Comments on: Credit Where It’s Due http://www.anwyn.com/2007/10/25/credit-where-its-due/ Sometime editor, all-the-time mother, delivering facts, reviews, commentary, and rants. Occasionally in that order. Mon, 08 Sep 2008 05:11:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 by: Anwyn http://www.anwyn.com/2007/10/25/credit-where-its-due/#comment-140185 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:48:56 +0000 http://www.anwyn.com/2007/10/25/credit-where-its-due/#comment-140185 I feel like Carrie Fisher in <em>When Harry Met Sally</em>: "You're right, you're right, I know you're right," but despite or maybe because of the small amount of courage required, it's rather telling as to who will and who won't do it. Even some of the unhinged on the left side, like Maher and Geraldo, will tell these people where to get off while people running for the highest post in the country absolutely refuse to do so. It. Is. Sad. Ah well. As political calculation it's both brilliant and, as you say, low-hanging fruit: Probably nothing else Bill could say or do at this point would get an "Atta boy" out of me so fast as that. I feel like Carrie Fisher in When Harry Met Sally: “You’re right, you’re right, I know you’re right,” but despite or maybe because of the small amount of courage required, it’s rather telling as to who will and who won’t do it. Even some of the unhinged on the left side, like Maher and Geraldo, will tell these people where to get off while people running for the highest post in the country absolutely refuse to do so. It. Is. Sad.

Ah well. As political calculation it’s both brilliant and, as you say, low-hanging fruit: Probably nothing else Bill could say or do at this point would get an “Atta boy” out of me so fast as that.

]]> by: Jon S. http://www.anwyn.com/2007/10/25/credit-where-its-due/#comment-140175 Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:29:10 +0000 http://www.anwyn.com/2007/10/25/credit-where-its-due/#comment-140175 This is, by extension, Hillary's Sistah Souljah moment: she won't do it, so Bill steps in (remember their '92 campaign slogan: "get two for the price of one") and wins her credit with the few remaining non-wackazoids in the Democratic rank and file. The far left isn't voting for her anyway, but their hope is that enough of the old regulars will recall what they loved about Bill and Hillary. Of course, this could well be the easiest smackdown in the history of modern politics, and the amount of courage it took to do so was so small I don't think it can be measured. But Bill really told them -- oh boy! This is, by extension, Hillary’s Sistah Souljah moment: she won’t do it, so Bill steps in (remember their ‘92 campaign slogan: “get two for the price of one”) and wins her credit with the few remaining non-wackazoids in the Democratic rank and file. The far left isn’t voting for her anyway, but their hope is that enough of the old regulars will recall what they loved about Bill and Hillary. Of course, this could well be the easiest smackdown in the history of modern politics, and the amount of courage it took to do so was so small I don’t think it can be measured. But Bill really told them — oh boy!

]]> by: Chuck Bell http://www.anwyn.com/2007/10/25/credit-where-its-due/#comment-139494 Thu, 25 Oct 2007 16:20:47 +0000 http://www.anwyn.com/2007/10/25/credit-where-its-due/#comment-139494 Completely off topic, but I do love it when politicians (even Slick Willy) shout down idiots and others who interupt them. My favorite: "I paid for this microphone!" God, but I miss Mr. Reagan... Completely off topic, but I do love it when politicians (even Slick Willy) shout down idiots and others who interupt them. My favorite: “I paid for this microphone!”

God, but I miss Mr. Reagan…

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