When Hillary bombs she REALLY bombs

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Filed Under Race for White House 2008 on Oct 31 

In last night’s Democratic Presidential debate Hillary bombed, and not a random bomb, but a full-blown Dresden-style bombing.

Yes, she was under attack from her opponents, justifiably so. But when John Edwards can nail you with a line like this:

“Unless I missed something, Sen. Clinton said two different things in the course of about two minutes.”

…you know it’s not your night.

Can't we all just not get along?

And the hits just kept on coming from Edwards and Obama.

It’s about damn time that primary started to look like a primary. Candidates have to draw contrasts between themselves and their opponents. While the people that end up looking bad (like Clinton) call it “going negative,” it’s what has to happen in order for people to learn what these people stand for.

If someone can’t be straight with the public, no matter how crazy their ideas are, you end up with a situation that makes Senator Barack Obama say things like:

“I was confused [by] Sen. Clinton’s answer. I can’t tell whether she was for it or against it.”

Welcome to the club, Senator.

But, as with Rick Lazio daring to walk across the stage in a “threatening manner,” you run risks when calling a Clinton out on their deceptions, you run risk of being called a bully. If what a Clinton aid told Drudge is any indication, the public and media’s willingness to accept the poor Hillary card is going to need a lot better spin than complaining about the host.

CLINTON INNER-CIRCLE BLAME ‘UNFAIR’ MODERATOR TIM RUSSERT. ‘HE BORDERED ON THE UNPROFESSIONAL,’ TOP HILLARY ADVISER CHARGES. ‘HE BROKE DEBATE RULES AND WAS BELLIGERENT’…

Not fair! He called us on our crap! Just wait till the general, Senator… If you make it there.


(From the It’s First Friday blog, who feature Christopher Hitchens this Friday at their monthly happy hour and liberal actor Steven Weber from Wings and Studio 60 as a guest blogger. Check them out.)

Comments

  • http://www.azconservative.org Bruce, Political Columnist

    Hillary, a cackling chipmunk with a Hitler complex?

  • Keith

    Yikes. Apparently Hillary is using this opportunity to tell her supporters that $35 million is not enough to defend herself.

    “Clinton’s top advisers, doing damage control after the candidate’s debate performance Tuesday, told supporters on a conference call Wednesday that the campaign needed more money to fight back.”

    http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/campaign-call-reveals-clinton-debate-concern-2007-11-01.html

    I have a feeling that Hillary requiring more money wouldn’t go away if she were elected.

  • Toby

    not likely, since the Republicans are breaking Reagan’s 11th commandment and attacking each other much harder, and don’t have any legitimate candidates to speak of

  • Troy La Mana

    Maybe if they blow each other up before the nomination we’ll have a Mondale election year.

  • Toby

    it was a beautiful thing to see Obama finally going for it.

    I do think that the debate, however, WAS planned and structured for exactly the kind of controversy that came up… Hillary was placed right between Edwards and Obama, and on issues related to her, both usually got to speak before she did, with one of the lower tier candidates getting a final word in at her.

    Well done to Dodd in particular

  • DhaMan

    Chris Dodd also got in some good comments. And if Mike Gravel was there, he would have added to the bonfire as well.