Hillary Would Have Left
- 03.25.2008 - 1:00 PMShedding any reticence in talking about Reverend Wright, Hillary Clinton lands a punch with an interview with the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review:
“He would not have been my pastor,” Clinton said. “You don’t choose your family, but you choose what church you want to attend. You know, I spoke out against Don Imus (who was fired from his radio and television shows after making racially insensitive remarks), saying that hate speech was unacceptable in any setting, and I believe that. I just think you have to speak out against that. You certainly have to do that, if not explicitly, then implicitly by getting up and moving.”
Well, a broken clock is right twice a day, and this is Clinton’s time. This also tells us two things: that Clinton believes the media could not continue to run with this story without some added fuel from her and that she thinks this issue is a winner.
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March 25th, 2008 at 1:09 PM
Yes, and her jumping into the fray here is a way to divert attention from the sniper story. OK, so she’s a power-hungry liar, and he’s a hypocritical coward. And THAT is your choice Democratic primary voters and superdelegates.
Glad I didn’t vote in the NJ Democratic Primary. I’m just waiting until November when I can vote for McCain.
March 25th, 2008 at 2:08 PM
Of course the Rev. Wright story is a winner for Clinton [and McCain]. How can it not be?
And if BHO gets the nomination, the Clintons will continue to undermine him as a way of keeping Hillary’s hopes alive for 2012. It will be in her personal interest to see that Obama goes down in a landslide.
March 25th, 2008 at 2:17 PM
This thing was micromanaged, tested, and timed for effect.
I was skeptical about Bill’s-’two people who love america speech’, being anything more than a poor choice of words.
Hillary is smart enough not to touch the Reverend, unless it is Obama getting burned. Obama camp is helpless. To engage in the ‘debate’ would continue to prop the story up. It is fortunate that Hillary is legitimizing the issue for the gop come November.
The Rassmussen numbers for BO are downright scary. His disapproval number is at 52%, and will continue to climb.
Blame Hillary? Obama made the choice to distance himself from it, or chnage the subject as best he could. Great speech as a snapshot, but horrible choice for getting elected.
and I thought super-delegates would prevent another McGovern disaster. History is going to repeat.
March 25th, 2008 at 2:36 PM
The MSM is in a panic to drive Mrs. Clinton out of the race as soon as possible, because she will wipe the floor with Obama in Pennsylvania, and then the extent of the Rev. Wright damage will really become apparent.
March 25th, 2008 at 2:37 PM
one other piece of the clinton calculus?
Carville-still hacked over Judas Richardson, wanted to take the gloves off over Wright but couldn’t convince anyone within the campaign. The need to lose the Clinton-Bosnia story suddenly arose, and Carville got his wish.
Now that the Clinton’s have ‘embraced’ the Wright issue, Carville is going to absolutely unload on the Obama campaign over the next week.
It makes a lot of sense-draw out Obama supporters over Wright and watch tem over extend themselves defending the indefensible, or refuse to to use it and get shellacked for Clinton’s repeated lies.
March 25th, 2008 at 2:52 PM
Smart move on on the Clinton team’s part, and again great for McCain that she is the one doing the necessary dirty work.
Hillary has identified a very common sense litmus test that he fails- i.e. leave the church lest you are seen as endorsing Wrightm, which I think is the reaction most Americans would have. It is not hard to take her side on this, and by taking her side one can only conclude that either Hussein lacks moral courage and judgment, and or that he agrees with his Uncle Shabbos.
My hope as an evil republican is that the Messiah takes the bait and this escalates, but I think that he will slink away and let it go, so long as his protectors in the MSM continue to play along with the myth that he healed the country with his Great Speech.
March 25th, 2008 at 3:00 PM
She is a congenital liar. I do not believe one word out of her mouth, not even the “buts” “ands” or “ifs”.
Watching these two scorpions in a bottle attack each other is great fun.
They are both Ivy League lawyers, trained to lie and spin.
Take good notes to be used later.
March 25th, 2008 at 3:04 PM
Since the only reason for the Wright “controversy” is that he’s black (as the evil sock puppet points out, McCain has aligned himself with preachers who are far more Anti-American than Wright, and nobody cares even though, unlike Obama with Wright, McCain has actually sought the political endorsement of these Anti-American racist preachers), this is simply more of Senator Clinton’s attempt to gain support by painting Obama as the scary black candidate.
It’ll probably work in Pennsylvania, which she was already going to win anyway, but may backfire elsewhere. We are still talking about Democratic primaries, and just as the sexism of the MSM’s coverage of Senator Clinton helped her to win New Hampshire, the racist insanity of the coverage of the Wright story (which, again, is entirely based on the idea that a black preacher is inherently scary while genuine America-haters like James Dobson are not) may provoke the same kind of backlash among Democratic voters. Besides which, the idea that you should quit your church if you don’t agree with everything your pastor says is not something that most Americans appear to agree with.
As to what effect this will have on the general election, the failure of the surge remains a somewhat more important general-election issue McCain doesn’t appear stupid enough to run a campaign based entirely on the statements of someone most people still haven’t heard of.
March 25th, 2008 at 3:04 PM
If you take a look at the Rasmussen Reports numbers for today, things do look worse and worse for Obama, and for the Democrats generally. Clinton is now viewed favorably by 74% of Democrats, while Obama only 67%. McCain is viewed favorably by 83% of Republicans. Moreover, it is clear that many Democrats will vote for McCain rather than for the Democratic candidate they do not support.
The Hillary-Obama race is a mutual suicide pact. That’s why Democratic operatives want her out, but the truth is she runs better against McCain than Obama does.
Wright will be his undoing, and this will be prove that the MSM is a toothless tiger.
March 25th, 2008 at 3:07 PM
Olbermann has probably popped his ‘O’-ring, after hearing hrc villify his heart-throb.
He will launch into a ridiculously scathing attack on Bosnia, confriming what the gop has been saying for 17 years, Hillary is a opportunistic liar. He’ll pivot off of calling her a liar, and call her Wright comments the act of a ‘desperate’ liar.
He could always change his show to “Meltdown with Keith Olbermann”.