Barack Obama wants Bill to heal Hillary Clinton wounds

[Senior officials on Obama's campaign believe Bill Clinton has the unique status and political gifts to reunite the party after such gaffes. They expressed confidence that the former president would rise above the perceived slights and grudges of a hard-fought campaign and work flat out for an Obama victory in November's presidential election.

"If anybody can put their arms around the party and say we need to be together, it is Bill Clinton," a senior Obama aide said.  

"He's brilliant, he has got heart and he cares deeply about the country. It's tricky because of his position as Hillary's spouse, but his involvement is very important to us.

"Bill Clinton will give permission to Hillary supporters to come into our camp and become one party. He is critical to this effort." ]
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I'm creeped out by the Obama campaign, especially Bill Burton.... but did he just say the Clinton just divided the two campaigns and now Bill will have to come in and clean up Clinton's mess?  and if Bill doesn't fix this, it's the Clinton's fault.   Jack@ss.

a great article by Janice Turner, spot on :

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/janice_turner/article3994855.ece

A snippet of her eye-opening comparison:

It's dangerous for an outspoken woman in public. They'll be shot down from all angles
Janice Turner

My head was in the backwash when the thought hit me: what woman would want to enter public life? My 9.30am appointment with André, Cherie Blair's hairdresser, was by no means his first. At 7.30am he'd made a house call. Emergency blow-dry for a business woman facing a board meeting. While her male colleagues were swiping the snooze button, she was up being crimped and coiffed.

Throughout the day, women lawyers and corporate PRs, politicians and financiers swoop into Mayfair for half-hour, twice-weekly pit stops. I'd bet many lie about their whereabouts. Good grooming must appear effortless. Otherwise you risk being dubbed vain or high maintenance or classed with rich men's work-shy wastrel wives. But André with his flattery and deft fingers is no mere indulgence: he is arming them for battle. Only beneath an impeccable, heat-sealed helmet are these women safe from reproach.

We all saw Obama question Petraeus in committee. He was given preferential position because he needed to leave the committee meeting early, and his question was ridiculous. It also seems the senior Senators are going to loan Obama their experience since he doesn't have any of his own.

I've also noticed some here feel the same way and intend to write-in Hillary on their ballots.

However, I urge everyone to check their respective state rules.

If you're like me, and don't plan to endorse Obama, be sure your write-in vote doesn't automatically go to the "Democratic nominee" if write-ins are prohibited in your state.

Hillary says "We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in June in California."

0. "Assassinated"

1. Black leaders have been assassinated

2. Obama is a black leader

3. She was talking about assassinating Obama

Clinton supporters is part of the Clinton campaign stategy. Her base, the most passionate white women over 50 and older identify with Hillary, her philandering husband, squashed ambitions, lost dreams and being upstaged by a young male senator. All those unanswered slights in their lives has turned into Hillary support because many of the older white women see Hillary as their avenger.

first of all, she's not ending her campaign any time soon.

second of all, she's not complaining, she's stating a fact.

third, she has not screamed sexism at every turn as obama has about racism - even though if she had, they would have been far more legitimate claims than his BOGUS claims of racism.

They are not moved by the fact that, within an hour or so of Senator Clinton's remark, RFK Jr. had issued a response saying the remark itself was inoffensive and people should not take offense to it. Nor are they moved by the fact that Senator Clinton immediately apologized for any upset she may have caused.

The bobble-heads do not find it at all inappropriate that the Obama campaign added fuel to the fire by suggesting that Hillary's remark insulted the memory of RFK and posed an enhanced threat of assassination for Obama.

Likewise, they find nothing problematic about Obama waiting a full day before he roused himself from his ring-side seat and made a passive-agresssive, self-serving statement that characterized Senator Clinton's remarks thusly:

"I have learned that when you are campaigning ...sometimes you get careless in terms of the statements that you make...[meaning that I, Obama must now be excused for every careless thing I've ever said throughout this campaign]...Senator Clinton says that she did not intend any offense by it and I will take her at her word on that...[meaning you must now take my word that I intended no offense for every offensive thing I've ever said throughout this campaign]."

Obama had NOTHING to say to his supporters and the pundits who have spent the past two days ASSASSINATING THE CHARACTER OF SENATOR CLINTON. No words of condemnation for them; no recommendation that they apologize to her; no expression of sympathy or regret for what she has been put through. No concern for the physical harm that might befall HER if his henchmen continue in this manner. No regret from him that he waited so long to come forward; no regret that his campaign was in error when they rushed to judgment.

I could not care less.

Listen to this audio and be outraged about the caucuses and delegates.

http://www.bartcop.com/141-bombshell-sample.m3u

http://www2.nysun.com/opinion/kenya-connection/

I know some flake websites have addressed this -- but it's disappeared from the media completely.

I think it's important.  This says a lot more about BHO's "foreign policy experience" than his childhood years in Indonesia.

If a U.S. senator was using the prestige of his position to promote one side in a heavily tribal election in Kenya ... shouldn't the government care?  Shouldn't the voters care?

In January, there was much ballyhoo about how Obama interrupted the New Hampshire primary for a phone call from Odinga, to whom he was apparently an advisor.  When the violence broke out in Kenya -- and I have no idea about how much Odinga was personally involved, but it appears to have been his followers -- Obama apparently consulted Condi and made a plea for peace on VOA.  This was reported in the mainstream media in January.
Since January -- silence.

What was his role there? What was his involvement in these elections? Apparently (according to one quasi-reliable blog -- was it No Quarter?) his face was on campaign posters. Huh? Is this appropriate behavior for a US senator?  Is it even true?

There are also rumors he has dual citizenship?  Is there any chance that this is/was true?

Link

I'd really appreciate suggestions.  I'm comfortable with hand-coding, but I like working in a graphic environment.

For those that don't remember or weren't there, Dick Martin along with Dan Rowan hosted a TV show called Laugh In in the 60's. It was the greatest, and was a major contributor to my permanent delinquency and strange sense of humor.

We left Dkos.  We left Mydd.  We left TPM.

I don't know the Sun, except that they have a top-notch literary critic, but why would that negate everything that they write?

The MSM has repressed and withheld so much news in this election ... I actually have turned to some of the right-wing press to find out what's going on. Frankly, they are the only ones who don't seem in HBO's pocket.

Shouldn't the arguments of a columnist be considered on their own merits, and not on the basis of whether a paper is right-wing or left-wing?

One thing I've learned the hard way: truth is on neither side, but occasionally on one or the other.