Obama can't shake off Clinton; suffers from "failure to close," but has another "silver bullet"

Politico: Obama can't shake off Clinton
By ROGER SIMON | 4/22/08


Barack Obama addresses supporters at his Pennsylvania primary night rally April 22, 2008 in Evansville, Ind. (AP)

Barack Obama could not “close the deal” in Pennsylvania on Tuesday night. Hillary Clinton said so, and just about every talking head on TV used that phrase. Though Obama has won twice as many contests as Clinton, this man clearly suffers from a failure to close.

Why? It may be because, as Clinton argues in her TV ads, he does not have “what it takes” to be president and lead the nation in crisis. (The ad features pictures not just of Osama bin Laden, but also of Pearl Harbor, suggesting, I guess, that Clinton will protect us not just from Al Qaeda but also from the Japanese.)

While Clinton did not actually call Obama a wimp in Pennsylvania, she did say he was “elitist and out of touch” and “demeaning.” She can also drink him under the table. (And he stinks at bowling.)

Clinton continues to do well in big states, having previously won primaries in California, Massachusetts and Ohio.

The good news for Obama, however, is that in the contest that actually counts — who wins the most pledged delegates to the Democratic Convention -— his lead appears to be unassailable. In other words, he probably “closed the deal” when, after Super Tuesday, he won 10 contests in a row, running up his pledged delegate lead while Clinton’s chief strategist, Mark Penn, was still trying to figure out what was happening. (Clinton, who fired Penn, still owes him $4.5 million. I could have come up with a losing strategy for half that.)

True, Obama missed an opportunity Tuesday night, one of his two “silver bullets.” Had he actually beaten Clinton in Pennsylvania, she almost certainly would have had to withdraw from the race. But Obama has another opportunity in two weeks: If he beats her in North Carolina and Indiana on May 6, some members of her own campaign say she might have to withdraw....

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As far as "failure to close", what does that say about her campaign? She isn't closing it either. In fact, she isn't even close!

He couldnt "close the deal" on a single primary.

Hillary, after auditioning for the job for the last 16 years, and being the nearly inevitable nominee going into this race, is losing to a one term Senator of mixed race.

Which of them cant "close the deal"?

Will somebody please buy her a fucking dictionary?

There is one eyeblink-fast shot of Osama in a chain of images that include Presidents (like Kennedy and FDR) and Threats through the ages. Yet this characterization that there are "Osama images" persists--like she has a portrait of him up on her ad, with gloom and doom music, or something.

Here, don't believe me, look at the ad: http://www.hillaryclinton.com/video/169.aspx

But then, that's Albritton Communications 'reportage' for you. They own POLITICO, after all.