Clintons Return from Vacation, Barely Mention Obama in Public Statements

Now that Senator Obama needs Senator Clinton support and her supporters, he is going to PLAY NICE. It is a little too late and unbelievable. He will do or say anything to win. No intergity at all.

Come on, Jake. Give Obama some credit. He is jumping on a supporter for Clinton. I didn’t see that happening on the trail from McCain or from the Clintons. Obama has ALWAYS called her a “worthy opponent” and that she made him stronger, even before he won the contest. So, he’s not being a gracious winner by keeping the same tone. He’s being himself.
And the absence of Obama in the speeches of the Clintons is pretty much keeping with their campaign too. I see them being themselves–and no one said they were going to be gracious losers. Except for her final concession speech the Clintons have kept a tight seal on talking positive about Obama.
Thanks for pointing out the contrast.

I get so sick of hearing that Obama was unfair to Hillery. Every exit poll throughout the primary showed that more people thought that Hillery’s attacks were much more unfair then Obamas were towards Clinton. This is simply sour grapes by Clinton and her supporters, who thought beginning a year ago that this was her’s, and that she somehow was the only one who deserved it. They are upset that Obama ran a better race, and that Hillery much to her own fault was not appointed Queen in 2008!

Jim…thank you! That is exactly right. I still get annoyed that so many claim there was tons of sexism. I am a woman. I did not see anything outlandish.

The only way he win hillary Clinton be on that ticket. Why is Elizaberth Edwards just now endorseing Obama? Her and husband nedd to sit down. The only
way they endorsed Obama was because Hillary lost. If Hillary had been the front runner they would have jumped to Hillary side. Forget John and Elizaberth Edwards. He don’t need them.

Jim, I thought Barrack had slapped your hand in Detroit. At least you could spell Hillary’s name correctly, or is that your subtle sexism?

Mary you are pathetic he has 80% of clinton supporters i think hes doing fine with them, now get back inline with your repub friends… and try to figure out a new talking point instead of pretending to be a clinton supporter

Posted by: cindy in nc
Obama’s praise for her now, now that he needs her support seems insincere. But that is politics–and Obama is proving to be a typical politician.

Yes, easy to be gracious when you win but gracious nonetheless.
The real question is, did she really mean it when she said on June 7th, “I will work my heart out to make sure that Senator Obama is our next president”?

cindycry…another lie she told…she only said that to apease the party. The Clintons are done. Bill made a total fool out of himself in this campaign. Hillary is so arogant…she just cannot get over the fact that she lost!

obama is an empty suit, a fraud, a flip flopper..
jake should be covering substance, like nafta and FISA, instead he is giving us this blather…..

how do you all you obama kool aid drinkers feel about FISA and obama?
how does it feel under that bus?

bhrandon…did you hear him when he said that “lost lives in Iraq and Afganistan don’ matter?” Maybe not to him, but how about those families?

chitown independant
and what drilling for oil isnt big business
you know they can already drill right… they have millions of acres open to drilling right now, but no
THEY WANT ALL THE COASTLINES opened
mccain in the pockets of big oil

black white male female
meaningless to obama
all will be under the bus
obama has no moral compass
20 years with rev wright and hate mongers
he will do what he needs to do for himself.
enjoy!

i almost hope obama wins just so all of you kool aid drinkers will have to be held responsible for what will ensue…
look at his behavior this past week
under the bus….FISA
under the bus….NAFTA
and his associations…well i have a feeling there will be more out about that in say October.
enjoy your hopey changey fantasy.

Jake – I don’t know which commencement speech you’re referring to, but if it is the one to the high school, Clinton did mention Obama as the democratic nominee and stated that we need to put our support behind him. Yes, she did speak more about her own run for the Presidency, but I don’t find that in any way out of line. The more you pundits focus on the Clinton’s, instead of McCain and Obama, the more distractions away from real issues you provide to the voting public.

Stay tune……….
24/7 TV commercials will begun……
I cannot wait…….
Posted by: Nicholas | Jun 23, 2008 1:15:14 PM
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this just goes to show how out of touch the GOP is this election cycle. The FEAR and SMEAR wont work this time. It’s about the issues. No one is going to care what this joker has to say, unless he is going to tell us how to create more jobs, feed the poor, educate our youth, etc.
But hey, keep going…this type of campaigning only HELPS Obama!

Mary…you are WAY out of line. When did Obama give her the “finger”? I would like a reference and the video that shows this, otherwise stop spreading rumors…

vernon said:
Too many of America’s enemies wanting Obama to win, including Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, North Korea, Hugo Chavez, Fidel Castro, and the Sandinistas.
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Proof please! Please provide real, concrete PROOF that any of these groups want Obama to win. And not some lame blog posting. REAL PROOF!!

Nat Turner.
The election campaign starts after
labor day,when the conventions are over
and the VPs had been chosen.
NO activists OR manipulation of caucuses.It’s going to be republicans
vs democrats.
Americans vote for president with certain qualities and values.They don’t
even think about party…….
…..And please check the book in
August about Hussein Obama.
Title: UNFIT FOR COMMAND.

It’s a shame that so many Americans are wearing blinders on where Obama is concerned – they concentrate on so many silly things. If we all can on look past his race, his funny name, his lack of experience, his constantly changing stances (NAFTA, Israel, etc.), his broken pledges (Public Financing), his associations with questionable characters, his achievement gap, his disdain for rurals and working-class, and so on.
If we can only look past these things… we can all agree that Obama is the perfect candidate for president!

Barack Obama is fit for office LOL unlike John McCain who left his cripped wife for someone rich and 20 years younger who stold drugs from a childrens charity.
You can post anything you want about Obama and it is ALWAYS just opinions LOLOLOL But McCain/ It’s all a part of the record.
Love Facts and use’em all the time!

Obama is as Perfect for President as the louse the GOP has him running against! LOL I mean come on The GOP isn’t even supporting him like they have candidates in the past and NO ONE is giving his campaign enough money to make it!
Obama may not be perfect, no one is, but compared to John NO Integrity McCain and his husband stealing drug stealing wife? I’ll take OBAMA anyday!

smartprimate
time to step into reality…
that comment can be fit with any candidate…it’s like madlibs for slanderers or camapign propaganda… I think Karl Rove authored that one in 2000 against Mccain.
You can put any name in and say it is true but it doesn’t make it true.
but it’s good if you want a campaign like 2000 and 2004
Unfortunately with the state of the country…we need it to be about issues…not bologne.

Nat Turner.
You need to learn REAL politics….
Washington is very complicate place.
Do you remember 2000 elections?????
The supreme court decided Bush vs Gore.
The interests of the rich always prevail.
Did you check the “ELECTORAL COLLEGE”
lately???????

As a Hillary Clinton supporter unwilling to throw support behind Obama, let me say Obama is responsible for my view of him not Hillary. It was HIS participation in a radical church and the scathing words his “former” pastor had to say about America. It’s his real estate deal with Tony Rezko, his association with William Ayers, Louis Farrahkan, Father Pfleger, and spending twenty years in a hate filled “church” whose doctrine resembles a black version of the KKK. The Words? Just Words? speech and his speech on race, then “disowning Rev. Wright” afer he said whe never would. (he should have done that BEFORE he said he never would) His calling the race card every chance he had during the primary on people he knew well and good didn’t have a racial motive anywhere in what they said. It’s his opportunistic style that irks me. Now we have a faux “presidential seal” and his “new postion” campaign finance. Those are the issues that really bug me about him. I don’t trust him at all. Period. His actions cause me to think that way, no one else. He’s a self discribed bonehead. Why should I think anything different of him? He hasn’t given me a single reason. Oh the issues people will say. What makes anyone realy think this guy is going to do anything he has “promised” ….”words? Just words? Evidently. And in the words of Geraldine Ferraro….” I don’t have to vote for him”

What makes anyone realy think this guy is going to do anything he has “promised” ….”words? Just words? Evidently. And in the words of Geraldine Ferraro….” I don’t have to vote for him”
Posted by: Texas Lil | Jun 23, 2008 1:52:59 PM
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Me either!

Of course, it’s easier to be gracious when you win.
You mean AFTER you’ve won. Where was he with all those nice comments when she was being labelled a racist, polarizing, divisive and God knows what else by the media and the democratic establishment?
I can’t believe this guy. I hope Michelle Obama has some plans for when she becomes inconvenient for Obama, because it will be “under the bus with her too”. Right now, she is convenient.

PA voter
Maybe I wil pass that on to Hillary at the Unity NH event this week …where her supporters and Obama supporters are throwing an event for …drum roll…issues.
It’s not the party it’s the issues that McCain stands in polar disagreement with hillary on…that you all are throwing under the bus…and I think you all are who she is disgusted by…telling people to vote against women and children and equality and against the middle class… and every issue she ever fought for.

The 14 of you girls will make quite a difference on election day!
Posted by: Vero Possumus | Jun 23, 2008 1:59:30 PM
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That would be 14 MILLION darling!
You betcha!

Read the book:UNFIT FOR COMMAND.
It will be on stores August.
Election campaign begins “labor day”
The majority of voters didn’t even vote
on primaries and caucuses……..
…but they WILL VOTE in november.

What are you people talking about??? Hillary plans on introducing Obama to her financial supporters on Thursday and then campaigning with Obama on Friday. It has only been a short time since she suspended her campaign – she needed a rest before coming out to support Obama. In any case, she doesn’t have to mention him everywhere she goes. She was at a high school graduation for a daughter of one of her supporters who happened to also be a volunteer in her campaign, and someone she knew since the girl was two years old. Hillary had promised the girl at her eigth grade graduation that she would come to her high school graduation, which she did honoring her promise. This was a personal thing – why would she have to constantly talk about Obama. She did say that the fact that both an african american and a woman could run for office at the same time was an extraordinary event in our time and paved the way for the future to minorities to have the chance to become president one day. This was a thrilling day for all of the graduates to be graced by Hillary Clinton. The girl, who called Hillary her Aunt, was black by the way as were most of the graduates. The constant trashing of Hillary Clinton by some of the media and the Obama supporters even after she has suspended her campaign is disgusting and unnessesary. I’m proud to have been a Hillary supporter and think she would have been a great president. All the nasty things the Obama people say about her does not help their cause to bring the Clinton supporters over to his side – if anything, you drive us away with your abusive rhetoric. But, I really don’t think you give a hoot – you just love to spew your drivel because it gives you some sort of perverse satisfaction since you can hide behind your computers. Sorry, I had to rant – some of you just get me so mad.

You know I have read these blogs for several weeks and we seem to talk and harp about the same things time after time if this is all we could come up with either Rep vs Dem then we are really in a sad state of affairs. so I am going to put it out there.
1.what is McCain plan on Health Care ( this is important to my family)
2.how is Obama going to over come the inexperience issue ( in reguards to the Military) we may be at war before long not over security but over oil.
3.will McCain live out his term?
4.What can Obama do to change this Economy?
these are real issues I would love to see people on this Blog explore and stop being distracted by all of this nonsense about who said what and who’s pastor is better, whos wife is a tramp etc we are not electing Priest,Rev,Pastors here Guys…. just effective leaders.

“you correct someone with INCORRECT information”
You possums lack subtlety — that was no correction.

HP Boston you need to check the paper
it is not even close to 14 million anymore…
and shrinking exponentially everyday…just as it has in almost every presidential election we have seen in the past 50 years.
but that would take you reading something to know that…

for those of you who will not vote or vote for mccain because hillary lost please just do us all a favor as well as hillary a favor JUST DONT VOTE dont make the rest of us miserable because you all are just please STAY HOME ON VOTING DAY!!we dont want another bush term some of us are looking foward to change and betterness

Posted by: dl | Jun 23, 2008 2:12:14 PM
What are your sources……
No one ever asked ME or my Spouse or my FRIENDS?
I wouldn’t be too sure of your figures!!!!
COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY!!!

“will McCain live out his term?”
Ask Again Later … , says the magic 8-ball. After the Republican convention (which is after the DEMOCRATIC convention, assuming it survives Chicago sandbagging).
If YOU were the Republicans, would you put McCain on the REAL ballot? Well, they won’t, either.

to answer these questions from the post
1.what is McCain plan on Health Care ( this is important to my family)
You can read it but pretty much…it is the status quo…letting the market handle it.
but you should read it I am pretty sure their is a link on his website
2.how is Obama going to over come the inexperience issue ( in reguards to the Military) we may be at war before long not over security but over oil.
Powell, Hagel, NATO Commanders and ex generals that are backing obama now (especially those coming out of afghanistan)…
but even more than that …there is rumor being floated now…don’t know how true it is that he will ask Robert Gates to stay on and Gates has let it be known he would be open to that.
3.will McCain live out his term?
I would say of course… but I know a LOT of people his age have an issue with …his age. I do not.
4.What can Obama do to change this Economy?
The wealthy tax ratio has really only grown over the past few decades at half of the rate as the rest of Americans (the top 5% or so) …that needs to be corrected… most experts say between 60 and 70% of our economy is driven by middle class retail.
and for the long term…we need to be ahead of everyone with the greenign of the world…and the industry that will power that. as hard as that is that means we need to get this country off oil.
but go read his plans and policies…but he has the top “what you might call” “humanitarian” billionaires all advising him already.
Bush has made too many enemies in the real conservative wing of the republican party.
all of this is just a taste.
I am probably the only one who actually likes McCain’s battery 300 mil idea… but i bet when it is all said and done it is one of the few that Obama would take on…
but on the whole he is backed by 2-3 times the amount of economists than McCain
(and that is why Mccain is dissing economists)

RUH ROH! Now Michelle is going to scratch her eyes out because she had the AUDACITY to not mention the Messiah! HOW DARE SHE! The NERVE of that woman!
Watch out Hill! Now they’re REALLY mad!
Bwahahahaha! Tough luck, BO. Hillary isn’t your tool. She doesn’t have to worship you and her supporters don’t either.
Hillary supporters: DO NOT STAY HOME IN NOVEMBER! In order to defeat BO, we MUST VOTE AS A BLOCK to defeat this illegitimate, anointed candidate…should he be allowed to steal the nomination from Hillary. YOU MUST VOTE FOR McCAIN.

He isn’t really playing nice – just what he has to do and say to get elected.
You know a new kind of politics -
McCain or Clinton 08 – no other choices

and questioner
you are one of the only persons on here who would actually use “they didn’t ask my friends”
as a way to refute polls…

Clinton supporters are so weird. Clinton herself is a Machiavellian freak of nature. If Obama is gracious to Clinton, her supporters call him a wimp, and too weak to be president. If he sharply criticizes her, then he is a brute. Blah blah blah. It’s sore loser syndrome.

“I assume from the polls…that Americans want the focus to be on the issues…”
The biggest issue in THIS election is whether a mob-backed “post-partisan” can buy the Democratic nomination for president. They COULD buy the governorship of Massachusetts (a state primary His Grace couldn’t win), where the Axelrod-invented Deval Patrick — another so-so “black” guy who was run through Harvard — is in deep doo for siding with casino mobsters against the people.

Just got an email from Rev. Wright’s disciple soliciting money for the DNC. Fat chance! Not a dime will go to him or the DNC.

HP Boston
that is why Obama disagreed on healthcare with Hillary…the mandatory stipend doesn’t work…
but we have to do more than what Mccain and Bush have been talking about.
If we don’t then there is no saving any of social security…and eventually …no one will be able to afford healthcare with the surcharges and billing and legal fees issues because hospitals most often can’t turn someone away…and it would be a shame on a developed country if they could.
Obama’s plan is about cost first…unlike what they did in Massachusetts.

Obama Haters:
What is your TRUE reason for hating the man so much? If he’s not your candidate of choice, just don’t vote for him. But it’s disingenious to make up lies about the man.
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Lies? His actions speak for themselves.

Liz…you tell me. What lies? His actions seak louder than words.

“Ma Belle this debate is about issues…”
And the MAIN issue is the closet-right’s lie-and-buy attempt to install post-partisan fake Obama, the unctuous “black” guy from nowhere, as the “Democratic” nominee.

Texas Lil:
I’m sorry. I meant to ask “What actions are you referring to?”

Just kidding; of course I’ll never vote for him. But it’s going to take more pandering to women than a little setup “make nice” speech to get those who might cast a vote for him.

Glad to see that Bill and Hillary got some well needed rest and are back. She will do what she “has” to do and I think no more than that. Bill owes the party nothing. I hope that is how much time he gives Obama.

Bill owes the party nothing. I hope that is how much time he gives Obama.
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As an Obama supporter, I agree whole heartedly. Keep Bill away from the campaign! He already did enough for Obama in the primary.
Thanks Bill!

I think it amazing that the same people who want to trash Obama for beating Clinton also wants him to pay her campaign debt.
Just bizarre

“Obama is so far left, he is off the charts. You can’t trust the guy.”
You certainly CAN’T trust Obamessiah, but he’s NOT “left” at ALL.
Obama’s weird little policies are actually RIGHT wing (with the possible exception of this little senior-tax blabla he’s running right now — a crass and transparent attempt to attract over-50 voters who KNOW he’s a fraud — which will be something else by next week).
“We need Franklin D. Roosevelt back again”, as the old song says. That’d be John Edwards.

So what? Obama was not mentioning Clinton during the last primaries at all. He actually completely ingored her and projected himself as the nominee and took on McCain. Forgot that?
At that time, this Thapar was praising obama, off 600M how much rushed into his coffers?

It is a disgusting thing to hear Obama tell Clinton supporters to “Get over it” I find those words even more repulsive than when Bush was given the Presidency (unjust as well)and every arrogant, cocky, supporter of his enjoyed the sick pleasure of bellowing that phrase over and over to Al Gore and his supporters! “Stop whining and get over it” Well look what happened- look what that choice leader did to the U.S! We should now be bellowing back “How are we to get over this mess?”
We have come to expect and accept degradation and bullieing attitudes from the GOP but I never thought members of my Party would stoop to such an unfeeling emotional, level of conscienceness, or ever believe those in higher places would follow GOP suit by using and enjoying such immoral tactics!

Well, I know my neice recent college grad,(thx. I paid for it) a first time voter, is not getting over the Hillary thing. She thinks Obama stole the nomination from Hillary.

OK so Obama is trying to buy senior votes, buy women votes, buy deadbeat dad votes, buy college student votes, . Let’s see who’s missing. Oh yea, those who are now paying the majority of taxes in this country. Get ready to get taxed to death.

Well, I know my neice recent college grad,(thx. I paid for it) a first time voter, is not getting over the Hillary thing. She thinks Obama stole the nomination from Hillary.
Posted by: danni | Jun 23, 2008 3:46:04 PM
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Your money was well spent, smart girl!
Thursday is donate to McCain day!!

If Hillary is not VP, vote McCain!

Why should she mention him all the times in public?
He has so many SD endorse him and praise him all times.

Why should Hillary heap praise towards Obama on a video for funds? Maybe it was a matter of respect that she left him out.

Hillary should stay far far away from Obama. She needs to go back to the Senate and run again in 2012 because neither of the fools running will be in for more than one term.

Maybe Hillary can hold her nose and campaign for him.
But….I can NEVER hold my nose and vote for him!!!!!
Nobama 08

1. Totally delusional… those expecting the Clintons to be groveling-losers. You are still all over the web with digs at Hillary, Bill, AND their supporters… yet you expect everyone you belittle to vote for Obama????
2. Bill Clinton is angry at (and hurt by) Obama and the media for portraying him as a racist. Maybe Obama should SINCERELY apologize. That would be a start, but I do not expect that to happen.

As always, the Clintons feel that they are owed. Her campaign debt is an obvious example.
Full disclosure: I gave to all the Democratic candidates except Clinton, Kucinich and Gravel.
Can someone tell me why I should help the Clintons – with their $100+ million – dig themselves out of campaign debt??? Why should I, a clerical worker, help out a couple who’s debt is one-fifth of what they own? The Clintons could lose $20 million and never miss it.