The Clinton firewall
In These Times
by David Sirota
03/31/08
Google the phrase ‘Clinton firewall’ and you will come up with an ever-lengthening list of scenarios that Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign has said will stop Barack Obama’s candidacy. The New Hampshire primary, said her campaign, would be the firewall to end Obamamania. Then Super Tuesday was supposed to be the firewall. Then Texas. Now Pennsylvania and Indiana. For four months, the political world has been hypnotized by this string-along game, not bothering to ask what this Clinton tactic really is. The ‘just wait until the next states’ mantra has diverted our attention from the firewall’s grounding in race and democracy. But now, with only a few months until the Democratic National Convention in Denver, the firewall’s true composition is coming into focus. Whether Obama can overcome this barrier will likely decide who becomes the Democrats’ presidential nominee...
http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3597/the_clinton_firewall/
Nobody fears Hillary
Human Events
by Jennifer Rubin
03/31/008
Pay no attention to that woman behind the curtain. Be afraid. Be very afraid, for if you don’t obey the Great and Powerful Oz will turn her wrath on you. Yawn. Hillary Clinton’s favorite girlhood movie was the ‘Wizard of Oz.’ But now, as the primaries clank along, her subjects are refusing to wear the green-tinted glasses and buy her act. She’s less and less terrifying every day, and fewer of those closest to her — her Senate colleagues — are intimidated. Despite their best efforts, the Clintons’ powers seem to have gone on the fritz, and those Democrats who know Hillary best have strayed off to follow a new, more congenial character. Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey, Jr. was the most recent U.S. Senator to endorse Barack Obama for President. But he certainly is not the only one...
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=25773
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hillary
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+Sirota
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jennifer+Rubin
by David Sirota
03/31/08
Google the phrase ‘Clinton firewall’ and you will come up with an ever-lengthening list of scenarios that Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign has said will stop Barack Obama’s candidacy. The New Hampshire primary, said her campaign, would be the firewall to end Obamamania. Then Super Tuesday was supposed to be the firewall. Then Texas. Now Pennsylvania and Indiana. For four months, the political world has been hypnotized by this string-along game, not bothering to ask what this Clinton tactic really is. The ‘just wait until the next states’ mantra has diverted our attention from the firewall’s grounding in race and democracy. But now, with only a few months until the Democratic National Convention in Denver, the firewall’s true composition is coming into focus. Whether Obama can overcome this barrier will likely decide who becomes the Democrats’ presidential nominee...
http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3597/the_clinton_firewall/
Nobody fears Hillary
Human Events
by Jennifer Rubin
03/31/008
Pay no attention to that woman behind the curtain. Be afraid. Be very afraid, for if you don’t obey the Great and Powerful Oz will turn her wrath on you. Yawn. Hillary Clinton’s favorite girlhood movie was the ‘Wizard of Oz.’ But now, as the primaries clank along, her subjects are refusing to wear the green-tinted glasses and buy her act. She’s less and less terrifying every day, and fewer of those closest to her — her Senate colleagues — are intimidated. Despite their best efforts, the Clintons’ powers seem to have gone on the fritz, and those Democrats who know Hillary best have strayed off to follow a new, more congenial character. Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey, Jr. was the most recent U.S. Senator to endorse Barack Obama for President. But he certainly is not the only one...
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=25773
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Hillary
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+Sirota
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jennifer+Rubin
rudkla - 1. Apr, 11:29
