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BILL CLINTON'S BIGMOUTH OF THE SOUTH OUTRAGE AT 'BARACK = JESSE' REMARK
NY Post ^ | Jan.28, 2008 | GEOFF EARLE

Posted on 01/28/2008 7:39:18 AM PST by COUNTrecount

WASHINGTON - Shoot-from-the-lip Bill Clinton has struck again.

A day after Barack Obama's overwhelming victory over Hillary Rodham Clinton in South Carolina, the spotlight was back on the former president - this time for dismissive comments he made comparing the Illinois senator's campaign to the failed presidential candidacies of the Rev. Jesse Jackson.

While his wife campaigned in Tennessee and Obama stumped in Georgia, the media focus was once again on Bill Clinton, who said on Saturday: "Jesse Jackson won South Carolina in '84 and '88. Jackson ran a good campaign. And Obama ran a good campaign here."

The message: that Obama might peel off a few Southern states with sizeable black populations, as Jackson did, but can't forge a successful nationwide candidacy.

POLL: Is Bill Too Active in Hill's Campaign?

Sen. Clinton attributed her husband's comments to emotion.

"Well, I think it's human nature. I think that the spouses of all three of us have, you know, been passionate and vigorous defenders of each of us and, you know, maybe got a little carried away," she said on CBS's "Face the Nation."

She chalked it up to "sleep deprivation" on the campaign trail

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STANDING BY HER MAN: Hillary Clinton, here in Memphis yesterday, blamed her husband's remarks comparing her rival to Jesse Jackson on "sleep deprivation."

He's deprived of something while campaigning,but I doubt that it's sleep.

1 posted on 01/28/2008 7:39:22 AM PST by COUNTrecount
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To: COUNTrecount

sleep deprivation causes racism... who knew?


2 posted on 01/28/2008 7:43:28 AM PST by DaveMSmith
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To: COUNTrecount

Surprised she didn’t say, “It’s President Bush’s fault.”


3 posted on 01/28/2008 7:44:54 AM PST by PGalt
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To: DaveMSmith

CNN did a hit piece (very funny) on Billy showing clips of him in various stages of napping at political functions. I just hope he keeps up the “good” work.


4 posted on 01/28/2008 7:45:43 AM PST by sarasota
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To: COUNTrecount

I doubt it. Just not HER.


5 posted on 01/28/2008 7:46:01 AM PST by epluribus_2
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To: COUNTrecount

Remember when Rudy v. Hillary was a LOCK for the showdown in November?


6 posted on 01/28/2008 7:46:56 AM PST by Tanniker Smith (Geek Squad -- if you're desperate and don't need a PC for over a month, we'll get around to it.)
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To: COUNTrecount
Let me get this straight. Hillary's chief qualification for running is that she is Bill's wife and so she was there for everything that happened under his administration and (we are led to believe) she was really really important in all of it. Unspoken but heavily implied is that this is a third term for Bill and Hillary (who were really co-presidents, after all).

Now Hillary is putting distance between herself and Bill! So they don't really share a single, massively intelligent, brain? And we are actually being asked to elect Hillary, not Bill and his old lady? that can't be good for her campaign.

7 posted on 01/28/2008 7:47:08 AM PST by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: COUNTrecount
It’s really nice to see the Clinton crime machine be dismantled.
But are we ready for Obama?
8 posted on 01/28/2008 7:48:16 AM PST by HereInTheHeartland ("We have to drain the swamp" George Bush, September 2001)
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To: COUNTrecount
Kennedy Family Jumps Ship


9 posted on 01/28/2008 7:54:07 AM PST by RGSpincich
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To: COUNTrecount
"Well, I think it's human nature. I think that the spouses of all three of us have, you know, been passionate and vigorous defenders of each of us and, you know, maybe got a little carried away," she said on CBS's "Face the Nation."

You know, when one is speaking on national TV, one might, you know, try to drop the you-knows.

10 posted on 01/28/2008 7:54:14 AM PST by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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To: COUNTrecount
Lucianne Goldberg had the line of the week this morning. Commenting on an article that said Hillary would rein in Bill, she said, "That's like trying to stuff an oyster into a slot machine." That line's worth sharing widely.

Congressman Billybob

Latest article, "Snow, Ice, and Lame Tom"

A Freeper in Congress? Please act now.

11 posted on 01/28/2008 7:54:53 AM PST by Congressman Billybob (www.ArmorforCongress.com)
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"Well, I think it's human nature. I think that the spouses of all three of us have, you know, been passionate and vigorous defenders of each of us and, you know, maybe got a little carried away," she said on CBS's "Face the Nation."

"You know" = "I'm lying"
12 posted on 01/28/2008 7:58:04 AM PST by Arkancide (www.arkancide.com)
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To: Tanniker Smith
Right after Super Tuesday when it is (maybe) clear who the nominees are, I will apologize for my column that said it would be Rudy against Hillary, and that Rudy would win. I am only waiting to apologize until I know just how wrong I was. LOL.

John / Billybob

13 posted on 01/28/2008 7:58:05 AM PST by Congressman Billybob (www.ArmorforCongress.com)
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To: Congressman Billybob

I’ve heard that as “putting a marshmallow into a piggy bank!”


14 posted on 01/28/2008 8:05:38 AM PST by Hildy (You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep cause reality is finally better than your dreams)
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To: COUNTrecount
The message: that Obama might peel off a few Southern states with sizeable black populations, as Jackson did, but can't forge a successful nationwide candidacy.

Did Je$$e Jack$on win in Iowa? Did he come close to winning in New Hampshire? Did he end up with the most delegates in Nevada?

15 posted on 01/28/2008 8:07:54 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Rattenschadenfreude: joy at a Democrat's pain, especially Hillary's pain caused by Obama.)
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To: Congressman Billybob

I think Rudy did not realize that with our crazy 24/7 news coverage, that he really had to be in the picture all the time. Maybe his strategy would have worked last election, but things have changed. I also think the MSM was happy not to bring Rudy into it...they do not want him to be the candidate because he really could easily beat the Dem nominee. That’s my opinion.


16 posted on 01/28/2008 8:09:19 AM PST by Hildy (You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep cause reality is finally better than your dreams)
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To: COUNTrecount
Bill Clinton, who said on Saturday: "Jesse Jackson won South Carolina in '84 and '88. Jackson ran a good campaign. And Obama ran a good campaign here."

That's it? That is what they are "outraged" about?

Kind of a low threshold for outrage it seems.

17 posted on 01/28/2008 8:12:46 AM PST by Michael.SF. ("democrat" -- 'one who panders to the crude and mindless whims of the masses " - Joseph J. Ellis)
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To: DaveMSmith

“sleep deprivation causes racism... who knew?”

I almost spit up my coffee after reading that.


18 posted on 01/28/2008 8:13:41 AM PST by pieceofthepuzzle
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To: COUNTrecount
"Jesse Jackson won South Carolina in '84 and '88. Jackson ran a good campaign. And Obama ran a good campaign here."

Herewith Clinton strips away the camouflage from the crass racism of the Democrat Party.

The Republican Party stands--as it has always stood--for universal liberty and justice: as the anti-slavery party (for which it was originally formed), the anti-racist party, the anti-Jim Crow party, the anti-Ku Klux Klan party, and as the party that passed the civil rights legislation of the 1960s and '70s that outlawed and ended legal racial discrimination in the U.S.A.

The Republican Party has stood steadfast.

The Democrat Party stands for nothing more than the crass, unscrupulous grab for power, at any cost, pandering to whomever or whatever will achieve its ignominious objective.

19 posted on 01/28/2008 8:14:02 AM PST by Savage Beast ("History is not just cruel. It is witty." ~Charles Krauthammer)
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To: COUNTrecount

I doubt he can even get it up anymore.


20 posted on 01/28/2008 8:17:19 AM PST by mimaw
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