Showing posts with label ready on day one. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ready on day one. Show all posts

Friday, April 11, 2008

Bill Clinton: Hillary too senile for 3 a.m.

Bill Clinton is supposed to be one of the most seasoned politicians, like since Caesar but you couldn't prove it from his behavior in his wife's campaign. He hurt her with his misstatements and racially charged comments in South Carolina. Last month his wife "misspoke" about being under sniper fire instead of attending a welcoming ceremony in Bosnia, a "misstatement" easily shown to be wrong when video emerged of her being greeted by a little girl at the airport, politicians and army brass. Leave it to the Clintons to elevate a misstatement into a self-serving lie.

The media derision of that lie (sorry, I misspoke, I meant misstatement) has subsided, so why is master politician Bill Clinton bringing it up again? In Indiana he mentions it in a speech, and says:

"But there was a lot of fulminating because Hillary, one time late at night when she was exhausted, misstated and immediately apologized for it, what happened to her in Bosnia in 1995. Did y'all see all that.


Yes, we saw it.

Okay, she was tired and it was late at night. Only, it wasn't -- it was actually a mid-morning speech. I guess it depends on what the definition of "time" is. Not to mention the fact that she made this "misstatement" on more than one occasion.

If bringing the whole thing up was mistake one, misstating the facts was mistake two, mistake three was the excuse Bill gave for her: she was too tired and aged to it right. He says (of reporters):

And some of them when they're 60 they'll forget something when they're tired at 11:00 at night, too."


Crisis in the world? 3 a.m. anyone? Geritol?

Thursday, February 21, 2008

Ready on Day One

Let's see what "Ready on Day One" gets you:

  1. 10 defeats in a row.
  2. Out fundraised two to one
  3. Had to fire campaign manager
  4. Had to fire state campaign chairman for making sleazy attack
  5. Oops, didn't file enough delegates in Pennsylvania
  6. Didn't understand the primary rules in Texas
  7. Alienating the party's African-American base
  8. Supported the most disastrous foreign policy blunder since WWII
  9. Can't keep spouse on message
  10. Failed to have a "Plan B" when coronation strategy didn't work
  11. Resorted to Giuliani Plan to win in Texas and Ohio after that tactic failed miserably for Rudy only weeks ago
  12. Losing support of key constituency to a candidate your campaign has described as a "fairy tail" who is all fluff and no substance.
Yep. She's ready, alright. Ready to remain the Jr. Senator from the state of New York.