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DNC Deal: Hillary Gets Roll Call, Obama May Speak

by Scott Ott for ScrappleFace · 34 Comments · · Print This Story Print This Story

(2008-08-16) — Sen. Hillary Clinton has reportedly granted Sen. Barack Obama’s request for a speaking role at the Democrat National Convention in Denver this month, after Sen. Obama supported her demand for a roll-call vote on her own nomination.

“We are very grateful to Hillary for this opportunity to address the convention,” said Sen. Obama. “Let’s be honest: We all know who wears the pants in this party, and the pant suits. She didn’t have to do this for me, but her willingness to grant me a significant role in Denver shows how committed she is to unifying the party behind a single leader.”

Supporters of Sen. Obama said his handling of this intra-party crisis demonstrates his strengths as commander in chief, noting that his secret to quickly resolving conflicts is to simply give the other party what they want.

“When a world power, Russia or Iran for example, causes trouble and makes unreasonable demands, President Obama will launch boldly into dialog and make sure the enemy gets what’s coming to them,” said one unnamed Obama aide. “In Obama’s America, we will lay down our weapons and take up the torch of conciliatory diplomacy. In addition to smoother international relations, we’ll also save a ton of money, because compared with weapons, talk is cheap.”


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34 responses so far ↓

  • 1 gafisher // Aug 16, 2008 at 8:17 am

    I understand he wants to address the Red-State - Blue State problem by removing those colors from the U.S. flag.

    God Bless America! — we need it!

  • 2 mig // Aug 16, 2008 at 8:36 am

    I bet he wants to replace them with yellow.

  • 3 mig // Aug 16, 2008 at 9:00 am

    Kahween Hill will allow the Dalibama to speak.
    She’sah so niceah.

  • 4 mig // Aug 16, 2008 at 9:10 am

    If you look at folks of color, even women, they’re more successful in the Democratic party than they are in the white, uh, excuse me, in the [laughs] Republican party.”
    Howard Dean, the Man of the Democrat Partiers : He ain’t no race baiter!

  • 5 Ms RightWing, Ink // Aug 16, 2008 at 9:23 am

    Scott

    You didn’t even give me time to conduct a bake sale. I will dig into the moth laden sock and see if there is a pence or two.

    Sorry I am a “poor” republican. No big oil or corporate greed here abouts.

    After I return from golf this morning I will go to market and sell my eggs.

    This is my first venture to the course in over a month. I am doing this with a bit of apprehension, but my legs have just got to get better.

    I would like to fly with you since I would like to get to Rollag, Mn, but that isn’t going to happen either.

  • 6 danimal // Aug 16, 2008 at 9:29 am

    The D&C convention will be entertaining. Ultimate Survivor.

  • 7 camojack // Aug 16, 2008 at 10:04 am

    So much for the circus; who’s bringing the bread? ;-)

  • 8 danimal // Aug 16, 2008 at 10:05 am

    At least it won’t be limited to the usual, nauseating manifest of Liberal Doctrine - the trading of my personal property and freedom for votes.

    We’ll have split screen coverage of that harpy attempting to steal the nomination in plain sight while the rabble riot in the streets.

  • 9 RedPepper // Aug 16, 2008 at 10:43 am

    “‘When a world power, Russia or Iran for example, causes trouble and makes unreasonable demands, President Obama will launch boldly into dialog and make sure the enemy gets what’s coming to them anything they want as long as they don’t hurt us,’ said one unnamed Obama aide. ‘In Obama’s America, we will lay down our weapons and take up the torch of conciliatory diplomacy slavish appeasement. In addition to smoother international relations enacting confiscatory taxes, we’ll also save print a ton of money, because compared with weapons the extortionary exactions of foreign barbarians, talk even a massive welfare state is cheap. Fortunately, we have enormous printing presses - a lot of them!’”

  • 10 upnorthlurkin // Aug 16, 2008 at 11:02 am

    …..shows how committed she is to unifying the party behind a single leader.”
    I saw that quote yesterday somewhere and immediately caught the carefully crafted double meaning if you will. Nowhere in the sentence does she say behind which single leader.

  • 11 upnorthlurkin // Aug 16, 2008 at 11:38 am

    Ms. Righty, take it a bit slowly now….do not over-do! (I’m trying to be your nagging li’l conscience..) :-)

  • 12 DrivebyMeteor // Aug 16, 2008 at 11:44 am

    “Obammunism: the hopiate of the asses.” — commenter at The Free Republic

  • 13 Mack // Aug 16, 2008 at 12:31 pm

    My wife’s grandpa is an old fashioned union Democrat. He was raised a union Democrat and usually just votes a strait Democrat ticket. He’s in and out of the voting booth an 10 seconds flat. But not this time. He is actually going to vote for McCain.

    Hillary was rude when he waited a long time to see her at some event and Obama is a Socialist. He knows this he tells me from one of the union people. So Hillary is already using her surrogates to sabotage Obama. That is how the Clintons operate.

    I loved the movie “The Clinton Chronicles.” Everyone should see it. But few seem to. Liberals claim it is a sham attack on Bill and Hillary, pity they quote verified facts and that people actually died making this film.

  • 14 Mack // Aug 16, 2008 at 12:35 pm

    My wife’s grandpa is an old fashioned union Democrat. He was raised a union Democrat and usually just votes a strait Democrat ticket. He’s in and out of the voting booth 10 seconds flat. But not this time. He is actually going to vote for McCain.

    Hillary was rude when he waited a long time to see her at some event and Obama is a Socialist. He knows this he tells me from one of the union people. So Hillary is already using her surrogates to sabotage Obama. That is how the Clintons operate.

    I loved the movie “The Clinton Chronicles.” Everyone should see it. But few seem to. Liberals claim it is a sham attack on Bill and Hillary, pity they quote verified facts and that people actually died making and distributing this film.

  • 15 mindknumbed kid // Aug 16, 2008 at 1:49 pm

    mig- I think you missed gafisher’s point, remove the blue and red from our frag and you get a flag to use when all you are willing to do is talk to your enemies…a white one
    That was a great post.

  • 16 mig // Aug 16, 2008 at 2:03 pm

    You are right, I did miss the point. I was just thinking yellow bellied chicken…

  • 17 mig // Aug 16, 2008 at 2:04 pm

    Yea I did miss the point…

  • 18 mig // Aug 16, 2008 at 2:05 pm

    Oh brother.

  • 19 JamesonLewis3rd // Aug 16, 2008 at 2:26 pm

    mig~~
    Don’t feel bad, I missed it, too.
    I was thinking that with their Kum Ba Yah socio-pathology, they’d mix the red and blue to make magenta.

  • 20 Mack // Aug 16, 2008 at 2:35 pm

    White flags. Hmm, I do wonder if they recall one of the old Confederate Battle flags was a complete white back ground with the stars and bars in the corner. I saw a replica of one shown in Time magazine at a Klan rally.

    Me thinks them people not be to smarts as them thinks they is.

  • 21 MajorDomo // Aug 16, 2008 at 4:48 pm

    Glory be! Queen Pelosi has just made a concession: We can drill-next to the wells we already have! Queenie must think we’re as big a fool as she is. Apparently this disease runs in the Democrat Party.

  • 22 BlackLion31U // Aug 16, 2008 at 5:53 pm

    Whoa!!!!Wait just a minute!

    Cmon’ Scott, what happened to the big trade you reported? Y,know, Farve to New York and Clinton to the GOP.

    I’ll have you know if this is true, that miss-reporting really makes me feel uncomfortable about your investigative journalistic integrity.

  • 23 RedPepper // Aug 16, 2008 at 6:05 pm

    Mack #19: Not as smart as they think? Mack, how can you say that !

    A pilot, Bill Gates, Al Gore Jr., a Catholic priest, and an Eagle scout are all in an airplane that is flying through a violent storm.

    Suddenly, the pilot comes running through the passenger cabin, screaming that lightning has hit the plane, and it will crash within minutes. “Take a parachute and jump! Save your selves!” he shouts, grabs a parachute from the pile in the corner, opens the emergency exit, and jumps out of the plane.

    Bill Gates runs over to the corner, looks at the pile, and gasps, “Oh no! There are only three parachutes in this pile!”

    “I’m the greatest inventor that ever lived,” says Gates. “And the most charitable man in the world! I must save myself!” Bill Gates grabs one of the remaining parachutes and leaps from the plane.

    At this point, Al Gore, white-faced and covered in sweat, shouts “No! This can’t be happening! I invented the Internet! I made everyone pay attention to Global Warming! I’m a Nobel Prize winner! I’m the smartest man on the planet! I can’t die this way!” At this point, Gore grabs one of the cloth bundles in the corner, quickly straps it on his back, and hurls himself through the open exit door.

    At this point, the Catholic priest looks at the scout and says, “My son, I’ve already lived a long, satisfying life. You’re a young man with everything still before you. Take the last parachute and jump. I will go down with the plane.”

    The scout replies, “You don’t have to do that, Father. The smartest man on the planet just jumped out of the plane wearing my backpack.”

  • 24 Maggie // Aug 16, 2008 at 6:15 pm

    MKK and Mig re#14 and 15.

    Our flag would then be white with a picture of a sheep on it.

    Besides,doesn’t France use the yellow flag?

  • 25 everthink // Aug 16, 2008 at 6:19 pm

    Mack,

    I only have a few minutes before supper, and I want to watch Rick Warren’s Television Program tonight.

    But, when you say:

    “As far as Obama is concerned, much like Mien Kampf (sp) Hitler told us what he intended to do and Obama is not shy about it either.”

    I must ask have you ever read Mein Kampf? How about either of Senator Obama’s books?

    ET

  • 26 camojack // Aug 16, 2008 at 6:41 pm

    mindknumbed kid // Aug 16, 2008 at 1:49 pm
    mig- I think you missed gafisher’s point, remove the blue and red from our frag and you get a flag to use when all you are willing to do is talk to your enemies…a white one.

    That was indeed a good one…although getting rid of the blue and white might be accurate as well.

  • 27 JamesonLewis3rd // Aug 16, 2008 at 7:01 pm

    Note how the elitist Socialist Traitor will, rather than admit (or even consider) the Facts, attack the person who spoke them.

  • 28 everthink // Aug 17, 2008 at 1:33 am

    If you’re talking about me Squiggie, what attack? I just asked a question, but I didn’t ask you!

    Besides, I believe the question related to an opinion, not a “Fact”.

    ET

  • 29 mindknumbed kid // Aug 17, 2008 at 1:51 am

    Scott, I love the last two comments on Twitter!

  • 30 donaldrmay // Aug 17, 2008 at 2:31 am

    Great posting!

    I look forward to seeing you in St. Paul. I am a Texas Delegate who will bring West Texas Conservative values to the Convention.

    Please visit my “Mr. Conservative” blog for updates on election and other issues of political interest.
    http://blogs.lubbockonline.com/conservative/

    I was honored to be named Blogger of the Year for 2008 by Americans for Prosperity.

  • 31 mig // Aug 17, 2008 at 9:22 am

    Does this mean wells that were once there , but not anymore? Like off of California?

  • 32 mindknumbed kid // Aug 17, 2008 at 10:53 am

    Hey,it’s the demoncrats. Priority will be given to drill near poorly producing, or non-producing wells. If we drill and actually decrease dependence on our enemy’s oil and bring down crude prices it would be bad for their “changed” America.

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