By GottaLaff
This video is from MSNBC's Morning Joe, broadcast May 27, 2008.
To quote Rodney Dangerfield, he don't get no respect:
Although spokespeople for the Clinton campaign have been saying repeatedly that Barack Obama has to show respect for Hillary Clinton to win the votes of her supporters next fall, MSNBC analyst Chuck Todd believes it is Clinton who has to reach out to Obama supporters if she is to have any chance of a presidential run four or eight years from now.About that: Why has it always been about how she's the one who "don't get no respect". Gentility hasn't exactly been the Hillary camp watchword when it comes to Obama.
"You almost wonder if ... she's going to regret having continued this campaign full-bore," stated Todd. "She is not making any friends with ObamaNation. ... If she ever wants to be president, she's going to have to make friends with ObamaNation"
And an Obama nation it will be if this is any indication.
"The Clinton people are not angry at Obama," Todd explained. "They're angry at other factors ... the media ... the DNC ... some people that ran her campaign. Obama voters are angry at the Clintons."
Wait, what? Clinton voters are not angry at Obama? Did I black out for the last few months?
Todd pointed to this weekend's flap over Clinton's remarks about Robert Kennedy, saying that even though "I think folks went over the top about it," it was an example of why she might have been better off suspending her campaign rather than trying to keep it going.
"Folks went over the top about it"? Which folks would those be, Chuck? The folks who don't appreciate candidates bringing up the assassination issue? Those folks? Yeah, suggesting that someone's death could swing the election her way wasn't over the top, only the response to it was.
"She has to figure how to reach out to this ObamaNation," concluded Todd, "because these folks -- whether it's rational or not -- have absolutely come to be very -- I don't want to say hate, that's a strong word ... to loathe lots of folks on the Clinton side, including Senator Clinton, including President Clinton. And she needs to figure out how to -- for her political future, if she ever want to run for president -- to win these folks back over."
She can start by admitting defeat ... and then apologizing-- genuinely this time -- for those, um, over the top assassination remarks.
Did I just go over the top by suggesting that?
Good.
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