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Race-baiting v Rudeness

January 30, 2008 8:35 AM

Did Bill's behavior hurt Hillary in South Carolina?

"It may have," she told the New York Daily News.

Meanwhile the Clinton campaign is trying to shift attention from Bill's chaos to Obama's arrogance.

She added fuel to the fire of his alleged "snub" of her at the State of the Union, by telling Fox News (!) last night, asked if she felt snubbed, that "I reached out my hand in friendship and unity and my hand is still reaching out. And I look forward to shaking his hand when I see him at the debate in California."

And this morning TIME's Mark Halperin reports on "the snub before 'the snub,'" that "(l)eading Democrats wanted rivals to sit together for the sake of party unity" and "Clinton was willing, but Obama chose to sit with newly-minted supporter Ted Kennedy."

Read more HERE.

- jpt

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OK now as anybody can see I am not a fan of the Libs nor Hilary but if it came down and really down to just Obama or Hilary I would have to go with Hilary for President, for the reason is Obama is untrust worthy and a racist.

My opinion of a Racist is when someone believes that morales are different per race as Obama, someone that evertime you are question about your expierence you cry that your being asked because of your race!!

And anyone who believes that the surrogates saying stuff is not known by Obama is foolish!

Posted by: spock | Jan 31, 2008 10:33:36 AM

If the biggest blemish Obama has is not shaking Hillary's hand at the SOTU address, Hillary-trolls will have to do a lot better.

Do you all know how many incidents of RUDENESS HRC has committed against military members, her secret service detail, and countless other fellow politicians??? She's like a female Richard Nixon. And that metaphor applies in more ways than one.

Posted by: dionysus | Jan 31, 2008 10:09:36 AM

I guess Obama’s failure to notice the boarded up buildings and the African American people who spent 6 weeks without heat in a brutal Chicago winter in the slum buildings owned by Rezko was mitigated by the friendship he shared with his mentor Rezko. Shame he only remembers 5 hours of it.

Posted by: dkki | Jan 31, 2008 3:44:33 AM

Where you all when Hillary gave Obama the cold shoulder in the well of the Senate? Where were you all promoting party unity when she and her team -- Grunewald, Solis-Doyle, Penn et al -- called Obama "that uppity n*****" who thinks he can take her turn?

There is no assigned seating, Sen. Obama sits with Sen. Kennedy frequently -- including last year's SOTU. And "in the interest of party unity" is we ended up with the darn Clintons in the first place.

Posted by: Jade7243 | Jan 30, 2008 6:43:09 PM

Please explain where Bill or Hilary used Racial slurs??

Posted by: spock | Jan 30, 2008 3:35:19 PM

I think we should concentrate on winning in November and stop schooltime antics.

Posted by: Robert Benjamin | Jan 30, 2008 2:07:50 PM

Halperin should put his sources on record. Another photo of the 2nd "snub" shows that Obama is indeed focused in the opposite direction. He may not have "turned his back" as alleged, but was focused in the other direction. Clinton is playing coy with her language (definition of "is"). She did not say she reached her hand out "to Obama", but simply that she reached it out (visually suggested as to Kennedy post-endorsement). She hopes the voters will extrapolate that the first sentence applies to the second, but that is not what she said. Was it by design? Parsing words is part of the Clinton paradigm.

Posted by: Kevin | Jan 30, 2008 12:50:28 PM

Both candidates act like elementary school children and have no business running our country.

Posted by: gizmo | Jan 30, 2008 12:25:57 PM

This is elementary school...we have a couple of immature candidates that have no business running our country.

Posted by: gizmo | Jan 30, 2008 12:23:08 PM

How soon we forget. Earlier in the campaign a Clinton staffer said: "Can you quote me yawning?" It's a pretty applicable line here. If Clinton wants to relive her junior high school experience (middle schools didn't exist back then), fine. It makes most of us cringe, but the focus groups show it plays well with her base (women over 60).

Earth to spock: Stop embarrassing yourself by claiming to believe urban legends such as those about Obama and the Pledge of Allegiance. More importantly, stop spreading these lies. Do you really want people to wonder if ALL Clinton supporters are idiots?

Posted by: Tom J | Jan 30, 2008 11:59:11 AM

It was the two senators from Delaware that sat beside Senator Clinton at the SOTU. One which is Joe Biden!! It was Carper who went to Kennedy and suggested that it would be good if Senator Obama and Sentor clinton sat next to each other and was told that it was not necessary. I am so disappointed at how this race is going. Obama is not for real. Perfect example is that he would like people that with his excellent education he was unable to push the right button to vote and voted against the people's intrest five times really! Also who brought up race first? Look it up it was Michele Obama when she was discussing the win in Iowa and stated that the state did not even have any "black Folk". Hopefully now that it is just the two of them in the race we can get to just debating the issues. Thank You

Posted by: Elva | Jan 30, 2008 11:57:01 AM

It was the two senators from Delaware that sat beside Senator Clinton at the SOTU. One which is Joe Biden!! It was Carper who went to Kennedy and suggested that it would be good if Senator Obama and Sentor clinton sat next to each other and was told that it was not necessary. I am so disappointed at how this race is going. Obama is not for real. Perfect example is that he would like people that with his excellent education he was unable to push the right button to vote and voted against the people's intrest five times really! Also who brought up race first? Look it up it was Michele Obama when she was discussing the win in Iowa and stated that the state did not even have any "black Folk". Hopefully now that it is just the two of them in the race we can get to just debating the issues. Thank You

Posted by: Elva | Jan 30, 2008 11:55:26 AM

First of all, who the hell cares? This isn't news...

Secondly, even if it was an intentional snub, after the dishonest and somewhat racist campaign the Clintons have run against him, I certainly don't blame him.

Posted by: pico | Jan 30, 2008 11:36:23 AM

Snub? How about hillary's snub of the people of south carolina?

Posted by: Mike D | Jan 30, 2008 11:23:12 AM

National Enquirer TV......I guess ABC News/Good Morning America doesn't have any real news stories to show, other than what Hillary and Obama, may have done before/after the State of The Union ....I mean U.S. soldiers are being shot-at in Irag and Afganistan everday......get REAL ABC Inc. !!!!!!

Posted by: Ted Harris | Jan 30, 2008 10:37:27 AM

Interesting about Obama, He says he will bring unity to the Republicans and Democrats, but yet he is dividing the Democratic party. His true colors are showing at this time his agenda will destroy this country!!

Unless he means to bring the Republicans and Democrats together against him??

Reality Check Obama DOES NOT Respect our Country, Our Flag nor the office of the Presidency So why is he running?
He was the only member of Congress not to Stand, he does not respect the Pledge of Allegiance, he said he would not wear the Flag "because he does not believe in it"


By the way And trust I do not like Hilary nor Obama, But Hilary is right on this one it is called respect and Obama has none !! So why should he have our respect!!

Posted by: spock | Jan 30, 2008 10:23:47 AM

And this morning TIME's Mark Halperin reports on "the snub before 'the snub,'" that "(l)eading Democrats wanted rivals to sit together for the sake of party unity" and "Clinton was willing, but Obama chose to sit with newly-minted supporter Ted Kennedy."
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That really says it all don't you think about who's mature enough to lead.

Posted by: Hopesprings52 | Jan 30, 2008 10:16:48 AM

itis a HUGE deal and Obama backers kno wit. America does not know who he is and this gave people a ringside seat to the real Obama.

Posted by: geevill | Jan 30, 2008 10:10:27 AM

Please Hillary try to behave like a lady and we will reward you. Contrary to that, we are sorry we will not.

Posted by: Peace | Jan 30, 2008 10:02:49 AM

She's laying it on a little thick there, "I just wanted to be his friend, wah wah." Yeah, right, pull the other one.

Posted by: ahania | Jan 30, 2008 9:51:44 AM

Seeing that we're evidently back in Middle School:

In a chat with a Washington Post reporter, she noted that she personally saw with her own eyes Hillary Clinton deliberately turn her back on Obama twice. Evidently the Post ran a story about it on the front page when it occurred.

Posted by: geml | Jan 30, 2008 9:30:00 AM

I smell a "Lazio" style ambush coming up in the next debate. They did everything they could to try to make Obama out like Jessie Jackson, and people of color wouldn't stand for it. I only hope that the next states citizens can see the desperate Clinton machine, for what it really is. These people are ugly losers. And will go as low as necessary to get the power in which they so desire. They are disgusting. Is Hilliary gonna cry if Bin Laden doesn't return her phone calls? Will that kinda behavior act as a deterrent for those who would do us harm. Or would it show our weakness. This is a point that practical thinking voters must decide.

Posted by: wake up! | Jan 30, 2008 9:19:18 AM

The fact that we are talking about how one person allegedly does not want to sit with another and having a pity party about it makes me wonder, Would we be asking the same questions if Clinton were a man? I think not. This is an embarrassment for women worldwide. Period. I should know -- I AM ONE.

Posted by: Undecided Voter | Jan 30, 2008 9:18:00 AM

Seriously? Is Hiliary going to go on national TV and run national ads crying (literally) about how Obama "snubbed" her? Give me a break.

Posted by: Nate | Jan 30, 2008 9:02:58 AM

This is the archetypal example of what's known as "making a mountain out of a molehill," both on the part of the Clinton campaign (has she no shame?) and on the part of the media casting about for a story. I trust there's nothing else going on in the world that merits attention?

Posted by: chuck | Jan 30, 2008 9:00:31 AM

Obama is being petty...What's new?

Posted by: Jaz | Jan 30, 2008 8:59:36 AM

so what, he doesn't want to sit w/ her...is this elementary school with assigned seats. let's not start reading something into everything.

Posted by: soulkat | Jan 30, 2008 8:48:18 AM

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