Washington Post: Clinton Veers To The Dark Side

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Washington Post   |  Anne E. Kornblut   |   April 3, 2008 10:37 AM

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It almost always comes when the audience least expects it: the moment Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton brings a roaring crowd to a hush with a heart-rending anecdote.

"I remember listening to a story about a young woman in a small town along the Ohio River, in Meigs County, who worked in a pizza parlor," the Democratic presidential candidate said during a stop in Cleveland, beginning a particularly grim tale.

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- BTJ See Profile I'm a Fan of BTJ

New York Times reports today that Clinton's story of a woman dying in Ohio because she was refused medical service is not true: "The woman, Trina Bachtel, did die last August, two weeks after her baby boy was stillborn at O"Bleness Memorial Hospital in Athens, Ohio. But hospital administrators said Friday that Ms. Bachtel was under the care of an obstetrics practice affiliated with the hospital, that she was never refused treatment and that she was, in fact, insured.
"We implore the Clinton campaign to immediately desist from repeating this story," said Rick Castrop, chief executive officer of the O"Bleness Health System."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/05/us/politics/05woman.html

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:04 AM on 04/05/2008
- bobo209 See Profile I'm a Fan of bobo209

Defeat will lead hillary to the DARKSIDE OF THE FORCE..YODA.I feel a disturbance in t he clintonic galaxy..lying to win will not work vladamir clinton.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:45 AM on 04/04/2008
- PioneerKing See Profile I'm a Fan of PioneerKing

This isn't the entire story about the pregnant woman. Sen. Clinton does more than fail to mention the debt to the hospital Sen. Clinton has convoluted the details in a gross manner.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 12:59 AM on 04/04/2008
- missjabez See Profile I'm a Fan of missjabez

It's fine for her to have her own speaking style, but why does she have to sneer at Obama's oratory gifts? The way she's always condescending to him offends me greatly. Actually, I think she's jealous of him.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:00 PM on 04/03/2008
- unmutual See Profile I'm a Fan of unmutual

Comparing Hil to Darth Vader is BS. This site makes Drudge Report seem classy. Apparently there is no room for Clinton supporters here.

It is really disheartening to see the Clintons be turned on by Democrats and knee capped by the media.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:59 PM on 04/03/2008
- missjabez See Profile I'm a Fan of missjabez

Well, the Darth Vader is in bad taste.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:11 PM on 04/03/2008
- Thurber See Profile I'm a Fan of Thurber

I agree, huffpost should be above it. That said, wasn't it Hillary that compared Cheney to Darth Vader?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:17 PM on 04/03/2008
- editrix66 See Profile I'm a Fan of editrix66

You know, I am voting for Obama, but this headline and picture is uncalled for. So she is using anecdotes about people who suffer from our horrible healthcare system. That is her right. Let's not adopt the tactics of Fox News and distort eveything, ok? It makes us look stupid.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:58 PM on 04/03/2008
- capsaicin See Profile I'm a Fan of capsaicin

I am an Obama supporter as well, and I agree -- but the headline is Washington Post's headline, not Huffington Post's. However, the Vader picture does nothing but hurt the cause and further alienate any remaining Hillary supporters, whose support we need and should respect. I just hope this battle is over soon enough for them to move through the 5 stages of grief and get back on board before the general election. :)

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:29 PM on 04/03/2008
- Anie See Profile I'm a Fan of Anie

Your sensitivity to others who are needed in November is unusual here. So, kudos.

In even the Gallup poll showing Clinton with only 37% favorable ratings and Obama with higher ones, that same poll showed them neck and neck at 45% as far as voting goes.

Quinnipiac poll yesterday shows, per Reuters:

"In a general election matchup in Florida, McCain closely trails Clinton 42 percent to 44 percent but McCain leads Obama, who would be the first black president, 46 percent to 37 percent..."

In Ohio, Clinton has a 48 to 39 percent lead over McCain after months of too-close-to-call results..." In an Obama-McCain matchup, Obama gets 43 percent against 42 percent for McCain.

In Pennsylvania, Clinton tops McCain 48 to 40 percent and Obama leads the Arizona senator 43 percent to 39 percent.

http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN0234370120080402?sp=true

When the popular vote is even now only 1% apart, the closeness of the actual voting numbers when Florida and Michigan aren't counted yet, if ever, means there are a lot 'remaining'... WHEN neither candidate has won 2025 or so, and the closeness is the reason for a bothersome 2-person race, there's a lot of tension over it.

If Clinton loses Pennsylvania, that will signal the actual end for her. Until then, things are close, in actuality, and it can make Obama supporters fear that they can still somehow lose a rare opportunity and communications more tendentious as a result.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 11:43 PM on 04/03/2008
- Thurber See Profile I'm a Fan of Thurber

I agree completely with your sentiment, but this is likely another Clinton Sniper Fire Story.

The facts just don't add up. Violating the EMTALA (Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act) can result in fines in the hundreds of thousands of dollars and your hospital being shut down. If this story is true, then the hospital would have violated that act, costing themselves $150,000 in order to collect 100 bucks! Sorry, I'm not buying it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMTALA

Then there's the medical facts themselves. I'm having a hard time coming up with a plausible scenario where the woman could get all the way home, then all the way back the next day, only to end up dying and losing the baby. Any labor complication I can think of that could have such a tragic result, would happen over hours at most, not days.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:13 PM on 04/03/2008
- Whinger See Profile I'm a Fan of Whinger

I rememember, I remember the place where I was born..........

Hillary's memory is as imaginative as John McCains' is vague!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:20 PM on 04/03/2008
- Grannysue See Profile I'm a Fan of Grannysue

She reminds me of Leona Hemsley, yikeeeeeeeee.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:58 PM on 04/03/2008
- dibby See Profile I'm a Fan of dibby

Huffpo - seriously? The vader side by side...nice touch. You make me want to donate just a little more to the Clinton campaign.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:36 PM on 04/03/2008
- AlphaDoc See Profile I'm a Fan of AlphaDoc

Big fan of Darth Vader, are you?

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:07 PM on 04/03/2008
- EspritDeVoltaire See Profile I'm a Fan of EspritDeVoltaire

Personally, I think the black outfit makes her look much younger.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:33 PM on 04/03/2008
- Rule Of Law See Profile I'm a Fan of Rule Of Law

And thinner!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:59 PM on 04/03/2008
- sweatybronson See Profile I'm a Fan of sweatybronson

Oh Huffpost. There was no credible reason to put that picture of Darth Vader up there, except because your editors are as skeezy as Karl Rove.

Stop endorsing Obama. It makes him look bad.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:25 PM on 04/03/2008
- nick1936 See Profile I'm a Fan of nick1936

Yes this Blog has turned into an Obama love in and has made me think about not voting in this upcoming election after all my wife and i are in our late 60's so how much trouble Can john senile McCain cause us

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:50 PM on 04/03/2008
- AlphaDoc See Profile I'm a Fan of AlphaDoc

>so how much trouble Can john senile McCain cause us<

Two words: MORE WAR.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:12 PM on 04/03/2008
- Aleka See Profile I'm a Fan of Aleka

You are right, but it did make me laugh.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:31 PM on 04/03/2008
- lobear00 See Profile I'm a Fan of lobear00

Hillary , " get some rest, you look tired. At your age you would not be able to get up and out of bed to answer that little red phone. You should take that 50+Million you and Bill have and go out and buy yourselves an Island.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:19 PM on 04/03/2008
- verlaine See Profile I'm a Fan of verlaine

Hillary Clinton has ALWAYS been on the Dark Side. She is biologically incapable of telling the truth.

Hillary is a lying sack of excrement and her campaign will be remembered as one of the dirtiest and filthiest in Democratic Party history.

Hillary is an atrocity and abomination as a person.
Her campaign is based on race baiting, fear mongering, triangulation, and lies.

Hillary has no class, dignity, or gravitas. She needs to be swept into the wastebasket of history where she belongs

Almost as repugnant and repulsive as Hillary are her supporters in the media - Richard Mellon Scaife, Joe Scarborough, and Lou Dobbs

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:12 PM on 04/03/2008
- MPeter See Profile I'm a Fan of MPeter

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/3/28/134518/720/978/486159 Meet Hillary. She fibs and fibs some more, supported by her coach and lover, Bill Clinton and of course, Clelsea, the fruit of that love. Here is her mythical contribution to Northern Ireland.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:48 PM on 04/03/2008
- eshalom See Profile I'm a Fan of eshalom

The media's sleazey attacks on Hillary Clinton, amplified on the Huffington Post, plus the swarms of frantic Obamahiles, tells us that Obama supporters, including his media goupies, are justifiably terrified their candidate cannot win on his merits.

That explains the well-oiled Obama slime machine, spewing its venom 24/7 at the Clinton family.

If you haven't got the qualifications necessary for the presidency, then you have to resort to every low level attack in the book to win. That's the tragic dimension of this year's Democratic primary in which the Obama camp has already disgraced itself by trying to force Hillary Clinton out of the race and disenfranchise millions of Democrats who have not had the oppportunity yet to vote.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:24 PM on 04/03/2008
- Aleka See Profile I'm a Fan of Aleka

Sorry. We think he already HAS won on his merits.

He's got the better run campaign - better organized, better able to mobilize others, better able to win delegates, better able to budget, pays his bills on time.

Hes got the most pledged delegates, the "popular vote", the most states. He's doing very well in the polls, particularly against Hillary.

No, he is a wonderful candidate who has certainly earned his nomination.

What we are afraid of is that Hillary will actually succeed in stealing it by unfair means.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:37 PM on 04/03/2008
- sherifffruitfly See Profile I'm a Fan of sherifffruitfly

Er, Palpatine.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:59 PM on 04/03/2008
- sherifffruitfly See Profile I'm a Fan of sherifffruitfly

She looks more like Palatine, of course.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 04:58 PM on 04/03/2008
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