White House Puts Responsibility Squarely on Clinton - Won't Be Carrying Her Water

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Obama spokesman says it all when asked whether Obama will be responsible for winning over Bernie Sanders supporters for Clinton should she emerge from the Democratic Convention in July as the nominee.

Reporter asking about winning over Bernie supporters: "What do you think is going to be the President's best approach now that he is going to be out on the trail in a matter of days, to winning over those people..?"

Obama Spokesman: "Well listen, first of all, it is going to be Secretary Clinton's responsibility to win over those people."


(Will be interesting to see how someone who has backtracked on nearly every major talking point they have ever made will be able to convince younger voters that suddenly their words really mean anything.)


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updated to add text as someone noted cc was not working

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1. Actions speak louder than words

[tblue37]

2. How did he actually phrase it? CC is not available o the video,

so we deafies are excluded from the specific info.

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4. I will indicate text in a sec -

Reporter asking about winning over Bernie supporters: "What do you think is going to be the President's best approach now that he is going to be out on the trail in a matter of days, to winning over those people..?"

Obama Spokesman responding to question: "Well listen, first of all, it is going to be Secretary Clinton's responsibility to win over those people."


Hope that assists. Apologies for not including it in post.

[tblue37]

6. Thanks! nt

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8. no problem

I long ago asked Skinner if they could put a quick reminder in video uploads area that hearing impaired folks would benefit from a description of video - just to remind dummies like me who forget when uploading, but they said no. (I thought it was a reasonable idea, given the frustration it would alleviate, but who am I to judge)

[scscholar]

3. "carrying her water?

What does that mean? Has the media give-up on English?

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5. it means 'to do someone's bidding'

to do someone's job for them

[JDPriestly]

14. It means to do someone else's work for them.

[liberal N proud]

7. I doubt they said anything like that

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10. Why the caption Obama Knocks Clinton, what is that from Fox? Then I read someone

saying "Carry Her Water", that phrase is not on the video? All it says is it is going to be Secretary Clinton's responsibility to
win over those people. Who else would have that responsibility? This seems to be an awful stretch to try and make that statement some kind of negative statement about Clinton.

[msongs]

11. bernie called hillary unqualified. will be interesting to hear him backtrack on those words nt

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12. if she can backtrack on deciding other people's personal choices, perhaps there is hope

Mind you, that was just to recognize already-legal marriages from other states

[Sweeties Mama]

13. Easy. All he has to say

is she is more qualified than Trump. Which, imho, sets a low bar for qualification.