Hillary’s campaign strategy certainly seems questionable. It appeared at times that she didn’t have one. … After February 5th, it became clear that the Clintons had not planned to campaign through the rest of the states and had run through almost all of their money. They had assumed that the race would be over and never strategized for a long campaign. Obama did.

Exactly.

She had a very detailed plan for how to ensure McCain was the Republican nominee, and how to beat McCain in November, but her ego never allowed her to consider that the man she helped make into a US Senator, and who was groomed to be her VP, would challenge her for the Democrat nomination. She never saw it coming until she got blindsided when he won Iowa.

Hillary’s 2008 Presidential Game Plan.

She also got bitten by her own plan to use FL & MI to help McCain secure the Republican nomination. If she had left those states alone, and won them at full strength, she may have won the nomination outright. Now she’s relegated to having to try to win the nomination by either character assassination, or the real deal.

It ain’t over until Hillary says it’s over.

And you left out one major factor-to many people, she’s just not all that likeable. Some of that isn’t her fault-after all, she was born with that irritating voice and cackle-but some of it is her fault. Her attitude primarily.

Del Dolemonte on June 4, 2008 at 12:08 PM

I wanted to try to read everyone’s comments before posting, and Del Dolemonte beat me to it by a little bit.

Hillary is just an unlikeable candidate/person. That’s what primarily did her in.

If she wants to try again in four or eight years, she’s going to have to get a massive media makeover.

And you left out one major factor-to many people, she’s just not all that likeable. Some of that isn’t her fault-after all, she was born with that irritating voice and cackle-but some of it is her fault. Her attitude primarily.

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Bill did NOT want another President in the family. Can you imagine his legacy? It would always have, “and he got his wife elected as the first woman President” overshadowing any of his accomplishments (getting Europe to like us, no attacks on US by terrorists, brokering peace in the Middle east) … what? he didn’t? never mind.

That’s one way a liberal could buy fire insurance;
bribe the boss man pimping cultural understanding to the masses,
or at least to the biggest threat. The show must go on.

Bernstein, “I’ll scratch your back if you scratch mine.”

The man who wrote a column saying that amnesty for illegals was a good idea because many illegals are evangelicals and will vote GOP? Then, he said for the GOP base to “get with it” and support amnesty.

Morris’ analysis is usually awful.

BORING, we’ve heard it all and said it all and read it all how many times already…

How can Hillary win? Now THAT’s good reading material for speculation–list the further ins & outs yet available to counter the BO.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/03/AR2008060304268.html?hpid=topnews

They targeted small states and areas which would yield more delegates… Texas is a good example of a place with weighted delegate allocation where she would win the popular vote and he would win more delegates. It was a very shrewd and efficient campaign.

Thus, for true liberals, the revelations about Obama’s unsavoury associates actually added to his cachet. Liberals could tell themseves that that was how good, charitable and forgiving they really were – they could not only vote for someone who was black but someone whose associates hated whites, America and the West – they could vote against their interests – they were that pure!

pussum207 on June 4, 2008 at 10:54 AM

Unfortunately, it’s an old story. Back in 1970, Leonard Bernstein, Brooke Astor (of “the” Astors), and other society swells hosted a “dinner party” in NYC for the Black Panthers.

Well thugs and terrorists have to eat too I guess.

1) Obama provided the better prospect of a holiday from reality than did Hillary. Hillary could say all the right things but everyone knew that she’d probably act like a responsible adult once in office. The left is weak and afraid and they want someone who will tell them not to worry – there is no real enemy, we just need to talk to our enemies, blah, blah.

2) Liberals are simply in love with the idea that they are pure, magnanimous, charitable and enlightened enough to vote for a black man. They voted for him out of vanity. Voting for a successful white female senator whose husband was the President just doesn’t cut it from a vanity perspective when an attractive black candidate is available. Thus, for true liberals, the revelations about Obama’s unsavoury associates actually added to his cachet. Liberals could tell themseves that that was how good, charitable and forgiving they really were – they could not only vote for someone who was black but someone whose associates hated whites, America and the West – they could vote against their interests – they were that pure!

Add that into Clinton fatigue, and you get a desire to get rid of the Clintons with a passion to do it. That’s why Obama’s initial entry into the race in early 2007 sparked so much excitement (combined with the feel-good aspects for the white leftists). But it died down during the spring and summer because of Obama’s lack of any plan for his presidency other than to be not George Bush. It wasn’t until the Philadelphia debate, when Hillary screwed up Russert’s question on driver’s licenses for illgal aliens, that Barack was given a second change and the core left in the Democratic party was re-energized.

rockmom on June 4, 2008 at 9:08 AM

Thank you rockmom.

Unfortunately, too many on the right are still pouting about McCain being the nominee.

Rovin on June 4, 2008 at 9:41 AM

” ….a media that has favored Barack Obama every step of the way”

That says it all Ed.

And there is no better evidence than NBC’s video, very professionally done and aimed at their punching bag for the last five months. The media, as always, is driving the political train, and this time more than ever they have a cult following so naieve, so spellbound, so blinded, I’m afraid we have reached the pinnacle of the dumbing down of America. These braindead puppetheads yelling “Yes We Can” have no idea of the dangers Obama presents for America, yet chant a slogan that is beyond meaningless.

All this, thanks to a biased media in the tank for the empty suit.

Lest we forget, this is the same media who systematically destroyed several viable Republican candidates, and gave us John McCain.

Freedom of the Press was meant to protect the citizens and expose corruption, but rest assured, in it’s current mutated form, it will be our undoing.

Don’t believe it? Look at our two presidential candidates, selected and coronated by the MSM.

These sore losers, who gambled and lost, want their money back! They want the winner to pay them for what they pissed away, i.e., they want Senator Obama to pay Mrs. Clinton’s campaign debt!

Yet they spent that money voluntarily, and presumably with full knowledge of the risks involved. So what’s this crap about payback?

See, like all hard leftists, feminists don’t accept the ups and downs of life. They think success itself is owed to them, and that to lose is to have been cheated.

Of course, real women, and real Americans, find this really repulsive.

Aristotle on June 4, 2008 at 9:15 AM

Obama’s pledged delegate margin of victory is 127, according to RealClearPolitics.com this morning. Obama’s wins in the caucus states (mostly white voters) and his performance in states like Wisconsin (also largely lacking in black people) helped him more than his racially-polarized victories in the Carolinas.

“Clintonologists know that Hillary is up to something, but they aren’t sure what. Theory No. 1 is that it’s the Cassandra “I told you so” gambit: She believes intensely that he’s too black, too weak and too elitist — with all his salmon and organic tea and steamed broccoli — to beat her pal John McCain. But she has to pretend she’ll do “whatever it takes,” even accept the vice presidency, a job she’s already had and doesn’t want again, so that nobody will blame her when he loses on Nov. 4. Then she can power on to 2012.”

LINK

Earth to Mzzz Dowd, First Lady does not egual VP—-Report immeadiatly to MSNBC for your new assignment.