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... inanity.
by Bob Johnson on Thu May 08, 2008 at 11:18:12 AM PDT
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It was inflammatory enough so that they didn't have to work to get people to pay attention to it.
Do it live.
by droogie6655321 on Thu May 08, 2008 at 11:19:23 AM PDT
against what Obama stands for, which is unity for all Democrats, not just the white ones who will vote in the general election and the next primaries.
Sometimes it is best to leave someone spinning out of control alone so that they can crash and burn leaving you untouched by their actions and words.
What she is leaving unsaid is that if Obama is unelectable because of working class whites refusing to vote for him, she is unelectable because of everyone else who will refusing to vote for her.
She should be very careful with the "unelectability strategy", as she is the one who the majority of voters have already rejected, and it is time for someone to point that out.
"I don't belong to any organized party, I'm a Democrat." Will Rogers
by Do Tell on Thu May 08, 2008 at 11:30:54 AM PDT
The rest of the party is stuck on the plane w/ them, and Team Clinton needs to have the controls wrested away from them. Every day that they persist in this ego trip is one more day we'll have to spend reuniting the party and one less day we'll have to get the focus on McVain.
Some men see things as they are and ask why. I see things that never were and ask why not?
by RFK Lives on Thu May 08, 2008 at 11:39:45 AM PDT
"We are trapped, trapped, I tell you, and we are all going to die!"
Subtlety is the art of saying what you think and getting out of the way before it is understood.
by Granny Doc on Thu May 08, 2008 at 11:48:24 AM PDT
decrease a tiny bit w/ each passing day that Team Clinton (TC) stays in this race. Let's say his chances decrease by .01% each day they stay in. If they stay in another 10 days, his chances only decrease by 1%, but if they stay in another 100 days, his chances will decrease by 10%.
One might argue that, if they stay in past June 3, his chances will start decreasing by .02% or .03% each day. I'd guess, in fact, that his chances will decrease by 20-25% over what they are now if TC keeps going until Denver.
TC can't win w/o going through until Denver. Their odds of winning if they keep going until then are probably >5%, but their chances of forcing Obama out of the race before Denver are 0%. There's really no point in TC keeping the contest going now, accordingly, unless they're going to keep it going until August.
If we have a floor fight in Denver, what should've been an easy Obama win will become no better than a coin flip. I don't see anything humorous in such a scenario.
by RFK Lives on Thu May 08, 2008 at 12:06:00 PM PDT
0.01% = 1/100 th of one percent. So if it decreases 0.01% per day, it will take 100 days to decrease it by a full percentage point, not 10.
"The Power to change this party, and the power to change this country is in your hands, not mine." - Gov. Howard Dean, MD
by deaniac83 on Thu May 08, 2008 at 01:19:31 PM PDT
I want to get these m-----f---ing snakes off this m-----f---ing plane!!
My needs are getting simpler as the campaign season wears on. Therefore---Unite or Die!
by Fe Bongolan on Thu May 08, 2008 at 12:09:19 PM PDT
"Come back here you yellow bastards! I'll bite your knees off!"
No matter how far down the wrong road you've gone, turn back.
by Joan in Seattle on Thu May 08, 2008 at 12:09:44 PM PDT
Probiotics changed the way I feel now
by FXDCI on Thu May 08, 2008 at 12:57:19 PM PDT
his strategy needs to be taking on McCain. To tangle with her is to give her legitimacy.
Her words speak for themselves, media, pundits, blogs will take care of the rest.
by leawood on Thu May 08, 2008 at 11:40:53 AM PDT
... and the Clinton people are now attacking him for "passing" on the important state of West Virginia in the primaries.
Though I assume he will be making a few appearances there, no? I think they are just attacking him for having the nerve to campaign in other places than just the remaining primary states.
John McCain voted against health care for kids.
by Land of Enchantment on Thu May 08, 2008 at 12:34:19 PM PDT
acknowledge her as a viable opponent, which she no longer is.
"During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." - George Orwell
by MotherGinSling on Thu May 08, 2008 at 11:44:56 AM PDT
Now to get it to the MSM.
"Liberty produces wealth and that wealth destroys liberty." - Henry Demarest Lloyd
by orangeuglad on Thu May 08, 2008 at 11:46:22 AM PDT
Asians, and Native Americans will react to Hillary's embrace of the "white vote"? Has anyone pointed out that she just lost Texas, California, and New Mexico/Arizona, as well as most of New York and New Jersey?
Nice going, Hill.
by Granny Doc on Thu May 08, 2008 at 11:51:49 AM PDT
She won the closed primary here. But polls consistently worse than either Obama or McCain statewide.
by Land of Enchantment on Thu May 08, 2008 at 12:35:28 PM PDT
She lost 3 Asian votes & 3 White votes. And even my blonde American Cocker Spaniel wouldn't vote for her. So there goes 6 human votes & 1 not so human-but nobody told her she's d-o-g yet vote gone.
Glass, china and reputation are easily crack'd and never well mended. - Ben Franklin
by ck4city on Thu May 08, 2008 at 12:48:45 PM PDT
all gracious right now, and suck up to Hillary supporters to bring them back into the fold, but this race-baiting strategy is so fucking shameful. It really should be called out for what it is: evil. Torture is evil, even when it's done to "save lives" in some hypothetical Jack Bauer fantasy. Exploiting and fueling racism is evil, even when it's done because you're just oh so sure that you're "vetted" and would make the most awesome president. For the 14th time, I'm done with the Clintons. I can't wait to slam the door on their political coffins and dance on their political graves.
Chomsky Fever! John McCain sucks.
by miasmo on Thu May 08, 2008 at 11:48:14 AM PDT
poignant as some of the recent 'reconciliation diaries' have been, no one who continues to support Hillary after this latest diabolical betrayal of the Democratic Party will be seeing any graciousness from me.
mi 'di thag chod ma byed na, nga tsho la las yod ma red
by jedley on Thu May 08, 2008 at 12:02:53 PM PDT
our own self respect by being gracious toward someone who has stooped so low as to insult her own base, not to mention the rest of the country that did not vote for her.
by Do Tell on Thu May 08, 2008 at 12:55:08 PM PDT
by Sharon Jumper on Thu May 08, 2008 at 12:07:57 PM PDT
yesterday. I am not the kind of person who readily goes for the forgive and forget strategy.
No need in my mind to be gracious toward her as she has not been gracious toward most of the electorate, in fact, she has gone out of her way to insult even her base!
Politics is a dirty game and forgiving Hillary is tantamount to forgiving Bush, Cheney, or Rove.
Never gonna happen in my house.
Even though I voted twice for Bill, I never liked either one of them and still blame Bill for costing us the WH in 2000.
The both of them have revealed themselves to be truly narcissistic personalities.
We need to heal the party, but we do not need to forgive Hillary to do so.
by Do Tell on Thu May 08, 2008 at 12:53:51 PM PDT
I strongly preferred Tsongas in '92 and voted for Perot both times in the general. Clinton showed me his true colors back in '92 when he out-right-winged Bush 41 on Cuba in exchange for $75,000 from a right-wing Cuban exile group.
by miasmo on Thu May 08, 2008 at 01:06:34 PM PDT
I agree, no matter how divisive her comment is, it's not going to lose her many votes in Kentucky or West Virginia. In fact, it might actually help her get the vote out out in these states to "vote against the black guy".
It also a lame, though successful, attempt to keep her in the news, shifting the news from covering the "Obama is the presumptive nominee; Clinton should drop out" story to "Did you hear what Senator Clinton said?".
Message to superdelegates: "Vote for me. I'm White. The black guy can't win"
by ayjaymay on Thu May 08, 2008 at 12:19:56 PM PDT
It's all about rolling up bigger margins in WV and Kentucky. Period.
by Bob Johnson on Thu May 08, 2008 at 12:32:46 PM PDT
that he's the nominee and Hillary is just huffing and puffing until the last nail is hammered onto her campaign's coffin.
by deaniac83 on Thu May 08, 2008 at 01:02:17 PM PDT
wide narrow
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