Hillary Clinton for President - 2008

This election is like the special olympics, guaranteed, a retard is gonna win.

You are special, your parents were retarded.
This election is like the special olympics, guaranteed, a retard is gonna win.

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?

This election is like the special olympics, guaranteed, a retard is gonna win.

You have your heroes and I'll have mine, OK?

Looking like a fool in a room full of clueless idiots is a good thing.

The feminist icon whose writings inspired thousands of American women to a passionate support of Hillary Clinton said yesterday she was not at all crushed by Hillary's loss and believes her race has "absolutely" been good for women. But she now not only supports Democratic nominee Barack Obama, she'll volunteer for him, too.

"I think she changed forever our understanding of the possibilities of leadership," Gloria Steinem said of Hillary in a Herald interview after a morning appearance here. "She showed such courage in the face of a media that was trying constantly to get her out of the race and all the misogyny . . . She put up with that with grace. She enlarged my vision."

Steinem also said she'd be happy in an America where Nancy Pelosi remains speaker of the House, Hillary runs the Senate and Barack Obama is president.

So there you have it: A woman who has devoted a lifetime to women's rights says she's OK with the guy whom legions of Hillary loyalists say they can't stomach because they blame him for stealing Hillary's rightful job.


Like Hillary, lots of them won't even concede he's won.

"He may have won as of last night, but no one votes until the convention in August. I am still hopeful and making novenas," says Phyllis Paterna of the North End, 72, who, if she can't have Hillary, will take McCain.

Suffolk County Sheriff Andrea Cabral, minus the novenas and the vote for McCain, took basically the same position Tuesday on NECN.

Yet Steinem blamed us in the media, not Obama, for the sexist cracks ("Hillary reminds me of everybody's first wife," etc.) She also said the two candidates' positions are practically the same. In other words, issues matter to Steinem, though clearly not to everybody.

"I was very pleasantly surprised," said Mimi Segel, among hundreds of women who saw Steinem yesterday at The Commonwealth Institute and had expected a heartbroken or even a defiant Steinem.

You may recall that right before the New Hampshire primary, Steinem wrote a New York Times [NYT] op-ed that became a sisterhood call to arms. She argued that sexism has never been taken as seriously as racism - though it should be - and that "there is still no right way to be a woman in public power without being considered a you-know-what."

Outside Hillary's New Hampshire victory party, four retired Brookline teachers told me later Steinem's words became their "read-aloud" inspiration on the drive north.

Yet lost in all this acrimony is that Hillary Clinton, as Obama himself said Tuesday, "has done what no woman has done before" ever, in our history. She won presidential primaries from coast to coast. She nearly won the nomination. She has answered the tough-enough question (yes, she is) for the next woman who may be today, this instant, what Obama was just a few years ago, an obscure but extremely gifted politician with a vision that resonates - because she is the right woman at the right time.

Clinton herself spoke Tuesday about "millions of Americans registering to vote for the first time, raising money for the first time, (about) mothers and fathers lifting their little girls and their little boys on to their shoulders and whispering, ?'See, you can be anything you want to be.' "

Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama have made that more true today in America than ever before. We shouldn't lose sight of that happy fact, either.

It's about time cjhsa is given the award he's been striving for.

MOST OBNOXIOUS POSTER ON A2K!

BBB

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."

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.

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."