamic" name and background in Indonesia as a valuable asset to the United States. It was a disingenuous and back-handed compliment, for which Senator Kerry has apologized. But it wasn't as tacky as the comment by former United Nations ambassador Andrew Young, who told a predominantly black audience that Bill Clinton was "blacker" than Senator Obama and that he undoubtedly had "had" more black women.

Has any presidential campaign ever been more stuck in the fourth grade than this one?

Senator Obama has responded to the Clinton smears with a poise that belies his so-called inexperience. The race for the Democratic nomination promises to be a long and ugly one if the former front-runner feels she can win with tactics that make her look more petulant than presidential.
Posted by:Fred

#11  Hillary and her VP pick:
Posted by: DMFD   2007-12-25 19:48  

#10  not sure anyone looking at the recent poll's would want to be named as her VP candidate right now. Even Richardson who's been fastened, remora-like, to her backside in hopes of being her VP, has been distancing himself recently. The HRC is taking on water and the crew is panicking
Posted by: Frank G   2007-12-25 19:25  

#9  Because her negatives are so high, it might be an interesting ploy to announce her VP this early. Usaully that would be horse-traded at a later date, but if she piles up a lot of losses early she might not be viable at the said later date.
Posted by: Super Hose   2007-12-25 18:37  

#8  I wasn't thinking of sex, AA. (Certainly not with Her Heinous!)

I was thinking of someone who sucks the life out of everything she touches - in a vain effort to have some of her own.

But I understand your reaction - squeal away. ;-p
Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2007-12-25 16:56  

#7  When did a succubus ever have a soul?

Succubus implies sex! With Senatrix Clinton??????

[teenage girl squeal]
EEWWWWWW! NASTY!
[/teenage girl squeal]
Posted by: Almost Anonymous5839   2007-12-25 16:31  

#6  "It remains to be seen whether she's willing to lose her soul in her quest for the presidency."

What soul?

When did a succubus ever have a soul?

Posted by: Barbara Skolaut   2007-12-25 10:56  

#5  "I didn't raise myself up from the depths of hell and take human form just to lose to some man with a good slogan" - a blond female US Senator in the penultimate episode of Angel season 5.
Posted by: mhw   2007-12-25 09:21  

#4  It remains to be seen whether she's willing to lose her soul in her quest for the presidency.

Can't lose something you've already sold.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2007-12-25 09:02  

#3  It remains to be seen whether she's willing to lose her soul in her quest for the presidency.

That part has been long gone ere this.

The Clinton campaign has reacted to this change in fortune by going into what can only be described as panic mode. Using political surrogates, campaign apparatchiks, and an increasingly indignant former president, the senator's nomination drive has engaged in a level of innuendo remarkable in its sleaziness.

QED


Has any presidential campaign ever been more stuck in the fourth grade than this one?

Liberman was the last adult in the entire party power structure.

Senator Obama has responded to the Clinton smears with a poise that belies his so-called inexperience. The race for the Democratic nomination promises to be a long and ugly one if the former front-runner feels she can win with tactics that make her look more petulant than presidential.

Now if he only had a brain...
Posted by: Ptah   2007-12-25 07:09  

#2  Senatrix, heh.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2007-12-25 06:03  

#1  Prys die Here, we still enjoy a degree of free speech. Please, please, please....we must hear more from them. Let the likes of Andrew Young, Senator Kerry, Majic Johnson, Billy Shaheen, and Slick Willie ramble on.
Posted by: Besoeker   2007-12-25 05:05  

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