James Carville Compares Bill Richardson To Judas

James Carville Compares Bill Richardson To Judas

NY Times   |  ADAM NAGOURNEY and JEFF ZELENY   |   March 23, 2008 10:08 AM


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"I talked to Senator Clinton last night," Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico said on Friday, describing the tense telephone call in which he informed Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton that, despite two months of personal entreaties by her and her husband, he would be endorsing Senator Barack Obama for president....

...The reaction of some of Mr. Clinton's allies suggests that might have been a wise decision. "An act of betrayal," said James Carville, an adviser to Mrs. Clinton and a friend of Mr. Clinton.

"Mr. Richardson's endorsement came right around the anniversary of the day when Judas sold out for 30 pieces of silver, so I think the timing is appropriate, if ironic," Mr. Carville said, referring to Holy Week.


 
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- bakossi I'm a Fan of bakossi 2 fans permalink

Each day the Clinton's redefine chutzpah. Who are they, of all, people to talk about loyalty? Have any two people in the last hundred years of politics thrown more people under the bus than Bill and Hillary Clinton? Can anyone name ONE person (other than their own daughter) that the Clintons have shown ANY loyalty to when the political heat was anything higher than luke-warn, if that? These people routinely blame subordinates for their own mistakes (I always thought it was supposed to work the other way around, but for the Clintons the buck stops anywhere but here), triangulated their own party into minority status in the 1990s, and they think they have the right to call someone who defects from their camp "Judas?" Do they, at long last, have any shame at all? I think the answer is no. They're so used to lying that they seriously believe that an absolute bald-faced whopper, inaccurate in every particular, like Hillary's account of her trip to Bosnia can be dismissed as a mere "mistatement," a "minor blip." Incredible.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:14 PM on 03/25/2008
- wmholt I'm a Fan of wmholt 31 fans permalink
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James Carville here compares Bill Richardson to Judas and Hillary Clinton to Jesus. I will not discuss the unsavory comparison of Hillary Clinton to the Son of God. That speaks volumes about the woman and the campaign on its own.

Why did James Carville use this specific terminology? Could it be that he knew that Bill Richardson’s endorsement would carry a lot of weight with Hispanic voters?

I believe that, being aware of the fact that many Hispanic voters are Catholic, Carville sought to blunt the impact of Richardson’s Obama endorsement by comparing Bill Richardson to the greatest villain in Christianity in the greatest drama of all time.

Speaking of Judas, it has been hard to forgive James Carville’s betrayal of Al Gore in the 2000 election. He phoned his wife, who was working for the Bush campaign, and told her that the Gore campaign intended to fight for a recount in Florida.

With that knowledge, they brought in the Republican bag man, the “fixer”, James Baker, from George H.W. Bush’s administration. We know what happened next. The Supreme Court did not uphold the right of Floridians (and the United States) to have their vote counted.

Faux outrage in the “Brooks Brothers Riot” was demonstrated by campaign operatives, in expensive business suits, behaving like a mob and making the people recounting the votes feel as if they were in danger of a lynching.

They stopped counting votes after the GOP initiated “riot” and the Supreme Court decision that literally awarded the 2000 Election to Bush in a bloodless coup.

James, thanks in part to your phone call to your wife, you allowed the Republicans time to go on the offensive and block the recount at every turn.

Judas? I guess you would know.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:30 PM on 03/23/2008

Don't forget that Richardson thinks that you choose to be gay, therefore you can be cured. Does Obama really want a Richardson endorsement? Or perhaps Richardson is still running for VP and thinks that now is the time to jump on to the Obama bandwagon.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:41 AM on 03/23/2008

Hey...Rich­ardson already explained that he misspoke about the gay issue. Your argument makes no sense. You are going to pick that moment out of all Richardson's achievements? Get intelligent.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:57 PM on 03/24/2008

And don't forget that Hillary wants to amend the Constitution to make it illegal to burn an American flag because that is really the problem w/ this country. What kind of prison sentence does Hill recommend? Maybe she should ask her friends Rupert Murdoch and Richard Mellon Scaife.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:49 AM on 03/28/2008

That's so pathetic. And are we to think Hillary is "Jesus Christ?" Way to alienate those who support her if they're not Christian. As today is Easter — I'll not go into why there isn't any proof of his 'actual' existence. But yuck.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:10 AM on 03/23/2008
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