Good luck, Hillary. You’re going to need it. Here’s the Hillary Hobo again for good luck.

Patterico is getting out the popcorn. Watch out, I bet it’s stale.
Redstate has Obama leading Hillary in Texas.
Hot Air thinks it’ll be a…

F. Painstakingly explaining why he won’t wear a Flag pin

We DID think this day would never come

Well at least me

EricPWJohnson on February 26, 2008 at 10:50 AM

G. Wife, who’s 44, and hasn’t been proud of her country in the last 26 years, ever since she’s been 18, that is…

Like it was owed to her…puleeze. For the smartest woman on the planet she sure wasn’t very.

Pulchritudinous Patriot on February 26, 2008 at 10:40 AM

And remember Hillary’s recent encounter with CBS News anchor Katie Couric? Asked how she would feel if she didn’t become the Democratic nominee, Hillary acidly shot back, “Well, it will be me.”

Bum Wrap – key word, wrap.

There’s never a good time to club Bambi

True, but I think it’s OK for Hillary (or Maverick) to ask this question: “As much as you love Bambi, do you want him to be president?”

Schadenfreude……….. indeed!

It would be scary enough to assume she actually agrees with MO, but even if she does – nothing has prevented the Clintonizers from being hypocrites before. Very confusing.

But mostly the campaign has become a grim slog. Unable to make anything stick, the campaign is throwing out a dizzying array of potential storylines each day.

And that’s been the problem. Clinton and Obama agree more than they disagree on the issues. Clinton can’t set herself up as being the national security hawk to Obama’s dove or the fiscally responsible candidate to Obama’s big government approach. The branding of these two candidates is virtually identical- like comparing toothpaste from two different manufacturers.

Clinton’s primary strategy is to hype the “experience” angle instead of focusing on the details where her position differs from Obama’s. She would have been far more successful to stick to a few key and predictable issues (e.g. healthcare, Iraq, social security) than this throwing all sorts of stuff out there and find out that the only thing that has any traction is odd stuff like charges of plagerism.

Hotair is saying that it would be smarter to attack Obama’s ideas instead of showing how empty he is:
Read Stephen Hayes’s op-edthis morning in the Journal about the GOP preparing to repeat her mistakes. The experience contrast will serve McCai…

It seems to me only people who are already ashamed of America are hooked by his rhetoric. Really, he’s just parroting what they already think, but eloquently, making them feel good about themselves for thinking such things in the process.

He is, in fact, the change they seek. A change from a president who loves and fights for America on the world stage to one who loves only the America he wants to create and will “rebalance” the political and military power in the world.

amkun on February 26, 2008 at 10:59 AM

Maybe so, but I think people instinctively want to feel some national pride. Seriously, anyone with the thinnest ability to reason knows this is not a nation to be ashamed of. The blame-America-first routine is strictly a democrat strategy, and they’re mostly mad at America for electing Republicans. It does not work with moderates and Republicans, which is why I think it’s risky for Obama. He’s gonna have to show some national pride sooner or later, or the electorate is going to wonder just why in the hell he wants to be prez of this God-awful country.

It’s too late for anyone to help her now, but she needs a smoking gun type of scandal- hard to believe that the Clinton Machine couldn’t find one and make it stick.

Hell, I’d not even heard about the shady land deal in Capt. Ed’s post above until I read about it there. No one escapes Chicago politics without coming out a bit dirty.

“Oftentimes, when she addresses her opponent, it’s immediately seized upon by the press as negative,” the adviser said. “When he makes personal character attacks, it’s often called ‘sharpening your rhetoric.’”

Treated like a Republican in other words. Cry me a river, Hillary.

Smarmiest Woman in the World

Which is weird, ’cause whenever I see a Hillary sign here, there’s a live and really miserable-looking person holding it, with that sad “I’m getting paid how much to stand here?” look. So maybe they’re not being paid, but if they are, I hope they’re getting comprehensive health insurance too.

Rational Thought on February 26, 2008 at 10:40 AM

Very insightful commentary re: Obama’s message. However, I’d tweak it just a bit. It seems to me only people who are already ashamed of America are hooked by his rhetoric. Really, he’s just parroting what they already think, but eloquently, making them feel good about themselves for thinking such things in the process.

He is, in fact, the change they seek. A change from a president who loves and fights for America on the world stage to one who loves only the America he wants to create and will “rebalance” the political and military power in the world.

Can’t say I’m sorry for Hillary, the world moved past the Clinton style of campaigning and they haven’t evolved…. Al Gore get the last laugh, this internet thing he invented is the Clinton’s Achilles heal

midwesternperspective on February 26, 2008 at 10:17 AM

What gets me too is, that Howard Dean was probably the first candidate to truly use the internet both as a “message getter-outer” and as and effective way to raise funds, back when Dean was running for the Office.

But now, Dean’s head of the DNC, and remember, he’s no “friend” with the Clintons. So perhaps he declined his input to help Hillary…

You’re right tho…Hillary DID try to use the ‘net early on…but really has shied away from it, to run a campaign she’s more comfortable with.

If Hillary had a personality that people liked — if she was funny or charming — it could have been a very close race, and one she might have won. But in a personality contest between Hillary and just about anybody else, Hillary is going to lose.

I think there are too many Dems who could be implicated in the various Clinton scandals, and they knew they were looking at every single one of them being brought up and re-investigated if Hillary got the nomination.

Connie on February 26, 2008 at 10:28 AM

True. But then, it was the Dem’s, with a lot of help from the media, that allowed Bill Clinton to basically “skate away” with his many, many scandals.

What made the Republicans “look bad” was the way they tried to go after Bill C…And I would think Hillary would have learned something from all that. Now she’s the one going after Obama. And, as with the GOP in the ’90s, she’s “looking bad”.

now that sounds like a good evening.

i expect to see her go hard on his meet with ahmedinejad stuff. i expect her to call him soft on defence and terror in harsh language.