It Takes One To Know One

If you wanna understand a ... gal like Hillary, just read a .... gal like Maureen Dowd. I use the word gal out of decorum, of course.

Can Hillary Cry Her Way Back To The White House?

Not likely. Even the best tricks often only work once. Hillary did almost seem to be tearing in her speech last night. But that would have been too much. It would have hurt her. Most likely, she just barely escaped New Hampshire without a disqualifying meltdown.

If Obama keeps the pressure on, as he could, we may yet see Hilary unravel in the future. And I suspect it will be for real. I don't think she faked her tears. It's simply that she was allowed to spin what it was all about.

Next time she may not be so lucky.

Comments

[Scrapiron]

The democrats have dug up a real group of nuts. They put up the choice of a Marxist, a Black Islamist and a Southern lawyer that talks to the unborn/dead and practices black magic (making the crippled walk). Not a working brain in the entire party.

[IslamoLlama]

"They put up the choice of a Marxist, a Black Islamist and a Southern lawyer that talks to the unborn/dead and practices black magic (making the crippled walk)."

Points for creativity. I guess you're not a fan of Huckabee (evil huckster preacher man!), Mittens (satanic Mormon faith!) or McCain (won't torture the terrorists, cause he's a damn dirty hippie!).

Who the hell are you voting for, Scrapiron? Were you one of the Paultards chasing Sean Hannity through the streets of NH?

[Sue]

Hillary never imagined an Obama....much less that she would be against the ropes! Obama will give her a run for her money and plenty of opportunities to screw up again. Tears? Please.

[Wahoo Willie Sez:]

Someone write this down. Except for the pathetic name calling, Willie is agreeing with bobinmomsbasement..........Nobody has a choice this time around. I've decided that I will pay someone to go poke the machine for me becuase I can't hold my nose or close my eyes tight enough to vote for any of them.

[Philip McDaniel]

Uh...Probably not the best area to bring this up but has anyone taken a close look at the voting statistics? It’s curious how the pollsters were almost dead on with everyone except with Hillary and Obama.

[joeb]

So Hillary crying worked. It made her look female finally. Just the opposite worked for Ronald Reagan who appeared macho and manly by demanding it was his microphone. He paid for it. Tough guy. It worked for him.
But the Clinton team can spin anything. And this trick worked on many women over 45. Those women 30 and under thought it was beneath contempt. Women don't cry. Or so the young ones say. Maureen Dowd is right on. She is the daughter of an Irish American cop from DC. She graduated from a real good university. Catholic University in Washington. D.C. She sees clearly and writes brilliantly. Go Maureen!!!!!
So Hillary must defeat a black man to be the first woman President. And the black man must defeat a white woman to be the first black President. That seems to me to put the Democratic party in a bind. Going to be fun all year long.

[Terry Gain]

Hillary is destestable. Obama is frighteningly naive and incompetent. He represents change all right. Can you imagine any young man wanting to join the American military after if it -at his command - throws a war which is clearly being won and is nearly over. Hillary says the same thing but the difference is The Dope really believes the war can be deliberately lost without consequences. With her it's politics. As is everything with her. He actually believes he's going to change the world. He's right but not in the way he thinks.

[BobInStamford]

Thank you once again for your service, Terry. Always thinking about those troooops. It warms my heart to have you report that we are 'clearly' winning and that the war is 'nearly' over. It is because of brave patriots like you that Iraq will NEVER attack America again.

[Fred Beloit]

The Boob has a perfect record. Wrong before, wrong now. A vote for christamfordmum is a vote for perfection.

[Fred Beloit]

The Boob is always wrong because he thinks with his heart, his rather malicious heart, instead of his brain. The war in Iraq was won when Saddam was deposed (the baathists were powerless to stop it) and when a democratically-elected government was installed. We have merely been mopping up since then. Bush's error, perhaps, was in not using a bigger mop. The Boob knows absolutely nothing about military operations or military history. He hates anything military just as much, maybe, as he hates depilatories.

[Terry Gain]

The boob should find a more constructive way of dealing with the inferiority complex overwhelming him because he failed to serve.

Slagging the troops or the mission only makes boob look like he is: a fool cheering against his country- and progress in a troubled region.

[rwilymz]

"Obama is frighteningly naive and incompetent"

Naive, check. Incompetent ... unless you've been prez before, how competent can you be? They're all incompetent when they start. Some simply stay that way. Take Jimmy Carter, for example.

"Barama", apart from being frighteningly naive, is also eerily smart. He has probably the most capacity to learn the role than anyone else, and be quite good at it. That said, though, it depends on his the quality of his integrity that will determine if he learns the job and performs it ideologically, or not.

Being prez is different from being a legislator. As a legislator, you can get away with being an ideologue; always closing your left [or right] eye to look at issues and thus skewing your own outlook and losing depth perception.

A prez, on the other hand, can't really afford to devote too much time and energy to automatically disqualifying half the playing field because there's not really anyone left to balance him out. Idiot partisan legislators have the idiot partisans from the other side as their balance.

I have a feeling that if "Barama" gets himself elected that Democrats will be strutting around felling all smug and self-righteous -- pretty much as they do anyway. But I don't think "Barama" will meet their expectations. I think he's too smart to refuse to learn that the "other side" has just as many [if not more] good ideas as the side that elected him.

And I'm almost certain that he'll learn that US foreign policy is what it is because, darn it, that's the way it works, and works well. Good god, even Clinton learned that. ...and used it, far more often than Bush has. "Barama" is easily twice as smart as the self-indulgent wunderkind

"It warms my heart to have you report that we are 'clearly' winning and that the war is 'nearly' over."

Twitly, the sum total of your military knowledge [history, doctrine, strategy and tactics] could fit into a gnat's navel and still have room enough for a full set of Britannicas.

The Allies were "clearly" winning WWII when the mega-incompetent Montgomery did Market-Garden, when the Germans "bulged", and when the US took forever and a half to take Iwo and Okinawa and racking up thousands of body bags -- more per day than a year's worth in Iraq.

Winning, "clearly" or otherwise, has no bearing on frustration felt by neophytes, or on the calendar either one. In fact, the last time the US took on pan-islamist irregulars, it took just over 30 years. So you might as well sit down and grab a book to read while you wait [I'd advise War and Peace, for both the irony and time-consumption], because it's going to be a while. Your panty-wetting hystrionics won't materially affect anything. ...except your panties.

[Terry Gain]

Channeling Carol Herman, this blog's version thereof, begins his post by admitting his candidate is naive but, hilariously, insists that because he's yet to make a mistake as president, he's not necessarily incompetent. (rwilymz is someone who obviously posts before he thinks.)

He argues that someone who is naive would not necessarily be incompetent at the world's most difficult job. Not surprisingly he's not able to recover from this idiocy.

Even his obscure references to WW11 Generals and his unintelligible gnat metaphor don't help.

He attempts to prove his point by suggesting that if elected the far left loon Obama may adopt GOP policies that even he doesn't realize he'll adopt.

Our incoherent poster offers this gem: "That said, though, it depends on his the quality of his integrity that will determine if he learns the job and performs it ideologically, or not". (sic)

He then insults someone of whom he knows nothing. Typical fuckwad leftard. The war in Iraq is clearly being won though this is perhaps not as clear as the fact anonymous rwilymz is off his meds.

[rwilymz]

"rwilymz is someone who obviously posts before he thinks"

Interesting.

"He argues that someone who is naive would not necessarily be incompetent at the world's most difficult job."

"Barama" strikes me as someone who believes a difficult job to be easy, ... and so it becomes. Because he doesn't know how hard it *can* be, or how hard others have made it, he doesn't become saddled with their expectations.

You ever embark on some project in your life that you've always wanted to do, but knew little about, and so you bought the stuff, put on the gloves, and simply did it? And then people came up to you later and asked how you managed to do all that when it's so difficult? Were they ever shocked to hear how easy you thought it was?

That's you being naive and competent at things others consider difficult. I've known people who can do that with auto mechanics, tax preparation, basic veterinary medicine ... as the commercial says: "just do it".

Really, it's not a difficult concept to wrap your head around, and everyone has the ability to be naively competent at several things in the course of his life.

"He attempts to prove his point by suggesting that if elected the far left loon Obama may adopt GOP policies that even he doesn't realize he'll adopt."

I didn't attempt to "prove" anything; I merely offered a suggestion that has been demonstrated again and again and again and again in national politics. And I certainly didn't mention "GOP policies". Nixon was elected as a 'conservative', yet many of the policies he ended up implementing turned out to be as liberal as they come. Wage and price controls ... normalization of relations with China ... the EPA ...

Who's the "conservative" Justice that Bush the Elder put on the bench, and has turned out to be the quintessential liberal?

It happens. Don't seem so perplexed by the prospect. You'll end up being confused pretty much forever.

"Our incoherent poster offers this gem..."

You offered anything except knee-jerks?

Dig it, skeezix: being the prez means you should listen to both sides. Key word: "should". I.e., you no longer have the legitimate capacity to insulate yourself in the partisan selective blindnesses that served you as a legislator. Some people can overcome that, others cannot. I've got less concern about "Barama" in the job maintaining partisan self-deception than I do, say, HClinton or Edwards, or [from the "other side"] Huckababy, Romney or Paul.

The candidates that I see as being able to set aside their idiot partisanships for the benefit of the **whole** country, instead of the 49.4% who elected them are "Barama", Giulianni, and McCain. The rest of them are twits. ...which means that the rest of them are more likely to get nominated, because most of the voters are twits.

"He then insults someone of whom he knows nothing. Typical fuckwad leftard."

You're a "fuckwad leftard"?

Did you actually read what I wrote? or did you home in on certain keywords and fly off the handle?

Care to try again?

Oh, and, by the way: "his candidate" is nowhere on any ballot, and hasn't been for almost three decades.

I'm giving you a relative pass on this, bud. Knock off the presumptions.