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Questions for Debra Bartoshevich
What was it about Senator Clinton that appealed to you?
Was it her desire to make an open ended commitment to remain in Iraq "until we win" whatever that means?
If so, you misunderstood her.
Was it her belief that we ought to increase off shore drilling to meet our energy needs, while reducing our dependence on foreign sources?
Again, I would suggest to you that you may have have misunderstood her.
Maybe it was her belief that the two most recent appointees to the Supreme Court were thee type of justices she would appoint as president.
Yet, again, I think you got her position wrong.
In fact, Ms. Bartoshevich, I cannot think of a single significant issue facing our country where Senator Clinton's position is closer to Senator McCain's than it is to Senator Obama's.
So, I do not understand your preference, or your commercial. It is a free country, at least today, and you are entitled to vote and campaign as you wish, but I have to question the one word you have used to explain it: experience. I wonder whether Senator Clinton's experience as Senate staffer, private attorney and First Lady of Arkansas and then the United States, before joining the Senate four years before Senator Obama did, is that much more significant than his experience as a community organizer, law professor and State Senator.
And if her experience was sufficient before your party chose another candidate, as well it should have been, given the vast differences between her positions and Senator McCain's, why isn't his?
I can only think of two reasons, but they are both despicable so I will not ascribe them to you. But I will tell you this, Ms. Bartoshevich, it is not okay to vote for Senator McCain, just as it was not okay to vote for George W. Bush or Richard Nixon. Many lives and the future of this country are at stake.
I urge you to watch these two conventions, and the debates between the candidates. And, I am convinced that if you do, with an open mind, listening to both candidates (or all four presidential and vice presidential candidates of the two major parties) that you will change your mind yet again and you know, that will be okay. Really.
Comments (14)
FYI: The Wisconsin Democratic Party voted to oust Bartoshevich (as a delegate) in July.
August 25, 2008 5:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
She's a plant, a fake.
She's never given a dime to Hillary or the Dems.
Quite odd nowadays since most politically active people at least give a few bucks.
August 26, 2008 10:04 AM | Reply | Permalink
It sounds utterly paranoid, but this was my first thought. The story is just virtually unbelievable otherwise. I'd like to see someone look into her past to see if there's evidence of ANY prior political involvement.
August 26, 2008 10:07 AM | Reply | Permalink
Good.
August 26, 2008 12:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wow. You know, Bartoshevich insults Senator Clinton with the insinuation she makes.
There is nothing -- NOTHING similar in Senator McCain's experience and Senator Clinton's. Hillary Clinton is in an entirely different league from John McCain in terms of past accomplishments -- and future potential, for that matter.
FUCK Debra Bartoshevich.
August 25, 2008 5:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
I don't think Debra Bartoshevich was really ever interested in issues. She clearly supported Clinton as a popularity contestant.
Hillary supporters and women should be truly insulted by Debra Bartoshevich.
Is she college educated? Does she ever travel?
It doesn't really seem like she is/does.
I'm shocked at the amount of press she's receiving.
But she really doesn't seem like a thinker and therefore doesn't really belong in the Obama camp anyway.
I can't think of a more unexceptional candidate than John McCain.
And I'm racking my brain to try and figure out how or why a Clinton supporter could get behind someone like John McCain.
August 25, 2008 6:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's quite obvious that she's: 1) uninformed; 2) willfully ignorant; 3) narcissistic; 4) abjectly stupid. In other words, a typical McCain supporter.
August 26, 2008 9:27 AM | Reply | Permalink
Ex-Hillary Delegate Turned McCain Supporter: McCain Is For Roe!
At an RNC-sponsored press conference yesterday, former Hillary delegate turned McCain commercial star Debra Bartoshevich claimed it would be okay if McCain became president because he's against overturning Roe v. Wade. In fact, McCain has said multiple times during this campaign that he wants Roe overturned, and she cited a 1999 quote that he's been running away from ever since he first said it.
http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/08/from_the_rnc_podium_mccain_doe.html
Bartoshevich is obviously deluding herself into believing in a fantasy that despite all that John McCain has said and done in his career, including tons of votes in Congress and campaign promises, he's somehow not really pro-life and just pretending to be. Well, I've got news for her. McCain is going to appoint Alitos and Scalias, and among other legal outcomes that she almost certainly disfavors, they are going to drastically curtail a woman's right to choose, which she does not support.
Just ignore her.
August 26, 2008 9:27 AM | Reply | Permalink
Thanks for the link. I heard Rachel Maddow mention this last night, but hadn't been able to find anything else about it.
One simple question....why isn't this getting any attention in the MSM? You know, the MSM that played her commercial over and over and over again yesterday?
August 26, 2008 10:39 AM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, they show McCain's ads more often on CNN than they do on actual television.
August 26, 2008 1:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
Here's a question for her:
"Why are you so freakin' nuts?!"
Please, go back to hiding under the stairs licking people's shoes as they walk by.
August 26, 2008 9:49 AM | Reply | Permalink
I am very surprised that anyone didn't get the ad. It's totally a "character" issue for that particular voter.
Anyone can re-listen to the early speeches of Clinton and Obama to understand that -- unfortunately -- many voters could care less about substantial platforms. Obama supporters suddenly seem surprised.
August 26, 2008 10:48 AM | Reply | Permalink
The fact that she makes absurd claims that he's secretly pro-choice shows how distant her relationship is with reality.
August 26, 2008 1:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hillary should ask her to sit down and talk,
with MSM cameras rolling ........
That would be worth watching.
August 26, 2008 1:24 PM | Reply | Permalink
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