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Title: Clintonites Blame Iowa
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Andrew Sullivan's Daily Dish
URL Source: http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.c ... h/2008/01/clintonites-bla.html
Published: Jan 7, 2008
Author: Andrew Sullivan
Post Date: 2008-01-07 15:55:55 by aristeides
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Views: 128
Comments: 5
Clintonites Blame Iowa 07 Jan 2008 11:23 am From a Clinton campaign email list: Translation: we couldn't control it. So it sucks.
The Iowa caucus process is a broken and flawed process. It was designed to allow for the active party Dems generally known to one another to assign delegates and was not designed to handle a flood of students and independents. It was a system designed to give more power to Dem party loyalists. In the tension over whether the candidates should be chosen by the party or by the general public, the Iowa caucus was designed to give the party the advantage. For this reason, the Iowa system failed on Thursday.
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#1. To: aristeides (#0)
It's never the 'toons' fault. Never.
Join the Ron Paul Revolution Not to worry. New York and California will send us a ton of money and more than enough votes to win.
I have three words to explain why Hillary bombed in Iowa: NAFTA, GATT, Iraq. Three strikes and you're out.
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#2. To: lodwick (#1)
#3. To: aristeides (#0)
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#4. To: Elliott Jackalope (#3)
Were I inclinded to vote, that would certainly be enough for me! And esp. after the lie by her 'husband' about being anti-NAFTA, and then going out of his way to get it passed as fast as possible.
Hillary bombed in Iowa: NAFTA, GATT, Iraq.
When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest.
#5. To: aristeides (#0)
And there would certainly be no other reason why anyone would reject a 'Clinton.' Hillary Clinton quote: I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bill Clinton quotes: It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is. When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans ... And so a lot of people say there's too much personal freedom. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the public housing projects, about how we're going to have weapon sweeps and more things like that to try to make people safer in their communities. Every time Bush talks about trust it makes chills run up and down my spine. The way he has trampled on the truth is a travesty of the American political system. A lot of wonderful people love their country and hate the military. If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees. African-Americans watch the same news at night that ordinary Americans do. We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans... Q.- "If you had it to do over again, would you inhale?" A.- "Sure, if I could... I tried before!" No one wants to get this (Lewinsky) matter behind us more than I do, except maybe all the rest of the American people,
For this reason, the Iowa system failed on Thursday.
When a man who is honestly mistaken hears the truth, he will either quit being mistaken or cease to be honest.
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