{"id":4427,"date":"2008-01-16T09:51:44","date_gmt":"2008-01-16T09:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/01\/bill-clinton-paints-obama-as-t.html"},"modified":"2008-01-16T09:51:44","modified_gmt":"2008-01-16T09:51:44","slug":"bill-clinton-paints-obama-as-t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/01\/bill-clinton-paints-obama-as-t.html","title":{"rendered":"Bill Clinton paints Obama as the “establishment” candidate"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know, Bill Clinton really is the first pomo president because he is so good at deconstructing words to fit his narrative. Words like “establishment” that should apply to Hillary are now divorced of their meaning and applied to Obama<\/a>. My question is, did the audience laugh when he said it?<\/p>\n

Bill Clinton, who carried Nevada in two general elections, urged voters Tuesday to buck labor endorsements for Sen. Barack Obama and support his wife in Saturday’s hotly contested presidential caucuses as the only Democratic candidate with the experience necessary to change the country.
\nThe former president trumpeted New York Sen. Hillary Clinton’s accomplishments while painting Obama as the “establishment” candidate<\/strong> who would bring only the “feeling of change.”
\n“One candidate says you should vote for me because I’ve not been involved at all in the struggles of the past and therefore we need to turn over a new leaf and (try) something absolutely new. And if you want the feeling of change, then that is the person you should support,” Clinton said in a 75-minute speech to about 300 people in a YMCA gymnasium.
\n[…]
\nBill Clinton said he talked with many of the 60,000-member Culinary Union’s rank-and-file who intend to ignore the endorsement and vote for his wife.
\n“In this case the establishment organization is with him and the insurgents are with her,” Clinton said in his speech. He then asked for a show of hands from about 50 precinct captains in the audience and challenged them to stand up to the union’s leadership.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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You know, Bill Clinton really is the first pomo president because he is so good at deconstructing words to fit his narrative. Words like “establishment” that should apply to Hillary are now divorced of their meaning and applied to Obama. My question is, did the audience laugh when he said it? 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