A short post about a Bill Clinton comment

Email Print posted by MedfordTim 05/27/2008 02:04:14 PM EST

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Mr Clinton said as he campaigned on his wife's behalf in South Dakota on Sunday. "I have never seen anything like it. I have never seen a candidate treated so disrespectfully just for running," - many sources

Really? Never? While your wife was the presumptive lead candidate before the first vote was cast, how respectfully were Mike Gravel and Dennis Kucinich treated by your wife's campaign and the media in general?

How about Carol Moseley Braun, Al Sharpton, Dennis Kucinich or Howard Dean last time around? Gore in 2000???


I rarely see anything BUT candidates treated disrespectfully just for running. The focus on haircut prices, 'ethnicity' of names, religious backgrounds - all that background crap is a way to belittle a person. It is disrespect when our media chooses ahead of time who to cover or not and shunt the rest off to the side without America ever really getting a fair overview of each.

It is disrespect when two people want to hold on to their personal power so desperately that they would hold half a political party hostage in their hand-on-the-hips, foot-stompin' defiance of reality.

Is the titular head of the Democratic Party unaware of the general level of not just disrespect but actual contempt politicians are held, in general? Does he not see that his own actions further cement that contempt?

Lotsa glass houses, so many stones being tossed....
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Now might not be the time to critisize the Clintons.

Here's why: they have been beaten. No need to attack them anymore, they've been beaten. Obama is the nominee.

Now's not the time to be critical, but to kiss some serious ass. There are a lot of Clinton voters that are by now irrational about this race, who don't think about this but just revere Hilary like a god, nearly as unwavering as the christian right.

They have to be given some time to cool down, get their senses back, get over the hype. Then they'll realise they won't actually vote McCain over Obama.

But until that time, don't agitate them, Obama has won allready either way. Now you can only lose voters. So:just KISS ASS! Big time! Not the racist part of the ass, though. They're a lost cause anyway.

by Cogitor on 05/27/2008 07:23:43 PM EST

A short post about a Bill Clinton comment | 1 comment (1 topical, 0 hidden)
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