Victor Davis Hanson finds Strange New Respect for Hillary Clinton, but notes the poison pill she’s planted to wind down her her campaign: Her bizarre offer to serve as VP, contrary to popular opinion, was a brilliant (if Byzantine) political move: she knows that she has earned the slot but that the Obamas don’t want her "dream ticket"; so now the onus is on them if they reject her "generous" and most logical offer, and only blame will follow if the Democrats stumble in the fall—with consequences for 2012. Win/win for her: she swallows her pride and offers unity to win—and he looks sort of weak in following her prompt; if she is rejected, Obama looks petulant—and sort of weak.But didn’t everyone expect her to run her entire campaign thinking three moves ahead? If she had displayed more of that Machiavellian thinking before the wheels came off , she might not have come in second.
And speaking of poison pills, Ann Althouse reminds us--and Hillary--tha...
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A Little Bit of History RepeatingFrom: eddriscoll.com
Post Date: 2008-06-04 11:51:47
See Dubya has a nifty new video on change...that’s not so much of a change, with a soundtrack courtesy of Shirley Bassey (hence the above title). Someone should redo her Goldfinger theme:
Ohbaaaahma.....He’s the man, the man with the radical friends!
Meanwhile, Ed Morrissey spots s ome more history repeating , with someone infinitely less exciting than a SPECTRE villain: Mario Cuomo, whom Obama may have borrowed the boilerplate for his latest speech. And speaking o...
more Tiny Mummies Meets The Cocoon EffectFrom: eddriscoll.com
Post Date: 2008-06-03 17:05:25
Kathleen Parker has a sense of deja vu:I was reading Jeffrey Toobin’s New Yorker profile of political spinmeister Roger Stone and thinking, hmmmmm. Where have I read this before? And then I remembered. Matt Labash wrote a very long profile of the very same Roger Stone for The Weekly Standard last November and a follow up in January of this year. I dug up the profile to check my memory and remembered why I remembered it. The profile was mentioned everywhere, including David Brooks’s year-end...
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