Posted on 01/07/2008 3:57:47 PM PST by Uncledave
Mrs. Clinton: Barack Obama Hasn't Done the Necessary "Spadework" January 7, 2008
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RUSH: Did you hear what Mrs. Clinton said on the Today show today with Matt Lauer? She said that Barack Obama "hasn't done the spadework necessary to be president." He "hasn't done the spadework necessary to be president," as though she has. Now, let's imagine, shall we, if Trent Lott or Mitt Romney or Ross Perot had said that Barack Obama "hasn't done the spadework necessary to be president." Nothing that happens in the Clinton campaign is coincidence, folks. Barack Obama hasn't done the "spadework"? Whew. Where is the Reverend Sharpton on this? By the way, big story: Reverend Sharpton is waiting on his time to endorse. He's waiting for commitments. That means he's probably waiting for money from one of these two camps.
Bill Clinton, over the weekend, in response to a question from somebody at one of his town hall meetings, "What's going on?" He blamed me. He blamed talk radio. He blamed me. He said that the reason Mrs. Clinton has such a rotten image is because people believe me, even me. He said, "People believe all these things there are people saying about her, it's like Rush Limbaugh. Even when Rush Limbaugh says it." Folks (laughter) it's me. In their minds, the reason Mrs. Clinton is in tough doo-doo right now is me, and they're right. You know, when you get down to brass tacks, they are right. But Mrs. Clinton, don't get out of the race. You can't quit! If you're worried about your legacy and going down as a big loser, a big quitter would be even worse. Please stay in this race and make it count for one and all, because the country needs me to be able to persuade you to hang in there and be tough.
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RUSH: Here's Mrs. Clinton's "spadework" line. Now, I guarantee you, if I had said this -- if Romney had said it; if anybody had said this -- about Obama, the fur would be flying.
HILLARY: When they say to themselves, "Okay. I have a choice between a truly inspirational speaker who has not done the kind of spadework with the sort of, uh, experience that, uhhh, another candidate has --
RUSH: Oh, ho-ho-ho! Folks, this is not coincidental. I guaran-damn-tee you. Look, this is the bunch that suppresses black people in the Democrat Party. From Maynard Jackson, to Carl McCall, to the Reverend Jackson, to Al Sharpton, these are the people that when the blacks get too "uppity," they get stomped down. "He hasn't done the spadework." He hasn't done the spadework.
PJT...
Not if she had had a couple of Margarita's ieht Mexican for lunch while on the campaign trail, and transposed a couple of words....
IF she did, it could have had a Don Imus moment.....
Why don't you axe them?
I guess that means picking Cotton?
yeah... Hillary should just point out that Obama is nothing but a cotton picking amatuer.
But seriously, I'm sure the cliche she meant to imply that Obama had not "paid ones dues" before getting the senior job, so to speak ("necessary spadework" meaning digging the trenches or holes before the main task, or any routine preliminary work to prepare for an undertaking).
Still, it does show again that Hillary! has a political tin ear for these things. If she doesn't handle the response right, this can quickly turn into a tar baby for her.
-PJ
-PJ
Was burying Ron Brown “spadework”?
Too right! Oba has been a working spade all his life.
Hill should know, though. She has been digging dirt for 35 years. I know because she said so.
LOL!
Ouch !! That’s painful and funny at the same time.
At least she didn’t say he is 50% as black as the ace of spades. But come to think of it. To be accurate. Oh well.
Hillary: "we can't be niggardly when it comes to spade work. It colors the issues too much."
Now THIS just ties it all up very nicely.
With a bow on top.
From Wikipedia:
>>Spadework is a novel by Canadian writer Timothy Findley set in the theater world of Stratford, Ontario. It was first published in Canada by HarperCollins Publishers in 2001.
[...]
[edit] Plot Summary
The novel centers on the story of a few summer months in 1998 in Stratford, Ontario against the backdrop of the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal. The novel is told by a third-person narrator, who selectively changes from the point of view of one character to another, but it is Jane Kincaid, a property maker for the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, whose perspective dominates throughout. Jane Kincaid is an immigrant from the United States, more specifically from a quintessentially southern town somewhere in Louisiana, aptly called Plantation. She left the United States to begin a new life as an artist, in essence, to escape her family (which nonetheless provides her with a modest but stable income from an inheritance)—she even shed her birth-name Aura Lee Terry when she met her husband Griffin, an up-and-coming young Shakespearean actor. The two lead an entirely ordinary, reasonably happy suburban existence, with a seven-year-old son (Will), a dog (Rudyard) and a housekeeper/nanny (Mercy Bowman)...<<
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spadework
Makes me laugh every time I think of these idiots!
in 2000 we stole Florida and in 04 we stole Ohio. damn, we are good
Good one!
I still don’t think, though, Hillary is racist or was trying to work in the “race issue,” not with this slip. It’d be too blatant. ... Wouldn’t it??
Who’s the black Senator
That’s a vote machine to all the Dems?
BAMA!
Ya... damn right!
Who is the man that would risk his neck
For his brother man?
BAMA!
Can you dig it?
Who’s the cat that won’t cop out
When there’s danger all about?
BAMA!
Right On!
They say this cat Bama is a bad motherf...
SHUT YOUR MOUTH!
I’m talking ‘bout BAMA!
THEN WE CAN DIG IT!
He’s a complicated man
But no one understands him like his voters...
BARACK OBAMA!
That is one of my favorite photos of all time. I’ve used it several times. That poor, pathetic woman.
:) That guy with those bright orange pants is a few cans short of a six pack, as well.
Cracks me up.
I just finally paid attention. Those weren’t orange pants — that is an orange jumpsuit. I wonder if was bussed there from a jail to protest for Kerry.
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