Once again, it's the margin of the win which is so striking. In a "Hillary state" like Wisconsin, it's even more astonishing. The spread is 17 points: Obama 58% to Clinton's 41%. The embarrassing point is that it mirrors the McCain-Huckabee spread: 18%. A look back at the states Obama has won shows that he tends to win big.
The plagiarism thing evidently didn't stick. Maybe it's because Obama borrowed from a friend rather the steal, Nixon-style, from the opposition. Probably Wisconsin voters noticed, as Maureen Dowd did, that The Borrower-in-Chief is Clinton's mentor.
Hillary huffed to reporters on her plane: “If your whole candidacy is about words, they should be your own words.”
I guess that means if your whole candidacy is anti-words, you don’t have to use your own words.
The Clintons are known political cat burglars. They pilfered Republican jewels in the ’90s, and Hillary has purloined as much as she can stuff in her pantsuit from her husband and Barack Obama.
She changed to Change. She co-opted “It’s time to turn the page” and “Fired up and ready to go.” She couldn’t wait to shoplift the words “yes” and “can” from Obama’s trademark “Yes, we can!” — (which he appropriated from Cesar Chavez) — even though she was cagey enough to put them in separate slogans, “Yes, we will!” and “Americans still have that can-do spirit.”
Bill, master thief, got in on the act, too. After Obama said that his election would tell the world that America is back, Bill said that Hillary’s election would tell the world that America is back.
Dowd also notes, by the way, that Michelle Obama flubbed -- she sounded "extremist and unpatriotic" -- when she said, in two recent speeches, that our fair country is in a mess, that "things have gotten progressively worse, throughout my lifetime."
In at least one of those speeches, the sound of approval from the huge audience was perceptible. We are in a mess. A lot of us think it's positively nuts, as well as unpatriotic, to maintain the America the beautiful myth against all evidence to the contrary. Imagine if your family were seriously ill and you decided it would be too rude and unkind to notice and try to do something about it.
Our Houston friend describes the Obama scene last night at the Toyota Center. Aside from anything else, it's important to notice that the totals for the first day of early voting in the Democratic primary in the Houston, Texas area were 10 times greater than in 2004.
