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Thursday, February 21, 2008

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss
Posted by Jill | 6:46 AM
Anyone see any temperamental similarities between this person:

This morning brings the news that the campaign of Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, has launched a new website where they are announcing how they are officially preparing to make the case that the rules of the Democratic nomination process should be changed.

Among many "facts" they declare are some accurate ones, such as the idea that superdelegates, which in true nomenclatural dexterity they now term "automatic delegates" "are expected to exercise their best judgment in the interests of the nation and the Democratic Party."

But then comes this juicy non-fact:

"FACT: Florida and Michigan should count, both in the interest of fundamental fairness and honoring the spirit of the Democrats' 50-state strategy."

That's not a fact, that's an opinion.

And it's clear evidence (not that there was any mystery about it) that the Clinton campaign is trying to change the rules in the middle of the game.

Clinton's own senior adviser, Harold Ickes, voted as a member of the DNC committee to not recognize these two state delegations because they violated the rules of the primary scheduling process. Now as a Clinton campaign representative he's making the case that they should count.


...and this one:

When Barbara Bush took her 13-year-old son and his best friend, Doug Hannah, to play golf at her Houston club, George would start cursing if he didn't tee off well. His mother would tell him to quit it. By the third or fourth hole he would be yelling "Fuck this" until he had ensured that his mother would send him to the car.

"It fit his needs," says Hannah. "He couldn't lose."

Once, after his mother banished him from the golf course, she turned to Hannah and declared, "That boy is going to have optical rectosis." What did that mean? "She said, 'A shitty outlook on life.'"

Even if he loses, his friends say, he doesn't lose. He'll just change the score, or change the rules, or make his opponent play until he can beat him. "If you were playing basketball and you were playing to 11 and he was down, you went to 15," says Hannah, now a Dallas insurance executive. "If he wasn't winning, he would quit. He would just walk off.… It's what we called Bush Effort: If I don't like the game, I take my ball and go home. Very few people can get away with that."

[snip]

It is something of an in-joke with Bush's friends and family. "In reality we all know who won, but George wants to go further to see what happens," says an old family friend, venture capitalist and former MGM chairman Louis "Bo" Polk Jr. "George would say, 'Play that one over,' or 'I wasn't quite ready.' The overtimes are what's fun, so you make your own. When you go that extra mile or that extra point … you go to a whole new level."


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Anonymous Anonymous said...
How about the quote from Hillary where she took a page from Bush's playbook and played the fear card? "In an uncertain time, where we are in danger blah blah blah."
2/21/08, 9:15 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...
again...its ok to change the rules so the "peoples" votes count..unless of course you're a michigan or florida voter. i understand that an argument can be made for michigan seeing as obama wasn't even on the ticket, but someone please explain to me why florida shouldn't count? i never in my life thought i'd see the day where democrats turn on eachother with such venom. i'm disgusted, and very, very depressed.
2/21/08, 12:18 PM  
Blogger slag said...
...but someone please explain to me why florida shouldn't count?

Hillary has over 8 years on Obama when it comes to name recognition. He needs to be able to campaign in a state to be able to win a state. It's that simple.
2/21/08, 3:19 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...
"Hillary has over 8 years on Obama when it comes to name recognition. He needs to be able to campaign in a state to be able to win a state. It's that simple."

neither campaigned there..so your argument is "she's more well known". well, that's his problem isn't it. the hypocrisy never ceases to astound. unbelievable
2/22/08, 1:19 PM  
Blogger nobody's fool said...
I've found that Obama supporters like to point out that Hillary is trying to change the rules with regard to Florida and Michigan. Of course, the fact that Obama supporters want to change the rules regarding "super delegates" isn't seen as the least bit hypocritical.

Being from Florida and having my primary vote taken away from me thanks to the shenanigans of a Republican-dominated legislature made me pissed enough. But when fellow Dems start telling me, "well, those are the rules", it makes me want to spit.

It made and still makes absolutely no sense whatsoever to punish Dem voters for what Republican legislators did. I don't give a crap who you support.
2/28/08, 1:12 PM  
Blogger slag said...
neither campaigned there..so your argument is "she's more well known". well, that's his problem isn't it. the hypocrisy never ceases to astound. unbelievable

This comment is either a joke or completely idiotic. Am I really supposed to believe that Hillary should get Florida's delegates because she was first lady for eight years? After both candidates agreed that Florida and Michigan wouldn't count?

Maybe you should look up the word 'hypocrisy' before you throw it around like that.
3/3/08, 7:40 PM  
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