Hillary Clinton must be fit to be tied. Her dream campaign, no doubt planned for years and years, is now unraveling in front of her, thanks to a political upstart that she contends is nothing more than a nice smile, a good speech and an empty suit.
Hillary is now telling the Democrats that it's time to "get real" about this race, and it's time to choose "good works" over "good words" and "sound solutions" instead of "sound bites."
Sounds like someone over at Camp Hillary finally woke up. But will it be too late for her?
No matter who wins the Dem primary, we will have a favored son (or daughter) of Illinois on the top of the Dem ticket. So far, there has been a lot more enthusiasm on the Dem side of the aisle, and it will be very interesting to see if the GOP will rally unreservedly behind John McCain.
McCain was in town yesterday and raised $250,000 for milkman Jim Oberweis, so there is little doubt he will be coming to the 10th to stump for Mark Kirk. Kirk also has millions of his own. But will it be enough to fight off Dan Seals, the wanna-be Obama clone? We'll see how Seals does at his downtown fundraiser today, hosted by the DCCC.
ALSO- Dan Seals Can’t Seem to Find His Way to the 10th District
AND- SNL Looking for an Obama impersonator. Since Dan Seals is unemployed, maybe he ought to sign up.
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I beg to differ with you, TA, on your calling The Pup an Obama clone! Of course you're kidding.
By the way, the DCCC is holding today's fundraising event for Seals in Chicago. Why would they come out to the district. Seals knows little and cares less about this district.
And as for "getting real" in the Hillary campaign, I think Bill called it correctly last night. If she doesn't knock the socks off of the results in Texas, Ohio and PA, it might be time to pack it in. Oh well.
You're right, of course, Anon 8:03 a.m., I should have said "wanna-be clone". I'm going to fix that right now.
All SNL needs is an empty suit and some sound equipment.
Close your eyes and picture it.
Faid into the scene: an expensive suit on a mannequin, standing up in the middle of the stage. In one hand a microphone, the other attached to a wire from above wags the finger of the mannequin at the audience (just like Clinton used to do). In the background, the sound of someone saying "change" and "hope" plays over and over again until you want to bang your head against the wall and never watch TV again.
Bingo, one Obama impersonator.
Sure, but is it FUNNY?
I think it's too close to the truth to be funny...
TA -
I'm not a member of the screen writters union, you may have a point, and I should probably stick to my day job (which the Pup can't do).
However, I think the empty suit skit could still work from a comedic artistic perspective, if you add a scene showing a bus full of Obama campaign workers being strategically placed in the front row just before the show starts, and then have them faint one by one each time the word "change" is uttered.
TA, I think it's funny. Close your eyes and just get the visual that ICBP is describing, down to the multiple fainting fans in the front row. It IS funny. Sad, but funny. And when I see Barak say quite casually to his stage crew, "uh, there's someone who has just fainted down there" I then want to bang MY head on the wall.
It's getting to be comedy central whenever he's on stage.
Word is that Emanuel stiffed Seals at his fundraiser.
And Bean worked with Kirk today on Metra funding. Local Dems are not backing Seals for a second defeat...
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I was there -- we had only 40 people paying. It reflected a lack of energy there.
I hope that The Pup and his lackies happened to listen to WGN and WBBM radio all day today. Congressman Kirk was joined by his Democrat colleague, Melissa Bean, on the METRA funding secured by our Congressman. Because Congressman Kirk actually knows what this district needs, he knows what our state needs, and he knows how to get the job done, he is a leader we can all be proud of and help re-elect in November. No novice without a clue to how it's done effectively and correctly need apply....especially one who is clueless on every aspect of how to actually BE a Congressman. Let's hope that Blago and our illustrious State elected officials can actually work on this once in a lifetime opportunity to take the several BILLION dollars in funding secured by a REAL pro - Congressman Kirk.
Hey, Susan, perhaps the big funder for The Pup should have been held in a phone booth.....doesn't sound like it was a stellar event.
After weeks of cold and snow, a tropical lunch was the perfect idea. Carnivale is close to the office, has great food and amazing sangria. As an added bonus, Dan Seals was having a noon fundraiser so I figured there would also be good opportunities for people watching.
The food and the wine did not disappoint! The guacamole screamed with chunky freshness and the ropa vieja on plantains tasted of paradise.
The people watching was not so much fun. A lovely young man was waiting by the door asking everyone who came in if they were there for the Dan Seals fundraiser – most were not and one woman seemed annoyed by the mere suggestion.
The event was on the second level and while we did hear some scattered applause, there didn’t seem to be much excitement or activity. Our server said there were about 50 people at the party for “some political guy.” A group of 6 left the room to tour the restaurant and there was the usual group of bored looking staffers hanging around on the balcony. I did see Chris Van Hollen when he left the event early. Got to admit he is a bit of a hottie. I didn’t see Rahm, who was listed as host. All in all it did not look like the big success camp Seals was hoping for – but it was a perfect cure for my winter blues.
Thanks for the intel, BOH. That did something to wipe away some of my winter blues as well...
Sangria for everyone!!!
Seals did a press event that one observer said was "thinly attended.". He did not realize that while the UAW predictably lined up with the Dem, most of us think Seals's second run is weak. Why didn't he even move into our district?
Team Kirk will tell you that Hillary's the best thing that could happen to Mark's campaign so rooting against her is silly.
State democrats see that as of next session all the state will have left on appropriations-the committee that decides how federal dollars are spent is Mark and JJJ who could be running for Mayor in 2011 so they need him to stick around and carry their water in d.c. for a few years.
Dan does nothing for them other than give them another body on the education and workforce committee, that may be why they are lying low.
Anon 6:18, thanks for the comment, but I'm torn between wondering if you are really smart or not so smart. Exactly who are these state democrats that actually have the best interests of the state at heart? Or the brains to actually think about things at the national level? Why would both Kirk and Melissa Bean be beating their heads against the wall trying to convince governor Bag-O'-Chips to come up with enough state money not to lose BILLIONS in federal matching dollars for mass transit?
As Kirk says, there should be no federal dollars left behind.
Do you really think there is enough collective Dem brainpower at the state level that actually cares about the ability of our reps to bring home federal dollars that they would prefer Kirk win over Seals? I really am curious as to why (how) you could think that.
Anon 6:18- after having thought some more, I think your comments make more sense if you are talking about the Illinois Congressional delegation. But, how much influence do they have on state party Dems? Not much, from what I can see. Or, if they do, local yo-yo's like Link, Garrett, Washington and Ryg who all support Seals, didn't get the memo.
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