Hillary Clinton's Self-Swiftboating into Irrelevance

[kpete]

Hillary Clinton's Self-Swiftboating into Irrelevance
Submitted by pmcarpenter on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 7:39am. P.M. Carpenter
THE FIFTH COLUMNIST by P.M. Carpenter

Let her bamboozle those few she still can. Every passing day only makes Barack Obama look that much better.

No longer must Barack Obama look to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright as a source of black liberation theology, for he has Hillary Clinton and she's setting him freer by the day.

In fact, I should think political handicappers everywhere have been frantic this weekend restructuring David Brooks' public offering of 20-to-1 odds of a Hillary comeback to something far closer to an absolute write-down. If you had your money on the IL-AR-PA-NY native, then all I can advise is that you join a support group to share your pain, but don't -- I repeat, do not -- double down. You'd have better luck being bullish on Bear Stearns.

Not that Hillary's devout core of followers will care, or be partisanly fazed in the least, but the last 48 hours have been brutal for the "most vetted" candidate -- a descriptive status that requires regular updating, and for good reason. For journalistic vetters, Hillary is the ideal vettee, because playing it straight is simply beyond her indefatigable Nixonian urges.

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For weeks, as many progressives pondered the senator's disruptive campaign, their underlying sentiment mirrored those famous words of Cromwell to the Rump Parliament:
"You have been sat too long here for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!

more at:
http://www.buzzflash.com/articles/carpenter/035

[Catherina]

1. That was hilarious. Thanks for posting it K&R

"all I can advise is that you join a support group to share your pain, but don't -- I repeat, do not -- double down. You'd have better luck being bullish on Bear Stearns. "

:rofl:

[RazBerryBeret]

2. Great Post!!!

and all I can say, is Hillary, PLEASE don't drop out now! this is working SO well!!

[SoCalDem]

3. ta-da

[kid a]

5. must have seen your sig

[havocmom]

4. I could have given Hillary MUCH better advice than she has received

And I would have given it free, saving her MILLION$ and a boat-load of embarrassment.

[gristy]

6. I like and agree with this last line

But no longer. Let her bamboozle those few she still can. Every passing day only makes Barack Obama look that much better.

Like most of us, I had worried about the Obama vs. Clinton take-no-prisoners fighting, thinking that there could be no winners in that fight. I have recently come around however. I'm just not that worried anymore.

[mopinko]

8. same here

the longer she drags it out, and the more outrageously, the more volunteers we sign up. let her take it to the convention. we will have a machine up and running in all 50 states.

[WillyT]

7. Yep...

:kick:

[Swamp Rat]

9. Hillary Clinton is hurting her chances for re-election to the Senate.

x(

[Umbram]

10. Yep. Her desperation is going to have blowback. (nt)

[JayFredMuggs]

11. Unless New Yorkers recall her

She's got FOUR MORE YEARS to worry about her Senate seat.

[SoCalDem]

12. If she loses, I'm guessing that she will want to run for NY governor

Obama will be in for 8 years, and she'd be too old by then.. She won't stay in the senate..It was her "leg-up", and now that she's an "amputee", she'll move on to other things..HRH does not enjoy being 1 of 100..

[TexasObserver]

13. Let her bamboozle those few she still can. Every passing day only makes Barack Obama look better.

I paraphrased the quote to get it in the subject line.

[Scurrilous]

14. K & R

:thumbsup:

[autorank]

15. K*R Little English Civil War. +++ The Levelers failed, where are the Diggers? n/t

[ORDem]

16. I think this picture says it all!