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Boo fucking hoo!: Billary Clinton worked up crocodile tears today on the campaign trail in New Hampshire. The Billary-bot tearfully reported that its sacrifices and trials and tribulations for its country include -- gasp! -- eating pizza!
I feel her pain -- NOT!
The Billary Clinton campaign is imploding so spectacularly and so gruesomely that I almost feel badly about being just more more person to dog pile upon Her Highness.
I said "almost."
Today the Billary-bot, sputtering because Democratic challenger Barack Obama's meteoric rise just does not compute -- after all, his last name is not Clinton and the Democratic establishment machine is not enthralled to him -- decided to try a tactic that it has never tried before: to replicate some human emotion.
Yes, today the Billary-bot decided to cry.
Amazingly, in her totally spontaneous, totally unplanned outburst of human emotion today, Billary Clinton somehow managed to get in the pathetic anti-Obama talking points that her crumbling campaign has been putting out since the campaign crashed and burned in the snows of Iowa last week. Reports The Associated Press today:
Portsmouth, N.H. -- Hillary Rodham Clinton's eyes welled up and her voice broke repeatedly [today] as she talked with voters in a restaurant about her campaign for the presidency.
The former first lady was making a last-minute pitch for support as she spoke on the eve of the state's primary, with polls showing her trailing Democratic rival Barack Obama.
Asked by a sympathetic voter how she keeps going in the grueling campaign, she replied, "It's not easy. It's not easy."
"And I couldn't do it if I just didn't, you know, passionately believe it was the right thing to do," she said, her voice catching.
"You know, I've had so many opportunities from this country, I just don't want to see us fall backwards," she said, her voice trailing off. The voters crowded into the restaurant applauded encouragingly.
"So," she continued, then paused, seemingly to control her voice as her listeners applauded again. "You know, this is very personal for me. It's not just political. It's not just public. I see what's happening, and we have to reverse it. And some people think elections are a game. They think it's like who's up or who's down.
"It's about our country. It's about our kids' futures. It's really about all of us together. You know some of us put ourselves out there and do this against some pretty difficult odds. And we do it, each one of us, because we care about our country. But some of us are right and some of us are wrong. Some of us are ready and some of us are not."
She concluded, "And so when we look at the array of problems we have and the potential for it getting -- really spinning out of control, this is one of the most important elections America's ever faced. So as tired as I am -- and I am -- and as difficult as it is to try to kind of keep up with what I try to do on the road like occasionally exercise and try to eat right -- it's tough when the easiest food is pizza -- I just believe so strongly in who we are as a nation so I'm going to do everything I can to make my case and, you know, then the voters get to decide."
After she spoke several of the people in the Cafe Espresso audience crowded around Clinton and offered sympathetic support....
You know, it's just hard for me to feel sorry for a woman whose vote for the Vietraq War in October 2002 has helped result in the tens and tens of thousands of unnecessary and wholly preventable deaths of Iraqis and Americans and others and in the theft of billions and billions of our tax dollars by the war-profiteering likes of Dick Cheney's Halliburton via Vietraq. (Oh, and has made our children more likely, not less likely, to be the targets of terrorist attacks in the future.)
As Michael Moore has pointed out, Billary Clinton claims that she was duped about the Vietraq War by the Bush regime when millions of us regular old Americans knew long before the bogus war was launched in March 2003 that it was complete and total bullshit. (And, as Moore points out, do we Americans really want, as president, someone who actually is that easily duped anyway? "Twenty-three other senators were smart enough to figure it out and vote against the war from the get-go," Moore notes. "Why wasn't Senator Clinton?")
And as Moore noted after Billary's defeat in Iowa:
There was no doubt about it. The message from Iowa tonight was simple, but deafening:
If you're a candidate for president and you voted for the war, you lose. And if you voted and voted and voted for the war -- and never once showed any remorse -- you really lose.
In short, if you had something to do with keeping us in this war for four-plus years, you are not allowed to be the next president of the United States.
Over 70 percent of Iowan Democrats voted for candidates who either never voted for the invasion of Iraq (Obama, Richardson, Kucinich) or who have since admitted their mistake (Edwards, Biden, Dodd).
I can't tell you how bad I feel for Senator Clinton tonight. I don't believe she was ever really for this war. But she did -- and continued to do -- what she thought was the politically expedient thing to eventually get elected. And she was wrong. And tonight she must go to sleep wondering what would have happened if she had voted her conscience instead of her calculator.
Of the Billary-bot's political calculator, Moore had earlier opined:
I have a theory:
Hillary knows the sexist country we still live in and that one of the reasons the public, in the past, would never consider a woman as president is because she would also be commander in chief. The majority of Americans were concerned that a woman would not be as likely to go to war as a man (horror of horrors!). So, in order to placate that mindset, perhaps she believed she had to be as "tough" as a man, she had to be willing to push The Button if necessary, and give the generals whatever they wanted.
If this is, in fact, what has motivated her pro-war votes, then this would truly make her a scary first-term president. If the U.S. is faced with some unforeseen threat in her first years, she knows that in order to get re-elected she'd better be ready to go all Maggie Thatcher on whoever sneezes in our direction. Do we want to risk this, hoping the world makes it in one piece to her second term?
I agree with Moore: It's the Vietraq War that you supported, Billary. You calculated. And you calculated incorrectly.
You lose, Billary!
Buh-bye! Buh-bye, now!
Stop your fucking crying and take it like the man you wanted everyone to believe you are.
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