CLINTON WINS, PUNDITS LOSE
My latest Pajamas Media column is up and it deals with Hillary’s surprise win last night in the New Hampshire primary.
Living in this little internet cocoon being bombarded by the daily spin of pundits, prognosticators, “experts,†and the campaigns themselves, it is quite easy to fall for a buzz that everyone – and I mean everyone – was touting.
Obama, the annointed one. Obama, the crowned one. Obama, the beautified. And his opposite number in the race was ready to quit, was weeping from exhaustian and frustration, resigned to being buried by the Obama juggernaut.
But someone neglected to tell Hillary Clinton that her defeat was foreordained and in the stars. So the candidate continued a killer schedule and doggedly soldiered on, refusing to bow to what everyone in Chrsitendom was telling her was going to be a smashing, humiliating defeat.
I have been following politics for 35 years and cannot recall such a universal, all encompassing and ultimately, totally overblown media frenzy about a candidate that turned out to be so extraordinarily wrong. There’s a lesson there for us somewhere but frankly, I am too stunned to see it at the moment. Political pros were even swept up in Obamania and fell victim to being in love with the sound of their own voices pouring superlatives and encomiums on the senator from Illinois.
I seem to recall you had him in the White House not so long ago.
The article is about Hillary. Who is “him?”
Comment by Banjo — 1/9/2008 @ 6:06 pm
What can Obama offer ‘over the age of 40 female voting bloc who fear they’ll become bag-ladies living on the streets if the federal government doesn’t take care of them’.
I never thought the idea of feminist empowerment meant the power to be a hapless victim; I suppose this is why Hillary is the little girls gal.
16 years of my genders feminist tripe and all I got was Oprah’s crybabies.
Comment by syn — 1/10/2008 @ 7:41 am
That’s ‘46 years of my gender’s feminist tripe…..’
I’m not as young as I used to be.
Comment by syn — 1/10/2008 @ 7:43 am