But I am amazed that on the day of the first primary, this is what I see at the top of my go-to political link webpage Memeorandum:
"Clay Aiken on 2020 primary...."
Clay Aiken!??
Is there some other Clay Aiken than the Clay Aiken I know, the guy who came in second in the second season of "American Idol"? No, this is that Clay Aiken.
Apparently, his opinion on who's the best Democrat this time around is the most important political news this morning.
I clicked through to the column, even though it's at USA Today, which is so clogged with ads that I feel like a person who doesn't even know how to read. But here's a paragraph. I'll put it over here so I can see it:
I, for one, am tired of candidates trying to dazzle me with meaningless platitudes or beat me over the head with poll-tested spin. I’m not so stupid that I can’t realize when a candidate doesn’t answer the question. I am not so forgetful that I don’t remember when they spit out the same talking points in every interview. The political world is littered with self-important candidates who speak to us like … well … politicians. We need a candidate who, instead of speaking with scripted talking points, is straightforward, honest and down to earth. Klobuchar is relatable.Okay, I was with you until you asserted that Amy is not like all those other candidates....
And at that point, I got distracted into the "Not Like Other Girls" phenomenon:
To conclude: Amy is a politician, and Clay is a pop singer, and today is the New Hampshire primary, and you know me, I said it long ago, I'm just going to be for Amy Klobuchar.
ADDED: I'm reading those other links pictured in the Memeorandum screen-grab above. There's "Trump Rallygoers Confident He Can Beat Any Democrat This November" at HuffPo. That quotes one woman's opinion of Amy Klobuchar: "She seems like a bitch. She’s got that bitch face on her all the time... I have no use for her. I think she’s crazy.”
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Well, there's that eating salad with a comb incident.
Aiken ran for US Congress in 2014 and won the Democratic primary. By today’s standard he qualifies for Political Rival status, including immunity from investigation.
resting bitch face is a REAL PROBLEM in our country, and we NEED a federal program to address this!
Didn't Clay Aiken run for office in one of the Carolinas?
Seriously though, what does Macaulay Culkin think about things? Last I heard he was an authority on the character of John Kerry
She seems like she means well. What else does a woman need.
Scott Adams: democrats talk about people, republicans talk about systems.
One woman's opinion of Amy Klobuchar: "She seems like a bitch. She’s got that bitch face on her all the time... I have no use for her. I think she’s crazy.”
Isn't that the media reported Kobuchar former staff members were saying?
Speaking of bitch face, check out Mayor Pete eating. What did that pork chop ever do to him? There are lots of pictures like that, BTW.
https://www.eater.com/2019/8/14/20805052/pete-buttigieg-eats-iowa-state-fair-food
@Gilbar: thanks, video was funny,
I'm now routing for Amy in NH. Actually, it's more that I'm routing against all the others. But it's still good to have someone to route for.
I see Mayor Pete had a rout beer float at the Iowa State Fair.
Klobuchar surges in N.H., shaking up race.
The rise of Amy Klobuchar could spell disaster for Elizabeth Warren and Joe Biden, both of whom could be seriously wounded if beaten Tuesday by a candidate who was barely on the map just a few weeks ago.
- Boston Globe
If it weren't for you professor, I wouldn't have paid any attention to her. Even so, there has been very little of her in the news, on tv and radio, here in NE MA. Surely she is benefiting from the declines of Biden and Warren. Irrespective of her recent advances, Bidens and Warrens decline is a sign that there is some level of sanity among Democrat voters. Of course, that is the non-Sanders supporters.
There's a link in the post that goes to my old post about the NYT article about Klobuchar, the one with the salad-and-comb story. No need to wrack your brain about it. Go to the link. I discuss it in some depth. Just not redoing that discussion here.
As for temperament and tone, I think it's fair to say that Amy K is the best of the sorry Democrat lot.
Her voting record (against Kavanaugh, for removal of Trump) is uniformly leftist.
She was the only one to make anything resembling a renouncement if socialism, which gives her her own four lane highway. The cheap bastard Masshole tax refugees in NH will go for that...
Yes, Clay Aiken did run for Congress back in 2014. I don't think he's had any prominence in politics since then. Why his opinion would be important...
He's not a very significant celebrity these days.
His American Idol days were in 2003.
Interestingly, he was on "Celebrity Apprentice" in 2011. He made it to the finale (and lost to Arsenio Hall).
In this old post of mine, there's an embedded interview with Clay, asking him what Trump is like and Clay says "I've never known him to be anything but nice... He's always been a very gracious person."
With Klobuchar, I've never gotten past the salad on a comb. Then there was her throwing things at staff - books today but tomorrow it could be salad off a comb, ranch dressing. She's poised for her 15 minutes, she seems like the perfect candidate in words, in boxes checked - moderate, midwestern, woman. But box-check-girl isn't working this year - see Kamala Harris. Klubbie will draw up the drowned candidacy of Pocahontas and the two will slowly swirl around the drain formed by America-hating Dem socialists and their policies. Your grandfather's Democrats had poverty policies, this year's Democrats have a policy of Poverty. Less for America unless it's taxes.
We all need to crawl up the mountain side and request the wisdom of Brataswami Clay, squatting before his cavely hermitage.
"There's a link in the post that goes to my old post about the NYT article about Klobuchar, the one with the salad-and-comb story. "
Sorry, the article was in BuzzFeed, not the NYT.
I’d say the status of the celebrity is consistent with the quality of the candidates.
$100 on someone not yet in the "race."
I meant "rooting" and not "routing" at 5:19. Though I'm rooting for a rout of Warren and Biden by Amy. That would be her route to the nomination.
rehajm said...She was the only one to make anything resembling a renouncement if socialism, which gives her her own four lane highway
I noticed that. I bet a lot of people did. Hopefully that’s the (a) reason why she’s catching on.
Forty-two percent of New Hampshire voters are "undeclared". That means those people can choose to vote in either primary. While the parties will assign delegates and the media will declare a winner, we won't ever know whether those people who chose a Democrats' ballot voted for the person they want to be president or for the person they believe will be easiest for Trump to beat.
To me Amy is "surging" because she is seen to have some credentials, from achieving national elective office and by performing her job well, and doesn't pander in the now common way that Biden and Warren do. Pete is too young and inexperienced. Andrew Yang (who?) is largely unknown. Steyer is a rich crazy man. Bloomberg isn't running in NH.
In order to win the nomination she will have to excite and motivate voters. Don't see that happening once Biden and Warren are out. She's never going to win over Bernie's supporters - she isn't offering enough free stuff.
I, for one, am tired of candidates trying to dazzle me with meaningless platitudes or beat me over the head with poll-tested spin. I’m not so stupid that I can’t realize when a candidate doesn’t answer the question. I am not so forgetful that I don’t remember when they spit out the same talking points in every interview. The political world is littered with self-important candidates who speak to us like … well … politicians.
Sounds as though the person he wants is Donald Trump.
Make America Bitchy Again
Amy!
I can see a lot of Dems wanting some Klobuchar. She's been a prosecutor, and will not hesitate to put blacks in prison, even if they are innocent. Instead of those weak-kneed others running.
Ah, Amy, please tell me that’s bleu cheese dressing in your hair.
Klobuchar is enough of a non-idiot that she would provide cover to those emotional voters who really don't like Trump's personality, but do like his policies, to allow them to convince themselves the correct decision is not to vote for Trump.
Ann, you said yourself that you're as interested in Klobuchar as the next person. The next person just happens to be Clay Aiken.
How is she so different from Biden? She eats he soup with a comb, he combs his hair with a spoon.
What has changed in the last 4 months that is making Klobuchar a viable candidate now? Seriously.
Didn’t Clay Aiken run for political office at one time? Isn’t he, then, a politician even if his run was unsuccessful ?
"What has changed in the last 4 months that is making Klobuchar a viable candidate now?"
She raised her hand.
I see Bloomberg won Dixville Notch this morning. Not bad for not running...
I'd never vote for him, and have never heard him speak, but seeing the series of photographs of Mr Buttigieg eating real Iowa primary election food has made me a bit less intolerant of him. (Wasn't that the point of that article?)
The same people who trust celebrities’ judgement on whom to vote for are the same people who believe that government officials are smarter, wiser, kinder and just plain better people than we are, so we should allow them to take more of our money and make more decisions for us about how we should live our lives. You would just let them down if allowed to spend your own money and make your own decisions. They obviously didn’t watch any Congressional hearings over the past few years or ever interact with any actual bureaucrats!
"Klobuchar "ran a workplace controlled by fear, anger, and shame ... one that many employees found intolerably cruel.""
If this behavior gets a pass and Klobuchar wins, the directors of the DNC Host Committee fired for "toxic workplace allegations" are going to want back pay.
Klobuchar's rise in the polls is almost entirely linked to Rachel Dratch's extended family.
“To conclude: Amy is a politician, and Clay is a pop singer, and today is the New Hampshire primary, and you know me, I said it long ago, I'm just going to be for Amy Klobuchar.”
How did you break it to Meade? He said just yesterday in regard to commenters saying you were going to vote for Klobuchar, that no one in Meadehouse would vote for someone with a bad temper that throws things. Then someone pointed out you voted for Hillary, that was pretty funny.
For those who don't speak fluent Democrat, here's the deal. There are three putative Democratic moderates (excluding Bloomberg, who's actually a dwarf Republican): Biden, Klobuchar, and Buttigieg. If Biden crashes and burns like Skylab circa 1979, it would leave Klobuchar and Buttigieg (who for some reason loathe each other worse than Golda Mier and Yassar Arafat circa 1973). Buttigieg (who as Biden recently "implied" has a rainbow-colored hard-on for decorative brick) would be the front-runner, unless Klobuchar had the wherewithal to nip him in his rainbow-colored bud. Enter the nearly forgotten nineteenth-century American Idol singer Clay Aiken (or, as comedian Kathy Griffin calls him, "The Gayken"), deployed in support of Klobuchar against Buttigieg. After Hillary Clinton's lazy debacle, Klobuchar ain't leaving nothing to chance.
I see now that I've had it wrong the last year's. All you Trump supporters who identify as male are're not Incels, but NLOGs. Your own special brand of snowflake who lives on an island whose mental illness was raised up out of the mud by the bootstraps
That girl on the video is super hot, no? Yeah she's not going out with a deplorable.
Althouse,
How would you rationalize a vote for Klobuchar knowing that she voted no on Kavanaugh confirmation and yes for Trump impeachment (and her statement that it was "A Global Watergate")?
Puhleeez...
I actually watched 10 minutes of that vid. I’m falling asleep.
SOS with bigger words.
It’s nature.
Now let’s take what she said and apply being a Republican female.
Compare and contrast: I’m not like other girls - It simultaneously means something and nothing at all. It’s a place where Gal Gadot, Brie Larson, and Sigourney Weaver could come onstage to offer the awful platitude that “all women are superheroes,” in the same evening in which Sound Editing winner Donald Sylvester got a round of applause for thanking his wife for giving up her editing career so he could pursue his. W
Earnest Prole,
Thank you for your contribution. I feel so much smarter now!
By the way, is that the longest comment you've ever written, either here or on Slate? I generally like your comments.
Memeorandem is just targeting you with articles it thinks you want to read. Same as Amazon or Google advertisements.
Klobuchar's chances aren't any different.
mostly journolists gunk that doesn't disturb the narrative, the klobuchar boomlet just isn't,
She has to finish second tonight- third place is useless now. It would have been useful in Iowa, but not New Hampshire.
I said it before, I'll say it again: If the Democrats want to lose with dignity in 2020, so they can rebuild their party starting in 2021, Amy should be their candidate. And, no, Clay Aiken should not be her VP, but he seemed like a nice guy when he campaigned here 6 (?) years ago, and my granddaughters liked him.
Once in love with Amy/Always in love with Amy.
Althouse, you move in mysterious ways your wonders to perform.
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