Tuesday, February 26, 2008
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Good Bye, Norma Jean
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Posted by:
Mary Katharine Ham at
11:20 PM
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Hillary's fighting the same fight we're gonna be fighting in a general, it looks like, and she's losing using much the same tactics.
She's more substantive than Obama, but it doesn't matter most of the time. She outperformed him in multiple parts of this debate, but he parried with a smart line and the audience was laughing with him, at her.
He came off cool. She came off strident. Same ol' story. If Democrats are listening, they might concede she offered more, but many of them will just see that Obama made them laugh more often. Likeability's a ...witch, as they say.
Good luck next Tuesday, Hill.
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Watching the twentieth Democratic debate last night was kind of like watching a rerun of Seinfeld for the twentieth time: There were some entertaining moments, but for the most part, you knew exactly what to expect. Moderator Tim Russert gave us a couple of fresh angles asking about Louis Farrakhan’s endorsement of Barack Obama and the candidates’ familiarity with Russia’s “successor” to Vladimir Putin. Clinton and Obama are supposedly all about “change,” but in terms of the dynamics of the race, little of it seems to have come about in Cleveland last night. Not that there’s anything wrong with that: It made for another one of those close contests the experts make so much hay out of.here |
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