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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjYpkvcmog0
but since she won't be needing it then why not use it now.
it'll soon be June. lots of things happen in June.
This movie brings all the anger and frustration back, and reminds me of how different things would be eight years later if Republicans hadn't stolen the election in 2000.
It also reminds me of Bob Franken reporting for CNN from the Supreme Court and slithering over to tell those of us protesting into the evening for Al Gore and Democrats.com to "get a life!"
Oh, the memories.
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is it because of this:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/107488/Gallup-Daily-...
Is there an attempt to drive down her relatively strong poll numbers to further marginalize her candidacy? Why "twist the knife" (as Obama once said himself) if your opponent is politically dead in regards to pledged delegates? I don't understand why people keep Hillary bashing especially when this site viewership has decreased as a result of it.
If you really care about party unity, and Obama really empathized with Hillary about the carelessness of her RFK remark, why have your campaign forward the transcript of Keith Olbermann's special comment to press reporters the day after you say the flap is overrated.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/24/o...
I'm reminded of the Obama campaign's treatment of the Bosnia flap and Candice Tolliver forwarding a confidential memo about Hillary's MLK comments. Yes Hillary took political advantage of Obama's bitter comments, but at least she did it publicly for the whole world to see. She didn't pretend to play innocent and empathize with her opponent and have her campaign send memo after memo to reporters doing the exact opposite.
This type of behavior is really turning Democrats who support Hillary away from Obama, and I have heard from several who said they will vote for McCain. Nobody is racist; some are Indian Americans who won't vote for him because of the D-Punjab remark, others were angry at Jesse Jackson Jr. for wondering why HIllary didn't cry for Katrina victims right before he mentioned that Obama was moving on to South Carolina where 50% of the electorate is black (CLASSIC RACE BAITING)
Some who work at Hospitals and who were in favor of a mandate were angry that Obama engaged in demagoguery by describing a mandate as "forcing people to buy health insurance even if they couldn't afford it" and Obama himself likening Clinton’s health care mandate proposal to eliminating homelessness by requiring everyone buy a house (her subsidies are just as generous as his)
Still others are angry about Obama's double standards in demagoging Hillary's sense of the senate vote on the Kyl-Liberman resolution, particularly in regards to framing it as giving Bush the benefit of the doubt in a rush to war. If it really was a rush to war, why did he miss the vote? If it really did give Bush the benefit of the doubt on Iran, what about Dick Durbin, one of his earliest supporters?
Others just believe that ALL POLITICIANS triangulate and change positions, and they'd rather vote for divided government because one party rule just breeds corruption. In regards to Clinton, they'd rather vote for someone who is covered as a politician, rather than vote for someone who is covered as a messiah, yet has his campaign "twist the knife" behind closed doors (They've seen enough of that with Bush).
Of course, many feel that Obama isn't that qualified either and recoil at the media enhanced unwarranted messianic hype.
As Obama himself said "I was elected yesterday, Obama said. I have never set foot in the U.S. Senate. Ive never worked in Washington. And the notion that somehow Im immediately going to start running for higher office just doesnt make sense. So look, I can unequivocally say I will not be running for national office in four years, and my entire focus is making sure that Im the best possible senator on behalf of the people of Illinois. He further elaborated: Look, Im a state senator who hasnt even been sworn in yet. My understanding is that I will be ranked 99th in seniority. Im going to be spending the first several months of my career in the U.S. Senate looking for the washroom and trying to figure out how the phones work."
So, in four years, Obama went from figuring out how to use the telephones and finding bathrooms, to becoming a foreign policy expert, while missing 1/3 of his votes during the 2005-2006 session, and failing to convene a single hearing as the CHAIR of Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee on European affairs. Right?
As one editorial put it "Obama is little substance, all hype. The key to his success: a freshness, a lack of record to run on, the constant repetition of simple feel-good platitudes that lull listeners into a sense of trust and induce in them a yearning to believe. No wonder Barack Obama is so popular among denizens of Hollywood like Oprah: they certainly have an eye for those who can create an image, can generate a buzz that compels others to suspend their disbelief, and who can induce a trance-like stargazing"
You can keep bashing Hillary in an effort to hurt her in the polls, but its not going to help in electing Obama, at least not with me and probably with a lot of others. Don’t get me wrong, I will proudly cast my vote for Mark Warner in November, but as of today, I’m really tempted to vote for McCain as a protest vote against Obama’s double standards on the “smallness of politics” and against race baiters like Eugene Robinson, gasbag pundits like Rolaids Martin, and misogynistic tools like Chris Matthews (Obama induced orgasmic leg thrills aside)
As Obama himself told David Brody on January 23, 2008:
OBAMA: I think there is no doubt that [Hillary Clinton] has higher negatives than any of the remaining Democratic candidates, that's just a fact. And there are some who will not vote for her. I have no doubt that once the nomination contest is over, I will get the people who voted for her. Now the question is, could she get the people who voted for me?
Isn’t it ironic?
Vote as you must, but Clinton is a fucking failure and an embarassment Put this is your fucking pipe and smoke it. You and your types are simply not worthy of appeasement.
Clinton is damaged goods and dead. Obama just needs to let her exit somewhat gracefully. Obama does not need to pay off her debt or offer her the VP. Obama to tell her a sweet bed time story, tuck her in (Bill will make it in later, maybe) and turn off the lights on the Clintons' political carrer. Most will sleep happily everafter.