Comments on: Tom Daschle: Clintons Are "Very Combative"

Political Players: Former Senate Majority Leader Says Barack Obama Can Turn the Page

[melbuck3]

One thing, didn''t the Mass, Ca and Az results prove something to the media and especially to old politicians?

Voters don''t want to hear from has beens and old worn out self appointed experts so back off and let the voters decide?

Just let the candidates talk and you pundents sit back and quit causing divide! This is a prime example of a has been compounding the divide facing Democrats by have nothing good to say about a Democratic candidate!

Tom Daschle, if you want to talk politics, then please talk about your failure to the Democratic Party in losing your Senate seat and stop talking negatively about candidates trying to do something for the country PLEASE!

[beader59]

Old Tomboy, keep your mouth closed. The Clintons can be as combative as they want. If that is what it takes to get our country back to the way it was when Bill was in office, more power to Hillary. Quit complaining. In the past, Democrats have killed each other over *** like this. Obama is weak, insincere, naive and inexperienced. Get of the Obama cult wagon, it is just creepy. I want someone fighting for America and I believe Hillary is the person. Obama might be nice, but I don''t want nice, I want a fighter. As far as the race vs. gender issue, let''s just say Obama''s side is definitely playing the race card. I have heard so many black people say they are voting for him only becasue he is black and they deserve to have him in office. I find that rather racist. Here, I will be sexist. It is tome we have a woman in office. I am tired of men getting us in so much trouble.

[destardi]

it''s good to see the pro-Hillary comments here...

Especially when obama and michelle are making it all about them, instead of the country; whiny spoiled brats, here''s Michelle in her own words about supporting the Dem nominee whomever that may be:

http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/2/4/124123/6787

The next couple of weeks might be rough on Hillary, but it''s expected with the demographics (read large number of african americans) involved, but she''s still going to win the Primary.

Bank on it...notice the media hasn''t hyped her raising 6.4 million in 30 hours, when Obama''s 7.2 million was all over the headlines...they only emphasize Hillary''s negatives...

Question yourself why the media is pushing so hard for Obama?

Didn''t we just deal with 7 years of the media covering for Bush?

I''m going in the OPPOSITE direction.

[gunownerdan]

"Today we need a nation of minute men; citizens who are not only prepared to take up arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as a basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and sacrifice for that freedom. The cause of liberty, the cause of American, cannot succeed with any lesser effort."
-- President John F. Kennedy, January 29, 1961

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[tejasdemo]

Blah, Blah, Blah. I think it is hilarious how every one wants to play nice now. I want action !!!

I dont have 100 years for the politicians to get it figured out. I want action now !!!! I want all Republicans out. I dont want us to work with them. they have proven they are completely incompetent.

I want help..real dollars help and lots of lots and lots of it for the poor. I dont want one more single dime going to the rich.

Stop whining about the Clintons. Last time I checked they did one helluva job for this country. Things were good. People had jobs and hope.

Let''s do it.

[melbuck3]

Tom Daschle needs to do some growing up and disappear just as his electorate in 2004 wanted him to do! It is people like Daschle who instill trash into campaigns by trying to influence divide! Too bad Daschle didn''t have a combatative spirit to fight for his place in the Senate when it was a cake walk to do so in 2004 and not allowed himself to be the first Senate leader in 50 yrs to be booted out! Tom, no one tell you that failure breeds failure?

[voter1111]

From Joe Klein (Time Magazine)

And yet there was something just a wee bit creepy about the mass messianism %u2014 "We are the ones we''ve been waiting for" %u2014 of the Super Tuesday speech and the recent turn of the Obama campaign. "This time can be different because this campaign for the presidency of the United States of America is different. It''s different not because of me. It''s different because of you." That is not just maddeningly vague but also disingenuous: the campaign is entirely about Obama and his ability to inspire. Rather than focusing on any specific issue or cause %u2014 other than an amorphous desire for change %u2014 the message is becoming dangerously self-referential. The Obama campaign all too often is about how wonderful the Obama campaign is.

[rowdytexan2]

Posted by voter1111 at 01:14 PM : Feb 08, 2008

Well said!

[brushing3]

and why would we listen to Daschle! Does Barack think he is entitled to the presidency just because he will be the first black president. The entitlement label goes both ways. Ask Obama the following questions; 1. are you for black repriations. 2.What is your stance on the FCC. 3. Where do you stand on legalizing marijuana. Obama''''s supportors are blacks (all) and White youth & men. These are the things to ask barack because he is a specialist in these matters, these are his community organization working commitments. These questions haven''''t come to the forefront because Obama if he answers them truthfully will have to flip-flop when he gets into office. If he say''''s no to question #1 will the blacks still stand with him and put this issue to bed because if they don''''t haunt Obama on this issue, they will never get another chance to haunt the american people on this issue again, they won''''t be able to cry white people trying to keep the blacks down because their own black man president will be against it. If Obama is for it - look out!

[barbjc1]

"I ceased to advertise my mother''''''''s race at the age of 12 or 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites" "never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn''''''''t speak to my own. It was into my father''''''''s image, the black man, son of Africa, that I''''''''d packed all the attributes I sought in myself." "That hate hadn''''''''t gone away," he wrote, blaming "white people %u2014 some cruel, some ignorant, sometimes a single face, sometimes just a faceless image of a system claiming power over our lives."
Here is my question to Obama. If we are that bad why don''t you go to Africa to live, if it is so great?

[voter1111]

Yeah and Obama''s up on the podium spouting "our time has come" as if THAT isn''t all about victimization and entitlement and mimicing the speeches of truer leaders. Pul--eeese.
I''ll vote for the woman with her sleeves rolled up.

[barbjc1]

Good for you brushing3. The American people are being fed a "bill of goods" for typical media sensationalism.
Americans, please refer to your American history. After the Civil War, the slaves were offered a choice, remigrate back to Africa at our government''s expense or stay here and receive monetary compensation. Where do you think the country Liberia, in Africa came from?

[brushing3]

and why would we listen to Daschle! Does Barack think he is entitled to the presidency just because he will be the first black president. The entitlement label goes both ways. Ask Obama the following questions; 1. are you for black repriations. 2.What is your stance on the FCC. 3. Where do you stand on legalizing marijuana. Obama''s supportors are blacks (all) and White youth & men. These are the things to ask barack because he is a specialist in these matters, these are his community organization working commitments. These questions haven''t come to the forefront because Obama if he answers them truthfully will have to flip-flop when he gets into office. If he say''s no to question #1 will the blacks still stand with him and put this issue to bed because if they don''t haunt Obama on this issue, they will never get another chance to haunt the american people on this issue again, they won''t be able to cry white people trying to keep the blacks down because their own black man president will be against it. If Obama is for it - look out!

[barbjc1]

Are you noticing the media is NOT talking much about Obama''s racist church, his book about him denying his "white side" and his "hallelujah brother" about his motherland.
What is up with our young people? Are they trying to hard to prove their diversity they are making a poor decision.
Americans, please stop looking at the Bill Clinton administration and make your decision based on Hillary''s qualifications.
The black vote going almost strictly to Obama, isn''t that RACISM?

[approvedcbs]

mikeant50 is correct. Hillary has a sense of "entitlement". She believes she "deserves" to win. Now Hillary is projecting all of her anger and sense of victimization built up over the years from her husband and Republican poltical rivals to Barack. This is feminism? This is empowerment?

[katefranklin]

I''m so sick of the endless drone from the Clinton camp about inspiration versus substance. The point of a stump speech is not to be a robotic wonk that enumerates the minutia of public policy. If you want the details of Obama''s policy, go to the his website or call his campaign headquarters. There you will be handed more policy details then you will know what to do with. (You may be surprised to find that in some areas Obama is *more* detailed then Clinton, e.g., Social Security.) The truth is that there is nothing inspiring about recycling a lukewarm administration from the nineties. Get over it already.

[squidly8]

Arrogance - that is what dominates HRCs life. Only my opinion but I would be pretty surprised if I am wrong....I think HRC is really ticked off at Obama because he is trampling on a nomination she feels she is entitled to. I don''t think she wanted to have to work this hard for it. She wanted it to be a national love fest that just gave her the nomination. She sees Obama invading her turf.

[brushing3]

For Hillary Clinton I know and I remember the good your family has done for Native Americans (my people)! I will stick with what I know and that is you. O is only now reaching out to my people and the hispanics and that is because he want''''s our vote. Where was O when we needed him!
with all my respect, from a Native American Woman supportor.


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[mikeant50]

cbs4me,

Isn''t it arrogant to assume that because your name is Clinton that you would automatically be annointed as the Democratic nominee? Isn''t it arrogant to think that because your are a former President, the party should heed your every word. When did the Democratic Party become the Clinton Party? What''s going to tear the party apart is when the Clintons put pressure on the spineless Chair of the Party to allow Florida and Michigan delegates to be seated at the convention, so Hillary can get the nomination. Then you will see a civil war within the Party. I wonder will the Clinton''s even care as long as Hillary is the nominee.

[realpatriot1]

emj2740,

The Washington press corps has been anointing Hillary for 2 years now. They have to try to help her along because if she goes down these "experts" look like fools. The conventional wisdom will defend itself to the end.

Rowdy,

There''s enough blame to go around for the politics of personal destruction and I don''t think the Clintons deserve the lion''s share of the blame. However, what''s relevant now isn''t who was to blame for the 90s but who will make the next 8 years less divisive and partison.

"If you''re nt part of the solution you''re part of the problem."-Eldridge Cleaver,Soul On Ice.