[digg-reddit-me] Earlier today, Senator Clinton made one of those bone-headed gaffes that leave anyone scratching their head, ending her closing arguments in Davenport, Iowa, the day before the caucuses by (without attribution) quoting her main opponent’s signature line:
“We are fired up and we are ready to go.”
I’m praying someone has video of this because that would be priceless.
As if that weren’t enough, she also has just begun to try to use Obama’s main theme, running radio ads labeling her as the candidate of “hope”; and finally, for the moment, one of her main campaign advisers, Howard Wolfson went on Chris Matthews show today and blatantly used another prominent Obama line: that Iowans were getting a chance to “check under the hood…kick the tires.” Chris Matthews, saw the line for what it was, responding: “You stole that line directly from Obama.”
Of course, Obama does not own any of these lines – and everyone else is free to use them. But in a tight political race such as this one, with so many people paying such close attention, does Hillary really think she can get away with repeating Obama’s main lines verbatim?
A side note: Obama’s Iowa co-chair is predicting a turnout of 200,000 up from 124,000 in 2004. Do you think the Clintons might be a wee bit nervous?
I was somewhere in this crowd at Washington Square Park as Obama led the crowd in the chant of “Fired up! Ready to go!”:
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Does Hillary have any original ideas?…
First, she starts by claiming she’s running the “campaign of hope.”
Then, she’s “fired up, ready to go.”
Now, her campaign’s wanting to let the voters “kick the tires.” Chris Matthews didn’t l…
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