Archive → October 8th, 2007
Clinton impatient when questioned by … the little guy
Democrats like U.S. Senator Hillary Rodham love to claim they’re “in it to fight for the little guy.” Until, that is, the little guy asks too many uncomfortable questions.
As a whistle-stop gathering in New Hampton, Iowa, an attendee who claimed to be a lifelong Democrat pressed Sen. Rodham on a recent vote in favor of calling the army of Iran a “terrorist organization.” The “little guy” and the presidential hopeful got into a verbal shoutdown in which Sen. Rodham did everything but answer the question put to her.
Like?
Well, she told the guy he was wrong, then accused him of being a plant from the GOP or a Democratic opponent, and then eventually closed off the altercation, which never went beyond the verbal, by again telling him she’d have her staff send him information that would prove she was right and he was wrong.
If anyone can prevent Hillary from taking the nomination after Obama’s Howard Dean moment this past weekend, it’s Hillary herself. Treating “little guys” like Iowa Democrat voter Randall Rolph like this could create huge backlash; voters have better recall than Dell memory for PCs for meltdown moments like this.
Obama down. Hillary down. Is there anyone left for the Dems who’s NOT an obvious whacko who could take over the frontrunner position for the Dem nod?
Uhh, put your hand DOWN, Sen. Edwards. You too, for that matter, Rep. Kucinich. That question was to the adults in the Democratic pack…
Obama’s Howard Dean moment?
Has Barack Hussein Obama become the next Howard Dean?
The freshman U.S. Senator from Illinois and presidential hopeful may have gone overboard in his enthusiasm while attending church and making a political statement from the pulpit of Redemption World Outreach Center in South Carolina this past weekend, as seen on TV.
Getting into the spirit of the moment, Obama became two parts politician, one part preacher as he effused from the front of the church, “”Sometimes this is a difficult road being in politics. Sometimes you can become fearful, sometimes you can become vain, sometimes you can seek power just for power’s sake instead of because you want to do service to God. I just want all of you to pray that I can be an instrument of God in the same way that Pastor Ron and all of you are instruments of God. We’re going to keep on praising together. I am confident that we can create a Kingdom right here on Earth.”
While fitting the moment, Clinton’s crew is hoping, and Obama’s camp is fearing, that the Senator’s effervescence may be read the wrong way outside of church doors, painting him as a religious loon, rather than a serious politician.
In 2004, Howard Dean had a similar “apparent meltdown moment” in front of an Iowa crowd that ultimately cost him a chance at the Democratic Party presidential nomination. Could history repeat itself and ensure a suddenly-struggling Hillary Clinton a clear and unobstructed path to the Dem nod?
Time will tell.
