I'm sure there's a post or two that I'm forgetting, but I feel like Attytood's been pretty light on the Hillary-bashing ever since the Bosnia days -- some stories just write themselves without my help. But I have to confess my bafflement with this one: Sen. Clinton has now come up with definitions for the words "broader" and "deeper" that I have never come across in my 49 years:
Clinton called her base of support "broader and deeper" than Obama's, and said, "At the end of the day, that's what it should be about for Democrats. You know, it is who can better win. And I've won the big states. I've won the states that we have to anchor. If we had the Republican rules, I would already be the nominee."
Aside from the fact that America has mostly been governed under "Republican rules" for the last seven years, and we know how that's turned out, does she mean...
"Broader" as in the fact that Obama has won a lot more states, or "deeper" as in Obama has more pledged delegates, more overall delegates and more popular votes, unless you count the Michigan non-primary that Clinton duplicitously entered with Obama's name not even on the ballot? As a penalty for Clinton's lame remark, I give you a link to this newest kerfluffle, which may remind some readers of an Elvis Costello song lyric.
UPDATE: Doctored? Maybe. This 2008 race is one for the books, that's for sure.
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