While Hillary often comes across a bit shrill, Obama is always cool and collected.
real life wrote:Yep. Gotta love his reason:
Quote:http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/02/21/superdelegate-schmoozed-by-chelsea-backs-obama/He cited Obama's support from an overwhelming majority of young voters as the major reason for his decision.
What a sheep.
Can this poli sci major think for himself? It appears that he cannot.
Doncha just love the education system that churns out such Me Toos ?
Alternatively, he might define his task as Superdelegate as best representing the voters of his constituency (however he defines it). Since one Superdelegate's vote equals that of thousands of regular primary voters, there is a wholly legitimate reason for deciding that, rather than using your in many ways unreasonable privilege to try to swing the result away from the voters' preferences, it is better to confirm what a majority of voters like you have already decided.
Heck, even standing next to Barack, Michelle makes a more commanding presence by appearing stronger, more engaged, and more aware. In Team Obama, Barack's the cheerleader, while Michelle's the quarterback.
Michelle knows the same simple truth that all women know: when it comes to getting work done and cleaning up messes, women are better than men.
This is part of the reason of why Hillary Clinton is the better candidate in '08. Aside from the fact that she has more experience; she is a woman. It's time we recognize what a strength that is in a Commander in Chief.
Hillary is smarter, more capable, a harder worker, better multi-tasker, and most importantly, tougher than Barack.
Let's employ the "foxhole rule." Imagine yourself in the heat of war. Bombs dropping everywhere. You're dug in. You've got limited ammo. All hell is breaking loose. Who would you rather have getting your back? Barack or Hillary?
our country is a mess. It's going to require a lot of unglamorous, grunt work and perhaps a bit of a bad rap to clean it all up. To me, it sounds like a job for a woman because if there were ever a house that needed cleaning up, it would be our current WH.
As the saying goes: a woman's work is never done. Indeed women are the ones who tirelessly and (and perhaps truly miraculously) clean up the messes, unplug the toilets, nurture the children, and make sure everyone is as happy as can be at day's end. Michelle Obama gets that. I get that. You get that. And perhaps more than any of us, Hillary Clinton gets that.
Michigan and Florida, two of the largest states, won't stand still for disenfranchisement.
Blacks and Hispanics, large segments in those respective states, will have an interesting view of the party leadership's disdain for their opinion and their right to vote.
Floridian Democrats also weighed in on whether and/or how their delegation should be seated at the national convention -- 28% said the state party should hold another Democratic primary or caucus; 24% believe the delegation should be seated, according to the Jan. 29th primary; 15% say "the Florida Democratic Party knowingly violated the national party rules, so it should accept the penalty"; 13% favor a delegation that is split evenly between Clinton and Obama; and 20% say they aren't sure.
Quote:While Hillary often comes across a bit shrill, Obama is always cool and collected.
As one of my favorite radio jocks said the other day, whenever Hillary raises her voice, she comes off sounding like a woman yelling at her husband.
I love that jock! Whenever I hear him do that sharp guffaw, it comes off sounding like a man's fist hitting the side of a woman's head.
Straycat,
It has only been eight hours since you asked him to 'splain himself. Perhaps he took advantage of the night and is sleeping.
Hillary's Flacks Are Driving Me Insane
TNR The Plank
26.02.2008
In a group I sang with in college, we had a catchphrase: "Walk off the stage." It could be a protest -- "If you make me beatbox on 'Shadowland' from The Lion King one more time, I'll walk off the stage" -- but also a demand that a singer recognize he is messing up so much he's ruining the show. Making a mistake when you're performing both makes you nervous and gets everybody looking at you, so disruptions often compound themselves -- first a sour note, then a missed entrance, then an attack of the hiccups, until the hiss comes from nearby, walk off the stage!
Reading today's tragic Dana Milbank send-up of a reporters' sit-down with Clinton advisers, the phrase kept running through my head. We have this cheerfully deluded quote from Harold Ickes: "We're on the way to locking this nomination down." We have this ripe-for-mocking line from Phil Singer:
He went on to chide the journalists for their "woefully inadequate" coverage of Obama, "a point that has been certainly backed up by the Saturday Night Live skit that opened the show this past Saturday evening, which I would refer you all to."
Why ... can't ... Clinton's flacks ... just walk off the stage?? I'm not saying they should quit; some of them are probably giving Hillary good advice behind the scenes, and obviously the press aides have to give the occasional quote. But do they have to be so public? Do they have to, daily, float so many different arguments for Hillary's continued viability that so often insult reporters' intelligence?
Now, maybe it's not their fault -- maybe the press has just gotten to a point where they simply can't take a line uttered by Penn or Ickes seriously. The "walk off the stage" axiom still applies. Did the Clinton flacks really think, after reading all the ridicule heaped on their appearances in the media, that a breakfast with Dana Milbank, of all people, could possibly do them any good at this point? Plankers have pointed out disastrous HRC flack appearances here and here and here and here and here. I actually like Hillary, but I feel like all I read about anymore are her damned advisers. For the love of God, walk off the stage!
--Eve Fairbanks
LETTER FROM HILLARYLAND
How Deep In the Hearts of Texas?
Clinton's chances may come down to Latino support in the Lone Star State.
By Arian Campo-Flores | NEWSWEEK
Feb 25, 2008 Issue
This was one fired-up crowd. At a rally for Sen. Hillary Clinton at St. Mary's University in San Antonio last Wednesday, thousands of people erupted with euphoria. They cheered, they chanted, they stomped their feet. Many a time, I've seen Clinton grab hold of such fervor and wrestle it into submission, beat it down with so many 10-point plans and monotonous "I believes" that the multitudes finally collapse into a stupor. But not these rapturous souls. Clinton mentioned her fondness for hot peppers (preferably jalapeños, which she thinks have medicinal properties), and they roared. She vowed to pull the troops out of Iraq, and they roared. Even when she got to the part about her "35 years of experience" and her many, many policy proposals, they roared. More than once, audience members shrieked, "We love you, Hillary!"
It was a good sign for Clinton. With her campaign flagging and Sen. Barack Obama surging, she's making her last stand in the Texas and Ohio contests on March 4. Before the polls even closed in the Potomac primary last Tuesday, she was heading to the Lone Star State, where she campaigned in El Paso, McAllen and Robstown before reaching San Antonio. "Meet me in Texas," she said, challenging Obama. "We're ready."
Her roots in the state, as she never fails to remind voters, reach far back. One of her national co-chairs, Raul Yzaguirre, remembers meeting Clinton in 1972, when she went to south Texas to register Hispanic voters for George McGovern. "It was a bit of a culture clash," he says, recalling the blond, bespectacled young woman who asked him how to make tamales. When her husband was president, she visited repeatedly, and over the years she's become steeped in Tejano culture.
The border area holds the most promise for her, with its rich reservoir of Latino voters?-a group that's been a base of support. Hidalgo County, home to McAllen, is 90 percent Mexican-American and a place where the old-timers used to place two photos on the mantel: one of the pope and one of JFK. "We're the bluest part of a Red State," says Jerry Polinard of the University of Texas-Pan American. "When we talk about building a fence down here, we talk about building one on the north to keep the Republicans out." But under the state's inscrutable delegate-allocation system, this heavily Hispanic area will have comparatively fewer delegates to award. So Clinton will have to compete for voters all over: liberals in Austin, old-line Democrats in the middle, blacks in Houston and Dallas, and rural traditionalists east and west.
Last week, though, her attention was focused on Hispanics. With good reason: many of them adore her. They equate the Clintons with good economic times, the fight for universal health care and cabinet appointments for Tejanos. At the rally in Robstown, one placard read: HILLARY FIRST LATINA PRESIDENT. "Latinos are unusually brand-loyal," says Henry Cisneros, a Clinton backer who was the mayor of San Antonio and a cabinet member in her husband's administration. "It's really an incredible bonding, almost like a family." Obama, on the other hand, is largely unknown. Paul Elizondo, a county commissioner in San Antonio who's endorsed Clinton, breaks it down in Spanglish: "Down here, con la gente [with the people] Obama is not recognized through the rank-and-file raza," he says. "We have a saying here: 'El no trae nada.' He's never done anything for anybody here."
Of course, not all Hispanics love Clinton. In San Antonio, I paid a visit to Lionel Sosa and his wife, Kathy. Sosa is a godfather of Latino marketing, and the couple have crafted countless Hispanic ad campaigns, including those for George W. Bush. Among some Latinos, "there's a sense Hillary will tell you what you need to hear," Sosa told me over coffee at the Watermark Hotel. "She has all those robotic, rehearsed gestures, the wide eyes and smile." A supporter of Sen. John McCain's, he's already itching to cut one ad in particular. He opened his Mac and pulled up recent footage of McCain in Livonia, Mich., where the senator fired back at a heckler who criticized his immigration stance. "Have [Clinton and Obama] stood up for the Latino?" asks Sosa. "Neither of them has. McCain has, front and center."
From there, I went to visit Rosalinda Huerta. The day before, Clinton had stopped by her tidy bungalow in the middle-class Mexican-American area of Woodlawn as part of a neighborhood canvass and photo op. I wanted to see if Clinton had won Huerta's vote. Sweet yet steely, Huerta, 77, had no shortage of opinions. On TV, she said, Clinton struck her as cool and rigid and much too preoccupied with touting her accomplishments. Huerta was also thoroughly turned off by Bill Clinton's attacks on Obama in South Carolina. "I was very disappointed," she said. "It was like he was taking over?-no, no, no." But after seeing Hillary in person, Huerta's view softened: "She looked so affectionate. I didn't know she was like that." Though Huerta said she had been leaning toward Obama before, Hillary "pulled it even again." Perhaps on Clinton's next tour through Texas, she'll manage to seal the deal.
"If she wins Texas and Ohio I think she will be the nominee. If you don't deliver for her, I don't think she can be. It's all on you."
"Make no mistake. If she loses either Texas or Ohio, this thing is done."
Mrs. Clinton herself has privately told advisers that she has a hard time imagining ending her campaign if she wins Ohio and narrowly loses Texas, given that she has money in the bank and that she believes she would have an edge in the next big vote, Pennsylvania on April 22, because its demographics are similar to Ohio's.
Well, it looks like Blatham was too much of a damn pussy to come back on here and explain his last cryptic, b.s. post.
So let's see if we can make some sense of his non-sequitur:
Quote:I love that jock! Whenever I hear him do that sharp guffaw, it comes off sounding like a man's fist hitting the side of a woman's head.
Hmm.... As near as I can tell, Blatham seems to be implying - however lamely - that the jock I referred to was making some sort of sexist comment.
As a woman, I'm sensitive to sexist comments that are demeaning to women. But it was obvious to me that this particular jock wasn't slamming all women - he was critcizing one particular woman (Hillary) for her tendency to sound shrill, punitive and even condescending towards her audience whenever she happens to get carried away. It's definitely something she needs to work on.
I think even blatham would have to agree that any candidate's ability to communicate effectively (or lack thereof) is going to strongly impact on their overall success (or lack thereof).
That was the point the broadcaster was making - albeit with some humor (something else that's apparently lost on the humorless blatham. He seems to take everything - especially himself - way to seriously).
But blatham decided to compare this comment to "a man slamming his fist into a woman's head." WTF??? I guess this is his idea of a witty, cutting bon mot. I thought it was disgusting and in remarkably bad taste.
Speaking of communicating, you'd think that a grown man would be capable of just saying what he thinks -- instead of resorting to these stupid, sarcastic little asides. Seriously, blatham, they aren't anywhere near as clever as you think.
In fact, I don't think you're witty or wise or even particularly intelligent. I think you're a pompous, smug, condescending f*ckwit.
Just because you're a retired guy who can sit around and read three or four newspapers, then regurgitate everything you've read onto these forums, it doesn't make you Walter F*ucking Cronkite, ok? So you can drop the puking superior attitude.
Oh, and one more thing. Your username sounds like a combination of the words "bladder" and "blithering" - both highly appropriate in your case. If there was ever a blithering bladder, it would have to be you.
See? It's not so hard to say what you think.
(apologies to Butrflynet for going off topic)
Nope. She'll drop out if she doesn't decisively win tomorrow. The math just isn't there, unless she can start closing that gap of pledged delegates NOW.
If Obama gains delegates overall tomorrow, hard to see her continuing.
Cycloptichorn
