The Clinton camp's remaining argument
The Clinton camp is trying to fan the Obama comments as hard as they can hoping to turn a spark to fire. Above board, you've got profile Indiana surrogate Evan Bayh and new pollster Geoffrey Garin pushing this thing to the media and superdelegates.
Hillary Clinton is even trying to attack Obama on guns and the second amendment. (Hillary Clinton, second amendment???)
I can only imagine the pressure the Clinton folks are trying to put on their media contacts behind the scenes.
As I noted below, the media isn't really buying yet. They're not nearly as excited as the Clinton people want them to be, and most of the media framing is "Clinton attacks Obama's "bitter" comments," putting the role of judgment on her, not a neutral narrative of a campaign ending gaffe like "Obama endangers electability" that the Clinton camp would want.
Later: A couple more points. 1) (CNN) Bill Clinton apparently isn't being allowed to say word one about all this.
2) (FirstRead) The Clinton camp talks of spontaneous grassroots outrage and is then caught smuggling a box of "I'm not bitter" stickers backstage.
3) (Ambinder) "Is this the moment where 80% of the remaining superdelegates switch to HRC? I doubt it...."
4) At what point does pressing this make the Clinton camp look bad? ("Outrage" is less effective when it's an openly discussed campaign strategy.)
5) On the other hand, no one's talking Colombia trade deal or Bosnian sniper fire.
Hillary Clinton is even trying to attack Obama on guns and the second amendment. (Hillary Clinton, second amendment???)
I can only imagine the pressure the Clinton folks are trying to put on their media contacts behind the scenes.
As I noted below, the media isn't really buying yet. They're not nearly as excited as the Clinton people want them to be, and most of the media framing is "Clinton attacks Obama's "bitter" comments," putting the role of judgment on her, not a neutral narrative of a campaign ending gaffe like "Obama endangers electability" that the Clinton camp would want.
Later: A couple more points. 1) (CNN) Bill Clinton apparently isn't being allowed to say word one about all this.
2) (FirstRead) The Clinton camp talks of spontaneous grassroots outrage and is then caught smuggling a box of "I'm not bitter" stickers backstage.
3) (Ambinder) "Is this the moment where 80% of the remaining superdelegates switch to HRC? I doubt it...."
4) At what point does pressing this make the Clinton camp look bad? ("Outrage" is less effective when it's an openly discussed campaign strategy.)
5) On the other hand, no one's talking Colombia trade deal or Bosnian sniper fire.
posted by mikevotes at
3:34 PM
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I find Hillary's mooning over the cliche of small town Americana and it's virtuous folk to be patronizing. A phony beltway pat on the head. More of the same blah, blah, blah from politicians speaking not from experience but form caricaturistic, mythical and unquestioned archetypes.
Obama is really saying: if you're not angry, you're not paying attention. Furthermore, if you don't think people are angry, you're really out of the loop of the American experience.
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-epm, at 4:47 PM
I think that's a large reason why the media hasn't really bitten on this.
Clinton, with all her polling and demographic slicing, isn't really so credible.
AND, she's trying to exploit the second amendment. That is so unbelievable to me. Remember how all the "militias" formed in the US in the early 90's to prevent the Clinton's from taking their guns. UN, one world government, all that?
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mikevotes, at 5:56 PM
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