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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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Sunday, February 24, 2008 08:22 AM

"How do you characterize statements to the effect of "your brain is the size of a donut hole"

Frustration? Like problems incurred when trying to teach a Duchshund the high jump.

Sunday, February 24, 2008 08:27 AM

"Every man who watched that video felt his testicles retract into his body."

Men are such delicate creatures. No point in exaggerating. The mere thought of a female president causes testicle retraction in the Anonymous whether a woman is shrieking or not. Let's hope that particular Anonymous never encounters a woman shrieking in the throes of passionate orgasm. His penis would probably fall over.

That probably won't happen, so maybe he's safe.

Sunday, February 24, 2008 08:35 AM

"That's a Hillary talking point."

Them Obama talking points are permissible.

Sunday, February 24, 2008 08:37 AM

@RealityCounts

I have read your sources. If you have read them, then you know that there is nothing to suggest that Obama himself has done anything less than honorable here. Indeed, he has been candid about knowing both of these people.

You are right, though, that this will be the kind of thing that the Republicans will be resorting to in the Fall. My question: If that is true, why is it coming from the Clinton people?

Do you really think it is necessary to become Rove in order to defeat him?

Sunday, February 24, 2008 08:40 AM

"I'm only debasing/denying/discrediting/downplaying Sen. Clinton's experience during Bill's presidency, not her other experience. The First Lady is not an elected official..."

Right. Because the entire time she was first lady she was actually in a vegetative state. Didn't do a damned thing.

Sunday, February 24, 2008 08:43 AM

"Here I thought feminism was about carving out your own identity"

Another Anonymous weighs in on identity!

I am also an astronaught. Naught! Hehe!

Sunday, February 24, 2008 08:46 AM

T Minus 9

..days until HRC gets crushed in TX and OH (not to mention RI and VT) and concedes. The "Insult 40 States" strategy, the "Audacity of Hopelessness" strategy, the "Divine Right" strategy, the "DLC Politburo" strategy; none of these will have worked for her.

Too bad, so sad.

Sunday, February 24, 2008 08:49 AM

Re: It is starting

@ Lucid

You are right, though, that this will be the kind of thing that the Republicans will be resorting to in the Fall. My question: If that is true, why is it coming from the Clinton people?

I did not write it, I am merely sharing it. And by the way, they are not waiting until the fall. They have already started. And the Rezko trial starts this week so there will be plenty of time for this to have an effect before the fall. Just a sample of what we are in for. And also, by the way, that special prosecutor couldn't prove any wrongdoing on the part of the Clintons either, but that hasn't prevented the slime to take hold... even among democrats.

Sunday, February 24, 2008 08:49 AM

"I should never have taken your bait to begin with"

Right. Someone dangles a minnow and you snap.

Sunday, February 24, 2008 08:54 AM

"I get paid by Salon to fill these treads with something - anything and somebody got to make a living."

Yeah? Me too. Only I am a better Anonymous than thou. Holier too.

Sunday, February 24, 2008 08:55 AM

"Dissent is the mother of ascent" says Ralph Nader as he announced his intention of entering the presidential race.

I like the rhyming in what Nader said and it's so much snazzier than that monotonous "change" and airy-fairy "hope". It's also very nice of Mr. Nader to acknowledge that mothers give life although from the attitude of some (note:some) men you'd think they came from the laboratory of some mad scientist such as Dr. Frankenstein. That book was written by a woman (Mary Shelley). If she had lived to see, hear and read the undiluted hate directed at America's first female presidential candidate she might have changed the Monster into an MSNBC cretin attempting to subvert democracy with loathsome innuendo and sneering at a woman candidate, ugly evidence of his/their own twisted psyche.

Sunday, February 24, 2008 08:56 AM

Sunday's NYT Frank Rich column does a great number on Clinton.

Wow. Frank Rich is like... such a great progressive. We should always listen to him. Thanks for the tip Slackie.

Sunday, February 24, 2008 09:03 AM

Nader announces...

..and a nation yawns.

Sunday, February 24, 2008 09:08 AM

Nader - Awesome news

So now I have an alternative to Obama if he takes the nomination...Don't have to vote rebublican don't have to vote "Present"...

Sunday, February 24, 2008 09:20 AM

"Sadly, you have just proved my point about so-called "progressive" men."

You've proven my point about the supporters of so-called "progressive" candidates.

Look, the Clinton years were good economically...there was a long tech boom, and he didn't waste our money on a big war. But progressive?

Nafta, Don't Ask Don't Tell, expansion of the death penalty, the Defense of Marriage Act, Extraordinary Rendition (yes, it started under Clinton), the widening gap between the rich and the poor, a criminally passive-aggressive foreign policy...and his wife is in the back pocket of the insurance industry.

Just look at her heath care plan...cribbed from Romney, the "progressive".

You can call me sexist if it make you feel better about any of this.

Sunday, February 24, 2008 09:20 AM

Anonymous @ 8:56 a.m.

So now you're gobbling up Fran Rich's OPINION lock, stock and barrel. Before that, who was it that made your mind up for you? I can see the Obama groupies laughing at each other's efforts at homorous put-downs, the way they address each other in an affable way and the vicious insults that are strewn around if anyone dares disagree with them. Any mention of Rezko or Ayers is Rovian or is being done by a Republican troll but the facts are there. Rezko is in jail, Ayers was in jail. Of the two, Ayers was the one prepared to kill other Americans in pursuit of his own ideology. Senator Obama is the common denominator in all of this and if you think this can be brushed under the rug you are indeed foolish. The media sharks are now circling and they smell blood. Guess whose it is!

Sunday, February 24, 2008 09:38 AM

@ Anonymous 09:20 AM

That humorous bone extraction must have been an awfully painful operation. Get well soon.

Sunday, February 24, 2008 09:58 AM

Republican Trolls, keep the hits comin'

So now it's Bill Ayres. Lol you guys are rich. Hey I heard that Obama's 5th cousin thrice removed bought a hot dog from Pol Pot's 6th cousin twice removed at a hot dog stand in Kalamazoo in 1983. Therefore, Barack Obama is a Khmer Rouge Sleeper Agent. Why does he hate America so much?

These silly-ass hysterical non-sequitor attacks worked so well for Hillary, I bet they'll work even better for McCain! Keep 'em coming. I need a good laugh every now and then.

PS. Why does Black Osama hate America so much??

Sunday, February 24, 2008 10:03 AM

Can Hillary Out-Nader Nader?

If she fails to win TX and OH and doesn't concede, she becomes Ralph Nader at that point; since at that point she is actively working to destroy the Democratic Party and actively working to get John McCain into the White House.

But today the Original decided to jump in! What is a screeching hate-filled miltitant ideologue to do? Vote for Nader or Nader Redux? It gets so complicated!!

Sunday, February 24, 2008 10:06 AM

Villemar

No it's very simple actually...Anyone but Obama...Nader fills that role nicely...

Sunday, February 24, 2008 10:10 AM

Anyone but Obama?

Then it's either Hillary or McCain.

If you don't want to join the campfire, that's your business...go over to the pile of burning truck tires.

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