Compare obama's reaction to hillarys rfk comments to hillarys reaction to bittergate...

george_maniakes

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Sun May-25-08 10:01 AM
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Compare obama's reaction to hillarys rfk comments to hillarys reaction to bittergate...

That right there is new politics versus old politics. This whole episode is a lesson in how to act with class when your opponent fucks up like that.

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Honeycombe8

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Sun May-25-08 10:02 AM
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1. True. Good post. nt

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Occam Bandage

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Sun May-25-08 10:03 AM
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2. Obama took the classy path, and stepped back, letting the issue

stand or die on its own merits. Clinton milked it like an over-producing cow.

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tularetom

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Sun May-25-08 10:13 AM
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3. Are you calling Hillary a cow?

You are a sexist.

That is an insult to hard working Americans, white Americans everywhere.

See what she has to put up with?

:evilgrin:

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virtualobserver

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Sun May-25-08 10:16 AM
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4. her "reaction", which was to use it to claim that Obama is looking down on certain americans...

Edited on Sun May-25-08 10:17 AM by virtualobserver

was the point that I realized that there were literally no depths to which she would not sink .

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roseBudd

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Sun May-25-08 10:19 AM
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5. If Obama thought like HRC his advance team would have printed some offensive stickers to pass out &

Edited on Sun May-25-08 10:19 AM by rosebud57

then claim it was grassroots create your own and pay for them yourselves at Kinko's stickers.

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Aloha Spirit

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Sun May-25-08 01:00 PM
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10. yes, thank you for this sad reminder.

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roseBudd

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Sun May-25-08 06:14 PM
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12. And if we are honest we know that hand lettered signs at rallies & protests are often made in

advance and handed out to the signless. The MSNBC protest signs were by one hand.

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stray cat

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Sun May-25-08 10:38 AM
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6. that was my observation as well

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Window

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Sun May-25-08 12:48 PM
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7. K/R.

:kick:

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high density

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Sun May-25-08 12:49 PM
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8. Howard Wolfson and Terry McAuliffe are blaming Obama for the RFK dustup

I guess that's because Obama refuses to quit while he's ahead.

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mythyc

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Sun May-25-08 01:13 PM
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11. i hadn't heard that. what did the stooges say?

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unblock

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Sun May-25-08 12:56 PM
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9. to be fair, it's a lot easier to take the high road when you've already won.

besides which, some opponent's gaffes are better exploited other than by direct comments from the candidate.

i agree with your central point, though, and love what obama is already doing to shape the tone and rhetoric of national politics. there are probably better examples of your point.

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