On Obama's V-Day, Clinton Loyalists Sell a Different Reality
So there at the Hillary Clinton event at Baruch College was Lanny Davis, Senator Clinton's old pal from Yale--speaking to reporters, he stressed, as just a private citizen. Barack Obama, he said, "is strong in places where she isn't strong." Also Mr. Davis had called Senator Clinton that morning to tell her he was starting a campaign on a web site, one that would launch at midnight, after the victory speech!
One the web site, womenforfairpolitics.com, women may send a form letter to Barack Obama, asking him to make Hillary Clinton his pick for vice president.
Mr. Davis said that he did not know what she thought of this, despite their conversation.
So on Mrs. Clinton's last primary victory night, it was like all the Clinton surrogates had gone way off the reservation! Except they never do, so therefore they hadn't.
Mr. Davis rewrote some serious history, to the distress of reporters. "Everyone accused her of being negative," he said, but she never, ever had been! But what about remarks by Bill Clinton, and all that hubbub down in South Carolina? What about when Mr. Clinton said-- "I bet you he didn't mean that," Mr. Davis said. This was crazy. The press was getting gas-lighted!
"This night is a celebration for a candidate that has finished the course," said Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, one of Hillary Clinton's national campaign co-chairs. Surely she did not mean to use the word "finished"? Where is this reservation now? Are we near it? "She's had her fans," Ms. Jackson Lee said of Ms. Clinton. Oh had she?
Hillary Clinton finally gave her South Dakota primary victory speech, down in the weird, cellphone-dead zone of Baruch College's basement gym. Why? No one knew! "Our theory is that she's taking us hostage and releasing us in a one-for-one exchange for superdelegates," said a reporter.
Terry McAuliffe, chairman of Hillary Clinton for President, introduced Senator Clinton as "the next president of the United States." One reporter's mouth actually went Wha?
Mrs. Clinton wore an electric just-brighter-than-Yves-Klein-blue pantsuit. She began with praise of Barack Obama. She called him "my friend." The speech was good but a little manipulative. Like how she kept touting her 18 million votes, like a club. "The question," she asked near the end "is where do we go from here?" Then, after she needlessly invoked 9/11, the stage was stormed by some pals, like Governor David Paterson. Tina Turner's "Simply the Best" played. Her hair was extra-sleeked; it had no movement whatsoever.
"I just sent you an email," Lanny Davis said then, as the Clintons and friends were leaving the stage. Even as she had been making her victory speech, her best friend had been working the press regarding his campaign to get her selected as Mr. Obama's running mate.
Outside, a crowd gathered to watch her motorcade leave, at the corner of Third Avenue and 23rd Street.
Two Obama supporters were there with signs. One read "Unite For A Change." The other read "Drop Out Now."
"What do you think man, you feeling it?" one of the white Obama supporters asked a black man who was considering their proposal.
The man didn't answer for a while. Then: "All of a sudden you're all right?" he asked. "You're pulling my nuts out all year."
"Politics are dirty," said the Obama supporter.
"You rob me and treat me to lunch--that make you all right?" said the black man. He was in a panama hat and salmon-colored summer pants and shirt. "Fuck that," he said. "Get the fuck out of here."
- Poll
- Obama (D)
- McCain(R)
- Spread
- RCP Average
- 50.0
- 42.6
- Obama +7.4
- Candidate
- Favorable
- Unfavorable
- Spread
- Obama
- 57.1
- 36.1
- +21.0
- McCain
- 49.3
- 42.3
- +7.0
"What do you think man, you feeling it?" one of the white Obama supporters asked a black man who was considering their proposal."
Ha. Typical. Some trust-fund Columbia kid who "grew up in Manhattan" is out there, using horribly affected street slang on negroes so that he can feel "bad" and become a part "of da struggle."
But ask him to do something about the homeless population of New York City; about enforcing the immigration laws so that blue-collar workers can make a decent living; or about universal health care, and he'll look at you as if you have two heads.
And people wonder why the Democrats can't win an election to save their lives.
Hillary is in severe denial, ergo, completely nuts.
Great concession speech. Much better than Gore's, that loser.
Everyone said you couldn't bow out gracefully. Noonan and Dowd, those mean girls, they called you selfish, said you wouldn't put the interests of the Party over your own ambitions, claimed you didn't even know how to lose.
Well, you showed 'em.
OK, so maybe you don't know how to lose. What's so great about losing, anyway? Losing is for losers. Not for people like you and your husband.
You'll show 'em. There's always the convention, and if that doesn't work, the Inauguration, and then the 2012 cycle, and 2016, and 2020, and after that you can run Chelsea, because you're not a quitter. You'll show those ungrateful ingrates, that ungrateful public, who they're dealing with.
After all you and your husband have done for the country! Don't they know who you are? You're the fighter, the scrapper, the victim, the mother, the working class hero, the centrist, the Commander-in-Chief on Day One, the safe pick. For God's sake, you're supposed to be the winner.
It's enough to make one sick. Bitter. Hopeless.
But you'll be back.
OBAMA DOESN'T NEED HILLARY'S WHINING WHITE WOMEN SUPPORTERS TO BEAT MCCAIN. ---- OBAMA SHOULD TELL HILLARY TO GO TO HELL --- HILLARY IS A SNEAK AND WILL DO EVERYTHING SHE CAN TO UNDERMINE OBAMA .....
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GOOD PHOTO OF THE CLINTON GRIME FAMILY.
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Lanny Davis is just as insane as his Hillary!! You people are outrageous!
Obama won't pick Hillary for veep because:
1. She adds negatives, not positives. Instead of just losing the voters who won't vote for a black guy, he'll also lose the [many more] voters who won't vote for Hillary.
2. Word on the street is that Michelle says no.
3. It's difficult to move forward when you always have to watch your back.
Hillary Clinton is the most narcissistic, hubris, repugnant individual in our current political environment. That was no concession speech - she wants the VEEP slot in order to sabotage Obama's campaign, then out rolls an "I told you so, I am the ONLY electable candidate" setting the stage for 2012. New Yorkers, wake up! This woman and her husband take no prisoners. Their combined sense of entitlement is beyond comprehension and one of the most destructive forces in politics today.
Obama would be totally naive and demonstrate his lack of strength should he put this woman on the ticket, playing into John McCain's hand. Imagine Bill Clinton running around the white house unchecked for another four years....please, God help us all!
You all have finally for the first maybe, or the last time looked behind the curtain and low and behold what do you find.. to quote one of your writers..."Hillary Clinton is the most narcissistic, hubris, repugnant individual in our current political environment"...
welcome to the club. Her husband has been this way for years but was kept on a shot leash.
So welcome to the real world you who have dared to look behing the curtain.
HILLARY DISSED OABAMA — AND ALL AFRICAN-AMERICANS LAST NIGHT.
SHE DIDN’T HAVE THE CLASS TO CONGRATULATE THE PARTY’S FIRST BLACK NOMINEE.
HILLARY IS A DIRTBAG.
“”" NO to HILLARY AS VP “”".
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I take pride trying "understand" others ,which doesn't mean necessarily being in agreement with all the time,but try to UNDERSTAND why people go that way or this way is a true tropism for me.
My attempt to "understand" Mrs Clinton is a total failure , so is my try to"understand" her fans.
I do not understand either why the front page of the New York Times doesn' mention the true 2nd news of the day : HRC refused to concede but at the same time is going all out to extort the VP ticket from Obama! No real congratulations to him either whereas his nomination is a huge historic moment.
But I understand that the New York Time is a famous newspaper the world over ,so I cannot justify all those big lacks as "miswriting"..then it is clear that they have reported this recent actuality as they pleased. I just cancelled my 11 years' subscription with the NYT. Obviously that will not prevent the earth to turn ,but at least , I understand why I did it.
I take pride trying "understand" others ,which doesn't mean necessarily being in agreement with all the time,but try to UNDERSTAND why people go that way or this way is a true tropism for me.
My attempt to "understand" Mrs Clinton is a total failure , so is my try to"understand" her fans.
I do not understand either why the front page of the New York Times doesn' mention the true 2nd news of the day : HRC refused to concede but at the same time is going all out to extort the VP ticket from Obama! No real congratulations to him either whereas his nomination is a huge historic moment.
But I understand that the New York Time is a famous newspaper the world over ,so I cannot justify all those big lacks as "miswriting"..then it is clear that they have reported this recent actuality as they pleased. I just cancelled my 11 years' subscription with the NYT. Obviously that will not prevent the earth to turn ,but at least , I understand why I did it.
I know it's easy to criticize ,all the more when the critic is kept hidden.
This being said , as a non american citizen , I do not consider HRC's performance on this trail and in the ending to be worthy of The United States of America. I really mean it , I have been around and I have watched dozens of Presidential nominations in the western hemisphere and else where.
I'D LIKE HILLARY TO SHOW SOME REAL IMAGINATION AND RUN ON AN INDEPENDENT TICKET. SHE'D KICK THAT MONGREL YOMAMA'S BUTT, AND MAKE mCcAIN GOT BACK TO THE OLD VETERANS HOME.
GO HILLY-STOMP YOMAMA THE MONGREL
I'D LIKE HILLARY TO SHOW SOME REAL IMAGINATION AND RUN ON AN INDEPENDENT TICKET. SHE'D KICK THAT MONGREL YOMAMA'S BUTT, AND MAKE mCcAIN GOT BACK TO THE OLD VETERANS HOME.
GO HILLY-STOMP YOMAMA THE MONGREL
Now that the show is over, let's get into the real world.
You can change names, colors, party etc. but you can't change Human Nature!
Lies deceit and super ego will not serve us well.
Please keep Hillary Clinton & her Husband? out and away from the White House and the Presidency
Hillary Clinton will stay in the news. Not a good thing for Obama. Hillary is blazing new trails here, refusing to be pigeon-holed by media expectations. Who after all has pushed the idea more that "it's over and things should be settled right now" than the media? They're in a hurry to get on with the next chapter already, please. Hillary knows she's won 'something' and she's not going anywhere but up from here. Anything could happen between now and the Democrat convention. That's her lifeline. Obama will find he can't simply ignore her. So you better shout out your veep pick right away brother or you'll find yourself stuck with Clinton on your ticket!
No obama-never.
What a shuckster
shuck and jive
He is a first class thug.
obama has exercised very poor judgment, subjected his own children to hateful speech in a church he joined for local political credibility and quit 20 years later for national political electability, and he has inspired many to be racist, sexist, arrogant, naive and ignorant, mostly against Senator Clinton and her followers
even if Senator Clinton were the VP choice, its probably too late....the damage by obama and his hateful, disrespectful supporters is irreparable.......get ready for inauguration day, President-elect McCain.....
the stupidity of many obama supporters somehow continues to surprise me.....but it is consistently disturbing....
these oversized personalities have been so polluted by the noise of the campaign I don't know what to think about any of them anymore. I used to like Bill and Hillary; they were ambitious blow-hard democrats. Pussy, cheeseburgers, power... What's not to love? All that has curdled in this campaign. I am sick of hearing about her eighteen million voters, and her "big states". She has demonstrated very poor judgement and diplomacy throughout her campaign; poorly chosen advisers, and poor use of donated money. And that's what lingers. She would be a terrible choice for VP. And I want to like them both, but I can't. Obama should pick Ed Rendell, a butch jew from Pennsylvania who looks like he owns a truckstop. He could add something at this point, Pennsylvania, Florida, maybe even Ohio. Hillary has wild-catted herself out of this. If she behaves, she will get on the supreme court. Which would be awesome.
"...Obama should pick Ed Rendell, a butch jew from Pennsylvania who looks like he owns a truckstop...."
It's remarkable, isn't it? Eddy Rendell is the only Jewish guy I've ever seen with the map of County Cork on his face.
"...but I can't. Obama should pick Ed Rendell, a butch jew from Pennsylvania who looks like he owns a truckstop...."
Eddy's the only Jewish guy I've ever seen or met with the map of County Cork writ large across his face
For years the right has warned us about the Clintons and we wouldn't listen. We just blindly bought it and now over half of us are bailing out because we know Obama's baggage is going to lose it for him but that same bunch is following again. Blind again...........
The web site, womenforfairpolitics.com, will not work. These people couldn't run a fever, much less the federal government.
Your vote for Obama will begin reparations for democrat racism......or something like that!
Just because Obama is a non-US born, muslim with ties to black liberation theology does not mean that it is his turn.
Your vote for Obama will begin reparations for democrat racism......or something like that!
Just because Obama is a non-US born, muslim with ties to black liberation theology does not mean that it is his turn.
Those poor Dems what a choice they had!! They hadto choose between a nut with two boobs or a boob with two nuts!!
Regardless of what Hillary did or did not do during partital birth abortion concession speech she was still trying to suck the brains out of the Obama Marxists.
And does Obama need Hillary's people to win the election. Absolutely, and she'll get some but most know that a McCain Presidency will be a one termer and that Hillary can run again.
Obama also can't win by losing the white male demographic which he is with the exception of metro and homosexual men.
He's black by choice, Islamic by birth which according to Islamic law he cannot shed except under pain of death, he's elitest, and he wears a size 12 1/2 neck shirt. Geek personified.
Yeah, he'll go down as a partially birthed but brains sucked out candidate by November. Gotta love it.
Knock knock..Did you accuse him of having FAS also?