March 10, 2008
By now, you’ve no doubt seen the drunken Russian tank crew running over a house after a booze-run.
But, have you seen their girlfriends?
Still waiting for those bastards to get back with the f*#king vodka!
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March 8, 2008
Hillary’s been running on experience. Obama keeps pointing out what she did with it.
Then again, the better tack might be “what experience?” At first, the Hillary people didn’t know:
February 29, 2008
Pregnant Pause
It was, in this reporter’s opinion, the most interesting moment in today’s Clinton campaign phoner with reporters. Responding to the release of HRC’s new TX TV ad, which asserts in no subtle terms that only she has the experience to deal with a major world crisis, and, relatedly, to keep your children safe, Slate’s John Dickerson asked the obvious question:
“What foreign policy moment would you point to in Hillary’s career where she’s been tested by crisis?” he said.
Silence on the call. You could’ve knit a sweater in the time it took the usually verbose team of Mark Penn, Howard Wolfson and Lee Feinstein, Clinton’s national security director, to find a cogent answer. And what they came up with was weak — that she’s been endorsed by many high ranking members of the uniformed military.
You can go listen to the clip here.
When this happened, I didn’t think much of it, figuring it was the Hillary equivalent of Kirk Watson’s deer in the headlights moment. Just as Obama does in fact have a legislative record, I assumed that Hillary did in fact have the experience she was talking about (I just didn’t think it had done her any good).
March 8, 2008
You can see it here. Obama asks for and gets the resignation of an advisor for calling Hillary “a monster.”
Hillary confirms that she thinks the comparison of Obama to Ken Starr is “accurate.”
Hillary is in no position to offer advice on proper behavior to anyone, just in case that needed saying.
In the meantime, the best response to Hillary’s bizarre negative tactics is to make her pay for them, not to ignore them.
Hillary said on Friday that she thinks I’m just like Ken Starr. You know, the tobacco lawyer who hounded the Clintons on, it turned out in the end, nothing.
I’m just like Ken Starr?
I wonder, can anyone in Senator Clinton’s campaign ask her for me, ‘do you see Ken Starr all the time or just when the moon is full?’ It must have been awfully traumatizing to go through all that. I say ‘must have been’ because, the damage is obvious. She’s hallucinating. Ken Starr is everywhere! Be afraid, be very afraid! She even stole an ad from the McCain campaign, just to make sure you were afraid. Just as scared and confused as she is.
I’m Ken Starr. Imagine that.
But when someone in my campaign stepped over the line, they were through. She was gone the next day. And that’s the difference between me and my opponent. She’s still out there pushing the NAFTA story, even though she knows not only that it’s wrong, but that her own campaign did what she accused me of doing. Her people have been pushing my connections to Rezko, meanwhile her campaign is taking money from his co-defendants.
And she gets a free pass for that. Wow. This must be more of that pro-Obama media bias she was complaining about.
I don’t think the American people are going to support a candidate who lies to you, who thinks you’re dumb enough to fall for it, and who blames her problems on the opposition. We already have someone like that in the White House, and the American people are sick of it.
I dunno why I keep writing these things. They just come to me.
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March 8, 2008
Hillary was on MSNBC on Friday, pushing the NAFTA story that
- she knows is bogus
- she knows her campaign did what she’s blaming Obama for doing
Hillary can use these Republican tactics because, like the Republicans, she’s counting on low-information voters to put her within reach of taking the the Democratic nomination with the least democratic part of the process.
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March 7, 2008
I mentioned this earlier, but does someone in the Hillary campaign need to remind her which party she’s in?
TalkingPointsMemo, quoting Hillary Clinton today, again suggesting that John McCain is more qualified to be president than Barack Obama (watch video of Hillary repeatedly praising McCain over Obama here):
“I think that since we now know Sen. (John) McCain will be the nominee for the Republican Party, national security will be front and center in this election. We all know that. And I think it’s imperative that each of us be able to demonstrate we can cross the commander-in-chief threshold,” the New York senator told reporters crowded into an infant’s bedroom-sized hotel conference room in Washington.
“I believe that I’ve done that. Certainly, Sen. McCain has done that and you’ll have to ask Sen. Obama with respect to his candidacy,” she said.
Calling McCain, the presumptive GOP nominee a good friend and a “distinguished man with a great history of service to our country,” Clinton said, “Both of us will be on that stage having crossed that threshold. That is a critical criterion for the next Democratic nominee to deal with.”
It’s stuff like this that makes me wonder if Hillary is deliberately punishing the Democratic party, now that it’s almost mathematically impossible for her to win the nomination.
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March 7, 2008
The only reason people keep saying that Obama is all style and no substance is so they don’t have to know the substance.
That’s their laziness talking.
The political press doesn’t want to talk about issues anyway. Issues don’t help them sell toothpaste and diapers and cruises and a bunch of other crap. That’s the job of journalists: selling advertising time. Journalists are not in the business of informing you.
So, it’s not just sad and stupid, it’s a cheap dodge. The people who don’t want to talk about substance are saying that there’s no substance to talk about.
As for the Hillary people and the McCain people, as if there’s a difference any more, that’s just their way of running away from a debate they can’t handle.
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March 7, 2008
It’s perfectly clear, to me anyway, that Clinton’s recent comments about how John McCain would make a better president than Barack Obama mark a turn in her campaign.
She is threatening to take down the Democratic party, if they don’t support her.
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March 7, 2008
If you know Texas, you know what you’re looking at.
With the possible exception of south Texas, that’s the picture of conservatives voting for Clinton.
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