Octuplets: Dr Phil on The View: “Her contact with reality is fleeting at best”

March 4, 2009

Dr Phil was on The View chatting about Nadya Suleman.

Selected quotes:

She doesn’t have a right to have more children.

It was reckless to even have one more.

Do I trust this woman to handle 14 children and raise them with responsibility?

No, I do not.

But I think she could be taught. I think she could be trained.

Her contact with reality is fleeting at best.

Take the initiative and put this together or she’s not going to have the children.

She swears to me that she will never seek to get pregnant again.

It seems he must not have watched the radaronline video very closely. The possibility of getting pregnant again was still in both her and her mother’s minds.

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(1-30) Octuplets: Ethics of fertility treatment?
(1-30) Octuplets: What is really going on?
(2-9) Octuplets: Should not go home with that woman
(2-9) Octuplets: Octuplets: already filthy house unfit for children (pix)
(2-23) Octuplets: Mother vs grandmother caught on tape
(2-24) Octuplets: Cosmetic surgery, IVF, food stamps, disability, bankruptcy & foreclosure
(2-24) Octuplets: Mother before/after plastic surgery & Angelina Jolie (pix)
(2-25) Octuplets: Grandfather on Oprah daughter “not mentally complete”
(2-25) Octuplets: Hospital questioning her ability to care for children
(2-26) Octuplets: Video of inside the home
(2-26) Octuplets: Body language mother vs grandmother video (Part 1)
(2-26) Octuplets: Body language mother vs grandmother video (Part 2)
(2-27) Octuplets: Man claiming to be sperm donor
(2-27) Octuplets: Grandmother on The Early Show (Part 1)
(2-27) Octuplets: Grandmother on The Early Show (Part 2)
(2-27) Octuplets: Grandmother on The Early Show (Part 3)
(2-27) Octuplets: Grandmother’s first interview (Feb 9th)
(2-29) Octuplets: What about the other children?
(3-3) Octuplets: Gloria Allred & *Angels in Waiting* (CBS video)
(3-3) Octuplets: Gloria Allred & *Angels in Waiting* offer (press conference)
(3-2) Octuplets: *Angels in Waiting’s* free 24/7 care for all 14 REFUSED
(3-2) Octuplets: What is it going to take?
(3-3) Octuplets: Sen Hudgens (R-GA) “Octomom Bill”
(3-4) Octuplets: Dear LA Department of Children and Family Services: re Nadya Suleman
(3-5) Octuplets: 911 call “I’m gonna kill myself!”
(3-6) Octuplets: Gloria Allred, *Angels in Waiting*, Dr Phil & Nadya Suleman
(3-6) Octuplets: Dr Phil on The View: “Her contact with reality is fleeting at best"

Blagojevich on The View

january 26, 2009

Milorad hits The View. Best highlight - Joy Behar asks him to do his Nixon impression as in "I am not a crook!" and when he refuses she ruffles his hair. I wonder if she won a bet. I would like to know what the makeup people tried to talk him into. If nothing else - I'm sure someone would offer him a hair care endorsement. His "football" is a Paul Mitchell hairbrush.

PART 1

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Barbara Walters via satellite. She wants to know what's on the tapes because otherwise why is he wasting their time. He doesn't bite. She says she'd like him to come back fter the impeachment trial. She was downright nasty. She seems to have forgotten he has not been charged or indicted except in the court of public opinion about his profanity.

PART 2

firedoglake

Discuss Oprah as possible appointment, foul language - Whoopi said she could give him lessons - legal talk about his defense and then Joy wants to hear his Nixon impression and then she ruffles his hair. (7:28) The highlight of his entire media blitz.

Veteran's Day and the war continues...

Veteran's Day
The View
Joy Behar and Elisabeth Hasselback...again. Why do they gang up on her?

Video courtesy of speakmymind01
The election's over but the war continues. I've watched Behar on Leno and Larry King and her ignorance of barry is stunning. Made worse by her vehement support and defense of him. How much will she let pass before she attacks barry?

Quote to the day: "I think he's sexually attracted to me!"

October 26, 2008
Joy Behar was on Larry King discussing the election. She sure has made had a lot of press lately. Larry played a videotape from The View.

BEHAR: When he comes on the show, when he is backstage with us, he's a lot of fun. The John McCain that I'm seeing now is not the same guy that I see backstage. He's not!

HASSELBECK: He's a dignified figure in the Senate! Barack Obama is so far left.

BARBARA WALTERS: Elisabeth, do you ever, ever doubt anything about the Republicans? Do you ever doubt what you're saying -- what?

HASSELBECK: Sure. I've sat here and talked about Rush Limbaugh. I actually -- when Barack Obama gave his speech, and I've said this...

BEHAR: He's not a Republican.

BEHAR: He's a terrorist. Rush Limbaugh is a terrorist! You heard it here, ladies and gentlemen!

HASSELBECK: Barack Obama actually potentially could have had my vote after his speech at the DNC...

BEHAR: Oh, come on.
HASSELBECK: You don't believe me?
BEHAR: No, I don't.
HASSELBECK: Call me a liar then, Joy.
BEHAR: I don't think you're lying, I think you're delusional...
HASSELBECK: ... the first person to say -- I was not delusional!

Interesting. I wonder if Walters has ever doubted what barry's says. I bet she hasn't even looked at him with her once sharp professional journalist's eye. Now she's just in love. I remember her kissing the Dalai Lama not too long ago. He was amused. I wonder what goes on inside his mind. He has a permanent smile like devious child. Anyway Behar goes on about Palin, O'Reilly, McCain and PTSD.

BEHAR: Oh yes. I'd like to thank Sarah Palin for helping my career. And I'd like to thank Elisabeth Hasselbeck and all the Republicans that I can rub up against, you know. It helps a lot to have all of that fun and friction.

[Palin] has become a joke. let's tell the truth here, Larry. The woman is a joke. Look at Tina - you can see how hilarious she is. And all you have to do is quote the woman and reproduce what she says, and you've got a comedy bit.

So if they start to spotlight you and make fun of you, the comedians, that means that your campaign is a joke. That's why they can't do it to Obama so easily, because he's really not that funny. He's not a joke. There is nothing to make fun of with the guy. It's very hard.

This is called obamerism. The joke? All the obamerized masses, of which she is one, believe his every word. I find it very sad. Imagine what he will do to all the people who have put their hope in him? The world? And he ends up exposed a fraud? What are they going to do when the MSM can't hold back the truth anymore? Brian Williams and Tom Brokaw are a shame to the profession. They are as impartial as Behar and Walters except they are suposed to be real journalists...impartial and conveyers of the whole truth. They can't even begin to know who barry - nor do they care. Now she moves on to O'Reilly. See here for his appearance on The View.

BEHAR: I think O'Reilly is -- you know what, Larry? I think he's sexually attracted to me. That's all I have to say.

You know, I have to say something about this, seriously. Now I liked McCain. I always liked him. But before he was in the position of running, before he became the desperado that he is, he was a much more amiable guy. And you've got a glimpse of it on those Alfred Smith -- that Alfred Smith night. I thought he was very amiable that night and not so wacky, as he has been acting lately.

But has anybody asked -- now I'm a big girl -- a big therapy freak, OK? I believe in psychotherapy, the talking cure. This guy was in a -- in the Hanoi Hilton for five years. They broke his arms. They burnt him. They hurt him. Then he was in four or five plane crashes, I heard, too, right? Am I right about that?

KING: I think so, yes.

BEHAR: OK. He is -- he could be suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, that he is now...

KING: All this time later?

BEHAR: What? Yes. Because it could be triggered. If it hasn't been treated in the initial incident, it could be triggered. And the election is making it -- I think it's triggering it off, especially when you're so behind in the polls.

The guy is getting upset. He keeps saying the same things, "my friends," "my friends," "my friends," "my friends." What is wrong with him? Why does he keep saying that? And who are these friends anyway?

[What about Ladies and Gentleman? or barry's The American People?]

BEHAR: "Joe the Plumber," "my friends," "I'm a maverick," I mean, all of these like buzzwords. He just keeps, you know, saying the same thing over and over again. That could be PTSD.

KING: Who is going to win the election, Dr. Behar?

(LAUGHTER) BEHAR: Well, I think that Obama will win. I'm hoping that he will win. I think that we need it very much. And I will do what I can to help him, as you may have noticed.

I don't usually do this. I don't usually come out strongly for a candidate. But this time I just feel strongly about it. I was strong about Hillary, too. But then when she didn't make it, then I threw my weight behind him. And I think it would be great for the country.

I don't recall her vocality for Senator Clinton, do you? She certainly has had no problem ridiculing her to help barry. And most definitely has been all over Mr Bill for not supporting obama when obama never bothered to call him. "He was busy."

Hasselback finally gets to speak to a non-hostile crowd

October 26, 2008
Tampa, Florida

Elisabeth Hasselback got to speak without being personally attacked...for once. She is verbally assaulted every single day at her place of employment, not only by her co-hosts, the audience and production crew, but also by the show's creator and once well-respected journalist. And worse, to prove the utter classlessness of barry supporters, some of the guests snub her without having the 'decency' to make it look accidental. All the while Barbara Walters does nothing to stop it. The ones who snub Elisabeth are people who think that barry VOTED AGAINST Iraq or at least had a say. HE DIDN'T. And what he claims he said (there are no recordings of any sort) was, in typical obamanating fashion, not followed by action action.

Why do people think that is suddenly going to change at 12:01 on January 21, 2009? As Dr Phil is wont to say: the best predictor of future behavior is past behavior. barry's past behavior reveals not one instance where has he stood up and made an independent critical decision with consequences. If anyone can give me an example, please enlighten me, and I will retract my statements. I am not worried this will happen - it's an impossibility.

Hannity, FOX TV and Howard Stern interviewed people on the street and asked if they could describe anything barry had done. All they could come up with was CHANGE! And Stern's interviewees were asked if they were ok with barry's choice of Sarah Palin for VP. The answer? Yes.

What is the definition of work place harassment? Does it not include what the Viewbots are doing everyday to Elisabeth? They dismiss her, make her feel less than and stupid (aka blonde), call her names, sigh and make faces, vehemently challenge her personal views and ridicule barry's opponent, John McCain, and their fellow working mother, Governor Palin.

Who in the hell is Barbara Walters anymore? Where has the hard-hitting, objective journalist gone? She's an embarrassment to women everywhere. Her "entertainment" show has been reduced to cattiness and one-sided piling-on attacks on the youngest member of the group. (Hasselback 31, Shepherd 41, Goldberg 52, Behar 66, Walters 79)

Elisabeth has ONE vote. Is it worth destroying her - in public for all the entire world to see - for one vote? Just like the bots did to Joe the Plumber. I'm embarrassed watching these women. They're a pack of nasty-mouthed cougars circling the youngest member of the herd waiting to completely tear her apart. They've already sunk their teeth into her neck.

Forget Elisabeth's politics for a moment. Which member of the group has the courage to stand up for her beliefs without belittling her fellow cohosts? Where is Walters' integrity as the producer/originator of the show? As the senior member of the group and someone who understands the technique and personal restraint of interviewing and cohosting, she should understand what she is doing. She should be objective enough to see that the aggressiveness, which she is sanctioning, is reflecting poorly on her and her fellow jackals.

It must be, as Joy pointed out to O'Reilly, because the show has been getting a lot of press. Why bother with respect and kindness when their lack leads to increased fame, ratings and money.

Why doesn't Barbara care that one of her employees endures daily harassment by her coworkers? Coworkers who are supposedly her equals? Can you imagine this happening in another workplace?

It seems this went the way of a rant. Anyway. Elisabeth sounded off on the diversion from Biden's monumentally stupid (but honest and something he said during the debate) comment by discussing Palin's wardrobe.

HASSELBACK: "Instead of the issues, THEY are focused, fixated, on her wardrobe. Now with everything going on in the world it seems a little but odd. Let me tell you, this is deliberately sexist..I have a hard time not being sassy...I'm actually, personally, most impressed by her accessories - like the flag pin she wears in honor of her son and our military men and women fighting abroad. And they fight for our very right to be here today in her support. Now, they didn't list that accessory and it's value in their reports, did they? You know why? Because they know it's priceless!"

Palin initially said it was ridiculous but then launched into an explanation. I wonder if there is some truth to the democratic driven "I've heard from a person close to the campaign" story of Palin going rogue. She's a maverick, a hunter from a wilderness state and a beautiful woman who is being attacked about her appearance. What in the hell else would you expect?

PALIN: "Those clothes, they are not my property. Just like the lighting and the staging and everything else that the RNC purchased, I'm not taking them with me."

Then she mentioned her clothes from a consignment shop in Alaska, earrings from her Yupik Eskimo mother-in-law, her $35 wedding ring (that she bought herself) and her blue star mom pin she wears "in honor of my son who is fighting over in Iraq right now defending all of you."

And the final zinger: "Barack Obama and I, we both have spent quite some time on the basketball court, but where I come from, you have to win the game before you start cutting down the nets."

Read here for her running mate's comments on barry's premature inauguration speech.

Quote of the day: "He's a Communist!"

October 22, 2008
The View
Bill O'Reilly takes on the Viewbots. Elisabeth must have looked forward to work for once having some back up. It's only fair. (She's going to Florida to introduce Gov Palin this weekend.) I enjoyed the body language. Look how he is turned away from Sherri - clearly finding Joy to be his biggest threat. I forget how much space he takes up outside his words. I find it curious that Whoopi was "sick". A few snippets. Video courtesy of ExFilms.

O': "He's a Communist!" The crowd doesn't like it. Check out tabloidist Walters. "Lighten up! This is The View - this isn't 60 Minutes!" I don't think they realized he was putting them down.

BEHAR: "It's about name-calling today." And Elisabeth? "You know what a 'red flag' that is - Commie in this country."

O': "Did I offend?...He's a socialist, not a Communist...I'm not a partisan...You take it way too seriously. Your name is Joy, you should be joyful!"

WALTERS: "Can I go on about you instead of you picking on us?" Now she gets a glimpse of what Elisabeth feels everyday.

O' to Sherri: "I love you, by the way."

SHERRI: "I'm gonna get all emotional."

WALTERS: "Kiss of death."

BEHAR: "She's not on your side, Bill."

O': "I don't have a side."

BEHAR: "Yes, you do! You're on FOX TV- you have a side."

O': "I don't have a view" and he makes the cross sign with his fingers. And then BEHAR wants to know why Olbermann hates him and grabs his arm. He says "She's grabbing me!" and that"everyone hates me." BEHAR: "I don't hate you. I dislike you." O': "they're just jealous".

SHERRI: reads Obama's quote where he whines that he would be 2-3 points higher in the polls if it wasn't for FOX. She pronounces 'effete' as "EF-FE-TE". Yes, barry and you wouldn't be the nominee without MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, NY Times...."How do you feel abut that quote?"

O': "I think it's accurate."

SHERRI: "Why won't Sarah Palin come on your show."

O': "I want her to come in. I have outfits she can wear!"

Then O' on video goes postal on Barney Frank and they discuss it.

BEHAR: "I don't believe anything you say." O' asks Sherri if she's got the Kool-Aid for Joy and then tells Joy she's a "Kool-Aid drinker".

BEHAR: "You drank the Kool-Aid on George Bush for eight years!"

WALTERS: "He's (O') the same pussycat he has always been."

Then they show an altar boy type picture of O' on his book. BEHAR: "That's what the devil will look like when he comes."

They're discussing how he doesn't like "American Idol" and "Dancing with the Stars". WALTERS: "Yeah, but can't you have some entertainment?"

O': "Yeah and that's why we watch 'The View'!"

BEHAR: "We are in the NY Times on a regular basis these days. DO NOT minimize the effect of The View!"

BEHAR: "I shop at Kmart"

WALTERS: "Sarah Palin won't do this show either."

The Viewbots attack Hasselback...again

October 22, 2008 (Video)
The Viewbots at it again 4 on 1

Behar discussing the fact that obama went back on his promise to take public finance, which he had no intention of taking. He saw how much money was needed to beat Sen Clinton. He raised and used during the primaries.

BEHAR: I know how there is a lot of conversation about how Obama said he would take public financing and then he changed his mind and he isn't. Now they're all throwing this at him. So he has raised millions and millions.

Hasselback: $800M almost.

BEHAR: - $800M, which is what he needs to beat the Republican attack machine.

Hasselback (gets cut off)

BEHAR; He does, he does. And the fact that he is African American and he has a lot of obstacles to overcome.

[What obstacles? The fawning? The proObama media bias? The 800M? He used half of it to buy his coronation. The outspending his opponents 4:1? The staff of 2500 and 300 foreign advisors? White guilt? 99% of the black vote? Behar's rude mouth?]

BEHAR: He needs that money. So John McCain is now ticked off-his campaign's ticked off because 'he (obama) said he would take public financing.

Hasselback: It's about principle.

[And integrity and transparency and judgment and all that other crap he spouts.]

BEHAR; Really? So if McCain got the $700 million, (mockingly) would he give it back?

Hasselback: You know what? I think John McCain is a man of his word and a man of honor.

(Audience and Whoopi tsk and moan. Behar makes a two-year-old face and Sherri laughs.)

Hasselback: This is a man of honor. They looked at one another and agreed to do this. Senator Obama- I said this before - when he ran for senate, promised people to lower taxes. He did everything but that.

WHOOPI: Yes, that's right. (nods to camera)

Hasselback: He spent three--

BEHAR: A man of honor doesn't say "I agree 90% of the time with George Bush and now I don't agree with him." That is not a man of honor.

That is an enlightened man. Why else is he running for president? Behar has a sliver's grasp of fact - like most bots. They cannot promote obama alone - they center their argument on attacking his opponents and his opponent's supporters. They represent their man of judgment and integrity who is taking the high road. Behar talks about honor and daily attacks her cohost without knowledge of the facts. Obama has voted 98% of the time with his party. Where is the bipartisanism that McCain has proven?

I don't think I have to keep documenting The View's pro-Obama media bias. They make me angry. Elisabeth gave up and pointed to her "AMERICAIN" T-shirt. You go girl!

RANT of the day: "Kill him"

October 16, 2008
Third (and final) Debate

Barry mentions the alleged comments: "terrorist" & "kill him" in the debate but the chant of "kill him" had not been substantiated by anyone - including the Secret Service agents in attendance. But barry told the whole nation that it happened. Barry: "In which all the public reports indicated (aka nothing was confirmed) were shouting when my name came up things like: 'terrorist' and 'kill him'. How can you say that to 60 million people or whatever when it has not officially been vetted? It can never be unsaid. It's just a variation on the race card. barry's campaign can't get any scummier. For mentioning Ayers - a very real concern except to the probarry propaganda outlets - McCain was compared to George Wallace and Birmingham bomb of the church that killed four young girls. How more vile does it get? Even a man who served our country, without being drafted and held hostage for 5 years, can be called a racist. It's absolutely disgusting and beyond irresponsible.

October 11, 2008
Rep Lewis: "George Wallace never threw a bomb. He never fired a gun, but he created the climate and the conditions that encouraged vicious attacks against innocent Americans who were simply trying to exercise their constitutional rights. Because of this atmosphere of hate, four little girls were killed on Sunday morning when a church was bombed in Birmingham, Alabama."

Do y0u know that Condelezza Rice actually knew the girls?

And Joy Behar repeated the same thing on The View yesterday...that someone had yelled: "Kill him." and Gov Palin said nothing. What can she say if nothing was ever said? How many people watch The View? And what else would the media write? They're in a full court press to hide Ayers, Obama's fundraising, his birth certificate, ACORN, what the Mrs and Rev Jesse Jackson Sr said and who knows when Wright is going to bust free. Only Rezko is safe until after the election, though Blagojevich is getting in on the barry bashing...before he joins Ryan up in Oxford.

I can't wait till this election is over. It's a fraud. Imagine if barry loses? McCain can never "win" just like SHRC couldn't. It will be because the racists won't vote for barry. Anyone else tired of this crap? barry has yet to set the black community straight on "The Clintons". That's another rant...

The Viewbots attacks Hasselback...again

October 6, 2008
The View
Barbara Walters (79), Whoopi Goldberg (52), Sherri Shepherd (41), Hasselback (31)
All three gang up on Elisabeth Hasselback and Whoopi shows she doesn't even know anything about Ayers but rages at Elisabeth anyway. Barbara Walters has lost complete credibility as a journalist and she has no respect for her co-host. She went tabloid, exposing her relationship with a black senator decades ago. Wonder how much of the audience is turned off like Oprah's (54) audience. She's been awfully quiet since her ratings dropped.

Why does everyone feel the need to so angrily attack the non-mesmerized. That is what has turned me off the most about barry. The bots are vicious - even someone as old and (once) respected Walters.

Sexist quote of the day: "She's a bimbo."

September 30, 2008
The View
Bill Maher, noted misogynist who wants to have sex with a new woman everyday...and the women? Seems sex sells because he has to buy it. For the record: he is ugly - visually and everywhere else, including his views and words.

Bimbo: "an attractive but empty-headed young woman, esp. one perceived as a willing sex object." I didn't realize that was a synonym for governor.

Sexist quote of the day: 'They've nominated a complete bimbo."

September 30, 2008
The View
Bill Maher

MAHER: She must have thought it was a cooking segment....I've seen her twice try to speak. The sentence to nowhere. If Joe Biden had made some of the comments she said to Katie Couric, we'd think he had brain damage.

JOY BEHAR: Mentions that Bush was idiotic and Quayle was moronic.

MAHER: Republicans are so cynical. Three times in 20 yrs Bush Quayle and Palin they have nominated a complete bimbo.

Sexist quote of the day: "All she drinks is Haterade."

DOUBLE STANDARD #1009
Hasselback mentions at a GOP luncheon that Michelle had preconditions and specified which questions could not be asked. How many such interviews has Hillary Clinton been allowed to have? Hasselback: "She didn't come with a list of topics we weren't allowed to touch."
Why the uproar? It's true. And it wouldn't have taken weeks to come out and there wouldn't be outrage - there's be laughs and high fives.

Rolly-polly Martin: "Elizabeth gets her information from Sean "Little ball of Hate Hannity". All she drinks all day is haterade." Then he mentions Whoopi and Sherry about Cindy McCain. He puts it in racial terms. RACE RACE RACE RACE RACE RACE It's ok for them to talk about White American and all the "white racists" (when did racism become color coded?) and yet everything said about michelle/barry obama is race. Race is going to keep barry from winning? It's what got him the nomination.

rollypolly: "WE'RE not surprised about by it. THEIR political views have come out in the open" And Whoppi, Barbara, Sherry and Joy? Is there anyone on this planet who doesn't know who they want or how they gang up on Elisabeth? Rollypolly has absolutely no credibility. How far has anyone come when everything said about Michelle is racist. Ludicrous. And it's ok to call Hillary Clinton a whore, a cunt, a bitch and all sorts of other things and that's not sexism. This race is a joke with a glaring double standard and no one cares.

"Give her the dignity she didn't give Michelle Obama." DIGNITY? Did you hear what I heard? How much dignity has anyone treated Hillary Clinton with? Absolute madness.

"Demand that she make an apology." FOR WHAT? Speaking the truth about a woman who happens to be black or because she's a racist. How will there ever be equality if every remark is thought to be racist? What kind of person likes to be defined like? What kind of integrity does one have? She's white pink brown yellow or anything else and it's a simple comment of truth. If it was Hillary it would be she's a whiny old sow - with absolutely no apology. Race in this race has been ridiculous.

Quote of the day: "A coven of hysterical liberal women who need drool buckets"

Hypocritical outrage about the MSM attack on Governor Palin. Where were they during the primaries? Why just now the outrage? See this video of Republican women finally speaking out now that it's not Sen Clinton. It shows that sexism is conditional and the worst hypocrites are the women in the MSM like Mo Dowdy, Nanci Pelosi, Peg Noonan, Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg, Sherri Shepherd, Barbara Walters, Katie Couric, Meredith Vieira, Soledad O'Brien, Gloria Borger, Mika, Donna Brazile, who rants about racist treatment of obama and never once brought up the sexist treatment of Sen Clinton. It shows exactly who those women are. They go along with the boys so they aren't attacked. They are the weakest of all women.

Malkin: "I think that--I think it's very damning that a lot of the working women in the media moms are standing by, sitting by and in some cases facilitating these attacks on Sarah Palin that somehow she's not capable of holding down a job in political life at the same time taking care of her family."

Malkin: "It points to the hypocrisy of the media moms who have young children as young as Sarah Palin's are and have gotten to the top of their careers."

In regards to the different treatment of McCain vs Michell and Barack Obama on 'The View'. Malkin: "You have this coven of hysterical liberal women who need drool buckets when they're around Barack Obama." (3:20)

Video courtesy pundital

Quote of the day: "The Clinton women - they're tough"

March 28, 2008
Morning Joe discussion of Obama's appearance on The View and HRC's calling for Democrats to unite against McCain.

Video clip courtesy of Teamsugar. It shows Obama discussing Rev Wright.

WALTERS: Were he (wright) still there, would you then have left the church or have said I just can't have anything to do with him?

OBAMA: Had the reverend not retired, and had he not acknowledged that what he had said had deeply offended people and were inappropriate and mischaracterized what I believe is the greatness of this country, for all its flaws, then I wouldn't have felt comfortable staying there at the church.

GEIST: ...not one or two isolated incidents - there is a pattern there. Again he's answering the question the same way he's always answered it.

SCARBOROUGH: Andrea Mitchell came out with a report that the church bulletins were attacking Italians Americans and Jewish Americans. This wright guy did not seem to be a uniter. He was not a guy that preached hope and so there is a disconnect.

SCARBOROUGH:...he (wright) did a eulogy of somebody and even in the eulogy just went on this anti-American tirade again...Hillary Clinton, like Barack Obama, saying the Democratic Party needs to come together

GESIT: Yeah she went out on the stump yesterday and said look you can vote for me or you can vote for Obama -- I'd rather you vote for me - but you sure as hell can't vote for John McCain.

And then a clip of HRC stumping in Fayetteville, North Carolina telling people in no uncertain terms they have to vote Democrat. She was rocking. Check her out.

HRC: Please think through this decision. It is not a wise decision for yourself or your country. She laughs and crowd laughs and applauds. You know, Senator Obama has intense support, I have intense support and that's exciting because people want to be involved. But the differences, and there are, in my view, significant differences between Senator Obama and myself, but those differences pale in comparison to the differences between us and Senator McCain.

***
SCARBOROUGH: I think my girlfriend did very well yesterday. I like that tone.

GEIST to Savannah Guthrie: Yes. You missed this Savannah - he's got a new thing with Hillary Clinton. He's in love.

SCARBOROUGH: I've got a crush on Chelsea and Hillary - the Clinton women - they're tough. They are tough. Some people would be disturbed by it. I just - I like toughness. In a society where most men are wimps - here we have Hillary Clinton who's tough as nails. And it looks like Chelsea is too.

And barry? Limped home after winning 11-in-1-row and needed to be anointed the nominee.

Obama refuses to shake Sen Clinton's hand

(transferred over)
January 31, 2008

Obama refuses to shake Sen Clinton's hand at State of the Union Address and literally turns his back on her. A real man. Sen Kennedy showed what a man and politician he is - even if he didn't reach out to Sen Clinton first. Here's good old Charlie Gibson's voice when he was a staunch supporter of Obama. Really quite funny to go back and listen to people who weren't Obama fans and what they're saying now.



Sen Kennedy had just endorsed Obama on January 28, 2008 and Sen Clinton was the one who went over and shook Sen Kennedy's hand. Say what you will about Sen Clinton - that took some guts and showed what a professional politician she is. It's clear what type of politician/man Obama is from this. And Obama said he would sit down with rogue leaders and doesn't even have the courage or grace to shake his fellow senator's hand.

Video courtesy of AP


When questioned on his plane with no American flag,

Obama: I was he was turning away because Claire asked him a question.

Senator McCaskill, delirious and lost in rapture, said:

It was not a snub. I had a ringside seat. It was just one of those "accidents" that happens that was caught on film.

Then why did she call it an "accident". First she said nothing was wrong and then uses accident. She's not a very good liar...it was early in the campaign...I found Whoopi's take interesting. Wonder if she'd have the fortitude to say the same now.

Here's Whoopi's take.

I think he was wrong to turn away. If you are triumphant you don't have to stand on the person's throat. You can be a bigger person.

And Obama still hasn't shown any respect to Sen Clinton or her voters to which is why they aren't too pleased or excited to vote for him. What he doesn't realize is that none of them are actively campaigning for him either. I find it hard to believe he actually wants to get a democrat in the White House because he isn't doing everything he can go recruit voters - especially all 18 M Clinton voters who showed up to vote.

We'll see how much of the youth/black vote show up in November. No matter what - it's the women's vote that will decide this election and it will be Obama's fault - not Sen Clinton's - if they don't vote for him.

When is he going to get this?