Letters to the Editor
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Slight Correction, I think
The poll numbers prove his point -- if Obama holds a lead on Clinton, this does in fact make Clinton "easier to beat than Obama."
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Will is a hypocritical prostitute?
That's news?
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George Will
Has a mandate.
From the national association of nerds.
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George Will should
stick to baseball. In that arena his insights are based largely on an objective asessment of facts and not the subjectiveness that his right-winged meanderings bring to the political arena. It also boggles the mind that people with the supposed intellect of a Will forget that people who disagree with his rants have access to historical documentation that often contradict his more recent ascertions.
Too bad so few in the electorate are paying close enough attention, or perhaps, even care that guys of his ilk "make it up as they go"...
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Following up
Right you are, Royrapoport. An initial version of this post suggested that the WSJ-NBC News poll numbers contradicted Will's claim that Clinton would be easier to beat than Obama. In fact, as the revised version of the post suggests, the poll numbers support his claim -- albeit in a statistically insignificant way.
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Bush didn't have a mandate, and he's acted as if he did for seven years
I cannot take most Op-Ed pages seriously anymore. It sounds like Limbaugh or Rove wrote the majority of these articles themselves. David Broder is no better than Will. Be warned, rant approaching. From today's Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/14/AR2007111402030.html):
I wrote:
Uh, Dave...
Didn't Krauthammer write this column about two weeks ago? Are you two sharing papers like fraternity members at many colleges?
Why does it burn Dave's and Chuck's collective @$$ that Bill might be First Spouse in January?
First, I'm experiencing BUSH fatigue right now, after seven years of Dubya, Cheney, Rove and the rest of their cronies. I fervently wish that folks in the White House were more intelligent, less ideologically rigid, more pragmatic and BETTER SPOKEN.
Sounds a bit like the 42nd president, what I just described, doesn't it?
Easy, Dave. Don't forget to pass the anti-Billary frat paper to F. Hiatt next, so he can take a shot. I know he doesn't want to be left out.
End rant.
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George Will is a pontificating, hypocritical conservative. I had no idea.
Conservative pundit Charles Krauthammer offers up another reason for Republicans to hope for Hillary Clinton:
I could never vote for her, but I (and others of my ideological ilk) could live with her — precisely because she is so liberated from principle. Her liberalism, like her husband’s — flexible, disciplined, calculated, triangulated — always leaves open the possibility that she would do the right thing for the blessedly wrong (i.e. self-interested, ambition-serving, politically expedient) reason.
Krauthammer for Hillary: she's got no principles.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MWZmYTBhNWEzYjRjN2M5YjA1MDQ5OTYyZjQ5NjkxYmY=
Every president has a mandate. The mandate is to do something. That's why they were elected. However, there's no mandate for extremism, and possible Hillary Clinton moves like ending the war in Iraq and working for affordable healthcare are hardly extreme--a majority of the country wants these things.
Bush's problem (among many) is that he exercised his mandate as "I'm only accountable to the Republicans who voted for me." It doesn't work that way. You're president of all of the people and are accountable to all of the people.
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Hillary is looking better and better to me.
George Will is just the kind of twerp that would make me get up from my seat in the high school cafeteria and take the back of some underclassman that George was hazing. In fact he is the kind of turd whose face screams " punch me please ". To date I have not cared much who the Democrats ran as I will work for a sock puppet if that is the candidate. I am so concerned about the Supreme Court and the environment and health care I would pretty much cut off a finger to see that the white house is not filled with some greedy, mendacious repelican prick and his sycophants. But all this Hillary bashing is getting to me so now I am ready to back her all the way and to phone bank until my fingers fall off. I so want to see George Will and Brooks and Rush and KKKarl and the rest eat her shit.
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Any of the top runners would be good presidents
Well, the Democrats would be. Giuliani would be a disaster and Thompson would be another Bush. I don't want Clinton to be our candiate for anther reason - Congress. A lot of conservatives are so fed up that they will stay home next election. In their minds, it won't matter because their candidate is probably going to lose anyway - the perception is that a Democrat will win. But... right-wingers will rise up out of their graves to vote against Clinton, even if she appears to be winning by a landslide, and they will vote for downticket Republicans while they are at the poles. We could actually win real control of the House and Senate, but not if Clinton is our candidate. Obama would have some of the same effect, but probably not as much (racism isn't as powerful a force as anti-Clintonism). Edwards would be safe - he doesn't seem to inspire hatred.
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It's not what you do, it's how you do it.
If the poll suggests that Obama holds a slightly bigger lead, then George Will is probably right that Clinton would be easier for the Republicans to beat. At any rate, I hope he's right. It is my dream that Hillary Clinton loses the election but takes office anyway. And it is only under such circumstances that I can imagine reading George Will with anything like pleasure.
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Let Me Tell Ya Something About Hillary
She's my little rock and roll,
My tits and ass with soul baby,
She's my little rock and roll.
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Why does anybody care what George Will says?
When Bill (excuse me, I mean "William Jefferson") Clinton left the White House in 2001, Will wrote a column explaining that Clinton was like a man who walked across a snow-covered field and left no footprints. That's pretty close to an exact quotation. What a Rightwing harlot.
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70% of the population
currently opposed to the Iraq war would be a pretty strong mandate, assuming she wins, and assuming that she actually does something about Iraq when elected.
As far as Will's current pronouncements compared to his past championing of a hard line Conservative agenda under Bush, what else is new? The hypocrasy of right wing pundits is well documented. I hope that this illustration will help to reduce their credibility among the voting public.