Archive for February 25th, 2008
February 25th, 2008
Hillary Clinton is beginning to look desperate.If she isn’t desperate, she is doing a good job of fooling us.
Over the weekend, Clinton made a few campaign stops through Rhode Island and Ohio. Now I’m sure she said many newsworthy things during her time there, but her decision to “go negative” is what made it on the newscasts.
Here are the two clips.
After a rally at Cincinnati State Technical and Community College in Ohio:
In Providence, R.I. (and try not to laugh at CNN’s new label for the presidential campaign — Ballot Bowl ‘08):
The line, “Go hard or go home,” comes to mind after watching the videos. In campaigns, the rule of thumb is if a candidate decides to go negative in a campaign, go very negative. Well, in one respect, she’s successfully become very negative.
Clinton has consistently used some of these tactics throughout the campaign, and Obama responded to this in the last debate.
But how much will this strategy help her as the Democratic nomination lurches toward Texas and Ohio? These states have a lot of delegates, and overwhelming wins would help Obama pull further away or allow Clinton gain some much needed ground. According to CNN, Obama leads the pledged delegate race 1,166 to Clinton’s 1,026.
Ohio, Texas, Rhode Island and Vermont will hold the next primaries on March 4.
February 25th, 2008
The nation’s governors met today for the winter meeting of the National Governors Association. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the group, they recreated a vintage photo in front of the White House.
From the National Governor’s Association:
A century ago, President Theodore Roosevelt hosted the first meeting of the nation’s governors at the White House to discuss conserving America’s natural resources. The meeting was attended by 39 governors and several cabinet secretaries and supreme court justices. This 1908 meeting marked the beginning of the National Governors Association (NGA).
As NGA kicks-off its centennial celebration, the nation’s current governors “recreated” the 1908 photo during the annual governors’ meeting with the president.
The 1908 photo is here and it’s a must see. A century later, the governors are here. Only, where is Gov. Rod Blagojevich?
He did not show up for the photo, an NGA spokeswoman said. Nor did he attend the winter meeting, his own spokeswoman said.
Certainly, there would have been plenty at the meeting of interest to our populist governor, no?
A friend of mine who is a reporter in Washington wrote by e-mail that discussion topics included:
“coal gasification and carbon sequestration (FutureGen!) and getting an even bigger economic stimulus package. Oh, and the likely prospect of losing millions of health care dollars.”
My friend added, tongue in cheek, “Good thing none of these topics have anything to do with Illinois!”
Blagojevich spokeswoman Abby Ottenhoff responded by e-mail: “We had planned to be there, but schedule changed so he could attend the NIU memorial. We have some senior staff in attendance.”
February 25th, 2008
Here in Springfield, the sky is dreary and it is probably going to rain. This is not the way I planned to start a new week, especially after such a good weekend. After all, “Saturday Night Live” aired its first episode since the writers’ strike ended.
SNL is at its best when doing political paordies, and it must have been infuriating to be benched during the most exciting political contest in years. Fortunately, Saturday’s episode was rife with these skits.
Here are some of the best. Hopefully, these videos will lighten up your day as much as they did mine.
Good ol’ Huck’s humor is part of what makes him so appealing. Saturday was no different:
Hmmm… Maybe they are on to something here:
If you want another laugh, SNL’s “Weekend Update” rarely fails to deliver. Tina Fey had a great political commentary, but I am unable to post it here. It does contain some minor vulgarity (still within FEC guidelines, of course), and with that caveat in mind, you can find it by searching YouTube under “hillary, tina fey.”
