possessed of a graciousness we never knew she had in her

You wrote that giggling all the while, right?

amkun on February 22, 2008 at 9:28 AM

Don’t count Hillary out just yet!

She’s still got a few…tricks up her sleeve.

Dorvillian on February 22, 2008 at 9:36 AM

That’s not change you can believe in, it’s change you can Xerox.

Aw, hell, I’m still laughing about that one. Allah, it’s time to move the Dohrn/Ayers story to the front page. These effing leftist scumbags are big Barry O supporters, and I can think of no more damning confirmation of his leftism than that.

OK, the “single most liberal Senator” thing also helped…

Jaibones on February 22, 2008 at 9:40 AM

The brainless applause from his supporters greatly disturbs me. The man who give the old “Why did the chicken cross the road?” line, and his audience would go wild with a laughing fit.

amerpundit on February 22, 2008 at 9:52 AM

which means our gal’s either (a) given up the ghost and too dispirited to fight, (b) already thinking ahead to the goodwill she’ll need for 2012 or 2016, or (c) possessed of a graciousness we never knew she had in her.

Admit it, that last choice was just a “throwaway” to round things out, wasn’t it?

I wouldn’t be writing Clinton’s obituary just yet. Last night may have been the first phase of cooling the rhetoric so that there can be a Clinton/Obama ticket brokered now, long before it reaches the Dem convention. Think of it. Months to tout the “historic” ticket compared to the half-dead McCain who isn’t even able to get his base enthused. The “rats” are poised for a Reaganesque like victory if they can mend fences early.

In the meantime we’re stuck with a pathetic loser and his brain dead zombies who keep telling us to shut up and get behind the dinosaur instead of giving us substantive reasons why we should support the candidacy of a man who has declared us racists because we aren’t in favor of amnesty.

highhopes on February 22, 2008 at 9:58 AM

it’s time to move the Dohrn/Ayers story to the front page.

Jaibones on February 22, 2008 at 9:40 AM

+1

Buy Danish on February 22, 2008 at 10:00 AM

The brainless applause from his supporters greatly disturbs me. The man who give the old “Why did the chicken cross the road?” line, and his audience would go wild with a laughing fit.

amerpundit on February 22, 2008 at 9:52 AM

I’m sure whatever his answer to that question, it would be riveting, inspiring, and it would give people throughout America hope. Heck, just hearing him ask the question gives me hope.

Swoon.

capitalist piglet on February 22, 2008 at 10:00 AM

amerpundit on February 22, 2008 at 9:52 AM

Believe it or not, it’s not brainless applause. I have lifelong friends that are far lefties and they sware everything BO says makes perfect sense to them, specifically the destruction of the middle class, tax cuts for the rich, universal healthcare, etc. BO has sold them that he is the only person that can deliver all these things and they have bought it. The more he talks, the more excited they get, they believe every word he says.

swami on February 22, 2008 at 10:02 AM

So much inbreeding among the left wingers is polluting the campaign gene pool. Original thinking is nearly extinct..

But better not be too critical of these people. Watch what you say, or they’ll nationalize Google and restrict its use exclusively for themselves.

petefrt on February 22, 2008 at 10:06 AM

high hopes, Bill Bennett wrote an eloquent column doing just what you said you have asked for, and I’ve linked it and quoted it extensively. It has not a single “shut up and get in line” phrase, is concise and to the point in listing why McCain is a much, much better candidate from the conservative perspective (unless you don’t think Bill Bennett is conservative) etc. You choose to ignore all substantive posts that list McCain’s positives while yelling that nobody has ever listed anything.

As for those who have taken to labeling Senator McCain a liberal, we reject that.

A liberal does not have a zero rating from NARAL and a 17-percent voting record with the AFL-CIO (the same rating as Sen. Jim DeMint, by way of comparison).

A liberal does not have this written about him by Sen. Jon Kyl: “On the ever-important issue of life, Senator McCain has a record of voting for pro-life legislation: He has voted for bans on partial birth abortion; he has supported Unborn Victims of Violence Act and parental notification for minors; and he has voted against using federal money to distribute morning-after contraception in schools. He has repeatedly cosponsored the Child Custody Protection Act, which prohibits the transportation of minors across state lines in order to circumvent state laws, requiring instead the involvement of parents in abortion decisions.”

A liberal does not vote to defund Planned Parenthood.

A liberal does not go on television and radio to defend Sam Alito and John Roberts.

A liberal does not go on the road to campaign for Social Security retirement accounts.

A liberal does not support the surge or the stay in Iraq.

A liberal does not support extending Bush’s tax cuts.

A liberal does not get the endorsements of Tom Coburn, Jack Kemp, Steve Forbes, Rudy Giuliani, Sam Brownback, Tim Pawlenty, Phil Gramm, Jeff Flake, Jon Kyl, and Ted Olson.

Senator McCain may have some liberal positions, but he is not a liberal. He is a conservative with some liberal positions. But on life, taxes, and national defense, his record is, in fact, very strong.

Let us repeat. We know the “yes, but,” argument against Senator McCain - and agree with some of it. But let us not fool ourselves that there is no difference between Senator McCain and whomever the Democrats nominate. (What we have written above about Senator Clinton holds true of Senator Barack Obama as well).

Over the past two years, the conservative movement has lifted Senator Joe Lieberman onto their shoulders higher and higher (rightly, in our view), and yet many of the same people who have done that have sworn off of Senator McCain. Notwithstanding much of our praise for Senator Lieberman, he is far to the left of Senator McCain - with a lifetime ACU rating of 17 percent and an ADA (Americans for Democratic Action, a liberal counter-part to the ACU ratings), in 2006, of 75 percent.

Senator Clinton’s respective ratings? Nine percent from the ACU and 95 percent from the ADA.

Senator Obama’s respective ratings? Eight percent from the ACU and 95 percent from the ADA.

Senator McCain’s respective ratings? 82.3 percent from the ACU and 15 percent from the ADA.

We do not have perfect nominees and never have. As John Hinderaker pointed out recently, since Calvin Coolidge, we haven’t even had a pure “conservative ideologue” in our party elected president. And even that one “purist” was not free of blemishes and criticism, much as we rightly venerate him.

http://www.bennettmornings.com

funky chicken on February 22, 2008 at 10:14 AM

Expect nothing to come of any of it, except to see her fade more and more away.

pilamaye on February 22, 2008 at 9:56 AM

Now if she would just GO away this country will be better for it !

OBX Pete on February 22, 2008 at 10:18 AM

Do your friends ever stop and ask themselves how he will find the money to pay for all of this “change”?

capitalist piglet on February 22, 2008 at 10:13 AM

Haven’t you heard, he plans to put people back into the middle class, since those evil republicans have been allowing them to escape by moving up

Canadian Imperialist Running Dog on February 22, 2008 at 10:32 AM

Yes, tax increase on the rich is the standard answer. Followed by ending the war in Iraq.

swami on February 22, 2008 at 10:36 AM

Your lib friends sound just like my lib friends. They don’t seem to realize that they themselves are among the “rich” as defined by Dems in Congress who want to raise taxes on “the rich.” If they do realize that they’re among the “rich,” they have convinced themselves that they SHOULD be taxed more heavily and that it is a good and noble thing to give more of their earnings to the government, as long as the government is led by someone like Obama who will use it for “good.”

They also seem to think that military spending is most of the national budget and that we could end world poverty if we’d just stop throwing money down the drain in Iraq. When I point out that military spending is approximately just 4% of the national budget and that ballooning entitlements are approaching 60% and will in the near future (if nothing changes) constitute 100% of the national budget, they deny that this could possibly be true. It’s the war in Iraq that’s breaking the bank, they insist, and Obama will fix that. Then we’ll be able to afford universal health care and all the other things libs have promised to provide.

The scary part is, these are extremely well-educated and thoughtful people. But they have fallen for Obama and liberalism in general hook, line, and sinker.

aero on February 22, 2008 at 10:56 AM

…joshing.

Akzed on February 22, 2008 at 11:19 AM

Stick a fork in her, she’s done.

mojo on February 22, 2008 at 12:19 PM