I’ve been trying to ignore the latest outbreak of Clintonian petulance and the media’s overreaction to it, so I’ll leave it Al Giordano to tell it like it is.
Obama is farther ahead winning over Clinton supporters than she is toward gaining the good will of Obama supporters, particularly of the younger generations that weren’t old enough to vote during the Clinton era and were never bedazzled by them to begin with. One major misstep or sloppy moment on her part in Denver and the easy play for the Obama campaign would be to use her – and the Clinton legacy – as a handkerchief into which to blow its nose: a signal to Independent voters out there that there’s a new sheriff in town and to get out their pitchforks and torches and join the posse.
And now back to taking the high road.
where they blow their nose. This from the NYT:
So the fifty percent who hated H. Clinton now don’t?
I’d like to see some actual polls that “50% of Democrats” hated Clinton during the primary. I don’t buy it.
My general sense is that a large majority of Dems liked both Clinton and Obama and were having a tough time deciding between them – which is why the primary season went so long. There were some hardliners on both sides who dug their heels in with Clinton-hate and Obama-hate, but the majority of Dems seemed to be generally telling those folks to Fuck. Off.
Also – this latest media blowup over Clinton is abject silliness. I saw the damn clip – she doesn’t say much of anything that can be construed as “anti-Obama” except in the minds of folks who are already predisposed to not like her. Get a grip folks – I thought she was doing a decent job trying to tell some very passionate people that things need to start calming down. It’s not like the audience she was talking to in that clip was pro-Obama or anything.
I’m not a huge Clinton fan, but I can tell when she’s getting pilloried for something that isn’t her fault. For a bunch of people who pride themselves on not being led around by the nose by the “mainstream media”, there sure are a lot of folks in left blogistan who like to buy into the “mainstream media” narrative.
I’d have been OK with either one, until Bill started up in South Carolina, when I remembered why I voted for Perot in 92. It wasn’t fair to her, but my visceral negative reaction to him drove me solidly into the Obama camp.
Yes, which goes to show you that the “Left” is as diverse as ever. Many well-meaning people just don’t have the historical perspective to make informed decisions as “leftists,” but hang out on the Left because they sense the decency and honesty there. Hey, that’s ok, but that doesn’t mean we can’t point out their naivety.
“a large majority of Dems liked both Clinton and Obama and were having a tough time deciding between them“
And then there were those of us who did not like either one of them, and who watched helplessly as the media pretended that no other candidates existed, and very quickly made it so.
What a damned circus!
What a pile of shit, seriously. No one who disliked her for GOOD and CERTAIN reasons for a long time have changed their minds.
She lost because more people voted for Obama. None of them have changed their minds. This poll is crap.
Yes, from the NYT, the paper that brought us Judith Miller . . .
That is from the Clinton Times poll…there is NO friggin way she has a 70% approval rating….How many of those polled were people of color…..
Check around the sphere, I’d say Hillpatine has about 1% approval from people of color…nuff’said!
If it doesn’t work out they can just have Paris Hilton speak in Denver.
They’re multi-millionaires for Christ’s sake! It’s not like they have to stay in politics because they need the money.
Ordinary people are glad to retire when they’re financially able to do so. Apparently, when it comes to the elite, money is not enough: power is the ultimate status symbol.
The Clintons have money. Yet they simply can’t give up their lust for power. I guess it’s human nature, but personally, I find it disgusting.
I think their continued involvement is much more complicated than just a lust for power. These people have been tools for years; they owe favors to many people, and have to pay back what they owe by influencing governments and popular thought. They are pawns of the Davos crowd, and make their love of the spotlight work for them.
They also think Hillary will be president sometime soon, and can’t give up the ship and fall out of the news cycles.