AMERICAblog: Would you like some cheese with that whine?
vwcat
· 1 year ago
She is being defiant. I think she wants to stay in until she can try the nuclear in late May and failing that, find a way to take it to the convention. Obama is going to have trouble getting her off his tail so he can just run the general. He may have to strike a deal to pay her off., But, she needs to do that deal soon because the longer she stays in the more foolish she will look.
zavlin
· 1 year ago
Oh my hillary youre right, lets just all be republicans...oh wait, no lets not do that. Hillary go away.
porchcow
· 1 year ago
Then for God's sake, just go ahead and join the Republican party then. By the time you're done, they're won't be a Democratic Party left anyway.
jr
· 1 year ago
Hillary's spent over 11 million dollars of her own money to help McCain. Isn't the campaign donation limit 2,300 dollars?
dad
· 1 year ago
But we don't want to live by republican rules.
That's the point.
naschkatzehussein
· 1 year ago
We are not the Republican Party, we are the Democratic Party. It's unfathomable that you don't know that by now. Why don't you go over there, Mrs. Clinton, if you like their rules so much. Millions of Republican voters have been disenfranchised by their settling on John McCain so early on. You would have liked to have done the same to millions of us Democrats, but we're all going to get heard from inspite of you, not just the big states and not just the early states. Viva Howard Dean and the 50 state strategy!
LunaStick
· 1 year ago
If a bullfrog had wings, it wouldn't bump it's ass everytime it jumped.
LunaStick
· 1 year ago
If wishes were horses, everyone would ride.
LunaStick
· 1 year ago
If I had a hammer I'd hammer in the morning I'd hammer in the evening All over this land
LunaStick
· 1 year ago
If hillary would drop out, I'd be very happy.
grandma
· 1 year ago
The MI/FL Excuse
Yesterday, Marc Ambinder reported "Another strategist, Harold Ickes, has told colleagues that he does not believe that she should think about dropping out until, at the very least, the questions of Florida and Michigan are resolved." It's worth pointing out that this makes no real sense. Nothing would do more to help resolve the Florida and Michigan issue than for Clinton to drop out and endorse Obama. If she did that, the only remaining issue would be to strike a balance between representing FL and MI at the convention and slapping FL and MI on the wrist hard enough that states don't pull this kind of stunt again.
It's the fact that the campaign is continuing that makes the question difficult to resolve because it has both campaigns focused on maximizing their delegate counts...........
Congress subpoenas Cheney's chief of staff on torture
LunaStick
· 1 year ago
If hillary were a republican....oh wait, she is. Nevermind.
dad
· 1 year ago
And I would have gotten away with it too, if it hadn't been for those meddling kids.
LunaStick
· 1 year ago
Scooby Doobie Dooooooo!
LunaStick
· 1 year ago
If I don't stop doing this, I'll never get dinner made. :)
FunMe
· 1 year ago
I am the queen. I am suppose to be the winner because mommy said that. Yes, I won - it is mine. No one can take that away from me. I'm the winner. I am the queen. Why do I know that? Because mommy said so, that's why!
Megalomania (from the Greek word μεγαλομανία) is a historical term for behavior characterized by delusional fantasies of wealth, power, genius, or omnipotence - often generally termed as delusions of grandeur. The word is a collaboration of the word "mania" meaning madness and the Greek "megalo" meaning "very large", "great", or "exaggerated", thus combining to denote an obsession with, either in the form of irrational perceived need for or preoccupation with in one's own estimation having and/or obtaining, grandiosity and extravagance (especially in the form of great fame and popularity, material wealth, social influence or political power, or more than one or even all of the aforesaid) and accompanying complete desirous and bombastic abandon; a common symptom if not the key diagnostic feature of megalomania.
interlude
· 1 year ago
good news...Hillary on hot seat with DCCC h/t Pam A meeting at the DCCC headquarters this afternoon suggests that an intervention is under way. After all, another four superdelegates switched over to Obama today. I wonder if hothead Bill is in the meeting with them? And add this to the growing calls to put an end to the madness. The Washington Blade's Kevin Naff says it's tent-folding time for Senator Clinton with "Hillary, the time has come."
Last night's results in the North Carolina and Indiana primaries have left Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton out of options. She ran a tough and spirited campaign that will be talked about for a generation. But it's over. The time has come for Clinton to adopt a gracious and conciliatory tone, end her campaign and endorse Sen. Barack Obama for president.
Tuesday night was, indeed, a game changer. Clinton suffered a drubbing in North Carolina - a "big" state, in her terminology - and barely squeaked out a win in Indiana. She needed a convincing win there and a strong finish in the Tar Heel state to convince voters and, more importantly, donors that she still had a chance to win over the dwindling number of uncommitted superdelegates.
As someone who endorsed Clinton early in the campaign (well before the mainstream media went ga-ga over Obama after his Iowa victory), I saw her as the party's best chance to beat the GOP nominee and the candidate with the most relevant international experience to tackle the myriad crises inflicted on us by George Bush.
Unfortunately, all the talk of experience and competence was belied by a campaign rife with incompetence. From Bill Clinton's ruinous (and arguably racist) campaign swing through South Carolina, to an obvious failure to craft a strategy past Super Tuesday, her campaign staff made so many miscalculations that Hillary went from a coronation to a shocking defeat.
sittenpretty
· 1 year ago
evrytime she opens that mouth ,it is teh unatractive jeebus
houstonray
· 1 year ago
Ooops, I think one more of the few threads left holding up my respect and admiration for the former first couple just snapped....
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD HILLARY, JUST. DROP. OUT. Or better yet, JUST. GO. AWAY.
sukabi1
· 1 year ago
Republican Rules:
1. The one who blows the party bigs the best will get the nomination. 2. Pandering to the pResident has it's perks, and will ensure a favorable nomination process. 3. Seek endorsement of whackjob, WHITE preachers. 4. Play on peoples fears, racist and otherwise. 5. Make meaningless, token "pledges" on tax holidays.
If I'm not mistaken, SHE'S the one that has been moving the goalposts for the Dem. primary... and if she were running as an ACTUAL republican, she'd be moving the goalposts when she came up short there as well....
It's a matter of character... and her is showing.... and it ain't pretty.
LunaStick
· 1 year ago
I am looking at what has happened to the Clinton campaign and laughing.
WorkinJoe
· 1 year ago
What's interesting about Hillary's comment is that if the primaries were winner take all, she might have more delegates, but she'd be trailing in the popular vote. Shades of Bush - Gore / 2000! I actually like the split vote as it rewards candidates for their support, especially in multiple-candidate races. I'd like to see the caucuses replaced by primaries, and I'd especially like to see the super delegates greatly reduced, or a super delegate "primary" day when all would have to express their preference. Finally, schedule the convention three weeks after the last primary, not 10 weeks later!
jonyc
· 1 year ago
If Hillary had been running as a Republican, I'm pretty sure no Republicans would have voted for her. Doesn't she realize they don't like her?
LunaStick
· 1 year ago
No matter how you count the numbers. Obama leads in the popular vote even with a big fat 0 from Michigan. Yet hillary still hangs in there like a stubborn cyst on limbaugh's ass.
I know the exact day Hillary will drop out....the day AFTER Inauguration Day 2009. And that's the day she'll announce her run for 2012. Because McBush will sitting in the White House that evening. Bill and Hill will have destroyed the party by then and America along with it. I've been depressed for eight years. Obama brought me out of that. And now I am sinking back into it. They will do what they did to Gore. Why the hell doesn't anyone see this?
Our "greatest system in the world" is broken.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
"Cheese with that WHINE..."
Oh, Hillary, you're embarrassing yourself now.
Bush_Bites
· 1 year ago
I'm expecting to see her victim act again.
"Oh, they're picking on me......and I just want to help West Virginia and Kentucky.......sniff, sniff""
redterror
· 1 year ago
Like I always tell my kids when they sound like Hillary: And if a frog had wings he wouldn't bump his butt every time he hopped.
dad
· 1 year ago
If we had the republican rules, you'd never have had a chance.
LunaStick
· 1 year ago
Not "they" Bush_Bites but "those mean ol' men".
Cpeterka
· 1 year ago
Hate...is the phrase that comes to my mind. She is such a "I'll take my ball and go home if you don't play my way."
mf_roe
· 1 year ago
Much of the reason Clinton is refusing to quit is that she knows it will be the start of a very serious decline in status. She has reached as high as she will ever go. If Obama wins the WH and turns in even an average effort the Clinton mystic will be broken for good. The stakes are so high that there is no exit strategy. She wins now or becomes a has been with no possible recovery. For her it isn't a race she would be quitting but her future.
mike31c
· 1 year ago
WTF is wrong with her? These are the rules the DNC has made a long time ago and she didn't bitch about it BEFORE she decided to run for President...
And what is this crap about her being the contender if we were under the pathetic "rules" of the RNC? last time I checked, she still has less delegates then Senator Obama.
What are the rules under the RNC? Your daddy was President so now YOU will be the next President? WTF?
Indigo
· 1 year ago
If we had the rules the Republicans have, we'd be Republicans. That poor Clinton woman, she's at the wrong party. I bet she's very embarassed. She should go to the Caribbean for the season. It's nice there.
FauxReal
· 1 year ago
“It is quite possible that someone is insane and they think they have a chance. Not insane in the clinical sense, but they may have such a strong political ambition that they blind themselves to reality.” Davey Crockett
Hillary's been running a campaign like a republican, she's praised the republican nominee while attacking her democratic opponent, she's adopted some of the same policies of the republicans - Please Hillary, become a republican. I'm sure Rush and O'Reilly will welcome you with open arms - You'll be back where you started, where you belong.
Dave of the Jungle
· 1 year ago
Hillary Clinton is a pimple on the butt cheek of Democracy.
OleHippieChick
· 1 year ago
Hey, Hil, creating your own reality is so first-decade rethug. We're not gonna stand for it. Don't make us get the hook.
Rob Mule
· 1 year ago
If HRC was a fruit-eating arboreal tree-dweller, chances are she'd have really good night vision...
LawMichigander
· 1 year ago
Oh Wolfson must have checked the wrong box for which party to run for a year or so ago.
blackwolf
· 1 year ago
I know it looks bad, but this is good for those of us who want to see Hillary disappear.
SociologistTina
· 1 year ago
The level of her self-delusion is pretty incredible.
dula
· 1 year ago
If we had the rules the Republicans have, you'd still be in the kitchen, honey.
Bubbles
· 1 year ago
And if her husband had the rules that Turkish sultans had, he'd still be the man in power, but she would have been kicked out of his harem and out in the street for being too hmm, old and plain looking. (Im guessing bill would have a age cap of about 29 in his harem).
obamacrat
· 1 year ago
Hilary Clinton has said many things in this race that have turned my head around and had my jaw dropping but this isn't one of them. Arrogant, whiny, petulant? She is just stating the obvious here. Give the lady a little credit. She has won almost all of the big states. You know, the ones we stay up all night waiting to see which way they go in a general election. Those big states. Now, I voted for Obama in the Wisconsin primary and I want to see him be the nominee of the democratic party . I view him as the future of the democratic party and hopefully the country. I'd love to see him put the nail in the coffin of Richard Nixon's "southern strategy" once and for all. But if he weren't running, I'd be sooo in Hilary's corner still. If you think she has been bad, wait til you see what the GOP throws at him. Then tell me how bad she is and how much you hate her.
Busboy
· 1 year ago
What mf_roe said.....
Busboy
· 1 year ago
Hey, she's right. She's pushing for republican rules. She may win on the "fairness issue". There are some heavy duty congresspeople who think she's right.
All Comments
Obama is going to have trouble getting her off his tail so he can just run the general. He may have to strike a deal to pay her off., But, she needs to do that deal soon because the longer she stays in the more foolish she will look.
That's the point.
I'd hammer in the morning
I'd hammer in the evening
All over this land
Yesterday, Marc Ambinder reported "Another strategist, Harold Ickes, has told colleagues that he does not believe that she should think about dropping out until, at the very least, the questions of Florida and Michigan are resolved." It's worth pointing out that this makes no real sense. Nothing would do more to help resolve the Florida and Michigan issue than for Clinton to drop out and endorse Obama. If she did that, the only remaining issue would be to strike a balance between representing FL and MI at the convention and slapping FL and MI on the wrist hard enough that states don't pull this kind of stunt again.
It's the fact that the campaign is continuing that makes the question difficult to resolve because it has both campaigns focused on maximizing their delegate counts...........
http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/archives...
And a whine it is!
GOOD NEWS TO READ:
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Congress_subpoena...
Congress subpoenas Cheney's chief of staff on torture
Love it dad!
From Wiki
Megalomania (from the Greek word μεγαλομανία) is a historical term for behavior characterized by delusional fantasies of wealth, power, genius, or omnipotence - often generally termed as delusions of grandeur. The word is a collaboration of the word "mania" meaning madness and the Greek "megalo" meaning "very large", "great", or "exaggerated", thus combining to denote an obsession with, either in the form of irrational perceived need for or preoccupation with in one's own estimation having and/or obtaining, grandiosity and extravagance (especially in the form of great fame and popularity, material wealth, social influence or political power, or more than one or even all of the aforesaid) and accompanying complete desirous and bombastic abandon; a common symptom if not the key diagnostic feature of megalomania.
h/t Pam
A meeting at the DCCC headquarters this afternoon suggests that an intervention is under way. After all, another four superdelegates switched over to Obama today. I wonder if hothead Bill is in the meeting with them?
And add this to the growing calls to put an end to the madness. The Washington Blade's Kevin Naff says it's tent-folding time for Senator Clinton with "Hillary, the time has come."
Last night's results in the North Carolina and Indiana primaries have left Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton out of options. She ran a tough and spirited campaign that will be talked about for a generation. But it's over.
The time has come for Clinton to adopt a gracious and conciliatory tone, end her campaign and endorse Sen. Barack Obama for president.
Tuesday night was, indeed, a game changer. Clinton suffered a drubbing in North Carolina - a "big" state, in her terminology - and barely squeaked out a win in Indiana. She needed a convincing win there and a strong finish in the Tar Heel state to convince voters and, more importantly, donors that she still had a chance to win over the dwindling number of uncommitted superdelegates.
As someone who endorsed Clinton early in the campaign (well before the mainstream media went ga-ga over Obama after his Iowa victory), I saw her as the party's best chance to beat the GOP nominee and the candidate with the most relevant international experience to tackle the myriad crises inflicted on us by George Bush.
Unfortunately, all the talk of experience and competence was belied by a campaign rife with incompetence. From Bill Clinton's ruinous (and arguably racist) campaign swing through South Carolina, to an obvious failure to craft a strategy past Super Tuesday, her campaign staff made so many miscalculations that Hillary went from a coronation to a shocking defeat.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD HILLARY, JUST. DROP. OUT. Or better yet, JUST. GO. AWAY.
1. The one who blows the party bigs the best will get the nomination.
2. Pandering to the pResident has it's perks, and will ensure a favorable nomination process.
3. Seek endorsement of whackjob, WHITE preachers.
4. Play on peoples fears, racist and otherwise.
5. Make meaningless, token "pledges" on tax holidays.
If I'm not mistaken, SHE'S the one that has been moving the goalposts for the Dem. primary... and if she were running as an ACTUAL republican, she'd be moving the goalposts when she came up short there as well....
It's a matter of character... and her is showing.... and it ain't pretty.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2008/pr...
Our "greatest system in the world" is broken.
Oh, Hillary, you're embarrassing yourself now.
"Oh, they're picking on me......and I just want to help West Virginia and Kentucky.......sniff, sniff""
She is such a "I'll take my ball and go home if you don't play my way."
And what is this crap about her being the contender if we were under the pathetic "rules" of the RNC? last time I checked, she still has less delegates then Senator Obama.
What are the rules under the RNC? Your daddy was President so now YOU will be the next President? WTF?
Davey Crockett
Hillary's been running a campaign like a republican, she's praised the republican nominee while attacking her democratic opponent, she's adopted some of the same policies of the republicans - Please Hillary, become a republican. I'm sure Rush and O'Reilly will welcome you with open arms - You'll be back where you started, where you belong.
Don't make us get the hook.