Poor choice of words, Hillary
I’m not a Hillary-basher, but I couldn’t help but be struck by the subject line of her most recent fund-raising email: I never could have anticipated. As in “no one could have anticipated that the levees would be breached.” Or “we never anticipated that they would fly planes into buildings.” To make matters worse, what she never could have anticipated was, of course, something everyone anticipated — that as she goes around the country she is meeting “people who tell me they’re ready to do whatever they can to make our campaign a success.”
Memo to candidates everywhere: your job as president is to anticipate things (downturns in the economy, terrorist attacks, the failures of poorly constructed levees and dams, revenue shortfalls). Don’t send out emails claiming you never could have anticipated something obvious. We’ve had enough of that over the past six years.
Yeah, and what’s really bad: someone did anticipate the levees breaking, as indeed the Army Corps of Engineers regularly repaired the levees before their funding got cut by the Republican Congress and the Bush Administration.
Yeah, and what’s really bad: someone did anticipate planes flying into the World Trade Center, many times. There was even a now-famous PDB (I presume Hilly wasn’t watching the Condi Rice testimony) that talked about just that sort of thing.
Yeah, and what’s really bad: Hillary sucks.
Sorry, but she does.