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TODAY'S STORIES
03.06.2008
A Total Disgrace

Maybe Clinton will endorse Obama tomorrow, in which case this post will be moot, but her speech tonight has been combative and petty (mentioning the states she won, saying the primaries ended in South Dakota, not Montana, claiming a popular vote win), with scant praise for the Democratic nominee. If Clinton wants people to believe that she cares more about the Democratic Party than her own career, she is failing badly.

--Isaac Chotiner 

Posted: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 9:46 PM with 18 comment(s)

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Crock1701 said:

Also, Hillary's $20 million in debt campaign took spending money from a kid who stole their bike, and an Iraq vet's needed spending money.  Stay classy!  

June 3, 2008 9:50 PM

Rhubarbs said:

Perhaps she simply knows better than to expect anybody to believe such a silly notion.

She just asked for money, too. Gotta love that Clinton class.

June 3, 2008 9:51 PM

dannyc said:

I agree she is a selfish jerk.  HRC, sit down and shut up.

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June 3, 2008 9:52 PM

Crock1701 said:

Also Hillary, if you really wanted Veep, you just lost it for good tonight.  The way you run for veep is not to run!

June 3, 2008 9:52 PM

ralphnelle said:

Take it easy, Isaac. I don't think we can expect anything else in this context. This was her campaign too. She has a right to end it on a high note.

June 3, 2008 9:55 PM

sprechs said:

please, the speech was completely valedictory, and her praise of obama went well beyond "scant."  Who will you beat up on the Plank once Hillary's gone?  Even "diary-of-a-dean-o-phobe" was more balanced...

June 3, 2008 9:56 PM

kgrant1054 said:

I would like to know if Ms. Cottle is still going to cry.  I will, for she is not going anywhere.  She is a knave and a charlatan.  The Clinton Restoration is not going anywhere, at least until it is thrown out.  The chants of 'Denver, Denver, Denver' is enough to make every Republican smile.  Broadly.

June 3, 2008 9:57 PM

roidubouloi said:

Am I supposed to be shocked that Hillary has lived down to my worst prediction about her behavior when this moment arrived?

She doesn't care about the Democratic party.  How much of her bad behavior is it going to take before all good Democrats realize that for her the Democratic party has merely been the instrument of her ambition, nothing more?  She would sell us out in a heartbeat.  Indeed, she is so divorced from the mission of the party that she is not even able to present a good face.

Pitiful, really.

June 3, 2008 9:58 PM

jacobt1 said:

You are funny people. She is an evil monster. Please repeat this every day. Help elect McCain, morons.

roidubouloi said

"She doesn't care about the Democratic party"

Ted Kennedy didn't care about the Democratic party, why would you expect Clinton to be different?

June 3, 2008 10:11 PM

ironyroad said:

Kennedy had a chance of winning?

June 3, 2008 10:17 PM

roidubouloi said:

Jacob,

I don't expect Clinton to be different.  I have long said that she is a self-serving narcissist who isn't even really a Democrat.  

But some good will come of this.  Most Democrats who have supported her are now going to flee, and the party will end up united by Obama except for a few such as yourself.  Your agenda is complete mystery, but then, so what?

June 3, 2008 10:18 PM

jacobt1 said:

roidubouloi ,

Forget about evil Clintons There are new instructions from the St. Obama to his  cultists. Clintons are no longer evil monsters. Clinton years were actually good.

June 3, 2008 10:49 PM

Mahler48 said:

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz, yawn, what another Hillary hating post? (perks) yawn zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

June 3, 2008 10:56 PM

Nippers said:

roid: I promise you, Obama and his campaign does not share your fantasy of a schism and a purge.

jacob: tiresome as I find the "St. Obama and his cultists" line, I bet you and I and roid have a pretty similar opinion of the Bush Administration and pretty similar ideas about what the next president should do. Hope you'll cast a self-interested vote come November. And if you can't pull the lever for Obama five months from now, I hope that you can at least support the down-ticket candidates as fiercely as you supported Clinton.

June 3, 2008 11:30 PM

Nippers said:

grammar correction to my last post: "Obama and his campaign *do* not share your fantasy"

June 3, 2008 11:32 PM

areteone said:

And people think Bill's the one with the ego.  At least when he ran, he won.

June 3, 2008 11:35 PM

roidubouloi said:

Nippers,

I have no idea what you are talking about "schism and purge."  There is a schism, at least Hillary is doing her best to create one, but it does not require purging her supporters to end it.  It simply requires picking up the reins of power and moving on.  If Obama proceeds to worry about how he is going to placate Hillary Clinton, he will soon be seen as weak and indecisive and ineffectual and he will lose the election.  His job is to gather up all the loyalties of as many party notables RIGHT NOW and start winning the general election.  Hillary can get on board or find that, by the time of the convention, she is simply old news.

None of that requires the rest of us to moderate our opinions about Hillary Clinton in any degree.  The fight is over when the defeated retire from the field or are carried.  Not before.

June 3, 2008 11:58 PM

liberal reformer said:

I doubt Hillary will endorse Obama tommorrow.

June 4, 2008 2:40 AM