The Comeback Girl
MANCHESTER -- An exhausted Hillary Clinton wept Monday morning in Portsmouth. Celebrating her stunning NH primary victory here last night, the revived WH Dem actually got emotional.
"I listened to you. And in the process, I found my own voice," Clinton told a "fired up, ready to go" crowd at Southern New Hampshire University. "Now, together, let's give America the kind of comeback that New Hampshire has just given me!"
"The Comeback Girl." Get used to hearing the words, and to seeing them printed on campaign posters and t-shirts. "Bill came in second in New Hampshire," a Clinton aide noted tonight after the senator's victory speech. "Hillary won."
While no Clinton aide would dream of reliving the past five days of internal finger-pointing and recrimination, her third-place IA finish might prove to be exactly what her campaign needed, forcing strategists to recraft their message and, as she said, to find her voice.
So, what will Clinton's new voice say?
It will, apparently, say a lot less about Clinton, and a lot more about the voters she's hoping to win over.
To wit, when Clinton launched her campaign in 1/07, she did so with the phrase "I'm in it, and I'm in it to win it." Tonight, Clinton retooled that phrase. "I'm in it, and I'm in it for the American people."
Last week in IA, aides placed ex-Sec/State Madeline Albright in a prominent place behind Clinton as the senator delivered her concession speech. Albright, the first woman sec/state, was intended to remind voters of the campaign's historic nature. Albright was nowhere to be seen tonight; the faces standing behind Clinton at SHU were almost entirely children. "This campaign is about the future, and we know that. The future of the American people," the aide said.
In case that point wasn't being made clearly, Clinton drove it home more bluntly.
"We came back tonight because you spoke loudly and clearly," she said. "You want this campaign to be about you. Because there is so much at stake."
"Too many have been invisible for too long. Well you are not invisible to me" [JOHN MERCURIO]
Wept? What are you, a Maureen Dowd wannabe?
It's snarky "reporters", such as yourself, which enabled Hillary's win yesterday.
Ironic, huh?
In Tuesday evening's New Hampshire primary results, Clinton and her special interest party won tonight over the party of the people.
The people of New Hampshire stood in long lines to vote and the exit polls were not wrong and the pollster were not wrong, by all rights Obama should have won New Hampshire, but the special interest groups pulled another rabbit out of their hat and gave the victory to Clinton. The earlier results where there were paper ballots the victory went to Obama in a very large margin, with the voting machines Clinton got the victory. This same scenario happened to Gore and Kerry. The exit polls and pollster saying one thing and the machines saying another. That is why people cannot trust their government, and until we have voting machines that are fool proof and tamper proof and go go back to elections with paper ballots, like in Iowa, we cannot really trust our election results.
On the eve of the election, Hillary played her poor me, self-pity act (her so-called authentic moment) and Media complicit in this charade, played this teary-eyed Hillary over and over again to get out the "sympathy vote", which she did, but neglecting the air the piece right afterwards in which she lashes out at Barack Obama . This policy blunder will be huge ammonition for the Republicans if she wins the nomination. This "teary-eyed" piece will be aired over and over again in campaign commercials; citing her as to weak and to unstable to lead the country. A big mistake for her!
Change is hard, but Senator Obama will continue on with his message of hope and change. The special interst groups do not want to give up their power and they will do everything they can to keep power in their hands and out of the people's hands. Deciding who to back, be it Republican or Democrat as long as they serve their ends. Eventually the people will win and we will keep on fighting.
President Clinton, a man supposedly of honor, distorted and took out of context words Senator Obama's spoke at the 2004 Democratic Convention about his stance on the Iraq war. Do we really want people like that in the White House who will lie and distort for their own selfish gains? Or do we want a man of goodwill and integrity in the White House a man more concerned about you than himself. It is no easy to task for a man to risk his life for you because he answers the call to make America better and to take it to a higher ground.
When President Clinton achieved his Presidency, he took a lot of Democrats down. They had record loss in both the Senate and the Congress and the tone of Washington, D.C, was divisive and nasty, and a Hillary Presidency will do the same and we will have lost our moment to come together as one.
Much is at stake, we are at a crossroads. Change is hard because the media is in their pockets; the voting machines cannot be trusted. We can only HOPE! God bless this county!
I thought "kid" was gender neutral.
"Comeback Girl"? How better to trivialize and marginalize a woman of accomplishment, primary notwithstanding?
Since there's some downtime between now and the SC primary, how about coming up with something more creative and less patronizing?
Re: BacaAngel: Lou Dobbs (a Republican cynic of Democrats) said he was convinced her tearing up was authentic. I would LOVE to see the Pubs replay "Hillary's Moment" a thousand times a day everyday during the election -- because most all people see a sincere person very concerned about what has been happening to America since King George entered the WH.
Voter Fraud is an imaginary problem. Check out
"http://www.pbs.org/now/shows/348/index.html"
to see that an extensive Justice Department investigation revealed that voters are legit. Election fraud is certainly not a problem in California.
I sure would feel a whole lot better if Barrack had VOTED in the U.S. Senate on the same issue that Hillary did. It's easy to criticize when your own political future was never put to a test as Hillary's was (during her first of two terms).
You know, compare apples to apples, not oranges.
Don't you think Big Insurance and Big Hospitals and Big Pharma had a whole lot to do with the Republican take-over in 1994? You give Bill Clinton way too much credit :-)
My best friend is going out with this girl. Shes been calling me and weve been talking for a while like every night for like 3 hours at a time. I think im in love with her and i broke the news to her and told her that i like her. She said that she liked me a lot to and ever since i told her weve been seeing eachother every day and talking. Every time i get tempted to do something with her and she doesnt resist but i dont do it because she is going out with my best friend. She says that she doesnt know if she wants to break up with him or not. She says that she doesnt like him tho and shes still trying to decide. Its driving me crazy and i dont know what to do. Someone help