Adjustability reigns

You’ve got to hand it Hillary Clinton for her ability to take her opponents’ speeches and the statements of the voters and tailor them to her next speech.

One suspects if suddenly John Edwards were to win a primary, Hillary would be on television pointing out the expense that was not spared making her ‘do something Democrats could gather round in their quest to change the course of American fashion.

©2008 by T. Samuel Emery, MBS. All Rights Reserved.

When JFK ran, I wasn’t paying much attention

When Ronald Reagan ran, I was paying a little more, but not much. Mostly I noted how the hostages got freed as soon as Jimmy wasn’t the prez.

Maybe I’m just getting old and cynical. I know a young father and husband ready to divorce his wife and kill himself, not necessarily in that order. The economy’s going south, gas prices are going north, and family is doing its best to maintain the cash outgo without actually participating in its income. He’s busted his butt, with a fair degree of success, to give his kids things and opportunities he never had and suddenly, starting for the first time in his head-of-household career, he is starting to feel the crunch his mom and dad lived with, and he doesn’t know how to act.

There’s plenty of other 20-30-somethings out there who’ve never really had to make it on their own, depending on mom, dad, and the government — or all three — to keep them afloat.

And then along comes Hillary “BOGO” Clinton saying she’s going to run things when she gets to be prez, and Romney saying he’s got the experience to get Detroit back to building cars (for the Chinese, he doesn’t say).

Rudy Guiliani wants to start WW3, which he’ll need to do because he has 52 cards in his deck and they’re all the same 9-11 Joker.

Mike Huckabee wants to change the Constitution to match the Word of God – presumably he knows the correct Word, which would be good because there can be only one Constitution, and clearly that’s not the case with the Word.

McCain thinks the auto jobs are gone forever and we should be training to do something else, such as staying in Iraq 100 or so years.

And finally, there’s John “Are there three people in this debate, or only two?” Edwards.

“Objection, Your Honor. Asked and answered!”

©2008 by T. Samuel Emery, MBS. All Rights Reserved.

Tears? Sure. Ganged up on? Puh-leeze!

As I watched the talking heads Sunday morning, I was struck by a comment that Hillary Clinton won in New Hampshire partly because women saw a woman being ganged up on by two men — Edwards and Obama.

That’s the fact. The truth is a little, well, different

There are two history-making candidates in the Democratic lineup. As long as the voters have the First African-American and the First Woman, the southern white guy who lost in the last election hasn’t much of a chance.

And let’s face it, Obama was the only guy out there, until after Iowa, talking about really changing Washington, Including Edwards.

So let’s see: Obama wants to beat Clinton, and Edwards wants to beat Clinton, and Obama’s message was what hooked the Iowa voters

So what’s Edwards going to say? “Hey folks, Clinton’s got lots of experience and I’ve got lots of experience, so why you want to rock the boat voting for that new kid?”

Clearly, the answer the voters already had given was a resounding, “Yes! Give us the new kid.”

Clinton’s tears may have been genuine, but showing them on camera was anything but accidental. She’s feeling picked on like a farmer whose bull just won Grand Champion and the farmer’s response is, “Shucks, I really don’t know all that much about raising critters.”

Both of them know exactly what they are doing, and anyone who thinks otherwise is going to lose a lot of money.

©2008 by T. Samuel Emery, MBS. All Rights Reserved.