Hillary: 'I'd Love To Talk To Rush'
Pushing on the Obama "wimp factor," Hillary Clinton phoned into a Charlotte NC talk show Monday and told the talk jock, "I'd love to talk to Rush... what do you think?"
We'd love to hear that one. Hillary's "interview" last week with Billo Reilly was a dream come true --especially for him; he hasn't stopped strutting and crowing about it ever since.
She stood up to him and didn't pander to him, unlike Obama's vanilla pudding showing on Fox News Sunday.
Meanwhile, Barack acts aloof and professorial; He's trying to run out the clock- a strategy that's working for him in these interminable primaries.
(We liberals love a sociology prof; someone who can answer a question in long, nuanced, and broad
anthropological terms. We aspired to be one at one time since soc-anthro profs seemed to be getting laid more than anybody. Barack, meantimes should practice so when someone asks him a dumb question about wearing a flag pin, he doesn't choke up and deliver a hesitant and nearly incomprehensible treatise when he should dispatch the questioner in a few sentences).
We've long said that Democrats should fearlessly tread onto conservative talk media, especially when races are tight. This boycotting of right-wing media is a fool's paradise which simply buttresses the conservative meme that liberals are afraid of a fight.
As always, this election will be won in the middle, wherein dwells the so-called Reagan Democrats, and the moderate Republicans of the McCain ilk; to ignore the media they haunt is folly akin to George Bush's refusal to sit down with Syria or Iran.
Conservative talk hosts are always blow hards who, when confronted face-to-face turn out (like Billo) to be paper tigers easily handled by a forthright fearless candidate.
We'll never forget when County Exec Ron Sims strolled unannounced into the KIRO studios to talk to Dori Monson, his most vociferous critic. Monson, (who in real life is a short little radio geek with a girl's name) was nonplused; and went, according to witnesses, into the bathroom for an inordinately long time. After being coaxed out with a cookie and a juice box, he was as nice as pie, even got his picture taken with Sims and and forgot all his bluster, and why he was angry.
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Barak is aloof because he doesn't want to talk to Rush?
Meanwhile:
About 12 Indiana nuns were turned away Tuesday from a polling place by a fellow bride of Christ because they didn't have state or federal identification bearing a photograph.
Sister Julie McGuire said she was forced to turn away her fellow sisters at Saint Mary's Convent in South Bend, across the street from the University of Notre Dame, because they had been told earlier that they would need such an ID to vote.
The nuns, all in their 80s or 90s, didn't get one but came to the precinct anyway.
"One came down this morning, and she was 98, and she said, 'I don't want to go do that,'" Sister McGuire said. Some showed up with outdated passports. None of them drives.
They weren't given provisional ballots because it would be impossible to get them to a motor vehicle branch and back in the 10-day time frame allotted by the law, Sister McGuire said. "You have to remember that some of these ladies don't walk well. They're in wheelchairs or on walkers or electric carts."
Yes, Im sure the sisters were trying to vote illegally.
Posted by: sparky | May 06, 2008 at 02:26 PM
Barak is aloof because he doesn't want to talk to Rush?
Meanwhile:
About 12 Indiana nuns were turned away Tuesday from a polling place by a fellow bride of Christ because they didn't have state or federal identification bearing a photograph.
Sister Julie McGuire said she was forced to turn away her fellow sisters at Saint Mary's Convent in South Bend, across the street from the University of Notre Dame, because they had been told earlier that they would need such an ID to vote.
The nuns, all in their 80s or 90s, didn't get one but came to the precinct anyway.
"One came down this morning, and she was 98, and she said, 'I don't want to go do that,'" Sister McGuire said. Some showed up with outdated passports. None of them drives.
They weren't given provisional ballots because it would be impossible to get them to a motor vehicle branch and back in the 10-day time frame allotted by the law, Sister McGuire said. "You have to remember that some of these ladies don't walk well. They're in wheelchairs or on walkers or electric carts."
Yes, Im sure the sisters were trying to vote illegally.
Posted by: sparky | May 06, 2008 at 02:26 PM
..and I think "Reagan Democrat" is an oxymoron. so there.
Posted by: sparky | May 06, 2008 at 02:36 PM
Well you just don't want to get into the 'habit' of doing that..hehe
Posted by: Duffman | May 06, 2008 at 02:40 PM
She's no dummy...that's a +-20-Mil audience. She's a gutsy lady and will be a gutsy POTUS!
Posted by: Duffman | May 06, 2008 at 02:52 PM
She's no dummy...
200 Economists (and common sense) would disagree with you, Duffman.
Posted by: mercifurious | May 06, 2008 at 03:11 PM
Agree about Clinton. After O'Reilly she could hold her own against Rush no prob.
Disagree about Gregoire. I heard her on Dori's show after the Lewis County floods and he rode her like she was Eight Belles, then sent her to the dog food cannery and fed her remains to Star. She actually seemed like she was on the correct side of the argument too and Dori had gone off without all the facts but she just didn't come across as strong enough to stand up for herself and, at moments, sounded like she was about to cry.
Posted by: Gay Gary | May 06, 2008 at 03:16 PM
If Hillary had any class, she would denounce Rush' "operation chaos" but since it works in her favor, she is all for it, like she was the mileage she got out of the Wright statements.
Posted by: Ray Tal | May 06, 2008 at 03:22 PM
I'm a retired Longshoreman, and I haven't voted for a Republican since George Herbert Walker Bush who was running against another one of these lace curtain liberals like Obama.These are the liberals who are killing our party. How did our party ever get separated from its blue collar base? I know Mccain would give our jobs to the Mexicans, but I frankly don't trust him with the the defe4nse of our country. Democrats win when they nominate somebody who has a pair. Hillary has a pair, but I don't trust her. I'll probably be voting for the old guy in the fall.
Posted by: sid viscous | May 06, 2008 at 04:03 PM
Hillary might have Wright working in her favor, but Barack keeps doing it to himself. Here we go again, another effete intellectual like John Kerry who hasn't got the vocabulary to hit back. How do Democrats keep losing? Why do they keep throwing away their chances?
This country isn't ready to elect a black man who talks in two-bit words and hasn't punched a time clock.
Posted by: Hal | May 06, 2008 at 04:25 PM
"This country isn't ready to elect a black man who talks in two-bit words and hasn't punched a time clock."
Substitute black for white and you have George W for the last 8 years, so what's your point?
Posted by: rayT | May 06, 2008 at 04:40 PM
I am very excited about watching the the campaign running against Obama. I'd love it even more to run against the fat cunt Hillary Clinton. I'd like to see her smashed, the messier the better.
McCain will run away with this because his Republican liberal philosophy coincides with the feelings of the nation this year.
No woman will be suitable to run this country EVER. They are too detail oriented and emotional. Hillary is especially vile and sneaky. Voters, even many women, get this. Let the women clean up and wipe the babies butts. Hillary's getting what's coming to her tonight, and every night.
Here's an issue you haven't heard about yet, but believe me you will. Barack Obama won the endorsement of the Teamsters earlier this year after privately telling the union he supported ending the strict federal oversight imposed to root out corruption, according to officials from the union and the Obama campaign.
It's an unusual stance for a presidential candidate. Policy makers have largely treated monitoring of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters as a legal matter left to the Justice Department since an independent review board was set up in 1992 to eliminate mob influence in the union.
These are bad candidates, and the Democrats deserve to lose.
Posted by: Perry S. | May 06, 2008 at 04:41 PM
You ARE WRONG..smegma-breath!
Posted by: Duffman | May 06, 2008 at 04:49 PM
Hillary's winning Indiana...Sen Obama 'projected' winner in NC...and the beat goes on....
Posted by: Duffman | May 06, 2008 at 05:07 PM
It's black versus white and the blacks are winning in the Democrat party primaries. When this is over, will black people finally shut up about how "hard" they have got it? Probably not.
Posted by: Bingen boy | May 06, 2008 at 05:40 PM
Okay..it's not lookin real good for Hillary; I think we're going to have to get Michigan and Florida into play for sure now!
Posted by: Duffman | May 06, 2008 at 05:47 PM
Jean Enersen just said Hillary's lead was shrinking in Indiana.
Posted by: J.Hova | May 06, 2008 at 05:48 PM
Yeah, that's why they won't call it...Indianapolis and Gary are still early returns and that's where Sen Obama's strength is.
Posted by: Duffman | May 06, 2008 at 05:50 PM
Democrats lost the working man long ago. Its the party of the yuppies, the hippies, and the phony intellectuals. They haven't had a national message for a very long time. They were handed a political year that guaranteed them the White House and they're blowing it by nominating this inexperienced kid with less experience than Bush. Nobody knows him and every time they learn something about him, it's a problem. My wife thinks the next problem will come from his wife who doesn't have much common sense and spouts off if they don't keep an eye on her. As an old Democrat, this would bother me more if McCain wasn't so middle of the road. He's got common sense, he's "green," he's got a good-looking wife who keeps her mouth shut and people know him and trust him. I agree with Dori, women and blacks have to "season" a bit more before we hand the steering wheel over to them. I don't want people voting for a guy just because he's blacK. Can you imagine Rev. Wright at the White house Prayer Breakfast? Can you imagine President Hillary getting "even" with all the people she and Bill have been mad at over the years.
Posted by: Perry S. | May 06, 2008 at 06:00 PM
You're not an old democrat, you're just old
Posted by: J.Hova | May 06, 2008 at 06:23 PM
Why don't Democrats like you just die? You're done. We don't want your goddam vote, or your racist, sexist remarks.
Posted by: jimmy | May 06, 2008 at 06:37 PM
Jimmy
That is the democrat party. Always has been. You urbanites just do not get it. The dems have always promised the gold to blacks and only delivered the shaft.
Posted by: chucks | May 06, 2008 at 06:54 PM
And yet Chucks, many Blacks loyally return time and time to that same ol Mine.
Posted by: PugetSound | May 06, 2008 at 07:12 PM
Clinton is a disgusting human being. She'll never be elected to hif-gher office than senator of New York where theres nobody but Jews and Porter Ricans.
She should just get out of the way.
Posted by: vb | May 06, 2008 at 07:45 PM
watching Hillary's speech,,omg Bill looks three sheets to the wind...his face is tomato red.
Posted by: sparky | May 06, 2008 at 07:59 PM