Comments on: The Kind Of Statement You Make When You’ve Lost 11 Contests In A Row http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/02/23/the-kind-of-statement-you-make-when-youve-lost-11-contests-in-a-row/ Like Kryptonite To Stupid Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:33:48 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: duros62 http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/02/23/the-kind-of-statement-you-make-when-youve-lost-11-contests-in-a-row/#comment-56714 duros62 Mon, 25 Feb 2008 20:34:44 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=4099#comment-56714 Man, she sounds like my mom when she rants like that. A scold. Man, she sounds like my mom when she rants like that.
A scold.

]]> By: z_adura http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/02/23/the-kind-of-statement-you-make-when-youve-lost-11-contests-in-a-row/#comment-56713 z_adura Sun, 24 Feb 2008 03:35:28 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=4099#comment-56713 The problem, it seems to me, is that Hillary cannot understand that this isn't about her. She is the candidate but she is also supposed to be the mouthpiece for a movement. She seems really off her game and therefore pretty much toast at this point. I liked Bill and I respect her, but there is no way I want to spend the next four years from the Democratic bunker while the right-wing attacks the Clintons, particularly when we have the Republicans in such disarray and therefore such an opportunity for real change. The problem, it seems to me, is that Hillary cannot understand that this isn’t about her. She is the candidate but she is also supposed to be the mouthpiece for a movement. She seems really off her game and therefore pretty much toast at this point. I liked Bill and I respect her, but there is no way I want to spend the next four years from the Democratic bunker while the right-wing attacks the Clintons, particularly when we have the Republicans in such disarray and therefore such an opportunity for real change.

]]> By: Robster http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/02/23/the-kind-of-statement-you-make-when-youve-lost-11-contests-in-a-row/#comment-56712 Robster Sun, 24 Feb 2008 00:41:12 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=4099#comment-56712 I've heard this particular mailer has been out since Feb. 4th. Why complain about it now? I’ve heard this particular mailer has been out since Feb. 4th. Why complain about it now?

]]> By: LeftHandedMan http://www.oliverwillis.com/2008/02/23/the-kind-of-statement-you-make-when-youve-lost-11-contests-in-a-row/#comment-56711 LeftHandedMan Sat, 23 Feb 2008 23:49:52 +0000 http://improveman.com/ow2008/?p=4099#comment-56711 The short answer: Yes, Hilary Clinton thinks this works for her. The longer answer: Yes. The fact that she didn't fire Mark Penn, tell Taylor Marsh to cool it, and revamp her campaign towards the machine-like competence engine that her dead-enders seem to think it is and was, even after the 'Guiliani it until Ohio and Texas' answer to Super Tuesday, says it all. They believe it. If they don't, they are suffering from the greatest case of mass delusion ever suffered in the history of American politics. That you get Obama supporters to abandon him by insulting them. That you cancel out hope by slinging mud at it. That you rally the Democratic party by trying to carve the party into two warring factions so she can get 50.1 percent of it. All of it. It's why Hilary Clinton has been in danger of losing, and now looks like she is just running out the string, for a while now. They think they've done a swell job. Can you imagine what the hard rightwing would do to a Penn-helmed national campaign at this point? Dukakis looking like Clinton by comparison comes to mind. The short answer: Yes, Hilary Clinton thinks this works for her.

The longer answer:
Yes. The fact that she didn’t fire Mark Penn, tell Taylor Marsh to cool it, and revamp her campaign towards the machine-like competence engine that her dead-enders seem to think it is and was, even after the ‘Guiliani it until Ohio and Texas’ answer to Super Tuesday, says it all.

They believe it. If they don’t, they are suffering from the greatest case of mass delusion ever suffered in the history of American politics.

That you get Obama supporters to abandon him by insulting them. That you cancel out hope by slinging mud at it. That you rally the Democratic party by trying to carve the party into two warring factions so she can get 50.1 percent of it. All of it.

It’s why Hilary Clinton has been in danger of losing, and now looks like she is just running out the string, for a while now.

They think they’ve done a swell job.

Can you imagine what the hard rightwing would do to a Penn-helmed national campaign at this point? Dukakis looking like Clinton by comparison comes to mind.

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