PRESIDENT CLINTON SEES POST-IOWA 'TIDAL WAVE'
(The New York Sun) - On a day when his wife got choked up on the campaign trail, President Clinton showed anger and frustration as he complained that the press has given a free ride to the nascent front-runner in the Democratic presidential contest, Senator Obama of Illinois.
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From National Review Online:
One of the most interesting elements of the Clinton implosion in the past week has been the way Bill Clinton has chosen anger and resentment as his mode of persuasion. It’s something he did quite a lot to Republicans in the 90s, of course: that disappointment bordering on anger that “these folks” would do whatever it was they were doing. But to see it employed against Democratic primary voters, and to see him more or less explicitly argue that voting against his wife is an act of ingratitude to him, is just an amazing laying bare of the petty egoism and dark delusions at the heart of the Clinton story. I just wonder: Does he actually think this could be effective in getting voters to support Hillary?
From National Review Online:
Bill Clinton is reminding America of why it was so tired of him by 2000. His contrite and/or happy "I-just-wanna-help-everyone" side is the part people like, and it's the part we've seen so far on the trail. Yet here's that other Clinton — touchy, defensive, self-absorbed, arrogant.
From National Review Online:
Guy's you need to enjoy this more. As I wrote in my LAT column a while back: "The most enjoyable aspect of watching the HMS Hillary take on water is the prospect that Bill — and his cult of personality — will go down with the ship, too." He made this election about him and people are saying no thanks. This is why they came up with the word schadenfreude. For all the "I Miss Bill" bumper stickers, spade work by Hillary Matters for America and generalized Blumenthalian Clinton nostalgia, it must be said with a joyous heart that the activist base of the Democratic Party, young people and "open-minded" independents have been presented with a referendum on Bill Clinton and they're voting no. These are not rightwingers saying "thanks, but no thanks" but Clinton's own base. Come on people, that's good stuff!
Let Bill Clinton go into a purple rage rebutting the suggestion, like he did with Chris Wallace. You know for a certainty that if Hillary won, Bill would make it clear that this was a referendum on his presidency. That's how he's campaigned for her. If he set himself up for the credit, he deserves the blame too. Let others parse out how much he deserves. All I know is he deserves a lot.
From American Thinker:
Change is a powerful theme in politics. And after 20 years of Clintons and Bushes, the American people are plain fed up.
The same way people tired of the Kennedys running for President, voters are rejecting Hillary Clinton because finally, they realize that as much as some would like a woman president, the fact that she's a Clinton outweighs all other considerations.
She should have divorced Bill and then announced her candidacy.
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