Clinton seeks to cast herself as underdog vs Obama


	Clinton seeks to cast herself as underdog vs Obama

tabsey

2-11-2008 2:40 AM

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tabsey says:

If she is so good, why does Paris have to keep reinventing herself?

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2-12-2008 1:14 PM

masbury

Because what she represents - the coercive politics of the 90s - is losing, and she doesn't understand why. America has moved on. She is more methodologically related to Rove (also history) than to Obama. She keeps pitching positions because she can't see that positions aren't the main issue.

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