Hillary Clinton, last night:
“You know, the hits I’ve taken in life are nothing compared to what goes on every single day in the lives of people across our country.”
John Edwards, December 13th:
What’s not at stake are any of us. All of us are going to be just fine no matter what happens in this election. But what’s at stake is whether America is going to be fine.
Jack Stanton, fictional character in Primary Colors, 1996:
“Y’know, I’ve taken some hits in this campaign. It hasn’t been easy for me, or my family. It hasn’t been fair, but it hasn’t been anything compared to the hits a lot of you take every day.”
“The hits that I took in this election are nothing compared to the hits the people of this state and this country have been taking for a long time.”
That is why Hillary is running as the experience candidate. You have experienced it all before. I guess we can call that experience you can Xerox (was there a more cringeworthy moment in the night? You could just tell she was given that line from Wolfson or Penn).
And before I get 1500 testy Hillary fans in here, let me be clear- I don’t think Hillary did anything wrong appropriating this rhetoric last night. It was a nice end to a good debate. I do think this shows how baseless the plagiarism charges she and her staff levelled at Obama last week were, and demonstrates the kind of crap we will get from a Clinton White House once Hillary and her flunkies take over. And that really has been the story for this election. Hillary is a great candidate, but she has a terribly flawed coterie of scummy advisors.
(via Josh Marshall, Dan Drezner, and Ben Smith who put this all together)