Obama Orders Faithful To “Be Nice To Clinton Supporters”

As I suspected the May 20 “victory” won’t save Obama from the May 31 rules committee meeting. People need to relax and take a breather for few minutes. This is under control.

Will the Democratic Race End on May 21?
May 16, 2008 04:59 PM ET | Michael Barone

There are a number of reasons to believe that Obama’s May 20 scenario won’t come to pass.

Obama is not likely to have enough superdelegates lined up by next Tuesday night. As this is written, RealClearpolitics.com has Obama at 1,891 delegates. Current polling gives him 58 percent of the two-candidate vote in Oregon and 34 percent of the two-candidate vote in Kentucky. That should give him, under the proportional representation rules, about 17 delegates in Kentucky and about 30 in Oregon. That puts him at 1,938. That means he needs to add 87 superdelegates between Friday and Tuesday night. He’s been getting four or five a day, it seems, even after his bad defeat in West Virginia, but he needs a lot more than that.

Actually, he needs more than 87. Conversations with Democratic superdelegates and insiders have convinced me that no one wants to be identified as the superdelegate who single-handedly decided the Democratic nomination—that is, who rejected either the first woman or the first black with a serious chance to be nominated. I expect the Obama campaign to announce a whole bunch of superdelegates at once that, together, put him well over the top. My guess is that the Obama campaign is trying to compile such a list, and that it will come up short.

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If “Be Nice” means “Include Michigan and Florida, with NO Michigan delegates going to Obama because he chose not to put his name on the ballot there, and Obama being penalized for running ads in Florida, and Obama apologizing for the racist campaign he’s run,” I will consider “being nice” right back.

Oh, and if Obama withdraws in favor of the candidate who is qualified and who can actually WIN, that will make it even more likely.

I’m personally in the camp that dislikes the mixing of religion and politics, so the flier is off-putting to say the least to me. The Compassion forum was interesting and respectful, but I liked Hillary’s frankness that she considered this to be a private matter. I do, too.

The supposed intention of this flier is to set aside the notion that he’s a Muslim radical. I get the overt purpose. But honestly, this is the 3 or 4 campaign visual image that has him posing as a spiritual mentor.

One of the reasons his campaign bothered me from the start was the mixing of politics and a kind of new age spiritual message of vagueness and emotionalism that really seemed highly manipulative. It still does.

But then, I don’t agree with Obama that our souls need healing or that any politician has any business rooting around in that part of my life. I hadn’t realized at the time that this was all coming from the theology he embraces. Now I “get” it. I just thought that it was a very victim-like stance to believe that people need to be “healed.”

The directive to “be nice” to Hillary supporters, I guess, is in response to the outcry that his supporters have been boorish and off-putting. It’s entirely too late, however, to rein in the masses. He’s set them on caucuses like dogs, enflamed them to wild booing against Hillary, incited them to threaten the public with promises of riots, and that type of irresponsible bully pulpit energy is now loose on the country. There’s no way to rein it in.

Obama, like many of the evangelical ministers, has a highly irresponsible streak in him in this regard.

a day late and a dollar short..
that is why the trolls have been coming here..spreading the love??????? lmao……..giggling here…

how pathetic can they get??????

he is now +4 in Oregon..from a 20+ margin a couple weeks ago..

he knows the gravy train is ready to crash!

and crash it will

no matter what anyone tells me at this point..the obamabrats nastiness is marked in my brain..nothing will remove the vile nastiness of these people..and Obama..you are a little too late to think about it now…screw you Obama..

you will never , ever , ever , ever , ever get my vote..

hell will have to freeze over and the devil will have to pass out ice cubes ..before i would even consider it..

fly

One problem (of many) with Obamanuts making nicey nice is the fact that Obamanuts Don’t Know How To Be Nice. Besides, has anyone noticed them even trying this stunt? They try and make nicey noise, but it always just devolves into something mean and nasty. They can keep their “nice” and shove it.

Now that we are waking up, it`s time to get rid of the whole bag of crap… Dean, Donna, Durbin, Kerry, Kennedy. All these and more, think we will fall for their pretense of looking out for the little guy, whilst lining their own pockets on the backs of true Americans. Americans who built this country and love this country enough to fight for what the founding fathers were trying to create. Not buying it no more. Not this time. Not ever.

I genuflected, and I think that flyer of Obama is obscene. I’m going to have to change my name to “Who does he think he is, Jesus Christ?”

Uppity Woman, You rock!! Thank you for this post. You are much too funny! And smart. And us bitches, we don’t want to be treated “nicey-nice”, we want respect, something incomprehensible to those in the Obama twilight zone.

Ninth and Tenth Commandments of Politics (the first 8 deal with donors) as revised for the Boomer generation:

(9) Thou shalt not alienate thy allies.

(10) Thou shalt not express thyself too freely. [lest you convince prospective supporters your candidate is the Captain of A Ship of Fools].

This violates both:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frank-schaeffer/the-fight-for-obama-requi_b_98892.html

jumping in – catching up – fyi from an online wkyt poll from KY

Which presidential candidate will you vote for in Tuesday’s primary?

Mitt Romney (R) – 1.2%
Alan Keyes (R) – 0.4%
Mike Huckabee (R) – 3.5%
Ron Paul (R) – 2.6%
John McCain (R) – 19.9%
Rudolph Giuliani (R) – 0.7%
Hillary Clinton (D) – 58.1%
John Edwards (D) – 2.3%
Barack Obama (D) – 11.3%
Total Responses – 831

Talk about self-delusion. Obama reminds me of the old Ann Richards line about Bush: “he was born on third base and thinks he hit a triple.”

This whole primary has been rigged for him. The caucuses, the media, the suppression of votes in two states that HRC won. What is the point of this little delusion when the whole house of cards is going to come down on his head in November (IF he is the nominee?

Meanwhile, we might lose the best presidential candidate in decades and tear the party apart. Yep, they’re a bunch of clowns.

Re Ferraro

I don’t think Hillary had a choice except to ask her to leave the fund-raising position she had. I don’t recall public denunciation. What Ferraro said was dead on, and we all knew it.

Ia it just my imagination?

or

Did they lighten his skin tone and hair color in that Flyer?

W T F!!!!

Wonder if Obama will be as he claims as to being MR Transparency and show who all those under $200 donors he keeps claiming of 1.5 million are and show:

from what country they are from
if they are alive or dead
if their addresses really exist

with the likes of his campaigns dirty ways, especially David Axelrod’s corrupt means of doing things, it would be nice to see the proof of Obama’s claims!

Dear, get a grip! You are talking with all the brilliance and common sense of the Naderistas I heard during the 2000 election. And we all know how well that worked out. Seriously, is this shit supposed to pass for insightful political criticism. Hopey, changey? Uh-huh. The actual quote was, “In the unlikely story that is America, when has there ever been anything false about hope.” True enough. And before you get on me for calling you dear please notice my name is Ann and I is a bitches as well and I will proudly vote for whoever is the nominee of the Democratic party and pray to God whoever wins can return this country to itself.

Obama must of gotten wind that there is a tape out there somewhere just waiting on the right moment to surface

Exactly, Uppity, the DNC and Sweetie’s people think we’re just going to step in line at the voters’ booth! The Baltimore Sun has a great article about that today (got it through Hillary’s Rapid Responders) talking about what we’ve been saying all along:

Painful lessons The Baltimore Sun (MD): Painful
lessons

Primary reveals obstacles facing women in politics
By Lynette Long
•People are more sensitive to racism than sexism
•Most people aren’t aware of the insidious sexism in this campaign.
•Women voters are not factored into the decision making of the Democratic National Committee.
•The rules for women candidates are not the same as the rules for male candidates.
•In the world of presidential politics, race trumps
gender.
•Politics is a mathematical business.
•Political commentary and election coverage is biased.
This primary campaign has been quite a learning experience, but the lessons have mainly been
bitter ones for women. Here are some things I learned on the way to the Democratic National Convention:
•People are more sensitive to racism
than sexism. My twenty-something daughter returned home extremely agitated after casting her ballot in the Democratic primary. “This white guy was wearing a T-shirt that read, ‘Hillary, cook my food, but don’t
run my country,’ and no one said a thing. If I wore a T-shirt that said, ‘Obama, shine my shoes but don’t run my country,’ I’d be called a racist.” Doing or saying anything perceived as racist is not tolerated
in today’s America, but that’s simply not true of sexist behavior.
•Most people aren’t aware of the insidious sexism in this campaign. I’ve heard commentators say “Mrs. Clinton and Senator Obama,” subtly implying she
was a wife and he was a senator. I’ve heard Sen. Hillary Clinton called a bitch, a witch, and a she-devil on national television. I’ve watched
group after group of predominantly male panelists on talk show after talk show discuss the election without a thought for female input.
•Women voters are not factored into the decision making of the Democratic National Committee. The DNC is concerned that black voters will protest and stay home if Senator Clinton gets the nomination, even
though she is the stronger and more electable candidate. But the DNC doesn’t worry that white women, three times larger than the combined
black vote, will stay away from the polls if Mrs. Clinton does not get the nomination. They expect the white women of the party to fall in step and vote for Mr. Obama in the general election.
•The rules for women candidates are not the same as the rules for male candidates. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy adamantly supports Mr. Obama, even though Mrs. Clinton won his home state, Massachusetts, by 14 points. Mr. Kennedy has repeatedly called for Mrs. Clinton to pull out of the race, yet when he
was running for president in 1980 he took his bid for the Democratic nomination to the convention floor, trying to change the rules to unseat Jimmy Carter, who already had enough delegates to clinch the nomination.
And let’s not forget that this year Mike Huckabee stayed in the contest for the Republican nomination when he had no chance of winning. He was committed to stay in the race until Sen. John McCain reached the number of delegates needed to win. At the end of the contest he had a total of 267 delegates, more than 900 behind Mr. McCain. No media barrage pushed Mr. Huckabee to withdraw. Barack Obama has not reached the needed number of delegates to win the nomination, yet Mrs. Clinton – who is fewer than 200 delegates behind Obama – is being pressured by commentators and the DNC to withdraw.

Dear Ann et al!

Before you start bringing up things like Roe vs Wade and Ren vs Stimpy, too bad, you voted for an empty suit who has the morals of a liar in an attempt to have people believe anything, sorry your failure to deal with!

Barry will never obtain POTUS status because he isn’t worthy of it! Failure in 2000 and 2004 will not appear again in 2008 with another “do nothing say everything” politician who has run the most vile campaign in recent history, even surpassing those of Rove/Bush!

If you have a single thought of Barry maintaining the Democtratic beliefs, you are a fool, take a look at his only ever major assistance work on the Harvard Law Review and take a gander at his high praise for Donald Rumsfeld, that enough is a clue of this empty suit!

You fools wanted him, there are enough who will stop him at any cost of winning a GE, so you young fools worried over Roe vs Wade, SCREW YOU and just keep your pants zipped for the next 4 years!

Sincerely
a resonable person not on the kool aide train!

Dear Barry,

I just want to take this moment to reflect on this past year and all the wonderful months I have personally spent watching your campaign, your workers, your supporters, your family, your dear friends from Chicago, your media pundit fans, your proxy spokespeople and most of all your very own RBC and DNC comrads in arms.

And I’d especially would like to tell all of you that I will never ever forget you all, never ever.

Till I am undergroud, and maybe not even then.

So thank-you for your offer to pat us on the head now, but what you can all do is kiss my ass.

Sincerely,
karen for Clinton

Uppity!

This one’s easy. This underprivileged sack of shit hasn’t had to work hard for anything in his life. Name one thing he’s really had to do. That required effort.

I hate how you guys take everything Obama says and does and try to twist it into something bad. Did you hear the thing about him dismantling a 527 that was set to attack McCain? Is that bad too? Obama wants to change the political discourse in this country for the better – that’s a good thing.