Posted on 01/17/2008 3:28:01 AM PST by Timeout
The link above shows the entire video.
Snip from accompanying write up:
The Back Story: Clinton in the Bay Area By Mark Matthews
The Clinton campaign says it has nothing to do with the Nevada lawsuit filed by allies of Hillary Clinton.
The lawsuit seeks to shut down the so called “at large” caucus sites that were approved for a number of casinos.
Yesterday a campaign spokeswoman in Nevada said “it’s in the hands of the court we have nothing to do with it.”
But it’s clear the campaign isn’t completely neutral on the subject.
Today Bill Clinton came to Oakland and I had the opportunity to ask him a question about the lawsuits and he was good enough to answer.
In fact he stood and answered my questions for several minutes even as Oakland’s mayor tried to pull him away.
So I’m grateful for the face time with the former President. But a couple of the things he asserted aren’t exactly accurate.
He told me the casino caucus goers would have a five to one advantage over Nevadans who were voting in other communities.
Technically that is possible but highly unlikely. The state democratic party decided that delegates to the state convention would be apportioned out according to a number of factors. For example rural areas of Nevada will have more weight than cities. The state party does that on purposes so that candidates will be encouraged to ignore sparsely populated areas of the state.
Most precincts are set up according to population size. But with the casino “at large” precincts…it was decided they would be weighted according to turn out. So for example if a lot of people turn out at the casino sites…each vote will be worth a little less than other precincts with a smaller population.
The only way the casino caucus goers could have five times the voting power would be if very few people go to the casino sites and a lot of people turn out in the less populated areas. Now if very few show up at the casinos they won’t get as many delegates..and if a lot of them show up they won’t have the extra “more powerful” vote that Clinton is talking about.…
In any event the casino caucuses won’t account for more than six percent of the total number of delegates. That’s the way the rules were written.
And the state party approved those rules as did the national democratic party.
It wasn’t until after Barack Obama got the endorsement of the culinary workers union that anyone objected to the casino locations.
A lot is being made of the tone of the conversation between Clinton and myself and for that I would encourage anyone to watch the entire exchange for themselves. We are posting it on this website.
I wish someone with Nexus/Lexus would do a comparison of how many times the MSM at the time used the term “Clinton Haters” vs. whether they ever say “Bush Haters”.
I specifically remember, during the Lewinsky scandal, the term was used frequently to implant the idea that Clinton’s problems were being overblown by the haters.
Answer: The Hillary! supporters in the Nevada Democrat Party.
So now the Clinton Camp is in the position of objecting to rules they themselves wrote. Same thing with Michigan. Every time the Clinton Camp complains that the system is all screwed up, you have to remember that they were the very ones working feverishly to screw it up in order to guarantee a smooth Coronation March for the Queen.
Now they are objecting when their rigged rules come back to bite them in the butt.
Overblown? An interesting choice of words.
that video is rich!
thanks.
It is my fondest wish that, whatever may come, be it utopia or nuclear winter, that dear God I just live long enough that I can p!$$ on this man's grave. They make this bit of hardware for truckers that straps to your equipment and trails a plastic tube down the leg of your pants, for speedy and efficient elimination. I figure with the right light and any covenient corners, I should be able to get the job done before the Presidential Honor Guard gets back from taking a smoke.
Interesting read from the WSJ.
I would have been in the ten percent giving Bubba a zero...
“Canardians”
A flock of deliberately misleading Ducks!
That is going to be one stinky headstone... I’ll bring the beer!
LLS
It goes back to Hillary’s use of the term “Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy”, perhaps before. The Clintons used the term to triangulate the feelings of America. Those on the right in politics were branded ‘haters’. It’s been an accepted description by the MSM ever since.
As we all know, the fact that Hillary could promulgate such divisiveness is proof that the actual hatred stems from the left; not the right. Liberals and Socialists have always hated America because it’s the World’s bastion of freedom. That’s the nexus of their hate. It’s what drives them.
Get in line, buddy, get in line.
Good... I'll bring the hot dogs & beans and toilet paper.
the clintons are fascists,
like many baby boomers of their ilk.
like hitler, they want to take over capitalism,
take over religions, take over the media...
The law is a cudgel to be used to beat your detractors into submission. If there is lots of blood and legal gore, they will be destroyed by the process.
We have no law in America. We have only dregs, the tyranny of lawyers.
Better put some LOX on that
Yep, they are.
Actually, I see the “Vast Right Wing..” as another favorite type tactic of theirs: broadcast the “company line” and the MSM will repeat it until it’s conventional wisdom. It works almost every time for the Dems.
But “Canardian” is when one of them restates (twists) an opponent’s position in terms that make it unpallatable.
I’ve wished for 10 years that Republicans would learn to watch for this and stop them right then and there: “Those are YOUR words, not mine. Feel free to state your own opinion, but stop misrepresenting mine! I don’t need you to tell people what I think...especially when you distort it!”.
Republican elected officials have no stomach for combative politics; except among themselves. They want to govern, not intimidate. They believe the public will gravitate to the GOP because they show they can govern well.
Well, they're wrong. I, like you, have wished for them to take the gloves off. I've stopped wishing. It's useless.
Wow!
This is the first time I’ve seen X42 up close in quite a while.
First I thought he looks like a white-haired Adolf Hitler w/o a moustache. Then I thought he looks like a slimmer version of Ted the Swimmer.
Regardless, he looks like sh!t.
Amen, brother!
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