Hillary and Bill -- Arsonist Firefighters

THUNDER HANDS

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Tue Jan-22-08 09:53 AM
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Hillary and Bill -- Arsonist Firefighters

Edited on Tue Jan-22-08 09:54 AM by Magic Rat

A reader writes on Andrew Sullivan's blog...

"The Clintons are like the arsonist firefighter in the movie Backdraft -- using their political skills to create divisive and destructive fires in an attempt to dominate their opposition, and then immediately promoting themselves as the only firefighters that will put them out. They did it in the White House by making Bill's indiscretions a partisan issue, and now they're doing it with the gender and race issue. And it baffles me how willing Hillary supporters are to continue to participate in this cynical and destructive mechanism.

I'm a very politically interested Dem in a large family of moderate to conservative Republicans and Independants. I can, and have, made a good case with them for Obama, but there's no way I can justify a Hillary nomination to myself, much less to them. If the Dems are short-sighted and suicidal enough to give a Hillary the nomination instead of seizing the opportunity with Obama to create a once-in-a-lifetime historical political realignment in this country, they can count me, my family, and many of my Dem friends out this Nov."

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/

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joeybee12

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Tue Jan-22-08 09:55 AM
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1. If someone is reading Andrew Sullivan's blog...

...there's no point in reading what that reader has posted.

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THUNDER HANDS

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Tue Jan-22-08 09:57 AM
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2. lots of Dems read his blog

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robbedvoter

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Tue Jan-22-08 10:08 AM
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5. therefore, like Drudge, "journalist" Rove and Paglia - Sullivan must be legit

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OHdem10

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Tue Jan-22-08 10:05 AM
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3. Obama 's side has created just as much division.

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robbedvoter

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Tue Jan-22-08 10:07 AM
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4. Oh, Noes! Even Andrew Sullivan dislikes Hillary! What's next? Drudge? Coulter?

Tweety? Snithcens? Will her unlikability never end?

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GalleryGod

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Tue Jan-22-08 10:10 AM
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6. I like Tweety.

Matthews with a student,after addressing my classes for 2 days last Spring.

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Beacool

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Tue Jan-22-08 10:52 AM
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9. Well, bully for you!!

I despise Tweety more than than Limbaugh, and that's saying a lot!! Tweety is a misogynist pig and I can't even stand to watch him sputter and drool for 10 minutes at a time.

Sexist bastard!!!!!!

:mad:

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robbedvoter

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Tue Jan-22-08 11:05 AM
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11. You would. Does that make him credible - or even sane on Hillary? Nope.

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mondo joe

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Tue Jan-22-08 10:12 AM
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7. Ha! Andrew Sullivan has a history of very bad judgment.

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THUNDER HANDS

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Tue Jan-22-08 10:52 AM
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8. but at least he owned up to it

and is enthusiastically supporting Obama.

And not because he thinks Obama is a closeted RWer, but he thinks Obama has the temperment to be a great president, even if he disagrees with him on every issue.

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mondo joe

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Tue Jan-22-08 11:00 AM
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10. He did, which increases my respect for him. Now if he'd only learn from his bad

judgment.

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cindyw

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Tue Jan-22-08 11:14 AM
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12. Wow that is so perfect

Hillary lied about Obama all night and then claimed that he would say things all the time and then have to fix it. That is such a Republican tactic. Bush does that all the time. He used that in both campaigns. Accusing his opponents of what he was doing in order to make their argument seem like "copy catting".

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