Somehow indicating that she has a pulse on how the gaffes of her own campaign will be interpreted by voters, Hillary Clinton says the controversy and resignation of Mark Penn won’t hurt her campaign. This is so amusing. When I was about 8 years old, we would play a game in my neighborhood that we just called “Guns.” We all had toy guns (I actually had an M-16 that was one of the “it” weapons in the hood). It was basically hide and seek, but to “catch” somebody you had to “shoot” them from relatively point blank range before they “shot” you. The game ALWAYS devolved into an argument when one player would ambush another from the bushes with a subsequent dispute over whether the shot was successful.

Kid 1: “Blat…blllllllat! I shot you.” (noises were obligatory)

Kid 2: “No you didn’t.” (running away)

Argument ensued. I’m sure you get it. Hillary is now playing the role of Kid 2. “You didn’t hit me…see?”

I don’t usually care about what the comments to a particular article say, but it looks like everyone on CNN.com is tired of Hill’s spin cycle. EVERY SINGLE comment says something to her credibility. With her dwindling lead in the Pennsylvania polls, it looks like her act is played…sooooooo played.

I won’t call for it now, but pretty soon it will be time for Hill to:

It may be Pennsylvania (April 22). It may be North Carolina (May 6). IT MAY BE GUAM (May 3)…but it’s coming.

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http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/04/08/iraq.hearing/index.html

Iraq is making “fragile but reversible” progress on security, but it’s too early to set dates to pull out all U.S. troops, the top U.S. military commander in Iraq told Congress on Tuesday. “

There has been “significant but uneven progress,” Petraeus said, but recent violence shows the progress is “fragile but reversible.” “

Is it just me, or does ol’ Dave sound like:

What the hell is Petraeus saying? Someone please enlighten me here. (I bet Bro Taguchi will.) Does Dave mean “inconstant” by “uneven”? I don’t know.

If it’s so fragile, how in the hell is it significant? I’d think that a significant improvement would imply stability.

To digress, I think this whole security problem rests on Paul Bremer. (Beyond the rest of Bushco.) He should not have dismissed Saddam’s forces after Baghdad was toppled. We should have paid off those dudes and made them cops. But noooooooooo. We sent em’ packing. Stupid.

Ok, back to Dave:

“This approach does not allow establishment of a set withdrawal timetable,” he said. “However, it does provide the flexibility those of us on the ground need to preserve the still fragile security gains our troopers have fought so hard and sacrificed so much to achieve.” “

John McCain loves this type of shit. (So does W) He’s going to put this quote in his pocket, and use it against Obama and Clinton. DUH. I still don’t know what the General is saying.

-MC Spanky McGee

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