Obama responds to DNC ruling
Posted on May 31st, 2008 by political buzz
The presumptive nominee spoke briefly at an evening presser in South Dakota about the future of the fading Dem race and what he thinks the Clintons will do next . Via Halperin’s The Page...
“I think that Senator Clinton and former President Clinton love this country. They love the Democratic Party. I think they deeply believe that Democrats need to win in November. And so I trust that they’re going to do the right thing.”
Wishful thinking? And will a soothing VP spot be dangled next? So many questions…
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You have to remember, Obama needs the political appearance of being the “Unifier”, the “Change” politician, needing both of the Clintons to shore up his sagging polls numbers with the Lunch Bucket Dems, etc., etc., etc. Also, Obama doesn’t want Hillary, herself, to come after him with a frying pan and Bill Clinton after him with a kitchen knife (from the ‘kitchen sink strategy’ playbook).
Also, could someone vet this posting I read from a viewer’s comments: “I see many Clinton supporters blaming Obama supporters for not voting for Obama. Have you forgotten that the Republican Party is essentially a men’s club? Have you forgotten that McCain’s temper made him call his own wife the C-word in public? McCain while in the Navy had a reputation as soliciting prostitutes in every port. He has a horrible record in voting for woman’s rights and issues. Decide what you will but don’t make McCain out to be a champion for woman when his whole career showed he was not”
In the meantime, some light scrutiny from the Los Angeles Times online newspaper: “When John McCain arrived in the Valley of the Sun nearly three decades ago, he was weighed down with enough negatives to sink most budding politicians. Some Arizonans dismissed him as a carpetbagger shopping for an available House seat — and a future in Washington politics. Others were annoyed that he had left the wife who waited valiantly for his return from a Hanoi prison, and that he had then married a much younger bride. His political opponents derided his marriage into Arizona’s Hensley beer distributor fortune as a “money-in-law” arrangement to boost his campaign coffers.”
If Hillary cares greater about the issues than of herself (which she claimed in her political campaigns), she will make her concession speech by June 7, 2008.
The way Hillary conducted her campaign for the POTUS, no wonder Bill sought the past refuge of other women (besides his ego, urging him on). I wasn’t aware of the eight documented encounters Bill Clinton had with Monica Lewinsky, as revealed in the WH papers released earlier this year. Was all of this insistence on winning the Presidency by Hillary a personal ultimatum to Bill Clinton for his indiscretions in the White House? Hillary knew Bill’s pattern of personal behavior way before Bill Clinton’s Presidency, but her own quest for power and control took precedence over anything that could be construed as Bill’s pseudo respect for Hillary Clinton as a person and their marriage as a whole.