Hillary Clinton for Best Performance By A Presidential Candidate That Hasn't Actually Won! This honor is seen as a collective triumph of Hillary's past two non-victory performances, including her role in 'South Carolina: Does This Even Count?' and her more recent performance in 'Florida: Thanks For Nothing...Literally!'. In her acceptance speech, Hillary thanked her countless supporters that made "nothing at all possible", and vowed to declare non-victories "all over the known world", including in upcoming campaign stops in Never Land and Middle Earth. Backstage after the awards ceremony, those nearby reported hearing Hillary discuss the possibility of returning to states she actually did win something in to re-declare victories "just in case the voters forgot I'm such a huge winner and all".Tuesday, January 29, 2008
And The Political Oscar Goes To...
Hillary Clinton for Best Performance By A Presidential Candidate That Hasn't Actually Won! This honor is seen as a collective triumph of Hillary's past two non-victory performances, including her role in 'South Carolina: Does This Even Count?' and her more recent performance in 'Florida: Thanks For Nothing...Literally!'. In her acceptance speech, Hillary thanked her countless supporters that made "nothing at all possible", and vowed to declare non-victories "all over the known world", including in upcoming campaign stops in Never Land and Middle Earth. Backstage after the awards ceremony, those nearby reported hearing Hillary discuss the possibility of returning to states she actually did win something in to re-declare victories "just in case the voters forgot I'm such a huge winner and all".
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And who was the candidate that aired TV ads in Florida? Must have mattered a little ...
Nobody aired TV ads in Florida. If you're talking about the national ads that the Obama campaign aired on cable stations like CNN and MSNBC, that was approved by the national party committee (because there is no way to separate national media out of one single state...this would be like saying Obama's website violates the rules because it can be accessed on computers in Florida). You really think the Obama campaign would spend all that money for national media ads so that he could secretly persuade Floridians to vote for him in a state that has no delegates?
The Clinton campaign talking point that "Obama ran ads in Florida", as well as her manufactured victory speech event tonight, really just paint a picture of desperation. Politics involves a lot of spinning, but it's these kinds of elaborate setups of spin that are a bit perplexing (much like the Giuliani campaign acting like they still had a shot at Florida this entire week...even spinning needs a grounding in some truth to be effective).
Desperation? She's leading in every major state. By a lot. And it's fine that it was approved, but they DID run there -- you want to hold her to the letter of the law, but not him.
And the state had no delegates, but everyone knew that people would be paying serious attention -- 1.6 million people don't come out to vote for no reason.
We talked this one out on the phone last night...the blog readers will never know how it was resolved. lol
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