Oops... Bad Day At Hanging Rock - ABC News

[WillyT]

Bad Day at Hanging Rock
February 23, 2008 10:53 AM

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Texas state Rep. Aaron Pena, the director of outreach for the Clinton campaign in the Rio Grande Valley, was spotted dancing on the dais at an Obama rally.

"I will maintain my commitment," the lawmaker told the Rio Grande Guardian. "But it appears to be increasingly evident who's going to win."

Maybe I'm wrong, but it's likely not a good omen if your supporters are spotted rocking out at a rally for your opponent.

The Washington Post has some further depressing news for the junior senator from New York.

Or rather, depressing news about people anticipating depressing news.

"Some supporters said they had discussed how to raise with Clinton the subject of withdrawing from the race should she fail to win decisively on March 4. One option was to wait a day or two and then dispatch emissaries to former president Clinton to urge him to make the case."

Adds someone in the know: "She knows where things are going. It's pretty clear she has a big decision. But it's daunting. It's still hard to accept."

Ruh-roh.

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Link: http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/02/bad-day-at-hang.html

:wow:

[WillyT]

1. Quietest Recommended Post In DU History, LOL ???

Shhh...

:hide::shrug::hide:

[grantcart]

2. Uh Senator Clinton, Senator Schumer is on the phone . . .

[Bucky]

3. So noted: it's a bad day when democrats maintain cordial relationships with each other

Will xerox this news to the panic monkeys.

[WillyT]

4. Tis True...

Dancing is very cordial.

:shrug:

[THUNDER HANDS]

5. take your medicine Hillary

it'll all be over soon.

[loveangelc]

6. I almost feel kind of bad. I'm listening to her at the 'black union' thing and she sounds sad.

She shouldn't have said the shit today. I think she knows she's losing, and everyoone pretty much has their minds made up now. The last ditch effort is way too late and probably uneffective to most people...it probably turns a lot of people off, especially men, which won't help in TX with the crossover voting.

[Skwmom]

7. When I start to I remember about all of the people who have

died in the Iraq War (and who are horribly wounded, physically and emotionally). Then I no longer feel sad for her.

[Metric System]

8. Is this the same war that Obama continues to vote to fund?

[Major Hogwash]

21. Do you want to stop funding the American soldiers that were sent over there?

That doesn't sound too smart to me.

Let's bring them home.

[MyNameGoesHere]

25. Yes i hear Obama say he will bring them home in 16 months

Why 16 months? He continually brings up the war vote that he never took part in, says he wants them home, funds it, and then says it will take 16 months? He is not concerned about them. he is concerned about the image of just going i and saying, it's over get them home now. He IS a politician. lets "HOPE" he doesn't get many more killed while he is "CHANGING" America.

[guruoo]

28. He voted for funding to keep them there, not bring them home. n/t

[Catherine Vincent]

9. Yeah, it's all Clinton's fault they died.

Kill her now! :eyes:

[Cha]

31. I've never felt bad for hilary...she's

my senator and I among many called her office and pleaded with her to vote NO on the IWR. I was in NYC on Feb 15, 2003 protesting when the whole world said NO TO WAR but hilary with steel resolve turned her back on us. She had better things in mind for herself(she thought).

Frank Rich's article, "The Audacity of Hopelessness", in the NYT, highlights these moments of hilary's perfectly.

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"It’s not just that her candidacy’s central premise — the priceless value of “experience” — was fatally poisoned from the start by her still ill-explained vote to authorize the fiasco. Senator Clinton then compounded that 2002 misjudgment by pursuing a 2008 campaign strategy that uncannily mimicked the disastrous Bush Iraq war plan. After promising a cakewalk to the nomination — “It will be me,” Mrs. Clinton told Katie Couric in November — she was routed by an insurgency."

<so much more>
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4736805

[SKKY]

10. Whatever she paid Mark Penn, she should demand a refund...

...Just like Kerry with Mary Beth Cahill, she has been very poorly advised by her campaign director, and it will cost her dearly.

[chascarrillo]

12. Refund? She should sue his ass.

[Cha]

30. That's how I'll remember

her always..from the yea on the IWR to waving the flyers in the red suit..scolding a real person.

[sandnsea]

11. Maybe Pena is going where all the voters are

Hard to outreach when everybody's at the Obama campaign.

:shrug:

[Metric System]

13. Were they serving Kool-Aid at the rally, by any chance?

[WillyT]

14. No... They Were Just Dancin...

Try it... you'll like it.

:shrug:

[Cha]

32. Boogie with Obama

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcGVux3-kLs&NR=1

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4733680#4733912

Those dancing smilies are the best, Willy.

[druidity33]

19. another bitter

HRC supporter. I won't gloat if you won't snipe. Deal?

[guruoo]

29. I call it the Paris Hilton - Jerry Springer wing of the party

They luvz their BO koolaid.

[bigbrother05]

15. I hope Bill wears a cup!!!!

[donheld]

16. This article makes Hillary sound like someone else we all know

Someone else who cannot be told things they don't want to hear. Anybody know who I'm talking about?

[psychopomp]

17. Si Se Puede Cambiar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ky8Hvq-F0U

[TexasObserver]

18. This story is all over Texas, and typifies the way she's losing ground here.

[KittyWampus]

23. she piled on those attacking the Texas state senator who drew a blank on tv appearing as an Obama

surrogate.

[TexasObserver]

26. Kirk Watson. I think he's a former mayor of Austin, now State Senator. Affable guy. Got ambushed.

Tweety is a jerk, no matter which side he's trying to make look bad.

Hardball has become Beanball.

[Vinca]

20. He was dancing on the dais??? That's too funny.

:rofl:

[CoffeeCat]

22. This is the most hilarious article...

I have read about this campaign.

Sometimes, a moment encapsulates what is really going on. That moment
is a little microcosm of what so many are feeling and thinking.

This dancing is that moment.

It's just so...hilarious, adorable, sad and real--at the same time.

This guy totally summarizes what has happened in this campaign.

[GumboYaYa]

24. Who wants to be the last person on the sinking Clinton campaign?

Former supporters are going to flee like crazy now that she has come unhinged. Nobody wants to be the person onstage next to the screaming lady.

[WillyT]

27. Exactly...And As An Example ...

Link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=4735549&mesg_id=4735549

:shrug: