Bill Richardson for Obama
Interesting...links
here and
here...gives Obama a boost at the end of this week after last week's pummeling. Actually, past of a good uptick from the speech on Monday and his subsequent speeches on Iraq Wednesday and Thursday.
Labels: 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Bill Richardson, Hillary Clinton
Thursday Quick Hits
- Some good Obama press...oh, and he's on Larry King Live tonite and was on some Philly sports talk station this morning that got everybody aflutter at the station...
- Two pieces (here, here) on the Obama race speech fall out...and an editorial cartoon which sums it all up...
- I was listening to this on Sean Hannity's radio program on the way home last night regarding that "Obama links to the black panthers" junk...here's Obama's response...and here something else about Rupert Murdoch, owner of Myspace, hosting Hezbollah and Hamas official myspace webpages. Hello, kettle? Why does FOX love terrorists?
- Obama on the Iraq War and how it sunks the economy in more ways than one (1, 2, 3)
- More on the defense of Obama from Huckabee...
- Oh, and with more digesting of Hill's FLOTUS daily calendar, she really overstated, OK, pretty much lied, about her not liking NAFTA the whole time, playing a big role in getting the Federal Family Leave Act passed, and lied about getting intel about China prior to her big 1995 speech there...that about raps er up again...
Labels: 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, China, economy, Fox News, Hillary Clinton, Iraq, Sean Hannity, USA
Hillary's FLOTUS records
We start to see some kernel of truth:
As jounalists actually so their job and absorb 13,000+ pages of mind-numbing detail, more will be revealed...seems as tho on 1st glance, her
"FLOTUS-as-senior go get-er with all this experience" line of attack is overstating her resume.
Labels: 2008 Elections, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton
Friday Quick Hits
Labels: 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, effluvia, energy policy, engineering, ethanol, global warming, green, Hillary Clinton, Jewish, science
Thursday Quick Hits
One post v. many today...just because...
* Great post by
Kos on Clinton's strategy of turning Obama into just another black man and discredit the caucus system. Could not agree more.
* A
great great post on the Burnt Orange Report about stopping with the stupid in what is supposed to be a humerous editorial, but really eviscerates the stupid Hillary talking points strategy in yet another way...one key point is that McCain won CA and NY, so does that mean Hillary and McCain will BOTH win them in a general election fight? Come on, end the stupid, Hills.
* AMERICABlog post on
Ferraro leaving the Hillary campaign now that she's done the dirty work - and we know that she's been race-baiting for several seeks now (see the
Olbermann Special Comment). Speaking of comment,
a comment on the Comment here...and how
Howard Ickes tells a group of supporters that she can only win thorugh SuperDelegates...
* Some
Mark Penn YouTube moment of him doing something Ferraro-ish...
* Two TPM posts about the ugly way that Clinton is slogging her way
through to losing the primaries by throwing all these
harsh bombs, including mailers about Obama's supposed support of Farrakhan because Farrrakhan came out in support of him...?
* A great
Robert Reich post about the coming recession and how it could spiral in to Depression and the coincident nature of our current situation to that of America in 1929-1932...
* the
Space Shuttle docks with the space station...
* Spitzer's , er,
ladyfriend, and Red Sox pitcher Clay Bucholz's
new special ladyfriend...
Labels: 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, baseball, Bill Clinton, computer, Democrats, effluvia, engineering, Hillary Clinton, Keith Olbermann, science, space
Olbermann Special Comment On Hillary/Ferraro
Labels: 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton
Somebody actually called Sinbad the comedian about this little Hillary trip to the Balkans with him, Cheryl Crow and Chelsea...interesting reaction.
Labels: 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton
Kitchen Sink Strategy Showing Dazzling Array of Rhetorical Contradictions
First, there's this bit from
Mark Penn about how Obama is too liberal (
never mind that this is an attack from a Democrat) and we're reminded in the piece that Mark Penn recently said that Obama wasn't a real Democrat since he gets support from independants and republicans...and a reminder that
Penn's company advises McCain, too...
Then, there's
Bill Clinton saying that Hillary/Obama would be a dream ticket. And of course,
Obama just today reminds us of
the hilarity of all of this attacking:
"I don't know how somebody who is in second place is offering the vice
presidency to someone who is first place," Obama said, drawing cheers and a
standing ovation from about 1,700 people in Columbus, Miss. Saying he wanted to be "absolutely clear," he added: "I don't want anybody here thinking that 'Somehow maybe I can get both'" by nominating Clinton as president and assuming he would be her running mate. "You have to make a choice in this election," he said. Obama aides said Clinton's recent hints that she might welcome him as her vice presidential candidate appeared meant to diminish him and to attract undecided voters in the remaining primary states by suggesting they can have a "dream ticket."
Obama had never suggested he might accept a second spot on the ticket. But until Monday he had not ridiculed the notion so directly, even if he did completely rule it out in Shermanesque terms.
He told the audience that it made no sense for Clinton to suggest he is not ready to be president and then hint that she might hand him the job that could make him president at a moment's notice.
"If I'm not ready, how is it you think I would be such a great vice president?" he said, as the crowd laughed and cheered loudly.
And the quote that was in Rawstory and not Yahoo! (dont know why):
"If I'm not ready, how is it that you think I would be such a great vice president. Do you understand that? ... They are trying to hoodwink you," he said. "You can't say he's not ready on day one, unless he'd be your vice president, then he's ready on day one."
That about raps' er up as far as the rhetorical mudslinging from Hills. She's now flung so much poo that we've come full circle. And dont forget about the tax return stuff - you can look up my previous post on that hypocritical turd.
Labels: 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton
He may have said on the Colbert Report that he was being neutral, but he sure sounds pretty disappointed with the way Hillary is acting these days.
Labels: 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Robert Reich
Two more ex-Clintonistas defect to the Obama side.
Labels: 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton
The few things I wish I still had cable for...
Labels: 2008 Elections, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton
Hillary Supporters Start Anti-Obama 527 Group [Update]
...
The American Leadership Project...I dunno...Hills, perhaps it just time to give it your all - in a positive fashion - and then call it a campaign instead of this swiftboat-lite
craptastical idea.
[update - here's the first commercial...]Labels: 2008 Elections, 527, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Swift Boat
[UPDATE Jan 28: Sometimes, even tho the Herald is a NewsCorp ragmag mouthpiece of the GOP, does have funny stuff. And, of course, they love to show blowups between Democrats...to wit, their cover from today, below and this second WaPo piece]
Bill Clinton's unfair attacks on Obama over the past week have really started to hit the national airwaves now; politically it cant help but help Obama, but the amount of consternation the Dem establishment is showing really shows the fear that they dont want to mess this up. The lib blogs are
starting to
be all afire over these zingers.
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Seems to sum it up, especially addressing the building meme out there that the Clintons took it too far with the negative attacks on Obama...some quotes:
He also has bragging rights about a new coalition of support. About as many South Carolina white men voted for Mr. Obama as for Mrs. Clinton, and about 70 percent of white voters said they would be satisfied if Mr. Obama won the Democratic nomination, according to exit polls was conducted by Edison/Mitofsky for the National Election Pool of television networks and the Associated Press.
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Last week, Clinton advisers believed Mr. Clinton was rattling Mr. Obama and drawing his focus away from his message of moving beyond the politics of the 1990’s and the Bush presidency. The results on Saturday indicated, instead, that voters were impressed with Mr. Obama’s mettle and agreed with him that the Clintons ran an excessively negative campaign here.
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South Carolina voters showed little taste for the Clintons’ political approach. They said in exit polls that their main concern was the economy; during an all-out campaign blitz on behalf of his wife here, Mr. Clinton spent the last week highlighting Mr. Obama’s record on Iraq and his recent statements about the transformational nature of Ronald Reagan’s presidency.Mrs. Clinton’s advisers were minimizing the importance of South Carolina even before polls closed, saying the primaries in Florida on Tuesday and in the swath of states on Feb. 5 were more important. But she will have to reckon with the rejection of her candidacy by black voters and the mixed support she received from white Democrats and younger voters here — two groups that she must have by her side in order to build a cross-section of support in the coming contests.
“The Clintons will now have to deal with a perception of hollowness about her strategy, that she is leaving it to her husband to take care of things and allowing him to overshadow her political message,” said Blease Graham, a professor of political science at the University of South Carolina.
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Labels: 2008 Elections, Barack Obama, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton
