Buckeye State Blog - A politician with "experience" should know better than this - Comments

At least you know

Schmennis — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 16:07:58 -0700

At least you can take solace in KNOWING he is listening to your concerns....

I mean how could he avoid it?

Never argue with an idiot

Tamany — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:44:40 -0700

Hillary's campaign has been the height of disgusting. I know so many Democrats who once had the view the either Obama or HRC would be fine, but are now becoming anti-Hillary because of the way she has handled this campaign.

It is blatant disregard for the Democratic party, not to mention Democrats in general and the American people.

One consolation for me is that no matter what happens today Obama will have an opportunity to respond to the kitchen sink garbage that has been thrown at him and fully expose her for the person she really is.

I believe if he can contintue to take the high road and not stoop to her level, he will win the nomination and he will go on to be be our next President.

"Never argue with an idiot. They bring you down to their level and beat you with experience." Unknown

Hillary Nixon.

JeanLR — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 11:03:42 -0700

The New Nixon~

Hillary has taken her strategy straight out of Tricky Dick's paranoid, press-bashing playbook

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/18074823/the_new_nixon

WHAT PEOPLE FORGET about Clinton is that she is basically a Republican at heart. She campaigned for Barry Goldwater once upon a time and even canvassed poor neighborhoods in Chicago looking for "vote fraud" by Democrats. She was president of the College Republicans at Wellesley. In 1968, at the height of America's most intense cultural debate in a century, she only abandoned the Republican Party because it backed Dick Nixon instead of her favorite, Nelson Rockefeller.
Which is ironic, because as a presidential candidate herself, Hillary has basically run exactly Nixon's 1968 campaign. Her stump speech from the get-go was all about the "invisible Americans," a nearly word-for-word echo of Nixon's revolutionary "forgotten Americans" strategy of that year. Like Nixon, she was targeting a slice of the electorate that had chosen to stay on the sidelines during a cultural war and secretly yearned for someone in the political center to restore order; it's no accident that Hillary was on the opposite side of every issue that sent lefties to the streets in the Bush years, from the war to free trade to the Patriot Act.

Typical of pro-Hillary shilling

JeanLR — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 10:45:51 -0700

Typical of pro-Hillary shilling to attact her opponant personally.

The great attraction of Obama supporters to the Barack Obama campaign is that the campaign isn't about the man, it's about the IDEAS.

Mr. and Mrs. Clinton have made thier careers about smearing, lying, coyly denying, and covering up thier own personal faults and weaknesses by trying to make others believe that the whole world is as crass and nakedly ambitious as they are.

The Clintons can't inspire anyone to do anything but dislike them or fight them.

Barack Obama has led a movement, has inspired individual Americans to act on thier own, and his campaign does not have to pay people to hold thier signs for him!

In addition, Barack Obama has not started a 527 on Feb 15 of this year called the "American Leadership Project" to air ads unfairly smearing a Democratic candidate for president with arguments that sound exactly like the anti-Kerry ads of 2004.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/02/new-pro-clinton.html

Hillary will do or say *anything* it takes because she believes that she is entitled to this position.

She feels she is so uniquely qualified to fix health care that she refused to discuss her plan's mandate until Obama forced her to admit that she was hiding in her plan something she knew people would not like too much. That is NOT the kind of "leadership" I'm going to support.

Wasn't he crying about his big ears?

Schmennis — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:28:48 -0700

Wasn't it Obama that was crying about his big ears and how he was teased as a kid?

Thin skinned?

Of course Obamites are going to wine.

The Obama-Rama Carnival Whines On!

bluedogblitz2 — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:21:56 -0700

lol. I just love it when Obama takes a hit out here and the Obama-rama gasps and reaches fever pitch with shrills that would break glass. If he and his posse of youngsters can't take a few hits during a political campaign without all the self-righteous indignation then I don't want the thin-skinned guy in the Oval Office. Come to think of it, I don't want the guy in the Oval Office - period! Since W got in the expectations bar has obviously been lowered and anybody with a lite resume now thinks they are Presidential material. HRC has spent over 30 years working in public service. Obama was an unexceptional State Senator (ask his Democratic colleagues!). You nut cases think that being in the White House for 8 years doesn't count for something? Wrong! You want cheese with that whine?

She is bought, paid for! Clinton picks McCain over Obama!

spacebuddy008 — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 09:14:45 -0700

((Clinton panders to McCain))

DisLoyal Democrat: Clinton says McCain is better than Obama!

VIDEO @ http://www.progressiveindependent.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=196&topic_id=10707

THE SUDDEN SURGE HAS CAUGHT THE "ESTABLISHMENT" BY SURPRISE, THEY ARE RATTLED AND IT HAS SPURRED A MULTI-FRONT SUPPRESSION, NUETRALIZATION CAMPAIGN AGAINST OBAMA -- TO CEMENT THE STATUS-QUO

see: why the war on obama? by Robert Parry

Obama has the best plan to get the most change

and he is going about in an examplary manner

It's no longer what someone can do for you but what we can Only do together

It takes more than a village, it takes a movement

saying anything to win an election or doing everything to transform a nation

Barack's inspiring has sparked change in motion as we speak

It takes an interested public to get action in The Public Interest

campaign contrasts on the amount of change and how to best go about delivering it

change from top down insisted upon or change from the bottom up assisted by

what someone can do for you or what we can do together

voting for, out of- self interest or joining for Higher common interests

incremental change / fundamental change

passive or active citizenry

conduct that spikes fear and bigotry or consideration that appeals to the better angels of our nature

scoring points or pushing progress

Obama themes? Clinton machine?

there are many differences, reasons why..

Obama's Campaign is stronger and better for the future

THE MAIN ARGUMENT

FOR ME

COMES

DOWN

TO THIS: HE IS The Democrat!

I agree

JeanLR — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 08:20:10 -0700

I won't vote for Mrs. Clinton. Every time I think for just a second that this person has an earnest bone in her public persona she turns around and says something as snide, nasty, and cheap as this attack~

Can anyone really imagine seeing this person on our teevees everyday for the next 4-8 years?! OMFG. I'd start reading books again! :-)

I'm more repulsed by the kind of people she chooses to surround herself with, and the thought of the White House continuing to harbor these kind of people, and the Democrat party being ruled by these kind of people, is a majorly gross.

If she's going to be the nominee I'm going to be drinking and hanging out with my friends becuase I won't spend time promoting her. F-that. I cannot sell something to my friends and neighbors that I wouldn't buy.

A politician with "experience" should know better than this

Renee in Ohio — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 07:54:56 -0700

Via AMERICAblog

"I think that I have a lifetime of experience that I will bring to the White House. I know Senator McCain has a lifetime of experience to the White House. And Senator Obama has a speech he gave in 2002," Clinton says.

Er, no. The correct response, as we saw during any one of the earlier debates, is, "Of course any one of us here on this stage would be a better president than John McCain."

And by the way... Maybe I've been slow on the uptake, but this didn't occur to me until I saw it discussed recently. (Can't recall exactly where at this point)

--Obama was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1996.

--Clinton was sworn in as United States Senator on January 3, 2001.

So, Hillary has held one elected office, and she has spent less time as an elected official than Barack Obama. How the hell does she get away with claiming that she has soooo much more experience?

I look forward to having a woman president one day. But I'm more than happy to wait for one I can actually feel proud of.