Clinton calls BULLSHIT on "divisive" Obama camp distortions

[Proud2BAmurkin]

Good. They're backfiring too.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/13/us/politics/13clinton.html?_r=2&ref=politics&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

[Dogmudgeon]

1. Have a heart ... I don't want to register with the NY Times

Somebody post a fake login!

--p!

[Proud2BAmurkin]

3. more

RENO, Nev. — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton on Saturday accused Senator Barack Obama’s campaign of distorting remarks she made to suggest that she had cast aspersions on the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

She said she was “personally offended” by the way her statement had been portrayed, and accused Mr. Obama’s campaign of being divisive.

Mrs. Clinton made her remarks to reporters here at the end of a day of campaigning after she was asked if she had spoken to Representative James E. Clyburn, the South Carolina Democrat who is the highest-ranking African-American in Congress.

Mr. Clyburn had expressed disappointment in the Clinton campaign. Mrs. Clinton said that she had; she suggested that she had told him her comments were distorted.

“I was personally offended at the approach taken that was not only misleading but unnecessarily hurtful,” said Mrs. Clinton, Democrat of New York. “And I have made that clear to many people in the last several days.”

Asked to whom she was referring, Mrs. Clinton responded: “I think it clearly came from Senator Obama’s campaign, and I don’t think it was the kind of debate we should be having in this campaign.”

[dkf]

10. Hello...Clyburn isn't supporting Obama YET.

But he might if the Clinton's get too offensive.

[Renew Deal]

15. It sounds like she's on the brink of crying.

Hope she can keep it together.

[bananas]

7. try these

http://www.bugmenot.com/view/www.nytimes.com

[jefferson_dem]

2. Dupe.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=4047541&mesg_id=4047541

[Lucinda]

4. Thanks for the link!

[Proud2BAmurkin]

5. no prob nt

[Kahuna]

6. What a lying little witch she is. nt

[KittyWampus]

8. Clinton and her supporters should think twice about trying to parlay this into her favor.

It's not worth it.

[Maribelle]

9. It seems to me that Mr. Obama is happy for his folks to debate nonsense rather than issues

Sadly, his supporters don't seem to be able to debate real issues.

[Mojorabbit]

11. I don't have a candidate yet

but she overstepped the line. It isn't only Obama's supporters who are appalled from what I am reading and hearing first hand.

[Maribelle]

16. Perhaps debating the issue instead of calling Hillary names ...

would be a lot better.

Hillary and Bill are so far from being racists it is an insult to my intelligence to pretend to me that they are. Please.

[Mojorabbit]

26. I did not say they were racists and I don't believe they are.

I said they stepped over the line. If a republican had said exactly what she said this board would be all over it. She does not get a pass because she is a Dem.

[DeepBlueC]

14. agreed

[Cameron27]

20. Agreed

[Bread and Circus]

12. I heard her words verbatim, they were reckless and stupid.

meditate on that...

[Perry Logan]

13. Everything the Obamites say about Clinton is bullshit.

[madrchsod]

17. well she should`t have gotten pissed

"This was what Mrs. Clinton said on Monday: “Dr. King’s dream began to be realized when President Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It took a president to get it done.” <---well bad choice of words but sort of correct

At a later stop, she said that her remark had not captured what she had sought to portray,<--well a little research she could have diffused the problem with a bit of a history lesson found on google..i did, why can`t her staffers?


Mrs. Clinton seemed prepared to address the question Saturday the second she stepped in front of reporters, and she went into the attack as soon as she was asked about Mr. Clyburn."

why did`t she explain? why did she decide to attack? it`s about judgment. this should have never been an issue if she would have addressed the question

[Occam Bandage]

18. So what were the Obama camp's distortions?

[alcibiades_mystery]

19. Sick

[bluedog]

21. trouble is..no one can say anything about Obama

without it being taken out of context.and then being called names about it....

wait until the GOP starts with Obama//// It won't be pretty

[vee]

24. I think Hillary is skewering MLK, not Obama. And it aint pretty.

[fightindonkey]

28. vee, if you are going to play dumb, it's just going to backfire on you.

[ellacott]

25. She made a clumsy statement and won't admit it

I still don't understand what she was trying to say. She should have just left MLK out of this political debate. He would have been happy to see both of them in this campaign.

[tishaLA]

22. "Personally offended"!

That's rich.

[Sparkly]

23. NYTimes left out part of her quote, again....

http://mediamatters.org/items/200801120003?f=h_latest

NY Times repeatedly truncated Clinton civil rights comments

Summary: A January 11 New York Times article marked at least the third time that a Times article, editorial, or blog post truncated Hillary Rodham Clinton's January 7 comments about civil rights. Each of the articles quoted Clinton's statement that "Dr. King's dream began to be realized when President Lyndon Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964" and that "it took a president to get it done" but omitted Clinton's reference to former President John F. Kennedy. Clinton had also said that passing a civil rights bill was "something that President Kennedy was hopeful to do, the president before had not even tried."

So this is at least the fourth time.

[tammywammy]

27. So Clinton's saying Clyburn was acting in concert with the

Obama campaign?

[wiley]

31. Don't start a rumor, please.

[killbotfactory]

29. How is it Obama's fault people are taking offense to her words and actions?

[wiley]

30. This country has never been able to discuss race without punishing those

who want to change the status quo. And no one, regardless of their race, is feeling very charitable or welcoming to anyone with open hands of any race. It would be so much better if people would just stop responding to or pandering to people based on race.