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Hillary, Mao and Hypnotoad
There's a new poster in the Hillary store, linked from the front page of hillaryclinton.com:http://www.hillarystore.com/store/HC0925.htmlLarger, if you can handle it:http://store.hillarystore.com/i/li/HRC-2.jpgDon't stare at it too long, I think there's a hypnotoad effect. More seriously, have they never seen posters of Chairman...more »
Posted on May 16, 2008 11:10 PM
Hillary should have won!
If only she'd run a competent campaign, that is. This article:http://www.tnr.com/story_print.html?id=f7a4a380-c4a4-4f84-b653-f252e8569915is on the TPM news feed and won't be there long, but you don't want to miss it. It's Clinton campaign staffers explaining why they think she lost. ... There was no...more »
Posted on May 16, 2008 12:14 PM
A response to a certain troll
I posted this as a comment, but buried in a long list of replies to a troll who posts in high volume it won't do any good. I hope no one minds the repost as a blog entry, but because...more »
Posted on April 30, 2008 11:31 PM
It's all over
Fox and NBC are both calling it for Hillary. As a result, Obama will go into the remaining primaries with an insurmountable lead in pledged delegates, a strong lead in the popular vote, and a huge advantage in fundraising ability.I...more »
Posted on April 22, 2008 8:55 PM
So what's the scenario, Hillary fans
Obama said some true things but said them in a very clumsy fashion, and it's hurting him. In the end I think he'll probably pull out of it, but it will probably cost him a bit. The Hillary supporters...more »
Posted on April 12, 2008 3:12 PM
Obama made a mistake
I hope I don't get kicked out of the echo chamber for admitting this, but Obama made a mistake.The word "bitter" may be accurate, but it was a poor choice of words. When you say someone is "bitter" you're criticizing...more »
Posted on April 12, 2008 2:10 PM
BREAKING: Obama vows to stay in the race until the convention
In a move likely to demoralize even his most devoted supporters, Barack Obama today vowed that he would "stay in the race until the convention." He cited his lead in the pledged delegate count and his superior fundraising ability,...more »
Posted on April 1, 2008 5:14 AM
Let's talk scenarios: The Status Quo, the Hillary Mo, and the Obama Oh No!
Scenarios assuming the race goes to the convention:Scenario 1: Status Quo. Hillary wins the races she's expected to win, Obama wins the ones he's expected to win. Obama is still ahead in pledged delgates. Obama is still ahead in the...more »
Posted on March 30, 2008 7:52 PM
A simple solution: Gore/Obama for the nomination, Hillary to the Supreme Court
Just what the title says. Gore steps in to heal the rift in the Democratic party, and Obama agrees to take the Veep position. Gore agrees to appoint Hillary to the Supreme Court, giving Hillary a lifetime appointment where she can...more »
Posted on March 26, 2008 4:33 PM
It will be an all out brawl!
<i>It will be an all out brawl!</i>That's what a Hillary supporter is quoted as saying, on the front page of TPM.Think about that. The idea of an "all out brawl" between Obama supporters and Hillary supporters is considered to be...more »
Posted on March 21, 2008 10:18 PM
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I guess the answer is no. The img tag is removed completely.
Posted at May 16, 2008 11:26 PM in response to Hillary, Mao and Hypnotoad
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Meant to try embedding an image in that. Here goes:
Posted at May 16, 2008 11:24 PM in response to Hillary, Mao and Hypnotoad
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Is it possible to embed pictures here? Seeing them all side-by-side makes the comparison pretty striking.
Posted at May 16, 2008 11:22 PM in response to Hillary, Mao and Hypnotoad
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Maybe it's just a robot thing, but the formatting didn't seem that bad and I didn't have any trouble reading it. It helps that you raised a lot of good points!
Posted at May 16, 2008 9:34 PM in response to The Hillary Team's Reasons for Failure... and Mine
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Some real doozies, and I look forward to the dueling tell-all books that will peel away the layers.
As if we need any more, there's another reason not to choose her. There's going to be a mad scramble to write those tell-all books, not just for the big advances they'll get but because quite a few people associated with the incompetent campaign have reputations they'd like to try to repair. There have been rumors of some book deals already being under negotiation.
And those books will come out soon. It's an arms race, and every one of those advisors wants their book to come out first, or at least close behind any other book that would make them look bad. But every one of those books will make Hillary look bad.
Now imagine that Hillary is Obama's running mate, and November is approaching, and two or three or four books hit the stands talking about how Hillary mismanaged her funds, how she was unable to bring herself to fire advisors who clearly needed to be fired, how there was essentially no plan in place beyond "win Iowa," and even then the plan didn't actually include learning enough about Iowa to figure out how to win it.
There's a lot more to the damage she'd do to the Obama campaign than just the "Hillary endorses McCain" ads that would use Obama's own running mate's words against him.
Posted at May 16, 2008 2:07 PM in response to Hillary should have won!
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Clinton may lose the nomination not because Obama is the second coming incarnate, holier than though, once-in-a-life candidate. Only because her campaign made more mistakes than his did.
I agree completely! Let us bask in this moment of unity ... okay, that's enough.
Obama is a remarkable candidate, but the whole point of what I posted is that it was hers to lose and he's winning because her campaign made more mistakes than he did.
A lot more.
Some real doozies, and I look forward to the dueling tell-all books that will peel away the layers.
If she'd run even a semi-competent campaign she'd have been the presumptive nominee long before now. Conversely, running the kind of campaign she did, if she hadn't started out with near-universal name recognition, huge campaign funds, and deep support with party insiders, she would have been out of the race completely long before now.
Obama will win, and will be an excellent President. But if he hadn't been there to take advantage of Hillary's mismanagement and incompetent advisors someone else might have taken it away from her. Probably Edwards, IMO.
Or, god help us, she might have won and taken her style of short-sighted, loyalty-above-competence mismanagement into the oval office. We haven't completely dodged that bullet until Obama picks someone else as a running mate, but so far so good.
Posted at May 16, 2008 1:55 PM in response to Hillary should have won!
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Very refreshing. Too often the Democratic response has been to try to out-hawk the neo-cons. That's a losing game, not to mention bad foreign policy.
I look forward to Obama and McCain standing on a stage and having that debate on foreign policy!
Posted at May 16, 2008 1:10 PM in response to Obama Hits Back: Debate With McCain And Bush Over Foreign Policy Is One "I Will Win"
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HRC is done, finito, over, ...
She's not done. She's just angling for the veep slot now.
Posted at May 16, 2008 11:00 AM in response to Obama Campaign: We're Only 17 Pledged Dels Away From Clinching The Primaries
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also she believes that once florida and michigan are counted, she will be leading in the popular vorte and less than 100 delegates behind obama.
She means that she might have a small lead in the popular vote if you count the votes in Michigan without taking into account that Obama's name wasn't on the ballot, AND if you don't count the caucus states. Somehow I don't think the superdelegates are going to find that argument persuasive.
Thanks, BTW, for being one of the few Hillary supporters who maintains a decent tone.
Posted at May 16, 2008 10:56 AM in response to Obama Campaign: We're Only 17 Pledged Dels Away From Clinching The Primaries
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Let's reciprocate by dealing with her respectfully, something that, now that she's back on the reservation, she's very much earned, as a leading figure in the party and a formidable primary candidate.
Sure, just as soon as all of this talk about having to appease Hillary by giving her the veep slot is over and done with.
Posted at May 16, 2008 10:46 AM in response to Obama Campaign: We're Only 17 Pledged Dels Away From Clinching The Primaries
