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Wednesday, Nov 4, 2009
Why am I not surprised that Joan, so blinded by her love, missed the gaping hole in Hillary's speech. Hillary made the centerpiece of her campaign Obama's inability to lead on the first day...you know the commander in chief question. That theme was absent from Hillary's speech and picked up on by just about every other journalist.
Vicious Obamalators?
Lilybean = GOP. No Dem is actually that dumb.
Hillary Clinton's speech was beautifully crafted and perfectly paced. She gave her supporters all the time they needed to reflect on the most prominent issues of this election, as well as to revisit her campaign and all that it embodied for herself and her supporters.
She took her speech right to the edge for those waiting to hear her support for Obama, and right to the brink for her supporters who clung to the fading hope that perhaps she would continue to fight. At just the right moment to satisfy both sides IMHO, she scooped up all the plans and dreams from her platform, put them all in a big box with a bow, and handed off her work for Barack Obama to continue. She could not have been more gracious, and for that, she will remain forever in my heart and mind as having said and done "the right thing".
Good for her, Good for America.
Very nice article, Joan!
I am appalled that PUMAs are willing to sacrifice the poor and elderly of our country and squander more lives of men and women in Iraq in order to satisfy their petty resentment. Shame on them!
Acknowledge Olbermann for his grace towards Hillary. Happened twice. After her concession speech, and after her speech last night. Other than that the first 15 minutes of his show for the entire primary battle was no different in technique and objectivity, no different at all, from Brit Hume's GRAPEVINE segment.
She hit it out of the park and it is still going. Thank you, Senator Clinton for challenging your supporters, reminding all of us what a stake we have in this election, and giving it to McCain. For those still bitterly snarking, take a seat at the sidelines and let the rest of us move forward - you are dead weight...
OK, she passed my test, she was a Democrat, she wasn’t a victim. It was a pro forma endorsement that exceeded the low expectations of the McMedia and the nightmare scenarios of the left.
She didn’t give Obama a character reference that would have been important to some of her more Appalachian supporters. And she did not seriously undermine McCain’s character, which is Job Number One for surrogates at this point.
Even her most apparent plea to her supporters – "Were you just in this for me?" – could be seen as a backhanded slap at Obama supporters and could back up McCains claim that they are a celebrity cult. How long before we see the McCain ad asking "Are Obama supporters just in it for Him? If you are in it for the Country then vote McCain."
So now we will see what happens in the roll call. And then will Bill go outside of the box and attack McCain directly? If he does and follows it up on the trail with Hillary then it will be a net positive. If not then it will be a long hard slog but turnout will trump Republican politics of insecurity and division.
As for her supporters, the vocal holdouts are just Republican trolls whether they know it or not.
... and "unenthusiastic" and "unconvincing" and so on: Your cover is now completely blown. You probably should have just skipped this discussion. Perhaps you should start over with new usernames.
It's Adult Time, PUMAs.
It's time to be Big Girls, children. We have an election to win.
In the Olympics, during the boxing, the loser and the winner would hug. Sometimes the winner would initiate, sometimes the loser.
It's called Sportsmanship, children. After the game, you shake hands, if you are Big Girls. If you are Little Girls, you sit and whine.
Big Girls put on their Big Girl Panties, and work for the good of the Party.
Despite being treated by "The Obama" with a steady stream of breathtaking contempt and public humilation, Hillary gave one of the best speeches of her life last night supporting him. What she showed is that Hillary Clinton should be the nominee of the party. "The Obama" arrogantly had victory in his hands had he even offerred her the VP spot, but he showed he was no John Kennedy, and spat on her instead with his 3AM text message. Well Hillary has done everything possilbe....its now up to the most inexperienced and arrogant man to ever be nominated by a major party. Good Luck, Your Oneness, you'll need it! Hillary 2012
Six bad weeks in an 18-month campaign and now we have Obama as the nominee, which is not that bad. But still, we heard last night what could have been...
Damn you Mark Penn for whiffing in Iowa and denying us the most progressive and qualified candidate!
- - - that in a 10th grade Composition class my teacher, Mister Raab, drilled into us a few universal rules that are generally accepted throughout the world.
Foremost, was an insistance, at all costs, to avoid the use of 'CLICHES' when creating points for the reader.
It cheapens your argument in a manner that dumbs down whatever it is that you wish to convey.
With little more than a Quiet & Unaccomplished Hundred-Plus days of presense in a yet-to-be-completed first term in Washington, Mister Obama decided that he simply 'couldn't wait' to lead the world.
His Oprah created Candidacy has been entirely fueled by little of anything beyond a Cacophany of a half-dozen Cliches.
Yesterday . . . the dumbing down Fawcet of Cliches spewed on. The Republicans are certain to follow suit in rousing their own herd next week. Hopefully, McCain's minions will be spared yet another stupid retelling of his much worn 'Drunken Sailor' joke.
I've heard Ralph Nader give countless speeches over the years. His avoidance of using simplistic cliches to talk down to or dumb down an audiance leads me to believe that perhaps he may have sat in on one of Mister Raab's classes.
That so many Yackers have dismissed Nader's steadfast stands on all the right issues while engaging in the Roundup of Ditsy-Obamagirl Groupies & the very wierd 'Man-Love' Rush toward the Obama Stage is startling.
Some years ago Robert Redford played a issue oriented, Nader-like fellow in the film "The Candidate". 'Bill McKay' was nausiated by how the Media Manipulators swooned the rousing crowds with Cliches, perhaps not so unlike Denver -- not so unlike Minnesota.
40 years ago this year, "The Selling of a President 1968", which undoubtedly triggered Redford's film, warned the citizenry of how they were being dumbed-down by the corporate media. SELL, SELL, SELL ... Instant News ... Instant Presidents. --
But such Sixties books and films are simply not to be found in this New Age of Communications . . . at least among the Herds of this New Generation of easily manipulated cattle & swine.
An Israeli columnist issues a scathing indictment of Israel and calls on the U.S. to apply pressure.
Even when government officials purposely subject an innocent person to brutal torture, they enjoy full immunity.
Hey, guys: Are adult films making you bad at sex?
What was once depicted as a grave act of lawlessness -- Bush's NSA program -- is now deemed a vital state secret.
The loony wing of the Republican Party prepares for a big day in Tuesday's elections
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