The Senator from New York puts her foot in it big-time

[thatcrazycajun]

As if her mulish insistence on continuing her increasingly quixotic race for her party's Presidential nomination weren't proof enough that Hillary Rodham Clinton truly cares about no one and nothing save herself (and possibly her family), her latest quoted public statements prove it beyond the merest shadow of a doubt. Scroll down to the money quote in paragraph 16 to find out what has me and half my f-list gaping in sheer, stunned disgust.

So apparently desperate has Clinton become that she is willing to pull out the race card more nakedly than any politician of either major party since Junior's daddy and his late buddy Lee Atwater made Willie Horton a household name. Has it truly escaped her that the Americans she is clearly naming by omission as not being "hard-working" (i.e., non-Caucasians) make up more than half the country's population...and thus, the electorate? And how many times have I said that nominating this woman is tantamount to giving the GOP the White House again, on the proverbial silver platter?

This kind of oh-no-she-didn't statement is sure to send even more voters into the arms of her Illinoisan Senate colleague Barack Obama during the eight primaries remaining in the schedule, not to mention those notoriously uncommitted "superdelegates." And should she by some miracle or skullduggery (three guesses which one's more likely, and the first two don't count) wrest the prize from Obama, do you think for one single solitary picosecond that John McCain and company will hesitate to use this against her in the general election campaign? I sure as hell don't.

Mrs. Clinton, let me add my voice to the growing chorus demanding that you brew yourself a nice cup of sit-down-and-shut-the-fuck-up and withdraw now, while doing so can still save the party and the election.

Comments

Uh Matt

[shelleybear.livejournal.com]

If this is based on her "white working class" comment and you are attacking me, I really think you should explain.

Huh?!

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

I was attacking her, not by any means you. If I did not make this sufficiently clear, I apologize.

Re: Huh?!

[shelleybear.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry.
The divider on the comments wasn't clear.

[technoshaman.livejournal.com]

sit-down-and-shut-the-fuck-up

No, no, no. Hemlock. Seppuku is the only proper exit here.

[jannyblue.livejournal.com]

I have often described what I perceive as the difference between Clinton and Obama this way:

She wants to get elected.

He wants to be President.

But what do I know? I'm only 28, and the only Presidential elections I've ever voted in were the most recent two...

[stevemb.livejournal.com]

IMO, a lot of both the fumbling of Clinton's campaign and the negative reactions to her were caused because she went in assuming that it was her turn, dammit, and that actually earning the nomination was not a prerequisite.

But of course I've had fortymumble years to grow cynical....

[luscious-words.livejournal.com]

Agreed!

[cellio]

IAWTC.

[luscious-words.livejournal.com]

Seems to me that you see it very clearly. I think you've hit the nail square on the head.

[dsthomas.livejournal.com]

"She wants to be elected.

He wants to be President."

OOO, well said!

What you said...

[luscious-words.livejournal.com]

Mrs. Clinton, let me add my voice to the growing chorus demanding that you brew yourself a nice cup of sit-down-and-shut-the-fuck-up and withdraw now, while doing so can still save the party and the election.

Amen, brother!!!

I'll let my icon speak my opinion of Mrs. C.

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

This paragraph? "We need to bring back hardworking people to the Democratic Party," the New York senator said. "I'm winning Catholic voters and Hispanic voters, blue-collar workers and seniors. People Senator McCain will need in the general election."

Sheesh.

(I make it #20.)

[thatcrazycajun.livejournal.com]

Apparently the article has been re-edited in the hours since I originally linked to it. The original text of graf #16 read as follows:

In an interview with USA Today published Thursday, Clinton said, "I have a much broader base to build a winning coalition on." She cited an Associated Press article "that found how Senator Obama's support among working, hardworking Americans, white Americans, is weakening again, and how whites in both states who had not completed college were supporting me. There's a pattern emerging here," she said. (Emphasis mine.)

But the one you cite is pretty damning, too; apparently Mrs. C. thinks none of us currently in the party are hard-working at all.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[kayshapero]

What I want to know is why is it so desperately important to disenfranchise any voter who doesn't reside in one of the states that votes earliest? I don't know if it would really help to cut down on the furious mud flinging indulged in by both sides, but if no candidate was ALLOWED to withdraw earlier, but at least the "jump out ahead and then accuse the other guy of damaging the party" portion might be damped down a BIT...

Not to mention that every flippin' bit of mud EITHER CANDIDATE flings at the other is going to come back at election time to bite them, either as a slur on them or as an example of what nastiness they're capable of. Remember; the whole point of this routine is not to prove who's the least rotten candidate. It's to pick one who can beat McCain!