Hillary, Are You Freaking Kidding Me?

I was enjoying an uncharacteristically smooth commute this morning on the Southern State Parkway on Long Island. It turns out that it's spring break for a lot of schools. Yay for me!

Then it was interrupted by one of the most ridonkulous, inconceivably hypocritical things I have ever heard. And my day, at about 7:50 AM, was already ruined.

NPR's Morning Edition was covering statements made by Sen. Barack Obama and a response made by Sen. Hillary Clinton. Those statements:

Obama: "You have a real choice in this election. Either Democrat would be better than John McCain. And all three of us would be better than George Bush."

Clinton: "We need a nominee who will take on John McCain, not cheer on John McCain."

Oh, my freaking god, are you f*cking kidding me, Sen. Clinton?

Now, I have actually been on a political primary coverage hiatus because I felt that the rhetoric and the general existence of the media was getting way out of hand -- nitpicky, nasty, trivial, completely counterintuitive. I was writing this all off as part of the typical bloodsport that is politics, of which I'd been as enthusiastic as any sports super-fan. But at some point a couple of weeks ago, many weeks post-NY primary and already knowing for whom I'd be casting my vote, I gave the hell up on heavy duty political coverage. I can't not follow the news and the campaign, and they certainly won't be ignored, Daniel, but I just can't anymore.

And Clinton's most recent idiot comment just convinced me that I should stick a piece of rawhide in my PT Cruiser's cup-holder for my daily dose of Morning Edition.

How in the name of Santa Claus does she think she's getting away with this? Because just last month, she was thinking Sen. John McCain was more qualified to be president than another Democrat:

"I think that since we now know Sen. (John) McCain will be the nominee for the Republican Party, national security will be front and center in this election. We all know that. And I think it's imperative that each of us be able to demonstrate we can cross the commander-in-chief threshold...I believe that I've done that. Certainly, Sen. McCain has done that and you'll have to ask Sen. Obama with respect to his candidacy."

Or this little gem:

"I have a lifetime of experience I will bring to the White House. I know Senator McCain [the presumptive Republican nominee] has a lifetime of experience he will bring to the White House. And Senator Obama has a speech he made in 2002."

Really? And yesterday it would have been absolutely stupid to think that John McCain couldn't be a better president. Wow. I think that blood vessel in my temple just got a little bit closer to bursting. Someone please, just wake me when it's over.

Comments

[nton]

10:51 PM on 04/21/2008

hypocrisy your middle name is HRC. she has done this before and the MSM don't call her on it but dutifully play the footage without any rebuttal or context. Glad we have the internet since we can no longer rely on the MSM. HRC is smart enuf to realize that they rely on soundbites even on shows where there is supposed to be serious analysis. Anyone listening to her today would have been left with the impression that Obama was praising Mccain not criticizing Bush - which is exactly the lie she wanted to perpertrate.
"There ain't nothin' more powerful than the odor of mendacity...You can smell it. It smells like death."

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

[irishgawdess]

10:14 PM on 04/21/2008

Hillary is pandering to the internet challenged demographic. Why she continues to contradict herself almost weekly (at this point) is beyond me. Hillary, ever heard of "GOOGLE?" It's used as an action verb now, and lots of people are doing it everyday.

Jamie, I hear ya about the blatant hypocrisy. From a Democrat?? This is republican cheerleader FOX News territory. Evidently Hillary *is* borrowing from the Carl Rove play book.

BTW, loved your headline!

[missjabez]

09:49 PM on 04/21/2008

I'm glad the NC debate was cancelled. We've had enough debates, and I don't want to see another debate like the one we had last week.

[lincat]

10:11 PM on 04/21/2008

I am freaking glad that there will be no more debates. I am so sick of Hillary's crap.

[NoFactsJustTruth]

09:48 PM on 04/21/2008

I'm absolutely convinced now, there can be no more doubt. Hillary Clinton IS karl rove



...'in drag'.

[JayJ1130]

08:40 PM on 04/21/2008

Check out this jerk cheering on John McCain-
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/03/clinton-praises.html

[lawchic]

07:42 PM on 04/21/2008

THANK YOU. When I read that she said that, I thought it was a joke. I literally had to check to see if it was an actual quote. Because SURELY this couldn't be the same Hillary Clinton that all but gave a rubber stamp to John McCain a couple of weeks ago. Surely it couldn't. I mean, I'm chocking on the hypocrisy myself, but I didn't make the statement.

[SethBLiNK]

07:17 PM on 04/21/2008

Sounds to me like she just endorsed Obama. I guess we can move on now.

[civitat]

07:17 PM on 04/21/2008

Hillary is willing to say anything. She reminds me of the worst lawyers I know: Those who will throw any argument at you, even if it's inconsistent with what they said before.
For some of the best Clinton hypocrisy, be sure to check out Bill Clinton's 2004 "fear versus hope" speech on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGW38Zy4bJo. He urges voters to support candidates who build on hope, instead of those who instill fear. Too bad Hillary's running her fear-mongering Bin Laden ad right now!

[JayJ1130]

08:35 PM on 04/21/2008

Obama should be running that as an ad tonight.

[meltingpot101]

07:10 PM on 04/21/2008

Hillary would like us all to believe her insted of

our lying eyes

our lying ears

and our

FOOLISH CONCLUSIONS

[Amminadab]

06:35 PM on 04/21/2008

So it is terrible, bad, and evil when Hillary does it......

but a-ok, okey-dokey, good when Obama does it.

Same as with "shame on you".

These Obama double-standards are really grating.

[Terriac]

06:57 PM on 04/21/2008

Yeah, except that it really started with her.

[lisakaz2]

06:59 PM on 04/21/2008

That quote only says McCain would be better than Bush, HRC said McCain would be better than Obama. There IS a difference. Can you really not tell, not to mention admit to your own candidates hypocricy?

[Cherlesq]

06:30 PM on 04/21/2008

And, then two hours later the Rendell video of his speech lauding Farrakhan was really too much and yet we have no TV/Radio media on it. Amazing.

[WAstateliberal]

11:27 PM on 04/21/2008

Dan Abrams did it (Rendell). And Amminadab, the differences here are obvious: First, ANYONE, right down to my 3 year old, would be better president that Bush. This is a truism. Second, the issue is not that Obama said it but that she, yet again, made an ass out of herself by acting like she hadn't done the same thing a month and a half ago. Did you see the SNL Petraeus skit? They called her out for this type of shit.

[plutorage]

06:02 PM on 04/21/2008

The latest I heard from Hillary went something like this: "Some people say 'yes, we can' (a reference to Obama's slogan from Spanish, si se puedo, meaning actually it can be done) but I say "yes, we will".

As usual this was followed up with her message that she will "fight" for us, from day one and "take on those evil people not just talk about it.

But it is all talk, isn't it? just like slick willie, right?

[Petey]

05:43 PM on 04/21/2008

And Bill now, with a self-righteous tut-tut, saying Barack has resorted to "throwing the kitchen sink." We could go on an on with their hypocrisies... It'll be interesting to see if Rendell's embracing of Farrakhan will be be picked up in the mainstream after Hillary tried to smear Barack with Farrakhan in last week's debate.

[lucylou]

05:23 PM on 04/21/2008

please don't do her any more favors by posting her ridiculous rants.

[Independent voter]

04:47 PM on 04/21/2008

Good post. Nobody can figure out what the hell hillary will do or say next.

This thing, hillary, is not the kind of thing that you want to entrust with the nuclear football or the federal budget. It is frightening.