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She has become one scary human being.
Yesterday I said I probably shouldn't say this....but that if she were to be VP...Obama should fear for his life.
She needs to go....NOW !!
She doesn't get it. Even if my man Barack got hit by a bus, she would still not be the nominee.
she's not what we need. not even veep.
Huffpo confirms it and OBAMA Campain responds.
"Senator Clinton's statement before the Argus Leader editorial board was unfortunate and has no place in this campaign," said Obama campaign spokesman Bill Burton.
I know it's real conspiracy nut stuff but I just want to re-read some of that stuff and I haven't been able to find anything as of yet.
She also pointed to the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy — in June, of 1968 — as evidence that primaries sometimes go on a long time and there was no reason she should give up hers prematurely.
Historically, she said, nomination fights have gone on longer. She pointed to her husband, who did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary in June. She also pointed to Bobby Kennedy’s assassination, which took place in June 1968, as a marker that other nomination fights have gone on longer than hers. “We remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California,” she said.
An aide to Mrs. Clinton said that she was simply using the Kennedy assassination as a benchmark to underscore that nomination fights can go a long time and that she was in no way implying anything else.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/23/c...
Do your F*cking Jobs and end this thing now!
Hillary is worthy of total demise. Why doen't this gash come and and say the SDs should vote for her because everyone knows Obama will be assassinated in four years easy.
Hillary it time to give it up girl!
Just last week we had Huckabee making the joke about Obama ducking because there was a gun aimed at him. Now Hillary is staying in as the backup candidate in case Obama's assassinated.
How long will it be before some drunken deluded racist five-toothed wingnut of the "no college education, below $50,000 per year, hard working white Hillary Clinton" supporter variety figures out that the only way his candidate wins is if Mr. Smith and Mr. Wesson have their say?
Superdelegates - END THIS!
As I said before, I'd argue that Kennedy wasn't acting nearly the jerk Hillary is, and that's why she should drop out, Her jerkiness is divisive, polarizing and damaging to our chances in November.
But I still didn't take her comments the way others are taking her comments. I may be too naive, or not as angry as I thought I was. I think she's being a total a-hole, and I wouldn't be surprised if she was staying in the race in case of an Obama meltdown or major uck-fup, but hoping for a hit? Sorry, can't take that leap into Vince Fosterland right now.
If by some fluke, Obama actually loses to McCain in the Fall, then it is of utmost importance that we scapegoat Billary as causing that loss. Obama and his advisors have done everything right. The DNC needs to learn a tough lesson, that anything negative that happens in the general election MUST be blamed on the Clintons. Similar to the successful playbook the Republicans used in 2000, we can use the Clintons' legacy of failure as a prop on which to blame any and all responsibility for a possible Obama loss.
The Cardoza 40″: Exodus of Clinton Delegates Begins
For once in his life, Rush Limbaugh may have been right. The African-American community is going to take to the streets if Hillary manages to steal the nomination that is rightfully Obama's. African-Americans are extremely angered at the racist Clintons and want to see them out of politics. We CANNOT accept Hillary's fake apology. Obama's campaign is about unity and healing, not the LIES of Billary and her adulterous husband. She is racist to the core.
outlandish statement was of the scene in the James Bond movie
GOLDFINGER in which James is speaking to Pussy Galore about
GOLDFINGER and he says "HE'S MAD YOU KNOW"
And now it is stuck in my brain like some demonic manta.
SHE'S MAD YOU KNOW
SHE'S MAD YOU KNOW
SHE'S MAD YOU KNOW
SHE'S MAD YOU KNOW
Unfreaking believable!
No matter what heppens this summer, we must make sure she does not become president. McCain has now officially passed her in the acceptability dept.
If hillary was on the ticket, she would be president before Obama's hand left the Bible.
bush will not live in Croffard after 2009.
cheney will move to Dubi (sp) before the end of Feb.
She has said this thing about Bill not wrapping it up until June for months now. She's simply lying.
Go back and read any artcile, any report, any coverage at all from the spring of 1992. Bill Clinton was the nominee as of the middle of march and everyone knew it. If she means he didn't technically cross the delegate threshold until June, that is completely misleading.
Neither did Kerry. But every one knows he won it after he won IA and NH. Because CA and some other big states like NY and PA were at the end of the calendar, it was impossible to get the delegates needed until they voted.
No one was seriously competing against Bill after March and he ended up winning by 2800 or so delegates. Tsongas dropped out in March and no one took Jerry Brown seriously. Even he conceded he had no real chance.
There was no close contest or race at all. He his closest rival from March on by more than a 2-1 margin.
So for her to keep bringing it up as if Bill was engaged in this life or death struggle and anything can happen at thend is ludicrous.
And her RFK comment today was just unexplainable. Whatever sliver of any chance she had just sailed far away. She just said goodbye to her VP hopes as well.
Obama needs to declare himself a winner and move one.
That's the IGNORE BUTTON we need now since Pelosi, Reid and Dean are allowing the party be drag down with that woman.
She's "clarifying" her statement.
ewww that's how I talk about my mil.
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SOME primaries have gone into June, is the point. Are you trying to say she meant there is still hope for Obama to be assassinated? PA-LEASE.
Just one MORE reason for her to be VP in my book... "assassination prevention" everyone hates her so much, they'd never TRY to assassinate Obama.
Her using the assassination as an example shows her utter lack of judgement. Whether intending to send a code out to her followers to go after Obama or not, saying something like that could very easily incite some lunatic (and there seems to be a lot of lunatics supporting hillary!) into taking matters into his/her own hands.
She's unconscionable.
Stupid comment? For sure. And perhaps a Freudian slip. I like what John Dickerson said on Twitter about her jumping back and forth several times over the shark.
That said, even if she meant it in the more benign fashion, well, so did Obama when he was talking about voters in PA being bitter. And look what happened then.
Chuck Todd commented on Hillary's demeanor when she was apologizing for the remarks. It sounds like she knows she's toast.
http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/05/hill...
This article says that Bill had the nomination in March. I read April.
Can we get a clarification?
The good news is that Hillary ended any VP chance.
I've watched it a gazillion times on MSNBC (along with her followup) and, like Axelrod said on Hardball as well, just don't think she meant the darker interpretation.
...because their opponent might get assassinated!
Now do you get it?!
It's 2008. The primaries are mostly over. HELLO!
Hillary has already lost the nomination.
Unfuckingbelievable.
It's as true as the white business owner, when JFK was assassinated, who asked me why I was crying over a n***** lover. Nothing much has changed in 45 years.
And Pat Schroeder still thinks Obama supporters are sexist? Prove it.
People should take this serious because this kind of talk gets the crazy people out there trying to assassinate Obama on or around Bobby Kennedy's assassination date.
Hillary does not Misspeak, she knows what she is saying and if she doesn't then she is just to incompetent to be President or Vice President.
ALL delegates are on the table - Hillary said so!
the DEMS better make some quick moves NOW!
Time to pony up, DEMS.
Stop this bullshit. It's completely ridiculous. ((((((((((((( I'm shaking my head in disgust at all this ))))))))))))))
She expresses regret about the Kennedys.
But doesn't apologize to Obama.
Check my profile. I've made it clear that I don't like any of the candidates.
she apologized to the Kennedys, but not to Obama.
She's one cold piece of work.
My brain doesn't work so well when I'm furious.
I KNEW IT, I KNEW IT. That's why she wants to be veep.
THIS WOMAN SHOULD DROP THE FUCK OUT NOWWWWWWWWWWWWW
I hope everyone else who is posting has called their Rep/Sen/etc.
Also: when I read her comments, the first thing that came to mind is she may be putting bad ideas into people's heads. There's a lot of wack jobs out there, and it's horrible for her to imply she'd step in if he was assassinated.
It is OVAH for her
Well, Isn't that special?
http://bloggerinterrupted.com/2008/05/hillary-s...
as the single voice of progressive reason in a sea of testosteronic mediocrity, let her speak.
Egads. (Lewis M. Schwartz)
That said, let's not despair over the state of the Democrats this fall. It's hard to overestimate the displeasure much of the GOP base feels for McSame. Evangelicals, the anti-immigrant crowd, etc. are not going to work enthusiastically for him and may just write off the 2008 race. He's going to be operating at a significant dollar disadvantage and will have the albatross of eight years of George W. Bush hanging around his neck. He's also something of a loose cannon with a short temper and he will, at some point, say and/or do something very damaging.
Yes, Hillary Clinton is damaging Obama and the Democratic Party. Yes, she's selfish and power hungry and unable to face the sad facts of her campaign. Yes, it would be better if she dropped out. BUT. . .we'll have a fresh, energetic and charismatic candidate with a gift for soaring eloquence and they'll have a cranky, 72-year-old political sellout who doesn't excite his party's base this fall. Our chances are still very, very, very good.
http://bloggerinterrupted.com/2008/05/ohio-unco...
What made Huckabee's lame excuse even more lame is the accepted perception that politicians speaking in public can be assassination targets. I would think any normal politician planning to mount a stage thinks of possible assassination...An insider's knowledge of Secret Service planning and protection also might tend to exacerbate personal and public qualms around large mass events. It therefore seems impossible that a politician could innocently and without guile or forethought jokingly or informationally reference assassination.
If HRC seems more radioactive this evening just imagine the exponential jump in deadly political Geiger counter clicks should real violence mar this overlong and thuddingly boring battle among the also ran’s...
If that is true, then it truly is very crass
WHAT people?? When? Where? What is she even talking about???
Also, this "my husband" didn't get the nominee until June is sooooo annoying when you consider the only reason he won that election was because Ross (the original Nader) Perot took some votes away from papa Bush.
Hillary is playing the victim again and if you listen to that interview she is actually talking as if there was a conspiracy against her but she just can't figure out the motives of her conspirators whoever they are.
i was wondering then why michelle? why don't you like hilllary after what all the republicans have done to her and her husband?
michelle KNEW AHEAD OF ALL OF US that mr. and mrs clinton WERE DEMONS.
now, thats JUDGEMENT.
Please?
And Obama died.
You know who the convention would nominate?
Hillary.
Her reasoning doesn't even make sense. If she dropped out, she'd be equally likely to benefit from Obama's death.
You make a very good point.
Then... martial law, then election suspension...
So the tools in congress will let this drag on until the banks are ready to pull the plug on the U.S. economy.
Hope to hell I'm wrong.
Step aside Hillary, this was your "macaca" moment and your quest for power is over. There is nothing left for you but scorn and condemnation.
Obama '08!
Surely the Dem leadership will shut her down now?!
Either Hillary is as dumb as nails and made the statement she did, or shes still holding out hope that she can become Obamas V.P. and by coincidence be just a heart beat away from taking over as she had planned all along once Obama is out of the way. Yeah Hillary, I guess accidents do happen, but get it through your thick skull! It's SO OVER for you. So why not just go quietly and slither back under the rock from which you came?
http://www.omm.com/newsroom/news.aspx?news=895
Most of the pundits on TV that I saw gave her the benefit of the doubt for some reason. They don't want to believe that she could be wishing for something like this. But why the hell would she invoke this if she wasn't floating the idea that this indeed could happen to Obama in June??
And that 'apology' she gave was total BS. An apology to the Kennedys? How about an apology to Obama??
She had plenty of time to figure out how to fix her dunder-headed statement and she omitted the guy who she should have apologized to. So, to me, that omission was done on purpose and only seems to justify the meaning behind her original statements.
If the superdelegates continue to stay in place after this, they should all be officially put on notice (a la Colbert). It is they, not Hillary, who is to blame for anything that spews out of her mouth that hurts our nominee and our party when they have the ability to unify and silence her.
Congratulations John. With all your "Updates", you seem to forget the most important one.
The comments of the Argus EDITOR.
Oversight on your part?
Nope. I don't think so. You've been flogging this more than drudge.
Maybe your readers deserve all the facts.
Statement from the Argus Leader
The Argus Leader's Executive Editor Randell Beck issued the following statement today:
"The context of the question and answer with Sen. Clinton was whether her continued candidacy jeopardized party unity this close to the Democratic convention. Her reference to Mr. Kennedy's assassination appeared to focus on the timeline of his primary candidacy and not the assassination itself."
Stop trying to try and stick your candidate's murderous thoughts/wishes on to us.
He also pointed out how she has a tendency to never take the blame for what she says or does (i.e. vote for war, comments about Bosnia, these latest RFK remarks, etc.). It's so ironic that one of the things we detest about George W. Bush and it happens to be a quality that Hillary has as well.
So if she only meant that the primaries go on for a long time why didn't she just say that Bobby Kennedy was still campaigning in June 1992 as was Bill Clinton. No need to mention the assassination.
Also, she apologized to the Kennedy family for her tasteless remarks but I did not see anywhere where she apologized to Obama. That confirms what she really meant.
Since there was no reference to Sen. Obama, there is no need for him to get an apology. As for Sen. Clinton's campaign mentioning the possibility of something "catastrophic" happening - they perhaps, just possibly have been referring to something political.
It crossed my mind that if I was the person supplying the medications to the delusional paranoids that support Sen. Obama, then I could give up my day job. Then I realized that first the patient has to want to get well...
She shouldn't be told to leave the race, she should be physically restrained and taken away like Blanche DuBois, without the kindness of strangers.
meanwhile, this is Hillary DEAN SCREAM.
C&L is now reporting she will soon exit. :-) :-) :-)
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2008/05/23/are-pr...
I thought Bush was the only one that could piss him off so much. LOL
Olberman took Hillbot to the Wood shed and BEAT HER ASS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Must see Tee Vee !!!!!
There is only one course of action open to her and that is to withdraw/resign from the Primary contest tomorrow if not tonight. If she tries to leave it to next week it will be too late. HILLARY MUST GO, THE SOONER THE BETTER.
Howard Dean along with Reid and Pelosi need to take her in hand and make sure she withdraws. It is hard to know if she was under the influence of drugs or alcohol, but her remarks were inexcusable and the Democratic party will be destroyed totally, as well as the cause of women set back a hundred years is this person is allowed to continue even another day. Yes, I know a lot of people did not like her, but can any thinking competent person consider continuing to support the unthinking and, yes, deranged person we saw and heard making these remarks? It would most likely be best for her also to resign her seat as Senator for New York so that she can have a long rest in a private psychiatric facility. Best for both she and Bill to remove themselves from public life. She has shown herself to be unfit to be considered for the Presidency or the Vice-Presidency or even to continue as a Senator.
Again, Dean, Reid,and Pelosi need to perform this distasteful but very necessary function and they need to do it with all due haste as soon as possible. This was not a misspeaking, but a monsterous gaffe of gargantuan proportion. HILLARY MUST GO!
i will BE obama's vest that he can wear any day
Because that's what I'm thinking.
I'm also thinking this implied threat to Obama should be investigated by the Secret Service.
going to be divisive, but I could never have imagined
just how cold-blooded she really is. I don't put
anything past her now. Seriously, she's like a
bloodthirsty animal.
She isn't behind a protective barrier to what the country thinks about her and her campaign. She isn't being shielded from the truth. She knows we reject her and her appalling behavior. She knows we are sickened by her.
She knows.
Good for you. Along with other mails regards this, I have also sent one to the DNC.
She was saying that Robert Kennedy's run for President went until June (until it was ended tragically). She wasn't focusing on the assination part, she was focusing on the June part... and it so happens that was when he was assasinated. And then she said Bill went until June. Don't read anything into it. Geez.
Let them have their fun, party pooper!
He's a Christian as "far as I know"
I have the experience, certainly John McCain has the experience, and Senator Obama has a speech he gave in 2002.
I believe I am fit to be President, certainly Senator McCain is. You'd have to ask Senator Obama how he stacks up (paraphrased)
She is not Miss Innocent and justifiably deserves the wrath she has so richly begged for.
She could have said
“John Kerry was still campaigning in June”
“Al Gore was still campaigning in June”
“Walter Mondale was still campaining in June”
“Mike Dukakis was still campaigning in June”
“Jimmy Carter was stil campaigning in June”
Hell she could have even said "Bobby Kennedy was still campaigning in June" ..
No she HAD to go to the assassination
The thing that many of us Obama supporters (myself included) fear.
Supers, party leaders
S H U T
T H I S
D O W N !!!!!!
Save Hillary and the Democratic party from herself
At this point she is reminding me of Pink’s - “Don’t Let Me Get Me” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qx10ZrVeKBk
Once she settles back into her cushy senate seat and she and Bill try to resuscitate their reputations, maybe she votes the right way on some meaningless bills, his face loses the red and he stops pointing his bony, scolding finger,
DO NOT FORGET!
Congratulations.