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All that hype about Hillary’s speech led to a ho hum speech. She took care of herself. She was not particularly emphatic for Obama. Consider me a skeptic, but it feels like she is positioning herself for 2012.
Yeah, 2012. You heard Bill today, yes? Candidate X will not be able to deliver. It feels like that is the Clinton strategy.
How does Obama handle this?
Much hay is being made about Hillary Clinton’s comment invoking the assassination of Robert Kennedy. The thing is, it isn’t the first time she has done so to make her point.
I have no issue with Sen. Clinton’s remark. She was trying to defend why she shouldn’t drop out of the race. To support her side she pointed to other Democratic races that weren’t won until June or after. Certainly 1968 was one of them given Kennedy was the front-runner when he was assassinated.
The issue with what she said isn’t the assassination remark, it’s that Bill Clinton didn’t win the nomination until June 1992. After the New York Primary in April, he was the presumptive nominee.
Bill was the clear front runner now [ed: after Super Tuesday]; however a grassroots strategy by Jerry Brown pulled him awfully close to the Arkansas governor. Brown used a 1-800 number to call mass numbers of people and receive funding for his campaign. His wins in Connecticut and Colorado made it look like he was going to take over Bill. However a series of controversial bumps set Brown behind and Clinton won the Democratic nomination in early April after his win in New York.
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Senate President Dick Codey stole New Jersey’s relevancy. As I have documented numerous times here over the last three years, Codey single-handedly pushed to move New Jersey’s presidential primary from early June to February. The rationale Codey provided was to make New Jersey more relevant in national politics.
New Jersey held its presidential primary on Super Tuesday along with 23 other states. Did you notice a flood of candidates here in the Garden State?
Our state was lost in the swell of states pushing for relevancy.
As of today, the Democratic Primary is very close. Only 101 delegates separate Sen. Obama and Sen. Clinton. By all accounts this primary is going to drag out through all 50 states. Despite the unlikelihood of Clinton surpassing Obama, it can end up so close as to not produce a clear winner. The summer should be fun in Denver.
But consider if Codey had worked on cutting state spending rather than playing politics. The Democratic would still be as tight as it is right now. But instead of having our governor cheer from the sidelines, New Jersey would be primed to be a king maker. At least the candidates would be coming here to listen to our concerns.
That won’t happen here this year or any other year for that matter now that we are so early and with so many other states. Thanks, Sen. Codey.
Way back in college I was a Psychology major for a semester or two. I changed majors frequently. Here’s a little tidbit . . . I was even an Art major for a semester. Ha! Anyone who has ever seen my “art” will cackle at that. Anyhow, I recall during my Intro to Pysch class learning about subliminal advertising. I was fascinated by it. The man with the erection in the Camel logo, a women in a nighty on a staircase that spelt out sex with the x crossed at her vagina, etc. It was all so . . . juvenile. Anyway, I thought it was interesting stuff when I was 18.
I am amazed at this kerfuffle-in-the-making over the latest Hillary Clinton commercial. Before we get into it, dear reader, watch the following:
Did you notice anything?
Watch again.
Anything?
What if I point out to look at the child’s pajamas? Watch it. Anything?
What if I told you the letters visible on his pajamas are NIG. Anything?
After reading Ann Althouse’s piece, I still had no idea what the issue was. NIG? National Institute of . . . ? I just couldn’t figure it out. Then I read a commenter who mentioned race and it finally clicked in: NIG, according to Althouse, is supposed to conjure up nigger, as in Obama.
Sheesh, people. This is a stretch. A major stretch. And I am not buying it. I don’t care for Clinton any more than any other conservative, and I know her campaign is in trouble, but to believe that her campaign is spelling out partial racial epithets on children’s clothing in the hopes of the viewer putting the it together is definitely beyond where my reality extends to.
I know, that’s why it’s called subliminal.
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