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Senator Clinton's Deception Never Stops
I know as Obama supporters we are supposed to be "nice" as form any objective standpoint Senator Obama has won the nomination, but Senator Clinton's recent remarks regarding the Florida and Michigan delegations top even her most egregious deceptions to date. Comparing the seating of the Michigan and Florida delegations to the Civil Rights Movement , Zimbabwe and Bush v. Gore is facially absurd and must be another attempt by the Clinton Campaign to bate a racially charged debate.
Senator Clinton's position is duplicitous to the highest imaginable degree. It was Senator Clinton and her supporters who created the rules barring Florida and Michigan and it was Senator Clinton and all other D emocratic presidential candidates who signed a pledge agreeing to the ruling .While I have no real problem with seeking to seat the delegations in some fair way for sake of " Party Unity", Senator Clinton's use of the issue as a Civil Rights issue and wedge issue is maddening and destructive.
The only apt analogy I can come up with is that Senator Clinton created the slavery and months later is seeking to champion the release of the slaves. It is similar to John McCain claiming to be a reformer when he is drowning in lobbyists running his show and financing his campaign.
Many celebrate Senator Clinton's never say die, take any position candidacy, but I continue to believe it is destructive and dishonest to the core.
Sorry to all of those who want to play nice--- Let me suggest it is time for Senator Clinton to take stock of her future and play the "hero" now instead of the person in the scary movie who gets bludgeoned and keeps on coming back ---- we all know the eventual end to those movies..












Comments (4)
My opinion is that Hillary Clinton is dangerously unstable. I don't think we've seen the worst of it yet. I think she's going to go completely harridan on us before they finally drag her away, kicking and screaming and foaming at the mouth.
May 22, 2008 9:24 AM | Reply | Permalink
I, Hillary Clinton, your future, sane president, hereby gladly accept the lead in the popular vote afforded me by hard-working bunnies, hard-working white bunnies.
Leading the hard-working white bunny vote!
Leading the dangerously unstable vote!
Leading you all!
Much Love,
Hillary.
May 22, 2008 11:29 AM | Reply | Permalink
Why is this such a surprise? Hell, in NV most of the democratic board there approved the extra caucus sites to help shift workers have access. Once she lost the union vote though, she was all up in arms about how "unfair" it was, Bill was seeing "voter intimidation" everywhere and the same people on the democratic board who created those "at site" caucuses? Well 4 of them brought a lawsuit trying to stop them.
I am just amazed at people who are outraged by this FL MI thing. It's not as if we didn't see it coming.
May 23, 2008 1:53 AM | Reply | Permalink
Just to prove my point that people are willing to overlook just about anything - hear it from the woman herself. Great vintage footage dispersed throughout. Those who do not learn from the mistakes of the past are destined to repeat them:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exsmFDYyK4U
May 23, 2008 1:58 AM | Reply | Permalink
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