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PUMA Alert: White House Reporter Asks Jay Carney ‘What About Hillary In 2012?’

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It’s been awhile since we’ve used the acronym P.U.M.A to describe intra-political fighting so here is a quick refresher: it stands for Party Unity My Ass, and was a phrase coined during the Democratic primary of 2008, born from the rivalry between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. It’s apropos today because of a question asked by World Net Daily’s White House Reporter Lester Kinsolving, who asked White House Press Secretary Jay Carney if the President is concerned about a Hillary run in 2012.

The best part of the clip below, is not the good-natured response by Carney — nor Kinsolving’s peers — who seem to both laugh and appreciaite the ballsiness of the question. No the best part is the look on Kinsolving’s face after he asks the question. As Mediaite’s own White House reporter Tommy Christopher points out, “whenever Les gets a good question in, I’m always reminded of the guy in Oceans 11 who makes it all the way out of the casino with his armful of chips.”

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  • Anonymous

    Now’s her time to get the nom. Barry is weak and getting weaker . Even Richard Trumka knows it and is pulling back .

  • Greg

    Les is a peach… The best thing about WND outside of their compelling product line.

  • Michelle

    Hey Colby,
    This article might have been an appropriate place to point out that a poll out today, show’s 1/4 dem’s want to dump Obama, don’t ya think?

    A new poll
    by CNN and ORC International finds that 27 percent of Democrats would
    like to see their party nominate a candidate other than Barack Obama for
    president in 2012.

  • Texan

    Even soros gave up on obama a long time ago.

  • Anonymous

    He kinda looks like Walter Mondale.

  • Anonymous

    Clinton/Sharpton 2012.  Resist We Much!

  • Anonymous

    No, Trumka is puffing up his chest as ALL Union folks do with Democrats before elections.  So sorry to disappoint you. 

  • James

    Hillary looks like Walter Mondale???????

  • Anonymous

    Walter Mondale ?

  • Anonymous

    That’s a lie. Soros said he and others will pick up where Obama can’t. Soros even clarified this.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    I love his smile at :32 seconds. That is hilarious.

  • Anonymous

    Keep fucking that chicken PUMASSES. I know it burns you that when Obama told Hillary that she would be working for him one day, HE WAS RIGHT!  LOL!!!

  • Anonymous

    Nah, Hillary is too old & out of shape. She would spend most of her time at Warm Springs, leaving Bubba to hang out at the ”private modeling” places around Ft. Benning. We have seen that movie already.

  • Texan

    SPIEGEL: President Barack Obama has been fiercely criticized for his
    handling of the economy. You were one of his biggest supporters in 2008.
    Are you happy with his economic policy?

    Soros: No, of course not.

  • Arkansas Steve

    Jay Carney is as weak as Obama.
    If I had his job, I would have humiliated the jerk who asked that question.

  • Texan

    Report: George Soros Throws President Obama Under the Bus to Progressive Donors

  • Texan

    “We have just lost this election, we need to draw a line,” he said,
    according to several Democratic sources. “And if this president can’t do
    what we need, it is time to start looking somewhere else.”

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FRWF47X23362JBBXPZMQMLYGVY Slap Blog

    It was a fair question… how is he a jerk for asking it? Would have preferred a pre-approved softball question?  

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FRWF47X23362JBBXPZMQMLYGVY Slap Blog

    No one of political significance will challenge Obama… Democrats wouldn’t dare do anything that would risk the minority vote they have been grooming and taking for granted for decades.

  • Anonymous

    (Beltway Confidential) — A new poll by CNN and ORC International finds that 27 percent of Democrats would like to see their party nominate a candidate other than Barack Obama for president in 2012.
    In response to the question, “Do you think the Democratic party should renominate Barack Obama as the party’s candidate for president in 2012, or do you think the Democratic party should nominate a different candidate for president in 2012?” — 72 percent said they wanted to see Obama renominated. But 27 percent, slightly more than one in every four, said they wanted to see Democrats nominate a different candidate. One percent had no opinion.
    The poll was taken August 24–25. In a survey taken in early August, 28 percent of Democrats said they wanted a different candidate. Polls taken in July and before showed Obama in a stronger position, with no more than 22 percent saying they preferred a different candidate. The current poll is based on interviews with 463 Democrats and has a margin of error of 4.5 percent.

    http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/one-four-democrats-wants-dump-obama

  • Anonymous

    (Beltway Confidential) — A new poll by CNN and ORC International finds that 27 percent of Democrats would like to see their party nominate a candidate other than Barack Obama for president in 2012.
    In response to the question, “Do you think the Democratic party should renominate Barack Obama as the party’s candidate for president in 2012, or do you think the Democratic party should nominate a different candidate for president in 2012?” — 72 percent said they wanted to see Obama renominated. But 27 percent, slightly more than one in every four, said they wanted to see Democrats nominate a different candidate. One percent had no opinion.
    The poll was taken August 24–25. In a survey taken in early August, 28 percent of Democrats said they wanted a different candidate. Polls taken in July and before showed Obama in a stronger position, with no more than 22 percent saying they preferred a different candidate. The current poll is based on interviews with 463 Democrats and has a margin of error of 4.5 percent.

    http://campaign2012.washingtonexaminer.com/blogs/beltway-confidential/one-four-democrats-wants-dump-obama

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TNIIHAE5G3O5HMBOZFAZZWK3YY aa

    “Barry is not focused on any election”….HAHA !!

  • ChiliPeppersFan

    i think the best idea was the one floating around last year ( it think) where hillary switch jobs with joe biden giving him a job that he would be he would be good at and would love because he spent so much time on the foreign relations committee and that would put hillary in a position to run for president in 2016.

  • david r

    Libs love to pat the woman’s head, congratulate her on the millions of cracks in the glass ceiling and congratulate themselves on their progressive thinking, but deep down they will not support a woman for president.

  • david r

    Oh, we’re laughing all right.  Gallows humor.

  • Anonymous

    Hillary-Palin.

    Epic.

  • Michelle

    You think the man that understands China’s forced abortion policy would make a good Sec of State?  The man that said Obama the the first clean, articulate, black candidate?  The man that said you can’t go to a Duncan Donuts without a slight Indian accent?    He has said one thing I agree with though.  About Obama and Hillary, he said:

    “The more people learn about them (Obama and Hillary) and how they handle the pressure, the more their support will evaporate.”

    That is the only smart thing he’s EVER said.

  • Lemonlimey

    Liberals would never vote for a woman as President.  

    The only reason they voted for Obama is their polls showed they would lose in 2008 unless they could double the number of blacks turning out to vote and the only way to do that was to have Obama on the ticket.

    Interesting how liberals still don’t admit the sad 39% approval rating still has blacks giving Obama a 95% approval rating based on skin color.  If blacks were being fair and impartial and not racist Obama’s approval rating would be at about 35%.

  • Joseph Bernard

    Calling you a moron would be an insult to morons.

  • Anonymous

    “The president is focused on growing the economy and creating jobs.”

    What a dipsh_t this Carney Barker is.

  • Anonymous

    Well I think thats great that you would want Hillary to be Palins VP, what a guy !!!

  • Anonymous

    Well pre-approved softball questions is all Obama gets at his “staged” events why should Carney be any different?

  • Anonymous

    So refute what he said

  • Anonymous

    the president is focused on getting re-elected and nothing else for the past two years

  • Joseph Bernard

    To start with, enough liberals voted for a woman that she almost won the nomination. So he starts out being a complete idiot, and that’s BEFORE the racist stuff. Screw him.

  • Whitj1966

    Blacks is the back bone of the Dem voting power. w/o Blacks there is no Dem party. The 39% are blacks it should be 45% if most blacks were not angry.  Blacks will vote for obama and if Hillary run against him blacks won’t vote at all. including me. Remember when the country gave up a clinton, we kept her husband poll numbers about 40% at all times. When dems talk smack about obama remember Wisconsin.  Watch what you wish for.  

  • Whitj1966

    Blacks is the back bone of the Dem voting power. w/o Blacks there is no Dem party. The 39% are blacks it should be 45% if most blacks were not angry.  Blacks will vote for obama and if Hillary run against him blacks won’t vote at all. including me. Remember when the country gave up a clinton, we kept her husband poll numbers about 40% at all times. When dems talk smack about obama remember Wisconsin.  Watch what you wish for.  

  • i420

    If they want to keep the White House in 2016, they need to go ahead and challenge Obama for the party nomination.

    If you ask me…it sends a powerful message that a party is willing to face facts and put forth the effort to correct it.

  • Anonymous

    It’s not racist, it is racial. The majority of blacks will vote for Obama no matter what. Even black Conservatives voted for him even though they voted straight Republican for everyone else. The black Conservatives will probably not vote for him again but all the other blacks will.

  • Anonymous

    Do you really think the Question was preapproved? Rubbish!

  • Joseph Bernard

    Thanks for the sweeping generalization.

  • http://thefunemployed.blogspot.com/ rance

    It will never happen.  I wish it would, but it won’t.  At the very least, I would like to see Hillary do an “I told you so” tour of the US.  She can borrow Palin’s bus.

  • Lemonlimey

    Only idiots vote for the party that has kept blacks in poverty for 50 years now.  Are you an idiot?

  • Darkchocolate

    Interesting how liberals still can’t admit Obama’s sad 39% approval rating is still after po blacks giving Obama a 95% approval rating based on skin color and nuttin else.  
    If blacks were being fair and impartial and not racist they would not be giving Obama approval ratings like 95% based on his skin color.  Obama’s approval rating would be at about 35% if da blacks were being honest with themselves.

  • Anonymous

    Hillary for VP and Biden to Sec. of State swap is best that Dems could do.  It would revitalize the Dems and give Hillary a boost for 2016.  Hillary/Warren 2016 ticket!!!!

  • Arkansas Steve

    It would have been a fair question to ask HILLARY.
    The question was “what would Hillary do?”  Hillary.
    Why should Obama, whom  I despise, be expected to answer a question about what Hillary might or night not do?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7QP2NEBTXKZWCWXIVJ42GVRMU4 RalphE

    (Sigh…)  You’re confusing President Obama with Dubya.  Obama has gone out of his way to allow genuine questions to be asked at his events, unlike the prior President.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7QP2NEBTXKZWCWXIVJ42GVRMU4 RalphE

    First of all, most African-Americans are Democrats, and the Democratic approval rating of the President is close to 80%.

    Secondly, why do you assume that whatever the non-black approval rating of the President is should be the standard of what’s appropriate?  Perhaps black voters are judging him more fairly than non-black voters… or do you think that black people are just supposed to mimic the views of non-blacks?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_7QP2NEBTXKZWCWXIVJ42GVRMU4 RalphE

    As I already pointed out, most African-Americans are Democrats, and Democratic approval of the President approaches 80%.

    Secondly, please work on your writing skills and learn to use proper English.

  • Anonymous

    “Obama has gone out of his way to allow genuine questions to be asked at his events” — I got that far and then I broke down in gales of laughter. Thanks. That was fun!

  • Anonymous

    As I’ve said before, I think this talk of Hillary taking on Obama will be increasing.
    I saw another poll that said 32% of Dems want to unload Obama. At this point in the campaign and considering the lousy economic forecasts, his re-election prospects are looking pretty dim.
    Anything Obama could do to increase his chances will make him look like he’s moving even further to the right and will infuriate his base.

  • TruDat

    Palin’s bus wouldn’t be wide enough for Clinton’s ass.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NNLDAGM3JVAXSOAPDFVZ4Z7AEE Anonymous

    I’ve often wondered at the very large gap between how Hillary Clinton is perceived and what kind of person she really is. It’s probably larger than any public figure. I think I get why now. Even some of her supporters clearly believe her to be power-mad and grasping, which is what it would take for her to fatally undermine the Democratic Party’s chances at the White House in a quixotic bid to unseat Obama, for whom she has worked faithfully for years. (No one has bothered to try to answer how she or any candidate would flip all those black voters who were decisive in the primary in 2008 and are key in any Democratic primary. But I digress.)

    Hillary Clinton is loyal and a team player — her record clearly bears that out (remember who she’s married to.) She is also a student of politics, unlike many of her supporters, and she knows what primary challenges due to presidential nominees: It kills them and virtually guarantees the other side wins. Talk of her running against Obama is just that: talk.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NNLDAGM3JVAXSOAPDFVZ4Z7AEE Anonymous

    Hillary is not a protest candidate, like Ron Paul. She’s a team player. Look up her resume. So, no, she won’t be going around on a bus trying to elect Romney or Perry.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NNLDAGM3JVAXSOAPDFVZ4Z7AEE Anonymous

    Studying election history would make your posts a little more informed. Primary challenges lead to defeat every time. It splits the party right in two at a critical juncture. Don’t take my word for it. Instead, READ.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NNLDAGM3JVAXSOAPDFVZ4Z7AEE Anonymous

    Every one-term president is focused on getting re-elected. Get your head out of the clouds.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NNLDAGM3JVAXSOAPDFVZ4Z7AEE Anonymous

    @RalphE: Good takedown.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NNLDAGM3JVAXSOAPDFVZ4Z7AEE Anonymous

    There are reasons you don’t have his job, and they don’t make you look favorable.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NNLDAGM3JVAXSOAPDFVZ4Z7AEE Anonymous

    Correct.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NNLDAGM3JVAXSOAPDFVZ4Z7AEE Anonymous

    She’s not running again. She campaigned her heart out in 2008, but it wasn’t in the cards. Hillary is not a dreamer, like her followers. She’s a pragmatist. She knows the country, already skeptical of a woman in power, will be even more skeptical of an aged woman.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NNLDAGM3JVAXSOAPDFVZ4Z7AEE Anonymous

    Not so sure about that. I think she’d have got the nom if not for the Obama wave.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_NNLDAGM3JVAXSOAPDFVZ4Z7AEE Anonymous

    The majority of blacks vote for the Democratic president no matter what: Usually 85 to 90 percent. So you’re suggesting that they should change their voting habits BECAUSE

  • i420

    I need read no more than I already am aware of. Which is irrelevant as you’d have me and others bothering with data from prior generations of voters, a previous century, as well as discount that we are now living in a much more connected society. You’d also have us ignore that, once settled and done, people would come together to defeat their common politcal foe.

    As well, to not correct the problem, to endure more status quo…well, that’s just flat cowardly. But don’t take my word for it, just read what happened when Bush had a second term.

  • caconservative

    The thought of having any of the Clinton’s around after Obimbo is fired in 2012 is a disgusting thought.

  • Anonymous

    Not to the level this one has been especially in the first two years of a term; now you know that admit it or not.

  • Anonymous

    You are kidding right ?

  • Anonymous

    No I dont think it was pre-approved thats why it was funny because it wasnt staged like typical Obama events

  • http://thefunemployed.blogspot.com/ rance

    I never said she would work to elect a Republican. I just would like to see her give a big, fat middle finger to the Democrats and tell them, “I told you so”.

  • Grayce

    Unless she reminds people of Golda Meir or a Christian coalition notes how the bible had older women in leadership, something about wisdom. Maybe we are ready to believe in elders again.

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