Tuesday, February 05, 2008
Regarding "home states"
Glenn Reynolds observes that Hillary "WON HER HOME STATE OF ARKANSAS, and now also wins her home state of New York...." But she lost her actual home state of Illinois, the state of her accent, to Barack Obama, whose home state is at least arguably Hawaii. Or maybe home is where the organization is.
4 Comments:
By 
, at
Tue Feb 05, 11:00:00 PM:
Which organization is that? Comintern, al Qaida or DNC?
By 
Christopher Chambers, at
Tue Feb 05, 11:42:00 PM:
ha! Anonymous, you should try out for Def Comedy Jam on HBO. That is some real humor boss! Would love to see you onstage...in front of all those (darker) faces. ;-)
Is this just latent McCain bitterness (to go alog with the "other" latent issue)? Just kidding. Have a good night, bruh...
By , at
Wed Feb 06, 12:00:00 AM:
Glenn's full comment:
"HILLARY WON HER HOME STATE OF ARKANSAS, and now also wins her home state of New York, according to Fox."
Perhaps he meant some talking head on Fox TV, but neither of the online articles (on New York or Arkansas) use the phrase "home state" in regards to Hillary. They use the phrase in the Arkansas article -- but in reference to Mike Huckabee.
In related news, I just spent about 10 minutes reading Hillary's entry in Wikipedia. Boy, what a fluff piece that baby is. Did you know at the tender age of 13 she exposed some voter fraud? Or so the article implies.
I found this a delightful little bit:
"During 1974 she was a member of the impeachment inquiry staff in Washington, D.C., advising the House Committee on the Judiciary during the Watergate scandal. Under the guidance of Chief Counsel John Doar and senior member Bernard Nussbaum, Rodham helped research procedures of impeachment and the historical grounds and standards for impeachment. The committee's work culminated in the resignation of President Richard Nixon in August 1974."
So that means that some of her hard, diligent work went into impeaching her own husband, years later.
And how delightful is that?
Apart from implying that, even at age 13, this woman had "presidential material" written all over her, another way in which the Wikipedia article is decidedly disingenuous is the way it fluffs up her brief flings with Republicans. If the article can possibly use the word "Republican" in the sentence, it does. During one stretch, it uses it eight times in two short paragraphs. The whole underlying message to any conservatives reading it is, "See? She's not so bad! She's practically one of us!"
Of course, if Ann Coulter is right, maybe that's not so far off. When I see John McCain's stance on things, Hillary starts looking pretty good. After all, all she's concerned with is her goddam health care. Let her focus on that and maybe everything else will remain status quo. McCain, on the other hand, is just activistic enough that he'll try to push his whole agenda through. It's one thing when a Dem pushes a liberal agenda through Congress; it's quite another when a supposed Republican does. If McCain's elected, I'd suggest that, a couple of years down the road, we're going to have a really pissed-off RW blogosphere.
Christopher will finally have his moment in the sun, as he gloats how a Republican is doing this to us.
And he'll be right to do so.
By Pax Federatica, at
Wed Feb 06, 01:04:00 AM:
If you believe in omens, here's one that you might have missed:
In 2004, the Super Bowl was played in Texas and the winning team was from Massachussetts. In the Presidential election that year, the candidate from Texas defeated the candidate from Massachussetts.
If that same form holds in 2008, our next President will be John McCain (from Arizona, where this year's Super Bowl was played), having defeated Hillary Clinton (from New York, where the Giants at least nominally hail from) in the general election.
