I woke up this morning after an historic night to be faced with the fact that Hillary is still here, refusing to go.
That thought reminded me of this cartoon published last month in Spain’s El Mundo. Very fitting for today – we’re past the finish line, the game is over but Hillary continues to hang on to the donkey’s testic^^s…certainly not his tail.
OOOuuuch! That cartoon is no longer hillari..ous.
The following reactions capture the disgust from quite a sampling of minds. Please read to the end – the post from Will Bunch – “People Died so tonight could happen” – a historic night that in my view the Clintons sabotaged.
Maureen Dowd in the NYTimes (HT:The Hatman Drudge)
” “He thought a little thing like winning would stop her?
Oh, Bambi.
Whoever said that after denial comes acceptance hadn’t met the Clintons.
If Hillary could not have an acceptance speech, she wasn’t going to have acceptance.
“It’s never going to end,” sighed one Democrat who has been advising Hillary. “We’re just moving to a new phase.”
Barry has been trying to shake off Hillary and pivot for quite a long time now, but she has managed to keep her teeth in his ankle and raise serious doubts about his potency. Getting dragged across the finish line Tuesday night by Democrats who had had enough of the rapacious Clintons, who had decided, if it came to it, that they would rather lose with Obama than win with Hillary, the Illinois senator tried to celebrate at the St. Paul arena where Republicans will anoint John McCain in September.
But even as Obama was trying to savor, Hillary was refusing to sever. Ignoring the attempts of Obama and his surrogates to graciously say how “extraordinary” she was as they showed her the exit, she and a self-pitying Bill continued to pull focus. Outside Baruch College, where she was to speak, her fierce feminist supporters screamed “Denver! Denver! Denver!”
Even as Obama got ready to come out on stage for his victory party, the Clinton campaign announced that it had won a Wyoming superdelegate and Terry McAuliffe introduced her at Baruch as “the next president of the United States.” She gave a brief nod to Obama without conceding that he was the nominee before rushing through a variation on her stump speech. She clung to her fuzzy math about winning the popular vote, and in one last fudge she said: “Thanks so much to South Dakota. You had the last word” — even though the Montana polls still had 25 minutes to go.
“What does Hillary want?” she mused, in her most self-aware moment in some time. “I will be making no decisions tonight,” she concluded, asking fans to go to her Web site to share their thoughts.” ” [.]
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“Right up until the end, a part of me really wanted her to pull it off. Oh sure, I grant the Obamaniacs everything: Hillary’s divisiveness, her baggage, her “likeability issue”-all fueled by her special blend of moral flexibility and arch moralism. On a good day, Hillary Clinton rubs approximately half the country the wrong way. And as her fading primary prospects made the good days ever rarer, the candidate, her team, and most particularly that unhinged husband of hers pulled a variety of stunts that reminded all of us exactly how fatiguing the Clintons can be.
Still it breaks my heart to see her laid low.”
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‘You HAVE LOST the nomination. There are NO MORE primaries. And you’re urging your supporters to nurse their bitter feelings on your web site, and keep selling their bikes to give you money that you’ll spend on… what? The unseemliness — and, yes, destructiveness — of this is too obvious to mention, though perhaps not obvious enough to have occurred to you.
This is a new low.”
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“So she’s going to leave it to her voters to decide whether she should accept defeat after having, you know, lost? What if every losing candidate left it to their supporters to decide whether or not to accept the outcome of a race? Who would ever accept defeat?
What good could possibly come of this?
With Hillary proclaiming herself the legitimate winner, they’re clearly going to say “keep going.” If she actually does keep going, that’s a disaster for the Democratic Party. And if she doesn’t, you’ve just drawn a ton of attention to the fact that a large chunk of the party doesn’t accept Obama as the legimiate nominee. No, worse: you’ve encouraged them to think that, then drawn attention to it.”
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“Hillary Clinton had one last chance, tonight, to exit the stage with dignity. She missed it.”
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I don’t know what the fallout will be, but at minimum, I’d say that anybody on her staff who cares about their party has a moral obligation to publicly quit and endorse Obama.
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“I still know some really good dirt about Obama, and I’m going to huddle with my advisors over the coming days to figure out how we can get this out there.”
OK, I just made that up. But seriously, what is her motivation for not getting out at this point?”
Now Hillary’s surrogates are making excuses for her not conceding and pushing for her to be the VP running mate:
“She needs time for her supporters to absorb the defeat.” – Madeliene Kunen, former governor (D-VT) told NPR.
The VP slot is the pick of the nominee. It’s insulting to force Clinton on the ticket. It’s disrespectful of Obama. He is not a kid, a boy.
Johnson should know better. It’s past time for Hillary to go.
It’s despictable. Last night Hillary and Bill Clinton deliberately, with pre-meditated malice denied Obama’s legitimacy and the meaning of this historic event. People will remember where they were, how they helped make this happen.
It was only forty five years ago:
Will Bunch “People died so tonight could happen”
The following article was datelined Aug. 5, 1961, and appeared in the Sunday New York Times the following day. It was headlined: BLIND RIDER HELPS BREAK COLOR LINE:
JACKSON, Miss., Aug. 5 (AP) — Two Freedom Riders, a blind white woman and a Negro, broke the segregation barrier today in a Jackson, Miss., bus depot.
When that landmark event took place, Barack Obama was all of one day old. He was born on Aug. 4. 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii.
Here’s some other stories that appeared in the Times the week that Obama was born:
3 U.S. SUITS SEEK VOTES FOR NEGROES:
WASHINGTON, Aug. 8 (UPI) — The Government filed three civil rights suits today. They charged that Negroes had been denied voting rights in Montgomery County, Alabama, and Walthall and Jefferson, Davis Counties, Mississippi.
NEW CANAAN GETS HOUSING-BIAS POLL:
NEW CANAAN, Conn., Aug. 5 — A survey to determine whether Negroes would be welcomed as home owners here is being taken by the local branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
On the day that Barack Obama was born, there were no black federal judges in the United States — that would not happen until the day after:
HYANNIS PORT, Mass., Aug. 5 (AP) — President Kennedy has decided to name James Benton Parsons as a Federal district judge. He will be the first Negro appointed to such a judical post in the continental United States.
On the day that Barack Obama was born, black people in a number of cities and towns across the United States could not swim in the same public pool, drink from the same water fountain or use the same restroom as white people. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was still nearly four years away on Aug 4, 1961.
Between the day that Barack Obama was born and 1968, at least 28 people were killed as they actively worked for the rights of black people to live in an integrated society, vote, and eventually run for public office. Their names are:
Louis Allen, Willie Brewster, Benjamin Brown, James Chaney, Vernon Dahmer, Jonathan Daniels, Henry H. Dee, Cpl. Roman Ducksworth Jr., Medgar Evers, Andrew Goodman, Samuel Hammond Jr, Jimmie Lee Jackson, Wharlest Jackson, Martin Luther King Jr, Rev. Bruce Klunder, Herbert Lee, Viola Gregg Liuzzo, Delano H. Middleton, Charles E. Moore, Oneal Moore, William Moore, Rev. James Reeb, Michael Schwener, Henry E. Smith, Clarence Triggs, Virgil Ware, Ben Chester White, Samuel Younge Jr.
These men and women did not die in vain.
This the Clintons will deny?
A new low, low for the Clintons.
Ingrates.
