AP: Obama calls Clinton a "divisive" figure

Keep swinging, Obama!

i think he just said what most of us were thinking anyways...good for you obama.

George W. Bush was divisive.

It doesn't lose elections.

I don't want another Reagan or Bush.

:P

and beat a doddering old war vet. Hillary will do the same.

Clinton got 49.2 percent
Dole got 40.7 percent
Perot got 8.4 percent

So clinton still got .1 percent more than both Dole and Perot.

Of course, I don't know how it would've played out in the states, but polls at the time showed Perot's voters were evenly split between Dole and Clinton.

I would like a bigger mandate than that for our next President!

from Obamanation.

"Hope" and "Change" doesn't mean calling it like it is.

Polarizing, divisive - those are repuke words!

Take a look at your avatar for the answer...

the middle together against the opposition.

left: 40%
right: 40%
middle: 20%

40% +20% = 60%. That's the best you can get. You are not going to get the 40% in the oppositions camp on your side. No one has ever done that.

Obama has misplaced his.

:-)

Votes in numbers(99% reporting)

Clinton: 857 208
Obama 569 041
McCain 693 508
Romney 598 188
Giuliani 281 781
Huckabee 259 735
Edwards 246 604
Paul 62 063
Gravel 5 261

as Obama did.

And I'm sure had there been any serious campaigning there, those numbers wouldn't have changed a bit, would they?

I don't want to hear him crying in a few days when Hillary's campaign returns the favor.

.... is the way to go. I'll choose Hillary, the candidate that will fight the rethugs rather than pander to them.

That's interesting considering he's the person that can bring all democrats and republicans together. I hope he keeps the attacks up because it only helps the other person your attacking.

...just watch how she divides Obama's head from his shoulders on Super Tues. It ain't gonna be pretty.

but she doesn't walk the walk.

WTH?

That is, when Obama can be bothered to vote.

she might be better off not voting at all.

I thought Obama's big selling point was a promise to work with Republicans? But it's a bad thing when someone actually DOES it?

not fight with them.

I hope she has a very 'civil' campaign with her good friend John McCain.

they aint pretty

she can't raise her positives so she drives up Obama's negatives. :banghead:

of course its pure coincidence that Obama's negatives have risen ever since he entered a campaign against Hillary :sarcasm:

demonizing Rethugs so does new politics mean acting like Rethugs? Oh, now I get the Hillary hate, it's to fit in with the rabid right.

Claire McCaskill is full of S--T. Same with Dick(less) Durbin.

I don't think that Barack Obama inspires the same hate...yet.

She will divide the Democratic party. All of those useful, passionate activists who are onto the corruption and the lobbying will leave the party, not vote, or go with Nader.

Ram her down our throat at your own risk. I am not responsible for the buyer's remorse to come, and the progressives aren't taking the blame this time. You were warned well in advance.

To get folks to vote for anyone but Hillary. Sad, very sad.

The polls show it. The progressives on this board have been saying it for many years, and what I say or do will have no effect on this phenomenon. I am merely pointing it out because it is the elephant in the room.

How many percentage points of the core Democratic base are you willing to sacrifice? How many of us that know what the DLC is and its power and money structure is about are going to peel away from the party once she gets the nomination?

The polls show that she has the worst chance of beating McCain....why is that? Because of Republicans alone? No....she divides the Democratic party and the pukes ubiquitously hate her. Hillary supporters are always prattling about strategy, but this obvious flaw in strategy is staring you in the face and you ignore it. Hillary and the DLC take progressives for granted when they are not chiding us for having our beliefs. There is nothing offered to us on the table except "we aren't a puke". That Lucy-Charlie Brown kick the football game is familiar to so many of us that we know the only way to win is to not play.

If she gets the nomination, you are going to have to court the left back into the party. If you didn't get the message before, you are getting it now.

are ramming Obama down the throat of the nation.

But I know why the bloggers are doing it. They are fairly well-read and know what the polls say and who Hillary's allies are.

The DINO's on the right who control it and the Liberals on the Left who get shouted down.

If any Americans have been wakened by this horrid Bush nightmare, it is the progressives and the populists. We aren't so naive as to stick around forever while the rest of the party drives us off a cliff holding hands with the pukes.

A Hillary nomination would drive a stake deep into the heart of the party. The rift would be palpable.

and Republicans can't stand her. Going against McCain who attracts Independents and will get the Republican vote, I don't like the odds with her.

The TV version didn't include this, but the online version had the responses of Dems and Independents to the answers that the Democratic candidates gave. You know, the Luntz style line graph. anyways, regardless of the asshole who came up with the methodology, I couldn't help but to notice tht there was a clear pattern in the answers of the candidates.

John Edwards scored very high with both independents and Democrats.
Barack Obama scored sort of uper midrange with both Democrats and independents.
Hillary Clinton only scored high with Democrats. That independent line stayed rock bottom for her all night.

Of course, this is one debate, but I think it is emblematic of what is to come electorally.

Not only that, but her nomination just might peel a big chunk of progressives from her in favor of sitting the Presidential election out, or worse, vote for Nader or the Greens. She hasn't even started moving to the right with her predictable DLC-playbook strategy for the general election.

He got it partially right.

"invested" in what so many fought for....I'd say that's divisive. It's finally what got me to completely drop you from my consideration....lack of history is already doing us in....

Pictures speak for themselves about divisiveness.

He's all about this "new politics" that he's somehow invented in the last 3 months. In the mean time the congress can't get SCHIP passed. He's all about slogans and bullshit.

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.. she is.

her and Bill. How can you NOT call that divisive?

I wonder if Obama is baiting him. :popcorn:

"she has taken positions shared by President Bush and Republican candidate John McCain for political expediency."

Um, doesn't that mean she's compromising, not divisive? How in the world does Obama think he's going to win over Republicans to his bi-partisan coalition if he's so upset by, as he clearly says in the above quote, people getting along with Republicans!??!