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You are here: Home / Past Elections / Election 2008 / Give Her Another Friedman Unit

Give Her Another Friedman Unit

by John Cole|  April 18, 20087:37 am| 13 Comments

This post is in: Election 2008, Democratic Stupidity

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I have noted before the similarities between the Clinton campaign and our excellent adventure in Iraq, and as predicted, Hillary’s slash and burn campaign to try and and woo the supers is turning out to be epic fail:

Yet despite giving it her best shot in what might have been their final debate, interviews on Thursday with a cross-section of these superdelegates — members of Congress, elected officials and party leaders — showed that none had been persuaded much by her attacks on Mr. Obama’s strength as a potential Democratic nominee, his recent gaffes and his relationships with his former pastor and with a onetime member of the Weather Underground.

In fact, the Obama campaign announced endorsements from two more superdelegates on Thursday, after rolling out three on Wednesday and two others since late last week in what appeared to be a carefully orchestrated show of strength before Tuesday’s Pennsylvania primary. Obama advisers said that one of the pickups on Thursday, Councilman Harry Thomas Jr. of the District of Columbia, had initially favored Mrs. Clinton, but Clinton advisers denied that, and a Thomas aide said he had been neutral before Thursday.

This will all soon be over and we can group hug.

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  1. 1.

    Mary

    April 18, 2008 at 7:40 am

    The acronym for “Friedman Unit” is “FU”, John. We know what you and your two evil middle typing fingers meant by that. Sexist!

  2. 2.

    Jake

    April 18, 2008 at 7:49 am

    Robert Reich is also going to endorse today. He’s not an SD, but man does he have some harsh words for the Clinton campaign:

    “I saw the ads” — the negative man-on-street commercials that the Clinton campaign put up in Pennsylvania in the wake of Obama’s bitter/cling comments a week ago — “and I was appalled, frankly. I thought it represented the nadir of mean-spirited, negative politics. And also of the politics of distraction, of gotcha politics. It’s the worst of all worlds. We have three terrible traditions that we’ve developed in American campaigns. One is outright meanness and negativity. The second is taking out of context something your opponent said, maybe inartfully, and blowing it up into something your opponent doesn’t possibly believe and doesn’t possibly represent. And third is a kind of tradition of distraction, of getting off the big subject with sideshows that have nothing to do with what matters. And these three aspects of the old politics I’ve seen growing in Hillary’s campaign. And I’ve come to the point, after seeing those ads, where I can’t in good conscience not say out loud what I believe about who should be president. Those ads are nothing but Republicanism. They’re lending legitimacy to a Republican message that’s wrong to begin with, and they harken back to the past 20 years of demagoguery on guns and religion. It’s old politics at its worst — and old Republican politics, not even old Democratic politics. It’s just so deeply cynical.”

  3. 3.

    raff

    April 18, 2008 at 7:57 am

    “…and with a onetime member of the Weather Underground.

    Seems to me no-one was talking about this (I certainly hadn’t heard about until the debate) until Hannity spoon-fed George Snufalupagus this rightwing talking point.

  4. 4.

    nightjar

    April 18, 2008 at 8:00 am

    Good news from the front– as Bush and Petraeus meet with top advisors.

  5. 5.

    Jen

    April 18, 2008 at 8:09 am

    Clearly, these endorsements came before Fingergate. We don’t need that boy’s finger on the button, no sirree.

    I am hoping against hope that Rahm Emanuel comes out and waves his middle stump at her one of these days.

  6. 6.

    Soylent Green

    April 18, 2008 at 8:23 am

    It doesn’t take a Weatherman to see which way the wind is blowing.

  7. 7.

    les

    April 18, 2008 at 8:28 am

    I’m very concerned. I suspect that these announcements are politically motivated, and will be devastating ammunition in the hands of the Clinton campaign.

  8. 8.

    ThymeZone

    April 18, 2008 at 10:38 am

    Move over Leona Helmsley, there’s a new Queen of Mean in town!

    With each passing day, her favorability numbers in the polls sink lower and lower.

    Lovin every fucking minute of it here.

  9. 9.

    ThymeZone

    April 18, 2008 at 10:40 am

    Oh, and did I mention, Soylent Green is people.

    People, people.

  10. 10.

    Soylent Green

    April 18, 2008 at 11:32 am

    TZ,

    People, people, people.

    What’s your fucking point?

  11. 11.

    nightjar

    April 18, 2008 at 11:39 am

    “No more hunger and thirst
    But first be a person who needs eats people
    People, people who need eat people
    Are the luckiest people in the world.”

  12. 12.

    Soylent Green

    April 18, 2008 at 2:37 pm

    I get it now.

    Forgive me, O Great Persona ThymeZone, for failing to accept at face value every pearl of wisdom that you bestow upon us. May I cut out my tongue if ever again I should commit such an unpardonable sin.

    And by the way, soylent green is people.

  13. 13.

    SpaceCat

    April 18, 2008 at 3:22 pm

    “This will all soon be over and we can group hug.”

    Don’t hold your breath. If you take a step back, it seems obvious that Hillary is now running as much for some shot-in-the-dark chance to win the nomination as she is to destroy Obama. Never underestimate the Clintons’ capacity for sheistiness. That’s what this recovering Clintonite has learned during the course of this campaign.

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