Please, just fade away. You lost. You got close, but you lost. All you are doing now is embarrassing yourself and hurting the party and the country in the process.
First, Bill Clinton further descends into conspiracy land, doing his best Oliver Stone.
Former President Bill Clinton in South Dakota today delivered a harsh critique of how his wife has been treated during her presidential bid, telling the crowd that he has “never seen a candidate treated so disrespectfully just for running,” and that, “she will win the general election if you nominate her. They’re just trying to make sure you don’t.”
Clinton spent more than six minutes calmly discussing what he called a “frantic effort to push her out” of this race, saying that no one asked Ted Kennedy, Jesse Jackson or Gary Hart to end their presidential campaigns early.
Clinton also spoke against bullying superdelegates to make up their minds, saying, “I cant believe it. It is just frantic the way they are trying to push and pressure and bully all these superdelegates to come out. ‘Oh, this is so terrible: The people they want her. Oh, this is so terrible: She is winning the general election, and he is not. Oh my goodness, we have to cover this up.’”
Of course, his wife was the one claiming that the entire nomination would be locked up by February 5th, and they’re the ones who rushed to secure superdelegate endorsements before the campaign had even begun. I liked President Clinton a lot more when he was presiding over a good economy and cheating on his wife.
And then Terry McAuliffe, the man who presided over the Democratic party’s slide into irrelevancy takes the cake yet again with his impression of Baghdad Bob.
“The Obama campaign … tried to take these words out of context,” Clinton campaign chairman Terence R. McAuliffe said on “Fox News Sunday.” “She was making a point merely about the time line.”
Yeah, Terry, your candidate makes an unprecedented remark in U.S. presidential history about an assasination while we’ve got the first likely black nominee in history, but it’s Obama’s fault. I know the kool-aid drinkers on Team Clinton have themselves convinced that Barack Obama is to blame for every thing bad that ever happened, but no, as I’ve said about Sen. McCain: When the light is on, the camera is recording what you say.
Clinton made the remarks, and frankly Obama’s response was beyond restrained. Had the casual mention of assassination been made like it was the weather and I were the opposing candidate, I would not have been so civil. But then, Sen. Obama is a much better man than I and clearly a far better one than Clinton and her whole sick in the head team.
Make them go away. Make them go far far away. The Clinton campaign is ruining the Democratic party.
UPDATE: Oh look, on Sen. Clinton’s favorite news channel – Fox News – they’re joking about Obama being assassinated. According to the Clinton Rules, that means Obama has to apologize for that too.
Let’s see. The latest Gallup has Hillary over McCain nationally by five points—McCain over Obama by two points [and that's not counting the 'Bradley Effect" which has voters say they're for Obama even if they're not. So let's say McCain over Obama by five points.
Thank God for Repubs that the Dems have an inept fool, Dr. Dean the Scream Machine, in charge of the DNC. So far that moron has completely eliminated MI & FL [instead of halving their delegates as the Repubs did]. Does that stupid cretin think MI & FL will go Dem if Obama is the nominee? Dean is manna in the wilderness for the Repubs…..!
Hillary gets Reagan Dems, women, union members who hunt & go to church, independents….
Obama gets Hollyweirdos, academicides, MSM hacks & sluts, who did I leave out? Oh yeah, young people who don’t vote & blacks who may turn out….
I don’t think Hill’s people will vote for The Anointed Messiah even if she’s Number Two…
Daveinboca,
First of all Obama was EIGHT points ahead McCain in a poll released on May 21.
http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN2034087120080521?sp=true
You may have found a poll that puts McCain ahead of Obama, but these conflicting results show two things: 1.) Polls are inaccurate. 2.) Some people change their minds very quickly.
Here’s another poll for you. I was at a Borders in Washington State the other day and they were selling playing cards showing the nominees faces. There was a Hillary deck of cards, an Obama deck of cards and a McCain deck of cards. Except there were no Obama cards left. The store was sold out. There were plenty of McCains, plenty of Hillarys. It seems that Obama is most popular among book-reading card players in Washington State (whatever that is worth).
To answer your question,
“Obama gets Hollyweirdos, academicides, MSM hacks & sluts, who did I leave out?”
Well, you left out “the majority of Americans in November.”
I’m sorry; I believe the troll above has missed some more generalities to fling on the board.
I voted for Senator Clinton in our Washington caucus, although my first choice was Al Gore, then Chris Dodd then John Edwards, and realized that 2/3 of the people at my caucus were Obama supporters. I live in a lower middle income area in West Seattle which is a very vibrant and mixed neighborhood. I am also a union member, and I don’t see where this troll personage gets those generalities about who votes/doesn’t vote for Obama or Clinton. My mind changed about a week after the caucus and I decided that I would support Senator Obama in the General Election.
Many of my women friends – and we are the same age as Senator Clinton – are furious with her and the language she has brought to the primary. Yes, we would like a woman in the white house, but we don’t want this woman. She is the wrong woman at the wrong time.
I’m very hopeful we will see an Obama/Sebelius ticket. Governor Sebelius brings a strong message of reaching across the aisle, good state financial discipline, pro-choice, and most important, against the Iraq War. She is perfect for the Change message. It is time to move on – June 4th is the date.
Don’t worry Oliver: I’m sure Bill is still cheating on his wife.
How a woman who got where she is largely by standing by her serial philanderer of a husband became a feminist icon to millions is completely beyond me.
Aurona,
My experience is similar to yours. I also voted for Clinton in my state’s primary, but switch to supporting Obama after hearing her language in the primaries.
vent it all out…hopefully we can move on to the general election after the first week of june.
Hmmm, “the Bradley effect” fiction or the well known fact that some portion of Clinton’s support is directly attributable to “operation chaos” Republican rat-fucks… Which do I believe?…
I assure you that Hillary Clinton has received shockingly disrespectful treatment (most obviously from Russert and Williams) and may well believe Republicans tried to destroy her because they fear her candidacy. A Tiny Revolution has a short funny post on this. (How Monsters Perceive Themselves As Martyrs)
Daveinboca,
Here is an interesting analysis of recent polls:
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/05/26/mccain-campaign-lying-about-the-polls/
Oliver, it gets worse. A buddy of mine received an email from someone that reported a user at Big Pink making threats on Barack Obama. Ordinarily, I wouldn’t think much of it but under the current circumstances I hope the Secret Service looks into it.
http://hillaryis44.blogspot.com/2008/05/public-service-announcement.html
daveinboca: Oh yeah, young people who don’t vote & blacks who may turn out….
Would that be the same young people and blacks who’ve been turning out in record numbers for Obama?
Love the ability Hillary and her supporters have of absolutely disregarding reality.
Girlfriend’s been in denail since the coronation began to lose the spectre of inevitability. She and Bubba have never lost an election.
“Oh look, on Sen. Clinton’s favorite news channel – Fox News – they’re joking about Obama being assassinated.”
Holy cats, you’ve gone completely ’round the bend. Ms. Clinton is now responsible for everything stupid said on Fox News?
You’ve misunderstood how “Clinton Rules” work–but you’re applying them expertly. Say anything, anything at all about a Clinton. No evidence or logic required.