’)You’ll remember a few weeks ago that the Clinton camp was flogging Kennedy-Townsend’s endorsement as a counterweight to the Ted & Caroline Kennedy endorsement (along wiht Maria Shriver) of Sen. Obama. Well, now comes this from Kennedy Townsend:
“Townsend said she expects Sen. Barack Obama to win the Democratic presidential nomination and that Clinton is finished. She believed that the Wisconsin results demonstrated that Clinton’s coalition (voters over the age of 50 and those earning less than $50,000) had fallen apart. When asked why the Clinton campaign had failed, Ms. Townsend had plenty of opinions and she placed significant blame on Bill Clinton and his racially tinged statements in South Carolina. She also felt that Clinton made a tactical error in making “experience and inevitability” her central campaign themes. Townsend argued that Clinton had little more experience than Obama and far less than candidates such as Senators Dodd and Biden. Additionally, making the inevitability claim hurt her when she lost Iowa… Townsend then lamented Clinton’s decision to go negative and question Obama’s readiness. She said that she called the Clinton campaign and advised that they ‘go out on a high note’ but her advice was politely dismissed.”
Look, I get the distinct vibe, and I hope it’s not true, that the Penn-controlled Clinton campaign wants to pull a kamikaze action on Sen. Obama and by extension, the Democratic party. This upsets me to no end. The primary is supposed to be about legit give and take, not someone declaring that they own the sandbox. I’d advise the Obama folks to treat the swill that is beginning to emanate from Sen. Clinton’s campaign with the contempt it deserves and move to unite the party versus McCain and the Republican machine.
I really really really hate hearing these sorts of statements. Chickens, eggs, and hatching come to mind. But here’s hoping…
Check out Americablog. They referenced an article that reported Mark Penn’s firm contributing a majority of their donations to Republican candidates.
Oliver, I had a theory – a joke, really – that the reason that KKT joined and endorsed Team Clinton was that she wanted someone else to wear the Democratic political dunce cap other than she herself, that she joined them to shiv them and that she would shiv them by trying to help them, then mess them up like that snivelling punk did to Al Pacino (and got torn a new hole for it) in Glengarry Glen Ross. Since messing up is what KKT does.
I was joking.
But now, she is shivving her candidate in public for NO reason. There is NO reason for KKT to declare her candidate dead. None, unless she is revoking an endorsement. She simply talks about the weather, or how she’s pulling for Hillary, or about how the Orioles will score a few good touchdowns this year. Any vintage KKT.
But if you wanted to shiv your candidate all along, what would you have done differently if you were KKT?
That opening clip from the video you posted appears to show the USS Essex being hit by a kamikaze on November 25, 1944, an attack that killed 15 American sailors and wounded 44. Compare this still photo to the video at 0:13.
Between that and “Zombie Reagan…”
Stay classy, Oliver.
J.
In fact, I’m going to go so far as to say it’s definitely the Essex. The cruiser off the carrier’s starboard bow is the same in both images — and I’m 99% certain it’s a Cleveland-class light cruiser.
In fact, I’m gonna go on the record: the opening clip of the video shows the USS Essex (CV-9) being struck by a kamikaze on November 25, 1944 off the Philippines, and the cruiser off her starboard bow is the Cleveland-class USS Pasadena, CL-65.
That attack killed 15 American sailors and wounded 44. Nice to see Oliver is using footage of their deaths to make his political point.
Like I said, Oliver… stay classy.
J.
Not necessarily disagreeing with you here, but KKT isn’t exactly a font of wisdom on how to win a campaign, seeing how she lost to that moron Ehrlich in a predominately Democratic state. The CW in Maryland is that the governorship was hers to lose and she lost it.
One final word, Oliver: I first used the “kamikaze” metaphor for the Clinton campaign — without the grotesque video footage — back in December.
As I said before: welcome to the club. You’re a bit late in coming to the realization just what the Clintons are all about, but better late than never.
J.
Yes, don’t ever refer to a historical moment because Americans were killed. Eliminate all references to the Civil War, Korean War, WWI, WWII, heck even the Revolutionary War! History is off limits now, because Mr. Jay Tea might have a fainting spell.
Give me a freaking break.
Nice to see Oliver is using footage of their deaths to make his political point.
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Referring to is one thing; showing videos of attacks that killed Americans to make political points is another.
And I’m intensely curious to hear you defend your using “Zombie Reagan…”
J.
Referring to is one thing; showing videos of attacks that killed Americans to make political points is another.
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Ronald Reagan is freaking zombie. What part of that do you not understand?
I’m sorry. I don’t see in any of the stuff that was linked any evidence that Clinton “wants to pull a kamikazi action” on Obama or the Democratic Party. In fact, the Politico piece quotes Penn as saying something I would expect any campaign consultant to say about his/her candidate (which the writer at AmericaBlog seems to think shows an intent to destroy Obama. Again, I don’t see it). It also says that Clinton seemed to pull back in the debate in an apparent attempt not to give the McCain campaign any ammunition to use against Obama in the general. Which doesn’t seem to square with the notion that she wants to destroy Obama or the Democratic Party. Clinton still has a dim and fading chance for the nomination. It would be silly to expect her to quit before the Ohio and Texas primaries.
“And I’m intensely curious to hear you defend your using ‘Zombie Reagan…’”
um, why? What’s to defend exactly?
In fact, I’m going to go so far as to say it’s definitely the Essex. The cruiser off the carrier’s starboard bow is the same in both images — and I’m 99% certain brrt…beep.. da-do-run-run-run da-do-run-run…zzzt..beeeeeeep….
It’s also safe to assume thats the closest you have been to combat. Thank you for your service.
Furthermore I strenuously recommend that O.W. uses this video for any future postings regarding the Wizbang blog.
So, I take it that every time somebody brought up 9/11 to remind us how we were all about to die unless the telecoms got immunity…that should also be off-limits, yeah?
But if you wanted to shiv your candidate all along, what would you have done differently if you were KKT?
Hire Dick Morris? Again?