Barack Obama Gets People Mad At Him (Part II)
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Apparently, that party unity on the Democratic side is going to be a little harder to achieve than some thought it would be:
A Thursday afternoon meeting between Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and other members of the Congressional Black Caucus grew tense and emotional for a moment -- perhaps illustrating that weeks after Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., suspended her presidential campaign, some nerves remain frayed.
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Sources at the meeting said that Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, a Clinton supporter, expressed the desire that Obama and his campaign would reach out the millions of women still aggrieved about what happened in the campaign and still disappointed that Clinton lost.
Obama agreed that a lot of work needs to be done to heal the Democratic Party, and that he hoped the Clinton supporters in the room would help as much as possible.
According to Rep. Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y., Obama then said, "However, I need to make a decision in the next few months as to how I manage that since I'm running against John McCain, which takes a lot of time. If women take a moment to realize that on every issue important to women, John McCain is not in their corner, that would help them get over it."
That last line didn't quite go over well:
Rep. Diane Watson, D-Calif., a longtime Clinton supporter, did not like those last three words -- "Get over it." She found them dismissive, off-putting.
"Don't use that terminology," Watson told Obama.
Between this and the Patti Solis Doyle hire earlier this week, Hillary supporters have been given a fair number of things to be mad about. Having beaten the Clintons and their supporters, Obama is now causing many of those supporters to believe that he has contempt for the Clintons and for the campaign that they ran. Any more such efforts at party unity and we might have ourselves a full-blown schism before September even hits.
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Obama's busy with doing a man's job, all you lady folk should get together and help each other get over it before Obama deems you not worthy to vote.
What happened to the Obama that used to talk to eloquently?
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777
Good at saying things that get under people's skins. Things that make them say stupid things in retaliation---stupid things that end up on YouTube, the Internet and Hannity and Colmes?
Let's find those people, and send them to microphones often. I'm thinking Fred Thompson, Thad Cochrane, Tom Coburn---who else?
With just a little encouragement, we can help Barack Obama be all the bonehead he can be.
"Who will stand/On either hand/And guard this bridge with me?" (Macaulay)
We have to make Obama speak without a telepromter has much as possible. He will dig his own grave.
She looked pretty today.
"Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it."
-Thomas Paine: The American Crisis, No. 4, 1777