"Ok, Doyle, hit the showers. Williams, we need a strikeout. Bill, head for the locker room-and stay there. And you-start crying."
Are you noticing a trend in Hillary Clinton's campaign? It seems every time her campaign hits a rut in the road (losing primaries to Obama), CHANGE happens in the campaign. Let's look at some examples.
Lose Iowa? Projected to lose in New Hampshire? Time to do something drastic-like cry-or pretend to cry. Up until that moment, Hillary was struggling with her wooden, emotionless, Cruella image. She was on her way to defeat in New Hampshire, according to the pundits and the polls, anyway. So out came the "tears" and the cracking voice. Faster than you can say "gullible", Hillary pulled out a win in New Hampshire, courtesy of voters who decided she was human after all.
Then came South Carolina, which went to Obama in the wake of charges that the Clintons had injected race into the election. Bill, as usual, kept opening his big mouth, which did nothing to help his wife's campaign. Lately, however, Bill's role in the campaign has been changed. Anyone seen or heard from him lately? No. He has been sent to his room (hopefully alone).
Then came Super Tuesday, pretty much a split, followed by the latest string of Obama victories. Right now, Obama is on a roll-expected to continue in the Potomac primaries. So now, we have a change in Hillary's campaign: a new campaign manager. Patti Solis Doyle has stepped down, and Maggie Williams has taken over. Remember Maggie Williams? She was Hillary's chief of staff in the White House. She was the one who was seen removing papers from the office of Vince Foster when it was learned that his body had been discovered in a Washington area park. All in all, Maggie ran up a lot of legal bills while serving the Clintons in the White House.
In addition, it was learned last week that Hillary has thrown in 5 million dollars of her own money to the campaign. That is perfectly legal (Romney put in about 35 million of his own money), but everyone knows where Romney's money came from. Where did the Clintons get that 5 million dollars?
To sum it up, Hillary reminds me a lot of a major league baseball manager in the late innings of the 7th game of the World Series. That means lots of pinch hitters, defensive replacements and relief pitchers. Maybe she can steal a few signs while she's at it.
Two things:
ReplyDelete1. I think that you're listening to too many pundits. Come on, that was genuine emotion coming from Hillary. You know I'm no fan of hers, but geez louise, she is a human being! I've heard what the pundits said about her (mostly on The Daily Show and The Colbert Report, which ran clips of them in order to make fun of them) and it seemed a bit below-the-belt.
2. I'm not sure if you're trying to criticize her for making changes when things aren't working out well. I mean, what is she supposed to do? It's not like that's the exact same strategy that the current administration has been doing in the aftermath of the Iraq War and Katrina. (Except most of the people who screw up in the Bush administration get medals. Man...to think I get to teach Animal Farm in a few weeks! So much material!)
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C'mon, Lance, lighten up! Hillary is a big girl and no one's victim. She is running for president of the USA.
ReplyDeleteThe hidden point here is that when things start going rough, Hillary gets mad and starts screaming at somebody. That's her "genuine emotion".
I'm sure she can take it, it's just that the "ditto heads" sound like a bunch of parrots sometimes. Hannity/Limbaugh/O'Reilly says it, and then it gets repeated ad nauseum. I couldn't care less about Clinton, it's just the sheep-like mentality that bugs me. (And yeah, I know the same thing happens on the other side of the fence. Still, I've never seen a liberal take pride in being a "ditto head".)
ReplyDelete"Ditto" on the Limbaugh show means only that the caller enjoys the show. I think if you took a little more time to listen to the show, you might find that most callers are well educated and not robots. Most conservative radio shows encourage callers who disagree and will move them to the top of the line.
ReplyDeleteI guess it's only natural that we consider those who disagree with our philosophy to be sheep who blindly follow their spokespeople. Both sides are probably guilty of this.
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Are you teachers still beating Animal Farm to death? (LOL)