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obamaforme Donating Member (282 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-17-08 03:04 PM
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Hillary avoids Palin
Edited on Wed Sep-17-08 03:07 PM by obamaforme
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080917/ap_on_el_pr/obama_clinton

Instead, she focuses on McCain.

By BETH FOUHY, Associated Press Writer
19 minutes ago



NEW YORK - Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton is avoiding a public face-off with Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, the new female star of the 2008 campaign, while still raising money and votes for the Democrat who wrested the presidential nomination from her.


Advisers to party nominee Barack Obama and to Clinton say that she will resist pressure to speak out against Palin, believing it would diminish her own stature while creating a "cat fight" sideshow that would only distract voters from the contest at the top of the ticket. Any mention Clinton makes of Palin will only be in the context of her partnership with GOP nominee John McCain, aides said.

The New York senator abruptly canceled an appearance at a rally protesting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad after learning that Palin had also been invited to the event scheduled next week outside the United Nations. Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines said Clinton was never told that the Alaska governor would be there.


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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-17-08 03:07 PM
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1. Palin should be ignored...
She is irrelevant.

Good on Hillary for taking the high road.
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-17-08 03:14 PM
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3. Big mistake
Palin should be hammered as an example of Magoo's incredibly poor judgment.
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-17-08 03:15 PM
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4. You know they will support her no matter how vacuous she is...
Attacking her leads to nowhere. A mention of her as one of McCain's many failings is fine.
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razorman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-17-08 03:10 PM
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2. I think Hillary resents the idea of being used as an attack dog against Palin.
She wants to focus on McCain, since he is the one they are actually supposed to be running against. Personally, I think she is not all that enthusiastic about helping Obama, and is doing the bare minimum to keep up appearances.
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misanthrope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-17-08 03:18 PM
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7. I agree with that last sentence**nm
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obamaforme Donating Member (282 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-17-08 03:18 PM
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8. I expected the same
After her great speech at the convention, I expected to be out there really hammering away the message. But so far, she hss only been to Fl and Oh as far as I know.
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Vickers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-17-08 03:16 PM
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5. Smart decision.
:thumbsup:
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RUMMYisFROSTED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-17-08 03:17 PM
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6. ...like the plague.
Rightfully so.
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Blaze Diem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-17-08 03:24 PM
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10.  because Sarah Palin IS the Plague.
like the biblical kind.
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Median Democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-17-08 03:23 PM
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9. The GOP Needs A Photo-Op So They Can Do A Handing Off The Torch Commercial
Edited on Wed Sep-17-08 03:23 PM by Median Democrat
All they need is one smiling handshake between Palin and Hillary for the advertisement.
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Dukkha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-17-08 03:24 PM
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11. She's not running. She has no obligation to.
And Palin should be really grateful as Hillary is totally out of her league! NShe’s afraid to face the press imagine with Hillary would do to her.

I’d certainly avoid Palin as her shrieking voice is quite painful to endure
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-17-08 03:26 PM
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12. msnbc reported that mccain camp blames hillary for playing politics....what horseshit
what isn't politics?
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jimewing2121 Donating Member (4 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-17-08 03:27 PM
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13. ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!!!
Where the hell is Hillary Clinton? She should be the strongest weapon the democrats have right now to pour water on this grotesque love affair that white working class women are
having with Sarah Palin. Sarah Palin is touted as a a hero for having 5
kids, one of which she is using as a ploy today , September 11th no less,
by exploiting his deployment to Iraq. Another who is the pregnant teenage
girlfriend of a self described “redneck”, and a down syndrome baby she had
at 42. Are you serious! Her 5 year old spit on the head of the challenged baby at
the convention and everybody thought it was the cutest thing since Shirley Temple.
Not only are the Republicans turning their own anti- woman platform on it’s
ear and then twisting it into the scariest example of double speak since the
argument for the Iraq War, but nobody in the Democrat-IC (yes it is still Democratic) party is really saying ANYTHING.

I know there is a fringe element that will fall lock step into
whatever absurdity the GOP comes up with, but I also believe that most of
the new Sarah Palin fan club are women that do not follow politics and in
these last 2 months, they suddenly see a woman who they believe represents
some of their current struggles. Problem is she is NOT their gal!!! Her
problems may be similar but her solutions are extreme, everybody has had a brother in law that they dislike very much, but how many of us have followed him from job to job
getting him fired until finally a judge said that the Palin families attacks
on this guy were so extreme and so damaging to his children that it bordered
on child abuse!!!

Yeah, many of us have had teenagers come home knocked up. But only in
places where mistakenly girls feel like their ONLY option to get love,
purpose, and respect is to “keep my baby” do they choose not to end the
pregnancy. Most parents want to protect their teenage daughters from a
future that results in a loss of education, a loss of youth and the very
good chance of a life in poverty. Girls that plan on college do not have
babies in 11th grade. Why aren’t the mothers that stood up and said NO to
their own daughters, standing up and saying NO to Palin? Everybody knows
that a vast number of young girls get pregnant in high school, but most get
abortions. YES abortion!!! Oh my god I said it. The word nobody wants to
say, but everybody knows someone who has either had one or knows that their mom,
sister or daughter has. This is insane. What are we so ashamed of? Why do we
let this stand? I don’t know if Chelsea Clinton has ever been
pregnant, but I know damn right well that is she was at 15, the Clintons
would have never advised their beautiful and brilliant daughter to have her
life derailed at that young age. That is CHOICE that is what we fought
so hard for, now as liberal’s we would never be so mean as to fault a girl
for having a baby at such a young age. Look at Barack Obama’s mom, she was 18 when he was
born. But let’s not forget who has been that mean, and not just in
words. The Republicans! The entire reason that a young girls
life is derailed if she gets pregnant in high school, the entire reason
I would advise my teenage daughter, sister, niece to have an abortion is
because of the Republican attitudes and policies that have made it nearly
impossible to raise a child as a young, working class, single mom. These
are the people that want to segregate pregnant teens from the rest of
the public school population because they set a bad example. But now they
parade Sarah Palin’s daughter around like the prize pig at the fair I
couldn’t resist using a pig analogy. These are the people that
vote against the Children’s Health Care Bill, state sponsored day care, and the
list goes on and on.


And then there is the BABY! Ohhhh the baby, look at the baby, see
the baby, yeah look at the baby he has down syndrome! Not to long ago years ago you saw tons of Down Syndrome and other mentally challenged kids running around . Not so much anymore. Why?For the reason that we now have early
detection, that’s why! But in
this take no mercy, every man for himself, Republican Utopia, where is this
challenged Palin kid gonna in 50 years? Who is gonna wipe him then,
when she is long dead and he ain’t so cute anymore?
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ColbertWatcher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-17-08 03:33 PM
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14. BULLSHIT! This is the GOP-controlled media making shit up again!
The New York senator abruptly canceled an appearance at a rally protesting Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad after learning that Palin also had been invited to the event scheduled next week outside the United Nations. Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines said Clinton was never told that the Alaska governor would be there.


No where does Senator Clinton (or her spokespeoples) say why she was not at the rally.

This is just more of the GOP-controlled media misrepresenting a situation to perpetuate their favorite lie of the moment: Palin is the same as Hillary.

No one is going to believe it. Not gonna happen.


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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Sep-17-08 03:46 PM
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15. good for Hillary
think of the way the media would parse any comments she made about Palin.... :eyes:
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