His strategy has bested hers, plain and simple. Her machine is showing the first pulls at the seams as donors go what the hell and her campaign head, pollster Mark Penn (has worked for, oh yeah, Blackwater) looks like the central failure. Letting Obama take the mantle of change while they played experience. Misunderestimating the emerging civic-minded Millenial Generation that Obama nailed through Facebook.
Good stuff from the New Hampshire debate tonight, much better format and better with just four great candidates.
Here's how Obama beats her on change.
Here's a great longer segment, where Clinton makes her best argument for actually having accomplished things in office, and John Edwards runs interference for Barack Obama.
Here's just a bunch of great Edwards clips from the debate -- really seemed the most rested and happy of all of them. Makes you wish he hadn't been a VP candidate under Kerry four years ago, might mean it can't happen now.
I can't bring myself to link to anything from the Republican debate. It's just not about anything the majority of Americans are thinking about. Ron Paul makes the most sense on foreign policy. Huckabee is the only other candidate who listens to Paul respectfully. Romney takes hits from all. McCain throws in a little old guy straight talk on pharmaceutical companies. Rudy again uses the word "perverted" with regard to radical Muslim thought.
You want real?
Here's Obama's barber shop.
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Mark Penn = Bob Shrum of the 21st century. Another self-important beltway blowhard who's always wrong. BooHoo for him. Let's hope this sends him back to focus-grouping laundry detergent.
As for HRC, Everything about her right now - her words, her imagery, her arguments, the people she's surrounded by - screams out "Old News".
I truly feel bad for her. You can see her bubbling (and, I think, legitimate) rage that, after 15 years of battling libelous smears from the forces of Evil and craven ridicule from the corporate media - 15 years of nose to the grindstone - she all the sudden finds herself being passed over for the cute guy with a big smile and a smooth rap.
But of course, there's her vote on the war. If I thought it was principled but wrong I'd be forgiving, but I don't. It was a cowardly and calculated hedge - with other people's lives - against a future presidential run. That one moment, that one decision - an instance of classic Clintonian calculus - is going to keep her from the promised land.
Like her husband, she's becoming biblical, shakespearean.
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