Clinton Clouds on the Horizon

[DeepModem Mom]

WP: Clinton Clouds on the Horizon
By Richard Cohen
Thursday, August 14, 2008

"It sure is nice to be back here in Hawaii, sitting on the beach with Michelle and the girls, just staring out at the ocean and up at the sky. Just look at those magnificent clouds. They look like what's on my mind. That one's shaped like Ohio. And that one looks like Virginia. Whoa! What's with that one? It looks like a woman in a pantsuit. God, it's getting so I see Hillary everywhere....

"The Gallup poll has me and McCain about tied. Tied! I should be killing him...."If there's a single demographic I should have but don't, it's white women. I beat McCain by almost 10 points with women in general, but he beats me with white women by six. Those are Hillary's people. She kept winning them in the primaries. Working-class white women love Hillary. I understand. They know what it's like to be kicked around by life. What's up with that cloud? It looks like it's getting bigger.

"I've got to do something dramatic. I got no bump from my overseas trip -- 200,000 people in Berlin and the polls hardly budged. I'll definitely get a bump from the convention, but so will McCain. I'll cream him in the debates just on the visuals alone, but I've got to remember I didn't always do so well in the Democratic primary debates. Just to make sure, I've got to make an exciting pick for vice president. It's just amazing how that cloud looks like woman in a pantsuit....

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"Kennedy picked Johnson. He hated him, but he picked him anyway, and they won...."I mean, why not? She'd be an exciting choice -- unify the party and all of that. She'd bring in some of those white women and maybe some of their white husbands as well. All the polls say so. Trouble is, she also brings in Bill. What's with him, anyway? I don't blame him for being a bit angry for being called a racist. If Bill Clinton is a racist, the word has no meaning. But he just hates that I won. Still, he could be handled. Make him Middle East negotiator. Wow, just look how dark that cloud has gotten.

"My people would scream bloody murder if I picked Hillary. They'd say, 'What about change?' So I'd say, 'Isn't a black man and a white woman on the ticket the ultimate in change? In fact, isn't it revolutionary?' That would be more than rhetoric, it would be true. Imagine! Just look at that damn cloud. Looks like rain....

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/08/14/AR2008081401336.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

[David Zephyr]

1. Richard Cohen, meet David Zephyr.

It's nice to see others coming on board.

Kicking this up and thanks for posting this, DeepModem Mom.

[blm]

2. So the corporate whore Cohen is pushing for Hillary - DC powerstructure needs a known hand in the WH

one that they can depend on to side with the secrecy and privilege of Bush and his cronies. The way Bill did for Poppy throughout the 90s.

They would have to blackmail Obama to make it happen....and Obama knows he would appear weak and vulnerable to the Clinton machine if he went that route....and Cohen's piece actually illustrates what is actually at stake - Obama's own reputation for being tough enough to strongarm the Clinton machine.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

3. You got him right - "corporate whore"

And now Cohen, the big cheerleader for Fuckface's invasion of Iraq - is now aping Maureen Dowd in one of her occasional styles, hoping like hell maybe he'll win a prize, too.

Read the Rude Pundit today regarding how he should respond to McCain, and apply it to the Clintons. Already the Denver convention has turned into a Clinton Family Reunion, even dragging in Chelsea to introduce her mother's speech. I, having been a big and loyal Clinton supporter, am just sick of them, and why Obama's kowtowing to them mystifies me. Bill hasn't endorsed Obama yet because he's going to try to get a voice vote and get the floor to see if they can wrest the nomination from Obama.

The Party be damned - all they want is to be back in the White House.

I just hope Obama gets tough and starts claiming and holding and using what is rightfully his. So far, I'm not encouraged.

[Rageneau]

4. Cohen HATES Hillary. He's trying to start a backfire with this piece of crap article.

[GetTheRightVote]

5. He does not need to start anything, it exist already and he for one atleast knows it

but Obama does not or is at most ignoring it, to bad, he is the one losing votes.