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June 4, 2008 1:40 AM

A McCain-Clinton Ticket?

By
Vaughn Ververs
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John McCain
Ok, so that's not going to happen, but John McCain didn't at all try to hide his flirtation with Hillary Clinton's supporters who may be, to put it mildly, upset with Barack Obama's victory. Here's some text from McCain's speech last night:

"Senator Clinton has earned great respect for her tenacity and courage. The media often overlooked how compassionately she spoke to the concerns and dreams of millions of Americans, and she deserves a lot more appreciation than she sometimes received. As the father of three daughters, I owe her a debt for inspiring millions of women to believe there is no opportunity in this great country beyond their reach. I am proud to call her my friend. Pundits and party elders have declared that Senator Obama will be my opponent."

In case you missed it, McCain not-so-subtly backed Clinton's claims of a popular vote win with that "pundits and party leaders" line. You'd think that was just posturing until you recall that, according to some Democrats, McCain himself was very close to leaving the GOP just a few short years ago.

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by twotraps June 4, 2008 8:48 PM EDT
Is there any Hillary supporter that will at least admit that scandal seems to follow the Clintons? They may just be victims of mean people that invent stories to pin on them left and right (no pun intended)....or they just might have their little fingers in every dirty, bent and stolen pie in Washington.

C''mon, lets hear from a supporter that can set us non-believers straight. On the Clinton v. Paul trial, I know that Paul is a convicted felon with absolutely no credibility...everyone knows that. I just wonder why Judge Munoz in LA County decided not only to go ahead with the trial but to require her Royalness Herself to actually testify!!! This would be priceless, Hillary actually required to answer a question or two. She will need to really miss-remember in olympic fashion to make it all go away. She''s done it before, being under oath is not a deterrent.

Anyone really want to take a shot at explaining away years of lying?
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by twotraps June 4, 2008 8:31 PM EDT
Blackmilitan.......thanks for that.

The Clintons disgraced the Presidency and White House with lies and scandal. They are rewarded with book deals, Columbian Trade consultation fees and bags of cash for various deals making their total 107M over the past 8 years or so.

They mock the country again by trampling the DNC and entire campaign process by demanding votes in a clearly faulty election, and push for advantageous rule changes so she can win.

Insult to injury....the country sits patiently on the edge of its seat to see what Hillary wants to do, how she feels and what she thinks.

Judge Munoz gave Hillary a pass to finish the campaign before having to testify in a civil trial for campaign fraud during her senatorial campaign. Maybe now the sexist-bias-women-hating media will finally report that the Clintons are where they belong....in court.

Hillary, you don''t ever have to admit defeat, just drag your sorry butt over to court and try not to miss-speak or miss-remember too much.
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by blackmilitan June 4, 2008 5:37 PM EDT
SEXISM IS IN HILLARY MARRIAGE!

A 1969 charge by a Eileen Wellstone, 19-year-old English woman who said Clinton assaulted her.

In 1972, a 22-year-old woman told campus police at Yale University that she was sexually assaulted by Clinton.

In 1974, a female student at the University of Arkansas complained that then-law professor Bill Clinton groped her and forced his hand inside her blouse.

Broaddrick, a volunteer in Clinton''s attorney general campaign, said he raped her in 1978;

From 1978-1980, during Clinton''s first term as governor of Arkansas, state troopers assigned to protect the governor reported seven complaints from women who said Clinton forced, or attempted to force, himself on them sexually.

Elizabeth Ward, the Miss Arkansas who won the Miss America crown in 1982, told friends she was forced by Clinton to have *** with him shortly after she won her state crown.

Paula Corbin, an Arkansas state worker, filed a sexual harassment case against Clinton after an encounter in a Little Rock hotel room.

Sandra Allen James, a former Washington, DC, political fundraiser says Presidential candidate-to-be Clinton pinned her against the wall and stuck his hand up her dress.

Kathleen Willey, a White House volunteer, reported that Clinton grabbed her, fondled her breast and pressed her hand against his genitals during an Oval Office meeting in November, 1993.
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by radiob-2009 June 4, 2008 11:43 AM EDT
Actually this would be a smart move on the part of McCain and would completely insure him victory in the fall. There are enough disatisfied Clinton supporters with Obama "nomination" that they would easily switch voting to the republican party.
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by jack3213 June 4, 2008 11:00 AM EDT
Are you F*N kidding me? What a laugh- All of a sudden, being so desperate as she is- she will switch parties just so they can be back in the Whitehouse. WOW. That will NEVER happen. Good try. IN her speech last night she said " I WANT" about 30 thirty times. If this isn''t a self-centered individual I don''t know what is.
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by PacificGatePost June 4, 2008 6:49 AM EDT
If he wants to get to the White House, Obama needs to reverse his current trend as he heads into battle with McCain.

http://pacificgatepost.blogspot.com/2008/06/concern-for-obamas-down-trend.html


He also needs to tap Hillary for VP.

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