Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Low Rent

Barack Obama has won 9 straight primaries since February 5. Hillary Rodham Clinton, Senator and ex-First Lady of the greatest country in history, has not offered one concession speech in any of those contests.

And her husband, who I loved, has disgraced himself and his position in the world repeatedly.

Good-bye to all that.

Mr G Baker sent us an article from Reagan Revoolution witness Peggy Noonan today. The awful penner of So much of Reagan's rhetoric notes (before today's voting):

Her whole life right now is a reverse Sally Field. She's looking out at an audience of colleagues and saying, "You don't like me, you really don't like me!"

Although of course she's not saying it. Her response to what from the outside looks like catastrophe? A glassy-eyed insistence that all is well. "I'm tested, I'm ready, let's make it happen!" she yelled into a mic on a stage in Texas on the night of her latest defeat. This is meant to look like confidence. Whether or not you wish her well probably determines whether you see it as game face, stubbornness or evidence of mild derangement.

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