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CLINTON'S WEAK CASE FOR OBAMA.
Clinton asks her supporters: "Were you in this campaign just for me" or for "all the people in this country who feel invisible?" It's a good line, but it needs to be followed by a case for Barack Obama. "We need a Democrat" is a weak case, and I can't imagine it'll do anything but fuel the ambivalence of Clinton's strongest supporters. CNN keeps cutting to Michelle who, understandably, looks very unhappy. She mentions Obama occasionally, but it kinda seems like an afterthought.
Tellingly, Clinton is much more forceful and specific when she praises Michelle and Joe Biden.
--Sam Boyd
COMMENTS (9)
Much ado about nothing.
Posted by: Dan | August 26, 2008 11:23 PM
"We need a Democrat" is a weak case
Quite the contrary, it's an extremely important case to make and she's the only one who made it.
Posted by: Aaron S. Veenstra | August 26, 2008 11:33 PM
"Tellingly, Clinton is much more forceful and specific when she praises Michelle and Joe Biden."
Why do the Clintons inspire such paranoid psychoanalysis from pundits and bloggers on the right and the left?
Posted by: Timothy Sanders | August 27, 2008 12:40 AM
Christ, get a life. Why do you have to parse this to within an inch of its life. She gave a wonderfully gracious speech making the case for electing Obama and opposing McCain. You are not nearly as clever, or insightful, as you apparently believe.
Posted by: dmh | August 27, 2008 7:17 AM
Believe me, I'm the first person to go out and hit Her Royal Highness over the head with a 2 by 4, but give some credit where it is due.
What with his 50% of the Dem Primary vote, the Obamamessiah is going to have to get that he is part of a Party machine, not an independent phenom.
Posted by: Anonymous | August 27, 2008 10:05 AM
Still bitchy about Hillary after all this time? Geeeze. Give us a rest awreddy.
Posted by: Anonymous | August 27, 2008 10:38 AM
In short, you want her to grovel. No male losing contender was ever subjected to this many demands to praise the winner. This is just a continuation of the sexism that dogged the campaign. It is not only disgusting, but it is splitting the party in two.
Posted by: Yappa | August 27, 2008 12:36 PM
What an amazingly stupid take on the speech. Sam must have been channeling his inner Maureen Dowd again. Her appeal to democrats to rally to the party and the values it holds was exactly the right note. This fight is more important that Hillary Clinton, and it's much more important than Barack Obama. This is a fight for the future, perhaps even the preservation, of American democracy. She made that point briliantly and forcefully. Getting many of her supporters to love Obama would be futile. Getting them to fight for victory is waht counts
Posted by: Paul Gottlieb | August 27, 2008 2:01 PM
Sam must have been channeling his inner Maureen Dowd again. Her appeal to democrats to rally to the party and the values it holds was exactly the right note. This fight is more important that Hillary Clinton, and it's much more important than Barack Obama. This is a fight for the future, perhaps even the preservation, of American democracy.
Posted by: Tower Defense | April 24, 2009 11:52 PM