Well well well April 18th-look what word just popped into the discourse

[underpants]

Gee wonder who would be promoting this word to enter into it :think:

From our friends over at ABC-by the way I have read The Note link twice and I don't see where this comes from oh that's right it is in the headline ....and that should be enough


Hillary Clinton: No Wimps in the White House


http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/04/hillary-clint-1.html

April 18, 2008 10:06 AM

ABC News' Eloise Harper Reports: Hillary Clinton thinks the White House is no place for wimps.

Stepping up her criticism of her rival's performance in ABC News' primetime debate on Wednesday, Clinton, D-N.Y., told the FOX affiliate in Philadelphia, "I know he spent all day yesterday complaining about the hard questions he was asked. Being asked tough questions in a debate is nothing like the pressures you face inside the White House. In fact, when the going gets tough, you just can't walk away because we're going to have some very tough decisions that we have to make."

When pressed, Clinton continued the criticism, adding, "When the going gets tough you can't run away. And it's going to be tough going to deal with these hard problems; getting out of Iraq in the right way, turning the economy around, getting universal health care, ending our dependence on foreign oil. The special interests are going to be a lot tougher than 90 minutes of questions from two journalists and we need a president who is going to be up there fighting everyday for the American people and not complain about how much pressure there is, and how hard the questions are."

The Obama campaign didn't waste any time in refuting Clinton's claims.

"Considering the fact that Senator Clinton sat on stage at the last debate and complained to all of America that she always gets the first question, her blatant hypocrisy here is stunning," Obama campaign spokesperson Bill Burton said in a written statement. "But if she'd rather spend her time talking about the same distractions and divisions that Washington is obsessed with, that's her business."

[lutefisk]

1. Well, at least he didn't cry. . . n/t

[UALRBSofL]

16. What is that on my screen???

I thought it was a bug and tried to swipe it away, LOL.

[Adelante]

55. I see it, too - What is it? Looks like a bug nt

[Radio_Lady]

79. Put your cursor over the "bug" -- It's a graphic image...got me cleaning my screen a year or so ago!

Right click on the bug, scroll down to PROPERTIES and you'll copy:

upload.democraticunderground.com/discuss/images/avatars/personal/105983.gif

Add http:// to the above, and you get TWIN BUGS DANCING IN UNISON:

[Adelante]

81. Goodness, I think I'll pass

It's too goddamned weird.

Thanks, though :hi:

[Radio_Lady]

82. No worries. You can always hit it with Raid spray!

:rofl:

[closeupready]

61. LOL that's true. Unlike Hillary.

Who cries at the drop of a hat.

[Buzz Clik]

68. Oh, yes. There will be other mommy moments in this campaign.

[PoliticalAmazon]

69. Unlike Hillary, who blubbers when politically convenient. n/t

[Why Syzygy]

2. Hard questions?

She doesn't get what a freaking misfit she is, does she? She and ol' Willy think it's still the high 90's and bring on the dish.

[PoliticalAmazon]

66. She can't run on her own merits so can only attack. Bush Jr used same strategy, for same reason. n/t

[PoliticalAmazon]

67. Duplicate post deleted.

[GarbagemanLB]

Awesome response by Obama. What hypocrites the Clintons are.

[PoliticalAmazon]

71. He was great! Showed what a great president he will make. n/t

[Skwmom]

3. Tough - she has to have Bill fight her battles and complain about them saying stuff about

a girl.

And about those tough decisions:

Voted for the IWR - the worst debacle in U.S. history.
Then there is NAFTA and other trade legislation which shipped American jobs overseas.
Plus financial deregulation which led to the subprime crisis.

So far, when it comes to tough decisions, the Clintons don't seem to have a very good track record. Stupid or willing to sell out for greed and power - does it really matter which one? Maybe it's both.

[PoliticalAmazon]

72. Obama accepts responsibility for his mistakes. Hillary blames others=sign of weakness. n/t

[hayu_lol]

4. Actually, Hillary is correct...the White House is no place for...

a president who cannot take a stand on any controversial topic, who cannot vote yes or no on serious issues and who has a long history of avoiding being caught in the spotlight of public scrutiny.

Yeah, lightweights really can't do this job. When will Obama realize that and step down. By stepping down, he could single-handedly save the party, save the nation, and quite possibly, save the world.

[gal]

24. well your partially right...

The White House is no place for someone who can't tell the difference between little children and sniper fire either!

[ScarletSniper]

62. Lmao...

[PoliticalAmazon]

73. It's also no place for someone who puts his dick ahead of the America's best interests...

...Please, no more Clintons in the White House.

We've learned from experience that he will start another affair while still being investigated for the previous one, and that Hillary will ignore what is going on until the legal judgment is delivered, and then she will use her own money to buy off the other woman.

Yuck. Enough. We don't need the Clintons and their dick baggage in the White House.

[martymar64]

80. Oh Snap!

[Growler]

39. epic fail

*plonk*

[SwampG8r]

78. wow

when i read the first paragraph i thought you meant clinton since it describes her so well
did you forget the sarcasm thingy?

[Blue_Roses]

5. She's so full of herself.

all we've heard from her this primary is whine, weep, whine, scold, whine,:eyes:

[Liberal Gramma]

6. Damned if you do, damned if you don't

If he'd attacked her, like she's attacking him, he'd be characterized as a sexist and ungentlemanly. Since he hasn't, he's a wimp? Classic entrapment scenario.

[underpants]

11. He hasn't gone negative has he? Nope. No matter what the MSM wants you to think

I am going to post this later but here it is

Obama has 72 hours. If he can ride out the onslaught that is coming his way over this weekend he will be okay. If he can get to Monday afternoon without taking their bait and going negative or making a really horrendous live-on-the-air move he will be okay. I think the ABC debate was just the opening and they fired their biggest weapons at him and he didn't go down. Stumbled a bit sure but he bounced back up.

This is pretty much the last shot the establishment has of getting rid of the competition for their known quantity. Obama isn't a radical but they also don't have dirt-real personal dirt- to throw at him. Even with the availability of whatever endless wiretapping and spying would normally provide they haven't been able to make him go away or turned the screws on him and make him drop out. This is unknown territory for them and they don't like unknowns. If THEY have anything in their pocket it has to come out now.

It is going to be a rough nasty weekend. Hold on.

[Armstead]

7. Her lack of self-awareness is PATHOLOGICAL

If Hillary and Bill hadn't spent the last six months endlessly whining about how she was being mistreated by the Mean Old Media, she might at least be able to make such a claim about Obama with some credibility.

Either she's a total hypocrite and phony, or she has some kind of disease where she forgets what she did and said after five minutes.

[K Gardner]

46. I've come to believe there is something definitely psychologically amiss with Hillary

Clinton. No normal sane person acts in such a manner. It is disturbing.

[Armstead]

60. The disconnects are indeed disturbing

[PoliticalAmazon]

74. Her judgment is way off, and she bounces from theme to theme like a ferret on steroids. n/t

[burythehatchet]

83. She is among the many Americans with untreated mental illness

and when you consider that she has stayed in a marriage with a man-whore, you really have to wonder how deep her psychosis lays.

[dchill]

8. You can't see me right now, but...

I'm imitating Obama brushing the imaginary lint from my shoulder. Class does not equal wimp. Liar does not equal fighter.

[gal]

26. +10

[dchill]

29. Thanks for the 10...

and welcome to DU!
:hi:

[redqueen]

37. Nice...

my response was far less thoughtful... it was visceral.

This attack is the last straw for me. I no longer have any respect at all for her.

[dchill]

41. I got off the respectatall bus a VERY long time ago.

Years ago. I'm way out of straws re: Clintons. Anyway, visceral is good - very good. :hi:

[PoliticalAmazon]

75. Obama demonstrated how irrelevant Hillary's Rove tactics are. n/t

[Vinca]

9. Well, as Hillary might say, "Screw them." nt

[Coexist]

10. she sucks.

[Lucky 13]

12. She is a double-talking JACKASS.

[The Wielding Truth]

13. Attn Clinton campaign: No whinny whimps wanted .

in our whitehouse.

Since Senator Obama just brushed it off, I see only one candidate that really cried about it.

[Arugula Latte]

14. "Considering the fact that Senator Clinton sat on stage at the last debate and complained

to all of America that she always gets the first question, her blatant hypocrisy here is stunning..."

Have I mentioned how much I love this man's ability to dish it back at the whining, lying, hypocritical Clintons?

:loveya:

[underpants]

17. They are good

and I mean that in a guys-smack-talking jock guys talking smack kind of way.

and the funniest part is that we may know a few of their names (Daschle, Axelrod....uh... ) but the Clinton campaign is like "Gray's Anatomy" we know everyone's name and all the goings on behind the camera...why?

[blogslut]

15. cute

I predict backfire.

[ebdarcy]

18. Wow, so many things wrong with that.

First, I don't think Gibson and Snuffleupagus count as journalists. Second, they weren't hard questions. They were bullshit questions. I don't fucking care about flag pins, or guilt by association. We're in a goddamn war. The economy sucks. Plus, she's the one who has the husband that's been complaining because they're picking on the girl. I don't think there's any wimps in this race. But if there is, it sure ain't Senator Obama.

[underpants]

19. Look I have to admit that I am just guessing at how that word come into play

but from reading -just reading- I know how campaigns "provide" things to the news media how they get their message/point out and how the media reciprocates.

I'm just saying it looks like a duck :shrug:

[ebdarcy]

27. Oh, no I agree with you.

Reading that "article", it totally sounds like the Clintons are trying to paint Obama as a wimp. I was just pointing out what was wrong with Hillary's statement about "journalists" asking hard questions. I mean, she's not a stupid woman, and she had to know that those questions were incredibly inane and pointless. I honestly don't know who she's trying to win over. I mean, anyone without an agenda can see that the debate was a farce.

[hisownpetard]

20. Yeah. Pit bulls who are trained to be evil have no respect for other dogs who are

good at heart and try to stay above the fray.

[Why Syzygy]

47. She didn't have to answer the *hardest* one of all.

What? No flag pin? DO YOU LOVE THE FLAG?

[Kaylee]

21. Pitiful

[gal]

22. Only Wimps deny what they said to...

Only wimps won't stand up to thier very own comments and thoughts.
What was that comment...."Screw em?"

[redqueen]

23. What a fucking $#*@%.

K&R

She fucking disgusts me.

[YOY]

25. The film that inspired the Clinton Campagn...

because at this point...she will.

[meow mix]

28. No Wimps! i remember those stickers all over the tough guys vehicles

its so 1992

[underpants]

30. NO FEAR!!!

too

Yes that is very 1992

[meow mix]

48. Bring Em On!

i guess thats the latest version, she should update.

[kenny blankenship]

31. Well, I've had enough of lying psychopaths in the White House, so we're even!

Because that eliminates you, Hillary.

[nichomachus]

32. Well. Hillary is just a big poopy-head

As long as she wants the discussion at that level, let's go for it

[TahitiNut]

33. What's she gonna say next? No "girly-men" in the White House?

Is she taking campaign advice from Schwartzenegger?? What an abysmally stupid, vacuous remark!

:puke:

[underpants]

36. As noted above

I looked through that link and the THE NOTE link that it contains and I could not find it as a direct quote or even mentioned.

:shrug:

I cant' believe, however, that it didn't come from her campaign.

[XemaSab]

34. Well that precludes her from the presidency

:P

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

35. Bush ran as being "tough". That's worked out well...oh, wait.

[SeaLyons]

38. The difference is

...no matter how she's been treated, she has always performed presidentially and impeccably at ALL the debates. Remarking that she always get the first question at that one debate was done with humor. Obama's refute is lame, and he can twist any way he wants - doesn't change his piss poor performance. His supporters can spam ABC all day long. His PERFORMANCE was lame.

I sure as hell don't want an inept wimp in the White House.

[whistler162]

42. Yes she has acted presidential....

but I really don't want someone in the White House acting as if she was President of Cuba!

[SeaLyons]

43. ...

oh okay....


:crazy: :crazy: :crazy:

[AtomicKitten]

40. Her lame factor just increased exponentially.

Oy.

[dana_b]

44. she just keeps stepping in it. n/t

[fortyfeetunder]

45. Send Hillary this clue

To me WIMP means

WISE
INTELLIGENT
MATURE
PERSON

Maybe she should re-examine the word.

According to me -- Obama is a WISE, INTELLIGENT, MATURE PERSON.

[Life Long Dem]

49. LOL!!

Little does she know it's over. :hi:

[anonymous171]

50. More distractions from the Clinton camp. How unexpected.

[zulchzulu]

51. It's no wonder Bill has a wondering eye...

I'm convinced he's going to jettison her as soon as all this nonsense is over. I'm starting to feel bad for the guy... OK, now I'm not...

[Uncle Joe]

52. I believe anyone mistaking a little girl

greeting them at the airport for sniper fire must be a wimp. I know little girls can be tough when they don't get their way. I remember once when I refused to buy some Girl Scout Cookies and I still have shrapnel wounds from that incident, however I believe terrorists can be much meaner. Therefore of the two remaining candidates I must support the one not afraid of the terrorists, not to mention little girls.

P.S. Don't get me started on little boys, they can be hell too.

[Divernan]

53. Incoming flower bouquets - DUCK AND COVER! ! !

[Az_lefty]

54. she is so fucking condescending...fuck her! She's the elitist in this race.

:puke:

[Adelante]

56. They've been nothing but whining wimps the whole time

Fuck her.

[WyLoochka]

57. She wimped out over universal health care

Bankruptcy Reform, and the invasion and occupation of Iraq etc. And her husband wimped out over NAFTA, DOMA, Welfare Reform and on and on.

These two people are proven wimps. They cave in to all things Republican - including triangulating on (which means betraying core Democratic principles) and beating up on Democrats.

I want a Democrat in the White House, not a wimpy Republican Lite who teams up with the Repukes to bully Democrats.

[Marnieworld]

58. He should have just asked, "How many angels dance on the head of a pin?"

Because that's a real "presidential" response? Throw in a forced laugh too to really inspire.

:sarcasm:

[elehhhhna]

59. She got the memo, this week's Newsweek:

THE WORLD FROM WASHINGTON
Michael Hirsh

The Democrats’ Wimp Factor

As Obama's patriotism is questioned, he's starting to look more and more like John Kerry in '04.

Apr 17, 2008 | Updated: 4:00 p.m. ET Apr 17, 2008

http://www.newsweek.com/id/132566

[PoliticalAmazon]

77. As the Church Lady would say..."How conVEEEEENIENT!" n/t

[bvar22]

63. Blatantly and repeatedly LYING about your "Combat Experience"...

...is as WIMPY as you can get.


"There are forces within the Democratic Party who want us to sound like kinder, gentler Republicans. I want us to compete for that great mass of voters that want a party that will stand up for working Americans, family farmers, and people who haven't felt the benefits of the economic upturn."---Paul Wellstone

[Texas Hill Country]

64. She did not use the word wimp.

[underpants]

65. Repost from the OP

From our friends over at ABC-by the way I have read The Note link twice and I don't see where this comes from oh that's right it is in the headline ....and that should be enough

[L0oniX]

70. I would think it has come from journalists who have been outed for what they are...

When you start attacking the validity of (ABC) journalists they group up against you. David Brooks is chief of this attack tactic .

[tabasco]

76. We need tough combat vets like Hillary or Chelsea or Sinbad!

[ieoeja]

84. A better answer would be...

"We didn't object to tough questions. We were objecting to stupid questions."

Although the spokesman had a very good point. The Clinton team has spent a great deal of time complaining about how poorly the media has treated her this election. So they hardly have room to whine.