Clinton can’t stop hitting the wrong note

[babylonsister]

Clinton can’t stop hitting the wrong note
Posted May 3rd, 2008 at 10:30 am

Share This | Spotlight | Permalink

Years ago, I was having a conversation with a jazz pianist who told me, “When I hit a wrong note, I keep hitting it — so the audience will think it’s intentional.” To move away from the wrong note would be a subtle admission of a mistake.

About a week ago, Hillary Clinton hit the wrong note when she called for a “gas-tax holiday” over the summer. The dumb idea ran counter to almost every positive quality Clinton has — her commitment to telling voters the truth, her intelligence, the seriousness with which she takes policy details, etc. The whole mess contradicts who Hillary Clinton really is, and she knows it.

But like the pianist, instead of quickly transitioning to a better note and hoping no one notices, Clinton has decided to hit the wrong note over and over again, with increasing volume and intensity. The more reality pushes back against her nonsensical idea, the more aggressively Clinton pounds the ivory. As someone who’s respected Clinton’s intellect for years, it’s been painful to watch.

Jason Zengerle added:

{S}tubbornness and refusal to admit error — and, in fact, the penchant for taking actions that only compound the original error — would seem to be qualities we don’t want in our next president, right?”

The demagogic pandering prompted the Clinton campaign to create another ad to tout her ridiculous idea — the second commercial this week — and bash Barack Obama for taking reality seriously. The ad, which started airing in Indiana yesterday, says Clinton’s proposal would “save families $8 billion,” adding, “Barack Obama says that’s just pennies.” The ad concludes that Obama would “make you keep paying that tax, instead of big oil.”

The irony, of course, is that Clinton’s plan would ensure that the oil companies “end up the biggest beneficiaries.” Everything about Clinton’s idea is backwards — consumers lose, the environment loses, conservation loses, Big Oil wins. Clinton knows all of this — she’s far too smart to believe otherwise — but she insists on shamelessly pandering anyway.

The new ad, as it turns out, was only part of yesterday’s offensive display.

more...

http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/15418.html#more-15418

[DJ13]

1. "The dumb idea ran counter to almost every positive quality Clinton has

— her commitment to telling voters the truth..."


:rofl:


K&R

[Cha]

11. That was good for a few

:rofl:s on the floor!

What's the writer smoking? Dumbweed?

[yurbud]

12. those were the two lines that got me too. otherwise, accurate--Hillary is like a bad SNL skit

where they tell a joke that no one laughs at, then repeat it until you can't wait to see some commercials.

[Bumblebee]

2. and this rant should go to GD-P as well.

[Dogmudgeon]

3. Oops! Some of the hate got loose!

--p!

[babylonsister]

4. Oops! Maybe you should write to your candidate and ask her what

she's thinking? She sounds like she has the interests of herself and big oil in mind, and not Americans and our interests. :think: And oops! It has nothing to do with hate.

[Stuckinthebush]

5. What the F**K in this post suggests hate?

Damn it I'm sick of this shit! Mention anything bad about Hillary and it is classified as hate.

Ridiculous.

[Doctor_J]

6. Rove is directing her campaign

it's pitiful

[psychmommy]

7. we can't afford another bridge collapse.

our highways in nj need help. we can't afford to lose this money to shave off $30-1 tank of gas in a year. this is important and we can't afford to lose this revenue stream or the good jobs that it funds. the cost is way larger than the meager savings.

[OhioChick]

8. K&R

:kick:

[1776Forever]

9. OK I am going to say it - Seems to me that when McCain or Barack come up with an idea

that the HRC Campaign thinks is good they latch on to it! Just had to say it as I have seen it over and over. This time when McCain came out with this gas tax idea they jumped on the wagon and then found out it wasn't such a good idea after all! Her Campaign managers need to think things through better! :tinfoilhat:

[concerned canadian]

10. just as i had forgiven hillary for being so mean &deceitful

in her ill advised campaign tactics, because of her recent declaration to work for party unity, if Barack is the nominee

then she will put her whole heart into supporting him and the democratic party, then this...

Classic old school divide and conquer. The familiar ring of GB's 'you're either with us or with the terrorists' when

she challenges (ATTACKS) her own party,(from the carpetbaggerreport) ""Do they stand with the hard pressed Americans who are

trying to pay their gas bills or do they once again stand with the oil companies."


Spot on analysis of Hillary's determination to 'keep hitting the wrong note'. But worse than that, she can't stop trying

to tear down her fellow democratic and this time, her party.

[natrat]

13. and why would anyone with a concience support...oh never mind