If this is true, I’ll never vote Democrat again
It’s Obama, stupid: Carter and Gore to end Clinton bid:
DEMOCRAT grandees Jimmy Carter and Al Gore are being lined-up to deliver the coup de grâce to Hillary Clinton and end her campaign to become president.
Falling poll numbers and a string of high-profile blunders have convinced party elders that she must now bow out of the primary race.
Former president Carter and former vice-president Gore have already held high-level discussions about delivering the message that she must stand down for the good of the Democrats.
“They’re in discussions,” a source close to Carter told Scotland on Sunday. “Carter has been talking to Gore. They will act, possibly together, or in sequence.”
I have to wonder, though, if this isn’t just an across-the-pond version of the usual Obama haka we know and loathe. That bit about falling poll numbers and a string of high-profile blunders — what the hell? That’s describing Obama, not Hillary. The man has become a walking disaster.
18 Responses to “If this is true, I’ll never vote Democrat again”
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Lost Clown says:
Who listens to a peanut farmer anyway?i (Didn’t he hear what Obama called peanut farmers?)
Anyway, shouldn’t they wait to see how the whole “working class people are a bunch of idiots” thing plays out? I mean, that is definitely going to lose the election in Nov should obama be the candidate. Just sayin’.
Everybody wants to think how cool and progressive they are, but it’s those very people that he thinks are bitter rubes that are the ones who really decide the election. Not the elites in the cities. (I always hated it, but I have to admit that I am one of the elite, college edumicated (well, not graduated, but whatever), and all, but here I am coming from a working class background having to explain to the people around me that these people are idiots (I DID! TODAY!), but rather they don’t like democrats because we treat them like they’re idiots and are condescending elitist snobs. I never thought I’d have to spell that out for anyone. It felt weird.
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Lost Clown says:
I mean, just look at the last election. If it were up to cities we’d be living in a very different political landscape.
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Violet says:
Of course they should wait. Here’s how the bitter-rubes-clinging-to-religion thing is playing out:
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octogalore says:
I hope it’s not true. If it is, it would be like the frat brother getting to tell the female pledge “we don’t take women, after all. Nice try!”
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atheist woman says:
I am really getting tired of this bull. I don’t have anything clever to add.
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donna darko says:
It’s the same paper that reported Samantha Power’s “monster” remark so we have that.
If these two (more) white men push this, I’m not voting in November at all as a protest.
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thebewilderness says:
I think it is speculative journalism.
What they claim is going to happen has never happened before. Never. There have been several nomination decisions that went all the way to the convention, and not once did anyone, except the media, say that one or the other should step down, not in private or in public.
Were they to do so, they would invalidate the entire candidate selection process that, as members of the party, they are committed to supporting. -
Crowlie says:
What’s going on with you lot? Even we down here in the last founded cock culture have a female appointee head of state and runner up to PM.
That said, when Obama talked about outback wingnuts clinging to religion and guns it did kinda ring a bell…
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Dale says:
Can you explain how you are using the noun “Haka” here? Meaning unclear. Thank you.
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Violet says:
Like the New Zealand football team does to intimidate its opponents.
I’ve been trying to remember who used it first to describe the typical Obamabot posturing as a haka, and I think it was riverdaughter at The Confluence, but I’m not positive. Credit to whoever it was, though, because it’s a perfect description.
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Lost Clown says:
If these two (more) white men push this, I’m not voting in November at all as a protest.
Or you could do what I’m going to do, which I think will have more impact, is write in Hillary’s name.
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simply wondered says:
sorry this is so long but it’s something to think about:
Indeed I live in the dark ages!
A guileless word is an absurdity. A smooth forehead betokens
A hard heart. He who laughs
Has not yet heard
The terrible tidings.Ah, what an age it is
When to speak of trees is almost a crime
For it is a kind of silence about injustice!
And he who walks calmly across the street,
Is he not out of reach of his friends
In trouble?It is true: I earn my living
But, believe me, it is only an accident.
Nothing that I do entitles me to eat my fill.
By chance I was spared. (If my luck leaves me
I am lost.)They tell me: eat and drink. Be glad you have it!
But how can I eat and drink
When my food is snatched from the hungry
And my glass of water belongs to the thirsty?
And yet I eat and drink.I would gladly be wise.
The old books tell us what wisdom is:
Avoid the strife of the world
Live out your little time
Fearing no one
Using no violence
Returning good for evil –
Not fulfillment of desire but forgetfulness
Passes for wisdom.
I can do none of this:
Indeed I live in the dark ages!2.
I came to the cities in a time of disorder
When hunger ruled.
I came among men in a time of uprising
And I revolted with them.
So the time passed away
Which on earth was given me.I ate my food between massacres.
The shadow of murder lay upon my sleep.
And when I loved, I loved with indifference.
I looked upon nature with impatience.
So the time passed away
Which on earth was given me.In my time streets led to the quicksand.
Speech betrayed me to the slaughterer.
There was little I could do. But without me
The rulers would have been more secure. This was my hope.
So the time passed away
Which on earth was given me.3.
You, who shall emerge from the flood
In which we are sinking,
Think –
When you speak of our weaknesses,
Also of the dark time
That brought them forth.For we went,changing our country more often than our shoes.
In the class war, despairing
When there was only injustice and no resistance.For we knew only too well:
Even the hatred of squalor
Makes the brow grow stern.
Even anger against injustice
Makes the voice grow harsh. Alas, we
Who wished to lay the foundations of kindness
Could not ourselves be kind.But you, when at last it comes to pass
That man can help his fellow man,
Do no judge us
Too harshly. -
Charity says:
Then there is this, which I assume you will be writing about too, Dr. Socks!! Warning – I threw up in my mouth.
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Violet says:
Geez, Charity! Thanks for that link. I was busy with an event this weekend and missed the compassion thingy where Obama cast those pearls. Dear bog.
Richard, we need a new meme: What Would Brecht Do?
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gayle says:
Something tells me they may well decide to hold off on the big announcements.
Or maybe I’m just “bitter.”
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gayle says:
That being said (the above, I mean) I believe the prediction was mainly accurate, BTW.
I don’t think they would bring her into a room and ask/tell her to leave; I think their duel endorsements would send a clear signal to other Super Ds that it’s time to end the primary by moving to Obama.
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Carmonn says:
Well, Jimmy’s been walking around talking about how hs grandkids love Obama (learning a valuable lesson from consulting Amy on nuclear weapons, I guess), but Gore’s not going to play ball with the same media that demonized him, and he’s not going to look like the world’s biggest buffoon by using up all his cred endorsing someone who can’t win as he’s imploding and right before he faces the next round of blowouts. OTOH, if he wants to play statesman he might manage to find a way to allow the Keystone Kops to back off of this trainwreck gracefully, before it destroys both Clinton and the downticket Dems’ chances in November.
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simply wondered says:
what would brecht do? – bugger off to denmark i imagine…
next?
mother courage for president.
