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Continuing the thought, what do people think about Clinton as AG?
...I am Asian and female, you sexist idiot!!
... and the mail-order bride of a prominent Republican senator, too, no doubt.
A few months ago, I was, like many others, thinking it may be a Dream Team for the Dems. However, in light of Hillary's comments, especially her innocent remarks mentioning assassination (repeated in March and a few weeks ago - and therefore CLEARLY not so innocent!) Yes, she has something to offer the nation - but she has to find some other way that she can rightfully and FAIRLY EARN (not simply expect or demand).
These were my thoughts on that that I want to share with others & Obama's team:
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What a classic move … read Shakespeare’s Richard the Second to see how the king (a weak & increasingly pathetic figure) makes a veiled reference to get his main challenger killed … and when he is, the king expresses surprise and remorse!!
As I have been trying to hold on to some kind of respect for Hillary, she is repeatedly demonstrating that ..
NO EVIL MOVE is too low for her. NO SELF-SERVING, power-grabbing desperation is beyond her .. and her spin machine.
Very sad. As with our earlier “choice”, it seems we get the leaders we deserve - UNLESS we send a clear message that we will not take this anymore.
had he been white 90% AA wouldn't have been behind him, why should they? Hillary is a fighter for AA community, they would have flocked on her side as they did in the beginning before O made a claim that he was really one of them ("look at my church and pastor and wife!!").
And white don't have the kind of guilt toward Asian the way they do toward AA, hence it's not so romantic to gather behind an Asian candidate. MSM media wouldn't have been so enamored to blindly put him on pedestal either. It's fact that O is popular among AA, white eggheads and youths.
Had he been white, he wouldn't have been the last 2 candidates left!! John Edwards is a more credible and convincing candidate than him.
Now, before resorting to more ad hominem typical of Obamabots, ask yourself this question: would you have been so enamored with him had he been a half Japanese, half white with an association to a Japanese fascist group that believes in Iapanese supremacy and a glorification to Japan's war crimes in WWII?
Please be honest.
I say she concedes first. She stops using blackmail against her party and it's candidate. At that point, if he wins, we she where and if she gets a seat there on the cabneit or supreame court. I think the supreame court MIGHT, and I stress that as I no longer trust her or her patriotism, be a good fit. As she would not sell-out her ideals for politics there.
but that's to be determined. do you have kids? what happens when you let your kids blackmail you? do they improve or worsen when they get everything they want? We're dealing with children here, not gorwn-ups. I say you pay or get paid as you go. She wants that which she does not have coming to her. No to vp, right now I can say that. As to anything else. when she becomes a democrat again, we can talk about what her future is in the demcoratic party.
But again, if obama does not offer the vp to her, mccain will. I think that is her future. to me, her democratic future is done, unless she makes drastic changes. Last night she showed she is not willing to do that. So i would give her nothing unless she changes her stance. the supreame court would be safe and she couldn't sell-out and get us in trouble, in terms of that court. She is a sell-out tot he gop. but she's not selling out abortion. She's not selling out gays. that is all the gop wants out of the supreame court. hillary won't sell-out there. I don't think she's qualified for the supreame court though. but it would be a safe move. For her the democratic party, and obama.
but if it was me. I would give her nothing. Why reward bad behavior? What are we going to give joe leiberman for his elling out? nothing. then why clinton? Because she's a woman? Nah.
i say let her go with leiberman or gop. that is her future. tha tis the place for her. Let her toil with the gop in irrelevance. :) That is where she belongs, in my humble opinon
"delay, timetable, alternate universe...just give her some time to breath. It's been a roller coaster for both of them."
Why does Clinton need "time to breath" any more than anyone else? That's like asking the loser of the Super Bowl--even if it was a close game--to get a few days to recover before having to watch the winner accept the trophy.
Obama won fair and square. He followed ALL the rules of the party, but even more, he was gracious and took the high road throughout--no matter what anybody tried to sling at him to engage in the unfortunate mudwrestling mentality of recent political races with 24/7 pundit coverage. And THAT is exactly what the massive numbers of young voters who signed up to support him mean by "CHANGE"--in spite of the attempts by others to make that a small thing it is not. It is absolutely time to change the small-minded, divisive, attack mentality that allows Americans to treat one another like dirt, and become once again a nation where we actually believe in some standards of civil discourse while we work towards actual goals. If ANYONE should understand that, I would think it would be Hillary--after the way she and her husband were treated by the rabid rightwingnuts and their "contract ON America" when Bill was in office.
Clinton had all the time in the world to prepare for a gracious, party-uniting, exit from the primary race. It's been obvious it was coming for months now--certainly as the superdelegates who were once ALL looking like they would vote for her AGAINST the popular vote started actually paying attention to their constituents and declaring for Obama.
She needs to face it. He won an uphill battle against her--the deck was stacked in HER favor, not the other way around--and he did it through the kind of gracious diplomacy that got MANY of us excited about what we might see as President again. Not like the last two elections where, frankly, while I worked hard for the eventual nominee, I found it difficult to get fired up for them with their wonky, boring speeches and their out of touch mentalities.
THIS guy excites people! Young people! Elders! Republicans who are switching parties because they actually believe in his leadership qualities! The pubs who switched for Hillary, by contrast, will all be switching back to McCain for the GE--they just wanted to have her to run against because she will not inspire a crossover/independent vote the way Obama has already proved he does.
So can we please stop sniffing the hanky for Hillary? She's wonderful. She's a strong woman (I am, too, and I admire her for that). But she's done as a Presidential candidate this time around and if she doesn't get her act together soon, probably for the rest of her life.