According to Politico:
Hillary's victory speech this evening didn't say much new, but it sounded different from almost everything else she's said this year.
It's a little hard to pin down, but the rhetoric was flowerier, more rhythmic:
She said she'd work for "people on the day shift, the night shift, the late shift with the crying baby," and for "all those who aren’t in the headlines but have always written America’s story."
And the final flourish was, well, Obama-esque.
"Give us this nation to heal, this world to lead, this moment to seize," she said. "I know we’re ready."
Obama's memorable, similar promise: "A nation healed. A world repaired. An America that believes again.”
Hey, are you going to criticize Hillary's "Unity Schtick???"
Do you think she knows she is in trouble? Obama won close to 100 delegates in New York and is cleaning up in caucus states, you know, states where there is deliberation....
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Well, she may be in trouble. It will not surprise Harrogate in the least if Obama wins this Primary. He has inspired a hell of a lot of people.
As has Hillary Clinton, by the way.
But solon, you know that Harrogate's issue with Obama's Unity Schtick has to do with this Notion that if he gets the White House, he's going to be able to get positive things done for the country without having to fight Republicans to do it. Because you know it was just Bush, it isn't a problem with the Party itself.
Neither, eco-cons, neo-cons, or social-cons are ever going to swoon over the sheer gravity of his rhetoric. The Insurance Lobby isn't rethinking its position on the strength of his truths.
Although... Lately, as Harrogate cheerfully reported in his debate analysis, Obama has been showing that he does indeed understand that to win this thing, and to be an agent of positive change after winning, he will necessarily have to be a Fighter.
This is something of course Hillary Clinton has known all along.
I will respond to you in more detail later. But, in the meantime, read up on Kenneth Burke's Terministic Screens.
Good that you mention this. Actually, one of our prolific posters, Oxymoron, has been recently schooling Harrogate about these terminsitic screens of which you speak.
Harrogate is far from being able to read Burke at the moment (perhaps to celebrate UNC's national championship at the beginning of April, he will plow through it), but he would very much like to hear more about these Terministic Screens from you, in relation to Obama's Political Style and the response it is getting, and the response it promises to get from Republicans should he win the whole enchilada.
Hey, while you guys stay up all night giving play-by-plays, will somebody please - just for sh*ts and grins - say something about the Asian-Americans who, according to CNN, favor Clinton over Obama 3:1
Hillary may have won the all important Asian-American voting bloc by a margin of 3 - 1. However, she in losing, in Republican fashion, the African American vote 9 - 1.
Barry Goldwater, who opposed the Civil Rights Act, received that kind of support from the black community.
The most loyal group to the Democratic Party is highly motivated against Clinton.
"The most loyal group to the Democratic Party is highly motivated against Clinton."
Sorry man, that's a disingenuous statement. Far more accurate to say, this group is highly motivated FOR Obama.
Comparing Hillary Clinton to the Republicans in the area of Race, and within the context of opposition to the Civil Rights Act, crosses the decency threshold.
Representative of what many are doing to her, but way over the line nonetheless.
I am just messing with you on the Goldwater part. The demographics are very interesting but I will address that later.
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