St. Petersburg Times to Hillary: "where were you when we needed you? When the rules and bylaws

[Yanez Houston Jordan]

committee was stripping away our delegates, you were silent, and some of your top advisers, Harold Ickes, Tina Flournoy, were voting for that penalty."

Link to audio file: http://www.tampabay.com/specials/2008/audio/052108Dems/

This just goes to show that Hillary's "concern" about the MI and FL delegates is really just a selfish interest in her ability to bolster her 2012 campaign by claiming her second place finish in 2008 was that much closer if you count those straw polls which all candidates agreed wouldn't count.

[anigbrowl]

1. Karma's a bitch, and she makes no exceptions for gender.

[Cha]

2. hilary had her nose in her inevitability..

[fascisthunter]

3. Aw, Damn.... Well, there goes another Talking Point

I'm sure she'll come up with another one.

[SlipperySlope]

4. She was too busy planning her coronation.

[TheCowsCameHome]

7. Picking out a crown is no small task, my friend

She'll tell ya, if you just ask.

[SoCalDem]

24. So many crowns, so little time

Perfectly Appropriate Understated crown


Regal Purple majesty model


the whaddawhopper crown


the McCain Starry Crown


Scranton-gal Sparkle Plenty Model


Kentucky Toad Hollow Crown


This one's just right for the occasion

[indimuse]

30. ?

[southern_belle]

34. Good one, SoCalDem!

:rofl:

[Dr.Phool]

35. She chose Crown Royal didn't she?

[Carolina]

5. The MSM needs to take this up

HRC didn't give a rip about all those votes because she was so entitled, she just knew it would be in the bag by February 5th!

Only after her plans didn't work out and her campaign revealed its poor management and strategy, did she care about the people and all votes being counted.

What a despicable, hypocritical witch.

[glitternotgold]

31. The MSM are too busy

being shrills for Obama; to point out the many faces of Hellary!!!

[me b zola]

6. Put that in your pipe and smoke it, Hill

:smoke:

[WeDidIt]

8. Hillary doesn't give a flying flip about FL or MI

It's all about Hillary.

Al

[WeDidIt]

9. Hillary doesn't give a flying flip about FL or MI

It's all about Hillary.

Al

[swishyfeet]

10. ...but the ladies at the canasta club took the vote seriously!

So there.

[Forkboy]

11. Happy to K&R this for her, and her supporters, flaming hypocrisy.

[Ichingcarpenter]

12. Where Was She on the week that Florida was stripped? Doing this!!!

She was dealing with her Arrested Campaign Fundraiser Norman Hsu 08/27/07
Hsu arrested:

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2007/08/29/clinton_to_donate_funds_from_h.html


She was doing the Late Show with David Letterman.

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2007/08/31/late_show_with_hillary_clinton.html


She was getting ready for a debate: http://www.bloggernews.net/19725


She was doing another fundraising gala with her movie star friends:
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2007/08/30/clintons_money_troubles.html

[Occam Bandage]

13. Where was she? Happily talking about how the FL/MI votes "wouldn't count for anything," of course.

[Ichingcarpenter]

14. Actually she was handling her own fund raising crisis

I searched for the week before and two weeks after..



SHE SAID NOTHING.

[nichomachus]

15. She was all for screwing MI and FL when she thought

her Super Tuesday Shock & Awe was going to end the primaries.

[Ichingcarpenter]

16. She lied in the interview.... what else is new?

She lied and said she always said it was wrong from the beginning.

[Yanez Houston Jordan]

17. nice photo

[Ichingcarpenter]

18. The Burger King Commercials were creepy

But she does look good in that crown and a robe.

[cliffordu]

23. BWAAAAHAHAHAHHAHAH

Fock, that's funny....

[book_worm]

19. Hillary is always self serving.

[Czolgosz]

20. Great interview!

[krkaufman]

21. She didn't mention a word about it, until she found herself falling behind ...

... and knew a few well-placed declarations for the suffering voters of FLorida might make the FL airwaves in the last few nights before the "no campaigning" election and net her some much-needed votes.

[FrenchieCat]

22. She was obviously very, very busy getting ready for Day One!

[mythyc]

25. K&R

I am so sick of this shit. such a lying sack of shit, glad to see someone in the press finally calling her on it....

[StevieM]

26. She said Florida should count two days before the primary. And she was there when they needed her

on primary night.

Steve

[FrenchieCat]

27. She needed them on Primary night.......

remember? The fake celebration of a hollow win based on name rec? :shrug:

[StevieM]

28. Oh please. Florida was a state that favored Clinton. The large elderly population worked in her

favor. Polls taken when they were trying to set up new elections showed the results would have been the same--that's why Obama blocked the new elections. And he was plenty well-known by January 29.

Steve

[FrenchieCat]

29. Was this before or after

Hillary Clinton's Brown on Black race baiting?

Sergio Bendixen, a Clinton pollster and Hispanic expert, publicly articulated and Hillary agreed that this was an "historical Fact".

“The Hispanic voter—and I want to say this very carefully—has not shown a lot of willingness or affinity to support black candidates.” —Clinton pollster Sergio Bendixen
http://www.rollingstone.com/nationalaffairs/index.php/2008/01/12/clinton-pollster-latinos-too-racist-to-vote-for-obama

Clinton at Root of Racist Stereotyping - Hispanics vs Blackswashingtonpost.com — Where did this come from? "Hispanics traditionally do not like Blacks." Since when? This is a racist, divisive falsehood that the Clinton Campaign has created and nurtured as a 'historical statement' in an attempt to pit the political arena against Obama. First mentioned by a Hillary pollster and then affirmed by Clinton herself. There is no proof.
http://www.digg.com/2008_us_elections/Clinton_at_Root_of_Racist_Stereotyping_Hispanics_vs_Blacks

A few weeks ago, Sergio Bendixen, a Clinton pollster and Hispanic expert, publicly articulated what campaign officials appear to have been whispering for months. In an interview with Ryan Lizza of The New Yorker, Bendixen explained that "the Hispanic voter - and I want to say this very carefully - has not shown a lot of willingness or affinity to support black candidates."

The spin worked. For the last several weeks, it's been on the airwaves (Tucker Carlson, "Hardball," NPR), generally tossed off as if it were conventional wisdom. And it has shown up in sources as far afield as Agence France-Presse and the London Daily Telegraph, which wrote about a "voting bloc traditionally reluctant to support black candidates."

The spin also helped shape the analysis of the Jan. 19 Nevada caucus, in which Clinton won the support of Hispanic voters by a margin of better than 2 to 1. Forget the possibility that Nevada's Hispanic voters may have actually preferred Clinton or, at the very least, had a fondness for her husband; pundits embraced the idea that Hispanic voters simply didn't like the fact that her opponent was black.

But was Bendixen's blanket statement true?

Far from it, and the evidence is overwhelming enough to make you wonder why in the world the Clinton campaign would want to portray Hispanic voters as too unrelentingly racist to vote for Barack Obama.
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=713782

[pampango]

32. Did anything change in terms of her nomination prospects, between her support

for the sanctions against Florida and Michigan in 2007 and early 2008 and her opposition to the same sanctions after the first few primaries and caucuses?

[FatDave]

33. Surely you're not suggesting...

...that Hillary Clinton would change a position solely for the sake of political expedience?