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I’ve seen links to this video here and there for a few days, but I avoided this video.

I was wrong. You need to see it.

He’s still an asshole:

For the first time, Bush revealed a personal way in which he has tried to acknowledge the sacrifice of soldiers and their families.

“I don’t want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf,” he said. “I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them. And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong signal.”

Bush said he made that decision after the August 2003 bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad, which killed Sergio Vieira de Mello, the top U.N. official in Iraq and the organization’s high commissioner for human rights.

“I remember when de Mello, who was at the U.N., got killed in Baghdad as a result of these murderers taking this good man’s life,” he said. “I was playing golf — I think I was in central Texas — and they pulled me off the golf course and I said, ‘It’s just not worth it anymore to do.’”

George, the problem isn’t that you like to play golf. Play all the golf you want. But just make sure that when veterans return from your war, they are well taken care of and have every opportunity available to them.

tomorrow night in a town-hall meeting in Avon, IN, for the sake of family unity.

I don’t want to go, but I have to to play nice in my Democratic family.

Any suggestions on what I should ask him to make his face turn red and shake his finger at me?

May 1, 2003, Bush stuffed his crotch to land on an aircraft carrier to tell us the war in Iraq was over.

Torture is OK if the tortured person is not being punished for his deeds and it’s fine if he is being used to gain information. But torture is not OK for a prisoner who has been convicted of a crime.

Did I get that right?

Oh, and if you don’t like the Bush v Gore decision, get over it!

I’m not over Bush v Gore as its consequences are still with us, but courts have been told not to use the Bush v Gore decision as a precedent for anything.

Have you gotten over it?

Er, well, he was:

“I’m going outside the primary window,” [Michigan Sen. Carl Levin] told me definitively.

“If I allow you to do that, the whole system collapses,” I said. “We will have chaos. I let you make your case to the DNC, and we voted unanimously and you lost.”

Snip.

“You won’t deny us seats at the convention,” he said.

“Carl, take it to the bank,” I said. “They will not get a credential. The closest they’ll get to Boston will be watching it on television. I will not let you break this entire nominating process for one state. The rules are the rules. If you want to call my bluff, Carl, you go ahead and do it.”

The situation was different in 2004. Hillary wasn’t running and hadn’t won an unopposed primary in that state yet.

Even when McAuliffe was the DNC Chair, I thought he represented every thing that was wrong about the Democratic party

He still does.

Clinton’s words:

“I think it would be a great thing if we had an election year where you had two people who loved this country and were devoted to the interest of this country and people could actually ask themselves who is right on these issues, instead of all this other stuff that always seems to intrude itself on our politics.”

So Obama doesn’t love this country?

Way to inject a right-wing narrative  into the DEMOCRATIC campaign.

There.

I said it and I’ll say it again.

Bill Clinton is an asshole.

From Canada.com

The feuding escalated Wednesday. Dick Harpootlian, an Obama supporter and former chairman of the Democratic party in South Carolina, likened the Clinton campaign’s tactics to those of Lee Atwater, the former Republican strategist who was accused of race-baiting in the 1988 presidential race between George H.W. Bush and Democrat Michael Dukakis, a former Massachusetts governor.

Atwater was responsible for the infamous “Willie Horton” ads that linked Dukakis to the release of a convicted rapist who committed murder after being let out of jail.

The comparison infuriated Bill Clinton, who lashed out at reporters Wednesday following an otherwise genial town hall meeting in Charleston.

“This is crazy. This rhetoric is getting a little carried away here,” the former president said.

“She did not play the race card, but (Obama’s campaign) did. They are feeding you this, because they know this is what you want to cover. This is what you live for … Shame on you. Shame on you.”

OK, Bill, wag your finger at us for accusing your wife of playing the race card and then turn it around on Obama.

But the facts about the race card used by the Hillary campaign are these:

Billy Shaheen:

“It’ll be, ‘When was the last time? Did you ever give drugs to anyone? Did you sell them to anyone?”’ said Shaheen, whose wife, Jeanne, is the state’s former governor and is running for the U.S. Senate next year.

“There are so many openings for Republican dirty tricks. It’s hard to overcome,” Shaheen said.

Yes, the problem will be Republicans implying that Obama was a drug dealer. The Clinton campaign would never reduce itself to that level.

Bob Kerrey likes:

“the fact that his name is Barack Hussein Obama, and that his father was a Muslim and that his paternal grandmother is a Muslim.”

Later, in explaining his remarks, Kerrey threw another jab by saying he wasn’t troubled by the fact that Obama “spent a little bit of time in a secular madrassa.”

Ah, Mr. Kerrey likes that Obama’s middle name is Hussein. I’m sure he loves how that will help his candidate.

Oh, and Obama spent a little time in a secular madrassa? You mean a secular school? Like the secular school that you attended as a child, Mr. Kerrey? Why use the word madrassa unless you are trying to plant doubt about Obama?”

Or BET Founder and Hillary supporter Bob Johnson’s remarks:

“To me, as an African American, I am frankly insulted the Obama campaign would imply that we are so stupid that we would think Hillary and Bill Clinton, who have been deeply and emotionally involved in black issues — when Barack Obama was doing something in the neighborhood; I won’t say what he was doing, but he said it in his book — when they have been involved.”

Plausible denial on Johnson’s part. How could anyone ever even think that Johnson was using the Clintonian tactic of race-baiting when Johnson was just simply speaking of Obama’s past as a community organizer when he (Obama) was “doing something in the neighborhood.”

But to get back to the original point, Bill Clinton is an asshole. His wife’s campaign has used race-baiting Lee Atwater tactics to try to destroy Obama. And then Bill accuses Obama of playing the race card.

I shake my finger as I say: Shame on you, Bill Clinton. Shame on you.