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Clinton Camp Reeling-In Bill

New York Times   |  Jeff Zeleny and Carl Hulse   |   January 27, 2008 10:16 PM


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Senator Edward M. Kennedy was set to endorse Senator Barack Obama for president on Monday as part of an effort to lend Kennedy charisma and connections to Mr. Obama as he heads into a 22-state showdown with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The disclosure of the endorsement, which followed a public appeal on Mr. Obama's behalf by Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of President John F. Kennedy, was a blow to the Clinton campaign and pits leading members of the nation's most prominent Democratic families against one another.

Beginning with a joint appearance and rally in Washington on Monday, Mr. Kennedy, a major figure in party politics for more than 40 years, intends to campaign aggressively for Mr. Obama, heading West this week, followed by appearances in the Northeast. Strategists see him bolstering Mr. Obama's credibility for the office and providing particular benefits with union members and Hispanics, as well as the party base.

Both the Clintons and their allies had pressed Mr. Kennedy for weeks to remain neutral, but Mr. Kennedy had become increasingly disenchanted with the tone of the Clinton campaign. He and former President Bill Clinton had a heated telephone exchange earlier this month over what Mr. Kennedy considered misleading statements by Mr. Clinton about Mr. Obama, as well as his injection of race into the campaign.

Mr. Kennedy called Mr. Clinton on Sunday to tell him of his decision.

The endorsement appears to support assertions that Mr. Clinton's campaigning on behalf of his wife in South Carolina has in some ways hurt her candidacy.

Campaign officials, without acknowledging any faults on Mr. Clinton's part, have said they will change tactics and try to shift Mr. Clinton back into the role he played before her loss in the Iowa caucuses, emphasizing her record and experience and steering clear of criticizing Mr. Obama.

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DOWN WITH BILLARYGATE AND RACI$M!

DOWN WITH BILLARYGATE AND RACI$M!

DOWN WITH BILLARYGATE AND RACI$M!

HILLARY = BU$H!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:12 PM on 01/28/2008

The Clinton campaign would like us all to believe that Bill is a loose gun - that his comparison of Barack Obama and Jesse Jackson was just the ranting of a protective and competitive husband. But the truth, alas, is both more sinister and more disappointing.

Bill Clinton, who I once greatly admired, is embracing the hateful and divisive tactics of the right to beat a black man. His comments were quite deliberate. It is part of the Clinton campaign's continuing attempts to have Obama labeled and marginalized as the "black candidate." The difficulty for Obama is that responding to such filth means getting dragged down into it. That's why they call it race bating. Bill just laughingly puts his racist analysis out their and waits for others to respond. It doesn't matter if the analysis is valid (it clearly isn't - remember Iowa, Billy Boy?) All that matters is that more media time gets spent focusing on Barack as a black man. He is a black man, but he is also a Harvard Law graduate, a community organizer, an experienced legislator and a gifted leader.

Thusfar, Barack has mostly succeeded in deflecting this hate-slinging (the flare over Hillary's comments about King and Johnson notwithstanding.) The reward for his patience and honor seems to have come today with the endorsement of Ted Kennedy. Hopefully, the rest of the nation will recognize the foul and odious nature of Clinton-style politics by choosing a more inclusive and honorable leader.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:02 PM on 01/28/2008

You guys are hysterical... there is nothing new here... the MSM plays their games with their favorites and you are crying foul... what a joke... when their bias goes against the Rep candiate this fall I now know that this website will be calling for equal time... how comforting??!!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:59 PM on 01/28/2008

Yeah, well...spin it as you will...Michelle Obama has played exactly the same role..and more obviously defensive and aggressive. The difference of course...is that she is a woman supporting her man. God forbid Bill who is hated for cheating on his wife, should turn out to be supportive of her...pretty much, the guy can't catch a break from some people.

Go back and look at how "negative" and "hostile" Bill's comments were. The Obamas' played the victim, and then played the underdog who turns the tables. It was like watching Wrestling. Anyway, after years of running, I just hope someone is in the White House for more than a few weeks before this all starts again.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:58 PM on 01/28/2008

I've been at a loss since the experienced guys all quit. Thanks, Bill! You've made it easy now for me to choose who our nominee will be. We don't need Team Clinton, which is what it appears we will get if we vote for Hillary. Go, Barack!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:32 PM on 01/28/2008

It's time for hill to pack her carpetbags and bill to take his bimbos back to the ozarks and never be heard of again. It's time. It's high time.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:24 PM on 01/28/2008

The only "care" Bill has for Hillary is that she work to get him back in the White House, pushing his Republican agenda on many levels while roaming freely in search of entertainment more appealing than admiring himself in the mirror or on TV. That's difficult for him but he managed it with his hands-on approach before. No co-Presidency! No Clintons!

And if we are going to hope for an Obama to give us the leadership that JFK and RFK, please let's manifest that leadership without the mob connections and the womanizing that both of them brought to their work. Monica Lewinsky was courting danger but she didn't die for it as did Marilyn Monroe. Let's get ourselves a President with smarts and integrity. Yes we can!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:18 PM on 01/28/2008
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-----CLINTON SLEEZE FATIGUE WILL INVIGORATE GOP, DISPIRIT DEMOCRATS AND SINK DEMOCRATIC TICKET-----

-----EDWARDS/OBAMA TO WIN-----

It is possible that Senator Clinton is the best candidate. However, even though many may like the policies that Senator Clinton proposes, they should also consider her record, just as Senator Clinton insists.
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The last Clinton Administration, when faced with the fact that protection rackets where assaulting, torturing and murdering people with poison and radiation, chose to avoid its responsibilities to incarcerate the criminals and to protect the citizenry.
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Instead, they made a deal with the criminal gang stalker protection rackets to leave them alone and to consequently abandon the citizenry.
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Do we want a President who sells out the citizenry for votes?
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Do we want a President who sends a "crime does pay" message to society?
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Would you vote for a President who signed nonaggression deals with the KKKlan or the Nazi party? Gangs that torture with poison and radiation are much like the KKKlan and Nazi Party.
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We do not need a sellout President. We need a principled leader President.
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If you are one of the few who do not know what the above refers to, do a web search for "gang stalking" to see the tip of the dirtberg. Please do it before you decide to reply to my post. Here let me make it easy for you: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=%22gang+stalking%22.
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    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:18 PM on 01/28/2008

The most divisive element in our country at the moment is not the Clintons or the way they campaign, but the news media, which rarely provides objective analysis, has yet to dig deep on each of the candidates and which capitalizes on and spins anything it sees as being even remotely divisive.

Take for example news of Senator Kennedy's endorsement..."all Kennedys back Obama...division between two important political families--Kennedys and Clintons...." The media has failed to report that Bobby Kennedy, Jr., Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, and other Kennedys are supporting Hillary. So it seems some Kennedys support Obama and others support Hillary. The division here--amongst the Kennedys, not between the Clintons and the Kennedys.

The remarks that set off this "division" were not, on their face, actually divisive;...how the press chose to report, or distort, these comments is what led to feelings of division this past month.

The public is losing because the media is so enamored by scandal, division and intrigue that it looks for it constantly, as opposed to providing us facts needed to make decisions.

Another example, Obama and Hillary called a truce...In the following debate NBC correspondents kept it up. Hillary went off to other states last week to campaign there, effectively ceding South Carolina to Obama (trends showed that he would get 80% of the black vote...he did...you can't win the dem primary when 80% of the majority votes for your competitor)...but the press chose to cover Bill, who is not running for president, instead of Hillary who is running). The press is keeping this going. Let's call them on it and get them to stop!

Bill needs to tone it down--he isn't running. But the media needs to become objective, tell us the news--not its feelings and cover the candidates equally. It ought to also investigate the backgrounds of each candidate, so we can know what the skeletons are, if any.

I just want the truth--that's what news organizations were supposed to deliver.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:56 PM on 01/28/2008

"Kinder, gentler" Clintons? Way too fucking late!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:54 PM on 01/28/2008

You guys are hysterical... there is nothing new here, the Clintons are the Clintons, their antics are the same, tried and true.. what is different is the target - another Dem and suddenly you all get indignant like this is the first you have seen their dog and pony show!

if hill gets the nomination and their opponent is being treated in the same manner, I hope to see the same level of self righteousness - the absense of such would be hypocritrical, correct?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:16 PM on 01/28/2008
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Bill said that it was a "fairy tale" to vote for a black man.

Hillary's campaign said that Obama is white Americans' "imaginary black friend", and her campaign operative in NY said that Obama is "shuckin' and jivin'".

The Billary campaign is scripted, triangulated, focus-grouped, duplicitous, angry, mean-spirited, divisive, cutthroat, and uninspiring.

OBAMA IN 2008!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:15 PM on 01/28/2008
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Bill said that it was a "fairy tale" to vote for a black man.

Hillary's campaign said that Obama is white Americans' "imaginary black friend", and her campaign operative in NY said that Obama is "shuckin' and jivin'".

The Billary campaign is scripted, triangulated, focus-grouped, duplicitous, angry, mean-spirited, divisive, cutthroat, and uninspiring.

OBAMA IN 2008!

OUT WITH THE OLD, IN WITH THE NEW!!

HILLARY = BU$H

SEND SLICK HILLIE BACK TO THE ROSE LAW FIRM SO SHE CAN GO BACK TO DEFENDING WALMART!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:04 PM on 01/28/2008

As a woman and a life long Dem I would love to have voted for a woman for president. From the beginning I realized that if it were to be Hillary it would mean that I would have to go into that voting booth hold my nose and push the button. Now I can say that there is NO way. Between her and her husband running the sleezest campaign I have seen in some time from the Democrats I just CAN"T. I liked Obama and when I heard him speak at the Dem Convention make the remark that he would be our first black president. I just didn't realize it would be this soon. No I am NOT black. Is he ready? Not sure but one thing I do know is that this country is not ready to go back to the Clinton/Bush dynasty. People seem to think they will go back to the good times of the Clinton Admin. This is a new and different time and there is no guarentee that "they" the Clinton's can bring back those times. Give someone new a chance. We need new blood in this country. After the last eight years I can't believe why anyone would want to vote for someone as divisive as the Clintons.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:46 PM on 01/28/2008
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I've hardly said an unkind word about Bill Clinton in the past BUT... His 'bad cop' antics have probably gone a long way towards sinking his wife's hope of nomination. The impression that one come away with is an unseamly degree of *ruthlessness* in the Clinton camp. They're Tonya Harding to Obama's Nancy Kerrigan. The only thing worse that trying to break your opponent's kneecap is trying and failing.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:30 PM on 01/28/2008
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