Hillary's Blogger Blues, part 2
As I wrote in my previous post the political bloggers have been widely discussing whether Hillary's campaign has reached the end of the line. Slate and The New York Times have a handy trawl through some of the better blogs that I didn't mention:
According to the conservative Michelle Malkin:
"She gave it her all, found her voice, lost her voice, smiled through her lies, lied through her cries, schemed, clawed, and cackled. But alas, it was not enough."
While Richelieu at the right wing Weekly Standard predicts:
"I think she's out in a week or less."
On Liberal Values, Ron Chusid agrees with Thomas Edsall and says:
"At this point she might remain in the race a little longer only to attempt to raise a little money to offset her debts, or perhaps to make a deal with Obama to assume her campaign debts."
Hot Air's conservative Allahpundit thinks:
"She has nothing left to commend her to the supers except an electabilty argument unsupported by a single key metric or even circumstantial evidence that Pastorgate has done Obama grievous damage at the polls. Are they going to take the nomination from the first serious black candidate for president without any compelling data to hang their decision on? Not a chance. It's over. Let's move on."
Kyle E. Moore at Comments From Left Field compares the Clinton campaign to the Iraq war, while Slate's Emily Bazelon compares Democratic voters to King Solomon.
And at Commentary's "Contentions", Jennifer Rubin compares Obama to a domestic appliance:
"Like a vacuum cleaner, he is sucking up the Clintonian message to blue collar voters and absorbing the rhetoric which has successfully lured a coalition of working class whites, seniors and women. Don't expect any more Snobgate slip-ups."
Jerome Armstrong on liberal MyDD says:
"On the allowing for the full seating of MI and FL, if Obama gets to the point where he has enough delegates to win the nomination despite MI & FL being seated, then ultimately, that would be the best route for Obama to go through, even though it seems unlikely."
Outside the Beltway prophecies:
"We'll be hearing murmurs from the Clinton camp for years to come about how this was stolen from her and that, if only Florida and Michigan had counted, it would have been hers. That's doubly true if Obama loses to John McCain in November."
The Moderate Voice says:
"If Clinton plays out her campaign based on issues and makes a graceful exit, the Democrats have a chance at unity. If her campaign remains an aggressive negative campaign, complete with eleventh hour negative campaign ads, it could... negate any possibility of a 'Dream Ticket' which more and more seems like an In Your Dreams Ticket."
Steve Kornacki of the New York Observer:
"Clinton's strategy since February 5 never stood much chance of working and allowed room for absolutely no slip-ups. Now it’s over."
John Aravosis of AmericaBlog:
"There is no longer any reason for Hillary to continue in this race other than a desire to destroy Obama and make him lost in the fall so she can run again in four years. This farce needs to be ended now."
Even Mitt Romney, the former Republican contender, had his say. "I applaud the ongoing battle among the Democrats and hope it
continues," he told the National Review.
The National Review's Jim Geraghty offers a history lesson in advising Hillary to stay in the race:
"In 1980, Ted Kennedy came into the Democratic convention at Madison Square Garden in New York City with 1,225 delegates to President Carter's 1,981 and 122 uncommitted.
If Kennedy could take it to the convention when he trailed by 756 delegates, Hillary can go to the convention trailing by her current 150 or so."
THE TRUTH ABOUT SEN. OBAMA --IN HIS OWN WORDS AS WRITTEN IN HIS BOOKS!!
AMERICA WAKE UP and DECIDE WHO YOU FEEL IS THE BETTER CHOICE TO LEAD OUR COUNTRY !!
AMERICA !!! ARE YOU SERIOUS ??
Below are a few lines from Obama's books ' in his own words:
Does is appear he wants to unify our country as he has been saying.
Pay close attention to the last statement from his book.
From 'Dreams of My Father': 'I ceased to advertise my mother's race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites.'
From 'Dreams of My Father': 'I found a solace in nursing a pervasive sense of grievance and animosity against my mother's race.'
From 'Dreams of My Father': 'There was something about him that made me wary, a little too sure of himself, maybe. And white.'
From 'Dreams of My Father ': ; 'It remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.'
From 'Dreams of My Father': 'I never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn't speak to my own. It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa , that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, Dubois and Mandela.'
From 'Audacity of Hope' : 'I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in an ugly direction.'
Posted by: Saab Mian | 09 May 2008 at 11:16 PM