Hillary Clinton praises Obama's VP pick

[Thrill]

Clinton issued a statement Saturday morning praising Obama's decision and calling Biden "an exceptionally strong, experienced leader and devoted public servant

[tekisui]

1. That's good.

But, it will do nothing for those deadenders who quit listening to her the day she announced her support for Obama.

[Heather MC]

52. I think those people are irrational Repukes in Disguise

With Rush Limpdick as their leader
pathetic

[DailyGrind51]

2. But how does she feel about his VP axe or VP shovel?

[JTFrog]

20. According to Newsweek: Relieved they won't be going through Bill's money sources. n/t

[DailyGrind51]

44. Bill would have done to Hillary what Gerry Feraro's husband did to her.

[StevieM]

51. Please. The Obama people trotted out that talking point out AFTER the primaries--because they knew

that the voters would laugh at it and it would cost them votes. So they waited until after the primaries so that there could be no vote to formally repudiate this nonsense.

I can't believe that Democrats are acting like the GOP did in the 90s. Just throw out an accusation and keep delivering it as if it was fact, without a drop of evidence.

Steve

[Chloroplast]

3. Good for her. Biden's awesome. Obama/Biden 08!

[femmocrat]

4. But will she campaign for him?

What else could she say?

[polmaven]

8. WTF do you THINK she has

ALREADY been DOING?

GROW THE F UP!!!!

[Chloroplast]

11. That's a lot of rage to be having so early in the morning.

[RedShoes]

13. or that was a lot to be outraged about so early in the morning.

[polmaven]

18. Exactly!

Is there ANYTHING she can do that will stop some of these self proclaimed Democrats from bashing another Democrat? All day EVERY day!

And besides...my cell phone woke me up at 3:33 this morning....No getting back to sleep then, huh?

I'll bet you are as excited about the upcoming 6 days as I am!

Obama/Biden!!!!!! Gonna order my lawn sign and bumper stickers today!

[JTFrog]

22. The minimum necessary to run again in 2012 hoping that her kitchen sink is soon forgotten.

"Senator McCain has a lifetime of experience...."


Well you asked.....

:eyes:

[polmaven]

28. Well why don't you show us

where or when she has refused to do anything at anytime Senator Obama has asked her to do!

Less than 24 hours after the sudden loss of a dear friend and colleague, she still found a way to fulfill her obligation to Senator obama and appear at a rally on his behalf.

Show us too, where, since her concession on June 7, she has made that statement.

Show us....Please.

I'll be waiting.

[JTFrog]

30. How would you know what he's asked her to do? And she didn't concede, she suspended her campaign.

Forgetting anything and everything the woman did before June 7, 2008 is exactly what she's hoping for come 2012.

[polmaven]

32. I didn't think you could.

Why not put away the hate and direct that energy toward electing Obama/Biden in November? It's a much more productive use of time.

[JTFrog]

36. I've been working for Obama's campaign here for months.

That's probably why I'll have a harder time than your average joe forgiving and forgetting.

[polmaven]

45. Hate is NOT a part of the Senator Obama's agenda

Why is it a part of yours?

[JTFrog]

48. Hate seems to be one of the only words some can cognitively grasp onto in this scenario.

Hate.
Misogyny.
Sexism.

Surely, those can be the only reasons that I may have to spit out the bitter taste that Senator Clinton has left in my mouth.

:eyes:

Cognitive dissonance. It's not just for the Republicans anymore.

[StevieM]

46. No one's asking for forgiveness or validating that there is anything to forgive (eom)

[StevieM]

35. No she's not. You're arrogantly talking as if everyone is in agreement with your preferred narrative

about a disgraceful, kitchen-sink campaign. But I didn't see it that way, and neither did her voters. Those are just the talking-points of the Obamites, and Clinton supporters feel the same way about Obama's campaign, we just don't whine about it relentlessly, or self-righteously preach about how great we are and shameful the other side is.

You know....this is the real reason why Obamites are upset that Hillary is being honored at the Convention. Not because anything special is being done for her, by historical standards, but because her place of honor repudiates, even belittles, their precious narrative about a shameful campaign that has left her legacy in tatters while she struggles to earn forgiveness and redemption. It makes people saying that look and feel ridiculous, in light of the official presentation.

Steve

[JTFrog]

41. Right, Clinton supporters haven't been whining relentlessly.

You're damn right we disagree.

[StevieM]

47. I said I would vote for him (eom)

[musicblind]

53. She suspended her campaign the same way Edwards suspended his, and Romney suspended his and so on

calling it a suspension is common political practice so as not to slap the candidate's supporters in the face.

[StevieM]

33. The claim that Hillary ran a kitchen-sink campaign will be laughed out of the history books. Besides

Obama took some unbelievably negative shots at Clinton, which somehow the Obamites don't find too bad. "She's the master of the broken system," "she's incapable of bringing about change," "she's Bush/Cheney-light."

Steve

[JTFrog]

42. For years it will be a political study of one of the worst negative campaigns ever run. n/t

[musicblind]

54. That is true. History will not show she ran a "kitchen sink campaign" that was merely a delusion of

some, NOT ALL, Obama supporters during the primaries.

[Virginia Dare]

38. I've got no problems with Senator Clinton..

but I haven't been impressed by her support thus far.

[polmaven]

55. Tell us, please,

exactly what it is you think she should be doing that she isn't.

You do realize that it would NOT be proper for her to go out own her own without being asked to do an appearance or rally by the Obama campaign, right?

[thewiseguy]

29. For the love of god! She has been campaigning for him.

[Virginia Dare]

5. Very gracious of her.....n/t

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

6. McFogie, on the other hand, was dicky, but what else is new?

He can bite me.

Very classy of Hillary.

[Virginia Dare]

7. What did McMansions have to say?

he's pissed because he knows Biden is smarter than him, and also has a son in Iraq, so he's probably popping a vessel this morning.

[SCRUBDASHRUB]

14. From Huffington Post:

No sooner had word spread of his selection than McCain's campaign unleashed its first attack. Spokesman Ben Porritt said in a statement that Biden had "denounced Barack Obama's poor foreign policy judgment and has strongly argued in his own words what Americans are quickly realizing _ that Barack Obama is not ready to be president."

As evidence, Republicans cited an ABC interview from August 2007, in which Biden said he would stand by an earlier statement that Obama was not ready to serve as president. Hours later, the McCain campaign released a 30-second TV ad featuring Biden's comments from the interview and scheduled the spot for key states.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/23/joe-biden-is-obamas-vice_n_120772.html

[Virginia Dare]

15. I'm sure Joe Biden will have no problem rebutting this..

I'm sure the response has already been crafted. McMansions is toast.

[NYC Liberal]

21. Yup. Biden will say "Obama proved me wrong"

Then that McSame attack will be neutralized.

[Virginia Dare]

37. I know John McCain, I served in the Senate with John McCain..

and Barack Obama is no John McCain...:rofl:

[shadowknows69]

9. Classy. Thank you Senator Clinton

[flpoljunkie]

10. A bit more...

The New York Senator and former Obama rival calls “her colleague and friend” Biden “an exceptionally strong, experienced leader” in a morning statement.

“Senator Biden will be a purposeful and dynamic vice president who will help senator Obama both win the presidency and govern this great country.”

http://thepage.time.com/2008/08/23/clinton-lavishes-praise-on-biden-pick/

[bigwillq]

12. I'm shocked.

That anyone thought she would do otherwise.

[bidenista]

17. you need to read DU more often

There are some really sad cases of Clinton-Induced Rage here. Think 28 Days Later.

[snake in the grass]

24. And for good reason...

She is just simply evil, even worse than Bush, Hitler, the Borg, and Satan all rolled into one. Of all the politicians who have EVER run for or held office in the history of the U.S. there was and is nobody half as bad, as calculating, as sickening, as unlikeable, as conniving, as cold, as self-absorbed, as heartless, as ignoble, as treasonous, as shrill, as vain, as selfish, as manipulative, as whiny, as non-fashion conscious, as two-faced, as self-promoting, as untrue to his or her own gender, as power hungry, as backstabbing, as untrustworthy, as racist, as right-wing, as untruthful, as vile, as murderous, as insane, and as dangerous as Hillary Rodham Clinton.

She plans one of three things: either she is going to outright steal the election from under Obama's nose at the convention, or sabotage Obama's chances this year opening the door for her in 2012, or get elected VP and then do a Vince Foster on Obama, and I know this to be true because I heard it on the Randi Rhodes Show.

Now let me reveal the real truth behind all this. Hillary is an alien-human hybrid sent by brain sucking rebels from the Betelgeuse system to harness our flatulence in order to power their nacho factories.

It's all true.....if you want to believe it.

[sellitman]

16. Thank you Senator Clinton!

I knew she would show class when all was said and done.

[JTFrog]

19. Well since Newsweek says she didn't want the job herself, I would expect nothing less.

http://www.newsweek.com/id/154863?GT1=430

In short, Obama behaved like a grownup. Even his much-criticized failure to "vet" Sen. Hillary Clinton means less than meets the eye. I talked two months ago to one of her closest legal advisors, who told me that she didn't really WANT to be considered for the number two job--in no small measure because the process would have required Obama's lawyers to comb through her husband's foundation and its murky sources of income.

In that sense, Obama did her a favor by not really demanding to consider her. She would have had to say "no."

[book_worm]

23. Thank you, Senator Clinton!

[Olney Blue]

25. Very classy- thank you, Hillary!

[bushisanidiot]

26. Thanks, Hillary! We love you for being a unifier!!

:)

[ErinBerin84]

27. Thank you, Senator Clinton!

Chuck Todd was saying last night that among many "Hillary people" in Washington DC who he has talked to, a lot of them were rooting for Biden even more than Bayh, even though Bayh was thought of to be a choice that would help appease Hillary supporters.

[DevonRex]

31. Thank you Senator Clinton! nt

[writes3000]

34. Great statement! Thank you, Hillary! nt

[Frank Booth]

39. Good! Now we can all put that PUMA stuff behind us.

Everybody's on board with the ticket!!

[JohnnyLib2]

40. She's consistent. Glad to see this one.

Rec.

[Beausoir]

43. Gracious and classy as always.

[Colobo]

50. He was the best choice. Obama and Biden... what a great ticket!

[Colobo]

49. Cool!

[jazzjunkysue]

56. Is it safe to go in the water, now?

Or, are we still going to pick away at Barack for winning?

I'd really like to come in here and see something other than the fairy tale that was the hillary campaign. I never believed it for a second.