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Thursday, April 3, 2008 12:00 AM

Hillary's bridge back to the 20th century

With recession looming, Clinton banks on '90s nostalgia, reminding Pennsylvania voters of the good old days of her husband's administration.

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Wednesday, April 2, 2008 06:26 PM

As Wonkette put it ...

The Rocky analogy is the worst analogy she could have possibly chosen.

Rocky doesn't quit, but Rocky loses in a split decision to a black man. The black man is later killed. I mean seriously. Did she even think that analogy out?

Wednesday, April 2, 2008 06:39 PM

Retroactive

She's got her ass in the past and she's finishing last. By the way, her husband's accomplishments and her accomplishments are two seperate things entirely. Nostalgia is only novelty, not a forward thinking policy.

Wednesday, April 2, 2008 06:46 PM

Obamas has already beaten Rocky and Chuck Norris

With Jet Li tied behind his back. But can Obama make a rock so large He Himself cannot lift it? Of course not. Obama can interrupt the laws of physics.

Wednesday, April 2, 2008 06:53 PM

Working class origins here

My grammar may be better than some of the people quoted here. I may have a higher degree, but I hear them. Most of the reasons that they support Hillary are the reasons that I support Hillary.

My deal breaker: Health care. Once I compared what Hillary had to say about health care to what Obama had to say about health care, nothing could move me. Hillary's health care plan is much like Edwards' plan.

Obama wants to wink at us and have us believe he offers universal coverage without a mandate. Hillary, on the other hand wants to make certain no one's health care costs exceed 10% of their income. It's realistic and idealistic at the same time.

Wednesday, April 2, 2008 06:55 PM

Hillary's swan song

Nostalgia ain't what it used to be.

Wednesday, April 2, 2008 06:57 PM

You'll live to regret it!

In 2000, Saturday Night Live had several skits about "Bore" and "Gush"...

The theme was that Gore and Bush were the "same" and that voting didn't matter.

LOOK WHAT HAPPENED!

Now, it's Hilary blah, blah, blah. The REALITY is that the US is heading for a MAJOR recession for years to come.

Bill Clinton handled tough economic times and America grew and was more prosperous than ever before.

Years from now, people will look back and write LOOK WHAT HAPPENED to Hilary.

Wednesday, April 2, 2008 06:58 PM

a proven record

Yep, ol' billary has a record on health care: she screwed it up so badly we lost both houses of congress for the first time in 30 years. ready from day one: ready to be a mediocre drone. Hate to break it to you, but the President doesn't pass health care. That would be congress. The only congress the Klintoonians have a good record with involved a blue dress.

Wednesday, April 2, 2008 07:00 PM

Mike Madden

All the people Mike Madden interviewed for this article are going to vote for Hillary. Hmmmmmmm. Such a pro Hillary piece of work. Just does not seem plausible as by many polls Hillary's lead has shrunk to 9 points in some and 5 in the Rasmussen. Surely Madden could have found one Obama supporter in the crowd, that is if he looked for one at all.

Wednesday, April 2, 2008 07:05 PM

Dueling articles!

So here we have the soft lensed Clinton article. At the same time a soft lensed Obama article (http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2008/04/03/obama/)

is also on Salon. Clinton's in the header right now but I'll guess that they'll be switching it back and forth.

It will be interesting to see which article generates the nastier letters. Anyone wanna place bets?

Wednesday, April 2, 2008 07:13 PM

Not me Mike.

There's been no doubt in my mind that the nut left and the hate right would make their usual strange bedfellowships long enough to take the viable Dem candidate down.

If there's a war to be fought in the Dem party it's been fought and the fringe left has won, the same way the fringe right won the GOP.

No viable Dem candidate can get past the fringe left and if they do, the right is easily able to take what's left of them down.

This has gone on for 30 years and the only exception I can find of a Dem that managed to escape this ugly fate is , you guessed it, the Clintons.

Therefore you know the left (and the right) ain't gonna let that happen twice . No chance of that happening any more any more than level-headed swing voters are going to see a a Muslim raised, late-converted to nation hating Christian without any experience become the next president. Rather they'll landslide to John McCain who at least knows how to PRETEND to be a moderate.

Then for what'll be left of the economy and nation in five years, I'd say we all ought to be thinking about second homes elswehere.

Because it's hopeless. The USA is a nation of polarized (mostly uneducated or narrowly educated)fanatics and the center cannot hold.

Wednesday, April 2, 2008 07:19 PM

@Jclarked

Bill Clinton handled tough economic times and America grew and was more prosperous than ever before.

Years from now, people will look back and write LOOK WHAT HAPPENED to Hilary.

Unlikely. Only because after 8 years of John McCain and a Republican Congress they'll be very unlikely to be able to afford the electricity to type it on.

But that's what the left does to itself, every time. Until now, they've been able to get by with it because the only ones who suffered were the poor blacks, poor hispanics, poor white trash, and who cares about any of them when you can still drink your latte and go to your investment banker or theatre job in San Francisco.

That won't be true this time. a lot of lefties are going to be wondering what hit them over the head with a 4x4 within the next year or two.

And the answer is: their own dumb ass.

Wednesday, April 2, 2008 07:20 PM

I agree with Tom Payne, except for the last line of his post.

Look, I come to reject Hillary, not to splash mud on her. Yes, she lied. Yes, her tactics on the campaign trail have been snarky. Yes, she killed health care for over a decade and as President won't likely have much control over passing a bill now (she's too devisive to get majority support).

But I don't care for crude shots or sex scandals. Her record is enough to dissatisfy me, and take my vote elsewhere.

And I think Obama is a great candidate with vision and ability to accomplish what he sets out to do: I can't imagine anyone in politics today, or in the past twenty years, I've been more excited about voting for.

Wednesday, April 2, 2008 07:26 PM

PS - The lesson for the Clintons: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished.

A lot of center lefties have found this out, but for the Clinton's it's particularly tragic.

As one who survived the Reagan-Bush recessions I can't tell you how glad I was to have Bill Clinton come in and the economy and sane policies he brought were the best ever. Bar none. Not just for me, but for everyone. for the poor of whom 17 million poor blacks alone climbed out of poverty. For the wealthy who saw their investment returns more than offset the modicum of tax increases that Bill made them pay and for which they never forgave or forgot.

There is something Christ like about Hillary's persecurtion indeed.

As southern Democrats it would have been so very much easier for them to go with the trend of the south and have an unbothered successful career as Republicans instead of being persecuted as successful Democrats. But their commitment to equity just wouldn't let them do that and they took the right on and BOY did they suffer for it. The big money of the right was merciless as never before.

Now they get to take that on AND the fringe left. I believe who hate them also because they aren't the same old liberal losers.

Regardless, right or left, those who benefited most from the Clinton admin are the nastiest and most hateful.

As they say: no good deed goes unpunished.

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