Clinton wins New Hampshire Primary

[morningpaper]

Clinton wins Democratic vote in New Hampshire.

Honestly I don't think I can take another 11 months of this sort of stress.

It amuses me how there is so much coverage of this outside of the US, and how interested we all are. I would be willing to stake money on at least 50% of the US population not being able to name one other world leader, never mind candidates!!!

lol, so, the girly weepy showing-off-her-feminine side worked, then, eh?

I'd like to see a bit more coverage of all the candidates, actually. You'd think it was a two horse race between Obama and Clinton from some of the UK media.

the feminist in me really erally wants clinton to win.

i remember the 92 section. arab news, the english daily we used to get in saudi arabia covered the election as if it were the most important thing on the planet.

I want Obama to win. I'm disappointed, he is so charismatic I thought he'd do it.

ruty, there's ages to go yet..

yes i know, but they were so sure Obama was going to get New Hampshire...

Obama is all very nice but can he really stand the pace? He comes across so very Lib Dem about things. It would be a bit of a fcking disaster if he won the Democrat vote and then couldn't stand up against the Republican candidate.

pukka I know what you mean

I think he has a great ease and charisma about him, similar to Bill Clinton. Ah well.

I am torn between Clinton and Obama. Both great candidates. Clinton just edges it for me, for many and varied reasons which I won't bore you all with now!

@WaynettaSlob - I think the reason so many people are interested is because America is still the world's great 'superpower'. What happens in America impacts on us all.

The feminist in you Pukka??
Hillary betrays her feminist convictions. She thinks she is entitle to be there because her husband was.
Very modern.

Disagree moondog. Hilary wants to be there because she's smart and opinionated and ambitious and a political animal.

She's always wanted to be there, before even marrying Bill. Go Hilary.

Not to worry Ruty she made a comment that will come back to haunt her. I think she will lose the black vote because of it. She can't win the primary without the black vote.

Hmmm, I think Clinton can be as fake as fake can be, teary eyed? COme on, it was scripted (as all politicians are)

Yes, and she really feels it keenly..

i dont agree with you there at all md

i think she is very controlling

but i like her

Don't we have to accept certain things when dealing with these politicians?

That they spin, say what sounds good, change their agenda to suit the mood, are fake, sound insincere etc?

it's naive to think otherwise isn't it?

I mean I like all that Obama civic spiritualism because it sounds good, but it's still fake right?

Tony Blair...was...the king....of...fake....with his.........pauses

lol olive
i liked him
i cnt listen to gordon brown
or watch for that matter

Of course it was scripted. Next to the expansive and charming Obama, Clinton has come across as pinched and a bit harsh. Her strategy of all out attack on him just made her look more like a harridan.

So she turns on the water-works to seem all vulnerable and soft-focus.

Tony Blair was King. Wasn't he?

although on Sky this morning a presenter said she can't win

she has to be forceful, then she is a bitch, so she turns on the tears and is called fake

as a woman he said she has to be all things

But then Sue, yesterday, she was calm, matronly, superior, consistent etc.

Obama will change his tune now too.

It's like watching bits of paper dancing in the wind. I don't mind it - it all seems a bit of a game really, you just have to judge who is playing the game for best of intentions.

I read an article this morning Olive, saying that really the NH turn out was the electorate - especially the women - saying to the media, who were delighting in tramping all over her - 'not so fast'. They compared it to the Senator race where that guy wagged his finger in her face and the media loved it, but the voters didn't.

Good for the voters I say.

jonathan cainer (astrologer) predicts clinton will win. from where i'm sitting that looks highly unlikely.

obama will be assasinated if he gets much further....so predictable and so awful.

mind you so might hilary if she makes it to the whitehouse.