'Dangerous Not to Be Aware How It Sounds on Television'

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The airwaves have been filled today with the clip of an angry Hillary saying "shame on you, Barack Obama," and another of Clinton mocking the notion that, to believe Barack, "celestial choirs will be singing."

But on this evening's Hardball, Chris Matthews unearthed yet another clip of Hillary at her harshest. And after playing it, a butter-wouldn't-melt-in-his-mouth Matthews ripped the Clinton campaign strategy. Words won't do justice to Clinton's fingernails-on-blackboard tone, but here's what a raspy-voiced Hillary said in the video Matthews played.

HILLARY CLINTON: Quit misleading people about what I do. [Ed.: shades of Bob Dole's unsuccessful line to George H.W in 1988: "stop lying about my record.'] Quit telling people what is not true about my plan. You know, come on: enough is enough! Let's get real here, and compare exactly what both of us stand for!

View video here.

Commented Chris to USA Today's Susan Page . . .

CHRIS MATTHEWS: You know, it's always, it's always dangerous in politics to talk to the crowd, and not be aware how it looks or sounds on television.

Ouch. But then again, show me the person who after viewing the Hillary clip says "yeah, that's the ticket. I've been on the fence but now I'm voting for her."


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Where's the Mute Button?

Listening to her makes me long for fingernails on a blackboard. I can't imagine 4 years of her speeches, let alone 8!


A member of the right-wing media

On the bright side....

....if her campaign tanks...she can return the jacket to Matthew Lesko

http://www.mlesko.co...

LOL. They do have the same

LOL. They do have the same message: "Let me tell you how you can get millions in free money from the government!"

Not only that....

....they have the same soothing style of presentation.

 

??????????????????????????

 

 

Just a bit more rouge and

Just a bit more rouge and we're cradling scary childhood memories of Ringling Bros., Barnum and Bailey!

 

Life can be a real b*tch... so why vote for one?

Nice one

lol

opps

delete

That's supposed to highlight

That's supposed to highlight her "sunny" disposition. 

I kid you not

I was driving Northbound on I-95 last summer and just as I got stuck in traffic in south Baltimore, I looked over to my right and saw someone dressed in a purple jacket emblazoned with polka dot question marks. I drove closer to get a better look and sure enough, it was Lesko in a Scion xB jamming out on the radio. Its not the oddest thing Ive ever seen in traffic, but its up there.

Well

I think were due for another crying session.How dare he use the truth against me.I think Hillary missed her nap.She has regressed in her treatment of the Petulant Child Syndrome and is back throwing  tantrums.

It's Showtime!!!!

You watch and listen to this and the only word that comes to mind is implosion.  It makes one wonder what advice she's receiving and what her game plan will be for the Ohio debate.  My guess is she'll carryover her screechy and sarcastic tone from the weekend.  It's not going to work and if she does that, Obama needs only maintain his cool and the fat lady will be singing before the debate ends.   

Hillary's new strategy to cripple Obama

Hillary Clinton is too smart for all that has happened. She threw this election on orders. I pointed out time after time how after "winning" she looked displeased and how here entire demeanor was one of just saying the words.

For the first time these past few days, the real Hillary is showing. The same bitch with chronic PMS is finally being allowed to come out. You can see in the above the rage and the staged attack she is finally being allowed to vent in.

I have concluded by the evidence that Hillary has been allowed now to attack Obama and is the entire reason she is in the race. Her white racist group of Letterman Cocktail Crowd are not about about to allow Obama to win.
Hillary is softening up Obama for the final thrust by Patrick Fitzgerald.

Her entire design by the cartel is now to rip that racist majority in the DNC out from Obama and hold it as "Queen Maker" for Al Gore once Obama is so tainted on various fronts he will be abandoned.

Rush Limbaugh hinted the other day that Hillary has worked a deal...........it is not with Obama though, it is with the cartel. She has been punished in having to throw the election, but if she pounds Obama and Blackmerica back into their place.........Al Gore will nominate her to the Supreme Court.

This has yet to begin.........and Hillary is for the first time being who she is and there is no woman in this world with more scorn or up to the slow twist than her on Obama.

I said before that Obama's worst enemies are the white racists in his own party. They will take him down and out.

*HIC IACET ARTORIVS REX QVONDAM REXQVE FVTVRVS

And what strategy is that? 

And what strategy is that?  The only way Hillary is going to cripple Obama is if she hires some muscle to break his knees!

LC

Your cartel and conspiracy theories have been most interesting to read....great fiction, and a source of great pleasure.

But seriously, Hillary has been allowed now to attack Obama and is the entire reason she is in the race....dude, she was in it eons before he even contemplated a run.

She's melting down, purely and simply, because she is, and always has been, bereft of the simplist idea (or a clue, for that matter).  All a**, and no forehead, as it were.

Time for the wicked witch to go down in flames, which, incidentally, I've been predicting for about a year.  And I truly do believe she'll have an "I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it any more" moment.

Get the popcorn out....it will be political theatre at its very finest.

David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive

 

Melting down, that's for sure...

Yes, Lame, You DO push the cartel stuff a bit too much at times...it gets sort of tiring after a while. I agree with Blonde, here. She is melting down, that's for sure. I don't think she has been offered anything, I don't think she has been promised anything, I think this will kill her political future dead. She knows it and this will be great theatre. And I thought "There Will Be Blood" and "No Country For Old Men" were violent...silly me.

and Lame's response

and Lame's response isssss....

tick tock

tick tock

cricket... cricket.....

 

SOCKS THE CAT 2008... for REAL Change

LC, do you really think

LC, do you really think these pathetic attacks of HRC's on Obama are having any kind of effect? If so, what?

As far as I can see, he is thriving and she just looks desperate.

Hilllary and Obama

I thought the comment by Hillary about the

heavenly choir opening up, and all the problems

of the world would be solved by electing Obama

was right on!!!   The masses (of democrats) see

him as a messiah, and believe all problems will

be solved by him.   Lots of lemmings.

   

Hillary on the Supreme Court?

“...Al Gore will nominate her to the Supreme Court”

LC, say what you will; but can you, in your wildest dreams, imagine that Hillary, in her current and putative future performances, could be laying the groundwork for a position on the Supreme Court???

Impunitas semper ad deteriora invitat.

DUH!!       When you

DUH!!       When you run for an election, you attack your opponent.  What is this "don't you dare attack Obama attitude in the MSM?"  What Mathews says sounds very sexist.  If that was a male presidential candidate standing up on stage attacking his opponent then everyone would be saying "go at'm".  But, since it is a woman it is "bitchy".  MSM is demanding a higher set of standards for women politicians.  Shame on you MSM, you are sexist!!!!    

Ideal world!

  You do not attack your opponents--YOU ATTACK THE DIFFERENCE ON THE ISSUES OR MERITS... If someone reveals your avowed points and what that means to the voter- that is a COMPARISON.... MSM has no standards --they have just the 'news' as they see it through their political lens. Hardly sexist--that is out of the victim playbook.

 In truth, there is little difference in the proposals of either candidate and there has been little- if any bias...If there was more to divulge about the Obama campaign you can rest assured that the clinton's would have leaked it by now. They have slammed every tidbit -true or false- at him and none has stuck. 

 She does not inspire or unite in any sense of the word. Desperation is not a pretty thing.

  I know much has been made

  I know much has been made of the comparison of hillary and the Wicked Witch of the West but when she goes on a rant and tries to be in command all she would have to do is threaten obama's little dog and we would all have to deal with our inner Dorothy.

MidAmerica

Nice pic.  Seriously, tho...I have been predicting a Wicked Witch meltdown of Her Highness for about fourteen months.  "you and your little dog, Toto"

Care to place any bets?  Since you've hopped on my bandwagon with pictures?

P.S.  The hell with her inner Dorothy.  I think her name is Bill. 

David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive

 

  I was talking about the

  I was talking about the inner Dorothy in all of us.  We all (or at least most) watched The Wizard of Oz as kids so that fear of the Wicked Witch character is ingrained in us.  Imagine her as president looking through the television telling us what we must do.  We'd all have to go to therapy to cope with it.

Funny

I think Hil has lost her inner Dorothy.

Hoping.

LOL. 

David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive

 

Blonde & Co.

Hillary Clinton is an absolutely horrible, thoroughly unlikable person.

Bill Clinton is an absolutely horrible, thoroughly unlikable person.

What a pair of wreched ultra-politicians (and nothing more.)

I watched more of that video clip of Bill leaning in on Wallace on FNC from 2006. Unreal. He simply broached Billy on the 9/11 commission once, which the left does NONSTOP when taking the right to task -- and libs look to it like the bible. Bill immediately goes on a "only-on-Fox" rant, and doesn't let up, putting the peddle to the metal for 20-plus minutes! Wallace was ready to move on after a minute or two, but Bill would not let go. What an agressive, punk of a guy he is.... and to think, he was POTUS.... for 8 years. How did that happen?

Ugly people, both of them.

Bring on March 4th and let's be done with them once and for all. Gotta also say, I was impressed with Michelle Obama on Larry King. I'm no big fan of those two, but a far cry higher on the integrity pole than the C's.

PS: who's been Shrillary's clothing/make-up person? These pant-suits are so totalitarian looking, and that awful, butch haircut just adds more steel to an already steely woman. Yuck.

 

We bid a fond farewell to Professor Talking Points & Cheetos

Shy

Interesting.  I have been watching clips of Michelle Obama on Fox...and I am totally turned off...she's an elitist black woman...totally dismissive of any white female experience.   I would totally HATE to have her as  a boss...she'd be a misery.  And if you think I'd hate having her as a boss, try being her subordinate as a smart white guy.  You'd be so FIRED it wouldn't even be funny.

As for HRC, who cares?  She's going down in flames, it will be great.  Ta ta, HRC, and your ugly dog Toto (um, Bill).....buh bye, Clinton legacy.  And good riddance! 

<edit> and I suppose I ought to ban myself to my room for that "racist" rant....but seriously...does anyone else listen to what Michelle Obama is saying?  She's an elitist snob. 

David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive

 

Blonde, I could not agree

Blonde, I could not agree more with your assessment of Mrs. Obama. Since I am but a simple man, I noticed the first time I saw her that she is a very attractive woman. But watching her speak for any length of time, it seems as though there is a roiling, seething anger just below the surface and her smiles seem very pained. If anyone in the McCain camp had half a brain, they'd exploit all the air time she's getting and start pushing her buttons. I don't think it would be much to set her off for her own version of a Hillary meltdown.

CJK

It's interesting, isn't it?

On the one hand, I feel sorry for Michelle Obama, having been thrust into the national limelight without any REAL preparation (like Hillary as the Guv's wife).

Having said that, though, I see her as a race baiting, gender baiting woman.  She wants what she wants (her husband and his race).  She's strident, and only wants to consider her own POV...I see nothing in her that acknowledges anyone else's experience other than her own.

I believe she's more of an elitist snob than F'Ing Kerry and Teeeerezaaah.

I suppose I'm the only one here to put it into English....but if B. Hussein is dangerous...trust me, his wife is five times as bad.  Look what we wrought with the wife of Bill the Idiot!!!!  Trust me when I tell you, Michelle Obama is ten times smarter than Hillary. 

David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive

 

Blonde, I applaud your

Blonde, I applaud your bravery for verbalizing your observations. It seems even on a conservative news analysis site, we still feel somewhat compelled to be politically correct.

I agree with your statement that she is a race baiter. While Barry's out walking on water, making the blind see and curing lepers, Michelle takes every soundbyte she gets to almost dare someone on the right to criticize him. After all, citing someone's record (even if it doesn't really exist) is an attack.

In Michelle's defense, though, she at least doesn't have Mrs. Munster, er, um, Kerry's, creepy accent!

B & CJK... I'm only going

B & CJK... I'm only going on the King interview, which was my first introduction to her, and I haven't seen much else. So I'm inclined to take your word on this, but of course I'll have to see more myself :)

btw, B, Y is acting up... will try to get on later.

 

SOCKS THE CAT 2008... for REAL Change

Blonde, I agree with you

Blonde, I agree with you about Mrs. Obama. the more I see of her the less I like her.

She reminds me of all the pushy, authoritative black women I've seen in movies....you know, the mothers who crack the whip and their kids don't even dare think about misbehaving. The " He's bi-racial....what's THAT about?" just did it for me. She sounds like she has no use for anyone outside her own race. Maybe that's why he never talks about his "white" side.

And I know most candidates' wives tell little "secrets" to make the guy more human...but Jeez..Michelle Obama said her husband stinks in the morning. How sweet. Is that breath or BO, Michelle?

Is that to keep him down to earth, or just down? Most women could find gentler ways to remind their husband that he's got feet of clay....

 

Oi Vei

I don't think Michelle Obama is ready for primetime. I also think she is a racist. Little tidbits of racism are poking thru her speeches and I think that has the Obama handlers a bit uneasy. If O gets in I expect Michelle to make a faux pas and convince more Americans of her racism.

We are going to have our hands full with this gang coming in, that's for sure. Expect non-stop liberal proposals, at least for the first 2 years. I predict it will take America about that long to figure out what we really have here and dump the dems out of at least one of the houses of congress. We have to make sure the Repubs have the balls to stand up to this during this time.

Check out this article in Political Night Train.

 

Something for us to relish

“... and to think, he was POTUS.... for 8 years. How did that happen?”

You and I know the answer to that one. But as the Clintons continue in this present mode your question, its inescapable answer, and what it means could have a cathartic affect upon many Democrats, even the yellow dog sort. Now there is something for all of us to relish.

Impunitas semper ad deteriora invitat.

Briefly and Simplistically I'm Afraid

"...he was POTUS.... for 8 years. How did that happen?..." 

In a nutshell:

1. MSM - who badgered us over and over how the economy had failed under George HW Bush, who refused to release the economic indicators until after Bill Clinton was elected in '92, and who did/do/will do anything in their power to make certain only secular progressives are elected - to any office.

2. Ross Perot - who split the Republican party by convincing members with his third party can win nonsense. In all fairness, it was far more than just him spewing that tripe, and large numbers of Democrats also split and voted for him. However, the best I have seen for the split was 2:1, Rep:Dem. At least in the popular vote, that would have switched the plurality to Bush, not Clinton. (Popular vote would have been 50.06% Bush to 49.31% Clinton, or a 776,000 excess. Some day I'm going to have to go back and crunch the numbers for individual states to see if it would have changed the electoral vote.)

3. Bob Dole - who was unelectable, but it was "his turn." Not much else to say here. See HRC for the current iteration of this political syndrome.

V/R

Clyde

"...the aspirants to tyranny are either the...men of the state, who in democracies are demagogues,... or those who hold great offices, and have a long tenure.." - Aristotle, Politics, c350BC

Thank you, Clyde

On that note, I am turning in.

It's "her" turn....just as it is John McCain's "turn".

It all makes me ill.

Just once, I'd like to vote, with enthusiasm.  Just once.  I don't think that's too much to ask.

Great explanation, BTW.

David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive

 

AAAAARRRRGH! CGatton! We

AAAAARRRRGH! CGatton! We know how it happened, don't remind us!!!

And it recurred in '96 because those stodgy, Old-boy rules Republicans wanted Bob Dole to have "his turn."

And they're doing it again. At a time when the biggest word in the political world is "change" they dredge up one of the oldest Senators we have, because it's "his turn" and he lost in 2000!!

Republicans never, never learn!!

Clearly We Need Reminding

"...don't remind us...they're doing it again..."

Clearly, we do need to be reminded. That's why I took the time to dig it all up, and put it out there...we're doing it again! It's bad enough we have to live with the 'my turn' candidate, but now we have to deal with all the write-in/don't vote players also.

V/R

Clyde

"...the aspirants to tyranny are either the...men of the state, who in democracies are demagogues,... or those who hold great offices, and have a long tenure.." - Aristotle, Politics, c350BC

Evenin' mb... You spoke

Evenin' mb...

You spoke volumes...and the repubs will never learn...

Sadly.

Has Anyone Ever Seen Something Like This Before?

"...I'm going to have to go back and crunch the numbers for individual states to see if it would have changed the electoral vote..."

I'm sure someone, somewhere has already done this, but I've never seen it. So, without further fanfair, the 1992 presidential election vote, minus Ross Perot - simple model method, assuming a 2:1 Rep:Dem vote split for all states, not just nationally.

Candidate    Raw Vote Total        Electoral Votes

Bush            52,267,097               274

Clinton         51,491,080               264

Bush wins both popular and electoral vote.  The following states switched from Clinton to Bush: Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Ohio, and Wisconsin.

V/R

Clyde

"...the aspirants to tyranny are either the...men of the state, who in democracies are demagogues,... or those who hold great offices, and have a long tenure.." - Aristotle, Politics, c350BC

MidAmerica... Thanks,

MidAmerica...

Thanks, that's gotta be the most flattering pic I have ever seen of Hillary. Broom and all!

  Well when you look at the

  Well when you look at the color of hillary in the picture Mark posted for this piece it wasn't a great leap to make the analogy.

In fairness to Hillary--and

In fairness to Hillary--and gosh knows that's my goal here--my editing of the pic might have unintentionally injected a blueish tint.

PS: And don't anyone dare say "that's funny, she doesn't look Blueish" ;-)

Sorry Mark,

She looks like a bluefish.

A voracious, pelagic species with big teeth that devours all in its path.

Like that.

And I didn't say "blueish"....:D 

David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive

 

Beam me up

As a Star Trek fan, that blue skin reminds me of an Andorian.  All she needs are a pair of antenna and some white hair.

Live long and prosper. 

When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.

Viking....

I love Spock (I had a red dobie named Spock)... \\ // 

David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive

 

Illogical

Me too, Blonde.  Even unemotional Spock would be exasperated by libs.  Can you imagine Bubba or Howard Dean on the receiving end of a Vulcan nerve pinch?

When you put the clowns in charge, don't be surprised when a circus breaks out.

  Is this your

  Is this your 'bluefish?

 

  On an off topic note as I did a little search just now and at the left sidebar where suggested additional searches are listed it said:

  How much larger than the earth is Uranus?

  I don't care who you are that's funny right there.....

For Crying Out Loud, MidAmerica

What the hay?

I was in Mickey World last week...for a corporate meeting....and they made us pick a Disney "alter ego".

Mine of course, was "Nemo"....D'oh....from Florida, like the water, yada yada.

Then you post my alter ego facing off against Hillary? 

What were  you thinking?  You trying to kill me or what? 

P.S.  Nice pic....But I was thinking of the pelagic saltwater variety.  LOL.

David Gregory, do you know which damn network you lie for? ~ Uncle Jimbo, @Blackfive

 

  What?  A  peg leg?....

  What?  A  peg leg?.... Never heard of that sort of fish.  But then, the only salt water we have where I'm at you wash off in the shower.

Mark, the blue tint is just fine.

It provides just the right hue, actually. After all, accurate representation is what we are striving for here, is it not? :-)

Proud member of the "Rough Republican Attack Machine."

In all honesty, though,

In all honesty, though, Mark, I would have been more inclined to say Hillary is more of a mawg. :-)

And one has to wonder: when

And one has to wonder: when she was doing this segment of that speech, was that a parody on this quote found on an Obama blog? (check out the quote below the headline)

I don't know how many people know the website or heard him say that quote, but it hit me right away when I heard her.

As for being aware of how it sounds on television, I think she is incapable of changing. She is not a "natural" politician or speaker. She has two settings when she is giving a speech: pedantic, and shrill.

Doesn’t karma stink?

Gosh, Hillary, doesn’t karma stink?!

Impunitas semper ad deteriora invitat.

Hillary Dean?

"We're going to California, to Texas, to New York, and we're going to South Dakota, and Oregon, and Washington, and Michigan...and then we're going to Washington D.C. to take back the White House!!!   YAAAAAAAAAARGH!!!!!"

Bye bye Shrillary...

...hello Obama v. McCain.

 

"Goodbye, Mr. Thornhill,

"Goodbye, Mr. Thornhill, wherever you are."

- North By Northwest, 1959

 

We bid a fond farewell to Professor Talking Points & Cheetos

too much

There's too much anger and hostility in Hitlery. If she fails to grab the nomination watch for her to go into rehab or take a long break at an undisclosed location. Her angst needs an outlet and when her life goes down the toilet slapping Bubba around won't do it.

Bubba will go on a "Venom

I think she will be gracious and go back to the Senate to become a female Teddy Kennedy.

Bubba will go on a "Venom and Vitriol" tour, during which he will alternately:

choke up and tell us how proud he is of his little Hillary, and how all she ever wanted was to serve her country....

and

turn red faced and nasty, and point his finger at all the conspirators who were against her from the beginning....probably because they couldn't stand the fact that he was such a great President...

and then it will all be about him again, and the world will be in balance.

He wanted her to lose.....makes her realize she is nothing without him....he loves his Hillary when she is a loser....

Bitter Hill makes Better Bill

She could become like Jimmie Carter or Algore and get bitter about it all. She could become "hillary-on-the-spot", always talking about running for president again, and again, and again, meanwhile getting older and skanky-looking, ala Bella Abzug, also a NY dame. What a pain-in-the-ass she is and will become. If and when Obama screws up she will imply that "well, if you dopey Americans had any sense you would have voted for me, blah, blah".

I think you are right-on about Billy-Bob. He will certainly try to play to hero husband, standing by his broken wife when she really needs it (violins here, please). And remember, he won, twice, she could not win once...this will be what is NOT said by him but will be like the 800 lb gorilla in the room.

The thing that is dangerous

The thing that is dangerous to be aware of is Matthews man crush on Obama. That's not only unmanly, it's down right disgusting.

Go Hill Go! Let it all

Go Hill Go!

Let it all hang out..you have nothing to lose..be your own kind of woman....when the going get tough...

I have enjoyed nothing more...especially the celestial choir routine...

This has all been great fun...  in a manner of speaking....chew away Hill...tell it like it is with the other empty suit who is even more dangerous than you when it comes right down to it...and that is just by a smidgen...the rebubs have been told to not even go there...so I am counting on you...even if you lose, you will pay back like a woman scorned...one way or the other. 

Never thought I would see the day I would be rootin' for the woman who has been a political whore all her life...but in this case I have got to...

One enemy within is not quite as bad as the other enmey within...

Sad place we are in at this time...on the other hand this may be the beginning and just a blink of an eye time wise of what is yet to come politically speaking when it comes to the fate of this country.