What a slick way to stick the knife in and twist it … all with a smile:
“I get why she’s hot out there … Why she’s doing well.”
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“People look at her, and they say, ‘All those kids. Something that happens in everybody’s family. I’m glad she loves her daughter and she’s not ashamed of her. Glad that girl’s going around with her boyfriend. Glad they’re going to get married.'”
[…]
“I like that little Down syndrome kid. One of them lives down the street. They’re wonderful children. They’re wonderful people. And I like the idea that this guy does those long-distance races. Stayed in the race for 500 miles with a broken arm. My kind of guy.”
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“I get this … My view is … why say, ever, anything bad about a person? Why don’t we like them and celebrate them and be happy for her elevation to the ticket? And just say that she was a good choice for him and we disagree with them?”
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There must be much gnashing of teeth inside the O’s tent this morning.
cross-posted @ Cjunk
That is the third story in the last two days I have seen along those lines.
Betchya ol Barry is some glad Slick Willy came out and gave him his support last week. Wonder what he would be saying if he didn’t support him…. ROFL!!
Clinton gets it, the Dems went about criticizing Palin the wrong way. They did it in a way that the sterotyped people not like themselves thought.
Clinto is right, he is from arkansa and understands the reaction. Cant believe I said that.
Also see Lynn Crosbie’s column in Globe today going after Sandra Berhardt. Smae issue, about the manner of the criticism and the content that misses the point and alienates others. This is the salient point, Palin is subject to criticism because she doesnt hold the right viewpoint. but the the criticism is done in the traditional manner, about her child rearing etc, her looks etc and not about her policies.
Maybe at the end of this we can all agree that you dont vote for or against someone because of their gender, religon or colour but because of their policies or other relevant job characteristics.
Isnt that what we have been trying to get to all along?
Following the link, C-junk asks us to guess who said it.
I guessed Slick Willy right away…could almost hear the accent.(well he did hint with the slick reference)
Yeah Willy…you could almost admit that kid’s with Down’s Syndrome are human.
And totally ‘skirt’ Palin’s leadership, strengths and experience…’cuz shucks she’s a cutie pie, ain’t she?
He doesn’t get it.He’s ga ga picturing her in the Whitehouse, that’s all.
I find it really difficult to believe that Obama didn’t get more traction out of the economy’s near-meltdown. If he can’t close the deal with all that happening, there is a major opportunity for McCain and Palin to win this race.
Obama probably didn’t get much traction out of the near-collapse of the stock market because he’s got a lot to do with its causes.
A few years back, John McCain tried to get a bill passed that would have reined in Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae’s economically destructive but politically correct lending practices. Obama was one of those who opposed it, and the bill never passed.
Coincidentally, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were huge contributors to Obama’s and Hillary’s political machines. This friendship may have arisen from the fact that Freddie and Fannie underwrote lots of (now questionable) mortgages for constituents that were likely to vote Democrat.
Obama can’t get traction on Wall Street meltdown because like Clinton did in his time, he has major iou’s out to the perps. Both sides have been far too helpful covering up Wall Street messes for decades and each “next time” gets more and more damaging.
Slick Willy is turning the knife in Obamas back, people.
Remember that divisive Democratic nomination race? That Hillary just barely lost? Bill hasn’t forgotten. Hillary and her camp will be nursing this grudge for a long time.
To liberals, emotion overrides principle; and I’ll bet they would really rather see McCain/Palin than that interloper Obama in their precious Clinton White House.
Heh.
This is the unsaid fact. That many of those “unqualified” mortgagor are from the African american community, since they were over represented in the lower income levels.
But it was an untargetted instrument so easy credit gets made available, not just to those who didnt have it before but to those who could get it before….they got LOTS more.
An asset bubble if there ever was one. I rememeber Kate’s post of the graphical representation of house prices as a roller coaster, it was prescient, Kate post again for a trip down memory lane 🙂
This is going to take some time to get through. There is a lot of debt the US taxpayer is carrying. A tax increase in the next 4 years is unavoidable. The tax increase by GWB in 1991 may have cost him the election but it set up the interest rate drop and subsequent boom in the mid and late 90’s.
The US needs to get its financial house in order, part of that will come from Iraqi oil coming on stream, reduction of the use of US military and a small tax incease.
Fixing the deficit in the US is critical. We do not want inflation, lived through it once, dont want to again. As Friedman said, Inflation is and always will be a monetary phenomena….the US has been printing money, and still is at an enormous rate, time to mop it up before the levee breaks.
“Maybe at the end of this we can all agree that you dont vote for or against someone because of their gender, religon or colour but because of their policies or other relevant job characteristics.”
Does ideology fall alongside gender, religion or colour, or does it fall alongside policies and job characteristics.
I only ask because Karl Rove has me thoroughly confused:
On Sarah Palin (on Aug 29th):
She is a populist, she is an economic and social conservative, she’s a reformer, she’s a former mayor, she’s a mayor, I think, of the second largest city of Alaska, before she ran for governor.
The second largest city, we now know, is Wassila (population 9,000).
On VP potential candidate Timothy Michael Kane, former mayor of Richmond, Virgina (Population 200,000), former Lt Governor of Virginia and current Governor of Virginia (August 10):
He has been a governor for 3 years, he was the mayor of the 105th largest city in America, and again, with all due respect to Richmond, it’s smaller than (names obscure cities), it is not a Big Town. So if you were to pick Governor Kane IT WOULD BE AN INTENSELY POLITICAL CHOICE WHERE YOU”RE SAYING “YOU KNOW WHAT I’M REALLY NOT FIRST AND FOREMOST CONCERNED WITH IS – ‘IS THIS PERSON CAPABLE OF BEING PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA” (emphasis mine)
Turns out Palin was a Republican and accordingly could do no wrong, while Kane was a Democrat, and accordinly could do no right. Startling piece of hypocrisy all the same.
Hence my curiosity on where ideology stands. Karl Rove is no ordinary political hack, but even he appears to be blinded by ideology. Can’t blame the rest of the folk for following.
Stephen:
I asked an American friend of mine what a ‘community organizer’ does.
FIgures she’d know since she grew up in the housing projects in Cleveland.
“They help people access government money,” she said.
Like mortgages with dubious qualification processes, I’d guess.
SYF,
For sure that is what Community Organizers do. but dont think the mortgage crisis is because of too many people buying homes in “the projects”.
It was people buying in Vegas and other upwardly mobile places. It was people with equity using that to refinance and invest in stocks, or at the bad end, go on vacation etc.
Obama may well have been part of the congressional protcetion of the easy credit system, for his particular contituency, but his constituency wasnt the only cause (I actually like programs targetted at increasing home ownership for the poor). It was the next couple of rungs up, economically, who really blew it.
Easy credit benefits/hurts everyone. Obama wont escape scrutiny on this….the criticism is he wasnt looking at the big picture but just taking care of his constituency.
A president has to look at the big picture.
Slick Willy is not sticking the knife in Obama’s back: he is sticking it in his gut, face to face. It’s more personal that way.
Slick willy stepping back from mudslinging?
something seismic is happening.Last week one of Clintons managers came out for McCain.Hillary”s criticism is muted or nonexixtent.Bill is warm to Palin-I susupect Hillary has the power of kingmaker right now and will come out for the Pallin-McCain ticket in the next few weeks,in return for sectretary of state or similar position.The Democratic estblishment betrayd her and she will never get the nomination from them.Things are shaking up and the old 2 party system is crumbling
[quote]I asked an American friend of mine what a ‘community organizer’ does.[/quote]
The apprentice Godfather role!
Yes they Organize Bottle drives, and use political “Back Door” access to Taxpayer’s Money.
If you don’t qualify for a Mortgage, Obama would find a way to sneak you by the regulators.
HyperRighteous: Rove exists to spin … it’s what he does … it’s who he is. Your surprise … is surprising.
Imagine McCain/Palin with Hillary to boot. BO would be like the proverbial lamb to the slaughter come election day. Then McCain gives the boot to Hillary. Only in my dreams!
With the Clintons, it is all about power so I agree with david parton; something is about to blow (no pun intended). I caught a short vid of Slick Willy on the View and he is being as nice as can be.
Look for Obama to be the next Dion, as in party sacrificial lamb.
I keep picturing “Hillary” ripping the podium in that SNL skit…
and “Palin” glowing.
Master Of Spin
What’s this? The left showing some class? Is it possible? Ya, sure it is.
“Not by the color of their skin but by the content of their character”
“Beware of Greeks even when they bear gifts”
Well, well, Mr. Clinton has shown some class.
Bubba … showing character … or just drilling The O?
the clintons are making sure of two things:
1. That enough of hrc’s supporters move over to the GOP to sink BO in November.
2. That the people who like Sarah are not alienated from the clintons – that moderates see the clintons as representing the moderate part of the del party. This is in order to lay the ground works for HRC in 2012.
You got it Gord. In a year from now, nobody will remember who ran against President McCain. Hillary will fill the shoes of Ted Kennedy as the figurehead of the Dems and can make a run in 2012.
I wouln’t say class. I see a self-referential narcissistic element here as he sees himself in Palin — an outsider from hicksville — who came to Washington and prevailed.
I saw the interview clip and notwithstanding his horniness for Sarah, he really genuinely appreciates her; you cann see it on his face. He sees the raw, natural talent here, and McCain’s tactial and strategic genius.
This is why we love ‘im. That’s Clintonspeak for “I’d hit that.”
Stephen:
I agree that the US *has* to get its financial house in order, but I fear it’s not going to happen easily. Currently, there is close to $3 trillion dollars in US federal debt held by foreign parties, with over $1 trillion held by the central banks of China and Japan. As the US dollar slips, the urge to sell some of these securities is going to become irresistible. Then, the fecal matter is going to hit the fan.
The most comparable situation is not the Crash of 1929, but rather, the Panic of 1907 (see the Wikipedia entry for a good synopsis). In this case, Warren Buffett, with his purchase of $5 billion in Goldman preferred, is playing the role of JP Morgan, who convinced other NYC bankers to prop up various banks and the stock exchange during the Panic. The US survived that crisis (and went on to create the Federal Reserve system to prevent its re-occurrence), but at that time, fully 20% of GDP was not held as debt obligations by foreigners, and the US dollar was tied to gold, not the vagaries of the forex market. These additional complications will make it much tougher for the US to crawl out from this rock as easily. There’s going to be a lot of pain before it gets better; I just hope some Wall Streeters end up in jail.
I think the Clintons want Barack to lose. In 2012, the US probably wouldn’t vote the Repubs in for a fourth straight term, and then it’s Hilary time!