Video: Hillary Clinton, defender of the common man; Update: Full video added
posted at 1:52 pm on April 12, 2008 by Allahpundit
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Is a woman unaffectionately known to the HA readership as “Her Majesty,” whose overweening sense of entitlement helped drive one of her husband’s own cabinet members into the Obama tent, really the best person to make this argument? Nope, but somebody had to say it. Follow the link and read her full statement, as this soundbite only scratches the surface. If she and her team were even halfway competent, the video would already be posted on YouTube and her website. It’ll be there eventually, I suppose. I’ll add it here when it is.
Next up: A conference call with heartlander Tom Vilsack to push the elitism angle while Indiana favorite son Evan Bayh hammers away at electability.
Link: sevenload.com
Update: Looks like I owe Team Hillary an apology. They are on the ball this time, and not a moment too soon. Here’s the full video from her YT channel. Money quote: “I don’t think it helps to divide our country into one America that is enlightened and one that is not.”
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This was the best take:
http://www.transterrestrial.com/archives/2008/04/you_go_into_the.html
lorien1973 on April 12, 2008 at 1:56 PM
No……but she’s right.
Spirit of 1776 on April 12, 2008 at 1:56 PM
You know, Hillary is really starting to endear herself to me.
Lehosh on April 12, 2008 at 2:00 PM
Don’t get too enamored. She thinks the same thing as Obama. She’s just smart enough not to admit it so openly.
lorien1973 on April 12, 2008 at 2:02 PM
O.Hussein B. is making it too easy for our gal Hil.
redrock on April 12, 2008 at 2:04 PM
Obama gave her an opening, she’s gonna run with it. Go Hill Go!
E L Frederick (Sniper One) on April 12, 2008 at 2:07 PM
These comments:
flow directly from these comments:
jaime on April 12, 2008 at 2:08 PM
Oh I know she thinks the same thing…
But I like Hillary because she’s a political windsock. Not only is she too smart to say as much, she likes power too much to act on it. I much prefer a president who will give me Bread and Circuses to the candidate who will give me an ineffable “Hope and Change”.
Lehosh on April 12, 2008 at 2:10 PM
Obama is just Rev. White with a bit more cream and sugar added for those not used to being served that kind of crap day in and out.
E L Frederick (Sniper One) on April 12, 2008 at 2:12 PM
My home state of Indiana…a relatively reliable, conservative Red State, yet, which, nonetheless, always votes in Democrats…
sigh
ColtsFan on April 12, 2008 at 2:12 PM
Sorry…
E L Frederick (Sniper One) on April 12, 2008 at 2:14 PM
7%
The Race Card on April 12, 2008 at 2:15 PM
I am so confused. As a New Yorker, I never hated any politician as much as Hillary. But now, she just keeps making this race so much fun! The way she has kept herself in this race, and keeps making all the right moves on just how to cut down Saint Obama at the knees…let’s just say she’d be less of a sissy president than Obama. She’s probably even more out of touch with regular Americans than Obama, but she’d never say so, and that makes her a better politician, and simply more qualified. Also, I don’t want a f**king Marxist in the white house.
It doesn’t matter, since McCain can beat either one of them, but I have to thank Hillary for quite a few good laughs, something I couldn’t have conceived ever doing a few years ago.
McCain 08!
jimmy the notable on April 12, 2008 at 2:17 PM
It is amazing how much we have found out about Obama in the span of about 3 months. If he had made this comment before Iowa, his campaign would have been over.
WisCon on April 12, 2008 at 2:20 PM
It’s fun watching politicians whore themselves in front of whatever audience they’re in front of. All in full view for us to see!
SouthernGent on April 12, 2008 at 2:20 PM
Sounds like Hil and Barry are both hitting on a variation of the two Americas thingy of Edwards.
JiangxiDad on April 12, 2008 at 2:21 PM
Pray that they nominate this man.
Vizzini on April 12, 2008 at 2:22 PM
I mentioned it on another thread, her staff just combed right leaning blogs and stole every thing she just said.
lowandslow on April 12, 2008 at 2:25 PM
Maybe Barak is white:
lorien1973 on April 12, 2008 at 2:26 PM
IIRC, that fundraiser didn’t allow recording devices and it was an elite group. So, who did the dirty deed? Does Barry have a sleeper in his camp or was it a member of the audience?
a capella on April 12, 2008 at 2:29 PM
Fine by me, right-wing blogs are just about the only place you can find criticism of Obama, anyway. At least that used to be the case before the Wright controversy removed the halo for good.
jimmy the notable on April 12, 2008 at 2:29 PM
YOU STILL SUCK HIL!
JiangxiDad on April 12, 2008 at 2:30 PM
Granted, all of us (well, most) lament these insipid never-ending campaigns but they do, in the end, serve a purpose: To wit, eventually the candidate drops the mask and his or her true character and views come through.
Shorten the campaign by six months and Obama may just have been able to pull it off.
He’s not toast – certainly not croutons – but he’s burning up his “new politician” fig leaf fast.
(Okay, whack me for that metaphor)
SteveMG on April 12, 2008 at 2:30 PM
Go Hilldog, go.
NeoconNews.com on April 12, 2008 at 2:30 PM
The women you wrote the article for HuffPo. Flowers?
lowandslow on April 12, 2008 at 2:31 PM
The women
youwho wrote the article for HuffPo. Flowers?lowandslow on April 12, 2008 at 2:31 PM
PIMF
lowandslow on April 12, 2008 at 2:32 PM
Thanks Hillary, I have to say by the time they nominate Obama, he is going to be chopped liver. Easy pickings for John McCain. I would have never thought in a million years that Hillary would be the GOP’s greatest asset this election cycle.
Complete7 on April 12, 2008 at 2:34 PM
Thanks. i was just curious about how she gained access.
a capella on April 12, 2008 at 2:38 PM
ROFLMAO
They didn’t have a good response of their own but knew where to find one.
“Here. Go with this. This’ll work.”
rockhauler on April 12, 2008 at 2:40 PM
fact checks needed…. her grand dad was a factory worker in PA….. Wow who’d a guessed.
MNDavenotPC on April 12, 2008 at 2:41 PM
Scranton Lace Mills. But the source is Pravda. Hope you don’t mind.
JiangxiDad on April 12, 2008 at 2:46 PM
Enjoy.
We’re witnessing politics Roman style on the left and Macavalliean style on the right.
On the defecrat side we’ve got 2 candidates attempting to prove to the proletariat just how much bread and how many circuses they can give to the masses.
On the right? McCain is just sitting back and watching them slit each other’s throats.
BowHuntingTexas on April 12, 2008 at 2:48 PM
Mayhill Fowler was the name. I’m not sure how she got in, must have been invited.
lowandslow on April 12, 2008 at 2:50 PM
What exactly did President Clinton say about dragging a $100 bill through a trailer park?
The Clintons live in a large, GLASS house …….
La Mano on April 12, 2008 at 2:50 PM
Makes me wish the republicans had a candidate i could get excited about.
lorien1973 on April 12, 2008 at 2:50 PM
Hillary: “I was taken aback by the demeaning remarks Sen. Obama made about people in small town America….”
Translation: “I couldn’t believe my luck at this golden opportunity to turn things around after having got myself dismissed as a fantasist who would make Baron Von Munchhausen blush…”
schiehallion on April 12, 2008 at 2:52 PM
Something odd. Her grandfather supposedly started working in the mill at age 11, but won a football scholarship to Penn State, according to this.
It’s hard to imagine that her grandfather was a “blue collar textile worker” following college graduation. Hillary’s grandfather must have been born in the late 1800’s, say 1890. That makes him 11 in 1901, and a college grad in roughly 1910. That’s pretty rare. And he was a mill worker??
JiangxiDad on April 12, 2008 at 2:57 PM
Yup. That’s the reason for the “?” when McCain and the Right are mentioned in the same sentence.
BowHuntingTexas on April 12, 2008 at 3:03 PM
The traditions of racism, sexism, xenophobia, religious fanaticism. Ol barry had to go to africa to escape those traditions that are passed down in American families. If only he had stayed there.
peacenprosperity on April 12, 2008 at 3:08 PM
She was right on the ball there. I agreed with most of what she said. Guns aren’t just for hunting Hillary, they are so self defense. What a weasal argument…also I don’t know about Bush’s “assault” on the middle class, whatever the hell that is. And if people were doing well in 1990s, it sure as hell was because of their own effort and the whims of the markets, not because of a sitting President.
Dr. Manhattan on April 12, 2008 at 3:11 PM
I happened across this quote from TammyBrucedotcom:
“Bimbos, sluts, trailer trash, rednecks, and sh*t-kickers …
Terms Hillary commonly used to describe Arkansans (American Evita, p. 139).”
Sorry, what was that about not dividing America into enlightened and unenlightened? She’s so full of shit herself. I just happens to be Barry O that’s made the most recent goof. I’m afraid I despise this witch so much that even if the Obamessiah was to wipe his backside with the American flag in front of an assembly of schoolchildren I would still want him to beat Hillary. (and then for McCain to win in November….er…obviously)
schiehallion on April 12, 2008 at 3:12 PM
I almost gotta believe that was supposed to be father not grandfather in that quote. I think the paper screwed up. Both her grandfather and father played for Penn State? I doubt it
lowandslow on April 12, 2008 at 3:14 PM
Yeah, but then lets face it, so does McCain. He thinks America is filled with a bunch of redneck nativeists that don’t understand what’s best for them. Clinton’s response to this matter was much better than McCain’s, especially considering that she spoke the words herself rather than releasing a statement through a surrogate as McCain did.
FloatingRock on April 12, 2008 at 3:16 PM
Yeah, kinda reminds me of Edwards schtick. “Iwas born in the back seat of a Greyhound bus, rollin’ down Highway 41″
No, wait, I think that was Dickey Betts.
forest on April 12, 2008 at 3:18 PM
Thanks. I hadn’t thought of that. I just assumed she was lying. She has cried wolf too many times and I trust nothing she says. But you are probably right.
JiangxiDad on April 12, 2008 at 3:22 PM
Second look at “Corn-sucking idiots”?
Reaps on April 12, 2008 at 3:22 PM
JiangxiDad on April 12, 2008 at 2:57 PM
Remember, this is Hillary. Pay careful attention to all her forthcoming speeches when no doubt we’ll hear about how her grandfather
1. Was the first man to circumnavigate the globe in a bathtub
2. Was the top fighter pilot in WW1 (or the American civil war, for that matter)
3. Discovered X-rays
4. Wrestled a tiger and killed it with his bare hands
etc..
schiehallion on April 12, 2008 at 3:25 PM
That post jumped to mind when this story came out.
I don’t care for that kind of attitude from anyone, but coming from Obama in front of San Francisco millionaires – It would be tough to script it better than that.
forest on April 12, 2008 at 3:27 PM
That’s a problem she’s got, people tend not to believe you when you’re a pathological lair.
lowandslow on April 12, 2008 at 3:27 PM
Minor details (re. Tuzla). Facts are what support your anecdotal-homespun-lies.
I for one am just pleased as punch that she was raised on Midwest values. This explains so much about her co-reign in the White House.
Cold Steel on April 12, 2008 at 3:29 PM
schiehallion on April 12, 2008 at 3:25 PM
Is he the same one that hunted wolverines with Napoleon? She needs to write a bio on the guy if this whole premiership doesn’t work out for her.
Cold Steel on April 12, 2008 at 3:31 PM
If guns aren’t just for hunting Hillary, then who else can we hunt? Does a water buffalo tag work?
Please don’t hate me Secret Service, them’s jokes. It’s just the mutual admiration we conservatives share with Hilldebeast.
Cold Steel on April 12, 2008 at 3:36 PM
Looks like I’m gonna have to buy more popcorn. This could be an all-nighter.
29Victor on April 12, 2008 at 3:39 PM
Cold Steel on April 12, 2008 at 3:36 PM
ROTFLOL
29Victor on April 12, 2008 at 3:40 PM
Respect and reward hard working citizens, get rid of Federal taxes on overtime wages(except SS and Medicare)
This would be a huge boost in weekly income for workers, and leave SS and Medicare in the current state, also overall Federal Income taxes could be lowered some.
Chakra Hammer on April 12, 2008 at 3:44 PM
Chakra Hammer on April 12, 2008 at 3:44 PM
Why not respect and reward all people by drawing back government? Don’t get hung up on looking for favored classifications for your pet groups. If government took steps back from regulating and interfering this would have a greater effect on all including this OT class you’re referring to.
Cold Steel on April 12, 2008 at 3:51 PM
I believe James Carville said that so BJ wouldn’t have to.
manfriend on April 12, 2008 at 3:58 PM
Second look at Her Majesty!
D2Boston on April 12, 2008 at 3:59 PM
That title says it all. We’re in bizarro world here.
INC on April 12, 2008 at 4:21 PM
Bingo. But it was well said regardless and it made Obama look like a fool which is always good.
Yakko77 on April 12, 2008 at 4:24 PM
Panderer in a pantsuit, 1/2 black racist, or a friend of Kennedy, Feingold pretending to be a Republican, what choices we have! I feel truely sorry for this country and my kids.
I can only hope these buffoons tax the socks off everyone so they are 4 years and done. It has already started in my fomerly great state of Iowa!
dhunter on April 12, 2008 at 4:38 PM
All I heard was “Take out the trash!!” Ahhh crap, now Elton John is going to kick my a$$.
Claypigeon on April 12, 2008 at 4:41 PM
Blue on blue cage match. Gotta love it.
bloviator on April 12, 2008 at 4:58 PM
To a point. She lost me with the, paraphrased, “…president Bush (screwed) the middle class of America, which had it better under Clinton…”. While she sounds eloquent, hitting all the right notes, she’s also full of caca, and don’t forget who she is.
1. No one looks down on others more, no matter who they are, than Hillary.
2. Wishes are not reality. Reality is reality. And the reality is, yes Obama, Edwards-has-been, and Hillary, there is only ONE America, and we’re all in it.
3. This ONE America has the largest middle class of any country in the world.
4. This ONE America’s middle class has the highest productivity and standard of living of any other in the world.
5. This ONE America’s middle class pays the taxes and suffers the burden for all the others, the rich and the poor in this country.
6. This ONE America’s middle class is not bitter, because it’s too busy being productive.
7. This ONE America has it better than ever before. Just look at the cars on the road, the lines at restaurants, the way one can’t even walk fast in just about any airport, due to crowds, the size of houses, the amount of garbage taken out every week, etc., etc., etc….
…and on, and on, and on…
Obama is a hypocrite, in the pocket of billionaires.
Hillary is in the same lap.
Both are feeding off an agitated “bitterness”, pretending that they swoop in to save us from ourselves.
Run America, run as fast, and as far away from both. Machiavellian and Pinocchian, both.
Entelechy on April 12, 2008 at 4:59 PM
OPERATION CHAOS!!!!
Ropera on April 12, 2008 at 5:11 PM
I agree Entelechy. I’m not bitter because life is pretty good here in the middle class in middle of Pennsylvania.
The libs grievance-monger habitually, and they are barking up the wrong tree in this neighborhood.
forest on April 12, 2008 at 5:13 PM
My father’s father, Hugh Sr., was the sixth of eleven children. He started work at the Scranton Lace Company when he was still a boy and ended up as supervisor five decades later.
Dad was a solid athlete, and the coach agreed, so Dad went to State College and played for the Nittany Lions. He also boxed and joined the Delta Upsilon fraternity, where, I’m told, he became an expert at making bathtub gin. He graduated in 1935 and at the height of the Depression returned to Scranton with a degree in physical education.
Her grandfather didn’t go to college according to Hillary Clinton a Living history.http://www.scribd.com/doc/33038/Hillary-Rodham-Clinton-Living-History?query2=hillary-clinton-legs
flytier on April 12, 2008 at 5:15 PM
history.http://www.scribd.com/doc/33038/Hillary-Rodham-Clinton-Living-History?query2=hillary-clinton-legs
flytier on April 12, 2008 at 5:16 PM
You’ll never get me to click a link with hillary clinton and legs in the title. I’d sooner put my eyes out. I’ll rely on your paraphrasing thank you very much.
Cold Steel on April 12, 2008 at 5:23 PM
The Second Amendment wasn’t enacted for hunters. It was enacted by concerned fathers who wanted to shoot intruders into their homes dead. Obama has exposed himself as an elitist, and that is one of the hardest accusations one can shake off. Hillary’s fatal flaw is one of character, specifically that doesn’t have a semblance of any.
These two are giving the election to McCain. I truthfully see a victory of at least 40 states in November.
FLcapitalistthug on April 12, 2008 at 5:34 PM
I just saw the new Hilldog ad for the first time.
A little hoaky, but it will go over better than Obama’s “I’m better than you” approach.
forest on April 12, 2008 at 5:35 PM
Try again. It’s a safeguard against tyranny. It’s harder to oppress and suppress an armed populace. A point the colonists proved to King George III.
Spirit of 1776 on April 12, 2008 at 5:43 PM
I knew she would come to my rescue against that city slicker Obama.
oakpack on April 12, 2008 at 6:15 PM
Good point.
Wasn’t this one of the NRA speech points that Charleton Heston made in the You Tube video on MM site?
ColtsFan on April 12, 2008 at 6:16 PM
Dunno. Probably though, that he understood the importance I have no doubt.
Spirit of 1776 on April 12, 2008 at 6:24 PM
No such thing, Obama has no skills, it’s Amateur Night at the DNC.
Chakra Hammer on April 12, 2008 at 7:14 PM
Where can we subscribe to your blogging? Now that you’ve deemed Rush irrelevant by your insightful posts, I need something to fill my 11-2 CST time slot. Do you aggregate, podcast, spam?
Cold Steel on April 12, 2008 at 7:17 PM
“It’s a safeguard against tyranny.”
Absolutely! # 1 reason for 2nd amendment!
And tyranny is neigh upon us. San Fran Nan, Dingy Harry, Hillary, Barack Hussein, most of the Dem party and helped by a few RINO’s…
it’s nearly time to exercise those second amendment rights and send the enemies of this great country packing.
They consort with the enemy and and constantly work to over throw the consitution of these great states both from within and without. Potomac Tea Party …time, great name for a new movement.
dhunter on April 12, 2008 at 7:23 PM
Uh-oh. Recessive CMGG* seems to be manifesting in the HA community.
*Clinton Mystique Gullibility Gene
whitetop on April 12, 2008 at 10:07 PM
Do that too, like Rudy was going to do by only hiring 1/2 the Federal workforce that retires, and also look for other ways to cut the Federal government.. but it would be nice to see incentives to work hard, like the removing of Taxes on overtime wages.
Chakra Hammer on April 12, 2008 at 11:14 PM
“Defender of the common man”, didn’t they play
the music,Fanfare to the common man at Bills
inauguration speech!
canopfor on April 12, 2008 at 11:31 PM
Ace says it best
Go SnOb-ama Go!
I thought the racist Wright stuff would be enough, but this… this is just PRICELESS!
A classic John Kerry moment “I was AGAINST the Chicken-Chokers, before I was FOR them”…
Oh! And of course the now-required “I’m sorry if you were stupid enough to be offended” non-apology.
“Barack Hussein Obama, singlehandedly keeping the N-word alive for another Century!”
heldmyw on April 13, 2008 at 12:26 AM
The fact that an invited “billionaire for Hillary” operative went to the billionaire row party, had the speech recorded in secret, then gave it to the HuffPoo, normally Obama’s playground, to give Hillary the opportunity to get back on top, at the most critical time, is Shakespearean.
She’s so full of caca, and in the same billionaires’ laps, and might get away with it because Obama’s naivite made him say such stupid things in San Francisco, in the bossom of idealistic, rich, elitist, billionaire filth.
If she does, imagine the wrath, the hell Pelosi, Reid, Richardson, the Kennedys, and a slu of others will pay.
Entelechy on April 13, 2008 at 2:58 AM
Entelechy on April 13, 2008 at 2:58 AM “…rich, elitist, billionaire filth.”
I agree with most of your statement except the Billionaire Filth part. Being a Billionaire does not automatically qualify you as filth but I concede that San Fran does have the lions share of the filthy ones.
Egfrow on April 13, 2008 at 1:49 PM
I’m convinced now…she deserves our vote!!!
Golfer_75093 on April 14, 2008 at 8:32 AM
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