Carville on Obama: “If Hillary Gave Him One of Her Balls They’d Both Have Two”

[playstation]

"If Hillary gave him one of her balls, they'd both have two," Democratic strategist James Carville told the Christian Science Monitor at a breakfast on Thursday morning.

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2010/11/18/carville_if_hillary_gave_obama_one_of_her_balls_hed_have_two.html


Seriously, wtf??!

[polichick]

1. oyyy

[veganlush]

2. hehehehe

[Whisp]

3. Carville still the everlasting asshole I see.

how many 'balls' did your repuke disgusting wife snap off you, you fucking weasel?

[struggle4progress]

83. +

[doc03]

4. He has a good point there n/t

[Whisp]

17. you disgust me with that 'opinion'.

[Liberal_Stalwart71]

41. For a guy with no balls, he sure kicked the Clintons asses up and down the street! n/t

[mkultra]

79. yup, both of them

[Number23]

85. Okay??! MAN but they hate remembering that fact

:rofl:

[Uzybone]

5. Something he admittedly said during the campaign

rehashed as new news by those who would love nothing more than internal division.

[ProSense]

6. This is posted at First Read:

Carville questions Obama's testicular fortitude -- again

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*** UPDATE *** Ben Smith points out that Carville said the same thing during the campaign, which drew this Obama response on Nightline:

"Well, you know, James Carville is well-known for spouting off his mouth without always knowing what he's talking about," Obama said on Nightline. "I intend to stay focused on fighting for the American people because what they don't need is 20 more years of performance art on television. And that's what James Carville and a lot of those folks are expert at ... a lot of talk and not getting things done for the American people."

Carville is still obnoxious, and judging from the comments a lot of people agree.

[karynnj]

33. brilliant Obama comment - that is what Carville is - performance art

His only claim to fame is that he helped a man, described as the most talented politician of his generation, win an election - after at one point in the campaign being 3 out of 3 - against a man at 33% approval. For this, he and Begala - in a book and movie - create the mythology that they were brilliant campaign managers.

He was a net negative in Hillary's campaign.

This type of talk is disgusting and uncalled for - and he over rates how much stronger Hillary would have been.

[Major Hogwash]

56. Bill Hader, the guy on Saturday Night Live, did a fantastic impression of Carville.

One of the best impressions I have ever seen of Carville.
I wish James would restrict his vitriol to Republicans because that is where the problem is, not with the Democrats.

James really needs to remind himself how bad this country was driven into the ditch by the Republicans during 2005 and 2006 to the point that the Democrats were given control of the House of Representatives for the first time in 12 years, since 1994, which coincidently was when Carville was working with President Clinton.

He should focus his energies on where the real problems emanate, the Republican party.

[golddigger]

7. !

:popcorn:

[dkf]

8. That is rude. What an ass.

[argonaut]

9. Thanks for reminding me how much I hate that guy. nt

[rury]

10. Ditto a thousand times!!!!

[Blue Owl]

11. Probably just repeating what his wife said

:eyes:

[ncteechur]

12. Carville might need to get one or two from his wife.

[tularetom]

13. Just when I thought I'd never hear from that piece a shit again

He's sure as hell one to talk about balls.

The sea hag he sleeps with cut his off years ago.

[Turbineguy]

14. That's helpful.

Thanks for sharing, Carville.

Now, back under your rock.

[Whisp]

15. how dare he, the ugly toad. Imagine if someone questioned Bush's balls.

and this coming from a supposed Democrat too?

I want to puke down his throat, fucking asshole prick. wonder who put him up to this. cNN is just a giggling right now.

fuck.

stupid fucking country.

[awoke_in_2003]

16. The Lizard King...

needs to shut his pie hole.

[bigdarryl]

18. Like it or not Obama's got a problem any time you have Democrats saying

he has no balls that means they take him as a joke and either need to change his message or get some people to advise him better I hear callers on black talk radio saying he is starting to look weak also.

[Whisp]

23. carville is no democrat but a freak of nature.

fuck him and the wife he rides on

[WestSeattle2]

36. Perception is reality - all of us manage to some degree or another

the perception others have of us - for the same reason that the President needs to step up his game in this area. While nuanced debate is admirable under most conditions, occasionally you have to haul out the "kick ass, ask questions later" persona and let it loose - especially when you're dealing with idiots who aren't capable of nuanced debate. It's the whole alpha-dog thing - ignore it at your own peril. Guys know what I'm talking about.

[Lilyeye]

60. PLEASE! Carville is a PUMA. He never truly supported President Obama.

His opinion means shit as far as I am concerned.

[niceypoo]

66. ....at least not blindly

[Jennicut]

64. James Carville ceased being a Democrat a long time ago as far as I am concerned.

What part of him represents the left in any way?

[jonnyblitz]

19. this crap is along the same lines as "pink tutu".nt

[dionysus]

20. i feel your concern. you seem broken up about it..

:eyes:

[TwilightGardener]

21. Yuck. That manages to insult both of them.

[Phx_Dem]

22. Yeah, but that still leaves you with zero.

If Obama "satisfied" a woman with a cigar in the oval office, maybe he'd earn James' respect.

Oh well, I guess he'll just have to learn to live without it.

[ampad]

24. What is it with the so call professional left obsession

with sexuality and body parts? The pink tutu and now this crap. Sounds more like the immature left than the professional left. Yuck.

[jonnyblitz]

25. James Carville is hardly "left". nt

[ampad]

26. You are right about that (nt)

[donco6]

34. James Carville is in no way "left."

Sorry. He's all yours.

[ampad]

35. Yea and you know what you can do with that comment

Insert wherever it may fit.

Edited to add: Not surprising that you could not make that comment without insulting another DU'er. I suspect that is something you do often. You do not know me so don't question my alliance to liberalism. You certainly have no right to do so.

[donco6]

40. Uh . . . you were the one dragging the "professional left" into it.

You can sit on it yourself.

[ampad]

42. Oh really

So when you say that he is one of mine are you calling me the "professional left" Or are you calling me a Republican? No you can go ahead and sit on it. As I suspect you have been doing for some time now. Make sure you plomp down real good while you are at it.

[donco6]

43. Yes, really.

You: What is it with the so call professional left obsession with sexuality and body parts? The pink tutu and now this crap. Sounds more like the immature left than the professional left. Yuck.

Me: James Carville is in no way "left." Sorry. He's all yours.

My comment obviously referring to Carville's long-time, historical, uncontrovertible centrist leanings - i.e., YOUR camp, not the "professional left."

[ampad]

45. Again, what gives you the right to call me anything other

than ampad. You do not know me. You sitting here on DU gives you no authority to call me anything other than my screen name. I guess you missed the post where I told a DU'er that I was wrong about stating that Carville was on the left. So once again, you can insert your comments about me and my ideology wherever you see fit.

[donco6]

46. I'm glad to see you've admitted your error re: Carville.

That's very good news.

[golfguru]

49. That's right...he sleeps with a wingnut every night!

[donco6]

52. .

:scared:

[treestar]

38. And helping the Republicans by insisting on it

This is the Republicans' way of insulting people. They are just helping the Republicans.

And I would nor wonder if Hillary does not appreciate that comment!

[ampad]

39. I would think that Hillary would find it just as insulting

Why would she want to be put in the middle of this crap? I think that as hard as she fought in the primaries that she is looking to run for president one day. I think that it is fair to say that she is above this childish nonsense. At least I am willing to believe that she is.

[Name removed]

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[La Lioness Priyanka]

51. Lol

[polmaven]

63. You said it!

Why is it that we all are expected to have male body parts in order to be strong? I'd like to see what some of them would say if someone said that male politicians needed to "grow a uterus", or, for that matter, a womb. Let's see any of them go through 9 months of pregnancy and childbirth.

[Autumn]

27. LOL This is a three boxes of popcorn post

:popcorn: :popcorn: :popcorn: Yummy buttery popcorn. How funny is this.:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Whisp]

28. gollum

http://www.motifake.com/motivational/78597

[craigmatic]

29. If this was 2008 I'd be pissed but with the way he's been acting lately I kind of agree.

[impik]

30. Another racist

No surprise there.

[truebrit71]

65. Wait? Whaaaah? How'd you get to 'racist' from that comment?

He's talking about how ball-less Obama is, a not unfair observation IMHO...but 'racist'??? :wtf:

[TwilightGardener]

68. Most grown men do not attack the manhood of other grown men

unless there is a great deal of animosity there. It is a HUGE insult, and a gesture of extreme disrespect and contempt that can't be walked back. Now, add this level of insult and disrespect to the fact that Carville is talking about a Democratic President--a position that one would hope would command at least a BASELINE level of respect from another fellow Democrat, no matter what policy and style differences might exist. Carville's goal is to belittle and diminish the man on a very personal/gut level--why does he feel he can do this and get away with it? Why does he feel it's a "mild" comment? What in God's name is MILD about insisting that our male Democratic President has less balls than a woman? I attribute Carville's obvious and appalling disrespect to the fact that Obama is black, and therefore not quite fully a man to begin with--and Obama's personality and governing style just gives him the excuse to mouth off. I really, really have a hard time imagining him saying this about a white male President.

[Dreamer Tatum]

70. Either you're not a man or you don't hang around many.

Want me to list the names men call each other? They're ALL about attacking manhood.

And your racism claim is despicable.

[TwilightGardener]

73. I'm not a man. I'm married to one. And if another guy walked up to him

and said he had less balls than a woman, I'm pretty sure my husband would want to knock the guy's teeth down his throat. He certainly wouldn't want anything to do with that shmuck ever again. Carville isn't close with Obama. He's not just joking around with a good friend here, where such ribbing is expected. AND he's a media and political figure, not some anonymous doofus on a message board where one might expect such insults. He is very literally and publicly attacking Obama's manhood, and seems to feel it's "mild"--I don't think he'd try this with a white President. I think that's despicable, and yep, I think there's a racial component to it.

[Dreamer Tatum]

74. You have no basis to assume racism, sorry.

And Obama needs to thicken his skin just a little. What's he going to do if he gets a Dem rival for 2012, after all? You think they won't provide some rather pointed critique of him then?

[Ter]

75. Yeah, throwing the race-card out is ridiculous

My friends say to each other all the time "so and so has no balls" and most are whiter than my ass when I don't go tanning.

[TwilightGardener]

76. I call it as I see it.

[Beacool]

78. Didn't you know?

That's the preferred word used against anyone who criticizes Obama. Few things are worse in this country than being labeled a racist. Want to discomfit an opponent? Then call them a racist, most people have a tough time reacting to that accusation.

;(

[RetroLounge]

81. Racist?

:rofl:

RL

[krawhitham]

31. delete

[jpgray]

32. This is unhelpful on so many levels my brain just exploded.

First, equate toughness with masculinity. Then emasculate your party's president by painting his female colleague as some kind of three-balled mutant. Finally, stir up buried internecine strife.

Just wow. I have criticism for Obama aplenty, but this is pretty useless.

[Zoeisright]

37. Aren't you talking about yourself and Mary, Carville?

What a buffoon.

[era veteran]

44. Carville turned over his on his wedding night

[Raine1967]

48. Sexist.

Just as sexist as the GOP women with the *man up* meme.


It's wrong. It's sexist politics and I detest it. What he said demeans people. It demeans Hillary as a woman, implying that she needs *balls* to be strong and it demeans Obama by saying that he needs more balls.

A good leader is NOT about balls, testosterone or anything a man considers *Manly*. Shame on him.

[Beacool]

50. He already said it during the primaries.

Besides, he's hardly the only one saying it. The difference is that the others are coating it with a thin veneer of gentility.

:shrug:

[dsc]

53. It is hard not to be amazed by the level of utter hypocrisy that can be seen at this site

It was, by well over half of posters, considered absolutely fine, when Michael Moore used his sexist and homophobic pink tutu analogy to criticise Obama, but let Carville use this sexist analogy and everyone jumps right in calling him every name in the book. To be clear, I agree, Carville was dead wrong here and sexist to boot, but no more wrong, or sexist, than Moore.

[MrMickeysMom]

54. Why didn't he just say...

"I offered him one of my wife's balls, but then that would leave me with none!"

[ClarkUSA]

55. lol! Once a bitter sore loser PUMA, always a bitter sore loser PUMA.

And the Clintons don't seem to mind at all. If they did, Carville would either shut up or apologize.

First Mark Penn suggested President Obama should resign in a WaPo op-ed and now this.

That's two uber-Clintonians who are super close to Bill Clinton talking trash about President Obama in the same week.

Coincidence? I think not. It's obvious to me who's directing this garbage and why.

[ibegurpard]

57. yeah, as if Hillary would have been any less of a disaster

supported Obama because I expected Clinton v 2.0 from her...got it from Obama anyway.

[JVS]

58. He said that during the primaries too.

[BeyondGeography]

59. That reminds me

It was fun to kick your ass, James. So enjoyable.

:hi:

[Vinca]

61. Wonder if Mary let him take his to the breakfast.

[Mass]

62. Sexist comment! Not surprising for Carville, but he is a fucking idiot.\nt

[Township75]

67. WHAO! That is funny.

Not saying I agree with it, but I did laugh hard at it.

[Skittles]

69. true

sexist as all fuck, but true

[rocktivity]

71. TRANSLATION: "I haven't gotten any of those fat Dem strategist consulting fees

since 2006."

:headbang:
rocktivity

[great white snark]

72. I guess questioning his manhood isn't just a RW meme.

Ugly, sexist and very demeaning to the President and S.O.S.

[yellowcanine]

77. James Carville is an annoying toad. He is in no position to give advice to Obama.

[mkultra]

80. and again, irrelevance cries out from the darkness of obscurity.

[mtnsnake]

82. Any chance James Carville started those silly rumors about Lady Gaga? nt

[Awsi Dooger]

84. It doesn't matter how he put it

The theme is out there, and growing, and re-election won't happen unless it's gone

[DemocraticPilgrim]

86. It's the carvilles that stayed at home, but he should realize that swapping the captain midstream...

would look chaotic, his actions of late really have been chaotic. It's Obama or the highway and the highways to hell. Carville has to get with the program and recognize reality, none of this helps Hillary in any way supporting the President does.

[LittleBlue]

87. LMAO

Sadly this is not far off the mark.