CLINTON, NOT FAVRE, SHOULD QUIT

We had hoped we would be reading about Hillary Clinton withdrawing from the presidential race this morning.  Instead of losing Texas and Ohio to Barack Obama, she won these big states.  And to top it all off,  The Great Brett Favre is retiring from professional football.  The world is all wrong today!

John Harwood, over at the NY Times, provides a concise analysis of last night's results here.  His verdict: Clinton proved resiliant, but Obama remains the favorite.  Which all means the fight for the nomination continues.  Also, check out MuchoPolitico for an on-the-ground report from a Texas caucus.

How did Obama lose in Texas and Ohio?  Our West Coast political analyst, Elijawon, sets out Obama's mistakes below:

1. Most importantly, (the Obama campaign should have nipped the Canada-NAFTA thing in the bud. Instead of denying that there was ever a meeting and not 
letting Goolsbee talk to the press for a day or two, they should have 
immediately said that they had met but that the content of the meeting 
had been misrepresented.
2. Same thing with Rezko: as soon as the campaign said 'all these questions still need to be answered,'  just answer them all. Put it to rest..
3.  Instead of making a clever  red phone response ad, (Obama) should have pressed her fear mongering much harder.
4. Only after losing last night did he finally start pointing out that she and mccain are echoing each other.  Obama should have been pointing out that she's 
basically campaigning for McCain all along, and he should have been directly 
attacking the claim that more years in Washington equals more qualified with something like "if that's the case, then we should all just vote for McCain. Of course that's not the case. More years in Washington does not equal more qualified, it means more corporate and lobby ties, more cronyism, more resistance to change, more of the same."

And finally, check out this brief homage to The Greatest Quarterback in the History of Football, Brett Favre.  What a sad day.  Viva Favre!

 

Comments

[hostile17]

The greatest quarterback in the history of football? What do you base your obviously biased opinion on. Favre was some great player and holds some of the modern records to be sure, but the greatest? What about Johny Unitas? Favre only won one championship, what about Joe Montana? He won 4! What about Terry Bradshaw? What about Sammy Baugh? I would even say that "Injun" Joe Kapp was a better or equally as good QB. So think before you post such things!