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May 10, 2008

Coming soon at a theater near you: all the dirt the Republicans have been holding back on Obama until the neoliberals took the stronger competitor (Hillary Clinton) out of the way. Karl Rove's analysis, from No Quarter:...

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Powerful article on Corrente......

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When the Republicans begin swift boating Obama, the neoliberalist plot to remake the Democratic party in their image by using an unknown junior senator's race to draw support from Hillary Clinton will be revealed as the undoing of the Democratic party. Why go down that road? Show your support at HillaryClinton.com: Over a dozen members of Congress wrote to other Democrats touting their support for Hillary, saying she is the strongest candidate to have at the top of the ticket in the fall. The text of the letter is below. Dear Fellow Democrat, We are writing to you because of our shared belief in our Party’s principles and our commitment to ensuring that we have the strongest possible nominee to lead our ticket against John McCain and the Republicans in November. The decision about who to support to be our Party’s nominee is not one that any of us should...

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May 08, 2008

So the wealthy and elites commandeered the party, but apparently the plan stopped short at actually running against the Republican nominee. Or maybe it was their plan to just take charge of the party - they knew it would cost Democrats the White House, but didn't care. As for the stooges, there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth when those first 527 anti-Obama commercials hit the airwaves. A rude awakening, indeed - fantasies slashed and dashed. "Kitchen sink"? How about "cesspool". Just ask John Forbes Kerry, a virtual altar boy compared to Barack Hussein Obama. From Talk Left: This may come as a surprise to some people, but there will be an election in November. To read some blogs, you would think that Barack Obama's almost certain victory over Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nomination means Obama advances straight to the White House. In case they did not know,...

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May 07, 2008

Of course, the Democratic primary process has nothing to do with determining which candidate is the most electable. So I'm sure nobody cares that a lot of people will vote for McCain or stay home if Obama is the nominee. Hey, he took North Carolina, that's all that matters (that there is no way in hell a Democrat will ever take North Carolina in the general is insignificant to the DNC). From CNN: According to early exit polls, half of Clinton's supporters in Indiana would not vote for Obama in a general election matchup with Sen. John McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee. A third of Clinton voters said they would pick McCain over Obama, while 17 percent said they would not vote at all. Forty-eight percent of Clinton supporters said they would back Obama in November. Obama got even less support from Clinton backers in North Carolina, where [half...

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May 06, 2008

From Real Clear Politics: Tomorrow evening we will know the outcome of the Democratic primaries in two important states that could decide the political fates of Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. In Indiana, a primarily white state, we will know whether white voters, who are close to 75 percent of the population of the U.S., accept Senator Obama's explanation of why, after first stating, "I can no more disown him [Wright] than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can disown my white grandmother," he now rejects Wright after Wright's appearance before the NAACP and the National Press Club. Obama went on to explain: "The person [Wright] I saw yesterday was not the person that I met 20 years ago. His comments were not only divisive and destructive, but I believe that they end up giving comfort to those who prey on...

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May 04, 2008

I do not like thee, Doctor Fell, The reason why, I cannot tell; But this I know, and know full well, I do not like thee, Doctor Fell. ~ Mother Goose From Adolph Reed Jr. in The Progressive: Obama’s style of being all things to all people threatens to melt under the inescapable spotlight of a national campaign against a Republican. It’s like what brings on the downfall of really successful con artists: They get themselves onto a stage that’s so big that they can’t hide their contradictions anymore, and everyone finds out about the different stories they’ve told different people. And Obama’s belonging to Wright’s church in the first place was quite likely part of establishing a South Side bourgeois nationalist street cred because his political base was with Hyde Park/University of Chicago liberals and the foundation world. I’ve never been an Obama supporter. I’ve known him since the...

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From Andre Willis at The Root: It is important to remember that without his Christianity and his South Side service to black people—both directly due to guidance, commitment and expertise of Rev. Wright—Obama may never have been elected a senator, and would not be in position to be the next president. He trumpets his Christianity—which is indebted to prophetic black liberation theology where faith demands fighting for political justice—along the campaign trail and leverages it in order to connect with American voters. But Sen. Obama was not born into a Christian home. By his own admission he became a Christian because of Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Barack Obama is deeply indebted to Rev. Jeremiah Wright for two crucial elements of presidential campaign: The first is Obama's Christian faith and the second is his work with black Americans on the South Side of Chicago. On March, Obama claimed that the video clips...

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May 03, 2008

From Reuters: Robert Kennedy Jr. — a Kennedy who is not backing Sen. Barack Obama — campaigned on Thursday for Sen. Hillary Clinton, saying he wanted to explain why other members of his family are wrong and he is right. “I am here because I love this woman,” he told a crowd of Clinton supporters in southern Indiana, which holds its presidential nominating primary on Tuesday. “There are some members of my family who have decided to do the wrong thing and support Barack Obama,” he said. “Let me tell you why they’re wrong and I’m right, because I know Hillary Clinton better than they know Barrack Obama.” Kennedy’s uncle, Sen. Ted Kennedy, and cousin Caroline Kennedy, the daughter of slain U.S. President John F. Kennedy, have thrown their support behind Obama. But Robert Kennedy Jr., the son of Sen. Robert Kennedy who was assassinated while campaigning for the US...

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May 02, 2008

From the Montana Standard: ... It feels like this is a part of history we’re going to be lucky we saw,” said Mary Kelly, of Missoula. At 9:22 a.m. in the arena, a flash of stage lights elicited whoops and catcalls from the crowd. At 9:35 a.m., the energized early risers started the wave. “I just want to touch him,” said one. Just before 10 a.m., the crowd began chanting Obama’s can-do theme, and they chanted faster and faster. “Yes we can, yes we can, yes we can.” “Yes-we-can. Yes-we-can. Yes-we-can.” “Yeswecan.Yeswecan.Yeswecan.” After campaign organizers said thank yous and officials gave introductions, someone yanked the podium off the stage. Then Obama met his Montana fans “We love you!” and it was Mon-Bamania all around. Junell Gill, who is visiting family in Missoula, was a Clinton supporter until she heard Obama talk in person. “He was just very, very inspiring, and...

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April 30, 2008

Knows the issues inside and out, argues her points with dignity and grace, and always puts the American people front and center. Check her out on Taylor Marsh, and while you are there, click on the donate link - matching is in effect again today! And check out this poll from Fox News: Nearly half of Democrats (48 percent) think Hillary Clinton has a better chance of beating John McCain in November — 10 percentage points higher than the 38 percent who think Barack Obama can win, according to a FOX News poll released Wednesday. This represents a significant shift from March, when Democrats said Obama was the candidate more likely to beat McCain....

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April 29, 2008

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April 26, 2008

"The contrast between the Clinton economy and the Bush economy is the best free advertisement that Democrats have had since Herbert Hoover" - this is what I find most astonishing, and not wanting to be associated with such a bunch of fools - Obama and his supporters bash Bill Clinton. Not only dishonest, but stupid as the day is long. We want fools like this running the country? From Paul Krugman in the New York Times: From the beginning, I wondered what Mr. Obama’s soaring rhetoric, his talk of a new politics and declarations that “we are the ones we’ve been waiting for” (waiting for to do what, exactly?) would mean to families troubled by lagging wages, insecure jobs and fear of losing health coverage. The answer, from Ohio and Pennsylvania, seems pretty clear: not much. Mrs. Clinton has been able to stay in the race, against heavy odds, largely...

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From Heidi Li: Of primaries and presidential nominees 1. The end of winner-takes-all primaries: The 1968 Democratic Party Convention in Chicago was extremely contentious. George McGovern narrowly lost the nomination to Hubert Humphrey, who in turn, narrowly lost the general election to Richard Nixon. As a direct result, McGovern led a commission to change the Democratic National Party’s approach to allocating delegates elected in state contests. The Party adopted the McGovern commission recommendations, abandoned a winner takes all approach to the state contests, and permitted states to allocate delegates according to a variety of formulas, each chosen by state parties themselves. The McGovern commission claimed the change would ensure greater representation of diverse voices in the nomination process. A more cynical take: by implementing this change, McGovern helped to ensure his nomination as the party’s nominee in 1972. With McGovern as the 1972 nominee, the Democratic Party suffered a catastrophe....

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From No Quarter: Senator Obama and his surrogates, including MoveOn.org, are waging a public relations battle to pressure the DNC to refuse credentials to the Michigan and Florida delegations for the Democratic National Convention. Their message consists of misrepresentations and lies about the DNC rules concerning these states. Unfortunately most news outlets and commentators are repeating this misinformation without ever checking the Obama campaign’s claims for accuracy against the actual DNC rules. It is critical that every one of us combat this misinformation. There has been much discussion recently about the will of the voters. We can’t accurately determine which candidate has the greatest support amongst primary voters if we disregard the preference of 1.5 million voters in Florida while giving outsize weight to the 250,000 who caucused in Iowa, and even more outsize influence to the mere 20,000 people who participated in the Democrats Abroad contest. Senator Clinton won...

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April 24, 2008

"Jealousy is the great exaggerator." ~ Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller...

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I hate to link to this sexist, Obama love-fest excuse for a magazine, but the mathematician in me admires the way the author of the article analyzes demographics and trends. From John Judis at The New Republic: ...Even though he campaigned extensively among white working class Pennsylvanians, he still couldn't crack this constituency. He lost every white working class county in the state. He lost greater Pittsburgh area by 61 to 39 percent. He did poorly among Catholics--losing them 71 to 29 percent. A Democrat can't win Pennsylvania in the fall without these voters. And those who didn't vote in the primary but will vote in the general election are likely to be even less amenable to Obama. But Obama also lost ground among the upscale white professionals that had helped him win states like Wisconsin, Maryland, and Virginia. For instance, Obama won my own Montgomery County, Maryland by 55...

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April 23, 2008

After last night's decisive victory in Pennsylvania, more people have voted for Hillary than any other candidate, including Sen. Obama. Estimates vary slightly, but according to Real Clear Politics, Hillary has received 15,095,663 votes to Sen. Obama's 14,973,720, a margin of more than 120,000 votes. ABC News reported this morning that "Clinton has pulled ahead of Obama" in the popular vote. This count includes certified vote totals in Florida and Michigan....

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Just heard on MSNBC: Rachel Maddow: Democrats don't go negative. Pat Buchanan: Well they should. What in hell is wrong with the Democratic pundits - still no clue why only one Democrat has held the office of the presidency in 28 years? And that was no thanks to them, but due to his own political genius (Bill Clinton). Whatever happened to the tradition of give 'em hell, Harry Truman?...

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April 21, 2008

I'm not going to link to the rabid right wing sources, but google: Obama Lies - Quick Glance...

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Since the media won't say it, let's listen to a MyDD blogger: Clinton will have won every important state in the northeast, Florida, the entire southwest from Oklahoma to Nevada, the industrial Midwest and California. She has also won Tennessee and is favored heavily in Indiana, W.Va and Ky. Since when does the loser of all those states get the nomination? ...here are a few facts that should tell them, Obama's supporters and Obama himself that they are not in Kansas anymore. Obama's lead in the popular vote is, as of now, a day before the PA primary, 0.06%.That is 92,000 votes. That is going to be gone after Tuesday and Clinton will have taken the popular vote lead and in all liklihood will not give it up since she is favored to win 6 of 8 of the remaining primaries. So it will be Clinton who is going to...

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April 20, 2008

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Online activists on the far left, such as the Move On crowd, do not tend to vote Democratic consistently. For instance, they often will bail for a third party or stay at home instead of vote if their idealistic wish list does not seem like it will be met in the primary - such as in 2000, they were anti-Gore; in 2004, they were anti-Kerry. In fact, it's very clever of a candidate like Barack Obama to seem like he's going to accede to their wishes (seem being very much the operative word), but he also runs the risk of alienating the traditional base, which I believe we are seeing now. The traditional Democratic base, distrustful of Obama's sound and fury signifying nothing, has turned to Hillary Clinton. Democrats have always remarked upon how the radical religious right seems to bully the Republican party into meeting their extreme demands. Democrats...

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April 19, 2008

Ronald Reagan's biggest fan, Barack Obama, loves bashing Democrat Bill Clinton, the only Democrat who managed to get himself elected - twice - in 28 years, and who left office with a 68% approval rating. Apparently Bill's 8 years of peace and prosperity isn't good enough for the green freshman senator who has been running for president ever since he lucked into office, instead of learning the ropes. Bill Clinton has more skills and ability to get the job done in his little finger. From Paul Krugman: If I were a Democratic Party elder, I’d urge Mr. Obama to stop blurring the distinction between Clinton-era prosperity and Bush-era economic distress.Let’s hope that once Mr. Obama is no longer running against someone named Clinton, he’ll stop denigrating the very good economic record of the only Democratic administration most Americans remember. Will Barack Obama’s now famous “bitter” quote turn out to have...

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April 18, 2008

Massachusetts: Clinton 56 McCain 41 Obama 48 McCain 46 New Mexico: Clinton 46 McCain 49 Obama 44 McCain 50 Missouri: Clinton 47 McCain 46 Obama 42 McCain 50 New York: Clinton 55 McCain 39 Obama 52 McCain 43 Ohio: Clinton 53 McCain 42 Obama 45 McCain 47 Oregon: Clinton 47 McCain 46 Obama 51 McCain 42 Virginia: Clinton 39 McCain 55 Obama 44 McCain 52 Minnesota: Clinton 47 McCain 46 Obama 49 McCain 43 Wisconsin: Clinton 46 McCain 46 Obama 49 McCain 44 Kansas: Clinton 36 McCain 57 Obama 37 McCain 54 Alabama: Clinton 34 McCain 60 Obama 32 McCain 64 California: Clinton 53 McCain 40 Obama 50 McCain 43 Iowa: Clinton 42 McCain 48 Obama 49 McCain 42 Kentucky: Clinton 46 McCain 48 Obama 29 McCain 63 http://www.surveyusa.com/electionpolls.a spx http://www.surveyusa.com/index.php/2008/ 04/17/april-head-to-head-contests-six-st ates-flip/...

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April 16, 2008

Let's see: Democrats have only held the presidency in 28 years because of a Clinton The times during his administration were prosperous; despite challenges from dealing with a Republican congress for most of his two terms, he accomplishes many good things He leaves with a high approval rating - 68% And that nearly 8 long years ago, because the Democrats couldn't find anyone in the whole country who could sufficiently run a campaign to beat the complete and utter moron the Republicans ran Finally, the moron has no choice but to go (his maximum allowable timeframe to destroy the nation has expired under law), and the country is falling apart The moron's approval rating is at an all time low - 28% The mood is for a Democrat this time, with many nostalgic for Clinton, and even some Republicans saying things were better under Clinton Clinton's wife, a respected senator...

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April 15, 2008

Clinton won the "must win" big states. From Rasmussen: The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in Florida shows McCain attracting 53% of the vote while Obama earns 38%. If McCain is matched against Hillary Clinton, the race is a toss-up—Clinton 45% McCain 44%....

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April 13, 2008

Obama dissing Bill Clinton's 8 years of peace and prosperity (after praising Ronald Reagan) is beyond wrong, on so many levels. The anti-working class, anti-women, anti-the only Democrat in 28 years to get elected president (AKA BillClinton) remarks all show how it's a big mistake to push an unvetted, inexperienced guy. This is NOT going to fly in the general election. Barack Obama: Mayhill Fowler is reporting on the Huffington Post that at a fundraiser in San Francisco this week, Obama put the blue collar voters of small town Pennsylvania on the analyst's couch: "You go into these small towns in Pennsylvania and, like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing's replaced them," Obama said. "And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna...

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April 04, 2008

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April 01, 2008

From Jerome Armstrong on MyDD: Quinnipiac has a new PA poll out for Clinton vs Obama, but they also poll the GE match-ups in the states of Florida, Ohio, and Pennsylvania: * Florida: Clinton 44 percent - McCain 42 percent; McCain beats Obama 46 - 37 percent * Ohio: Clinton beats McCain 48 - 39 percent; Obama gets 43 percent to McCain's 42 percent * Pennsylvania: Clinton tops McCain 48 - 40 percent; Obama leads McCain 43 - 39 percent. [One thing to note here (for this large poll sample), in highlighting Clinton leading the states of PA & OH, and not Obama: the leads by Clinton in PA & OH are outside the MOE, while the leads of Obama in those two states are within the MOE. In FL, Clinton's lead is within the MOE, while Obama trails McCain in FL outside the MOE.] One of the things I've...

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March 28, 2008

From Peter Daou: THE PUNDITS Hillary Clinton will lose New Hampshire and the race will be over THE REALITY Hillary Clinton wins New Hampshire, defying the predictions and the polls   THE PUNDITS Hillary Clinton will lose the big states on Super Tuesday and the race will be over THE REALITY Hillary Clinton wins the big states on Super Tuesday – and wins them by double digits   THE PUNDITS Hillary Clinton will lose Texas and possibly Ohio on March 4th and the race will be over THE REALITY Hillary Clinton wins both Texas and Ohio on March 4th – and she wins Ohio by double digits   THE PUNDITS Despite Hillary Clinton's big victories on March 4th, "the math" works decisively against her and the race is essentially over THE REALITY The math is simple: neither candidate has reached the number of delegates required to secure the nomination and...

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March 27, 2008

Check out Joe Scarborough on this video at Taylor Marsh......

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YouTube "It was a hot spot, it was a combat zone, and they needed to be very careful with the First Lady."...

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You know, Wright has a right to say these things. Maybe some of them are true. What we know isn't true is that all white people share the same views, and in fact, most of us are not racist. I understand there were great injustices. But I did not commit them. So I don't understand why he has to lump me, as a white person, in with the KKK. (And although I'm half Italian, I don't quite get what garlic has to do with noses.) But it seems to me that Obama used Wright (along with trading favors with Rezko and his other political and corporate cronies) to get where he is today - a junior US Senator, which apparently these days is all you need in the Democratic party to displace a far more experienced female candidate. From Newsday: The irrepressible Rev. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. is at it...

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March 26, 2008

From Fact Hub: Hillary recently misspoke about her trip to Bosnia. She accurately describes the trip in her book, Living History: 'Due to reports of snipers in the hills around the airstrip, we were forced to cut short an event on the tarmac…' "Security conditions were constantly changing in the former Yugoslavia, and they had recently deteriorated again. Due to reports of snipers in the hills around the airstrip, we were forced to cut short an event on the tarmac with local children, though we did have time to meet them and their teachers and to learn how hard they had worked during the war to continue classes in any safe spot they could find. … We were then off to the fortified American base at Tuzla, where over two thousand American, Russian, Canadian, British, and Polish soldiers were encamped in a large tent city." [Living History, p. 343] Contemporaneous...

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March 25, 2008

50% want this one, 50% want the other one, people are saying they will vote for the Republican or stay home if their choice doesn't win the nomination, entire states of people are left out of the process because of poor decisions by the top of the party on down, while other people in other states have their votes counted, although many have called foul play because of irregularities at poorly attended caucuses... In essence, what a mess. The Democratic party is about to lose what would have been a sure fire win in November. So what to do? Bring in someone everyone can live with - Al Gore. Sounds pretty wise to me. The people voted for Gore in 2000! Not only in the primary, but in the general. He earned it. The party is on a downward spiral. If real leaders made a bold move to right its...

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March 24, 2008

Just as Obama is not descended from on high, Kos is not what he seems to his followers. To him, it's all about becoming part of the power elite. His pitch was to represent "youth" to Madison Avenue. What is this internet thing these young people are into? Here I am, to explain it all, says Kos. Who actually just got lucky to land some decent blogging software, timing, and a way with rabble rousing a certain market (young men). Kos/Obama set their legions out to annihilate "the enemy" (AKA Hillary Clinton and her supporters), not realizing that "the enemy" is in the same party, and that they will need the "enemy" they destroyed in order to win in November. I am mystified at to why they feel as they do about a candidate they seem to know very little about, and why they want to silence information about their...

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March 23, 2008

The Florida and Michigan situation should never have gotten to this point. You can't just "play uncle" with people's votes. What good is winning a battle if you lose the war? I read a book called "The Gift of Fear" by Gavin DeBecker, where a city bureaucracy was being inflexible about a former employee's application for a $400 refund of expenses, and the employee, feeling deeply wounded, threatened a city administrator. It was a legitimate request, just not made in a timely manner. The city called in De Becker, a security consultant. De Becker said: The administrator told me, "we have rules, and if we buckle under to everybody who makes a demand, those rules will be meaningless." He could have benefited from the wisdom of Oliver Wendell Holmes: "The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions." Like the threatener, this administrator was committed to...

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Democratic Underground is a forum that draws mostly young people. Like most of the sites in the boygosphere, Obama supporters have taken over the site. However, not content to merely bully and abuse Hillary supporters, as on the Daily Kos, at "DU" they put Hillary supporters on "ignore" en masse. In other words, they never hear a positive word about the other candidate, or hear what is being said in the real world about their candidate that they don't want to hear. Yes, sadly, here are the people responsible for elevating Obama in the skewed caucuses, here are the people who enabled Kennedy and Kerry to have their way - read what they have to say, and you'll see the oldest age is about 21 (no adult, no matter how delusional, could sound quite this immature). Essentially, in the broader picture, we have an internet community that doesn't quite include...

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March 22, 2008

From MyDD: ... From any neutral standpoint, the upcoming contests do show a strong winning narrative potential for Clinton. I can see how an Obama partisan, looking at the potential of Clinton coming off of big wins in TX & OH, and riding into potentially winning all 6 of the contests in April & May would be scared enough to try and shut it down. And Clinton seems to finally turned it around on the finance side... I'd advise the Obama supporters to be calm. Neither candidate will have enough pledged delegates to win the nomination. You should also be informed that the rules do not say that, therefore, the candidate with the greatest number of pledged delegates in the winner. Besides, if Clinton does have a good couple of next few months, there's a likelihood that she'll be able to point toward having the pledged delegate lead, when counting...

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What a joke the boygosphere is today. Quoting Politico!!! I can beat a drum, too, let's see... It's a super close race with an an extremely large and significant number of people who want Hillary instead, so let's let everyone vote (as much as anyone can have a say in this jumbled up, disenfranchising, tainted mess of a primary process); in the past, the primary season lasted longer than this (and in less close races); Hillary beats both Obama and McCain in recent national polls; Hillary won the big states needed to win in November; Howard Dean's ineptitude disenfranchised one of the biggest states needed to win in November, but since they went for Hillary, I guess it doesn't matter (is it wise to "play uncle" with the citizens of FLORIDA? I suspect Florida will matter to the Democratic party long after Howard Dean does); neither candidate has enough to...

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From the AP: -- Even if Hillary Rodham Clinton and her aides do not mention Barack Obama's fiery-tongued spiritual mentor, don't expect the Illinois senator's well-publicized speech Tuesday to make the controversy disappear, political strategists said this week. Reporters, talk-show hosts and others will keep asking about Obama's close and long-standing relationship to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, whose most bombastic comments came to dominate the Democratic presidential contest recently, the strategists predicted in interviews. In video clips playing on Internet sites, Wright can be heard arguing that HIV-AIDS was a U.S. government plot to wipe out ''people of color,'' and that God should ''damn'' the United States for its racist policies. Should Obama become the Democratic nominee, conservative activists are virtually certain to remind voters of Obama's ties to Wright, several strategists said. ''He can give a speech a week, and it's not going to make the issue go away,''...

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March 21, 2008

There's clearly a large number of people who prefer Hillary for president - most fair-minded people would characterize this as a close race, in the 50-50 range. You can spin the words any way you want (she doesn't have enough delegates to win) and neglect to mention the logical counter-argument (neither does he have enough to win). But you can't get around the fact that there is a VERY VERY VERY LARGE NUMBER OF DEMOCRATS WHO PREFER HILLARY. So here's a novel idea - how about let's give all the states a chance to vote? Without trying to psyche everyone out. The "will of the people" arguments are so empty without actually giving a damn about - you guessed it - the people. Since Obama's weaknesses are glaring to many Democrats, how is it that you think it's likely that Republicans don't see them? And that Republicans will only see...

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Philadelphia Magazine has an article on Typical White Person gear. File this under "What not to say while campaigning in PA." Mr. Hope's lack of judgment is frightening. I can just see him making similar statements in foreign countries as president, inciting the masses. We've lived through eight long years of Bush making culture alienating gaffes. How about a wise, experienced adult like Hillary as president, for a refreshing change? From US News and World Report: Obama is drawing a new round of criticism for his comments on a Philadelphia radio sports program yesterday in which he said his grandmother is a "typical white person" who has fears about black men. He was attempting to explain a portion of his speech on race earlier this week—specifically, the statement that his white grandmother gets nervous when a black man approaches her on the street. Obama told the radio host, "The point...

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March 18, 2008

From the Washington Post: Rep. John P. Murtha has announced his endorsement of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, bringing his clout as a 17-term member of the House and a prominent anti-war Democrat to bear with more than a month until the primary here in his home state. "Sen. Clinton is the candidate that will forge a consensus on health care, education, the economy, and the war in Iraq," Murtha wrote in a statement about his decision. Murtha, who represents the 12th district of Pennsylvania, near Pittsburgh, was an early and sometimes inflammatory critic of the Iraq war. As a retired Marine Corps colonel and the first combat veteran of Vietnam elected to serve in Congress, Murtha's voice on Clinton's behalf could prove especially valuable in both inoculating her from anti-war criticism and bolstering her claim that she is the most qualified to serve as commander-in-chief. That message is the backbone...

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March 17, 2008

Jerome Armstrong at MyDD has all the details on the latest......

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March 13, 2008

From John Carlson in the Seattle Times: Everyone knows that crushes either crash or fade. Ask an Obama supporter about the senator's greatest political accomplishment and the reaction is often the same: a crinkled eyebrow, an awkward acknowledgment that they can't think of anything, but he still inspires them because he represents "change" and "hope." OK. But soaring, uplifting sermons promising "hope" and "change" eventually run dry unless they're connected to clear ideas and a coherent agenda. ...excitement is closely tied to momentum and the Obama campaign is losing both. The affection for him is genuine, but it's less a long-term romance than a crush. And everyone knows that crushes either crash or fade. Ask an Obama supporter about the senator's greatest political accomplishment and the reaction is often the same: a crinkled eyebrow, an awkward acknowledgment that they can't think of anything, but he still inspires them because he...

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March 12, 2008

From Bonnie Erbe at Scripps Howard News Service: How much of his ability to win caucus votes has been predicated upon these alleged tactics? I have no answer to that question and pose it to you, dear reader, to answer for yourself. Given the above information and the fact many of the states Obama has won so far have been "reliably Republican ... such as Idaho, Utah, Georgia and South Carolina. Democrats have no chance in those states come November. Meanwhile, Clinton will have won at least eight of the 11 largest states, including must-win battleground states such as Florida and Ohio ..." (this written by Philadelphia Inquirer columnist Jonathan Last this week), the question of "electability" must be revisited. Search the Web for "caucus disruptions" and allegations of caucus-vote disruptions lodged against supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton predominate among the first 20 links that come...

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March 09, 2008

Survey USA: f Clinton and Obama do eventually join together and run as a one ticket, which would you rather see? Clinton for President with Obama as vice president? Or Obama for President with Clinton as Vice President? Clinton president/Obama vice (opposite in parenthesis): Women: 53% (vs. 34%) Men: 42% (vs. 38%) Democrats: 58% (vs. 33%)...

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March 08, 2008

All they ever talk about is delegates, not the popular vote. And make it sound so horrible that super delegates may vote for Hilary to make her the nominee - as though that were somehow negating the will of the people, when in fact, it would be following the will of the people! And they never mention that super delegates from a state that Hillary carried are voting for Obama - for example, Ted Kennedy & John Kerry said they will vote for Obama even though Massachusetts voted for Hillary. Calls for Hillary to get out of the race because of the delegates count could equally be made for Obama getting out of the race because of the popular vote count. Because Obama won so many caucus states, where only a tiny minority of eligible voters were able to participate (caucuses favor his base of the young and the wealthy,...

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March 05, 2008

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"In the opening stands Hillary Clinton. The first woman who ever had a chance to change the country and the world in one swoop. A woman with the U.S. military Armed Forces standing by her side and backing her up. Strength beyond wisdom, which comes through alliances gotten through years of hard work. A woman with a lifetime of experience applying for The Job. "A fighter, but not just to win. To lead. To change the world. A woman at the helm. It can happen. Believe." ~ Taylor Marsh...

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And Obama's wins were mainly in caucuses where a small minority of eligible voters, such as young college kids with time on their hands, participated (since caucuses disenfranchise most voters, including the Democratic voting base of working people, people with families, and elderly people). Hillary has won the popular vote, the votes of most Democrats, and all the big states. Can the party ignore that they will have big trouble in the general election with Obama? From The Times: ... With her victories on Tuesday Mrs Clinton could make a strong case that she had won all the big states to have voted so far – California, Texas, Ohio, New York and New Jersey. Her campaign will also redouble its efforts to allow delegates from Michigan and Florida, two other big states Mrs Clinton won but whose votes were disqualified because the two broke Democratic party rules. Most encouraging for...

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March 04, 2008

From Paul Krugman in the New York Times: What we do know is that Mr. Obama has never faced a serious Republican opponent — and that he has not yet faced the hostile media treatment doled out to every Democratic presidential candidate since 1988. Yes, I know that both the Obama campaign and many reporters deny that he has received more favorable treatment than Hillary Clinton. But they’re kidding, right? Dana Milbank, the Washington Post national political reporter, told the truth back in December: “The press will savage her no matter what ... they really have the knives out for her, there’s no question about it ... Obama gets significantly better coverage.” If Mr. Obama does make it to the White House, will he actually deliver the transformational politics he promises? Like the faith that he can win an overwhelming electoral victory, the faith that he can overcome bitter conservative...

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March 02, 2008

Senator John Glenn: YouTube "As long as Amy and I have known her, Hillary has fought for working people. She'll end $55 billion in giveaways to corporate special interests and invest that money to create jobs in research and innovation to rebuild the middle class. And Hillary will fight to change trade deals like NAFTA - she's been doing this for years. I will be proud to call her my president." Jack Nicholson: YouTube "Mrs. Clinton has been involved in issues, everything from health care, which we know and prison reform and helping the military, speaking for women and speaking for Americans."...

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From Slate: Over at the Perfect World, Cal Lanier crunches the numbers and finds that Obama, despite being ahead among pledged delegates, has fewer total votes among people who identify themselves as Democrats. (He has 7,392,809 votes; Clinton has 8,229,063.) That gives Clinton as lead with 52 percent of Democrats. Lanier also breaks the numbers down by race and points out that Obama has won white Democrats in only two states: New Mexico and Illinois. The numbers are hardly perfect. They rely on CNN and MSNBC exit polls, which are inherently rough. (Extrapolating those percentages to estimate exact numbers of voters is going to compound margins of error.) And because caucuses report delegates, not individual turnout, those stats are going to be a little murky, too. I'd also dispute their inclusion of Florida and Michigan in the count. But Clinton’s lead is still large enough to be significant. It helps...

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March 01, 2008

I was reading about economics and ran across this statement - thought it was fitting to the current political situation: In a bubble, fictitious value goes away when market participants lose faith in the religion — when their false beliefs are destroyed as quickly as they had been formed....

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Read about the question mark who would be president Stop Obama ...Another media measure readers will no doubt find of interest, is the number of times a candidate’s name has been mentioned in the press, since 1990. Far from just being a tally of the candidate’s prominence during the past 18 years, it is a direct indicator of how much, how and what kind of work or goals the candidate pursued during this time.... And when he did appear on the scene, he was missing in action, a slacker who followed along with the pack, or stood out from the pack by voting against progressive values for citizens and with Republicans and lobbyists....

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100 reasons to vote for Hillary...

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February 29, 2008

From Liberal Rapture: Republicans eliminated the more popular, but less qualified, candidates as the process unfolded. Invert that for the Democrats. We have never elected a person with a thinner resume than Obama. So how have we Democrats ended up with Obama when Biden, Dodd, Richardson, and Clinton are so much stronger? ...I find it fascinating that the GOP and the Democrats have essentially taken opposite roads in the last year. Republicans eliminated the more popular, but less qualified, candidates as the process unfolded. Invert that for the Democrats. I am unabashedly Pro Clinton - but Dodd, Richardson, Biden and Clinton are ALL more likely, BASED ON THE EVIDENCE, to have competent Administrations than Obama. But we seem to have chosen Obama. No one has a rational reason for this. There are reasons to support Obama - but thus far I have yet to hear one based on merit. McCain...

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