Local politician predicts low turnout for the primary

http://www.elnuevodia.com/diario/noticia /politica/noticias/vaticinan_poca_partic ipacion_en_primarias/409842

as far as I know.

Hey classy Obama and his team didn't touch it , they even defended her .

This is a classic Axelrode tactic.

Oh, my, the Obama campaign noticed that Hillary Clinton said something dumb and they issued a statement about it!

What will those people stoop to next?

this and I say it is time to move PAST THIS.

went on and on about Obama's bitter comments.  I just think that the Obama campaign was VERY RESTRAINT in Hillary's gaffe comparing to how the Hillary campaign reacted to Obama's gaffe with the bitter comments.

There is NO COMPARISON folks.

Hey, you left this out:

Friday might have been one of the worst days of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's political career. Her campaign, as everyone knows, was already struggling. But on Friday, she made a reference to Bobby Kennedy's assassination -- a terrible choice of phrase in a presidential campaign that features an African-American candidate.

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After a day like Friday, it is hard to imagine how she keeps going, not just with her campaign, but emotionally. Even if she wanted to let off steam, she can't, at least in public. She may have little heart for carrying her race forward, but she has committed many times to doing so, at least through June 3. She told her audiences in South Dakota that she and her husband and daughter would be back before the primary.

And it may have shattered any strategy for trying to win over superdelegates. The question is, did this episode alienate those who would have helped her to find a graceful way out.
http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/ 05/24/on-the-road-clintons-very-bad-day/ #more-5219

Axelrod is not the issue. What Hillary did was so sick, so demented, and so twisted, that anything Axelrod did in response pails in comaprison.  Honestly the reason Axelrod wants to drop the issue is because it's too ghoulish to touch with a ten foot pole. Hillary is in need of very serious professional help.

if he is so far ahead as they say, and he is the presumptive nominee as they say, how is this bringing Hillary's supporters to Obama's side in the name of party unity?

I watched that. Axelrod threw any movement towards the Obama camp by Clinton supporters out the window. It would appear that the man is a Mark Penn wannabee. How sad is that?

Wasn't it Clinton who said "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen .. Just speaking for myself, I'm very comfortable in the kitchen."

Wasn't the Clinton campaign the one pushing the "I am not bitter" buttons.

Axelrods response was tame compared to the rubbish that was spewed on bittergate and fingergate.

Not that this post will make any difference in your march to self-righteous indignation but why keep bringing up this crap when we have multiple posts asking that this issue die a natural death .... let it  go.

You aren't doing your candidate any favors.

It was a totally legitimate statement that you twisted into something it wasn't, and then shoved down everyone's throats via your surrogates in the media, including Keith Olbermann.

It was a totally legitimate statement that you twisted into something it wasn't, and then shoved down everyone's throats via your surrogates in the media, including Keith Olbermann.

So wait its ok for Hillary to play up the bitter comments and her supporters eat it up, but not ok for obamas people to send an email about this?

Half of this is media-generated. When the NY Post jumped all over the original quote and suggested that Clinton was hanging around in case Obama got assassinated, it sent the incident into a tizzy. But then millions of people - and yes, I mean millions - watched the video for themselves. Some were convinced that Hillary's reference was totally innocent. But most either felt it was a bit inappropriate though hardly worthy of the massive outrage, or felt it was, in fact, outrageous.

The reason so many people believe the worst intent here is because of a pre-existing frame of "Hillary will do ANYTHING to get elected." Without that reputation - deserved or not - nobody would jump to any onerous conclusions.  A LOT of Obama supporters loathe Hillary Clinton as a person and so they naturally concluded the worst here. I don't particularly like Hillary Clinton as a person either, but I believe she was merely using an emotionally resonant example of an extended primary (I argued in another diary that the example of 1968 was inappropriate altogether).

It's like Tuzla then. Soft Hillary supporters who never particularly liked her personally will interpret this nefariously. And it won't be just because the media jumped on it. It will be because they've seen the video and decided themselves that something's just wrong with the RFK reference.

... is a lying hypocrite.

On the very day he said that Clinton's statement was a harmless mistake and it was time to move on, his campaign sent around an email that fanned the flames even more, including Keith Olbermann's unhinged rant.

Same as with the Tuzla issue--at a debate he says it meant nothing, but then his campaign organized a conference call bashing Hillary about it.

His campaign wallows in the mud with the worst of them, and pretends to be above them. If he thinks we're going to be with him in November, he has another thing coming.

When Benazir Bhutto was assassinated at beginning of this campaign, David Axelrod accused Hillary of being at fault.  Before her body was even put into a casket, Axelrod made remarks that should have gotten him fired.

After Obama's universally panned clumsy remarks about Benazir Bhutto's death Axelrod started blaming Hillary Clinton for her assassination!

The whole Muslim and Arab worlds were in shock and horror.  Bhutto was the first and only woman leader, and now she was shot dead in the hospital.

This is Axelrod, he's stirred assassination pots since beginning of campaign.

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/anderson .cooper.360/blog/2007/12/did-hillary-cli nton-kill-benazir-bhutto.html

http://www.talkleft.com/story/2007/12/28 /121258/60

When your campaign accuses Hillary Clinton of causing the death of the Only female leader of the Arab and Muslim world when they are in shock from the event, when the casket has not even left the hospital, is it really that surprising that you would hope you could force her out like that too?

Axelrod accused Hillary of Causing Bhutto's death, and he never apologized.  He was not fired.  Hillary Clinton went on Meet the Press saying she fired anybody who got out of line and yet Axelrod was still there after accusing her of being responsible for Bhutto's death during the Muslim and Arab's world's darkest hours.  

Why did Axelrod never apologize, why did he never get fired?

This is the campaign that thinks we'll drop out before the Convention and get behind their candidate?

See you at the Convention.