Hillary meets Barry on the Senate floor
Ice, ice, baby.
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Dem Presidential nominee, presumptive, Barack Obama and Hillary met on the Senate floor today, and CG Beyond the Dome blogger David Nather tells us about it.
Les us see, Ken Salazar moderated a "half hug" between the two. Each of them met separately with Michigan Senators Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow regarding what the DNC is gonna do with all that junk, all that junk inside their trunk. (Michigan Dems want give Hillary 69 delegates and Barry 59, just to get the delegation seated, but Hillary evidently said nyet last week. She wants the world and she wants it now!) They each met with Florida's lone Dem Senator, Bill Nelson, about the junk down there.
Don't ask me what the Dems are going to do. My analysis stops when the other side goes FUBAR.
As for the Massachusetts delegation, each candidate chatted with a different member thereof. Obama talked to JF Kerry, and Nather observes that Barry got a lecture from the Zen Master:
Obama also had a lengthy conversation with Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts, the 2004 Democratic presidential nominee and now one of Obama's supporters, in a scene that looked like a tutorial from a veteran presidential candidate to a student who is probably about to go through a general election himself.
Considering that Kerry was the worst major party Presidential candidate of any of our lifetimes, this must have been an hilarious site to see.
But below the fold, the word for which we've all been waiting. What happened when Hillary spoke to Obama supporter Senator Ted Kennedy? (Hint: He didn't buy her a drink.)
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When Hillary met Teddy:
Chilliest conversation of the day: Clinton's extended one-on-one conversation with Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, who recently dismissed Clinton's chances of becoming Obama's running mate with the observation that "if we had real leadership – as we do with Barack Obama – in the number-two spot as well, it'd be enormously helpful."
Kennedy did most of the talking. Clinton mostly stood there, looking stern and a bit hurt.
That's that.
Unity is powerful, right?
John McCain wasn't there to vote on cloture for a bill allowing first-responders to unionize. The Dems want to get that measure passed as a sop to the labor unions in return for the GOTV support and cash donations.
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- ...a tutorial from a veteran presidential candidate to a student who is probably about to go through a general election himself
Lemme see... I got the transcript of that around here somewhere... rustle rustle... oh yeah, here it is:
Senator Kerry: "...and no matter how friendly they act, do not allow those bastiges to put their walking hatchets, Carville and Begala, anywhere near your campaign. Don't even answer their phone calls. If Bill Clinton says he wants to help you, slam the door in his face. If she so much as calls to say 'hello,' clean your phone with bleach."
Drink Good Coffee. You can sleep when you're dead.
Buy her a drink?
I assumed he was offering her a ride home.
The whole episode is in relation to the girl that Kennedy killed when he drove off a bridge stinking drunk a few decades ago.
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Yeah. See, I thought you were implying that Sen. Kennedy was getting Sen. Clinton drunk in order to... umm.... not going to say it.
Excuse me while I got gouge out my mind's eye.
It's a far cry from his call for Massachusettsans to "Elect Bill Clinton, and re-elect him to the next nlahfliuhdfkja!"
By the way, what "leadership" of Obama's has Kennedy felt moved by, and followed? Inquiring minds want to know.