Hillary on The Daily Show

[MadHound]

In talking with Jon Stewart, Hillary admitted that she would be more than willing to put Republicans in her cabinet, stating that she wanted to foster a spirit of bipartisanship.

All I can say is that this is sad, that she's reverting back to her Goldwater Girl roots.

[Kolesar]

1. President Clinton's Secretary of Defense was a GOP congressman...eom

[PretzelWarrior]

3. from Maine. Sue Collins and the other Maine senators practically democrats

and that guy was in there LATE. Not even a full second term.

[cyclezealot]

16. Collins. Compared to William Cohen.

Collins a big backer of Bush's tax cuts. That eliminates her in my book.

[MadHound]

5. You say that like Bill was a god who could do no wrong

Frankly in my eyes Bill was nothing more than a corporate whore like his wife, and his administration was a huge disappointment.

[Kolesar]

9. no...eom

[liberalnurse]

23. Cohen was harrassed by his repug peers

for being married to a black woman.

[angie_love]

2. after her endorsement of McCain, shes convinced me shes a DINO

[PretzelWarrior]

4. welcome to the club

some of us are celebrating our 8th year as a member.

[Marie26]

6. Obama has said the same thing. nt

[karynnj]

24. Can you provide a link or at least where, when and what he said?

All I have ever heard Obama do is always speak of McCain's service before blasting him on some position. I think this is good. Everyone already knows that McCain was a POW, anyone who would vote for him on that is already there. What it does is prevent the Republicans from claiming he shows no respect. To some independents, in retrospect, it may contrast well with how the Republicans acted in 2004. It's kind of like by saying that first, he can then strike harder on the current charge.

It is not doing what HRC did - unilaterally surrendering the national security issue if Obama is our nominee. When the math on delegates make it very likely that that would be the case - it is poor behavior.

[Marie26]

26. It's surprising

that Obama people would criticize HRC for this, when Obama has said that he'd have Republican Cabinet members as well. That's not really in doubt.



Barnstorming Obama plans to pick Republicans for cabinet -

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article3466823.ece

[complain jane]

29. self-delete

Never mind, I couldn't find a link to source what I said.

[Iceburg]

25. Remember, he is working to a different standard. Give him some slack/nt

[DemBones DemBones]

28. What does that mean "a different standard" and why should he get slack?

Oh, wait, it's the old "Women have to be twice as good as men to get any respect standard."

Set the bar low for BO! We can't have a woman in the Oval Office!

:sarcasm:

[liberal N proud]

7. The only way to get things done in Washington without strong arm tactics

is bipartisanship.
It depends on who those republicans are that she would put in her cabinet. Get the right republican in the right cabinet position and things work well and she overcomes the right wing hate. Not that it will go away but she could override it.

Hasn't Obama said he would consider the same?

[MadHound]

12. So I suppose all those Democratic presidents who didn't have 'Pugs in their cabinet

Were using strong arm tactics? Whatever, I find the spin and excuses that Hillary supporters use to be astounding.

Oh, and you assume that I'm an Obama supporter. That is only by default since Kucinich is out of the race. I can vote for Obama since he's not a warmonger like Hillary, but that's about as far as it goes. If he's made the same promise, then it really goes to show how close these two candidates really are, and the whole concept of 'Pugs in a Dem cabinet simply goes to show that we really are living under the two party/same corporate master system of government.

[liberal N proud]

17. No but we know what the last 8 years of partisanship has gotten America n/t

[MadHound]

19. So in other words what you're saying is that even if we have a Democratic president

If that president doesn't have 'Pugs in the Cabinet, we're going to be in for another eight years like the last eight years?

Gee, how did FDR, JFK and all the rest get along so well without a 'Pug in their Cabinet?:eyes:

There's a way to be bipartisan and there's a way to be bipartisan. You can work with 'Pugs, but by putting them in your Cabinet, you're essentially kowtowing to them and allowing them to have too much power over you.

[Metric System]

27. Obama on Rethugs:

Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Thursday he would be more willing than Hillary Rodham Clinton to work with Republicans.

"Her natural inclination is to draw a picture of Republicans as people who need to be crushed and defeated," Obama said during a telephone interview from Texas with the Cincinnati Enquirer editorial board. "It's not entirely her fault. She's been the target of some unfair attacks in the past."

"I'm not a person who believes any one party has a monopoly on wisdom," Obama said.

http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=4238

[Yossariant]

8. What was it when Obama said it?

:rofl:

[DemocratSinceBirth]

11. Statesmanship

:sarcasm:

[Apollo11]

10. I thought Hillary came over as very likeable

I loved her answer to the first question, that it is "pathetic" for her to appear on the Daily Show! B-)

The fact that Hillary can laugh at herself proves that she is not as stiff as her enemies pretend.

Stewart started off about the whole "let's work together with the Republicans" thing (maybe he has been watching too many Obama speeches?), and Hillary kind of followed on from that. But she made it absolutely clear that Democrats need to be back in charge to deal with the mess created by 7-8 years of Bush-Cheney.

You can watch the whole video here: www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=163165

[MadHound]

13. Yes, I know, I watched it, including the part where she stated that she would be willing

To have 'Pugs in her Cabinet. I also heard her extolling the virtues of bipartisanship, which is all well and good until you look back and see that over the past twenty years bipartisanship has simply become another word for "getting really screwed".

[Apollo11]

14. When did Barack Obama reject and denounce bipartisanship??

I must have missed that ... :eyes:

PS - At least we can both agree on your choice of alias! ;-)

[johnnydrama]

15. he didn't

but he was sure rejected and denounced on here for saying it.

[JTFrog]

18. There are plenty of valid reasons to be for or against a candidate. This is not one of them and

there is no difference in their positions. If we didn't have at least two different parties in the various positions of power in our government then it would hardly be a democracy now would it?

[MadHound]

20. As we've seen over the past twenty years,

Being "bipartisan" with the 'Pugs simply gives them an in with which they can go ahead and push their own agenda forward. This hasn't been good for the party or the country, and has led to the conclusion that we're living under the two party/same corporate master system of government.

[tekisui]

21. Obama said something similar, and the Hillary nuts went crazy,

I am sure the outrage will be the same against her today.


:eyes:

[Saturday]

22. Gee, how quickly we forget.

When Obama admitted to the same thing it was wonderful. Remember?

[GoldieAZ49]

30. But that was Obama, different standards

He can do no wrong his hope for change cannot be questioned or you will be called a racist.

tidy, isn't it?

[rodeodance]

31. It is odd that they are all in a TIZZY--they forget obama has said this for MONTHS>