Video: Eleventh-hour blockbuster endorsement rescues Hillary’s campaign
posted at 10:49 pm on May 9, 2008 by Allahpundit
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The endorsement’s (very) old news, actually, but the fact that they’re willing to stand by it and go down with the ship is, god forgive me for saying so, commendable. Then again, Wilson’s been a sufficiently harsh critic of the Messiah that it’s probably too late for him to enter the kingdom of heaven when it’s inaugurated next year. They might as well stick with Hillary, hope Obama loses, and then wait to be rewarded for their loyalty when she resurfaces, Nixon-like, in ‘12.
Exit question: Am I the only one feeling a teensy bit sentimental during these final days of the Glacier’s candidacy? 95% of you will say yes, but for the other five percent, what is it that’s getting to you? The Shakespearean tragic overtones? The sudden awareness that we won’t have Hillary to kick around for very much longer? The alarming extent to which she was able to humanize herself over the past month or two? The fact that she’s as nutty as a PayDay bar and it’s always sad to see the insane suffer? What is it?
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Pictured (r-l): Valerie Plame, her grandfather.
Allahpundit on May 9, 2008 at 10:50 PM
No. I can’t bring myself to believe the Clintons have been defeated.
It’s the end of an era.
Slublog on May 9, 2008 at 10:55 PM
almost 20 years invested in demonizing the clintons. And what do we get out of it? Nothing! Nothing, I tell you.
lorien1973 on May 9, 2008 at 10:55 PM
Sorry, but Hillary has never seemed human to me. In fact, it is when she is trying to appear especially human that she gets that dead shark’s eye look. I don’t believe a word she says. I do believe she has done some terrible things in the past to a lot of good people, starting way before she bilked those people out of their money in Whitewater. If she had lived during Marie Antoinette’s time, she would have definitely been the one to have uttered let them eat cake for real.
Glynn on May 9, 2008 at 10:56 PM
What the heck happened to Joe Wilson?! Seriously, he reminds me of Litvinenko.
IrishEi on May 9, 2008 at 10:57 PM
Thank God.
Glynn on May 9, 2008 at 10:57 PM
Joe’s looking tired.
All that hate burned him up.
see-dubya on May 9, 2008 at 10:57 PM
Professional courtesy for another impersonator.
RBMN on May 9, 2008 at 11:01 PM
Heh.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on May 9, 2008 at 11:03 PM
I guess they’ve blown through their cash and need the public to pay attention to them again. They’re trying to resurrect the outing lawsuit.
sigh
Beto Ochoa on May 9, 2008 at 11:04 PM
Too much yellow cake.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on May 9, 2008 at 11:04 PM
This is when I became a secret admirer.
Obama had the nomination wrapped up with his revival tent campaign before the media even started to scrutinize him.
http://obamamessiah.blogspot.com/
ninjapirate on May 9, 2008 at 11:05 PM
No joke. I almost feel disappointed that this is how it ends. They’ve got nothing else up their sleeve? It’s like watching “Rocky Balboa” – sure, they put up a fight, but they lost.
Slublog on May 9, 2008 at 11:06 PM
PayDay is my favorite candy bar and to somehow connect it with the Hildabeast is very offensive to me. Have you noticed that Payday has just recently come out with a chocolate version ? Probably just trying to profit from this years POTUS race. And so who is this Valerie Plame person ?
JonRoss on May 9, 2008 at 11:07 PM
Ding Dong! The Witch is dead. Which old Witch? The Wicked Witch!
Ding Dong! The Wicked Witch is dead.
Wake up – sleepy head, rub your eyes, get out of bed.
Wake up, the Wicked Witch is dead.
She’s gone where the goblins go,
Below – below – below.
Yo-ho, let’s open up and sing and ring the bells out.
Ding Dong’ the merry-oh, sing it high, sing it low.
Let them know
The Wicked Witch is dead!
- Wizard of Oz (no modifications needed)
MB4 on May 9, 2008 at 11:09 PM
Yeah, it’s the realization that now the High Theatre we’ve all been popping popcorn for is over, and the Real World, with its deadly truths and dire predictions for Fall is right back up in our faces.
Save us, John, you’re our only hope!
Hannibal Smith on May 9, 2008 at 11:09 PM
I think I may be having withdrawel symptoms myself. I mean, if the Clintons can’t beat a duo of dweebs like Barack and Michelle Obama maybe we made them out to be bigger than they are. It’s disappointing. I expected more, and hopefully I’ll get more…soon?
SouthernGent on May 9, 2008 at 11:10 PM
Yup
surrounded on May 9, 2008 at 11:10 PM
Yeah….I kind of imagined something like this…..
Trautman: You did everything to make this private war happen. You’ve done enough damage. This mission is over, Rambo. Do you understand me? This mission is over! Look at them out there! Look at them! If you won’t end this now, they will kill you. Is that what you want? It’s over Johnny. It’s over!
Rambo: Nothing is over! Nothing! You just don’t turn it off! It wasn’t my war! You asked me, I didn’t ask you! And I did what I had to do to win! But somebody wouldn’t let us win! And I come back to the world and I see all those maggots at the airport, protesting me, spitting. Calling me baby killer and all kinds of vile crap! Who are they to protest me? Who are they? Unless they’ve been me and been there and know what the hell they’re yelling about!
Trautman: It was a bad time for everyone, Rambo. It’s all in the past now.
Rambo: FOR YOU! For me civilian life is nothing! In the field we had a code of honor, you watch my back, I watch yours. Back here there’s nothing!
Trautman: You’re the last of an elite group, don’t end it like this.
Rambo: Back there I could fly a gunship, I could drive a tank, I was in charge of million dollar equipment, back here I can’t even hold a job PARKING CARS!
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on May 9, 2008 at 11:10 PM
Libby took the
plameblame for her outing.Beto Ochoa on May 9, 2008 at 11:11 PM
The Obamassiah will be gone in eight years, but Hillary will be with us … always.
km on May 9, 2008 at 11:11 PM
Yes. The cackles will haunt our dreams.
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on May 9, 2008 at 11:13 PM
This will be a day long remembered…we have seen the end of the Clintons, we shall soon see the end of the Obamessiah.
The shaggy 70’s hair had such a youthful – or should I say juvenile – effect on him.
But seriously, when will someone prosecute the traitor for using her position to deliberately subvert the president’s policy. I don’t care if who is president at the time…it would have been just as bad to have done it to BJ.
Nosferightu on May 9, 2008 at 11:14 PM
Good thing you told us that it’s grandpapy. Gosh, he has aged rapidly. Santa Fe air must not treat him kindly. Or is it his conscience?
In the 5% here – but I don’t think we’ve placed the last nail in her coffin, yet. None of the questions with me. I realized a couple of weeks ago that I all of a sudden respect her. She’s got grit. I used to think that she’d be easier to beat, but now I think that Obama is in that position.
For the good of the country I’d like her to be McCain’s opponent. If he loses, she’d be better than the Hope and Change man. He’s simply too inexperienced. The 57 states killed me today. People taking the citizenship test know more than the man who wants to be President of the still most powerful country in the world. For shame!
Entelechy on May 9, 2008 at 11:15 PM
Dude when is this going to end?
knat on May 9, 2008 at 11:16 PM
Allah, she’s your senator. She’ll be around for along time.
Fortunately, the Plame’s won’t.
thatcher on May 9, 2008 at 11:16 PM
Yeah, Joe looks like he OD’d on sweet mint tea, but the once-dolly Val now has a seriously receding hairline and looks constipated. What a waste of talent.
Jaibones on May 9, 2008 at 11:16 PM
Forgot, Valerie looks old too, much older. What is nagging at them?
Entelechy on May 9, 2008 at 11:17 PM
Loss of the spotlight?
Slublog on May 9, 2008 at 11:18 PM
A mixture of things. Partially that this is kind of an anti-climatic ending to a long era. Partially that I realize we’ve ended up with something worse than Hillary (Obama).
amerpundit on May 9, 2008 at 11:18 PM
This string needs some background music. Something dark, Wagnerian. A dirge of some sort. In a thousand years there will be legends told of an evil Hildabeast and her consort who ruled a troubled world and drifted about before being smitted by an Ethopian prince who arose from the mystical land of Sheecagoe. And there was much gnashing of teeth, but also much jubilation.
JonRoss on May 9, 2008 at 11:19 PM
So you are saying this Valerie Plame person was gay or something ? And Libby outed her ?
JonRoss on May 9, 2008 at 11:25 PM
I’m with Entelechy.
I too have grown to respect her grit.
I have gotten very tired of the media giving the messiah a pass and pouncing on every word she says.
Especially calling her a racist.
Obama can get 91% of the vote and that isn’t racist.
She says she can get the white vote and it’s said that she is racist.
Place your bets here now folks, I am calling it.
OBAMA WILL LOSE IN A LANDSLIDE.
There are too many Hillary supporters who find McCain a suitable candidate as opposed to Obama.
If McCain had said that, he would be tarred and feathered by the press even as we speak.
ArmyAunt on May 9, 2008 at 11:25 PM
What? Is she gonna buy a hog farm outside of Bentonville or something? The grand carpetbagger will still be a NuYawk senator. Cheer up Allah, there is more Hillary and Rosie in our future.
Limerick on May 9, 2008 at 11:26 PM
*92% of the black vote
(preview is my friend)
ArmyAunt on May 9, 2008 at 11:27 PM
In which the lying megalomaniac and his wife, Codename: Valerie Plame, prove themselves to be loyal buffoons. I love the Code-Pink red meat “the Bush administration tried to destroy us.” Well, clearly they need to go back to fascist gradeschool, because they just won’t go away.
I’d rather lose a finger than a leg. She, at least, is so widely opposed that, even if elected, she’d be ineffective. And, by law, she’s limited to only 8 years. For Obama, they’d burn the Constitution and make him philosopher-king for life (Yes we can!).
emailnuevo on May 9, 2008 at 11:28 PM
What do you mean starting to look old? He’s always looked old. He is old.
Blake on May 9, 2008 at 11:32 PM
Stravinsky, Rite of Spring
Hmmmm….yes
Beto Ochoa on May 9, 2008 at 11:35 PM
Wilson/Plame? I hear they are both cheap, not much payoff there!
allrsn on May 9, 2008 at 11:43 PM
She’s like an abscessed tooth. It really feels good when it’s removed, but it leaves a hole you just can’t ignore. You don’t want the abscessed tooth back, but you do wish there was something to fill the empty space.
Buford Gooch on May 9, 2008 at 11:45 PM
No, I’ll miss HRC. She’s a cynical, ruthless, unprincipled, hack down to her bones and I wouldn’t trust her to walk my dog. But I’ll miss the drama and sheer determination. I’ll miss the desperation and the calculation and the psychopathic toughness. She’s twice the man Obama is.
Vote Sauron 08 on May 9, 2008 at 11:48 PM
This deserves a frame to itself!
Entelechy on May 9, 2008 at 11:53 PM
The empty suit.
Barack Hosanna Obama.
Nature may abhor a vacuum, but the Dems love him.
profitsbeard on May 9, 2008 at 11:57 PM
yawn
Mo2Do on May 10, 2008 at 12:03 AM
Eerie. Now the nightmares are gonna start again.
whitetop on May 10, 2008 at 12:03 AM
Amazing.
Travis1 on May 10, 2008 at 12:04 AM
That’s pretty much how I feel too. At first I was just playin’ around, then I found myself starting to feel sorry for her, then angry at the crap she was getting, angry at the media. Then, around the time she ditched Penn, she seemed to have come into her own, to blossom. I started liking her in debates, and I thought she was good on O’Reilly. She can think on her feet. Other people I know that hated her suddenly found a new respect for her as well.
nyrofan on May 10, 2008 at 12:07 AM
nyrofan- I ditto every word you just said.
And eeesh! Joe Wilson’s hair was very important after all.
MayBee on May 10, 2008 at 12:12 AM
All the above and Operation Chaos. : )
Texyank on May 10, 2008 at 12:13 AM
I’m pretty sure this newfound love of her thighness is one of the signs of the apocolypse.
Spock: “Most Unexpected.”
techno_barbarian on May 10, 2008 at 12:13 AM
AP, I share your sentimentality, and I think I’ve got the answer for you.
I thought at first that it was the “we won’t have Hillary to kick around for very much longer” but it’s not quite that.
Instead, it’s that she’s going down….like this. In an election. In a primary, no less. This can’t be the end. She’s too shrewd, manipulative, evil.
It’s the idea that it should have been us to take her down in the end, the people who have been fighting her from the beginning. Or maybe that we thought she would go down in a Nixonian tangled web of lies, corruption, and lust for power. This is too ordinary for her. She deserves a bigger fall. It’s anti-climactic.
But, AP, unlike you, I’m an optimist. So I think she’s got something up her sleeve. I still think there’s hope for us. No, I don’t think she’ll get the nomination. Instead, I think she’ll blow up spectacularly trying.
We’re still in for a show.
Nessuno on May 10, 2008 at 12:15 AM
I don’t understand the hate towards the Plame’s. A career CIA operative outed by her own government, one person prosecuted and then pardoned, and no one here seems to be upset about that?
Scooter Libby and his cohorts are criminals and belong in prison. What they did, during a time of war is usually called “treason”.
Hog Wild on May 10, 2008 at 12:34 AM
If you’re serious; those two people in the photo above are the root cause of the ‘Bush Lied’ meme that the radical left in this country tried (in a full court press kind of way) to base the impeachment and overthrow of a sitting Administration. It was super serial.(manbearpig ref)
Val is claiming to be this super secret undercover CIA operative who had her identity deliberately outed by the demonically evil George Bush, Dick Cheney, and Karl Rove.
Turns out it was actually one from their own team, Armitage, that did the outing, even though the information that was outed was common knowledge around the Washington cocktail circuit. Val and Joe’s social status depended on people knowing (wink, nod) that they were with the Company.
But Scooter Libby’s life was turned inside out for it and he’s the one that ultimately paid the price. Which is a sad comment on our justice system, IMHO.
The exceeding irony in this sordid little tale is that Joe Wilson was the one who actually did the lying. That little fact never seems to get brought up.
Here’s a link, if you’re interested.
Man… Joe’s looking bad. The bloom is clearly off Val as well. Evil eats you up inside. Consequences from actions taken, I guess. Eventually it all catches up with you.
techno_barbarian on May 10, 2008 at 12:42 AM
There. Fixed that for you.
techno_barbarian on May 10, 2008 at 12:45 AM
Nessuno, I agree with you. It is the feeling of how in the heck can the Clintons LOSE TO A ROOKIE. To a guy that this was his first real race. How can this be??? The only way this could happen is if Barack is the Anti-Christ or something.
BroncosRock on May 10, 2008 at 12:45 AM
It’s when she jutted forward, taking center stage in a backseat role, to answer the inquiry about Jenifer Flowers — of course the allegations weren’t true, of course she (uhm, they) were the focus of partisan impeachment efforts — that I saw her for the two-faced liar she is. Never forget that interview.
deesine on May 10, 2008 at 12:46 AM
I still think Hillary should run as a third party candidate. That would be awesome…
DfDeportation on May 10, 2008 at 12:50 AM
one of the best shticks in all blogdom
Beto Ochoa on May 10, 2008 at 12:51 AM
If treason were pursued, many of your cohorts w/b in prison today. Your side got off easy, due to this administration’s weak constitution, after a while.
Entelechy on May 10, 2008 at 12:57 AM
Be a blind sheep in the flock if you choose to. I prefer to use my own mind. I don’t forgive crimes just because my political party is in power.
You just keep doing and thinking what others tell you to, and I hope you find happiness being led around by the nose.
Hog Wild on May 10, 2008 at 1:05 AM
Frankly, I got all choked up at your “Sunset Blvd.” post earlier.
bongo on May 10, 2008 at 1:08 AM
Yep. Eight solid years the left, with a complicit media, has been at war with the current Administration and demonstrably on the side of our enemies. To the point where the leader of hamas endorses Obama for President.
That speaks volumes. To me, at least.
techno_barbarian on May 10, 2008 at 1:12 AM
I think it’s pretty clear who’s sipping the kool-aid here.
Check out the Senate report on Wilson for yourself, and do a little of that independent thinking you’re on about. Plame and Wilson were discredited. Google it.
techno_barbarian on May 10, 2008 at 1:17 AM
Looks like Joe went to Super Cuts…
D2Boston on May 10, 2008 at 1:19 AM
AP, never in my life did I even conceive of the notion of saying this until I saw how she reacted when the entire universe (even her own hubby) was alligning against her but, I mean; gal’s got spirit.
I think, for me at least, it was perfectly displayed after Ohio & Texas, arms held up, and a look of determination paying off on her face.
Chaos or otherwise, I’ve gained in my respect for her a hell of a lot in the past several months.
…Still miss kicking her around and stuff but on a very real level she’s impressed me a hell of a lot, and even in defeat done more for women in this Country than has yet to be realized.
She should be proud.
Bring on the Messiah.
ChipDWood on May 10, 2008 at 1:20 AM
“Check out the Senate report”. Do you mean the U.S. Senate that has the lowest approval rating in the history of approval ratings? Do you mean the Senate in power that has seen the single largest price increase of gasoline (we American’s love our cars). Do you mean the same Senate that elected Senator Reid as their leader?
Do you honestly expect to be taken seriously when asked to verify facts on the current Senate’s word?
Who’s drinking Kool-Aid now?
Google it? Yes, of course, if it’s on the internet it has to be true. The truth flow’s out of the internet like a unending river, just look at HuffingtonPost, MoveOn, and CAIR websites. Plenty of information there.
Drink it up pal.
Hog Wild on May 10, 2008 at 1:30 AM
To your exit question, I think it’s none of the above. For me it’s mostly the “enemy you know.” The other reasons add to it as well, but at least with Hillary, she’s familiar. We know what we’re getting.
Plus, it’s so nice that she’s someone even my Lefty friends hate.
Esthier on May 10, 2008 at 1:40 AM
“I’m not your pal, buddy.” “I’m not your buddy, pal” (Southpark ref)
Wow. Just wow. Step away from the bong.
You do know the report I’m talking about came from the Senate before the current one, right? In 2004? You know, before 2006 when nasty nancy and surrender reid took over and pushed the approval ratings to the lowest point in US history?
So rather than check the official report, you’re gonna cling bitterly to your diatribe and miss the whole point? And I’m the friggin’ sheep?
Your choice, of course. But just who do you trust for your info? Or do you just intuitively know the truth when you hear it?
Never mind. It’s late. I’m tired and I don’t care.
techno_barbarian on May 10, 2008 at 1:52 AM
Nope Me too.
NEVER thought I would have said anything like that.
If a year ago someone told me that I would ever find anything but disgust, anger and maybe even a little horror with anything either Clinton did, said or contemplated, I would have backed away slowly and called the insane asylum to let them know one of their patients had escaped.
But Obama is so horribly bad for America in EVERY way, Lady Hillary Evita Macbeth Clinton; The Socialist Queen bitch of the Universe seems positively delightful and inspiring of hope by comparison.
LegendHasIt on May 10, 2008 at 2:00 AM
Also, Joe did extensive undercover work, and the Sudanese are overwhelmingly in favor of Hillary.
misterpeasea on May 10, 2008 at 2:04 AM
Uh. Hog? She was never “in.” How in the world could she be “outed”?
Sorry, I’m talking legal definitions, not drive-by media narrative.
misterpeasea on May 10, 2008 at 2:10 AM
heh
- The Cat
P.S. If this was anything like they tried to play it out. They would have been assigned overseas and then never heard from again.
MirCat on May 10, 2008 at 2:38 AM
I’m with AP. I DO feel sorry for her. I guess I’m one of those compassionate conservatives we used to hear so much about (as opposed to regular conservatives who are, of course, pure evil).
infidel65 on May 10, 2008 at 3:37 AM
Hillary is so needful for endorsements that she’s trading potential cabinet posts to any town aldermen or dog catcher who will video tape an endoresement.
Its just a matter of time before future Secretary of Defense Anson Williams tapes a spot.
moxie_neanderthal on May 10, 2008 at 5:08 AM
Seeing her go down like this reminds me Al Pacino in Scarface when he comes out of his office, blasted on drugs and holding a machine gun saying “Say hello to my leeeetle friend”.
Of course he gets shot to death at that point.
I’m not saying Hillzilla is a psychotic cuban drug lord but damn, she has balls. Big ones.
Ares on May 10, 2008 at 5:48 AM
It’s the Cujo effect. No matter how crazed the dog was in the end, he was at one time someones favorite pet.
leanright on May 10, 2008 at 6:39 AM
If Rudy or Mitt or Fred were HALF the man Hillary Clinton is, I wouldn’t be so depressed right now.
S. Weasel on May 10, 2008 at 7:37 AM
the only folks more deluded and val and joe are obama supporters.
reliapundit on May 10, 2008 at 7:43 AM
What’s the matter with Joe? He’s cut his flowing locks.
Well…I’d still hit Valerie.
LtE126 on May 10, 2008 at 7:54 AM
How cute she looked while downing shots in a tavern. I bet she would even do flaming shots.
Blake on May 10, 2008 at 8:17 AM
Hillary going down is going to put a serious crimp in Bill’s ability to raise money for himself. It’s sad.
tarpon on May 10, 2008 at 8:33 AM
Allah, you’re not alone. Or I’m in the five percentile. I am very pleased to see her defeated, but I can respect how tough she is, how hard a life she has had, in public and with Bill. She’s not going anywhere yet; she still has her duties as Senator, will still get plenty of face time on TV denigrating whoever does becomes President. Just running for President has added to her gravitas.
Doug on May 10, 2008 at 8:35 AM
Maybe Joe has ringworms and had to have his Elvis locks cut off during treatment. Either that or he’s getting ready to go on an undercover assignment of his own. No more big headed idiot look. Refreshing.
Travis1 on May 10, 2008 at 8:37 AM
I guess I’m a 5-percenter because…the media in their psychotic fawning over Obama is more despicable than she — and in a freaky-deaky way, she’s displayed more humanity (albeit on the ropes) than either of her opponents to both left and right. The fight has also forced her (and her supporters) to say some highly un-PC, and true, things about the all-too-obvious role of race in this election.
Finally, beating on a dead horse is too damn easy, and at this point is, to coin the messiah’s favorite word, a convenient distraction from the major flaws of the other candidates.
Nichevo on May 10, 2008 at 9:04 AM
Joe Wilson and Valerie Plame are two people whose 15 minutes of fame ran out about a year ago. Problem with this two is that they have a very hard time dealing with the concept that no one cares a holler and a hoot what they have to say about anything.
pilamaye on May 10, 2008 at 9:12 AM
Endorsement by that scum was probably one of the final nails in Hillary’s political coffin. You’re really desperate when you find it necessary to dig up that trash.
rplat on May 10, 2008 at 9:18 AM
Not exactly sentimental, I just want to see SnOmamaites and and Clintonians on TV being arrested for rioting on the convention floor and Hillary and Barack in a shoving match at the podium.
My moneys on Hillary, she can take him.
Barack may be tall but you know if Hillary gets inside, its over.
Speakup on May 10, 2008 at 9:26 AM
“and they tried to destroy us for speaking out” was disproven in court, wasn’t it? What assholes.
Tell these two that their 15 minutes was up a long time ago….and it’s obvious that Hillary can’t afford makeup people on the scale that Vanity Fair can.
Did Val “recommend” him for this too? She took his nuts a long time ago…looks like she took his wig too.
wildweasel on May 10, 2008 at 9:29 AM
I’m firmly in the 5% – and the answer is definitely all of the above.
I’m sincerely going to miss her. She’s been enormously entertaining.
And frankly my respect for has grown exponentially. That’s not saying much, since multiplying by tiny fractions still gets slightly less tiny fractions – but I’ve still been impressed. I now only 94% loathe her instead of 99%.
Then there’s the obvious reality: if it can’t be Fred! or Rudy (or God help me, Mitt) … and if it can’t be McCain … I’d much, much prefer Hillary to B. Hussein.
She’s amoral and liberal. He’s immoral and dangerous. One of them I disagree with ideologically; the other terrifies me.
If Hillary won, she’d be fine on key issues – like Iraq. She’d become a centrist on some things that matter to me.
Obama is the anti-Christ as far as I’m concerned. He’d do everything wrong on every issue. And put us all in danger.
I miss Hillary already.
Professor Blather on May 10, 2008 at 9:43 AM
I can just picture poor Joe Wilson, waking up every day to the nightmare that he isn’t President John Kerry’s Secretary of State, his formerly glamorous wife is getting older and haggard, and they are reduced to doing bad YouTube ads for a losing Hillary Clinton and being punchlines on a conservative blog….
At least Scooter Libby will get out of prison. These two will never escape their prison of obscurity and irrelevance.
rockmom on May 10, 2008 at 9:45 AM
aren’t their 15 minutes up?
sbvft contributor on May 10, 2008 at 9:46 AM
Almost as delicious as the defeat of Billary herself, is the bannishment of goons like Joe Wilson from the realm of public influence.
Meanwhile, Ed Rendell is trading western PA for a cushy job in the international wind industry.
petefrt on May 10, 2008 at 9:51 AM
It is not “The Clinton Machine” and evidently it never was. Nor is it Obama’s Machine. They belong to The Machine, not visa versa. The Machine endorses CHANGE, and the likes of a “Stone of Hope” Marxist impersonation of MLK. Hillary, the female Marxist, is not as compliant as Obama, the new chosen one. The Machine owns all of the media networks and chains of newspapers, publications, pollsters and the Wall Street traders who have all exchanged their Hillary buck for Obama’s change. The Machine monopolized bets against the willful female and on their compliant black “authentic” male that they have honed to accomplish their own purposes.
Note well the coming surge of younger feminists telling Hillary to take a hike.
But if you think this is the end of Hillary, you don’t know squat. She will pre-empt Obama’s facade with her own “I Have a Dream” vision and speech. With or without her own bedroom in the White House, Hillary will out perform Obama in the LONG RUN over the coming decades. Though without the Machine at this crucial juncture, as time goes by, Hillary persists. She’s the pink energizer bunny.
maverick muse on May 10, 2008 at 9:55 AM
I haven’t felt the least bit sorry for Mrs. Bill Clinton. She is going down exactly as she should have, realizing that the entire edifice she built over 35 years has gone down in a couple of months to a rookie politician. She has found out that even Democrats really don’t like her, and all the money in China couldn’t make them like her. This is much better than even seeing her go to jail.
She stuck with her philandering scumbag husband in a deal with the devil, so she could be president someday. It is absolutely thrilling to me to see her end up this way.
Even better is the way her campaign has absolutely ruined Bill’s reputation. These two grifters are finally going to end up in the dustbin where they belong. Nobody will ever care again what either of them do or say, except maybe Lanny Davis and Paul Begala.
rockmom on May 10, 2008 at 9:55 AM
Wow, AP! Gotta love that picture. Joe and Val look like they’ve shed the glamor of DC bubbledom to become lunch bucket Democrats. Won’t see ‘em on the cover of Vanity Fair looking like this!
petefrt on May 10, 2008 at 10:09 AM
Yeah, that oughta do it.
drjohn on May 10, 2008 at 10:21 AM
People keep repeating this Sunset Boulevard schtick like the Clintons have gone senile and lost touch with reality. But the reality is they know exactly what they’re doing. They were undermined by apostates like David Geffen and George Soros, who fueled Obama’s war chest early and brought about their demise. In their eyes that was a political backstabbing from former “friends” far worse than anything the Republicans could do. So it seems to me the Clintons hate the Obama crowd’s guts and — judging Kennedy’s dissing comments about Hillary yesterday — the feeling is mutual.
The Dem party is bitterly divided and the sore loser Clintons will do very little to heal it.
miles on May 10, 2008 at 10:25 AM
It ain’t over until the
fatshrill lady sings…Hillary! wouldn’t be staying in unless she had a game plan to still win the nomination. She believes she will win. The Clintons are known for their comebacks, so I wouldn’t count her out just yet.
Red Pill on May 10, 2008 at 10:30 AM
Nah, she’s done and she knows it. Her last shot was to have a game-changing big win in Indiana that would sway a big chunk of the supers, and she could not pull it off. She is just going to milk these last few days on the stage for all they are worth, and try to wring something out of Obama – my guess is there will be a staged offer of the VP spot to her and she will “graciously” turn it down, then get Obama to pay her campaign debt and back her for Senate Majority Leader.
I think she did surprise a lot of people, especially Obama’s campaign, with a very strong effort after she fell behind in the delegate count, but she really had to pull the equivalent of an inside straight to get the nomination. Her only tiny chance now is if Obama really self-destructs, and that ain’t happening.
rockmom on May 10, 2008 at 10:44 AM
In the words of my mother, “Joe has gone back.” I didnt even recognize him, I had to click on the endorsement link. And I thought Valerie was some news babe. I guess deceit and lies will age you like that.
abcurtis on May 10, 2008 at 11:58 AM
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