Hillary Clinton: "I was honored to run in South Carolina... and it was very close...."

[NYCGirl]

WHAT??!!!

:crazy:


http://www.memphisflyer.com/memphis/Content?oid=38513

The high side of that, of course, was that the overwhelmingly Caucasian crowd was enthusiastic in its reception of Clinton, greeting her extended - maybe over-extended - remarks with enthusiasm and peppering her with questions until she had been on her feet answering for well more than an hour.

Like Obama in his appearances since last week's stormy televised debate involving the two chief Democratic contenders and the still hopeful John Edwards, Clinton avoided direct attacks on rivals and concentrated her fire on the Republican incumbent in the White House, George W. Bush.

The second odd thing about Clinton's appearance came during that extended Q-and-A period when someone, late in the going, finally asked her to comment on the just-concluded South Carolina primary, in which Obama had trounced her by a margin of two-to-one.

After a perceptible pause, she began awkwardly: "I was honored to run in South Carolina... and it was very close...." What came after that startling denial of reality was a series of stated resolves about keeping on keeping on, mixed with hopeful platitudes aimed at the larger Democratic constituency.

[babylonsister]

1. Hmmm. That can't be good. Perception problems? nt

[AtomicKitten]

35. Nah, I just think she has the ability to lie right to your face with ease.

[MercutioATC]

2. It was "very close" to North Carolina, maybe....

god, I love the spin...

[Barack_America]

24. That is EXACTLY what I thought!

Weird.

[JVS]

3. She must not think much of people's ability to compare numbers

[earthlover]

4. Close? ROFL

OK...close to unanimous! Right on, Hillary!

[Adelante]

5. Oh, make it stop

Make the truth-bending fucking stop already. I can't take any more. :crazy:

[Windy]

6. she wants to get to the people who don't pay attention. There are a lot of those as we know

they gave us 8 years of Bush!!

[zulchzulu]

7. About as close as the Earth is to Uranus, Hillary

Sheesh...what a goddamn phony.

[bobbolink]

8. With "honesty" like that, and she wants to be the leader of the "free" world???

Not buying.

:thumbsdown: x(

[TwilightGardener]

9. Boy, is that all you really need to know about her, or what?

I mean, that's spin on a scale previously unimagined.

[earthlover]

28. Aw come on....Obama just doubled her votes....could have been worse...could have quadrupled....

I think this is an arguement for mandatory drug testing for presidential candidates....

[Avalux]

10. She can NEVER admit to anything; just like she can't admit her IWR vote was wrong.

Reminds me of someone else who's giving a speech tonight....

[Occam Bandage]

11. His margin of victory was greater than her vote total. She was closer to 0 than to Obama.

[DJ13]

12. "it was very close...."

:rofl:

[Skinner]

13. LOL.

That's pretty funny.

[Bread and Circus]

14. as we say on www.worldofwarcraft.com

first!!!

[New Dawn]

34. "QFT"

[tammywammy]

15. That's one thing I like about Hillary

She does tell some funny jokes.

[CorpGovActivist]

16. Objects in the Magic Mirror...

... may be more deluded than they appear.

- Dave

[Metric System]

17. It's called spin, people! Do you really think she's going to hype Obama's win,

as much as you all would like that?

[John Q. Citizen]

21. She's in it to spin it alright. "It was very close" (to a massive loss) "Americans

are the hardest working people in the world" (if you don't consider non-Americans to be people) "Saddam has WMD's" (at least he did years ago that we gave him before the first UN inspectors documented the dismantling and removal of 96% percent of them)

I can't say she inspires in me a whole lot of trust.

[earthlover]

29. By saying something this stupid....she is basically hyping Obama....unknowingly

[agdlp]

18. Her speach were around 8:30 p.m. Saturday night, all results were not in by then

But in hindsight...that statement was not the best...
Especially because Obama pundits will use binoculars on her words...

[John Q. Citizen]

22. And because at 8:30 it wasn't close at all.

Hill will and does say anything because her voters refuse to hold her accountable for what she says.

They blame her ill-regard for the truth on binoculars, pundits, and voters for other candidates.

[earthlover]

30. bullshit....it was already called by 8:30

[BattyDem]

19. Close to what?

:eyes: :rofl:

[countingbluecars]

20. To be fair,

I believe that was taken out of context. She said it was very close going in.

[John Q. Citizen]

25. Do you happen to have a link to that? Thanks.

[countingbluecars]

26. I watched the speech on C-Span.

The comment was made during the question and answer session. I can find links only for the formal part of the speech. But, I am certain that she qualified the "it was close" statement.

[Thrill]

23. Shes like the Iraqi Information Minister

[alteredstate]

27. It was so close that CNN called it for Obama at exactly 7 pm

The SC polls closed at 7pm.

[milkyway]

31. Calm down. She meant between her and Edwards. That's why she ran back to S. Carolina--

she was supposed to have left for good early in the week and let her co-candidate do the campaigning there, but when a poll came out mid-week showing Edwards within 4 points she came flying back into South Carolina to hold him off. It was close, but she did it.

[Yuugal]

32. We are very close to winning in Iraq too

So very close, just another 6 months, and then maybe another 6 months, followed by a cooling off period of say, maybe 6 months, then and only then will we be so very close to victory. So close we may only need another 6 months to achieve it.

I guess its takes a whole village of experience to say SC was close. If only she had another 6 months there to campaign, ah well.

"mixed with hopeful platitudes aimed at the larger Democratic constituency."

Aimed at a larger dem constituency? AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! The Hillary unity checklist:

1)alienate every poor person in America by being a corporate milk sop............CHECK!
2)alienate every working class person in America by supporting more free trade and outsourcing.....CHECK!
3)alienate everyone still mad about NAFTA,TELco act, and slavefare by continually waving Bill in our faces...CHECK!
4)alienate minorities.................CHECK+++!

Woohoo! She is going all the way with the Fix-o-dent crowd! FIXODENT and FORGET! A slogan for the 2000's! Go HILLARY!

Being a part time atheist is rough. Sometimes things get so bad I find myself praying to the gods to please stop laughing at our stupidity and actually do something. So I've been praying: Give me JOHN!

I think my prayers will be answered: Welcome President John MCCain....... :puke:

[HooptieWagon]

33. It WAS close...

... in the white vote. I guess to Hillary the others don't matter...