Tuesday, January 08, 2008

Clinton's teary moment

Terry McAuliffe, Hillary Clinton's campaign chairman, is already attributing her NH win to her tearing up yesterday:
Mrs. Clinton’s chairman, on MSNBC attributes her apparent victory to her tearful moment yesterday: “That humanizing moment yesterday,” he says. “That did it.”
Jesus Christ, how absolutely stupid are campaign chairman. Does he really, honestly think that intelligent people saw her tear up for 1.3 seconds and said to themselves, that's it, I'm voting for he, regardless of her positions or her work or her experience or her character? What kind of fucking monkeys do they think we are? It's a terrible indictment and I just can't even fathom that he is so ill-exposed to the electorate that he thinks that. It's almost enough reason to vote against Hillary Clinton in any future election. Better he should just keep his mouth shut....

1 comment:

Dano said...

...how absolutely stupid are campaign chairman. Does he really, honestly think that intelligent people saw her tear up for 1.3 seconds and said to themselves, that's it, I'm voting for he, regardless of her positions or her work or her experience or her character?

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"During his 1956 presidential campaign, a woman called out to Adlai E Stevenson: 'Senator, you have the vote of every thinking person!'

Stevenson called back 'That's not enough, madam, we need a majority!'"
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Listening to the wall-to-wall coverage this morning, quite a few interviewees fell for it and used the 'got emotional' bit as the tipping point.

Best,

D