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Originally Posted by ratbastid
You know, I wouldn't advise him to go that way.
In my opinion, what cost him the momentum into Texas and Ohio (although it turns out he won Texas) is that he let Clinton set the tone of the discussion. She went negative and he went defensive.
What I want from him is a solid answer to her attacks, coupled with a "there you go again" style response about the culture of negative campaigning and old-style politics. He strayed from that message in the last couple weeks, and it's cost him. Frankly, the fervor I felt a few weeks ago has waned, as I've watched him go point for point and set aside the change/hope talk. I want him back to what worked, what inspired me about him.
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I blame the momentum loss on Clinton's lies, whining and complete bullshit. That and the press' willingness to play along with her games. Clinton whines about Obama getting preferential when the truth is if he'd lost 12 races in a row every major news outlet would have pulled their "A" team and stopped even pretending to take him seriously. I'd be willing to bet they'd have made that move after 6-8 loses. Clinton shows one face at the debate then the next day screams "shame on you!" about a mailer... a mailer she knew about for at least a week. She states she has all the respect in the world for her opponent and that who ever wins the nomination the country will be better off then another GOP term. Within days she's claiming she and McCain are qualified by their experience but the only experience Obama has is he gave a speech. She then proceeds to call (or have her people call) Obama a two-faced flip-flopper.
And I blame Obama for not responding to this BS. One of his top advisers resigned because she stated she thought Clinton was a monster. If I were Obama I would not have let her quit. I would have released a press statement saying he didn't personally feel that way but given the current heat level between the two campaigns and Clinton's recent behavior he could certainly see how someone could feel that way. Basically I think he could have found a real polite way to say if you act like an ass often enough a percentage of people are going to begin to assume it's not an act.
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Originally Posted by willravel
Hillary is now beyond desperate. The pundit bullshittery about "big states" has been replaced with things like this or this.
I'm glad Obama picked up Wyoming. (I'm pretty sure Obama's going to end up taking Texas, too...) |
Yeah, I agree with this:
"It's time the media asked Hillary one simple question: Who is more qualified to be president, John McCain or Barack Obama. Ask her. Then let's see if she weasels out of it or defends the Democrat."
Hillary, at this point, will say anything to get elected. She's like a kid on the play ground who owns, or in this case thinks she owns, the ball. Either she gets her way or she takes her ball and goes home. Some one needs to tell her it's not her ball. Who that someone is? I have no idea.
Everything she's doing and saying is only hurting the Dems and helping the GOP.