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Friday, February 22, 2008 12:00 AM

Hillary Clinton's Texas-size moment

All that mattered about the showdown in Austin was whether she could stop Barack Obama's momentum. Were her powerful closing words a magic bullet?

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Friday, February 22, 2008 02:03 PM

@AKA

The phrase in question is a unique rhetorical contruction...although it's somewhat trite, and uses small words, it's also memorable...it's not inconceivable that someone would want to quote it.

Friday, February 22, 2008 02:04 PM

@sunspot

I think you've been out in the sun too long.

Nobody cares about your faux indignant rants and brayings.

Btw- how many sigs and alias are you clowns GOING to sign up for , or has Rush Limbaugh sent his dolts over here again?

Friday, February 22, 2008 02:05 PM

Change is now targetting another good legislator

Hillary really brought it home with her closing statement for me (http://www.hillaryclinton.com/video/134.aspx) and even shed some tears. I now can sleep well at night because I know she is the best candidate, she has put in all the hard work and devoted her life to service. I too am grateful for all that this country represents and as Obama's own early childhood experience shows it does take a village to care for our children.

This "CHANGE" people have discovered seems so familiar to me after seeing the .com bust. They too sought "CHANGE", then realized you needed to put in hard work, time and effort which translates to "EXPERIENCE".

Now we have an OBAMANITE Lawrence Lessig

(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLIniks2O0s) taking aim via Youtube at Jackie Speier, slyly calling her "EVIL" and asking for support to prevent her run for congress. He says he represents the CHANGE for CONGRESS MOVEMENT and offers himself as the candidate that should be elected instead of Speier. I have one question for these AGENTS OF CHANGE. Why are you targeting effective Democratic Women? Why are the AGENTS OF CHANGE not trying to remove corrupt or inept legislators!

Is Maxine Waters next?

Friday, February 22, 2008 02:05 PM

Oh look

Another insulting Hillary supporter.

How surprising.

Friday, February 22, 2008 02:06 PM

Golden Boy, you DID mention Maureen Haughey but now you're trying to wriggle out of it

You're also a copycat because I mentioned the SANCTIMONIOUS Obama supporters who are unwilling to give Monica L. any peace. Hey presto! Here you come back with the "sanctimonious Irish". They must have loved you in Australia where you could expound on "the Irish", apparently unaware that a large proportion of the Australian population is of Irish descent and some of the earlier settlers were taken there on convict ships for various misdemeanours such as fomenting rebellion against the Crown. What is it with some of you that you have so much difficulty in grappling with language? Socs and Twigs (bifurcated?) states that I wrote that Americans are insular. What I wrote was "There are Americans" and that means "some Americans". Are you people being deliberately obtuse or is that just the way you are?

I find it very hard to believe that any Irish person would choose to be in your company, apart from the most pathetic of gits. You make blanket-statements about a whole tribe (or "clann" which means family) as if we were all the same. Yeah, like all Americans are obese, all Americans have loud voices, all Americans wear baseball caps? That applies to Michael Moore but intelligent people don't generalise in that way. This leaves you out, Golden Boy, but your rugby-playing female friend probably finds your conversation inspirational, even transcendent. You're not worth wasting time on but I hope to see Daniel Day-Lewis winning an Oscar for "There will be blood". His wife, Rebecca Miller, is American, lives for part of the year in Ireland and is supremely intelligent. Now run away, little fellow, and see if the bar-tender will serve you a beer. I'm logging off now, cutie-pie.

Friday, February 22, 2008 02:07 PM

ya know aka smith

you're a real cunt.

Friday, February 22, 2008 02:09 PM

is it true?

i heard today that hillary used her husbands words for that end speech yesterday. i heard it on npr. if this is true, then it was a practiced bit of heart pulling and rather inauthentic. she flew in by self without reporters so she could prcatice up on her moves. if that one is fake, then god help her. i also read about her girls gone wild money spending in iowa on food platters and such. what i want to know is how much money does she spend on her face and clothes. the treatments must be costly. too bad she chose the path of looking like the lady who lunches with her upturned fancy collars, her incredible eyeshadows and eyeliners, etc. etc. the pelosi look would have been better. there is just too much to dislike about her for me. viva obama...

Friday, February 22, 2008 02:11 PM

@Maureen

well, speaking for THIS American, I'd like nothing better than a little Irish shell cottage, a good book, and my cat.

Friday, February 22, 2008 02:12 PM

re: Why "Change" Against an effective Dem Legislator.

Because the "Change" is in the form of women-hating homosexual men and racist blacks for whom skin color trumps all. Oh, and Republicans egging them on probably needless to add.

Another reason I won't be pushing a lever for Hussein-Obama.

Friday, February 22, 2008 02:13 PM

Neither of them plagiarized.

The point of the Obama campaign's bringing up the similarities of several of Hillary's lines to lines uttered by her husband and John Edwards is to illustrate that she is a HYPOCRITE. Obama is not calling her a plagiarist, he is calling her a HYPOCRITE. The Obama campaign is not calling her a "hypocrite," it is seeking to point out this sort of borrowing is standard in political discourse, and it is seeking to squash these bogus accusations once and for all. Mission accomplished. To coin a phrase.

Friday, February 22, 2008 02:14 PM

Anon @ 2:12,

every time you call him that racist slur I am going to donate $5 to his campaign.

Friday, February 22, 2008 02:14 PM

Experience

I also find it amusing that people are talking about Hillary's "experience" like it's a positive. Most of her political "experience" was as the wife of a governor, then as the wife of the President. If she's qualified for office because of that, so was Nancy Reagan (thank God Nancy and her parade of psychics didn't run for the Oval Office - even she wasn't that arrogant). Obama has several years on Hillary as an elected official.

He's also run circles around her during this campaign. He'd spent half as much money as Hillary going into Super Tuesday, and emerged with almost as many delegates. That's without the Clinton machine behind him, without the support of the majority of the Party's big-money bigwigs, and without the Clinton's name recognition.

If she runs her campaign against McCain the way she's run her primary campaign, she's gonna be in big trouble. And if she somehow manages to win in November and runs the White House the way she's run this campaign, we're all gonna be in big trouble.

Experience is helpful, but ultimately intelligence and good judgment are what makes a leader great. Hilary's campaign has exhibited a severe deficit of both.

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