Clinton Depression
Obama sat down with Diane Sawyer on Good Morning America and was asked what he thought of Hillary’s increasingly shrill attacks. “Its a little depressing”, was his response. The person who is really depressed is Bill Clinton. As Mark Liebovich reports in this morning’s New York Times,
Former President Bill Clinton has been drawing sleepy and sometimes smallish crowds at big venues in the state that revived his presidential campaign in 1992. He entered to polite applause and rows of empty seats at the University of New Hampshireon Friday. Several people filed out midspeech, and the room was largely quiet as he spoke, with few interruptions for laughter or applause. He talked about his administration, his foundation work and some about his wife.
The accompanying photo (above) of a young girl stifling her yawn, while Bill blathers on was a classic. Seven years of political rehabilitation of Bill’s rep has come down to this: being a spinmeister in a losing campaign. Liebovich compared it to Elvis playing Reno, but it’s worse than that. Its Elvis playing the piano bar in the Nashua Holiday Inn.
Hillary playing the republican route – personal attacks on the opponent – will not serve her well.
The news is making hay of her near-emotional response to someone’s question yesterday. Part of her comments during that same sequence made me wonder.
She said she’s better prepared for the presidency than is Obama. My immediate question, in part due to her personal attacks, was this: is this country prepared for Hillary as president?
The Clintons just don’t get it. Clinton fatigue is very very REAL. She has pulled some real low class stunts, and people just don’t like her.
The one girl yawning and the other looking like she is sleeping standing up. WOW.
Very funny and entertaining! The thing is if Bill would actually focus on his wife, if Chelsea was out there pimping her mom to the MTV generation, then Hilary would be cleaning up (with liberals anyway and many independents)! And if she actually took a stand on an issue and vocalized what that stance is, then people would respond with her too. Instead Hilary is trying the acting approach and trying to pretend like she cares? What does she expect? Sympathy? Us to go awwwww, she really is passionate about something. Not her husband’s infidelities, but with her dreams of what is possible in the whitehouse? Very interesting… If she would have just been herself and took a stand and had a supporting family that was behind her (instead of being so fragmented and dysfunctional) the Clintons would have control one again.
Thank God she follows the liberal handbook!
-Derin-
http://durkniblick.wordpress.com
clinton is done
Great photo–it’s exactly the way I feel when He talks and talks and TALKS!!!!
You must have gone to journalist school. No is singular and should not be used as “no comments”.
Its looking more and more like the age of the Clintons is over, thanks to Barack Obama. I was dubious about him but listened to him speak on c-span yesterday and have to admit I like him. Hard to pin it down, but I think it comes down to tone. Hilary sounds shrill, Edwards sounds cold and calculating, but Barack comes across as smart, humble, sincere, warm and genuinely likeable. Whether he can fulfill his promises of hope is another think, but at least one can listen to him without cringing.
I think it’s a bit early to say she’s done. However, I have just enough of Bill acting as Hilary’s hatchetboy to know that that act ain’t gonna cut it. They bring back the image of the Little Rock Mafia when they double team like that. She’s going to need to transmit a message of genuine hope, though, or people will get very burnt out on her and it will be one sad convention for her.
I hope that Barack Obama wins the presidential election.
Clinton has no credibility. Besides her contact misrepresentations, no one is buying her so called 35 years of experience claim of fighting the establishment.