Hillary to Obama: Toughen up, chump
posted at 11:07 am on April 18, 2008 by Allahpundit
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You’re clicking the image and skipping ahead about 20% of the way through, to where one of the anchors holds up a newspaper. ABC detects an echo of the “wimp” meme here: Put simply, she’s wondering how we can expect the Messiah to handle Ahmadinejad if a few predictable gotchas from George Stephanopoulos are enough to send him off on a day-long whine. If that logic sounds familiar, it’s because conservatives put the very same question to her last year after she cowardly backed out of the Fox debate lest her participation alienate the same nutroots Democrats who now hate her with a passion. (Savor the irony of this interview being conducted by a Fox affiliate.) And needless to say, she does her share of whining, too — albeit within the context of media coverage that’s orders of magnitude less favorable than what the Lamb of God gets.
I do like her craftiness, though, in attacking him on a point on which she herself is partially shielded by gender. She can call him soft but he has to be careful about responding in kind lest it be taken as sexist by that new “fourth wave” she’s allegedly creating. Alas for Team Barry, identity politics cuts both ways. Although if you believe the reports this morning, he doesn’t really need to respond: The superdelegates aren’t going anywhere.
Update: Somebody ‘Tubed the key section.
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Do you need to add another “-ly” to cowardly to make that an adverb? I come up against this problem every so often.
mikeyboss on April 18, 2008 at 11:16 AM
No, cowardly is correct.
lorien1973 on April 18, 2008 at 11:17 AM
Internal self destruction of the Democratic Party. Scotty to Captain Kirk, “She’s gonny blow Captain.”
Syd B. on April 18, 2008 at 11:18 AM
But cowardly is an adjective, no?
mikeyboss on April 18, 2008 at 11:19 AM
she said it herself.. a president who can take anything that comes his way..
(this is not an endorsement)
someone who spent 5 years in a Viet Nam prison camp can handle the pressures of the White House..
Nicely done.. turning the question onto BHO about pressure and toughness of the job and not running away
DaveC on April 18, 2008 at 11:19 AM
OK, encarta says it can be an adverb, too. Glad I learned something.
mikeyboss on April 18, 2008 at 11:20 AM
I knew this was going to be the perfect storm for the Democrats, as we all did, but this is starting to exceed my wildest expectations….
TheBigOldDog on April 18, 2008 at 11:21 AM
Or an adverb.
She crouched cowardly behind the door.
He cowardly fled the ogre.
lorien1973 on April 18, 2008 at 11:22 AM
The same Obama who blames anything that goes on anywhere that he doesn’t like, on President Bush, gets his widdle feelings hurt when someone questions his infallibility?
What office does he think he’s running for, hall monitor?
This clown is from a party that’s been throwing bricks at our President from the moment he was elected. Not once has President Bush whined about it.
Meanwhile, Obama has hurt feelings when a new channel had the audacity to ask him a couple of tough questions?
Unbelievable. You want an easy job Obama, go back to being a Democrat Senator, there is no easier job in the world.
NoDonkey on April 18, 2008 at 11:24 AM
Operation Chaos continues unabated.
geekrunner on April 18, 2008 at 11:24 AM
Shouldn’t the super delegates be at least worried that Obama didn’t win Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Florida?
terryannonline on April 18, 2008 at 11:25 AM
Sorry, presuming that he loses Tuesday.
terryannonline on April 18, 2008 at 11:25 AM
I know most people here don’t care for Hillery but that is no way to analyze Barack’s decision’s not to do another debate..
DaveC on April 18, 2008 at 11:25 AM
I love how the Dems never have a rational answer for the question of what they will do if the country goes chaotic when we pull the troops out. They always say that what we are doing isn’t working as if a bloodbath in Iraq would be a better alternative. The sad thing is that there are misguided fools out there that accept that crap.
csdeven on April 18, 2008 at 11:25 AM
I suspect that is the reason for the sweat soaked sheets each morning. And, Dean wants them to make up their minds,..PRONTO! He gets a huge Attaboy for adding more pressure into their lives and possibly forcing a wrong decision which will have to be changed in Denver, if the dice come up wrong for Barry’s chances in the general. Bless his heart.
a capella on April 18, 2008 at 11:35 AM
Oh I think they are completely sold on Barry. He’d have to screw up orders of magnitude higher than he already has to sway that. This is over and has been for some time barring a true Obama meltdown.
Dash on April 18, 2008 at 11:36 AM
He needs to toughen up like Hill when she was ducken all that sniper fire over in Bosnia.
dhunter on April 18, 2008 at 11:41 AM
Hey toughen up Hillary, FNC isn’t so bad … Not as bad a ducking sniper fire.
tarpon on April 18, 2008 at 11:45 AM
No.
5. Modifiers ending in -ly. Two errors are common:
Although most modifying words that end in -ly are adverbs, you must beware of exceptions. Cowardly, dastardly, friendly, gingerly, leisurely, likely, lowly, miserly, niggardly, and timely are usually adjectives:
The man with the stubbed toe takes gingerly steps. Class ended in timely fashion.
fossten on April 18, 2008 at 11:55 AM
usually adjectives. They can also be adverbs.
cowardly: adverb:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cowardly
lorien1973 on April 18, 2008 at 11:57 AM
Hot Air, politics AND English lessons!
Mortis on April 18, 2008 at 11:57 AM
gingerly in your sentence is an adverb too:
…takes gingerly…
lorien1973 on April 18, 2008 at 11:58 AM
it took out part of that. gingerly modifies takes; so its an adverb.
lorien1973 on April 18, 2008 at 11:59 AM
Normally you would use ‘cravenly backed off’ instead of ‘cowardly backed off’.
Hope P. Muntz on April 18, 2008 at 12:04 PM
Welcome to democracy, Barry. Maybe you can become a state senator by kissing up to the right weatherman and joining a racist church. And from Illnois you can go to the US Senate by having the blessing of a machine boss. But POTUS might require more of you. Good thing for you most of your followers are whiny. They don’t even think your childish behavior is unusual.
snaggletoothie on April 18, 2008 at 12:06 PM
Excellent points. Hillary would obviously make a better Prez, but Hillary doesn’t makes them FEEL GOOD. And that’s what it’s all about for the sheeple, the product of subjective truth training and self-esteem clases instead of reading.
I fear for the future of this country…30 years from now these braindead feel-gooders will be running the country. We think we have problems now with the Marxist/pot-smoking/free love radicals of the 60’s? Just wait until these idiots who don’t even know where the find the gray matter, much less exercise it, come into power.
JustTruth101 on April 18, 2008 at 12:07 PM
Barack (Boo-Hoo) Obama.
TooTall on April 18, 2008 at 12:18 PM
If we aren’t watching a meltdown now, what are we watching? You think the Dems’ leadership is blowing off Operation Chaos? They know that Hussein is unelectable in the general election, but the ramifications of his subversion by the superdels is too awful for them to contemplate.
“I’m melting! Melting!”
Akzed on April 18, 2008 at 12:18 PM
Mark Twain said, “Whenever you are tempted to use an adjective [I would add adverb] just use damn. Your editor will remove it, and the writing will be as it should.”
Akzed on April 18, 2008 at 12:20 PM
Just sounds odd, hehe.
Midas on April 18, 2008 at 12:20 PM
I LOLed.
spmat on April 18, 2008 at 12:33 PM
What the Dems have to realize is that the Presidency is not an Affirmative Action position, as if BHO was applying for some leftwing faculty post at UC-Berkeley.
If we have a weak, crappy whiny shitebag like Obama as POTUS, we all could die.
To put it into the context those simple-minded bastards understand: it’s for THE CHILDREN!!
TexasJew on April 18, 2008 at 12:39 PM
csdeven, welcome back.
Even though I wanted Hillary to make it, so far, I’ve concluded in the last few days that Obama is the easier to beat. The media, and many others, having peeked behind the curtain, are seeing something other than what they’d envisioned. I’d say “let him be the one”, and lay off the Hillary drive. It’s turning into a beauty as is.
Entelechy on April 18, 2008 at 12:42 PM
Hillary is now claiming that Obama raked her with sniper fire in Philadelphia. But how can that be true? As a candidate for state senate, Obama filled out a questionaire stating that he supported a ban on hand guns. He could not possibly own a gun. But now I remember. The handwriting that looks exactly like Obama’s handwriting is not really his signature. What a tangled web we weave when two Democrats learn to deceive.
Larraby on April 18, 2008 at 12:58 PM
Why are you Running Away ObamaX?
faraway on April 18, 2008 at 1:12 PM
Obama, pick one:
crybaby, baby, chicken, doormat, invertebrate, jellyfish, lightweight, milksop, Milquetoast, mollycoddle, namby-pamby, nebbish, nonentity, pansy, pantywaist, pushover, sad sack, sissy, softy, sop, weak sister, weakling
faraway on April 18, 2008 at 1:15 PM
Drive
friendlyfriendli-ly.connertown on April 18, 2008 at 1:16 PM
She wimped out of the Fox debate. There, problem solved… unless i can’t use wimp as a verb. Whatever, Hilly is a ‘projector’ extra-odinaire.
Neither of them ‘can take it’, but they dish it up in big, heaping helpings while the lefty sheeple form 2 lines to gratefully consume the thin pablum.
Christine on April 18, 2008 at 1:20 PM
Just words?
argos on April 18, 2008 at 1:27 PM
mikeyboss on April 18, 2008 at 11:19 AM
Or an adverb.
She crouched cowardly behind the door.
He cowardly fled the ogre.
lorien1973 on April 18, 2008 at 11:22 AM
could be correct, but very awkward sounding, me suggest…
In cowardly fashion she crouched behind the door…
max1 on April 18, 2008 at 1:32 PM
I think we should all send Obama a slice of cheese to go whith his “whine”.
right2bright on April 18, 2008 at 1:36 PM
personally I’d say “she crouched behind the door like a coward” - i never liked cowardly, but it is a proper use of the word.
lorien1973 on April 18, 2008 at 1:38 PM
Good for them! And while they continue to await the inevitale come Novemeber, they could busy themselves re-arranging the deck chairs.
RMR on April 18, 2008 at 1:39 PM
In cowardly fashion she was caught fashionably crouching behind the door cowering at the crouched coward;fashion that, she said, crouching to pick up the newest fashion. you would have to be a coward, not to see that crouching in that fashion is not very fashionable, only a coward would be so coward as to not to say anything.
right2bright on April 18, 2008 at 1:45 PM
Okay, okay, can we cut the Jesus references? It was hard enough to swallow the Messiah reference, and I’m over it, but do we need to keep extending it to other Jesus references?
Better to call him the hard left’s Manchurian Candidate.
John the Libertarian on April 18, 2008 at 2:18 PM