On the eve of the NH primary, Barack delivered a message: "Do not take this race for granted." It was a prescient warning.Polls might have indeed demotivated numerous NH voters, a number of independent voters telling themselves "it's already an Obama landslide, I'd better focus on McCain", or some democrats thinking "it's already an Obama landslide, no need to kneecap Hillary..."
- Post at BarackObama.com on the dangers of listening to pundits
Yesterday a dose of reality set it as Hillary Clinton won the New Hampshire primary. Not by much, but a win is a win and we're probably stuck with her until the convention when hopefully whatever delegates Edwards draws go for Obama. You gotta dream, right?
One thing of note is Hillary's emotional outburst. In the argument that this humanizes her a bit, I agree and think the whole country could have used this bit of info - oh, about 15 years ago. Personally, it seemed forced and a little too well-timed to be believable. Oh, I'm sure the pressures of campaigning and being under so much angry scrutiny *does* have an impact on her. However, I'm pretty sure she's been long-since "experienced" enough to keep that behind the public mask she so notoriously wears. The irony here is two-fold. One, the amount of media thugs who jumped her case but always excuse away conservative crybabies, and two, the woman who asked the question that almost caused the crocodile tears voted for Obama anyway.
I may think she's a faker, but I don't disparage her for trying a valid campaign trick.
What *does* concern me is her ability to be such an angry, petty, egotistical twit. I mean, hell, we've already got those "qualities" with Bush and we're losing troops daily in Iraq because of it.
So the thing was gets me is the absolute slew of stories about Clinton attacking Obama before the primary. Really, whatever happened to running on your record of 35 years or whatever. Check it out if you want: story after story after story about her angry attacks.
ABC offers a comparison of their styles but I think I can provide a simpler explanation.
Last night, Obama started off being very congratulatory of Clinton's win and hushed the dissenters in his crowd. Meanwhile, her supporters were encouraged to boo him when he was on their screens. Obama even hushed folks who booed a bunch of gate-crashing anti-abortion types who tried to mug one of his recent rallies. I'm not saying this makes him a better person, but...well, maybe I *am* saying that.
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