Obama throws Hillary haters under the bus

[Enrique]

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=4924656

AGUADILLA, Puerto Rico (Reuters) - Democratic presidential front-runner Barack Obama empathized with rival Hillary Clinton on Saturday for the firestorm she ignited by referring to the 1968 assassination of Robert Kennedy.

"I have learned that when you are campaigning for as many months as Senator Clinton and I have been campaigning, sometimes you get careless in terms of the statements that you make and I think that is what happened here," Obama said in an interview with Radio Isla Puerto Rico during a campaign visit to the Caribbean Island and U.S. territory.

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*edited out the unnecessary Pastor Wright reference.

[democrattotheend]

1. And it seems you're too much of an Obama hater to give praise where praise is due

Unless you think her comments deserved a more forceful response from him. If you support your own candidate then you'd have to praise how Obama handled this one. Interesting how instead of acknowledging that, you chose to insult DUers and bring up Reverend Wright. Who's the hater here?

[Enrique]

4. Obama is classy as always

I never doubted he would be. I can't think of any examples where he exploited a gaffe unreasonably.

[mcctatas]

6. pathological hatred...

or just bitterness? You decide;)

[Enrique]

15. love, actually

I love Obama.

[mcctatas]

17. ...

oh, sorry...

the rev. Wright thing threw me a little...

[Pirate Smile]

2. LOL. I think most Obama supporters expected Obama to be gracious and classy as usual.

The shock would've been if he wasn't. I wish all candidates were as gracious and kind as Barack.

[GarbagemanLB]

3. lol Hillary lost.

[anonymous171]

5. You don't even know what "throwing under the bus" means.

[Ian David]

10. I don't think he could find the bus, or his asshole, with two hands and a flashlight. n/t

[Enrique]

19. whatever it means

Obama just did it to a bunch of people here at DU, maybe you.

[Ian David]

7. Wow. What a charitable gentleman he is. Be a shame if something happened to him, huh? n/t

[JoFerret]

53. You have a creepy obsession

it seems.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

8. Obama is so completely opposite of HIllary

and I'm glad he's gracious.

I will continue to express my outrage towards Hillary's calculated
sick remarks to the Super delegates in my state.

[GoesTo11]

45. A return to the era of gracious presidents

would be wonderful for this country. It's been a while.

[marylanddem]

9. Obama is smart enough to know that every word out of his mouth

will be twisted & distorted to make Hillary the victim of this. He is, as usual, playing it cool & playing it brilliantly.
He has no choice. WE, on the other hand, can vent our true feelings.

[boppers]

11. "Haters", in general, go under the bus.

That's been part of his campaign for a while.

[Swamp Rat]

12. Bringing up Pastor Wright is a prime example of why Hillary's recent remark will not go away.

Go ahead and keep repeating "bitter," "Rezco," "Pastor-Gate," etc.

The nasty actions of Hillary's supporters are going keep "assassination of Robert Kennedy in June" alive for a long time.

Karma is a...

[Seabiscuit]

36. The only thing Hillary brought up among those items was Rezco, in response to

Obama smearing her about WalMart in one of the debates. It was a legitimate response to a pathetic smear by Obama.

The other things you complain about were brought up by either Obama himself ("bitter") or the media (Wright), or both.

I understand that drinking the koolaid causes otherwise perhaps sane people to deliberately ignore/distort the facts, so I suppose that's your excuse.

[TahitiNut]

43. BULLSHIT! 55 minutes of 'debate' with Hillary just piling on with her ass-kisser Stephanopoulos.

Good grief! :puke:

[JoFerret]

54. Many might say you have a faulty

memory. As well as a foul mouth.

[TahitiNut]

71. "Many might" shove it up their self-serving asses, too.

Thanks for playing. :eyes:

[Swamp Rat]

57. I was referring to Hillary supporters who use those words like daggers in the backs of their

colleagues here, just like you just used "drinking koolaid" to say I am not sane. That is a perfect example of why Obama supporters, and DUers in general who support the Dem nominee, like me, will not drop the RFK assassination thing.

Why should I bother treating you with respect since you have such a low opinion of me? I have always done so, even when I saw posts by you that were, to me, ridiculous and worthy of ridicule.

[Seabiscuit]

59. You should have worded it better.

Just like Hillary should have worded her RFK remark better. Or not mentioned it at all.

So now it appears you're really saying that you're determined to continue to smear Hillary by imputing all kinds of nasty, inappropriate and bizarre meanings into her RFK remark (e.g. some Obamanoids go so far as to claim she was making a death threat against Obama) simply because some of her supporters on DU have repeated the truth about Obama's associations with Rezko and Wright and his ugly remarks about rural whites being "bitter", etc.

Kind of a Truman-in-reverse strategy: you're declaring that the more they tell the truth about Obama, the more you'll lie about Hillary.

How sad. It makes you appear both childish and irrational.

Shame on you.

[Swamp Rat]

60. No, my "wording" was appropriate and accurate. The OP edited HIS words long after I responded.

Look at the time stamp of his edit.

"you're declaring that the more they tell the truth about Obama, the more you'll lie about Hillary."

Your accusation and shaming are baseless.

Your ad hominem only serve to hurt yourself and your reputation.

[Seabiscuit]

62. Keep it up.

How do you think you're going to bring Clinton supporters into the fold if Obama wins the nomination when you're determined to behave that way?

[Swamp Rat]

63. So your response is: the onus is on me?

An apology from you is in order, but I gather you prefer not to offer it.

[Seabiscuit]

64. I have no reason to apologize to you.

When you declare that you're not going to let the utterly insignificant RFK crapola (which has gone way over the top on this forum) drop simply because you're angry at Clinton supporters for having talked about legitimate issues such as Rezko, "bitter" and Wright, you are being nasty, childish and irrational.

Those issues surrounding Obama are real issues deserving of discussion. The RFK flap is a complete non-issue and even Obama himself has declared people should stop trying to make something of it that isn't there. Pretending there is some equivalence there where there is none and that you're just doing some tit-for-tat is indicative of either a delusional state of mind or moral decrepitude or intellectual dishonesty. Take your pick.

If anyone owes anyone an apology, you owe all of DU an apology for that declaration of yours.

[Swamp Rat]

65. I apologize to DU.

Feel better now?

[Seabiscuit]

67. Yes. Thank you. That puts an end to it.

[Swamp Rat]

69. Well, I was hoping you'd meet me halfway.

:(

[Seabiscuit]

70. Maybe some other time.

Seeing all the ugly behavior on this board this morning has me in a very bad mood.

No matter how much I play "whack-a-mole" using the Ignore button, I just can't keep up with all the moles/trolls here today.

[Johnny__Motown]

13. How do you spell ... "Sista Soldier" anyways?

[styersc]

14. Senator Obama has shown a lot more class then his supporters.

Should he be elected President, he would best serve the country by turning his back on the lunatics who have joined the Right Wing in the Clinton hate-fest.

Obama recognizes that if he is to be an effective president he will have to rely on gifted members of this party including Hillary and her supporters. The loud, reactionary bomb throwers will have to be kicked to the curb in deference to more level headed and mature, "traditional" democrats.

Sorry Obamaniacs. When the Primary is over, your usefulness will have drawn to an end. It will be time for the grown-ups to take over.

Thanks for your service and don't forget to vote in November.

[stillcool]

22. My usefulness...

will just be beginning. Some of us have a General Election to win.

[QueenOfCalifornia]

31. The right-wing hates Clinton?

That's news to me.

Since when?

She has made it clear what side she is on.

She has been the darling of Fox News since September 2007. And we all know that Fox News is so biased to the left.

[quaker bill]

34. Yeah, right.

I am pretty sure that the "gifted" members of the party win elections. If you haven't caught on yet, there is a new "tradition" forming. It has something to do with no longer being doormats and apologists for republicans. What the Clinton supporters here do not seem to have gotten yet is that "change" is more than simply running the republicans out of Washington. As Ghandi said and Barack has quoted "be the change you seek". This applies to the party as a whole.

[JMDEM]

37. Gifted members of the party like Hillary???

Yea, I guess if Obama needs someone stabbed in the back, Hillary would be the one to call on.

[Catherina]

41. loud, reactionary vs level headed and mature, "traditional" democrats.

Keep fucking dreaming.

[ClassWarrior]

16. Good. No room for hate in this campaign.

NGU.

[McCamy Taylor]

24. Where do people think the hate comes from if not from the top?

[DogPoundPup]

18. Seems Enrique threw himself under the bus

You're just confused Enrique, You're under the bus and the rest of us are just looking under there at you...Rev. Wright included. why are you so suicidal?

[Pirate Smile]

20. Kudos for your edit.

:)

[ShadowLiberal]

21. Obama's right, people naturally screw up in campaigns as long as this

[McCamy Taylor]

23. Yesterday "Obama's camp immediately fired back" Good Obama/Bad Obama is getting old.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/05232008/news/nationalnews/why_hill_wont_drop_out__bobby_kennedy_wa_112232.htm

"My husband did not wrap up the nomination in 1992 until he won the California primary somewhere in the middle of June, right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California. I don't understand it," she said, dismissing calls to drop out.

Obama's camp immediately fired back.

"Sen. Clinton's statement before the Argus Leader editorial board was unfortunate and has no place in this campaign," Obama campaign spokesman said in a statement.

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/05/23/1058940.aspx

"Clinton made her comments at a meeting with the Sioux Falls Argus-Leader's editorial board while campaigning in South Dakota, where she complained that, 'People have been trying to push me out of this ever since Iowa.'"

Obama spokesman Bill Burton responded to Clinton's remarks. "Senator Clinton's statement before the Argus Leader editorial board was unfortunate and has no place in this campaign."

[cbayer]

25. You, Enrique, are one of the best Clinton supporters on this board.

You are strong and I have never seen you be hateful. You do not deserve some of the treatment you are getting, but I am not surprised by it.

[Hugin]

26. Bravo!

Well played Sen. Obama!

[Thrill]

27. Too bad she didn't defend him on the small town comments. Just shows the difference

between them

[AZBlue]

28. What are you talking about? That's the most gracious thing I've heard anyone say about it.

He has such class!

[slinkerwink]

29. Wow, even Hillary supporters elsewhere thought it was a good thing for Obama to say

[Enrique]

51. I thought it was excellent

the Hillary haters belong under the bus. My man Obama was kind enough to throw them there.

[papapi]

30. Nonsense. If we have a seat on the bus, we don't get thrown under it...

...watch out if you're standing on the sidewalk.

[4_Legs_Good]

32. This man is simply too good to be true

Man it's going to be great to have a President we can be proud of again!

GOBAMA!

David

[Kahuna]

33. Does he? We'll provide the outrage while he provides the leadership. nt

[AtomicKitten]

35. SOB! How dare he be gracious and empathetic?!!

[StevieM]

38. I don't see this as gracious. He knew not to overplay his hand and he let others do the

dirty work. Obama should have said: "this is total nonsense. She was obviously talking about primaries lasting until June, not in any way suggesting that I might be assasinated. People who claim that are acting like a bunch of McCarthyites. And anyone who is so filled with hatred is not someone whose vote I want."

Steve

[ima_sinnic]

49. gee, why don't you write HIllary's responses? Her "as far as I know" & "elitist" & "bitter" BULLSHIT

could have been totally avoided -- she could have responded with class. she could have been gracious. she could have been a true Democrat, instead of a backstabbing rumor monger and shit spreader. She would also be a hell of a lot more respected -- and she MIGHT have even won more votes than she did.

But then that wouldn't have been Hillary, now, would it? the Katherine Harris of the Democratic Party.

[EFerrari]

39. Objecting to egregious behavior is not hatred.

It's called having good boundaries.

[smiley_glad_hands]

40. Now if only Hilliary could be as classy as Obama. eom

[barack the house]

42. Myself personally have taken Obama 's postion day 1. So, I'm in the clear here.

[Straight Shooter]

68. Yes, you have. You are such an exception to the rule, I actually remember that.

You honor your candidate. A rarity these days. :thumbsup:

[JVS]

44. He's just pandering to the losing side

[ccharles000]

46. Obama is a good man.

I am very happy he understands Hillary did not mean any harm.

[Political Heretic]

47. He's exactly right. It was an embarassing "oh. my. god." gaffe. But gaffe is all it was.

She said something without thinking through the implications. It was sort of jaw dropping, but unintentional too I think.

[ima_sinnic]

50. a "gaffe" she has made on more than one occasion. you'd think she'd learn from "gaffes"

--but apparently she's still on the uphill side of the learning curve. definitely NOT presidential material.

[goletian]

48. the title is a lie. he gives hillary a pass, he doesnt say anything about hillary haters.

FAIL!

[Iceburg]

52. Classy of Obama ...

Too bad he has to carry the heavy burden and wear the ugly stain of his immature supporters.

[Meshuga]

55. I'd be disappointed if he threw Hillary under the bus

And you have to agree that Hillary would love to see Obama making these types of "careless in terms" because she'd be all over his ass and not let go.

[Crunchy Frog]

56. Illustrating that he has far more class than she does.

The contrast with her own behavior is incredible.

[YourUniqueDemocrat]

58. Hehe

Obama has class.

[lojasmo]

61. Obama: Magnanimous as always.

Hillary can kiss my ass. I don't feel 'thrown under the bus' I feel that this is even more reason to support Barack over Senator batshit crazy. (not taking about McCain, either.)

[MH1]

66. I want a President who is better than me. (MUCH better, preferably)

Obama passes that test easily.