The Same Old Way

It would be something of a stretch to compare Hillary Clinton to Napoleon Bonaparte and Barack Obama to the Duke of Wellington. Nonetheless, as this campaign has progressed and Hillary has struggled to find an effective counter to Obama's organisation and tenacity (to, er, say nothing of the hopes of millions of democrats who hope he can finally topple the tyrant, thus liberating a continent), one of the Iron Duke's famous lines from Waterloo seems to sum up the plodding uselessness of the Clinton campaign.

To wit: They came on in the same old way and we sent them back in the same old way.

I think this is the light in which to see Hillary's now-infamous (and somewhat unconvincing) "3am" ad: the last, desperate recourse of a failing campaign bereft of ideas, imagination or options. Even the old Imperial Guard can't save her now.

Comments

[dave.s.]

It's a good quote. In the Clinton campaign context, my personal fave is Speer, responding to his interrogator on how he had known the Reich was losing: 'The glorious victories of the Fatherland were coming ever closer to Berlin'.

[dearieme]

La Garde recule!

[M . Stratas]

The disappointing thing about Hillary's campaign is really the lack of creativity... same old same old. In her case, she should have done something different such as emphasize her good qualities (instead of carping about Obama's oratory or the favoritism of the press), be consistent in her message, it not copy some of Rove's idiotic fear-mongering tactics. I could have done a better job of selling Hillary and I'm an average citizen.

[mrtmbrnmn]

good point about wellington & napoleon. to my mind, hillary's entire campaign has more resembled hitler's invasion of russia (or possibly g. bush's invasion of iraq) a total miscalculation of the possibilities that might occur. hillary is now in the middle of an unexpected and failing (not to say flailing) "winter campaign" with no warm clothing and barely a clue how to get out of the catastrophe alive with a few surviving troops and generals...

[Knemon]

McCain = Blucher?

[dearieme]

McCain believes himself to be pregnant by an elephant? Tell us more, Knemon.