Sen. Clinton is a class act.

[journalist3072]

Watching 60 Minutes today, I was once again so impressed with the class act that Sen. Hillary Clinton continues to show herself to be.

Katie Couric asked her if she likes Barack Obama. Sen. Clinton said that when she went to campaign and raise money for Barack Obama in 2004, she took a picture with him and his kids, and she still has that picture in her office today. So she said she looks at him and his children every day, when she's in her office. She stated that she was friends with him before the campaign, and she'll be friends with him afterward.

Such a class act. Contrast that with all the downright disgusting things Obama and his camp have said to and about her:

- "You're likeable enough." (Obama to Sen. Clinton)

- "The default candidate for Democrats in this race was always going to be Hillary Clinton because she's Hillary Clinton as opposed to Hillary Rodham." (Obama)

- "She's not really a phony, though she plays one on TV." (Obama surrogate Laurence Tribe)

- "Hillary Clinton (D-Punjab)" (Obama campaign memo, referring to Sen. Clinton)

- "Represents the same old thing over and over again." (Michelle Obama on Sen. Clinton)


I just want to applaud and stand up for Sen. Clinton, for being such a class act, even in the fact of downright disgusting comments about her, from Obama and his campaign.

There's a lesson for all of us in that.

[SoFlaJet]

1. yes she is...

signed,
an Obama supporter

[Drunken Irishman]

2. Right, because Clinton's campaign has NEVER said anything negative about Obama.

They're so utterly perfect. :)

[rodeodance]

25. Go POOP on another thread

[Yurovsky]

34. But this was the best thread ...

FOR ME TO POOOOOOOP ON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[flordehinojos]

56. you have spoken like a true obamist!

[Yurovsky]

57. I do what I can ...

sophomoric humor R us

[cd3dem]

58. get the DEPENDS out!

[BeyondGeography]

3. "She stated that she was friends with him before the campaign,

and she'll be friends with him afterward."

Exactly what Obama has been saying about her. That disgusting man.

[joshcryer]

4. Never forget the Harry and Louise ads.

Never forget.

[journalist3072]

19. You mean the Harry & Louise ads that were run against then First Lady Hillary Clinton, during the

health care debate? Because you do know, don't you, that the GOP ran those awful, misleading Harry and Louise ads against then First Lady Clinton when she was trying to implement health care reform.

[adapa]

24. No, the New Harry & louise mailer put out by Obama

http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/harry_louise_again.html

[Orangepeel]

37. No worse than her campaign's mailers about him

http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/youve_got_mailers.html

They are both playing hardball politics.

[adapa]

38. You think these are hardball?!? LOL

[Orangepeel]

51. Hardball politics as it should be. It's not personal or sleazy.

Like the republicans will get.

:shrug:

[rodeodance]

26. new Revised one is out (only read this--have not seen it)

[NJSecularist]

5. Do Clinton emails about Obama's heritage ring a bell?

Her surrogates' hands aren't clean, either.

Remember those Muslim emails a few months ago?

[Drunken Irishman]

6. No point, NJ.

[dwelleronthreshold]

9. You are so right. Hopefully her new campaign manager can turn things around for her.

[rodeodance]

30. bug off

[hiaasenrocks]

36. The bells are ringing...

but fans of The Clintons have their fingers in their ears and they're saying, "Lalalalala, I can't hear you, lalalalala."

They aren't interested in facts and truth. If they were, they wouldn't be supporting Mrs. President Bill Clinton.

[Eric J in MN]

47. The emails saying Obama is a Muslim were from a Republican,

...not from the Clinton campaign.

[Mz Pip]

7. And no one in the Clinton camp

has ever said a bad thing about Obama.:eyes:

I like Hillary, but I doubt her camp is guiltless.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[hlthe2b]

8. Call me an optomist, but I think there is major respect and genuine

good feelings towards each other. Granted, momentary anger during the heat of the campaigns will affect that, but they have history. Like two battling siblings, they will come back to what united them to begin with...

[zabet]

10. Hillary is truly a class act.

Baptized by fire in the
press with the Bill fiasco,
she still came back and made
a name for herself. She has
been in the politics game on
the Hill long enough, she knows
better than to burn her bridges,
even if it is for a campaign run.

[KAZ]

11. Yes, she is. No, you're not.

[question everything]

12. Ah, but don't you know? She is the "status quo"

He is the Young Turk and let civility be damned.

[Dogmudgeon]

15. That's The Establishment vs The Pepsi Generation

And guess who gets the money?

--p!

[Schema Thing]

13. lol

He's been making a point to say virtually these same words in speeches for a couple of weeks now "She stated that she was friends with him before the campaign, and she'll be friends with him afterward."

[JimGinPA]

14. I'm Sorry...

I didn't get a "class act" vibe at all. Just more of her phoney bs. She reminds me more and more of a repub - whenever she's asked a question she turns it around and answers her own question.

[ProSense]

16. What about the robo calls and the mailers disguised to look like they were

coming from the Edwards campaign?

[Dogmudgeon]

17. Hillary did it, too!

Nyah nyah!

--p!

[sloppyjoe25s]

18. Way overstated - he has said many nice things about her recently

In all of his most recent speeches he praises her as a friend, "far better than the status quo", and shows his respect for her as a coleague.

Don't forget what her campaign did before South Carolina. It was pure simple race-baiting.

[rodeodance]

28. It was Obama who waited days -while his surrogates slurred Hillary for comments

related to MLK--then after the stew was toxic--he says Hillary's comments were not racial. He is no leader!

Way overstated - he has said many nice things about her recently

In all of his most recent speeches he praises her as a friend, "far better than the status quo", and shows his respect for her as a coleague.

Don't forget what her campaign did before South Carolina. It was pure simple race-baiting.
Viva Obama!

[Aussie leftie]

20. She is not perfect now and does not have a perfect record

but she certainly is a Classy woman with a capital 'C', with brains and diplomacy to match. If I was an American I would be proud to have her as my leader.

[Olney Blue]

21. Great interview on 60 minutes!

[mtnsnake]

22. Yup, Hillary is classy & a real gem, there is no doubt about it. No wonder she is so respected

among her peers in the Senate. They might not agree with her, but they appreciate a class act when the see one.

The Goddess of Peace is not only classy, but she inspires by her actions, and her smile is enough to make any of her fans melt. yeah :smoke:

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23. She definitely is. I'm proud to support her. She inspires me.

K&R!

[hiaasenrocks]

27. She's a good actress, that's for sure.

[rodeodance]

29. Take your smelly POOP to another thread.

[hiaasenrocks]

32. Another "class act." HA HA

[rodeodance]

44. back to yah

[yardwork]

31. I think that both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are class acts.

Some of their supporters, not so much.

[TheWraith]

33. So, "You're likeable enough" is an insult, but calling someone a drug addict isn't?

Yeah... that's class. :sarcasm:

[rodeodance]

35. ~ALL FIRED-UP FOR THE LADY~ YES SHE CAN, YES WE CAN~~

[hiaasenrocks]

39. Patti Solis Doyle was all fired by the lady.

[rodeodance]

42. and??

[hiaasenrocks]

43. Just saying, you're all fired up for the lady and she was all fired by the lady.

Nevermind.

[rodeodance]

45. irrelavant

[DrFunkenstein]

46. Which are "downright disgusting things"?

These are either super mild or come from surrogates and misguided aides. And the Clinton camp knows all about surrogates and misguided aides. The things they have suggested are far worse.

[in_cog_ni_to]

48. "If you can't run your own house, you can't run the White House." Michelle Obama.

A Jab at Hillary.

Those Obama's... such lovely people.....NOT. They just play them on teevee.

[in_cog_ni_to]

49. dupe

[Jeffersons Ghost]

50. K&R

[nonconformist]

52. Class... professional... presidential. nt

[caligirl]

53. No way, Frank Rich reveAls the opposite is true in the politic of Hillary

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/opinion/10rich.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Rich sets the background for the following excerpt by noting who is in the audience of the Hallmark tv segment Hillary paid for and which was oddly cut to resume regular programing. Then this :

"In her California primary victory, Mrs. Clinton drew only 19 percent of the black vote. The campaign saw this coming and so saw no percentage in bestowing precious minutes of prime-time television on African-American queries.

That time went instead to the Hispanic population that was still in play in Super Tuesday’s voting in the West. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa of Los Angeles had a cameo, and one of the satellite meetings was held in the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque. There’s nothing wrong with that. It’s smart politics, especially since Mr. Obama has been behind the curve in wooing this constituency.

But the wholesale substitution of Hispanics for blacks on the Hallmark show is tainted by a creepy racial back story. Last month a Hispanic pollster employed by the Clinton campaign pitted the two groups against each other by telling The New Yorker that Hispanic voters have “not shown a lot of willingness or affinity to support black candidates.” Mrs. Clinton then seconded the motion by telling Tim Russert in a debate that her pollster was “making a historical statement.”

It wasn’t an accurate statement, historical or otherwise. It was a lie, and a bigoted lie at that, given that it branded Hispanics, a group as heterogeneous as any other, as monolithic racists. As the columnist Gregory Rodriguez pointed out in The Los Angeles Times, all three black members of Congress in that city won in heavily Latino districts; black mayors as various as David Dinkins in New York in the 1980s and Ron Kirk in Dallas in the 1990s received more than 70 percent of the Hispanic vote. The real point of the Clinton campaign’s decision to sow misinformation and racial division, Mr. Rodriguez concluded, was to “undermine one of Obama’s central selling points, that he can build bridges and unite Americans of all types.”

If that was the intent, it didn’t work."

[Raffi Ella]

54. She's a fighter

and she wants this but she keeps above the fray and more importantly she keeps the Democratic Party itself in the fore front of her run.

Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey have acted in such base and unwarranted ways...had it been Hillary Clinton saying the things they said there would be a media firestorm calling for her head.

Hillary not only has my vote but my respect and admiration as well.

[Catherine Vincent]

55. Both have said they would remain friends after this campaign.

But during the campaign fight you have to get in the mud sometimes. It's nothing personal.

[candice]

59. And more experienced! We need an experienced policy wonk to clean up the mess....