Was Hillary’s speech a turning point?

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  Hillary’s speech, a turning point?

  Well, it turned my stomache for sure.

  The idea that all the campaign accusations have now been neutralized and “healing, unity and bliss” replace the rancor and vitriol is sickening.
  The hypocracy is blatant and belief that anyone campaigning is telling the truth or expecting anything they are saying to come to pass is insulting to our intelligence.

  The saddest part is too many people will react like those in the audience last night. I’ve seen smarter looking expressions on the bobble headed figures in a car rear window.

  Posted by whattheheck on Aug 28, 2008 at 12:44 PM

  Senator Clinton did just fine.  I thought it was a moving moment in the Convention.  It’s time to get the Democratic Party together and prevent a repeat of the neo-con disaster of the past seven and a half years.  I am a dedicated Obama supporter, but had the shoe been on the other foot, I would have supported Senator Clinton (perhaps grudgingly, but definitely would have supported her) because there’s no other alternative for any hopes of progressive change.  I think most Clinton supporters will come to that conclusion, too.

  Posted by Brad L on Sep 2, 2008 at 2:30 PM

  Weatherman members Susan Rosenberg and Linda Evans were convicted of transporting 740 pounds of explosives for use in domestic terrorist bombings, and were imprisoned for long terms.

  Hillary had perfect rebuttals for Zero throughout the long Democratic campaign, but she could not use them.

  The last act of the Clinton presidency was to pardon a bunch of exceedingly guilty people, including Rosenberg and Evans.  Bill shot Hill in the foot, because Hill could not bring up the fact that Weatherman bomber Ayers was a political confederate of Zero, without bringing attention to Bill’s pardon of the guilty Rosenberg and Evans. 

  Then Hill shot herself in the other foot.  She could not bring up Zero’s corrupt support for Rezko in the Grove Parc Plaza project nor the waste of $150 million in the Chicago Anneberg Challenge deal between Ayers and Zero, without drawing attention to her own corrupt and fraudulent actions going back decades.

  Hill could have squashed Zero like a bug at any point, except she and Bill could not afford to bring further attention to their own corrupt behavior.

  “Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.”

  But the scenario keeps changing.  If Zero wins in November, he will be thoroughly discredited in ways Carter could only imagine, and there will not be another Demonicrat president in Hill’s lifetime.  But if McCain-Palin win, there could very well be an all-woman contest in 2012 or 2016. 

  Which way, Hill?

  Posted by scorp on Sep 4, 2008 at 1:50 AM

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