Something here sounds familiar
“What’s gone wrong is very simple,” said Hassan Nemazee, a national finance chair for Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign.
“If we had won Iowa and New Hampshire, as we had anticipated, projected, et cetera, you would not have been in a situation in which you are losing all of these small states—because we didn’t put any resources in those small states,” he said. “Obama, on the other hand, put resources in these small states.”
Compounding the damage of the bad defeats in Iowa, and then South Carolina, Mr. Nemazee explained, was the lack of the necessary foresight to invest the campaign’s resources in the states that Mrs. Clinton’s rival, Barack Obama, is now gobbling up as fuel for his ever more threatening momentum.
“You needed to have a Plan B, and Plan B was just doing what we are doing right now rather than having resources in the small states,” he said. “We basically ceded every one of these small red states that he has racked up victories in. And the reason that he has racked up victories at this level isn’t because he was so much more well received, or because his message was any better; it was because we didn’t put any resources in there. We weren’t campaigning there. We didn’t have anybody in Utah, in Idaho, in the Dakotas. In Alaska.”
Okay, I know it is just a political campaign and all, but when I look over that passage and see phrases like, "If we had won . . . as we had anticipated, projected, et cetera, you would not have been in a situation in which you are losing", "the lack of the necessary foresight", and "You needed to have a Plan B, and Plan B was just doing what we are doing right now", it sounds an awful lot like the planning that went into the Iraq War that Hillary voted for and still refuses to show any regret over.
"It'll be a cakewalk", "Nobody could have anticipated the insurgency's strength". "Plan B is to make Plan A work".
It is the same kind of rhetoric. The same kind of shock that the inevitable path to a glorious fate may not go exactly as planned. The same lack of contingency thinking should the unthinkable, (to them), come to pass.
I still firmly believe that the Clintons would make a better presidency than W and his crew have by a vast margin, but the above is another example of why I would prefer to see Obama at the helm of our southern neighbours. His ability to think strategically, not just lay plans but follow through and adapt as necessary, just seems far superior to Clinton's.
Update: Hit the publish button and then saw this, making the point a bit more clear:
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is moving belatedly to make a contest of next Tuesday's Democratic presidential primary.
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Obama appears to be better organized in Wisconsin than Clinton, who looks to be throwing together her state operation at the last minute, said UW-Madison political scientist John Coleman.
