Alarming News: I like Morgan Freeberg. A lot.
American Digest: And I like this from "The Blog That Nobody Reads", because it is -- mostly -- about me. What can I say? I'm on an ego trip today. It won't last.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: We were following a trackback and thinking "hmmm... this is a bloody excellent post!", and then we realized that it was just part III of, well, three...Damn. I wish I'd written those.
Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: ...I just remembered that I found a new blog a short while ago, House of Eratosthenes, that I really like. I like his common sense approach and his curiosity when it comes to why people believe what they believe rather than just what they believe.
Brutally Honest: Morgan Freeberg is brilliant.
Dr. Melissa Clouthier: Morgan Freeberg at House of Eratosthenes (pftthats a mouthful) honors big boned women in skimpy clothing. The picture there is priceless--keep scrolling down.
Exile in Portales: Via Gerard: Morgan Freeberg, a guy with a lot to say. And he speaks The Truth...and it's fascinating stuff. Worth a read, or three. Or six.
Just Muttering: Two nice pieces at House of Eratosthenes, one about a perhaps unintended effect of the Enron mess, and one on the Gore-y environ-movie.
Mein Blogovault: Make "the Blog that No One Reads" one of your daily reads.
The Virginian: I know this post will offend some people, but the author makes some good points.
Poetic Justice: Cletus! Ah gots a laiv one fer yew...
Monday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360,” chief national correspondent John King said despite any message redo, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is no Bill, because when she went to Chipotle, she spoke to none of the average Americans she is hoping to champion.
King said a CNN contributor called the Chipotle manager, who seemed surprised the former secretary of state had graced his establishment, saying, “The manager of the Chipotle in Ohio had to look at the security video to prove it was Hillary Clinton who stopped in at Chipotle today. She went to Chipotle, she got lunch apparently, and she didn’t talk to anybody. Ohio’s kind of important in presidential politics….”
H/T: Chicks on the Right.
Is Hillary any good at this whole campaigning-thing?
The defense of the Clinton scandals follows a predictable path: cheerleaders angrily blame some “Vast Right Wing Conspiracy,” or they pretend to respond but really ignore the question, or they lie.
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Is there any honest doubt that Hillary is even duller than Gore and even more puffed up than Kerry? Is there any question in anyone’s mind that if she were not Mrs. William Jefferson Clinton, this boorish old woman would not seriously be considered as a candidate for president at all?
Well…maybe not, but there’s a lot of question about whether she’s a failed candidate. More question about that, in fact, than there is about whether she’s still Little Miss Inevitable.
If Hillary is indeed the 2016 Democratic nominee, all she has to do to win the necessary 270 electoral votes is sustain the historic equation outlined in my November National Review piece “Breaking the Blue Barrier.” That equation is: 1992 + 1988 + Florida = a Democrat in the White House.
That first number represents the ten states with a total of 152 electoral votes that have been won by every Democratic presidential nominee since 1992. The second number represents the nine states with a total of 90 electoral votes that have been won by every Democratic presidential nominee since 1988. Together, those states command 242 electoral votes. Thus, if Hillary follows the Electoral College precedent that has held since 1992 and also wins Florida, with its 29 electoral votes (or any combination of states yielding 28 votes), Bill Clinton would be elected First Dude. (Mothers, hide your daughters!)
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…anything can happen, and much will, between now and November 8, 2016. However, these five factors will likely form the foundation of Hillary Clinton’s victory. In addition, many low-information voters will pull the Clinton lever because they have been led to believe that a Republican alternative is far more dangerous than letting Bill and Hill back in the White House. Now, friends, please don’t shoot the messenger. Just tell me why I am wrong.
Maybe this “Chiplote” thing is the answer to that. When you get right down to it, there really is no campaign slogan that fits Hillary besides “Vote for me, I’m better than you are.”
Then again, that’s not good enough to sink a candidate who happens to be a democrat. In fact, are you ready for something really depressing?
Since 1984, there is an almost perfect correlation between whether democrat candidates for the White House, are ready to show their belief in the better-than-anybody-else axiom, and whether they win. Yes Bill Clinton would have made some chit-chat at the restaurant, but as a celebrity and not as an equal. The democrats who would have practiced the fine art of “everyman” campaigning were Michael Dukakis and Walter Mondale. The only ones who break the pattern were John Kerry and Al Gore, and Al Gore doesn’t count because…well, you’ve heard it so many times before, haven’t you? He did win the popular vote & everything…
The point is, although Hillary is as politically clumsy as a Monday is long, this doesn’t provide much reassurance. It isn’t reasonable to expect democrat candidates to pay a penalty for a handicap like that, when they show no pattern of being so penalized.
If I were a Republican strategist, struggling to figure out what to do in the wake of Hillary winning the democrat nomination, I would try to get in the heads of royalists — those who must work toward her defeat, must labor not toward showing her to be a bad American President or a bad American Politician, but a bad member of a royal household. That really is the issue. Like it or not, we have a large portion of the electorate that is lusting for a peerage, wanting to live vicariously through the experiences of some first-among-mortals immediate-family that is above everyone.
It stinks on ice, but given that background and what her supporters want to see in her, she didn’t even do that “bad” of a job campaigning here. She may even have some sagely advice being offered to her behind closed doors, that stopping to talk to the riff-raff would have been a mistake.
Of course, it must be said there is some blowback involved in this strategy…(link auto-plays)
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“She may even have some sagely advice being offered to her behind closed doors,…”
Oh, I suspect she has a DOZEN “special tutors”, explaining
Economics
The Constitution
Political Science
Woman’s Rights
Contemporary vocabulary
Logic
and, of course
International relations
Maybe Home Economics, “just in case”?
- CaptDMO | 04/14/2015 @ 08:00The riffraff:
- P_Ang | 04/14/2015 @ 17:141.) Don’t pander with the same fealty and respect as subservient media. See exhibit 1A: http://rightwingnews.com/democrats/the-tough-questions-media-has-for-hillary-what-is-her-snack-of-choice-does-she-like-beyonce/
2.) Have not yet been coached in the ’12 deadly words’ propaganda. See exhibit 2B: http://dailycaller.com/2015/03/25/here-are-the-words-hillarys-supporters-wont-let-you-say/
3.) Good possibility of not being movie stars, royalty, slumlords, or DNC plants. (All plant money currently goes to fake facebook and twitter accounts. See exhibit 3C: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3038621/More-2-MILLION-Hillary-Clinton-s-Twitter-followers-fake-never-tweet.html