Message to Hillary Clinton

Posted By: Peter DavidPosted On:

Senator: When I express concern about Obama because I’m worried someone will take a shot at him, it doesn’t mean much of anything because I’m just some guy with a blog.
When YOU, on the other hand, say that anything can happen in June, and cite Bobby Kennedy’s assassination…not the same thing. That becomes problematic. That becomes a monumental case of foot-in-mouth.
Dumb. Dumb dumb dumb. And yes, I know you immediately said that you regretted it, but…jeez. Think, then speak, okay?
PAD

116 comments on “Message to Hillary Clinton”

  1. MESSAGE TO SEN OBAMA:
    When you decide to inform the American public that a relative of yours was involved in liberating a German concentration camp during WWII, how about making sure to use your Harvard education to double-check that the camp you name was ACTUALLY liberated by American forces, instead of Soviet forces?
    You see, Sen Obama, your “uncle” (actually, it appears it was your “GREAT-uncle”), if he served in the US Armed Forces, could NEVER have approached the infamous camp at Auschwitz. Auschwitz (which even a Harvard graduate using a map could determine) lies in modern Poland, and US troops advanced eastward no further than the Elbe River (which flows through the former German Democratic Republic aka East Germany).
    Now, upon further consideration, one must ask how many more gaffes (or goofs) you plan on bringing up involving your family.

    Dude, he said Auschwitz when he meant Buchenwald. Obama’s uncle, who presumably was from Kansas, served in the 89th Infantry Division, which the US Holocaust Museum confirms liberated Buchenwald.
    Where is your legitimate outrage against McCain for repeatedly needing to be corrected on the differences between the feuding Shia and Sunnis? For the frothing-at-the-mouth you’ve displayed over Obama saying Auschwitz when he meant Buchenwald, we should correspondingly be seeing the kind outrage that would get anyone else committed.

  2. Why are people still claiming there is a liberal news media here in the US?
    A liberal news media would be discussing issues, not celebrity hi-jinx. I think we’ve all had enough about drunken movie stars, Britney’s crotch, Millie-Rae Cyrus’s nekkid back, Dancing With The Stars, American Idiots…sorry, American Idol, etc.
    How about the liberal media start discussing ways to get better food so people live healthier lives, how to intelligently save electricity, water, and gasoline. How about they start discussing how much profit the pharmaceutical companies are making by using non-performing drugs. How about they start discussing how companies that work with toxic chemicals are destroying entire neighborhoods with their careless handling of destructive chemicals. How about they discuss how much profit is made by US companies who have moved their headquarters out of the country in order to not pay their fair share of taxes to the US government, thereby lowering the tax revenues and putting more of the burden on honest, hard working American families who are hard pressed to make ends meet every month.
    Where is this liberal media? Explain to me where they are, because they sure aren’t readily seen anywhere here in the US.

  3. You’d have to specify which global warming hypothesis first. For example, there are some who hypothesize that global warming is mostly a solar phenomonan. I find that a bit too wishful to be likely though it would explain the apparent increases on Mars and Jupiter, for which I take no blame whatsoever.
    One problem is that none of the models I’ve seen yet that predict what will happen in the future seem to be very good when you plug in numbers from the past– in other words, they don’t work at replicating previous climate conditions, which makes their applicability to the future questionable. Not that this is a big surprise given how complex climate is.
    The cold fact is, $4 a gallon gasoline has done more to curb greenhouse gas emissions than all the armageddon talk ever could. I note that I have yet to hear Obama say that he will institute the Kyoto treaty once elected. that’s because he won’t. People will not accept the loss of life quality that an effective reduction of greenhouse gasses would require, given current technology. Look at how they are upset now at gas prices. If we really want to make things better we should double it or triplle it–at $12/gallon I’ll bet we will get very creative with our solutions.
    But that won’t happen until the supply of oil really starts to dry up. No politician is going to do that now. They won’t even build wind power plants if it will spoil their view. For all the hysteria, very few people in charge are really acting like there’s a crisis so why should the public take it seriously?

  4. Alan Coil: “Liberal media” means nothing but media which support liberal causes. There are such media. “Conservative media” (which do exist) support conservative causes. This country is not dominated by one to the exclusion of the other. Characterizing media as either of these does not indicate responsibility or interest in important things. Fixation on celebrity crotches is tawdry but nonpolitical.

  5. The only liberal media in America is limited to less than 10% of the radio airwaves, and a handful of small-circulation magazines. All other media is owned by Big Business and is definitely not liberal, and certainly not fair-and-balanced.
    In fact, Time-Warner helped write the new Postal rates, which are now heavily favorable to mainstream companies and heavily unfavorable to those pesky liberal magazine companies.
    The whole Republicancer Party and the Religious Reich have a stranglehold on the media that will not soon be broken. People had better wake up soon, or this country will end up completely ruined.

  6. > “People had better wake up soon, or this country will end up completely ruined.”
    To quote the meteorologist in DAY AFTER TOMORROW, “I’m afraid that time has come and gone, my friend.” As I type, the US is in secret negotiations with Canada and other countries to pass a new ‘agreement’ whereby customs and other petty bureaucrats will have the power to seize and even destroy computers, iPods and other devices without a warrant, on a whim, to see if there’s any ‘intellectual property’ illegally on them. Read: the latest Hollywood movie. Big surprise: the Congresscritter who came up with it has as his biggest contributors Time-Warner and the like.
    http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=557b8515-4cca-4302-8877-56ac6d28e822

  7. customs and other petty bureaucrats will have the power to seize and even destroy computers, iPods and other devices
    There are stories of that happening already. I think MNBC.com had something on that a few weeks back. Cell phones included.

  8. There are stories of that happening already. I think MNBC.com had something on that a few weeks back. Cell phones included.
    IIRC, those stories seemed to be based more on racial profiling of people flying overseas, rather than a general “Big Media wants to haxxor your hard drive”.

  10. Craig – IIRC, the story I read focused on a white, female business woman so I’m not sure we can consider racial profiling – unless they were afraid she was a Hillary supporter. I tried searching for the specific story on MSN, but it must have been further back than I thought. :/

  12. Craig – “haxxor”?
    It’s a bit of ‘leet’ slang for hacker, and is generally considered to not be a positive thing. 🙂

  14. Aha! Mulligan has FINALLY linked himself to the rising temperatures on Jupiter! And you thought I’d miss the “BILL WAS HERE, JOVIAN ZOMBIES RULE!” inscription on the back of the Red Spot when I was there.
    Oh, and the Red Spot? It never fetches, nor does it bring slippers.

  15. Jerry, that’s one of the ones I remembered. Thanks for finding it. 🙂

  16. “Oh, and the Red Spot? It never fetches, nor does it bring slippers.”
    Nice one.

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