Doing my best to wake up with the Sunday talkers and a fresh pot of coffee. Ralph Nader says he’s in the presidential race. That’s likely not good news for the Obama campaign, but also likely not bad ENOUGH to really help Clinton. All the morning shows are busy showing her attack on Obama for the recent mailer that she says doesn’t accurately portray her health care plan or trade policies. She seems to be sincerely angry. My problem with the outburst is the timing. The mailing has been out there for a while. She certainly could have brought it up during this week’s debate, couldn’t she? This is why her campaign is stumbling.
No Entitlement for the Clintons
This is as good an epitaph as any: The Clintons sought to marginalize Obama as a candidate for African Americans. It backfired. African American voters and millions of other Americans aren’t buying what Hillary Clinton is selling. They didn’t regard her presidency as inevitable. Nor did they consider her years as first lady, or her time spent with Little Rock’s Rose Law Firm or her service on Wal-Mart’s board of directors as qualifying her to become the nation’s commander in chief. They recognized the yeast in Hillary Clinton’s résumé. And [... ]
Tags: 2008 Elections, Hillary Clinton
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