“OBAMA SUPPORTERS” DAILY NEWS Monday May 26 2008

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WELCOME TO “OBAMA SUPPORTERS” DAILY NEWS

Monday May 26 2008


Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., speaks during
commencement at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., Sunday, May 25, 2008.
(AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

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1. Cliffhanger over Hawaii finally decides, after hours of deliberation they gave 3 SDs to . .

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6129067

[Cha]

8. Aloha Hawai'i~~~

Mahalo for the SuperDels..make your native son proud he will.

[slinkerwink]

2. thanks for this!

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3. Obama clinches 2026 with 15 more superdelegates; Axelrod slaps down Hillary VP meeting talking point

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=6087760&mesg_id=6087760

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11. So hilary's not acting out 'cause Obama

to her no way VP for you? She's acting out for whatever reason.

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4. Clinton struggles to quell Kennedy furore

Hillary Clinton plunged into a full-scale damage limitation effort yesterday, insisting that she was misconstrued when she evoked the assassination of Bobby Kennedy in 1968 as a reason for fighting on for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination

Clinton struggles to quell Kennedy furore

By David Usborne in New York Monday, 26 May 2008

...She portrayed herself as "deeply dismayed and disturbed" by the firestorm generated by her ill-judged remark. "Some took my comments entirely out of context and interpreted them to mean something completely different – and completely unthinkable," she wrote in a front-page commentary in The New York Daily News. "I want to set the record straight: I was making the simple point that given our history, the length of this year's primary contest is nothing unusual."

As she tried to harvest support on the island of Puerto Rico which holds its primary vote on Saturday, Mrs Clinton found herself overwhelmed by a growing swell of media criticism of her RFK remark made during an interview with the editorial board of a newspaper in South Dakota on Friday.

In it, she questioned the pressure being applied to her to bring the marathon nomination contest to an end by surrendering the crown, and therefore the right to run against the Republican John McCain in November, to her rival, Barack Obama. But her mention of the assassination of RFK while he was seeking the Democratic nomination in 1968 triggered charges of poor taste and desperation.

...Her words were clearly poorly chosen for several reasons, not least because the trials and tragedies of the Kennedy clan have been on America's mind since Senator Edward Kennedy was diagnosed with an incurable brain tumour last week. Far more troubling, however, was the insinuation seen by some critics of Mrs Clinton that she was persisting just in case the same fate were to meet Mr Obama.

...more

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5. Carter calls time on Clinton campaign

Carter calls time on Clinton campaign

ABC News AU May 25

Heading in to the final full week of the Democrats' White House primary campaigning, Hillary Clinton is refusing to bow out of the race, despite new calls for her to step aside.

Former president Jimmy Carter became the most senior Democrat yet to state that time was running out for the former first lady as the epic nominating race's climax approaches on June 3.

But Senator Clinton, bruised by her invocation of Robert Kennedy's 1968 assassination as justification for staying in the race, insisted she was the Democrats' best hope against Republican John McCain.

...But Mr Carter, who is one of the nearly 800 Democratic grandees with a free vote at the party's August convention, said he expected superdelegates to make their choice in June and Senator Clinton would then have to pull out of the race.

"I have not yet announced publicly, but I think at that point it will be time for her to give it up," Mr Carter, who was US president from 1977 to 1981, told Britain's Sky News.

...more

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6. Clinton Again Seeks to Explain RFK Remarks

Clinton, never one to accept responsibility for her actions, blames Obama.

Clinton Again Seeks to Explain RFK Remarks

By Anne E. Kornblut Washington Post

What mistakes have you made, and what lessons have you learned from them?

That was the question reporter John Dickerson of Slate.com famously stumped President Bush with at a press conference in April of 2004. So far, Dickerson has not taken a crack at Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton -- but with the Democratic fight drawing to a close, someone is sure to pose the question to her soon.

In the meantime, Clinton has criticism of others to offer. On Sunday, the New York Daily News published a letter from Clinton, which the campaign later issued as a statement entitled "Why I Continue to Run." Clinton revisited her remarks about Robert F. Kennedy's assassination in 1968 -- and blamed, implicitly, the Obama campaign and the media for causing an uproar.

...Voters, however, have expressed deep-seated concerns for Sen. Barack Obama's safety -- concerns which form the backdrop against which the RFK comments played out, and which Clinton did not mention in her letter. Given this widely-shared worry, any mention of a political shooting would likely have sparked a firestorm, regardless of Clinton's intentions or the immediate context of her remarks.

...more at the link

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7. Clinton's "obliterate Iran" remarks and $4.00 a gallon gas

When you attempt to pay for the gas for your vehicle, think about this:

Many of the reasons for the world's current economic problems are linked to the leadership of the world's single superpower, the United States. Threatening war around the world's most important oilfields is certainly a major factor.

On oil prices and obliterating Iran

By HASSAN AL-HUSSEINI Middle East Times May 25, 2008

Threatening war in the Gulf raises the price of oil. Whether Hillary Clinton wants to "obliterate Iran" or John McCain wants to "bomb, bomb Iran," the result is another bump in the price of oil.

It is a well-known fact in the oil industry that you can "talk up or down" the price of oil. It only takes rumors of shortages or threats of disruption to raise prices. On the other hand, assurances of plentiful oil and stable military and political conditions help to reduce the price.

Oil industry observers have ascribed up to 30 percent of the increase in oil prices to perceived military and other tensions in oil producing countries.

Ironically, both oil companies and oil exporting countries are reaping windfall profits from high oil prices. They are all benefiting from the daily threats to bomb Iran, or hints at "keeping all the options on the table," or threats to punish Iran for what its President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad says about Israel.

Every time an American leader, such as President George W. Bush or Vice President Dick Cheney or senators Clinton or McCain, threaten Iran, they help to increase the price of oil.

...more at the link

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9. Clinton Karma: Yvette Clarke Begins to Pay Price for Steadfast Support of Hillary Clinton

Further into this article it is explained that "supporters" of Clinton are AFRAID to switch their endorsement to Obama. They FEAR the Clintons.

Yvette Clarke Begins to Pay Price for Steadfast Support of Hillary Clinton

May 25, 2008 Brooklyn Ron

It's been pretty clear for a while that Yvette Clarke -- whose district went decidedly for Barack Obama in the Feb. 5th New York primary -- has been wanting to stand with Obama.

But she has steadfastly and (from the perspective of this political outsider) painfully stood by Hillary Clinton in Clinton's increasingly desperate effort to bump Obama as the likely Democratic presidential nominee.

That characterization of desperate, by the way, is borrowed from the former Harlem state senator, and now Acting Governor, David Paterson, who in his own extremely gentle way expressed serious disappointment with Senator Clinton.

Paterson, like Clarke, is still officially supporting Clinton; but the difference is that Paterson and others, especially blacks like Congressman Charlie Rangel, have been lately evidencing a certain concern (we think it's actually a deep embarrassment) about Clinton's (lately quite crude) determination to stay in the race.

....The Central Brooklyn Independent Democrats, a very progressive political group, has decided not to endorse Clarke in this November's race for reelection.

....more at the link

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10. Hillary Clinton Nears the End of Another Humiliating Political Endeavor

Hillary Clinton Nears the End of Another Humiliating Political Endeavor

Max Orenstein May 26, 2008

Hillary Clinton’s last two dishes came crashing down out of the cupboard this week.

Clinton’s original plan of attack, given that there was no conceivable mathematical road to overcoming Barack Obama in pledged delegates, was to sway superdelegates to her corner citing “superior electability” in a general election against presumptive GOP-nominee John McCain. After she started the year with a 100 superdelegate lead, Obama has overtaken her in the superdelegate count and now leads by 28.

...And then came the news that Clinton’s campaign is more than $20 million in debt.

Always having represented what Republicans detest about democrats, Clinton has also put her legacy at risk with many Democrats. Throughout her campaign, Clinton has shamelessly exhibited negativity (“Change you can xerox” comment), pandering (gas tax holiday proposal), hypocrisy (claiming every state should count while publicly discrediting caucus states), and fear-mongering (Osama bin Laden/infamous 3 a.m. ads). Clinton’s phony attempt in Pennsylvania to portray herself as a supporter of gun rights and capitalize on Obama’s “bitter” insulted the state’s intelligence worse than her opponent. As for the “Bosnia gaffe,” well, she’ll be living that one down for years.

...It’s difficult to say where Clinton will go from here. It appears as if there won’t be a spot open for her on Obama’s presidential ticket, and there are whispers that she probably won’t get consideration for the position of Senate Majority Leader. Clinton will be the likely scapegoat should the Democrats fail to win back the White House in November. If her behavior on the campaign trail this primary season does lead to a Republican victory, the next logical step would just be for Clinton to run for president again in 2012. You have to wonder if that’s what she wanted all along.

...more at the link

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17. good luck with that Hillary

I probably won't be here, but in my will I will speculate that those left will vote vote in my name and my/their vote goes for ABHC.

:mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

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18. Thank you, Max Orenstein and thanks WYVBC..

Orenstein has a very riveting way of giving it right back to hilary like she's tried to stick it to the Democrats.

"Many blame Mark Penn, then-chief strategist of Clinton’s campaign, for the lack of organization and insisting on staying negative rather than revealing Clinton’s human side. The criticism stretches all the way to the top, however, because Clinton didn’t initiate a staff change until it was too late in the race."

Excellent analysis of what went wrong So Far. Too bad we never got to see "clinton's human side".

"Clinton’s last hope at snatching the nomination from Obama would have come in the form of a pivotal endorsement from popular Democrat John Edwards. Instead, Edwards smothered Clinton’s impressive win in West Virginia last Tuesday by endorsing Obama the following day at an electrifying rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan."

Thank you, John Edwards!! :patriot: :bounce: :kick: :party:

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12. Greensboro News & Record: Brand Democrat, Me, And Obama

Greensboro News & Record: Brand Democrat, Me, And Obama

May 25, 2008 Oliver Willis

Columnist Ed Cone explains in the Greensboro News & Record how I saved the Democratic party and created Barack Obama. Well, not exactly, but he has a good column on the GOP’s “brand” woes and features me heavily.

In 2004, blogger Oliver Willis launched a viral marketing campaign called “Brand Democrat.” The idea was to frame the values of the Democratic Party with a series of online banners — simple messages in black text on a white background above a red, white and blue silhouette of a donkey. One ad contained a list of accomplishments, including Social Security and Medicare, and closed with the line, “We’re just getting warmed up.” Others were devoted to single issues: “Call us crazy, but we think sick kids should have health care.” “What happens in your bedroom, stays in your bedroom. It’s just none of our business.” “Torture? We’ve always been against it. We still are.”

It turns out that Willis was ahead of the game. Flash forward to 2008, and the brand value of political parties is a hot topic. What’s more, Brand Democrat is looking pretty strong. It has a dynamic new spokesman in Barack Obama, and for the first time in a generation the Democratic Party can claim to be the party of ideas.

[DerekJ]

13. Thanks, I love your article collection.

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14. Are We Going To Get 6 Months Of These Stupid Ass Headlines?

Are We Going To Get 6 Months Of These Stupid Ass Headlines?

May 25, 2008 Oliver Willis

CBS: “Obama Needs Jews, Hispanics To Win Florida”
You know who needs those demographic groups to win Florida too? John McCain. The media has decided that Obama has problems with certain races because of his race and they’re determined to play up that dynamic even when it isn’t true or unique. Jewish and hispanic votes are key to winning Florida, no matter the candidate’s skin color.

Soon to come: Obama needs vital “breathing” demographic for electoral victory.

Gawd!

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15. Why Sen. Clinton No Longer Gets The Benefit Of The Doubt From Me

Why Sen. Clinton No Longer Gets The Benefit Of The Doubt From Me

Oliver Willis May 24, 2008

“There is nothing to base that on. As far as I know”

“Sen. Obama’s support among working, hard-working Americans, white Americans, is weakening again”

“There was supposed to be some kind of a greeting ceremony at the airport but instead we just ran with our heads down to get into the vehicles to get to our base.”

“The activist base of the Democratic Party… They are very driven by their view of our positions, and it’s primarily national security and foreign policy that drives them. I don’t agree with them. They know I don’t agree with them. So they flood into these caucuses and dominate them and really intimidate people who actually show up to support me.”

“Dr. King’s dream began to be realized when President Johnson passed the Civil Rights Act,” Clinton said. “It took a president to get it done.”

Bonus quotes from Bill Clinton:

“I opposed Iraq from the beginning”

“It’s the caucuses that have been killing us”

“Jesse Jackson won South Carolina in ‘84 and ‘88. Jackson ran a good campaign. And Obama ran a good campaign here.“

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21. Yes, anyone giving the bilarys any benefit of the doubt

at this point isn't paying attention.

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16. Fun Worth Recommending (Amazing chart)

Fun Worth Recommending

By Al Giordano May 25th, 2008

Apparently, formulating absurd “new math” claims is one of the stages of grief, too. Who knew?

Since my privileges to recommend diaries in one corner of cyberspace were stripped during a recent purge that apparently put me in the company of scores of other very nice people, feel free to recommend these two on my behalf:

Fun with Graphs by Chinapaulo

and…

Using Statistics to Mislead by juliewolf

Heh.

[Aloha Spirit]

35. It *was* worth reading!

[Cha]

19. Thanks for that soothing pic of the Wesleyan Graduation

where Obama gave the address, WYVBC.

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20. The Secret Service needs to make an example of Ms. Trotta

Liz Trotta, Fox News analyst, laughed about knocking Obama "if we could." She should be investigated by the authorities.

Joe Sudbay at America Blog · 5/25/2008

Hillary Clinton has tried to make it acceptable to invoke assassination. Today, Terry McAuliffe and Howard Wolfson were in full spin mode today trying to justify her sick remarks. Watch Wolfson's pathetic performance here. When you watch McAuliffe and Wolfson, keep in mind what former Clinton supporter David Geffen said last year about the Clintons and their people: "Everybody in politics lies, but they do it with such ease, it’s troubling."

NOTE FROM JOHN: That's okay. If Hillary's people think assassination talk is fair game, then we'll just see how the superdelegate members of Congress feel about it when we call their offices on Tuesday and ask them. I'm gonna guess now that they won't be too thrilled.

That's bad enough. It's getting worse.

Enter Liz Trotta, a Fox News analyst. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjYpkvcmog0

It's not funny. It's sick. And, the Secret Service needs to make an example of Ms. Trotta and put an end to this craziness, fast.

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22. Go Tell Mama I'm For Obama - Art Show goes to Portland Oregon May 30 & 31

http://www.gotellmama.org/

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23. Montana Volunteer Spotlight: Vicki in Great Falls

Montana Volunteer Spotlight: Vicki in Great Falls

By Caitlin Harvey - May 25th, 2008

Vicki, a former teacher from Great Falls, is a lifelong Republican who is supporting Barack for President. She admires Barack becase she says, "he's a thinking person," and she and her husband, a retired officer in the military, both voted for Barack by absentee ballot.



Vicki has canvassed her neighborhood, and stops by our Great Falls office on a regular basis to make phone calls to undecided voters. When she talks to someone who says they're a Republican, she replies,"well I'm a Republican too, but I'm supporting Barack because he's the most qualified candidate." She also passes out "Republicans for Obama" buttons around her neighborhood."

Vicki supplies gifts for veterans and says, "I support the veterans and the troops." She is opposed to the war in Iraq and is glad that "Barack had the judgment to speak out against it."

...more at the link

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24. "Obama encanta a Puerto Rico"

"Obama encanta a Puerto Rico"

Christopher Hass Sunday, May 25, 2008

The front page of this morning's edition of the Puerto Rican newspaper El Nuevo Dia

[flor de jasmim]

29. Love the headlines: while Obama connected with the people,

Hillary was letting them know what they could do for her (eventually) by promising something that is not in her position to grant--for non-Spanish speakers, the header on the left reads: "Senator Obama danced salsa in Old San Juan and greeted in Spanish". On the right: "Hillary Clinton came through Aguadilla and promised the presidential vote".

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25. Delegate Update: 52 To Go (as of 12:31 PM May 25)

Delegate Update: 52 To Go

By Christopher Hass - May 25th, 2008 at 12:31 pm EDT

Yesterday Barack picked up three additional add on delegates:

Georgia State Party Secretary Stephen Leeds, Wyoming state Rep. W. Patrick Goggles, and former Alaskan Governor Tony Knowles.

Barack currently has a total of 1974 delegates, and is now just 52 delegates away from the Democratic nomination for President.

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26. Check out the sign at this newly opened Obama office in Montana

Wolf Point Office Opening

by Caitlin HarveySaturday, May 24, 2008

More than fifty people came out to the opening of our campaign office in Wolf Point on Thursday night, which is located at 107 East Anaconda Street



According to the locals, this is the first time that a presidential campaign has ever had an office on tribal land in Montana. Everyone discussed why they are supporting Barack, and local field organizer Ryan Lynch spoke about different ways to get involved with the campaign, such as canvassing and making phone calls to undecided voters.



We now have 13 offices all across Montana -- find the one closest to you and stop on by! Make sure to vote early!

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27. The Obama 17: Superdelegates in the Wings

The Obama 17: Superdelegates in the Wings

By JIM MCTAGUE MONDAY, MAY 26, 2008 D.C. Barrons

THE ROAD TO VICTORY FOR DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL HOPEFUL Hillary Clinton is straight out of a nightmare: It keeps getting steeper and steeper the closer she gets to the end. By late next week, it may become obvious even to her that she'd have a better chance at Power Ball than pulling out a backroom victory against Barack Obama.

A highly placed Democratic Party source we've dealt with for many years tells us that Obama over the next several weeks will announce support from as many as 17 superdelegates, bringing his total delegate count from the current 1,965 to 1,982. This means that he need win only 40% of the 110 pledged delegates up for grabs in primaries in Puerto Rico, Montana and South Dakota to secure the nomination. Obama-campaign spokesman Tommy Vietor said it sounded as though our source was guessing; our source says he got his information from the Obama campaign. We add that the number does not include 17 delegates won in early primaries by former candidate John Edwards, who recently jumped on the Obama bandwagon.

...Simon Rosenberg, president of NDN, which describes itself as a "progressive think tank," predicts the party will seat part of the Michigan and Florida delegations, not all of them. Democratic officials in other states want them punished for bad behavior, he says. Rosenberg, who was a member of Bill Clinton's campaign staff in 1992, says he believes Hillary is hanging on because "she believes she's the better candidate."...more at the link

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28. Poll: Obama Has Big Lead In Montana Primary (also expected to do well in SD)

Poll: Obama Has Big Lead In Montana Primary

By Eric Kleefeld - May 25, 2008

Barack Obama might end up able to claim a pair of resounding victories in the final primaries of the cycle, if a new Mason-Dixon poll of Montana -- the first major poll of the state's June 3 primary -- is any indication:

Obama 52%
Clinton 35%
Sample Size: 400 likely primary voters.
Margin of error: ±5%


Obama previously led in a poll for the South Dakota primary, which is also on June 3. Should the two leads both hold up, he will be able to close out the primary season on a high note.

Some amusing comments below the article at TPM:

Montana and South Dakota do not count. Only Puerto Rico counts.

Posted by HillaryClinton
May 25, 2008 8:53 PM | Reply | Permalink

lol. I will miss you when this is all finally over.
Posted by amk
May 25, 2008 9:02 PM | Reply | Permalink

montana always goes republican.
maybe you can explain why you think that this is an important victory.
Posted by "Present"
May 26, 2008 12:01 AM | Reply | Permalink

Kenucky always goes Republican -- maybe you can explain why that was an important victory for Clinton.
Posted by Hoo Hussein Hah
May 26, 2008 12:28 AM | Reply | Permalink

I suppose Mars counts too, right?

Posted by Liberal_Elite
May 25, 2008 11:29 PM | Reply | Permalink

No, Mars has caucuses.

Posted by Hoo Hussein Hah
May 26, 2008 12:28 AM | Reply | Permalink

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30. Kudos for these daily posts! K and R

Thank You!

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31. K&R

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32. Moral equivalence

Moral equivalence?

Posted by Mark Kleiman May 25, 2008

My favorite Clinton troll agrees with Paul Krugman that most of the animus in the current campaign has come from the Obama side of the fence. No doubt I'm a biased observer, but I agree with the voters (including a majority of HRC voters in Kentucky and West Virginia) that the bulk of the nastiness has come from the Clinton side.

Still, I believe in subjecting my opinions to the test of observation. Can anyone name a pro-Obama site with nearly as much sludge on it as Hillaryis44,com, Taylor Marsh, or Larry Johnson's No Quarter? (No, I'm not talking about anonymous commenters.)

I just looked at Johnson's site, and the level of frank racism, and frank misogyny directed at Michelle Obama, is really quite stunning.
Johnson is a friend (and CIA classmate) of Valerie Plame Wilson, who, along with her husband Joseph Wilson, is a strong Clinton supporter. It's hard to believe that a phone call from Clinton HQ to Wilson and another from Wilson to Johnson couldn't get him to at least tone it down. And if HRC is really incapable of calling off her dogs, then what are we to make of her vaunted capacity to lead?

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33. The Hillary Strategery: "Send Lawyers Guns and Money" - AKA OMG The Titanic Is Sinking..

Maybe, just maybe, it wasn't Someone Else that ruined Hillary's tea party. Maybe, just maybe, she paid the wrong people too much money for a strategy that was just not very good, while Obama's campaign did this old school notion of ORGANIZING that just never popped on the radar of wealthy DC political insiders.

The Hillary Strategery: "Send Lawyers Guns and Money" - AKA OMG The Titanic Is Sinking...

Greg Dewar May 26. 2008

Lawyers: After signing a pledge to not campaign in Florida and Michigan because they willingly broke the rules all other states agreed to with respect to primaries, now Hillary and Bill want to change the rules and are considering legal trickery (which is hard to hold up when dealing with private organizations such as political parties) to try and game the results. Mmm hmm.

Guns: The constant insinuation that Barack Obama (who, if you're not aware of, is sorta African American and as "far as she knows" isn't Muslim - cute lawyer game, former Rose Law Firm Partner!) might get killed by some wackjob. Class-see.

Money: She loaned her campaign millions of dollars, all the while Sen. Obama got millions of new donors paying in small donations. She's now putting out the junk mail and the high donor calls for more money to pay back her "debts." Funny, she has stiffed many of those "hard working white americans" in small towns on bills, but she also owes herself millions. Guess who gets paid back first!

...I have always been willing to accept ANY Democratic nominee if it means keeping out a Bush Third Term out of the White House, and allow us to expand our Majority in Congress so we can finally move on and get some work done. Hillary is, however, starting to crack under the pressure and act like a Tracy Flick with serious issues, and while that may be fine in high school, it is no way to run a country. It's really embarassing, especially when I for years was one of Bill Clinton's fans and had the honor of meeting him twice during his presidency.

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34. Senator Clinton continues to make the case that her campaign is OVER

Oh No She Didn't: Latest Hillary Hyperbole Invokes Kennedy Assassination!

Greg Dewar May 25 08

Sen. Clinton continues to make the case that a) her campaign is over and b) she just doesn't have the temperament to be president when things don't go entirely her way. (Mind you, we have many qualified women who can be president who do possess the intellect and judgment to be president, they're just not running this year. Which is unfortunate).

Lately, she's been prone to comparing her (broke as Hell) campaign to things like the Civil Rights Movement of the 60s, Rwanda, Zimbabwe (you know where all those people died) and so on. Today, she hit a new low, the same week we learned of Sen. Ted Kennedy's brain tumor, when she cited the assassination of Robert Kennedy in California as a reason her campaign should go on.

No, really. In addition to all the other tacky statements she's made, in addtion to the virulent racism of her supporters like Geraldine Ferraro, in addition to race baiting, she said that.

...
Hillary for President? Hell no. She's no longer some sort of bold leader of whatever. She is behaving like a psycho ex girlfriend, but this time she wants her finger on the nuclear button.

...more at the link

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36. Obama 2.0

Obama 2.0
26 May 2008 12:44 pm Andrew Sullivan

My column this week looked at Obama's web-based insurgency. Ambinder's article in the current Atlantic considers how Obama's internet model might apply to governing:

Obama clearly intends to use the Web, if he is elected president, to transform governance just as he has transformed campaigning. Notably, he has spoken of conducting “online fireside chats” as president. And when one imagines how Obama’s political army, presumably intact, might be mobilized to lobby for major legislation with just a few keystrokes, it becomes possible, for a moment at least, to imagine that he might change the political culture of Washington simply by overwhelming it.

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/05/obama-20.html

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37. Racial heritage of six former presidents is questioned

I'm bookmarking this article for future use.

Racial heritage of six former presidents is questioned
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
By Monica Haynes, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette



David J. Eisenhower and Ida Elizabeth Stover Eisenhower on their wedding day, September 23, 1885. They are the parents of President Dwight D. Eisenhower. Mrs. Eisenhower was rumored to have black ancestry.Today, as Sen. Barack Obama takes what he hopes will be one more step toward becoming the nation's first black president, the Internet is filled with stories that state such a milestone already has been reached -- several times over.

The political ascent of Mr. Obama, a man of mixed racial heritage who identifies himself as black, has reignited the discussion of presidential ethnicity that dates as far back as Thomas Jefferson. The third president of the United States was described by a political opponent as the "son of a half-breed Indian squaw and a Virginia mulatto father."

In addition to Jefferson, the books, magazines and newspaper articles found on the Web name five other U.S. presidents who may have had black ancestry, but never publicly acknowledged it: Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Despite author Toni Morrison's infamous 1998 declaration, Bill Clinton was not on the list.

...more at the link

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08036/854713-51.stm

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38. Hold Liz Trotta of Fox News ACCOUNTABLE.

Fox News Channel, Liz Trotta - Jokes About "Knocking off" Obama (& Osama)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=385&topic_id=137586&mesg_id=137586

***LIZ TROTTA CALLS FOR OBAMA'S ASSASSINATION: PRECEDENT FOR SENDING HER TO JAIL?***
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6127336

Speak up - Complain about Trotta

On Fox News this weekend contributor Liz Trotta openly and laughingly wished for the assassination of US Sen. Barack Obama.

In discussing Hillary’s Friday remarks referencing the assassination of RFK in June Trotta says

And now we have what, uh, some are reading as a suggestion that somebody knock off Osama, um uh, Obama, well both if we could (laughs)

How is this in any way acceptable in our country?
These are OUR airwaves, being used to encourage the murder of a high ranking member of the US Government and a presidential front runner.

Report her comment to the FCC

File a complaint with the FCC. You can go to the form for a general media complaint https://esupport.fcc.gov/sform2000/formE!input.action">here.

It is a brief form and will only take a minute or two to fill out.

Complain to Fox Noise

Also please make a complaint to Fox News here

There is an email feature there and also a text box to enter news tips,
their phone number is 1-888-369-4762.

Ms. Trotta is also an author.

What comments will find their way to her book reviews at sites like Amazon.com, BarnesandNoble.com, etc. ?

Here is a link to her writings at Amazon.

Here is a link to her writings at Barnes and Noble.

[Aloha Spirit]

39. Comments on El Nuevo Dia, the Puerto Rican newspaper...

They're very pro-Obama.
I attribute this to the ground team, and to the Puerto Ricans who seem much more media savvy than us mainlanders.

http://www.elnuevodia.com/diario/noticia/politica/noticias/quiere_debatir_con_obama_sobre_puerto_rico/409871

Okay here's my paraphrasing.

Obama should have spent more time in Puerto Rico, but it's laughable that Clinton wants to debate him here. Obama wants to debate McCain, not Clinton, because he will inevitably be the nominee. He only needs 49 more delegates to win, and he may cross the finish line with our votes here in PR. It's true both of them are making a lot of promises, but who should you believe? The person who is offering us a fundamental change in the style of government, and fresh leadership? or the person who has already had plenty of opportunities to make those changes. Do we really have such short memories that we forget the things President Clinton did to our economy and our environment? There is no way Clinton can win. Let's show the United States that we can elect the next President.

[FrenchieCat]

40. Excellent!

Me Likee!

[Aloha Spirit]

41. McCain strains credibility with his "Obama is a dolt and a neophyte" talking points.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008%5C05%5C27%5Cstory_27-5-2008_pg3_6

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M.—Republican John McCain said Monday that Western states like New Mexico, Colorado and Nevada will be critical to winning the White House and as a senator from Arizona he'll enjoy a political advantage over the Democratic nominee.

"I believe as a Western senator I understand the issues, the challenges of the future for these ... states, whether it be land, water, Native American issues, preservation, environmental issues," McCain said in an interview with The Associated Press.

He said Democratic Sen. Barack Obama, who's leading in the delegate count for the party's presidential nomination, "has no experience, no knowledge or background on any of these Western issues."

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Um, McCain? You're better off saying what you said about your knowledge of economics. Because if you claim to understand "environmental issues", that only makes it worse when you do stupid shit. Because then it looks intentional.

[Cha]

43. So, mccain is calling Obama "stupid"?

Not too bright coming out calling Obama stupid and a neophyte when mccain won't know what hit him when Obama gets to concentrate on the General finally.

When hilary gets wrapped up and sent back to New York whining.

[Aloha Spirit]

44. Well, he doesn't use those words. he keeps saying Obama has NO experience and understands nothing.

The day McCain uses a word like neophyte or dolt would probably be a step forward.
However, it will be hysterical when McCain keeps this up as Obama schools him.
It really is setting up nicely for an entertaining summer news stretch.

[Cha]

45. You had "neophyte and dolt" in quotes

so I thought mccain said that? Was I wrong?

[Aloha Spirit]

46. oh oops, I meant the quotes to be sarcasm quotes, not real quotes. sorry!

[Cha]

47. That's okay.. It's go to know

he didn't say that. I'm sure it will get plenty heated up in the summer and fall.

[Aloha Spirit]

42. Town Hall planned for this week in Colorado

Exciting Town Hall this week in Colorado!
http://www.kktv.com/news/headlines/19270049.html

Democrat Barack Obama plans to talk about urban high school reform at a town hall meeting in Thornton on Wednesday.

Mike Johnston of the Mapleton Expeditionary School of the Arts says Obama will tour the school before the town hall meeting. Johnston is an adviser to Obama on education reform.

Johnston says the Democratic presidential hopeful has been looking for innovative urban high schools such as Mapleton. All of the school's 44 senior graduates are going to college next fall.

Wednesday's event is by invitation only and is not open to the public.