Letters to the Editor
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The End
Hillary's closing comments had such a bittersweet feel to it. For a moment you could see beneath the makeup, the props, the advisers' punchlines... and it was touching. And there was Obama, nodding in agreement next to her, getting his 20 or 30% commission on the moment and further driving her into debt. You saw the unfulfilled promise of her candidacy and it was tragic.
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Hillary Sucks, Part 300
Name that quote!
A: "The hits that I took in this election are nothing compared to the hits the people of this state and this country have been taking for a long time."
B: "You know, the hits I’ve taken in life are nothing compared to what goes on every single day in the lives of people across our country."
Hint: Both speakers' names end in Clinton.
B is obviously Hillary last night. But you may not recognize A, which was Bill on the trail in '92.
Pathetic how she can follow that phrase-theft with a line from Edwards, and earlier create these silly charges of "plagiarism". What an overproduced, disingenuous loser.
Xerox this.
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Impotent Putdown
Mr. Shapiro referred to Senator Clinton's Xerox line as a "potent putdown". How potent can it be when the audience (and nation) boos? Thank goodness that most of the Clintons' mudslinging seems to have backfired this year. Let's leave the Rovian tactics to the Republicans.
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HIllary steps up and motivates our emotions
Once again Hillary has connected with the voters and the media with an emotional appeal. (Her tears and last night's concluding statement.) Now I think she knows what she's needed to do all along; fire people up.
I am happy to see however that a democrat, Obama, has understood that point from the beginning. Voters do not vote for rational reasons. Like cars, we want the model that makes us feel good. This knowledge seems to have been closely held by republicans for far too long.
That Obama is smart, proved by how well he's run this race is almost a given. He'll be an inspiring leader and a good manager of our resources.
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Disgrace - Using Iraqi Vets, Hillary Chooses to be Bill's 'Victim'
1. It was a disgrace - that Hillary used her visit to a Texas veteran's hospital - with John McCain - to show that she can 'feel.' Those vets wouldn't be wounded - if she hadn't helped to send them to Iraq in the first place.
2. If Hillary chooses to stay married to a man that cheats and lies to her - and the American public - she is no victim. She is not a good role model for any young woman.
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Better to Xerox good speeches than rubber stamp Bush's war
Clinton is losing the day-after debate.
She needed to project vision, but gave voters a lesson on copyright law.
She tried to project compassion, but just reminded voters of her gravest error.
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No matter what you Salon trolls write, I'll be fine. :-)
From the Fact Hub -- just to neutralize your gratuitous plagiarism charges:
Laura Bush: 'Whatever happens will be fine' [El Paso Times, 5/19/00]
NBA Star Shaquille O'Neal: ‘We'll be fine, no matter what happens.’ [AP, 10/8/03]
Actress Lindsay Lohan: ‘No matter what happens, we're going to be fine.’ [AP, 4/19/07]
Former Redskin Dexter Manley: 'Whatever happens, I'm going to be fine.' [Washington Post, 7/26/98]
Former Redskin Gus Frerotte: 'I look forward to whatever happens. We're going to be fine.' [Washington Times, 12/22/98]
Notre Dame football player Tom Zbikowski: 'Whatever happens, we're going to be fine back there.' [Notre Dame football player Tom Zbikowski, 4/22/07]
Angels GM Bill Stoneman: 'Whatever happens, I'm going to be fine.' [Los Angeles Times, 2/22/03]
Former Giant Christian Peter: 'And whatever happens, I'm going to be fine.' [Asbury Park Press, 1/29/01]
Chicago Cub Larry Rothschild: 'I'm not worried about that. Whatever happens, I'm going to be fine.' [St. Petersburg Times, 4/1/01]
Diamondback Edgar Gonzalez: 'Whatever happens, I’ll be fine because I’m in the big leagues.' [Edgar Gonzalez, Diamondbacks, 5/2/07]
Hockey player Richard Hamula: 'Whatever happens I'll be fine with but hopefully I can still stick around here.' [Richard Hamula, hockey player, 9/20/02]
Leonard Hamm, interim commissioner for the Baltimore City Police Department: ‘Whatever happens, I’m going to be fine.’ [Baltimore Afro-American, 11/19/04]
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the false TX delegate partitioning "controversy"
Some anti-Obama shill actually had a point that should be addressed:
Black districts in Texas are getting more proportional delagates then Hispanic/White districts...Why are the Dem's pitting one against another...
The delegate partitioning in Texas is based on well-established and somewhat arcane party rules, but the gist is pretty simple: The delegate count is formulated based on the voter turnout of the last two elections. The rules drafted by the TX Democratic Party were formalized last year and published in August 2007 -- looooooooooooong before Obama emerged as the front-runner.
Feel free to take a look at what the Washington Post had to say about it, complete with a link to the PDF of the selection plan:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/17/AR2008021702461_pf.html
Basically, it all comes down to the fact that the predominantly hispanic and rural districts had a lower Dem voter turnout than traditionally black and urban districts in 2006 and 2004. Sorry, but there's no "there" there. End of story.
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anon
You are only repeating (mindlessly) one-half of the contested gramatical construction.
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Why are Americana unwilling to pay the fine for "extraordinary rendition" of "the Queen's English?
In Europe, "extraordinary rendition" means the American ploy of kidnapping and dunking suspected terrorists, caging them in Guantanamo or whatever place fits in with the requirement "out-of-sight, out-of-mind". There's also another form of "extraordinary rendition" to which Obama supporters have taken quite happily and that is the "extraordinary" rendering of a commonplace word to the chattels of Senator John Edwards. You people from "the land of the free and the home of the brave" have been filching Elizabeth Windsor's language for years, plagiarising it brazenly, and passing it off as your own. Yes indeed, you've kidnapped it and just now you're torturing the word "fine" to death. This word, so unique to a US Senator called John Edwards, has caused raised blood-pressure, the effects of miasma and even colly-wobbles so gnawing at the vitals that one writer had to render her nausea with an "Ick". I don't have to pay for the Queen of England's comforts, as I live in a republic, but, in all fairness, I think you should if you're getting so hot under the collar as to suggest that "fine" is a newly-minted word coined by John Edwards and that Hillary Clinton is involved in forgery. You've been plagiarising the English language for at least 250 years and you need to own up now. Her Majesry might graciously allow the debt to lapse but you never know in these straitened times.
The French also might have an interest in this as "fine" is really a French word, pronounced differently in that lovely French accent. As the French monarchy is long gone, your Ambassador might be willing to explain to Nicolas Sarkozy that there are Americans who believe that a certain Mr. Edwards has proprietorial rights to the word "fine". After a few expletives in true Gallic fashion, Sarkozy would not allow the matter to develop into an international incident, particularly if he was informed that your sense of pique has passed and that "Freedom fries" have reverted to "French fries". Having recently married the stunning Italian model, Carla Bruni, Sarkozy would not be too interested in the contretemps and would probably dismiss it with a laugh. An educated man. Sarkozy would certainly know the difference between plagiarism and the brief use of ordinary, reassuring words. The idea that John Edwards owns them is really too funny for words.