Hillary blamed Obama while it was her own co-chair opposing the revote. Not honest of her.

madfloridian

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Wed Apr-02-08 10:14 AM
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Hillary blamed Obama while it was her own co-chair opposing the revote. Not honest of her.

Edited on Wed Apr-02-08 10:38 AM by madfloridian

The Clinton campaign has been blaming Obama for several things, but one really hit home with me. I call it two-faced, I call it telling a falsehood, I call it disengenuous. I can think of other names as well.

She blamed him for trying to get her out of the race, when just a day before he said she had every right and every reason to stay in the race. So that is another falsehood.

But the worst is saying he stopped the revote when all the while her campaign co-chair was PUBLICLY speaking against it.

Here is what the Clinton campaign is saying about Obama, and the media goes ahead with it just like it is true. It is not true. I have not heard a single media outlet say that her own national co-chair was totally against the revote in Florida. They let her get away with blaming Obama.

Clinton: Obama camp wants to end race

"There are some folks saying we ought to stop these elections," she said in Indianapolis, Indiana, on March 29 -- the audience booed the notion.

"I don't think we believe that in America," she said. "The more people that have a chance to vote, the better it is for our democracy."

As Pennsylvania's primary nears, Clinton's staffers have increasingly accused Barack Obama's campaign of trying to disenfranchise Democrats. On Monday, in a satellite interview with a television station in Montana, Clinton herself made the charge.

"My take on it is a lot of Sen. Obama's supporters want to end this race because they don't want people to keep voting," she told KTVQ in Billings, Montana. "That's just the opposite of what I believe. We want people to vote. I want the people of Montana to vote, don't you?"

Her campaign also accused Obama of "a "passive aggressive effort" to "disenfranchise" the Floridians who voted in the state's primary on January 29."

Clinton herself played along and said that "seating the Michigan and Florida delegations was a simple matter of civil rights, and that not counting the votes of people in Michigan would be "un-American."

Meanwhile back at the Florida Democratic ranch....her co-chair, Debbie Wasserman Schultz was fighting the revote with every ounce of her strength.

Clinton's own co-chair was fighting hard against it while Clinton herself was blaming Obama. That's pretty bad stuff.

Here is a post with references to some of the words from the mouth of Debbie Wasserman Schultz.

Hillary co-chair fought the revote, not Obama

I'm glad that the party has reached the same conclusion that was reached by the congressional delegation a week ago," said U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Florida.

A supporter of Sen. Hillary Clinton, Wasserman Schultz had staunchly opposed a re-vote.

..."Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida, has called for a new Florida primary, although he thinks the national party should pay for it. But Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz says another election would be too expensive."

...."The potential of a do-over is slim to none," said Wasserman Schultz, a national co-chair of Clinton's campaign. "The cost of a do-over is beyond reach. A do-over would be unfair. We still have nerves that are very raw from the 2000 recount in Florida."

Obama did not do it. The Clinton campaign just made that up.

Here are more words from Debbie Wasserman Schultz...her own words.

More from Wasserman Schultz:

"“Let me assure you, there might seemingly be increasing talk of a do-over. But there is not realistic talk about a do-over,” Wasserman Schultz said. “A do-over is unworkable, too expensive, unfair and not logistically possible in a state our size this late in the game.”

“From all the people that I’m hearing from, on all the different sides, there does not appear to be an appetite for a new election. And there doesn’t appear to be any way to pay for it either,” Wexler said.

Wasserman Schultz, a Weston Democrat is a national co-chairwoman of Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign."
http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2008/mar/07/no-democratic-do-over-mahoney-others-are-saying/

More from Debbie. Did I say the Clinton campaign was blaming Obama?

""It was clear that a mail-in was not going to work. It was too risky. You don't want to start experimenting with a new voting method when the stakes are as high as a presidential election," said Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz. "There were a variety of major problems with it."

Wasserman Schultz said that the congressional delegation is talking with the DNC and both campaigns to find another solution to seating Florida's delegates, including an idea that would take into account the January vote among other factors.

"Now we have to turn our focus to a solution that will make sure the Democratic nominee is selected by voters from all 50 states," she said.

http://wjz.com/xcampaign08/florida.primary.failed.2.679049.html

More from Debbie's own mouth.

"There might seemingly be increasing talk of a do-over. But there is not realistic talk about a do-over," said U.S. Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Weston. "A do-over is unworkable, too expensive, unfair and not logistically possible in a state our size this late in the game."

Wasserman Schultz is a national co-chairwoman of Hillary Clinton's campaign.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/broward/sfl-flbprimary0307pnmar07,0,4649936.story

Ding Ding Ding, Debbie told it like it was.

And the Clinton campaign turned around and blamed Obama.