BS: 'This is an ex-candidate'!

Subject: BS: 'This is an ex-candidate'!
From: Bill D
Date: 15 May 08 - 11:32 AM

I couldn't figure out which thread this belonged in, so contrary to my usual wont, I am starting a thread.

I hope you can read a Washington Post page.

Dead Parroty

Here's the opening:

"This Is an Ex-Candidate
By Dana Milbank
Wednesday, May 14, 2008; Page A03


--Customer: "Look, matey, I know a dead parrot when I see one, and I'm looking at one right now."

Pet-shop owner: "No, no he's not dead, he's -- he's resting! Remarkable bird, the Norwegian blue, isn't it, aye? Beautiful plumage!"

-- From "Monty Python's Flying Circus"

11:45 a.m., Melrose Hotel, Foggy Bottom: It's Day 7 of the Clinton Campaign Death Watch -- a full week since the official arbiter of the Democratic primary, Tim Russert, declared the campaign over and Barack Obama the nominee. Hillary Clinton's advisers continue to insist that the candidate's prospects are very much alive, but the press isn't buying it. Exhibit A: There are two press buses waiting at the hotel here for Clinton's trip to her victory rally in West Virginia, but the entire press contingent doesn't quite fill one. It isn't until the entourage arrives at Dulles Airport that Clinton aides learn that the second bus is still idling, empty, at the hotel.

If there is importance in the results of the primary in West Virginia, the press corps isn't letting on. During the security sweep at Dulles, some play Hacky Sack with a cigarette carton. Awaiting the candidate on the tarmac, two guys from CNN toss a football. Aboard the plane, one member of the press corps entertains his colleagues by flopping down the aisle on his belly, like a fish.

But Clinton, wearing a salmon-colored jacket and dark sunglasses, is all smiles as she boards the jet. She hugs and kisses her campaign chairman, Terry McAuliffe. Still grinning, she helps herself to a cracker with spread from the snack tray as the plane taxis to the runway. And why shouldn't she be happy? Within minutes, Clinton has crossed the Blue Ridge and is over the green hills of West Virginia, home of what she calls the "hardworking Americans, white Americans." This is Clinton Country.

Customer: "That parrot is definitely deceased, and when I purchased it not half an hour ago, you assured me that its total lack of movement was due to it being tired and shagged out following a prolonged squawk."

Pet-shop owner: "Well, he's, he's, ah, probably pining for the fiords." "

Subject: RE: BS: 'This is an ex-candidate'!
From: pdq
Date: 15 May 08 - 12:09 PM

I always thought she looked more like a Bantam hen than a parrot.

Subject: RE: BS: 'This is an ex-candidate'!
From: catspaw49
Date: 15 May 08 - 12:42 PM

Thanks Bill

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: 'This is an ex-candidate'!
From: Mrrzy
Date: 15 May 08 - 01:08 PM

Yes, I've been watching the deathwatch at slate.com - well worth the reading, dead parrot or no!

Subject: RE: BS: 'This is an ex-candidate'!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 15 May 08 - 05:21 PM

Watch for the "band together to unite the party" maneuvering...shortly to commence. It will be most amusing in the light of what has happened in the last few months of backbiting and character assassination.

Subject: RE: BS: 'This is an ex-candidate'!
From: KB in Iowa
Date: 15 May 08 - 05:25 PM

That has already started LH.

Subject: RE: BS: 'This is an ex-candidate'!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 15 May 08 - 05:35 PM

Yeah, you're right. My, my, the rhetoric is going to be something to listen to in the next little while.