Hillary ignores questions about Ferguson and walks out of store.

[RandySF]

Westhampton Beach, New York (CNN) – Hillary Clinton, who has yet to comment about the protests over the death of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, ignored questions about the incident on Sunday.

After signing more than 700 books at Books & Books in Westhampton Beach, Clinton was asked by two reporters for her reaction to the controversy.

Clinton ignored both questions and left the bookstore.

Liberal activists and civil rights leaders have asked Clinton for her response, saying she is the presumed front-runner for her party's presidential nomination in 2016 and that she has commented on major news stories in the past.


http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2014/08/24/clinton-ignores-questions-on-ferguson/

[Chakab]

1. Coward.

[riversedge]

4. Hillary is no coward. Period.

[Chakab]

10. I bet that you still believe in the Easter Bunny and Santa too.

[otohara]

75. I Believe

Your horns are showing.

[JJChambers]

16. Correct. She is a politician. And ONLY a politician.

[sabrina 1]

138. And that is not what is needed right now, we need LEADERSHIP. This country needs

a MLK. Hillary is not that person. But she could have been. How sad.

[stillwaiting]

35. I completely agree with you. She gives the middle finger to left-wing minded people often.

On matters of foreign policy and economic policy she's very, very brave in serving those who she intends on serving.

I'm afraid that extends to matters of the surveillance and police state as well.

[Chasstev365]

45. No She's a Politician!

However, there are times when you have to rise up the single minded pursuit of "political strategy" and say what is right, even when some may disagree or you risk alienating people.

[roguevalley]

53. she is worse than just a coward. she is a hypocrite. 3am phone call anyone?

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

133. Hillary is worse than a hypocrite; she's a complete phony.

[Divernan]

69. Like when she had to duck from sniper fire? Oh wait, she "misspoke" about that.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/21/AR2008032102989.html
Sniper Fire, and Holes In Clinton's Recollection

(Photo caption) Hillary Rodham Clinton gets a kiss from Emina Bicakcic, 8, after landing at Tuzla Air Base during a March 1996 trip to Bosnia.

Saturday, March 22, 2008

Hillary Clinton has been regaling supporters on the campaign trail with hair-raising tales of a trip she made to Bosnia in March 1996. In her retelling, she was sent to places that her husband, President Bill Clinton, could not go because they were "too dangerous." When her account was challenged by one of her traveling companions, the comedian Sinbad, she upped the ante and injected even more drama into the story. In a speech earlier this week, she talked about "landing under sniper fire" and running for safety with "our heads down."

There are numerous problems with Clinton's version of events.

THE FACTS

As a reporter who visited Bosnia soon after the December 1995 Dayton peace agreement, I can attest that the physical risks were minimal during this period, particularly at a heavily fortified U.S. air base, such as Tuzla. Contrary to the claims of Hillary Clinton and former Army secretary Togo West, Bosnia was not "too dangerous" a place for President Clinton to visit in early 1996. In fact, the first Clinton to visit the Tuzla Air Base was not Hillary, but Bill, on Jan. 13, 1996.

Had Hillary Clinton's plane come "under sniper fire" in March 1996, we would certainly have heard about it long before now. Numerous reporters, including The Washington Post's John Pomfret, covered her trip. A review of nearly 100 news accounts of her visit shows that not a single newspaper or television station reported any security threat to the first lady. "As a former AP wire-service hack, I can safely say that it would have been in my lead had anything like that happened," Pomfret said.

According to Pomfret, the Tuzla airport was "one of the safest places in Bosnia" in March 1996 and "firmly under the control" of the 1st Armored Division.

Far from running to an airport building with their heads down, Clinton and her party were greeted on the tarmac by smiling U.S. and Bosnian officials. An 8-year-old Muslim girl, Emina Bicakcic, read a poem in English. An Associated Press photograph of the greeting ceremony, below, shows a smiling Clinton bending down to receive a kiss.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

134. That was an easy mistake to make, lol. What an embarrassment.

[Divernan]

71. HRC to star as Lady Robin in remake of Monty Python

Brave Lady Robin ran away.
("No!&quot
Bravely ran away away.
("I didn't!&quot
When danger reared it's ugly head,
She bravely turned her tail and fled.
("no!&quot
Yes, brave Lady Robin turned about
("She didn't!&quot
And gallantly she chickened out.

****Bravely**** taking ("I never did!&quot to her feet,
She beat a very brave retreat.
("all lies!&quot
Bravest of the braaaave, Lady Robin!
("She never!&quot

Read more: Monty Python - Brave Sir Robin Ran Away Lyrics | MetroLyrics

[tabasco]

76. She got a bronze star or something for dodging all that sniper fire. n/t

[ohnoyoudidnt]

77. Someone who wants to be President shouldn't be afraid to speak their views on any subject.

But maybe I am expecting too much.

[rhett o rick]

89. I strongly agree. She is very smart and knows that if she comments on Ferguson she will reveal

her disdain for the masses. Wasn't it H. Clinto-Sachs that said, "Let them eat cake"??

[JaydenD]

92. That is not smarts, that's cowardice.

[rhett o rick]

97. She is the Powers That Be heir apparent for the Presidency. Speaking out would only

lose her votes. I don't think of her as a coward but cunning. She knew what she was doing when she gave her support to The Bush Crime Family.

[Jackpine Radical]

128. Absolutely not a coward. Consider how she stood up to

that incoming fire in Bosnia!

[FarPoint]

20. You don't know or understand Hillary Clinton at all....

The word clueless comes to mind immediately.

[Chakab]

22. I understand her a lot better than you do.

It boggles the mind how people like you can worship any of these morally bankrupt politicians.

[FarPoint]

24. Nahhhh....your way off base there my friend

[rhett o rick]

91. You provided no argument to dispel the idea that H. Clinton-Sachs represents the Aristocracy.

Therefore I can only conclude that you support her position and you too support the Aristocracy.

[hifiguy]

21. Cowardice of the first order.

[Cali_Democrat]

2. A group of people in this country are being systematically oppressed

and she can't bother to weigh in on it?

Fuck her.

[RandySF]

3. And she was the one who made the "3am commercial"

If she cannot make a statement on police brutality, how is she going to handle an international crisis?

[leftstreet]

7. +1

[magical thyme]

11. obliterate Iran?

[Divernan]

65. You'd think her staff could have triangulated SOME spin by now!

Hillary and her staff are clearly between a rock and a hard place on this matter, and was unable to either anticipate the question OR think on her feet enough to come up with ANYTHING to say!

It's 3 A.M. and the phone rings at the White House. It's forwarded to an answering machine.

And as others have observed, it's August and all her corporate handlers are on vacation and unavailable to give instruction or approval to whatever she might possibly say. I mean, even the Masters of the Universe have to have some down time!

[JaydenD]

98. According to Bill, when Hillary made that grand faux pas about Bosnia

it was because she is old and it was past her bedtime and when you are old you say stupid things. And that she apologized immediately. More lies.

[Chakab]

8. Now, now. She can't afford to offend those fickle "moderates" and the Reagan Democrats

who are NEVER going to fucking vote for her.


It's obvious that she's nowhere near the politician that some people assumed her to be because of her relationship with Bubba. She's making all of the same mistakes with the base that she did last time out.

I can't fucking wait to see her go down in flames again.

[Louisiana1976]

32. Agree wholeheartedly. We need a progressive alternative to Hillary.

[FarPoint]

23. Why the hell should she?

I support her choice at this time. No need to divert attention in her direction off of the real issues of Ferguson. All attention would focus on Hillary because the GOP is hunting for just such an opportunity ...why do them a favor,? Smart move by Hillary.

[Cali_Democrat]

25. Tell that to African American victims of police brutality

Blacks live in a constant state of fear of being executed while unarmed.

But it appears Hillary can't be bothered with that petty issue.

[FarPoint]

27. Like I said previously, the diversion would harm the movement in favor of the GOP.

Her speaking out even modestly serves the oppressors... I sense her heartfelt pain is equal to ours.

[JaydenD]

28. Congratulations, you have won the Weakest Argument yet heard.

her heartfelt pain.... o now you got me rolling with laughter but I still can't bring myself to use those dreadful smilies.

[Chakab]

33. You don't understand. If a Democratic politician keeps her powder dry for the perfect moment,

the Right Wing media won't engage in their standard dishonest, reflexive attacks.

Hillary, Bubba and their crack team of corporatist shills who lost them the last primary are furiously triangulating exactly when said "perfect moment" will occur as we speak.

[FarPoint]

34. Freshmen....

Think they know the ropes of politics....

[Chakab]

40. Yeah, because you know who really knows politics. The person who managed to lose in spite of having

more support from the media, party base and elected officials in her party than a non-incumbent going into a primary in US political history.

[JaydenD]

44. Hillary is the one acting like a Freshman.

After all this time of silence on Ferguson she couldn't be prepared with even a simple, Clintonian non speak reply to that question she and her crack team Knew would be waiting...

Can't wait for the debates.

[SammyWinstonJack]

119. her heartfelt pain...

[LiberalElite]

31. You really do????!?

[FarPoint]

37. Yes I do....

It's a smart move on her part for all of us in this fight.

[roguevalley]

58. oh god. she has nothing . even dead children won't make her have couage of conviction, rednecks be

Damned. Anyone who would criticize even words meaning nothing but compassion for a family would be no opposition. She just fucking doesn't care.

[heaven05]

46. I don't "sense" that

[roguevalley]

56. bull. you need to consider if she felt anything she woul speak. diversion is a cop out. even rand

Paul condemned this. She is dead to me.

[davidpdx]

120. +!

She's been dead to me a long time.

[roguevalley]

124. agreed davidpdx

[Teamster Jeff]

62. What Movement? Third way?

[Ecumenist]

131. You "SENSE" her heartfelt pain...WTF? Is that the same as looking into her eyes and seeing her

soul? Look, We people of African descent deserve to expect to be treated with respect and fairness, JUST LIKE ANY OTHER HUMAN BEING WHO IS AMERICAN. If this "woman" cannot be bothered to say "BOO" about something SO VERY IMPORTANT, FUCK HER. This is NOT a good start. I remember the bullshit she spouted the first time around regarding the comments her potential voters said regarding America's darker skinned children. FUCK HER and there IS NO excuse. PERIOD!!!

[GETTINGTIRED]

61. her attitude will be

Noted

[karynnj]

63. Not smart at all - if this were day 1 or 2, ok,

but by this time, she or someone on her side should have crafted a high minded, non controversial answer. THAT, would have gotten less response than refusing to answer.

I am not a politician, but something expressing condolences to his family and saying that beyond that, let's let the investigations and legal actions proceed without playing politics - seems obvious.

[A Simple Game]

70. You support her choice at this time? I can't go that far, I just support choice

two years out from the election. What is your hurry? Are you afraid of something, exposure perhaps?

[RufusTFirefly]

64. We need to wait until all the evidence is in. You know, just like with alleged "climate change."

[KittyWampus]

112. Not at a book signing, she wouldn't. You realize that there are no conversations at book signings

when there are hundreds of people lined up and a limited amount of time to get them through the line?

You and everyone else on the line gets their book signed, a quick hello from the talent and out you go. No dallying.

Anyone who attempts to dally can face not the book store staff but the secret service.

[DJ13]

5. Didnt the transfer of military hardware to police start under Bill's admin?

[Drunken Irishman]

47. Most of it happened under the Clinton administration.

[Raine1967]

50. This is seriously problematic.

I had heard this stat before, but seeing literally in black and white disturbs me.

I know it was her husbands administration, but what I want to see is Ms. Clinton speak out against this.

[KoKo]

126. Most of the MRAPS and Helicopters and Night Vision/Rocket Launchers are under Obama

as part of winding down the Wars that Bush built up. MRAPS didn't get out there until soldiers were being bombed in jeeps and they needed better equipment. It was 2007..when I looked it up on Wicki...Clinton didn't have us in Iraq or Afghanistan. His era was just office equipment...some old guns and stuff used in Bosnia that would be so outdated today it's already in the dump or was sent to China for scrap.

[magical thyme]

9. well what's a candidate to do?

Stand with the 1% or with the rest of us?

Certainly the wife of our "first black president" knows where she stands? Doesn't she?

[ChisolmTrailDem]

12. Run, Hillary, run!!!

Away, that is.

[4now]

13. This is getting embarrassing

Rand Paul writes an op-ed for Time. Saying many of the things the Dems should be saying.
and Hillary runs away from any questions.
Seriously can't she come up with the usual political double speak that politicians use all the time.
I am shocked.

[tblue37]

17. Candidates and politicians have a habit of fleeing from

reporters asking uncomfortable questions:

Rand Paul runs away from Dreamers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=PI8rCleTbSo

Michelle Bachmann almost breaks 4-minute mile racing down hallway to avoid reporter's questions:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=BVBxYlb0rAY

Sometimes they even hide--like Bachmann, whose head can barely be seen from behind those bushes!

[JaydenD]

19. So you are sayying that Hillary acts like a Repuglican? I knew that.

[4now]

26. Saying that Hillary does the same things as Bachman

Doesn't fill me with a lot of hope.
Are there videos of Obama running away from reporters on the campaign trail?

[tblue37]

30. I don't remember ever seeing any. nt

[JaydenD]

14. She should have written a note on her hand.

At the very least. What a continuing treasure trove of disappointment.

[Divernan]

72. DUzy award! +1000

[sadoldgirl]

15. This proves it to me again

that HRC is not politically savvy, nor can she connect well with people.

Even I could have come up with the rather neutral answer: "It was a very sad tragedy."

The fact that she could not find a word about it, and instead ignored the questions totally shows how badly

she reacts - just politically speaking - when unprepared or without a handler.

Mind you, since I am not running for office, I call it a bloody murder.

[Louisiana1976]

38. Excellent point. I do, too.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

18. But did they buy books to be signed?

They probably should have gotten books, gotten in line, and asked their questions while she was signing.

[darkangel218]

29. Lol!!

[KittyWampus]

114. The ONLY way you get into the store during a book signing is to buy the book and have it signed

Absolutely no one else goes into that store on the day Hillary/Politician is doing a book signing.

The store has been closed early that day, staff background checked, bomb-sniffing dogs gone through.

Nobody asks Hillary/famous politician anything. You get your books signed and move on.

That's it.

And there are hundreds and hundreds of people in line.

[Dragonfli]

121. It sounds quite correct that 700 people standing in line to get a book signed

could hardly expect a conversation let alone to have questions answered.

The problem is that it was not questions asked by those standing in line to get a book signed, it was questions asked by reporters after she signed 700 books, you did not appear to read the OP. Or you do not understand that reporters ask questions of politicians and ignoring them and running away, although certainly an option, is at best poor political judgement and at worst cowardice regarding the question.

[tularetom]

36. Obviously she believes she can win the presidency without African American voters

Trashing the foreign policy of the black president who gave her a job, then clamming up when asked to comment on murder of a black teenager by police, isn't going to do a lot to endear her to a voting bloc she needs if she has any hope of being elected.

[Louisiana1976]

41. Right on! She must think white women alone will get her elected. But little does she know there

are also white women who care about what happened in Ferguson.

[Chakab]

42. We haven't forgotten the way that she tried to play working class whites and Latinos against

professionals, young voters and black people when the chips were down at the end of the last primary.

I know that a lot of people like to pretend that it never happened, but we haven't forgotten.

[JaydenD]

102. Clinton and 'hard working white americans'.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/08/clinton-touts-white-support/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

As if the divisions between race and gender in the Democratic Party hadn’t been further exposed through Tuesday night’s exit polls — and by a very heated exchange on CNN between Donna Brazile and Paul Begala — Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton’s interview with USA Today on Wednesday is further mining those tense depths.

“I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on,” she said in the interview, citing an article by The Associated Press.

It “found how Senator Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me.”

“There’s a pattern emerging here,” she said.

[lunasun]

135. +1

[BKH70041]

118. The African American voters overwhelmingly vote Democratic.

That's not a concern.

[Dragonfli]

125. I believe it is much simpler, I am sure she honestly believes that minorities and other liberals

will vote for her because, "who else are you going to vote for, a Republican?". It is the DLC mantra and a major tenant of their philosophy and why they often ignore everyone left of center right. A mantra they have been chanting to themselves for so many years they believe that there are no limits to the power of this New Democratic strategy.

No need to over think it, the same reason applies to her neocon and anti-Obama rantings of late, it is the standard DLC playbook, appeal to the Reaganites and the center right (and often even farther right) and just trust in the "who else you gonna vote for" strategy to take care of voters left of the right.

The sad part is, she may well be correct as this strategy has worked for nearly thirty years.

[KoKo]

127. They aren't going to vote for a Repug...so she has them...and the rest of us Dems..

She's got us...and she's going for the Republicans to cut off the Tea Party. It's what her "advisers" have told her to do. Hillary listens to Mark Penn and other Third Way advisers and the Think Tanks and Wall Steet Guru's who fund her and who are her "guides."

She's got us...because we have no where else to go.

[tularetom]

129. We have somewhere else to go - none of the above

I'm not going to vote for a republican regardless of which party nominates him or her.

[DCBob]

39. She really needs to voice her opinion on this very important issue.

It actually surprising she is holding back. Its not really that difficult to come up with something that shows she is at least interested and cares about what going on.

[ariesgem]

43. Cowardly, Predictable AND Tone Deaf....

It seems as though the only time we (black folks) are on her radar is when she's on the campaign trail fishing for our votes. I always found her a day late and dollar short on issues that matter to me. If she runs and secures the nomination, you'll see her in the black churches turning on her preachy voice to ask for our votes. She'll find out that we have long memories and will NOT just give her a pass on her silence about Ferguson and related matters of police abuse. This issue runs DEEP with us.

Its insulting that she does not care enough to speak out about this. And btw, I haven't heard anything about her husband, "our 1st black President" commenting about this either.

[Drunken Irishman]

49. It'll be interesting watching Hillary these next couple years...

If she thinks she can succeed by alienating one of the largest voting blocs the party has to offer - especially if she runs against Obama, who has soaring approval among black voters - she's going to be in for a difficult time.

[winter is coming]

48. Bad move. This one's gonna haunt her for a long time. n/t

[mulsh]

51. Gee, maybe she really isn't going to run for President.

n/t

[jeff47]

52. Look, stop asking questions. She's inevitable.

And unless you have a candidate that can beat her in polling right now you have to just suck it up.

And pay no attention to the guy with a funny name who didn't even get to single-digits in 2006 polls.

[stupidicus]

54. Hardly surprising. I'm still waiting for an answer to the question of

"what is it about cluster bombs and their use that you love so much?" http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/12/21/425303/-Hillary-Clinton-Voted-to-Continue-Cluster-Bombing-Civilians

[Divernan]

101. OMG! I forgot about her vote for cluster bombs - how could ANY parent vote for that?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/study-says-almost-all-cluster-bomb-victims-are-children-422743.html

Friday 03 November 2006

As many as 98 per cent of victims of cluster bombs over the past three decades have been civilians, a third of them children, a report has disclosed.

The study of 24 countries and regions by the humanitarian pressure group Handicap International showed that the weapons, still being used by government forces including those of the UK, have killed or maimed 11,044 people.
This is the first attempt to collate data about cluster-bomb victims worldwide, and it warns that under-reporting of cases in places such as Afghanistan, Iraq and Vietnam means the real figure could be almost 10 times higher.

Around 27 per cent of the (reported) victims were children, mainly boys who were working or playing in areas where the munition had been used.

Hey, hey! All you preachers of inevitability - got the courage to look at these photos of child victims?

https://www.google.com/search?q=Cluster+bombs+children+photo

[JaydenD]

103. Oh, but she cares for all the children of the world sooo much.

[Divernan]

107. And her heart's all atwitter about becoming a grandma!

I found it shocking that she paraded Chelsea up in front of a roomful of people to announce Chelsea's pregnancy, WITHOUT Chelsea's husband by her side!

I used to think that if we had more elected women in congress, let alone the white house, that our government wouldn't be so ready to go to war. You know, less testosterone floating around. And that mothers, being nurturing, would not heartlessly sacrifice the nation's young to the gods of war. I still hope that is the case, and that HRC is just an aberrant +3 deviation to the normal bell curve.

[JaydenD]

110. Lots of gramma's hearts were atwitter watching their grandchildren blown up in wars

but the special snowflakes never have to worry about that.

[stupidicus]

116. many have

some seemed to be a bit surprised a while back to find out she isn't a supporter of single-payer.

I've grown weary of having to make the lesser of two evils choice. The only thing that keeps me hooked are the SCOTUS appointments, and I sincerely hope that who she'd put there becomes a question she's compelled to answer well before the election.

[Thinkingabout]

55. Currently Hillary does not hold a public office. For all who jump on the bash hillary wagon,

She has fought for Civil Rights for a very long time. If you read and listen to the news lately every word she says is twisted, vetted, abused, and simply lied in interruptions. She hasn't announced her candidacy and may not ever. Go trash Rand Paul or Paul Ryan.

[RandySF]

57. I'll call out whomever I please.

She's all but declared and, despite everything, our likely candidate. So it's sure as hell better to call her out now and make her think about these missteps before September, 2016.

[Thinkingabout]

59. Lets be nice, God doesn't like ugly.

[davidpdx]

122. Despite what some people like to think

God does not pick the Democratic nominee, the voters do. I guess the crown and throne will have to wait.

[KittyWampus]

115. Well, the OP article that you posted is asinine. It was a book signing. NOBODY asks questions.

It is absolutely nothing but hundreds of people getting their book signed. No questions, conversations.

[BeyondGeography]

79. The problem is she was happy to criticize Obama's FP and take sides with Israel

unconditionally re. Gaza. These were recent events and now all of a sudden she's on lockdown.

It's stupid to avoid these questions. She's either flat-footed or taking Bill's bad advice again.

[Thinkingabout]

88. She has been advised not to make statements per Donna Bazille, she cant change

The way things are handled. After her interview and the distortion which resulted no comments is the results. Good idea to let the tabloids do the talking, we know they are not truthful.

[BeyondGeography]

108. I never understood the sudden intensity of her PR campaign

With the book, it seemed a clumsy attempt to mimic the rollout impact of Obama/Audacity of Hope, but that didn't come out until the fall of 2006.

Which gives us two problems with the book; it came out too early and it tanked. Three if you count the related interview faux pas.

I'm fully on board with her taking a low profile, but she still has to promote the book, which puts her in public. Someone really messed up on the publication date. Wrong Choice.

[Warren DeMontague]

140. Except when we're told she's inevitable (again) and the primaries are just a formality.

...if she's not running, it's moot.

But lets not kid ourselves. We all know she's running, and the President needs to deal with what is going on in the nation, even if they haven't had time to focus-test their positions.

[rufus dog]

60. Mark my words

Utilizing a prevent defense strategy two years prior to the election will be her downfall.

[indivisibleman]

66. disturbing to say the least.

The more she avoids speaking on this issue the less apt I am to vote for her if she runs.

[Divernan]

67. Al Sharpton: Hillary, don't get laryngitis on this issue.

At a rally earlier this month about the killing, Rev. Al Sharpton, a civil rights leader and host on MSNBC, said, "Jeb Bush, Hillary Clinton, don’t get laryngitis on this issue."

(From the OP's link)

[davidpdx]

123. It's not laryngitis

It's called being deaf.

[George II]

68. She wasn't there to give a press conference.

[Thinkingabout]

90. She does not currently hold a public office, it is time for those in public office to speak up.

She has fought for civil rights for many years, we know where she stands.

[George II]

95. Excuse me?

"She does not currently hold a public office, it is time for those in public office to speak up."

So do you agree with me?

[Thinkingabout]

100. Yes, it only brings more trashing of whatever she says or dosent say.

Let those in official capabilities speak out.

[albino65]

73. I generally don't believe in book burning, but...n/t

[rsmith6621]

74. Hilary Is Bought and PAID FOR by those....

.....who wish to oppress the middle class. She is not as much for the middle class as her Husband was. With Hilary corporation will still continue from sending their profits offshore, she will let unions continue to be attacked and use of Big OIL will continue to rule the USA, Hilary does not support alternative energy policy's.


Hilary has to reward her true friends that work to defeat YOU and I.

[Divernan]

81. The corporations/banks count on HRC to return good value for their money.

The same reason they make well publicized contributions to that vanity non-profit Clinton Family Foundation - good ole quid pro quo.

[X_Digger]

104. And Bill was no populist (in practice, at least.) So the bar's set pretty damned low. n/t

[JaydenD]

78. I think she will say something early this week.

They know this can't be avoided, or at least they should know, but her teams aren't exactly the cream of the crop either.

Early this week she will say something short and non descript and Be Done With It! feh, go away you pesky little people.

[Divernan]

82. After all these decades, if she can't assemble a competent team, imagine presidential appointments.

Look at the mess in the Clinton foundation, as revealed in that searing New York Times expose. Those were old and trusted Clinton hands who proved unable to control either Clinton. The Clintons are notorious for not being able to separate charitable actions from money making opportunities.

[Baitball Blogger]

80. Well, there go her chances of being the first black female president of the U.S.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2014/04/03/bill_clinton_i_loved_being_called_the_first_black_president.html

[MisterP]

83. looks like it's her "Bachmann bathroom moment"

[LittleBlue]

84. Weak and shameful. Leader? I think not. nt

[Divernan]

86. She's old & in poor physical condition; keeping medical records secret.

And don't anyone call me ageist - I'm 72! We call them "senior moments" when we can't recall something. So maybe her handlers have put together a statement, but she was so exhausted after signing all those books, she couldn't remember it.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

106. She was weak on gay marriage and shameful on Iraq.

Weak and shameful fits well.

[Divernan]

85. Ron Reagan at least smiled & PRETENDED he couldn't hear reporters' questions!

http://reagan2020.us/tributes/noonan_3.asp

The morning of the state funeral hundreds and hundreds of us were in line to get into the Cathedral. It was to start at 11:30, but we are Republicans: we were in line at 9:15. I saw Bob Kimmitt, formerly of the National Security Council, and Marlin Fitzwater, former Reagan press secretary, who sometimes came into my office to lie on the couch and smoke his cigar and hide out from reporters. . . . .
Suddenly at the fence, looking down at us, were Sam Donaldson and Barbara Walters. They had come by to say hello. Sam called down to us in a merry way, and we answered. Then I said to everyone around me, "In honor of the boss, when Sam talks to us let's cup our ears and say, 'I can't hear you!' " Everyone laughed.

Sam said something. We put our hands to our ears. "We can't hear you!," we ch"anted. Sam called down something else. "We can't hear you!," we chanted. "It's the helicopter! Sorry!

[cantbeserious]

87. The War And Wall Street Candidate Falls Flat On Civil Rights And Police Brutality

eom

[madville]

93. There's no political advantage to commenting on this

If she is the nominee she is pretty much guaranteed 85%+ of the African-American vote whether she comments or not, who else are they going to vote for?

[tularetom]

113. Ah, the old "who else are they going to vote for" strategy

She's making a big mistake if she thinks that she can get elected without African American voters.

She's making an even bigger mistake if she thinks they will vote for her because "who else are they going to vote for".

If we don't get rid of this anchor around our necks we will wind up with President Rand Paul. Think about that for a minute. If Hilarity doesn't clean up her act she will not win a general election. President Rand Paul?? You okay with that?

Not me.

[Iggo]

141. If she's the nominee.

She lookin' past the primary again? Bad move.

[rhett o rick]

94. She isn't now nor never has been a candidate for the people. She represents Wall Street. nm

[Oilwellian]

96. How quickly we forget the racism in Hillary's 2008 campaign

The Clintons could give a shit about minorities and have been overtly racist for years.

[ariesgem]

109. I won't EVER forget it.

nt..

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

136. Nor should you, it was shameful. We can do better.

[ariesgem]

139. Yes we can....

Clinton's 2008 campaign against Obama was disgusting....it forever left a bad taste with me.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

142. Such overt racism from both Clintons is disgusting to say the least, yet some people here still gleefully support em, amazing <SMH>

[ecstatic]

99. I think she's making (yet another) mistake

People aren't necessarily looking for someone to agree with 100% of the time. They just want someone who is straight forward without too much flip flopping, double speak or concern about the fallout or polls. Even when we don't agree, most of us can respect someone who shares their honest opinions.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

137. Nothing honest about a Wall Street corporatist; we need to look elsewhere.

[ForgoTheConsequence]

105. Hahahahaha.

Don't worry, when this whole thing is over Hillary will be first out front with a speech, I'm sure she has a couple already written depending on what the outcome is.


The strong leader America needs!

[KittyWampus]

111. WTF> IT WAS A BOOK SIGNING. You do not get to ask questions at a book signing.

You buy the book the day before, line up with hundreds and hundreds of other people and then wait in line until finally you hand your book over to staff who then gives it to Hillary/Politician and they sign it, she says hello to you and you move out the store.

It doesn't matter if it was a "reporter". If it was a book signing THERE ARE NO CONVERSATIONS.

The staff of the bookstore has been background checked. Bomb sniffing dogs have gone through the building, secret service men are scattered throughout the store.

And I highly doubt the "reporters" were anything more than bloggers who decided they'd try the impossible and then smear Hillary.

There are so many reasons not to want Hillary for POTUS but DU and some of the ideologues on the Left are really ridiculous.

[BKH70041]

117. What's she supposed to say?

There's nothing concrete to discuss except that a law officer shot and killed an 18 year old. The facts have not been established, there has been no arrest or charges made, and there's no evidence it was racially motivated. Of course there are individuals making these claims, but that's all it is; opinions.

So what is she supposed to say? She's sorry it happened? She's sorry for the family of the young man and for the officer and his family for all they're going through?

She certainly shouldn't say what the majority of the members of this site are saying. That would be the height of stupidity.

[trublu992]

130. But yet she expects the Black vote and in same percentages as Obama.........

Not mine Hillary

[2naSalit]

132. So??? n/t