i love george will, part 53,239
Yes, it's a right-wing article written by an unabashedly conservative columnist, but since it bashes Hillary, I think almost all of us can enjoy the amusing words of Mr. Will.
One of my favorite parts:
After Tuesday's split decisions in Indiana and North Carolina, Clinton, the Yankee Clipperette, can, and hence eventually will, creatively argue that she is really ahead of Barack Obama, or at any rate she is sort of tied, mathematically or morally or something, in popular votes, or delegates, or some combination of the two, as determined by Fermat's Last Theorem, or something, in states whose names begin with vowels, or maybe consonants, or perhaps some mixture of the two as determined by listening to a recording of the Beach Boys' "Help Me, Rhonda" played backward, or whatever other formula is most helpful to her, and counting the votes she received in Michigan, where hers was the only contending name on the ballot (her chief rivals, quaintly obeying their party's rules, boycotted the state, which had violated the party's rules for scheduling primaries), and counting the votes she received in Florida, which, like Michigan, was a scofflaw and where no one campaigned, and dividing Obama's delegate advantage in caucus states by pi multiplied by the square root of Yankee Stadium's ZIP code.
Hee.
And yes, that's a single sentence. Grammatically speaking, it's atrociously long, convoluted, should have been ended much earlier than it actually is and is altogether wrong. Much like Clinton's campaign. He continues.
"We," says Geoff Garin, a Clinton strategist who possesses the audacity of hopelessness required in that role, "don't think this is just going to be about some numerical metric." Mere numbers? Heaven forefend. That is how people speak when numerical metrics -- numbers of popular votes and delegates -- are inconvenient.
So it does look as if Hillary is done for. I'll be quite sad to see her go, mainly because I do so enjoy the cat fight that has become the Democratic Primary. Though I must admit, while I enjoy that it's been happening, I don't enjoy hearing about it everyday. So I will be glad of the change in the media. It'll soon be McCain and Obama firing at each other instead of Hillary and Obama firing at each other. Considering that, unlike Hillary, McCain actually has substantive policy differences from Obama, it should become more interesting at least.
So long, Hillary. I had hoped you won the nomination because it would have been fun to watch you lose in November. Still, you put up a good lengthy fight. From another article about her today:
So before remembering that we are now left with two dangerous choices for president -- a young liberal who is friendly with terrorists or an old liberal who is friendly with Teddy Kennedy -- take a moment to revel in the fact that our long national nightmare is over. It turns out getting rid of the Clintons was the change we've been waiting for.
One of my favorite parts:
After Tuesday's split decisions in Indiana and North Carolina, Clinton, the Yankee Clipperette, can, and hence eventually will, creatively argue that she is really ahead of Barack Obama, or at any rate she is sort of tied, mathematically or morally or something, in popular votes, or delegates, or some combination of the two, as determined by Fermat's Last Theorem, or something, in states whose names begin with vowels, or maybe consonants, or perhaps some mixture of the two as determined by listening to a recording of the Beach Boys' "Help Me, Rhonda" played backward, or whatever other formula is most helpful to her, and counting the votes she received in Michigan, where hers was the only contending name on the ballot (her chief rivals, quaintly obeying their party's rules, boycotted the state, which had violated the party's rules for scheduling primaries), and counting the votes she received in Florida, which, like Michigan, was a scofflaw and where no one campaigned, and dividing Obama's delegate advantage in caucus states by pi multiplied by the square root of Yankee Stadium's ZIP code.
Hee.
And yes, that's a single sentence. Grammatically speaking, it's atrociously long, convoluted, should have been ended much earlier than it actually is and is altogether wrong. Much like Clinton's campaign. He continues.
"We," says Geoff Garin, a Clinton strategist who possesses the audacity of hopelessness required in that role, "don't think this is just going to be about some numerical metric." Mere numbers? Heaven forefend. That is how people speak when numerical metrics -- numbers of popular votes and delegates -- are inconvenient.
So it does look as if Hillary is done for. I'll be quite sad to see her go, mainly because I do so enjoy the cat fight that has become the Democratic Primary. Though I must admit, while I enjoy that it's been happening, I don't enjoy hearing about it everyday. So I will be glad of the change in the media. It'll soon be McCain and Obama firing at each other instead of Hillary and Obama firing at each other. Considering that, unlike Hillary, McCain actually has substantive policy differences from Obama, it should become more interesting at least.
So long, Hillary. I had hoped you won the nomination because it would have been fun to watch you lose in November. Still, you put up a good lengthy fight. From another article about her today:
So before remembering that we are now left with two dangerous choices for president -- a young liberal who is friendly with terrorists or an old liberal who is friendly with Teddy Kennedy -- take a moment to revel in the fact that our long national nightmare is over. It turns out getting rid of the Clintons was the change we've been waiting for.