I am sitting here typing this as I watch Barack Obama give his “concession” speech. Boy was he off. I don’t get this about candidates. I know that Bill Clinton is famous for declaring victory after an 8 point primary loss in New Hampshire in 1992, and everyone wants to emmulate that.
But what I don’t understand is why candidates who lose primaries, can’t be honest about it. Edwards did pretty well with that in his concession speech. But Obama really was giving a speech he should have given last week. He talked about bringing youth and new people into the process. Polling data indicates that that was last week’s story, he got killed in alot of key democratic demographics.
I was unimpressed with Obama tonight. As much as I thought mana was going to rain from Heaven after his Iowa speech, I thought he came across as flat after New Hampshire.
Ok, Hillary’s on wearing an ugly shirt. She looks like she’s going to cry again.
“I want to thank New Hampshire, because over the last week I listened to you, and in the process I found my own voice.” That’s a fantastic line.
”Now together let’s give America the kind of comeback that New Hampshire has just given me.” I have 100 bucks that Bill wrote that line.
Interesting note, she says “to win the war in Iraq the right way,” I wonder if she’s going to try to give herself wiggleroom because she knows she can’t remove the troops if elected.
Ok, all in all not a fantastic speech for Hillary, but a tremendous win. The Democrats are in quite the bind. I guess the big loser of the Night is John Edwards, who began to throw Hillary under the bus in an attempt to cozy up to Obama, or hope that he would be last man standing should Obama fizzle out.
UPDATE: The pundits seem to love Barack’s speech. I’m sticking to my analysis.
