Saturday, March 01, 2008

Hillary Tries to Shore up Support in Texas...

Desperate times calls for desperate measures, and Clinton, Inc., are pulling out all the stops:

“(Obama’s) entire campaign is based on one speech he gave at an anti-war rally in 2002,” Clinton told reporters on the plane to Fort Worth, Texas, Saturday, claiming her rival never followed up that speech with action in the U.S. Senate. “As they say in Texas, a lot of cattle, no hat.”

The ad, playing only in Texas, shows images of sleeping children and asks voters who they want “answering the phone” during a crisis. It’s prompted a bitter back-and-forth between the candidates.

(Actually, it would be pretty scary having either President Obama or President Hillary Clinton answering that call... either way we're screwed....but I digress.)

Back to the story, not to take any chances with the upcoming Texas primary, Hillary appeared in a Dallas-area roadhouse the other day, and tried to "blend in" with the locals: