Little Rock: Clinton tells Arkansas voters this is 'about using you and manipulating your votes...'

[flpoljunkie]

Apparently trying to pit Arkansas voters against unions to get them to vote for Blanche Lincoln in Tuesday's primary.

Clinton: Don't let anger sink Lincoln re-election

By ANDREW DeMILLO
The Associated Press

Friday, May 28, 2010
4:05 PM

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Former President Bill Clinton on Friday urged voters in his home state to send Sen. Blanche Lincoln back to Washington for another term, warning them to not let their anger guide their choice in next month's Democratic runoff.

"Her opponent is not her opponent," Clinton said. "Her opponents are the people trying to make her this poster child."

Labor unions such as the AFL-CIO and the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees have embraced Halter's bid, saying they've grown frustrated with Lincoln on issues such as health care and key union organizing legislation.

Unions backing Halter spent more than $5 million on the race before the May 18 primary, and labor leaders privately say they're ready to spend another $5 million during the runoff campaign. Clinton seized on statements union officials have made that they want to show their independence from the Democratic Party with the effort.

"In other words, this is about using you and manipulating your votes to terrify members of Congress from other states," Clinton said. "If you want to be used that way, have at it."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/28/AR2010052803503.html

[IndianaGreen]

1. Bye Bill, bye Blanche! Don't let the door hit you in the ass!

Blanche will be flipping hamburgers this time next year!

[flpoljunkie]

3. Except she comes from a wealthy farm family and her husband's a doctor. They live in DC area.

I think she'll be okay, in any case.

[WhiteTara]

8. she might not be in congress, but

she definitely got her share while "working for the people." She has mucho subsidies that will tide her over until she dies.

[Raine]

18. "flipping burgers" ... if only ... but she'll

get some high paying job with some big ugly assed corporation. :mad:

[Arkplayer]

2. Use and manipulate me baby

Oh, I do want to be used that way...

Go Bill (Halter)

[BeFree]

4. Poster child, Bill?

yes, you nailed it. She is gonna be the poster child of a failure to communicate with the rest of the democratic party. She's going down, Bill. <no pun intended, Bill>

[xchrom]

5. Huh? That was weird, bill. Nt

[VMI Dem]

6. Helping out the White House again?

[IndianaGreen]

7. Looks like Bill's mission is to save the White House candidates

from the wrath of the Democratic rank-and-file.

[avaistheone1]

9. Pathetic

And not very democratic either.

:thumbsdown:

[Divine Discontent]

10. apparently, your post wasn't appreciated.

I agree with it, however. The folks who pay attention year round to politics are the ones who nearly do all the voting in primaries. So, suffice it to say, the Democratic Party is truly unhappy with the centrist actions taken, and wish the Democratic Party actually pushed what it wanted through Congress as Dumya's Congress did. Go Halter!


the email from Halter's camp says ---
"Bill Clinton and Blanche Lincoln took us in the wrong direction when they supported NAFTA," the e-mail reads. "They sent thousands of Arkansas jobs to Mexico and Canada, and yet they're still bragging about their support of the job-killing deal."

[girl gone mad]

15. I'm sure we'll soon be told "Obama really wanted Lincoln to lose..

it was his plan all along, just another super-dimensional chess move."

:rofl:

[babylonsister]

14. And you know that how? Got a link? nt

[mopinko]

20. a former democratic president helping out a current democratic president

who is helping members of congress that helped him do what people elected him to do. now where the hell is the sense in that?









:sarcasm:

called politics 101.

[AtomicKitten]

11. Lincoln deserves the ass-kicking coming her way. nt

[Arkana]

12. Um, Bill?

What is a campaign but a candidate trying to manipulate voters' votes?

I understand why he's doing this, I do. He's a party man, through and through--support the party, help the party, do the things you judge in the party's best interests. And that's not a terrible thing. Every successful political party needs cutthroat loyalists, because without them there IS no party. With Lincoln being a fellow Arkansas Democrat (although I think of her as a Democrat in the loosest sense of the label), I suspect he feels an obligation to help--not to mention that she's an incumbent in trouble.

But he's gotta understand that this isn't why people are revolting against Lincoln. They feel genuinely betrayed--and I don't blame them.

[flpoljunkie]

16. Indeed. You have to ask who's manipulating who in this case.

[babylonsister]

13. What does Bill owe her? That's the only explanation I can come up with. nt

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

17. No surprise that the guy who brought triangulation and DLC to us would be for Lincoln

Why would anyone expect differently?

The unions have it right and Clinton has it wrong. Go ahead and let your anger be your guide. Halter is a better candidate for the average Arkansan and American.

[boppers]

19. "terrify members of Congress"... exactly!

That's not a problem, Bill, it's the solution.