The Hill: “Obama: ‘I bit my tongue’ against Clinton”
By NoQuarter on June 26, 2008 at 1:40 PM in Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, IOwnMyVote.com
Here’s the latest fall-out from last week’s heated meeting of the Congressional Black Caucus with Barack Obama, during which he said that Clinton’s female supporters need to “get over it” and support him. (See Pagan Power’s “Obama to Hillary Supporters: Get Over It!“)
Obama: ‘I bit my tongue’ against Clinton
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) said he bit his tongue “many times” during the fierce primary battle with Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.).
Two sources said that Obama’s comments came after Rep. Diane Watson (D-Calif.), a Clinton backer, told the Illinois senator that the Democratic Party needs time to heal.
“I bit my tongue many times. Many times. I bit my tongue many times during this campaign,” Obama told his colleagues in the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC) last week during a private meeting. He repeated the “I bit my tongue” phrase three times during the meeting, the sources said.
Never mind that the media gave Obama a pass for his sexist remarks and for playing the race card while incessantly scrutinizing everything that Bill and Hillary Clinton said.
Never mind that Obama’s enablers — including Howard Dean, Nancy Pelosi, James Clyburn, and Jesse Jackson, Jr. — ignored the sexist remarks against Hillary Clinton until after the primary season ended, but cried “foul” at every imagined (and mostly imaginary) racial slight.
Never mind that Obama’s thuggish supporters constantly harassed, intimidated and threatened pro-Hillary bloggers with impunity — and with the tacit approval of the Obama campaign.
Never mind that millions of Americans are deeply concerned by Obama’s longtime intimate associations with radical racists like Revs. Jeremiah Wright and James Meeks, Father Michael Pfleger, and unrepentant terrorist William Ayers — but that ABC News’s George Stephanopoulos is widely excorciated for questioning Obama about these relationships, for the first time, in a debate.
Never mind that, after his disastrous performance in that ABC debate, Barack Obama refused to debate Hillary Clinton again, but was given a pass by the media for chickening out on facing Clinton, a far more able and formidable debater.
Never mind that Howard Dean and the DNC gamed the primary so that Obama would be handed the nomination, no matter that Dean and Obama disenfranchised millions of Michigan and Florida voters, and manipulated the Rules and Bylaws Committee to give Obama four of Hillary’s delegates as well as more delegates who did not vote for Obama.
Never mind that … YOU ADD TO THE LIST.
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Here’s what Bud White wrote in a pithy, angry post on June 1, 2008:
Why are we angry? Here’s 10 reasons:
1. Blatant sexism
2. Race-baiting as a political tool
3. Vote stealing. Literally taking away delegates from Hillary in Michigan (worse than FL in ‘00)
4. The less qualified man getting preference over the more qualified woman.
5. Obama’s membership in a hate cult and his convenient break with Trinity
6. The media’s unrelenting bias against Hillary
7. Dr. Dean’s malpractice in managing this primary race (the 50 state joke)
8. The other candidate attacks Hillary’s health care plan from the Right
9. Smearing our most progressive president since LBJ
10. Suggesting that Hillary’s supporters are bitter, gun-owning “Archie Bunkers”
If you do nothing else today, sign the pledge at I Own My Vote.
Never mind him getting my vote.
Its going to McCain.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Thanks to Obama I am a McCain supporter unless Hillary gets the nomination. We don’t even know if Obama is legally allowed to hold the office of president since there remain questions about his birth certificate. Hillary can say whatever she wants and I will vote for whomever I want and it will never be Obama.
Hillary has to say this — she has to be able to be in a position that when Obama implodes before the convention she will be able to step in & be the nominee without alienating the Obama supporters. I just hope the implosion comes in time — cause I bet my life it is coming — the only question is before the convention or after.
I to, am now a McCain supporter, thanks to this mess. I have never voted republican ever!
http://nocache.homestead.com/nativeamericansagainstobama/index.html
i’m with you ……i am a life long dem but enough is enough!!
IF ANYONE HAD TO BITE THEIR TONGUE IT WAS HILLARY….AND THIS OF COURSE WAS THE
STRATEGY..NO ONE COULD SAY ANYHNG NEGATIVE
WITHOUT THE FEAR OF BEING CALLED RACIST. IT
WAS A MUZZLED PIMARY AND THAT WAS DELIBERATE!
Irish Reparation Theology
UKDems, you and the rest of the oppressors in the UK owe me and every American of Irish descent, billions, no make that trillions of pounds, for centuries of repression, stolen lands, starvation, slavery.
Now Sean and Seamus will be by to collect your share.
Be a good little limey and have cash on hand.
LOL!
farging barstich owes me money
in fact he owes the Kennedys, and the Kerrys
Oh yeah like Kennedy’s and Kerry really need the money. Ridiculous!
Thank you Kevin. I would like to add the same to your post on behalf of Scotland. Genocide after Culloden, anyone? William & Lesley Sinclair will represent our family.
Do I hear from Wales?
Now all I need is for Cardinal Sean O’Malley to start preaching it every sunday.
no justice
no peace
I’m gonna start me a movement.
yeah
I’ve got the Irish and Scots plus Wales — and don’t forget the Native Americans– Trail of Tears!!!
And then way way back Jews from Spain who were forced to convert and become Christians.
Most than likely we ALL have ancestors who were slaves or were forced from their homes.
hey, I could make out really good, i’m Irish, my wife has cherokee blood, plus she was adopted by armenians (which makes her a legitimate candidate under my WORLDWIDE REPARARATIONS THEOLOGY)where everyone is a victim and we’ll spend the rest of our lives figuring out who is owed how much by whom.
Now that’s entitlement for ya!
Amen! We want reparations for Culloden. Where do we sign up?
Could I please have a trillion or so for my Scotch Irish ancestors who fought to free the slaves in the Civil War? Thanks in advance.
My ggggg grandfather was sent to America as an indentured servant. I want to be reinbursed for all of his pain and suffering.
hehe, I would pay an Irishman reparations well before Blacks, at least you can enjoy a pint with an Irishman without having to walk on eggshells wondering when the RaceCard is gonna get pulled.
But wait? Aren’t the NativeAmericans first in line? Funny how they’re not whinny 24/7 isn’t?
are you kidding?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Uylejk0Ke4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVuASxJKH88
lmao….right on !
Thank you for this little blurb. I have sent it far and wide to my Dem friends, if I still have any left.
Love Hillary, but as an independent thinker, my vote goes to McCain!
“Democrats for McCain”
Just get up off of it. Hillary has to either say this stuff or be booted out of the Democratic Party now that it’s turn into the Comintern. And, really, when are you Obama people going to get through your heads that liberals are not sheeple who can be BAMBOOZLED and OKEY DOKIED into doing what the Party wants.
If you like Obama–vote for him. Just shut up and vote for him and stop trying to muscle other people around. I think Barack Obama is a corrupt Chicago pol who cares only about his own enrichment. I will not vote for such a man. He’s worse than Dubya. At least George W. Bush was already a multi-millionaire. He didn’t corrupt his party for profit. Its Barack Obama who’s four more years of the same–or worse–so if you’re voting for him, I don’t need a lecture from a knucklehead.
Could not have said it better. I will vote McCain as well. Obama is a self- serving bastard.
I’m totally with you.
The Obamabots are really getting on my nerves - trying to tell adults how to vote.
My vote goes to John McCain in November.
And that’s not to change unless Hillary gets the nomination or another candidate with about the same amount of experience and an agenda similar to Hillary’s enters the Presidential race.
You are persistent. I’ll give you that. I’m sorry that No Quarter is the assignment you’ve been given. It must be hard making zero progress. Honestly, your wasting your time. Now, if Hillary is on the ticket, then you might get an ear or two.
Those of us who supported Hill aren’t blind servants that knuckle under whenever the master speaks, like the Obamabots. We think for ourselves, and what is best for our families, communities and country. And we will vote accordingly.
She’s entitled to her opinion, as am I.
” ..every issue you care about personally,.. every issue your constituents care about and every issue NALEO is fighting for is really at risk. We cannot afford four more years of the same. It wouldn’t be good for us. We have to chart a new course and we cannot do that without electing Senator Obama our next president.”
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Excuse me while I go and throw up. FOUR YEARS OF McCAIN WILL BE BETTER THAN 4 YEARS WITH THAT PHONY, EMPTY SUIT OBAMA. I can’t remember when I’ve read a more disgusting and untruthful statement. Am FINISHED WITH THE DEMOCRATS.
Even if I saw Obama that way, I’d still have to disagree.
If Obama turned out to be nothing more than a empty suit, beholden to the democrats who got him elected, he’d still be democrat in the White House, to be used to facilitate change along democratic policy lines.
I’m not sure we can survive 4 more years of republican control. There’s simply no significant difference between McCain policy and Bush policy. All proposed changes are purely superficial and cosmetic.
Why should any reasonable person believe that with McCain in the White House all current negative trends wouldn’t continue?
Project that out for the next 4 years and imagine where we’d be.
If we don’t significantly change what we’re doing, why should we expect to get different results?
A Republican president with a Democratic majority in both house and Senate will be deeply disadvantaged. McCain is not GWB. Once elected I think you will find that McCain’s history of working across the aisle will emerge. McCain has a chance to rebuild a Republican party and new Republican majority. I regret to say that the Democratic majority has demonstrated it is not only incapable of standing up to GWB, it is more of the same.
don’t waste time trying to alter the PUMA way of thinking. it is not worth it. they are bitter, bitter whiners and will never change. they would rather cut off their noses to spite their faces just b/c Hill lost.
And yet YOU hang out around here for some inexplicable reasons.
Why don’t you take you slobo butt back to any of the thousands of “Praise Our Lord Obama” sites and stay there?
Really, what does it say about you that you’d rather hang around a bunch of “bitter, bitter whiners” who “would rather cut off their noses to spite their faces”? Presumably, you should be here trying to give those people reasons why they should support Obama but, no, you’d rather insult them (which is, incidentally, a very good way of ensuring that their hearts harden even more against you candidate of choice).
Oh, and one other bit: HILLARY DIDN’T LOSE. Baracky STOLE the nomination (with the willing aid and abettance of the DNC).
And which other presidential candidate in the past decade stole elections? Hmm, another completely unsuited (and thoroughly untested) man, by the name of George W Bush.
I like the hate and conflict here so I visit every so often. As far trying to persuade you, I won’t attempt to do so because there is no way that would happen. You’re already so hateful towards Obama that it wouldn’t do any good. Only if you release your anger and hate can you see reason and that ain’t happening anytime soon.
Lastly, I read stuff here that is just insane. Some folks sound like the repubs who spouted crazy Clinton conspiracy theories during the 90s. And Obama did not steal the primary contest. He won fair and square.
Hillary did NOT lose. It was stolen from her by the DNC.
And this is the main reason we will NOT vote for Obama.
Another very important one is…
We don’t want a racist, race baiting, anti american liar in the white house.
PUMA
The only reason you hate him is b/c he is black just like most “ex dem” are hating him.
In reality you just can’t stand the fact the a non-white will be in power in America. Your kind like to kill & rape non-white & jews just like your fore-father.
It’s true apple doesn’t fall far free tree neither do white people.
With respect to Sen. Clinton’s words, I cannot vote for Sen. Obama. He has no history of accomplishment that would lead me to believe that he would be able to forward our cause. He does not seem to know from day to day where he stands on an issue. Sad.
Said like a true Hillary supporter
We will NEVER relinquish our free will
Our free will to make our own decision
Our free will to make OUR choice
We follow Hillary because we are all impermiable to the cult of personality that continues to affect so many KoolAide drinker.
We do not follow anyone blindly like sheep and mental midgets
So “UKforDems” gives a shit what Hillary says only when it praises his god, Obama? What a surprise.
“We have serious problems to solve, and we need serious people to solve them. And whatever your particular problem is, I promise you, Barack Obama is not the least bit interested in solving it. He is interested in two things and two things only: making you afraid of it and telling you who’s to blame for it. That, ladies and gentlemen, is how you win elections.”
Andrew Shepard
“The American President”(1995)
PUMAS, take the pledge at:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/pledge-to-vote-against-obama-in-the-general-election
kcfrmtx - If Hillary has the glass ceiling then Obama has a glass jaw. I just wonder what Obama would have done to Hillary if he hadn’t bitten his tongue. I know he said at one debate that he would not kneecap her. I’m sure she was relieved. This man is not ready for prime time.
What a moron.
Bush is smarter than this guy—and has more class.
THAT is a low bar indeed
He must have bit his tongue alot during those 20 years at church.
Maybe that is why it’s forked.
LOL
Okay now that’s a pretty perfect comment.
AGREED!
Perfect for coming out of both sides of his mouth at the same time!
Comment of the day!
Hahahahaha!!!
LMAO Touche’!!!!
Exactly!!
Harp — Obama didn’t have to bite his tongue when Wright was speaking. Wright expressed the anger that Obama feels all the time. This is why he has so many friends who hate America because they speak for him. Only Pelosi thinks its good that Obama went to church. Obama has more enablers then we have soldiers in Iraq.
That is pretty much the perfect list. Exactly why I can not support Obama or the democratic party anymore! PUMA!!
I guess all that tongue biting is why BO was unable to debate Senator Clinton after the one on ABC.
Obama = 3rd Bush term!
Hillary or Jmac!
I wish he could keep biting his tongue so as to stop the policy switches.
http://www.obama-wire.com
The man is scum. He enjoyed every misogynist minute of it. He’s a sadistical bastard and he attracts sadistical followers.
make that sadistic.
Oh hell, I just think he’s the worst thing that has ever happened to this country. He has set race and gender relations back 30 years and he’s ENJOYING it. Sick sick sick bastard.
that’s ok,
makes you sound presidentical
Barack Hussain Obama is a lying, anti american, bigot, race baiter who is not qualified for the presidency.
What the hell, people don’t even know for sure when or where he was born. He has a phoney
birth certificate on his website.
But don`t pick on Michelle or I will get very upset.
Yeah, Obama’s campaign thought it was quite OK to “hate on” Bill Clinton, and imply that everything that came out of his mouth about Obama was “racist,” but questioning some of the junk that Michelle says, well now, that’s just off limits, ya’ll…
And now Obama’s even forewarning MC CAIN that if he or his campaign utters one word against Obama, they’ll be deemed “racist.” (”They’ll try to make you fear me…. and did I say he’s black?”)
The unmitigated gall… Does he think we’re all morons? My God, HOW CAN PEOPLE SUPPORT THIS JERK???!!!
PUMAS– take the pledge:
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/pledge-to-vote-against-obama-in-the-general-election
I predict that at least 175 million people end up seeing/hearing Ms. Obama star in an ad about how proud she is. That and a few seconds of a preacher or two. LOL !!!!
Hillary or McCain 08!!!!!!!!!
He is a sadistic passive aggressive bastard and he attracts sadistic thugs who do his dirty work!
You all should have seen the Obama thugs in the caucus — they were shaking in rage when talking about the evil Hillary Clinton. Ironically EVERYTHING that they claimed she did or was doing — Obama has done. Obama is the one tied to CORPORATE apron strings.
I doubt very much if Obama’s sadistic thugs to this DAY can tell us exactly what Obama will actually do and what Obama really really believes in. Not one thug at the caucus could speak for ONE minute and give us a list of Obama’s positions!! Not a single thing.
Obama stands for nothing — except to become powerful and DO WHAT?
See this is what we don’t know and why Obama will never have our votes. We do NOT know what Obama’s core beliefs are.
We KNOW Hillary and we KNOW McCain — we vote for the KNOWN — not the UNKNOWN.
No I like sadistical it is a hybrid which Obama followers were are: sadistic and in the end just plain statistics.
Must be tough for you guys cheering on an old, tired candidate like McCain, especially now that he is getting crushed in the polls. Looking at the posts on this site, you’d think there was some kind of Hillary supporter revolt going on, but in the real world Obama gets more support from Dems than McCain gets from Repubs. The “PUMAs” make a lot of noise on one or two sites, but the majority of the country has moved on. Can’t wait for the Hillary/ Brack event tomorrow!:D
You need to learn to read!
http://www.gallup.com/poll/108376/Gallup-Daily-Obama-McCain-Tied-45.aspx
Why are paid gaza strip trolls so illiterate?
LOL - my point exactly! All you can do is point to one poll where McCain isn’t even ahead, he’s tied! Maybe you can show me a single recent national poll where McCain is leading…? Reality check: You need to be leading in the polls in order to win.
Of course it’s the electoral vote that matters…
Electoral-Vote.com:
Obama 317 McCain 194 Ties 27
RCP:
Barack Obama 317 John McCain 221
That’s a landslide, folks. Say hello to President Obama:D
Obama bited his tongue alright: he’s a coward.
Someone should ask him why did he bite his tongue while his minions, the DNC and the media made repeated sexist comments; why he bited his tongue when Plfeger mocked HRC, why did he bite his tongue with Wright, why did he bite his tongue when they acused the Clintons (for G’s sake!!) of being racist, etc etc etc.
Who does he think he is? What a moron….
Who cares? Why are you guys so obsessed with Obama’s personal life and people at his church? It’s funny, even the people against Obama are obsessed with him…
Obama is a moron and morons have no place the US White House. By this Fall the rest of the American voting people will know exactly who this guy really is: Vote NO Obama will be Nov.’s message.
Ah, and your last sentence makes no logical sense…Wow what’s your IQ?
AOL Straw Poll (So far this week)
McCain 61% (190,912 votes) Obama 39% (121,387 votes)
http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2008/06/20/aol-straw-poll-june-20-27/
An online straw poll?? That’s all you can come up with? HAHAHAHA
Um, sorry, but you do know that Ron Paul dominated online polls during his candidacy. I think Kucinich was even ahead in one.
Again, show me a single national poll where McCain is leading…there isn’t one.
The only poll that matters to me is the polling place where I will cast my vote for McCain if Hillary is not the nominee. And we don’t even know if Obama can legally hold the office of president since there are questions about his birth certificate.
Right, but we’re talking about who is gonna WIN. Makes no difference if you want to throw your vote away since there are not enough of you guys (whether you are “PUMAs” or Repubs) to win it for old man McCain.
And the birth certificate thing…if that’s what you’re resting your hopes on, good luck!
See there, that’s the real problem with the ardent nObama supporters. You only want to WIN. You have no understanding of the candidate you have chosen, you can’t even name an accomplishment the man has done while in office, and even he does not know where he stands on the issues as he keeps changing his mind.
This isn’t a football game, sweetie. It’s the most important job in the world, and having no experience will bury your candidate come November. You can count on the polls the media is feeding us all the way until then. Just like Dukakis and Kerry did.
Good luck with that.
PUMA
As I said up thread —
We vote for the KNOWN — Hillary and McCain — we KNOW Clinton and McCain.
We do NOT know Obama — therefore he ill never have our vote — nor the majority of votes.
Obama can NOT win — because Americans vote for people they know.
Obama’s associates are racists, crooks, traitors and con men.
Because Obama has shifted his position on every issue — we do NOT know his core values.
It’s just as valid as any poll you’re quoting, because the truth is—none of them matter. Only the votes on election day matter.
Gallup daily tracking has BO and McC tied. No June bump for BO. Hell, even Dukakis had a big lead over Bush the Father at this point. With a sitting Republican President as unpopular as GW, why in God’s name is the Republican nom tied with the Dem? I’ll tell you why…because this is a VERY weak nominee. THAT’S why he had to be carried across the finish line by the Washington elite….he is weak.
And Patriot Games ‘08 have not yet begun.
Yeah - and I guess that’s probably why you believed that Obama was going to beat Hillary in NH, MA, CA, OH, PA, and other states that Hillary eventually won big during the primaries.
Because THE POLLS told you so.
Now you think that those same inaccurate polls are going to predict an Obama presidency.
Hahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!
You’re such a sucker.
Gallup Daily: Obama, McCain Still Tied, Now at 44%
The best you can point to is a McCain tie. So sad.
It beats trying to pimp that Newsweek “Poll” that polled mostly Democrats.
You people are true scum.
RCP: Obama 317 McCain 221
The truth hurts, huh? Your guy is gonna get crushed, and no amount of trashing me or Obama will save him, Uppity. Sorry:D
You know, NoMcCain, Dukakis & Kerry were way ahead at this point in their respective elections, too. Polls are meaningless at this point. But, if they make you feel happy, then go right ahead and delude yourself….”don’t worry, be happy…”
Whether or not you realize it, the tide has turned AGAINST Obama. The bloom is off the rose, and people are beginning to focus on his faults. By the Dem convention, very little excitement will be left for BO. And, in October, the big 527 guns will come out against him, and there will be nothing he can do. The Rep party has much much more money than the Dem party, since many Clinton supporters have left the party now, and will never donate to either BO or the party.
So, the most important poll is what the headline says on November 5: MC CAIN WINS!
I love it. Nothing to back you up so the only thing you can come up with is “the polls don’t matter.” Has it occurred to you that McCain is an old, tired candidate who lacks charisma and that he might actually lose ground as this thing goes on? His numbers were higher before the pathetic green backdrop speech and it’s only been downhill from there.
Saw an AP report about how Clinton supporters are “overwhelmingly” supporting BO. What the AP calls “huge” is just over 50%. What they don’t get into is the 24% that are voting for McCain. That extrapolates into 4,300,000 votes. That’s HUGE. That doesn’t count independants or republicans and given the last two elections, the difference. And seeing as though the last two wingnuts the DNC had running had huge leads up to the convention and went down quickly. And the 527s haven’t got their stuff going.
yet
Thanks for providing the numbers Kevin. It amazes me how in the tank the media is. Sure wish they would do their real jobs and save kissing a** for someone else.
quite welcome
the troll formerly known as democrat obviously took stats as a pass/fail at his local community college
If the Obamabots were smart enough to read and comprehend they would not be supporting Obama.
Are you still upset because Barbie dumped Ken for GI Joe ?
Who’s Barbie? Clinton? Um, she’s campaigning with him tomorrow.