Chatty Crowd Forces Clinton to Cut Speech Short
(CBS)
PHILADELPHIA -- Hillary Clinton was forced to cut her normal stump speech short when a chatty and meddlesome crowd kept her from grasping their attention. Clinton, who was addressing the Philadelphia County Democratic Party's Jefferson-Jackson Dinner, spoke for just over five minutes, despite having the press arrive almost two hours beforehand.
The crowd never settled down during her remarks. A spokesman for Clinton denied that she cut the speech short, and told reporters that Clinton was advised by her Pennsylvania team to deliver “a short speech" given the set up of the event.
In previous party dinners, most recently in Butte, Mt., Clinton spoke for almost an hour to a crowd that seemed to be paying attention. The aide said this was a “different type” of J-J Dinner, primarily because people were not seated at tables, and were “milling around” the banquet hall.
Whether or not Clinton’s reception at the dinner had anything to do with her recent attacks on Barack Obama remains unclear. Clinton has never delivered a formal speech in such a short amount of time. The most recent abbreviated speech was back on February 15 when Clinton spoke to a crowd at a Lockheed Martin plant in Akron, Ohio. The speech lasted for just 12 minutes, with the first applause line coming 11 minutes into the speech.
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My vote is for Senator Obama.
I am bitter, mad as hell and I am not going to take it anymore.
As the rumination continues over Barack Obama''s comments about Economically-Depressed Small Town Voters, Statements made by Bill Clinton on the SAME TOPIC --
Uttered while he was running for president in 1991 -- have now surfaced.
"The reason (George H. W. Bush''s tactic) works so well now is that you have all these (Economically Insecure White People) who are Scared To Death,"
Clinton was quoted saying by the Los Angeles Times in September 1991.
A couple months later, Joe Klein, writing for the Sunday Times, reported that Clinton made the following remarks:
"You know, he [Bush] wants to divide us Over race. I''m from the South. I understand this.
This quota deal they''re gonna pull in the next election is the SAME OLD SCAM They find the most (Economically Insecure White Men) and Scare the Living Daylights out of them !
1. 4009 Killed in Action US Men & Women
2. Thousands of US Soldiers that have legs and arms Dis-Membered or Amputated in the Iraq War !!
3. The over 100,000 innocent Iraqi Citizens killed under False Pretenses (WOMD)
4. Over 12 Billion Dollars per month to fund this Occupation !!
5. The Very Devalued Dollar Bill !!
6. The High Unemployment Rate.
7. All Time High Il-Legal Immigration !
8. All Time High Forecloures !!
9. High A!! Gas Prices !!
10. Canada, and Still Communist China & Viet Nam , Socialist India and Mexico getting Americans jobs.
Obama is Lying Huh
Then Dont Complain Then...
Dont Worry be Happy !!
PS: Get on your knees and thank George (NAFTA/NAU) Bush & Bill (NAFTA/COMM.CHINESE CONNECTION) Clinton, for all the Good Times, Both Presidents have Brought America.
Reference Bill & Hillarys Norman Hsu China Connection.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/04/its-americas-tu.html
That''s why Obama and the media focus on "bitter" rather than his remarks that followed - about ignorant gun toting Bible thumpin racists too stupid to recognize his brilliance and vote for him.
Clinton was talking about Republican reps - Obama was smacking down voters.
OTOH - Obama attacked Hillary - and reminded the crowd that he attends church. But of course, he didn''t mention the name of the church.
Apparently, he''s still bitter that he got caught with his pants down.
Obama and Wright are wrong for America!
Males control the media, White House, Congress, Wall Street - and they want to keep it that way.
So - they pump up a newly elected senator to run for president.
If a female had been in Obama''s newly elected position and decided to run for president - she''d be told she didn''t have enough experience.
She needed to wait.
Obama/Rezko08
I bet you would be wrong. After all, don''t forget it was an Obama supporter that broke the story.
Sounds like you are as out of touch as Obama.
Ah to heck with ''em, Hillary. They''re just bitter.
Instead, the are having to face that reality that even if he is the nominee (God forbid) he will never be President.
Not excusing, just sayin''. Now excuse me, I gotta get up early to go hunting with my buddy, Hillary. Or am I a sexist for saying that, JoseyJo? Wait, am I an "ageist" if I vote McCain? Is that "reverse ageism" or "youth-guilt"? Or is it just boring old misogyny for voting for a man?
Unbelievable. Hillary can paint Obama as an uppity n------ all she wants, but when it comes to Ol Duck-n-cover, it''s always because she''s a woman. Hint: it''s because she''s a vicious liar. Now excuse me if I just vote for the ol timer and have done with it all.
So many victims, so little time.
1. 4009 Killed in Action US Men & Women
2. Thousands of US Soldiers that have legs and arms Dis-Membered or Amputated in the Iraq War !!
3. The over 100,000 innocent Iraqi Citizens killed under False Pretenses (WOMD)
4. Over 12 Billion Dollars per month to fund this Occupation !!
5. The Very Devalued Dollar Bill !!
6. The High Unemployment Rate.
7. All Time High Il-Legal Immigration !
8. All Time High Forecloures !!
9. High A!! Gas Prices !!
10. Canada, and Still Communist China & Viet Nam , Socialist India and Mexico getting Americans jobs.
Obama is Lying Huh
Then Dont Complain Then...
Dont Worry be Happy !!
PS: Get on your knees and thank George (NAFTA/NAU) Bush & Bill (NAFTA/COMM.CHINESE CONNECTION) Clinton, for all the Good Times, Both Presidents have Brought America.
Reference Bill & Hillarys Norman Hsu China Connection.
Is anyone surprised by this?
Look at how the news is reluctant to show anything about race. Rev. Wright appears w/o the sound on and the uproar over bitter remarks when bitter or religion or guns isn''t the issue.
Is this Obama calling the people in small towns that don''t vote for him bigots? "antipathy toward people who aren''t like them"
Seems like it to me, I''m just curious why the press is on the guns and religion part of his statement and avoiding the racist part. The press needs to get a little backbone.
He has simply enjoyed too much success too soon and is suffering from a minor messiah complex much like you see in rock stars.
Obama in that recording was responding to a question by those California folks asking why those small towns weren''t supporting him.....
Obama was faced with a segment of voters that didn''t rush to form a pep rally for him, so he figured there MUST be something seriously wrong with THEM
Larry B
San Antonio, TX
Shame on us all for allowing this to happen. Washington should be moved and cleaned out. Legislators should meet in two sessions per year lasting no more that seven days each. They go to Washington paupers (smile) but certainly come home millionaires. Could somebody tell me how that works exactly? We''ve been had.
And you are blaming President Clinton for all that???? Obviously you know nothing about the Clinton administration. His was the most successful administration in 30 years. He left America in excellent shape when he left office.
She is losing the race and the only thing she knows is old time politics - drag your opponent down to a level lower than you to make yourself look good, because god knows you do not have the ability to rise above them through your abilities. Hillary has made a mockery of her own campaign, she is making a mockery of the democratic nomination process, and if left unchecked will hand the Republicans 4 more years in the White House. NEWS FLASH - america, both big city and rural, are bitter - they are sick and tired of the status quo, of having politicans like Hillary say or do anything to get people to vote for them and once elected ignore them for another 3 years until the process starts again. You have misjudged the american people this time Hillary - your negativity and fear mongering is not going to work. Run your negative ads and make your negative speeches, and when it is all said and done Obama will run your backside out of the party inner circle forever!
Oh yea, only "the rich". So, define "rich" for us. I don''t know about you but everytime one of the libs comes up with these grand ideas, bam, we working class schumks end up paying higher taxes.
So, explain you empty suits economic plan,please.
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Posted by celery5 at 09:28 AM : Apr 15, 2008
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What planet have you been living on? When the LAST President left office, a Democrat, he had a policy. That policy as all of us know was IF you Politician''s want to give the rich a tax cut show me how to pay for it in the budget. That policy allowed him, after forcing the fascist to shut down the government, to hand this pathetic loser we have now a Balanced Budget and a Surplus. McSame and the Republican''s PROMISED us things when they took over... fix Social Security...fix medicare. NONE of that was done and NOW we are faced with RECORD Debt and record deficits. What kind of FOOL votes to continue THAT??? Sieg Heil Bush
[Posted by Chukkal at 10:06 AM : Apr 15, 2008]
most of the chase was actually occurring in the other direction.
And, as someone who used to toss down more than his share of shots, I have even more trouble imagining an evening at the local bar tossing back shots and beer with the Democratic Presidential pretender.
Yet claims of a hunting heritage and downing shots of Crown Royal and chasing it with a beer is part of Clinton''s pathetic attempt to prove she''s just one of us.
Memo to Hillary: You ain''t one of us, especially not with 109 million dollars in the pockets of your solid gold pant suits; so drop the charade, you are looking like a fool. We''re not looking for one of us. We''re looking for a leader.
Besides, if the phone rings at the White House at 3 a.m. and Hillary is spreadeagled across the bed, passed out in an alcohol-induced stupor, no one is available to answer the phone.
%u2022 Chelsea was jogging around the Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001. (She was in bed watching it on TV.)
%u2022 Hillary was named after Sir Edmund Hillary. (She admitted she was wrong. He climbed Mt. Everest five years after her birth.)%u2022 She was under sniper fire in Bosnia. (A girl presented her with flowers at the foot of the ramp.)%u2022 She learned in The Wall Street Journal how to make a killing in the futures market. (It didn''t cover the market back then.)%u2022 She didn''t know about the FALN pardons.%u2022 She didn''t know that her brothers were being paid to get pardons that Clinton granted.%u2022 Taking the White House gifts was a clerical error.%u2022 She didn''t know that her staff would fire the travel office staff after she told them to do so.%u2022 She didn''t know that the Peter Paul fundraiser in Hollywood in 2000 cost $700,000 more than she reported it had.%u2022 She opposed NAFTA at the time.%u2022 She was instrumental in the Irish peace process.
.%u2022 She urged Bill to intervene in Rwanda.
%u2022 She played a role in the ''90s economic recovery.%u2022 The billing records showed up on their own.
%u2022 She thought Bill was innocent when the Monica scandal broke.%u2022 She was always a Yankees fan.
%u2022 She had nothing to do with the New Square Hasidic pardons (after they voted for her 1,400-12 and she attended a meeting at the White House about the pardons).%u2022 She negotiated for the release of refugees in Macedonia (who were released the day before she got there).
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