“It’s Over, Lady!”

[kevinmc]

I am laughing reading this .... Carmella Lewis sounds like a clown.


MAUREEN DOWD

Unity was spared the banality of unanimity.

Carmella Lewis, with her Hillary T-shirt and Hillary placard, came all the way from Denver to make sure there would be plenty of ambiguity, duality and ferocity in Unity. Just as Hillary was testing out the unfamiliar familiarity “Barack and me” Friday and talking about “his grace and his grit,” Carmella began loudly booing and waving her sign. “We want Hillary!” screamed the 57-year-old retired ad saleswoman and Clinton delegate. “It’s over, lady!” yelled some Obama supporters a few yards away. Standing between the Sharks and the Jets, David Axelrod took pity on an older friend of Carmella’s who was suffering from aridity in the Unity humidity. The chief Obama strategist fetched a glass of water and brought it to the woman, who was wearing five Hillary buttons.

This amenity did not stop the disunity. Carmella and her friends continued to cry, “Nobama!” “We love you, Hillary!” and “We need Hillary!” as Barack Obama sat onstage on a stool behind his former rival, his finger studiously at his lips. Carmella was not impressed with all the kissing, laughing and whispering that Hill and Bam were diligently doing for the cameras, so that the moment could produce, as Obama press aide Robert Gibbs put it on “Larry King Live,” “a great picture.”

When it was Obama’s turn to speak, Carmella announced loudly, “I wish I had ear plugs.” Then, as Obama tried to ingratiate himself with the Hillary partisans in the crowd by saying that because of the New York senator, his daughters “can take for granted that women can do anything that the boys can do and do it better and do it in heels,” Carmella put her fingers in her ears.

As Obama tried to curry favor with Hillary, looking over at her sensible, sturdy shoes and marveling, “I still don’t know how she does it in heels,” Carmella tore up a tissue and stuffed it in her ears...............

[davidpdx]

Several things come to mind after reading this

1) No one will always be happy with who the nominee is.
2) Posting this could be seen as inflammatory
3) People will try to cause problems whenever and wherever they can
4) Dowd has been one of Clinton's harshest critics.

[KittyWampus]

89. 1st thing that came to my mind- Dowd is a sophomoric asshole parading as a journalist

[Napoleon Bonaparte]

94. Dowd quoted one woman named Carmella as proof that all Clinton supportes are angry

Talk about a representative sample.

[NYC_SKP]

1. I don't know if your post will live very long, but I'll kick it while it's alive,

which is more than I can say for "dead horse beating" Carmella Lewis.

I know, I'm bad.

[SoCalDem]

30. I thought of this picture

[NYC_SKP]

36. Oh dear....I haven't laughed this hard for days....Thanks

It's wackier than anything anyone's ever photoshopped.

That forehead sticker is real!

Those people are serious!


Like many a good thriller, it's at once fascinating and disturbing.

[JoFerret]

51. I like that picture

.

[Fredda Weinberg]

2. "how she does it in heels" ... tell me he didn't say that, please?

It was bad enough he said his daughters could do anything in high heels ... if that had been my dad, I would have died.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

8. Probably a Ginger Rogers reference.

"Everything Fred Astaire did, but backwards and in high heels," etc.

[blondeatlast]

10. That's exactly what I thought of too. The preceding: "Ginger Rogers was the better dancer, etc." nt

[JoFerret]

53. The question is - by whom in this instance?.

Dowd I think. (I don't think Obama would be that idiotic.)

[Tarheel_Dem]

11. Is that you Carmella???? Never gonna let it go are you?

There are plenty of online sites where you can post Obama hate to your heart's content, why do it here? :eyes:

[roguevalley]

34. This woman is an ass. A complete ass. She needs to go and examine

her conscience. Frankly, I believe race is at the bottom of a lot of this. Race, period. Their arguments are so nonsensical it would seem that is the root cause of people like her bellering like an ass.

[ladjf]

37. Nader also was an ass, an ass who was one of the reasons

Gore did not move into the White House. An ass here and an ass there,and the next thing you know, the Republicans win. They specialize in fielding armies of unscrupulous asses.

[Labors of Hercules]

80. Is the ass reference deliberately misleading?

or are y'all trying to be ironical? :dem:

[ladjf]

86. I have no idea what your question means.

[Labors of Hercules]

91. The symbol of the Democratic party is...

an ass.

eta: nevermind.

[ladjf]

92. No.I was just using the pejorative slang.

[Tarheel_Dem]

42. I've tried to shy away from laying the claim of racism on most of these people.

Some people just don't like Obama, and some people don't like Hillary for whatever reason. I'll try and give most the benefit of the doubt. I'm not saying that racism isn't at the core of some of this, but I don't want to label everyone who chooses not to support Obama as racist.

[Colobo]

46. Racism is a big reason. Many older white females don't trust black men.

[Tarheel_Dem]

49. I understand that as I am black myself. But my larger point was that

I'm just trying not to label any & every white Democrat who refuses to support Obama as racist. Sometimes people just don't like people for no good reason, I'm guilty of that myself. I would be naive to think that race doesn't play some role, because the exit polls told us that there were whites who said they would never vote for a black man. Maybe I'm foolish, but I feel that throwing out blanket accusations of racism only hardens the resolve of those whites who may have had reservations in the first place.

I guess what I'm trying to say is that we need to be extra careful when applying that label.

[goldcanyonaz]

62. I have been saying this for months, the word will begin to lose meaning if its always tossed around

racism is still a very serious concern but to label everyone who does not like our candidate as racist is getting ridiculous

[roseBudd]

71. A lot of them are obsessed fans. Sadly it really is like American Idol w/low info voters

I have become obsessed with reading their comments on their PUMA blog & I also read a lot of them on HRC's official blog. They love HRC the way some people love Michaael Jackson or Sanjaya.

[Evergreen Emerald]

64. What!? THAT is a racist statement.

ohmygod!

[Colobo]

66. It's true. Many older white people in general do not trust black men.

[roseBudd]

73. It is also a fact that a majority of older white people disapprove of interracial relationships

and Obama is biracial, born ata time when it was illegal in some states.

[Evergreen Emerald]

77. I think your statement has no basis in fact.

it is a generalization and a stereotype.

[roseBudd]

69. They hate Obama for depriving them of the object of their adoration...

I did a search for the word "love" for several days on HRC's official blog and only counted "I love Hillary" or "we love Hillary"s. Let me just say it is a meme on her blog.

I then went to Obama's blog & searched for "love". nada, zip.

These people ARE like the people who demonstrated outside of Michael Jackson's child molestation trial.

Fans. Of the rabid delusional type.

[JoFerret]

54. Oh leave her alone

She is nothing and nobody (to worry about).

[butterfly77]

93. I think that is it ..

more and more everyday, because it doesn't make any sense..I often wonder if the nominee and the same things happened in a lot of the circumstances would there be this much fake outrage..

[roguevalley]

97. If they would field real arguments, such as positions or something

other than he just 'seems' something or other, then I would believe they had a position that was defensible. However, since they don't, race has to be the core of their objection, whether they can admit it or not and whether people on this list like that answer or not.

[Fredda Weinberg]

44. Unlike you, I post with my real name. Why think I would use a sock puppet?

And hate? That's silly. I'm a female CTO who works in an almost exclusively male domain. I don't have time for men's limitations.

Like many other DUers, I've registered elsewhere during silly season, so I know more than I post here. You can mock the trials and tribulations of women everywhere, but that won't earn you my respect - or their return.

As for DU, I came here years ago to support a cause with a progressive journalist who goes around telling females their most valuable asset is between their legs. He needed me for my technical expertise, but hates my guts to this day. His problem ... not mine.

Why do I stay? Because there's work to be done. Real people benefit when cooperation succeeds - and my campaigns here surpassed expectations.

You? You're an anonymous critic who's projecting animosity.

[NYC_SKP]

12. Yes, he said that. It was a borrowed line, probably not a great idea.

Someone once said that Ginger Rogers could do everything that Fred Astaire could do, and backwards and in heels.

It's kind of dated and unintentional bait for anyone predisposed to decide that it's a sexist term, and then have a fit over it.

Bad idea...like the seal...

[lojasmo]

38. Boo. Thanks for your concern. N/T

[NYC_SKP]

41. Calm yourself down.

In case you're jumping to conclusions, thinking that I'm a hater, making trouble....

I'm an Obama supporter all the way, I really detested Hillary (sorry if you liked her), and I never donated or made calls for a candidate in all my fifty-one years until this candidate.

So, unless you're being sarcastic or silly and I'm not getting it (in which case please excuse this reactive reply), then...

You need to calm down.

[FredfromSpace]

67. This "concern-trolling" routine is getting so old....

And so are the predictable pontifications of the NYT's well-known Clinton- (and Gore-) hater, Maureen Dowd.

[JoFerret]

55. He said it?

Crap. That's all. Crap.

[Peacetrain]

76. Oh good gravy...I have heard Hillary use that same old

canard herself here in Iowa.. Its one of those, that shows women have to do everything men do and do it backwards also.. we have to be 10 times better..

[Labors of Hercules]

81. Why do people here make so much ado about nada?

no intiendo.

[Peacetrain]

82. That one floored me I have to admit..

[Hepburn]

78. Yes, but...

...it does have some appeal to the older white females who clearly remember Fred and Ginger dancing!

[iconicgnom]

14. Fred Astaire - Ginger Rogers

Obama was merely trying to smoothen the waters a bit with a light hearted reference to Ginger Rogers, Astaire's dance partner, who is quoted as quipping, "I did everything Fred did, only backwards and in high heels."

[Fredda Weinberg]

45. I'll concede, he meant well. It wasn't easy for Ms Rogers either n/t

[sniffa]

16. He also said, "Fuck Whitey"

I think there were thrown shoes involved, but that may just be a very, false rumor. :shrug:

[Tinksrival]

22. Ha!

:spray:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

29. Those shoes broke glass ceilings.

:cry:

[sniffa]

31. And they broke them into 18M pieces

Such powerful, brown shoes.

[Kahuna]

58. LOL! Sniffa Sniffa Sniffa!

:rofl:

[SmileyRose]

99. How can a "blue collar Hillary supporter" afford to retire at 57?

obviously SOME of the elitists supported her.

[JackORoses]

48. it's damn hard to march in the street in heels

[Fredda Weinberg]

96. I know ... and that day I shared w/ThomCat and his crutches. Ouch n/t

[shadowknows69]

3. She had some really classy supporters didn't she?

[MonkeyFunk]

39. No worse than some of the supporters

of other candidates.

[shadowknows69]

50. No, that is worse actually

[JoFerret]

56. None as classy as you

sweetness.

[az chela]

4. This is more ignorant than supporting mcinsane

I dont get these people !!!!

[onehandle]

5. I thought that Hillary supporter bashing wasn't allowed any more?

What does this have to do with the election? Nothing. It's just bashing by proxy.

This doesn't belong in GD-Presidential. It's just an extension of GD-Primaries.

And Dowd is a wet blanket.

Also, you posted more than the allowed 4 paragraphs.

[kevinmc]

7. I am not bashing anyone ..... I am laughing at a clown. n/t

[polmaven]

87. Bashing Hillary and her supporters

is, I'm afraid, still alive and well.

[asdjrocky]

6. Bitter, stupid, sore losers.

I can't believe these people. Hey, by the way, my guy didn't get the nod either and you don't see me doing this crap.

[babylonsister]

17. I remember, and you are a great DUer I'm always happy to see.

:hug:

[asdjrocky]

40. Yes we can baby. Yes we can. nt

[JoFerret]

57. Equally matched by the

bitter, sore, stupid winners on DU.

This is just Dowd on form. We all have to get over it.(Dowd I mean)

[babylonsister]

9. I laughed, too. Carmella needs to chill out! nt

[Tarheel_Dem]

13. The Carmellas and the Harriets don't do anything for Hillary's image. nt

[NYC_SKP]

21. Maybe they aren't with or for Hillary....Maybe they're with this guy --->

[Tarheel_Dem]

25. That is a distinct possibility. I've always said that some of the Hillarites

were never gonna vote for her in the general. I think quite a few of them are undercover McCain operatives.

[NYC_SKP]

28. I don't know what the event was, but that's Harriet and I noticed...

the young man and his Hillary button. No ordinary event, this.

Was there a special "come on over" event for PUMA types, with John present?

[Tarheel_Dem]

32. They are a small, but vocal group, and the M$M is more than happy to

give them a forum to discuss their switch from Hillary to McCain. I wish Obama had some brave Obamacans who could make the rounds on the "news" channels, but I doubt the M$M would be interested.

[roseBudd]

75. Yes there was and Harriet was there

[polmaven]

88. Ahh, but we can't think about that!

Wouldn't that just take all the fun out of sticking it to Hillary?

[sniffa]

15. So, is this another delegate that may be stripped of their status?

:shrug:

[salguine]

18. Maybe Ms. Lewis' head will explode, like in "Scanners". That would be so boss.

[JeffR]

19. Carmella's a fanboy

whatever her age, whatever her gender.

We're a better country if she doesn't vote. And anyway, she'll probably get a nice parting gift from the RNC! Maybe a toaster-oven! Maybe a Wii!

[Mz Pip]

20. Camilla must have

entirely too much disposable income to come all the way from Denver to Unity, NH to stick her fingers in her ears and act like a
fool.

I am so glad I am not related to her in any way. I'd be embarassed as hell.

She wished she had ear plugs? She could have saved herself the trip and kept the tv off. No need for earplugs. If these are kind kind of Hillary supporters who are voting for McCain they are pathetic indeed.

BUt more to the point, for the sake of unity, what the fuck was Hillary doing signing this twit's sign????? Kind of misses the whole point of it IMHO.

[CTyankee]

65. Carmilla is either 1/a Repuke plant or 2/a deranged "celebrity stalker"

I'm leaning toward #2 right now as it seems to fit the profile of someone is isn't working (for reasons of mental instability), has some disposible income (or is maxing out a credit card) and an insatiable, uncontrollable desire to follow a celebrity around the country and bring attention to herself by doing outlandish, ridiculous things (stuffing Kleenex in her ears, acting out, talking loudly and inappropriately).

Ihope she has family members who can quietly take charge, put her back on her meds and get her to a facility where she can receive intensive therapy and where her behavior can be regulated.

I don't think this has as much to do with Hillary Clinton as it does with this lady's total absorption with a super famous celebrity and her need to somehow attach herself to the celebrity.
She obviously needs help.

P.S. The reason Hillary autographed her sign is probably because she thought it best not to do anything that would drive this woman over the edge and do something that would mar the carefully planned unity demonstration.

[nc4bo]

23. Sorry Carmella but Barack Obama will be the next POTUS. n/t

[Mz Pip]

24. Hillary autographed Camilla's sign.

Why???

Why validate this insanity ina any way, shape or form?

[NYC_SKP]

26. “...gut feeling that something’s going to happen", she said.

“But I have a gut feeling,” she said with macabre faith, “that something’s going to happen so that she becomes the nominee.”

It's actually a bit troubling. Or a lot troubling.

[PatGund]

83. What's sickening....

Is that her and the other PUMA types seem to be praying for "something" to happen. That if the worse happened, they would be cheering and dancing in the streets.

Sad. And sickening.

[blogslut]

27. Wow

From the Dowd piece:

Afterward, Carmella got her idol to autograph her sign, telling the smiling Hillary, “You’re going to be the next president.”

She told The Times that she and her friends were all voting for John McCain and that Hillary was just doing what she had to do.

“But I have a gut feeling,” she said with macabre faith, “that something’s going to happen so that she becomes the nominee.”

Personally, I think Carmella needs a visit from the Secret Service.

[julialnyc]

72. Yikes!

This woman is obviously not very stable

[polmaven]

90. Yes!

Carmella does need a visit from the Secret Service. I doubt it is she, however that has plans, if there are any, but that "gut feeling" came from somewhere other than her own sick mind.

[MrSlayer]

33. Some people have no shame or dignity.

Acting like a 5 year old child throwing a tantrum endears you to no one. Seriously, they can't be for real. This smacks of some sort of ratfucking.

[Skittles]

101. yup - Ms Dowd sucks BIG TIME n/t

[Danger Mouse]

35. What a dingbat.

[Tresalisa]

43. I'm embarrassed for her.

I know she's disappointed, as are many others, but there's just no need to behave that way out in public.

I loved the line about the aridity in the Unity humidity, though! :rofl:

[40ozDonkey]

47. She brought her friend out in the heat and Axelrod had to hydrate her.

David Axelrod cares more for a hostile stranger than Carmella does for a sympathetic friend. Pathetic.

[JoFerret]

52. Yesterdays NY Times news article

on the Unity thing was even better. You should read it. Gail Collins was amusing too.

It was a stunt. A good one but still a stunt.

[Adelante]

59. WWII Japanese soldiers on a Pacific island

It took them a while, too ;)

[babylonsister]

60. Bwhahaha! 26 years, to be precise! I have that t-shirt! nt

[NYC_SKP]

63. Well, that thought evokes images...

November 5, 2017:

Signs torn and frayed, pins all rusty, and nothing left of her forehead sticker but sticky residue, the last holdout emerged from the dank jungle muttering something about the popular vote...

[Faygo Kid]

74. An extraordinary and dangerous phenomenon.

If you visit the loopy sites like hillaryclintonforum.net, it's clear that they wish death upon our nominee. I cannot fathom why Hillary has not spoken out more strongly. She must do so. The threats by her dead-enders are dangerous.

[PatGund]

84. But would they listen??

It's obvious the PUMA-types are deluding themselves trying to make themselves believe that Sen. Clinton "really doesn't mean what she's saying" on unity. I doubt they would listen to her now - or would convince themselves she meant the opposite

[Faygo Kid]

85. Point well taken. No, they would not listen.

But I believe that they are not to be taken lightly. Their rage is phenomenal, and they are unhinged.

[JVS]

61. Where are the tasers? It's just not fair!

[roseBudd]

68. Is Carmella 3 years old?

[malik flavors]

70. That's hilarious that somebody yelled "It's over, lady!"

[GoldieAZ49]

79. She wasn't one of the groups bussed in from neighboring states...obviously

Kinda put a kink in the whole staged event.

:rofl:

[butterfly77]

95. This part of the piece really..

explains why I have a hard time with these Hillary supporters: They did not, however, commiserate about Bill Clinton, who is in a self-pitying meltdown about not being Elvis anymore, trying to shake down Obama for more — more apologies for perceived snubs and more help paying off the $22 million Clinton debt.

It’s hard to fathom why Obama should be mau-maued into paying off the debt that Hillary and Bill accrued attacking and undermining him, while mismanaging the campaign and their nearly quarter-billion-dollar war chest so horribly that one Hillaryland insider told The New Republic that it bordered on fraud.

But the former president can’t stand being a loser, so he’s taking it out on the winner. When it comes to Bill, there’s a lot of vanity but very little humility in Unity.



These people really have a lot of nerve. I expect a lot of confusion at the convention. They want Obama to beg them for there votes,and they want to make it a co-presidency. I really see why the Dems can never get anything done because there are too many factions who want what they want when they want it. This woman stuff is a lot of garbage, do they really think Obama would not be for women issues, when the people who are the most close to him are women. That leaves me to only two conclusions entitlement or racism...

[AspenRose]

98. She flew from Denver to NH for THAT?

That's.....sad.

[Frank Booth]

100. This lady's clearly not right in the head. Sounds like some family members

need to intervene.