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(Tribune Review) Dumbass What was the reaction of the billionare republican who has spent decades and millions of dollars hounding the Clintons after 90 minute meeting with Hillary? "Eh, she's not so bad after all"   (pittsburghlive.com) divider line 41
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guilt by association 2008-04-09 04:43:52 PM  
Oh boy.

 
TheNintendoKid 2008-04-09 04:48:24 PM  
When republicans are more in the tank for your candidacy than their own assumptive nominee, it should set off at least small alarms of some sort.

 
HotWingConspiracy [TotalFark] 2008-04-09 04:49:21 PM  
*head explodes*

 
burndtdan 2008-04-09 04:49:58 PM  
isn't this a repeat? this story is like a week old.

 
Headso 2008-04-09 04:51:10 PM  
don't republicans want hillary to run against in this election? Is this surprising?

 
joeycolby 2008-04-09 04:51:20 PM  
I wonder how long it will take her to start acting like she is so brave for this interview and challenge Obama to have a candid interview with a newspaper editorial staff even though he already did just that over a month ago.

 
dualplains 2008-04-09 04:53:08 PM  
burndtdan: isn't this a repeat? this story is like a week old.

Yup. Besides, who cares that Hillary has completely schmoozed and won over a severely pro-corporate republican, a likely Obama delegate has called some black kids 'monkeys' in an entirely non-derogatory way!

 
LibertyFirst 2008-04-09 04:53:28 PM  
Because if Hillary wins it reaffirms the bi-factional ruling party of the Dems/Repubs. They are essentially one in the same with a couple of minor differences.

 
tortilla burger 2008-04-09 04:54:01 PM  
Well, to be fair, Hillary can lie, cheat and steal with the best of 'em. Of course he'll like her.

 
Mr. Anon 2008-04-09 04:55:38 PM  
So he finally realized that she is a lot more republican than she is dem?

 
Hang On Voltaire [TotalFark] 2008-04-09 04:57:06 PM  
Headso: don't republicans want hillary to run against in this election? Is this surprising?

Both of them have their handicaps. I think Obama is the easier Dem to beat in the general but HRC is not far behind.

 
coachwdb 2008-04-09 04:58:25 PM  
Hmmm. A conservative takes the time to sit down and talk to an avowed enemy and finds common ground.

Maybe we can send him to Iran next.

 
Headso 2008-04-09 04:59:27 PM  
Hang On Voltaire: I think Obama is the easier Dem to beat in the general but HRC is not far behind.

That explains the orchestrated attempts by republicans to vote for Hillary in the primary how?

 
dhudd 2008-04-09 05:01:48 PM  
Headso: Hang On Voltaire: I think Obama is the easier Dem to beat in the general but HRC is not far behind.

That explains the orchestrated attempts by republicans to vote for Hillary in the primary how?


The minute you read HOV saying "I think" do the opposite - it will always be better.

 
quatchi 2008-04-09 05:02:48 PM  
Hillary's not so bad?

Compared to wot? Typhoid? Cancer? McCain?

Hillary and McLame are two sides of the same coin.

Heads, they win.
Tails you lose.

Obama represents a third way.

He's not some all powerful messianic figure who will instantly cure all of America's ills at once but his strong appeal lies in the fact that he is not as bought and sold (out) as those he campaigns against. He's not a defender of the status quo or a "big bizness as usual" such as the two corporate whores Chilly Hilly and McAncient.

For that reason alone Quatchi sez...

Barack tha Vote! 08ama '08! GObama!

 
Hang On Voltaire [TotalFark] 2008-04-09 05:06:25 PM  
Headso:

That explains the orchestrated attempts by republicans to vote for Hillary in the primary how?


I am just giving my opinion. I am sure others would disagree. However, I think Republicans voting for HRC are doing so to continue the Dem primary and not necessarily because she would be the easier opponent

 
TheCid 2008-04-09 05:09:39 PM  
Headso: Hang On Voltaire: I think Obama is the easier Dem to beat in the general but HRC is not far behind.

That explains the orchestrated attempts by republicans to vote for Hillary in the primary how?


HOV = partisan troll.

 
FeedTheCollapse 2008-04-09 05:10:14 PM  
Headso: don't republicans want hillary to run against in this election? Is this surprising?

I will say it's pretty telling that outside of Clinton supporters, the only people defending Hillary's protracted nomination bid are all Republicans. Ulterior motives, you say?

 
Neeek [TotalFark] 2008-04-09 05:10:43 PM  
Hang On Voltaire: Both of them have their handicaps. I think Obama is the easier Dem to beat in the general but HRC is not far behind.

Really? Why is that? You are the only person outside of the Clinton camp I've heard say that. What's the reasoning that reaches that conclusion?

 
Hang On Voltaire [TotalFark] 2008-04-09 05:16:31 PM  
Neeek:

Really? Why is that? You are the only person outside of the Clinton camp I've heard say that. What's the reasoning that reaches that conclusion?


I think the Rev Wright controversy all but destroyed his chances with Reagan democrats and has inflamed the GOP base. Plus McCain can go after Obama in ways that HRC cannot.

 
MorganGuard 2008-04-09 05:20:46 PM  
OLD news. How did this get posted again?

 
gilgigamesh 2008-04-09 05:21:06 PM  
Things that would give me less heebies than this story:

Jesus has a sit down with Satan; decides he's not so bad after all.

Anne Frank has a sit down with Adolph Hitler; decides he's not so bad after all.

Leon Trotsky pulls ice pick out of his skull, sits down with Josef Stalin; decides he's not so bad after all.

 
MFL 2008-04-09 05:21:16 PM  
Headso: don't republicans want hillary to run against in this election? Is this surprising?
Hang On Voltaire Both of them have their handicaps. I think Obama is the easier Dem to beat in the general but HRC is not far behind.

Republicans just want the race to go on as long as possible. The more I learn about Obama the more I agree with you HOV that he will be the easier candidate to go against.

If the DNC should have pushed Biden or Richardson instead of Hillary/Obama.

 
Cbrusky 2008-04-09 05:21:29 PM  
Obama Supporters: We need to meet with the hostile leaders of the world! Dialogue is important!

Hillary Meets with a rival.

Obama Supporters: OMG Hillary is commiserating with the enemy! What a sleezeball! She successfully extended the olive branch and had a useful conversation. Burn her she's a witch!

/The Hypocrisy is strong with this group

 
Headso 2008-04-09 05:26:40 PM  
Hang On Voltaire: Rev Wright controversy all but destroyed his chances with Reagan democrats and has inflamed the GOP base.

when a Marine that served in combat gets uppity the GOP base has a shiat fit, you only love America if you get 72 deferments and then chearlead terrible war planning and execution.

I think Republicans voting for HRC are doing so to continue the Dem primary and not necessarily because she would be the easier opponent

this could be the case, although the level of interest and free press this extended primary has gotten can't be good for the republicans.

 
mediaho 2008-04-09 05:27:54 PM  
Cbrusky: Obama Supporters: OMG Hillary is commiserating with the enemy! What a sleezeball! She successfully extended the olive branch and had a useful conversation. Burn her she's a witch!

/The Hypocrisy is strong with this group


You must be reading a different thread, strawman.

 
Poopspasm [TotalFark] 2008-04-09 05:29:00 PM  
Cbrusky: Obama Supporters: We need to meet with the hostile leaders of the world! Dialogue is important!

Hillary Meets with a rival.

Obama Supporters: OMG Hillary is commiserating with the enemy! What a sleezeball! She successfully extended the olive branch and had a useful conversation. Burn her she's a witch!

/The Hypocrisy is strong with this group


Hard as it is to understand, most of these people are just bashing her for being Hillary. Obama has routinely worked with Republicans, and no one has any problem with that (that I've seen).

 
gilgigamesh 2008-04-09 05:31:35 PM  
Cbrusky: Obama Supporters: We need to meet with the hostile leaders of the world! Dialogue is important!

Hillary Meets with a rival.

Obama Supporters: OMG Hillary is commiserating with the enemy! What a sleezeball! She successfully extended the olive branch and had a useful conversation. Burn her she's a witch!

/The Hypocrisy is strong with this group


Among other notable atrocities, Scaife baselessly pursued Hillary Clinton with baselss allegations that she murdered a long time family friend.

Obama talks about having a dialogue with world leaders, friend and foe alike.

Obama wisely realizes that shutting down dialogue with hostile nations is, as we have recently seen, a great way of pushing nations over the brink into needless and avoidable war.

One is the hallmark of a good and practical leader who understands realpolitick; the other is shameless desperate whoring. If you can't tell which is which, there's nothing I can do to help you.

 
Simplest Quantum System Conceivable 2008-04-09 05:32:04 PM  
Cbrusky: Obama Supporters: We need to meet with the hostile leaders of the world! Dialogue is important!

Hillary Meets with a rival.

Obama Supporters: OMG Hillary is commiserating with the enemy! What a sleezeball! She successfully extended the olive branch and had a useful conversation. Burn her she's a witch!

/The Hypocrisy is strong with this group


good try. However you fail to note that
1) This guy didn't just have policy differences with the Clintons, he repeatedly accused them of "having people killed" - literally.
2) He never backed off those assertions.
3) he used the meeting to team up with Hillary to hit Obama on Rev. Wright.
4) He decides Hillary's the one to back.

conclusion: He is and has always been a GOP hack. He and Hillary can enjoy having a shared cause for now. But to pretend it's anything other than a mutual desire to drag down the Dem frontrunner, is intellectually dishonest.

 
Pattitler 2008-04-09 05:36:39 PM  
dhudd: Headso: Hang On Voltaire: I think Obama is the easier Dem to beat in the general but HRC is not far behind.

That explains the orchestrated attempts by republicans to vote for Hillary in the primary how?

The minute you read HOV saying "I think" do the opposite - it will always be better.you know he is lying.


That's better.

//Bots don't think

 
joeycolby 2008-04-09 05:41:14 PM  
Cbrusky: /The Hypocrisy is strong with this group

I'd be disappointed if Obama decided to go on Fox News for an interview after the kind of rumors and lies they've continued to spread about him. In Hillary's case, the rumors were much, much worse, yet she is so desperate for votes that she is trying to woo them for an endorsement.

 
wmprofr 2008-04-09 06:13:47 PM  
gilgigamesh: Things that would give me less heebies than this story:

Jesus has a sit down with Satan; decides he's not so bad after all.

Anne Frank has a sit down with Adolph Hitler; decides he's not so bad after all.

Leon Trotsky pulls ice pick out of his skull, sits down with Josef Stalin; decides he's not so bad after all.



The old man is losing his mind, just like Goldwater...

 
Spanky_McFarksalot 2008-04-09 06:24:53 PM  
Yeah, I'm not so sure many left wing farkers are really in a position to criticize others about changing their views of Hillary...

/some of us knew it all along though...

 
Churchy LaFemme 2008-04-09 06:45:37 PM  
B...b...b...but GEORGE SOROS!!!!

 
mrexcess [TotalFark] 2008-04-09 06:49:46 PM  
quatchi is my hero, FYI

 
Bill the unknowing 2008-04-09 06:55:24 PM  
This article was posted a week or more ago. Old and busted.

 
Magorn 2008-04-09 07:17:27 PM  
So she sat down and had pleasant little chat, with a man who called her husband a rapist, and her a murderer, AND who bankrolled Paula Jone's Lawsuit, Jaunita Broderick's Slander, the "trooper gate" investigation, the Foster Murder "investigation" and most every other "scandal" that plagued the Clinton presidency


As I said elsewhere (new window)


You know how people have been urging Hillary to get out while she still has a few shreds of dignity left?
Too late.

She could be revealed to have had a prior career as the featured performer in a Tijuana donkey show and emerge with more dignity than what she has now after abasing herself before the one man who, more than any other in this country, attempted to smear her and destroy her husband and daughter.

Selling your body is a comparatively honorable to make a living, particularly when you are in desperate straits. But selling your soul like this? Is there any way to come back from it? To NOT have the awful stain of what you were willing to do for personal gain eat away at you for the rest of your life?



and if you think that's over the top, consider these excerpts from article that the Tribune Review ran in 03 (new window)


Then let's take a peek at the many ultra-leftist causes Hillary Clinton has supported for individual indictments and glance at her inexplicable executive actions in the White House:
# The drawn-out series of evasions and lies relating to the pre-presidency Whitewater land deals ... # The delight taken in smearing the reputations of her husband's unwilling ladies.

...

Even nastier was the reasoned exploitation of Chelsea, who was yanked every time her father was "caught out" to pose for a sympathetic handholding picture of Dad with his little girl.

DON'T FORGET THE $$$

And always there was money:
# Hillary had no problems, with only $1,000 in her bank account, making big investments in cattle futures. ... # And her - let's be dignified - appointment of a former young bar bouncer as head of White House security?

THE FOSTER AFFAIR

Perhaps it was this cozy brokerage that resulted in one of the most disturbing incidents of all: Seven years ago, Vincent Walker Foster Jr., was living on Cambridge Place in Washington's Georgetown. An attorney, deputy counsel in the White House and childhood friend of President Clinton, who had brought him to Washington, Foster also was Hillary's best friend at the prestigious Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, where they shared, among other intimacies, the securities brokerage account, Midlife Partners.

On July 20, 1993, Vince Foster was found dead. His death officially was termed a suicide but is suspected by many to be a murder - if not a superbly planned assassination.

 
Lord_Baull 2008-04-09 09:32:26 PM  
The article is from March 30th.

/going to submit that awesome headline I thought of about Britney's legal problems.

 
NotoriousW.O.P 2008-04-09 11:20:00 PM  
Now who's the bigger whore in this scenario:
Dick Scaife for sitting down with Hillary and dtrying to prove that his newspaper (which annually loses around $30 million -- a number that was floated during his divorce hearing after he was caught screwing around in a motel with a lady of the evening) is relevant, OR
Hillary Clinton for sitting down with a man who essentially said that she had Vince Foster killed, and bankrolled every investigation into her husband's administration?

 
Cbrusky 2008-04-10 12:43:32 AM  
Obama wants to meet with world leaders who have done far worse than calling someone bad names. Obama wants to meet with ALL world leaders especially Iran, whose leader has denied that holocaust happened, proclaimed death to America several times, continuously mocks the world, and blatantly ignores the UN.

Also Scaife is in the entertainment business. It's pretty obvious that he was being sensational in order to sell more papers.

So Hillary can get the respect from even the most staunch enemy and this is somehow a negative? Would your opinion of Obama lower if he got the respect of Bill O'Reily even if they had separate views?

/I don't have a problem with meeting with Iran
//But if you have a problem with one you have a problem with both, or your a hypocrite

 
lilbjorn 2008-04-10 11:29:17 AM  
"Eh, she's not so bad after all"

... but ah still hates women.

 
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