Watching 60 Minutes. One of the people being interviewed by Steve Croft

[muntrv]

said "I have issues with Obama, him bein' Muslim, I hear he doesn't know the national anthem." Croft said "you know that's not true." The man responded "that's what I'm bein' told."

Oh joy!! A non-thinker!!

[bicentennial_baby]

1. I found Hillary's response to the "Do you think he's a Muslim?" question

to be...odd. The way she phrased it, that is.

[Colobo]

3. I noticed that.

[sniffa]

4. "Do you believe that Obama is a Muslim?"

HRC: "No, of course not. I take him at his word."

[still_one]

11. Wow, that is mighty white of her. Is she implying that he "might be"

That is also mighty "christian" of her also

gosh, there are a lot of things I could say, but I think she has just summed it up why she is a loser

[ElsewheresDaughter]

23. oops there it is again...Obama peep playing the race card

[still_one]

25. Hey, I am being sarcastic, becasue I saw that crap when I grew up

She isn't being sarcastic

I know what she is doing and so do you, painting doubt in people's mind. Remember the debate, remember he wasn't strong enough with denouce, until he was forced to say reject

SHE IS DOING THE BAITING, and let her campaign continue this crap and see what happens in the GE if she gets the nomination

[TwilightGardener]

18. "I take him at his word"? WTF? As if someone asked her if he ever stole an

office computer, or cheated on his taxes or something! That was a weird way to respond--with ominous guilt/innocence overtones.

[bicentennial_baby]

20. Exactly

x(

[Bongo Prophet]

30. That is what McCain will probably say too. "He SAYS he is not X, and i take him at his word."

Oh, this is sad. Howard Dean, white courtesy phone, please.
As DEMOCRATS, we should be at the very least, swatting down the lies forcefully, and pointing out the fact that the Repubs are lying about most everything.

i would expect the same from Obama, if asked about "hillary is a murderer" - I had to knock that one down just this week, along with the "OMG, B Hussein is a terrist mooselim who hates jeeezus" emails that my sister's co-workers are trying to spread.

Hey, supporters can prefer their candidate, but we should have each others' backs on the RW BS.

And sniffa, i know you are not a hyper-supporter of X or Y- this is just a common rule for us all to remember. ;)

[Pirate Smile]

6. What did she say? I missed it but heard Croft press her after her answer.

[bicentennial_baby]

9. See above

Sniffa's response.

[MadBadger]

7. "I take him at his word"

60 Minutes man found it odd too

[still_one]

14. She wants to send the mixed message out, and leave doubt in some minds

I am sorry, but she has run a terrible campaign, and now resorts to this. I have no doubt if she wins the nomination, we lose

[my2sense]

8. Something is fishy

She knows dayum well that is a smear. I've lost ALL RESPECT for her!

[AlinPA]

15. She did not repudiate the rumors against him, just said "I have to take him

at his word". Odd, yes. Then Steve Croft asked her again and she then said she did not believe it to be true.

[still_one]

17. I am starting to see very little difference between rove and her /nt

[Cha]

26. In the first place...what kind of stupid

question is that? It's a question to raise doubts in people's mind and ol' hilary loved it 'cause her wheels were turnin' and she's thinkin', "A Ha!, this is how I'm gonna beat that fiesty kid!"

She can't win fairly like bush couldn't but that only inspires them to to dive deeper into the sewer.

[MadBadger]

2. That guy was as ignorant as they come

I dont understand how he isnt a repuke.

[my2sense]

5. I saw that

I wonder how many folks believe this garbage and how much these smears will effect the outcome of this race. SMDH

:evilfrown:

[sandnsea]

10. I heard Hillary is a lesbian

I wonder why that isn't the whisper campaign being circulated and questioned on mainstream teevee. Oh yeah, because Obama doesn't stoop to the levels Hillary's campaign did.

[sniffa]

12. No, that's not true

I take her at her word.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

24. but, obviously you have no problem sliding down into that cesspool

[still_one]

27. Obviously, you have no problem with Hillary's response do you? /nt

[Deja Q]

29. Should it matter?

If she's not fucking people in the oval office on duty, it should not matter what they do in the privacy of their closed doors. None of anyone's business. Almost like "Don't ask don't tell", but gossip is our way of life...

Once people hear about it, have a lead shield conveniently handy. Look at other people getting caught, such as Larry Craig. Uh, duh?!

And it mattered for Bill because he sleazed around and didn't expect somebody to tattle. That's a bit obtuse, now isn't it?! WHO THE BLOODY HELL WOULDN'T TATTLE?! I mean, to sleep with the president in a day and age when the news is littered with "I bonked ____" articles revolving around famous people... "Hey everybody, I played with the president's pecker!!" and get some free publicity to satisfy one's starved ego.

It's very simple and straightforward.

[sandnsea]

31. No more than whether he's a Muslim

Yet she sure had no hesitation to have her campaign push that lie all over the place, and didn't take the opportunity to destroy the lie when she had the chance.

[malik flavors]

13. Yea, I found it really odd that she said she takes Obama at his word that he;s not a muslim...

She KNOWS he's not a Muslim. Very strange that she would not flatout say that he's not.

[Orangepeel]

16. She did sound a bit like Huckabee when asked if Romney was a Christian

.

[still_one]

19. What did she say to that? /nt

[Orangepeel]

28. I don't remember Huckabee's actual quote. Clinton's answer on Obama wasn't as weasily

but Huckabee said something like, "you'll have to ask him" or "if he says so."

I said Clinton's answer on Obama was "a bit" like Huckabee's answer on Romney because I don't know why either of them didn't just say that the other was a Christian, or at least say it's a non-issue.

[TwilightGardener]

21. Exactly--that's exactly how Huckabee responded, and he's a bigot who did it intentionally.

[still_one]

22. Thanks, I misunderstood, I thought he also asked hillary if she though mittens was Christian

thansk for the clarification

[Maggie_May]

32. I use to live in Chillicothe Ohio

I was not surprised at the mans answer. Most of the old gen has worked in a factory like there fathers and grandfathers before them. At that time they didn't need to higher there education. To them its go to work for 8 to 10 hours come home relax watch a little tv and off to bed. They thought they had secure jobs for life. I cried when I heard this mans story I had to walk out of the room. I have only moved a couple miles down the road to a smaller town but the job loses had been horrible to these people. Then when I heard the guy talk about the paper mill glatfleter which I lived maybe 2miles from talk about how had it is to compete with overseas because they pay them less and environment standards. I really had to laugh on that one. Sometimes in the summer when it was really hot you couldn't open your windows because the smell of the plant was so bad. It had me thinking if we lowered are standards any lower we would be like Japan and couldn't walk the streets when the pollution got so bad.
Well anyway it was nice to see them cover our little working town Chillicothe.

[K Gardner]

33. Things will get better for Chillicoth, Maggie May.. keep your chin up :-) I'm

glad they covered your little town, too. It was very quaint and hopefully will be bustling again someday in the not-too-distant future !

There are lots of Chillicothes in America. We have lots of work to do ! :hi:

[Maggie_May]

34. Thank you so much for your post

We just stick together and try to help each other out as much as we can. We have a ton of people out of work or working for almost half the money they use too.

[Berry Cool]

35. "Quaint" is not the word that comes to mind when I think of Chillicothe.

If you've ever lived in a small town in which people can no longer depend on the kinds of "jobs for life" that used to keep the place going, you find little about them that's "quaint" or "charming." Especially if you love it and want to stay there, but can't figure out how to make ends meet.

It tends to be outsiders from big cities or soulless suburbs who come across towns like these and are charmed by their dear old little churches and the darling little courthouse and the lovely old-fashioned architecture of the whatzis...yeah, a building or two here and there may make for a great snapshot, but to live in a town like that is not so much fun.

[K Gardner]

36. I understand what you're saying. Didn't mean to offend with my

use of the word "quaint". Obviously, I've never been there.

But I did work for awhile last year in a small town in SC that had been decimated by NAFTA. Lots of cute old buildings, abandoned. Absolutely nothing to do. Not even a theater, or a mall. No activities. It was like a ghost town. The hospital was busy, but I'm still not certain what people "did".

I lasted about six weeks and then I packed up and went home. I couldn't bear it. So yeah, definitely understand what you're saying. It was bleak.. and hopeless.