Letters to the Editor
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Rearranging the Deck Chairs on the Titanic, Perhaps?
Just wondering...
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Campaign Manager Resigns
I can't help but see this as something in the works for some time. Iowa was most likely the catalyst as the Clintons watched Hillary's big lead totally evaporate and then proceed to eke out a win in NH. Solis-Doyle hung in there but the writing has been on the wall. I think the results from Saturday just sealed her fate.
My 2 cents: I don't think the big problem has been the campaign manager. Lately, it's been Bill's gaffe's.
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Hey, AncientAssyrian
Did you come up with that metaphor yourself? Wow, that's funny!
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Don't blame the campaign manager or Bill Clinton
"I don't think the big problem has been the campaign manager. Lately, it's been Bill's gaffe's."
Lately? That was eons ago. Hillary's huge lead in the polls pre-Iowa was all name recognition. The more voters get to know Hillary Clinton, the less they like her. Calculating, conniving, and opportunistic simply don't go over so well as qualities in a presidential candidate.
Take her recent letter to the president of NBC for example. Not satisfied with an apology from David Shuster, Queen Hillary demands his head on a plate. That kind of petty vindictiveness is not what I associate with the adjective "presidential".
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Does this come too late?
Obama's obvious appeal to a whole new block of voters (and all of us who yearn for a new direction for our country) has huge momentum. Has Clinton's change waited too long to adapt? Is this political Darwinism?
I respect both candidates immensely and and will be proud to cast my presidential vote for either one. I just prefer Obama. His words and manner inspire me in ways Clinton hasn't been able to.
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correction
Has Clinton's *campaign* waited too long to adapt?
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Can't we take it at face value?
If my candidate and her campaign had been putting up with the level of bullshit HRC has taken for the last year, I'd be ready to pass the baton too. I don't see any reason to look deeper into what Solis Doyle actually said. Woman needs a break. I bet Clinton does too, but she doesn't get to take one. Now if only Mark Penn would get exhausted.... But he seems to thrive on this shit.
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pwoxby, you're misreading Hillary's comments
She's not talking about getting Shuster's head on a platter. He's a nobody. She's talking about the pattern of sexist, misogynistic slant on MSNBC's Frat Boy Brigade shows: Matthews, Scarborough, Carlson.
This has been amply documented by actual on-air quotes from the talk jocks. Check out mediamatters.com
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http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0208/8412.html
FULL TEXT OF LETTER:
Dear Mr. Capus,
Thank you for your call yesterday. I wanted to send you this note to convey the depth of my feeling about David Shuster's comments.
I know that I am a public figure and that my daughter is playing a public role in my campaign. I am accustomed to criticism, certainly from MSNBC. I know that it goes with the territory.
However, I became Chelsea's mother long before I ran for any office and I will always be a mom first and a public official second.
Nothing justifies the kind of debasing language that David Shuster used and no temporary suspension or half-hearted apology is sufficient.
I would urge you to look at the pattern of behavior on your network that seems to repeatedly lead to this sort of degrading language.
There's a lot at stake for our country in this election. Surely, you can do your jobs as journalists and commentators and still keep the discourse civil and appropriate.
Sincerely,
Hillary Rodham Clinton
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Cythera45
You are the lamest poster on Salon. Without a doubt. Seriously. The amount of ridiculous, petty comments that you post incessantly are unbelievable. Everyone gets it. You love Hillary Clinton and think that everyone who supports Obama or criticizes your favorite candidate is an idiot. Are you, in fact, Hillary Clinton? That would explain a few things. Maybe you should spend your time trying to win caucuses instead of trying to seem mentally superior to a dozen other salon.com posters. You see, you're not using your resources in the best way possible! Maybe you should replace your campaign manager. Oh wait! You just did that!
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dash_7
If you think cythera is the lamest poster on Salon, you should spend more time at Broadsheet.
Seriously, though, I don't think he is (or likes) Clinton. Just a Republican troll.
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@melthough
Yeah, good point. Maybe the plan is to infiltrate enough message boards in hopes of swaying public opinion?
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@dash_7
I think they're just trying to drive wedges between Democrats. There seem to be several of them. Negativity suppresses interest and turnout, and that's all the Republicans can hope for this year.
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Playing the victimhood card won't get Hillary Clinton nominated
@NYAmiga:
"Nothing justifies the kind of debasing language that David Shuster used and no temporary suspension or half-hearted apology is sufficient." - Hillary Clinton
So Hillary Clinton rejects Shuster's apology and asserts that his temporary suspension is not sufficient. Spin that anyway you want but Clinton gives the appearance of fueling a controversy just to enhance her status as victim of media bias. Well, today's results out of Maine suggest that she can't play the victimhood card all the way to the nomination.
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The real reason for the change?
As a friend of mine observed, no one on the Clinton team bothered to set up a strategy for the caucuses. The result is that she's been losing most of them, in many cases losing big. Here's supporting, if circumstantial, evidence: her campaign blaming Obama's wins this weekend on his outspending her on TV ads. Who goes to a caucus because of a TV ad? People go to primaries to vote because of TV ads, perhaps, but caucuses require a little more than that. They require enthusiastic people AND an organization on the ground to marshal them at the precinct level.
HRC didn't have that in all the caucus states. Obama did. Every state where you see a blowout, that's why. And those little blowouts add up to momentum, when combined with primary wins at the right time.
The end result? The very real possibility of Obama hitting HRC's "firewall" of TX and OH with ten wins in a row under his belt since Super Tuesday. Suddenly, as with Rudy and FL, the sure thing starts looking like a do-or-die affair.
Thus the exit of the campaign manager that didn't see it coming.