Hillary Clinton’s campaign chair, Terry McAuliffe, is all
over the boob tube explaining why his candidate should not be asked to drop out and why the super delegates should thrust his candidate into the party’s presidential nomination. Despite the virtually insurmountable mathematical odds, McAuliffe insists again and again that some how, some way, Clinton will be chosen as the Democratic standardbearer and will give John McCain a good whipping come November.
He uses the new math to explain how her numbers are better than Barack Obama’s numbers. He handily and habitually helps to move the goal posts and reset the game clock. Along with hubby Bill, he helps enable Hillary in her fanciful search for the end of the rainbow.
I’ve decided Terry McAuliffe is channeling Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf. If that Arabic name doesn’t register with you, then maybe this one will work: Baghdad Bob. al-Sahhaf earned that moniker because of his colorful daily press briefings in Baghdad in 2003 at the beginning of the Iraq War. At the time American tanks were patrolling the streets of Baghdad, al-Sahhaf—who was Sadam Hussein’s Information Minister--claimed that there were no American troops in the city, and that the Americans were committing suicide by the hundreds at the city's gates. Shortly before he was vanished from the scene, he held a press conference announcing that our troops were "going to surrender or be burned in their tanks. They will surrender, it is they who will surrender."
The Baghdad Bob alliterative alias was in the spirit of the propagandists who came before his—Seoul City Sue and Hanoi Hannah. In that light, I’m designating McAuliffe Tall Tale Terry. Like al-Sahhaf, McAuliffe spin is a gift to late-night comedians.
Here’s Tall Tale Terry:
And here’s Baghdad Bob:
What do you think?
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