Nov 13 2007
Hillary’s Implosions
Captain Ed has one of the better (and more succinct) round ups on Hillary’s foibles. I especially like the complaints from the left, which tend to be more on “is this a fair process” kind of whine? Look, if Hillary can’t manage and control a party nomination campaign she sure as hell can’t lead this large, dynamic and complex country. Right now she IS in control of her campaign – supposedly. Like many other contenders (e.g., Thompson) the minimal expectation is you won’t screw up the simple stuff if you at least want to get a good look from the American people. Her campaign is not failing because of process or media attention of piling on. She is in over her head (like Obama, Thompson and Edwards – all one term Senate wonders). It looks easy on TV, but running for President and doing it right day in and day out takes a very unique and special individual with core beliefs that cannot be disrupted with the latest poll or news mania.
It is why Bush is such a good leader. His apparent stubbornness is really a reflection of his self-discipline and the fact the marginal static from the media and talking heads really don’t amount to a hill of beans on the big important issues. He stays focused, it seems so simple but it’s not. The media make money in arcane minutiae and trivia, not in expressing an overarching vision for Americans to rally around. Bush has been doing so well for so long, and so many have tried to stab him in the back with cheap shots pretending to be driving issues, people have lulled themselves into underestimating Bush and overestimating their own abilities. We will see a lot of this crashing and burning with the race so open on both sides and so few seasoned politicians in the running (McCain, Giuliani, Huckabee and Romney have the most experience).
The Anchoress has a good post on this too.
George Bush has taken so much abuse for all these years from the press without anywhere near the whining Hillary is already doing.
But I still think she will get the nomination.
I have so much admiration for this President….the name calling, innuendo, secret programs disclosed that he could not comment on, racking over the coals of his friends in power……..and steadfastly he headed forward on a path the he had laid out from the beginning. Do I agree with the path he chartered…mostly. What a guy that has this country!
Hillary the master of our fate. except for
Will she reveal what the Secret Service had to say about Norman Hsu when they vetted his history?
Why has she hundreds of errors in her campaign finance reports when she is using a software package that is customized to handle exactly that task? Can’t she and her crack staff handle simple double entry bookkeeping?
From reviewing the limitations and capabilities of the software who was authorized to over ride the warnings and exception reports it was generating? Why even after elimination of Hsu and all his donor and even the Chinatown donors does she still have more errors than all other major campaigns combined on both side of the aisle by a wide margin of multiples.
Why is her’s the only campaign to receive a notice letter from the FEC detailing violations of hundreds of donors even before the Hsu events occured (after her first quarterly report to the FEC)?
How many times does Ms Micro Management claim not to know of all the errors on both financial donor sets or setup questions for her to tee off on? Is she admitting managerial incompetence?
How did so many of her donation bundlers including Norman Hsu end up as board members or trustees of a small extremely liberal 4th string college in NYC called The New School in number far and away exceeding any other linkage of other bundlers having common intersects?
Why are so many of them also on her campaign staff or past members of the Clinton White House?
Why do so many of them have the same donor pattern and dates of donations all to the same campaigns?
While I am reading that Obama may be closing in on her, the odds of Hillary getting the nomination from the Democratic party are high.
Geesch, Merlin, and many people went after Bush for cronyism. What hypocrits.
Plant story not wilting yet…
The “plant” spoke on CNN and insisted a senior Clinton campaign staffer gave her the question to ask and she wonders, as have many of us, how HRC knew to call on her if HRC didn’t know who had the right question:
http://www.youtube.c…
Just an aside, but had to tell someone in that it won’t be reported tomorrow.
The first month of fiscal 2008 was a success for all active and reserve military components.
In a meeting with Pentagon reporters today, Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said all components met or exceeded their recruiting goals for October.
On the active-duty side, the Army made 101 percent of its goal of 4,500, with 4,564 recruits. The Navy made 100 percent of its goal of 2,788 recruits. The Marine Corps made 102 percent of its goal of 2,720, with 2,788 enlisting. The Air Force made 100 percent of its goal of 2,656.
Just an aside, but had to tell someone in that it won’t be reported tomorrow.
The first month of fiscal 2008 was a success for all active and reserve military components.
In a meeting with Pentagon reporters today, Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said all components met or exceeded their recruiting goals for October.
On the active-duty side, the Army made 101 percent of its goal of 4,500, with 4,564 recruits. The Navy made 100 percent of its goal of 2,788 recruits. The Marine Corps made 102 percent of its goal of 2,720, with 2,788 enlisting. The Air Force made 100 percent of its goal of 2,656.