New York Times Endorsements = “We don’t want you to win”
- Posted by Beth on April 23rd, 2008 filed in 2008 election, Barack Obama, Candidates, General, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Journalism, Moonbats, Politics, Stupid New York Times
Just as the New York Slimes “endorsed” John McCain and later launched the Most Ridiculous Smear Campaign of the season on him, they’ve done it again–this time with Hillary. Remember they endorsed her? LOL.
The Pennsylvania campaign, which produced yet another inconclusive result on Tuesday, was even meaner, more vacuous, more desperate, and more filled with pandering than the mean, vacuous, desperate, pander-filled contests that preceded it.
Voters are getting tired of it; it is demeaning the political process; and it does not work. It is past time for Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton to acknowledge that the negativity, for which she is mostly responsible, does nothing but harm to her, her opponent, her party and the 2008 election.
By staying on the attack and not engaging Mr. Obama on the substance of issues like terrorism, the economy and how to organize an orderly exit from Iraq, Mrs. Clinton does more than just turn off voters who don’t like negative campaigning. She undercuts the rationale for her candidacy that led this page and others to support her: that she is more qualified, right now, to be president than Mr. Obama.
She’s not qualified to be President because she isn’t worshipping at the altar of Teh Obamessiah!
HAHAHAHAHAHA. FAIL! Poor, innocent widdle Prince Barry. Everyone’s picking on him, and he’s playing so nicey-nice! Not. He talks a big story about “unity” and other bullshit platitudes, but in the same speeches he bloviates these things, he’s as divisive and negative as anyone else, and far more gloomy and prone to exaggeration, if not outright lies. Obviously, the NYT editors and others in Obama’s Amen Corner are too blinded by his dazzling halo to comprehend plain English. Hot Air has video of Hillary’s response to the NYT hit.
Make no mistake–Hillary won big last night, but she isn’t going to win the nomination. Period. I think she knows it, too–and has for a while. Rich Lowry points out what should be obvious to anyone by now.
She’s preparing the demographic ground for McCain, by getting white working-class Democrats used to (if you will) not voting for Obama. And she’s softening Obama up for McCain, prodding at and exposing her fellow Democrats’ weaknesses.
If you’ve paid attention at all to Dick Morris over the last several years, regardless of your feelings about him (he’s got Hillary Derangement Syndrome in a bad way), you know why she’d do this. She knows–or should know, unless yesterday Pennsylvania made her overconfident–that her campaign for 2008 is effectively over, and she’s preparing for 2012. She can’t win in 2012 if Obama is President. Not that she will win in 2012, but you can be sure she’ll die trying.
I wonder, will the New York Times be willing to call attacks on John McCain the “Low Road?” What about their own attacks? With all the money being raised by the DNC and the lib 527s, is there any doubt that the Dems are going to throw everything they can imagine at McCain, hoping something will stick? They all talk about wanting a substantive campaign, but what they’re really saying is that they want to be treated with kid gloves, while they fling poo at the Republicans. Hypocrisy is the hallmark of the Left, and the New York Times is the chief propagandist arm of all that hypocrisy.
Lord Bitememan says:
While on some level I think Hillary will not get the nomination, she does have a couple argument at this point. Right now she has garnered more popular votes than Obama. Her win last night really moved something that was dead in the water. Right now only by excluding Michigan and Florida is Obama really the vote leader. Her win last night rendered this DNC decision unsustainable. If Howard Dean doesn’t move move to include Michigan and Florida, Hillary can make the case to her supporters that Dean is robbing them of an earned majority and she can take the fight to the convention. Dean obviously does not want this. His only choice is to bring these states in and force Obama to beat a Clinton popular vote majority and probably delegate narrowing in the remaining days of the campaign. Obama is going to have a hard time doing that. Conceivably, Clinton can head to the convention tied with Obama. This, then, puts a hell of a dilemma to the superdelegates. Obama is steadily morphing into a new George McGovern. For as much as the Dems would be loath to overturn what is widely being seens as an Obama coronation, the Dems are also equally phobic of a repeat of the 1972 map. He’s losing the Reagan Democrats, and McCain is the sort of guy who can soak them back up. 43% of Clinton’s supporters will not vote for Barak Obama. I’d say last night definately sustained a case for a Clinton nomination, and she’s far from dead in the water.
Conservative Belle says:
The NYT sinks to new depths every day. Unreal.