If you sort of cross your eyes and let the image on the screen get a little fuzzy, one could almost imagine that Hillary is pumping up the crowd at a WWE event, right before the big fight.

But then Obama comes out and the lights dim, a Public Enemy song blares from the speakers, and as he steps into the ring and removes his hood, he shouts:

CAN YOU SMELL WHAT BARACK IS COOKING!?

Shame on whom? Clinton gets angry the second she feels Obama has misrepresented her position, but misrepresenting Obama has pretty much been the basis of her campaign since he started surging in the polls.

If this is what she really thinks Obama is all about -- and she must not have paid much attention in the Senate if that's the case -- then it's going to hurt that much more when he wins the primary.

A very presidential performance. You know, if you think Sybil Fawlty is presidential.

Gee whiz.

Create a new phrase:

Eyesore delicious.

And she makes it so in less than 20 minutes.

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What will HRC have at the end of her failed campaign ?
1) Dignity
2) Sanity
3) Mark Penn
4) Respect of Democratic Party

Anger. Sarcasm. What's coming tomorrow? Damnation?

Folks, this is our future on Hillary Clinton. Just say no.

"Working the crowd into laughter", huh?

Watch the video a couple of times and focus on some faces behind Hillary. I would say that quite of few in that crowd were 'worked into a nervous/confusion sort of laughter', quite different that the usual supporter cheers of Hillary's rising inflection points. Even the raising of signs must have been a relief to some there, in order to hide their embarrassment. That was painful to watch.

Hillary looked like an angry bumble bee dressed in yellow, an observation made while watching the Oscars.

She wants us to review her record against his. It's easy. She was secretive, slow, defensive, and arrogant about health care reform in '93 and it set the issue back by 15 years and contributed to Republican takeover of the Congress. I've yet to see any of the Clinton defenders address this issue (Kensdad, where are you?)

She voted in favor of the Iraq War - I can only guess because she thought she needed to look tough - just what we need: a candidate more concerned with how she looks than her core values (if there are any). Reminds me of her husband.

And then she isn't even ready to manage her campaign on day one or day 365 - and pays $10m to Mark Penn's company for consulting.

Okay, there's the record. What is supposed to give me confidence? Even her Cuba comments the other night - the same old, same old that has resulted in zero progress in our relations with and influence over Cuba for 50 years - I am thinking because she is afraid to look "weak".

Enough already.

I don't get it. Is she calling Barack a fairy?

she's making it really hard to imagine pulling the lever for her if she's the nominee. I can imagine what four years of this would do to the party and we may be better off focusing on strengthening the congress.

fortunately, that's looking less like a concern I'll have to have.

Seems appropriate

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGPSnB93vo4

This was her Dean scream moment. She is now officially off the deep end.

So, let me get this straight. I should vote for the cynical, shrill angry candidate over the positive, upbeat, inspiring one.

Yeah, okay. Whatever...

She's done. It's over.

*Cough*

S.C.:

It's a status quo that extends beyond any particular party and right now that status quo is fighting back with everything it's got, with the same old tactics that divide and distract us from solving the problems people face, whether those problems are health care that folks can't afford or a mortgage they cannot pay. So this will not be easy. Make no mistake about what we're up against. We're up against the belief that it's all right for lobbyists to dominate our government, that they are just part of the system in Washington. But we know that the undue influence of lobbyists is part of the problem and this election is our chance to say that we are not going to let them stand in our way anymore. ... Because in the end, we're not just against the ingrained and destructive habits of Washington, we're also struggling with our own doubts, our own fears, our own cynicism. The change we seek has always required great struggle and great sacrifice. And so this is a battle in our own hearts and minds about what kind of country we want and how hard we're willing to work for it. So let me remind you tonight that change will not be easy. Change will take time. There will be setbacks and false starts and sometimes we'll make mistakes.

TX:

Because understand this, Houston: As wonderful as this gathering is, as exciting as these enormous crowds and this enormous energy may be, what we're trying to do here is not easy, and it will not happen overnight. ... We know how difficult it will be, but I also know why we're here tonight. We're here because we still believe that change is possible.

VA:

But we know how much farther we have to go. We know it takes more than one night – or even one election – to overcome decades of money and the influence; bitter partisanship and petty bickering that's shut you out, let you down and told you to settle. We know our road will not be easy.

Maybe Clinton thought change would come easy. Or maybe she is discounting those speeches (and about 25 others I chose not to quote here) because, apparently, there have been no elections in the last couple weeks. Or it could be she is just knocking down strawmen.

Also, while I normally do not place too much importance on "looking presidential," Clinton better hope today's clips do not get a lot of play on cable and network news.

I bet you there a are a lot of super delegates that wish they waited before endorsing her.

In all seriousness, how does she think her tirades the past 2 days are a way to find new voters in Ohio & Texas? People will see this behavior for what it is: inconsistent. She has shown us three very different faces over the last 4 days and only one of them was remotely flattering.

Just when I thought it couldn't get any weirder, it does.

I think she is piling on with the corporate media and RW to vet him to see if he will fight back or they will run over him. It is a good test to see if he will crack under pressure.

Clinton faced the same thing as a front runner and lost a big lead.

Here are the facts, ear;y voting results in TX. the point is this, that the rumors of money troubles is real, vendors are getting stuck and the campaign seeks smaller vendors as they are less likely to seek court as a remedy.

This is going to be interesting, but one of the candidates had to lose, let me say that again, one of the candidates had to lose.

Hillary needs to ask herself how she wants to be remembered as a consequence of this endeavour? Clean departures were Joe Biden, where no permanent damage was made to their image, and then the ludicrous, Rudy Giuliani.

I imagine that many donors and people whom put their names and dollars on her, and who now have a credibility and image issue to deal with are disapointed, I mean arm twisting campaigning where large donors are left alienated and angry, and soon, a list of accounts overdue, while the spin doctors who wrote themselves 12th hour paychecks bail.

But here is the empirical evidence, early results:

HRC is done and her behavior will be fascinating.

Feb. 23, 2008, 7:52PM
COMMENTARY
Election call: It is Obama

By RICK CASEY
Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle

The same factors that carried the last 10 states for Obama will carry Texas.

Eric, I am pretty sure this was meant to whip Hillary's supporters into a frenzy, in addition to making them laugh. Any objective observer would see she failed miserably at both. No matter what you say about her, at least she is consistently bad. Just awful.

HRC now channelling GWB. Video confirmation attached:

http://www.simsadler.name/movmedia/HWG707rev.mov

Here's a possible reason for Hillary's bizarre behavior...John Edwards. I've read that he can't decide who to endorse. He likes Obama but he's afraid he isn't tough enough, not enough of a fighter.

Hillary's campaign may be thinking that an Edwards endorsement could save her. Hence, she's try to be tough enough, a fighter.

Maybe not, but somebody had to have some kind of a reason to tell her to behave this way.

Hillary's sporatic behavior over the past few days is not indicitive of a fighter.

It is what someone does when they are getting and taking advice from many different people.

She won't take a stance on what direction her campaign will go.

Positive?

Negative?

The choices don't get any easier than that.

What kind of games do you think she will play when she gets to the White House?

Who's in charge Hillary?

I resent feeling sorry for you at the end of the Texas debate now.

I'm sure Barack's head is spinning.

Honored indeed.

Apparently McCain's lobbyist buddy works for Mark Penn. Interesting reading over at the dailykos:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/2/24/14518/2213/544/463202

Gosh, call me crazy, but I thought that this looked like a very effective approach for her. I dare say that if she had been more like this all along, the race might be going differently right now. I do think that Obama is going to win in the end, but I do not think that speeches like the one which is the focus of this thread are marks against her.

As Mira Sorvino said in My Cousin Vinny, "Oh my Gawd, what a f*cking nightmare!" :)

Hillary, sarcasm and condescension really do not become you - neither does the schoolmarm scolding you engaged in yesterday. Didn't you learn anything from "the tears"? People respond to you when you are human and authentic - this is really, really beneath you and I expected better.

Yeah this is kind of sad. Its like Jordan playing too much. Its like any great player who stays in the game too long - they may have nights of brilliance, but most of the time they strike out or seem a shell of their former self.

I'm just surprised the leadership of the DNC hasn't done something to make this end quickly. They should rapidly get behind Obama and really stack the deck against her.

If she's like this now, can you imagine what she'll be like if she loses everything on March 4?

Ten bucks says if the networks call the whole shot for Sen. Obama she'll be in Philadelphia, screaming at a gymnasium full of high school kids, pretending it's not happening.

Greg, just taking a head count from this thread it doesn't seem like it's having a good effect.

The worst thing about her attacks on him at this point is that they aren't going to help her get the nomination at all, but some of the soundbytes will surely be picked up by McCain come the general election. Her actions are hurting the entire party

Can i buy the 3rd and sell the rest?

Obama/Edwards 2008

Eesh. Ugly. ...And, yes, so presidential.

Seeing things like this truly does make me think she knows she's going to lose and she's just trying to whip up some donations to pay down her debts before she quits after March 4.

This is great:

http://www.obamaiswinning.com/2008/02/a-story-of-hope.html

Quite a juxtaposition, isn't it? The years certainly haven't been kind to Hillary, have they? They've turned her into a bitter, nasty, small person. She will not come out of this campaign unscathed unless she can concede gracefully after March 4 and work her a$$ off making sure he gets into the White House. Then, I think, all will be forgiven.

I agree with Greg DeLassus to the extent that IF she had had this tone from the beginning, steadily, alternating with her wonkish policy person, folks would know WHO she was and some would like them, like the toughness. But by this point, she has shown so very many personas and some so directly contradictory.... the initial questions about her authenticity have been answered in most people's minds: she isn't.

(The one of her personas that made me wince the most, for some reason, was when she played stewardess for the press, serving cobbler up and down the aisle.)

interesting how many clinton supporters have chimed in on this thread with what a proud direction HRC charting.

Desperation is a stinky perfume...

For those who wonder where all the Hillary supporters are, if they're like me, they've just gotten a little tired of the hate here. Now apparently saying something negative about your opponent is the same as calling the people who voted for him fools. I guess the only thing that would make most of you people happy is if she spent all of her time talking about what a great President Obama would be.

Hillary has little choice but to run a somewhat negative campaign. Gnerally, a candidate can count on the press to keep something of a critical eye on her opponent. But the endless press lovefest for Obama is more than a little frustrating. If the Clinton campaign doesn't point out Obama's shortcomings, it's clear no one else will.

I wish some of you would go to sites like Ace of Spades and Little Green Footballs, and see the tone of the comments. Apart from the subject matter, the hate and negativity are identical. You guys are great ones to call someone out for mocking.

And spend a little time reading Michelle Malkin. All of the "unhinged, deranged" talk should seem very familiar and comforting. Hillary was gracious to Obama during the debate. I'm sure many of you got a little wet thinking she was conceding, so to you the fact that she resumed tough campaigning is "wildly inconsistent," as if being gracious during the debate somehow disqualified her from ever criticizing Obama again. And I notice that her graciousness didn't deter the Obama campaign from sending out their vile Harry and Louis mailer.

Face it, every time the Clinton campaign does anything that smacks of, you know, campaigning, Obama's supporters get the vapors, and everything's "slimy" and "Rovian." The other day Obama's campaign manager suggested that people donating to the Clinton-supporting 527 in Ohio could be liable to be criminally prosecuted. How much hysteria would we have seen on this site if it was Howard Wolfson making scare mongering remarks like that? What a bunch of hypocrites.

Hillary has lost it. She is out of control. Unhinged. Ugly. Undignified. Embarrassing. She seems to be suffering from a multiple personality disorder. How do her outbursts over the weekend compute with her conciliatory tone at the end of the last debate? What can we expect tomorrow night?
In my view, these tasteless theatrics, this condescending over the top mocking of Senator Barack Obama, who after all is also her Democratic Senate colleague, outright disqualifies her for the nomination and the presidency.
She is the type of personality who if she has to go down, she would gladly drags us all down with her. Scary stuff.

ceci

Thank you for validating my post.

And Avo, if you haven't seen how many times Obama supporters have accused Hillary of being Rovian, you haven't been paying attention.