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The Media's Clintonitis
Taylor Marsh — ... The Hill adds more. Only in America’s media would the only two-term president since F.D.R., and the only woman to ever get 18 million votes and almost win the nomination be considered "sunset figures." Newsflash: This continual storyline is not helping the Democrats unite. That’s the point. The American press want to make this all about the Clinton’s "passing," as Obama takes the helm. Guess what, the Clintons aren’t going anywhere. I know this will come as a shock to many, but as I wrote ...

Bill. Shut the fuck up, already.
Blah3 Feed — My God. Somebody please sneak up behind Bubba with a roll of duct tape and slap it over his mouth so he doesn't spew shit like this any more. ...

Bill Clinton Undercuts Barack Obama - AGAIN
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... Bill Clinton, now in Denver, has undercut Barack Obama again. The former president, speaking in Denver, posed a hypothetical question in which he seemed to suggest that that the Democratic Party was making a mistake in choosing Obama as its presidential nominee. He said: “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 ...

Awesomely awesome: Clinton asks crowd, why vote for a guy you agree with if he can’t get things done?
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... Just an innocent hypothetical , totally unrelated to anything in the news about a disgruntled bloc trying to decide between an ineffectual neophyte with whose policies they agree and an effective veteran with crossover appeal. And to think, ...

Bill Clinton, keepin' it real
Citizen Crain — ... have done a marvelous job already. But for those who spent so many years enabling Bill Clinton's particular brand of political onanism, some gay Democrats might want to privately wonder whether this is just desserts for a party (and a gay movement) that hollowed itself out for the sake of this man's political success in the 1990s. Yes, the first significant moment of Democratic National Convention 'truthiness' -- what I'd meant when ...

Matt Lewis: Is Bill Clinton Undercutting Obama?
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog — From The Hill : Bill Clinton appeared to undermine Sen. Barack Obama again Tuesday. The former president, speaking in Denver, posed a hypothetical question in which he seemed to suggest that that the Democratic Party was making a mistake in choosing Obama as its presidential nominee. He said: "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 ...

HillWatch — Day 2 of Party Unity
Pundits Blog — ... I am about to jump out of my chair." 3) Hillary Clinton said to the New York delegation Monday, "It may take awhile. We're not the fall-in-line party." 4) According to The New York Times, Hillary told aides "the Obama campaign could end the bad blood with her husband by simply acknowledging his policy accomplishments and efforts at racial reconciliation in the 1990s — in amends for what the Clintons saw as a lack of respect from Mr. Obama during the primaries." 5) According to a report by The Hill's Sam Youngman, Bill Clinton said today: "Suppose you're a voter, and you've ...

Quote of the Day
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire — ... -- Bill Clinton, quoted by The Hill, evidently still fighting the Democratic primary election. He quickly backpedaled, saying "This has nothing to do with what's going on now." ...

Bill Clinton Strikes Again
The Corner on National Review Online — ... ] Seriously, is the guy a secret McCain agent or what? The Hill reports as follows: Bill Clinton appeared to undermine Sen. Barack Obama again Tuesday. The former president, speaking in Denver, posed a hypothetical question in which he seemed to suggest that that the Democratic Party was making a mistake in choosing Obama as its presidential nominee. He said: "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 ...

Required Reading: The Incorrigible Bill Clinton
Weekly Standard Blog — From The Hill, “Bill Clinton in Denver Again Undercuts Obama” by Sam Youngman Let me be clear – since he burst onto the political scene some 17 years ago, I have been no fan of Bill Clinton. It is thus confusing and disorienting to be feeling a tingling up my leg nearly every time the former president approaches a microphone these days: DENVER — Bill Clinton appeared to undermine Sen. Barack Obama again Tuesday. The former president, speaking in Denver, posed a hypothetical question in which he seemed to suggest that that the ...

Right Jab
Hotline On Call Part Deux — ... Just hours before Hillary Clinton address the Democratic National Convention in Denver, it appears her husband is attempting to undercut Barack Obama's effort to unify the party. The Hill has the story. ...

Even in Denver, Clintonian Rhetoric Leaves Door Open
Pundits Blog — ... , The Bourbon Room (yes, you read that right), reports on a meeting led by Hillary Clinton's former campaign manager, Maggie Williams. The message? If, at the end of the day, Hillary Clinton has not convinced you that Barack Obama is the best candidate for president, i.e., better than Hillary, Clinton supporters should vote their conscience. You know that means: Vote for Hillary. That's Punch One. Punch Two comes courtesy of The Hill's own Sam Youngman with a story headlined "Bill Clinton in Denver again undercuts Obama." In his piece, Youngman quotes Clinton as saying, ...

Bill Clinton Swipes At Obama In Remarks Again
The Moderate Voice — In the history of both parties we have seldom seen such a spectacle: Bill Clinton appeared to undermine Sen. Barack Obama again Tuesday. The former president, speaking in Denver, posed a hypothetical question in which he seemed to suggest that that the Democratic Party was making a mistake in choosing Obama as its presidential nominee. He said: “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 ...

Loving the Clinton story
Ben Smith's Blog — This strikes me as scraping the bottom of the barrel a bit on the Clinton conflict story: Bill Clinton in Denver again undercuts Obama DENVER — Bill Clinton appeared to undermine Sen. Barack Obama again Tuesday. The former president, speaking in Denver, posed a hypothetical question in which he seemed to suggest that that the Democratic Party was making a mistake in choosing Obama as its presidential nominee. He said: "Suppose you're a voter, and you've got candidate X and candidate Y. Candidate X agrees with you on everything, ...

Dalliances In Denver
A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days — ... that McCain wins, the Clintonians will be positioned to tell everyone and their pet canaries that they told us so, that they warned us that only Hillary Clinton would be strong enough to win the general election and that come 2012, everyone and their pet canaries ought to make sure that they listen to the Clintons instead of being caught up in the latest political fad. Speaking of the Clintons . . . well, you really didn't think that you would go long before reading something like this , now did you? Bill Clinton appeared to undermine Sen. Barack Obama again Tuesday. The ...

Bill Poses a Hypothetical
Real Clear Politics - TIME.com — The Hill is reporting : The former president, speaking in Denver, posed a hypothetical question in which he seemed to suggest that that the Democratic Party was making a mistake in choosing Obama as its presidential nominee. He said: "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?" Then, perhaps mindful of how his off-the-cuff remarks ...

Off-the-Cuff Clinton
Patterico's Pontifications — [Guest post by DRJ] It can get worse than this for the Obama campaign but not by much: “The former president, speaking in Denver, posed a hypothetical question in which he seemed to suggest that that the Democratic Party was making a mistake in choosing Obama as its presidential nominee. He said: “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 ...

We Take Your Silence As Agreement
Daily Pundit — TheHill.com The comments are unlikely to be taken as an innocent mistake by those Democrats who continue to be angry with the former president for, they say, not supporting the Illinois senator wholeheartedly, if not implicitly undercutting him. There is nothing the left likes better - or demands more - than lockstep groupthink. Unfortunately, the disease crops up on the right, too, but not quite as virulently.

Bill Clinton in Denver again undercuts Obama
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... presidential nominee. He said: "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?" Then, perhaps mindful of how his off-the-cuff remarks might be taken, Clinton added after a pause: "This has nothing to do with what's going on now." Read more: http://thehill.com/campaign-2008/bill-clinton-in-denver... I can barely believe this. Can't he ...

DAY'S END ROUNDUP
News — ... Former president Bill Clinton has openly shown resentment toward Barack Obama with a comment on candidates’ ability to “deliver,” some bloggers suggest, while others lament that Sen. Joseph Biden (D-Del.) and the Democratic National Convention have failed to give Obama a poll bump. Clinton hinted today, not subtly, that Obama won’t be able to get anything done in office when he said voters should side with candidates who can deliver, ...

Whose Side Is Bill Clinton On?
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines — ... 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?” Then, perhaps mindful of how his off-the-cuff remarks might be taken, Clinton added after a pause: “This has nothing to do with what’s going on now.” Read more READ THE WHOLE ITEMRelated ...

Denver - Day 2: Hillary’s Night
Sister Toldjah — ... —– And speaking of Bubba: Proving once again what a consumate jerk he can be, The Hill is reporting that The Slickster is slying trying to “undercut” Obama just two days before he makes his acceptance speech at Invesco Field: ...

Viking Pundit — Tuesday, August 26, 2008 Asked and answered Politico: " Denver drama: Can Clintons get over it? " The Hill: " Bill Clinton in Denver again undercuts Obama " And Hot Air previews Hillary's speech: " Obama who? " posted by Eric at 8:38 PM Comments: Post a Comment HOME

Oh, for the love of the Clintons
The Reaction — ... , that Bill seemed to undermine Obama by implying the party made a mistake in selecting him as its nominee, that Hillary surrogate Ed Rendell ...

Links for 2008-08-26 [del.icio.us]
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — Hillary Clinton Watch: Snubbed by Obama But Gets The Speech Gallup Daily: No Bounce for Obama in Post Biden Tracking It's official: Barack Obama has received no bounce in voter support out of his selection of Sen. Joe Biden to be his vice presidential running mate. TheHill.com - Bill Clinton in Denver again undercuts Obama Bill Clinton appeared to undermine Sen. Barack Obama again Tuesday. The former president, speaking in Denver, posed a hypothetical question in which he seemed to suggest that that the Democratic ...

Dalliances In Denver
RedState: Conservative News and Community — ... Speaking of the Clintons . . . well, you really didn't think that you would go long before reading something like this, now did you? ...

Bill Clinton in Denver again undercuts Obama
USS Neverdock — This is so much fun watching the Democrats self destruct. "He said: "Suppose for example 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 person can deliver on anything. Candidate Y disagrees with you on half the issues, but you believe that on the other half, the candidate will be able to deliver. For whom would you vote?" Then, perhaps mindful of how his off-the-cuff remarks might be taken, Clinton added after a pause: "This has nothing to do with what's going on now." Heck no. Wink, wink, nudge, ...

links for 2008-08-27
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... (tags: Barack_Obama William_Ayers) TheHill.com - Bill Clinton in Denver again undercuts Obama Bill Clinton appeared to undermine Sen. Barack Obama again Tuesday. The former president, speaking in Denver, posed a hypothetical ...

The surreal messages coming from Hillary Clinton
Betsy's Page — ... that served her purpose of giving the Democrats a sense of buyer's remorse. But the whole thing is so surreal. Everyone knows that deep down, Hillary would like Obama to lose so she could run again in 2012. And if we had any doubt, Bill Clinton is out there with semaphores signaling their ambivalence about Obama. Sure, she came out and talked all about why McCain had to be defeated and we couldn't have another Republican president. She said the words urging Democrats to unite in electing Obama, but it was rather a generic endorsement saying we need a Democrat in the White ...

Hillary's lukewarm endorsement; Bill's dousing in cold water
The Next Right — ... She basically said that Democrats should vote for Barack Obama because they agree with him. But here's what Bill Clinton said yesterday about "Candidate X" and "Candidate Y": ...

8/27: Did Hillary's Speech Work?
Blogometer — ... you in it for that young boy and his mom surviving on the minimum wage? Were you in it for all the people in this country who feel invisible?" CLINTON III: The Bare Minimum Most conservative bloggers believe that Clinton didn't praise Obama enough in her speech and that her speech did little to sell Obama to her disgruntled supporters: A few conservative bloggers thought the speech was somewhat effective: CLINTON IV: Ah, Smell The Disunity! Conservative bloggers are buzzing about the following remarks made yesterday by Bill Clinton (which some have interpreted as a shot at ...

Liveblogging Bill Clinton and Sen. Biden
News — ... Clinton and Democratic vice presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden (D-Del.) Wednesday night at the Democratic convention. Clinton is is scheduled to speak at around 9:05 p.m. ET. Biden will take the stage after 10 p.m. After Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) urged her supporters Tuesday to back her former rival, Barack Obama, for president, the political world will be watching Bill Clinton to see how far he's willing to make the case for an Obama administration. Clinton seemed to undercut Obama on Tuesday, when he seemed to question whether Democrats were making a mistake ...