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Clinton wins New Hampshire Primary

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morningpaper · 09/01/2008 08:07

Clinton wins Democratic vote in New Hampshire.

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

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WaynettaSlob · 09/01/2008 08:22

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!!!

SueBaroo · 09/01/2008 08:44

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.

pukkapatch · 09/01/2008 08:47

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.

ruty · 09/01/2008 08:59

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

SueBaroo · 09/01/2008 09:02

ruty, there's ages to go yet..

ruty · 09/01/2008 09:04

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

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morningpaper · 09/01/2008 09:33

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.

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morningpaper · 09/01/2008 09:34

pukka I know what you mean

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ruty · 09/01/2008 09:34

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

LoveAngel · 09/01/2008 09:36

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.

moondog · 09/01/2008 09:37

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

ahundredtimes · 09/01/2008 09:39

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.

paulaplumpbottom · 09/01/2008 09:41

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.

Oliveoil · 09/01/2008 09:41

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

SueBaroo · 09/01/2008 09:42

Yes, and she really feels it keenly..

nailpolish · 09/01/2008 09:44

i dont agree with you there at all md

i think she is very controlling

but i like her

ahundredtimes · 09/01/2008 09:44

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?

Oliveoil · 09/01/2008 09:46

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

nailpolish · 09/01/2008 09:47

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

SueBaroo · 09/01/2008 09:47

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.

SueBaroo · 09/01/2008 09:48

Tony Blair was King. Wasn't he?

Oliveoil · 09/01/2008 09:49

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

ahundredtimes · 09/01/2008 09:49

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.

ahundredtimes · 09/01/2008 09:51

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.

Heathcliffscathy · 09/01/2008 09:52

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.