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.
Great article, especially the last line about the “moral vanity” of the political left in America!
LLS
These two narcissists are fighting for their lives and every time the heat is turned up, one of them explodes or cries "unfair/foul" and blames someone else for their pitiful situation. They are the true terrorists among us - and will continue to try and terrorize anyone who confronts or speaks against them. Just as they have always done.
And just like all narcissists, they cannot stand not to be adored. They have no clue that their practice of life-long trickery and fraud isn't being swallowed anymore. So, like the frightened, predictable, un-creative dummies they really are, they continue the same antics that they have always used to try and intimidate and manipulate people. Watch the telltale signs they display: Bludge your eyes, point your finger, bite your lip, cry on cue...all outward signs of their desperate need to be believed without question.
This is the first time I’ve seen X42 up close in quite a while.
Regardless, he looks like sh!t.
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Sh^t has more color and character!
Good grief...he looks horrible in that picture. I don’t think he’s going to make it to “three score years and ten.”
Bill Clinton made a laughingstock of our Presidency -to the World....and left an Offal Office for George Bush to clean up.
(the entrails and internal organs of a butchered animal)
Here they are filing court motions to tamp down Nevada caucus policy to get every miniscule advantage. They don't miss a trick.
And to top it off, their strategy is coordinated with King Canardian Clinton himself all the way in Oakland.
"Oh my! How did those little 'ol FBI files find their way into my private quarters? Why, I haven't the faintest idea."
Oh man! He really IS Dorian Gray’s Picture.
It just kills him that the information world has changed so much so fast...and to his detriment.
It’s hard to believe it was as recently as 1996 that he was able to run what the media later called a “stealth” ad campaign undetected by the media until late in the campaign. Instead of buying national ad time, he made massive buys in local markets all over the nation-—all trashing Dole. All undetected. Today an ad buy like that would be big news within hours, not months.
And that’s what causes Clinton’s purple rages. He used to be able to get away with saying one thing here, another there. He could get away with his sleuths dragging for dirt undetected. He could run ugly ads on black radio and no one heard about it. He could lie about churches burning in his childhood, lies that now can be uncovered with Google by ordinary joes like us. His entire life was built on such schemes. And it just kills him that now, when he needs it most, he can’t get away with it.
Thus, the purple rages. His frustration is like a pent up volcano...it erupts every time one of its many fissures is exposed.
These people are truly delusional paranoids.
They really are. He just can’t believe he no longer lives in a country where women swoon over the “crackle in his jeans”.
There’s no way to know, but I have a sneaking suspicion there are days he wishes he’d gone to Hollywood instead of Washington. His act would have aged better there.
He’s a viscious, little, “man”.
You should have seen a video clip of Bill screaming obscenities at an aide during their first Easter egg hunt at the White House. It was shown on Rush Limbaugh’s TV show and no where else. No other show would touch it. Her highness looked on with cold satisfaction. If Rush would show that clip again, it would show the Clinton’s for what they truly are.
What motivates the great “pain feeler”, is the prospect of what life with Hillary will be like after she is rejected by the populace.
thanks for including the explanation of the weighted voting. as usual bill appears full of it.
Leni
I love that the reporter is goading him and he doesn’t even get it.
His immense self-righteousness overwhelms the sensible alternative of simply walking away...and not making news.
Hence the term "wild goose chase"
he lives in the past...the internet is a simple tool to use to find the truth of his words.......he looks like a massive JERK in that video......keep a mic in front of the man’s face and watch him implode.
There is a certain irreducible percentage of the US population that will vote for Hillary Clinton because they don't want to hurt her feelings.
Sad, but true.
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