Posts with the tag 'Hillary Clinton'
The list of what we can no longer criticize about Barack Hussein– (oops) — Obama continues. Even if it’s the truth. Now it just so happens that whatever his wife says is beyond reproach:
Earlier, Obama told critics in an interview aired on ABC’s “Good Morning America” to “lay off my wife.”
The Illinois senator was responding to an online ad run by the Tennessee GOP that, during a four-minute video, replays six times Michelle Obama’s comment that “for the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country.” Michelle Obama has clarified her remark, saying she meant she is proud of the public’s engagement in this year’s political process. Obama called the ad “just low class.”
Obama said that if he wins the nomination, Republicans “can say whatever they want to say about me, my track record. But, he added, “if they think that they’re going to try to make Michelle an issue in this campaign, they should be careful, because I find unacceptable the notion that you start attacking my wife or my family.”
This would be fair enough if Michelle Obama didn’t insert herself and her words as part and parcel of her husband’s campaign. But in that very same interview, Michele Obama did just that:
In the joint interview, Michelle Obama said, “We’re trusting that the American voters are ready to talk about the issues.” She also denied speculation that she has ruled out a place by Clinton on her husband’s ticket.
“There’s no way that I would say ‘absolutely not’ to one of the most successful and powerful and groundbreaking women on this planet,” Michelle Obama said. Empathizing with her as someone who raised “a phenomenal daughter” while in politics, she said, “I think the world of Hillary Clinton,” and added, “I know how hard, just in the little bit of exposure I’ve had to this, what she’s had to deal with and what she’s accomplished.”
Word to Michelle Obama: If you can’t take the political heat, then get the hell in the kitchen and bake some cookies.
Tags: Hillary Clinton, Michelle Obama, Obama
May 19th, 2008
Interesting report:
A question submitted from the online audience asked Bush whether he felt he had been misled about Iraq as he made the decision to go to war.
“‘Misled’ is a strong word,” he said. “Not only our intelligence community, but intelligence communities all across the world shared the same assessment. And so I was disappointed to see how flawed our intelligence was.”
“Do I think somebody lied to me? No, I don’t. I think it was just, you know, they analyzed the situation and came up with the wrong conclusion,” he added.
He acknowledged concerns about leaving the unfinished Iraq war to a Democratic successor. Both Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton have said they will bring troops home if elected.
Bush said his “doomsday scenario of course is that extremists throughout the Middle East would be emboldened, which would eventually lead to another attack on the United States.”
Also in the interview to an online audience, Bush:
- Said more is known about global warming than when he first took office in 2001. Asked if it was real, Bush said, “Yes, it is real, sure is.” Still, he defended his opposition to the Kyoto treaty on climate change. “I could have supported a lousy treaty and everybody would have went, `Oh, man, what a wonderful-sounding fellow he is. But it just wouldn’t have worked.”
- Criticized the Democratic-led Congress, claiming it had dragged its feet on trade, on renewing surveillance powers and failing to respond appropriately to the housing crisis. “And so I would call them stalled. I would call them, so far, good at verbiage and not so good at results.”
- Said his Christian faith increased while in office, saying he sought to understand his weaknesses, better himself “and get closer to the Lord.”
- Criticized former President Carter for advocating what he called a “blame-Israel-for-every-problem” mentality to the Middle East.
President Bush also expressed sympathy for both Obama and Hillary over their gruelling primary fight, and opined that race will only be a factor in the fall if the MSM makes it so - something I agree with; especially if Obama is slipping in the polls by October, the MSM will try to guilt trip America into voting Obama by claiming in polls and surveys that anti-Obama sentiment is actually anti-black sentiment.
I’m telling ya, good people, we’re going to miss this man once he leaves office - he has been the most honest, most dedicated and most kind-to-his-opponents man we’ve ever had in office. I know those who hate him will disagree with this, but that is just one of the sadder aspects of the past 8 years that as we’ve been confronted with challenge and President Bush has risen to it, some people made it their business to turn Bush into the enemy.
Tags: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, Jimmy Carter, pre-war intel, War on Terrorism
May 14th, 2008
The media is calling it a symbolic victory. What do you think? Looks like Camp Hillary sees things differently.
Clinton’s aides contended that her strength with blue-collar voters—already demonstrated in primaries in Ohio, Pennsylvania and Indiana—makes her the more electable candidate in the fall.
“After tonight, we will have one more proof point, if you will, that Hillary Clinton is the strongest candidate Democrats can nominate,” said Ann Lewis, an aide to the former first lady. “We’re going to go back starting tomorrow and talk to those superdelegates who are still uncommitted and say, ‘You know what? She is the candidate who expands the electoral map.’ You look at West Virginia, you look at Kentucky, you look at Arkansas, you look at Tennessee. You look at what’s at stake and that’s a very powerful argument.”
Clinton arranged a meeting with superdelegates for Wednesday.
And so it goes.
UPDATE, by Mark Noonan: In my view, Democrats are very scared. All over TV and radio and even here on the blog, the endlessly repeated talking point is that if we GOPers want to win, we have to stop talking about Obama’s questionable past and associations…meaning that the Democrats have done polling and focus groups and found out that Obama’s past and associations are radioactive when brought up against McCain. Democrats have to get Obama’s past off the table - one might think this would turn them towards Hillary, but she’s got her own radioactive past and failure to nominate Obama would probably mean a collapse in the number of black voters in November, with incalcuable consequences down ballot for the Democrats.
UPDATE, by Mark Noonan: From Patrick Ruffini via NRO’s The Corner:
Wow. Obama only wins 53% of WV DEM PRIMARY VOTERS in a matchup with McCain
This means that Obama can’t win West Virginia…and likely means that he won’t be able to win a single Southern State, all else being equal and nothing massive changes between now and November (which is a loooong way off). Bad news for Obama - and for the Dems, who may have picked a loser.
Tags: Hillary Clinton, Primaries, Superdelegates, West Virginia
May 13th, 2008
They really want her out of the race over there in liberal-land:
The New Republic
Family Ties
by Jeff Sharlet
Hillary Clinton’s evangelical cabal.
Post Date Wednesday, May 28, 2008
Lost in the hysteria over Reverend Jeremiah Wright’s remarks is the fact that the current race offers a rare snapshot of the three great strands of American political religion. It’s ironic that Wright occupies center stage, since, in the twenty-first century, his is by far the weakest of these–a progressive Christianity which stretches from the Social Gospel to black liberation theology, a big tent of liberal and left religion that’s not very crowded anymore. John McCain’s problem pastor, a Texas pulpit-pounder named John Hagee, stands in for a more familiar faith: populist fundamentalism, a crowd-pleasing mix of hellfire and the kind of prosperity preaching that encourages followers to ante up to the Lord in both spirit and dollars. And then there’s Hillary Clinton’s religion: the third strand of political faith, the least understood and arguably the most powerful.
Clinton, an evangelically inclined Methodist, is by far the most religiously rooted and theologically astute of the three candidates, a Christian intellectual schooled in the cold war religion of Reinhold Niebuhr’s post-leftist years. Don Jones, her youth pastor and a lifelong spiritual mentor, calls the faith he instructed her in then and which they still share a third way between old-school fundamentalism and liberal Christianity. It’s not centrism, though; Jones describes it in terms of Burkean conservatism, after the eighteenth-century reactionary philosopher’s belief that change should be slow and come without the sort of “social leveling” that offends class hierarchy.
That’s the crux of the conflict between the progressive Christianity that’s broad enough to encompass both Jeremiah Wright and Jimmy Carter, and the elitist variation long embraced by Hillary: The former dreams always, if imperfectly, of challenging power, while the latter works to reaffirm it. Clinton’s faith is not the liberal version of Christianity that Democratic leaders have traditionally invoked–instead, her version, exemplified by her alliance with a shadowy network of powerful conservative Christians, is steeped in the kind of establishmentarianism that she has otherwise tried to distance herself from throughout the primary season.
I didn’t know we had an “evangelical cabal” in America - certainly not one which embraces Hillary Clinton. This is really getting rather weird, isn’t it? I can understand why lefties don’t like her, but why does the round peg of Hillary’s liberalism have to be fitted into the square hole of evangelical Christianity? Is it that lefties really cannot ever admit to themselves that one of their own might be wrong? Is it that if you are on the left, error (as defined by the left) is proof that you are actually of the right?
Of course, we do have the example of fascism before us - a clearly leftwing ideology (founded by the Italian socialist leader Benito Mussolini) was somehow translated into a right-wing phenomena merely because the left didn’t want to confront the fact that Fascism was a merely nationalist form of garden variety socialism. Now the left doesn’t want to confront the fact that Hillary Clinton - a leftwing liberal if there ever was one - is one of theirs…so, she’s being recast as a closet Republica, closet conservative and closet evangical religious right nutcase…part of a “cabal” designed to do evil in the world.
These people really are sick - and I mean really, mentally ill. We can’t trust them with power - no more than we’d trust a denizen of the lunatic asylum with power. Until the left gets a grip on reality, they can’t be trusted with so much as a burnt out match.
Tags: Hillary Clinton, liberal lies
May 12th, 2008
Actually, from my father - George Noonan.
Dad wants to know if anyone out there thinks that Hillary, denied the Democratic nomination, will opt to run as a Third Party candidate?
If so, what would be the result?
Tags: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Third Party efforts
May 9th, 2008
I’m sorry, but I just don’t see her accepting the bottom of the ticket.
Clinton vowed to fight on today, despite a growing chorus that says Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., has just about wrapped up the Democratic presidential nominaton.
ABC’s Chief Washington Correspondent George Stephanopoulos told Charles Gibson on “World News” that Clinton is staying in the race to negotiate a spot on the Democratic ticket in November.
Hillary is staying in because she wants to go for the gold. Does anyone really think she’d settle for the VP slot?
UPDATE, by Mark Noonan: This article indicates the lengths to which the Democratic leadership and its MSM lapdogs are going to force Hillary out of the race. Essentially, the MSM story-line is that its over and Obama won…which is a great theory, but he hasn’t won. Personally, I wouldn’t quit if I were in Hillary’s position - the much weaker candidate who risks a McGovern-like loss in November is ahead, and will probably end up the nominee, but if I had a shot at it, I’d keep going until the other guy actually had the number of delegates needed to win.
Tags: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton
May 7th, 2008
While it has not been a good week for Obama, this news doesn’t exactly make it a good week for Hillary.
Hillary Rodham Clinton was jolted Thursday by the defection of one of her longtime superdelegate supporters, a former national party chairman who urged fellow Democrats to “reject the old negative politics” and unify behind Barack Obama.
“A vote for Hillary Clinton is a vote to continue” a long, self-destructive Democratic campaign, Joe Andrew added in a letter designed to have an impact on the turbulent race nationally as well as in his home state of Indiana, site of a primary next week.
“A vote to continue this process is a vote that assists John McCain,” Andrew wrote.
Well, I say the process is going to continue. Hillary ain’t going to quit. Dick Morris believes Hillary knows she’s lost but is sticking in regardless.. but I’m not so sure. I think Hillary still believes she can pull it off.
Tags: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Superdelegates
May 1st, 2008
Looks like Hillary’s put her foot in her mouth again… She’s now blasting Bush for not ending a project that was approved by her husband’s administration.
Hillary Clinton loves to tell the story about how the Chinese government bought a good American company in Indiana, laid off all its workers and moved its critical defense technology work to China.
It’s a story with a dramatic, political ending. Republican President George W. Bush could have stopped it, but he didn’t.
If she were president, Clinton says, she’d fight to protect those jobs. It’s just the kind of talk that’s helping her win support from working-class Democrats worried about their jobs and paychecks, not to mention their country’s security.
What Clinton never includes in the oft-repeated tale is the role that prominent Democrats played in selling the company and its technology to the Chinese. She never mentions that big-time Democratic contributor George Soros helped put together the deal to sell the company or that the sale was approved by her husband’s administration.
What’s next, is Hillary going to blame President Bush for the Defense of Marriage Act? The assassination of President Kennedy?
Democrats are so hellbent on blaming President Bush for anything and everything it would be nice this campaign season for them to stop pointing fingers and blaming Bush for everything they think they can make a campaign issue of. But, that won’t happen. Democrats blame Bush for everything to cover up their own lack of leadership.
Tags: Hillary Clinton, President Bush
April 30th, 2008
From Mark Steyn:
Sen. Obama’s remarks about poor dumb, bitter rural losers “clinging to” guns and God certainly testify to the instinctive snobbery of a big segment of the political class. But we shouldn’t let it go by merely deploring coastal condescension toward the knuckledraggers. No, what Michelle Malkin calls Crackerquiddick (quite rightly – it’s more than just another dreary “-gate”) is not just snobbish nor even merely wrongheaded. It’s an attack on two of the critical advantages the United States holds over most of the rest of the Western world. In the other G7 developed nations, nobody clings to God ‘n’ guns. The guns got taken away, and the Europeans gave up on churchgoing once they embraced Big Government as the new religion.
How’s that working out? Compared with America, France and Germany have been more or less economically stagnant for the past quarter-century, living permanently with unemployment rates significantly higher than in the United States…
…In my book “America Alone,” I note a global survey on optimism: 61 percent of Americans were optimistic about the future, 29 percent of the French, 15 percent of Germans. Take it from a foreigner: In my experience, Americans are the least “bitter” people in the developed world. Secular, gun-free big-government Europe doesn’t seem to have done anything for people’s happiness. Consider by way of example the words of Keith Reade. He’s not an Obama speechwriter, he’s a writer for the London Daily Mirror. And the day after the 2004 presidential election he expressed his frustration in an alarmingly Obamaesque way:
“Were I a Kerry voter, though, I’d feel deep anger, not only at them returning Bush to power, but for allowing the outside world to lump us all into the same category of moronic muppets. The self-righteous, gun-totin’, military-lovin’, sister-marryin’, abortion-hatin’, gay-loathin’, foreigner-despisin’, nonpassport ownin’ rednecks, who believe God gave America the biggest d*** in the world so it could urinate on the rest of us and make their land ‘free and strong.’”
Well, that’s certainly why I supported Bush, but I’m not sure it entirely accounts for the other 62,039,073 incontinent rednecks.
First off, I had missed that from Malkin - “Crackerquiddick” - ROFL…love it!
Anyways…
We incontinent rednecks - bitterly bringing our guns to church so that we can hate foreigners, or some such - got an earful from Obama, and methinks it is finally crystalising in the public mind just what liberals are all about. I’ve noted that in some recent polling, McCain is clobbering Obama nationally, and especially in the critical battleground States. There hasn’t been much movement in Demcorat polls, as most Democrats don’t see any problem with what Obama said, but out there in the world of independents, its another story…and its a story of people being outraqed over Obama’s comments. Right now, I’d have to say that Hillary has a better chance of beating McCain than Obama does - though, of course, it is mighty early and 100 things may change between now and November.
More importantly for the long-term, Obama’s remarks also point out just why America is the only major industrial democracy which is not in terminal population decline - even without or immigrants (legal and otherwise), we’d still be holding even in population. The source of this strength is what is considered on the left to be our weakness - that would be our continuing enthusiastic worship of God; our willingness to defend ourselves and, indeed, go overseas to defeat tyrants; our insistence upon freedom; our continued respect for tradtional morality. Liberals put this down to a combination of ignorance and hatred - really its just a common sense view of life and the world, and it is liberals who are ignorant…and their ignorance feeds their hatred, which comes out in boneheaded statements, such as that uttered by Obama.
Just as long as Americans “cling” to God, so will America remain a viable nation - once get to a point where a majority has cut itself off from God, and you’ll soon have a disarmed, socialist America dying along with Europe…
Tags: Barack Obama, Bittergate, Crackerquiddick, Hillary Clinton, John McCain
April 20th, 2008
Howard Dean can’t seem to open his mouth without saying something nonsensical… Earlier this week he said that John McCain isn’t a strong candidate … yet both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are “extraordinary.”
Howard Dean is as partisan as they come, but for him to make both those claims is just plain stupidity. John McCain has more experience than Hillary and Obama combined. Four years ago, Democrats claimed that John Kerry’s four months in Vietnam made him more qualified to be commander-in-chief, but today they say that John McCain, who served far longer and endured far more than John Kerry did, is a weaker candidate than both Hillary and Obama, neither of whom served in the military. Hillary and Obama support disastrous policies…. They both want to cut and run from Iraq. They both want to raise taxes. They both want socialized health care. Yet, Howard Dean calls them extraordinary…
Tags: Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Howard Dean, John Kerry, John McCain, liberal lies
April 9th, 2008
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