<p>"You know, there’s a great saying in Texas – you’ve all heard it. ‘All hat and no cattle,’ " Clinton told a large audience in El Paso a few days ago. “Well, after seven years of George Bush, we need a lot less hat and a lot more cattle.” </p>
<p>She continued, in an apparent swipe at both President Bush and Sen. Barack Obama, the candidate gaining momentum in the Democratic race: “Texas needs a president who actually understands what it’s going to take to turn the economy around”</p>
<p>Seems like the tall hat wearers were paying attention:</p>
<p>Latest polls on 2/25/08 Clinton 45.7% Obama 47.8%</p>
<p>Since the primary isn’t until March 4th, it’s really hard to get excited about 2.1% either way on polls for early voters. NOt to mention the big “vote to screw up the Dems” movement in Texas…
Geez - let’s let the process work. Everyone gets a turn, vote for your person. Let the pollsters shut up for a while. THe last 2 or 3 presidential elections the pundits had already decided by now that the majority of us had no more input, so now let’s just let it really happen in real time by real people ( what a radical concept!)</p>
<p>Thanks for the link. Will you just look at that graph…amazing the gap Sen. Obama has closed. There is something very positive happening in our country.</p>
<p>After Tuesday. there will be only one way to look at it. It will either be a repeat of how the pollsters’ three-day averages missed the return of the “comeback kid” or the confirmation of one the most collosal collapses by the front-runner who was all but inevitable a few months ago. </p>
<p>As far as the trends, it seems that the Clinton campaign should cut down on the mostly negative ads and invest in several CNN-covered Kodak cum Kleenex in many diners in Texas. After all, crocodile tears and fake emotions might sell better than the 35 years of experience. </p>
<p>In the meantime, the media will continue reporting the changes as the horserace it is and the pollsters will continue to bask in their temporary glory. All to the great pleasure of some and the growing dismay of HRH fans.</p>
<p>Noone wants this country to go through the disaster we have recently experienced through our executive leadership. We all want what is best for all Americans and how we function in the world. Noone with an ounce of morality wants anything but success by the eventual next president. We all have our own compasses of how to judge and predict. I am willing to give credit and respect that the choice and preference of each supporter of the other candidates is a result of their strong belief in their candidate as the best option America has. I hope that my judgement and resultant preference is respected also for what it is, my best judgement. </p>
<p>There is no dismay about the gamemanship of winning and losing, but there is concern about the criteria for the choice. Some of us require inspiration, and some of us have learned our faith and trust as a product of our own experiences…we have seen how personalities present and how little that predicts ability and competence. We recognize the facades of ALL the players as what they are, facades, and none among us KNOWS the reality until it evolves. Regardless. This process will yield a deeply divided country once again if the hoop-la is mean spirited, gloating, and unkind. I pray for a gentler acceptance for and by all of us.</p>
<p>xiggi,
“After all, crocodile tears and fake emotions might sell better than the 35 years of experience.”
– aren’t you a little young to be this cynical? ;)</p>
<p>“Noone wants this country to go through the disaster we have recently experienced through our executive leadership”</p>
<p>“This process will yield a deeply divided country once again if the hoop-la is mean spirited, gloating, and unkind. I pray for a gentler acceptance for and by all of us.”</p>
<p>Don’t you think a good start for this would be to stop demonizing the current administration and by extension those who think that the “disaster” that we are now in is better than the true disaster that we would have been in had we pursued a different path?</p>
<p>“Don’t you think a good start for this would be to stop demonizing the current administration and by extension those who think that the “disaster” that we are now in is better than the true disaster that we would have been in had we pursued a different path?”</p>
<p>You may be right, fundingfather, but my imagination refuses to entertain the possibilities which would have America more at odds with the world that what it currently is…and in this instance I am glad for my lack of imagination! All of what has happened since January of 2001 may have happened under any leadership, or maybe not, but it is what it is, and that “it” is a mess. I still want the next president to “right the ship” and steer us to calmer global waters.</p>