Quote Of The Day
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 2008 Election, Barack, Billary, Hillary, Video“Now, they have been spending the last two, three weeks — you remember that advertisement with the phone call, telling everybody, getting all the generals to say well we’re not sure he’s ready, “I’m ready on day one, he may not be ready yet.” I don’t understand. If I am not ready, how is it that you think I should be such a great vice president? Do you understand that?”
- Barack Obama on the Clinton’s absurd “If you vote for us, we’ll make the black guy VP” tactic.
By the way, here’s the part of the speech where this quote showed up…
I do enjoy it when Bill’s sound, reasonable positions from the 90s are used against the Hillary spin. And they should know better, but they just can’t help themselves.
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March 10th, 2008 at 10:31 pm
You really ought to dig up Hillary’s (or one of her underlings’) ultra-lame weasel in response, something to the effect that Obama may yet prove himself worthy over the next few months, so they’re not foreclosing Obama as a VP option just yet.
More pathetic than usual for the Clinton camp.
March 10th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
I wish Mr. Obama had brought this one out before Senator Daschle used it Sunday (on Meet the Press, I think). In either case it’s a good retort.
And I have to agree with kritter that Mr. Wolfson’s response feels even more slimy than most of the stuff he says.
March 10th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
This is really offensive. “Let’s make the black guy VP?” What the fuck. You guys complain about Hillary being “Rovian”? They’re clearly floating the idea of Obama as VP because he has a ton of support and they don’t want his supporters to leave the party. And needless to say Hillary is positioning Obama as the VP in this scenario, which is just good politics. But bringing this “black guy” stuff into it is just bullshit. Thanks for helping to further poison the discourse.
Of course, the Obama campaign has turned accusing people of racism into a parlor game, so I’m not surprised.
And by the way, this is hardly a win for Obama. Do you really think this is the topic he wanted to be discussing today? And when the best comeback you have is “I thought you said I’m not good enough,” you’re hardly dominating the conversation.
Obama supporters have a disturbing resemblance to right wing talk radio listeners,. They’re always on the edge of their seats, ready to be OUTRAGED at the next Clinton maneuver, and there’s a certain triumphalist nature, declaring victory at every turn. You can whoop it up all you want, but Hillary totally owned this one. Do you consider it a victory because Hillary only got about three news cycles out of it, and the next news cycle will be Obama talking about what Hillary wants to talk about? Ridiculous. But keep up the racial stuff. It’s a real insight into the politics of hope.
March 11th, 2008 at 12:27 am
You’re an idiot if you don’t think this is at least partially motivated by the desire to recapture the black vote in November.
In fact, what I’m almost certain is the case is that this is an attempt to get leaners to vote for Hillary (We get both!), and then hand the VP job to somebody else (I’m guessing Clark or Bayh). It fits the Clinton’s short-term-only style of politics.