New Hampshire results and Misc thoughts on some candidates

So New Hampshire is over and the media is buzzing with the fact that they were…

Wait for it…

WRONG. That’s right, Clinton defied their austere pollsters and experts and pulled out a win over Obama. Maybe Iowa didn’t decide everything after all. Maybe they now look kinda dumb for what they have been saying the preceding four days.

McCane won. No surprise there; he won there last time. Didn’t help him over all though, did it. The press is trying to make it a story though by talking about how this will make it a real race for the nomination now. Query: If THIS is what will make it a real race, why was the press reporting on the Republican race so much for, oh, the last six months?

Clinton won. No real surprise there; she is, after all, the OTHER front-runner in her party. And this Primary was back East in a state adjacent to the state she represents in the Senate.

The radio treated me to excerpts from the comments of several candidates this morning. Obama was talking about getting the country behind his progressive agenda. By the way, for the uninitiated, “progressive” is how you spell “liberal” these days. They like the former word better because it sounds so good; after all, who can be against progress? Of course when you and the other guy are trying to go in opposite directions, one person’s progress is the other’s backslide. Maybe we should stop using liberal and conservative. We could call them the Progressive Left and the Progressive Right or maybe, instead of Democrat and Republican we could have the Progressives and the Family Value-ists? Either way, see yesterdays rant, I mean blog, about bi-partisanship.

I ripped on Obama a bit above so it’s only fair I rip on Clinton a bit too. Have you noticed that she wants us to se her first name? Obama is Obama, but Clinton is Hillary. I see it as sort of like Madonna or Cher. She must think it makes her more personable or something. Maybe she wants to try to separate herself from Bill a bit? I suppose she could go the Jennifer Lopez/Lindsey Lohan route. They became JLo and LiLo didn’t they? She could become… oh never mind; it doesn’t work. But I digress. While I don’t particularly like or agree with Obama Barack, he at least seems honest about what he wants to do and where he comes from. Hillary, on the other hand…. Hillary is an opportunist. I cannot respect a person who, having been the wife of the governor of Arkansas and helped him win the election as the boy from Hope, decided that it was more opportune to her political ambition to move to New York so she could run for office there. I cannot help but think she did so because she believe the people of Arkansas knew her too well. I don’t know what Hillary believes in. I know that Hillary seems to be quite adept at saying whatever her audience and public opinion want to hear in order to buy the most votes.

NPR interviewed one young lady, a New Hampshire independent, who attended Clinton’s rally last night and who had voted for her in the primary. The reason she voted for her you ask? You wouldn’t guess in a hundred years and even then you’d have to give up. She voted for “Hillary” because Clinton “broke down” and got choked up at one of her rallies. A definite issues voter there, what? Whether Clinton was acting or genuine, that’s a terrible reason to vote for a candidate.

EDIT: When I went to edit, the font got all weird. Odd.

So last night after I wrote this, I drove somewhere again which means, more likely than not I was listening to NPR. They were blathering on about Hillary's turn around and how her getting all emotional and saying how she had "found her voice" somehow made the "normal people" feel she empathized with them. The commentator had noted that many people had thought she was arrogant and acted like she knew the "Clinton Dynasty" (Which apparently means her) was "destined" to win, and thus were rooting for her to fail. Which was the real Hillary, I wonder? I tend to believe the arrogant, opportunistic represents her true colors. Aren't focus groups a wonderful thing? "Hey Boss, people think your arrogant and acting better then everyone else. You need to be more emotional so they see you as a human being. Survey says we'd pick up 15 points that way."

And what the heck is this "Clinton dynasty" thing? For a President the only dynasties I see are from families Adams and Bush. Maybe Roosevelt too (FDR was practically his own dynasty). In Ohio, Taft is a dynasty. In Missouri, Blunt might be. But Clinton? Give me a break.