NPR just reported on Clinton slamming Obama for Criticizing bU$H!

[mod mom]

She said it was wrong for Obama to say any 3 of them would be better than bu$h, but wasn't it Clinton who had said McCain was more qualified than Obama? Has she fallen through the looking glass? Since when would a Dem Criticize another over attacks directed at the WORST! pResident ever?

[lisa58]

1. she probably just has to hear his name to start slamming him...

...doesn't matter what he says

[mwb970]

2. She's on autopilot now.

Anything Obama says needs to be twisted into something bad. Where have we seen these tactics before?

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

27. Mayday! Mayday! Eject! Eject!

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

28. More like auto-destruct.

[MindMatter]

58. Not necessarily. There could be a perfectly plausible explaination

See http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5602688&mesg_id=5603617

When you here her chanting "Reagan, Reagan, Reagan", you will know I am right.

I give her another 3 or 4 days before that phase starts up.

She is not crazy. Just ambitious.

[Coexist]

3. hell, Clinton, my DOG MILLIE would be better than Bush

(my dog's name has been changed to protect her identity and for greater snark factor).

[mod mom]

Your comment is disrespectful of Canine Americans everywhere!

;)

Seriously...I never thought even Clinton would stoop so low as to criticize a fellow Dem over a comment against bu$h.

[Coexist]

10. are you calling me a bitter, kool-aid drinking, misogynistic,

hope-mongering, species-ist?

What did I leave out? I think I'm missing about 2 words.

[simmonsj811]

38. and don't forget

the run of the mill C students:hi: :rofl:

[Why Syzygy]

21. You have to wonder who pisses in her corn flakes every morning, don't you?

It is always THE WORST possible presentation of herself which could be devised.
ROVE couldn't cast her more negatively.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

25. That would be Hillary.

[ladjf]

48. Any American citizen, chosen at random for any phone directory

would be a better President than Bush. Bush is a arch criminal.

[merh]

4. She also was trying to make a big deal about Obama saying

something good about McCain.

I swear her campaign is in some alternate reality and she her advisers suck.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

17. Shark jump #19. When will it end?

[Why Syzygy]

22. I don't think she has advisers any more.

I think she has broken the leash.

[mod mom]

34. bU$H ADVOCATED TORTURE for God's sake no one can pin even that on McCain!

[electropop]

51. You can pin that on McCain. He voted against the anti-torture bill.

McCain, torture victim, is now pro-torture.

[eridani]

36. Saying that anybody would be better than Bush is damning with faint praise n/t

[Eurobabe]

5. Clinton has Obamatourettes, it's a new disease

She hears his name and has a violent reaction regardless of what was said.

[nxylas]

39. She reminds me of Bela Lugosi in Tim Burton's biopic of Ed Wood

"Karloff? That cocksucker!"

[MethuenProgressive]

6. You're listening with prejudice. She said no such thing, and you know it.

Shame on you.

[C_U_L8R]

7. So Hillary is defending Bush???

wha... ?

[flpoljunkie]

8. Give me a break! Remember Hil's praising McSame as crossing commander-in-chief threshold, etc...

Hillary: McCain Has Crossed "Commander In Chief Threshold"
By Greg Sargent - March 6, 2008, 6:18PM

Surrounded by retired military leaders at an event today, Hillary continued with her strategy of spotlighting McCain's national security credentials as a way to argue that she's the Dem who can beat him in November:

“I think that since we now know Sen. McCain will be the nominee for the Republican Party, national security will be front and center in this election. We all know that. And I think it’s imperative that each of us be able to demonstrate we can cross the commander-in-chief threshold,” the New York senator told reporters crowded into an infant’s bedroom-sized hotel conference room in Washington.

“I believe that I’ve done that. Certainly, Sen. McCain has done that and you’ll have to ask Sen. Obama with respect to his candidacy,” she said.

Calling McCain, the presumptive GOP nominee a good friend and a “distinguished man with a great history of service to our country,” Clinton said, “Both of us will be on that stage having crossed that threshold."

The other day, Hillary sparked a bunch of criticism by arguing that she and McCain would put forth a "lifetime of experience." People pointed out that this was tailor made for political ads against Obama in a general election.

But this seems to go farther -- here she's arguing that he's crossed the threshold to be president in a category that she says is crucial in our next leader.

Hillary supporters privately defend this sort of thing by pointing out that she's never explicitly said that Obama wouldn't be an able commander-in-chief, though this seems to sidle up to that.

Either way, if your strategy is to highlight McCain's commander-in-chief credentials in order to suggest that they should make Dems nervous about Obama's chances against him, then you have to, you know, highlight McCain's commander-in-chief credentials.

But pumping up McCain to this extent risks provoking a backlash from rank-and-file Dems. The question I have is whether Obama will be able to capitalize on this, perhaps by using it to further his efforts to tie Hillary to McCain and to present himself as the only real candidate capable of drawing a clear contrast with him.

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/03/hillary_mccain_has_crossed_com.php

[indimuse]

9. Obama = Obamacan's

BIG FAIL! hahahah~

[berni_mccoy]

11. LOLOMG! CLINTON EPIC FAILS!

[DangerousRhythm]

12. That FAIL picture...

...cracks me the hell up. And wtf is this story? This cannot be. *brain explodes*

[mod mom]

13. They played a clip-no transcript yet but I have to believe this clip will be repeated.

[Kokonoe]

14. To understand how Clinton holds on, consider what the administrator

of her fanatics website said,

I said a while back - if you want to know Obama's true position on any potentially contentious issue,
it's often helpful to think of the opposite of everything he says.

[4themind]

15. Hey hillary, check your inbox!

<>

[Doctor_J]

16. She's completely come off the tracks - CNN is now saying she's courting Mellonhead

and Rupert and Limpballs and so on. What a disaster. I didn't believe until today that she's actually trying to sink Obama's campaign so she can run in 2012. Now I believe it.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

19. It's ALL about 2012. Been that way for a while now. How else do you explain the Hillarian tactics?

[Doctor_J]

40. She's partnered up with alot of people who don't have the best interests of the US in mind

I don't understand why her supporters now suddenly feel warm and fuzzy about endorsements from Fox News, Murdoch, Mellon Scaife, and other malignant forces.

[MindMatter]

59. I have a theory that explains all of this

And it doesn't involve any mental illness, unless you consider obsessive lifelong ambition a mental illness.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5602688&mesg_id=5603617

[Arkansas Granny]

18. Do you have the quote, in context? I think there must be some misunderstanding here.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

20. Yeah, the misunderstanding is Hillary.

[patrice]

26. I listened to it twice. That's exactly what NPR is saying she said. nt

[guruoo]

45. That's NPR's characterization through a third party.

[madrchsod]

30. it will be on the npr site sometime today

i`m not sure why she would say something like that

[Arkansas Granny]

33. I don't either. That's why I think there must be some misunderstanding. I would

like to see her actual quote, in context, not someones interpretation of her remarks.

[guruoo]

46. Thaaaank you!

[mamalone]

23. For the love of humanity...

make it stop.



*in the interest of honesty I must admit I copied this post from C_U_L8R*... in made me laugh in the midst of a very tiresome thread and now it's all I can think of when I read something like this:D

[patrice]

24. Don't such statements pretty much proove anything anyone has ever said about her being a TrojanHorse

for the neo-cons?

She's bidding for Bush's voters.

[mod mom]

32. I heard spin of this on Air Am Bill Press show (Hillary supporter) that Obama shouldn't

have praised McCain by saying Bush is the worst but WTF bU$H ADVOCATED TORTURE IN OUR NAME, so can someone please tell me how this can be legitimately (In a realistic non koolaid universe) used against Obama?

[mcctatas]

35. Saying bush is the worst is praise for McCain?

and didn't she already praise McCain's experience and slam Obama in the same sentence? :wtf: is wrong with her?

[mod mom]

37. Today was my final day listening to Bill Press-back to NPR in the AM for moi!

[patrice]

57. Ahhh, but we DO live in a Koolaid Universe.

This is why Obama is right not to go chasing after every last one of these pieces of crap. Although because of bad dreams leftover from the Kerry campaign, I have to admit that I do hope there IS someone out there in Obama's campaign who does have the responsibility of being "the bad cop" on this stuff.

[NavyDavy]

29. I will support whomever the nominee is, but to qoute NPR as

a reliable source is not a good idea, they really don't give any Dem a fair shake.....I know I know it used to be a bastion for the Left but not anymore....IMHO!

[invictus]

31. K & R

[Bensthename]

41. Ahhh, Obama didn't lie...Sorry Hillary. My 3rd grader could have done a better job.

[Stuart G]

42. sorry....I would have to hear this to believe it..no one is that stupid.

[Diana Prince]

43. Hillary is at it again.

Somehow Hillary forgot what she said about McShame. Post # 8 gives an example of her hypocrisy.

The Allentown Morning Call reports that Sunday Sen. Barack Obama told a "rowdy" crowd in central Pennsylvania, "You have a real choice in this election. Either Democrat would be better than John McCain. And all three of us would be better than George Bush. But you have to ask yourself who has the chance to really change things in a fundamental way.''

Sen. Hillary Clinton jumped on this remark: 'We need a nominee who will take on John McCain, not cheer on John McCain."

Clinton campaign organizers said Obama's remarks undercut Democratic efforts to tie McCain to Bush.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/news/2008/04/obama_any_one_of_the_3_of_us_b.html

[guruoo]

44. Need to hear the original statement, in context.

[Zachstar]

47. Another VERY short term gain and long term loss for Clinton

McCain WILL be a better president than bush because he has seen some shit in his life. He worked while fucking AWOL Bush fucked around.

So after PA I hope Obama puts an ad out SLAMMING Clinton for her remarks. And show the video of her praising McCain a bit ago.

[electropop]

49. What bothered me is Obama said McLame would be better than Bush.

Although almost anybody would be better than Bush, McLame would actually be worse than Bush: he is openly advocating war against Iran and 100 years of Iraq occupation. Why would Obama give that idiot even the tiniest smidgeon of an endorsement? It only makes people doubt Obama's sanity.

[Vinca]

50. She's bashing Obama because Obama bashed Bush? Is she nuts? nt

[CakeGrrl]

52. She's nuckin' futs.

Like someone said up above, she's just on autopilot to bash anything Obama says, and she's on self-destruct.

:crazy:

[book_worm]

53. I'd like to see a link (not that I don't trust you) but if she did do this I think it's another

example of how off the deep end she has gone.

[Sparkly]

54. She said Obama couldn't match McCain's experience

not that he was less qualified. Unless experience is the only qualification. Obama countered correctly that she couldn't beat McCain on experience, either.

The idea is about running against McCain as a continuation of Bush. Saying he's an iota better is unhelpful to the notion of McBush, a Bush 3rd term, etc., and gives a rationale for voting for him.

[Life Long Dem]

55. I think she must have been sleep deprived again and was not accurate. n/t

[Life Long Dem]

56. Jeez...

Do Hillary supporters think it's a losing battle with her? I mean it just gets worse to be a supporter of hers. It keeps going deeper and deeper with her where you must feel you can't defend her anymore.