How Hillary Blew It From The Beginnning.

Exilednight

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Sun Apr-20-08 01:29 PM
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How Hillary Blew It From The Beginnning.

It all started with her Conversations With America. She immediatlly began to isolate the public and insulate herself from being on the same ground with the people. She required the questions to be sent in hours before the video podcast even began. Her answers sounded rehearsed and the platform prevented her from having a true conversation and answering tough questions. During this time Obama was on the ground and sitting at a table with real people and answering questions as they came out living breathing bodies. Robotic and isolated versus Human and approachable.

This was followed with her poor early-debate performances. Being the front-runner, she went straight into defense mode and played it safe. She presented no new ideas or pushed for true progressive change. Obama's performance was not the best either, but with so many people on the stage it was easier for him to get lost in the fray. Edwards and Clinton were considered the two heavy weights while Obama was considered the future. She gave nothing for the party to get excited about. She lacked charisma and creativity in a time the nation wants change.

Hillary's next mistake was lack of ground organization. I think the country, the Democratic party, and Hillary in particular, were surprised by the Iowa results and the ground organization of the Obama campaign and his win in Iowa. This was soon followed by the NH primary which Hillary won handily, but also gave her a false sense of security. Hillary wrote off South Carolina and her and her husbands remarks did nothing to help their image in the African-American community.

The next disaster came on Super Tuesday. Hillary rested on her husband's laurels and believed that, and her front-runner status, were enough to propel her to victory. This was her biggest miscalculation. She declared it would be over on February 5th, but Obama took the lead in pledged delegates in Iowa and never surrendered it. He out performed her in caucuses and Hillary's ground game once again became a subject of her campaign's organization skills.

Hillary's campaign went under the microscope after her Super Tuesday results, and the findings were not encouraging to her winning. Voters began demanding to answers to questions like:

-Why do you have a senior campaign adviser, Mark Penn, who's campaign also represents companies like Blackwater USA and the Republican nominee John McCain?

-Her 35 years of experience argument where she only demanded credit for the things that went right under husband's tenure and President and accepted no responsibility for the failures.

-Her IWR vote that enabled Bush to go to war.

-Her support of NAFTA.

-Her ability go pass comprehensive health care after failing her first time.

-Continually moving the goalposts for victory for her campaign.

-Even the lack of ability for her campaign to organize beyond Super Tuesday and failing to fill a full slate of delegates in the upcoming PA primary which went directly against her ability to be "ready on day one".

The list goes on and on, but for what was suppose to be a disciplined campaign, it was anything but.

Hillary and Bill have given the GOP enough sound bites that they can cut commercials using a Democrats words against one of our own. This is the disaster of the Clinton campaign. Cold, isolated, non-truthful, and unorganized.

We deserve better and should demand better.