Juan Valdez wrote:
Gould,
I though it was like watching a train wreck. What did you find funny about
it?


It was funny as in sad and ironic. Take the personalities out of the
equation, and the wry humor remains. A political candidate steps
forward to claim she can do a better job representing the people of a
large and complex state than the incumbent can do. She stands up to
give a speech and begins a highly energized sentence with the
incumbent's name......(almost always a prelude to an insult or other
attack phrase).....and then demonstrates that she doesn't have the
presence of mind to complete a sentence without her notes!

It was "deer in the headlights" time. Obviously this woman has never
done any public speaking or performed on stage. When things go wrong,
as they always will, the show must go on.

She did demonstrate she is not prepared, does not have a platform or a
grasp on issues that she can call her own (and from which she can speak
extemporaneously if required), did not write her own speech or bother
to rehearse it, and is probably not better prepared, mentally, to serve
in the US Senate than the vast majority of people currently serving
there.

I think we just watched a political campaign begin to circle the bowl.
Dead silence in front of a banner proclaiming her "positive plan for
New York State."

I will give the woman points for slightly shrewd, however: After
realizing that she had just been filmed acting like a helpless,
clueless airhead for a full 20-25 seconds she did have the presence of
mind to lose whatever nastygram she was prepared to launch at Hillary.
If you're going to call names and make accusations (assuming that's
what was going to follow the words
"hillary clinton") it's really best to do so from a position of
perceived moral superiority. After actng the fool in her speech, the
last thing she really wanted (at that moment) would have been for
anybody to compare her to Hillary Clinton.

My daughter who lives in NYC claims the people of NY "love" Hillary.
I've got a few issues with her, myself, but the people of NY are the
audience she needs to appeal to and please. From the little I've been
able to learn (and it's years too early) I would consider voting for
Republican Senator Hagle from Nebraska over Hillary Clinton, if that's
how the finals played out in the 2008 POTUS race. Hillary will never
get the nomination, IMO.