What would happen if a Republican did this?
Clinton Surrogate Appears To Tie Obama To JFK Assassination
HP-With the chips down, we’re still waiting for that vaunted Clinton discipline to kick in. This isn’t helping:
Today, in Dover, Francine Torge, a former John Edwards supporter, said this while introducing Mrs. Clinton: “Some people compare one of the other candidates to John F. Kennedy. But he was assassinated. And Lyndon Baines Johnson was the one who actually” passed the civil rights legislation.
The comment, an apparent reference to Senator Barack Obama, is particularly striking given documented fears among blacks that Mr. Obama will be assassinated if elected.
How to describe this? Desperate? Weird? Uhm…a squeaky frame? [Rimshot!] Hopefully, Torge meant to merely draw a comparison between Clinton and a president who escalated wildly unpopular wars, and not with an assassin.
Phil Singer, a Clinton spokesman said: “We were not aware that this person was going to make those comments and disapprove of them completely. They were totally inappropriate.”
Mrs. Clinton: Barack Obama Hasn’t Done the Necessary “Spadework”
FROM TH
Bill and Hill Meltdown in New Hampshire
Bill and Hill Meltdown in NH
Bill and Hillary Clinton are showing signs of wear on the campaign trail in New Hampshire.
On Monday, Bill spent time blaming media for Barack Obama’s sudden surge and Hillary criticized her rival for talking about Martin Luther King.
“The idea that one of these campaigns is positive and the other is negative when I know the reverse is true and I have seen it and I have been blistered by it for months is a little tough to take. Just because of the sanitizing coverage that’s in the media doesn’t mean the facts aren’t out there,” the former President told a questioner at a campaign event at Dartmouth College.
“This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I’ve ever seen” Clinton said about Obama’s political success.
Clinton railed against Obama for claiming he is an anti-war candidate. Speaking as Obama, Clinton said, “It doesn’t matter that I started running for President less than a year after I got to the Senate from the Illinois state senate, I am a great speaker a charismatic figure and was the only one to oppose the war from the beginning always, always, always.”
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or what about this statement from the candidate herself as told by Rush Limbaugh:
“Did you hear what Mrs. Clinton said on the Today Show today with Matt Lauer? She said that Barack Obama “hasn’t done the spadework necessary to be president.” He “hasn’t done the spadework necessary to be president,” as though she has. Now, let’s imagine, shall we, if Trent Lott, or Mitt Romney, or Ross Perot had said that Barack Obama “hasn’t done the spadework necessary to be president.” Nothing that happens in the Clinton campaign is coincidence, folks. Barack Obama hasn’t done the “spadework”? Whew. Where is the Reverend Sharpton on this? By the way, big story: Reverend Sharpton is waiting on his time to endorse. He’s waiting for commitments. That means he’s probably waiting for money from one of these two camps.”
NO WAY do you have link?
I heard the spadework comment mentioned in other news sources, and thought to myself that it was a particularly underhanded racial dig.
She did not really say that ! ! !
Bart is right!
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If Mitt, Rudy or any GOPer had used this term in a discussion about Obama, he would be excoriated and forced to end his campaign. Where is the great Reverend Al?
Next thing you know, Hillary will say something like, “Obama worries about niggling details when he attacks me.”
Lefthook
PALEO-CONSERVATIVES are doing you guys a favor by bringing her issues to the forefront. Keep in mind she’s CORPORATE!!! And she’s getting contributions from Military contractors. And she ain’t what the “rank and file” Democrat wants as far as getting us out of Iraq.
From my Webster’s Dictionary:
Spadework:1: work done with the spade. 2: the hard plain preliminary drudgery in an undertaking.
Spade (noun): 1: a digging implement adapted for being pushed into the ground with the foot 2: a spade-shaped instrument.
Spade (verb): to dig or pare off with a spade
Spade (noun): a black figure on each playing card of one of the four suits; also a card or the suit of cars marked with this figure.
What’s wrong with everyone here? Have the PC Police grabbed you by the nethers?!
Pretty soon we will not even have our vocabulary and language. These words came from the ancient Greek, French, etc. I use them often!
And bb,
“niggling” is an excellent word
Hugh
I’m sick and tired of political correctness. But politicians are usually pretty calculated with what they say. Do you think this was a mistake? And Hugh, since I’m just an “average Joe”, I’m a big fan of “black humor” but avoid people who are “niggardly”.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_comedy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controversies_about_the_word_%22niggardly%22
Now we know what happens when a dem uses provocative language against a person of color — she wins the damn primary!
Bart you are right!
I enjoy reading your posts, keep them coming