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DEL.ICIO.USVivian Bishop: ‘I lost a delegate spot because they didn’t believe I supported Clinton’
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Sometime this week, the state Democratic party will release the list of delegates headed for the national convention in Denver this summer.
But already, we know the names of some of those defeated in a weekend round of voting. For instance, Vivian Creighton Bishop, wife of U.S. Rep. Sanford Bishop, was rejected as a Hillary Clinton delegate.
Her husband is co-chair of the Barack Obama campaign in Georgia.
The Albany Herald quotes Vivian Bishop as saying she lost because her fellow Clinton supporters doubted her sincerity, and because the Saturday selection convention in the 2nd Congressional District was abruptly moved from Columbus to Americus.
She can’t win, it seems. Earlier this year, the congressman’s wife said she was accosted because she wasn’t supporting the black fellow in the presidential primary.
Here’s what the Herald reported from the weekend vote:
“There were some comments from those in my opponent’s camp, that they didn’t believe I was truly a supporter,” she said.
In addition to media attention, her decision to support Clinton has garnered criticism from members of the black community and occasional harassment, she said.
“I think that’s silly, very immature and very misinformed. I certainly would not support (Obama) just because he’s black,” she said. “Just as I would not support Hillary Clinton because she’s a woman.
“I think it’s unfair for them to have to use that race card, like, ‘she’s not really for Hillary; she just wants to get there and support Barack.’ Hillary knows that and my husband knows that that is not true.”
Comments
By Tina
April 22, 2008 10:14 PM | Link to this
Barack Obama remains the strongest candidate to face John McCain. Here’s a good summary of some reasons to consider supporting Obama: http://acropolisreview.com/2008/04/top-reasons-to-give-barack-obama-your.html
Share the summary with friends in North Carolina and Indiana.
By JWK
April 22, 2008 11:01 PM | Link to this
Sounds like sour grapes Mrs. Bishop. It must be tough getting beat by a political nobody. Get a life…and how about showing up for work sometime? You are on the city payroll you know.
By Churchill
April 23, 2008 12:05 AM | Link to this
I love this. Hillary is going to try to steal this from Obama. Denver, here they come. I hope they both raise and spend a ton of money beating each other up. I hope they never stop this primary season.
Viva McCain
By Melissa
April 23, 2008 1:09 AM | Link to this
JWK, I don’t think that anyone on the Hillary campaign doubts Mrs. Bishop’s hardwork and sincerity for a minute. She ran against another Hillary supporter who travelled to Ohio and South Carolina to support Mrs. Clinton and campaign for her and she was able to get out a couple more votes to win the delegate selection.
The supporter who won also pledged to support Mrs. Bishop as an “at-large” candidate and never played the race card to get people to come vote for her.
By Will Jones
April 23, 2008 1:54 AM | Link to this
Pennsylvania is over half Roman Catholic and Roman Catholics voted over 2:1 for Hillary Clinton.
What percentage were cross-over Republicans (as Rome is the GOP base) trying to get Roman Catholic McCain an easier win, and how much did the Hillary/Rockefeller connection, that put her in the Senate from Rockefeller-owned New York, carry the day?
Nixon, who led the Knight of Malta-led CIA/Murder, Inc. assassination of John Kennedy on behalf of his mentor, Prescott Bus(c)h and Bus(c)h’s overlord, Vatican-banker Rockefeller, had as his political base, Orange County, California, whose majority Roman Catholic population, like Pennsylvania’s, obediently did the bidding of those serve the papal masters America’s Whig Founder identified as “the real Anti-Christ,” in his letter to Samuel Kerchival.
Rome, since Jefferson’s time, has murdered President Lincoln, financed the rise of Nazism and the Holocaust, killed Kennedy and King to send us as catspaw to Vietnam, and installed the present homosexual draft-dodger in the White House, to commit 9-11.
Shall Hillary be their next success?
By Bitter EX democrackkk
April 23, 2008 6:21 AM | Link to this
Vivian and all democrats…
STRIVE to be SMARTER than a democrat and you wont have to worry about such minutia.
Denver, have you braced for the RIOTS yet?
By SAR
April 23, 2008 8:55 AM | Link to this
The ol’ gal has some fight left in her, lots of fight. A double digit loss last night spells doom and gloom for Obama. Where are the fainters now? Where is Big O? Look at the demographics that Hillary hauled in, in monolithic numbers in PA. She took all but a hand full of the states blue collar votes, votes you must have to win. She won the white male votes, votes you must have to win. She has now won in 7 out of 8 of the biggest states. The states she is winning in are more of a cross section of how America will vote in the general election than the states Obama won in, his states will go overwhelmingly Republican in the general election. Obama cannot win without huge numbers of white male voters, no way…no how can he get this block vote now, his support there is quickly eroding. How naive of you all to think that some of his associations and words wouldn’t come back to haunt him. He will be toast in the general election; a Republican will mop the floor of what remains of Obama come November, simply put….he doesn’t have snowballs chance in hell come November. There’s some underground chatter that the Republicans are sitting on a keg of dynomite about Obama, info they don’t want leaked just yet. Why do you all think the Republicans are chomping at the bit to run against him and not her.
By Will Jones
April 23, 2008 9:40 AM | Link to this
Hillary won another Roman Catholic-majority state even though one-third of the Roman Catholics in Pennsylvania were American enough to vote the good fight against Rome’s Fifth Column, now being fronted by McCain and Clinton.
Billary gave us Nafta and Waco. Look at his unusual nose and match its topography to Winthrop Rockefeller’s to know how their wallet’s gotten so fat.
Obama sings the Song of America. Babylon shall fall in a day…let us, The People of the USA, make that day soon.
By Aphrodite
April 23, 2008 1:22 PM | Link to this
Bitter X, you are a sick prick. You are rooting for fellow Americans to commit violence against each other due to their political leanings, you need help, seek it before you go of the deep end like ‘swill.
By Churchill
April 23, 2008 1:38 PM | Link to this
Keep her in it so McCain will win it!!
By Rosey Palms
April 23, 2008 6:49 PM | Link to this
Gw talks to Jesus, he’s right, clearing brush clears the mind, he’s the decider and he’s born again all you catholics and jews are going to hell but i’ll be clearing bush with gw in heaven.
By Rarl Kove
April 23, 2008 7:13 PM | Link to this
Don’t blame Rosey Palms, she is bitter. She is clinging to her guns, god and poor grammar.
By Prince Von- Ahole
April 23, 2008 8:28 PM | Link to this
Daddy i was never good enough, you loved Jeb, I will prove my mite.
By xcaliber
April 23, 2008 9:02 PM | Link to this
the one who pulls larry craig out of a stall shall be the ruler of the throne.
By DDB
May 8, 2008 10:17 PM | Link to this
Mrs. Bishop has opened campaign offices in two major cities in Georgia, raised thousands of dollars, made thousands of phone calls, organized scores of group trips across the county to support Hillary Clinton. I never saw and still haven’t seen either of her opponents do anything except put a yard sign out! Mrs. Bishop is one of the most strongest, loyalist, dedicated, warriors I know! The blogger and very few others could walk an inch in her shoes! Maybe if you had a life, you wouldn’t be hating on Mrs. Bishop!
By DDB
May 8, 2008 10:34 PM | Link to this
JWK, If you had a life, you would not be hating on Mrs. Bishop! I didn’t see the winner in Ohio or SC. More importantly, what the heck did she do in GA. Mrs. Bishop opened two campaign offices in Columbus and a call center in Albany and the winner never came by to make one call. However mysterious it may have occured, the caucus was moved from Columbus only a few days before the event. A change that drastic should have garnered some media attention to alert the voters. Scores of voters went to Columbus, while the winner had a child-like tantrum everytime a Bishop supporter walked into the room. Mrs. Bishop is one of the most caring, supportive, loving, and dedicated woman I know. That is how she is able to balance her career, family, the duties of a congressional spouse and those dynamic initiatives she participate in just because she is Vivian!