Gov. Rendell: There's 50% About Barack Obama We Don't Know Yet

[sabra]

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/04/gov-rendell-the.html

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Rendell joined us for the ABC News Shuffle Podcast, which you can listen to on iTunes or HERE.

Some highlights from our 37-minute chat:

"I think that Hillary Clinton wears very well, the more people get to know her I think the more they like her. I've seen that transformation with working-class stay-at-home women who last year at this time were very cool to Hillary. But when we were at the St. Paddy's day parade at Pittsburgh and Scranton they were screaming for her like she was a rock star."

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That said, Rendell said, once Obama becomes the nominee the Republicans will unleash the hounds.

"You don't think the Republican 527s are going to leave this stuff alone do you?" he asked. "You don't think you're going to see 527 ads with the explicit comments Rev. Wright said, about Rezko and the land deal? You're going to see 527 ads about all of those things."

It's not as if the race will be nicer if Clinton is the nominee, I suggested.

"It won't be nicer," Rendell responded, "but what there is to construe negatively in Sen. Clinton's background is out there so I think she'll suffer less slippage than Sen. Obama would and that's why I think she's a stronger candidate."

I took issue with the assertion that everything about Clinton is "out there" -- she hasn't released her IRS returns from the past seven years, there are library documents that remain unreleased, we don't know who the donors to the Bill Clinton Library are.

"I will grant you that, let's say that there's 10% about Hillary Clinton that we don't know yet, I will grant you that, but I would say there's also about 50% about Barack Obama that we don't know yet," Rendell said.

[Thrill]

1. This is guy Rendell is an Asshole

[Texas Hill Country]

29. ummm... he is right actually. Obama is still not totally vetted.

[Cha]

33. Pretty much is.. but hilary's lies keep comin'

[easy_b94]

2. Please get another Dem to run for Gov of PA

[harun]

17. Amen to that, he is pissing a lot of Dem's off here now (n/t)

[WinkyDink]

40. Do you live here in PA? If not, MYOB.

[easy_b94]

42. I need to live there so i can make things right

[Fluffdaddy]

58. Gov. Rendell for VP

[Hutzpa]

56. He is one prick that needs changing

I can sympathizes with those PA Dems.

This guy is killing them, showing his true

color.

[DJ13]

3. Yes Ed, you're right. Thanks to Clinton and guys like you no one knows..

....that 50% of Obama that is as white as you are.

[GarbagemanLB]

4. why the hell is he talking to ABC? I thought he loved Fox News because of how fair and balanced they

are

[noel711]

5. Look here, Fast Eddie.. Hillary has had a 30 year advantage

in regard to name recognition.

The fact that Obama is so far ahead of the game
in such a short time shows how hungry the electorate
is for change.

And the longer the public sees the difference between
the two of them, the stronger Obama's base.

[speedoo]

6. Rendell is a lying POS.

He was on MSNBC earlier, claiming Hillary had won "big" in Texas. They are desperate.

[DangerousRhythm]

47. Wow, did nobody correct him on this?

Seriously, the MSM isn't doing their job very well on the Texas thing are they?

[speedoo]

51. Of course they did not correct him.

Why let facts take away from the lie they are perpetuating that it's not over.

[DangerousRhythm]

60. Silly me...

...expecting them to be reasonable and factual. :rofl:

[thereismore]

7. Hillary wears well? When did he "wear" her? nt

[babylonsister]

8. So Rendell's assuming Obama has skeletons in his closet? If he

did, I'm quite sure the Clinton camp would be rattling them by now. :eyes:

[leftofcool]

14. Why should they?

Let the GOP do it.

[babylonsister]

20. Because they're obviously desperate? If they had the ammo, they'd

use it. Don't kid yourself.

[leftofcool]

23. Clinton doesn't need to

Once all the stuff gets into the hands of the super delegates, Clinton doesn't have to "use" anything.

[sabra]

24. "Once all the stuff gets into the hands of the super delegates"

more details please...

[babylonsister]

26. What stuff are you talking about? Do tell. nt

[sniffa]

59. I don't know why Ignored gets so many responses

:shrug:




















































These posts are made as a PSA that it's ok to use ignore. There's no need to get bogged down in useless bickering, etc.

[Kittycat]

28. You're great purely for the comedic factor

I mean you must be joking, because no one is this delusional. When you put Obama next to Clinton, he's a boy scout.
:rofl:

[americanstranger]

36. Sheah. The SDs are going to take a look

at a campaign that's in debt, dead in the water regarding fundraising and increasingly negative and desperate, and back that campaign.

I used to pay good money to be able to hallucinate like that.

- as

[babylonsister]

50. LOL! The good ole days! nt

[Unsane]

9. This guy is a poisonous piece of shit

[scheming daemons]

10. Yeah.... we know all about his "black" half, thanks to HRC and Co.... the white half - not so much..

[NewHampshireDem]

11. Feeding the ignorance ...

Create doubt, so Hillary can win over folks like this:

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/04/02/obamas_lama_problem/

Of Obama, Duser said: "I'm not crazy about voting for a colored guy, but that's not why I don't support Obama. I'm not prejudiced. I just like Hillary."

A couple tables over, Jean Fetterman, a foster grandparent, said of Clinton: "Oh, I love her. She's a very intelligent person, and she has her husband who went through this."

She scoffs at the idea of voting for Obama: "I don't want to be a Muslim!" She looks dubious when told Obama is Christian. "Then why did he go see what's-his-name over in Iraq, that Lama?"

This certainly explains a lot of what I've seen on DU these past few weeks.

[Kool Kitty]

46. "I'm not crazy about voting for a colored guy, but that's not why

I don't support Obama." Sure. Sometimes ignorance is staggering. The Lama in Iraq?

[Bigleaf]

12. Gov. Rendell: There's 50% about Barack Obama we don't know yet but we have our private eyes

out there digging around for all the dirt we can get on this guy. Believe me, we're trying.

[leftofcool]

13. Ed's right about the 527's and the RW

What they can't find, they will lie about and it won't matter to many voters if it is true or not. And then there is the good Rev Wright with god damn america playing 24/7 Voters don't give a shirt about tax returns, they do care about their country and what people say about it. But then, Obama's made of teflon so all of this shouldn't bother him

[endarkenment]

15. The talking point du jour with a hint of blackmail. nt.

[olkaz]

16. Wow, what an endorsement.

"It won't be nicer," Rendell responded, "but what there is to construe negatively in Sen. Clinton's background is out there so I think she'll suffer less slippage than Sen. Obama would and that's why I think she's a stronger candidate."

That is the weakest endorsement I have ever heard.

Congratulations Mr. Rendell.

[cottonseed]

18. "the more people get to know her I think the more they like her"

Where the hell is he getting that idea? She hasn't gone into a state and increased an early lead this entire season, the more time she's spent campaigning in states she's lost leads. He sure can't be talking about delegates, who have been leaving her in droves lately.

[book_worm]

19. "the more people get to know her they like her"!!?? that's why her approval is at 36% nationally?

[blm]

21. CLOSED GOVERNMENT has been brought to you by Nixon-Ford-Bush-Clinton-Bush.

TEN PERCENT, MY ASS, Ed!

Jackson Stephens relationship alone would take up 50% of what Americans and Democratic voters DON'T KNOW about the Clintons.

[thoughtcrime1984]

22. Will Ed backtrack and help the nominee in a few months?

If he's a good Democrat, he will. I don't think he's a particularly good Democrat, though. Why do Hillary and surrogates constantly attack Obama, instead of highlighting her strengths and what she can do for our nation?

[PylesMalfunction]

25. He's said he'd back Obama...

if he's the nominee. The exact term he used was that he would "bust a hump". {snort...giggle} For some reason that cracks me up. :D Because at times, I'm 12. :D

http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1727469,00.html

[loyalsister]

27. I don't get him

He is the most sour advocate for his candidate I have seen. He is becoming less likable personally with each appearance. Why the nasty behavior, I wonder?

[appleannie1]

30. Hey Ed. The 50% we know about HRC we don't like. We will take our chances on what we don't know.

[David__77]

31. His choice of "50%" is interesting...

50/50 huh? Does anyone else think that's interesting?

[Alexander]

52. Translation: "He's 50% black! Don't vote for the scary black man!"

[Barack_America]

55. My thoughts exactly.

:thumbsdown:

[stevenleser]

32. Absolutely!!!!! Read this link!!!

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_steven_l_080314_hillary_presses_obam.htm

[rndmprsn]

34. i can't wait till the PA vote is through...so this rendell asshat can go back to local TV

[Fluffdaddy]

57. Rendell for VP

[TheDonkey]

35. He's a covert Muslim communist lesbian vegan.

STFU Rendell you ignorant ASS.

[kwenu]

37. We know enough about Hillary to say we don't want her!!!

[dchill]

38. My Governor, Ed Rendell - Another guy who "knows"...

the amount of unknown unknowns that we don't know. He just better hope nobody starts looking into HIS unknown unknowns - a lot of people actually DO know them.

[Symarip]

39. I love when politicians make up figures and statistics

By the way, I'd say there's a 80% chance that Rendell made this shit up off the top of his head. Hell, if I'm not wrong, I might just be right about this. Trust me.

[Cali_Democrat]

41. Rendell is 100% asshole

[shadowknows69]

43. I even heard rumors that he's black

[VolcanoJen]

44. I heard a rumor that he fathered TWO BLACK CHILDREN

Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

[City Lights]

45. Anyone who says Fox is an objective news source has ZERO credibility

in my book. :+

[TTUBatfan2008]

48. Sinclair

I think this is what they're getting at. It's interesting to me that a lot of Sinclair's attacks and complaints about Obama are straight out of Clinton's talking points.

[DerekJ]

49. Tell Rendell if he knows something, why doesn’t he tell us?

[BumRushDaShow]

53. Fast Eddie and his diarrhea-of-the-mouth moments. n/t

[Barack_America]

54. Translation: "We know about the WHITE half of Obama, but what about the BLACK half?"

Ed Rendell once again reminding Pennsylvania voters that some of them "don't vote for blacks", lest they forget that and actually consider Obama.

Ed Rendell with another shout-out to using racism for political advantage.

Ed Rendell once again playing up the tension and resentment that exists between rural and urban Pennsylvania.

I still can't believe I pay for this guy's salary. :cry:

[AnarchoFreeThinker]

61. actually, we don't even know if there IS a Hillary in there anywhere,

an actual person, separate from the Hillary machine and its deceitful, manipulative, all-surface sheen.

[RoadRage]

62. Umm.. no, Hillary is NOT totally "Vetted"...

She keeps generating more things that need to be vetted. The Bosnia Sniper Fire story was not brought out until a couple of weeks ago - and do you think a 527 won't have a good time with that?

There may be a lot about Obama we don't know - but most know he's an honest guy. We already know Clinton IS NOT.. so that leaves a lot to still uncover.

But, if by the OP you mean, "Hillary has already been proven to be a liar and a phony, so anything else that comes out about her will be expected".. well, then that's perhaps true. But, it's also not going to help get her elected in a GE. The majority of this country is NOT going to vote for someone who has the ethical problems that Clinton does.