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The Tragedy Of Hillary Clinton's Speech [The Bitters]

newVideoPlayer("/hillaryzcrazy.flv", 506, 423,""); Tonight was going to be a sad and even tragic night for some Hillary Clinton supporters no matter what. Those who threw themselves into the presidential candidate's long and ultimately bitter campaign against Barack Obama were going to have a tough time listening to her speak anywhere on the Democratic convention schedule other than at the triumphant end. When Clinton came out, and the cameras panned to her husband Bill, it wasn't hard to imagine his regrets overwhelming any happiness in the moment. Clinton gave a well-received speech that seemed genuinely conciliatory. "Barack Obama is my candidate and he must be our president," she said. But her most ardent supporters still have to decide whether to let go of their anger and go along with this. [lien] [EN]

Clinton To Appoint Government "Webloggers" [Bad Ideas]

In a desperate bid to strip dangerous "bloggers" of their growing influence, presidential candidate Hillary Clinton announced this weekend a devious plan to legitimize internet scribblers by... [lien] [EN]

Chelsea Clinton Gets Lei’d

Chelsea Clinton gets lei’d by a few dozen natives as she arrives in Maui, Hawaii on Sunday to campaign for her mother, Democratic presidental candidate Hillary Clinton. The 27-year-old former first daughter (and possible future first daughter) did her best to dance hula after she arrived. “I’m sorry if I embarrassed you with my hula efforts,” Chelsea said. Hillary may have a hard time winning the Democratic primary this week in Hawaii, as her opponent Barack Obama was born and raised in the Aloha State. [lien] [EN]

Clinton restates her aerospace policy

On Sunday Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton issued a statement “in support of U.S. aerospace and aviation”. The statement is largely a restatement of her October 2007 science policy and follow-up statements, with additional aviation-specific items. The section of greatest relevance to space policy: Hillary will double NASA’s and FAA’s aeronautics R&D budgets as [...] [lien] [EN]

Clinton Acknowledges: ‘I Misspoke’

PHILADELPHIA — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton said Monday that she “misspoke” when she said last week that she ran from sniper fire when she landed in Bosnia in 1996. Her comments, made to the Philadelphia Daily News, are her first since news organizations and others began questioning the degree of danger she faced on her trip, made when she was first lady. In an effort to build up her foreign policy credentials as a presidential candidate, Mrs. Clinton had said last week, and earlier, that when she landed in Tuzla, she and others, including her daughter, “ran with our heads down” to avoid sniper fire. News organizations and others cast doubt on Mrs. Clinton's description and raised questions about her credibility. Her aides said earlier Monday that she had misspoken, and later in the day. [lien] [EN]

Clinton introduces a familiar-looking Arecibo bill

Friday’s Orlando Sentinel reports that senator and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has introduced legislation designed to support the Arecibo radio observatory in Puerto Rico. The giant radio telescope is in danger of closing because of budget pressures on the National Science Foundation’s astronomy programs, much to the consternation of astronomers who use the [...] [lien] [EN]

"Each candidate chooses the rule at the moment that is in their self-interest."

"Each candidate chooses the rule at the moment that is in their self-interest." [lien] [EN]

The Early Word: Candidates Talk Up Experience

All of the presidential hopefuls yesterday expressed their reactions to the assassination of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto. But they also used the moment to emphasize their own crisis preparedness and experience as talk on the trail shifted back, at least momentarily, to foreign policy. The Washington Post’s Anne E. Kornblut and Shailagh Murray spell out the differences in approaches between Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton: News of Benazir Bhutto’s assassination came just hours before Sen. Barack Obama delivered what his campaign had billed as the “closing argument” in his bid for the Democratic presidential nomination Thursday, forcing his campaign to scramble to incorporate the Pakistani opposition leader into his message of change. For his chief rival, Sen. [lien] [EN]

Hillary Clinton Goes There

You know, everyone's spent so much time today opining on Hillary Clinton briefly choking up that people have missed an actually embarrassing Clinton moment. Trailing in New Hampshire and South Carolina, and tied in a new national Gallup Poll, Clinton's decided to take a page from the playbook of the Republican party, and try to...try to...SCARE YOU ABOUT THE BROWN PEOPLE UNDER YOUR BED AIEEEEEE! “I don’t think it was by accident that Al Qaeda decided to test the new prime minister,” she said. “They watch our elections as closely as we do, maybe more closely than some of our fellows citizens do…. Let’s not forget you’re hiring a president not just to do what a candidate says during the election, you want a president to be there when the chips are down.”You know, it doesn't sound any less obnoxious coming from a Democrat than it does coming from a Republican. [lien] [EN]

Hillary Clinton’s Teary Moment

Filed under: Hillary Clinton, 2008 President, Viral VideoHillary became a little verklempt today. Over the top or master politician? Personally this doesn't work for me. For one thing I'm a pretty cynical guy and most likely to believe that she's playing the crowd. I also can't help remembering that Bill Clinton was masterful at this and could cry on cue, bite that lower lip and just go for the heart. While I don't think that Hillary is even in the same league as Bill on this sort of thing, she could have taken lessons from the man himself. But the larger question is how does this play. I think Obama is on a momentum swing right now, He's going to win NH big, and he's moving up huge in South Carolina. Hillary's stopper is going to be New York, Florida (with all the ex New Yorkers) and California. [lien] [EN]

Angry Women Back Clinton

So why did Hillary Clinton win tonight? That’s gonna be the question, and it’s a good one. One can cite the “Bradley Effect,” and that was perhaps part of the answer. But not all of it, nor even most of it. No, Clinton won tonight because in the last few days, the level of misogyny directed toward her had reached a fever pitch, and the women of New Hampshire decided that they’d had enough of it. Clinton has, of course, faced coded attacks on her gender throughout the campaign, just as Obama has faced attacks on his race. This is nothing new for Hillary, of course; she’s been facing attacks for being too self-actualized since 1992. But starting with Saturday night’s debate, those attacks became less coded and more overt. I’m not sure exactly why; maybe, with Clinton in dire straits. [lien] [EN]

CLINTON WINS, PUNDITS LOSE

My latest Pajamas Media column is up and it deals with Hillary’s surprise win last night in the New Hampshire primary. A sample: Living in this little internet cocoon being bombarded by the daily spin of pundits, prognosticators, “experts,” and the campaigns themselves, it is quite easy to fall for a buzz that everyone – and I mean everyone – was touting. Obama, the annointed one. Obama, the crowned one. Obama, the beautified. And his opposite number in the race was ready to quit, was weeping from exhaustian and frustration, resigned to being buried by the Obama juggernaut. But someone neglected to tell Hillary Clinton that her defeat was foreordained and in the stars. So the candidate continued a killer schedule and doggedly soldiered on, refusing to bow to what everyone in Chrsitendom was telling her was going to be a smashing. [lien] [EN]

Bill Clinton Likes Candidate Fighting, Dislikes Candidate Fighting [The Clintons]

Bill Clinton wants to kill you. All of you. When Bill Clinton gets angry, he wants to kill everything. At least this has been the tale the last couple of weeks — rumors abound that Ted Kennedy... [lien] [EN]

Hillary Clinton Wants Delegates Heard (especially from Michigan and Florida)

[Guest post by DRJ] This year Michigan Democrats moved up their primary to January 15 in order to have a greater influence on the selection of the Democratic Presidential nominee. However, under Democratic National Committee rules, only Iowa, Nevada, New Hampshire and South Carolina are allowed to hold primaries before February 5. As a result of this dispute, Democratic candidates Obama, Biden, Richardson, and Edwards withdrew from the Michigan primary and agreed not to campaign in Michigan. Hillary Clinton, Kucinich, Dodd, and Gravel also agreed not to campaign in Michigan but their names remained on the ballot. Those four candidates split the Michigan vote with Hillary as the big winner. A similar dispute arose in the Florida primary scheduled for January 29. Now Hillary Clinton has issued a statement urging that the Florida and Michigan delegates should nevertheless be seated at the Democratic Convention so the voices of Michigan and Florida voters will be heard. [lien] [EN]

Bill Clinton Draws Hundreds in Ohio

CLEVELAND — Bill Clinton stuck to the script on Tuesday during a rally at a community college near Cleveland, keeping the focus on his wife and steering clear of any fresh remarks about Senator Barack Obama. But Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's ever-watchful campaign aides still seemed nervous that the former president would serve up a rerun of the kind of comments that set off a major controversy in South Carolina last week. Reporters were shooed away from the rope line and sternly warned not to ask any questions as Mr. Clinton posed for photos with hundreds of supporters after the speech. His performance at Cuyahoga Community College was classic Clinton, alternating between self-deprecating jokes and long discourses on arcane federal policy. But he never strayed far from his central message. [lien] [EN]

Hillary Clinton wants to eliminate due process for immigrants? What is this, bizzaro liberalism?

Although some are claiming her stance on immigration is preceded by years of anti-immigrant policy in the previous Clinton White House, I’m still totally flabbergasted by Hillary Clinton’s recent spate of comments calling for swift deportation of immigrants, with no due process. Until today, I was still not completely decided on who I wanted to vote for in the primary next Tuesday. There are a lot of things I actually like about Clinton: I’m more impressed with her take on universal health care, and I strongly believe in the need for a woman in the White House someday soon. But unless this is a hoax, or there’s some explanation that convinces me it’s all wildly misconstrued, there is now a 0% chance I will vote for Hillary Rodham Clinton. The New York Sun is known for having a somewhat neocon bent. [lien] [EN]

Clinton, Obama Court Maine Voters

BANGOR, Me. — Both Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama campaigned in Maine today in advance of the state's Democratic caucuses on Sunday. Maine appears to be one of the post-Super Tuesday states where Mrs. Clinton is very competitive with Mr. Obama, although there have been no polls. A win here could help Mrs. Clinton blunt the edge of what many analysts suggest will be Mr. Obama's expected victories in some of the other eight states that vote today and later this month before Ohio and Texas in March. “If she wants to win before March, Maine is her best shot,” said Mark Brewer, a political scientist at the University of Maine in nearby Orono. At stake in Maine are 34 delegates, 10 of whom will be unpledged superdelegates. They are allocated proportionately, and with the national delegate count neck and neck. [lien] [EN]

The Candidates on Nader

The Democratic and Republican candidates have begun weighing in on Ralph Nader’s announcement this morning on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that yes, he has decided to run for the presidency under the mantle of the Green Party, again. While he has been derided by Democrats for taking away votes from Al Gore in the 2000 presidential race, his impact in 2004 was minimal. But he outlined his reasons for offering himself up yet again as a choice for voters before Tim Russert earlier today, as our colleague Sarah Wheaton posted earlier. NBC also has posted the video and the transcript of its interview with Mr. Nader. Meanwhile, the candidates, with the exception of Senator John McCain, who is on a “down day,” had a bit to say about this late-hour bid. The Times’s Julie Bosman was on the plane with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton today. [lien] [EN]

He Needs a Moment

Question: how many defining moments equal an epiphany? The reason I ask is because David Brooks seems to be having a lot of defining moments about Barack Obama and the Democrats in general recently. The Democratic presidential primary campaign began around Christmas 2006, and it may end Tuesday night. But of all the days between then and now, the most important was Nov. 10, 2007. On that day, the Democratic Party of Iowa held its Jefferson-Jackson dinner and invited the candidates to speak. There were thousands of Democrats sitting around tables on the floor of the Veterans Memorial Auditorium in Des Moines, and rowdy thousands more up in the stands. [...] Clinton rode the passion of the crowd and delivered an energetic battle cry. And in many elections that sort of speech. [lien] [EN]