Clinton calls for debate in Oregon

[Abacus]

CENTRAL POINT, Oregon (CNN) – Campaigning in her third state of the day on Thursday, Hillary Clinton again called for a debate with Barack Obama, arguing that many of the issues faced in Oregon are not the same as the rest of the country.

“The problems in Oregon are not the same as the problems in Indiana. They’re not the same as the problems in Pennsylvania,” Clinton told several hundred supporters at a nighttime rally."

“…That’s why I was pleased to accept the invitation from the Democratic Party of Oregon to debate my opponent,” Clinton continued, pointing out that they would both be in Portland on Friday and that she was ready “anytime, anywhere.”

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/05/09/clinton-calls-for-debate-in-oregon/

[TwilightGardener]

1. Oh, Jesus. Just stop, lady. Please.

[gateley]

2. I think Obama should go for it.

He'd cream her and hone his chops for the McCain debates.

[helderheid]

60. Yes, and let's get Bob Barr in there while we're at it!

:rofl:

[jefferson_dem]

3. LOL! Is this from the Onion?

Hillary. Hillary. Hillary.

Give it up, sister. Sadly for you, the dream will never become a reality.

[spotbird]

4. She is embarrassing herself

The only good to come of the continuation of this display is that when it is over she will have absolutely no credibility left.

[Avalux]

5. When Mika reported this on MSNBC, she snickered.

It's a joke and I can't believe Hillary is still pushing debates.

[TheZug]

6. Maybe she can have a consolation debate with other also-rans.

[hisownpetard]

33. I hear Mike Gravel is available.

[msallied]

72. At least he's running on the Libertarian ticket now. He's more relevant than she is!

[slinkerwink]

7. sorry, not going to happen

[BattyDem]

8. Is she kidding?

:rofl:

[NotThisTime]

9. Uh, I don't thinks so, but thanks for asking

[ShortnFiery]

10. No way! What would this make 22? The mere thought is absurd. eom

[Labors of Hercules]

18. 24 actually.

:wow:

[countingbluecars]

11. Sad, just sad. n/t

[WA98296]

12. Embarrassing, sad.

[shraby]

13. Someone should tell her you don't debate

with the loser when you've won.

[caledesi]

49. I agree! NT

[workinclasszero]

69. LOL You win! (nt)

[kevinbgoode]

14. Is she running for governor of Oregon now?

[sandnsea]

29. Oh just bite your tongue n/t

[ShortnFiery]

38. ...

:rofl:

Kidding aside, I think both HRC's Leadership Style (micro-management) and Demeanor (good with small groups) would lend itself to be a TOP NOTCH Governor of NY State. I mean the foregoing as complementary. Running a State is much different than Inspirational Leadership required for The President of The United States.

As much as I despise George W. Bush, when he talked his "Southern Style Charm" ... the right wing swooned. :shrug:

[ecstatic]

15. So she can yell out some more smears linking Obama to Hamas?

No thanks. Obama should just say HELL NO. She doesn't deserve to share a stage with him anymore.

[CoffeeCat]

28. I think Obama should....

...send one of his surrogates to debate her!

Is there an Obama precinct captain or intern who has some free time?

Seriously...he should meet her challenge with the same level of absurdity as this
ridiculous debate suggestion.

She is a making a mockery of herself. There's tough, and then there's just plain STUPID.

[BklynChick]

16. this tops all. she's officially insane.

[BklynChick]

17. dupe

[tishaLA]

19. This is an exciting new strategy!

All fired up for the lady! Yes she can!


or something.

[scheming daemons]

Hillary is in the rear-view mirror. Obama's next debate will be with Grandpa......

[chascarrillo]

20. There needs to be an intervention. This is starting to get depressing.

[SunDrop23]

21. Wow. (n/t)

[Poll_Blind]

22. In the basement of the Clintons' mansion there will be TWO podiums set up.

  Chelsea will be forced to stand at one, her mother at the other. Bill, sleepily, will begin again:

"Mr. Obama, next question. Some voters will claim that you have lied about your..." he goes on.

There is silence.

Hillary turns twoard Chelsea and glares at her.

Chelsea speaks "Yes....Yes.....Yes, Mr. Moderator. While in Chicago I did lie about..."

Hillary smiles, she is beating him! This will go all the way to the convention- and the help has already put out the coldcuts, coffee and cigars upstairs.

It will be a battle to remember.

"I'm ready for my close-up Mark!"

Mark Penn, disheveled, tiredly turns the camera from Chelsea to Senator Clinton and zooms slowly in...

PB

[krawhitham]

23. OK it is time to bury the bitch

I thought she would do the right thing and slowly shut her campaign down on her own terms, It is clear now she it in full 2012 mode and wants to destroy Obama so she gets that chance in 2012

[tishaLA]

30. enough with the "bitch" shit please

I don't want her as the nominee, either, but I hate hearing people call her names like that.

[ShortnFiery]

44. Yes, if for no other reason - let's not give HRC's surrogates ammo to "feign indignation"?

I hate it when they put those "guilt trips" on all of us based on a stray *rude* comment. :shrug:

[MaineDem]

36. The woman, the candidate, Hillary, Senator Clinton...any of those will work

Please don't call her a bitch.

[4themind]

54. Using that word does damage to your ability to draw others to your viewpoint

by raising the prospect of "sexism" as the justification for it(whether you believe in the truth of that or not), which can actively delay unity. Remember HIllary, can make her own choices and the voters can make their own, it's the voters that vote in the ultimate election that is where the true power is. So please lets focus, both in tone and in purpose on winning these voters onto our side (and I don't want to seem sanctimonious because I fail at that too)for that reason, please consider editing your OP before the editing time expires.

[LowerManhattanite]

61. I don't care WHO you're supporting...

...but that shit is out of line.

Take it back...apologize, and then think more carefully before you toss around epithets.

[davsand]

24. Hil can debate Gravel. Hell--why not add in Huckabee too! Have a REAL ball!

If she's paying for the party she can invite whoever she wants to. Who actually shows up is a different story...

:rofl:



Laura

[CoffeeCat]

25. This is like watching...

...Michael Jackson get one more plastic surgery.

For the love of Pete, know when to stop, lady!

I'm starting to think that she's got a screw loose.

[gateley]

48. I love your analogy! nt

[SoonerPride]

26. Old woman yells at cloud

tilting at windmills again

[Onyx488]

27. She did say, "My Opponent"

That could be anyone, considering she is running a race by herself.
I don't think she meant Barack, I think she meant Bill O'reilly, or maybe Rev. Wright.

She couldn't have meant Barack, He hasn't been on the campaign trail since Tuesday night.

Great now she has me confused!

[nomorewhopper]

31. everything she says is so calculated. why can't she say "barack obama"?

i hope the superdelegates settle this thing soon

[hisownpetard]

41. The day after the last debate, she started saying "my opponent," trying to make him seem

like an anonymous force against which she was fighting.

I think she refrains from using his name for fear that the audience will burst into applause.

[Tinksrival]

52. Ha! now that's funny!

Debate Rev. Wright! :rofl:

Welcome to DU!!

[CanonRay]

32. Hahahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahahahahaha

:rofl:

She's lost her friggin' mind.

[DangerousRhythm]

34. Are you f-in' kidding me?!

No, really? This isn't one giant joke?

WTF.

IT'S OVER.

[GarbagemanLB]

35. Was it Mike Gravel who 'joined' a debate by answering debate questions on the internet, even

though he wasn't invited to the actual debate? I bet that's what Hillary will do when Obama debates McCain.

[Jersey Devil]

37. Batshit crazy - reminds me of the scene in "Bananas"

in which Woody Allen cross examines himself and breaks down in confession on the witness stand after grueling questioning - by himself.

[MaineDem]

39. Oh puh-leeze

Enough is enough.

[Occam Bandage]

40. No. You don't see McCain debating Huckabee.

[Apollo11]

59. Not since McCain became the nominee and Huckabee dropped out.

When Obama is the nominee and Hillary has dropped out - you will be able to make that point.

[helderheid]

63. Ron Paul is still running. n/t

[Occam Bandage]

64. All right then, Ron Paul. McCain isn't officially the nominee, and Paul is still running.

[JTFrog]

42. Come back! I'll bite your legs off!!

[workinclasszero]

70. Awesome cartoon!

Will reality ever set in with Hillary???

Batshit crazy....

[rolleitreks]

43. No free tv for thee. n/t

[smoogatz]

57. 'Zackley.

Time to fold it up, Hil.

[reflection]

45. Obama should just send

a math teacher from the nearest high school to debate her about probability theory. Then he could follow up with this video on the overhead screen which summarizes Hillary's candidacy thus far.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pf3ID3XQ6o

[Vinca]

46. Love the cartoon! nt

[CreekDog]

47. and...

[SoonerPride]

50. Is she trying to get more "testicular fortitude" the hard way?

:)

[DefenseLawyer]

51. Alan Keyes will debate her, if she pays his bus fair to Eugene

That should be a spirited affair!

[invictus]

53. With every passing day Hillary just seems more pathetic. It's time to ignore her. She is irrelevant.

Hillary has made herself irrelevant.

[bowens43]

55. she needs to just sit down and shut up.

She's becoming an embarrassment.

[billyoc]

56. Why would a Presidential candidate debate a lame duck Senator?

He's running for President, you're not. Go away.

[Shine]

58. The Clintons have a high capacity for shame, that's all there is to it.

:eyes:

[Apollo11]

62. Good idea. A debate that focuses on the big issues. Not like the ABC debate.

Obama has been saying all week that he is not yet the nominee.

Therefore it makes sense for him to accept this challenge.

Unless he is scared of a 60 year-old white lady.

In which case - he needs to find himself some courage.

[book_worm]

65. It's over, Hillary--debate yourself.

[Colobo]

66. It's sad to see Hillary like this.

[Tarheel_Dem]

67. She's out of money, and has cut back on spending (a bit late)....

Short of cash, Clinton is forced to cut spending

No-frills events eyed ahead of next primaries as campaign debts grow

By PATRICK HEALY and MICHAEL LUO
updated 5:10 a.m. ET, Fri., May. 9, 2008

The once-formidable fund-raising machine of Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton has begun to sputter at the worst possible moment for Mrs. Clinton’s presidential campaign, Clinton advisers and donors said Thursday, with spending curtailed on political events and advertising as Mrs. Clinton seeks to compete in the last six nominating contests.

Mrs. Clinton’s diminished political momentum, following Tuesday’s loss in the North Carolina primary and her narrow victory in Indiana, appears to have had a dampening effect on her fund-raising, aides said, increasing the likelihood that Mrs. Clinton will lend her campaign more of her own money beyond the $11 million she has already provided.

Clinton advisers said Mrs. Clinton was committed to spending more of her own cash on the campaign if necessary, although they spoke optimistically about a rise in fund-raising if she prevails in Tuesday’s primary in West Virginia.

The campaign is clearly running low on cash, although advisers would not say how much money — or how little — Mrs. Clinton currently has. The campaign had started April with over $10 million in unpaid debts, and Mrs. Clinton was vastly outspent by Senator Barack Obama in North Carolina and Indiana.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24533370/

[DangerousRhythm]

74. No-frills.

That reminds me of the old Pathmark labels... plain white with "BEER" or "COLA" or what have you on them in bold black text. She must REALLY be low on cash...

[workinclasszero]

68. OMG will the insanity never end??

I guess Hillary insists on becoming a laughingstock and a punchline for the whole nation!

Who would have thought that Hillary would turn out to be soo delusional??:crazy:

[BlooInBloo]

71. Who cares what the loser calls for?

[dancingme]

73. She should debate Giuliani

the race that never was --- Hillary vs. Rudy.

[Poll_Blind]

75. In the basement of the Clintons' mansion there will be TWO podiums set up.

Chelsea will be forced to stand at one, her mother at the other. Bill, sleepily, will begin again:

"Mr. Obama, next question. Some voters will claim that you have lied about your..." he goes on.

There is silence.

Hillary turns twoard Chelsea and glares at her.

Chelsea speaks "Yes....Yes.....Yes, Mr. Moderator. While in Chicago I did lie about..."

Hillary smiles, she is beating him! This will go all the way to the convention- and the help has already put out the coldcuts, coffee and cigars upstairs.

It will be a battle to remember.

"I'm ready for my close-up Mark!"

Mark Penn, disheveled, tiredly turns the camera from Chelsea to Senator Clinton and zooms slowly in...

PB

[Dr Fate]

76. Obama should answer: Invite McCain, let Hillary moderate & you gotta deal.

Or, "...invite Dennis Kusinich & Bill Bradley as well and I'm in!"