The Front-Runner’s Fall — Here is an outstanding essay on the Clinton campaign published just in time to submarine any effort she may have underway to steal the nomination at the convention. Worth reading.
Above all, this irony emerges: Clinton ran on the basis of managerial competence—on her capacity, as she liked to put it, to “do the job from Day One.” In fact, she never behaved like a chief executive, and her own staff proved to be her Achilles’ heel. What is clear from the internal documents is that Clinton’s loss derived not from any specific decision she made but rather from the preponderance of the many she did not make. Her hesitancy and habit of avoiding hard choices exacted a price that eventually sank her chances at the presidency. What follows is the inside account of how the campaign for the seemingly unstoppable Democratic nominee came into being, and then came apart.
Makes no nevermind. Hillary is irrelevant. McBush is irrelevant.
161 days until President Obama takes office. We should just fast-forward to January 9.
I think ancient history is interesting coffee talk but the issue at hand is how to get Obama elected. As nice as he sounds, electing old man McCain is a big mistake.
Let’s get these blogs back on track.
Finally, a posting from one of the last sources of real journalism left in the U.S.A, The Atlantic Monthly, as opposed to the landslide of tabloid quality postings here.
I think it’s fascinating for us commoners to see how the royalty are running their campaigns, not to mention all of the narcissistic in-fighting. Not a Hillary lover, but I think she has far more leadership ability than Nobama, who , as far as I can tell has never held a real job, never run anything, has lived his life as a “community organizer” (=jerkoff) in the cesspool of Chicago politics and has the thinnest skin of any politician in recent memory. LBJ would be embarrassed to have a guy this ‘sensitive’ as a member of the Democratic party; would have booted him out on G.P.
Can’t beleve how it turned out! Women = half the country. Black people about 15%.
McCain will be the next one in office.
Sadly the number of closet racists is a lot
higher then we like to admit.
At least he is a war hero. Got to like him
for that.
I have defended Hillary here on this blog many times but I have to agree with this analysis of her candidacy.
Obama simply out-campaigned her.
I really don’t think it matters much who wins.
Who really controls the strings? If we don’t get rid of congress what will be different? Even with one party in the majority and maybe in the WHite House… the minority can stonewall and hold up everything… right?
I’m hopeful but concerned that we have lost control of the political process, and out representatives don’t represent anybody but themselves.
Am I crazy?
Don’t forget kids – It doesn’t matter who you vote for, the Government always wins.
Things they left out:
Team Hillary didn’t realize the media hated her, and would promote Obama.
Team Hillary didn’t realize that winning the majority of votes from Demcorats wouldn’t be enough.
And now it looks like Obama is falling into the same predicament as Hillary. His continuing gaffes, need for a teleprompter and lack of international knowledge is impacting his polls.
Latest real-world example?
John McCain on Vladimir Putin: “I looked into his eyes and saw three letters: a K, a G and a B.”
McCain has been rock-solid right on Russia all along, while Obama’s wishy-washy, Kerry-esque position of hand-holding, teatime chats, and magic diplomatic pixie dust has been shown to be woefully misguided.
>> montanaguy said,
>> Finally, a posting from one of the last sources of real journalism left in the U.S.A, The Atlantic Monthly, as opposed to the landslide of tabloid quality postings here.
I agree about Atlantic.
“Vanity Fair” is another source of real investigative journalism.
I love them both and recommend that everybody subscribe, even if they don’t read them.
#6 of course you are right, but this event is fun anyway.
Greg, et al..why do you even visit this blog if it is, to you, so incredibly lowbrow? As for the tabloids, the National Enquirer has been breaking real stories for years and everyone knows it. They found it cheaper to do real old-fashioned reporting than dealing with lawsuits. It’s mostly because they will pay a source cash money to reveal a confidence that they are seen by the MSM as sleazeballs and marginalized. This doesn’t mean they do not get the story right.
*Caption This Photo*
HAHA!
Not on the topic, and very probably unwise, but I think it would be sidesplitting!
Yes…the photo is asking for captions, but I suspect they would be pretty nasty.