I think Hillary totally blew it with the "Al Queda's Watching" stuff

[K8-EEE]

That thing about 'Al Queda's watching our elections...' that's awfully hard to forgive. Right out of the GOP 2004 playbook.

Aren't we all pretty sick of GOP trying to SCARE people into voting for them? It's like a form of terrorism if you ask me, I thought it when GWB/Cheney did it and I think so when she does it.

Besides that "live on your knees" stuff goes over better with the GOP, they're very easily scared.

[Incitatus]

1. I didn't catch that, but for some reason her using a RW tactic wouldn't surprise me. nt

[K8-EEE]

3. Shoot, I was defending her big "crying" thing all day then she does THAT!

I think the 1 second of emotion than slipped out is so much ado about nothing...but then I saw her going, "our enemies watch our elections more than most US citizens" or something to that effect, blech! I was like....I'm not defending you anymore if you talk down to me like that, that was my feeling.

[Swamp Rat]

2. I could care less if Al Qaeda is watching us, and if they are...

I am more worried about another hurricane hitting New Orleans.

[and-justice-for-all]

4. 'Al Queda' doe snot exist, never has.

A phantom Enemy so there is something to be afraid of. I do not buy into the fearmongering bullshit.

[K8-EEE]

5. Yes and also there is no such thing as "safety"

There have always been "terrorists" just like there's always been criminals. Operation Piss Off The Planet and Drain The Treasury can in no way bring about this mythical safety! Next she'll be saying we have to fight them there so we don't have to fight them here. She'll have better luck with that kind of shit on the other side...

[Echo In Light]

11. Thanks for that. Sometimes the most obvious aspect is the most difficult to perceive

[The Stranger]

19. Google, locate and view on line "THE POWER OF NIGHTMARES" by the BBC.

Required viewing here on DU.

[Hydra]

21. Keep saying it!

I'm sick of hearing about the damn bogeyman they have on their leash. Weak leaders require their supporters to be fearful.

[SammyWinstonJack]

29. Notice how Al CIAda only come out at election time or when bu$hco Inc is in the midst of another

scandal? Things that make you go Hmmm?

[Hydra]

30. Qui Bono

It's hard to go wrong when you watch the people who benefit when something horrible happens.

[Faux pas]

6. She just can't keep that right wing of her's under control.

:puke:

[Fredda Weinberg]

7. WTC was bombed in '93, brought down in 2001 ... please, let's not

pretend we don't have serious problems.

[The Stranger]

28. Our serious problems are the fearmongering and destruction of the nation from within.

And Hillary already shows a tendency to the former, if not the latter.

[lapfog_1]

8. Link to a story or full quote please...

I want to comment on this, if true, but I want to read the entire statement before jumping in here.

[The Backlash Cometh]

9. I would think that Al Qaeda would be worried about an Edward's presidency,

because he may clear the deck of the moles.

[hisownpetard]

10. KO was really angry about that remark on 'Countdown' last night.

I can't believe she went there...

[Wizard777]

12. Exactly! I don't want to hear about what Al Qaida is doing to get us.

I want to hear about what we are doing to get them. We've had more than enough fear mongering from Bush.

[Echo In Light]

13. Remove their regime, bring them to justice, and Al CIA-da would disappear as well

[undeterred]

14. Hillary is self-destructing.

I'm sorry to see it happen, but that's what's happening. She might be ahead in the polls but the more desperate she acts, the worse things are going to get. Its like someone who has been told the relationship is over but they're still hanging on, saying "I'll change, just tell me what you want. I'll do anything."

[snagglepuss]

15. What a dumb thing to say. I'm no Obama supporter but I think they'd be

more unhappy with an Obama win then a Hillary win.

[AzDar]

16. It was Cheney-esque. But I have lots of other problems with her

candidacy, anyway.

[Mutineer]

17. No, the moment she blew it was when she said that LBJ was responsible

for civil rights changes in this country, not Martin Luther King and other civil rights activists in the 60's. She's doing spin on this today, claiming instead that Obama has no RIGHT to compare himself to MLK but yesterday in an interview she said that "talk" never got anything done, that political action did and that's why LBJ was the person most responsible for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Bullshit. She lost me right then and there. I will never vote for this woman even if she does pull off a miracle and ends up the nominee. She's shown her true colors in the last 48 hours and it ain't pretty.

[The Stranger]

18. Hillary's circling the drain.

Really sad to see, but she brought it all on herself with a catastrophic miscalculation that the Left would have nowhere to go but with her.

As I said yesterday, that ruffling sound is the pigeons coming home to roost.

[Individualist]

20. The GOP playbook is DLCers' guidebook.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

22. I think that's full on panic.

If she doesn't drop out today, at least we'll get more of these amusing gems.

[alfredo]

23. The whole world is watching, not just al Qaeda. al Qaeda wants a

warmongering authoritarian US government. It serves their purposes, just as al Qaeda served bush's purposes. A president who will unite the world behind us is al Qaeda's biggest nightmare.
So sure, they are watching.

[rAVES]

24. Your dead right, I imagine Bush is a wet dream president for these people..

Rally the troops and all that..

[alfredo]

25. We must elect a president who will not play their game.

[rAVES]

27. Assuming of course it is, their game.. its not like they are the ones who got an oil rich country

and a sweet pipeline deal out of the whole thing..

[alfredo]

31. We need to nationalize the energy sector. It is in our national interest

to ensure the supply of fuel without resorting to war.

[OzarkDem]

26. Hot - house flowers

Clinton and other DC Dems like her have been carefully cultivated in the DC bubble to believe its ok to say these kinds of things, to be out of touch with what voters really think and believe.

Get them out in the real world on the campaign trail and they wilt. Obama has had a lot of protection so far from the news media, but it will also catch up with him eventually. He's helped by the fact that he never really converses with or takes questions from voters on the campaign trail. Clever trick to keep from sounding out of touch.