Carville?? Apology due? But to what state?

[fadedrose]

Can't recall the exact wording, but to paraphrase, Carville said that Pittsburgh and Philadelphia were liberal, and everything in between was Alabama.

Shouldn't HRC ask him to apologize, and to what state? Or maybe it was a compliment. Do Pennsylvanians believe that remark was a compliment? Surely it can't be an insult. HRC people NEVER insult states..wonder what Alabama thought about it.

She's all over Obama for the "bitter" remark (which is true, by the way, lived in PA till I was 50 years old), yet never asked Carville to retract his remark, or at least label it as a criticism or a compliment.

And telling me that Carville is not a paid employee of the campaign is bullcrap....he speaks for the Clintons.

[DJ13]

1. I believe it was "Alabama in the middle"

So he owes everyone an apology.

Starting with the party.

[NoBushSpokenHere]

2. Internals in those areas must favor Obama they are trying

to label him a liberal... that rock doesn't have legs either, won't work. People are going to vote with their eyes open in November...not like last time... even though Kerry was the champion people were told he was liberal and have regretted their vote ever since...

[tularetom]

3. "Speaks for the Clintons" Understatement of the year.

Bill clintons arm is up carvilles ass to the elbow and his hand is moving james's lips.

[ralbertson]

4. Old, old quote. From 1986. When he was working for the Casey gubernatorial campaign in PA.

"Pennsylvania is Philadelphia and Pittsburgh with Alabama in between."

I wrote a blog post a bit over a month ago that referenced said quote in the context of how it is rather misleading to compare PA politics today to what he was talking about back then:

A small piece of Pennsylvania

This is not to defend any of Carville's current comments -- especially his way over-the-top personal attacks on Bill Richardson for daring to actually endorse a not-a-Clinton candidate -- but this particular quote is a quarter of a century old.

[fadedrose]

5. Thank you for the correct wording, but....

Carville has made this remark VERY currently, on some TV show, but I can't recall which.

THanks...

[ralbertson]

7. Can't say I'm surprised Carville's recycling his own spin from way back when.

Or that Tweety, John King, and all the other pundits keep finding it convenient to trot the same quote back out every four years. It's a lot easier to recycle a snarky remark that's practically ancient in political terms than it is to actually do some fresh homework.

[TML]

6. Don't quote me on this

I think CNN's John King said the same thing when he was playing with his futuristic map last night.