Actor Donald Sutherland: Obama's Being 'Gutted' for Hillary

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As far as conspiracy theories go, the one actor Donald Sutherland posited at the Huffington Post Monday certainly doesn't rank very high.

After all, there's a long line of political pundits predicting the Clintons are conspiring to steal the Democrat presidential nomination from Barack Obama.

But, coming from Kiefer's dad, and the original "Hawkeye" Pierce from "M*A*S*H," the entertainment value is, well, delicious (photo courtesy NYT).

Get out the popcorn, folks...you won't be disappointed (emphasis added, h/t NBer Gary Hall):

The DNC's 'Terry McAuliffe mind-set' ruined the campaigns of Gore, Kerry and Senator Clinton and now the legions of McAuliffites who have surrounded Barack Obama are doing their damndest to undermine the possibility of his Presidency...There's a well sourced rumor of Machiavellian proportions running around that what's going to happen is that his base support will be so demoralized they won't have the vital conviction they'll need this August to withstand a McAuliffite push to persuade disenchanted delegates on the floor of the convention to make a resurgent Hillary Clinton the Party's nominee!...His heart and soul is being gutted and ours with it... This morning's news in the Washington Post is that he's revised his positions on abortion and troop withdrawal! His supporters are being sent to hell in a handbasket and it has to be stopped!

Suddenly, Sutherland sounds more like Frank Burns than Hawkeye!


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Would anyone really be

Would anyone really be surprised if this did happen?

Come on..it's the Clintoons!

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh

And upon further review...

Bigtimer,

Let's not forget that Shmillary never "quit" her campaign - she merely "suspended" it - just like a baseball game on a rain delay. You're right - this IS the Clintoons!

I wouldn't put it past them to throw some kind of a monkey wrench into Osama Bama's nomination process.  They're not exactly golfing buddies by any stretch of the imagination and Shmillary's ego is still very much brusied by her political nosedive.

Ah, it will be fun to watch!

"How can you  be in two places at once when you're not anywhere at all?" - Firesign Theatre

goldenthroat, hillarys campaign is just in menapause

she just has to rest a lil and get through these obama hot flashes.

yes i made a very very sexist crude joke, and wasn't it funny.

lunaticcringeradio

Yes...it was.

Funny. 

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

 

@BT

I don't think it'll happen, but I can write you a compelling scenario about her doing such a thing:

Clinton has suspended her campaign, and now Obama is the one starting to get worked over in the media (not much admitedly, but more than he was getting in March).  Clinton, however, has managed to keep her name in the periphery of the show.  Not a main character, but not written out of the script yet.  So her strategy is that she sits in the wings while Obama absorbs more and more heat, maybe she's even the one who's pulling the strings to disclose more and more bad news about him to increase the load of bad news falling on him.  She's safe and dry away, from the criticism.  Then in just in time for an August ambush, she swoops in and steals the nomination as his invincibility and his halo crumble around his shoulders.  She's been spared nearly three months of scrutiny, three months of campaign expenses and her name recognition is virtually the same as the day she suspended her campaign. 


"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."

- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)

www.conservativeboot...

Good observation, geoff.gale...

GG,

I think you just answered your own question. The Clintons and their cronies may be down but they are certainly not out. Osama Bama is about to get blind-sided in the next few months. Slick Willy is still fuming about Shmillary not getting the nod and may already be plotting and planning a counterattack. 

Don't put it past them to come out swinging at the August convo.

"How can you be in two places at once when you're not anywhere at all?" - Firesign Theatre 

 

Goldenthroat

I've got to comment on your sig line.  Firesign Theatre released their first two albums Waiting for the Electrician, Or Somebody Like Him and the aforementioned How Can You Be In Two Places...while I was toiling in college and living the life of irresponsible...well, suffice it to say that it was a fun time.  Man, that title brings back some fond and rather hazy memories.

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing."

- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)

www.conservativeboot...

Sutherland's as weird as the

Sutherland's as weird as the characters he portrays. And his writing style seems punch drunk. Actor Michael Moriarty went off the deep end and now writes incoherent Libertarian screeds; Sutherland may become his mirror image on the paranoid moonbat side of the spectrum.

 "His supporters are being

 "His supporters are being sent to hell in a handbasket and it has to be stopped!"

So what the heck is he hinting at? Does Obama need to be stopped or just his supporters?

He does have something of a point. Obama's move to the center may really piss off his hardcore commie base and it may keep them out of the voting booth.

 

 

45 Communist Goals for America http://www.nationmakers.com/com_goals.htm

guess how much i care when an actor opens their trap

crickets

crickets

crickets

lunaticcringeradio

I've said it before

 and I'll say it again...

would you trust these people?????

http://etherzone.com/body.html

NOBAMA 08 !!!

Posited ?  Posted ?

Posited ?  Posted ? Postulated ? Presumed?  Presupposed ?  Proposed ?  Posed?

 

A lotta p'ing going on here...:) 

 

 

"If you want to save the world you must be willing to make others sacrifice" ....Dogbert the green consultant

Well well

He may have tripped into a truth.

I  think what some on the left are beginning to realize is that they could have voted  for Hillary.

He has turrned into the person he was running against and maybe the left does not like him much.

Personally, I hope they, the Clinton supporters, have something up their sleeves.

 

hussein-o better start

hussein-o better start looking for clues beginning under the dead bodies in bill and hillary's past.

And one more thing, cocodrie...

...along with the interns under the desk.

"Yeah! That's the ticket!" - Tommy Flanagan

thanks

my old mind doesn't think along those lines as quick as it used to. might be a cigar there too.

Maybe triple-check the

Maybe triple-check the inflatable escape slides on future airplane flights, just in case. 

*****

"People only insist that a debate stop when they are afraid of what might be learned if it continues." - George Will 

or stop borrowing Hellary's old planes

What was B(censored middle initial)O thinking by borrowing her old campaign plane?

If he wasn't thinking about the Clintonistas before, I bet he is now!!!!

Hillary: Awfully sorry to

Hillary: Awfully sorry to hear about your plane mishap, Bar (feigns kiss on cheek). Here, please take my car to head to your next campaign function. Just remember to pump the break three times and then throw it into reverse when you want to stop. Oh, and that burning smell is normal. Pay it no regard.

*****

"People only insist that a debate stop when they are afraid of what might be learned if it continues." - George Will 

I hope its true

I hope its true

Bless your heart, Donald

Bless your heart, Donald Sutherland, but have you been sniffing some magic markers?

Donald Sutherland, the village called

Poor old tortured hippie Donald Sutherland just had to voice his opinions.  At least he hasn't joined the other tired old hippie tools and run for office!  When will that generation go away??

Jeff Lebowski

www.angrywhitedude.c...

But there's a whole new wave

But there's a whole new wave of hippies ready to take over. But its just not the same. Nobody makes the VW bus anymore. Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix have passed on. Even LSD has changed.  Damn that Disco craze...It ruined everything.

You know what they say

You can teach a squirrel to waterski, but you can never take away its love for acorns.

Trying to pull togther the

Trying to pull togther the meaning of your words, but still working on it.  Sounds Confucian or Burma Shave or something....

Don't believe it for a

Don't believe it for a minute.  Sutherland is just flapping his gums because he either wants a part or has one and it is about to go to a theater near you. 

This is the usual pattern.  Actor utters some liberal spew and boom!  He/she gets the part.  Or actor has part and the serial or movie or whatever is about to be released and its pay back time - liberal spew coming right up!

Meanwhile, the dimocrats are a lot of things, but alienating their black 95% dependable voting block isn't one of them.  Talk about pissed off.  Just imagine the defeatocrats kicking bambi (aka 57 states) to the curb.  The victim ringmasters Jackson and Sharpton (aka the Justice Brothers) among many others would have a cow.  

Meanwhile, all those dims that through the course of the campaign have "invested" their political captial in bambi (aka ten thousand people died - an entire town destroyed),while shunting off the clintoons.  The double flip with a triple twist that it would take to then support the clintoons would bring even the most liberal dim to apoplexy.   

In other words.

His supporters are being sent to hell in a handbasket and it has to be stopped!

In other words, Obama's throwing his supporters "under the bus" and somebody better stop the bus.

I honestly don't think the

I honestly don't think the Clintons intend on stealing a spot this time around. As other people here point out, this would automatically deep-six a huge, mindless voting block that has obediently pulled the "D" lever for decades.

No, they will sit this out and possibly throw wrenches in the Obama campaign, with the hope that this clown loses, and loses BIG. Then Hillary will be primed to take on the old man four years from now. Four years isn't really that long a time.

Since when is moving to the center a bad move for libs?

I'm only 48, but I remember the Clinton administration move to the center - as openly described by Dick Morris. They were brilliant in co-opting Republican agenda items and claiming victory for them. The Obama camp realizes it can never win with the MoveOn.org & Hollywood elitist frame of mind. However, in this case, I believe that the move to the center is just a head fake; Clinton had 6 of 8 years with the Republicans in control of the Congress. Should Obama win in November, he is likely to have a Democrat House & Senate. He can go hog wild with an ultra-liberal agenda and stand a better chance of advancing it.

Don't fret Mr. Southerland - your man is not abandoning you. It's all an act, and I thought you may have been able to recognize that.

 

Which act is the real

Which act is the real act?  Did Obama send notes to the libs telling them he didn't mean what he said like he did with the Canadians and NAFTA?  Who is Obama?  Really?  He tells every audience what they want to hear and his positions shift to accomodate that audience.   Is he really a Socialist or is he just the same old politician who tells people what they want to hear in order to get their money and votes?  What's Obama's track record?

Obama is being true to his campaign slogan of CHANGE.  His message is CHANGE, therefore he can CHANGE his message.  The funny thing is liberals are thee worst reactionaries there are, they can't abide CHANGE when it comes to their world views.  Changing the Iraq War stance is CHANGE they can't live with.  It's called buyer's remorse and the Clinton campaign is set to capitalize on it in August, SURPRISE! 

The fact that Sutherland is spouting a Clinton conspiracy theory means that the lib grapevine is abuzz with rumors of a superdelegate move away from Obama.  More CHANGE.

Great catch there Gary!

 Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, starving the poor one gallon of ethanol at a time. Fill your tank with E85 and cull a village.  

Mr. Sutherland

I DON'T GIVE A RAT'S Y'ALL KNOW WHAT ABOUT WHAT YOU SAY!  YOU ARE A HAS-BEEN ACTOR WHOSE SON FOLLOWS IN YOUR LEFTIST FOOTSTEPS.

 

Did I make myself clear?

I believe Oddball

from the movie "Kelly's Heroes" has resurfaced.

"There you go babe with dem negative waves"

Great flick.

"All generalizations are false, including this one.” Mark Twain

Posited

NBers,

I've gotten some PMs and EMs suggesting I misspelled the word "posted" in the first sentence. Not so. "Posited" means "To put forward, as for consideration or study; suggest."

Thanks for your concern. :-) ns

Don't you mean, "Thank you

Don't you mean, "Thank you for your posits"? 

:-)

*****

"People only insist that a debate stop when they are afraid of what might be learned if it continues." - George Will 

I had no idea Donald

I had no idea Donald knew such big words. He should be more careful, after all...he was addressing the readers of the HuffPo...

Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!

"Obama's Being 'Gutted' for

"Obama's Being 'Gutted' for Hillary" "Gutted"? They call any questions about Obama being "gutted"? I guess some of these nuts for Obama really did think he'd skate through the general election with absolutely no negative PR or questions being raised.

McNotObama '08

Obama? Gutted??

Nonsense. Obama has already demonstrated he has no guts.

Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!

BHO Gutted?

Hillary was more of a catch-and-release.

She still has an OK job. 

He knows

Donald Sutherland served this country gallantly in the Korea Conflict as both an officer and a doctor. I believe he was a psychiatrist and he knows the inner workings of the human mind. If Dr. Sutherland says that the Clintons are up to something, then I believe we need to pay attention.

Sutherland is Canadian born

Sutherland is Canadian born and never serverd in the military of any country. Neither is he a doctor. He studied engineering and drama in college, but quickly abandoned engineering for an acting career.

Throughout his acting career he has gravitated to anti-war, anti-US parts, series, and films. For example, he once co-produced a film with Jane Fonda in 1972 titled FTA.

FTA was an acronym that originally meant Fun, Travel, and Adventure - something that was likely to occur when you joined the Army. The acronym was used in Army marketing of the time to entice young men and women to enlist.

Anti-war types turned the acronym around to mean F**k the Army. I'll leave it to you to determine what Sutherland and Fonda meant by the title of their film.

JD

I think he was refering to Sutherland's stint as a surgeon in the 4077th.

Although he was wrong about him being a psychiatrist.

I believe his tongue was planted firmly in cheek.

Well, the Obamatons can at least still Hope for Change...

Sutherland wrote: "They've turned this man we thought was a lion into a little lamb and they're leading him to slaughter."

Knock, knock: You were duped! He was never more than a stuffed animal, and now you're shocked?? Thats truly hilarious. And these are your own democrats, not the fearsome McCain Attack Machine.

"...well sourced rumor of Machiavellian proportions." The meaning of Machiavellian has NOTHING to do with size or scope. That's as idiotic a statement as "the ball was so big it was green."

Actors should just act. 

somebody's actually listening?

Donald who? You mean that has-been hack of an actor from long long ago? Isn't he dead already? Why didn't he marry Jane Fonda? If you add their IQ's together you can finally break 100. They're a perfect match.

Cant stand it anymore. 

Cant stand it anymore.  Everytime I see that picture.  Sally Kellerman is hotttt, still hott.  She has that voice and moves.  And in Back To School woah....

Nuke em til they glow then shoot em in the dark.

Hey now just wait a dang minute

Mr Sutherland is doing voice overs for OJ commecials.

He sounds like he's in agony. Like every word is a chore to get out without tripping over it.

Much like Olbermann...Why in the name of all that's holy... why is this person renowned for making believe to be given any more credence than the homeless bum on the corner? What are his qualifications other than he lives in a dream world?

Bet you don't call Hillary Hotlips do ya Hawkeye

NO OBAMUNISTS PLEASE!

CT... Now that is

CT...

Now that is funny!

"America isn't the problem...America is the solution." ~ Rush Limbaugh