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December 3, 2007Hillary gets stupid about ObamaEven back when I was a Democrat I always found Mrs. Clinton to be rather less impressive than the gushing media narratives of the past 15 years would have it, but she seems to be in a panicky/meltdown mode that demonstrates to the masses just how underwhelming she is. In one of the stupidest moves I have ever seen any politician make in any political campaign: Mrs. Clinton is going after Barack Obama because - while he has publicly said he hadn’t considered a presidential run until recently - he had in fact…wait for it…told his Kindergarten teacher that he wanted to be president!
Oh. My. Gawwwwwd. Maybe this is what happens when you have so little resourcefulness of your own that you over-rely upon the “research resources” until you get lost in them. Maybe my memory is failing me, but isn’t it commonly thought a “lovable” part of the Bill Clinton hagiography that he - from a young age - declared his intention to become president to his mother and teachers? Isn’t that a story (and a moment) that is supposed to both awww-endear Bill to us and also burnish his patina as an awesomely visionary “inevitable” man of history? How come Obama’s not allowed the same notions? That seems very picayune and un-inclusionary of Hillary, doesn’t it, that Obama’s not allowed his own lofty vision? But then again, we’re supposed to believe that Mrs. Clinton never thought about becoming president when she made her first senatorial run. Her ambition was simply to serve the people of New York. And she was “not thinking” about it when she ran for re-election, too. “It’s all too petty,” a professor of politics at the University of Virginia, Larry Sabato, said of the exchange over who first harbored dreams of the presidency. “It shows you how little they have to talk about. There’s not much of a difference between them on the issues.” I like the Obama camp’s response:
Hillary is very lucky there is a writer’s strike going on, or the comics would be running with this. There is an SNL skit waiting to be written here: Bad-crazy-Nurse Ratchet Candidate trying to bat down the Bright & Troublesome Kid, who keeps popping up saying essentially the same thing Bill “I-always-never supported-Iraq” Clinton says as Peck’s Bad Boy Bill ambles about eating other kid’s lunches and snapping bras. Or something Mrs. Clinton has been rackety since her awful performance in debate before Tim Russert, but this move - coming right on the heels of the woman’s “see how presidentially I stroll to the microphone to declare how emotionally distraught I was and still am about those endangered campaign workers taken hostage in another state. I’m regal-dammit-regal; write-that-down!” moment gives one the impression that her derby soapbox - the slickest, nackiest, best-funded, favorite vehicle, expected to fly to victory, has perhaps a few loose screws; it has lost a wheel and is skidding and swerving sideways as it careens out of control. That’s how you go into a rollover and heaven knows, that’s not good. A few days ago, Mrs. Clinton seemed a little too eager to grasp a “victimized-but-presidential” narrative that had me wondering if megalomania was going to become part of the ‘08 campaign. But now, with this move? She just seems like a giant Can O’ Crazy, with New Improved Petty Vindictiveness added. I’m not the only one noting that this was a very stupid move. Obama should make the most of it while he can, because a bad move like this will be quickly buried. Tom Maguire and Ed Morrissey are also finding this Hillarian salvo against Obama to be laughable and worthy of satire. Maguire notes that this is also not good, and Sister Toldjah expands. Tom at The New Editor has more. So does Ace Flip says, What an odd battle to choose. Classical Values is has more, but slightly O/T. Don Surber appreciates Obama’s response Riehl world wonders if this Clinton attack is a trap, or maybe a warning shot? Reason Magazine says Hillary thinks you’re an idiot. H/T Lucianne.com. http://theanchoressonline.com/2007/12/03/hillary-gets-stupid-about-obama/trackback/ 17 Responses to “Hillary gets stupid about Obama” |
December 3rd, 2007 at 12:36 pm
I don’t see Obama looking any better then Hilary in this example. I it was a lame attack, sure Hillary’s response was just as lame, but I don’t think either looks all that great here.
But then I don’t share the visceral dislike of Hillary that so many people have. I suspect that when she wins the nominiation, and certain people go absolutely crazy, it will help her win the Whitehouse more then hurt her.
December 3rd, 2007 at 12:58 pm
David - as I wrote the other day, I don’t see where 8 years of Hillary Derangement Syndrome will be any better or more useful than 8 years of Bush Derangement Syndrome. But I think Obama’s team answered this nonsense appropriately. It needed to be mocked. They mocked it.
December 3rd, 2007 at 3:00 pm
‘I Know I Am, But What Are You?!’…
The Chicago Tribune’s political blog The Swamp notes the latest example of the increasingly bizarre nature of the 2008 presidential campaign.
Apparently in answer to Barak Obama’s sarcastic digs at Hillary Clinton for her well-known long-standing …
December 3rd, 2007 at 4:19 pm
Democrats differ on Cuba policy at Iowa debate
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Reuters - Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama
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December 3rd, 2007 at 4:36 pm
She forgot to say, “As a mother, I was offended to learn that Senator Obama lied about his kindergarten record. As you know, even though I was named after Sir Edmond Hillary, I really wanted to be an astronaut in kindergarten because NASA sure did hate women back then. I was able to drop that dream after my letters to them at age 6 shattered the glass ceiling that existed in the space program. I have always been honest about this.”
December 3rd, 2007 at 4:42 pm
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December 3rd, 2007 at 4:50 pm
Maybe it’s Hillary’s oh-so-clever way of getting the striking writers to end their strike?
December 3rd, 2007 at 5:01 pm
She does not want the writers strike to end. She would be flayed by SNL and the late night shows over this idiocy. The writers strike also got her out of the next debate.
She wants that strike to end the day her White House records are released.
December 3rd, 2007 at 5:34 pm
The devil… the prowde spirite… cannot endure to be mocked. - Thomas More
(Humor, people. It’s humor.)
December 3rd, 2007 at 6:17 pm
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December 3rd, 2007 at 7:06 pm
Robert Reich attacks Hillary Clinton for … being Hillary Clinton…
I found this diatribe, written by President Clinton’s labor secretary and all around pal of the Clinton’s Robert Reich, against Hillary’s stepped up attacks against Obama rather odd. In the piece, Reich tackles criticisms Hillary…
December 3rd, 2007 at 7:28 pm
When Did Scott Ott Become Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Manager?…
All right, I know a great satire site when I read it. Scott Ott must have contracted with the Hillary Clinton campaign for this argument, right? Only a true satirist or a complete idiot would go after a campaign opponent……
December 3rd, 2007 at 7:45 pm
What’s so pathetic about this is that Hillary could have turned Oboma’s accustion on its ear. She/her camp could have repsonded with something like:
“Yes, I have been preparing to be president for a long time. The Presidency of the United States is the most important job in the world. It is not a position for someone who impulsively decides he/she wants it. It is a job of a person who is well prepared.
Doctors spend many years preparing for their profession. Americans should look for a well prepared person as president.”
Instead she responded in a very juvenile and scary manner. Digging up dirt from kindergarten is scary. I wonder how far she is willing to go to discredit someone.
December 4th, 2007 at 7:59 pm
isn’t it commonly thought a “lovable” part of the Bill Clinton hagiography that he - from a young age - declared his intention to become president to his mother and teachers?
YES. But that wouldn’t stop the hypocritical Hillabeast from stooping to something so stupid.
I really can’t stand Obama, but it’s sure not because he thought being President was cool at age five. Dumbest complaint about a candidate EVAR.
DADvocate said:
I wonder how far she is willing to go to discredit someone.
As far as she needs to go, and then some. Discrediting isn’t enough; destruction and ultimate power is her goal. I find it amusing–yet predictable–that moonbats who think Bush has too much power are so comfortable with Hillary!
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