Tag: Hillary Clinton

President Hillary Clinton

Keep saying it to yourself. Yes, I woke up in a cold sweat at 4 am Wednesday morning. Hitch explains:

There’s something horrible and undefeatable about people who have no life except the worship of power, people who don’t want the meeting to end, the people who just are unstoppable, who only have one focus, no humanity, no character, nothing but the worship of money and power. They win in the end. 

I’m not as defeatist. The next generation can still stop them. Yes we can!

Hillary’s Alleged Plagiarism

[Patrick Appel]

There is a lot of talk this morning about Hillary allegedly plagiarizing John Edward’s or Bill Clinton’s lines. I don’t buy it for exactly the same reasons I didn’t buy the idea that Obama plagiarized lines. Political rhetoric isn’t subject to copyright. If those standards apply to Obama, then they also apply to Clinton. The difference is I don’t expect the Obama campaign to jump all over her for allegedly lifting lines.

[Update:] Yes, I recognize the irony of this, and it is partially her fault because she is the one who made such a big deal about plagiarism, but I still doubt she "copied" or "plagiarized" lines from another politician. That is not how political speech-making works. Read James Fallows’ (who was a speech-writer for Jimmy Carter) post about plagiarism in politics.

The Collapse Of Hillary

[Patrick Appel]

Crowley on Clinton:

Now, Hillary’s last hope may be that voters in Ohio and Texas will be in a contrarian mood. Perhaps, after hearing for the next week that it is now Barack Obama who is inevitable, and Hillary who is doomed, they will feel the same sympathy that New Hampshire did, and hand the Clintons one last reprieve. For old time’s sake.

It’s a longshot, to be sure. It’s also a great irony: The woman once mocked for her inevitability may only have the specter of defeat left to save her.