Distribution of "we're not bitter" stickers at Clinton rallies "the height of over-the-top crudity"

[BurtWorm]

Says Harvard sociologist and author of Boomerang (on the Clinton admin's failure with health care reform), Theda Skocpol at TPM:

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/188673.php

I have been in meetings with the Clintons and their advisors where very clinical things were said in a very-detached tone about unwillingness of working class voters to trust government -- and Bill Clinton -- and about their unfortunate (from a Clinton perspective) proclivity to vote on life-style rather than economic issues. To see Hillary going absolutely over the top to smash Obama for making clearly more humanly sympathetic observations in this vein, is just amazing. Even more so to see her pretending to be a gun-toting non-elite. Give us a break!

I wonder if she realizes that gaining a few days of lurid publicity that might reach a slice of voters is going to cost her a great deal in the regard of many Democrats, whose strong support she will need if she somehow claws her way to the nomination -- and even more so if she does not clinch the nomination. The distribution of "we're not bitter" stickers to her campaign rallies is the height of over-the-top crudity, and the reports are that very few audience members seem to have much enthusiasm for this nonsense. Not surprisingly, people cannot see the reasons for so much fuss.

Yes, she wants a big break, she desperately wants the nomination she and Bill believe is hers by right. We all know that. But where is her authenticity and her dignity and her sense of any proportion?

This has to be one of the few times in U.S. political history when a multi-millionaire has accused a much less wealthy fellow public servant, a person of the same party and views who made much less lucrative career choices, of "elitism"! (I won't say the only time, because U.S. political history is full of absurdities of this sort.) In a way, it is funny -- and it may not be long before the jokes start.

[bowens43]

1. She is one desperate loser.

[Uben]

2. Those gun-toting non-elites decide elections.....

....they are the middle-ground both are vying for.

[bread_and_roses]

3. except most of them don't "tote" guns and if I remember aright....

polls show consistently that most want tighter gun controls?

[ekwhite]

22. Yeah, and us gun-toting non-elites really think she hunts

Horse shit. I'll take a bet that if you laid a Browning Auto 5 and a Remington 1100 down on the table 5 feet away from her, she couldn't tell which was which. I'm betting she couldn't tell a Bufflehead from a Mallard.

[vi5]

4. How many times will she mention it this week...

..after all she's probably pissed that this broke on a Friday so that it didn't get the full news coverage. So like the other weekend "scandals" she'll keep talking about this to keep it in the news.

[Window]

15. She had another messed up week, had to release it sooner than planned.

I also think that it had to be a "plant" to tape that and distribute a tape of a private fundraiser.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

17. Andrea Mitchell (I know, I know) said they were going with Bill's

3 Pinnochios on the Bosnia story last weekend when the "outrage" hit.

Clearly Clinton needed a distraction. Voila! Bitter.

[irish.lambchop]

5. How very 'band-aid and dyed purple finger'

of her campaign.

[blm]

18. Exactly what I see - they are acting EXACTLY like the RW and their feigned outrage gimmicks.

.

[Scurrilous]

6. K & R

:thumbsup:

[formercia]

7. I want to get a bunch of those stickers

so I can stick them on my cucumbers that I take to the food pantry this Summer.

[AspenRose]

10. Bwahahahahaha

:spray:

[Sick_of_Rethuggery]

8. Reminds me of those purple hearts

at the RNC in '04. And their flip-flops.

[sniffa]

9. Over the top in its uncreative stupidity

Hey, what's that avatar say!?

[olkaz]

11. k/r

Brilliantly put.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

12. they printed them up days ahead of time -while Foulmouth Fowler held back

with her little snapshot in time.

You see, we the people are considered too stupid by the Clintons
to be able to digest more than 10 second sound bites.

Hillary, with her $109 million and McSame, with his 8-10 mansions -
agree - its arrogant to think that poor people whose jobs were taken by NAFTA,
whose children were exported to Iraq - aren't bitter -

They're really really happy!

I am sure that Hillary and McInsane would give up everything they own to be
so happy!

[Window]

13. Extremely tacky.

[BanzaiBonnie]

14. Who's playbook are they using

We found that sort of thing disgusting from the Bush group. I find it even more disgusting from HRC camp. And if she is approving this sort of thing, I have no respect left for her. It shows her as an elitist that believes people are too stupid for words.


She might as well have said that working class folk are just simple minded.

[formercia]

19. Dumb as a turnip

but not bitter



so, eat me, Hillary.

[Barack_America]

16. Here is what the Clinton campaign has become...

Intellectually speaking.



Congratulations Hillary. You certainly do Democrats proud.

:thumbsdown:

[caledesi]

20. Like the Rove Bandaid .....very original and desperate. NT

[anonymous171]

21. Reminds me of the purple heart stickers.

[Swamp Rat]

23. Bitter bumper stickers

:D