Palin: Hillary Clinton's "Whining" Turned Me Off

Newsweek:

When Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin arrived backstage for our NEWSWEEK Women & Leadership Event in Los Angeles last March, John McCain had just wrapped up the GOP nomination. Palin had yet to endorse McCain--she liked Mitt Romney--and as we waited in the green room, I urged her to "feel free" to make some news on stage. She grinned broadly--looking back, I guess it was a grin of the Cheshire Cat variety--and thanked me for the offer.

Once onstage, together with Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano, Palin talked about what women expect from women leaders; how she took charge in Alaska during a political scandal that threatened to unseat the state's entire Republican power structure, and her feelings about Sen. Hillary Clinton. (She said she felt kind of bad she couldn't support a woman, but she didn't like Clinton's "whining.")

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Comments

[helloboyd]

Mc Cain Palin comparison?

[iPolitics]

How dare she attack Hillary Clinton. A fellow woman. A supporter of President Obama.

Palin: "Raped! No abortion!"

[Paula1953]

Has anyone told Hillary about this?
CAT FIGHT! MEOOOWWW!

[xcrunner77]

I hope so. I imagine you do not want to see Hillary truly pissed off. If Hillary isn't angry about such an unqualified woman being selected, as well as one who called Hillary a whiner, I would be very surprised. This should give Billary fresh enthusiasm for the stump.

[barackobama4prez]

If she isn't surprised and offended and moved to campaign hard for O, then it will signal to me that she was behind the scenes orchestrating or praying for this to happen.

[Truthmeter]

I think she's already pissed about the democrats picking an unqualified man for their nominee for President..doncha think?

[BetterDays]

Hillary won't touch this with a ten foot pole. She will watch everything self destruct and conduct herself with class and dignity.

[DrDave51]

Too Late!!

[OtayPanky]

I love this pick of McCain's, for several reasons.

REASON #1: McCain had one single solitary COGENT argument for choosing him over Barack - the experience argument. By choosing Sarah Palin, he loses entirely his legitimacy if he makes that argument again. He also has ripped that argument away from the RNC and various swiftboater types.

REASON #2: It pulls back the covers on the McCain campaign and shows just how desperate they are. If they had ANY confidence at all, they would never have thrown a Hail Mary pass like this one.

REASON #3: It calls McCain's judgment into question once again. You'll never hear Barack or Biden criticize McCain's judgment for this choice - they'll limit their criticism of his judgment to other issues. But choosing a VP is the single most important decision a presidential candidate makes - and lots of Joe and Mary lunchbuckets are looking at each other today and saying WTF, just like they would if the boss chose someone totally unquaified to be his #2.

REASON #4: It's going to push the great bulk of those fence-sitting Hillary supporters into supporting Barack. Now, more than ever, a vote for McCain is a vote against every goal that the woman's movement holds dear - three supremes, and a potential sixteen years more of anti-choice executive leadership.

Good job, Johnny!

[grumpygranny66]

I agree with you 100% Otay.

[cinemaven]

Otay (I love your user name), I agree on all of those points but I do think this choice will help McCain get those fringe exteme righties back in line. I think a lot of them were going to stay home but now with this little bambi shooting, polar bear hating super-breeder on the ticket, they might just go out to vote.... I don't think it'll make a difference though. Obama's speech kept the full attention of my 15 yr. old son and not only did he listen, he absorbed everything that was said. If it had that kind of impact on a kid who normally is only kept still by a new video game and puts on his OHNO face when I turn on the news, it was as powerful as it needed to be.

[BGDiNLV]

Good job!! My 5 and 9 year old watched the entire speech.Because it was historic for us in so many ways.Then after the speech my 5 year old says:Daddy, Barack wants to help EVERYBODY!!! I responded: Yeah he does man,yeah he does!!! Stay alert and do not take your eyes off the prize, 65 days to go!!!!

[richardgordon]

The choice of Palin as VP reminds me of an old joke about Dan Quale. "The secret service was given strict instructions that if the President (Bush Senior) were ever to be assassinated to make sure that the first order of business was to shoot Dan Quale."

[jeanie528]

Some posts are so transparent. Trash comments are always rooted in one of two things: greed or jealousy. In this case it's jealousy. Sarah Palin is no Hillary Clinton? Thank God!

[BGDiNLV]

Not transparent. let me make a comparision for you. I am AA,when Clarence Thomas was selected I moaned out loud.Of course he was BLACK,but he did not REPRESENT ANYTHING that i represented.It is not jealousy it is seeing it for what it is.That is what is transparent,that any BLACK MAN WILL DO FOR THAT pick at the time.So all of the BLACKS folks were to support this man. PLEASE ,here we are in 08.Now its a white woman for the v.p pick.Now you make the informed choice. At the time the AA community felt INSULTED,as should now you as a woman and most women anywhere.Remember Jeanie528 not any pick will do!!! Trust me we know.!!


Obama/Biden 08

[uffdacyd]

I have so many thoughts on this candidate. First of all, as a mother myself, I wonder how a woman with a special needs child of only 4 months, can find the time to devote to her child AND run for VP. I firmly believe that women can have it all but let's be real given the magnitude of this position. If heaven forbid, McCain gets elected and something happens to him, do we really want a sleep deprived mother answering the phone at 3am? McCain must really think little of the VP position or he would have gone with someone other than a cheerleader. I for one, can't wait for the VP debates!

I would like to thank Senator McCain for the pick. My die hard Republican in laws announced to the family last evening that they will be supporting Obama. Oh happy day!

[Veritas1]

DISSING HILLARY

This is an interesting entry from Palin's Wikipedia bio (it had been deleted, then reentered by the Wiki truth police):

"A possible consideration in Palin's selection was her appeal to former Hillary Clinton supporters in the contentious Democratic primary. Palin, when asked about Senator Clinton's complaints regarding her coverage by the press, said: [78]

'When I hear a statement like that, coming from a woman candidate, with any kind of perceived whine about that excess criticism or maybe a sharper microscope put on her - I think that doesn't do us any good, women in politics, or women in general wanting to progress this country. I don't think it bodes well for her, a statement like that. Because again, fair or unfair, it is there. I think that's reality, and I think it's a given, I think people can just accept that she is going to be under that sharper microscope. So be it. I mean, work harder, prove yourself to an even greater degree that you're capable, that you're going to be the best candidate and that is of course what she wants us to believe at this point. So, it bothers me a little bit, hearing her bring that attention to herself, on that level.'"

As a woman, I have to agree with her statement (above). But how will diehard Hillary supporters feel about the "whine" word applied to their candidate?

[Veritas1]

Note: I'm an Obama supporter.

[barackobama4prez]

you would think they would want to keep this woman out.....because they say sexism kept Hill out...not whining.

[Veritas1]

I agree, but McCain is desperate. It's what colleagues and McCain observers have talked about for years: His knee-jerk reaction to situations seen as beyond his control -- damn the consequences full speed ahead!

As someone wrote rather profoundly: I know Hillary Clinton, and she's no Hillary Clinton. Even as a tenacious Obama supporter I can wholeheartedly concur.

[renatam]

Sarah Palin, John McCain's "Mad Men" pick for VP -- who he met just one time prior to making the selection. Stuck in the 1960s - still - McCain sees himself as "Top Gun" in his delusional world, where to keep his anger under control-everyone does whatever he wants and allows him to DO whatever he wants. Cindy McCain's business interests must be well served by keeping this guy propped up all these years. Wonder what interests she has in Georgia -- that require Senators McCain, Lieberman, Graham -- and a cadre of paid lobbyists running McCain's Campaign -- to make their crisis w/RUSSIA our immediate priority w/out our Government elected representatives even having a chance to make their own evaluation. WHY would Cindy McCain have to go over to Georgia, herself -- in the middle of her husband's Presidential Campaign -- as ambassador for who, representing who -- and communicating WHAT to the Georgian President at war with RUSSIA.

Clearly, we have another situation w/fused political/business interests -- wanting to leverage OUR military to protect them in some way. A parallel business for-profit Government, if you will...joint ventured w/whatever sitting President is in Office...commoditizing American interests, outsourcing American technologies and jobs -- for big profits for the empires around the Clinton/Bush dynasties.

[mnash]

SP' husband works for energy BP Corp who is very, very connected to JM and his lobbyist. BP I believe has something to do with Georgia.

[renatam]

Yes...the oil oligarchy - Dick Cheney's priority -- will not go quietly.

[reelcobra]

It's great watching the supposed "progressives" here attack Palin and better yet defend Hillary, after months of ranting about how she needed to go away and let Obama play out the clock for the election.

A sick, hate filled bunch indeed!

Now let's unite behind Barak and avoid debating McCain until we get the white house!

[Nyland8]

Well ... she's a cute little breeder. I'll give her that.

But considering her positions - and considering her quote - she won't be taking a single vote away from Obama, and that's all that matters. Still we do have to worry about the fact that the ancient mariner has wrapped up all of Alaska's electoral votes.

All three of them.

LOL

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[cinemaven]

I guess when your trophy wife starts getting older you either ditch her, or if she's the one with all the money, you go out and get yourself a trophy VP *lol*

[grumpygranny66]

I'm more inclined to believe she was rewarded very well to accept the VP slot.

I wonder who did the p a y o f f ?

[mnash]

So "elitist"!!!!!

[barackobama4prez]

If I were HRC and had my sights on 2012, I would be on the news programs discussing this pick. Palin just hit the jackpot. She didn't EARN this spot, but yet she stands to benefit in history as the nations for female president by a fluke. That is an honor that I believe no one is qualified for as much as H illary is.

[Warmglobe]

And Hillary earned hers?

[richardgordon]

You don't think so? Where have you been living? Under a rock?

[barackobama4prez]

I don't know if you're being facetious or if you just want me to praise HRC. At the beginning of this year I was torn between two awesome candidates. Hi lla ry is still an inspiration to millions of women, and this week she reminded us of who she is. Palin is no Hillary.


No Way, No How, No M c Cain!

[grumpygranny66]

That will never happen. Sar ah may have just pis sed off HRC that she might be willing to work 24/7 to help put Barack in the WH.

The Rethuglicans should know by now, not to mess with the Clintons.

[TruepatriotinRI]

If McCain should succumb to illness or age before 2012 and Palin becomes President what would Hillary's chances be in 2012. Hillary must work against this to have a shot in 2016.

[renatam]

Worse, the Palin pick -- picking up the baton Hillary Clinton worked so hard to lay for her validtion of John McCain over Barack Obama -- will put the final nail in the coffin of Hillary's 2012 Presidential Campaign aspirations by making a total COMEDY out of a woman running for VP, who is totally unqualified just as Gerry Ferraro (of Archie Bunker's neighborhood in Queens, whose husband had questionable bus dealings - shall we say?) was. The lack of quality as the criteria for women candidates to be picked from obscurity by political machines -- makes a mockery of women voters and women candidates who are qualified, but are never chosen because they are too qualified and threatening to the established order.

After NH, Hillary Clinton and her expensive PRMACHINE-fused w/NYC-based corporate media -- began her "victim" narrative for "hard working....very hard working white Americans..." and, even Sarah Palin called this phase of Hillary's Campaign - whinning. African Americans agreed w/Gov. Palin's assessment - and by SC, it was evident Hillary was toast. Then began the REFUSAL TO CONCEDE phase, stepping up the "victim" narrative-joined by Bill Clinton -- and, the Clinton PR foundation laying for McCain's current advertising campaign(s). Carly Fiorina began courting Rush-PUMAs who he asked to vote for Hillary and she encouraged them to do so.

[renatam]

Hillary's brother has met w/Carly and the PUMAs prior to the selection of Gov. Palin. Hillary Clinton has now validated both McCain and Palin - as of yesterday. She did not attend Barack Obama's historic speech on Thursday. McCain has also been speaking w/Clinton before making his choice.

The dated, toxic and destructive Clinton triangulation strategy, which will go on the pile along w/Bush Inc.

Now - Hillary Clinton has leveraged her gender all her career - and run a woman-as-victim Campaign -- and Sarah Palin is the heir of this cycle. As with Gerry Ferraro who played this card -- to deflect from her husband's business dealings -- Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin, flawed candidacies will make a SERIOUS run impossible for another 20 years. These women, using their gender to game for advantage and as a rationale for their flaws - hold women back.

Gerry Ferraro's emerging w/the same "victim" narrative when she knows her husband's unvetted business dealings helped derail her candidacy -- is more of the same thing Hillary did this year w/Bill Clinton's STILL unvetted $1 BILLION empire amassed over a brief 7 years of a downturn.

[SpoxLogic]

Correction: Hillary WAS at Obama's acceptant speech - at least that was what KO reported right after his speech when he read Clinton's statement. For some reason the cameras never found her. Coincidence? I am kinda leery of such coincidences from the MSM.

Maybe they want folks like you to believe that she wasn't there, get upset and spread the rumor. They didn't get the chaos they were hoping for from the Clintons during the convention, and so want to start something now.

[barackobama4prez]

You may have a point or two. So are you saying Clynton actually WANTS this ticket to win so she can run again in 2012? Does she realize that Palin will have both Governor and VP to claim? Hill ran on experience. Palin will have more experience than hill..at least at the national level?

[PumaAnn]

What nonsense.

[ReportThis]

Wait a minute -- Hillary's whining turned me off, too. Hmmm .. I'm going to have to think some more about this Palin character. She just might have what it takes to be a heartbeat away from the Presidency.

[ByersL]

Yea, and an ego to match!

[JackND]

So is Emily's List and the like now supporting Mc'Cain?...with those organizations it seems that merely being a female trumps all other concerns.

[jingles32]

Nope. Both NARL and Emily's List have both loudly and clearly denounced the choice in no uncertain terms.

Press releases on the Palin pick from:

Emily's List:

http://www.emilyslist.org/news/releases/erm_statement_palin/

NARAL:

http://www.naral.org/elections/election-pr/pr08292008_palin.html

[barackobama4prez]

Statement from Ellen R. Malcolm, President of EMILY's List on Senator McCain choosing Governor Palin
Washington, DC -- Ellen R. Malcolm, president of EMILY’s List, issued the following statement on Senator McCain’s selection of Governor Palin as his Vice Presidential nominee:

"How ironic that, on his 72nd birthday, McCain has raised the question of whether his running mate is prepared to be Commander in Chief and lead the country. Governor Palin and John McCain are a good match because they both want to overturn Roe V. Wade, they both want to continue the failed economic policies of the Bush administration and they both offer more of the same that has led this country down the wrong path. McCain clearly sees the power of women voters in this election but has just as clearly failed to support any of the issues that they care about. His choice for vice president only reinforces that failure"

[ByersL]

No, they aren't. In fact they said she is completely opposite of Hillary.

[poropo]

all u pumas do you still want hillary to make history. may be no or yea.

[cinemaven]

PUMA's are a figment of the McCain cronies imagination (just as Sarah Palins qualifications are).

For anyone worried or thinking there's any kind of legitimacy to the PUMA nonsense, I'd direct them to the two major websites so they can see exactly what they are.... puma08.com and pumaparty.com are both almost devoid of activity other than by the few people who put them up. One look at them shows that it's less an organization than a tiny group of whiners who caught the imagination and agenda of the msn.

Everyone (without exception) I know who favored Clinton over Obama (myself included) is now an equally active supporter of Obama because he is the nominee and he embodies the principles we all believe in.

"No Way, No How, No McCain."
"Barack Obama is my candidate, and he must be our president."

[Quaoar]

Pumas are Republicans who only pretended to support Hillary.

[loyldem]

I am inclined to belive you.