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02.06.2008
The Abridged Hillary Clinton

Excerpts from her hilariously uninformative Washington Post interview:

"[N]o idea.... I don't know yet -- we'll consider that.... I haven't made a decision yet.... It's not -- you know, I'm not aware of it....  Let's come back to that another time... I don't have it off the top of my head... Oh, I have not had time to think about that.... I am focused on winning the nomination."

--Michael Crowley

Posted: Monday, June 02, 2008 9:31 AM with 11 comment(s)

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liberal reformer said:

Hillary was definitely not in full-disclosure mode. How long can she soldier on? In her heart, I think, she wants to take the fight to the convention. The longer she stays, though, the more she is going to damage her future viability.

June 2, 2008 10:31 AM

blackton said:

Maybe she needs some Ridalin? Maybe she has ADD (attention deficit disorder) and she might possibly be bi-polar as well.

June 2, 2008 10:44 AM

dbhuff said:

No, I think she is just tired, not enough sleep, DUCK! Sniper fire!!!

June 2, 2008 10:55 AM

tembrach said:

uh guys? She has the big mo. She won PR, after winning KY, IN, WV

If any of you folllow football, you will recognize that Hillary is the 2007 NY Giants who had a perfectly awful start, and finished strong to capture the Super Bowl

Barry is the 2007 Patriots, who started strong and ended with a wimper.

If we can all agree that Hillary has momentum, and that Barry is looking more and more as flatering, , as not-ready-for-prime-time, as being the NE Patriots revisited, I think Hillary SHOULD stay in.

We can't make Barry our nominee simply cause he won early & captured a lot of cream puff states (i.e. CT, Vermont, etc). We need to go with a winner

June 2, 2008 12:03 PM

tembrach said:

uh guys? She has the big mo. She won PR, after winning KY, IN, WV

If any of you folllow football, you will recognize that Hillary is the 2007 NY Giants who had a perfectly awful start, and finished strong to capture the Super Bowl

Barry is the 2007 Patriots, who started strong and ended with a wimper.

If we can all agree that Hillary has momentum, and that Barry is looking more and more as flatering, , as not-ready-for-prime-time, as being the NE Patriots revisited, I think Hillary SHOULD stay in.

We can't make Barry our nominee simply cause he won early & captured a lot of cream puff states (i.e. CT, Vermont, etc). We need to go with a winner

June 2, 2008 12:03 PM

bigfish said:

tembrach, you forgot about how Clinton won NC by a large spread the day she squeaked out a win in IN.  Oh, and she also slammed Obama in OR the same day as KY.  You can't discount those two huuuge Hillary wins when discussing her "big mo."  Don't sell her momentum short.

June 2, 2008 12:22 PM

ratnerstar said:

I think Hillary is more like the 2007 Washington Nationals, who started out horribly but then did somewhat okay after the all-star break, but still weren't elected President of the United States.  And Obama is more like Tiger Woods, because he's black.

June 2, 2008 12:24 PM

Rhubarbs said:

ratner, your analogy is absolutely wrong. The 2007 Nationals were a team with heart and character led by the classiest young manager in a generation that you couldn't help but root for as they clawed their way into fourth place. Heart, character, class: traits so lacking in Hillary and her campaign that it's kind of insulting to the '07 Nats to make the comparison.

On the other hand, the '07 Nats did crush the dreams of many New Yorkers, so the Hillary/Nats comparison has that going for it.

June 2, 2008 1:06 PM

AlanSP said:

tembrach,

The Giants didn't win the Super Bowl because they had "momentum" at the end of the game; they won the Super Bowl because they had *more points* at the end of the game.  The Eagles had momentum at the end of Super Bowl XXXIX, as did the Titans at the end of Super Bowl XXXIV, but both teams are still looking for their first Super Bowl win because, when the game ended, the scoreboard showed a bigger number for their opponents.  Ditto Hillary.  After tomorrow, the game will be over.  There will be no more contests left to compete in, and Obama will have won by any remotely reasonable metric.

June 2, 2008 1:12 PM

WoodyBombay said:

Ooooh, I love sports-poltiics analogies!

The Giants weren't trailing by nine with two seconds left in the Super Bowl. So Hillary is not really all that analogous to the Giants.

But beyond that, it was the fat and happy, cocky, no-way-we-can-lose, let's-copyright-"19-0" Patriots who were desperately heaving hail Marys in the waning seconds while the rest of America was already celebrating the Giants' win. The Pats were the heavy favorites from the beginning, hated by many for a variety of reasons, but with a large army of loud, annoying fans. Most neutral fans rooted for New York, maybe because they wanted the Giants to win but also because they did *not* want the Patriots to win. And in the end, somehow the scrappy Giants put together a positively brilliant Super Borwl game plan and won a close game.

So, who's the Pats and who's the Giants, again?

(Can anyone add a relevant Spygate analogy? I'm tapped.)

June 2, 2008 1:53 PM

entitynein said:

Woody:  I think the most obvious spygate analogy would be the Clinton campaign watching the video-taped plays of Barack Obama's (on YouTube), Mrs. Clinton attempted to counter his "Yes We Can" play call with her own "Yes We Will".

I could probably dig a little deeper on this, but I'm too tired to work for the comedy gold that is obviously inherent in this analogy.

June 2, 2008 4:00 PM