What Went Wrong, Hillary?

Sat, 17 May 2008 02:33:04 GMT

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clipper's remarks: "The exclusive story of Hillary's fall, as told by the high-level advisors, staffers, fundraisers, and on-the-ground organizers who lived it."

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we asked (begged, really) a range of Hillarylanders for their up-close and personal lists of "What Went Wrong?"

"Devastating vulnerabilities such as Obama's associations with Wright and Ayers were not unearthed by the campaign's vaunted research team in time to be fully taken advantage of--despite being readily available in the public domain."

The campaign inexplicably wrote off many states entirely, allowing Obama to create the lead of 100+ delegates that he has today.

We would just cringe. Ugh. Such an out-of-touch corporate run kind of campaign--exactly what you'd expect from Mark Penn.

Bill's] behavior that started off in Iowa, carried on in New Hampshire, and culminated in South Carolina really was the beginning of the end.

"There was financial mismanagement bordering on fraud. A candidate who raised more than a quarter of a billion dollars over the years had to pump in millions more of her own money to stave off bankruptcy."

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Tags: hillary, clinton, politics, election, idiots

“Bleedin’ Demised” for 55 million years

Fri, 16 May 2008 11:54:44 GMT

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Clip Source: www.timesonline.co.uk

Monty Python’s parrot may have been “bleedin’ demised” when that sketch was performed in 1969, but an unlikely discovery suggests that it was once alive and well.

The “Norwegian blue” that Michael Palin claimed was not dead, but simply “shagged out following a prolonged squawk”, may not have been such a ridiculous invention as the comedians intended.

David Waterhouse, a palaeontologist from Norfolk, believes that he has identified the oldest known parrot fossil and, at the same time, proved that the birds once lived considerably farther north than was previously thought.

Although the bird has been officially named Mopsitta tanta, Dr Waterhouse has nicknamed it the Danish blue, a tribute to its fictional Norwegian counterpart in the Python routine, which has been voted Britain’s best-loved alternative comedy sketch.

This parrot shuffled off its mortal coil around 55 million years ago, but the fjords of Norway were formed during the last Ice Age and are less than a million years old.

Tags: monty python, humour, humor, uk, parrot

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