Bill: Hillary Will Go Negative, And It's The Media's Fault

[Quixote1818]

Bill on going negative: media bias made her do it

Bill Clinton voiced his abiding anger at the media's coverage of him and his wife in Durham, N.H., today, and suggested that media bias will force Clinton to go negative on Barack Obama.

He also expressed his frustration that his wife is perceived by voters as divisive through, he said, no fault of her own.

Clinton, like his wife, is traveling New Hampshire taking questions from voters, and he spoke at the University of New Hampshire in Durham in response to a plea from a woman who said she'd like it "if you and Clinton joined Barack Obama in putting the Republicans on notice" that it was time to "change the game" and end the "meanness" and "manipulation" in politics.

Clinton replied that he liked the idea — in theory.

More: http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0108/Bills_reason_to_go_negative_media_bias.html

[avrdream]

1. Well, SOMEONE needs to call out Obama.

Talk about a free ride.

[Cha]

2. Riiiight...have the big

liar do it.

[annie1]

3. yeah, it's pretty amazing how little i can get from this person (obama)...

and so little is written in papers. so now 5 days after a big win he's going to walk into another win totally unknown. i know more about huckabee than him, and i pay much more attention to democrats. i was just watching pbs tonight and a reporter was saying re: Obama how his colleagues in the senate aren't particularly fond of him, and some just really don't like him. some find him arrogant, and others just plain resent him. how come no one knows anything about him. ??

[snowbear]

7. Who's fault is it if you know more about r-THUGS than Democrats Annie?

Why not log on to Senator Obama's website and educate yourself on his issues?

http://www.barackobama.com/

You are officially the only person I've ever seen on here who claims to know more about Huckaduck than one of our own...


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[annie1]

8. yes, i know about his 'issues' and everything on his site, i've read quite a bit...

i'm talking about more. to me, he's hard to read. huck's dark, we know that cuz he says fucked up things like, slashing his wrists if he were further behind in the polls. that type of thing, anything. we know so much about our candidates right down to hillary's dress designers. just saying, i can't read him at all. know nothing outside the few articles that have been written about him, pics of his smiling face on newspapers, and watching video's of him on youtube. versus the 1,000's that have been written about hillary. so don't assume i don't educate myself, i really don't appreciate that. and the convo is also about the general public, not just me.

[Joe the Revelator]

11. I really don't think you educate yourself. You're flighty as hell

When I first started to notice your posts, you were pretty anti-Hillary. Then you started agreeing with me about Bloomberg. Now you adore Hillary like a school girl reading tigerbeat magazine. This is all in the course of a month.

We get it. YOU no longer "get" Obama. But to make the outragious claim that you know more about Huck then Obama means that you have to be refusing to educate yourself about all the candidates.

[annie1]

17. you pay way too much attention to all my details.but yeah, i'm not all in for anyone.

[Joe the Revelator]

18. It's like watching Cybil observe a primary season

Don't burn your bridges before you settle on a candidate.

[snowbear]

22. So you're still torn between Bloomberg and HRC?

Well.. all I can say about that is ---

I hope your taste in men is better than your taste in politicians!

[annie1]

26. I love Bloomberg as my mayor, he's awesome.

[snowbear]

27. Ok.. I just figured you out Annie..

If HRC wins, Bloomberg is jumping in...



NOW I get it..

Happy TGIF..

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[dailykoff]

9. Here's a chart summarizing the 823 bills Obama sponsored

in the Illinois senate that was posted earlier today:



And here are some links that were posted today:

http://www.ontheissues.org/Barack_Obama.htm

http://www.vote-smart.org/bio.php?can_id=9490

http://www.barackobama.com/issues

Hope that helps! :hi:

[annie1]

10. i have this saved already, it's very nice.

[Beacool]

23. Really? I didn't know that he was not particularly well regarded by his peers.

The arrogant part I can fully believe. Why else would a guy who had barely warmed his seat in the senate assume that he was ready to be president?

I've tried to like the guy just in case he does pull it off and win the nomination, but I can't. He's too slick and reminds me of a used car salesman. He makes all this vapid promises and pounds the change motif but it all seems smoke and mirrors. I don't want a motivational speaker, I want someone who has gravitas and actually knows what the job entails. Hillary is my first choice, but I would prefer any of the other Dem. candidates over Obama.

[Sulawesi]

31. Go to his web page, Hillary's there are details, contrast them...educate yourself

[Sulawesi]

32. Just wow...

[indimuse]

34. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII AGREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

:think: so obvious..I can't watch any MSM anymore! Disgusting!:wtf:

[madfloridian]

4. The media has gone negative on some for years now.

They don't get the luxury of being negative, or they don't get coverage at all.

At least the Clintons are mentioned..Edwards is never talked about.

Except on KO tonight...glad he had Edwards on.

[avrdream]

5. Very true about Edwards.

News headline in Oz yesterday was Obama edging out Clinton. WTF??

[Truth2Tell]

6. Don't do this Bill.

It's just sad.

[tularetom]

12. Hey Clinton STFU you're becoming an embarrassment

He's not gonna be able to keep his nose out of this campaign. He's such an egotist he thinks his personal charm can rescue her lousy campaign, but he's yesterday's news. He needs to go off on some junket with his asshole buddy daddy boosh until this campaign is over.

[Joe the Revelator]

13. The Clintons are so parinoid and I think that Bill wants Hillary to lose

Its the only way to explain the rookie mistakes he's making with his comments.

[Quixote1818]

14. I keep thinking the same thing

Either that or he is just getting old and losing his edge.

[dailykoff]

15. ya know

that's crossed my mind more than once. But then I think, who the hell would prostitute himself to the reich the way he has if he wasn't seriously obsessed with getting back into the WH ?

[CarbonDate]

16. Blaming media bias already, eh?

You know, I thought Hillary was still in this fight, but if Bill's already blaming the media, then I guess it really is all over but the crying.

And there will be much crying from the Hillary camp, I anticipate. There already is. I've honestly never seen grapes this sour.

[Joe the Revelator]

19. When all else fails, the Clintons fall back on the conspiracy theories

[BenDavid]

20. Bill makes a damn good point about the media's bias. Its been

there and will remain.

Howie Kurtz: If Hillary doesn't win Iowa, is the press going to savage her as a loser?

Dana Milbank: The press will savage her no matter what, pretty much.

[Quixote1818]

24. Give me a break. She gets all kinds of free press

Edwards, Kucinich, Biden, Richardson and Dodd would LOVE to have all the press she gets.

[Joe the Revelator]

25. You've got to be kidding

Until she decided to implode in spectacular fashion, the press loved her. You would have thought she was the only candidate in the race.

[calteacherguy]

21. So that's going to be their lame excuse: "the media made me (her) do it"

Pathetic. Absolutely pathetic.

[loveangelc]

28. you do not publically blame the media.

this is actually sad.

[killbotfactory]

29. Hahahaha, that won't backfire

Won't backfire at all.

[CarbonDate]

30. I love this comment from OneWorriedDemocrat:

"A rallying Cry All Clinton supporters should converge on www.hillaryclinton.com and donate. I have already done it. Do not let our party be run by the Chicago mobsters."

So now Obama's a jihadist Muslim drug-dealing mobster? The smears coming from the Clinton camp keep getting more and more desperate.

:popcorn: :rofl:

[Sparkly]

33. I don't know why this is surprising.

Some are acting really outraged that she might "go negative" against Obama. But now that he's the perceived frontrunner -- with upward momentum -- it's just what I'd expect. (Just as, when HRC was out in front, the other candidates 'went negative' against her.)

It's just the way it goes!

[PATRICK]

35. Free to

take off her own chained leg with the saw provided by the GOP. All true. Good luck with all that. Is it dawning on Bill that they are perpetually caught in mutually exclusive choices? It is ironclad around the entire campaign with nothing personal to be faulted that could change anything. It would a nice time to reflect on all the contradictions and not think you can keep floating above and surmounting them mystically, but if Impeachment didn't get the practical points across enough, it is far too late now.

Fighting with two hands tied in front of your back when she would prefer one free and one behind the back. Both hands behind the back and of course she wouldn't be actually running.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

37. If You Read The Entire Piece He's Rather Thoughtful

He makes an interesting point... The point being that if people hate you for no cause why should you be responsible for polarizing people...

[PATRICK]

39. Sorry, just speaking

about the dilemma itself. Bil is exactly justified, but being right doesn't help. It is something all Dems should be angry about.

[Honeycombe8]

36. Poor Hillary. Media using her name free advertising nonstop for 18 mos. is so mean. nt

[DemocratSinceBirth]

38. That's A Bit Misleading

Rush Limbaugh, Chris Matthews Sean Hannity, and Neil Boortz mention her at least once a day...Does she benefit from that "free advertising"?

[Joe the Revelator]

41. They mention Obama once a day as well

Whats your point?

[Thrill]

40. No surprise. As Obama always says

They always go back to the same old politics of old. He won't work!!

[Colobo]

42. Bill, you know Obama will beat your wife...

Deal with it.