George Stephanopoulos: What Hillary Needs to Do Tonight

what Hillary really needs to do tonight is speak the truth; America desperately needs that.
She didn’t think Obama was ready for the Presidency and I think that’s the fact today.
Hillary will do a great disservice to America is she tells lies under the guise of party unity.

A HUGE block of Hillary supporters are furious at the DNC and are joinint the McCain camp. You may recall that Hillary Clinton and John McCain have great admiration and affection for each other. And said that if they ever ran against each other, “it would be the most boring campaign” because they couldn’t sling mud at each other. Let me say that I applaud, as a Democrat, this defection and TOTALLY agree that OBAMA IS UNQUALIFIED to sit in the White House–except as a visitor. He has NOTHING to show for in his political career, has been a total weather vane of opinion blowing with whatever the public sentiment is and has “qualified” virtually every position he has spoken on. I do NOT care about his skin…what I DO CARE ABOUT IS SUBSTANCE. And I see extremely little. Soppy testimonials from one’s wife simply are abominable in a campaign, a pathetic attempt to “connect” on a human level–which is, again, what those who oppose Obama have been saying about him. 90% of the Obama campaign run by his handlers has been an exercise in creating a “Messianic” image more akin to a cult. This is the least qualified man in terms of substance that I have witnessed running for office in a very long time. Whatever core values he harbors has been extremely well hidden in a constant stream of shifting positions–all gauged to appeal to the sentiment of the public at a specific point in time. Moreover, I believe his election would THREATEN the future election of highly qualified black politicians, which would be a tragedy for America.

When are you going to understand it isn’t about Hillary any more so it really doesn’t matter what Hillary does or doesn’t say.
It is about the way the democratic party hierarchy behaved during the primary. I won’t give any more money to the democratic party and told them so today. I am changing my registration from democratic to independent. I am changing a 20+ year voting habit. The republicans can forget it too. I’m looking for a new party.

The DNC screwed up the first time by not backing Hillary for President.
Obama screwed up the second time by not putting her on the ticket.
Screwed twice and voting for McCain.

I can’t wait to see if an equal amount of coverage and joyous enthusiasm is given to the Republican National Convention by ABC news. Should be interesting…
Good luck with all of that.

What Hilliary needs to do is announce that obama is an idiot, and then launch her mutiny of the Convention.

Vote for McCain out of spite if you want more War, Unequal Pay for Women, Roe vs. Wade reversed, etc, etc.
If you can’t bring your self to vote for the lesser of two evils (Obama), please consider not voting for President this year. This is SO Important. We are expecting triplets and our two girls do not need the government in their business.

Just a note of appreciation to ABC for covering how the Democrats are circumventing the very rules they proposed to reduce the effect of lobbyist. You know,free everything for our Congressmen/women who are in attendance.

I’m glad there is one decent news network left. Although I hate to give them any acknowledgement, go read today’s online articles on MSNBC and CNN by Todd and Cafferty. Their mean and biased attacks on Bill and Hillary prove what we knew all along- they were out to get Obama elected. Todd even admits that the media doesn’t like them. He should be fired for such biased attacks. You know, I don’t like Obama but I hate NBC and CNN more. I have even stopped watching NBC evening news after 20 years. This Democrat has had enough. McCain looks better ever day! Hillary will do what she needs to do for the pary tonight. If she didn’t show up, the media would jump on her for that too. NOBAMA-ever!

I hope that Hillary will not compromise herself by trying to lavish praise upon Obama that she doesn’t truly feel. Nothing about the man has changed, and her supporters will see right through it and hold it against her. She needs to acknowledge her supporters who the DNC rebuked, reiterate her support for the Democratic Party and exit the stage with grace and dignity. She may not have made it this time around, but Hillary is a vibrant, intelligent woman, and I don’t think the history books are ready to close just yet where she’s concerned.

It was reported today that Obama stated that the United States has not also set the best example to Russia with regards to invading countries. The obvious reference is to Iraq and John McCain retorted that our invasion of Iraq was proper and justified and can not be compared to the invasion of Georgia by Russia.
Here is a thought for the Democrat leadership on their position of no American support for Iraq.
Obama discussed and downplayed his recent harrowing experience with their chartered campaign aircraft that had elevator problems due to an accidental inflation of a rear exit slide. The media reported it was a serious event. United States military pilots experience harrowing events every day.
Thanks to the recommended McCain troop surge and George Bush original decision to overthrow Sadaam Hussein, US Airforce and Navy pilots no longer have to provide a continuous no fly zone over Iraq. They had provided this no fly zone to prevent Sadaam Hussein from using his airforce and helicopters to slaughter helpless Kurds in the North of Iraq. Before the United States invasion under George Bush, this nofly zone had to be carried out from carriers and bases in Kuwait which involved distances and hazards. The successful overthrow of Sadaam has saved countless American pilot lives and harrowing military aircraft safety incidents similar to what occurred on the Obama chartered campaign plane.
Democrats under the leadership of Obama would have us performing a no fly zone mission over Iraq for the next fifty years instead of going in and taking out Sadaam as we did and saving countless US military pilots lives over the next fifty years. McCain support of the war in Iraq was the right thing to do and will have the long term effect of saving American lives.

“Danny”–you are TOTALLY correct. Hillary was TOTALLY qualified for VP–and MORE qualified for President. Obama not only showed his lack of “unifying” due to pride, he rejected a huge, huge block of voters and, more importantly, TOTALLY ran counter to the MANTRA of his “handlers: “Change You Can Believe In.” His managers recently changed this line (which sounded too evangelical)to “Change That Works For You.” Gee, you Obama fanatics out there, he had a GOLDEN opportunity to demonstrate before being elected that he was capable of both UNIFYING and of implementing an extraordinary change–placing the FIRST super-competent woman into the VP slot. MAY the Democrats lose yet another one with their twisted manipulation of loser candidates behind the scenes. People now will be leaving the Democratic Party in droves. Good for them for their intelligence. Imagine telling the public that “experience” really doesn’t matter–they bet on the wrong horse, banking on a longing for “change,” and its color was irrelevant. It was its lack of substance and depth.
>Danny wrote: Tell me this America, if Obama is going to be the “Big Uniter”, then why couldn’t he demonstrate that by putting his differences with Hillary Clinton aside, and including her on the ticket. Now, that would have been ENORMOUSLY convincing in showing America that he can bring people together!! Obama failed his first big “unity” test.

She and her diehard girls accept the fact that they lost.
Is Obama ready or not that another story.
Some people here need to change their eyes and have the courage to see beyong the man skin. Come on this guy is Harvard graduate. Harvard one of the pride of this nation. No stupid can graduate from harvard is case you dont know.

I find it amazing that people believe she should have been on the ticket. Nothing would have galvanized the Republicans like prospect of, not only Hillary, but Bill back in the White House. I am a Centrist (read: where the battle will be won or lost in November)– Right now I am leaning toward Obama. Had Hillary been on the ticket there is no way in hell I would have vote Democrat. I would wager that history will portray the Clintons as a couple of political Rasputins that did anything and everything to achieve power … with a constituency stupid enough to support them.

It’s not about Hillary. Hillary is just one of multiple outward symptoms. It’s about the way the democratic party is treating women. It’s about the way the democratic party is turning it’s back on it’s base. It’s about watching our senators and representatives keep selling us out and signing bills to spy on us, bills to take away any right that doesn’t have a gun or bible attached to it, it’s about destroying separation of church and state, and much more.

Obama is far from unity only when he repeats what others tell him to say, Hillary got the anointing of 18 million sorry she is a real winner

Hillary cannot make up for, and in fact, contributed TO the TRILOGY OF OBAMA:
INEXPERIENCE, (NO)JUDGMENT, SOCIALIST. It looks like Voight got it right, and did it in basically 3 words. A lot more concise than just an EMPTY SUIT. Voters have a right (pun intended) to know what is actually MISSING in that EMPTY SUIT. I hope voters are as perceptive and concise as Voight in consideration of this candidate for President of our republic. Obama is ill-prepared to ever be Commander-in-Chief. Like Obama said, we need to learn a second language. If Obama gets in, I would suggest Russian or Chinese. OH! That’s right, Obama and Clinton both voted AGAINST English as the national language, but I think voters will get the idea.

Yeah it’s sad men don’t can’t face the truth seeing a women be in, just as they wiped out 5 million in the church I heard the same.

marat: I TOTALLY agree with your comment about how Obama’s failed first term would make it much more difficult for highly qualified African-Americans to get elected to national office. As an African-American man, I find his arrogance to be a bit much. What he needs to do is go back to the Senate where he belongs, put in a few years and then try again. He needs to get some accomplishments under his belt, then he can expect people to believe in him. Too bad that a lot of young white people brought into that white guilt that seems to be flowing around the country these days, and that the African-American community is so desperate for a new leader that they would almost vote for this charlatan in great numbers. It would be a SAD day in America if he actually won.

sh eneeds to make sure we dont get stuck with more bush evils so she needs to tell her supportters they must vote for obama or we will not only be in a recession but go into a depression under mccain

Don’t ask Hillary to do a favor!
You have a very long list to ask for help.
Oprah, Caroline K, Pelosi, Dean, Reed, Judas, including Scooper Anderson…and so on..

Hillary needs to stick to the truth and she won’t get into trouble. She can point out the disadvantages of voting for McCain but if she tries to sell us on Obama, she will lose all credibility. All he has is a good speaking voice, no experience and shady friends. Americans don’t want to hear her spin anything else.

We won’t have to worry about any of this… WHY!!! Because once McCain picks his YOUTHFUL, ATTRACTIVE, GOLDEN CHILD VP……it will be a shoe it for the Republicans. All those SUPPOSED Republicans that have defected will slowly float back to their party… Most of them are just unhappy with his age…. all he needs to do is get someone younger and attractive that Republicans fill comfortable with and, that is exactly what he is going to do….

I was bemused last night and reading comments today about Ted “Lion” Kennedy. Anyone remember Chappaquiddick and the delays and cover-up?!

bayou947: This african america woman agreed with you. Obama talks about talking with your enemy. Well Obama, you show us that you can not even talk with Hillary or listen to her supporters. Obama should have taken the high-road instead of making it a personal issue for not picking Hillary.

chattyway: Now, they want Hillary to save thier aaa@@@ tonight. You want the White House Obama, get off your aaa@@@@ and work for it.

Oh,,I got an idea..
Just ask people in Germany to help him.
He said “he is the citizen of the world” anyway.
Why not?

Hillary needs to do what will position her for 2012.
Obama has hopelessly blown this election. It’s not his fault, he wasn’t ready yet. After this, he probably never will be. But the New York media decided that this was the election to play king-maker, and they drew a black trey.

JJ: Becasue, Obama tells his supporters what to do, his supporters can not think for themself.

The two common themes among the Hillary supporters here are directly contradictory:
1. Hillary could easily beat McCain
2. Obama is an unworthy nobody
How could Hillary possibly beat McCain when she couldn’t even defeat someone the Hillary supporters claim is a total lightweight?
Don’t kid yourselves. If Hillary couldn’t even beat an inexperienced candidate like Obama, she would have had no hope against the GOP. (Or maybe Obama isn’t as much of a fool as most of you seem to think.)

Hey EB – you are forgetting that in the General Election, you have to please more than just leftists. Remember McGovern? Obama was able to incite the rabid left much more in caucuses, etc. Its a very different thing to win a general election. Hillary has walked the walk. So has McCain.

Hillary Clinton should not tell her supports to help Barck Obama . I know Obama is worthless and lazy same as Jimmy Carter. Let peoples decide to vote who they want to.
Let pray Mcain will win for president in 2008!!!!!

I SAY HIL NEEDS TO CUT TIES AND RUN AS AN INDEPENDENT! THAT’LL SHOW’EM

Out of curiosity why would a person who is against the basic tenants of the republican party’s campaign choose to vote for Mccain? I understand some people wanted Hillary Clinton to win, but the fact is at the end of the day she didn’t. Maybe she’ll have a chance in the next election, but until then what is wrong with Obama’s basic principles? They are pretty concrete to me, unless I’m missing something. Clinton and Obama share similar goals. How does voting for Mccain help those goals to come true? On top of that I seriously doubt Clinton would have taken the VP slot for one reason. She doesn’t like coming in second place. If we went back to the way it was done when our country was first formed we would have Mccain as VP if he lost. She lost and is moving forward; whether her loss was fair is immaterial at this juncture, and she’s going back to building a foundation for another run. Voters should remember that. Do us all a favor if you don’t want to vote for Obama because of Hillary than please don’t vote at all. If you vote for McCain you have no one to blame for an idiot in office besides yourselves.

I hope Barack Obama is in hot water with Rezko soon!! .

I take offense to George Stephanopoulos (however you spell his last name) stating tonight that Obama owes Hilary big time. If the people wanted Hilary to be the “One” running for president then they should have gone out and voted in a big way. Mrs. Clinton got cocky and thought she had it in the bag, Mr. Obama was a formidable opponent and though George doesn’t want to say it but it comes down to a race factor for those in the democratic party who feel that Hilary should be the one running for president. If we as a country want “change” then it has to be someone who has not been tainted by the walls of the White House already. Let’s make it real and bring the real issue at hand and it is RACE!! Not the issue of “not enough experiene”!! Know one has enough experiene to be president! Take a look at the exiting regime.

It’s not about Hillary any more. Obama and the DNC made it more than that. It’s about the place women’s issues occupy in the party. (Low, very low with Obama and the people who are running the party right now)
Also that it is either/or democrat or republican is not necessarily accurate. There are other parties and I will be looking them over.

George did not like Obama in the beginning now he almost praises him. I never liked George when he was in Clinton’s administration and I was glad when Bill Clinton got rid of him. He knows that Obama is not qualified to run this country. Obama lacks what Biden and Hillary know about politics and foreign policy. Obama is a know nothing, do nothing and says nothing unless he has a copied script. He definately used the speeches of JFK, RFK and MLK on the platform making the people think he was so smart. And they believed him. Can the public be that dumb? Common sense tells you he hasn’t been a senator long enough to run for president and wants to make history like MLK. In fact, he wants to surpass him. He is arrogant, underhanded and crooked like the DNC.

I am almost at the point where I do not watch the news anymore.
Talking to older people is a joy unless the subject of Obama comes up and then fear comes into the conversation.Fear of all the nutz in this country that have access to fire arms.Years ago a young president said about fear is all we fear is fear itself.