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New Hampshire Democratic Debate: Hillary must, must, must work on her tonality when she speaks. When she gives a defensive answer to another candidate attack, her voice raises to an annoying and angry sounding register -- and she launches into some diversionary talking point about her achievement and experience. She could be so smooth as the female candidate, but she just can't keep it together under pressure. She should watch some tape on Mike Huckabee, O-ba-ma! or Edwards. She always comes off defensive and whiny.
PEOPLE VOTE ON FEELINGS NOT LOGIC: Every candidate knows what to say about each issue, because they have polled and tested what to say on each issue. But beyond some basic policy, like, "I'll cut taxes, bring the troops home, and end government corruption", people can't make heads or tails out of much more than that. It is a mistake for politicians to try and convince people, or win an argument by using a lot of logic and statistics proving the point.
It comes down to likability. People vote for who they like. And this has much more to do with likability. And I swear as I am typing this, the moderator just asked Hillary why people don't think she is as "likable" as Obama.
SHE FINALLY GAVE A GREAT ANSWER: She said humorously, but sympathetically, "First of all, that hurts my feelings." (Crowd laughed.) Even Barack jumped in and said, "Don't worry Hillary, you're likable enough."
Why can't she just be likable? LA City Councilmembers are MUCH smoother and more likable. (Even though they are just as shady.) I don't think Hillary could beat any of them except Ed Reyes if she didn't have the name recognition as former first lady.
ZD REMINDS YOU OF ADDED COST OF WAR: Goes beyond the financial drain on the U.S. economy (now in the trillions). When you hear police departments and school districts saying they can't find enough qualified candidates, I am told a big drain on recruitment is due to all the top candidates who are fighting the war. So beyond the financial drain, the ripping of families apart and the physical and psychological after effects these soldiers suffer from, there is not enough talk of the pool of candidates not available at home for the the school, police, fire, utility and other departments.
JOHN EDWARDS: I like his no special interest/no lobbyist angle. He should make sure that's his big selling point to distinguish him from all others. I just wonder how important the message is to your average Joe.
I think Edwards' big problem is that Barack is just so smooth, likable and represents the "change" and "freshness" that people are looking for. Whether Obama can deliver that, or will make the correct decisions...who knows. But he's coming off as the poster boy for the direction that "the people" want to take.
CLINTON ACCUSED OBAMA OF HIS STAFFER BEING A LOBBYIST: He was seen on camera shaking his head and said, "No he's not."
EDWARDS ON LOBBYISTS: He said he wouldn't take a penny from lobbyists and no lobbyists would be in his White House.
But, Obama's response stole the show and responded to Clinton's claim that words don't create change. Obama went into a, "Words DO create change. They inspire people to create change." And basically said, yeah...we need to improve the system, but you can't eliminate it entirely. But we need to strive to do better. So not only did Barack turn Clinton's words against her, he gave a more realistic answer to Edwards.
I just don't think Clinton can score a point against Obama in a debate setting. And not so sure about Edwards, either.
THE PROBLEM WITH HILLARY ACCUSING BARACK OF NOT HAVING ENOUGH EXPERIENCE: He sure does seem to be able to articulate the problems and give his answer to the problem, and it all sounds pretty good, and I don't think people are getting a feeling that he is inexperienced. And if he is, it seems like he at least seems to be knowledgeable.
EDWARDS SCORED WITH HIS ANTI-CORPORATE TALK: Noting that while Exxon Mobile (XOM) reported skyrocketing, record profits -- millions of Americans didn't have health care and war veterans are sleeping under bridges on milk crates. And we are going to lose 30-40 million jobs, and those aren't blue collar workers, but college students.
So whether that will kill his chances when unions and corporations make sure they support anyone but Edwards, the message was killer if you are "one of the people".
RICHARDSON ON EDUCATION: Noted that no one has said a thing about education and China is graduating more scientists and engineers than the U.S.
ZUMA DOGG NOTICED: Not much talk of the economy, besides Clinton mentioning the possible recession. No one mentioned the stock market had the worst three day decline since the Great Depression of the '30's. The price of oil being around $100, gold skyrocketing on inflation and dollar volatility concerns, the housing market, subprime. (I didn't hear the entire debate, but I haven't heard much talk of this during the campaign. That's kryptonite-speak for politicians!)
AND THANKS: To everyone who I heard from (some whom it's been a while) regarding the LA Times coverage of Public Comment at City Hall featuring a lot of "Zuma Dogg". WE HAD LICENSES THOUGH, Y'ALL!!! THAT WAS KINDA THE POINT. But I loved the article, and make sure you read the sub-headline and final two paragraphs so you don't get the message twisted. Click for article. (They called me "the undisputed master"!!! Looks like it went straight to my head, y'all.)
SUNDAY MORNING UPDATE: CNN will replay the forum style debate Sunday January 6th at 7pm (East Coast Time, I guess.)
C-Span "Campaign Network": Website with all the campaign videos and election coverage.
zumadogg@gmail.com
zumatimes.com
New Hampshire Democratic Debate: Hillary must, must, must work on her tonality when she speaks. When she gives a defensive answer to another candidate attack, her voice raises to an annoying and angry sounding register -- and she launches into some diversionary talking point about her achievement and experience. She could be so smooth as the female candidate, but she just can't keep it together under pressure. She should watch some tape on Mike Huckabee, O-ba-ma! or Edwards. She always comes off defensive and whiny.
PEOPLE VOTE ON FEELINGS NOT LOGIC: Every candidate knows what to say about each issue, because they have polled and tested what to say on each issue. But beyond some basic policy, like, "I'll cut taxes, bring the troops home, and end government corruption", people can't make heads or tails out of much more than that. It is a mistake for politicians to try and convince people, or win an argument by using a lot of logic and statistics proving the point.
It comes down to likability. People vote for who they like. And this has much more to do with likability. And I swear as I am typing this, the moderator just asked Hillary why people don't think she is as "likable" as Obama.
SHE FINALLY GAVE A GREAT ANSWER: She said humorously, but sympathetically, "First of all, that hurts my feelings." (Crowd laughed.) Even Barack jumped in and said, "Don't worry Hillary, you're likable enough."
Why can't she just be likable? LA City Councilmembers are MUCH smoother and more likable. (Even though they are just as shady.) I don't think Hillary could beat any of them except Ed Reyes if she didn't have the name recognition as former first lady.
ZD REMINDS YOU OF ADDED COST OF WAR: Goes beyond the financial drain on the U.S. economy (now in the trillions). When you hear police departments and school districts saying they can't find enough qualified candidates, I am told a big drain on recruitment is due to all the top candidates who are fighting the war. So beyond the financial drain, the ripping of families apart and the physical and psychological after effects these soldiers suffer from, there is not enough talk of the pool of candidates not available at home for the the school, police, fire, utility and other departments.
JOHN EDWARDS: I like his no special interest/no lobbyist angle. He should make sure that's his big selling point to distinguish him from all others. I just wonder how important the message is to your average Joe.
I think Edwards' big problem is that Barack is just so smooth, likable and represents the "change" and "freshness" that people are looking for. Whether Obama can deliver that, or will make the correct decisions...who knows. But he's coming off as the poster boy for the direction that "the people" want to take.
CLINTON ACCUSED OBAMA OF HIS STAFFER BEING A LOBBYIST: He was seen on camera shaking his head and said, "No he's not."
EDWARDS ON LOBBYISTS: He said he wouldn't take a penny from lobbyists and no lobbyists would be in his White House.
But, Obama's response stole the show and responded to Clinton's claim that words don't create change. Obama went into a, "Words DO create change. They inspire people to create change." And basically said, yeah...we need to improve the system, but you can't eliminate it entirely. But we need to strive to do better. So not only did Barack turn Clinton's words against her, he gave a more realistic answer to Edwards.
I just don't think Clinton can score a point against Obama in a debate setting. And not so sure about Edwards, either.
THE PROBLEM WITH HILLARY ACCUSING BARACK OF NOT HAVING ENOUGH EXPERIENCE: He sure does seem to be able to articulate the problems and give his answer to the problem, and it all sounds pretty good, and I don't think people are getting a feeling that he is inexperienced. And if he is, it seems like he at least seems to be knowledgeable.
EDWARDS SCORED WITH HIS ANTI-CORPORATE TALK: Noting that while Exxon Mobile (XOM) reported skyrocketing, record profits -- millions of Americans didn't have health care and war veterans are sleeping under bridges on milk crates. And we are going to lose 30-40 million jobs, and those aren't blue collar workers, but college students.
So whether that will kill his chances when unions and corporations make sure they support anyone but Edwards, the message was killer if you are "one of the people".
RICHARDSON ON EDUCATION: Noted that no one has said a thing about education and China is graduating more scientists and engineers than the U.S.
ZUMA DOGG NOTICED: Not much talk of the economy, besides Clinton mentioning the possible recession. No one mentioned the stock market had the worst three day decline since the Great Depression of the '30's. The price of oil being around $100, gold skyrocketing on inflation and dollar volatility concerns, the housing market, subprime. (I didn't hear the entire debate, but I haven't heard much talk of this during the campaign. That's kryptonite-speak for politicians!)
AND THANKS: To everyone who I heard from (some whom it's been a while) regarding the LA Times coverage of Public Comment at City Hall featuring a lot of "Zuma Dogg". WE HAD LICENSES THOUGH, Y'ALL!!! THAT WAS KINDA THE POINT. But I loved the article, and make sure you read the sub-headline and final two paragraphs so you don't get the message twisted. Click for article. (They called me "the undisputed master"!!! Looks like it went straight to my head, y'all.)
SUNDAY MORNING UPDATE: CNN will replay the forum style debate Sunday January 6th at 7pm (East Coast Time, I guess.)
C-Span "Campaign Network": Website with all the campaign videos and election coverage.
zumadogg@gmail.com
zumatimes.com
Labels: 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama, hillary clinton, John Edwards, los angeles politics, new hampshire primary analysis, zuma dogg
Posted by Zuma Dogg @ 1/05/2008 10:39:00 PM
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