Thank you, Mayhill, for inflicting serious damage on the Democrat's historic opportunity to take back the White House, and on a candidate uniquely qualified to address this country's tattered reputation in the world.
Who did your "exclusive" beneift, besides you and the GOP? Who are you to advise Mrs. Clinton on preserving her dignity and taking the "high road"? Were you taking the high road" when you dropped a Demoratic candidate's words at a private fundraiser on a highly trafficed web site? Would not the "high road" have been a confrontation with the candidate on his choice of words which offeneded you, and given him a chance to either clarify or correct or confirm? Instead you saw an opportunity for an "exclusive", and literally stabbed the Democratic party in the back.
I hope you go away. More people will remember you with derision than you know. You owe all Democrats an apology for the damge you have done.
Hillary, Go With Grace
Today Hillary Clinton is hosting a Celebrating Generations of Women fundraiser in Washington, DC. Her mother and her daughter will be with her. Clinton team leaders have an opportunity to attend and honor other women, whose stories will be included in the book commemorating the event. What better and classier occasion for Hillary Clinton to pass on the torch? For surely among a younger generation will come our first American woman president. In the best scenario, Senator Clinton would only begin the process of closure at the luncheon and so not overwhelm the honorary nature of the occasion. The following day, the Clintons have planned to campaign in Oregon--Ashland of all places. (A less likely source of votes for Clinton I can scarcely imagine.) It's going to take awhile to bring the campaign locomotive to a halt. But an event celebrating women would be a good time to start putting on the brake.
Not that Senator Clinton is going to take my advice, when she hasn't heeded the wise words of long-respected, well-known journalists. But she should. As many observers of the North Carolina and Indiana primaries have noted, Senator Clinton has been magnificent on the stump at the end of the road. But it is the end, and she has the opportunity to leave on a grace note.
Senator Clinton should take the first step to unite Democrats, and that move is going to require balletic grace, because the few remaining states (not to mention Puerto Rico) will want to raise their voices just as the other forty-five have done. Clinton's Indiana victory speech suggests that she is not ready to take the high road. To give her the benefit of the doubt, she probably hasn't the first idea at this moment how to step down. She's been racing too hard, too fast to find perspective quickly. Someone may have to grab her hand and help her down. In adversity, in campaign doldrums, Senator Obama stuck to a few things he knew to be true and prevailed. Prevailing will have a different outcome for her, but Hillary Clinton needs to find that compass, too.
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Mayhill, I wasn't happy about the "bitter" piece either -- seemed like a non-story to me, and a distraction -- but I never would have thought the media and the Clinton campaign would have spun and magnified it the way they did given how non-inflammatorily you wrote your original piece. And you've worked your ass off chasing the candidates around East of the Mississippi -- without pay. You don't deserve the harshness or the amount of flak you're taking here. Hang in there!
Mayhill, the person who should "go with grace" is you! I wonder if you can ever forgive yourself for sending out that blog about "bitterness" and hurting Obama's chances so terribly. Just think: had you not been at a fundraiser to which you were not invited, none of this brouhaha would have occurred.
But never mind: Obama has made his comeback, Hillary is wallowing in a sea of her own racist commentary, and all shall be well.
One other thing: bear in mind that the wonderful blue-collar undereducated gun-toting vote Hillary claims to control is the vote that elected Hitler to office. Let McCain have it; there are plenty of other constituencies in the U.S.
" As many observers of the North Carolina and Indiana primaries have noted, Senator Clinton has been magnificent on the stump at the end of the road. But it is the end, and she has the opportunity to leave ..."
Are you are talking about candidate(s) Bill and Hillary Clinton? Rose colored glasses?
They have NOT been magnificent.
A compulsive liar, who lies like a sieve, and call that candidate "magnificent"? Are you telling me that throwing the "nuke" word out there, when it behooved them to play the fear game to win is magnificient when she ignored the congress who she should be addressing about nukes and not recklessly throwing around the "nuke" as if it were her plaything? ---That her (and McCain's) gas tax break was a 'magnificent' , in spite of mostly all economists pointing out it was a terrible idea, and then call it "magnificent" when she tried to bully whip congress by putting forth the logically false proposition that you are either with me or against me, then, calling respected economists "elitist"?
I doubt very much if she, knowing what we know now and what we have seen of the three Clintons, if she would go with grace. She does not know the meaning of class, or grace, or humility. I think she is finished with her political career. She will serve out in the Senate, and I would guess is going to have a difficult time of it getting elected again to that seat.
I suggest, along with your advice to Hillary and Bill to leave, that you also recommend they get behind Obama and steer their supporters toward Obama so that , at long last perhaps we can have our country back again with a true Democrat , one with grace and dignity, in office.
Mayhill, I hope that you find your own moral compass as well.
Hear hear.
Well said, sclucie!
I agree
Mayhill: you're absolutely right that this event is a perfect opportunity for her to bow out. FWIW, though, Southern Oregon is a pretty good place for her to campaign -- more like parts of California than most of Oregon, with a pretty strong vein of conservative-libertarianism.
Like Ashland, for example?
Well, she's actually going to Central Point. And there's Medford... Cave Junction... that country music-singing blonde from American Idol is from that area. It's California North. (I live in Portland, and my mom grew up just across the border from Ashland in Happy Camp.)
does this mean you'll be voting for Sen Obama now ?
Well, your ambush attempt didn't work very well did it? You and Hellary tried your best to ruin a good man's reputation by using voters fear and prejudices against them. I'm sure you'll never see what you did as a vile and repulsive thing, but I thank you for coming out now and asking her to withdrawal gracefully.
The poster before me suggested we need people like you to unite the party, so the olive branch is extended.
C'mon people! Quit the cheap shots on Hillary and Fowler!
As Obama supporters, we should try to reflect the values and demeanor of our candidate, and be gracious in victory.
Look, I've had many many issues with Ms. Fowler the last few weeks, and I was ROYALLY PISSED when I found out it was she who sold him out to the MSM over that "bitter" controversy.
However, now is not the time to settle scores. Ms. Fowler is obviously a vehement supporter of Senator Clinton and while I do not agree with her tactics, I can respect the passion she feels for her candidate. And most of us have way more in common with her than we do with those Right-wing nut jobs on FOX or Newsmax! We are going to need support from people like Ms. Fowler to pull this thing off in November, so now we have to begin the healing process.
I think in a strange way, all of this adversity Obama has had to face, however painful, has made him a better candidate for the fall.
So whaddya say, let's try to keep some sanity in this discourse and rejoice that our candidate, the guy with the big ears and the funny name, IS GOING TO BE THE NEXT POTUS!!!!
DEMOCRATS UNITE! Gobama '08
I don't think people are attacking Clinton as Obama supporters. I know that I am disgusted with her actions because of how willing she has been to throw her fellow Democrat to the dogs, to slash and burn the Democratic party chances, and to use old-style politics more harshly and ineptly than the republicans themselves.
We're not Obama supporters attacking Clinton: we're Democrats, Independents, Republicans; blue-collar-workers, unemployed, and white-collar workers; men and women, minorities and caucasians; but most of all, we are Americans.
We attack her because we are outraged at her actions, her selfishness, and the damage she has inflicted to our chances to have a president who will effect change in a government rife with corruption, nepotism and stupidity of the sort she has displayed in droves during this race. We know Obama is above attacking her as we are. But it's our nation, and we have every right to call her out for sacrificing it--and us--us for blind ambition.
But attacking her -- now that everyone but her and a few dead-enders know her campaign's over -- is self-destructive. Even if someone is illogically attached to HRC, I still want their votes in November, and from my lurking at the more rabid pro-HRC sites (e.g. Taylor Marsh's), many of them would vote for Hitler before Obama. That's how far they've deviated from rationality -- but that's also how much work we've got in front of us if we don't want an unnecessary obstacle to the White House.
Buck up, Mayfair. So your sleazy Bittergate smear wasn't successful? Better luck next time you
try to bring down a decent candidate.
The good news is that the day Hillary finally faces reality and withdraws, there will be a big party
for her -- with Richard Mellon Scaife, Pat Buchanan, Joe Scarborough, the entire FOX crew,
Charlie Gibson, George Stephanopolous, and YOU attending.
You have that to look forward to.
Don't try & clean your act up now lady, as KATEFRANKLIN said: "YOU'RE GROUNDED"--Traitor. Don't try & abandon the Hill Ship now!!!
Sure, Hillary should go with grace. But Mayhill, you should go first.
AMEN!!!!
I still don't understand how you can misinterpret MAYHILL FOWLER, PeaceChristBwithU, and the rest of her detractors. She is working both sides, OBAMA, HILLARY. Observing, taking notes. Describing what was happening, the environment each candidate was working to, what was actually said. OBJECTIVE reporting with yes, her subjective take, but unbiased far as personally promoting either candidate. Makes me wonder how you can read stuff that really IS biased and know that it is.
Lets see who has the most grace, you Mayhill or Hillary!!
"Go with Grace."
But first... there's a little matter of $11.4M in campaign debt owned to your primary backer.
Maybe just a few more fund raisers.
But she won't go where anyone thinks she should. She'll go where she wants to go.
Honestly, the main strategy of GWB was the ability to
ignore experts,
ignore polls,
ignore the fundamentals of economics,
ignore critics,
control the conversation
and do what he wanted to do: "the decider".
Hillary has the same DNA... she will go where she wants, when she wants and it will
take a determined Democratic Party to tell her otherwise.
But, it is nice to see you propose the idea of unifying the party... there is an enemy to
progressive values and it's name is greed.
And Bush was qualified? Jesus, people, wake up. Clinton had her chance. She voted for the war. Despite the stupidity and lack of historical perspective (the 8 years the Clinton's had in the Whitehouse and her voting record as a Senator) the people of PA were stupid enough to fall for Clinton's ridiculous "I'm just a blue collar mug like you" BS. Look at the woman's voting record, for the love of Mike, and past the fact that she can knock back a shot or two of rotgut.
Whether Obama can lead us out of the mess that the Republicans and the Clintons/DNC/DLC got us into is an open question, but we know damn well that the Clinton had their chance and did absolutely nothing with it...8 years worth. Do you people have no long term memory at all?
Even if Obama is lacking in experience, he, like the Republicans before him, will hire the right people to get their agenda accomplished. In the case of Bushco, it was to get us mired into a protracted war. With Obama it will be to heal the country and get back to becoming a nation that deserve the respect of the rest of the world.
Not sure you've noticed... but there's not a lot of grace in the comments on Huffing for Obama.
Hillary is a great American and has announced that she plans to continue the race. Your advice does not define what it means to make a graceful exit. It would be gracious of you to allow Hillary to exercise her best judgement and continue the candidacy until all Democrats have exercised their primary votes.
Many Democrats won't forget the disservice of their arrogant and dissonant brothers and sisters.
If it's her best judgement to continue the only way she can, which is diminish the presumptive nominee at every turn, then she doesn't have the judgement to lead the country.Which is what Obama has been sayin all along.
Sorry Russ. She's done. Get over it.
If she's done... I'm done, too. Tired of this ragged tent.
then you'll have to live with McCain for at least four years -- and without Roe v Wade for forty. Really: it's not about either candidate, it's about a Court with 7 members over 70 and one who just turned 88.
Half the voters knows Obamas not qualified.
the other half hopes he is.
What are Hillary's qualifications? - Not doing much in the senate. Failed at her first attempt for health care. Voted for a illegal war. Wants to obliterate small countries.
I will take anyone without such 'qualifications'.
Actually Hillary is a female Lieberman . She should leave the democratic party and form a fence sitter party with Lieberman and go whichever way the wind blows.
Half the readers on this website "knows" you can't talk good (sic). You're grounded. Now go to your room.
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