Video (via Politico):
Quote:
Hillary Rodham Clinton is over it — at least when people are watching.
Within days of losing the Democratic nomination to Barack Obama, her aides said she was all business, returning to her Senate duties, telling people she would do whatever Obama asked her to do in the general election.
Bill Clinton is not over it. He’s trying, his associates say. He’s slowly getting to a better place. But his resentments from the bitter campaign battles of last winter and spring are many and diverse, and people who have spent time with him recently said they fester just below the surface.
As I have Blogged before on here. Hillary Clinton has baggage, Lots of Baggage. Obama simply did not want that sort of stigma on his campaign. He knew, for a fact, that if he had Clinton his ticket, that the Far Right Wing of the Republican Party would attack him for it.
The Clinton’s issues with Barack Obama are:
- Obama has taken the minimum public steps necessary to accommodate the Clintons, including giving them prime-time speaking spots.
- But he has taken few of the extra steps that Clinton allies say would have gone miles toward fostering goodwill.
- He did not work hard to help her retire her $24 million campaign debt.
- He did not make a high-profile statement repudiating any suggestion that Bill Clinton played “the race card” in the nomination contest — an allegation that the former president considers grossly unfair and that continues to infuriate him.
Well, can you blame him? There were a TON of tepid, awful and down right nasty things that she did. Let’s review shall we?:
Clinton saying that she didn’t think that Obama was a Muslim, as far as she knew.
The Video:
Her very stupid comment about her staying in the race, in case Obama is assassinated.
The Video:
Which drew this fiery special comment from Keith Olbermann:
There are a many, many more, but I think this suffices.
So, quite frankly, Senator Clinton is owned nothing, she, in her self centered attempt to try and divide this party, all in the name of feminism and identity politics. She has brought this snub by Obama and his followers all upon herself, despite her attempt to spin this, she is the reason that this is happened to her.
The best advise I can give Senator Clinton is to address the convention, release her delegates and simply fade away and hope that she is able to salvage what little reputation that she has left. Because quite frankly, she is nothing more than a hindrance to that Democratic Party.
Until this happens, the Democratic Party will continue to be the divided Party that it is. Which will do nothing more, but put another Neo-Conservative in the White House.
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