Posted on 06/03/2008 11:50:09 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
So there at the Hillary Clinton event at Baruch College was Lanny Davis, Senator Clinton's old pal from Yale--speaking to reporters, he stressed, as just a private citizen. Barack Obama, he said, "is strong in places where she isn't strong." Also Mr. Davis had called Senator Clinton that morning to tell her he was starting a campaign on a web site, one that would launch at midnight, after the victory speech!
One the web site, womenforfairpolitics.com, women may send a form letter to Barack Obama, asking him to make Hillary Clinton his pick for vice president.
Mr. Davis said that he did not know what she thought of this, despite their conversation.
So on Mrs. Clinton's last primary victory night, it was like all the Clinton surrogates had gone way off the reservation! Except they never do, so therefore they hadn't.
Mr. Davis rewrote some serious history, to the distress of reporters. "Everyone accused her of being negative," he said, but she never, ever had been! But what about remarks by Bill Clinton, and all that hubbub down in South Carolina? What about when Mr. Clinton said-- "I bet you he didn't mean that," Mr. Davis said. This was crazy. The press was getting gas-lighted!
"This night is a celebration for a candidate that has finished the course," said Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, one of Hillary Clinton's national campaign co-chairs. Surely she did not mean to use the word "finished"? Where is this reservation now? Are we near it? "She's had her fans," Ms. Jackson Lee said of Ms. Clinton. Oh had she?
Hillary Clinton finally gave her South Dakota primary victory speech, down in the weird, cellphone-dead zone of Baruch College's basement gym. Why? No one knew! "Our theory is that she's taking us hostage and releasing us in a one-for-one exchange for superdelegates," said a reporter.
Terry McAuliffe, chairman of Hillary Clinton for President, introduced Senator Clinton as "the next president of the United States." One reporter's mouth actually went Wha?
Mrs. Clinton wore an electric just-brighter-than-Yves-Klein-blue pantsuit. She began with praise of Barack Obama. She called him "my friend." The speech was good but a little manipulative. Like how she kept touting her 18 million votes, like a club. "The question," she asked near the end "is where do we go from here?" Then, after she needlessly invoked 9/11, the stage was stormed by some pals, like Governor David Paterson. Tina Turner's "Simply the Best" played. Her hair was extra-sleeked; it had no movement whatsoever.
"I just sent you an email," Lanny Davis said then, as the Clintons and friends were leaving the stage. Even as she had been making her victory speech, her best friend had been working the press regarding his campaign to get her selected as Mr. Obama's running mate.
Outside, a crowd gathered to watch her motorcade leave, at the corner of Third Avenue and 23rd Street.
Two Obama supporters were there with signs. One read "Unite For A Change." The other read "Drop Out Now."
"What do you think man, you feeling it?" one of the white Obama supporters asked a black man who was considering their proposal.
The man didn't answer for a while. Then: "All of a sudden you're all right?" he asked. "You're pulling my nuts out all year."
"Politics are dirty," said the Obama supporter.
"You rob me and treat me to lunch--that make you all right?" said the black man. He was in a panama hat and salmon-colored summer pants and shirt. "F*ck that," he said. "Get the f*ck out of here."
Osama is going to be forced to take that thing as VP.
Where are the friggen men in this country.
“Terry McAuliffe, chairman of Hillary Clinton for President, introduced Senator Clinton as “the next president of the United States.” One reporter’s mouth actually went Wha?”
He can't. She will try to run the WH if he does. Pure chaos.
It's not like either of them has ever run *anything*. They've never run their own business, and after years in the Senate, neither has so much as a single passed bill in their own names.
Put any two trust-fund, never-had-a-job Baby Boomer kids into the White House and they'd be just as indistinguishable.
Heck, the Obama people might want to avoid cars, airplanes and just about anything that moves for his entire term if the Clintons are nearby.
"A man should take care, see that nothing happens to them."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3sAjI7V0HY&feature=related
...Many of Hillary's supporters, especially those in Florida and Michigan are feeling rather disenfranchised, or to put it bluntly, shafted.
While I am no raving, rabid McCain supporter, I sincerely hope he wipes the floor with this Marxist upstart.
“The man didn’t answer for a while. Then: “All of a sudden you’re all right?” he asked. “You’re pulling my nuts out all year.”
“Politics are dirty,” said the Obama supporter.
“You rob me and treat me to lunch—that make you all right?” said the black man. He was in a panama hat and salmon-colored summer pants and shirt. “F*ck that,” he said. “Get the f*ck out of here.”
An interesting story, hidden at the end of the piece there. Obama supporters have treated Clinton supporters like crap... There’s a real opportunity to be exploited here, if McCain’s savvy enough to pull it off. That’s their feeling - they’ve been lied about, called racists, had their candidate demeaned... McCain is already spending a disgusting amount of time complimenting Hillary... But if he can pull off a major victory like getting half of democrats to reject Obama for him, that will be quite the accomplishment.
Talk Radio was abuzz today about how the AP was trying to dissuade Hillary supporters from voting at the polls.
The AP and other Obama organizations called it early for Obama to discourage Hillary's folks from voting.
Sick, isn't it?
Interesting to see Hillary would have won the electoral count if this was a general election. I’m sure this is a fact not lost on Hillary supporters, either. :)
Nope...crossover voters, don't forget them.
Record numbers turned out for the Dem noms this year. Hehe..
“Nope...crossover voters, don’t forget them.”
I could have stated that better. I meant that if the delegate counts were instead a winner-take-all system and were divied out according to electoral college votes like a general election, Hillary would have won.
I stopped counting when she had maybe 281 electoral votes, which would have been enough to defeat Obama.
She's a dangerous beast. The press loves Obama just a little bit more than her, very slightly and surveys show that. She gets nearly as gushing a press as he does. But read the media tonight... Absolute adoration for this witch, and most people would have been called a bad sport pulling the stunt she did.
The press roots for Marxists, and that's what both of them are. There is nothing admirable about any Clinton, ever. They are snakes. Obama is beatable. She isn't.
Lanny Davis is even smarmier and more oleaginous than the Clintons, and I didn’t think that was possible. All these Clinton sycophants shilling for new positions in a second Clinton Administration - they’re even worse than the candidate herself!
First Osama must win. Osama can't win without her.
In her book, The Sociopath Next Door, Martha Stout, PhD, describes "the pity ploy" as the most quickly distinguishable characteristic of a ruthless sociopath. Utterly without conscience and devoid of all the normal human emotions, such as love and empathy experienced by 96% of the rest of us, sociopaths have no internal moral restraint against perpetrating all manner of evil, yet they pretend to be victims.
I highly recommend the book for gaining an understanding of how common are sociopaths in our midst and how dangerous they are to all of us.
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