Bill Clinton Lays Out Clear Message for Delegates!
By Matthew Weaver on August 27, 2008 at 12:51 AM in Current Affairs
“Suppose you’re a voter, and you’ve got candidate X and candidate Y. Candidate X agrees with you on everything, but you don’t think that candidate can deliver on anything at all. Candidate Y you agree with on about half the issues, but he can deliver. Which candidate are you going to vote for?”—Bill Clinton.
Of course, Bill added, “This has nothing to do with what’s going on now.”
Clinton is clearly suggesting that the party and delegates are making the wrong choice in coronating Obama this week. Obama and company can scream all they want, but as the only successful two-term Democratic president in recent memory, Clinton can and needs to say anything he wants. The truth hurts but the Dear Leader, his cult following, and delegates should listen carefully and not dismiss Clinton’s hypothetical question out of hand. (I suspect Bill will be the next voice for an upcoming McCain ad, maybe just hours before Obama’s nominating vote!)
It is refreshing to see that Bill has not given up on Hillary yet. Also, this has to give Obama serious heartburn as he contemplates Bill at the microphone tomorrow.
See Sam Youngman’s “Bill Clinton in Denver again undercuts Obama” (at The Hill) for discussion of Bill’s talk today with foreign dignitaries in Denver.
I love the Big Dawg, best president ever. I got the message. Stand up for what you believe in.
I believe I will never vote for Obama. And I’ll stand up anytime and repeat that belief.
Hillary 2012
And who wouldn’t love a Bill do over. My bank accounts would love it!!
Yep. Me, too!
He’s making sure that Hillary has a nice fall, and isn’t forced to work, day in and day out, trying to propel a loser to a respectable showing.
2012. It’s only four years away…I can wait.
I am with you on that I can wait four years for Hillary.
President Clinton, with all due respect I LOVE YOU! Keep saying what you believe in Sir that is what this great country is about, not the freak show called obama.
McCain 08
HILLARY 2012!!!!!!!
MORE ON CANDIDATE X:
Let’s see…Candidate X agrees with you on everything, except when he flip-flops and suddenly disagrees with you on everything.
Candidate X and his followers called you and everyone you love racists. They called your wife and your mother c*nts. They spread lies and misogynistic slander against your candidate. They blatantly rigged the primaries, then told you to get over it (known in politics as “twisting the knife”).
Candidate X stammers like a child and displays distinct delusional and sociopathic tendencies. He plagiarizes. He flip-flops like a turbine engine. He’s tight with a Syrian political fixer in Chicago. He lies about his past. He has surrounded himself with neocon advisers.
He cannot control his Brownshirt fans. His records are missing. Everything he has ever done betrays the most execrable judgment. His wife uses psychotic imagery on former Democratic Presidents.
Under these circumstances, Candidate Y will have to do.
Perry…….an extraordinary post.
Per a commentator’s comment on “Morning Joe” this a.m.: post Candidate X’s presumptive Primary win, Candidate “Y” called Candidate “X’s” wife multiple times; however, all Candidate “Y’s” calls were unrequited! If this is true, it is unconscionable: inconceivably offensive.
Suppose you’re a voter, and you’ve got candidate X and candidate Y. Candidate X agrees with you on everything, but you don’t think that candidate can deliver on anything at all. Candidate Y you agree with on about half the issues, but he can deliver. Which candidate are you going to vote for?”—Bill Clinton.
I think it’s a fair question.
I love the Billmeister! He is frickin’ awesome!
i used to respect him, but no more. why is he such a douchebag?
Child, he is the only two-term Democrat in the last forty years. He carries considerable prestige and charm.
Well, no one CARES what you think, Skippy. So it really doesn’t matter.
Trolls have r-e-s-p-e-c-t???? LMAO!!!!
Put the HOPE bong down troll so you can see the sinking ship you are in…Oba-Titanic!!
The trolls were still watching Barney when Bill was president.
I can’t stand BO, so could you stop equating bong smokers to that lying sack of shit, PLS!!!!!
I agree. Frankly, I think if they picked up a bong it might clear the kool-aid fog.
Nobama!!
The problem is with what they are putting in the bong. They are smoking HOPIUM.
HOPIUM is no grown in the lovely vocanic mountains of Hawaii or in California Splendor.
Hopium is grown from 100% pure BULLSHIT right out of the ass of AXELCRAP.
Obama himself is one huge pile of AXELCRAP, brought to life in a horrible WMD Biological weapons experiment.
Unleashing this huge pile of BULLSHIT lifeform on the unsuspecting innocents is the worst incident of domestic terrorism in the history of Man.
ditto, my bongs in the shop for repairs, cant stand watching the annointed one with it, its pure hell without itlol
If only Obama had the courtesy to show some respect and behaved himself President Clinton didn’t have to say what he said.
Braniac,
If your master would have given a call to Hillary to thank her after she suspended her campaign, and next day he would have made a public announcement of the same, thanking Hillary for her heroic fight, her accomplishments and making a graceful but quick exit, these blogs wouldn’t be here. You wouldn’t earn your minimum wage by harrassing us.
It would have taken just that little. There wouldn’t be a war with the uniter.
Also if he would have heard her speech instead of playing golf.
If you are supporting Bob Barr, I have no respect for you. Do you know, for example, Barr was one of the Republicans leading the charge to impeach Pres. Clinton on the basis of his lie about his relationship with Monica? And do you know Barr had to resign shortly after because he was having an affair, paid for an abortion for his girlfriend, divorced his wife and married his girlfriend? If you want to vote Libertarian, you would be better off voting for Ron Paul. I believe he is still on the ballot in some states. At least he is an honorable man. Barr is a hypocritical liar.
Barr is old repug crap and ugly too.
Bushbots=Obamabots They all SUCK.
NOBAMA EVER!
Barr as Libertarian is the biggest joke ever.
When he was in Congress he was a red meat conservative, supporting the extreme right social agenda. He may be libertarian as far as taxes go, but that’s about it.
And he has all the charm of a rattlesnake in the coiled position.
FUCK YOU, you don’t deserve to live on the same planet as Bill Clinton. Candidate Y is my choice because candidate X and his surrogates and followers are ASSHOLES!
Because he is a TRUE American Patriot. He loves our country and its people and most importantly, he has NEVER been afraid to speak the truth!
Fu%k obama’ elect John McCain and wait for 2012 when we can vote Hillary in to the White House!
President Clinton has done more than any other politicians for the AAs and yet Obama and his people called him a racist.
Obama and his surrogates/supporters are doing a lot of disservice to the AAs by calling anybody who doesn’t support him a racist. I always supported Afirmative Action but now I don’t because of them. I’m fed up with their arrogance and ignorance.
wow. now who’s dividing the party?
i think we all know who the real douchbag is…
Let me guess…His initials are BO….
Obama gets the nomination but loses the general. Uses remaining campaign funds to buy land in Guyana for his most ardent believers. New commune rumored to be called Obamaville…
No, he is retiring from his ummm - slight cough “public service” to become an argula farmer back in Illinois.
Farmer.
Farming implies work.
Arugula is the new ‘green’ envio-friendly toilet paper. Right..?
nah, he’ll just move to one of the other countries he has citizenship in and run for office. Maybe Odinga will let him be vp.
Before this is over, he will be rolled in tar and feathers and driven out of the village. Just watch. It is not over yet.
Well I do remember a few months ago there was a rumor that Jim Jones might become his VP!
he does see dead people and register them, you may be on to something
yeah slick willy. screw his legacy
It’s past your bedtime troll!!!
At least he has one jerk.
Barr is a hypocrit with his own affair and his wife had an abortion also. Another repug PIG like Newt.
Bushbots=Barrbots=Obamabots They all SUCK.
I loved Big Dawg’s comment. I supposed he could have been more direct and said — candidate O and candidate M
LOL!
I thought it was pretty funny, too, and the beauty of the comment for me was this:
pre-convention Y = Hillary
post convention Y = McCain
The Truth is Out about OBAMA, Thats Why…how Can you reespect Him any more…??
Bill is terrific, I thought this was so funny.
It is time for Obama to step up and throw away his crutches,like blaming everyone else for his failures.
Rather, obama/soetoro should step down now.
He will never accept personal responsibility. Ever. That is why Hillary needs to stay clear of him.
We’ll take in from here Big Dawg!!!
The comment by Begala in that article that Clinton is “totally for Barack” doesn’t ring true. There wasn’t one word of praise for Obama in Hillary’s speech tonight. Not one kind word. That’s a big hint, folks.
I agree…totally for Barack could mean a lot of things like….totally for Barack stepping down and dragging his sorry behind back to Chicago…or totally for Barack admitting he is an unqualified empty suit and apologizing to the country for lying and cheating his way through the caucuses….
Don’t you think the Clintons know that the guy is going to be so exposed for his nefarious associations that to praise him would taint them? Anyone who is behind this guy is going to be out of a job by the end of this campaign.
oh i get it, Bill is such an honorable man now, even though he screwed around on Hillary, and is linked to numerous scandals… this is rich.
it’s his brazen arrogance. he’s so afraid that he won’t be the “first black president” any more, that he no problem throwing us under the bus (”Jesse Jackson won South Carolina”) for his wife. no thank you.
Jesse Jackson did win south carolina. Twice idiot. Bill was trying to put in perspective what the media was obviously overblowing, but I guess that makes him racist you stupid obot.
See, Beverly, the thing is–
No one would have known Obama was AA if Clinton hadn’t spilled the beans in SC by pointing out that Jesse Jackson had won SC twice. OMFG!!!!!!!!!!!!! I mean, that’s sooo, like, racist!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Obama
Larry Sinclair.
What a LOSER. Leave the dorm. Go get a beer dude.
You are quite dense.
Your master had a great chance. Lose graciously to Hillary, become VP, put some distance between him and his past, gain some experience. In 8 years the WH would be open for him after a successful two term of Hillary. In the beginning I thought it will happen. Of course this was before the race card was pulled from the bottom of the deck.
His past now is catching up. The Ayer files are now in republican hands. This is only the first installment. Some 900 files?
You see, petty, vengeful people are not politicians. They are thugs (or Chicago politicians).
“Linked to” numerous scandals? You mean the ones they spent $50M and several years investigating just to come up empty? Or were you thinking about how he killed Vincent Foster?
The repugbots will be swarming here now. Why??
Everyone already knows Obama will lose.
Rep. Lewis on PBS Newshour: Jan, 2008
REP. JOHN LEWIS (D), Georgia: Judy, I knew Martin Luther King, Jr. I marched with him. I worked with him. He played a major role in inspiring people, giving people hope.
I also knew Lyndon Johnson. I was there with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on March 15, 1965, when we watched Lyndon Johnson deliver his speech in response to what was happening in Selma, when he said, “And we shall overcome.”
I looked at Dr. King. He looked at me, and tears came down his eyes. And he said, “We will get the civil rights bill, the voting rights bill passed. We will march from Selma to Montgomery.”
I think there’s been a deliberate, systematic attempt on the part of some people in the Obama camp to really fan the flame of race and really try to distort what Senator Clinton said. I understand and I think most right-thinking people understood what she said.
Martin Luther King, Jr., created the climate, created the environment, but it took a Lyndon Johnson to get the legislation through the Congress.
No one is trying to say Dr. King did little. He did a great deal. He is not crying out from his grave in Atlanta saying, “Defend me.” His legacy doesn’t need any defense.
Elise:
Thank you for reminding me that Rep. John Lewis is a great friend of Hillary, and an eloquent associate of Dr. King. He was threatened by the O-Bots, and by Jesse, Jr. for his support of Hillary. One of my favorite quotes from Rep. Lewis had been taped to my computer monitor for years, but the ink has faded, so I’ll try to recite the quote from memory, “We may have come to this country in different ships, but we’re all in the same boat now.”
If Hillary has forgiven Bill for his transgressions, it’s none of your fucking business what he did in his personal life. The only person who has a right to pass judgment on him is his wife and she has moved on….Einstein. Get over it.
Just wait until the McCain campaign exposes your messiah. Get your meds ready because he will be exposed. I am looking forward to seeing all the exploding Obot heads….It will be very gratifying to watch. You’ll get yours.
Karma’s a bitch.
“Obama and company can scream all they want, but as the only successful two-term Democratic president in recent memory, Clinton can and needs to say anything he wants.”
It’s precisely this lack of control that prevented Obama from picking Hillary as his VP.
Good thing he didn’t pick her because now we and the media can talk about how stupid it was he didn’t. Not that any of us wanted her to be second fiddle to his stupid ass.
No, that’s just the excuse BO uses.
He didn’t pick Hillary because she’s much smarter and would steal his thunder. Also, he and Hillary both know he cheated. Guilty people can’t even stand to be in the same room as the person they cheated. The guilt cramps their style (not that BO has any)!
I think it’s simply because he’s a petty & stubborn man. And too arrogant to think he could possibly lose.
That may have been a plan they both made. Her career would be at an end forever when he is brought down for his connections.
One of my friends (male) angry that Hill wouldn’t step down after Iowa for Godsake wanted to know “What does that woman want?” My answer: “She wants to be President of the United States.” And that, my friends, is the truth. She never wanted to be VP and needed a way to see that she didn’t have to turn it down. This may have been the purpose of the Feinstein house meeting…to let him know. We didn’t want it offered either.
If that’s not sexism I don’t know what is.
so why bring up Jesse Jackson specifically? naw! couldn’t be because he’s black.
Let’s bring up what his son, Junior, said after Hillary’s Iowa loss.
“The natural reminder here is O.J. [Simpson] — how does an African American candidate attack a white woman?”
Did Junior say this because Hillary is white and female?
(Junior is Obama’s National Champaign Co-Chair and Obama never denounced the statement made to the Washington Post.)
Jessee Junior is a PIG and Racist of the worse kind. Is he married? Cause he sure looks like a low down player?
Prissy wuss Racist! Oh that’s like Obama..And Ayers…connect the
penisdots.roseeriter:
Yes, Jesse Jetstream, Jr. is married, and his wife (Sherri, I believe is her name) recently won a position of Alderman in the City of Chicago. If Barackula loses, Illinois and Chicago politics may become real spectator sports as Jesse, Jr. seems bored with the House of Representatives, and he, his wife, Barack and Michelle may all return to jockey for positions in Chicago and the State of Illinois. If Illinois Governor Blagjevich avoids indictment, conviction or a new effort to pass impeachment legislation, the governor’s race will have a very crowded primary, and Mayor Daley should also expect some real opposition, for a change.
To bring up the fact that most African-Americans in South Carolina that voted for Obama were racists. And indeed they were, they voted for BO only because of his skin color. We remember all the race-baiting tactics that Obama used straight out of Malcolm X’s book.
Face it, Obama’s African-American supporters are mostly racist, like Rev Jeremiah “GD AmeriKKKa” Wright.
Because most of Obama’s African-American supporters are racists. What, you don’t think minorities can be racists too?
Ask Obama’s Illinois political mentor, Illinois Senate President Emil Jones (the guy who put Obama’s name on many bills in the state senate just to boost Obama’s superthin resume even though Obama did not do a single thing in crafting many of those bills) who called one of Hillary’s female African-American delegates an “Uncle Tom”. That is really insulting and racist.
Obama’s AA supporters cannot see beyond race and skin color. How racist.
No one would have known Obama was AA if Clinton hadn’t spilled the beans in SC by pointing out that Jesse Jackson had won SC twice. OMFG!!!!!!!!!!!!! I mean, that’s sooo, like, racist!!!!!!!!!!!!!
/snark
and silence fills the air.
Read my comment above.
Ya! That one was odd now wasnt it! Snark needs a little more Koolaid this AM. Hes off his game.
Also, this has to give Obama serious heartburn as he contemplates Bill at the microphone tomorrow.
You don’t Hillary’s gonna have a little agita, too? Put yourself in the Hall of Mirrors inside Bill’s brain… He could sabotage Obama and Hillary with his passive-aggressive doubletalk tomorrow night.
And then go celebrate with a cigar and a friend.
GALLUP POLL - ELECTION NEWS
Hillary’s Stock Still High Among Democrats
August 26, 2008
Hillary Clinton remains a highly popular figure among Democrats, with an 80% favorable rating. Three in four Democrats would like to see her run for president again and be a major-party spokesperson over the next four years.
Gallup Daily: No Bounce for Obama in Post-Biden Tracking
August 26, 2008
Gallup Poll Daily tracking interviewing from Saturday, Sunday, and Monday indicates that Barack Obama has received no bounce in voter support from his selection of Sen. Joe Biden to be his vice presidential running mate. The race remains virtually tied with John McCain now slightly ahead 46%-44%.
Bill Clinton will be a gentleman and play the Democratic convention part well given to him, as Hillary graciously played her role. Bots should not fear what either will say or do. Bots should be afraid of how their messiah will play his hand. Ball is in Obama court now. Gallup Polls showing that already.
will the cigar be in his friend Monica?
Obama
Larry Sinclair
^ And that right there, Garfield, is PUMA’s shame. (And Larry Johnson’s.)
When you can’t win at an argument, insult.
UBM, you are very good at losing arguments.
I’m a PUMA and proud of it, you racist jerk, and it will be my very great pleasure to help send your astonishingly corrupt, Mobbed up cohort back to Chicago in November.
PUMAs are the real Democrats now, and there will be no neocon Trojan horses in this party.
And dottie, exactly what does that have to do with his presidency. He left the White House with a 65% approval rating among all voters and 85% among AAs. He left a balanced budget and a projected surplus of over one trillion dollars. Average incomes adjusted for inflation increased for all Americans and for AAs the increase was the largest ($3,500/yr). Small business loans to AAs increased by 50%. BTW. Did you know JFK had numerous liaisons before and during his presidency and Jackie threatened to divorce him during his campaign? Did you know FDR had a long time affair and his mistress was with him at the time of his death? Dwight Eisenhower began an affair with his driver during WW ll and she continued to work for him after his election to the White House. Richard Nixon had an affair with the Chinese woman who interpreted for him during his visit to that country. Grover Cleveland’s mistress had his child while he was president and Warren Harding mistress blackmailed him and he paid $20,000 for a trip around the world for her. Thomas Jefferson had an affair with his slave and she bore his children.
Obama/Soetoro.
Levine.
Sinclair.
Rezko.
Ayers.
Wright.
NOI.
Nobama on the down low!!!
Shame on Bill Clinton. How dare he spend his post presidency traveling the world trying to raise hundreds of millions of dollars trying to solve the AIDS problem in Africa. What a frickin’ racist!
You are right. He should have been sitting in a church for years listening to a racist preacher.
I thought Bill had also managed to raise a hundred million for himself since leaving the White House in disgrace, Blank.
You’re disgusting. You’re lying disgusting post doesn’t deserve a comment. Shut up jerk, I’m sick of you.
Well, maybe I put it wrong. Hillary and Bill together made a hundred million bucks since they left the White House in disgrace.
My bad.
Obama graduated from the exclusive private Punahou High School in Hawaii. He attended Occidential College, a small private college in Los Angeles. He graduated from Columbia University, a private university in New York City. And, received his law degree from Harvard University, a private university. Both Columbia and Harvard are considered ivy league schools.
Michelle Obama graduated from Princeton and Harvard Universities, both private ivy league schools.
Their family income was $1.6 million in 2005 and close to $1 million in 2006. He lives in a multi-million dollar home.
Obama has stocks, government paid health care, government paid retirement benefits, and his children go to private school.
Michelle Obama is currently on unpaid leave from her $317,000 a year job from a prestigious hospital.
Need we know more? Obama wants us to believe he can relate to middle class America. He is just a typical Washington politician living off tax payers.
What is so offensive is that he tries to make people believe he different from the other politicians. Yeah, right.
Obama wants us to believe he can relate to middle class America. He is just a typical Washington politician living off tax payers.
You right, Garfield. You right.
He should’ve married the heiress to a beer-distributor fortune. Now that’s doin’ it the American way!
He just married a racist women who hates America.
^ Who’s perfect?
Good comeback. How long did it take to come up with that zinger?
Hey UBM loser, Did they “steal” their millions, or did they inherit it? Make up your mind next time huh? Oh you can’t? You must be Obama himself!
Wow. Another clean, articulate African-American…
Do you mean the American Way or the God Dam# AmeriKKKa Way according to Obama’s old uncle Jeremiah?
Amazing how many breaks Barry got because of affirmative action.
And you think Obama and Michelle aren’t thinking about MONEY and POWER?? They sure are not thinking about the exploited poor people of any color. Ignorance is bliss I guess.
NOBAMA!