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AMERICAblog: Hillary's donors are on the attack again

  • Dianne_in_DC · 1 year ago
    Well, I heard Howard Dean on NPR news saying he wants the candidate decided by June 3rd. He wants to start campaigning against McCain then, not months later. Hillary's supporters should find another hobby.
  • Rob Mule · 1 year ago
  • aquarius2 · 1 year ago
    I think Dean is correct in getting this moved on and quickly. Check out the donation letter McCain is sending out across the country. The Dems need a candidate NOW to start to stem the destruction McCain is going to inflict by August.

    http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/04/18...
  • Bush_Bites · 1 year ago
    They're thugs.

    I think Obama can win, but I swear, if it was a choice of losing with Obama and winning with Hillary, I'd pick losing with Obama.

    At least that way, the DNC and the Dems majorities in Congress would remain intact. If Hillary won, she'd destroy both.
  • sittenpretty · 1 year ago
    Newsweek says:

    The survey of 1,209 registered voters found that Obama now leads Clinton by nearly 20 points, or 54 percent to 35 percent, among registered Democrats and those who lean Democratic nationwide. The previous Newsweek poll, conducted in March after Clinton's big primary wins in Ohio and Texas, showed the two Democrats locked in a statistical tie (45 percent for Obama to 44 percent for Clinton). The new poll puts Obama ahead among women as well as men, and voters aged 60 and older as well as younger voters. (For the complete poll data, click here).

    One of the more devastating results for Clinton was that a majority of all registered voters now see her as dishonest and untrustworthy. According to the poll, just four in 10 (41 percent) registered voters view the New York senator as honest and trustworthy, while 51 percent think the opposite. This compares with solid majorities of voters who see Obama and McCain as honest and trustworthy (both polled 61 percent).
  • grandma · 1 year ago
    I agree Bush Bites

    The Clintons think they ARE the Democratic Party.
  • stevetalbert · 1 year ago
    They are anxious because they were all planning on being appointed as various European Ambassadors
  • SarainKC · 1 year ago
    I agree with Bush_Bites. No way in hell will I vote for Hillary. she will not only lose to McCain, she'll destroy all our advances up and down the ticket. Screw em!
  • LeslieB · 1 year ago
    SarainKC 5 minutes ago
    I agree with Bush_Bites. No way in hell will I vote for Hillary. she will not only lose to McCain, she'll destroy all our advances up and down the ticket. Screw em!

    Her endorsement of McCain and her swiftboating of Obama has really tried my patience too. But what really cinched it for me was during the ABC debate, which I missed, but per Olbermann: She said she'd go to war with Iran, if they attacked Israel, and that the US would police the Middle East. In other words, her giving Bush permission to attack Iran wasn't in order to bring "diplomatic pressure." She agrees with Bush and McCain. She might even go farther. How honest has she been with voters on this?

    Oh, and speaking of bringing diplomatic pressure: Iran has been willing to negotiate, it's the Bushies who refuse to. So who should bring diplomatic pressure to bear on whom?
  • grandma · 1 year ago
    I agree SarainKC

    Screw em.

    Hillary was the one crying before New Hampshire....and she's complaining that Barack is whining?!?!?!!
  • Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 1 year ago
    If I were the 'average Joe American' who was thinking of voting for hillary...

    it might bother me IMMENSELY to learn that the wealthy elite are pulling strings for her.

    sorta sounds like big oil and chimpy, doesn't it?
  • LeslieB · 1 year ago
    I'm shocked! [snark] Could it have anything to do with Dean telling the superdelegates to make up their minds already? And the fact that Hillary lost two months ago?
  • grandma · 1 year ago
    Time for Hillary to cry again???
  • Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 1 year ago
    grandma

    Time for Hillary to cry again???
    ---

    she'll only do that in front of a camera... and for God's sake, make SURE the cameraman notices, does a close-up... and the commentator mentions it with a note about how passionate she is.
  • bordo · 1 year ago
    Okay, now it's official. I hate Hillary Clinton. Whatever reserves of sympathy I had for her --despite backing Obama-- are now gone. Originally, I believed that a good Democratic candidate had been poorly served by an inept campaign team that was beneath her. She was a victim of bad timing, I thought, facing a once-in-a-generation figure of enormous charisma and eloquence in Obama.

    Now, I see her as she really is and it's not pretty. Arrogant, condescending, entitled don't begin to sum up her world view. The hubris of believing that she and only she is capable of leading our nation has been trumped by her embrace of gutter politics and the worst facets of Atwater-Morris-Rove style politics. Not only do I want her out of the race, but I sincerely hope a real progressive Democrat takes her on in New York. What she's done to our party and our prospects for the fall demand she be ousted.
  • jr · 1 year ago
    the Clintonocrats don't care if McCain invades Iran as long as the darkie doesn't win the primary
  • kevinbgoode · 1 year ago
    I think what is most obvious here is that Hillary's fundraisers are getting nervous - and likely for good reason. It isn't as if it would be new policy for a Clinton to offer some special prize for donating large amounts to a political campaign, particularly from an institution. So I suspect these people have a vested investment in more-of-the-same, especially if they've been promised some special prize once Clinton moves back into the White House.
  • SarainKC · 1 year ago
    LslieB- yep. Makes her vote for Kyle/Lieberman more clear. AIPAC owns her ass.
  • SandieInPA · 1 year ago
  • naschkatzehussein · 1 year ago
    At the time the Clinton fat cats threatened Nancy Pelosi to cut off their contributions to the DCCC, I wrote to the DNC and pledged that I would give $100 to the DCCC after Obama became the nominee, and I asked Howard Dean to tell these people to go to hell. We the grass- and netroots can more than make up for their money. We are doing it for Obama right now.

    What I don't like is that her staying in the race is a drain on all of our contributions which could be used in the Fall. Obama needs to make a European trip before the general campaign as McCain was able to do, and she is holding that up. I think Obama will get a "hero's welcome" if he only can get over there in time, and it will help his chances in November immensely. But a piece of good news from the AP: they estimate that after the remaining primaries, Obama will only be 100 votes shy of the 2025 needed and surely the superdelegates will put him over.
  • DonCoyote · 1 year ago
    Hillary is merely doing the same thing her husband did back in the early nineties: sacrifice the whole party so that Clinton may survive. I hope people realize that Bill Clinton is, as Alan Greenspan said recently "the best Republican president we've had." I'm sure his wife would be too.
  • mirth · 1 year ago
    sittenpretty,

    If the Newsweek poll was conducted by telephone and thus excluded Obama's strong support among young cell phone users, then there is good reason to believe point spread is much larger than 20.