Hillary mocking Obama on CNN now stumping

[GoldieAZ49]

it was funny,

The sky isn't going to open, everyone unite as the light comes down and the world changes

Maybe I have just lived to long to believe that.


She is going aggressive, and really, what has she to lose?

[GoldieAZ49]

video

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/24/hillary-clinton-mocks-bar_n_88194.html

[GoldieAZ49]

36. oh this started long ago, not with Hillary

http://nymag.com/news/politics/30634/
April of 07

[dkf]

1. Snark does not win elections, neither does it win converts.

Its simply a self-indulgence.

[sandnsea]

2. The election, which she just did

It was ridiculous.

[tyne]

9. Not only does

she have a "insult 40 states"(plagiarized) strategy...but she's adopting the "insult Obama supporters" strategy.

Impressive.

[dansolo]

3. Her dignity?

[Flabbergasted]

7. Right and Bill's.

[MadBadger]

13. I was going to say that.

[ClassWarrior]

4. Any credibility she has left as a leader of our Party...

...that's what she has to lose.

NGU.

[Flabbergasted]

5. She's making a total ass of herself. How can she think she's going to win this way?

[jgraz]

6. What has she to lose? At this point, nothing

She's already given up any shred of dignity and self-respect. She doesn't even have enough credibility left to damage Obama's chances in the fall. All she's doing now is making sure that we'll never have to deal with the Clintons again. I say "you go, girl!"

[grantcart]

49. me too and I am sure the folks of Texas love the charachterizatino

that Obama supporters are bunch ah ignorant pentacosties


Everyone is going to line up for 8 years of that.

[Blondiegrrl]

50. I was going to say the same thing.

She's lost the race, but now she's lost all dignity and self-respect as well. If she keeps at it, she's going to end up losing her seat on the Senate. No one wants a loon representing them in Congress.

[Cha]

8. Agressively Idiotic and what she

has to "lose" is any respect that the sane people have for her.

[bigtree]

10. It was kick ass

good coverage too.

[durrrty libby]

35. That was great. As much as BO and his converts wish it it to be,

he is not the Messiah.

[Arkana]

39. We don't think he's the Messiah, for fuck's sake.

What we DO think is that he has the potential to be an absolutely transformative President--to actually look to get shit done rather than fight the Republicans tooth and nail over every goddamn issue. He's given us reason to believe that the last 8 years might actually be fixable--Hillary's promised us more of the same shit.

[EmilyAnne]

46. Thank you! Great post.

[Jawja]

11. What she is doing is making fun of the

younger Generations' love for Obama and blowing off their enthusiasm for their candidate; she is also pissing off the rest of the Obama supporters by essentially calling them stupid for believing in Obama's message.

[gerrilea]

She didn't attack the youth or call you stupid quit lying!

[Blondiegrrl]

55. She's also knocking all those fence sitters down ...

onto Obama's lawn.

Way to go, Hills!

[liberalnurse]

12. Hillary speaks for me!

And Ohio Congress-woman Stephanie Tubb Jones, and Ohio Nurses and Governor Strickland!

[gerrilea]

25. She speaks for me too!

[sniffa]

14. Extremely poor form on her part

Coming after yesterday no less. I'm glad she's doing this. :thumbsup:

[From The Left]

15. Hillary's Campaign Just Ended

She will lose Texas and Ohio.

[gerrilea]

16. I loved it Go Hillary!

Now she's getting it...

[Swamp Rat]

17. Funny or not, I think attacking a message of hope is a bad campaign tactic.

Where is Mandy Grunwald?

[TexasObserver]

18. She's a parody of herself. She IS the Special Interests' lackey.

Like all her other ploys, this won't work, because she's a weak candidate, and nothing will change that.

[Obamaman2008]

19. She couldn't win a GE now. She is done. n/t

[Armstead]

20. Yes that's going to look great on McCain's advertising

Music

"The Democrats claim that Barak Obama is the candidate of hope. But here's what one of the most prominent Democrats had to say about him in February...."

[madrchsod]

26. good point...it will be interesting if they do

[City Lights]

21. I wouldn't call what she's doing as going aggressive. Going stupid is more

like it. IMHO, she's making a complete fool of herself. It's quite unbecoming, and she doesn't look even remotely presidential by going to such extremes.

:thumbsdown: to Clinton.

[Windy]

33. Funny but Obama has NEVER said making change from the status quo would be easy

Expect You Tubes of Hillary's diatribe follow by Obama's statments from his campaign speeches that flatly rebut her "argument".

[City Lights]

34. Exactly. And what, exactly, is she implying about the millions of us who

have already cast our vote for him? Sounds like a big "Fuck you" to me. :puke:

[Cha]

57. Exactly..she past aggressive a while ago and

has teetered over into Stupid. She's serving up too many talking points against her on a silver platter with red bow.

[Blondiegrrl]

61. "Unbecoming"? Sexist pig!

Just teasing. :P

[bridgit]

22. If, and I realize it's a big 'if', but if The Mock Squad can get past the initials...

The rest of what she had to say was just fine.

[paulk]

51. the "the Mock Squad"

finally, after wading for hours through the giant shit pile of Hillary hate that DU has become, I get to laugh at something!

Thank you!

[Qutzupalotl]

23. The vision thing.

:sarcasm:

[KAZ]

24. At this rate, her Senate seat.

[Divernan]

32. Yes. When Obama wins, the NY Sen. Dem primary will be wide open

And that's OK with me. I forgave her for carpetbagging the Senate seat from Dem Congresswoman Nita Lowey, because I felt sorry for Clinton because I have never seen a cheated on wife have to deal with interanational public humiliation, as she did. My pity did not extend to endorsing her presidential aspirations.

If the Senate seat was just a stepping stone, and not good enough for her, New Yorkers deserve someone else to represent them, and not use them for her personal ambition. Lucky Illinois that she did not choose to return to her home state.

[NC_Nurse]

27. She really comes off sour grapes lately.

-The line about no more big rallies.
-Mocking the themes of hope and change.
It seems odd after she just the other night said how honored she was to be
at the debate with Obama. I know she must be frustrated with not being able to
compete with his appeal, but it seems to me this won't help and will only hurt her.

[BlackVelvet04]

28. Actually, she never mentioned his name.....

she said "I could say......"

[alteredstate]

29. Well, then to whom was she referring?

[BlackVelvet04]

43. Um....nobody? n/t

[GoldieAZ49]

42. all that is missing, from what she said, are the celestial songs

from April of last year nymag




http://nymag.com/news/politics/30634/


I am an O supporter, but what the media has done is embarrassing

[TheWraith]

30. She has the rest of her political career to lose.

With as negative as she's been, and the amount of damage she's tried to inflict on Obama--and by extension the entire Dem party and democratic process with all the trash talk about race and how such and such states don't count--how many people here think that there's NOT going to be a major primary challenger in 2012?

She looks more and more like she's willing to end her political career in exchange for one last attempt to grab the nomination.

[lligrd]

31. Come Over To The Dark Side

Was that her message?

[applegrove]

37. She has a point that nothing about being President will be easy.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

38. what has she got to lose - the presidential nominee!

[cottonseed]

40. Not her greatest moment.

She's trying though. I guess she's just wrapping things up by letting people know that there really is no hope.

[ebdarcy]

41. She was mocking more than just Senator Obama.

I think she was mocking his supporters too. Obama has never said it will be easy. In fact, in almost every one of his speeches, he says it will be hard and that it will require all of us. I went to see Michelle speak two weeks ago, and she said the same thing. She told us that our job doesn't end in November, and that if Obama wins, he would need all of us to help him bring about change.

You know, I'm an idealist at heart. And for the past eight years, I have watched in horror at the things this administration has done. And I have watched in horror as the majority of my democratic representatives have given in to this administration. Every time I have dared to hope, that hope was crushed. And I miss being able to have justifiable hope. I miss feeling that senators and congressmen might actually want my opinion and my help, instead of just my acquiescence and my money.

I don't believe in fairy tales or magic wands or celestial choirs. How could I? I've lived in America for the past eight years. But I refuse to give up hope. I refuse to believe that this world can't be a better place. And I refuse to believe that we are eternally screwed.

Obama was not my first choice, but he is the one that I choose to trust now.

If Senator Clinton wants to attack hope, that's her right and her choice.

[paulk]

44. I think the outrage from the Obama supporters

over this shows how close to the mark it hits....

We'll see come the 4th if this line of attack works or not - and really, what does she have to lose? If the media won't question Obama's campaign, I guess someone has to do it.

[Berry Cool]

45. Sometimes, people get angry about an accusation not because it hits "close to the mark,"

but precisely because it is so wrong and deceptive, and they just shake their head at the lies.

In this case, it's quite wrong. As others have said, the message coming from Obama has nothing to do with celestial choirs or magic wands or promises that everything will be "easy." Quite the contrary.

If Hillary feels so desperate that she now has to mischaracterize what her opponent is saying, that's really bad news, because it would be ridiculously easy to create a "mash-up" video in which what she accuses him of saying is contrasted with clips of what he's actually saying. And that would make her look a fool.

We live in a high-tech world in which you can't get away for long with giving others a mistaken impression of what's really going on.

[paulk]

48. I don't feel that way.

There's a lot of people out there who support Hillary, you know - and look at Obama's campaign in exactly the way Hillary describes.

Oh, I realize those in the inner circle understand what Obama's campaign is about - but there's a lot of us still in the dark, and Hillary's words resonate. I realize that's hard for the faithful to understand.

[casus belli]

54. Even if the questions aren't really looking for an answer? n/t

[Blondiegrrl]

60. Outrage? What outrage? We're making fun of her!

She's like some senile old auntie that everyone dismisses as irrelevant, yet they keep inviting her back to family reunions because she's entertaining.

I might actually miss hearing her daily rants once Obama seals the Democratic nomination.

[paulk]

64. another one hit wonder!

"senile old auntie"

Why do you Obama supporters think that insults like that are somehow ok?

Seriously...

You don't think you're pissing people off? You know, like - older people? The ones who consistantly turn out to vote in elections in larger numbers than younger people?

There's a whole slew of you folks that joined this board so far this year - your main thing on DU seems to be running around and insulting Hillary and her supporters at every turn.

Sometimes I wonder who you're really supporting...

[workinclasszero]

47. Hillary thinks you are delusional suckers Obama supporters

Tell all your friends, neighbors and classmates. Lets get the word out on the contempt Hillary Clinton holds for people who don't bow down and curtsy in her royal presence!

Especially if you live in Texas or Ohio!

[Blondiegrrl]

59. That's OK. Obama supporters don't matter anyway.

Especially if they live in a caucus state, or a state with a large black population, or state with a lot of college students, etc.

Her campaign advisers even said that the only state Obama won that "matters" is Illinois ... but that win doesn't count because he represents that state in the Senate.

It's nice to be appreciated by Hillary Clinton, isn't it?

[bridgit]

63. ppfftt, whatever!! I was called "delusional" by an Obama supporter on this board...

just today...I think you have your players mixed up :rofl:

[Blondiegrrl]

52. Seriously, though ... do her campaign advisers think this is a good idea?

Are they actively encouraging this idiocy? If so, then they're nothing more than one ginormous box full of FAIL.

[casus belli]

53. Man she really just doesn't get it.

Nobody is hailing Obama as the second coming. Nobody has any illusions about electing him instantly making all of the broken parts of this country work like new again. Nobody is saying that, except those who aren't voting for him. We know it's going to be hard work. We know that the incoming president has a tough job ahead of him (edit: or her). BUT, we realize that getting the country and the world back on track will take someone who is not only capable of doing the hard work, but is capable of convincing others to want to do the same.

That's what she doesn't get. It's not about waving a magic wand, it's about a dialogue that convinces you there is a reason for you to work hard for the better good.

[Colobo]

56. Hillary is becoming a very pathetic figure.

[BenDavid]

58. Well hell if obama is going to behave like he is the second

coming then he deserves to be mocked. I wrote on the day before the New Hamphsire election that obama had said to the people at his rally that tomorrow when you go into that booth, you will have an epiphany. The heavens will open and a bright light will shine down from the heavens and a voice will tell you, vote obama...... This was not said in jest. This was said by an egotistical, self absorbed person that is beginning to believe is own BS....

[ariesgem]

62. Sorry to say this but she made a complete ass out of herself.

[SoxFan]

65. She's becoming a parody of herself

[yellowcanine]

66. What she has to lose is the respect of many fellow Democrats. Who up to this past week,

admired her willingness to fight for the nomination even if they were supporting Obama. But beginning with the "change you can xerox," then the rant about the mailings, and now this misplaced sarcasm - it is all very unSenatorial, not to mention unPresidential. It shows an embarrassing lack of class on her part.