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26.01.2008
The Mastodon in the Room

Almost no mention of South Carolina in Hillary's Nashville, Tennessee speech tonight. The only thing I heard--at least until MSNBC cut away--was a thank you to the people of South Carolina for welcoming her into their homes.

Classy.

--Noam Scheiber

Posted: Saturday, January 26, 2008 9:53 PM with 9 comment(s)

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drdannyu said:

Hey, Noam.  What does it say about her momentum that both CNN and MSNBC cut away from her speech?

January 26, 2008 10:02 PM

sprechs said:

Glad that you gave up whatever pretense of objectivity that was left.  Hillary congratulated Obama before thanking the people of South Carolina.

January 26, 2008 10:03 PM

gupta24 said:

I don't see how barely mentioning South Carolina helps her, and especially since it appears she left it to Bill to respond to Obama's victory.

The newspaper stories now will lead with Obama talking about getting past divisive politics, and taking implicit jabs at Hillary about looking to the future and not to the past..

She will come across as petty and be overshadowed by her husband, while letting Obama get his message out unchallenged.

January 26, 2008 10:18 PM

gupta24 said:

Sprechs, saying congratulations and thank yous is not responding to South Carolina. That is how all concession speeches start, and then they say something important and substantive. She left out the substance. How about you compare her response to a loss, to obama's concession speech in New Hampshire. Which candidate comes off better and not petty and angry?

January 26, 2008 10:22 PM

dbhuff said:

One thing, you have to admire her ability to bounce back.  She worked hard in that state, was going to skip, but started panicing about 3rd...again.  She's tough.  And while she's not said anything like what her husband (jesse comment) or her campaign (black candidate) did tonight, she's showing one of her strengths to some, her ability to shake it off and keep coming.

January 26, 2008 10:34 PM

J.J. Gould said:

The Clinton campaign: When they're up, they're up; and when they're down ... they totally spaz out.

From Bill's naked, brutally inept attempt at last-minute racially super-polarized framing of Hillary's loss, with his "Jesse won too in '84 and '88" non sequitur, to Hillary's "La la la, I can't hear you" non-concession speech (from Nashville!) -- WTF are they thinking?

January 26, 2008 11:26 PM

J.J. Gould said:

dbhuff -- I'll admire her ability to bounce back when she bounces back. Tonight, I'm sorry, all we saw was that she got crushed in SC and proceeded to try pretending that it didn't happen. Not the same thing.

January 26, 2008 11:29 PM

The Plank said:

There's a lot of grumbling about Hillary's concession speech--or lack thereof--last night. But

January 27, 2008 8:12 AM

Wandreycer1 said:

I'll give you that dbhuff, she's a formidable opponent - tireless. I'll also stand by the contention that she's been gracious in congratulating Obama personally.

January 27, 2008 11:14 AM