Here's my deal: It's classless to jet off to the next state and not say anything to your supporters

[crispini]

We can quibble all day about whether or not that was a "concession speech" that Hillary gave in TN. I don't really care what you call it. But the fact is that she gave it in TN and not in SC. And, as a long-time activist who has spent her share of pounding the pavement for my candidates, not sticking around for one extra speech in order to acknowledge the efforts of her grassroots folks who worked for her just sort of sticks in my craw. That's all.

(Dons flamesuit)

[Kittycat]

1. I agree with you. I read on the SC elections site that there were 50-60

Of her supporters waiting at a hall that was rented for her to speak afterwards, and she never showed.

[hlthe2b]

4. Thus why I could never run for major office-- if one must be that

"pragmatic" (or cold and calculating, depending on perspective). I think both Obama and HRC are wrong to do so.

[crispini]

7. Oh, how sad.

Yeah, that wouldn't have been a very good photo op, I can see. :D

[Patsy Stone]

104. Look at you!

Bravely posting in GDP! :toast:

:hi:

[boston bean]

2. When Obama did it, I thought it was tacky too. nt

[crispini]

5. Which state did he do that in?

I confess, I don't vote til March so I haven't been paying THAT much attention, I just happened to be watching last night.

[boston bean]

6. Nevada. nt

[KittyWampus]

32. Obama spun that as a win (since he got more delegates and it was a tie numerically). I don't know if

he did speak to his supporters that night.

[HughMoran]

27. You posted this without knowing that Obama was in Illinois after Nevada - the LAST primary state?

That is pathetic. Now you claim ignorance? :wtf:

This is a stupid post on your part - you should apologize.

[ShortnFiery]

37. Writen like a true egocentrc. No, you and your heroine, NEVER sin, you're GODS.

:crazy: :thumbsdown:

[HughMoran]

42. Who's my heroine?

What are you talking about - I'm criticizing the O/P for posting hypocrisy.


Do you support hypocrisy

[ChairmanAgnostic]

55. godESS to you, serf! Remember that, or else!

[jasmine621]

126. Ignorance like this rampant among the HC haters. Ill informed, they

only seem to "know" what the latest propaganda the media puts out about HC and Edwards.

[rodeodance]

18. yup, I recall that.

[HughMoran]

23. How soon some forget

double standards abound

[babylonsister]

33. Yawn. Obama won the delegate count in Nevada, so he had nothing

to concede.

[HughMoran]

36. Why was he in Illinois? And he did lose the popular vote by 6%

Obama nation - can't admit they are wrong even when not addressing the hypocrisy of the O/P.

[MonkeyFunk]

45. Then it was AWFULLY rude

not to thank his supporters, then, wasn't it?

[krabigirl]

84. Yep, they both did it. It's only rude when Clinton does it (just kidding!)

[krkaufman]

123. Ummm... but he then *definitely* would have had reason ...

... to thank his supporters. Skipping the post-primary/caucus "Thank You!" was the 'gist of the OP, though it may have been targeted at HRC (or perhaps set as a trap for Obie supporters).

[zanne]

3. Agreed. It's a slap in the face of all her volunteers. nt

[xultar]

21. Did you think that when Obama did the same thing in Nevada?

[davsand]

8. My philosophy has always been that the volunteers get treated like royalty.

Literally, you have NO campaign without the people that show up to do the work. When they came to phone bank they got good food, when they went out to go door to door they got donuts and coffee at the HQ first. Literally, I kept a few small gift wrapped "presents" in my car for hostess gifts and what-not...

Yeah, it did take some time to do, but the result was that I always had a group of people that felt good about working for the campaign and were always there for us. They felt appreciated and (more important) they felt invested in the campaign--they were PART of it.

I realize a county wide campaign is not anywhere NEAR the logistical nightmare that a national one is, but the philosophy is the same. You have NO campaign without your ground troops. I'm sorry that realization has fallen by the wayside at the "higher" levels.



Laura

[crispini]

10. Right on!

An activist that gets it. :thumbsup:

[surfermaw]

66. Most of her supporters were happy or more than happy to have Big Bill

[davsand]

117. Maybe that was enough for them--I dunno. Hard to say what is the payoff for that kind of work.

I am not bashing Hil or Obama in particular, I am just saying that none of us are able to accomplish much of anything without the folks who work our campaigns. It is important to maintain those relationships, and it is a smart organization that works to invest people in that common goal...

Peace.



Laura

[journalist3072]

9. Enough with the faux outrage. Did you say anything when Obama did the same after losing Nevada?

[crispini]

11. Sorry, I've really just started paying attention.

Since I don't vote til March and my vote probably won't count anyway (but MAY count -- wouldn't that be cool! it would be a first for me in the primaries.)

[xultar]

22. So you might want to add that in your OP since you're being subjective.

[journalist3072]

39. Well you need to make sure you have your facts straight before posting

You've admitting just now started paying attention. OK...I'll give you that.

But some of us have been paying attention from the get-go....and we know what's been going on.

So you may want to do your research before posting on stuff like this.

[Bluebear]

68. 'Sorry, I've really just started paying attention.', Christ it was just last week lol

Then again, it was Obama who did it, not Clinton ;)

[babylonsister]

34. He had nothing to concede; he won the delegate count. nt

[journalist3072]

38. Bullshit.....more Nevadans went to the polls and voted for Sen. Clinton...Obama lost the state of

Nevada

What an idiot.

[krkaufman]

124. The 'gist of the OP is not concession or victory speeches ...

... it is giving props to your supporters, those who fought to win you the votes and delegates.

The OPer definitely neglected to look before they leapt with their accusation, as it appears both HRC and Obama are guilty of having skipped-out of states w/o big televised Thank Yous to their supporters.

[surfermaw]

67. you forgot cried because Bill got enough college votes to beat him

[ursi]

12. Not only is it classless, it is arrogant and I wonder how Hillary is about revenge

[Tarc]

13. So was obama classless and arrogant too for ditching Nevada?

Or is your hypocrisy showing?

[wyldwolf]

17. Obamanation: "la la la la I can't hear you la la la la"

[rodeodance]

19. Obama will do Anything to win.

[indimuse]

57. yes he will..

Chicago dirty politicking is hard to shake! This person Obama is hardly a novice at questionable campaigning...look it up...he was in charge of BALLOT BOXES...how nice...! not you rodeodance..you get it! all the little BHO peeps.

[HughMoran]

26. Obama was in Illinois when he "lost" Nevada

He should be criticized even more for claiming he "won" (delegate count) from a remote location? If that wasn't classless, I don't' know what is.

[Red Zelda]

14. Never expect class from a Clinton.

[rosetta627]

16. I agree with you more and more every day Red Zelda

eot

[HughMoran]

30. Even when she is wrong?

That's cool :eyes:

[rosetta627]

76. I can't say HM

'Cause IMO she's right. Billary is smarmy.

[HughMoran]

79. smarmy, shmarmy

The O/P was WRONG and y'all just see it as another good opportunity to bash Hillary

Whatever, nobody said you had to be deep to post here :eyes:

[rosetta627]

115. There's no shortage of opportunities to bash Hillary

Starting with this one:
Hillary voted to invade Iraq.

Sometimes a bash is indistinguishable from a fact.

[HughMoran]

118. Blah, blah, blah - same fucking stupid shit, different day

Listening to broken records like you is fucking boring.

:nopity: :boring:

[rosetta627]

122. Then stop listening to me and go back to rationalizing your support of a war monger

It must take a lot of time and energy.
That would explain why you have so little left for creating reasonable and articulate posts on an internet forum.

[HughMoran]

29. ...or Obama aparantly since he was in Illinois while Nevada was counting

At least know the facts before you point your clearly fake outrage.

[Medusa]

15. Sending your husband out

and having him sit there and have a "me, me, me" celebration was rude. People watching in SC booed as they listened to Bill's speech. Lots of bad blood left over from the fighting in SC. What are others in other states thinking as they watch the classless and obviously bitter Clintons' openly dissing their opponents? Tacky.

[xultar]

24. YOU ARE WRONG. She didn't do that...The MSM wanted his reaction in MO.

he was at a rally. She was in a completely different state. She was in TN.

He was @ a rally and they just cut in on a speech he was giving @ a rally in MO.
The MSM did that, they decided to put him on...on their own.

Why the fuck are you guys so goddamned blind?

[unapatriciated]

31. do you know how close TN is to SC?

[xultar]

61. What does that have to do with anything, Obama left NV. Your double standard is bullshit.a

and you fucking know it.

[unapatriciated]

90. no double standard....

I think they all should stick around to thank their supporters. Just because someone else did it doesn't make it right.

[HughMoran]

25. Nobody forced the MSM to put up the feed of Bill

They decided to do that entirely on their own - so let's get the outrage pointed at the right people - the MSM are manipulating you but you are just too obsessed with hate to see that any more.

[robbedvoter]

51. A bit of peeping shadenfreude - waiting for tears or screams or something

thay could scream about. Instead, it was just the usual Bill. So, they scream about that. "Why is he talking? But more importantly, why isn't he screaming or crying? Damn! We hate him so much!

[HughMoran]

60. It's funny because I think they were bored after declaring the winner immediately

When they saw Bill Clinton on the feed they thought "this has to be more interesting than what we have to say. Besides, it stirs the pot that we've been stoking all week here on the "make a controversy" MSM"

Aren't people's MSMometers going off the scale at this point? How can people here be so gullible to this bullshit? It's making me laugh (sarcastically) and kinda sick feeling at the same time.

[robbedvoter]

46. She gave a concession speech. In person. MSNBC apologized for the lie.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4222639

[rodeodance]

20. You are living in SC yet-- the Game is for Super Tuesday. Forward

[robbedvoter]

28. I didn't hear any thanks to suporters, recognition of majority vote in Nevada

I did however hear all these from Hillary. In every single race - win or lose.
So, thanks for bringing it up - I almost forgot that one. Didn't thank Nevada supporters.

[Evergreen Emerald]

35. Why do you guys take everthing everything that Clinton does and

then distort it and use it to spew more hate her way?

What happened to talking about the issues? What is wrong with you guys that you need to dehumanize her? Is it so you can better hate another human, a progressive powerful Senator?

[HughMoran]

40. Many Obama supporters on DU are filled with hatred

It spews from their angry veins after they cut themselves in a hedonistic self-mutilation ritual.

[robbedvoter]

54. Some are freepers in disguise, some follow them without realizing

It's why it's a good idea to have an inner standard.
I expect a number of recent posters to pull off their masks at some point - like they did in 2004 when pretending to be Deanies - and getting agreement from a lot of naive DU-ers.

[krabigirl]

86. It seems that way with some. I've never been so attacked for questioning a candidate.

[ShortnFiery]

44. To put it simply, The Clintons' time "on stage" has come and gone. Even the base is SICK of them.

:shrug: We are oh, so tired of "Clinton" f**king ANY TOPIC that we are trying to push them off the National Stage. But Bill Clinton's mighty corporate DLC MACHINE is so firmly entrenched within the D.C. politico establishment that they are desperately clinging on.

But no, The People of The United States want NEW leaders.

No more BUSHS OR CLINTONS in *our* Executive Branch. :thumbsdown:

[Evergreen Emerald]

50. the "base" is not "sick of them" Bill Clinton did great things for our country

And Hillary Clinton is an awesome Senator who has made a huge difference in the lives of many.

It is simply amazing to me that people are so filled with hatred that they attack everything, twist everything negative and then just rail. I have never seen anything like it. It is...almost....manic....

"People of the United States want new leaders"--then why do you support someone who has those very exactly identical stances as Clinton, except without the means to achieve them? Then why do you support someone who uses the entrenched Washington insiders as his campaign team? Then why do you use someone who so eaisly uses his race to divide us?

YOu don't want the same old thing and yet you are doing the same old thing that happened in the last election. Voting for someone you want to have a beer with.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

59. ha.

read here

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters?bid=45&pid=276001

[Evergreen Emerald]

62. that goes both ways.

It is such a slanted article.

[HughMoran]

52. Speak for yourself you flailing angry firefly

That post is so filled with venom that it barely makes any sense.

Calm dawn ol' fiery one - jiminy crickets!

[Hart2008]

53. It's just like the '88 convention when Bill wouldn't stop talking in his keynote address.

They both collectively want to hog the stage for as long as possible.

It is not because they have specific legislative goals that they want to accomplish. They just want to have that power. They are addicted to it.

:hangover:

Enough is enough!

[Evergreen Emerald]

58. So, let me get this straight. No one else wants power. Everyone else

is running for President for a different reason that they want to be the President? If that is the case then why did Obama run?

He is new to the Senate, with little experience? If it is not about power, why not wait and gain the ability to make significant changes?

I am tired of that old lie: Clintons want power. That is just so superficial.

[Hart2008]

72. Some people run for office to accomplish goals, like their campaign promises.

In '92 Bill promised to give the middle class a tax cut and health care reform.

He became the first President in history to break a campaign promise, the middle class tax cut, before taking the oath of office. He did so in a statement that had all the sincerity of a student who says, "The dog ate my homework." In fact, he lowered the tax rate for the very richest Americans.

Health care reform died when St. Hillary was put in charge of it. Now she wants the nomination on the same old stale promises, a middle class tax rebate and mandating that we all buy health insurance. What a great solution! Just pass a law requiring that we all buy health insurance.

:puke::hangover: :puke::hangover::puke::hangover: :puke::hangover::puke::hangover: :puke::hangover::puke::hangover: :puke::hangover:

It is very stale. Billary had 8 years to get the job done, and they squandered the chance.

Enough already!

You need to ask an Obama supporter your other questions.

What is superficial here?

It is the Clinton's.

[Evergreen Emerald]

74. Oh brother.

Clinton did wonders in office with a Republican congress. Do you not remember those days? He was hounded by the neo-cons and republicans and attacked (kinda like you are doing to Hillary Clinton) non-stop. Dehumanized and attacked daily and he still did wonders for America.

Your suggestion that she is in it for power THE EVIL BITCH and everyone else wants to make changes to the world...is so full of crap I can hardly stand it.

[Hart2008]

85. We got the Republican Congress for 6 years because of the Clinton's.

NAFTA and welfare reform were Republican initiatives.

If Clinton actually pushed a Democratic agenda, he would have led the party to victory in Congress.

That simply wasn't important to him.

He didn't want to be a Harry Truman.

He liked Republicans too much. That's why he hired Dick Morris and David Gergen, and embraced "Republican lite" as his personal brand name.

The impeachment was his own doing and a distraction to any kind of serious legislative initiative. He lied under oath and got caught. His political opponents exploited his error to try to score political points. That was a self-inflicted wound.

Had he resigned before the 2000 election, Gore would have run as an incumbent President running on peace and prosperity. Gore would have won with a margin too big to be stolen, but that would have required a sacrifice and a selflessness that Clinton never had. The team always came second. Bill always came first.

True, the economy was better under Clinton than it was or is under the Bushes, but that is bad standard of comparison. The present health care crisis grew worse because of NAFTA and MFN for China.

As JFK said, "We can do better."

We can do better than the Clinton's.

Candidates who want to change things fail because of the obscene amount of money needed to run and the hostility of the corporately controlled MSM.

Yeah, and nice language too. Try making your points without the potty mouth.
:nopity:

[Evergreen Emerald]

95. bullshit. How quickly you forget.

The first act Clinton did once in office was to try to get gays in the military, despite the republican congress who (kinda like now) refused to do anything that would give Clinton a win. Then they tried universal healthcare...and fought their asses off. And because they won the election--they were continually attacked, seriously about everything, (kinda like Hillary Clinton now) and still Clinton worked his ass off.

And of course with the constant attacks and media backing and the "liberal" label, they still cleaned up the econemy--with no help from the republicans who only wanted to attack. Remember when Clinton tried to get Bin Laden and they all attacked him about "wagging the dog?"

They saved the world from WWII after the USSR broke up with the least possible carnage. Without the support of the republicans who did nothing but trash them constantly.

Then THE CLINTONS, hated by now for their GAY AND HEALTH CARE LOVING WAYS sent troops to Haiti. Oxy Rush had a field day with that.

And then, after spending billions attacking and investigating Clinton, all they came up with is a blow job...but that did not stop them from trying to impeach him.

I disagree with your world view and your blaiming Clinton for everything as if you have no memory of what actually occurred.

Clinton was awesome. Despite the media propaganda machine, despite the congress who refused to do anything.

[Hart2008]

101. "Awesome" Presidents accomplish their legislative goals and don't hire GOP advisors.

The Soviet Union collapsed when Bush, the elder, was President:

On December 25, 1991, Gorbachev, yielding to the inevitable, resigned as president of the USSR, declaring the office extinct and ceding all the powers still vested in it to the president of Russia: Yeltsin. On the night of that same day, the Soviet flag was lowered for the last time over the Kremlin. Finally, a day later on December 26, 1991, the Supreme Soviet recognized the extinction of the Union and dissolved itself. By December 31, 1991, all official Soviet institutions had ceased operations as individual republics assumed the central government's role. The dissolution of the Soviet Union also ended the longtime Cold War.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collapse_of_the_Soviet_Union#Dissolution_of_the_USSR

But, hey, why let the facts get in the way of your opinion of those facts right?

Bush does the same thing.

I don't think Jimmy Carter was happy with Bill for giving Monica Lewinsky that corsage on her dress.

Remember Jimmy Carter?

He was the President who said he would never lie to us!

Now if Bill had followed that advice, he wouldn't have had that problem. I'm sure President Carter told Bill that, and now Bill prefers the company of Bush, Sr.

To quote Master Yoda, "Do, or do not. There is no try."

When it comes to health care reform and that middle class tax cut, Bill did not.


Edit to add: Can't you express yourself without the bad language?
It is very immature.

[Evergreen Emerald]

106. bad language

It is very frustrating to see these right-wing lies reguritated by people who were supposed to be progressive.

Your post: ITS ALL CLINTON"S FAULT forgets the reality of our time.

[Hart2008]

108. Harry S. Truman said "The buck stops here." You are passing the buck!

You can go argue with Harry Truman. Some things are timeless.

Carter had the same sign on his desk, and he would have been re-elected if not for the "October surprise" masterminded by Bush, Sr., to cut a deal with the Iranians to keep the hostages until after Reagan was inaugurated. Carter was humiliated and lost the election, and the myth of Reagan as John Wayne was born.

When we finally got a nominal Democrat in the White House, Clinton killed the investigation into that skulduggery, and Iran-Contra. Now Clinton and the Bushes are buddy-buddy.

It makes me sick.

:puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke::puke:

The right-wing has a back door into the Democratic party, and some of us are trying to end it.

[Evergreen Emerald]

109. That is simply more continuation of forgetting the reality of what happened

we are therefore destined to repeat it. And that is already starting--with allowing the media to spin and distort and lie about one candidate because it temporarily helps another.

[robbedvoter]

63. The BASE is rallying up even as you post this. People who protested the war

people who voted against Hillary in the senate primary - are writing me they're all voting for her. This MSM manufactured outrage is all deja vu for us - and brings back very powerful feelings. When Russert started lecturing Clinton last night on the teeve, he recruited millions of voters for Hillary. People who might have stayed home/voted someone else. Don't be so sure you know "the base"

[Evergreen Emerald]

65. I missed the Russert Lecture, can you fill me in?

[HughMoran]

69. There is always a backlash

How soon people forget the lesson of my home state - NH.

[okasha]

70. Because it's becoming apparent that the essential thing is the hate.

Despite Obama's win in South Carolina, Clinton is still heavily favored to win big on Super Tuesday. And despite the wailing and gnashing of teeth by Obama's supporters, it's been likely from the beginning that the Convention will choose to seat the Michigan and Florida delegates because the Democratic candidate, whoever it is, will need those states to win in November. The seating of those delegates will likely benefit Hillary, too.

So some explanation has to be found why Clinton will win and Obama will lose in those arenas. The obvious explanation that Clinton has a wider appeal than Obama, a better platform, is apparently unacceptable to many of his supporters. So the caricature of Evil Hillary, which not only bears no resemblance to the actual person but is barely recognizable as a human being, has been created to explain Obama's failures. Believing in this caricature requires hate.

Ergo, the hate.

[Marie26]

41. You probably don't want to go there

Because Obama jetted off to Illinois during the NV caucuses, and never gave any speech at all to thank his supporters or congratulate HRC. It was extremely classless.

[MonkeyFunk]

43. Is this from Letitia Baldridge's Big Book

of Campaign Etiquette?

Oh my, the fake outrage! It makes me so fake sad!

[robbedvoter]

47. Reminds me of the Wellstone Memorial outrage brigade.

[ShortnFiery]

48. Our Democratic Party will NOT be the same again thanks to The Clintons "Scorched Earth" campaigning.

They are truly shameless and I sincerely regret voting for Bill Clinton during the 1990s after I've seen him devolve into a bloated angry hate-spewing racist OPENLY demonstrated by his deplorable behavior this past week.

I hold ZERO respect for either Bill or Hillary Clinton. If THEY are elected, I will NOT recognize them as my Co-Presidents. :grr: :nuke:

[MonkeyFunk]

56. Yes, dear

we know how you feel. You haven't posted anything BUT vile Clinton-hatred for months now.

[Evergreen Emerald]

71. The thing that gets me is that...

...her statement has nothing to do with reality.

[MonkeyFunk]

73. They rarely do

it's fascinating, really.

[ShortnFiery]

78. Well, honey bun, I've always been known to be blunt when the truth is glaringly apparent.

Also, it must really "burn your chaps" to embrace THE FACT that after the overtly racist "Jesse Jackson comment," Bill Clinton's *ELVIS* has left the building ... FOREVER! :evilgrin:

[MonkeyFunk]

80. I'd have to see Bill Clinton dance first

[ShortnFiery]

91. That's your "disconnect" MonkeyFunk: You're unable to discern between "pride in one's ethnicity"

and "demonstrations of OVERT racism and/or race-baiting."

When Bill Clinton was red faced and angry about "his wife" being wronged, my mind flashed back to the movie "The Kill a Mockingbird."

"How dare that (Black) man taint (MY - white privileged and patriarchal ownership) May Ella."

Bill Clinton has taken a page out of Atwater's play book for "Southern Strategy" but, in today's America, it blew up in his RACIST face.

Any candidate who would CHOOSE to pit "the races" against one another is NOT a person of high moral character. :thumbsdown:

[MonkeyFunk]

96. blah blah blah

So Obama can make racial comments about Bill, but god forbid anbody else say anything that can be remotely construed as relating to Obama's race.

It's ridiculous, and you're a caricature.

[HughMoran]

89. Hmmm. filthy rotten hate

We don't get enough of that here on DU - I encourage you to keep spewing forth to "enhance" the level of discourse on DU.

It is much appreciated. ;)

[ShortnFiery]

97. Yes, that's what I thought of what underlined Bill Clinton's "Jesse Jackson comment." eom.

[HughMoran]

100. Yes, you do have a big problem staying on topic, don't you

You just can't find enough filth to spew here - disgusting!

[Triana]

49. Well, it's no worse than ROBOCALLS, is it?

Pfffttt!

I agree. Classless. She spent pissy little time there before or after the primary. And on primary DAY - all her campaign machinery did was set up robo-calls to slam Edwards.

Robocalls - IMO - are classless too.

I've lost all respect for her now.

[cboy4]

64. Here you go. You deserve this for your "concern."

[Unbowed]

75. It was a little shocking.

Concessions aren't really for the other candidate, they're for the supporters, to thank them and pump them up for the next round. Jetting off like that was like flipping them the bird. Edwards, on the other hand, was a class act. I was touched by the sincerity of his speech and how much he appreciated his supporters and the support he did get from the people of SC. He impressed me with his courage, his humility and his graciousness. I'm voting for Obama, but I'm now certain that I'll have no problem supporting Edwards should he win the nomination. Working for a candidate isn't easy. It's hard work and it is exhausting both physically and emotionally. And all supporters want (other than a victory) is acknowledgment. Ditto with voters. How a candidate treats their supporters (whether they win or lose) reflects on how that candidate will treat the people they are asking to represent.

EVERY supporter out there who gave up time with their family, canvassed and telephoned should be thanked for their participation in our democracy. Winning is great and losing hurts like Hell. Sometimes supporters feel the disappointment of a loss a much as does the candidate. Edwards supporters had heir candidate there to thank them. I didn't feel sorry for Edwards supporters because he showed that their work wasn't wasted. It was like a parent saying okay, you got a "C" this time but I still love you and we will work on that "A" for next time. Like I said, a class act.

[MonkeyFunk]

81. And Clinton issued a statement,

then she called Obama personally, then her husband said nice things about Obama's win, then Hillary herself conceded and complimented him in a speech.

Tomorrow, she'll flagellate herself in Charleston, then do an interpretive dance expressing her deep admiration for Obama, followed by a celebratory banquet in his honor.

[Unbowed]

121. That might be interesting to watch. Is CNN going to cover it? n/t

[HughMoran]

83. Did it "concern" you when Obama jetted out of Nevada on election day?

...to be in Illinois on election night?

Double standard eh?

[Captain_Nemo]

77. Obama jetted off to Chicago without giving a speech in Nevada. He NEVER gave a concession speech.

[Name removed]

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[MonkeyFunk]

87. nice picture

What's it like to be so hate-filled?

[ShortnFiery]

93. You come across like the Bush-Bots who demand that anyone who doesn't love chimpy is

a Bush-Hater. :crazy:

Face it, Bill Clinton's behavior across the last week in SC is nothing less than deplorable. You can't explain it away other than a DEPLORABLE attempt to "divide and conquer" through race-baiting.

And I'm sure Mark Penn will have him play "the divisive role" in order to pit latinos against blacks. What they don't realize is that THE ENTIRE COUNTRY is sickened by this smarmy form of "divide and conquer" politics.

I do hope and pray that people of all ethnicities join together WITH Obama.

The Clintons brought this on themselves because they have been living in "the lap of privilege" so long they think that we should be THEIR SERVANTS. No WAY! :thumbsdown:

I lived in the Republic of Panama for three years and I BELIEVE in the insight and intelligence of The Latino Heritage. With Obama as our nation's LEADER: Sí se puede!

[MonkeyFunk]

98. Your picture

is childish and puerile. But I expect nothing less from you.

[Tom Rinaldo]

88. What about thanking his supporters either way then? Or even waiting to see who won? n/t

[HughMoran]

92. You're talking about Lord Obama

Those standards only apply to lowly Clintonistas, doncha know?

[ShortnFiery]

94. No, the lack of "a sense of entitlement" is part of what is attractive about Obama who works WITH

others. Obama doesn't attempt to pit the races against one another like the morally bankrupt campaign waged by the "win at all costs" HRC supporters.

There is a VISION of hope with Obama that can NOT be denied. He can work WITH US to unite our Nation. :thumbsup:

[HughMoran]

99. Hey, glad he's got you hooked

I'm going with either Hillary or Obama - I don't care who wins so long as we have a strong candidate. The only thing that turns me off is the incessant attempts at destroying one of our strong candidates. I will not put up with this from anyone.

[MonkeyFunk]

111. Hooked?

like this cartoon from the site she links to?

[HughMoran]

114. That's a funny coincidence

hooked :rofl:

[Captain_Nemo]

102. Sorry, your post rationalizes Obama's behavior and the picture reeks of republican tactics.

[HughMoran]

105. Yep, a right-wing troll was banned yesterday for posting similar pics

Theirs were linked in from a right-wing site - that was why they were found out so quickly - lol - what a dumb troll.

[MonkeyFunk]

107. Did you follow the link back

from her picture?

http://www.iowapresidentialwatch.com/



Or....follow the link the properties of her picture and hit UP once to see the indes of pictures and look at a few. A more disgusting pile of anti-Democrat pictures, I've never seen.

[MonkeyFunk]

110. Here are some examples

[HughMoran]

112. Really?

There is something afoul here - it happens during every election cycle. I don't like it :(

[MonkeyFunk]

113. This one has barely tried to hide it

I'm amazed she hasn't been sent back under the bridge.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

103. seriously how hard does one have to think to come up with such a bullshit issue?

[LiberalFighter]

116. First, how many here have been involved in presidential primary elections?

Second, how do we know that the candidates didn't provide a pre-election thank you to all of the volunteers? Rallies are usually held a few days before the election.

Third, these presidential primaries are different in scheduling than any previous presidential year. And timing is critical.

[robbedvoter]

119. Here's another classless one: she's going to Florida AFTER the polls close to thank supporters

How disgusting is that?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4234261

[Captain_Nemo]

125. Bt, she THANKED everyone and CONGRATULATED Obama after SC. Why this crazy debate?

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-rezkojan23,1,3481515.story?page=1&coll=chi_news_local_mezz

[CorpGovActivist]

120. KICK! (Already Rec'd) n/t