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2008-01-08 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Mike 2008-01-08 07:47|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 And Hillary is the most moderate runner in that unfaithful and ignorant party. Obama is a fast learner but I wonder if he will listen to his dark overlords. Which evil shall my country chose? Which path to darkness and dispair shall they elect?

Maybe it is time for some misery. They are never faithful without it. Afterall, Americans have never, ever had it so good. 95% employment. 52 months of growth or something like that, reduction in federal debt, higher wages, and watched the debates on HDTV. Supermarket shelves are full and no rationing during a war, bumper crop of wheat, peaceful subjects albiet ignorant as hell, and the highest group of freeholders on the earth.

Posted by newc">newc 2008-01-08 08:17|| 2008-01-08 08:17|| Front Page Top

#2 Hillary is not comatose, but instead at a crossroads. If she distances herself from Bill, goes silent about her First Lady years, stops the play-safe, donï¿½t-blow-it-fourth-quarter strategy, and instead takes risks, talks about what sheï¿½s going to do in simple, blunt terms, gives more interviews, answers impromptu questions at her campaign stops, jettisons the canned laugh for real give and take, she could recover in two weeks.

Even Madonna can't change that fast for the public. All she can be is herself, but when that is nothing more than a neo-marxist spouting a dialectic unanchored by the daily reality the rest of us, outside the blue core Eurocolonies, live with, it ain't going to sell.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-01-08 09:21|| 2008-01-08 09:21|| Front Page Top

#3 Too many women in the MidWest and South hate her at so many levels for her to win a general election.

Posted by 3dc 2008-01-08 10:29|| 2008-01-08 10:29|| Front Page Top

#4 I have to admit that Obama was a good choice to be chosen as Hillary's opposition. As we find out more about Obama, Hillary will look more like the rational statesman. And during this time, all of the party-on-party trash talk, (the most damaging kind) will be on Obama, not Hillary. Right now she's getting a complete and total pass on everything but her inability to beat Obama. Should she manage to pull off the nomination, she will have shown herself able to overcome this negative.

I suppose that was the Clinton plan all along and it never occurred to Hillary that Obama's star would rise high enough to cast a shadow over her own.

One thing that may become an issue for Hillary will be that Edwards will continue to come in second to Obama (or even first) and Hillary will not end up with enough delegates to make it happen. (Yes I know about the superdelegate wild card).

It is going to be an interesting race.

Posted by Whomong Guelph4611 2008-01-08 11:03|| 2008-01-08 11:03|| Front Page Top

#5 The scenario I'm hoping for is Obama wins the race for primary delegates, but Hillary wins the nomination due to her hold on the Superdelegates. This would cement her as the choice of the insiders of the Dem party.

Al

Posted by Frozen Al 2008-01-08 13:45|| 2008-01-08 13:45|| Front Page Top

#6 I like that scenario Frozen Ali - I'd like to script in a part for Al Gore making a 1880s style floor run for the delegates and has his minions destroy convention center's AC in act of courageous political theatre.

Posted by Thomas Woof">Thomas Woof 2008-01-08 15:07|| 2008-01-08 15:07|| Front Page Top

#7 Hillary at the crossroads? If we are lucky maybe an 18-wheeler will come along.

Posted by JohnQC 2008-01-08 16:23|| 2008-01-08 16:23|| Front Page Top

#8 And the name 'Bubba' is painted on the side of the cab.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-01-08 18:52|| 2008-01-08 18:52|| Front Page Top

#9 "Vince Fosters High Speed Cattle Futures and Trucking"?

Posted by Redneck Jim 2008-01-08 21:20|| 2008-01-08 21:20|| Front Page Top

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