The Need For Empathy

[slinkerwink]

How would many of you feel if Bush did the same thing?

Q: President Bush, Barack Obama is going to be your succesor. How do you feel about that?

GWB: Now hold on, Senator McCain is still waiting for the election results to be certified, He has been willing to do all of that during the entire process, and people have been trying to push him out of this ever since...

Q: Why?

GWB: I don't know, I don't know. I find it curious, because it is unheard of in history. I don't understand it. And you know, between Senator Obama and his camp and some in the media, there has been this urgency to end this And, you know, historically that makes no sense. So, I find it a bit of a mystery.

Q: You don't buy the national unity argument?

GWB: I don't. Because, you know, Al Gore won the popular vote in 2000, but I wound up President, didn't I. Right? We all remember Bobby Kennedy was assassinated in 1968. You know, I just - I don't understand it, and, you know, there's a lot of speculation about why it is.

[slinkerwink]

1. how would you feel if Obama cited an assassination as the reason to stay in the race against Clinton

Especially the assassination of a young, popular female politician?

[JVS]

16. How about if rev. Wright were the one saying it?

[creeksneakers2]

34. Hillary didn't say the assassination was a reason to stay in

That's crazy. There are plenty of things to be mad at Hillary about so I don't see why the need to twist what she said beyond recognition.

[AllentownJake]

2. Sadly

Even Bush isn't stupid enough to say what Hillary said on Friday.

[slinkerwink]

3. no, he just makes oblique references to having the votes in the bag for him

[AllentownJake]

4. Yes

I don't think he would ever hint John Kerry or Al Gore could be taken care of for him.

He's evil more evil than Hillary however he is dumb like a fox sometimes.

[slinkerwink]

5. I'll be so glad when Obama is in office, because the White House will finally have a smart-ass brain

in it.

[AllentownJake]

6. and someone with some moral center

[slinkerwink]

7. and yet, no Clinton supporters have responded to this thread

[AllentownJake]

9. They are too busy

Trying to make her the victim of the sexist media for her own mouth again.

[slinkerwink]

10. It's amazing how they don't think some of the things she's said were wrong. I've thought some things

Obama said were wrong and I've said so, like the comment he made about her "being likeable enough." I called the Obama campaign to ask them to do an apology to Clinton, and Obama did end up apologizing to Clinton for that remark.

[AllentownJake]

11. All that cult talk was projecting

They are really a cult of personality with her at the center. I realized this when they had a fit that Kathy Sebelius was being considered for VP. Another qualified woman being elevated over Hillary made them go crazy. Its about her. Its not about her being a woman or her being a better candidate or her being experienced its about her and only her.

[slinkerwink]

12. it is quite sad. Even some Hillary bloggers, the frontpagers on MyDD, called the remark out for what

it was.

[AllentownJake]

13. I think the ones on here

who have been fighting us for so long also are just pissed at us. I mean we do have a party everytime one of their friends finally crosses the line and gets TSed.

[slinkerwink]

14. They just can't see how wrong that statement was through their anger.

I do think it's classless to throw a party for every Clinton supporter tombstone.

[AllentownJake]

15. Most of them know

they just don't want to give us anything at this point. We've been punching each other since January. In private I'm sure most of them are thinking how can she have been so dumb.

[slinkerwink]

18. like I thought Obama was wrong for not immediately distancing himself from Rev. Wright

when he started the campaign.

[slinkerwink]

8. exactly.

[DAGDA56]

17. Mentioning Nazis to the Israel Parliament? No Problem, however.

[slinkerwink]

19. that was wrong, and rightly condemned.

[Barrymores Ghost]

25. K&R and passing along my own link:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=6111215&mesg_id=6111215

[slinkerwink]

28. thank you. that was a great post.

[reflection]

20. What a great post. Good job. n/t

[slinkerwink]

21. thank you. Still no Clinton supporters have appeared on this thread. It's silence.

[reflection]

22. Well of course.

But look on the bright side. Soon you'll have enough crickets to open a bait shop.

[slinkerwink]

23. ew, I hate crickets.

[Leopolds Ghost]

38. You'll eat em and LIKE em!

:hi:

[slinkerwink]

24. kicking in the hopes that Clinton supporters will reply

[Barrymores Ghost]

26. Kicking again for the Hillary clique. C'mon, kids! n/t

[slinkerwink]

27. thank you for kicking

[slinkerwink]

29. still silence. This is astonishing.

[slinkerwink]

30. still nothing. No replies from Clinton supporters.

[Barrymores Ghost]

35. Surprised? n/t

[slinkerwink]

36. No.

[AuntPatsy]

31. First of all your post makes no sense, GWB couldn't be that articulate

if he tried..your attempting to justify the behavior of far too many and it just doesn't wash sorry...by the way, I never realized that someone who recites history can be so crucified..you learn something new everyday.

[slinkerwink]

32. Please answer my question.

[AuntPatsy]

33. I did, reading comprehension problems today?

[Barrymores Ghost]

37. "Recites history?" She made up that history out of whole cloth.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6111215