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Email ThisWhen I posted the SNL clip of an ethic-challenged Clinton opening the show on Saturday night, I didn’t have much to add after reading what other bloggers had written.
This evening I caught up with ABC’s coverage of Bill Clinton campaigning for his wife in West Virginia.
Per ABC News’ Sarah Amos, this is what the 42nd president of the United States said Friday in Ripley, W.Va.:
“Hillary is in this race because of people like you and places like this and no matter what they say,” Clinton said. “And no matter how much fun they make of your support of her and the fact that working people all over America have stuck with her, she thinks you’re as smart as they are. She thinks you’ve got as much right to have your say as anybody else. And, you know, they make a lot of fun of me because I like to campaign in places like this, they say I have been exiled to rural America, as if that was a problem. I don’t know about you, but I’d rather be here than listening to that stuff I have to hear on television, I’d rather be with you. There is a simple reason: You need a president a lot more than those people telling you not to vote for her.”
Is he completely off his rocker? Who’s making fun of rural America? From what I saw of Obama’s campaigning in rural Pennsylvania, he did his damnedest to relate to their everyday experience. I hope it’s not to much to ask that the rural W. Virginians realize they’re being patronized by a man who thinks they’re dumb enough to fall for that sort of rhetoric.
In Madison, W.Va.:
“It is very interesting, from the very beginning of this race there has been a sharp divide in the vote — the people who need a president, who need to turn the economy around, who need to restore the middle class, who need to give poor people a chance to work their way into the middle class, who need to give our children a better future, who need to restore our standing in the world and the war in Iraq, but do it in a way that rebuilds our military and stands up for America’s security and standing around the world — they have been for her from the get-go.”
I wish ABC had reported what was on the other half of that divide. Bill is giving new life to the claims that the Clinton campaign wants to destroy the Democratic Party’s chances in 2008,so she can run again in 2012. It’s increasingly looking like she’ll not only throw her party “under the bus,” but the rest of the country too.
In listening to Clinton snippets like the above, SNL is also on point saying Hilary is a sore loser who would only half-heartedly campaign for Obama. How do you turn around a message like the above? There is zero possibility of either Clinton sounding remotely sincere when it’s time to rally the Democratic Party behind Obama.
With the ongoing Clinton shenanigans, I’m starting to think that when it’s over, they’ll be over. They be excommunicated from their party, left behind as artifacts of the 1990s. If they shatter what should be a cake walk for the Democratic Party this November, it wouldn’t surprise me if the shunning commenced because they don’t deserve to earn another dime off the backs of hardworking Americans of all races.
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I live in upstate NY. I wish I could tell you how my community has been served by Hillary but I can’t. The fact is I remember a slight to the area but unfortunately I can’t easily refer to a web link and it isn’t worth my time. It is my belief that NY state was meant to be a stepping stone for her eventual campaign for president from the beginning. I could go on and on at the risk of making you blush but I’d probably just end up raising my blood pressure so I won’t. Now the rest of the country knows some more things about Hillary we have come to know in NY. Unfortunately Hillary will remain the senator from NY (at least for now).
They are going to have to pry this nomination “from her cold, dead hands” to quote Charlton Heston. And when she finally does give it up, the Clinton machine will do everything in their power to keep Obama from winning the presidency. It’s very sad, really. She’s a brilliant woman, with a lot of support. She could be a major force in shaping public policy in this country and an enormous influence within the Democratic party and the Senate. Unfortunately, it looks as though she’s decided that if she can’t be President in ‘08, Obama won’t either. I hope she’s wrong.
Mark,
You just need one wealthy New Yorker decide to take Clinton on for her Senate seat; someone with deep enough pockets to finance his or her own campaign. . . it wouldn’t surprise me if someone was pissed off enough to do it when she’s up for re-election.
Elaine
Presidential campaigns clearly bring out the true characters of the candidates when the road gets bumpy. . . how did the Clintons become so self absorbed and agrandizing, were they always slaves to their hubris? Or is this a post Bill Presidency development?
zak - I don’t know where the Clinton arrogance comes from, but it has always been there, as far as I can tell. Certainly they believe they are more intelligent, more deserving and more entitled than anyone else who has the audacity to actually believe that they can be the kind of leader this country needs so desperately.
I am inclined to believe the “cold dead hand” theory.
She is 60 now. If Obama wins, and succeeds, she will be 68 before she can run again.
I think she sees the only time for her as now, and is very likely to drag this out for a very long time.
Finally the end of Billary. Ding dong the witch is dead. Should old acquaintance’s be forgotten, good riddance. Leave us alone in Ny too. The Gravy train is over. Get a job. Oops do I sound to bitter.
Wow, the Left is finally agreeing with what much of the center-right has been saying since 1992. Who’d have thunk it?