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I was disappointed by The Huffington Post when they posted an article about the State Of The Union written completely in the past tense 2 hours before the speech began. The article not only doesn’t specify that it was actually written before the speech based on released excerpts and a lot of supposition but it seems to go out of it’s way to convince the reader otherwise. For example talking about what wasn’t said and reaction.
I understand the drive for a scoop but even if you had the complete text in advance or came from the future it’s irresponsible reporting and I for one am disappointed.
But there’s still good news out the such as the Kennedy trio’s support of Obama. In case you missed Caroline Kennedy’s wonderfully well written op-ed or Ted and Patrick’s press conference I recommend you check out the articles on it. I guess Hillary’s ‘you’re no JFK’ line suddenly lost it’s footing when almost all of his relatives come out in support of Obama. It’s just wonderful, I can call him a JFK for my generation without doing a shoulder check now.
Insiders are calling it almost a betrayal of Clinton who was close to the family and had actually received more donations from the family than Obama. Many are speculating Bill’s behaviour was the final nail in the coffin.
I mean, how wrong do you have to be to have Al Sharpton tell you to shut up and have the majority agree with the sentiment?
Bill’s done more damage than any of us thought. He’s upset female voters because he made it look like either Hillary couldn’t do it herself or couldn’t control him. He’s annoyed voters in general because they dislike the idea of co-presidents. He upset his supporters by sinking to tactics he himself spoke out against when he ran for office. He’s offended African Americans by making race an issue. He’s offended union leaders by claiming to be witness to strong-arming that Jon Stewart effectively argued was impossible for him to see and those involved on both sides said was inaccurate at best, untrue at worst.
Hold on. I just had idea. Bill’s no idiot. Let’s just say, hypothetically, that Bill actually preferred Obama over his wife for the nomination. If he came out publicly her career, their marriage, and perhaps his life would all end. What could he do? Go the other way and push too hard for his wife? Make ambiguous statements that would obviously bring up issues of race? Hillary play the race card? Come on. That’s a battle she;d lose and no one wants to see so they’d resent her just for bringing it up.
Could Bill be secretly sabotaging his wife’s candidacy?
I know I’m probably grasping at straws trying to reconcile the Clinton I believed in during the 90s and the assclown we’ve seen since Iowa.
Did Obama’s Iowa win piss Bill off enough to go on the offensive or did it show him his wife could be beat by a superior candidate?
Everyone but Bill in the Clinton camp including Hillary has commented on Bill hopefully reigning it in. I guess time will tell.
