E=mail from Hillary Clinton
E-mail from Hillary Clinton today, 6/5/08
Dear BumbleBeeBoogie,
I wanted you to be one of the first to know: on Saturday, I will hold an event in Washington D.C. to thank everyone who has supported my campaign. Over the course of the last 16 months, I have been privileged and touched to witness the incredible dedication and sacrifice of so many people working for our campaign. Every minute you put into helping us win, every dollar you gave to keep up the fight meant more to me than I can ever possibly tell you.
On Saturday, I will extend my congratulations to Senator Obama and my support for his candidacy. This has been a long and hard-fought campaign, but as I have always said, my differences with Senator Obama are small compared to the differences we have with Senator McCain and the Republicans.
I have said throughout the campaign that I would strongly support Senator Obama if he were the Democratic Party's nominee, and I intend to deliver on that promise.
When I decided to run for president, I knew exactly why I was getting into this race: to work hard every day for the millions of Americans who need a voice in the White House.
I made you -- and everyone who supported me -- a promise: to stand up for our shared values and to never back down. I'm going to keep that promise today, tomorrow, and for the rest of my life.
I will be speaking on Saturday about how together we can rally the party behind Senator Obama. The stakes are too high and the task before us too important to do otherwise.
I know as I continue my lifelong work for a stronger America and a better world, I will turn to you for the support, the strength, and the commitment that you have shown me in the past 16 months. And I will always keep faith with the issues and causes that are important to you.
In the past few days, you have shown that support once again with hundreds of thousands of messages to the campaign, and again, I am touched by your thoughtfulness and kindness.
I can never possibly express my gratitude, so let me say simply, thank you.
Sincerely,
Hillary Rodham Clinton
I got the same email... gosh and here I thought I was special. :wink:
You are special, your parents were retarded.
This election is like the special olympics, guaranteed, a retard is gonna win.
cjhsa
cjhsa wrote:You are special, your parents were retarded.
This election is like the special olympics, guaranteed, a retard is gonna win.
It's about time cjhsa is given the award he's been striving for.
MOST OBNOXIOUS POSTER ON A2K!
BBB
mysteryman wrote:Butrflynet wrote:ehBeth wrote:I'd really really really like her to take this opportunity to put Bill out on the curb. Whatever she does next will be better without him. That'd be my free advice - if she's interested in any kind of political future.
Totally agree.
I might have had a more difficult time choosing between Barack and Hilary if that had already been in her history. She made it a lot easier. There was no way in heck I was voting for her if that meant also putting Bill back inside the White House.
It is also why she will not be offered the VP slot without both of them first being thoroughly vetted.
It wasnt that many years ago that Bill being in the WH was the best thing to ever happen, according to the left and to liberals.
Are all of you finally seeing what the conservatives have been seeing since 1992?
I wasn't one of them, didn't vote for him and don't think the conservative vision of him was entirely accurate; and, I didn't and still don't agree with most of it. I had my own reasons for disliking the man, his botched NAFTA initiative and blatant disrespectful behavior in the Oval Office during working hours were just two of them.
Butrflynet
I never voted for Bill Clinton. I always liked Hillary Clinton.
BBB
Bear must have withdrawn his post before anyone could see it.
cjhsa wrote:
This election is like the special olympics, guaranteed, a retard is gonna win.
I honestly hope that no-one makes such bad jokes about neither you nor someone related to you.
Besides that, anyone talking part in the special olympics is more than a hero.
You have your heroes and I'll have mine, OK?
cjhsa
cjhsa wrote:You have your heroes and I'll have mine, OK?
OK? You don't need my permission to make a fool of yourself. You do it very nicely all by yourself.
BBB
Looking like a fool in a room full of clueless idiots is a good thing.
cjhsa wrote:Looking like a fool in a room full of clueless idiots is a good thing.
Haha, no, it isn't. It just makes you fit right in
Saving for posterity.
Cycloptoichorn
Gloria Steinem now backing Obama. Quite a turn around.
http://bostonherald.com/news/opinion/columnists/view.bg?articleid=1098737&format=text
Feminist pioneer: Hillary has made history, now vote Obama
By Margery Eagan | Thursday, June 5, 2008 |
http://www.bostonherald.com | Columnists
Good old Gloria. I love it when a plan comes together.
Re: cjhsa
BumbleBeeBoogie wrote:It's about time cjhsa is given the award he's been striving for.
MOST OBNOXIOUS POSTER ON A2K!
BBB
Your mantle will look awfully bare if you give your trophy away, BBB.
Hillary's non-concession speech on the night of the last primaries was just another example of how the Clintons have managed to anger and alienate even allies ever since it first became clear that her loss was inevitable. She wants to be Veep, but doesnt stop doing things that only increase negative feelings towards her. I mean, telling Bob Johnson to go ahead with campaigning for her as Veep; the same guy who went on about Obama's use and who knows, possible traffic in cocaine? What is she thinking?
That last line is exactly what others are thinking:
Quote:Even some supporters of Clinton were baffled [yesterday] by the fact that she had still neither endorsed Obama nor announced an intention to continue fighting for the nomination all the way through the Democratic National Convention in August.
Rep. Charles B. Rangel (D-N.Y.), one of Clinton's most stalwart supporters, said he would back her efforts to join Obama on the ticket. But, he added, it is incumbent on her to acknowledge she had lost the fight to Obama.
"What I don't know is what the heck she needs this extra time for," he said, referring to Clinton's speech Tuesday, in which she said she would take a few days to consider her options. "How much more time does she need to be able to say the person she wants to help is Barack Obama? I don't know what this intrigue is all about."
That's from this interesting WaPo story.
Not that the counterproductive thing is a first in the Clinton campaign -- it's plagued it from the start. Check out this anecdote:
Quote: WSJ: Clinton Used Expletive In 'Unpleasant' Conversation With Clyburn
Among the party leaders Mr. Clinton alienated over time by his angry tirades was South Carolina's Rep. Jim Clyburn, the third-ranking House leader and a civil-rights-movement veteran.
Before South Carolina's primary, Mr. Clyburn admonished Sen. Clinton for suggesting President Johnson deserved more credit than Martin Luther King Jr. for civil-rights laws. On primary night, Mr. Clinton called Mr. Clyburn and they spoke for 50 minutes. "Let's just say it wasn't pleasant," Mr. Clyburn says.
Mr. Clinton called Mr. Clyburn an expletive, say Democrats familiar with the exchange. Mr. Clyburn's office would confirm only that the former president used "offensive" words. Some day soon, the congressman says, he'll write about the incident. On Tuesday, he endorsed Mr. Obama for president.
Way to go. What was he thinking?
And talking Clyburn - grassroots Clinton supporters pick up where Bill left off:
Quote:Clyburn said his office has been deluged with racist phone calls since his endorsement of Obama on Tuesday, some so vicious an intern had to be taken from his office crying on Tuesday. Clyburn blamed the dismissive tone set by Clinton and her supporters, a tone that he said continued Tuesday night when she held a "victory rally" and failed to acknowledge defeat.
"At some point, she needs to congratulate the man for having won," Clyburn said before Clinton announced the Saturday event. "Those kinds of things are important to us who grew up in the South with these kinds of slights. That speech cannot be seen as anything but a slight."
That's from the same WaPo story as above.
She's not going to congratulate him until he pays her (in one way or another) to do it.
