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| 2010-07-12 |
| Bernard Goldberg I'm climbing out on a limb. I'm jumping the canyon on a motorcycle without a parachute. I'm walking the tightrope without a net. I'm out of clichés. So here goes: I know the next presidential election is more than two years off, and all sorts of things can happen between now and then. But I am predicting right here, right now, that Hillary Clinton will run for president in 2012 -- yes 2012 -- challenging President Obama for their party's nomination. If it's occurring to millions of Americans who voted for Obama, it must be occurring to Hillary Clinton too: The magic is gone. Barack Obama can't walk on water no matter how hard his fans in the media tried to turn him into the messiah. And that hope and change thing? Well, it isn't working out the way it was supposed to, either.... If things don't improve, independents, who switch back and forth from one party to another all the time, will have no trouble abandoning President Obama next time around. But white liberals would never forsake America's first black president -- at least not to vote for some other Democrat who looks like Walter Mondale or Michael Dukakis or Al Gore or John Kerry. But Hillary gives them the opportunity to assuage their white liberal guilt -- and -- bonus! -- make history all over again. They can drop the black guy and vote for someone they hope will be the first woman president of the United States and still hang on to their precious liberal credentials. You think Hillary hasn't figured that one out, either?... |
| Posted by:Mike |
| #10 AHHHHhahahah...choke, coughcoughcough, gasp! |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2010-07-12 23:50 |
| #9 She'll name Barry Soetoro her Vice Presidential running mate, capturing the obvious voting segments, and we'll be faced with 4 more years of this insanity. Grizzly bear Cat fight coming! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-07-12 18:50 |
| #8 Happy, happy. Joy, joy. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2010-07-12 16:35 |
| #7 Which is what Ross Perot did in 1992, supposedly in exchange for EDS getting the MIS contract for the national health care Hillary was going to pass after the election. I'm not really sure I care much for the fiction that Hillary is some sort of moderate or semi-conservative. She voted for all of this mess just the same as the Teleprompter Jesus did. IF she has any substantive policy differences with him, I haven't heard them from her lips yet. And she's done lots of incompetence during her stay at State; Reset Button, anyone? |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-07-12 16:33 |
| #6 Watch Massachusetts. Governor Deval Patrick's entire political rise there has been a test bed for the Obama rise to the Presidency. Slogan for slogan, tactic for tactic, things were tried there first, and if they worked (which they largely did) they were used at the national level in the Obama machine. Right now, the Democrats in MA have run a fiscally conservative Dem named Tim Cahill as an "independent". Instead of taking votes from Deval Patrick, they have all come from independents who would have voted for the Republican Charlie Baker. In a manner which is completely dishonest and cynical, Cahill denies he is doing this to get Patrick reelected, when it's patently obvious he is doing exactly that. If this trick works in MA, and Deval Patrick gets back in in November, it's a dead cinch that this will be done at the national level, either with Hillary Clinton or Jim Webb. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2010-07-12 16:21 |
| #5 I suspect Hillary is going to wait and see how the 2010 elections go. If it is a bloodbath for Democrats she will probably set up her exploratory committee the next day. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2010-07-12 16:10 |
| #4 I guess now we know who's gonna be the Ross Perot of 2012. |
| Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain 2010-07-12 12:55 |
| #3 ...Oh, HELL yes, this is going to happen. Over the weekend, FoxNews ran a great story about a documentary that claims to show how President Obama's team - using 'aggressive tactics' no different from ANY Chicago election in the last 150 years or so - stole the 08' Democratic nomination from Hillary. I looked at the wife and said, "This is the opening shot in Hillary's 2012 campaign." Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2010-07-12 12:15 |
| #2 I'll crawl over broken glass to vote for her in the Florida Democratic Primary. (Hiya Commodore!) |
| Posted by: Shipman 2010-07-12 11:17 |
| #1 But Hillary gives them the opportunity to assuage their white liberal guilt -- and -- bonus! -- make history all over again. They can drop the black guy and vote for someone they hope will be the first woman president of the United States and still hang on to their precious liberal credentials. You think Hillary hasn't figured that one out, either?... In my opinion, Hillary (and Slick Willie) and those few liberals with buyers remorse have their collective knickers in a twist waiting for 2012. |
| Posted by: WolfDog 2010-07-12 11:07 |