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Tonya
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Username: Tonya
Post Number: 6984
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 3 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, April 14, 2008 - 12:30 am: | 
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(This election is just much too much)
The Moderate Voice
Bill Clinton Made Remarks Similar To Obama’s Controversial Small-Town Bitter Remarks
April 13th, 2008 by JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-Chief
On a day when — for the third day in a row — Senator Hillary Clinton was blasting Senator Barack Obama for suggesting that people in small towns were bitter (working the word into her comments) it now turns out that her husband former President Bill Clinton made remarks somewhat similar to the ones she’s now using to argue that Obama is in-effect unelectable and a defeat waiting to happen for the Democratic Party.
The Huffington Post has found this excerpt from Bill Clinton comments published in the Sunday Los Angeles Times in 1991:
“You know, he [Bush] wants to divide us over race. I’m from the South. I understand this. This quota deal they’re gonna pull in the next election is the same old scam they’ve been pulling on us for decade after decade after decade. When their economic policies fail, when the country’s coming apart rather than coming together, what do they do? They find the most economically insecure white men and scare the living daylights out of them. They know if they can keep us looking at each other across a racial divide, if I can look at Bobby Rush and think, Bobby wants my job, my promotion, then neither of us can look at George Bush and say, ‘What happened to everybody’s job? What happened to everybody’s income? What … have … you … done … to … our … country?’”
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But there’s more: Talking Points memo quotes Harvard University political scientist Theda Skocpol as saying the Clintons say the same thing in private that they’re now lambasting Obama for — and using as an argument to superdelegates for him being unelectable. Here’s part of the quote:
I have been in meetings with the Clintons and their advisors where very clinical things were said in a very-detached tone about unwillingness of working class voters to trust government — and Bill Clinton — and about their unfortunate (from a Clinton perspective) proclivity to vote on life-style rather than economic issues. To see Hillary going absolutely over the top to smash Obama for making clearly more humanly sympathetic observations in this vein, is just amazing. Even more so to see her pretending to be a gun-toting non-elite. Give us a break!
I wonder if she realizes that gaining a few days of lurid publicity that might reach a slice of voters is going to cost her a great deal in the regard of many Democrats, whose strong support she will need if she somehow claws her way to the nomination — and even more so if she does not clinch the nomination. The distribution of “we’re not bitter” stickers to her campaign rallies is the height of over-the-top crudity, and the reports are that very few audience members seem to have much enthusiasm for this nonsense. Not surprisingly, people cannot see the reasons for so much fuss.
Yes, she wants a big break, she desperately wants the nomination she and Bill believe is hers by right. We all know that. But where is her authenticity and her dignity and her sense of any proportion?
Full text:
http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/negative-campaigning/18933/bill-clinton-mad e-remarks-similar-to-obamas-controversial-small-town-bitter-remarks/
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Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 6584
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, April 14, 2008 - 12:48 pm: |
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They better destroy the Clintons or they won't have a party left |
Tonya
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Username: Tonya
Post Number: 6986
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 2 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, April 14, 2008 - 02:41 pm: |
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I agree Chris. I think she ran an admirable campaign at one point...but what she is doing now makes absolutely no sense. She just destroyed herself. She completely obliterated herself. I cannot see her being elected to anything in this party after what she just done. It is true; they have to take her all the way out. What she did caused too much damage & it's clear she's homicidal.
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Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 12078
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Monday, April 14, 2008 - 05:22 pm: |
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What a lot of over-the-top blather. Hillary may be going down, but when it comes to making the biggest mistakes, she and Obama are running neck and neck. Obama is currently in a very vulnerable position when juxtaposed against John McCain, and he has only himself and his big-mouth wife to blame. |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 6597
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 11:08 am: |
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Hillary may be going down etc etc
(Can somebody translate that for me? Somebody OTHER than Cynique) |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 12092
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 - 02:12 pm: |
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What an idiot.I know you fantasize about Hillary going down on you, chrishayden, so you can get a whiff of the body odor that you dream about sniffing. But my reference was to her losing her bid for the nomination. |
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