Barack Obama Responds to Hillary Clinton’s RFK Remark

Samantha Power said it all. “She’s a monster too” Obama needs to watch his back.

The only thing that needs to be put out of it’s misery is Hillary’s campaign. She has let her handlers leave her boring, full speed, head on into the nearest iceberg. True an arguement can be made that it wasn’t entirely her fault, until this latest act of ruthlessness and unvarnished desperation she decided to insert with her campaign teetering into it’s “last throes”, “damn the torpedos” act of final and utimate disaster. If the superdelegates want to still keep their hopes of taking the White House alive, they have to go with the money and the enthusiasm and take their shot with Obama. Because a broke, and angry Hilliary, who offers accusations and class warfare instead of any substantive difference of general policy from “Madman McCain” is a loser for sure.

“She is a monster, too – that is off the record – she is stooping to anything”- Samantha Power
Any more proof?

When people ask..why Obama? Why are his supporters so convinced of this mans greatness? People who have never been involved in politics are not only voting for the first time, we are volunteering for him, were donating to him, we are cancelling vacations so that we can send that money to his campaign, we are emailing friends and foes for this campaign. We will stand in the rain for 10 hours waiting to get one glimpse of him and people ask why? It is because of things like this, his character, his ethics, his morality, his story is the story of so many of us and what we have wanted to see in our leaders for so long.
If it had been Obama who was behind and he had made this comment, can you imagine what Hillary would have said and done? No, we don’t have to imagine we already know….”SHAME ON YOU BARACK OBAMA, SHAME ON YOU BARACK OBAMA!!!” Screaming at him like a small child. Or my favourite one ” HE IS AN ELITIST” “HE DOES NOT KNOW PEOPLE IN SMALL TOWNS”..Then she ran an Ad (Payed over $300,000 to run an Ad against him because of a comment that he said that came out wrong). Does Obama play the same card, no…HE GIVES HER THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT. Does he run an Ad against her comments, no he just says it was unfortunate. The drama has ended.
Obama is a true leader, a leader that we have been waiting for and a leader who will inspire us to do better. Be better daughters, better sisters, better moms, better friends, better workers, better neighbors and better Americans.

That’s right, Obama has got class. Put Hillary in the same situation and you will never hear the end it.

Great post Karen. You have summed up all the reason I support Obama.

Barack “will take her at her word”? lol
Let’s see: What Hilary’s words are worth these days?
“Michigan and Florida does not count”, Hilary Clinton’s words a few months ago.
“Michigan and Florida voted; I won; and I want the votes and delegates of Michigan and Florida.”
“Barack should get zero votes for Michigan; since his name was not on the ballot”, Hilary’s campaign.
Barack will take Hilary’s words; but he will STILL keep her at arms’ length. lol

Obama knows that his supporters are blowing it for him.
The venom they spit at Hillary has convinced many of them to either to stay home on Election Day or to vote for John McCain.
Obama has a real problem on his hands.
His bitter supporters have made this race so divisive, John McCain will probably win the General Election.

So as his campaign continues it’s relentlessly negative attacks the candidate disputes their conten.
This man is a hypocrite or he’s not in charge of his own campaign….

Wow, Obama still implies that it was directed at him. It’s Obama’s world and we’re just living in it.
I guess RFK’s son knows better:
May 23: Robert Kennedy Jr. issued the following statement this evening:
”It is clear from the context that Hillary was invoking a familiar political circumstance in order to support her decision to stay in the race through June. I have heard her make this reference before, also citing her husband”s 1992 race, both of which were hard fought through June. I understand how highly charged the atmosphere is, but I think it is a mistake for people to take offense.”
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The only thing that Hillary is sorry for is that she’s taking heat. Her excuse is that she was thinking heavily about Kennedy this week, yet she said he same thing several months ago, before Kennedy was diagnosed with cancer. Another lie… but then again, what else should we really expect from her. At least now we know why she’s staying in the race – she’s got her fingers crossed that her opponent will just go away, somehow.

USmarine0331, I would never beg anyone to vote for Senator Obama, everyone here has their one vote to use as they see fit.
What I find amusing is the many people here that think they speak for millions of Senator Clinton’s supporters, predicting that they too, will not vote for Senator Obama. Do you really think that the people here are a good representation of how people will vote in the GE?

Hey USmarine0331… you’ve got it 180 degrees wrong, as many Hillary supporters do. Thanks to Rush Limbaugh’s “Operation Chaos”, there are hundreds of thousands of Republicans voting for Hillary in all the primaries just to keep the nastiness between Obama and Hillary out in the open even longer. She would have been dispatched weeks ago if it weren’t for Republicans keeping her in the race because it amuses them to do so…

His campaign spokesman said within minutes that Hillary’s comment had no place in the campaign. And Obama says the next day she was careless because of a long campaign.
That’s good hardball campaigning, but it’s not different politics, as the above Obama posters claim it is.
Hillary was not careless, there’s nothing wrong with referencing campaigns that went into June, including the memorable trauma in June of Bobby Kennedy’s California win and the aftermath, she’s done it repeatedly, and she was answering a question from the newspaper editors about you Obama thugs and the liberal media trying to force her out of the race. Unprecedented is what she calle dit, and cited those examples.
I’ll hand it to Axelrod that he’s an SOB at sticking the knife in and letting Obama twist it, but that’s all the credit I’ll give you Obama people.
As I post regularly, we Hillary supporters want nothing to do with Obama and Axelrod and will be voting for McCain if we can’t get Hillary on the ballot as president.
Obama will do better than McGovern, about the same as Dukakis and Mondale, but not nearly as good as Kerry. He will be soundly trounced and the Democratic party will no longer be viable with what’s left of you.
Hillary ’08

It would help the HIllary suporters to look into the question Obama was responding to when he stated that he took Hillary at her word. I’m pretty sure the question was framed from his reference point. Needles to say it would not matter what Obma said or did, because these blogs are toxic blasts to each other. If Obama takes Hillary at her word, he is bad. If he doesn’t he is bad. Ferraro says that Obama just “let” the media crucify her. He tried to help her with her pin and he was labelled a sexist, but he is supposed to know to come to her aid when the media is persecuting her? Help, I would hate to be a man in today’s climate because I don’t know the rules and I’m a woman. I think back to the first theory – this is a very toxic campaign and if you aren’t for the candidate anything they do is bad.

I am also amused by pundits who think that the vast majority of Hillary supporters will unite behind Radical Obama if he becomes the nominee.
Obama supporters might think that their nasty comments about Hillary and her supporters will be forgotten by November, but the truth is John McCain is a moderate Republican, who is closer to the center than Far Left-Wing Obama.
If the super delegates hope to see a Democrat win the White House in November, they will vote for Hillary.
If not, get ready for President McCain.

In the PA primary Hillary was shown taking straight shots of whiskey and polishing her shotgun…
Maybe she just let it go to her head.
Obama’s response is just what I’d expect from him, though. Gracious, smooth… he got his pitch from W’s victory in 2004 and 2000, without picking up the smirk.
But he’s lying. He’s delighted that people are talking about Vince Foster again instead of Black Power “theology” and Trinity United Church and Chicago political machinations. BHO and HRC are both struggling and grasping for power. They have no higher motivation.

It was a totally inappropriate analogy for Senator Clinton to make when there were so many other examples of long primaries that she could have used. I am tired of her lack of judgement and discretion. She does not seem to consider the impact of her words – that is not a particularly comforting quality in a President. Vote for who you want to, but please spare us the condecending threats about leaving the democratic party – as if we would feel punished – I already have a Mom and I’m not a kid anymore. REALLY, I DON’T CARE WHAT YOU DO.

Hillary’s going to vote for Obama in November and the majority of her supporters are going to follow suit. As much as they dislike Obama and his people Hillary supporters are much too smart to hand McWar the presidency.

Sadly, IF OBAMA WERE WHITE, no one would vote for him.

They’re not threats, it’s a done deal. The Democratic party will half the size it was, and you can keep pitching your Chicago radicals as long as you want, Obama will never get elected.
The Democratic Party will only a third party by teh time you Obama nuts are done.
Hillary ’08

If he thinks he already has the nomination then why is he still campaigning so hard. Lol.

sometimes one needs to set aside personal ambition to work for the common good.
This is the momment for Hillary Clinton, she can seize it and go out in a blaze of glory or dig in and and go down in disgrace. It’s up to her.

I am a white world war two vet and a registered democrat. I am also a believer that Obama can do the job if elected. Based on that assumption, I plan to vote him in, if he runs. But, if he even thinks more than a heart beat of putting her on his ticket, I leave him like snow in summer. This is a warning, don’t even say the name Clinton while drinking straight shots.

In all fairness, IF HILLARY WERE MALE, no one would vote for her either.

USmarine0331
Was that last post supposed to inspire a vote for Hillary or McCain. If so it failed. You basically just noted why we should vote for Obama. Try again. And you may want to look in your hands, I think there are stones in them!

he said “57 states and one he did’nt visit plus alaska and hawaii” that makes 60 states. of course we all know he meant 47 states, don’t we? but i guess some people still think he’s muslim. the scary part is that it actually matters what his faith is. we say separation of church and state but do we really mean it.
energy in search of source to achieve reaction

Good post ted.

Estimada Boricua,
Querida Boricua,
God bless Puerto Rico, the greatest melting pot in the world! This is not race baiting. this is just true facts about the human race! You should know that especially hailing from la isla del encanto.

America first, before party.
This is why millions of Hillary supporters will vote for Republican Moderate John McCain, instead of Neo-Socialist Obama, if Hillary is not the Democratic presidential nominee.

Jake wrote: “Although, I do agree that she would jump all over this if the shoe was on the other foot…”
There’s no basis for that. That’s Obama nuts happy talk.
Hillary ’08

In her raw ambition and stubborn, grinding energy, Hillary will certainly cast a long shadow on young women aspiring to high office. She is both inspiring role model and cringe-making bad example — an overtly feminist careerist who never found a way to succeed without her husband’s connections, advice, and intervention.
Bill Clinton may have masterminded Hillary’s runs for the Senate and for the Democratic nomination, but he has been a gross liability in recent months, as he has co-opted the hustings to maunder on about himself or to inject divisive racial overtones into the debate.
The next major female presidential candidate will be well advised to stuff any errant husband into a rucksack and chuck him down a laundry chute. If they are to be truly equal, women must fight their own fights and not rely on a borrowed spotlight.
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Hillary has tried to have it both ways: to batten on her husband’s nostalgic popularity while simultaneously claiming to be a victim of sexism.
Well, which is it? Are men convenient sugar daddies or condescending oppressors?
As her presidential hopes have begun to evaporate, Hillary has upped the ante in the crusading feminist department. Her surrogates are beating the grievance drums, trying to scare every angry female out of the bush.
From that rag-tag crew, she will build her army. Let the red flags fly! Hillary is positioning herself as the Crucified One, betrayed, mocked, flogged, and shunted aside for the cause of Ultimate Womanhood. But doesn’t this saccharine melodrama undermine the central goals of feminism?

Rob, the truth hurts, and the truth is Obama supporters are motivating Hillary supporters to vote for Republican Moderate John McCain.
Obama’s far left-wing candidancy is the reason why every Mainstream American should be voting for Hillary and/or McCain.
Every voter should vote for the best candidate, regardless of party affiliation.
To vote for a candidate, just because of his or her party affiliation, is a poor reason to vote for him or her.
If every American felt this way, Republican Abraham Lincoln or Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt would never have been elected president.

Obama’s campaign rule is: No Drama. He’s keeping to their policy.

Hillary has changed personas and slogans desperately during her campaign, but one thing is for sure now:
sniper fire has been its central theme all the way.

Hey JP, Hillary and John McCain are not black!
Try harder, JP!
LOL
Posted by: USmarine0331
And neither one will be the next President!!
Try harder, LOL!
PS Did you hear they had to move McSame’s funding raising event this weekend from the Phoenix convention center to a private home because nobody bought any tickets? He’s a joke and America knows it.
Now, that’s funny!

rd
He has all those issues and Hillary still did not beat him, tell you something about her electability doesn’t it?

It was Donna Brazile who said “uneducated white” people. Not Clinton.
As a matter of fact, Donna Brazile said, “The New Democratic Party doesn’t need the white, blue collar workers and Latinos”!
Obama supporters have choired in with the “uneducated”, “less educated”, insults.
Although I am educated, I have learned a heck of a lot more in the “real” world, than I did in a classroom.
The college education is merely a “starter kit”!

Senator Clinton was not talking about Obama. Why are you yelling at her without first analizing.
Very sensitive matter but for heavens sake it was not OBAMA. Left wing media and Obama supporters all jumped into the bandwagon and attack. It would be foolish if she ever meant this for Obama. These people always think of the WORD OFFENSE. Their mouths are also offensive, but nobody in Clinton’s clan, or the other party complained about offense. Is this another RACE Issue?
OFFENSE AND RACE have never been an issue in all the history of American politics, except the 2008 presidential election. These two words are becoming shields, that people could hardly say anything without a backlash.

Wonder what the empty suit obama had to do to Donna Brazilenut to get her to make these comments -It was Donna Brazile who said “uneducated white” people. Not Clinton.
As a matter of fact, Donna Brazile said, “The New Democratic Party doesn’t need the white, blue collar workers and Latinos”!
If you don’t have the intelligence to put your education to work for you then it really doesn’t matter how many degrees you have. Look at the ignorant political anal-list – they have degrees but not enough sense to come in out of the rain!
KEEP GOING HILLARY – OUR COUNTRY NEEDS YOU!!!!!

Hillary did not mention Obama in any way at all! His name did not come up.
She said campaigns have run all the way into June. She said Bill Clinton’s as well as RFK’s names as examples.
It was a poor choice, but no more than that.
The Obama camp did the same thing last week to Bush’s comments.
Some things are not “All About Obama”, no matter how far they try to stretch.
Adding words or insinuations are not facts!

jake, it ain’t over yet. Not till the SD’s vote in Denver. They’ll have a good long look at the polls throughout the summer.
They certainly won;t get it with Obama. See McGovern ’72, Carter ’80, Mondale ’84, Dukakis ’88, and Kerry ’04 for similar examples.
See Clinton ’92, Clinton ’96, and Gore ’00 for similar examples if Hillary is selected.
Just depends if they want a Dem president or not.
Hillary ’08

They pulled the same tactic last week when Bush didn’t talk about Obama.
Clinton didn’t talk about Obama this week.
If it is not “all about Obama’, then it’s somehow a reason for outrage.
Bush did not direct his comment at Obama, neither did Clinton.
She was using the camoaigns lasting into June as an example, when asked by a reporter why the Dems are trying to “Force” her out of the race. This is just to force her even harder. It’s a guerrilla tactic.

Jake asked: “When did West Virginia become a state of mainstream voters? When did it become a swing state?”
They gave John Kennedy the nomination in ’60. It’s a heavily Democratic swing state that won’t vote for latte liberals. If they had voted for Gore he would have been president.
No democratic candidate has won the presidency without Wwest Virginia since 1916.
Hillary ’08

Obama’s real problem is not his race, but his association with radical left-wingers and his left-wing politics.
You might think that Obama’s sponsored Global Poverty Act is a good idea, but Mainstream Americans of all colors question why Obama wants to send $845 billion dollars to third world countries, instead of using that money for Americans.
Obama’s campaign promise to federally fund 20 promise neighborhoods in inner-city African-American communities doesn’t go over too well with rural Americans.
Of course, African-Americans like the idea.
They think that they will benefit enormously if Obama gets elected– and they are probably right.

The dnc is broken. I, like thousands upon thousands of other tee’d off democrats are leaving the dnc like an exodus. This primary was fixed from the beginning. Well, the dnc will see what happens when they disenfranchise voters and basically push out a viable candidate with no regard to its members. Obama is not a viable candidate. He is just a moveon and the dnc’s puppet. There is a growing movement from the dnc to McCain. The dnc is so arrogant that they truly believe that we will fall in line before the general election. This time that will not happen. They know it too. And, yes she can run as an independent. She could get enough signatures without lifting a finger to do that. By the time this general election is over so will the dnc. May they rest in peace.

I already switched to Independent.
I refuse to let any organization strip my vote.
I love Florida. This is my new home.
I had rights when I got here.
Public officials should know better. Strip delegates, fine! Strip votes, never.
McCain is a decent man.
His patriotism is unquestionable.
The man spent half his life in the military, some of it as a POW! The other half was in public service.
McCain votes his own ideas. he has reached across the aisle many times. McCain will protect this country.
I can wait another 4 years. I will never vote for Obama.

If Hillary were a man her deluded supporters would have fled when she demonized Bill’s willing and unwilling female victims. She continues to have a habit of lying and hiding files.

Clinton conspiracy!
You are a riot!
LOL

his reaction is a beautiful way to control her next move before she even makes it. he has made her look even more desperately insane without breaking a sweat. brilliant. and she’s falling for this trick. very cool.

Obama’s smooth moves really helped him in Kentucky Indiana, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia!
Maybe, Obama can show us some more smooth moves in a bowling alley.
LOL

USmarine0331 | May 24, 2008 8:23:18 PM
Good point. I would also like to add what Obama said about ‘rural hicks that cling to guns and their religion’.
How’s that for trying to connect with moderates? He isn’t.
Obama also has something against the white working class.
Hillary ’08 if not her, McCain ’08
Never Obama

Well some folks do not see it as you may think, ‘shame on you’…….
However, I think the lady who voted for Hillary interview for the exit poll put quite eloquently…
“We don’t vote for there kind”

I lived thru the assassinations of JFK, Bobby, and MLK. No one, except those who lived thru that too, can explain the confusion, powerlessness, and despair one felt. It was as if all hope for the future was murdered and never would return.
Obama is the first pol since the 60’s challenge us to dream one more.
Those who remember will not allow Hillary’s comments to go unpunished.
So sit back and just watch it play out. Folks might learn something important about this country and how “memories make things operate. What she said is OUTRAGEOUS and UNFORGIVABLE.
Hillary Clinton is “toast”… “Dead meat”… “Dead man walking”…
It matter not, what words one might choose to use……her candidacy for President, and for that matter VP is over.
I predict by next Wednesday, the super delegates will move to support Obama in numbers that will end this primary race. They will put an end to her desperate and dangerous campaign to be coroneted.
Queens we need not……. True leaders we do.

not to forget the ayres comment in the last debate
and oh
he’s not a muslim…. as far as i know

If Hillary supporters stay home or vote for McCain instead of Obama on Election Day, that pretty well sums up how much they actually care about the issues. Those who vote for McCain want the Iraq war to continue, those that don’t vote at all don’t care if the Iraq War lasts 100 years. Those voters will do what they do. But they will also live with the consequences, as will their children and grandchildren. And that is just the fact of it.

How much longer.

Barack Obama is a chivalrous and generous person. However, many of feel that she has actually done something this time that increases the already present danger he must live with. This was over the top. Beyond the pale. One time too many. Enough. If Obama had evoked the A word with regard to Mrs. Clinton, the sky would fall. Keith Olbermann was right. This is not to be forgiven this time. Enough.

Now be fair to Clinton, Obama folks. She is not the enemy. Time to do like Obama himself and shift the focus to McCain.

When hillary started campaigning against Obama like a karl rove republican, she became the enemy.

First, Hillary did not mean anything to Obama about her statement, so there is no reason make him upset about it.
Secondly, if he got angry, he would make her supporters turn back on him.
He has to be nice to her from now on.
Recently, in every campaign he gave Hillary compliment.

I agree that Obama has lofty goals he won’t reach, but Hillary’s lies have been much, much worse. I think only Bush can outdo her on that.

I would vote for Carrot Top over McCain for president. Bush is a complete joke and McCain, as a Republican, will continue to follow basically the same path.
The Republican leadership has had eight years to get it together, but instead brought shame and more incompetence upon this country.
Voting Democrat isn’t going to be the magic bullet of change, but we really can’t afford to continue in this direction that John McCain will not be able to stray from if he is handed the presidency.

noBama and USmarine0331 : Obama is NOT a radical lefty. His voting record is actually slightly to the right of Hillary’s (just to the left of the horrible Lieberman.) And McCain is no “centrist,” not even for a Republican. He’s voted 95% with Bush, which is as far right as humanly possible. Obama has run an excellent campaign, and should not be blamed or penalized for it. Grow up. The Clintons have lost this one. Rather than hold this against Obama, you should give the man his due. Again, grow up. Democracy is full of disappointment, and sometimes our preferred candidate doesn’t win. Obama will nominate better Supreme Court justices than McCain would. That alone should make us all want to vote Obama over McCain. You Clinton supporters who hate the media should remember these are the same people selling McCain as a “maverick.” He’s nothing of the kind; he’s a right wing hack.

Familiar Obama camapign tactic: his surrogates and the media attack Hillary mercilessly. Then Obama comes out and says he “gives Hillary the benefit of the doubt.” Down with hypocrisy.
Go Hillary!!

“Jake, you have mainstream voters in every state.
Mainstream voters are moderates.
They are oppose both far right and far left extremism.
This is why Obama was soundly rejected by West Virginians.
Posted by: USmarine0331 | May 24, 2008 8:23:18 PM”
Familiarity was key to West Virginia voters. They are familiar with the Clinton name. They are familiar with white candidates. They are not familiar with black candidates.
Not to mention, a number of them said they made their voting decision based on race. For every one of them who admitted race was an issue, there were 2 in the wings who did not admit it.
Q: Whose problem is racism?
A: It is the problem of the racist.

Once again, Obama shows respect and class. Hillary shows poor taste and poor judgement.

El_Pajaro, I got news for you; that is, I’m a long-time Democrat.
I also got more news for you; that is, there are millions of other Hillary supporters, who will not vote for Obama either.
If the super delegates want a Democrat to win the White House in November, they should vote for Hillary.
Why? Because there are millions of Mainstream Americans, who are not going to vote for a far left candidate, who listened to the anti-American and racist sermons of Radical Left-Wing Pastor Jeremiah Wright for the last 20 years.

USmarine0331,
You can call it what you want to. I am not trying to fool anyone and I don’t play games !!
McSame has supported bush by voting for his policies 89% of the time !!
There are too many similarities to go into but just a couple are their views on how we have a “strong” economy and their tax cuts for the wealthy. I’m not even going to get into this “mission accomplished” war.
It doesn’t look like Clinton is going to make it, but I WILL NOT support McAncient.

The last sentence to my last post should read, “If Obama becomes the Democratic presidential nominee, I will vote for John McCain, just like millions of other Hillary supporters, who also refuse to vote for someone who listened to Radical Left-Wing Pastor Jeremiah Wright’s anti-American and racist sermons for the last 20 years.

Order, get real!
Bill Clinton is going to do whatever he can to help Hillary succeed.
If you don’t think that Bill Clinton is not a tremendous political asset to Hillary, you are just fooling yourself.

… and it will take Puerto Rico to be the tie breaker in this primary and GE.

John,
The media is finally listening. Thanks to Axelrod. People were offended when Hillary said it before, but the news didn’t report it because they were busy trying to kill Obama’s chances.
Obama ’08!

Obama supporters, you should try to leave the pro-Hillary, pro-McCain people alone. The more you aggravate them, the more blind they get with hate. An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. Remember Gandhi’s quote? Be gracious just like your candidate.
If you give them less reason to hate Obama, some of them might see the light and vote for their best interests.
Also beware, there are republican trolls trying to split the democratic party. Don’t take all these Hillary supporters seriously. The outrageously one-sided and fact-free argument that encourages other Hillary supporters to vote for McCain over Obama gives them away.