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Hillary is not the Front Runner
Yes, I want to remind everyone that Hillary is not the front runner. Obama is.
I agree that nine years ago when she started campaigning she did indeed have front runner status and that was so until about February or so in this year... 2008.
Having said that I also want it to be understood that Obama, being the front runner has no dire need to knock out Hillary or seal no further deals regarding Hillary. He has done all of that already.
We therefore need to debunk these silly talking points which seek to treat Mr. Obama as the person running second and Hillary as some defacto front runner. SHE IS NOT THE FRONT RUNNER.
The responsibility rests squarely on Hillary's shoulder to knock out Obama and seal the new deal and regain front runner status. It is Hillary who has to prove to the public that she has what it takes to win this nomination and be worthy to fight for the presidency. The people have already spoken and they have loudly declared that they have already selected their nominee for the GE in November. We already know that she cannot overtake him in the coming states and hence we can clearly declare that the people have spoken.
So let us get our thoughts right sided and get away from these talking points which imply that Obama has to do something major to Hillary.
In actual fact, all Obama needs to do is continue the way he has been going from the beginning and stay in the lead. He has nothing to prove to Hillary. She has it all to prove,
Cheers
Comments (5)
It's not that we don't know that Obama has won.
It's just that Hillary is punch drunk scary.
April 23, 2008 9:34 PM | Reply | Permalink
I really cannot understand why the MSM and others are asking Obama to play a role other than front runner.
We all know that if this situation was reversed that Obama would have been forced out long time ago. So what does Hillary bring to this table that allows her to muck around in this race without real reason?
Beats me..
April 23, 2008 9:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
I haven't heard her wins characterized as anything but surviving. She survived Ohio. She survived Pennsylvania. Will she survive Indiana? Can she keep her candidacy alive? Doesn't sound like a front runner to me.
April 23, 2008 11:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Surviving is simply not good enough. We need a president who does much more than that. We need someone who can actually run a campaign, someone who can get something organised and managed.
She should be taking a lead out of Obama's book when it comes to managing things. She needs to take time to listen to his effective speaking and learn something from it, instead she choses to take chapters from Rove's book. Shame on Hillary.
She needs to emulate Obama and maybe she might.. she just might win something. It wont be the nomination this year however.
She is simply not smart enough.
Cheers
April 23, 2008 11:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Doesn't matter what the media says now. Only the vote of the supers can change Obama's victory to a loss at the point.
April 24, 2008 4:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
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