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Wednesday, August 27, 2008
The surreal messages coming from Hillary Clinton
I thought Hillary gave a very good speech that served her purpose of giving the Democrats a sense of buyer's remorse. But the whole thing is so surreal. Everyone knows that deep down, Hillary would like Obama to lose so she could run again in 2012. And if we had any doubt, Bill Clinton is out there with semaphores signaling their ambivalence about Obama.
Sure, she came out and talked all about why McCain had to be defeated and we couldn't have another Republican president. She said the words urging Democrats to unite in electing Obama, but it was rather a generic endorsement saying we need a Democrat in the White House so we won't have all the awful things happen when Republicans control the executive branch. There was no specific reason to support Obama just the fact that he was the Democratic candidate. There was nothing about him to suggest why specifically this man should be president except for the fact that he is a Democrat who won the nomination. And, as Tom Bevan noted, she left out the reason to vote for Barack Obama that is his weak spot that she'd questioned during the primaries - she never said that he was ready to be Commander in Chief.
So she told her followers to support Obama. Which message are they supposed to believe - what she says or what they know deep down she wants? It all seems very postmodern with messages on different levels that people can decide which resonates more with them depending on if their goal is to help Hillary achieve her dream of winning the presidency or whether it is to make sure that the Democrats win the top prize this year.
I suspect that most of the people who voted for her are traditional Democrats who want their side to win. And Obama is now their quarterback so they'll rally behind him and he'll get a nice bump in the polls as those Democrats come home. But that won't be because Hillary told them to do so but because they just don't want the Republican to win. If voters were such determined supporters of Hillary Clinton that they were just waiting to get the signal from her telling them what to do, why would they ignore her sub-message that she will be back to run again and the sooner the better?Labels: Hillary Clinton
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I thought Hillary gave a very good speech that served her purpose of giving the Democrats a sense of buyer's remorse. But the whole thing is so surreal. Everyone knows that deep down, Hillary would like Obama to lose so she could run again in 2012. And if we had any doubt, Bill Clinton is out there with semaphores signaling their ambivalence about Obama.
Sure, she came out and talked all about why McCain had to be defeated and we couldn't have another Republican president. She said the words urging Democrats to unite in electing Obama, but it was rather a generic endorsement saying we need a Democrat in the White House so we won't have all the awful things happen when Republicans control the executive branch. There was no specific reason to support Obama just the fact that he was the Democratic candidate. There was nothing about him to suggest why specifically this man should be president except for the fact that he is a Democrat who won the nomination. And, as Tom Bevan noted, she left out the reason to vote for Barack Obama that is his weak spot that she'd questioned during the primaries - she never said that he was ready to be Commander in Chief.
So she told her followers to support Obama. Which message are they supposed to believe - what she says or what they know deep down she wants? It all seems very postmodern with messages on different levels that people can decide which resonates more with them depending on if their goal is to help Hillary achieve her dream of winning the presidency or whether it is to make sure that the Democrats win the top prize this year.
I suspect that most of the people who voted for her are traditional Democrats who want their side to win. And Obama is now their quarterback so they'll rally behind him and he'll get a nice bump in the polls as those Democrats come home. But that won't be because Hillary told them to do so but because they just don't want the Republican to win. If voters were such determined supporters of Hillary Clinton that they were just waiting to get the signal from her telling them what to do, why would they ignore her sub-message that she will be back to run again and the sooner the better?
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I thought Hillary gave a very good speech that served her purpose of giving the Democrats a sense of buyer's remorse. But the whole thing is so surreal. Everyone knows that deep down, Hillary would like Obama to lose so she could run again in 2012. And if we had any doubt, Bill Clinton is out there with semaphores signaling their ambivalence about Obama.
Sure, she came out and talked all about why McCain had to be defeated and we couldn't have another Republican president. She said the words urging Democrats to unite in electing Obama, but it was rather a generic endorsement saying we need a Democrat in the White House so we won't have all the awful things happen when Republicans control the executive branch. There was no specific reason to support Obama just the fact that he was the Democratic candidate. There was nothing about him to suggest why specifically this man should be president except for the fact that he is a Democrat who won the nomination. And, as Tom Bevan noted, she left out the reason to vote for Barack Obama that is his weak spot that she'd questioned during the primaries - she never said that he was ready to be Commander in Chief.
So she told her followers to support Obama. Which message are they supposed to believe - what she says or what they know deep down she wants? It all seems very postmodern with messages on different levels that people can decide which resonates more with them depending on if their goal is to help Hillary achieve her dream of winning the presidency or whether it is to make sure that the Democrats win the top prize this year.
I suspect that most of the people who voted for her are traditional Democrats who want their side to win. And Obama is now their quarterback so they'll rally behind him and he'll get a nice bump in the polls as those Democrats come home. But that won't be because Hillary told them to do so but because they just don't want the Republican to win. If voters were such determined supporters of Hillary Clinton that they were just waiting to get the signal from her telling them what to do, why would they ignore her sub-message that she will be back to run again and the sooner the better?
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