As one blogger put it: Sen. Clinton has found her voice… and its Republican. Here’s a little sliver from Sen. Obama’s speech Tuesday night that the pundits don’t seem to have picked up on (as usual):
John McCain and Senator Clinton echo each other in dismissing this call for change. They say it is eloquent but empty; speeches and not solutions. And yet, they should know that it’s a call that did not begin with my words. It began with words that were spoken on the floors of factories in Ohio and across the deep plains of Texas; words that came from classrooms in South Carolina and living rooms in the state of Iowa; from first-time voters and life-long cynics; from Democrats and Republicans alike.
I don’t think Sen. Obama will or should go into the sewer in the manner Clinton supporters and your standard issue Republicans have in this election so far - and at the end of the day he is still the frontrunner with a 100+ delegate lead. But I do think that the kitchen sink strategy - especially in Ohio - has been a good indicator of the sort of warfare that’s going to be required of him to maintain his delegate lead into the upcoming contests.
My gut tells me Ohio is the last throes of the “Oh My God We’re Afraid Of Anything Different” politics in the Democratic party that favors an establishment candidate like Sen. Clinton. But we’ll see.
It’s time to pick a president.
It’s time to pick a president.
It’s not going to go down like that. Clinton has stopped Obama’s winning streak, so she has momentum now. But Obama will nip that in the bud within the week via wins in Wyoming and Mississippi (a southern state and a caucus). Momentum will continue to yo-yo, with Clinton regaining some in Pennsylvania, then Obama gaining it back on May 6th (North Carolina and Indiana), then Clinton pickups in Kentucky in West Virginia later in May. In short, it’s going to be a long, bumpy ride unless someone seriously screws up.
With Obama in the overall lead, and Clinton making it clear she’ll do anything to win, I don’t see anyone conceding… Hate to disagree with you, O-dub, but it may come down to the convention after all.
The only way out of the impasse that I see is for Dean to call for redos in Michigan and Florida to increase the chance that someone can get to 2025. But that would require some serious cojones. And while you’re doing legally risky things which set bad precedents, might as well try to move all of the other primaries and caucuses up to ASAP as well. Otherwise McCain just sits back and laughs for 3 months while Obama and Clinton get more and more negative, making each other completely unviable.
So, it’s now a Republican trait to recognize empty, meaningless rhetoric and no point out that the guy’s an empty suit? That his Iraq “solution” consists mainly of saying “I told you so” a bunch of times? That he’s been caught talking out of both sides of his mouth on NAFTA?
That sounds suspiciously like a compliment to Republicans and Ms. Clinton…
J.
It takes 2025, and neither one can get there.
Obama’s lead is tiny, basically meaningless in terms of importance: It came from states where the Dem candidate has no chance even with heavy Dem turnout.
Obama will fight a re-vote in Florida and Michigan, because he knows if that goes down, Hillary’s unstoppable.
But it will happen. Has to be.
It will then come down to the perception of the superdelegates as to which candidate has a better shot at McCain.
I say Hillary does.
McCain’s ONLY card is experience and maturity, and Hillary can see that bet and raise him. Obama simply can’t.
AS to which has the more pull in bringing other Dems along, Hillary showed in NH and Ohio and California and New York and Massachusetts that she has the support of the Dem base, and that’s who elects Dems, not independents or crossovers.
Jay, please don’t talk too much about empty suits. You’re on shaky ground, “my friend.”
It seems the Clinton team is getting pointers from Team Rove, though.
McCain’s ONLY card is experience and maturity, and Hillary can see that bet and raise him. Obama simply can’t.
I call bullshit. it comes down to experience vs. judegment. Look at this administration. Boatloads of experience, bad judgment form day one. No one has the experience to be president. That’s not what it’s about. Based on the last 7 years, I’ll take judgment over experience and hope over fear any day of the week.
I agree with Duros. Experience, of course is good, but there’s an intangible quality that makes a great President that can make up for a lack of experience and which all the experience can’t compensate for if missing. George Will noted Sunday that James Buchannan had more experience, on paper, than anyone. He alsothought the use of force to prevent secession was unconstitutional (while believing secession was also unconstitutional). Of course, his successor, with less experience but more resolve, preserved the Union. I noted in an earlier post, yesterday was the 75th anniversary of FDR’s first innaugural (correct?). He certainly had something to say about fear that day. During the campaign, Walter Lippmann, the leading journalist of the day (and eventual New Deal supporter) had called FDR an amiable boy scout with a nice smile and no particular qualifications. I voted for Obama because he seems to have that intangible but could live with Clinton. I could be totally wrong, but sometimes you have to go with your gut.
Jay Tea, please, for the love of god, can you try, just a little, to think for yourself and do a little research? Obama has a webpage. I know. Imagine that. On that webpage is a link called “Issues.” It sounds crazy, but it’s true! That link has a drop down menu with a list of words that include “Economy,” “Education,” “Healthcare,” and “Foreign Policy.” It’s, like, wild, man. Among those words is also the word “Iraq.” It’s a link that leads to this:
Now if you have a problem with any of the actual proposals that Obama has laid out on Iraq, let’s hear ‘em. Have at it. But remember, if you want to discuss his actual proposals, you won’t be able keep repeating the same, tired right wingg talking points. I know that’s a tough choice. Think for yourself or regurgitate. But I know you’ll make the right call. Now I could provide a link to Obama’s website for you, but you really need to start learning to find this stuff yourself. It’s the first step toward thinking for yourself, too.
Don’t worry. David Axelrod ran Harold Washington’s mayorial campaign in Chicago. The Democratic oppositions was just as sleazy and racist as the Clintons and he came through.
Here’s what you do.
Hey Hillary. You claim Obama has done something illegal with Rezco. So you obviously have evidence that the prosecutors in Illinois doesn’t have. So save them the time in money. Let us see your evidence.
Or are you just lying?
Hillary. There are a million people in this Country sick, dying, or going broke trying to get health care.
You claim you are an experienced leader with all these years of experience. You claim you spent all your years in the White House fighting for us.
So tell us, where is the health care.
Or are you lying again.
America will gladly take someone who is perceived as an empty suit by some over one who has been proven to have an empty head.
Look for no further than here for proof.