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Hillary Clinton's venom, gall are a turnoff
Newsday ^ | March 9, 2008 | Les Payne

Posted on 03/26/2008 10:14:47 AM PDT by IrishMike

Is it too early for Hillary Rodham Clinton to suggest Barack Obama as her vice president on the ticket? Yes, absolutely. The answer for Clinton, however, appears to depend on your definition of what "smidgen" is.

Only "smidgens of difference," she said, separate them in the critical delegate count needed to win the Democratic presidential nomination. The operative word is derived from "smidge," or "barely detectable." For example, the 5,963,110 votes that Florida counted in the 2000 election allowed Gov. Jeb Bush to award his brother George W. a disputed victory. His margin of 537 votes - .0009 percent - was a smidgen.

The difference in delegates between the Democrats is about 7 percent - not a smidgen. Though neither has enough to win, it is Obama, with 1,567, not Clinton, with 1,462, who's leading. Still, she reckons the vice president option is hers to name.

When CBS pitched the "dream ticket" idea to Clinton, in fairness, she first allowed, "We have to decide who's on top of the ticket." Then, with a straight face, she added, "I think the people of Ohio [where she'd just won handily] very clearly said it should be me." It is just such humorless gall and an awkward sense of entitlement that turns voters off to the junior senator of Chappaqua via Arkansas and suburban Chicago.

Nowhere has this turnoff been more dramatic than among African-Americans, whose votes for Clinton and her husband in all their previous elections spiraled upward from 80 percent. It's not that Obama has wowed blacks as much as that the Clintons are duplicitous with them.

First she rolled the dice and demeaned the iconic civil rights struggle of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in favor of President Lyndon B. Johnson; ....

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008; anotherdemocrathero; clinton; democratparty; democrats; election; elections; hillary; hillaryclinton; hillaryscandals; negatives
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1 posted on 03/26/2008 10:14:48 AM PDT by IrishMike
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To: IrishMike

Hillary’s already written off the black vote, from what I’ve seen and read, anyway.


2 posted on 03/26/2008 10:16:12 AM PDT by jdm
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To: IrishMike
For example, the 5,963,110 votes that Florida counted in the 2000 election allowed Gov. Jeb Bush to award his brother George W. a disputed victory.

Still can't let that idiotic canard go at Newsday, I see.

3 posted on 03/26/2008 10:16:58 AM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Don't trust anyone who can't take a joke. [Congressman BillyBob])
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To: IrishMike

Eh? Aren’t those her best parts?


4 posted on 03/26/2008 10:17:28 AM PDT by null and void (It's 3 AM, do you know where Hillary is? Does she know where Bill is? Does Bill know what 'is' is?)
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To: IrishMike

Neither one of them can think without a cigarette in their hand. In 2008. A couple of white knuckle cigdraggers. And nobody in the media gives a crap. If it was Bush OMG, the example for the CHILDREN, Oooooo@@@@!


5 posted on 03/26/2008 10:19:46 AM PDT by kinghorse
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To: IrishMike
For example, the 5,963,110 votes that Florida counted in the 2000 election allowed Gov. Jeb Bush to award his brother George W. a disputed victory. His margin of 537 votes - .0009 percent - was a smidgen.

537/5963110 = 0.00009 = 0.009 percent. Les, you're off by a factor of 10.

6 posted on 03/26/2008 10:21:04 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Rattenschadenfreude: joy at a Democrat's pain, especially Hillary's pain caused by Obama.)
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To: kinghorse

Who are you talking about? Obamas? Clintons?


7 posted on 03/26/2008 10:23:33 AM PDT by Wage Slave (Good fences make good neighbors. -- Robert Frost)
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To: jdm

Fate has certainly moved Hillary far from those days in Arkansas, when 95 percent majorities in black precincts in the East Arkansas Delta were solely responsible for the Clinton’s precious political viability.


8 posted on 03/26/2008 10:24:41 AM PDT by IrishMike (I am not a Republican first. I am a conservative.)
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To: IrishMike

All together now, “Welcome to the Party Pal!”


9 posted on 03/26/2008 10:25:16 AM PDT by Republic of Texas (Socialism Always Fails)
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To: KarlInOhio
Les, you're off by a factor of 10.

That would be a factor of 100.

10 posted on 03/26/2008 10:26:14 AM PDT by HIDEK6
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To: KarlInOhio

I wonder if Les counted all of the absentee ballots from soldiers in his tally.


11 posted on 03/26/2008 10:31:02 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: IrishMike
Hillary Clinton's venom, gall are a turnoff? Who'da thunk it?

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12 posted on 03/26/2008 10:31:34 AM PDT by OESY
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To: Republic of Texas

A year ago, a Democratic ticket looked a cinch to win the White House. Now it seems headed for the wall. The Democratic Party could even be on its way to becoming marginal on the national scene, as it has already become in much of the South. And race is the reason.


13 posted on 03/26/2008 10:39:17 AM PDT by IrishMike (I am not a Republican first. I am a conservative.)
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To: IrishMike

Venom, gall.See it here.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mIX4c1YCdTI


14 posted on 03/26/2008 10:48:37 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
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I wonder if Les counted all of the absentee ballots from soldiers in his tally.

At least the Republicans counted the votes. The Democrats are not counting primary votes from Florida.

Can we say "DISINFRANCHISED"???

15 posted on 03/26/2008 11:00:36 AM PDT by River_Wrangler (Nothing difficult is ever easy!)
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To: IrishMike

“Hillary Clinton’s venom, gall are a turnoff”

The MSM is just now having an “A-HA” moment in realizing this?? We have known it for YEARS!!


16 posted on 03/26/2008 11:13:24 AM PDT by Polyxene (For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel - Martin Luther)
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To: Polyxene

Memo to the MSM: So, what else is new?


17 posted on 03/26/2008 1:42:37 PM PDT by geezerwheezer (get up boys, we're burnin' daylight!!!)
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To: IrishMike

Don’t count them chickens....


18 posted on 03/26/2008 1:47:27 PM PDT by Archie Bunker on steroids (Hillary Supporters ....... Fags and Hags)
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To: Wage Slave

Both. They are both secret chimneys. You can tell from their sickly pallors.


19 posted on 03/26/2008 3:05:35 PM PDT by kinghorse
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To: kinghorse

What the hell are you talking about?? Hillary banned all smokiers from the White House the first day they were in office. The Clintons (well, and Gore)are the ones totally responsible for the war on smokers. The media jumped on it because they loved them so much.


20 posted on 03/27/2008 12:17:43 AM PDT by The Ghost of Rudy McRomney ("Rush has unsealed the mummy's tomb-he has unleashed the undead."-Hugh Hewitt)
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