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“What good is a great economy if you have to worry about getting blown up by a car bomb every time you go to the Mall? You want another Baghdad here in the USA, not me! I want my grandkids to be free and that includes being free from the fear of being killed by a terrorist. If Obama is elected, you better hope he adopts Hillary Health Care plan, because you are going to need it with his idea of “Security” for this country. I am one of them bible thumping, gun toting red necks and dam proud of it.” –Ed
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WASHINGTON — Get ready for a special guest star in the Republican campaign against Democrat Barack Obama: Hillary Clinton. Months of bare-knuckled campaign fights, pitched rhetoric and debate jousting produced a treasure chest of sound bites and videos of Clinton ripping Obama as inexperienced, elitist or simply wrong on various issues.
Now that the Democratic primaries are over and Obama has clinched his party’s nomination, the Republicans are ready to pounce. The Republican National Committee on Wednesday rolled out new ads quoting Clinton criticizing Obama, the first of what likely will be many such ads.
In one, Clinton is heard in a Democratic debate ripping Obama’s stance that he’d meet with foreign dictators without preconditions if elected. “I disagree with his continuing to say that he would meet with some of the worst dictators in the world without preconditions and without the real, you know, understanding of what we would get from it,” she says. More
The clip was posted on YouTube by “The Public Service Administration “Public service administration”, a group of former journalists in the US. It’s based on an idea by blogger John Aravosis and parodies a scene from Monty Python and The Holy Grail, the cult film by the British comedy troupe.
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“Hillary Clinton is trailing in the number of pledged delegates. Everyone, or nearly everyone, considers her beaten for the nomination. But the senator from New York refuses to lay down her sword. This thirst for battle, whatever the cost, has inspired one of our observers in the U.S., who compared the attitude of Hillary Clinton to that of the famous “black knight” from Monty Python.
Barack Obama is now credited with 1,957 delegates, and he needs 2,025 to win the nomination. Three primaries remain between now and June 3rd and for Hillary Clinton it is mathematically impossible to catch up to her rival in terms of pledged delegates. She can only count on the possibly of a massive turn of super-delegates in her favor.
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Ever since she realized back in early March that Obama was going to take the nomination Hillary Clinton’s long-term strategy has been to do her best to ensure McCain will win this November so she can become the Democratic nominee in 2012. But she had a short term strategy too and on Friday she deliberately made it explicit in a newspaper office in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. There she suggested that some is likely to step up to the plate and assassinate Barack Obama in the waning moments of the California primary, just as Bobby Kennedy was forty years go almost to the day. The wish is mother to the deed. If anything does happen to Obama in California Mrs Clinton should surely be indicted as a co-conspirator.
How to else construe her grotesque remarks in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, in the editorial offices of the Argus Leader newspaper. Here she told the editors, “My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. I don’t understand it,” she said, dismissing calls to drop out. Read more
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Geraldine Ferraro, the only woman to run on a major party presidential ticket and a supporter of Hillary Clinton, has accused Barack Obama of conducting a “terribly sexist” campaign. Miss Ferraro, the losing Democratic candidate for vice-president in 1984, said that she might abandon her lifelong party loyalties and vote for the Republican John McCain if Mr Obama is confirmed as the nominee.
Now, I’m very sure misogyny is alive and well in the USA, as it is mostly everywhere else on this fine planet of ours but I think madame Ferraro should be advised not to complain too much about the way Obama has campaigned. As far as I can remember he has not spread evil rumours about her - as some of those coming from team Clinton. Remember the one about Obama wearing some traditional garb? Yes, that one, which had one of the Clinton people dig up the Muslim thing again. Which Hilary was good enough to - well, not to deny, when she said that “as far as she knew” Obama was a Christian. Read more
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David Saltonstal DAILY NEWS
Political reaction was swift and unanimously negative. Even Hillary loyalists expressed shock, dismay and private outrage. It was a rare moment in political circles when Democrats and Republicans alike literally had the same visceral first response: “Oh. My. God.”
“She said what?” an incredulous Rev. Al Sharpton told the Daily News, adding that the remark reinforced his belief that Clinton should fold her candidacy. “The danger of her staying in is that she keeps making statements that do serious harm to the party and, increasingly, irreparable harm to her and her legacy,” Sharpton said. A horrified senior Republican operative added, softly: “She is so finished. What a pathetically stupid thing to say.”
Clinton’s embarrassing comment was the worst gaffe of a campaign universally considered doomed. It was certain to complicate - and perhaps destroy - her chances of wresting the nomination from Obama or of becoming his running mate, an idea some of her operatives and supporters have floated.
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Asked if her continuing fight for the nomination against Senator Obama hurts the Democratic party, Sen. Hillary Clinton replied, “I don’t. Because again, I’ve been around long enough. You know, my husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. You know, I just don’t understand it. You know, there’s lots of speculation about why it is. “
Michael Goodwin
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She once described herself as “the most famous person you know very little about.” But as she careens across the country in a desperate attempt to rescue her campaign, America is coming to know Hillary Clinton all too well.
The tenacity that even critics praised suddenly looks tawdry. The persistence against impossible odds appears anything but noble. Long after the party is over, Clinton’s refusal to go home is taking on the trappings of a sad spectacle.
Her inability to accept defeat is not, it seems clear, about public service or even politics. It is merely personal.
With Barack Obama on a glide path to the Democratic nomination - he has insurmountable leads in delegates and popular votes - Clinton’s cringe-inducing performance is doing what her harshest critics never could. It has ripped away any pretense that she actually stands for something.
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Sen. Hillary Clinton will narrowly win the Indiana Democratic primary, CNN projects. She wins 51% of the vote to Obama’s 49%. Click here for details. The Democratic contest in Indiana was too close to call Tuesday as late returns erased what had been a commanding lead for Sen. Hillary Clinton. As polls closed in Indiana, Clinton had a double-digit lead over Sen. Barack Obama, but by the end of the evening, Clinton’s lead had shrunk to 2 percent.
In an April 30 blog post, National Public Radio political director Ken Rudin wrote: “[D]id I really say on CNN that Hillary Clinton reminded me of Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction? I did. I wish I hadn’t. It was a facile and dumb comparison.” As Media Matters for America previously documented, during a discussion about the Democratic presidential primary race on the April 27 edition of CNN’s Sunday Morning, Rudin stated: “[L]et’s be honest here, Hillary Clinton is Glenn Close in Fatal Attraction. She’s going to keep coming back, and they’re not going to stop her.”
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…the chairman of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign, Terry McAuliffe, uttered four words that the Fox News Channel would not soon forget. “Fair and balanced Fox!,” he exclaimed, noting that the network was the first to project Clinton’s Pennsylvania primary win. The next day it showed up in promotions. All of a sudden, the once-frosty relationship between Fox News and the Democratic candidates seems to have grown warmer. Clinton and Barack Obama, who steadfastly refused to attend Fox-sponsored debates last year, are now giving plenty of interviews as they court Fox’s viewers, who are largely white, conservative and undecided.
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