Nicely Done: The Messiah Allows Hillary To Wash Away Her Sins

By Kleinheider Posted on August 27, 2008 at 7:03 pm

A masterful political move. To break someone’s leg, then set the cast, and then be honored and applauded for having done so is quite a feat.

After a speech last night in which she made a case more against the current and future Republican regime than for Barack Obama, after releasing her delegates but not telling them how to vote, after subtly (but not explicitly) laying the groundwork for this roll call, Hillary gets to play the hero by bring it to a close.

Hillary has taken a big step today towards washing away the sins of her campaign and raising her profile within the Democratic Party as a “team player.” Forget the fact that both she and her surrogates maneuvered to ensure that her supporters would “require” this roll call. The only thing people will remember is that she put an end to it.

After all, the key to Hillary Clinton’s political future is not just that Barack Obama lose but that she not be blamed for the loss. If Barack Obama loses this election as an idealist progressive in a year tailor-made for Democratic victory, the Democratic Party will fall into disarray, chaos and fracture. People will be looking for scapegoat.

In order for Hillary Clinton to emerge from the chaos of an Obama defeat and lay claim to the Democratic nomination in 2012 she must ensure her hands are clean. She did that tonight and Obama let her.

Rest assured, if Obama loses this election, he will not be nominated again. Close but no cigar for a Democrat in this political climate is no cigar at all. There will be no rematch.

But as of this moment, it can be said that if the 2012 Democratic nominee is not Barack Obama seeking election to a second term, it will be Hillary Clinton, a nomination immaculately conceived on the floor of this Democratic convention.

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Hug Interrupted

By Kleinheider Posted on August 19, 2008 at 6:06 am

The LA Times reports on an uncomfortable moment between Bill Richardson and Hillary Clinton:

Well, today on the very same stage in Espanola, New Mexico, there stood the defeated Democratic senator from New York, Hillary Clinton, dutifully campaigning as promised for Obama. And right there too was Richardson.

Clinton said all the right things all right. She smiled. She waHillary Clinton and Bill Richardson share a pushug, an embrace that looks like a hug but really isn’tved. She thanked her longtime friend Richardson, albeit simply for “being here today.”

But some Clinton supporters may detect a different message in the body language of the aborted hug between Richardson, who started to put both his arms around his former friend, and Hillary Clinton who seemed to pull back.

We’re going to call it a pushug, an embrace that looks like a hug for appearance’s sake but carries no intimacy or friendship whatsoever.

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