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Hillary Did The Right Thing… Really!

One year ago , as this administration took hold and Hillary became Secretary of State, I got writer’s block. I just couldn’t figure out what to write about. Without a point of view to share, there didn’t seem much point in writing diaries for this blog. But then, I’ve always been more inclined to make introspective comments on the passing parade than to try to sell a point of view. And Ceiling Cat had the better view anyway.

Ceiling Cat is watching you...

Jiminy Christmas, how this crowd has changed! And not changed! I took a one-year sabbatical from writing diaries, but I was always lurking up in the attic with Ceiling Cat. While I was keeping up with the blog, she was watching you closely all along, and she told me that some of you have been very naughty. Very naughty indeed!

About the time I faded from these pages last summer, there were two camps of loyal Hillary fans:

Those who wanted her to shun the Obama administration, and those who were happy she became Secretary of State. One group didn’t want her anywhere near this administration because they rightfully saw it as an endorsement of He Whose Middle Name Must Not Be Spoken, and even as a betrayal of those who worked so hard for her to become The First Female POTUS… only to have her turn traitor to our cause. I understand that point of view with a lot of empathy.

On the other hand, I ultimately think she did the most admirable thing by agreeing to serve her country as Secretary of State, regardless of who was President. Accepting the position of SOS comprised the most politically expedient, the most patriotic, and the most noble things she could do, given the cards she was dealt. So I guess that puts me in the other group. Do I sound wishy-washy? I am. But I’m just being an Independent Moderate, as always. Like Bill Clinton, I see myself as adhering to the Third Way, his famous philosophy of middle-of-the-road compromise, letting both sides win a little something.

From what I’ve heard since the summer of ’08, Hillary was not eager to serve in this administration, but agreed to become SOS after multiple requests from the “president-elect.” It’s quite easy for me to imagine a lot of soul-searching on her part, as evidenced by her last few campaign speeches, as she asked the crowd what she should do, what her followers would want her to do, after ceding the nomination fight. Perhaps she should have spent her political capital in one big binge, overtly working to expose the Obama campaign’s illegalities. If she had done anything like that, she’d have ruined her reputation. A too-high price to pay for what most would interpret as a pity party, serving up sour grapes.

My friends, I am 100% convinced that’s how it would have been portrayed, had she protested as much as we wanted her to. Behaving ungraciously would have been unthinkable. Others would have to expose Obama. She couldn’t, Bill couldn’t, and even her most rabid followers shouldn’t (maybe especially them!). She did the right thing, the only thing she could do. Fortunately she was wise enough to know that acting honorably was her only choice, despite being cheated not only of the Presidency, but the simple right to hear her delegates counted at the Convention, like all her predecessors had enjoyed. For her to face that much disrespect from the DNC, Obama, and his handlers, and still put on the eye-popping patriotic performance she did at the Convention, well, it just completely blew me away! I had to laugh because I knew that deep down in her heart she was on the level ABOVE the High Road! And yet she made it very clear that the voters had blown it!!

I guess she could have graciously turned him down and recused herself to her humble duties as a Senator, perhaps retiring from public life when her term expired. Hmmm. Let me think… obscurity, or traveling the world to engage with heads of state and be treated like royalty. And even have many opportunities to influence the destiny of the world. Hmmm. Such tough choices!

I know a lot of people here wanted her to be in this administration, especially as Secretary of State, to enhance her clout and to serve (save?) her country, as I have always thought she should. In fact, many indignantly insisted that she MUST be offered a major position at the highest federal level. It was owed to her, since she wasn’t offered the VP slot, but then “The vice presidency isn’t worth a pitcher of warm spit, ” according to John Nance Garner (vice president under Franklin D. Roosevelt). So other than being a federal judge, even a Supreme, which sounds boring and depressing to me, I think the role of SOS fits her best, plays to her strengths, and balloons her prestige throughout the whole world.

The main reason she didn’t get elected, according to many opinions I have heard, and I believe it to be true: she was still married to Bill. This may keep her out of serious contention for the near future, I fear. Morbid as it sounds, I think she will have a much stronger chance to win… as a widow. I hope that day doesn’t come soon. I love Bill Clinton, for all his flaws and foibles. I hope he’s around a good long time to come.

I’ll have more about Bill and his impact and influences on Hillary when next I climb down from the attic. Soon, I hope. The heat up here is unbearable, and this nosy cat is driving me crazy!

  • John/johnwsmart.com

    Oddly, I do not see Hilary’s chances in 2012 as being all that bad. And see Bill Clinton as an asset if 2012 were to happen. She will not challenge Obama but it is entirely possible, though not yet probable, that he’s quit after 1 term. She would then be the go to person for the Dems. 
    I thought all along she made the right choice in becoming SOS. And made a superb choice in fighting on until june of 2008. It changed her in the countries eyes. Though she surely knew what was going down and that the DNC would nominate Obama regardless. fighting on was among the most savvy political moves either clinton ever made. If Obama bows out she is pretty much the uncontested leader of the Democratic Party. 

  • Breeze

    -

    QUOTE:

    “Morbid as it sounds, I think she will have a much stronger chance to win… as a widow. ”

    —————————————————————————————————–

    THAT IS A HORRIBLE THING TO SAY!!!

    YOU SHOULD BE ASHAMED OF YOURSELF!!!

    HILLARY LOST BECAUSE OF OVERWHELMING CHEATING BY THE OBAMA TEAM,

    NOT BECAUSE OF BILL!!

    - MAYBE YOU SHOULD KEEP UP WITH THE LATEST NEWS….

    Hillary is no spring chicken and she may be way too old to be running for
    POTUS by the time Bill dies.

  • an observer

    “The main reason she didn’t get elected, according to many opinions I have heard, and I believe it to be true: she was still married to Bill.”
    What planet are you on?

  • PssttCmere

    I have to agree with you Breeze!!  We have to hope Bill lasts as long as the man who refuses to die, dick cheney.  Hillary should be a viable candidate in 2012 simply based on all the ugliness that has and will continue to be brought to light about this idiot-in-chief.  What bugs me to no end is that weasels like obamadinejad and his minions relied on the fact that if Hillary took them on, it would be construed as sour grapes.  Sometimes sour grapes = truth and we should not be afraid to speak it!!!

    “Say What You Will…It Feels So Good”

  • Breeze

    -

    Furthermore, Hillary has been looking REALLY bad lately, while Bill seems

    to be rejuvenated.

    What makes you think he will die before her?

  • AbigailAdams – wheatmeal cracker

    Uh, yeah.  If the real caucus counts ever see the disinfecting light of day in what is laughingly referred to as the msm, anyone with the ability to do simple math will see the disconnect between the caucus votes and primary votes (in the same states).  Washington state had a 16 point spread and no one of any heft seemed to bat an eye at that.

    And then there was the intimidation of the superdels.  That has its own chapter.

    And then there was the intimidation of convention delegates who tried to go for a roll call.  Another chapter.

    And I agree wholeheartedly with John.  Two of the best heads in politics and government.  What would be wrong with that?  At this point, I’d go for an entire coalition government.

  • Peggy Sue

    Bill Clinton is proving himself an asset in high Democratic circles.  They may not want to admit it but it was Bill Clinton, the junkyard dawg called in for advice on the economy, job creation and lending his political heft to the November elections.  Personally?  I’ve always liked Bill Clinton despite the warts.  I think he’s one of the most talented political minds of his generation.  He was a leader.

    And then, there’s Hillary.  Even Bill said, she’s the better of the two.  Hillary Clinton’s prestige and favorability numbers continue to climb.  With good reason.  She’s competent, intelligent, dedicated, the classic workhorse wonk. And she cares about people, a plus. I appreciate her hard work in our behalf, even though I don’t agree with her in all things.  There’s no pol or government official I agree with 100%.  Otherwise, they’d be me.

    Whatever the future holds for Secretary Clinton, whatever she decides to do, she has my respect.  And if she runs again for POTUS?  I’ll be there in a heartbeat. I don’t see 2012 as a viable chance for her unless, of course, Obama decides not to run.  I just don’t see her mounting a challenge within the Party.  I agree with Bronwyn: I don’t think it’s in her nature.  Everything she’s done suggests to me that she believes working inside the system, even when it’s difficult and up for criticism.  And there’s been plenty.

    But that’s okay because she makes me proud that I voted for her in 2008.  Class act! 

  • imustprotest

    Big Dawg is definitely an asset, not a liability.  Sheesh, he’s going to go all around the country stumping for Democratic candidates because he has the Midas touch and Obama is the kiss of death.

  • Seymour

    My personal opinion and choice at the time was for Hillary to get back to New York, finish her representative commitment, rest up and go after Obama like a badger in 2012. No one would or could forget this woman. You can’t say she isn’t a team player but you have to make sure the team is congruent with the same ideals and philosophies. I campaigned for Hillary, spent money and time. I railed against the Obama machine after I saw how she was being treated as well as how Bill was treated by Obama. The disrespect was just too much for me coming from this arrogant and complete political novice. I will never forget nor forgive that torment nor forgive his constituency and the MSM toying with her and us her supporters in such a blatant, sarcastic, inssulting and personal way. I know this statement has beaten to death but Obama made her his SOS to hold his friends close but his enemies closer IMO. If she chooses to run again, I want to see real bona fide Hillary fire power shot back at Obama by factors of 10 in an unequivocal “take no prisoners” non apologetic way. This will be the only way for me to forget not the buckets but tankers of water she has had to carry for this cretin. Am I wrong to feel this way?
     
    Seymour
     

  • Bill Donlon

    Steve, Great points.

    Hillary is not a “Thumb Sucker”!

    She won the primary and watched the DNC give it to The One.
    She steped back and served her Country and her Party by taking
    the Position at State. I respect her for that.

    Her supporters, many on this site have gone into exile to await the inevetable.

    The “Community Organizer” is having his lunch eaten every day by the formen Mayor Of Wasilla. SAD! Just plain Sad!

    “You aint seen nothing yet”

    The next two years will be very painful for our country and the Democratic Party.

    Independents have left the Party in droves.
    African Americans, understandably, have remained loyal.

    Will they sit out 2012 when (not if) Hillary challenges and wins the nomination.

    The Party will have to weigh that against the loss of the “Independents”.

    They are rioting in the streets of Athens, Rome and Belfast.
    Can New York,  L. A. and Washington be far behind.

    Tip O’Neal said “All Polotics is local”.
    Think about that.
    NO!  I mean REALLY think about that!

    When the 7 to 800 billion stimulus was passed, it was for “shovel ready jobs”

    BUT —- Where were they?? No where! Why?? Failure at the LOCAL level.

    In my state of New York Ther were NO plans at the state or Local level on the books.

    Why!  A combination of a lack of VISION and GUTS by local leaders.

    We need “Modern Rail” for “Container Freight”, but we have not developed the plans.

    We need modern “Ports” in Buffalo and Rochester, but no plans.

    High Speed Rail — yep— no plans.

    Think about this:

    The Great State of New York, that had a vision and spent 16 years in development, Built tbhe Eie Canal, Changed the economy of the State and Nation, Can’t plan for HighSpeed Rail.

    The Great State Of New York, that borders two Great Lakes, can’t develope harbers to ferry containers across to Canada.

    We need leaders with visions for what the future can be.
    We need leaders with the guts to not take no for an answer.
    We need leaders at the State and Local level that will plan seven generations into the future.

    To Hillary supporters in exil:
    Get out and run for Local & State Office.
    Push a positive vision of the future.

    Hillary will not declare in 2012!
    The party will turn to Hillary in 2012 the way Britain turned to Churchill in 1940.

    Be ready!
    Get in position!
    That call WILL come!

    It is a curse  to live in exciting times.
    It is a double curse to have a vision during such times.

    But it is your DUTY to step up.
    Plato, in The Republic, explains the reluctant leader with a vision,  is the best.

    “Trouble!” shouted Zorba.
    “The only time you don’t have trouble is when you are dead.”
    “To be alive is to un buckle your belt a notch or two and go look for trouble.”

    You time has come to step out of exile.

    Catch you down the road.
    Bill

  • HARP

    Wait a minute. According to half of the democrats and most of the media, the Clintons are racists, or does that not apply when convenient. Must be the “Byrd rule”.

  • Armymom

    Nope Seymour, that’s how I feel. At this point in time, I could not vote for Hillary. Been there done that and don’t plan on doing it anytime soon. And would never vote for her on a ticket with that POS CIC.

  • Peggy Sue

    She’s working her socks off.  And yes, she does look tired, exhuasted really.  But even Bill Clinton has commented that he expects Hillary to outlive him by many years.  His heart problems run in the family.  And again, he’s said he feels like he’s living on borrowed time.  It’s one of the reasons [I've heard him say this in interview] he’s thrown himself into the humanitarian work.  He wants to get as much done as he can.

  • Armymom

    It doesn’t apply right now because O doesn’t have a freaking clue what he’s doing and he needs Bill to clean up his messes. That’s how it works now. Funny, but some of the “complaints about Hillary being named VP” was that with her, came Bill, and the Obama’s didn’t want anything to do with that. But instead, they call on Bill all the time when they’re in over their heads. Personally, I would still love for both of them to tell him to kiss their ass. To say that both of them are doing it for the love of the country, nope, I see it as love of their party and since 2008, I could care less about the party. So for me, wrong move on Hillary being SOS and for Bill to bail out Obama.

  • Peggy Sue

    I like your attitude, Bill.  You make me feel  . . .do I dare say?  Hopeful. :)

  • Obama: Dubya 2 Electric Boogaloo

    Dayglow Cheetos, progressive, all hyped Obama up as the Anti-Clinton. Obama used Clinton and Nixon in the same sentance many times to demonstrate what a failure they both were.

    Hillary can use the “I’m doing it for the country” line, and Bill can think he’s the wise elderly Democratic statesman, but it all underlies the whole premise of the rise of Obama.

    For me, it just goes to show how far the Clintons will sink to take one in the gut for the Democratic Party. Have they no priniciples, self respect…..shame? There’s gonna be a whole lot of cabooses wishing they haven’t got themselves hitched to the Obama train, in 2010, 2012 and beyond…

  • Obama: Dubya 2 Electric Boogaloo

    snicker…yeah, the entire Democratic establishment will forsake the first historically historical historicity of the first African-American president. Im positive the blacks and guitly white liberals will have no problem with that…

    If you believe that I have a beautiful orange bridge to sell you just north of San Francisco. I take cash and paypal.

  • Bill Donlon

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    With a resolute heart and cheerful?
    Or hide your face from the light of day
    With a craven soul and fearful?
    Oh, a trouble’s a ton, or a trouble’s an ounce,
    Or a trouble is what you make it.
    And it isn’t the fact that you’re hurt that counts,
    But only how did you take it?

    You are beaten to earth? Well, well, what’s that?
    Come up with a smiling face.
    It’s nothing against you to fall down flat,
    But to lie there — that’s disgrace.
    The harder you’re thrown, why the higher you bounce;
    Be proud of your blackened eye!
    It isn’t the fact that you’re licked that counts;
    It’s how did you fight and why?

    And though you be done to death, what then?
    If you battled the best you could;
    If you played your part in the world of men,
    Why, the Critic will call it good.
    Death comes with a crawl, or comes with a pounce,
    And whether he’s slow or spry,
    It isn’t the fact that you’re dead that counts,
    But only, how did you die?

  • Texas Playwright

    Hell, no.  I’m with you all the way.

  • lorac CheezIts

    Even if it were true, I’m not sure that would be true now.  BO the Inexperienced is asking for more and more help from Bill.

    On another site, I heard a new name for the First Couple – The First F*ckUps  ROFL

  • lorac CheezIts

    PeggySue, he’s not going to run in 2012, he’s not going to run in 2012, he’s not going to run in 2012, he’s not going to run in 2012, he’s not going to run in 2012….

    I’m willing his resignation to happen lol

  • Peggy Sue

    Keep it up, lorac.  It would make me “very” happy.  Maybe I’ll try it, too ;) .

  • lorac CheezIts

    Steve, thanks for the article!  I’m not as smart as Hillary, but will you marry me!!!!!  :)    I love a Hillary-lovin’ man!

  • West Virginia went 80% for Hillary.

    Steve you touched on something that I agree with.  If Hillary’s advisors had gone out and challenged the corruption in the primary she would, because the DNC had made up its mind on the winner, have still lost AND she would have been labeled a crybaby sore looser.

    I disagree with your assessment on Bill Clinton.  He has turned out to be one of our country’s greatest post-presidential assets.   He has raised money for relief efforts and he is effective because simply:  People around the world like him and trust him.  A blow job here.. a fib there..  He was a great middle of the road guy that we suffered little from.

    We suffer greatly now from the current guy.  The Beefy – Flabby Armed, pig-faced Woman, who controls the Skinny, Big – Eared Erkle character sitting in the Oval Office thinks she beat and is Hillary.

    That ho is wrong!

  • West Virginia went 80% for Hillary.

    LOrac.  I had hoped for your hand.  I still think this is the photo of all time that should be put on a bill or something that reminds us that some people will even stand in the rain and hear us.

  • Peggy Sue

    I love that photo.  For me that says everything about Hillary Clinton, one of those pictures worth a thousand words.

  • felizarte

    Steve, I agree with everything you said except giving credence to the notion that Bill Clinton caused Hillary’s loss.  Hillary was right in going ahead inn the primaries because it inoculates from being branded a “loser”, thus preserving her option to run again because by now, everyone knows how she was really cheated and stabbed trecherously. I don’t think the democrats have anyone approaching her caliber as a leader, a policy wonk and a human being with incredible grace and fortitude.  Her stint at State enhances her standing around the world.  She certainly made many cracks in the political ceiling that many women are benefitting from.  Something good has to come from all that she had to endure.

  • sowsear

    I still have this picture on my fridge, along with those of friends , children and grandchildren.

  • felizarte

    Barack might just decide not to run.  He could go on making speeches (which he loves doing anyway) at $300,000 per speech.  He would be rolling in dough and buy a mansion in the Hamptons.

    By the end of his first term, the country will be in such a mess he’d be grateful to have an exit in which he can claim some “nobility of sacrifice.”  

  • POdVet

    I have never seen what other choice Hillary had other than accepting the SOS position. Had she remained in NY. She would have been forced to vote for all of the Obamessiah’s BS policies. Face it…a yes vote from Hillary on his POS healthcare scam would have doomed her for all time. While had she voted against it…it would have been played off as sour grapes over the election and doomed her equally as much. As SOS, she can and has helped the US save atleast some face with the rest of the world. Other world leaders are actively talking about what a joke Obama is…But other then jerkoff Chavez and his ilk…You do not hear them disrespecting Hillary!

     She has been using the opportunity to gain vastly superior foreign policy experience than any potential rival candidate I can even think of. Remember they were constantly bashing Hillary for not having what they considered experience while they lauded O’s lack of experience as a virtue…Now she has expertise in that area, that they cannot deny. And Obama’s lack therof has proven a disaster time and again. Not to mention…consider how deep of shit we would be in right now with the rest of the world, had Barry made another of his corrupt incompetent a-hole minnions SOS!!

  • felizarte

    She has been looking tired.  But not too bad that a good hairstyling and make up won’t fix.  Let’s see how she looks at Chelsea’s weddding. 

  • Samb

    I just want to see Hillary not Hillary and Bill,not Hillary and Obama.
    She can stand on her own and fail on her own,  I respect that. 
    I still like this lady despite, the men in her life.

  • typical gram cracker

    I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again.  BO will throw Biden back under the bus in 2012 and Hillary will be on the ticket as VP.  Backtrack knows that is the only way he gets a second term. The carrot for her supporters is that being VP sets Hillary up for President in 2016.  Biden will be too old to run in 2016 so he has to be put out to pasture to “spend more time with his family”. 

    I voted for Hillary in the 2008 Dimocratic primary and McCain/Palin in the general election.  I for one will not vote for BO in 2012 even with Hillary on the ticket.  So sorry. No can do.

  • Peggy Sue

    Nor I.  It would break my heart but I would never support a ticket with Barack Obama on it.  Not even Hillary Clinton could change my mind on that one.

  • Onofre’s arm

     
    “Hillary is no spring chicken”

    Agreed. At this stage of the game she’s more like a fall turkey. And in the distant future of course, a dead duck.

  • Cindy

    Steve—-excuse me. Hillary did the most admiral thing by agreeing to serve her country as Sec’y of State regardless who is President? Really?
    With all due respect, that is the most patronizing definition of what Hillary did that I’ve ever read.
    Voluntarily working for a sexist Chicago thug who orchestrated the biggest rape of a political primary system in the history of the Democratic Party is not admiral. The fact that Hillary did that is incredibly heartbreaking and disappointing, to say the least. It beggars description.
     But it’s what  Democratic men have depended on for decades. It’s always been their bread and butter—-their everlasting succor. The acquiescence of “the little woman” in helping to keep Democratic men in power, sustaineth them.
    It’s beyond disgusting.

  • politicsisdirty

    Hillary was cheated..period.

    She lost her credibility when she gave credibility to the Presidency who bamboozled the electorate.

  • Cindy

    sorry “admirable”……..It’s late here in the great state of tejas!

  • Bill Donlon

    The term “racist” lost all meaning to me in 2008,  when Obama deployed it against Geraldine Ferraro.

    It lost all meaning for 60+% of the American people on Tuesday when the NAACP, at Obama’s urging, childishly deployed it against the Tea Party.

    In the words of an old African proverb:
    “A roaring Lion kills no game.”

    The cry of “Racism”, Thanks to Obama, has become a Toothless Lion, greeted by it’s intended targets with a “Collective Shrug”, and an irrelevent yawn.

    A crime of Obamaism, not against his intended targets, but against those who actualy are victims of racism.

    Obama never fails to fail.

  • ~~JustMe~~

    You really know how to wind everyone up! >:o

  • ~~JustMe~~

    Texas???

  • ~~JustMe~~

    Texas??? ;)

  • Cindy

    Steve—-excuse me. Hillary did the most “admirable” thing by agreeing to serve her country as Sec’y of State regardless who is President? Really?  
    With all due respect, that is the most patronizing definition of what Hillary did that I’ve ever read.  
    Voluntarily working for a sexist Chicago thug who orchestrated the biggest rape of a political primary system in the history of the Democratic Party is not “admirable”. The fact that Hillary did that is incredibly heartbreaking and disappointing, to say the least. It beggars description.  
     But it’s what  Democratic men have depended on for decades. It’s always been their bread and butter—-their everlasting succor. The acquiescence of “the little woman” in helping to keep Democratic men in power, sustaineth them.  
    It’s beyond disgusting.

  • Tony Stark

    The problem is that Hillary will have to rebuild a Democratic Party that will be in ruins by the time the Loser in the White House leaves office. It was disgust with the LBJ administration that ultimately helped Nixon win office in 1968, and I think whoever the GOP presidential nominee is in 2012 will take advantage of the same kind of sentiment against the Democrats in 2012.

  • pelcart@aol.com

    Same Seymour, it’s my dream!!

  • abbie

    She’s a rock star, don’t every forget it!

  • abbie

    Just thinking about that possiblity turns my stomach. 

  • No Longer Banned in Beantown

    A too-high price to pay for what most would interpret as a pity party, serving up sour grapes.

    I agree with that. What I do not agree with and do not condone is Hillary and Bill force feeding Obama’s leftist agenda on the majority of American’s that do not want it.

    Wanting to serve her country is not selling out.

    Shilling for the leftist anti-business and anti-private sector job agenda to keep her career moving is selling out.

  • No Longer Banned in Beantown

    How low can the Clinton’s go? Answer – There is no limit.

    But running as Obama’s VP might be close to it.

  • Docelder

    I grew up in Oklahoma. One thing I never will forget is how many times I heard growing up to never trust anybody from Arkansas. I don’t know the folk wisdom in that. Maybe it has something to do with Arkansas travelers. Which is how I see both the Clinton’s… opportunists and polished Arkansas travelers. I would rather keep Barky with a republican house and senate than to have to worry about what Hillary would do to us. But the Clintons are in campaign mode now… starting with the wedding and the press will want to relive the Clinton years. We are being setup for another Clinton WH run it looks like. Barky is just there because he was historic and he will take the fall for the dream list of socialistic programs he has signed off on. Hillary and Bill were right there. They wanted what Barky did as much as anybody, but they were too smart to do it to us themselves. So they pimped out Barky.

  • Dario

    I didn’t want Hillary to be SoS, but even then, I understood that it was the best thing she could do.  I don’t believe for one second that Obama asked her to be SoS.  I believe she demanded a cabinet post as tribute for her support during the campaign against McCain. It’s no secret that kerry wanted the SoS post, and given his support for Obama, there was no reason that Hillary had first dibs.  Why did Hillary want the SoS?
    First to demonstrate that she did not serve cookies when she was First Lady, as Obama had said during the primaries. 
    Second, the cabinet post allowed her to act very independently, even if she was part of the administration.
    Third, and I think this must have been the biggest reason, she could not stay in the U.S. Senate and vote “yes” on an agenda that she must have known would fail.  If she stayed in the U.S. Senate and voted “nay”, she would have been seen as a spoiler.  Staying in the senate was a losing proposition.
    Fourth, if she left the senate and did not participate in the new administration, she’d be out of politics.  That was unacceptable, given her years of work preparing to be POTUS.
    If things work out for her, and I think she’s left that to the Almighty, she’ll have an opportunity to be POTUS in 2012.  If LBJ could decide not to run, so could Obama under the right circumstances.

  • No Longer Banned in Beantown

    If Hillary wants to be a LEADER she needs to shed the slime of Obama’s leftist agenda and stop forcing it onthe majority of Americans that do not want it.

  • Dario

    Read my post below.  She had no choice.

  • No Longer Banned in Beantown

    For whatever good the Clinton’s have ever done they will always be defined for enabling the left wing agenda of Obama.

  • Dario

    No VP would make Obama acceptable.

  • John/johnwsmart.com

    Bill Clinton is the biggest asset the Democratic party has. 

  • Dario

    Yeah, and Senator Byrd, who Hillary had considered a mentor, went for Obama right after the vote.  I was so disgusted.

  • Cindy

    Dario—-Hillary is all grown up. There is not a more intelligent, strong and determined woman than she, in my opinion.
    So, she definitely had a choice, and to say she didn’t ………well, you need to view her as an adult in a free society. She’s not wearing a burqa…yet.

  • No Longer Banned in Beantown

    Here is what the Clintons care about in order of importance.
    The Clintons
    The Democratic Party
    Whats for dinner
    What to wear for whatever outing
    First Class or Charter?

    way
    down
    here

    The American People

  • John/johnwsmart.com

    Right on to this comment! If ya ask me Bill C is busy laying the groundwork now. You think he’s ‘saving’ obama’s butt for FREE? Hell no. For everyone he helps there is one more voice in 2012 whispering in Axlerod’s ear – your man has to go. Bill Clinton can collect a bunch of chits for his wife this fall. Obama fails even more on cue for the next 2 years – and then quits. Enter Hillary. 
    Sounds far fetched But are Democrats really going to sit back and watch Obama implode forever? No. The bitterness in D.C. Dem ranks is already palpable. 2 more years of crappy employment and obama will be shown the door…and he’ll run thru it. A life time of golfing awaits! 

  • Onofre’s arm

    “Barky is just there because he was historic and he will take the fall for the dream list of socialistic programs he has signed off on.”

    Careful there Doc, you’re close to plagiarizing me!  :-D

  • John/johnwsmart.com

    This is simply not true. 

  • betty

    Amen!

  • John/johnwsmart.com

    This is a buzz word filled nonsense. Hillary plays hard. SOS Clinton has not ‘helped’ Obama’s domestic nonsense at all. It, in fact, removed her from having to vote in the Senate. A very astute move indeed.  And Obama’s agenda is pro business GOP crap cloaked in liberal jargon. THe GOP is against it for political motives…smart ones, too. They’ll win big in Nov. 
    Calling Obama a ‘socialist’ means one thing: You do not know any real socialists. 

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  • felizarte

    I am sure that if and when Hillary decides to run, she will have an honest explanation of her rationale that most of us can accept.  The circumstances and the position she holds does not allow for that.  For now, I will take her at her word that she did it as a service to the country.  VP for Obama is not a step in the right direction.  She might as well write another book or two while waiting for 2016 if 2012 is not possible.  Being SOS gives her a good reason not to involve herself in domestic politics and Obama cannot force her and give her an excellent excuse to resign.

  • lorac CheezIts

    You only presented Obama’s side/wishes in your hypothetical statement.  You also need to factor in Hillary’s wishes.  He may beg her all he wants, but that doesn’t mean he’s going to get her as VP.

    And as I’ve said before, I think if she wanted to be VP, she could have had it in 08.  I don’t think she wants it any more now than then.

  • lorac CheezIts

    But Cindy, the majority of women have to work for sexist pigs.  It’s part of being a woman, unfortunately.

  • lorac CheezIts

    You’re a wise man, Dario.

  • felizarte

    LUcky for you that you are not talking about blacks or mexican people or the charge would certainly be “stereotyping” “profiling” “discrimination”.  I wonder what an Arkansan would say about that.  Not very nice thing to say.

  • Docelder

    Thanks. I know I shouldn’t do this here. If anybody thinks there is any difference between Hillary and Obama… well I don’t see it. I remember these stories. the Sir Edmund Hillary story, the Benazir Bhutto story, the landing under fire with sinbad story, and there is the convenien southern accent only when she wants to have one. She went to Mexico looked at the Lady of Guadalupe and then asked “who painted it”? It is exactly like Barky. Exactly.

    http://scaredmonkeys.com/2006/10/18/hillary-rodham-clinton-finally-admits-she-was-not-named-after-sir-edmund-hillary-of-mt-everest-fame-really/

    http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2007/12/28/2007-12-28_hillary_shared_a_bond_with_bhutto.html?ref=rss

    http://scaredmonkeys.com/2007/03/05/what-is-hillary-clinton-pretended-to-be-now-southern/

    http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/hillary_clinton_leaves_flowers_for_our_lady_of_guadalupe_asks_who_painted_it/

  • Onofre’s arm

    Well ~~JustMe~~, I’m not the type to throw a turd in the punchbowl (well, maybe just a dingleberry), but I’ve been known to spike quite a few of them.

  • Samb

     Not to mention…consider how deep of shit we would be in right now with the rest of the world, had Barry made another of his corrupt incompetent a-hole minnions SOS!!
    ===============

    Good point-POdVet

  • warehouse553

    Are we forgetting that what makes this situation different is that Obama is black. If he were white, the dems would have thrown him under the bus along time ago.  A democrat nominee must have the black vote in general to win.  If the party pushes Obama aside, even though he deserves it, they will threaten to stay home and not vote for any democrat.  I’m sorry if this sounds racist but they are holding the Democrat Party hostage using race!  I thought he would be a disaster as President but even I did not think he could exceed my expectations of how bad he would be.  The damage that he has done could be irreparable.  He has divided this country way more than Bush!

    One more thing, I would lose all respect for her if she accepts VP.  It would be a slap in the face and betrayal to every supporter she ever had and I’m sorry but I could never vote for or support her again.   

  • Samb

    fearless, I miss that sprit.
    Great photo.

  • Onofre’s arm

    It’s nice to see Hillary finally admitting that the “Named after Edmund Hillary” was a lie. I won’t hold my breath waiting for her fawning worshipers to acknowledge that it was a lie, they’ll probably claim that Bush made her do it. 

  • CarlaforHillary

    Excellent article Steve.  I do think Bill hurt Hillary some in the beginning of the campaign.  It seemed as though the media was more focused on him and not her.  He was the first to suffer the racism tag.  Which is unreal, since he was “the first black president.”  Also, Bill did not have faith that women would get behind Hillary. And there were grumblings among women about the fact that she didn’t leave Bill over Monica (really now…who would leave Bill? for what….kidding…..)  Hillary changed so many people’s minds about their ideas of her by the end of her run didn’t she!

    With that being said, I am glad Hillary became SOS.  If she were to run in 2012, she would be the most experienced candidate out of any possible candidates I can think of at this moment.

    I think that independents woul be pick Hillary over Sarah Palin.  I like Sarah Palin, but I don’t think that people are going to give an inexperienced person a chance like they did Obama.

    With respect to how Hillary could not come out more openly about the primary fraud, I agree with your opinion, Steve.

    If Hillary runs as VP to Obama, I won’t vote for that ticket. If she runs, I will campaign for her and probably take all my vacation time from work to travel for her during the primaries.

    I really hope she runs. GoHillaryGo!

  • ~~JustMe~~

    I’m sure, no doubt you are life and soul of the party. Easier to laugh than get all twisted out of shape! Plus I’d rather have laughter lines than frown lines…. We live and learn!

  • ~~JustMe~~

    Ohhhh I’m sure, no doubt you are life and soul of the party. Easier to laugh than get all twisted out of shape! Plus I’d rather have laughter lines than frown lines…. We can but live and learn!

  • ~~JustMe~~

    Ohhhh I’m sure OA, no doubt you are life and soul of the party. Easier to laugh than get all twisted out of shape! Plus I’d rather have laughter lines than frown lines…. We can but live and learn!

  • Onofre’s arm

    Duly noted. You’re perspective is always important to me ~~JustMe~~.

  • Robb

    Other than maybe the odd obot who would pay good money to listen to oblahblah speak 

  • Cindy

    lorac—-But she didn’t HAVE to! She chose to.
    She was a Senator working for the people of New York.

  • Cindy

    lorac—-P.S.   And don’t you think if she had refused working for Obama it would have sent a POWERFUL message to working women? What a wonderful gift that would have been for American women and young girls!! What a tremendous example!!  By her actions she would have been saying—-”Hey, women! Don’t EVER work for a sexist pig like Obama!”
    She should have quit the Democrats and run as an Independent, instead of becoming an enabler in this sick, sick patriarchy of ours.
    As far as perpetuating sexism in this country, Hillary is now, sorry to say, part of the problem, not part of the solution.
    Women who continue, voluntarily, to overlook misogyny in order to further their careers, are causing more damage than the men they are placating.

  • felizarte

    John: SOS Clinton has not ‘helped’ Obama’s domestic nonsense at all. It, in fact, removed her from having to vote in the Senate.

    I agree with this statement 100%.  Even when she revealed the adm’s plan to sue Arizona, she never said anything to indicate that she supported it.  Matter of fact, it probably rattled the DOJ because I doubt that they really intended to sue.  Appearing to “support” Latinos is all they wanted to accomplish.  Another curious thing, there was not a single statement from anyone in the adm. acknowledging Hillary’s disclosure.  

    When Obama announced Hillary as SOS, he was deliberate in assigning his own people at the UN (Rice) appointed several special envoys reporting to him directly.  It makes me think that perhaps, he really just wanted to make Hillary appear “small”  But so far, everything has turned out for the better for Hillary and not so good for Obama; making it obvious that Obama is just a lump of coal to Hillary’s diamond.  November 3 should be most interesting.

  • Bonnie Jean Burris

    Steve, thank you for coming down out of the attic. She did the right thing for herself and for the country. Some of the comments here are so predictable, I probably could have told before you posted this wonderful opinion the names of the naysayers and they were never Hillary’s true believers. I don’t know if you noticed, but her appearence was mentioned very early by the hypocritical mysoginists. As for myself, she always looks beautiful, poised and powerful. Who knows where this road will lead her, but it won’t be into obcurity where some would like to send her. She is the only bit of sanity in this clownish government and she must be grateful to be out of Washington and I’m grateful for your post.

  • Clara

    Steve and Carla,
    Loved your sentiment and comments.  Looking back at each of the decisions Hillary had to make, she did do the only thing she could do and remain above the cluster that this administration is.

    With respect to her not being able to speak out about the primary and caucus fraud, I wonder, if she should run in 2012, could clips from GiGi Gaston’s documentary be used in ads against the Skinny One?

    By the time 2012 rolls around, the Dems ought to fully realize that Zero is not there for them.  He’s clearly out for himself and could give a rat’s patoot whether the House turns over or he loses Senate seats.  As was said on Morning Joe, he’s looking out for his legacy, not the Party. 

    That’s a pretty clear observation to many of us who have recoiled against his arrogance and thin-skinned petulance for what now seems like an eternity.  Perhaps the Dems still standing after 2010 will recognize that Hillary was The One all along.  It was she that swallowed their sh#* and continued to be the loyal, hard working Democrat.  Her gracious demeanor has won over a lot who may have thought her imperious.  Next to her, Obama looks like what he is.  A sniveling, whining, finger-pointing narcissist.  Just maybe someone in the party will walk, then run, right past the current president into Hillary’s arms.

    Well, I can dream, can’t I?

  • wodiiej

    Hillary sold out her supporters and I will never support her again.  She could have been patriotic by remaining a Senator and voting against Obama’s socialist crap whereas as SOS she has no vote.  And after the way she was trashed by Obama during the primary? She lost my respect and support.

  • Georgia

    Could not have said that any better myself…..

  • Noogan

    Steve in KC:

    I agree completely. Thanks for your thoughts. People who think Clinton “sold out” are being incredibly petty and juvenile. I simply cannot fathom the mindset of someone who is pouting about her serving her country. 

    Hillary Clinton is a STATESWOMAN, who loves her country. 


    That is why I respect and admire her. 

  • kenoshamarge the cracked cracker

    No longer banned, Bill Clinton will always be defined by a blow-job no matter what his other accomplisments. 

    And at least in our house Hillary Clinton will always be defined as the woman that went to work for the guy that made her and her husband out to be racists.

    Hillary supporters, of which I was one, can find any explanations or excuses or whatever helps them keep supporting her. I am done with the Clintons.

    And if Biden is scuttled, poor health perhaps, and she runs as VPOTUS with Obama, whatever respect I ever had for her will be gone.

    Like so many said in 2008, I want to see a woman president, just not this woman. I didn’t agree with that statement then. I do now.

  • getfitnow

    My fav too. Does anyone have the one of her peeking (one eye) through the curtain? I love that one too.

  • Noogan

    Very good points, POdVet. 

  • getfitnow

    I also loved the side-by-side comparison of this one of Hillary and That One being rained out on Memorial Day.

  • getfitnow

    Releif efforts–just received n email from BC’s foundation. Remember Haiti?

  • getfitnow

    Yep,. Just received a reminder email from BC foundation–Haiti.

  • Noogan

    Here is what happened, regarding Bill Clinton’s impact on Hillary’s nomination for Dems:

    The DNC did not want Hillary as their nominee, because they knew that the general election would then be all about Monica Lewinsky; and that was probably true. The GOP would be running Lewinsky, the blue dress, and all of the other women in Bill Clinton’s life constantly in ads and speeches. 

    The DNC cheated–caucuses from Iowa to Nevada to Texas were rife with Obama campaign corruption, and the votes in Michigan and Florida were blatantly perverted to help Obama win the nomination. 

    All of it was done with an eye toward pushing Obama across the finish line for the Nomination. Hillary Clinton gave it her all, played fair, and, because the DNC cheated, she was robbed of the nomination. 

    But she didn’t pout like some around here; she didn’t quit. She stood tall and proud, and took on the job of Secretary of State, because, in the end, she is a stateswoman who loves her country, and in the end, the best revenge is doing what is right. People admire and respect her for her mature choice. 

  • getfitnow

    I wonder. That One has czars all over the place with the same, if not more, influence with him as Hillary. That do-nothing Ambassador Rice to the UN reports directly to him, not Hillary.

  • getfitnow

    Some times, for the greater good, you have to leave it all on he track.

    I’m disappointed that she didn’t call out the behind-the-scene thuggery going on at the convention. Was that so the Party wouldn’t be fractured? Look at the state of the Party today.

    I’m in CA which went to Hillary, but my vote didn’t count. It was, as so many of yours, dismissed in a effort to coronate That (historic) One.

  • HARP

    Why is a white liar any better than a black liar?

  • creeper

    Exactly.  When voters are unhappy with a pol of one party they don’t replace him with a pol from the same party.  See:  Bush, George W.

  • Noogan

    True, Bill Donlon, all true. But worse than a “toothless lion,” resulting in shrugs and yawns, what is actually happening is people are becoming resentful and angry at the liberal black fascists who constantly employ the “racist” charge to silence free political speech of others. 

    Yeah. I’m talking about ME. I’m so disgusted and angry about it, I am beginning to feel a simmering rage. I have never been a racist in my life;on the contrary, I was a stalwart supporter of equal rights and an ardent foe against discrimination against blacks.

    But I’ve been called a racist since the primaries for the last general election for POTUS.I’ve been called a racist for not voting for Obama. I’ve been called a racist for not defending black liberal totalitarianism. I’ve been called a racist for opposing liberal fascism. I’ve been called a racist for everything under the sun–none of which have to do with RACE. 

    I am no longer a stalwart “defender of black rights” shall we say. I am now silent about that; they don’t need me to defend equal rights, since they are not arguing for equal rights, they are arguing against my rights. 

    Now, they can’t count me as a supporter. And, I am one of many former defenders, now disgusted. The backlash against black liberals has begun. They don’t realize it yet, but they have overplayed their hand in their zealous fascist fashion. 

  • getfitnow

    I’m a small business owner and I’d like a lot more love. I’m sick and tired of “business” being slimed with a broad brush. It’s what  has allow most of us a pretty good quality of life.

  • Noogan
  • getfitnow

    As Geraldine Farraro said, if he were white and/or female he never would have made it this far. And as I’ve said before, we now know that POTUS can be an entry-level position. How alarmingly sad.

  • creeper

    If you’re wrong, Seymour, I am too.

    Hillary and Bill enabled Barry right into the White House.  I suspect that, knowing Barry’s core incompetence, they might have thought he would be relatively harmless.  That was a gamble they shouldn’t have taken.

    As for Bill’s “expertise”, do not forget that Bill signed the repeal of Glass/Stegall.  That was the first step in our race to the bottom.

    The Clintons are just a little too cute for me.

  • kenoshamarge the cracked cracker

    No Noogan, evidently what you cannot fathom is that someone may legitimently simply not agree with you.

    People that think she sold out by going to work for the man that made her and her husband out to be racists are pouting?

    I don’t agree with you POV but I think you have a perfect right to hold it. You on the other hand don’t seem to think those that don’t have that POV do.

    Who’s being juvenile and petty?

  • creeper

    “Will they sit out 2012 when (not if) Hillary challenges and wins the nomination.”

    Not happening.  If Hillary didn’t challenge the upstart Barry in 2008 there is no way in hell she will challenge a sitting president in 2012.

  • Freedom Fighter

    You guys must live in a fantasy world. Hillary’s brand has been permanently damaged when she and her husband played the race card in 2008. At one point she had more black support than Obama, but she will never ever regain that trust she has so casually tossed away. She won’t be able to turn out black voters in future elections, and without African American support, she has no chance of winning the general election.

  • creeper

    Wonderful poem, Bill Donlon.   Thanks.

  • betty

    Saw this post last night sorry to see it is still up today.   Steve in KC, I think you came here to try and bury Cesar.   I thought your essay had some good thoughts in it and you had me following along till you got to the last two paragraphs when you slid your knife in.

    If you are sincere in your concern over the Clinton marriage, all I can suggest is that you take a lesson from your cat and  – get over it!    Get Over It. 
    Finally, get over it!  
    Or put another way – At long last, sir, have you no shame?

  • Docelder

    I know, if I heard it once as a kid growing up… I must have heard it a hundred times… i don’t know the origin of the folk wisdom for sure. But I also heard reference to Arkansas traveler alot as well. I think there maybe were some traveling grifters from there that went into Oklahoma. But, the reason I brought it up at all is or me that image stuck and the Clintons fit right into it with me. Opportunistic, carpetbagging grifting travelers. I know Bill is a likable guy. I know, I remember the nineties well. Hillary and Bill are codependent politically. Neither can do much without the shadow of the other. Hillary is riding off 90′s nostalgia. That is about all she has going for her. That is why the wedding is so important to exploit. Maybe they ought to find a cat that looks just like socks. That would play just about as well on Kabuki television.

  • Docelder

    You know what that means really? Both the far right and elements of the left handed us Barky because they knew he would fail. So, the only thing that won in 2008 was politics itself. Makes me want to start completely over. Too bad that isn’t an option.

  • Docelder

    You know what that means really? Both the far right and elements of the left handed us Barky because they knew he would fail. So, the only thing that won in 2008 was politics itself. Makes me want to start completely over. Too bad that isn’t an option.

  • Sassy

    Steve in KC,
    I remember your previous entries, and enjoyed your sense of humor. Only one portion of my comment relates to your topic.
    In 2008, one block of the Democratic Party was dismissed as uneducated white racists, feminists, and gays. The media and democrats, as well, asked where they were going to go. Where indeed?
    I did not read the “Rush” thread until yesterday. Blame MY wicked sense of humor, but I have not seen such a butt-kicking since a fight broke out at Peggy Ann’s drive-in on a Friday night in July, 1960.
    To redeem myself somewhat, my friend Carolyn would pick me up in a T-Model Ford. Can you imagine the value of that car today?
    Carolyn was the daughter of a Baptist minister and a brilliant student, who coached women’s basketball until her death three years ago.
    Nostalgia has a place, but reality is essential!

  • Breeze

    -

    Poll: Obama Losing to Romney,
    Huck & Newt (but Tied With Palin)

     
    Politics Daily,
    by Matt Lewis   

    Original Article

    7/16/2010

    A new survey out from Public Policy Polling should give Republicans hope they can defeat President Obama in 2012. According to the poll, Obama “trails Mitt Romney 46-43, Mike Huckabee 47-45, Newt Gingrich 46-45, and is even tied with Sarah Palin at 46. The only person tested he leads is Jan Brewer, who doesn’t have particularly high name recognition on the national level at this point.” Analysis suggests these Republican candidates are polling ahead of Obama because they “lead within independents in every match-up”

  • Noogan

    And, I am not the only one:

    I Condemn the NAACP: It Is Simply a Political Toolby Richard E. DimeryI condemn the NAACP. I condemn them for allowing the group to be used as a political tool to do the dirty work of the progressive movement. Instead of criticizing tea parties, the NAACP would be better served denouncing the racist comments made by a member of the New Black Panther Party and their voter intimidation outside a Philadelphia polling place in the last presidential election.I condemn the NAACP, along with every race-baiting, sinful thinking poverty pimp and addle-pated black, brown and white denier of truth. The truth is, I believe, that they conduct and have conducted themselves as if there were no God — as if there were no Constitution — as if there had never been hard-fought civil rights victories.They have dishonored the memory of that great American, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Almost two-score and seven years ago, he urged us all that Abraham Lincoln was due respect for the Emancipation. King urged us to expect America to deliver to all men the “riches of freedom and the security of justice.” He urged us to come together in brotherhood. He implored us to be not bitter, nor guilty of wrongful deeds. Finally, it was King’s hope that all would be judged by content of character above all else.

    A misguided segment of our society continues to condone, approve, and thereby encourage wrongful deeds of evil men. After King’s death, traitors to his teachings and beliefs were allowed to rise. Their reckoning with their God and conscience will come, in time.
    http://biggovernment.com/rdimery/2010/07/16/i-condemn-the-naacp-it-is-simply-a-political-tool/#more-145074

  • Bill Donlon

    Noogan: over the past two years most of us have gone through “racist withdrawl” 

    First comes the depression, that comes with te realization that it is being used for power and profit.

    Second comes the anger that we and the real victims of racism, have been betrayed.

    The third step is the moving on:
    Forgivness and a collective schrug stage.

    Wait for it!
    It will come.

    Just tell youself, “I’m not going to work on Jessie’s farm no more!”

    I believe that the silver lining is that by taking the “race card” away from the Black Community, it will be able to forgive, issue a collective schrug and move on with us to our collective destiny.

    Over playing the “race card” into irrelevancy, Obama may be the best thing to happen to the Black Community since M.L.K.

    Healing Starts with forgivness.

    “Forgivness” is the one quality that seperates our coulture from all others.
    It is the one quality that ends “blood feuds” that so pleague all others.

    Forgivness is highly under rated

  • Noogan

    Hillary Clinton didn’t lose credibility; she gained respect, even from former foes, many of whom have given her credit for her statesmanlike actions and her hard work as Secretary of State. 

    Give me a break. Politics is dirty; that’s no lie. It was fought with a vengeance between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. But BOTH men were statesmen; both loved their country, and despite their personal differences in perspectives, they both contributed their all to their country. 

  • FLDemFem

    gfn, it’s not who the czars report to that matters, it’s who the foreign secretaries and ministers and their bosses listen to, and that is Hillary Clinton. I have this feeling that the aforementioned persons, ministers and bosses, are just waiting out Obama. They can see the backlash building and are waiting for Hillary in the WH. Our allies and enemies have no clue what the fool in the WH is going to do next, and they are counting on Hillary to fix whatever this fool we are stuck with comes up with. Meanwhile, they wait.

  • Noogan

    Aww, poor Kenosha Marge. I must have struck a nerve when I said I cannot fathom how people could attack Hillary Clinton–who they previously loved–for being a stateswoman and putting her country above petty politics!

    Ha, hypocrisy knows no bounds. 

    Why, after all, Marge, did you like Hillary Clinton, if you would throw her away for dedicating herself to her country instead of pouting like some whiney-ass-titty-baby [which would be what Obama would do!]. 

    So basically in the end, petty people like you, Marge WANT Hillary Clinton to behave like Barack Obama would behave, blaming everyone else for your troubles, instead of standing up and behaving like a stateswoman and devoting your life–as you always had done–to your COUNTRY.

    Pathetic. Petty. Hypocritical. Juvenile. 

  • Noogan

    FF: You’re not just stupid. You’re full of shit. 

  • Noogan

    I will tell you the truth. I never liked Bill Clinton and I never voted for the man. I think his “globalization” policy has been an utter disaster. It is destroying our sovereign interests and our middle class. 

    But I always admired and respected Hillary Clinton. And, I still do. 

    I do not always agree with her policy on Israel. But I respect and admire a woman who is so strong, and so devoted to her country, that she doesn’t let anything get in the way of that, even when her “party” stabs her in the back. That’s what I call courage. 

  • Docelder

    He gave us NAFTA as well. We would have had healthcare back in the 90′s had somebody with more experience been heading it up.

  • Noogan

    Sure she did. She had a CHOICE. And she chose: Country. Service to Country. 

  • Docelder

    Exactly. Where have we seen that before?

  • Armymom

    You can call it “pouting”. I call it opening my eyes. And I’m quite tired of hearing “she did it for love of country”. For god sake, if she loved this country that much, she would have kicked his ass to the curb, and told what was really going on. Hell even Bill said that after the “election” he was going to “expose” shit. He never did. Why? I even say that about Bush now, if he “really loved his country as much as the right wants to say, why the hell is he silent on Obama? They both have to know what a POS Obama is and how truly dangerous he is. They both are silent. But I won’t be anymore. If you hung with Obama and did his bidding, you’re on my shit list for enabling him.

  • shirley luther

    It comes down to this:  Do you trust Hillary to make the right decisions?  On SOS, or anything else…..I do.

  • anngonzalez

    Hillary and Bill are practically the only assets left in the dem party. It amazes me what she did…she won the primaries despite the DNC and the media being 100% against her and working at every turn to portray her as having been tromped by BO and stealing her delegates and behaving in every illegal and horrible way imaginable. The press is no more, journalistic ethics dead.

    For those who say she should’ve fought against BO…to what end? The press would never, ever cover her arguments and it would only be the faithful and the determined who would know the truth about what she was saying. For all we know she did try to make more of an argument and saw how quickly it would be twisted and turned against her or her family. Remember her admiration for Bobby and what happened there…you’d think she hired the assination of Bobby Kennedy. (and there are enough gopers with CDS to believe anything negative about Hillary and Bill.)

    Plus, I believe she wanted to keep her options open. She probably thought BO would fail and that the dem party would need another nominee in the future. If she were to have a chance at being nominated in the future she’d have to be a party player and support their ridiculous candidate. One doesn’t win the nomination of the party without the parties consent…Obama made that clear. Secretary of State has been a great cover for her…it addresses one of her  perceived weaknesses, foreign policy, giving her more cred than anyone on that regard, and it gets her away from obamacare, being too close to bo’s incompetence on the oil spill, war voting and funding (remember how “she voted for the war” was a meme that completely disregarded the words that Hillary said on the Senate floor after 9/11…you had to go and listen to old senate video to find out what really happened?)

    Plus, for Hllary to be an effective leader she has to combat sexism and CDS…and, like the tortoise, every day she gains a little ground earning more reluctant respect from those who tried to destroy her.

    I am in awe of the woman. I don’t believe any other politician in America would’ve continued to fight for the nomination the way she did…no one else would have had the strength nor the commitment. And she didn’t have to scream “fight, fight, fight” like McCain did. And, for Hillary to go from that long arduous race to being the non-stop Secretary of State that she is…OMG.

    Lastly…McCain was a moderate repub and socially more liberal than most…but for me, a lifelong former dem, :) , I might have to sit out voting if BO goes against Huckabee or something. I wouldn’t be able to vote for either of them. My point just being that republicans played a role in bo winning the nom, spreading CDS on the web, and frakking around in the dem process. They haven’t, as far as I know, changed their social policies and become the voice of equality and peace and secular government for all people regardless of race, gender, sexual preference and disability.

    I have no idea what will happen next year…and for all I know the plan was put in motion a long time ago. Perhaps, the deal was that Hillary would support BO and if he fell below 50% he wouldn’t run again…we just don’t know. Personally I can’t see BO running when it’s going to be so much work and he won’t win. He tires so easily, and he has a rage response when embarassed. Does he really want his name linked to Carter’s? I’m sure he’d much rather be associated with LBJ, but still different. Better to go out being able to claim that the US is too ignorant to know what is good for it, then to have the voters tell you you’re an abject failure.

    Again, I don’t profess to know…but, people are hungry for better times and the only President to deliver economic recovery and a balanced budget in the past 50 years was Bill Clinton. I think people are hungry…literally and figuratively…for a leader, a fiscal conservative and social liberal, for a fiscal statist, and a person who views the federal role as protecting the health and welfare of the individual. I think America is ready for Hillary Clinton to be president.

  • Docelder

    pro business GOP crap – no it’s more like corporatist crap. True conservatives want less government not more. Corporatism is closer to fascism because corporatists and big government are more allies if not partners. This isn’t conservatism. Bush wasn’t a conservative either. He was the same as Barky. But so was Clinton who repealed Glass Steagall and handed us NAFTA. It is getting worse with each presidential cycle because the corporatists are winning, because people don’t understand what is happening, because winning is now built in as corporatists now control both parties.

  • Freedom Fighter

    Breeze, that in no way diminish the fact that HRC cannot win without the African American vote.

  • Freedom Fighter

    Noogan, you must be delusional if you think Hill and Bill will hoodwink and bamboozle African American voters ever again.

  • Noogan

    Okay, I must have struck a nerve in your brain, Marge. So, let me try again. 

    I cannot fathom how people could attack Hillary Clinton–who they previously loved–for being a stateswoman and putting her her country above petty politics.

    Nope. I didn’t say you didn’t have a right to your own personal pettiness, Marge. What I said was: I cannot “fathom” how supporters could attack her for putting her country above “petty politics.” 

    Now, why would you take that so personally, unless subconsciously, you think you are engaging in “petty politics.”

    You’re entitled to engage in petty politics, Marge. I would defend to the death your right to attack Hillary Clinton because she put country above “petty politics.”

    There now, feel better?  ;)

  • creeper

    I don’t know about quitting the Dems.  Hillary’s entire life is bound to the Democratic party.  Independents don’t stand a chance in national elections.  Just ask John Anderson…the best alternative to Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford in 1976. 

    What I wanted Hillary to do is what we do here every day…SPEAK UP against the racisim, misogyny and classism that Barry exploited. 

    Hillary Clinton would be a powerful force in any capacity.  Remaining in the Senate wouldn’t have sent her into obscurity.  That she chose to enable Barry instead of remaining true to her own principles just makes me sick.

  • FLDemFem

    And Obama has already sent out the “notion” that he will be a one-term president. After all, he has accomplished his agenda of change. Once his “policies” and the bills (fortunately repealable!!) to support them are in place, he can claim to be “the most successful president ever” since he got all of his agenda through in one term. Of course, he will leave behind a country staggering under massive unemployment, in huge debt, with soiled coastlines and huge energy costs due to cap and trade. But that won’t matter, he got the health care, the bail-outs to his corporate friends, “financial reform”, etc. He did it all while flying around the country reading off his teleprompter and being adored by the masses. Hasn’t put in a 40 hour week in the Oval Office yet, by the way. But he got his agenda through…therefore he is a successful president. The fact that his agenda is destroying the country, and dividing it as never before, is irrelevant to him. HE WON!! That’s all that matters to Obama. Not us, not the country, just that he won.

  • Armymom

    Amen. Obama has to have a “boogey man” Big bad Wall Street, Big bad Tea Party, Big Bad racists,Big Bad Banks,Big Bad Doctors, Big Bad oil companies, Big Bad Republicans, Big Bag Rich People.  He can’t stand on his own if someone built him orthodics. I have NEVER worked for a poor person and got paid. Have any of you guys? Fact is, we need businesses, and we need them profitable. He goes after Big Bad Businesses because they are turning a profit, well if they didn’t have a profit, they wouldn’t be paying people to work for them.

  • Noogan

    Armymom:

    According to your own argument, your son should immediately quit his service to country, because the Commander in Chief is Barack Obama. 

    Of course, I would think you above all, would comprehend the concept of service to country. 

    “For God’s sake,” Hillary Clinton is simply serving her country as Secretary of State. She is working for all Americans. Just as your son is doing. 

    I applaud your son for his service. And, I applaud Hillary Clinton for hers. 

  • Armymom

    Wow, that’s some powerful words there Bonnie, NEVER Hillary’s true believers? Geez sounds just like an Obamabot. Just because you can’t get out of your induced stupor about politicians, doesn’t mean that everyone else can’t. My eyes were opened during 2008. I will bet that many more have too.

  • Armymom

    Really? The only racist POS I see is Obama and his racist followers. Oh, and before you say a damn thing, I’m bi-racial, just like our POS CIC. And he has done more damage to civil rights than will ever be able to be repaired. Sad that you perpetuate this shit.

  • trixta

    Also, Seymour, it wasn’t as if the Senate was welcoming her back with open arms.  It was evident that the conspiracy that took place to steal the nomination from her included many Senators who just couldn’t bear seeing her as President (e.g. Kennedy, Kerry, McKaskil, Sebelius, Boxer, etc).   Weren’t they already excluding her from important committees, etc.  At that point, I think she was getting better treatment and more respect from Republican Senators than she was from her fellow Dem Senatorial peers.

    I, too, did not want her to have anything to do with BO’s admin, but I think she did the right thing serving as SOS and thereby keeping herself viable politically.

  • creeper

    “Third, and I think this must have been the biggest reason, she could not stay in the U.S. Senate and vote “yes” on an agenda that she must have known would fail.”

    Since when are members of a political party, especially those as powerful as Hillary Clinton, required to vote “yes” on an agenda they know must fail?

    Staying in the Senate and working as hard as she has at State might…just might…have given us a health care bill we could live with. 

    Our domestic problems are far greater than any international troubles.  We needed her here, not in Paris.

  • Noogan

    Hmm, I’m not sure I get your point. 

    I don’t feel the need to “forgive” anything, and I don’t feel the need to be “forgiven” for anything either. 

    I haven’t done anything. I’ve simply observed that my feelings about “civil rights” and the “civil rights movement” has changed. I don’t appreciate the constant refrain of “racism! racism!” coming from black people/voters/pundits/Congress/Presidents/First Ladies, when it is being used as a cudgel to curtail my Constitutional rights. 

    It’s totalitarianism. And, that I cannot — and will not–forgive. 

  • kenoshamarge the cracked cracker

    No Noogan, once again you’re wrong. And acting pissy won’t make you right. My nerves are just fine. But your name-calling just because I don’t happen to agree with you shows you as a very unserious person who is not deserving of conversation.

    Grow up Noogan. Hero worship is so unbecoming in an adult.

    You may “believe” that Hillary Clinton is a Stateswoman, and you may be right. But you don’t “know” it any more than I “know”  that she is not. A belief doesn’t make you “know” anything.

    As I said, I don’t agree with you. In your poor adolescent little world that makes me pathetic, petty, hypocritical and juvenile.

    Where as in my world, you’re just silly. But IMO, and again it’s only my opinion, anyone that hero worships a politician is silly. Just the way I feel.

    I’ve wasted far too much time with you. Please do some more name-calling if it makes you feel better. Someday you may grow up enough to discover that “adults” can agree to disagree without being disagreeable brats.

  • Noogan

    Very good point, getfitnow. True. And sad. 

  • trixta

    Creeper, Bill signed to repeal Glass-Stegall when it became evident that Congress would override a veto of the bill.   

  • creeper

    “By the time 2012 rolls around, the Dems ought to fully realize that Zero is not there for them.”

    It isn’t Dems that will throw Barry out of the White House.  It’s Independents.  

    And when they realize Barry is not there for them (or for any of us), they will NOT turn to another Dem.

  • kafir

    Bill Clinton is articulate and is an asset to Hillary. If we were to do a balance sheet on Bill, the bottom line is still positive.

    Bill is so much better to Bush and Barry.

    Bill is an asset to the USA less Monica Lewinsky

    Barry – a liability to America

    Bush- a liability to America.

  • Murray

    Why felizarte, how considerate of you!  Give yourself a pat on the back.  Arkansas has been America’s punchline for so long that it almost doesn’t hurt anymore.

  • trixta

    “But instead, they call on Bill all the time when they’re in over their heads. ”

    Oh, the irony!

  • FLDemFem

    Feliz, Hillary has been looking tired because she has been changing time zones faster than you change clothes. Jet lag, especially long term, is exhausting. The fact that she can change time zones, get off the plane, be ready to go to work with whomever is waiting to meet with her, get the job done properly and then get back on the plane and do it again and again, speaks volumes to her abilities to handle the Oval Office. She won’t spend all her time on AF1 going around giving speeches…she will send Bill to do that, lucky us! She will stay in DC and work, hard. Unlike our current president. But do take note of her current schedule and the time zones it goes to and comes from, and be in awe that she can do it and still be on her feet and coherent. I am, and I have done a lot of long trips and I know how bad jet lag can be and how long it takes to properly recover from it. Hillary doesn’t get much chance to sleep in and catch up, she has a right to look tired.

  • Armymom

    Not once did I say my son should immediately quite his service to country. I said I can ‘t stand the fact that the POS is his CIC. There is a difference. My son is doing it for love of his fellow soldiers who re upped. He said he couldn’t see them going over there without him, and they vice versa. So how is that relevent to what Hillary did? Does she have some “buds” that she wants to cover their back for? You see, my son is ACTUALLY dodging bullets. End of story.

  • trixta

    Yes, some of us a while back discussed the possibility of Hillary being made BO’s VP as a way to ensure his re-election.  I just can’t see myself voting for that ticket.  I would like her to be POTUS, nothing less.

  • trixta

    So true, Noogan!  Politics is dirty, and you just can’t go and burn all of your bridges if you want to remain viable.   I wish she had gone Indie, but I can understand her choice to fight from the inside.  Like many of us, Hillary knew that if the spotlight were long enough on BO eventually he would be revealed for the inept and sleazy person he is.  Had she fought him from outside the Party, she would have been torn to shreds (again!) by the media (both Left and Right), and she would not be a contender at this point.

  • Armymom

    My “irony” meter has been blown to hell since this POS CIC took over. :-D

  • creeper

    Noogan, I resent being called “petty and juvenile”.  That’s not conducive to a civilized dialogue. 

    Those of us with strong objections to Hillary having accepted the SOS position have stated them clearly.  None of the reasons cited strike me as either petty or juvenile.

    How much “love of country” is there in enabling the disaster that is Barack Obama?

    Bronwyn’sHarbor, your message didn’t get through.

  • creeper

    trixta, did you ever hear of standing on principle?

    Evidently Bill and Hillary haven’t.

  • trixta

    Cindy, Hillary did not invent this political play…it’s part of the game.  For example, McCain waited it out when he lost to GWB, Romney wait it out when he lost to McCain, etc. … both supporting their former opponent in the process. Yes, it’s all dirty, etc., but she’s playing in the big leagues.  I think she and Bill are currently testing and rebuilding their political support within the Party pols.

  • Armymom

    Well FF, not all African American voters are easily hoodwinked. Apparently 95% of them were with Obama, but I always have hope that they open their eyes and start thinking for theirselves. Obama is afterall, the most racist POS CIC we have ever had.

  • trixta

    As Senator, HRC still had to work with two-by-four Chuck Shumer and the rest of the boys and girls in the Senate who conspired to keep her from the nomination.  I think it would have been sheer torture for her to stay in the Senate after so many of her peers stabbed her in the back.  As I recall, most of the woman Dem Senators worked against her winning the nomination.  Also, can you imagine having to work with the insufferable Kerry and Kennedy? 

  • creeper

    Noogan<img src=”http://cdn.js-kit.com/images/icon10-external-url.png”/>
    FF: You’re not just stupid. You’re full of shit. 
    Today, 8:44:42 AM
    Flagged for meanness.  Should’ve flagged the first for name-calling but left it out of respect for Noogan’s previous contributions. 
    If you can’t play nice, Noogan, go play somewhere else.
    DeleteEditModerate

  • creeper

    Not any more.

  • trixta

    I understand, Cindy, but at this point and on many levels Hillary is beating the boys at their own game.  Let’s hope she can translate this into a run for the WH, if she choses.

  • creeper

    Dammit, this is NOT a game.  Don’t you understand that?  Our survival hangs in the balance.

    Screw it. 

    GONE FISHING

  • EllenD

    Hi Steve. Welcome back.
    I’m up here with Ceiling Cat (hi Feliz), but you have created such a wonderful thread and so many here have contributed thoughts that I have started examining my own thinking.

    The idea posted here that the Democratic Party is being held hostage by a minority of black Democrats who vote together – (a very common situation in minority coalition governments in Parliamentary systems). is interesting. Isn’t that the same idea with the Republican Party too, concerning the farthest right?
    Does that mean we in the center are doomed?

    But look what happened in the Primary. Hillary surged ahead at the end despite the cohesion of the black minority against her and I have no doubt she would have attracted centrists from the Republicans in a general election.

    That would have destroyed the power of certain black Democratic politicians whose only claim to power in the party is that they can deliver the black vote. If it had been shown the Democrats could win WITHOUT the black vote, the black caucus would no longer have the stick they have been using for so long.

    So Hillary posed a big threat to them. She could have destroyed their power by showing that the right Democratic candidate could make them irrelevant.They had to stop her even if it meant doing so openly illegally.

    The powers-that be in both parties don’t want to take a chance that they can win without their cohesive base so they both alienate the middle.

    I’m an Independent – perhaps we need an Independents for Hillary movement that nudges the Democrats in the right direction by again reminding them of the strength of the middle. 
    The Historic Presidency has been done to death and the country is ready to move on.

  • AbigailAdams – wheatmeal cracker

    Bill Donlon: I’m sure I’m not understanding your overall point.  If you’re talking about “forgiveness” in the sense that AAs will finally be able to forgive whites for “institutional racism”, then I would say that that legitimizes the highly theoretical and highly questionable acceptance, outside of progressive circles,  of the reality of institutional racism.  It’s the theory itself that gives rise to what is to be forgiven.  At its core is the tacit agreement that to be white is to be racist.  Are we really to be forgiven for that? 

    In the absence of institutional racism, what are they to forgive?  I think that so long as we have Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Jeremiah Wright, Barry Soertoro (and his wife Michelle), and the others who continue to beat the drum of institutional racism and blame everything on slavery and Jim Crow (and this is precisely what they are doing) with no acknowledgement of Civil Rights legislation and enforcement, no mention of the reality of the actual landscape of blacks’ presence and contribution in every part of our society today — all the way to the WH –  there will continue to be those who will never, ever be satisfied or accountable for their own, individual responsibilities.  I’m with Noogan and a growing number of Americans on this — I feel no need to be forgiven.  But if that’s what it finally takes, and if it is what truly makes a difference to anyone who thinks I’ve wronged them by having been made by the gov’t to help them carry their “wronged” burden, I think they’ve been played by the liberals/progressives for their stance.  Am I to be forgiven for that?      

  • FLDemFem

    Hillary is riding off 90′s nostalgia Yeah, peace, prosperity and a balanced budget..that’s the sort of change I can go for!!

  • trixta

    He’s baaaaack…….. (FF, that is)!!!!

  • AbigailAdams – wheatmeal cracker

    One other thing on this:  What about all us “Oreos”, “Uncle Toms”, and assorted “Betrayers of our race?”  There are way too many of us in this category to overlook.  Why are the Sharptons and members of the Black Congressional Caucus, the Jealouses and the Brazilles of the country trying to shame us into taking up a battle against our white brothers and sisters if all they’re after is equality?  That doesn’t even make sense if one already feels equal.  It’s because they’re not seeking equality.  Maybe it’s a place in the progressive history books they seek. 

  • Armymom

    Amen AbigailAdams.

  • Armymom

    He loves to stir the pot about race as well as Obama does, of course he’s back. He’s got nothing else to say about how bad his POS CIC is doing so he’s got to “flame throw” about race.

  • oowawa

    Steve in KC–I’ve missed your posts and your wit.  Hope to “see” you more often!

    Many of us were PUMAs, and many of us still carry that attitude–Party Unity My Ass.  And we wanted Hillary to tell Obama to shove it, and not necessarily in a diplomatic way.  These feelings run deep. 

    We’ll see.

  • Seymour

    creeper, I have to agree. My Sister in Law and her husband lived with us during this time. The nieces were the ones that DIDN’T benefit from witnessing what happened. They saw the toughness Hillary demonstrated on the political battlefield as their first real experience in politics. They saw first hand the middle finger type insults that Obama hurled at Hillary daily. They saw her fight on, day after day, night after night and when she capitulated the whole house went upside down. This was their first political disappointment but when Mac Daddy offered her SOS and she accepted? They looked at us adults like WTH?  How could she feel comfortable working for someone who really hates her? No household adult had any answers to that elementary but spot on question. This event confused them big time. Looking back this was just not a teachable moment for the kids and it was my fault for bringing them into this particular process. We saw it in their faces as us adults were just as clueless. This was Ugly ugly……….
       
    The stars would have to be aligned for me to go down that path again as Armymom points out. If Hillary took the horns to Obama and I mean mercilessly, then and only then it would draw partial attention. Even then by way of Hillary enabling Mac Daddy’s twisted logic especially in foreign policy the campaign line-up would have to be Mac Daddy, Alvin Greene and Hillary Clinton. I know she was exhausted but IMO the campaign fatigue was due to her constantly having to defend herself from the bombs Bam Bam hurled her and every other way incessantly. We at the time had the muscle to go after Obama hoping Hillary would take this to a crescendo! Hillary was told by the party that if she continued she could rip the party apart. SO BE IT! Look what spawned henceforth! He ruined the party. I’m on the fence if in fact Hillary decides to run again leaning  as Armymom said, on a been there and done that dynamic for a solid year if not more. Also a clarification to my post above. There are rare times where I can’t find the strength to forgive, but I never forget.

    Seymour
     
     

  • kenoshamarge the cracked cracker

    You don’t have the capacity to strike a nerve in any part of me Noogan.

    I did not “attack” Hillary Clinton. I simply said I no longer support her nor would I vote for her again.

    I didn’t “love” Hillary Clinton. Ever. I don’t “love” politicians. Any of them.

    I try to vote for the least dismal candidate. In Hillary Clinton’s case although I did not agree with her on some issue, mandated health care was one, I thought her the far superior candidate and believed then and still do that she would have made a descent President. 

    I was appalled when Hillary went to work for Obama. That you see it as “serving” her country is fine for you. It doesn’t work for me. I see it as working for a man I believe is a danger to all the things I hold dear and an Administration and congress that I fine vile beyong my ability to express. That she chose to become part of that instead of retaining her seat and doing whatever she could from there disappointed me.

    Those that feel that she would have been “forced” to kowtow to the Oblama agenda seem to do her a greater disservice than anything I could say. Either she is strong enough to be president and be her own woman or she’s just a poor little female critter that would have been bullied by the boys.

    Not “loving” Hillary Clinton seems to be an act of lese majeste in your eyes. However I wonder, if she is the woman of character you believe she is and if she is a Stateswoman, just what she would think of your asolescent and snotty behavior. If you actually think that much of the woman, you might try living up to her. Because your behavior does her no credit.

  • lorac CheezIts

    Cindy – independents never win.

  • kenoshamarge the cracked cracker

    I have stated, more than once, that I am “over” the Clintons. However “over” them I may be I would never, not for an instant, believe that they are racist. They both may or may not be guilty of some things but IMO racism is not now and never has been one of them. The racism was from the Obama camp and all his little Obot followers.

    I believe, again I cannot “know” but I absolutely believe that the Clintons follow the thinking of MLK in not “seeing” color far more than the two POS that now reside in the White House and shame it on an almost daily basis with their race-baiting, greed, insensitivity and self-involvement.

  • maigret

    Thanks Steve.  I had all those ambivalent feelings about Hillary taking any post in Obama’s government.  But I think it was the best possible outcome.  She serves the country well, is apart form the mess in Congress (it would have been awful if she had taken her old Senate seat), and is getting international exposure, while still being seen as a valuable asset to this nation.  Her stature has increased so much my worry is that Barry and the boys will do something to undermine her.  (I also worry that Bill will too while he’s scrambling for the spotlight.)

    I hope POTUS doesn’t run in 2012.  I’m wishing the Party may see disaster looming and do what the Australians did by asking their PM to step aside, and then selected Julia Villard to be PM and avert certain defeat. 

    I think Hillary will be in a very strong position because she owes the Party nothing after what they did to her, she knows where the bodies are buried, and will find allies among the Republicans who will welcome her with relief.  I think she will get busy and do the dirty work of cleaning up the mess Barry will leave. I think she would unite the country with her no nonsense approach.

    Now brace yourself for my next suggestion for 2012 – Hillary/Sarah.

  • Docelder

    Democrat voters are like those tic tac toe playing chickens you see at the fair. They look like they are smart enough to understand the game… but really thet just peck at the corn. Democrat voters will do what they always do… peck at the corn fed them. They would vote for Chavez if he could find a Hawaii birth certificate and if the party elite wanted him.

  • Buzz-water cracker-Latte

    The question is:  Will the African American voters ever be post-racial enough to vote for someone with less color than themselves?

    If they have to a brotha or a sista candidate in order to be engaged in the elections, then they won’t matter.

  • Docelder

    Thats her branding. Peace and prosperity. I think Newt is more responsible for the prosperity and budget part than either of the Clintons ever will be. If you think firing off million dollar tomahawks at $100 tents in the desert is peace…  then Hillary is your shepherd.

  • Rosa

    think if  someone said that about sarah here

  • Buzz-water cracker-Latte

    In order for this country to move ahead it must stop coddling special interest groups.  Sorry, but skin tone doesn’t make you special or in need of all your whiny needs to be met.

    I call BS on FF’s sniveling stance.   Barry’s band of racist voters will be irrelevant in any post Barry elections.

  • Samb
  • Rabble Rouser Wheat Thin Cracker Rev. Amy

    Well said, Seymour.  Absolutely spot on.

  • ~~JustMe~~

    Hey Robb, it’s getting to the stage that they may not need to pay these days, seems they are giving the seats away these days!
    No pomp and ceremony now, the Greek columns simply dust! The rise and fall of the sham man!

  • Cindy

    But lorac—-Any woman who stands up to the patriarchs who want to keep women out of the White House and in our places, IS WINNING!

  • Cindy

    trixta—Kerry and Kennedy were not Hillary’s bosses. Big difference.

  • Cindy

    trixta—- Let me explain something to you:
    If we keep playing the SAME POLITICAL GAMES, NOTHING CHANGES!!

  • Rosa

    obama hoodwinked the african americans didn’t he?

  • felizarte

    NO TO: “For whatever good the Clinton’s have ever done they will always be defined for enabling the left wing agenda of Obama.”

    the 53% of the voters did that!  The country is shattering, let’s not blame Hillary for that; she fought hard not to let that happen; she’s working hard now, however and whatever her present job allows her to do.  In fairness, let’s wait until she can personally answer the personal accusations/ suppositions about the events surrounding the recent past. 

    As far as I am concerned, Hillary has not done anything yet to UNdeserve my trust or pride in her.  I would vote for her again, as long as it is not VP to Obama.  

  • EllenD

    Steve, thanks for puling us together and reminding us why we are here.

  • felizarte

    2012 – Hillary/Sarah.  Perfect!

  • Peggy Sue

    “She was a Senator working for the people of New York.”

    And now she’s Secretary of State, working for the entire country.  And doing a damn good job to boot.  Those favorability ratings come from both sides of the aisle.  But you’re right, she did, indeed, choose.  She chose service to the Nation, even after everything that went down.  She never quit.  

  • Annie Ak Mak Cracker

    What you said, Docelder plus the overwhelming hatred of GWB. They’d have elected Adolph over a Republican…and probably hoped he’d start killing anyone who didn’t agree with them. 

    As for the Arkansas comment:  When we moved to CA after WWII, as a little child, I never knew that people thought it was the first time I’d ever worn shoes.  My family was All-American and recovered from the Civil War by then and while we weren’t rich (I always thought we were) we always had the necessities of life and a comfortable home.  It apparently came from a radio “comic”, Bob Burns who promoted Arkansas as the bastion of barefoot Hillbillies and Dog Patch shacks.  Shocking to me even as a child because it was so far from reality.

  • Carlaforhillary

    @ Maigret – Totally agree with you! :)

  • Annie Ak Mak Cracker

    I accept his resignation and hope he has a long life spent getting exactly what he deserves. 

  • Cindy

    Ellen D—I agree with alot of what you’ve said. In my opinion, Hillary should have taken her 18 million supporters and run as an Independent. So what  if she would not have won? It really is HOW you play, not if you win.  And by continuing to play the same political games year upon year, nothing changes. And nothing ever will, as long as women continue to be the lap puppies of the patriarchy.

  • Annie Ak Mak Cracker

    That is exactly my sentiment.  I don’t know if I could ever vote for her again though. 

  • Carlaforhillary

    @ anngonzalez – such a great post. Hillary did try and let it be known to the press about the caucus fraud in Texas, but she was ignored, so I guess at that stage of the game is when her campaign made the decision that the best way to fight Obama was to not quit and let the story come out on its own, in due time.  Like now….

    I really hope Obama doesn’t run and Hillary does.

  • Carlaforhillary

    @ Creeper – I see you point, but I hope you are wrong.  I think independents are independents because they are well…independent.

    I think it will depend who is the republican nominee.

  • Carlaforhillary

    @ Clara – thank you.

  • Annie Ak Mak Cracker

    A lot of my former heros fell with the racism cry.  John Lewis for instance has become just another fat political toad.  A traitor to Hillary and a rubberstamp black caucus sycophant.  I can’t believe that MLK would feel proud of him…he might have enough compassion to understand but there would be no black pride.

  • Peggy Sue

    It’s not “business” per se, getfit that I or anyone is against.  I come from a small family business background.  I know it’s hard to keep things afloat.  You work your butt off to make a profit. And there’s nothing wrong with making money, lots of money as long as it’s made honestly. 

    What I object to is the intrusion of corporate interests, the transnationals buying off DC, lobbyists pushing their agenda over the interests of the American public, regulators who are in bed with industry, and  the average citizen left out of the equation.  Because that mix threatens the very notion of a Democratic Republic.  We have lost a sense of balance when everything favors the mega-corporations and the umemployed, and yes, even small business people are left to twist in the wind.

    Corporations have their place.  But they should not be running the show and our elected offcials should not be feeding out of their pockets. 

  • Carlaforhillary

    So true, FLDemFem.  Obama said in his acceptance speech that he was going to “fundamentally change” America.  He doesn’t care about us, he only cares about what he sees is the right thing to do, whether we like it or not. And he does see him self as successful. He is trying to get back at America for all its perceived wrongs, not make it necessarily better.

  • Peggy Sue

    That’s one of the best arguments I’ve seen, Dario.  Makes sense, too.

  • Annie Ak Mak Cracker

    I agree.  And as a start, I’d like to get a WH without Lawyers in the Oval Office.

  • Annie Ak Mak Cracker

    And doing a damn fine job from all I heard from many New Yawkers who visited Carmel.

  • Annie Ak Mak Cracker

    Thanks for reminding me why I want to see the Democrats in the wilderness for the next 50 years.  SOB’s and P’sOS.

  • Annie Ak Mak Cracker

    After all the division the country has been through that would be my dream team but I doubt it would ever enter their minds.  Talk about bi-partisanism!

  • Annie Ak Mak Cracker

    I’d love him to resign now…maybe he could make a post presidential career being a spokesperson for manorexia (appologies to any ano or manorexics here).  But I believe that’s the level of “post” involvement in society that would suit his character and real status.

  • Cindy

    She never quit.  

    Peggy Sue,
    She never quit ….the patriarchy.
    A book written about her current political life might well be titled
     ”The View From Obama’s Lap”.

    Very sad for me and other former Hillary supporters.

  • felizarte

    Annie AMC, about shoes:  I grew up in a very tiny island somewhere in the Pacific and didn’t wear shoes until I went off to college.  At thirteen, when Japanese thongs became available, I had them.  But for the most part,  I was barefoot.  In our family we would say, “we’re not poor, we just don’t have any money.”  Now I am much, much older, and I can see that many people have so much money and yet poor in so many other ways.  I like me, my hometown and family.

  • felizarte

    About voting or not voting for Hillary:  We’ll just have to “cross the bridge when we get to it”

  • felizarte

    Murray, what you said: “Arkansas has been America’s punchline for so long that it almost doesn’t hurt anymore.”  must be a big part of Bill Clinton’s psychological makeup, added to all his difficult childhood experiences, made him into the resilient, intelligent, charismatic, personality that many love.

  • felizarte

    come now OA!  Until I was old enough to know better, I believed my mother when she said (in answer to the obvious question) that I came out of her knee.  For the longest time, in my child’s mind, I tried to picture how it could possibly be true.  Occasionally, when I was much older, I’d answer a child’s question with the same answer because I figure that when they’re old enough, they would know the answer to such a natural biological process.

    As far as Bill Clinton lying about Lewinsky:  show me any man, who would voluntarily admit such a thing, until circumstances compel the truth out of them.  

  • candymarl light brown cracker

    Too true JohnSmart. I remember watching a You Tube vid of Bill after his car was involved in a fender bender.  The people there were freaking out. You should have heard them. They kept asking things like:

    Are you okay Mr. President?
    How do feel Mr. President?
    Did you go to the hospital Mr. President?

    The way the crowd carried on you would have  thought  he was still the sitting President.

    That’s not the first video I’ve seen like that with throngs of people, unscripted and unplanned showing up just to be where Bill C is.  

    The look on Bill’s face is priceless. It’s a look of joy and surprise. Yeah Bill has an ego.  He’s a politician so it’s rather large I suspect.  But his joy, delight, and caring for his fellow Americans isn’t faked.  I’ve lived long enough to see phonies who pretend to care when they don’t. He’s not one of them.

  • Onofre’s arm

    When you were an adult, did you still believe you came from your mother’s knee? And did you tell about this remarkable form of reproduction to countless people over many years and have it included in you own biography? Fer chrisakes, give it up, Hillary herself has admitted it was bogus, how much more do you need?

  • felizarte

    Corporatist crap, right on Doc.  Nothing but monopolistic capitalists who have succeeded in blurring the difference between capitalism and free enterprise.  I am all for free enterprise, not big business capitalistic monopoly and all entities who play the same manipulative games such as big unions and big government.

  • candymarl light brown cracker

    Warehouse553 I hate to agree but you’re right.  They, DNC, glorified and set up Obama as The One.  They’ve played the race card so often that if they get rid of Obama there goes the  black vote.  Maybe a good chunk of the Latino vote as well.

    The Dems are now hoist by their own petard.

  • felizarte

    creepeer said: What I wanted Hillary to do is what we do here every day…SPEAK UP against the racisim, misogyny and classism that Barry exploited

    She has been talking in every capacity.  I think what we really wanted was for her to be in a better position to put action to her words.  To the extent that she could do that as SOS, she has.  I know that many of us were sad to see her cheated out of POTUS.  In politics, timing is everything.  I have a faith that Hillary still have a lot of fight left.  When she decides to hang up her gloves, then she can talk so more, or write more books.

  • Scout

    I love that photo, too.  Looking at it again now, it reminds me of what a big deal B0 made out of a brief stint in the gulf, when he had to stand in the rain talking to American’s about the spill and its effects on them. 

    Hillary is a champion, B0 is a loser.

  • Scout

    No way.  That’s the Obamas’ list of concerns, except they know they’ve got AFI, and the American people don’t even make the list.

  • anngonzalez

    me too, carlaforhillary, me too.

  • Scout

    Yawn.  FF you are so predictible it’s boring.  Obama is the master race baiter.  And his team and supporters always accuse the Clinton’s of being what, in reality, Obama is.

    Race card users, oops that was Obama.  Liars, nope, Obama again.  Do anything to win, oh, Obama excels at that.  The list goes on, ad nauseum.

    Any time you make a charge against Hillary or Bill Clinton, you just confirm what is true about your Dear Leader.

  • anngonzalez

    Cindy, I am an ardent feminist and getting one’s voice heard is only part of the fight…you need to win battles, too. The suffragettes had to win in the political arena…they threatened to support the republican candidate if women’s voting rights weren’t made an issue and taken up by the dem party.

    Again, the press wasn’t covering Hillary…they were burying her. She wouldn’t have been on half the ballots in the us as an independent and it would’ve ended her political and public service career. A sacrifice she’s not obligated to make…for anyone. When I see pictures of Hillary engaged with other heads of state she looks really happy…like SOS has been engaging work for her and a role that she’s gotten a lot out of. And, frankly I think if she weren’t anchoring the US’s foreign relations I bet most other countries would’ve called in our debt and we’d be a shell of a nation by now. The only thing keeping the world from panicing over a BO administration (IMO) is Hillary.

    She has never be a lab puppy of the patriarchy. She is the only feminist that has consistently spoken out about the importance of women’s rights. No matter her role or position, she advocates for women and children and that is remarkable. No one else in public office does it…

  • anngonzalez

    Ellen, did you know that the African American voting block used to vote republican? The reason the south became viewed as “solidly” republican was because most African American’s voted republican because Lincoln was a republican. It wasn’t until the civil rights act was signed that the Dem party won over the african american voting block and started having more success in congressional politics.

    Again, for all we know, Obama threatened to switch to the republican party (he governs like a republican and we know how much he hates bill and hillary and loves reagan) if he wasn’t given the nomination. Hillary couldn’t exactly do the same since most of the repubs have CDS.

    The dems definitely are afraid of losing the african american vote and felt that the women’s vote was locked up because of roe v wade. The repubs are conceding the african american vote (sort of) and going after the women’s vote…which is why they’re putting up nominee after nominee. My bet is that going into this november Dems will bring up abortion all the time and repubs will say that there are more important issues at hand and that there’s little chance that roe v wade will be overturned. Basically they’ll say it’s a judicial issue and not a legislative one. It should be interesting.

  • Cindy

    anngonzalez—-No one has to tell me what all Hillary has said and done for women.
    But, it was CRUCIAL for her to “walk the talk” and NOT fall in line like a good girl Democrat for the sake of Obama and the Democrats. Why she put party OVER integrity is beyond me.
    Feminism should transcend partisanship—always!

  • anngonzalez

    Yeah, I don’t think she put part over integrity. I see her as continuing to work for women and children every day.

  • maigret

    OOPS.  The Australian PM is Julia Gillard (not Villard).

  • Docelder

    Just like Obama’s uncle at Auschwitz, or Obama being conceived because of Selma. To these guys everything is branding. They are identical twins… Obama and Hillary in that way. Both are manufactured branded people. We have no idea who either of these people really are. We just see the branded mask. But when we do get a glimpse of either… it isn’t pretty. Like Hillary asking who painted the Lady of Guadalupe. Did she really not know that catholics in Mexico believe GOD painted it? Or was she just asking a rhetorical question because she thinks that is a bunch of hooey. Sounds just like the passive aggressive thing Obama would do himself.

  • Steve_in_KC

    Breeze, I’m kind of stunned at your reaction.  I tried to be very clear that I love Bill Clinton, and I apologize if I touched a nerve with my approach to a sensitive subject. I certainly wasn’t wishing him any harm! Statistically, husbands go first, and often the widow’s stature grows, and sometimes those who held grudges against the husband may befriend his widow.

    I am happy they are still married, and I think they are a super couple.  My point was that many voters just didn’t want Bill back in the White House, as a co-President. But maybe that’s changing, after the Obama Debaucle. Hopefully!

  • Steve_in_KC

    Ellen, thank you for the wonderful comment!  I’m touched. 

  • Steve_in_KC

    oowawa!  Sorry I’m so late in responding.  It’s been a busy day!

    Thanks for your kind words.  As for the middle paragraph, I completely understand that point of view. I felt that way at first.  But I’ve often found myself feeling more secure knowing Hillary was SOS instead of someone like Valerie Jarrett (who will probably take over when Hillary steps down, ala Condoleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeza).

    By the way, sha la la, doo be wa, etc.  8-)

  • Steve_in_KC

    EllenD – thank you.  And it’s your turn to change the litterbox!

    You’ve shared some fascinating thoughts on the power of Independents to sway the major parties.  As others has pointed out, Independents don’t stand a chance of winning in our system, but they can certainly affect the outcome!  Just ask Al Gore!

    Even Bill Clinton owes his first win to Ross Perot, who split the conservative vote with Bush the Elder.  That will be part of my next post. ;) ;)

  • Objective Voice

    Wow, what’s happened to NoQuarter? Is it basically Sarah Palin supporters/your run of the mill Republicans now, pretending to be Hillary supporters?    
       
    I find these cries that “Hillary should have taken on the Democratic Party singlehandedly” downright ridiculous. I don’t expect martydrom from Hillary and I’m surprised so many people who claim to have been for Hillary, do.    
       
    Face it, Hillary as SOS is the best move she could have made. Had she remained in the Senate, she would have been just as marred by Obama’s policies as the rest of the Democrats in Congress have been. That she is not in the Senate, has left her clean of that mess.  If you are someone who did support Hillary, you’d be glad that’s the hand she has to work with.

    But instead, it almost seems like….some Hillary supporters wish she had remained in the Senate so that she could be just as damaged as the rest of the Democrats???  
     
    Now, if you are a Republican is disguise, I could see how you’d cheer that…but if you were a Hillary supporter, to want her to be diminished in such a way….MAKES NO SENSE!!  
       
    Try harder, Republicans. Boggles the mind, the level of trolling going on here…

  • Steve_in_KC

    lorac CheezIts wrote: Steve, thanks for the article!  I’m not as smart as Hillary, but will you marry me!!!!!

    Steve_in_KC replied: My wife, whose initials are KC, might have some competition on her hands!  I’ll have to think about this!! ;)

  • Geoff C.. The Saltine

    O V go back to huff n puff and keep on luvin barry. never seen you here so don’t tell us how to feel about HRC.

  • Cindy

    “Objective” Voice—Well, I know that true  feminists really appreciate those little pats on the head that the Democrats give Hillary for marching lock-step with your half black Fuhrer.
    Geniessen Sie!

  • Bill Donlon

    Abigail: Forgivness frees the forgiver.
    I am not a religious person but I “get” the concept of forginess.

    It is about moving on.
    I had all the feelings expressed by Noogan concering the “race card”.
    Then I just stopped caring about it.

    Look, the opposit of “Love” is not hate.
    Hate, Love, and anger are all apart of the same emotion.

    The opposit of Love, hate and anger is — “indifference”!

    Indifference is the “collective shrug” that so many of us have come to concerning the Race Card.

    They have beaten this race drum so many times that it has no sound left in it.

    It is “non important:, “so over”, “a yadda,yadda yadda”.

    “It is a dead parrot!”

    When it comes to race, I have divested myself of all emotion, I have shrugged and moved on.

    That is the liberating power of forgivness.
    I forgive myself for ever thinking it was important enough to get mad.

    Millions are comming to this same collective shrug,
    We are just so past the NAACP being anything but childish.
    To us, they have eviserated themselves.

    “I’m not saying they treated me unkind
    They could have done better, but I don’t mind
    They just kind of wasted my precious time
    But don’t think twice, It’s alright.”

    “The “race card”??
    It’s less than a detail!” 
    He shrugged and Moved on!

    Keep your energy focoused on Hillary, 2012
    They will not be able to do to us what they did in 2008

  • Annie Ak Mak Cracker

    Hillary supporter since 1992, had many letters to the editor published supporting them, voted for them, donated money and left the Democratic Party on 5/31/08 in protest to what the DNC did.  So don’t presume we haven’t been supporters of Hill and Bill.  However, many of us at NQ have “progressed” past the lying, cheating, thieving Obamacrat Party and don’t take kindly to anyone who stayed around them to play their game.  It’s not about pouting, being small, or not getting it but rather about integrity and principle…of which the Obamacrats have none.

  • helenk

    I hope she does not run in 2012. The bills that benedict backtrack and bunch shoved down our throats without reading are backloaded. Many of the bad things will come into effect in 2012 or after. She will be held responible for those mistakes. Since it will be democrat following democrat she will be limited on what she can say. Also it  will probably be a republican congress. I have no doubts she could and would work with them, it would make it harder. The democrats did so much damage while in control it will take years to undo. Insead of fixing the damage from Bush they added to it.

    2016 would be a better time for her. I really do hope that she runs in 2016.

    WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

    PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE CHATTERING PEOPLE RULE

  • helenk

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    KEEP WISHIN AND A HOPIN

    WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AN D EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS

    PUMAS,BUBBAS,EQUALISTS AND THOSE  CHATTERING PEOPLE RULE

  • kenoshamarge the cracked cracker

    Ahh bringing out the ultimate insult, you don’t agree with my point of view, therefore you must be a Republican. And not even an honest Republican but a “closet” Republican.

    Such simplicity must be comforting when living in such a narrow little world. Out here in the “real” world, there are many opinions coming from many people from left, right, Democrat, Republican and Independent. And not everyone in any party agrees all the time with anyone else. Imagine that.

    However when you have a blind and bigoted hatred of the other side, Republicans hating Democrats, Democrats hating Republicans you have the kind of stupidity and gridlock that sits in our nation’s capital. It is more important to “score” points against the “enemy” than get things done.

    I have too many nice, decent friends and family that happen to be nice, decent Republicans to be silly enough to “hate” them for the crime of not agreeing with me.

    Having been a Democrat, and a Hillary Clinton fan for many years doesn’t mean that I say yes and amen every time someone mentions the name of Clinton. She’s moved on and so have I.

    I quit being a Democrat on May 31st, 2008 and quit being a Hillary supporter when she joined the Obama Administration. Others thought differently and remained supporters. Does that make either right or wrong? Maybe it just means they don’t agree.

    As an Independent I don’t have to “support” any person, candidate or party out of some misguided sense of “loyalty”. After being a pinheaded partisan for so many years I am now, finally comfortable with my position and my party.

    Keep up the partisanship and the bigotry if it comforts YOU. Most of us would prefer to keep our nuanced and diverse thoughts and feelings.

  • Nice Try

    All you supposive Hillary supporters on here are a bit funny. How can many of you support much of the far right ideology on NQ and still call yourselves Hillary supporters? It does not make sense. Most of the posts on NQ just pick up the standard bogus far right and conservative narratives. Most post just quote far right commentators. All you supposive Hillary supporters just eat it up. Explain to me how does one all of a sudden switch ideologies to a far right point of view on the issues? Especially, when many of the far rights ideas massively failed during the Bush years. I can understand if you do not like Obama for beating Hillary, but to support the rignt just does not make sense to me.

  • ImRubberYoureGlue

    “He Whose Middle Name Must Not Be Spoken”

    Love. it.

  • ImRubberYoureGlue

    “I am in awe of the woman. I don’t believe any other politician in America would’ve continued to fight for the nomination the way she did…no one else would have had the strength nor the commitment. And she didn’t have to scream “fight, fight, fight” like McCain did. And, for Hillary to go from that long arduous race to being the non-stop Secretary of State that she is…OMG.  ”

    I love your post and feel exactly the same way!

  • ImRubberYoureGlue

    My gut agrees with you 100%, my friend; but my mind reminds me that people have legitimate feelings on this issue that are neither “petty” nor “juvenile” and are based completely on a rational reading of Hillary’s choices since 5/31/2008. It’s not my personal reading, but certainly, I could be the one playing the fool.

    That said, I think most people on both sides carry a bit of the “let’s just wait and see” attitude.

  • BBF

    I also quit being a Democrat on May 31st, 2008 and quit being a Hillary supporter when she joined the Obama Administration.  I lost all respect for her.  She reminded me too much of the abused wife…who continues to “stand by her man”.  I will never vote Democratic again!

  • Noogan

    i really like this poem by Vance, thanks Bill Donlon. 

    There’s a lesson in there for all of us; and it’s probably the hardest lesson in life to learn for most of us….

    Anyway, thanks for sharing that one! :)

  • Noogan

    There is no difference whatsoever. 

    You can’t stand the fact that Obama is the CinC. Hillary Clinton undoubtedly agrees.

    YOu say your son is doing it for love of his fellow soldiers who serve; Hillary Clinton is undoubtedly serving as Sec/State because she loves those who serve in the State Department alongside her. And she also undoubtedly wants to protect this country and believes she is the best person to be Sec/State and can best protect this country by serving in that capacity.

    I’ve just told you how it is relevant. Yes, I’m sure Hillary Cilnton does have “comrades in arms” she wants to protect and can do it as Sec/State. 

    Do you not think that the Sec/State is ever in danger of being hit by a sniper? Are you in denial? The Sec/State travels to places across the globe, many of which are quite dangerous. And, she is always a target for Al Qaeda, no matter where she travels. 

    Your son may be dodging “bullets” but the Secretary of State is dodging daggers aimed at her back every single day and dodging threats from global terrorists as well. Not only that, but she is trying to represent this nation with courage and conviction. 

    “End of story!” Hello, are you 3 years old? You stomping your foot and demanding that your say-so is the end? Well, sorry. I don’t think you’re realistic at all.

  • Noogan

    I’m certainly not delusional. But your opinion remains stupid and full of shit. 

    I don’t think about the Clinton’s “bamboozling” or “hoodwinking” Americans. 

    I observe Obama doing it. 

    Get a brain, you pathetic turd. 

  • Noogan

    It’s the corruption. But I largely agree with everything you say, Peggy Sue. 

  • Noogan

    Dario, your argument is so good, cogent and brilliant. Thanks! :)

  • Noogan

    He’s only an asset to the base Democratic voters. Unfortunately for Bill Clinton, his endorsement persuades fewer and fewer voters overall nowadays. People aren’t all that enamored with the Democratic Party, thanks to Obama and Congressional Democrats. 

  • bamaLV

    just finished reading “living History” by hillary, written in 2003. she talks about how she campaigned for barbara boxer, chuck schumer and the rest of those backstabbers.  little did she know then that 5 years later they would turn around and stab her in the back .the rumor that she might challenge obame in 2012 is growing legs. as these rumors heat up i suspect she will be resigning soon. talk about karma being a bitch.  O/T but it looks like scott brown turned out to be a weasel too.  obame invites him to the WH to play hoops and suddenly brown is the deciding vote for regulation.  i wonder what O promised him.

  • bamaLV

    so now lil barky is  crying to Big Daddy er..i mean Big Dawg to come bail him out. bill should tell him to f–k off after the way O treated him and hillary during the primaries. does this man have no humility at all? 

  • bamaLV

    notice the post racial president  and his american hating wife have yet to come out  against all these racial slurs about just about everyone .when meeechele gave her little speech to the NAACP(which certainly would have been the appropriate time to do this, all she did was call for “more intensity” from the black community. code words perhaps?

  • bamaLV

    im sure making hillary SOS was not obames choice.  he knew the clintons had plenty of dirt on him and this was his way of keeping them quiet.  i cant wait for hillarys next book, which im sure has been in progress since the primaries.then and only then will we find out the real truth.

  • bamaLV

    the last best hope for the dems is to have hillary run against palin. wouldnt that be something?

  • bamaLV

    as a former dem turned independent,i hope the repubs dont give us a bunch of already ran and lost candidates. no gingrich, romney, huckabee et al. we want some fresh faces with no baggage, no ax to grind, and no favors owed.  i like paul ryan and eric cantor.  id like to see more of them in the future before making up my mind.  no more losers!!

  • bamaLV

    im sure there are many african americans , who are sucessful due to their own hard work and talents (of which there are many),must be thinking to themselves  ‘here we go again. we thought we were over this since the 60′s then along comes obama and meechele who start racial tensions all over again.  been there, done that. dont want to do it again”

  • trixta

    On the other hand, Cindy, there’s no 100% guarantee that things will “change” even with different “political games” (e.g. I think hopey-changey BO makes this point).   

  • trixta

    Disagree, OA.  HRC’s “lies” are nothing compared to GWB’s (i.e. WMDs in Iraq) & Obama’s LIES (i.e. {fill in the blank})!  Had HRC challenged or opposed BO after he was handed the nomination, the press (Left and Right) would have  crucified her, Bill, and Chelsea.  They would be parriahs now.   

  • trixta

    Yes, I’ve heard of it (thank you very much!), creeper, and I wish WJC had done so too–his legacy would probably be the better for it.   But many would like to argue — at least in tone — that it was Bill’s very own malicious idea to repeal G-S in the first place.  I believe that even if he had stood on principle and vetoed it, he would still be blamed for “letting Congress override his veto,” etc.        

  • trixta

    Alrighty, then, creeper.  How about “politics” for “game”.  Hope you catch a big fish. 

  • trixta

    Thank you, Cindy, for “explaining” that to me.   FYI, I never claimed  they were her “bosses” — those are your words.  But since you’ve brought up the issue of Senatorial rank, I believe HRC was Junior Senator while Kerry and Kennedy had seniority in the Senate.   Seniority or no seniority, having to work with these two bozos in the Senate would have been very unpleasant for her.

  • trixta

    Yes, FF is really in his element now.

  • trixta

    WJC will be defined by the prosperity and relative peace the country enjoyed during his tenure as Prez.

    HRC will be defined by her heroic attempt at breaking through that glass ceiling. (That is, if she decides not to run again.) 

  • FranSC

    Hillary is not looking “bad” as in sick.  The only reason she doesn’t always look like she just stepped out of a magazine photo shoot is due to her hair.  Hillary obviously does not have wash and blow-dry kind of hair.  Straight, flat hair is not a flattering look for Hillary.  However, her work trumps taking the time necessary for a good hair day every day. 

    Some idiot wrote recently that “Hillary has a new hairstyle and is running for POTUS!”  How stupid to consider her most unflattering look on a “bad hair day” as her new hairstyle.  If you don’t like the way Hillary looks today, just wait until tomorrow.  She does not usually let this happen two days in a row. 

  • AC

    Testing

  • AC

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