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KittyWampus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-24-08 09:44 PM
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Obama & The DNC Gave Hillary Enough Rope To Hang Herself
Edited on Sat May-24-08 09:45 PM by cryingshame
It was driving me nuts!

Hillary and her surrogates were laying into Obama and he wasn't fighting back. I'm not talking about "silly season" stuff like Bosnia either.

DU'ers clued me in. Obama had to pull his punches. His hands were tied when it came to Hillary because he needs to woo her voters for the GE and Hillary was playing the poor girl being ganged up on routine to garner sympathy.

So Obama held back.

The DNC held back. Walking on eggshells. Trying to placate the Clintons.

So many inflammatory remarks from Hillary. And the Media wasn't biting so they could continue propping her failed candidacy up.

And Obama wasn't playing that game.

And damned, if Hillary didn't finally just go a bridge too far.

Like a kid acting out for negative attention from absent parents.

Some small part of this might be Hillary sub-consciously WANTING out of the race.

She'd practised that revised talking point before but slipped up and reinstated the assassinate part.

Self-sabotage?

Maybe Bill wants this more than Hillary at this point?
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-24-08 09:52 PM
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1. OMG!!!! ARE YOU CALLING FOR HER EXECUTION BY HANGING????1111
OMG!!!!!!!!111111
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grantcart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-24-08 10:03 PM
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3. DUzy
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mcctatas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-24-08 10:03 PM
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4. No silly...
suicide by hanging...

*of course we both not it is neither, however if the OP repeats it on three separate occasions, it might be intentional;)
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OnceUponTimeOnTheNet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-24-08 10:02 PM
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2. "Walking on eggshells" reminds me of a post I made 3 months ago.
c/p
The poster was talking about Andrea Mitchell's report from the Clinton camp.
She talked about the struggle between Penn, Wolfson, & staff ie: one wanting to go all out negative, the other softer.
One thing that struck me, was that Andrea looked like she was walking on eggshells. It was strange, she looked afraid to me.
Anyway, hope Senator Clinton fires both these clucks.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x4676480#4676714

~Andrea witnessed something very nasty that night, I think it was Hillary.
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Triana Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-24-08 10:07 PM
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5. Bill Wants it More than Hillary - I've suspected that's the case for a while..
Edited on Sat May-24-08 10:07 PM by Triana
...that he is behind her pushing her to go on and on and on because BILL (and Hillary) can't abide LOSING. And Bill can't stand Obama, I think.
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Catherina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-25-08 02:16 AM
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6. And she wrapped it around her own neck several times
Hillary was advised to exit. Bill keeps encouraging her to stay in. This is becoming more about Bill and his massive ego than about what's best for Hillary at this point.
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cliffordu Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-25-08 02:23 AM
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7. I think you could be right that she wants out and needed to
sabotage herself.

I knew a girl when I was in middle school who was perhaps the most gifted musician I have ever known, and that's saying something -


She played violin...and rumor around the campfire was she was headed to private school on a scholarship to study with the best in the U.S....

She broke her arms "accidently" three times in one year. Never played a note after that year of school, as far as I know.

Fear of success can be more crippling than fear of failure... Ask me, I know all about it...lol....
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