Anybody out there good at neck-rubs?
Although she won Puerto Rico easily, Clinton seemed to be campaigning in an alternate reality, as hopes for the nomination slipped away.
Let's hope she backs out as gracefully as she can on Tuesday after the final primaries in South Dakota and Montana...
Yeah. Right.
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6/02/2008 10:10:00 AM
Left Wing Modern Orthodox: 78%
Right Wing Modern Orthodox: 89%
Left Wing Yeshivish/Chareidi: 37%
Right Wing Yeshivish/Chareidi: 4%
This means you're: Modern Orthodox
What does it mean?
Congratulations. You're Modern Orthodox all right, but wait! Just when you were ready to live an idyllic happily-labeled life they announce Left Wing and Right Wing Modern Orthodoxy. What the heck is up with that? Maybe you need to rethink and refine some of your positions, and then take the test again so I can put you in a little box.
See? I'm not such a Kofer after all!!! :)
4 comments:
I think she's just a plain old liar. Listening to her arguments about having won the popular vote, there's no way she can possibly believe what she's saying.
I know this conclusion won't come as news to a lot of people, but for years the right-wing attacks on the Clintons were so extreme it overshadowed their actual faults. I've tried to be generous about her ridiculous statements throughout this campaign. I can no longer do that.
It's funny. My wife and I watched the MSNBC hour-long "biographies" about Clinton and Obama. At the time, when the nomination was still very much in the air, we felt, having watched the Hillary biography, that even if Obama loses, we would still feel pretty comfortable voting for Hillary. Then she really started lying and getting nasty and playing very dirty and we both feel VERY negatively about her at this point. We both can't stand her. And while we'd both feel very uncomfortable about voting for her had she won the nomination, we'd feel even more uncomfortable voting for McCain... At this point, rather than be a good candidate, we see her as a lesser (though still great) of two evils (McCain being even worse)...
I've had the uneasy feeling that she wants McCain to win--maybe because she figures she can then run again in 2012, or maybe simply out of anger. She'll openly endorse Obama, of course, but who knows who she'll vote for in secret. (Have you been following the revelations about McCain's vote in 2000?)
She's trying to leave her supporters with the feeling that the nomination was stolen from her. The vast majority won't fall for her arguments, but a select few might. Take her arguments about Michigan, for example. It is correct to say that she "won" only because Obama followed the rules and she didn't. But that fact, in a sense, distracts from an important point: the fact that she wanted all the delegates in the state disproves her claim that she cares about the will of the voters--because she knows perfectly well that many Michigan voters would have chosen Obama if he'd been on the ballot.
In 2006, the linguist Geoffrey Nunberg wrote an interesting book called Talking Right, a thorough analysis of why Republicans win elections. (The book was one of several that may have helped the Democrats win Congress that year.) His central point was that Republicans create powerful narratives which Democrats have a difficult time dislodging or competing with.
I think a similar thing is going on here: Hillary has created a narrative that says Obama is the "rule-follower" but she is the popular favorite. No matter how questionable her claim to have "won" the popular vote may be, if she says it enough, people begin to believe it--especially since it raises the specter of the 2000 election which many Democrats still feel embittered about. Therefore, when people point out--correctly--that she wasn't "following the rules," they are in a sense becoming the bait for her argument, because she then goes on to portray herself as the victim of bureaucratic technicalities, as if the rules somehow conceal the true popular favorite. In reality, she has flouted the rules specifically to deny the will of the voters, but she's done a good job of making it seem like the opposite is true.
Can't argue with any of that. She has, time and again, broken the rules for her own gain. I guess, at least in this case, the old cliche rings true: "Cheaters never prosper..."
I just hope her supporters do the right thing and fall in behind Obama, because the alternative is certainly unacceptable.
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