“Renegade: The Making of a President.” Wolffe’s Book on Obama Misses No Opportunity to Diss Hillary
By Ani on June 3, 2009 at 8:40 AM in Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Campaigns & Campaign Financing, DNC idiocy, Democratic Nomination, Democratic Party, Fund Raising, George Bush, Hillary Clinton, Obama-Barack & President Barack (PARENT CATEGORY FOR ALL OBAMA REFS.!), Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
(bumped up from yesterday)
Huffington Post featured an exclusive excerpt from Wolffe’s book on Obama’s ascent to the Presidency. You can run over and see it for yourselves if you feel so inclined, I will not link to it. Much as I would wish otherwise, I must express bottomless contempt for the continuously disrespectful way the Clintons are discussed and regarded by the Obama camp. Apparently Wolffe appeared on the “Today” show this morning to discuss his book and the internal debates within the Obama campaign regarding offering Hillary Clinton the job of Secretary of State:
Of all his transition choices, none was easier to make, or more complex to execute, than Hillary Clinton as secretary of state. Obama had long wanted his former rival on his team, no matter what his friends and aides said about her aggressive campaign… His staff opposed the idea for the most part, arguing that Clinton would never be truly loyal. But Obama was willing to leave the primaries behind, including his own strong feelings at the time. “I don’t hold grudges,” he told his aides. “I don’t worry about the past. I’m concerned about what happens now. If she can help me and Bill Clinton isn’t too much of a liability, we should seriously look at this.”
Hillary’s aggressive campaign? Heaven forefend a woman actually have the temerity to step up to the plate and compete for the nomination the way any man would. Bill Clinton a liability? Tell that to the thousands, perhaps millions who now benefit from the Clinton Global Initiative. Tell that to those of us old enough to remember the nineties when Bill and Hillary presided over eight years of peace and prosperity, a balanced budget, an enormous surplus, and unemployment cut in half.
According to Wolffe, Obama stated:
“I’m really interested in pursuing this, but I know she has some hard feelings coming out of this campaign.” Emanuel and John Podesta, the former Clinton official who ran the transition, assured Obama that she was over those hard feelings now. Obama smiled and said, “Believe me. She’s not over it yet.”
He smiled? I bet he did. Again with “over it.” Just because Obama’s surrogates daily intimated the Clintons were racists, I can’t imagine why any of us would have a problem getting over it. But this is the piece de resistance:
[Obama’s] decision to offer her the job of secretary of state came surprisingly early. Well before the end of the primaries, when his staff and friends still felt hostile to her, Obama decided that Clinton possessed the qualities to carry his diplomacy to the rest of the world.
So during the primaries when he had ‘already made this decision,’ he campaigned daily with the meme that Hillary had no foreign policy street cred and her visits to over 80 countries as First Lady were nothing more than “tea parties, even though he knew that was a bald faced lie. “Carry his diplomacy to the rest of the world” …like his grateful, supine hand maiden. Wolffe’s writing here sounds like a bunch of school boys fantasizing about a hareem. Don’t look now, but Wolffe just betrayed his own paradigm.
And no, I am not over it so don’t even go there. Nor should anybody be over it who actually cares about democracy or decency. Further, Obama states:
“We actually thought during the primary, when we were pretty sure we were going to win, that she could end up being a very effective secretary of state… I felt that she was disciplined, that she was precise, that she was smart as a whip, and that she would present a really strong image to the world…I had that mapped out.”
Obama had that mapped out. Wow. He really is brilliant. And her voters had it mapped out a long time ago that she could dance circles around Obama. Guess we should have all had degrees from Harvard, too. According to Wolffe, Clinton had “issues” including settling her campaign debt and Obama informed his senior aides:
“I’m not begging her to take this job. If she wants it, I could help. But I’m not willing to go out in these difficult economic times to do a flashy fundraiser in California.”
“In these difficult economic times?” So that’s why he has a ½ million dollar pizza party on Wednesday nights? Or jet sets around to different parts of the country to sign a bill on the taxpayers’ dime. Or why he spent $6 million of his supporters hard earned dough on faux Grecian temples at his nomination festival? Or why his Inauguration festivities cost twice as much as that of President Bush? Guess times must not be quite that tough.
But here is really the lowest insult of all. I wonder who this quote is coming from – a senior aide? Who is unnamed? What Senate Democrat actually said this – if any?
As it happened, plenty of people in the Senate were begging Obama to offer Clinton the job. Obama’s aides believed that many Senate Democrats thought Clinton had extended her presidential campaign far beyond the point where she had lost the election. Her negative advertising wasted Democratic money, threatened to undermine the party’s nominee, and suggested that she was disloyal to the party. They were unwilling to offer the junior New York senator a position ahead of her lowly rank, and she stood little chance of becoming majority leader. “There was a lot of encouragement from inside the Senate to get her into this job,” said one senior Obama aide. “They wanted her out of there.”
Why in God’s name would Wolffe write this? If he is so enamored of Barack Obama that is fine, but surely at this difficult point in our history, if President Obama actually cares about the country and our standing in the world, he would never want to undermine his Secretary of State. Would he? Giggle, giggle. And let me go on the record as saying if the knuckle draggers at the Obama campaign are anything like his frat boy speechwriter Jon Favreau, who put a picture on his Facebook page of he and a pal groping a life sized cardboard poster of Hillary Clinton and forcing a beer down her throat, that should clarify the level of some of the folks who helps to get our current President elected. Is it any wonder that we read quotes like these: “They wanted her out of there…”
And if it is in fact true that the Senate Democrats “wanted her out of there,” it is because they couldn’t bear their shame in looking her in the face at work every day. She was forced out after a nominating contest that was razor close, and was not even allowed to legitimately have her name in nomination, though she had won the popular vote. She outclasses every single one of those cowardly back stabbers. And if anyone wants to complain about who depleted voters coffers so there was no money left for Senate Democrats, you have to look no further than the Obama campaign, who outspent her three to one. After Mr. Obama promised he would help Harry Reid with down ticket races, he reneged. So how real is this complaint anyway? Furthermore, the Clintons have raised more money for the Democratic Party over the years than anyone.
After the Presidency, Secretary of State is the biggest and most important plum post– everyone from John Kerry to Governor Richardsion was begging for it. I’ll bet VP Biden would have rather had SoS than the position he now holds, so to pretend they had just successfully farmed Hillary Clinton out to the minor leagues for the sole purpose of “getting her out of there” is laughable at best.
Further, Glenn Thrush of Politico chimes in to note that:
Wolffe may be overstating the case. According to my reporting at the time, some Senate Democrats admired Clinton’s grit, and many others thought she’d earned the right to ride out the campaign to the end.
It looks as though Wolffe’s blockbuster reporting is just more revisionist history coming from Obama’s sour aides who were pissed that an amazing sixty year old lady in a pantsuit actually made their candidate sweat for something he wanted. It is no less than horrifying to appoint a Secretary of State who clearly knows what she is doing and is a huge asset, only to constantly disparage her as being no more than an egregiously disloyal, irritating inconvenience. I wonder if Wolffe realizes how bad and how petty he makes Obama’s aides look for their negative characterizations of SoS Clinton when clearly, she has repeatedly demonstrated her willingness and ability to rise above all of this. Then again, Wolffe is a “contributor” to Newsweek/MSNBC. Uh, need I say more. Oh, but he does:
As for controlling the uncontrollable Bill Clinton, Obama’s aides drew up a series of checks on his fundraising for both Clinton Global Initiative and his work on HIV/AIDS across the world. But they really counted on Hillary to be the ultimate safeguard – against both her husband and her own ambition. “It’s in her interests to keep him in line,” warned one senior Obama aide. Others in Obama’s inner circle said the president-elect believed Clinton needed to demonstrate that she was a team player and to shape her own career and legacy. “There are plenty who don’t trust her and think she still harbors something,” said another senior adviser. “It’s still potentially problematic down the road. Barack’s thinking on this is that it’s not in her interests to mess with us. She can’t win that fight internally and she’s smart enough that she won’t want that fight publicly.”
Her own ambition? Again, ambition in a woman is something dirty to be rejected, but a man with less than two years in the Senate under his belt running for President – that vaunting ambition would not be considered negative. Clearly, Hillary put ambition aside and graciously opted to help Obama get elected to push forward a Democratic agenda. Disloyal? How dare these arrogant asses say anything of the kind? If Secretary of State Clinton has any failing at all, it is that she is loyal to a fault – and has certainly received no end of slaps even from some of her own supporters for that very attribute.
Several weeks into the administration, even Clinton’s internal critics believed the relationship was a success. “They have both worked really hard at it,” said one senior White House official. “There’s a natural affinity and respect that ironically grew out of being opponents. You get to know someone really well after all that.”
What respect? Obviously, if Obama and his camp had any respect for her, we would not be reading any of this tripe. President Obama’s aides and advisors once again exhibit their complete lack of class by stating this drivel. They will never forgive Hillary Clinton for outclassing their chosen messiah on preparedness, knowledge and stamina. Clearly, he will not forgive either, as he must always remind everyone how superior he is. I would gently like to remind Mr. Obama that he is the President. So we don’t need any reminding. Perhaps he needs to remind himself as he still feels somewhat insecure in this regard. Hillary Clinton encouraged us all to look behind the curtain to see the Wizard and for that she must forever be punished, as though anything she is given by Obama is a favor for which she should get down on her knees and thank her lucky stars.
To the contrary, it is President Obama who is extremely fortunate to have her on his team. And frankly, I think he well knows that. She made 180 campaign appearances for him to drag him across the finish line and to signal to her supporters that it was okay to vote for him. She must be in his prayers at night because certainly he needs an adult minding the store on foreign affairs, something he is woefully unprepared to handle.
At first, I was so angry writing this it took twice as long to get my fingers to work properly. However, the more I think about it, I take their obsession with diminishing Secretary of State Clinton as a huge compliment. Surely if you feel a constant need to deflate and degrade another person and make it appear as though you have your boot on her throat, she must be quite intimidating indeed. Further, I think it an odd coincidence that this book comes out now, when Hillary Clinton’s popularity in the polls has eclipsed that of President Obama. Clearly, popularity polls are not something this lady is worried about. She is busy quietly doing her job to the best of her ability as she always does.
All this goes a long way to illustrating that sexism is alive and well in this country. The woman must be kept in her place at all costs. As much as Hillary Clinton’s supporters are constantly told we need to “get over it,” by the tenor of the comments Wolffe quotes in his new book, clearly, it is Obama’s people who are not yet “over it.”
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Yes, I’m not so sure it has only to do with the past. Because you’re right, it’s crazy to cut down someone’s foreign policy experience, then appoint her as SOS, then have your minions cutting her down – all in the context of her having a higher popularity rating than That One himself.
I think it has more to do with the future – as some have said, if/when Obama’s problems and unpopularity get even worse, she may resign and rethink her options. So these rumblings may be a proactive defense againt this futue possibility.
We can only hope that will be the case. Hillary continues to shine and further our national interests, while Barky gets more outrageous with his dictatorial bs by the minute. The more I see him, the less I like him, and I hardly thought that would be possible. Please, make him go away. Who are the idiots who wanted this fraud? Piss on all of ‘em!
We can only hope that will happen. Please, make him go away. Make it stop- or let me wake up from this horrible nightmare. Hillary is working for us, while Barky is working for himself- at our expense.
Wolf’s reporting of Obama staff constant hate of the Clintons is either truly their deep held faith and a reflection on Obama, or their telling Wolf these things is a political act that is a calculated smear, and a reflection on Obama, if not not ordered by him directly. Wolf reporting what he was told without adding background facts to point out the lies by the Obama staff about Hillary is standard MSNBC/KO never say anything nice about Hillary, or Bill, even when the facts require you to do so. Bill of course was not in trouble until he supported Hillary’s actions – seems MSNBC and its minions can not abide a women with power – much like KO can not handle a committed relationship.
Ani…thank you for this excellent and on the money post…I agree with you whole heartedly…
frankly, I do believe the knives are still out for Hillary…the MSM will never let up on trying to frame the Clintons in something embarrassing or diminishing…I would not reccommend reading the comments on any of these various posts whenever they is any change to attack the Clintons because they are so vile, so nasty, so full of hate that it is actually sickening…like a metaphoric punch in the stomach…
the Obats hate the Clintons – they would like nothing better than for her to fail…sure, there is the odd one that has “forgiven” her, but mostly the Obama clinton haters are out in their full uninformed and immature force…
I’ve seen what you’re talking about – but it’s curious, isn’t it – so many of the bots seem to be the proverbial youth on the basement computer. What can they possibly know about the Clintons from their own experience? So, where are they getting this hatred? It does make the whole Obama thing seem so cult-like – they must indoctrinate the younger converts in all things Clinton-hate. And yet, all that stuff was spewed by the right-wing back then – vince Foster etc.
Interesting that so-called dems would adopt and recycle that republican stuff and teach it to the young’uns. I wonder if there would be *this* level of Clinton hate now, if Hillary hadn’t run and brought the Clintons back as a threat – that makes me think this is top-down, from Obama. Why should dems recycle republican talking points (of all things), and teach them to the younger ones? I think the top is still threatened, and they’re keeping the recycled, cross-over hate alive in the lower strata…. to make sure that “dem” only equals His Holiness.
lorac, the bots don’t understand anything about policy or the Clintons. They just cut and paste from Obama’s website and call that research.
But where are they getting this hate? Bill left office with the highest ratings, most dems loved him. And the younger bots – they didn’t even experience the Clinton era – but they hate the Clintons?
Seems to me, the part of the dems that are in charge now (Obama) are threatened by the Clintons, so they have adopted the republican talking points from years ago, and somehow adopted them and indoctrinated the younger bots in them.
This is probably what Obama meant when he (lied and) said that he’d be crossing the aisle. We didn’t know he meant he was going to be teaching dems to adopt right wing, misguided hatred of the Clintons.
lorac…agree with your comments…I think the same thing…most of them are too young to know anything about what the political climate was like when Bill was Prez…basically all the obots do is repeat the same nasty insults or as you rightly state – the old, republican talking points…I have tried to give some perspective and direct them to the good humanitarian work Bill has continued all over the world since he left his two term successful dem term as Prez…but they do not care…it is all about Obama vs the Clintons for most of them…most of them will turn on anyone that criticizes O
this isn’t healthy for our country or these young people…but it is so deeply ingrained in them
It’s about writing Obama’s historical legacy, a narrative which depends on having a foil against which to measure the One. From the outset Obama needed to destroy the Clintons in order to position himself as the “greatest Dem president since FDR.” Moreover, even throughout the GE campaign Obama was still campaigning against HRC (and Bill), and when he wasn’t he was quite lost without the misogyny and convenient foil to fall back on.
Hatred, like leadership, comes from above.
They get it from B0.
envy
“But where are they getting this hate?”
They have been inculcated into the doctrines of apologism, denial, and moral relativism in the schools. Racism is the great sin; sexism has been overcome; people in other countries can’t be judged.
BHO is a black man at most one generation removed from another country.
Ani, I do not see how you were able to read that piece of trash. I would not put myself through it for anything. I absolutely despised Richard Wolffe on MSNBC0. He was on KO’s Countdown every single night as well as a panelist all during the day. As I always say, I stopped watching anything on that network from hell at least by March of 2008.
As soon as I heard Richard Wolffe was writing a book, I knew the line of thinking right away. When is someone from Hillary’s side going to write a book? I hope it is Howard Wolfson since he would have a fairly good perception of what really happened. Ani, I look forward to your book! To hear what 0zero and his aides and advisors had to say about Hillary and Bill is too much and way over the line. The cockiness of 0zero is out there in the wild blue yonder. But, I suppose when you’ve got people around you telling you that you are the messiah, it gets harder and harder not to believe it. What a crock of #%$@.
Actually, I am writing a book on the subject. Working diligently to get it finished.//
And no, I did not read Wolffe’s book, the above is just some selected quotes that various articles covered regarding its release. I am not masochistic enough to read that drivel.
You’re writing a book? I can’t believe it – this is so great! I’ll be first in line, Ani!
Me too!
I thank you both for your encouragement.
I third that!
Can’t wait for your book, Ani!
me too, that’s fantastic!
Fantastic! I love your work Ani–as you know, because I always gush when you post–so please let us know when/how/where it is available. I’ll be first in line.
I haven’t posted in a while. I usually lurk – but this post was magnificent. Bravo. I saw Wolffe and his snotty self on television yesterday promoting his book. These people have no shame and will do anything and everything to remain in the spotlight and stuff their pockets with dirty money. Reading the continued injustice and smears makes my blood boil all over again. Will anyone who isn’t an Obama worshiper in the MSM write the truth?
I sometimes think the main reason they gave Hillary the position was to silence Bill. Remember he said, “after January 2009, I’ll tell the truth about what happened.” Now he can’t. I would LOVE to read that book.
fif, I agree.
What a complete bunch of BS – not your post, the book.
Sometimes I read them just to see how people can twist things to suit themselves, but not this time.
This love poem to Der Leader wont dirty my bookshelf.
Thank you for posting this.
Richard Wolffe is a regular on MSNBC, what do you expect him to say about Hillary and Bill? He’s been bashing them since the primaries.
There are no reputable journalists who will report the truth, it’s just fluff and nonsense about Obama. This guy is a total “suck up.”
I am a BIG Hillary supporter who will always believe she won, the DNC handed the nomination to Obama and because of that, I no longer call myself a Democrat.
I’d like for Hillary to eventually resign from that corrupt administration and put this country back on track.
Hey Trish,
If I looked like that guy I would be a total suck up too!
MSNBC
Misogynist bitch club
ROFL! I call it MSGNY.
NBC just finished its 3 part infomercial for Obama tonight with Brian Williams. It’s utterly pathetic, their scraping and mewling over him. Embarrassing. The rest of the world is laughing at our “press.” Even Gt. Britain has surpassed our non-existent standards.
I agree.
No one else throughout the world takes the U.S. MSM seriously. Everyone else in the world knows that the mainstream media here is an absolute, pathethic joke with no punchline.
Hillary is a giant. It never ceases to amaze me how small these people see her. Which says a lot about them. It takes one to know one I guess.
When I read this kind of disrespectful junk I think of ALL the brilliant beautiful women who are told every day they are stupid and ugly.
You are right. Hillary is a giant. Check out the Madame Secretary section of Foreign Policy (a website, I think that’s the name.) She is all over the world, and she is beloved. Her time is not finished, IMHO.
I don’t normally approve of book burning,but in this case I will make an exception.
No! No! No burning! Toilet paper’s expensive. You can put that book to its proper use AND save the trees too
But it’s already full of shit.
yep.so just burn it..
Hey Obama: http://www.dumbr.com/thumbs/8111.jpg
Well Ani, your story provided me some moments of confusion. “Wolffe’s Book on Obama Misses No Opportunity to Diss Hillary.” Wolffe? I wondered . . . Tom Wolfe? Is he still around? Is he still writing? Well, that’s a formidable talent, and I cringed at the thought that this old lion would be praising The One.
I was relieved to find that this is someone named “Richard Wolffe,” and was even able to recall that vague nonentity from his fawning sycophantic appearances on MSNBC. Totally inconsequential! What a relief . . . I thought I was going to have to burn The Right Stuff and The Bonfire of the Vanities . . .
LOL
I first thought “Naomi” Wolfe. She was an 0 supporter who had far too many tv appearances last year to suit me.
Yeah, what a friggin disappointment she turned out to be.
LOL arran–I remember hearing her father, Leonard Wolf, lecture on literature back in the 60’s. I suspect someone will do a movie of her life someday. The episode of her accusing literary criticism superstar Harold Bloom of sexual harassment would be hard for a screenwriter to resist.
Dear Lord no!!!
Naomi and Harold Bloom? I did not know this, oowawa.
This book confirms that anyone can write any crap he/she wants.
Is Wolffe intimating that the only reason BO ‘agreed’ to nominate HRC to be S of S, despite he complained to the country, she was unqualified; is that D’s in the Senate urged him to get her out of there? Talk about mental gymnastics…Did you lie when you insisted she was not qualified to handle issues of international diplomacy or when you insisted, she was?
I just watched a May episode of “30 Rock” (NBC) on Hulu. Tina Fey, who writes TGS (The Girlie Show), and Alec Baldwin, the station executive are discussing how Alec will find a kidney for his father, played by Alan Alda. Tina expresses doubt he will succeed. Alec replies matter-of-factly, “But I have the entire liberal media establishment at my disposal, the same manipulation machine that got people to vote for Barack Obama.” (Feel better, Ani?)
Wow, that’s a blatant statement by Baldwin. Fessing up, or undiluted pride?
You’re kidding? They said this on the air? On 30 Rock??? Holy croly. That’s Tina Fey’s writing. Got to be. I don’t think she was all that happy about this…
Is it that hard to believe they made a joke on 30 Rock? A little self-deprecation of their own political beliefs? Not everyone takes themselves so seriously.
It proves the Obama and his handlers are fearful that his popularity won’t last. If he does begin to tank in the polls, Hillary may challenge him. What will blacks do? Will they jump ship with Hillary or will they go down with Titanic?
We already know that race trumps everything.
Let’s get past the Titanic.
Isn’t there another metaphor we can use…
Any suggestions out there….
The Hindenburg comes to mind.
LOL!
He’s mutating into HRC every time he “copies her homework” or Glibb states it’s What Hillary Would Do….the blank canvas has become the woman he ran against.
Please link to one time Gibbs has said that “it’s What Hillary Would Do.” He has never said this…NEVER. Gibbs has never even uttered anything remotely similar to this. It’s sad how you folks lie with such ease in your own delusional little worlds.
Can they dis Germany too whose financial minister asked HRC to assist them after the lackey the 0 team sent didn’t know squat?
Europe, maybe the world, knows what we know.
(HRC to the rescue!)
Really, a foreign country asked for assistance from a Secratery of State…That must be the firstest time ever. PS. Regardless of how you feel, Hillary is also part of Barack’s team, and is sent at the service of the president, please at least read a civics book beofre posting inane drivel
Yes, John, the German Finance Minister asked Sec. Clinton to intervene in talks over new funds the US has pledged to GM and the effect on Opel and Vauxhall.
Mr Guttenburg, the German Economics Minister was a little upset when Geitner sent a junior official who had to communicate with Washington over a video link.
Sec Clinton serves at the pleasure of the president. That’s the way it is whether we like it or not, and I certainly don’t. But you are so misinformed/ blind, you don’t see that his inexperience is the reason Hillary is so vital to him. Some things aren’t taught in high school civics classes.
You obviously don’t see the irony in the campaign he ran against her on the lie her experience amounted to tea parties, to appoint her as SoS because of her experience and her confirmation with a 99-1 vote. Do you now believe, John, she is inexperienced in foreign affairs? Do you see the problem you have? If you still claim, as many of his supporters did, her experience was a lie, why would he nominate her as SoS and why would the senate confirm her with only one dissenting vote? And if you admit the meme was a lie, wouldn’t you have to reconsider the other claims his campaign made against her?
In fact, wouldn’t you need to ask yourself what kind of person you supported for president?
John — I do not post inane drivel as elise’s explanation verifies. You need to read with comprehension the posts here before attacking others’ comments.
Thanks, elise.
Hillary is ALWAYS and foremost, a team player. Amazing Grace.
Yes, Hillary is always a team player, but she is always a leader first. And the bullsh*t about “regardless of how you feel, Hillary also is part of Barack’s team and is sent at the service of the president” and I might add the only Secretary he has who is doing an amazing job! All the others are stumbling around as badly as he is……stay tuned, bot! This will not have the happy ending you anticipate.
Hillary must really frighten these people. When she’s not getting bashed from the right, so-called progressives/liberals miss no opportunity to bash her as well.
I’m puzzled as well about where all of this Hillary hatred comes from. I’m disgusted that much of it comes from her own party.
I think the pettiness and hatred really comes from gross insecurity. If you read the tone of these comments by the Obama aides and Wolffe, it is as though they are reasuring themselves — “See, see, we had her under our thumb the whole time – -see see, she’s not that powerful. We are not afraid, see see – we win, we win!!!!”
I swear, I have never seen such a bunch of sore winners like this bunch. But I truly think it is because her incredible smarts and thoroughness threaten them and this team fears it makes them look bad. Truly, I can fathom no other explanation.
pardon the typo — “reassuring”
you got that right…i also have never seen such a bunch of sore, ungracious winners…
definitely a sign of insecurity…they probably know they are making it up as they go along and would be lost without the teleprompter…
the word imposter comes to mind
Candymarl, you are so right to ask where this hatred and hostility comes from. It is definitely from HRC’s own party. It became apparent in January ‘08. I knew something was strangely up when veteran democrats like Sally Quinn, Carl Bernstein, the early congressional supporters for 0, and especially the media jerks all spewed this unseamly crap. I have followed the Clintons since he was a governor. I never read anything that would suggest what would transpire in 2008 with all of these people mentioned above and their unbriddled criticism and hostility toward the Clintons. It sounded like the republicans in 1998. I have never figured out what gives with that. I do think it’s more than jealousy.
Apparently, Sally Quinn hates the Clintons because they did not accept/attend one of her swank D.C. dinner parties when Bill was prez.
As for the gruff Bernstein, he’s an opportunist and timed his book to come out just before the elections last year. This is how got a spot on CNN as the most recent “expert” on HRC.
Bernstein knows that the MSM eats up anything negative about HRC or the Clintons.
I couldn’t agree more, Ani – a bunch of petty, VINDICTIVE, petulant, yet arrogant, children.
This post was a HOMERUN, friend – outstanding!!!!
I cannot WAIT for your book!!!!
You are spot on, Ani! His inveterate foil is still making him look bad.
He put out a cookbook on tapas not too long ago. It
seems to me that’s when he should have taken his hands off the keys.
Hillary is so beyond the pettiness of these clowns.Interesting that Obama’s mouthpieces have to keep it going.Why does he need them to do that? He won, right? I mean that was everything to him.He can surround himself with the Clinton’s brillance , have all the people who cut their teeth with them in his administration doing the heavy lifting but the stench of who he is cannot be washed off.A truly small, insecure person whose frame of reference precludes him from ever realizing Hillary’s greatness.
Well said.
Hillary and Bill make them feel small, so they lash out at them, trying their best to drag them down to make themselves feel better.
But as Maya Angelou said:
“Rise, Hillary, Rise!!”
The asshole was on Morning Joe today.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036789/#31062348
It’s funny how bots accuse Hill supporters of “not getting over it” and yet they continue to come out with these anti-HRC stories.
Sorry. I forgot to give a warning. Joe was not on the set to give any balance to the adulation.
WARNING: Do not watch the fellatio party with Wolffe and the morning joe cast if you’re queasy.
Thanks for your post, Ani. I have only accidentally clicked on Huffpo in the last year and would never pick up a book by Richard Wolfe, let alone buy it and read it. I don’t watch NBC, MSNBC or CNN anymore though I’m sure he will be making the rounds trying to sell his book.
It is indeed a foolish person who would undermine someone who’s help is desperately needed. Obama and his aides are the people with the problem. Since she conceded to Obama after the primaries, I haven’t heard or read of a single instance when Hillary has criticized him or anyone else in the Democratic Party. Her grace and intelligence ( and experience ) make her the perfect person to represent our country.
These stupid people can negatively impact her effectiveness, but in the history books, it will be Obama who is blamed for foreign policy mistakes and he who will benefit if he allows her a voice.
I hear he’s “On the Road Again” this time to the Middle East. The congress is so worried about what he might say, they have written a letter advising him. How many of our past presidents has this happened to where the congress felt the need to intervene in his message? Even members of his own party signed the letter.
I’ve also heard he is praising Reagan again. Why have I never seen how pathetic the Democratic Party is. They have permitted the Republican Party to deify Reagan, but will not defend or praise the best Democratic president or any president since FDR. Loyalty is a precious virtue. What if there were no loyalty between family and friends? The mistrust would calcify every relationship and then break it apart. We have seen, from under the bus, how little of this quality Obama and the Party possess.
Beautiful post, Elise. Thank you very much for your comment.
btw, where did you read of Congress advising him on what to say overseas — we’d love to post if you’ve got a link…
And I agree, Hillary has shown herself to be so gracious and such a team player, putting the good of the country ahead of givng them some much deserved lip for their behavior. So instead of aspiring to her example, they choose to insult and denigrate someone who is doing her best to benefit their administration. It defies logic and all good sense, doesn’t it?
Ani, Shepard Smith was reporting this on FOX News. I’m multi-tasking right now, but I will look for it on their site when I have a chance.
There is no logic or good sense in DC. It’s just one big party in Wonderland:
“Alice: But I don’t want to go among mad people.
The Cat: Oh, you can’t help that. We’re all mad here. I’m mad. You’re mad.
Alice: How do you know I’m mad?
The Cat: You must be. Or you wouldn’t have come here.
Alice: And how do you know that you’re mad?
The Cat: To begin with, a dog’s not mad. You grant that?
Alice: I suppose so,
The Cat: Well, then, you see, a dog growls when it’s angry, and wags its tail when it’s pleased. Now I growl when I’m pleased, and wag my tail when I’m angry. Therefore I’m mad.”
Thanks, my dear.
And, yes, I did feel like I was at a Mad Tea Party all last year!
Sorry Ani, this is a link to Daily Kos. I don’t ever go there, but I couldn’t find what I was looking for on FOX.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/5/31/736628/-Obama-vs.-Bibi-(-Congress)-on-settlements.-Can-We-Win-against-AIPAC
Obama vs. Bibi (& Congress) on settlements. Can We Win against AIPAC?
by Tom J
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Over 75% of Congress has endorsed a letter written by the Lobby known as AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) to support “peace” that will not include any US public confrontation with Israel.
President Obama has already chosen a different course. He has made clear that he sees the only way forward is a complete freeze in settlement building. President Obama and Clinton are stating publicly that what the Netanyu government is suggesting, that removing a few “outposts” in exchange for the “natural growth” of illegal Israeli settlements in the West Bank is not acceptable. The Israeli government has publicly rejected that policy.
Will Obama stand firm and reject aipac’s demand and endorsed by most congressmembers, that no US pressure should be exerted on Israel?
You did go there!
Now we know the real truth….
It is hard to stick your fingers in the bag without them coming out orange.
LOL!!!
You are right Seattle. I’m ready for my fifty lashes.
Elise,
You’re a real trooper…I love your comment!
You’re pretty good yourself, Seattle.
I will always fight for your rights as a woman and a human being in this greatest country of ours on earth.
God bless you!
I know you will. I’ve read your posts for months and I know you are an unconditional supporter of women’s rights. That is greatly appreciated and valued. Thank you on behalf of all of us, even those who haven’t realized how important it is.
I’ve only just gotten started Elise.
While I fret at the erosion of my rights as a white male, what I have and will suffer is nothing compared to what women have suffered for all time.
Thanks for your courage in diving into the Big Orange!!
I just Googled, Ani and reluctantly went into that circle of hell. I’m not allowed to post there nor do I want to. Same with Huffpo. I think I mentioned Rezko too many times.
elise said:
I hear he’s “On the Road Again” this time to the Middle East. The congress is so worried about what he might say, they have written a letter advising him. How many of our past presidents has this happened to where the congress felt the need to intervene in his message? Even members of his own party signed the letter.
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Really? If you have a link, I’d like to see it. That’s a stunning development. My question, then becomes: what are they going to do to unseat this fraud and make sure an election travesty like this never happens again.
I posted the link above, Scout.
“what are they going to do to unseat this fraud and make sure an election travesty like this never happens again.”
They aren’t going to do anything. The question is what will we do in the next election? If we all continue to take the party line ( either party ), nothing will change.
Oh, I just saw its HuffPo–too late for that tonight.
It is important to ask what we will do, but I equally want to know what they will do–because they engineered this debacle–all those members of congress who abandoned and vilified Hillary, and all the superdelegates, many of whom were paid off by Pelosi.
They created an injustice, and I want to know how they will rectify it.
Thanks for your comments, by the way.
It’s the left’s vicious hatred of women. This, combined with the fact that for many leftist liberals, race trumps ALL. Sad, but true.
You are puzzled, Palm Tree? Where were you in 1974 when she served on the Watergate Committee which marked the beginning of the demonetization of Hillary Clinton by the Republican Party? Where were you for the entire decade of the 1990s when Republicans called her a communist and made jokes about her? The left’s “bitter hatred” of Hillary began when they decided to crown Obama King of the World.
Also, the Left never forgave Bill Clinton for taking the Party toward the center. It didn’t matter that after many years of conservatism, the Clintons actually remade the Democratic Party into a viable entity. Believe me, I listened to Pacifica Radio at the time (KPFA in Berkeley) and no one ever supported Bill there, much less said anything positive about his presidency. There was virtually a complete black-out about the Right wing’s obsession to oust Bill from the Presidency. The Monica affair and the drive for impeachment, were barely covered at all on that station. (Granted the station was going through some difficulties at the time.) When KPFA finally covered the impeachment hearings the coverage wasn’t all that favorable towards Bill. But what can you expect from a constituency that voted for Nader in droves!
wonderful piece. thanks for writing.
Seems the Obama camp and his cheerleaders don’t get it, his presidency is based on an act of injustice. Injustices are not “gotten over”, they are wrongs that need to made right.
Since politics is about actors making rational choices based on their best self-interest, one has to assume it was in his best interest to offer her a cabinet position and it was in her best interest to take it. Plus it was in the interest of the party to give a facade, at the minimum, to the nation, Republicans, internationally that it was not divided into two camps for the sake of domestic and foreign policy in these troubled times.
Would like to see a scholarly study of the elections done by an academic, preferably from women’s studies.
RW, forget Women’s Studies — these academic women are all besotted with the One. I know because, I see this first hand at UC Berkeley. When it comes to gender politics in the last election, narry a word was said in defense of Clinton or Palin. In fact, it was all about how poor Obama was attacked by these villainous racist women, etc. Race always seems to trump gender in their lectures (again I’ve witnessed this first hand.)
In fact, gender was barely mention during the GE! As I said, forget Women’s Studies, since these academics are always trying to prove their Left-wing credentials by bashing the Clintons.
I concur. Many professorial types fancy themselves to be left-wing. I think that on some level they never grow out of the college (age twenty something) mentality. Plus, their message has to appeal to the demographic of young people they deal with.
I was continually coming into contact with them from three different universities in a left wingish state at one time. I would have a hard time believing things had changed that much.
When the higher academic sector didn’t speak out in favor of the most qualified and prepared candidate, it just proved that out.
You know what I’m talking about, Betsy! And those in academia who support the Clintons are always accused of being closet Repubs — or racists!
Oh, no kidding! You are dead on, Trixta!
The Obama people keep saying it’s “over,” yet they continue to go after the Clinton’s like it’s still the primary.
Yet, it has been the Clinton’s who have truly moved on. They endorsed Obama, campaigned for him, and publicly supported him. The have done everything in their power to give him respect and support.
Yet,I have NEVER heard the Obama’s or any of their camp ever THANK the Clinton’s or to ever say anything positive about their contributions to the Democratic party and to Obama himself.
Yes it was a tough campaign, but it was Hillary who always praised Obama during the debates, it was Hillary who always said she would support the person that won, it was Hillary who campaigned for Obama endlessly.
I’ve never ONCE heard Obama or his people ever say anything nice about Hillary. It’s so rude. Instead, they are so paranoid that they won’t even let her on the Sunday talk shows and try their best to not have her in the news. God forbid she look good. They can’t have that.
Shame on them. And I seriously doubt the Senators wanted her out. Hillary was well respected from both parties, a total workhorse, and a leader. They probably got that quote from Kennedy or Kerry. Or maybe the Obama people just made it up.
Obama is the most ungrateful, rude POTUS I’ve ever seen. A total jerk. Ugh, my blood pressure is through the roof right now, just reading all of these quotes from this book.
Godspeed Hillary.
Godspeed, indeed, to the adult in the administration.
Hillary is a gracious professional. B0 is a vindictive poseur.
jackie
Greta has Hillary on Thursday Evening!! Mark your calender
they are so paranoid that they won’t even let her on the Sunday talk shows and try their best to not have her in the news. God forbid she look good. They can’t have that.
-I’m glad I’m not the only one that has noticed this. When Condi Rice was SOS, she was on the Sunday talk shows, almost every week, she was on the news daily, but it’s as if Hillary gets blocked on purpose.
damn.
It’s truly amazing how threatened they are of her.
Mr. Wolffe has been one of Pres Obama’s biggest supporters from day one. There is absolutely no objectivity in anything he writes about the One. I remember a TV news spot in which a bunch of reporters were surrounding then candidate Obama and Wolffe was standing there with a look I am not sure I have ever seen a grown man giving another grown man. It was deeply creepy like a stalker or something. This guy has issues.
“Then again, Wolffe is a “contributor” to Newsweek/MSNBC. Uh, need I say more” No, that sums up what to expect from his book quite nicely. Although I sympathize very much with the need to thrash these heathens verbally. Some poor young volunteer called me the other day asking for contributions to the Democratic Senate Campaign. With exalted joy in her voice she told me that the Democrats must have a veto proof Senate and this conversation was being recorded. Great, I thought, and then I let the taperecorder know just exactly what I thought of the Senate Democrats and Mr Obama and his campaign. It was very much a capsule version of the sentiments Ani expressed here.
Good for you, Lily. As a lifelong Democrat, I was broken hearted when I saw how some of these so called Democrats behaved last year. Truly, I have never seen anything like it. And this continued bashing of Hillary, when the entire country sees what a team player she is — I don’t know, maybe I’m being too hopeful, but I wonder if a few are waking up and feeling there is a cognitive dissonance — they see she is graciously doing her job, yet being insulted. Since her popularity is in the 70%+ range now, maybe a few folks think the Obama people are being sour grapes, too.
But so many were blind last year, I don’t want to be too optimistic.
0bama`s policies are so off the wall they are destined to fail. Hillary is competent, he knows it, the electorate knows it and, even the right knows it and has a new found respect for her. When the public turns on 0bama, Hillary is his biggest threat.
Paybacks are a bitch!
These 0bots shot their wad last time. Their antics are not going to work again. And no one has an ounce of respect for the media.
Face it, he has to have these cretins start lying now. He knows he`s toast. His time is running out.
Stay positive. These cretins just want to demoralize you.
bho the fraud and his bullies got beaten by a girl, even with all that bully boy cheating, helped by bully girls like Donna Brazile for years, so bho the fraud and his bully boys had bully boys and bully girls–again Donna B.–cheat some more at the DNC/RBC 5/31/2008.
Beaten by a girl, bully boys will spend the rest of their lives trying to tear down the girl. As long as they see Hillary as a girl and not a woman, these bully boys will continue their ridiculous playground verbal assaults on her. Hillary, the woman, couldn’t care less–she is busy spending time and energy with other women–and men–serving We the People.
Thanks Ani for this great post. These fools, (particularly PBO) can’t touch Hillary or Bill and they know it. That fact is what makes them so furious; they could not and NEVER will break her.
They also project all of their ugly thoughts and ideas onto her and so no matter what outstanding results Hillary accomplishes PBO and his minions will continue to wring their hands and nash their teeth.
Hillary already beat these thugs at their own game and 2012 is not that far away!
Who rates her at 70% popularity or approval? It’s got
to be Dems. and some Reps., so who cares what Richard “Dick” Wolffe writes.
He’s been slobbering over O for the past two years. He with his snotty British accent agreeing with Olberman and Matthews for the past two years.
He’s just another man crush on O and jealous of Hillary coming close to taking the whole thing.
Maybe O will invite Richard to a Weds. night party if
he’s good.
Actually, I think she’s got over 90% approval by Dems and over 50% with Republicans (which is astonishing in itself) and her current popularity is about 71%-75%, I believe.
Who rates her at 70% popularity or approval? It’s got
to be Dems. and some Reps., so who cares what Richard “Dick” Wolffe writes.
He’s been slobbering over O for the past two years. He with his snotty British accent agreeing with Olberman and Matthews all night long.
He’s just another man crush on O and jealous of Hillary coming close to taking the whole thing.
Maybe O will invite Richard to a Weds. night party if
he’s good.
LOL He with his snotty British accent…
Richard Wolfe has been an Obama bootlicker and a Hillary basher ever since the primaries. He had to be, otherwise he wouldn’t have even been allowed on MSNBC. What makes anyone think he would stop now? It’s worked for him so far. I can’t even stand to look at his big head on that small tiny little body anymore with that vedy British accent coming out of that smutty little mouth. (beating head against the desk)
Richard Wolffe? The one with the proverbial stick up where the sun doesn’t shine?
I barely remember him since I stopped watching Tweety and Keith Overbite.
His book is mostly likely as constipated for Obama as he is. But, hey, he gets paid by msnbc and the Daily Beast to be a prig.
It always, all the time, about him, not the country.
sad.
Thanks for the post Ani.
they can’t afford to have O next to Bill…Bill is the real deal…he can talk about any issue, any topic – no teleprompter needed and quickly reduce O to “I agree with Bill – what Bill said is correct”
…as he also did when on the same stage with Hillary…the Clintons KNOW what they are talking about…Obama knows how to read words…
I would like to see how O would handle having the wrong speech on his tellie during the State of the Union Address…he would be reduced to stuttering until they fixed his prompter
they want to erase Bill because they cannot match his record…
Obama’s in real trouble. The DNC is already marching him out for dinner for contributors and we are how many months into his presidency?
Of course he can’t be next to either Clinton. He’s a fraud and both Clintons are the real deal. It’s like trying to pass fool’s gold off as 24k gold.
Of course the shine is wearing off. Obamamania had nowhere to go but down. Wolffe’s book is only going to impress those that are still drinking the koolaid on a regular basis.
It looks as if they are marching the Obama date, the book, the trip to Egypt, the DNC dinner, the Sotomayor nomination, the 31 yr old nubian GM Czar idiot, and all the rest of the crap out to shore up the obots.
The rest of us know better.
Did anyone get the impression from seeing him at the Las Vegas fundraiser, that he realizes he’s nothing but a well trained dog & pony show they trot out as their face? I think he looked genuinely embarrased. He knows he’s just a front, and that his job is to entertain the peasants, while the real powers are working behind the scenes to completely wrap up their plan to own the US.
MN, I can’t stomach watching or hearing him give a speech, but I think your assessment is mostly correct. He knows he’s the puppet man, but whether he’s embarrassed by it or not is another matter.
that,s the real question.WHO IS PULLING THE STRINGS ON THIS PUPPET???
Brilliant post Ani. One of your best. I personally regard wolfe as a lying little chicken-shit weasel. I do not trust anything he says or writes. Its really pitiful to watch so many of the obama-groupie journalists lose all of their reasoning power and turn into dupes for the government.
What are they smoking at MSNBC? These people are nuts from Wolfe, Matthews, Mitchell, and Olbermann. Ditto to the other posters that this book is being dictated by BHO!
Did he say that while rubbing his nose with his middle finger?
The Clinton worshiping on this site makes me NAUSEOUS!! Give me a break!
You forgot to mention repealing Glass-Steagal during your heaping of praise on Clinton’s mastery of the economy. You also forgot that CONGRESS (repubs) balanced budgets, not the executive branch. Read a book.
This website is the feminist equivalent of obnoxious race baters like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton. NOT EVERYTHING IS ABOUT GENDER!!!
Weighing the aggressive primary campaign as a con when deciding on Hillary for Sec. of State is PERFECTLY REASONABLE! You think Reagan went through the same process when deciding to take George Bush in 80? OF COURSE!!
This country will never be post-racial or post-gender or post-anything because writers like this get through life making EVERYTHING about genitalia and skin color. Its pathetic.
LIGHTEN UP!!
Oh, did George Bush, Sr. win the R primary for POTUS but Ronald Reagan stole it from him, too?
Sir, what is not reasonable is his campaign always talking about a successful two term sitting Senator and former first lady as though she were sh*t under their shoe. They discussed a former two term President the same way, while Obama was always saying how wonderful Reagan was — here’s a hot flash — Reagan wasn’t so wonderful and Clinton had a much better presidency than these jealous boobs gave him credit for. No matter his personal foibles, he left the country in better condition than he found it. Their immaturity and misrepresentation of the facts is what is nauseating.
This debate has absolutely nothing to do with “genitalia or skin color” — his campaign behaved atrociously, playing all the nasty campaign cards they accused her of playing. Axelrod learned well from Rove and adopted his tactics to a tee. For them to be the winners now yet sourly accuse her of all of this is petty and juvenile at best, so I would respectfully suggest you lighten up.
They always treated Hillary like she was the backstabber in the equation when in fact she is a very loyal person — clearly demonstrated now — what’s more Axelrod of all people knew this — I’ll leave it to you to go look up why. Please look up C.U.R.E. and epilepsy and see what you find.
GREAT POST.
Obama can’t hold a candle to Bill or Hillary Clinton and he knows it!
Seriously? Not everything is about gender or skin color? Geez, where were you during the last election?
Seems you, Joe, and your little obot friends need to re-read dear leader’s handbook again.
Rainbows and unicorns to you, Joe!
Betsy,
I’m not an Obot. I did not vote for Obama. I like this site because it is actually looking at him critically. I agree with you about the election being about race. But I suggest that Obama played hardball with Hillary not because she is a woman, but because…SHE WAS HIS COMPETITOR!
If you don’t get that, drink your own unicorn flavored koolaid.
I know that constantly crying victim of the “white male power structure” is an escalator to the top in the Democratic party, but it sure does make it look like you guys are too sensitive for the real world. Hillary’s staged crying in New Hampshire really proves the point no? You will say it was real, which makes her look like a weakling who should not be in power. I say its fake, which makes her the anti-feminist, no?
Hillary is the absolute worst type of opportunist, say anything, carpetbagging liar politician on the planet.
Anyone who is an apologist for her cannot and should not be taken seriously. Just as anyone who assumes you worship her opponents if you criticize her should not be taken seriously.
I am looking forward to the day when the Obamas and the Clintons are in our past. You Rockefeller dynasty worshipers are vapid tools. You are taking sides in a fake debate. Dick Cheney got a sun tan. And if it was Hillary? Don’t kid yourselves! She voted like Dick Cheney in a pantsuit for 8 years. Give me a break.
Answer me this, if you would..
If Senator Clinton was not ranked high enough for consideration as Majority Leader, then why was a Senator with half her time in the Senate, she in her second term, he in his first, and one third the number of votes on the floor in the term they shared, offered the Presidency on a silver platter? Because he was black, allegedly charming, gave a speech, and had a huge email fundraising list. They assumed he would give them access to that list for the downticket candidates. They were wrong. They forgot that the Clintons have raised more money for the Democratic Party than anyone in history, they forgot that Obummer was connected to some very shady characters, one of whom helped him buy his mansion, they forgot that his legislative record in Illinois was manufactured, they forgot that he did little or nothing for his black constituents in Chicago. They forgot everything except that he was black and she is a woman. Consequently, we have a president who is on the way to bankrupting the country by bailing out his corporate masters, while neglecting the real needs of Americans who are not millionaires. The ones who are losing their jobs by the tens of thousands every week. The ones who are losing their homes because of out of control interest rates by barracuda bankers. Hillary Clinton would have put the American people first, Obummer seems to be putting everyone else first, with the ordinary American people getting the left-overs, if any.
Good one, FLDemFem.
Amen. You say so much with a few paragraphs. I’m going to copy and paste your statement onto a handout, with full credit to you. I can then give the handouts to my obot family and friends as I try to get them to stop drinking poisonous koolaid.
I agreed with you until “Hillary Clinton would have put the American people first”. But hey, that’s why you are a Democrat and I’m not.
The Clinton’s have a LONG history of puting THE CLINTONS first.
99% of Clinton worship is actually Gingrich worship and you don’t even realize it. The Clintons abandoned their naive central planning (known to you as “putting the American people first”) almost immediately because the American people were turned off by it. The co-oped the 94 Repub Revolution with the help of Dick Morris. In the same breath, Dems will say that we need to take care of the poor AND “he balanced the budget and slashed welfare rolls” AND that the Clinton’s “put the people first.” Which is it? I assure you that with HillaryCare, there would have been no balanced budgets.
Just like with Obama (and all politician worship) whatever they do is gold. Principles don’t matter, its all about personality. The fact that a Clinton worshiper is talking about “shady characters” and shady real estate deals really says it all, right?
Joe Blow, aren’t you embarrassed by your worshiping of Uhbama, the puppet who was installed to continue GWB’s policies?
Unlike you people, I worship NO politicians.
“the puppet who was installed to continue GWB’s policies”
Really? Hillary was such a courageous leader against GWB, right?
If you’d take off your war paint for a minute you’d realize that you are cheerleaders for the state, plain and simple. Those in power think its absolutely wonderful that you all have your favorite statists.
Obama is indeed a PR makeover for the Empire. You have that much right. What is embarrassing is that you think Hillary would have reversed course.
Take off the partisan blinders and look at what is going on with bi-partisan support, everything you hate!
Then leave if you’re feeling sick. And as far as “lightening up,” you are the one that is screaming in CAPS!!!
people like wolffe have no soul. what pathetic empty vessels they are……..sad
I can’t vote either dem or rep ever again, unless Hillary is on the ballot! We need another viable party.
I have such a stack of unread Newsweeks. I just can’t stomach them. Aren’t they going out of business? The magazines just keep coming.
Obama respects Hillary and thought she would be a good Secretary of State. Hillary respects Obama and wanted to be Secretary of State. There were some hard feelings about the hard-fought primaries but they both put that aside. They have known each other as colleagues in the senate, adversaries in the primaries and colleagues again on the campaign trail and in the administration. No reason for Hillary supporters to hate Obama or Obama supporters to hate Hillary. They don’t hate each other. Why should their supporters? They respect each other. Why shouldn’t their supporters?
Who knows Obama better- Hillary who has known him for at least five years or Hillary supporters who’ve never met him? Who knows Hillary better- Obama who has known her for at least five years or Obama supporters who’ve never met him?
Lingering hostility by supporters is petty and unproductive.
Then surely you must think the hostility that the “Winners” offer up as sound bites in this book are petty and unproductive. The primary ended a year ago. Hillary has not said one bad word about Obama and has followed the chain of command and done everything in her power to move him forward — yet these frat boy children must continue to show how “not powerful” she is.
All through the campaign, she always said she would “Work her heart out” for whoever was the nominee and so she did. We are not petty. We are voicing righteous anger that these aides on his team still can resist no opportunity to try to diminish her because they fear she outshines them in some way.
By them continuing to push these memes on tv and in books, they further the divide and disrespect toward qualified women, and qualified people in this country. This book is nothing more than a sour hit piece on a successful Secretary of State who they would do well NOT to undermine — they need her. They need what she brings to the table. Again, they are petty. Infantile even.
I understand your feelings, but I promise you, it is a huge mistake to turn a blind eye to this behavior.
You don’t see Clinton campaign people making anonymous criticisms of Obama one year after the primary is over. Who needs to get over it again?
Exactly.
It is because they know they cheated to “win.” They know they did not win a righteous battle, but manipulated the very system they claim to champion.
Yes, fif, Obama cheated, hence his insecurity over the position he now holds.
Rub a dub, dub
All those negative web pages still to scrub
And now the tribute books
descend on our brains
complete with memory hooks
Yank out a piece here
Remove a piece there
Before you know it
a more acceptable narrative is
just about everywhere
Gee was that the way it weally wuz?
Or wuz it weally the way they now say?
Who can really tell?
We are conveniently distracted
each and every day.
Mandelay,
Your poem should be published!
Very well done!
You are most kind, thanks!
More evidence of how effectively anger closes minds.
It doesn’t matter how many rational arguments you’re presented showing that, at the very least, it was a rough primary with both sides believing so strongly in their candidates that every perceived foul was turned into an outrage. You just keep repeating the same old insanities about Barack’s use of the word “periodically” or him supposedly flipping the bird.
I realize that you think it should have been obvious to everyone that Hillary was more qualified. Fine. But you’re conflating that conviction with the false logic that if she lost, Barack must have cheated.
And at the bottom of your bottomless well of anger, you have nothing except mean-spirited, nonsensical ridicule of a fantastic president and his supporters.
I am waiting for Obama to be a fantastic president. He still might be. We have yet to see any of the needed economic regulation that needs to be implemented. People want to rail at Bill Clinton for supporting the repeal of the banking industry regulations. However, Obama hasn’t suggested or supported any real measures to re-institute them yet either. We have thrown allot of money into this problem hoping with time and a flashy smile from Obama it will miraculously fix itself.
I am not sure Obama cheated so much as he manipulated opinion. “The man” said that Hillary had no foreign policy experience. Therefore “the man must” be right. “The man” then said that Hillary was uniquely qualified in foreign policy. Therefore “the man” was again right. Although the man’s strident supporters were slightly confused they all immediately determined that “the man” knew best.
The anger is deep and doesn’t all have to do with Hillary Clinton, but the symbolic representation of what just about every woman has experienced to some degree in this country.
It is absolutely obvious that this country for some reason wants Michelle Obama to be the next Jackie Kennedy. Someone who is well educated, is concerned about fashion and knows her place in the world of men. Is this some reaction of the perceived over bearing ambition of Hillary Clinton, a woman who dared the established order and didn’t back down? In some way is Michelle Obama also paying for the ambition of Hillary Clinton?
Michelle Obama should know what the real issues are in trying to provide health care to a community. Does anyone ever ask her about it? Does anyone ask her what were the challenges to providing health care to people who could not afford it? Why doesn’t anyone ask her? She more than anyone should know the trenches.
Excellent point, Linda. Michelle’s image is being manipulated to prevent her from being “Hillary’d” — she plants a victory garden, gets false eyelashes and makeovers and a very expensive fashion wardrobe and now has been made the unofficial “minister of culture” — this is a very strong, educated woman with very strong opinions and the Obama administration wants to protect and prevent this from being seen at all costs.
Why the hell does she have to be “softened” or made over? What does this say about how we regard women in this country? How much do you want to bet she’s the brains in that family?
She’s most likely the brains of the family, granted.
But, I suspicion that Michelle is not marched out on healthcare issues because of the questions surrounding her tenure and subsequent rather large pay raise from the Hospital group she was sitting on the board of at the time. Too many questions and soon people will want to know why she “voluntarily” surrendered her law license just four years after receiving it.
Question that and then the connections with Rezko, insurance fraud, mansion purchases, and a myriad of other hidden inconsistencies in the Obama story will beg to come to light.
I’d be very surprised if Michelle is ever marched out for more than what she is doing now. Her day is scheduled much like Laura Bush’s. Get lost unless the president needs to spend money on a “date” to the big apple to please the press and the obot minions.
Has Uhbama suggested that he will reinstate the re-regulation of the financial markets? Doesn’t he have the Congress and the Senate to get this done?
He did cheat. The DNC gave more delegates per capita to districts with a heavy AA population than they did to districts with light AA populations. In other words, black votes counted more than others. They gave Obummer delegates that Hillary had earned in Michigan where Obummer wasn’t even on the ballot. They took votes that had been cast for her and gave them to him. That is cheating. He accepted them with no problem. His team cheated in the Texas caucuses, according to the Texas Democratic Party precinct watchers. It is on the record, and on film. He tried to keep the roll call from being done at the convention, and the Hillary delegates were threatened and intimidated in an attempt to get Obummer a nomination by acclamation. These actions are not the actions of a man who plays fair. They are the actions of a cheat. And since they were done with his approval and his encouragement, yes, Obummer is a cheat. Deal with it.
Once again, you say it so well. I really like your arguments. You use facts, something most obots don’t understand.
Will you please show me where in my post (or in any article I have ever written here) have I talked about his “flipping her the bird.” I haven’t even ever mentioned his sexist rhetoric against her.
Who exactly are you arguing with here?
My reasons for not supporting him have nothing to do with any of this —
I am far more concerned with:
his reneging on FISA, public financing, NAFTA, telling exactly the opposite to Israel and the Palestinians on two different days, reneging on repealing Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, pretending he was against the war when he never did one damn thing while in office to step up to the plate and show any leadership in this regard, never holding one mtg on NATO/Afghanistan/European Affairs subcommittee that he chaired for over a year and a half.
Here’s more of my concerns:
his wanting to keep Blackwater going (they are now expanding by the way), expanding Bush’s faith based initiatives, using signing statements, saying he was for transparency but lying, his new proposal for “preventive detention”…
In short, reneging on every single thing he campaigned on, all the while during the campaign knowing he was going to do this yet pretending she was the evil one here — when she was far more straightforward and would not have required all these shifts.
Where in the hell do you see anything about flipping her off or “periodically”.
That is absolutely minutae compared to the rest of the above.
Besides Blackwater, there is Halliburton and KBR…
Absolutely brilliant piece Ani. Thanks for all you do; looking forward with great anticipation for your book!
No-one is conflating anything. There was widespread voter fraud, there was widespread caucus intimidation and cheating, there was unconscionable lying about Clinton, there was paying off of superdelegates, there was interpretation of early voting rules by the DNC that favored Obama and penalized Clinton, and there was a Rules and Bylaws Committee that delivered the primary to a weak Obama, followed by severe delegate intimidation at the convention.
That’s just off the top of my head.
We’re not conflating. He did not win. He cheated.
If there was wide spread voter & caucus fraud, why didn’t Hilary or Bill complain? They’re not the lie-down-and-take it types.
And you are ignoring reality. There is ample evidence of fraud in the primaries, and you just don’t do your homework. It’s been written about on this site, and others, for months, with many links and corroborating, independent confirmation. And no, the mainstream media hasn’t covered it at all–big surprise.
As far as “fantastic president,” what Party do you belong to? Are you completely blind to the continual broken campaign promises he made, and the source of his financial backing? Please do some homework before you post and reveal your lack of knowledge.
There isn’t any supposedly about it. He did the exact same hand gesture in more than one appearance giving the same speech. We impeached one President for lying and we elect another who flips off his opponent? Lying about a personal matter is wrong, but being socially perverse is alright?
Just. Freakin. Unbelievable.
Just Google Obama giving Hillary the bird. Youtube used to be full of them, if you care to see them. If you don’t care, then he really is your guy.
Believe me, I’ve seen it all (along with all the other occasions he’s absent-mindedly scratched with his middle finger).
All I can do is shake my head in wonderment. You actually believe that a candidate famous for his even temperament, on the verge of defeating the odds and winning the Democratic nomination, would risk it all for some adolescent amusement?
But, I have to hand it to you — you win this argument by TKO — for you have actually drawn me into a debate of complete absurdity as if it were even debatable. Well played. Now have a nice life.
I couldn’t have said it better myself. The larger question here though, why is the most powerful man in the world amusing himself in adolescent ways? Because if he has issues, we are all going to suffer as a result of them. None of this, is even close to political. I wish we were talking about politics.
Now this is astounding:
Obama is not famous for having such a temperament, he’s famous for CLAIMING he has such an “even temperament.”
It is clear to see where the Kool-Aid has taken effect – blurring the line between what Obama “says” and reality. Potent stuff indeed.
I hope “have a nice life” means we won’t see you again. You like talking to your own media echo chamber.
RO–why did the DNC need to violate its rules, stealing 4 delegate votes from HRC in the MI primary to give to Uhbama? Why the need to eviscerate a bona fide Roll Call vote at the convention? Hell, why the need for the race-baiting and misogyny? Why the need to recycle Right-wing talking points against the Clintons? Why the need to continue to position HRC as Uhbama’s foil?
Ask yourself, why are you still supporting this fraud of a president when he’s done nothing but renege on his campaign promises, morphing into GWB by day?
Of course you can’t freakin’ believe it. You are an obot not programmed to discern the truth about Obama.
RO. Does that stand for Righteous Obot? Curious.
I have the videos of Obama flipping off Hillary and flipping off McCain to 15 different people. Not one of those people saw Obama do it. After I pointed it out to them and told them what to look for. They all laughed at the idea he was flipping someone off. In other words: You’re hatred has made you crazy. Obama scratching his face really means that he’s flipping someone off! Try showing those videos to people without telling them what they’re supposed to see. Then get the professional help you need.
RO, and how do you explain the immediate reaction by the Uhbamafile audience when BO flipped HRC off? The audience knew exactly what he was doing and reveled in it.
Your cult-Uhbama worshipping needs some serious medical intervention and deprogramming. Better yet, just go back to your usual Uhbama-worshipping websites, where political blindness and lack of historical perspective are the safety cushions upon which your besotted brains lie.
You are so silly; and no one believes you, anyway. BO flipped off both HRC and JMc – and only those two – under the guise of scratching his face. (Even the t.v. show, “Lie to Me,” used BO’s finger to HRC as an example of a gesture revealing his true feelings.) What manner of depravity leads a man to give the finger, in public, to the former First Lady, and a war hero? Having gotten his minions to join in on his malignancy, what else is he planning to ask them to do? And what wouldn’t they do, for their master?
Well then, if it was on a fictional TV show, it MUST be true!
Another silly poster, pretending to think I was using the television reference to BO giving the bird so as to establish what he meant by so doing, rather than to establish, the act itself is so widely known to have occurred, it has become a pop culture reference.
That one fictional television show referenced the alleged flipping of the bird does not remotely prove that it is “so widely known to have occurred.” All that it proves is that the writer of that particular show shares your foolish and unfounded belief that a man can’t scratch his face without denigrating a war hero.
Here are the links to Obama’s passive-aggressive juvenile antics to HRC and JM:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-sheffield/2008/04/18/did-obama-flip-hillary-clinton
http://beltwayblips.dailyradar.com/video/obama_flips_off_mccain/
Good Lord that’s some strong Kool-Aid.
I had never seen such foul sexism and misogyny until I encountered BO supporters. It IS one of the primary reasons I can no longer claim to be a Democrat. And this foulness emanated from a culture of condescension toward females:
The quotes above speak to the stereotype of women as governed by emotions – the very freaking essence of sexism.
Add to this the fact that the media was saturated with sexism against Clinton; something BHO and his campaign fostered, took part in, and capitalized on. How sad to see so many bamboozled and hoodwinked by the “fantastic” BHO.
Oh, so Richard Wolffe is the name of the asshole I’ve never been able to stomach (among so many others) on MSNBC.
One thing that’s kept my ire up since the election is the shameful and shabby way DEMOCRATS have been treating the Clintons.
Renegade??? What a laugh — our POTUS is a bought man if ever there was one.
I hope that little prick Wolfe’s book doesn’t even make the top 100. And meanwhile Mark Levin is still in the top 5.
RO – please go to the light. You are so far up O’s but you aren’t thinking straight !!
While we are at it Ohblahblah bought the White House
I think his ratings will continue to tank. People are tired of hearing about him constantly and seeing his sneering face on the TV. MSNBO and CNBO ratings are way down – I hope they pull Keith Overspin, Rachel Madcow and Tweey Bird’s shows. All they did was put down the Clintons while singing the praise of BO- I will be waiting to see if pardons Rezko before he leaves office.
It was a nice start to the day today for me. There was no picture of Obama on either the homepage on the computer OR in my local newspaper.
June 3, 2009. I marked it as a day of celebration.
Guess the media just wasn’t that into him today. LOL!
In honor of Barack, call it Tres de Junio.
Will do. I think I’ll go buy some champagne.
I had a dream………
I wish I wish….
Wouldn’t that be nice Betsy.
Check out Ben Smith’s article “A Sheep in Wolffe’s Clothing” where he writes critically about Wolffe and his tainted “journalism” and writing about Obama:
“Comments like these suggest Wolffe could become a flashpoint in the larger debate over whether journalists are too enamored with Obama’s biography and personal style, and not being sufficiently skeptical of his grand policy plans” (Smith)
http://www.politico.com
Another thing, did Wolffe ever disclose on MSNBC that he was writing a book about Obama and that he had such unfettered access to the candidate?
Excellent story, Ani! Thanks!!
i hope this book sell as good as Nancy Palosi’s did lol…
I don’t think hatred of Bill or Hillary is as widespread as it’s being made out to be on this blog. Of course some people hate them; when people are that important and are so scrutinized, they’re going to be loved by some and hated by others.
The reasons for not supporting Hillary aren’t & weren’t irrational. The Clinton years were not that fun, politically; all of the scandals grew so tiresome, and it seemed like politics grew even more polarized during Bill’s time in office. Hillary said that she’d been through that and that Barack wasn’t tough enough to handle it, but people didn’t want him to handle it; they wanted to move beyond all that BS.
She also voted for a very unpopular war, from which she unsuccessfully and ungracefully tried to distance herself. It made her look like she was an opportunist and wasn’t sticking to her convictions. She blamed others for her vote, and ducked responsibility.
She ran a poor campaign that didn’t take Obama seriously until it was too late. She assumed Edwards would be her main competition, and the indecisiveness of her campaign worked against her. she changed messages a lot and seemed to think she was the presumptive Democratic candidate from the get go. Really, you can’t say enough how poorly she and her staff ran the early part of her campaign, and how finacially irresponsible they were.
Then she tried to get her votes from Florida and Michigan, even though she had agreed that they wouldn’t count. She tried to change the rules in the middle of the game because she was losing. It reeked of desperation and made her look realdy bad. All the claims that she won the popular vote are based on states the other candidates didn’t campaign in; to act like those votes were somehow legitimate is to see only what you want to see.
Then she kept running, hoping for some mass defection of superdelegates well after the final result was known. She was willing to potentially harm Obama’s chances in the general election just to chase her one in a million shot, even though she was wasting money and had to publically beg superdelegates for support. For her to claim Obama couldn’t beat McCain but that she could was wrong, for one thing, but seemed to show how she was looking out for herslef only, not the ideals of her party, which she and Obama shared (their positions on most issues were very similar).
Then there were the intimations from the Clinton camp that she somehow deserved the vice presidency, that Obama owed her that after the campaign. And also, there was her statement that Obama isn’t a muslim…”that I know of.” People in these comments get all worked up because Obama used the word “periodically,” but somehow her insinuating Obama might have been a big bad Muslim is okay.
So yeah, her demonstration of the lengths she would go to to try and win the White House make it justifiable for there to be concern she might undercut Obama. And yeah, Obama gets to think his foreign policy is better then hers, but still think she’s a good Secretary of State.
Now stop whining. Stop screeching like a small child, working yourself into a self-righteous fury every time something bad is said about Hilary Clinton. She realizes she lost fairly; she didn’t file any lawsuit or make any allegations or underhanded caucus fraud. She graciously took the position Obama offered her, one that gives her power and influence and lets her continue her political life. She’s strong enough to move on; why aren’t you?
Wow, Skanky Malanky, you are as stupid as I assumed originally. Good luck with your treasonous bastard That One.
Ferd you may now refer to that one as Zero Won if you wish
My reference to that callow POS as “That One” comes from McCain’s first debate with the bozo. He has no other name and is That One. His followers are just shit, if you’ll pardon the expression.
Or the obots are simply Those Number Twos who follow That One.
Ah, bravo, skinny malinky. Thanks for the nice fairy tale. Now go away and play with your fellow comrades at the Orange sand box. Watch out for the festering cat do do….
Right. I give several reasons why Hilary lost fair and square, several paragraphs long, and your witty rejoinder is that I’m stupid. Brilliant counter argument. Really shows the depths of thought some Hilary supporters demonstrate.
Your revisionist history is a joy to behold. Go with that if it works for you.
I do not screech. Nor do I EVER insult any of the posters here no matter what.
My revisionist history? Again, another accusation of being incorrect without a drop of argument or evidence to back it up. Below, fif gave reasons why he thinks I’m wrong. I don’t agree with all of them, but he didn’t just call me stupid or says I was revising history.
If you scroll through this post, you will find otherresponses from me and others here in answer to your argument. I did not call you stupid not would I but you are posting revisionist history.
Alas, Ani, I have no such scruples. But, you’re right. We should follow your lead, which is ultimately more productive. I’ll try to be better.
It is too late to bother and refute the many inaccuracies and lame talking points in your post, so I will address just this section (someone else who is more alert at this hour can dismantle it easily, so please do):
“Then she tried to get her votes from Florida and Michigan, even though she had agreed that they wouldn’t count. She tried to change the rules in the middle of the game because she was losing. It reeked of desperation and made her look realdy bad. All the claims that she won the popular vote are based on states the other candidates didn’t campaign in; to act like those votes were somehow legitimate is to see only what you want to see.”
*It was the people IN FL & MI who begged to have their votes counted. It’s called equal representation and civil rights. Yea, she was so desperate, that 18 million people were begging her not to quit.
*She ran such a bad campaign, she won every major primary while being outspent 2/3/4:1 with money fueled to him by the same banks he is bailing out now (see Opensecrets.org).
*SC & NH both moved up their primaries, but they were not penalized, and as far as the “roolz” go, you are are repeating old, Obama perpetuated lies. *Obama ran ads in Florida for two weeks before the primary, and mounted an aggressive campaign in MI on the uncommitted line to try and win–and he still lost by the same 20 points that were predicted earlier. He took his name off the ballot to curry favor with Iowa and NH, and then tried to get back on but missed the deadline, so don’t argue that she was trying to change the rules, when he manipulated them at every conceivable opportunity, culminating in the outrageous violation of the Party’s own charter at the RBC meeting. The ROOLZ state that someone not on the ballot cannot receive ANY delegates, but not only was he given delegates, he was given all of Edwards, Richardson’s delegates, AND four of Hillary’s based on unopened absentee ballots, people who “might have voted,” and extremely unreliable exit polls.
*The ROOLZ also state that anyone who campaigned in those states (see Florida) should not receive any delegates. This doesn’t even touch on the buying of superdelegates, which is public information. You are a clueless puppet, like your master.
Brilliant, fif. Thanks for posting this info.
To say that Hilary somehow should get credit for beating “uncommitted” by 15 points isn’t a strong argument in her favor. She literally couldn’t beat “no one” by more that 15 points? That’s not an overwhelming victory.
Also, the myth that Hilary received more total votes than Obama only works if she is credited with all of her votes from the Florida & Michigan primaries & Obama is credited with 0. Since, if they had both been in those primaries, it’s pretty unlikely he would have received 0 votes, it’s a specious claim.
I posted a response here, please release it if it got caught in the filter–thanks.
Skinny,
You have that same slap-on-the-wrist-way of talking that Ohblahblah has:
“Now, I’m telling you boys and girls, you’ve got to behave and if you don’t, Michelle will come out and slap you up but good.”
Ohblahblah always sounds to me like he’s doing an impression of a President. I guess that’s what happens when you go from Community Organizer to non-commital, ineffective Senator to President of the United States.
We’re still railing and ranting because terrible injustices were done by the DNC and the Obama Camp.
Ani is a pure and educated voice that is to be cherished.
That’s it! I have hardly been able to listen to Obama speak, and I think you’ve nailed why – He doesn’t believe he’s the president, either.
AGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*%$$#*!@#)&^#*
ok, I had to get that out of my system. There is NO END to their peevish, outrageous lies and hypocrisy!?!
Thank you for putting a reassuring ending on it Ani, because the disgusting tone of their comments brings back 2008 in all its sordid glory. The tone was always the same–demeaning, contemptuous, sanctimonious, and ARROGANT.
“I’m not begging her to take this job. If she wants it, I could help. But I’m not willing to go out in these difficult economic times to do a flashy fundraiser in California.”
Excuuuse me: didn’t he just fly to Beverly Hills last week, just before his “copter” ride into Manhattan for a night on the town at taxpayer expense? He is worse than Bush when it comes to self-reflection–does he not see his glaring and continual hypocrisy or is he just a “bald-faced liar?”
Excellent, excellent post, Ani. I was listening to Morning Joe this morning (TV in bedroom, me in bathroom) while getting ready for work, and before the little pimp came on one of the guests told Joe that Obama had asked Wolfe to write the book. All I heard was Joe repeating “He asked him to write the book”, like “can you believe this guy?”. While the media keeps portraying Obama as confident and calm and poised, I see him as a classic case of huge low self esteEm, one thing on the outside but inside pathologically needing constant validation of his worth. What other explanation is there for his constant need to be out of the White House, in the public view, so we can all adore him? Two trips for hamburgers for lunch, “date night” with two planeloads of adoring media to accompany him, constant little appearances on TV, on and on. Gawd, I wish we had a grownup in the White House.
Babs, thank you so much for this tidbit of information. That explains a lot.
He is a classic narcissist. He has to have validation of his own inflated image of himself or he will have to admit there is nothing there. He cannot do that. So, he keeps on putting others down to make himself look good by comparison. The people who are the biggest threat to him are people who actually are what he claims to be. They, aka Hillary, will be the prime target. It’s a classic ploy used by narcissists to enhance their image. They have to keep doing that because behind the image there is no substance, and they know it. What terrifies them is that others will know it if they stop looking at the image and start looking at the person. That is why he cannot stop, if he does, we will all find out that he is an empty suit. Many of us, those that have actually done their research on his resume, have known this for quite some time. He has managed to fool many people for a very long time. If he stops doing his PR tours, others might start looking behind the PR and find what we have found…nothing.
Amen, amen, amen. Stay tuned because there is a lot more to come. Not getting over it….and never will.
So you’ll never get over it? Congrats on dedicating yourself to living in the past. Hilary got over it, why can’t you follow her example?
Some people must think Hillary is a total sell-out to have accepted a powerful position in which she is answerable only to an president who is illegitimate, Muslim, incompetent, misogynistic, etc. How could she possibly stand to work for such a man?
She actually chooses to put you and me first, Pablo, that’s why, and feels she could be more effective working within the administration than outside it. Maybe she could have some positive influence, certainly she has the know how and smarts. He needs all the help he can get, frankly, as would any president during this difficult time.
And we need all the help we can get, too. I am grateful for her service and that she is big enough to overlook the slights that his aides deliver to her. Since she (and Bill) have so much respect globally, it might do this administration well to stop trashing their names behind the scenes.
Why can’t you Bots get over bashing HRC — and Bill?
If they weren’t such liars, we would.
How does it feel to be sucked in by a repubican [sic] to trash Democrats?
Since you are so obviously easily manipulated, I should warn you about e-mails from anonymous people overseas…don’t give them your checking account number. It’s a scam.
lol.
Obama lies everytime he opens his mouth and the media covers for him.
Yet another Bot!
Just give it up Pablo Cruz.
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