« " Yes We Can................ | Main | Mediocrity »
January 11, 2008
The Empress has no clothes
Something funny happened on the way to the ballet boxes. New Hampshire residents proved to be unpredictable again. The pundits have been puzzled. They were all correct in predicting the Republican vote. The polls before the election had predicted McCain to win by five points. I guess the conservatives in New Hampshire are from a different stock.
Chris Mathews, of Hardball, was surprised and sad. I guess the idealist democrat in him felt betrayed again by the established political Democrat machine. Considering the loss he had felt after losing JFK, RFK, and Dr Martin Luther King during the sixties, he was not ready to let go of another Dream or a Dreamer. In his disappointment he lashed at Senator Clinton. " we all know that the only reason she got elected to the Senate was the Sympathy vote. being betrayed by her husband, and that catapulted her to where she is now". That was a bold statement coming from a pundit who has been a Clinton enabler himself many a times. During his other shows since the election, Mathews brought back the subject again in his quest to find out why the polls were wrong. In some way he was pushing maybe for some other pundits to suggest how Massachusetts is not that far from New Hampshire and to vote in New Hampshire primary any one can register as long as they say, they have plans to move to New Hampshire in the next few month. !!!!!
This morning Mr Mathews was on The Morning Joe on MSNBC, trying to ease the wrath that had come his way by the ladies on THE VIEW, criticizing him for his lack of respect for Senator Clinton and her accomplishment. So He changed his statement to " It was the steel and the grace Senator Clinton had shown during the Lewinsky period that convinced the powers to be in New York to ask her to run for the Senate". It was a masterful act and unfortunately they did not have the video0 from the actual statement he had made to confirm him.
However the women Democrats in the press have not been kind to Senator Clinton, Maureen Dowd, and Camile Paglia both have criticized senator Clinton for lack of character and core. for demeaning the feminist movement
and taking the Women cause back. Senator Clinton though is adamant that what happened in New Hampshire forced her to find her voice, and after being criticised for wearing mostly Blue and Gray to showcase her steely resolve and power we also witnessed how she changed her colors, looking warmer and more feminine in Dark Green, Beige and even Orange. The senator does looks even pettier these days, she does wear more make up and her hair is better coiffed, she smiles more, as close as one could get to a complete over haul, or maybe it is the glow of her decisive win in New Hampshire that has stayed with her.
I have been receiving a few notes from my conservative friends after reading the two pieces I wrote about Senator Obama. " he is a Tax and spend Liberal" one of the notes said, " are you out of your mind " said another. I have said that I am a conservative and very far from senator Obama on Taxes , the War and The immigration. I think Senator Clinton would be much easier to defeat next November, but I have not been immune like many others to the charm of Senator Obama's message. I have always been a dreamer and have a soft spot for the ones of my elk. I am also fascinated by the problem that Senator Obama's candidacy creates for the Democrats, and how they will deal with the problem called Obama. So far though it seems some of the Democrats have come to see Senator Clinton without her clothes, and confirm how she is shapeless inside and out.
Posted by Idinraha at January 11, 2008 10:08 AM