Sure enough, James Carville was the designated pass rusher and spoke the true Hillary and Bill feeling when he compared Governor Bill Richardson to Judas. But did this mean he compares Hillary to Christ??
Such is the quandary of tough times. It exposes the raw nerve of true feelings.
There is a feeling of entitlement within the minds of Hillary and Bill and within their own campaign.
The evidence is not just within the remarks of James Carville. They go far deeper and there is a pattern of them.
It is the feeling of betrayal that exposes that raw nerve, however. It is the constant denigrating remarks for Obama while building John McCain up. It is the fact that only once in 24 elections, has Hillary actually congratulated him or acknowledged his victory and her defeat. It is a lack of the common respect and decency toward a fellow candidate.
Once again, the Carville remark is an obvious warning to any other person with Clinton connections to toe the line or be scalded with boiling water within the press. Such reactionary retaliation is something learned in the ruthless power of the White House, and has never been practiced by candidates before they reached that lofty post.
It is a skill that within politics is known as discipline, but within life is known simply as what it is, “ruthless”.
Clinton supporters, mostly women in empty nests who have equated to the Hillary position often worship the “toughness” of Hillary. But this shows the true Hillary that some of us have seen before and have not forgotten. It is the seed of contempt, or maybe even advancing contempt of its own. It is a seething feeling awaiting a ‘mark’; an anger boiling for release.
It isn’t frustration. We will see a continuing round of whining about coverage; blaming others; and slicing as we Democrats see our chances of winning in the Fall played as if they are the fodder of this “entitlement”.
For it is also the truth when spoken that the scorched earth, “kitchen sink” strategy has already fed directly into the third McBush term. And it will not subside when launched by those that feel entitled and now cheated.
There is substance to a point that an Obama campaign which has played by the rules; won the most states, popular vote and delegates would react by sitting out the election if the nomination was wrested away by super delegates. Even with moderate support, Hillary Clinton’s national negatives remain at over 50%, and that is near assurance that she is unelectable. Independents will simply not vote for Hillary Clinton in Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan or other states. They will favor McBush especially with eight years of campaign fodder awaiting the general election, and at every turn the continuing campaign compresses the general election timeframe to where the negatives of the Clinton White House plus these last fifteen months of campaigning will be the library for the campaign and the 527 Swift Boat ads.
Obama will be assaulted also. Can he withstand it? Is he tough enough, say the Clintons as part of their assault upon him; a part of their kitchen sink?
There is one thing for sure, the race for the White House has shown to honestly have little to do with your problems and mine of paying the bills; buying gas; sending the sons and daughters of the poor and middle class to fight an unpopular war; of worrying about the future of aging parents. None of these issues are even vaguely comparable to the blind and seething ambition of the Clintons or their supporters.
That is the proof – dead proof – that this race is based on the Clinton feeling of Entitlement – not you, me, or the nation. This is about the Clintons.
All of the charm was just another ploy. The authenticity is not in empathy or care; but is within raw ambition.
OBAMA’S NEW PASTOR COMPARES REV. WRIGHT TO JESUS -- CHICAGO — The new pastor of Barack Obama’s church delivered a defiant defense of its retiring reverend Sunday, comparing media coverage of Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr. to a modern-day lynching that resembles Jesus’ death at the hands of the Romans.In a sunrise Easter sermon, Rev. Otis Moss III implied that his mentor, who has delivered sermons in which he likened the U.S. to the Ku Klux Klan and declared it damned for its “state-sponsored terrorism,” is facing the same challenges Jesus did.”No one should start a ministry with lynching, no one should end their ministry with lynching,” Moss said.“The lynching was national news. The RNN, the Roman News Network, was reporting it and NPR, National Publican Radio had it on the radio. The Jerusalem Post and the Palestine Times all wanted exclusives, they searched out the young ministers, showed up unannounced at their houses, tried to talk with their families, called up their friends, wanted to get a quote on how do you feel about the lynching?” he continued.
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Hinnis (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 16 comments)
on Monday, March 24, 2008 at 10:21:25 AM
The Clintonistas and the rabid right are harping on and on about the Reverend Wright because they see it as Obama's Achilles heel.
As time goes by Obama will be able to show that it is a dangerous campaign tactic to use the words of a supporter/friend/family member as a means to destroy ones opponent.
People who live in glass houses should NEVER throw stones.
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Rainbow Law (26 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 42 comments)
on Monday, March 24, 2008 at 10:54:53 AM
Certainly, for the political junkies this is just another 3rd down play.
But there are 280+ million Americans who are not political junkies and consider leaders to be leaders - not over ambitious, overjealous, and over bearing opportunists.
I'm sure some will think of me as an idealist. My background is both a confirmation and contradiction of that judgment.
But I am not blindly idealistic, nor untested in this environment. The net effect is what my old friend Bill Richardson and many others see. Today's CNN/MSNBC/Fox debates will try to dissect what was an attempt by Governor Richardson to move the debate into non-canabalistic territory, yet Carville and the Clinton's answer with this disloyalty bit and an attempt to portray Richardson caustically.
The rest of Americans; that is, those people that have to work for a living and are so busy job hopping will only hear soundbites of all of this. And what they hear will repeatedly disgust them.
Rush Limbaugh has made me the point of 26 of his shows, so I know a little about his tactics and impact. The Clinton's have cemented an alliance with Rush to destroy Obama. The net effect that was known in this unsigned collaboration was to drive down the interest and turnout toward Obama and insure Clinton as the nominee since they already knew she had high negatives; kill the enthusiasm; and make Obama look like just another cheap politician. Rush an/or the Republicans doing this is expected. But for the Clinton campaign to do so is unacceptable - whether by conspiratorial signature or not. We have in that party a basic way of handling these types and should aggressively end this campaign with the super delegates imposing it. If it were anyone other than the Clintons, they certainly would have done so, already.
That simply sells the needs of the American people down the drain only as a pawn to gain the ambitious power that is truly sought.
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Bill Burkett (16 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 22 comments)
on Monday, March 24, 2008 at 11:15:37 AM
The point is to keep the focus on the Honorable Senator Obama, the man who sat before the good Rev. Wright of Trinity Church, listening to the preachings of Black Liberation Theology for 20+ years. However, this did not taint the man because he could separate what was the wheat and what was the chaff from the reverend's bountiful offerings. Yeah... right.
The man who "cringed" at his "typical white grandmother"'s reaction to blacks as she walked down the street. And how enobling of this man to sacrifice a much-loved family member for his campaign's - I mean - racial inequality's - I mean - racial atonement's - I mean for spreading the words of the good Rev Wright as being true - http://isteve.blogspot.com/2008/03/obama-throws-his-own-living-grannie.html !
This is the man who hated to think that his daughters, who wanted to be athletes, would hear the racist slur of Don Imus yet had no qulams about the girls' listening to whites being held responsible for all of the U.S. of KKK A's ills be they black or white.
The man who not only tolerated the preachings of the good Rev. Wright but also claimed the man to be an inspiration and mentor for his own beliefs, and this inspiration wasn't for Rev. Wright's apple crisp recipe but for the good reverend's staunchly segregationist and arguably racist beliefs in a black vs. white America that created and spread AIDS/HIV among blacks to "control" them.
The point is that Senator Obama appears to have been throwing "softballs" to Americans on the baseball field but practicing with hardballs in the bull pen.
Now, "Why would he do that?" is what the typical America - be they black or white - should be asking themselves. However, many progressives are willing to throw that softball right back to the Honorable Senator, who was shaken but not stirred by the batter that hit the ball deep into center field.
"The show must go on, The show must go on. Inside my heart is breaking. My make-up may be flaking, But my smile still stays on..." - Queen from "The Show Must Go On"
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Tom Murphy (3 articles, 4 quicklinks, 10 diaries, 1728 comments)
on Monday, March 24, 2008 at 3:22:05 PM
filled with feces, at the bottom of the lincoln monument, and people in that cesspool, throwing clods of feces at the monument, reaching ten, twenty, even thirty feet up. They throw a lot of shit, but all it does it hit people already in the cesspool-- and there are plenty of people in there, but not enough to make a difference. Most Americans have grown up enough to get out and clean up their acts.
Obama's at the top, high above all the stuff being thrown at him, as much as all the peole in the pool would like to reach him.
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Rob Kall (809 articles, 3927 quicklinks, 333 diaries, 1708 comments)
on Monday, March 24, 2008 at 4:05:34 PM
...that Hilary and McCain were about the same and that there was some hope of a brighter, more inclusive and compassionate president if Obama got the job.
Now I think Hilary has shown herself to be worse than McCain.
And Obama's principled refusal to go negative in respons to Hilary's disgusting attacks shows a likelihood that he will be a decent president.
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John Haigh (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 106 comments)
on Monday, March 24, 2008 at 11:49:00 AM
Obama's campaign used the race card quite successfully in N.Carolina; his campaign put out negative Clinton leaflets before the Ohio primary; his campaign took over some of the TX caucuses, passing out voter papers before the meetings were called to order--against the rules; his campaign ran ads in Florida before their primary, after promising not to campaign there. (They still lost fair and square but now they will probably lobby for the FL and MI delegates to be disfranchised--again for Floridians; it's a habit the Repubs can't break and a bad habit the Barack purists have picked up along the road to our redemption; they are fast learners) But, if the MSM doesn't report and amplify it, heck it didn't happen.
What a crock! Can we just agree that politics is a game that puts all politicians against the wall and they come out fighting? Stop with the nonsense that one camp is more holy than another. At this stage of our dissolution, anything goes and that goes for Barack and Michelle Obama and their devotees. Because Obama is the presumptive winner (and I do mean it all), he can sit back on his hauches and smile like the Buddha looking terribly profound and aloof. Aloof indeed! Like a hungry, feral cat on the prowl. This isn't a Bushista road show any more...or is it?
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Marilyn Frith (6 articles, 0 quicklinks, 4 diaries, 191 comments)
on Monday, March 24, 2008 at 7:24:15 PM
The Clinton campaign likes to make that claim because some of Obama's ads which were running in Alabama media markets could be seen across the border in Florida. It is merely another Hillary war story. Another premeditated occasion to misspeak.
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John Sanchez Jr. (5 articles, 0 quicklinks, 12 diaries, 1177 comments)
on Tuesday, March 25, 2008 at 8:14:45 AM
This country deserves more than just Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton and if we are honest with ourselves, that's all that our people under 42 years of age have ever known.
We all agree that the country has gone the wrong way. It didn't strike me as important until about six weeks ago, that Obama is saying the right thing when he observes that you can't have the same people in Washington and expect a different result.
Now I think it's absolutely essential that we have a complete changing of the guard.
Couldn't do much worse - that's for sure!!
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Bill Burkett (16 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 22 comments)
on Monday, March 24, 2008 at 12:01:26 PM
It's shocking that all 42 and older have never known
It is shocking that all those under 42 years of age have never known this nation with anyone other than a Bush or Clinton in the White House, and this doesn't include the eight years in which GHWB was the VP.
It's been one continuous dog and pony show.
Yes. I am an old man to you and I guess that makes me seem out of synch with your young intellect and recent acquisition of brilliance.
I am reminded of the story of the this old man who was at a football game and heard the rambling and self fulfilled conversation of this young fellow sitting next to him. The young fellow was railing on about how dumb and ridiculous older people were and how stupid they obviously were. He made comments about how they couldn't do these great and wonderful things because there were no computers, no space travel, and many of the other things that young people take for granted.
After hearing quite a bit of this ongoing tirade, the older gentlemen interrupted and said that the young man was quite correct. "No, we didn't have computers or have cell phones or go to the moon every other week. We didn't have a lot of those things, that's true. So we invented them, you little arrogant twit. Now what other crap will come out of your mouth until you finally realize that there was value and service in the lives of those that accidentally allowed you to breath this earth's fresh air.
Some of us have served, sacrificed and done your job for you and wish you had the opportunity to enjoy something better; whether you deserve it or not.
And No, young man, it hasn't fallen apart in four years. There has been a steady decline for forty years as leaders have been allowed to shift the blame; the responsibility and accountability for their mistakes.
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Bill Burkett (16 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 22 comments)
on Monday, March 24, 2008 at 9:41:14 PM
When Nixon and his cronies were in office with their dishonest plundering of power America wanted a new "honest" president. So they got Carter. Everyone wanted change and change is what they got. Do you recall what inflation was at that time we had our honest president Carter?Can you remember the gas lines? The Middle East relations fell apart. If you think back then everyone was also upset that everything was made in Japan. Do you remember old man? I do.
You are giving a pass to someone you know little to nothing about to become president. Yes Obama could screw this country up in one minute.
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Gallaher (2 articles, 0 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 608 comments)
on Monday, March 24, 2008 at 11:40:04 PM
has plenty of raw ambition himself. There is a lot at stake here. But frankly and after a recent conversation with a friend and now reading your article, all this democrat infighting leads to his suggestion that if there is a way to lose and screw things up, the democrats will find it.
Let's look at James Carville. Now here's a guy(in some ways rather brilliant) who does superbowl commercials with Bill Frist. His wife is the leading pundit antagonist against the democrats and serves the Bush administration. Then we have those many hand in hand public meetings and commercials between Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush. All of it promotes the idea, at least to those who are analytical, that the DLC, bluedog democrats and the neocon right are all one and the same. Makes the two party system look like a singular boys club. Either that or that the bulk of the democrats are a bunch of ass kissing idiots.
Other actions (And inactions) by democrats come to mind, like Pelosi taking impeachment off the table as soon as she's annointed speaker. She's spent more time hamming for the camera then doing what she should be doing! Also the senate capitulation to taking the telecoms off the hook, which in reality would take George W. Bush off the hook and allow him to avoid criminal prosecution for breaking constitutional law! Then of course, after all we've been through concerning signing statements, contrived war, torture, being illegally spied upon, tax breaks to the rich in war time and the unitary executive, they go ahead and give the dictator more power!
At every turn we seem to see democrats cutting their own throats(or should I say ours?). Of the two party's, the only one that is hopeful for biparticanship are the democrats. They hold the olive branch while the republicans hold the arrows. Have they forgotten who locked them completely out of the process when the republicans controlled both houses? Yet after all of that, the democrats want to make nice with the republicans while most of the general population want them to go for the juggular! Thank God at least for Waxman, Feingold, Farr and Kucinich!
Are the recent Rasmussen polls giving McCain a double digit lead over both democratic contenders merely a fluke or are they the result of Obama's preacher and his stance on handguns in Washington, D.C. ? Is it because he's black and America is a rascist country? Is it because Hillary is still stubbornly in this race even though many say she has already lost it? Whatever it is, it seems to me my friend was right. Perhaps the democrats actually are seeking a way to lose an election there is no chance in hell they could possibly lose! Maybe they do not wish to inherit the great mess George W. Bush has waiting for them(and us)!
On a more hopeful note, what I have also seen are people voting for both Hillary and Obama in greater numbers than ever in democratic primary history. They have dwarted McCain by comparison. Both have already captured more votes than any other democratic candidate who was nominated. Clearly this indicates democrats want to get rid of the republicans doesn't it?
So the bottom line is do we trust at this point any democrat? We already know we can't trust the republicans. Clearly the dems are still up in the air but for how long at this rate?
I'm not the smartest guy in the world but I do know one thing, if the democrats don't get their act together soon we'll be hearing "Hail to the Chief" being played for the first time to President elect John McCain.
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Michael Shaw (7 articles, 1 quicklinks, 1 diaries, 330 comments)
on Monday, March 24, 2008 at 12:56:15 PM
Our Democratic Party was lost years and years ago. That's the calamity of it all. We thought in 2006 that we had a sufficient message and outcome to change directions, but the Democratic Party leadership including BOTH candidates, really didn't heed that message, did they? No, Obama actually came on board mostly as a result of the CHANGE mantra, but Hillary Clinton has been a piece of Washington furniture since 1992.
I also point out that the 1994 major losses of Congress happened as a direct result of the American people saying that Washington was out of touch and wrong. It was our own Democratic Party with control in both houses of Congress and the Clintons in the White House that brought that on.
In my state of Texas, 1994 was the last year we won a statewide election and we still believe it was largely because of the backlash of the Clinton first two years of leadership and the tone deafness of the Democratic Congress. Specifically, the Clinton White House was more willing to co-opt the Republican policy than stand for working class Americans so we got small headline victories while losing the principled fights.
But what are the options?
Once again, at the presidential level we have an option of a third Bush term with McBush/McCain.
We also have the option of a third Clinton term.
Or we have the hope of something different with Obama.
But your comments are right that it's almost as if it is a planned loss. This inner fight inside the US Democratic party between the Democratic Leadership Council (DLC) and the Dean brand of leadership is far deeper (and to them more important) than the agenda of the American people. It was the DLC that lost the congress in 1994. It has also been the DLC leaders who have been unwilling to take Bush on on impeachment. It has also been the DLC leadership who have been "bipartisan" which in these particular cases looked more like willingness to throw the agenda of Americans under the bus.
I might sound rabid at times, but I, like most Americans am simply tired of watching the canabalistic actions of Democrats - especially the DLC - as a substitute for leadership. It's an all or nothing campaign not for the people but for the retention of power at all costs.
It's a reaction of being willing to divide the baby.
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Bill Burkett (16 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 22 comments)
on Monday, March 24, 2008 at 1:27:57 PM
Why don't we just grab some nut of a street corner and make him president? I'm sure we will see some "change". That is what you want, right? We can all sit around and "Hope" he can do the job of changing America for the better, without screwing thing up even more. We don't even have to worry about his record either.
One thing is for sure you will see change. Most likely not for the better.
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Gallaher (2 articles, 0 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 608 comments)
on Monday, March 24, 2008 at 6:50:12 PM
