I read this and almost admire and feel for Her. Then come over here to post and see all the vile anti-Obama threads. They wipe out any possible positive feelings I could have for Her.
Yes. I guess I do allow scamps here influence my perception. I know that these are talking points straight from Her desk. Obama has never given a negative taking point. We come to our *hate* all on our own.
Furthermore, it is even sadder that there are still people who claim that She has a chance!
Look at HER CAMPAIGN!
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/24/on-the-road-clintons-very-bad-day/On the Road: Clinton’s Very Bad Day
By Katharine Q. Seelye
On The Road - The Caucus - Politics - New York Times Blog
Friday might have been one of the worst days of Senator Hillary Clinton’s political career. Her campaign, as everyone knows, was already struggling. But on Friday, she made a reference to Bobby Kennedy’s assassination _ a terrible choice of phrase in a presidential campaign that features an African-American candidate.
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We had a front-row seat to this very strange day, and we want to describe the whole thing for you because it says a lot about the state of Mrs. Clinton’s campaign, about the media and about politics in the Internet age.
In the morning the campaign, with its traveling press corps of about two-dozen reporters, photographers and camera operators, flew from Washington to Sioux Falls, S.D., to campaign in advance of the June 3 primary.
Mrs. Clinton had three events. First was a meeting with the editorial board of the Sioux Falls Argus Leader, which was live-streaming the interview, something a few newspapers just started doing in this election cycle.
The press corps, meanwhile, was on a bus from the airport to Brandon, a few miles away, to set up for her second event at a supermarket. (The media are sometimes in a different place from the candidate, usually when the event is private or small.)
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Mrs. Clinton, meanwhile, was finishing up her short talk with the people in the produce section, where voters were asking her about her decision to pursue the nomination, often offering words of encouragement. One woman asked her about the once-arcane subject of superdelegates.
“I’m racing against the wind here,” Mrs. Clinton said, noticing that Mr. Obama had the “establishment” endorsements in the state. Afterward, she posed for pictures with workers behind the deli counter and went into a holding room.
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But Mrs. Clinton still had one more event. We quickly packed up from the supermarket and got on the bus for a 50-mile ride to Brookings, where she held a town hall meeting with a few hundred people in a farm museum shed.
The Kennedy remark was not mentioned. But she was introduced by a retired college teacher, who said Mrs. Clinton was one of her heroes.
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Mrs. Clinton stuck to her stump speech. But she was clearly dispirited. She spoke in an unusually soft, almost perfunctory way. The crowd was subdued, applauding occasionally. There were no banners or “Hillary” signs.
For the first question, she called on a man with a toddler asleep on his shoulder. The man delivered an unexpected rant about President Bill Clinton’s having pardoned several Puerto Rican nationalists in 1999. He suggested that Mr. Clinton pardoned them so that Puerto Ricans in New York would vote for Mrs. Clinton for Senate in her 2000 campaign.
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