“OBAMA SUPPORTERS” DAILY NEWS Thursday March-27-2008

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WELCOME TO “OBAMA SUPPORTERS” DAILY NEWS

Thursday March-27-2008


Barack Obama visiting Greensboro North Carolina on March 26, 2008

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1. That is an amazing pic!!!

K&R

[Diane R]

22. I know this isn't a thread about the photo, but it brings tears to my eyes.

His election will mean so much to so many people.

[againes654]

29. I know,

when I saw that I thought, now that makes me think of hope. Hope that a young black kid can grow up to be the President. Beautiful!!!!

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2. Obama speaks in Greensboro NC - many arrive 3 hours early or more to get in

Obama speaks in Greensboro

From Staff Reports Greenboro News & Record Wednesday, Mar. 26, 2008 updated 3:33 pm

Ennis Moore, 54, of Dunn left home at 7 a.m. to get to Greensboro and watch
Obama's speech with his daughter, Tracie, a senior at UNCG.

By 10 a.m., Moore stood in a long line that stretched from War Memorial Auditorium past the Greensboro Coliseum.
Those in line had tickets and were waiting to get inside.

Moore, a retired veteran of the U.S. Army, is an Obama supporter.

"He supports troops coming home," Moore said of Obama. "I want my troops home. ...
...No. 2, he's a man for all people. And No. 3, he's a black American.

"This is an experience of a lifetime. It's a one-time shot probably."
...
1:11 p.m.:

Deborah Compton Holt takes the stage and talks about her support of Obama and his health care plan,
which she favors. She also talks of Obama's ability to bring groups of people together and
restore the respectability of America.

She introduces him, and he takes the stage at 1:16 p.m.

This was live blogged by the N&R staff, go to the linkto read more

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3. Greenboro NC: Obama Chides McCain on Economic Approach in Town Hall

Greensboro, NC is where black students waged a peaceful "sit-in" protest at the "whites only"
lunch counter at Woolsworths. This was an act of civil disobedience.

Obama Chides McCain on Economic Approach

By DEVLIN BARRETT Associated Press Writer
Mar 26, 10:10 PM EDT

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) -- Democrat Barack Obama ridiculed Republican presidential rival John McCain on Wednesday for what he called a "sit back and watch" approach to the economic troubles gripping the nation
...North Carolina holds its primary May 6 with 115 delegates at stake.

"John McCain may call helping struggling homeowners pandering, but I don't think the families in North Carolina who are losing their homes would see it that way," said Obama, who is due to give what aides are billing as a major economic speech Thursday in New York.

"...We can't afford to be distracted ... every time somebody somewhere says something stupid that everybody gets up in arms and we forget about the war in Iraq and we forget about the economy," Obama said.

...Many in the crowd Wednesday were college students, in a town where students once played a defining role in U.S. history. In 1960, a year before Obama was born, black students staged sit-ins at a whites-only lunch counter at a Woolworth's five-and-dime in downtown Greensboro, an act of civil disobedience that spread throughout the South.

..."I think giving whoever the nominee is two or three months to pivot into the general election would be extremely helpful as opposed to having this drag on for two more months all the way up to the convention," Obama said. "I think that would be disruptive and hard on the party as well as the nominee."

more at the link

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4. 'I will always tell you what I think,' Obama tells Greensboro crowd Wednesday

Obama discussed a number of issues including the economy, the war in Iraq and energy. He also added in some humor which got the crowd of about 3,000 people on their feet.

'I will always tell you what I think,' Obama tells Greensboro crowd Wednesday

Presidential hopeful offers tough talk on immigrationMarch 26, 2008 - 4:04PM Alex Kreitman / Times-News

GREENSBORO - The throng of supporters who have greeted U.S. Sen. Barack Obama as he crosses America were there again Wednesday afternoon when the Democratic presidential candidate made a visit to Greensboro.

Obama presided over a town hall meeting and took questions from the audience at packed and loud War Memorial Auditorium.
Click here to watch video of Obama's visit to Greensboro

"...John McCain has admitted he doesn't understand the economy as well as he should, and (Tuesday) he proved it in giving a speech on the housing crisis," Obama said. "In his entire speech, he offered not one policy, not one idea, not one bit of relief to the nearly 35,000 North Carolinians who are forced to foreclose on their dreams in the last three months."

"I'm reminded every day of life, if not by events then by my wife that I am not a perfect man. I will not be a perfect president, but I can promise you this," Obama said. "I will always tell you what I think. I will always tell you where I stand and I will be honest with you about the challenges that we face together.

"I will listen to you even when we disagree and we're going to disagree sometimes. And most importantly, I will wake up every morning in that White House thinking about how to make your lives a little bit better."
more at the link

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5. Photos and Slide Shows of Obama in Greensboro NC

Loads of beautiful pictures, many inspiring:

Slide show of Barack's visit to Greensboro Wednesday, March 26, 2008
click on this link

More photos from today by the Greensboro News & Record, 23 photos

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6. N.C. Obama regains large lead: Leading Clinton by 21 points!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5274501

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7. NBC-WSJ POLL: NEW CLINTON LOWS

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=132

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8. Pastor Flap Hasn't Hurt Obama

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3244118

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9. Obama In The Big Apple: Introduced By Michael Bloomberg, Does The View, and Major Network Interviews

Be on the lookout for details and scheduling:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5276116

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10. David Plouffe, you are SMART! (re: Michigan primary)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5274104

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11. Lanny Davis: I support McCain-Clinton Ticket

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5277106

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12. Chuck Todd's analysis of new NBC/WSJ poll: Obama "should have the easier time uniting the party

Chuck Todd's analysis of new NBC/WSJ poll:
Obama "should have the easier time uniting the party than Clinton"

by JedReport Wed Mar 26, 2008

Some top-line observations culled from Chuck Todd's writeup:

Clinton's approval ratings is just 37% (48 disapprove), her lowest since 2001

Obama's approval rating is 49% (32% disapprove)

The head-to-head matchups were essentially tied, 45-45 for Obama-Clinton,
and Obama +2 against McCain, Clinton -2 against McCain

Todd concludes with some very good news for Obama (in the context of tough news for the party as a whole):

One thing about these head-to-head matchups: Our pollsters found that for the second poll in a row, more than 20 percent of Clinton and Obama supporters say they would support McCain when he's matched up against the other Democrat. There is clearly some hardening of feelings among some of the most core supporters of both Democrats, though it may be Obama voters, who are more bitter in the long run.

Why? Because among Obama voters, Clinton has a net-negative personal rating (35-43)
while Clinton voters have a net-positive view of Obama (50-29). Taken together,
this appears to be evidence that Obama, initially, should have the easier time uniting the party than Clinton.

link

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13. HILLARY PILOT: "Not a bullet, not even a bumblebee" - INTERVIEW (w/ video)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5274495

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14. BBC Shreads CLINTON over TUSLA, NAFTA, No. IRELAND, CREDIBILITY

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5261851&mesg_id=5261851

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15. And another claim turns out to be false

And another claim turns out to be false

by JedReport Wed Mar 26, 2008

Hillary Clinton has repeatedly boasted of the "fact" that her tour of Bosnia was the first trip by a First Lady to a war zone since Eleanor Roosevelt in 1943.

Of course, the impact of Roosevelt's trip was much larger. She traveled by herself and spent five weeks in theater -- meanwhile Clinton spent just one day in Bosnia.

But then there's the fact that Hillary Clinton's claim wasn't true.

She isn't the first First Lady to travel to a travel to a war zone -- that honor goes to First Lady Pat Nixon, who went to Vietnam in 1969.

more http://www.jedreport.com/2008/03/and-another-cla.html"> at the link

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16. TYT: The Latest Clinton Canard

The latest talking point for Hillary Clinton is this race is still early in the process and primaries from previous years were decided much later in the year. She recently told Time, as well almost every other interviewer she's talked to, "I remind a lot of people that my husband didn't formally wrap up the nomination until June."

The point is supposed to be that this race isn't over. They're just getting started. Give her more time. Here's the problem, that isn't really true….

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5270134&mesg_id=5270134

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17. Ministers Speak Out Against Clinton Politicizing Religion

by slinkerwink
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5265013

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18. McGovern: 'Harder to elect woman than black man' (more divisive crap from Clintons Camp)

Its really about dividing and conquering. Turning the democratic base against itself.

McGovern: 'Harder to elect woman than black man'

by Mark Silva The Swamp

First Geraldine Ferraro, the Democratic nominee for vice president in 1984, suggested that Sen. Barack Obama wouldn't have gotten where he is today "if he was a white man.''

Now George McGovern, Democratic nominee for president in 1972, says Obama will have an easier time of winning the White House than Sen. Hillary Clinton might have.

And this is from someone who has endorsed Clinton.

more at the link

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19. Hilary and Barnburning

Hilary and Barnburning

By Richard F. Kane - March 26, 2008

It appears that Hilary has adopted the fine old tradition of "barnburning" in the Democratic Party. During its first period, under Jackson and Van Buren, a split develop in the New York party, and one faction became known as "Barnburners" because if they could not win the intra-party fight, then they would "burn the barn down" and destroy the party's chances in the upcoming election.

Hilary and her supporters, having gotten themselves into this predicament by not being ready to contest the nomination contest after "Super Tuesday," now appear intent on destroying Barack Obama to win the nomination. Which will be then be worth then a rapidly declining $1.00 note.

She will have zero support in the Black community and among net-roots liberals, she will have made great arguments about why John McCain would be a better Commander-in-Chief then she would be, she would have establish that she is a flip-flopper on Iraq (she was for the war before she was against it), where McCain is not, and finally she has never shown that with her pre-existing negatives she could get more than 48% percent of the vote even before she pissed the African-American Community. The Republicans are so desperate to win, and prevent a real examination of the crimes of the last eight years, that they have picked McCain, a man most of them despise. If they win despite this war and this economy, it will be true achievement of the Clintons (who have never been very good for the rest of the party anyway).

more at the link

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48. there is the image "Tanya Harding lighting barns on fire"

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20. ABC: Knee-capping, anyone?

There is no doubt that Senator Clinton will do everything she can to "win",
one DNC official has referred to Hillary as going "Tonya Harding".

Knee-capping, anyone?

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21. The longer Clinton is in the race, the better McCain's odds for victory get

At this point in time, any efforts to boost the Clinton campaign
only increase the odds of a McCain victory in Nov 2008.

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23. Whew! McCain's Website - Bill Clinton featured in video appearance as soon as you arrive!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5274491&mesg_id=5274491

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24. DIRTY TRICKS: "Clinton supporter trying to overturn my TX caucus"

Clinton supporter trying to overturn my TX caucus

by Morgan in Austin Wed Mar 26, 2008 at 08:52:34 PM PDT

I am ripped. I am so ripped.
I went to my Texas precinct caucus and sat -- or rather stood -- through three hours of of suffocating heat to cast my vote for Obama.

Now, three weeks later and right on the eve of the district convention a Clinton supporter is trying to have my vote and all the Obama votes overturned.

I have given up my family time for Saturday March 29 in order to attend as a delegate to the party convention.
This Clinton supporter wants to kick me out of the party convention.

I am ripped.

In a rambling letter beginning

Re: Challenge to whole Obama delegation from Pct. 355.

- this Clinton supporter makes a number of false claims about how the caucus took place:

- claiming that we started before the polls closed (untrue)

- claiming that we appointed rather than elected a Chairman for the meeting
(maybe she slept through the "call for nominations for chair" and "all in favor" part?)

- suggesting that the name Obama was written in "suspiciously different handwriting" on the sign in sheets

- vaguely suggesting she thinks the Obama team padded their roster.

more at the link

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42. Damn. That is so nasty...

I hope things don't get crazy in Texas now too.

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25. The Only Thing Keeping the Clinton Campaign Alive is the Media

What does Hillary Clinton need to do in order to win the democratic nomination?

The fact is, Hillary Clinton has no more than a 5% chance of winning, and can only do so by rendering Barack Obama completely un-electable. Obama leads her by more than 700,000 votes and, to catch him,
she would need to win the remaining ten contests by an average margin well into double digits.

Basically, the only thing keeping the Clinton campaign alive is the media.

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26. Obama Camp Hammers Letter To Pelosi As "Inappropriate" -- Demands Hillary Reject It

Obama Camp Hammers Letter To Pelosi As "Inappropriate" -- Demands Hillary Reject It

By Greg Sargent - March 26, 2008

Obama spokesperson Bill Burton responds to the letter from top Clinton fundraisers demanding that Nancy Pelosi say publicly that super-dels shouldn't feel bound to support the pledged del count leader...

“This letter is inappropriate and we hope the Clinton campaign will reject the insinuation contained in it. Regardless of the outcome of the nomination fight, Senator Obama will continue to urge his supporters to assist Speaker Pelosi in her efforts to maintain and build a working majority in the House of Representatives.”

The "insinuation" Burton refers to here is the following line from the letter, which links the donors' reference to their own financial support of the DCCC to their demand that Pelosi publicly declare that the super-dels should feel free to be "independent" in their choice:

We have been strong supporters of the DCCC. We therefore urge you to clarify your position on super-delegates and reflect in your comments a more open view to the optional independent actions of each of the delegates at the National Convention in August.

more at the link

[Cha]

31. This is what I was coming over

to post..I saw it in Politics and Campaigns.

Big News!

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27. CLINTONS WILL BE STOPPED BY PARTY LEADERS

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5275171&mesg_id=5275171

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35. k+

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28. Superdelegates SPEAKING NOW & Tell Hillary to SYFPH!!!

Superdelegates SPEAKING NOW & Tell Hillary to SYFPH!!!

by Steven R Wed Mar 26, 2008

How on earth is this not on the Rec List???

First Read Headline: CLINTON TACTICS TURN OFF SOME SUPERDELEGATES

a handful of undecided and pledged superdelegates are coming forward to say
her campaign's tactics in recent weeks are doing more harm than good.

The ground is beginning to Rumble... The Superdelegates know where this boat is leading

...Keep in Mind, these are Uncommitted or Clinton Superdelegates

more at the link, including videos

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30. Hilllary Clinton's "Populist" Campaign is a Fake Aided By K-Street

Hilllary Clinton's "Populist" Campaign is a Fake Aided By K-Street

Laura Roslin at OpEdNews

If you thought that the Hillary's Tuzla "sniper fire" lie was bad, or her NAFTA lie dirty rotten, how about Hillary's switch from corporatist and centrist to "populist"?

Isn't this just another lie - er I mean "mis-statement" (the media term for shameless lies).
If you had any doubt that Hillary's populist campaign is a fake, then all you need to do is see who is working for her campaign

Source - Hilllary Clinton the populist? By JEANNE CUMMINGS 3/24/08

"Many of the corporations and companies she rails against on the campaign trail today are
primary sources of income for her top consultants in the off-election years."

more at the link

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32. K&R. (nt)

[Hope And Change]

33. Obama Speaks On Issues In Greensboro NC - 26 March, 2008

Obama Speaks On Issues In Greensboro NC - 26 March, 2008


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x110979

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34. Nice pic

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36. Barack Obama is 'extraordinary talent', says Michael Gerson

Times Online March 26, 2008

Barack Obama is 'extraordinary talent', says Michael Gerson

Video: Watch the Comment Central interview with Michael Gerson
http://timesonline.typepad.com/comment/2008/03/twofer-with-mic.html

A former senior aide to President Bush today hailed Barack Obama is an “extraordinary political talent” who would make a tougher opponent for John McCain than Hillary Clinton.

In a remarkably frank interview with Daniel Finkelstein, Comment Editor of The Times, Michael Gerson said Obama's ascent to the White House would be “one of the great culminating moments in American history”.

The former chief speechwriter to President Bush insisted that, despite the recent controversies dogging Mr Obama, the Illinois senator nevertheless remained the greatest threat to the Republican Party.

...“He’ll be a strong candidate,” he continued. “I think John McCain would have an easier job with Hillary Clinton who is actually a poor candidate, has poor political skills, so it’s a hard one to predict.”

more at the link

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article3628100.ece

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37. "At least 30% of donors threatening Pelosi slept in the Lincoln bedroom"

http://www.americablog.com/2008/03/30-of-hillary-donors-who-threatened.html

It looks like some gifts just keep on giving. At least 6 of the 20 big Dem donors who are now threatening to exort Nancy Pelosi on behalf of Hillary slept in the Lincoln Bedroom while Bill and Hillary were in the White House. (We only have the list of who slept in the bedroom during four years, i.e., half, of the Clinton presidency. Some reporters need to ask the Clinton campaign if anyone else on this list slept in the Lincoln Bedroom.) You'll recall that some 831 or so special friends of the Clintons got to stay in the Lincoln Bedroom during four years of the Clinton presidency (that's about 4 a week, every week, for 4 years). You would think that this is the kind of bad publicity that Hillary's little band of extortionists wouldn't want. Well they're going to get it. Here's the list of big Dem donors who are now threatening the party if Pelosi doesn't cave to their demands and help Hillary - the ones in bold are Lincoln Bedroom guests, per CNN (CNN only has the list for 4 years):

Marc Aronchick
Clarence Avant
Susie Tompkins Buell
Sim Farar (CNN says a "Sym" Farar stayed in the bedroom)
Robert L. Johnson
Chris Korge
Marc Lasry
Cathy Lasry
Hassan Nemazee
Alan Patricof
Susan Patricof
JB Pritzker
Amy Rao
Lynn de Rothschild
Haim Saban
Bernard Schwartz
Stanley S. Shuman
Jay Snyder
Maureen White
Steven Rattner

Stoller also notes that nearly half of the group donated to Lieberman's Senate campaign.

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46. Is it just me, or do a lot of those names look like the NWO-types I hear conspiracy folks talk about

I really need to stop paying attention to those guys, but it seems really important that Pelosi not cave to these people.

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38. Mayor Bloomberg to introduce Obama at speech on Economy today

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5279037

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39. Hillary's Spooky Religious Affiliations

26.03.2008

Hillary's Spooky Religious Affiliations

The Atlantic's Josh Green has a useful primer on "The Fellowship," the shadowy Christian-political organization Hillary's been affiliated with over the years. Josh explains:

The group was formed in the 1930s to minister to political and business leaders throughout the world, modeling itself as a kind of Christian Trilateral Commission. Several members of Congress are affiliated with the group, mostly Republicans, but some Democrats, too. To the extent The Fellowship is known beyond its members it is probably for founding the annual National Prayer Breakfast in Washington.

Like Jeremiah Wright's Trinity Baptist Church, The Fellowship is run by its own mysterious and controversial figure, Douglas Coe, although temperamentally Coe is Wright's opposite. He eschews the spotlight and has never made a controversial public utterance that I'm aware of -- mainly because he rarely speaks publicly at all. (You won't find him on YouTube.) But like Wright, Coe has ministered to a Democratic frontrunner. He personally leads a private Senate prayer group that Clinton has been a part of.

In my piece, I chose to focus on the Senate prayer group, but others have written extensively about the strangeness and secrecy of The Fellowship. As this Los Angeles Times story and this exquisitely reported Harper's piece make clear, there is something deeply strange about the group. They certainly do not like press coverage, so in that regard Clinton's attraction might make sense. Reporters hoping to look into the group might want to think again. A few years ago, The Fellowship’s archives, which are held at Wheaton College, the evangelical school in Illinos, were reclassified as “restricted” and placed under lock and key....

more at the link

http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/03/26/hillary-s-spooky-religious-affiliations.aspx

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40. Krugman on Hillary's Greenspan-Love

26.03.2008

Krugman on Hillary's Greenspan-Love

Per that item I wrote yesterday about Hillary appointing Alan Greenspan to a "high-level working group"--it sounds like Paul Krugman had the same thought: Bad idea. As he writes on his blog:

OK, this is pretty dumb. Hillary Clinton wants a high-level commission to analyze ways to resolve the mortgage crisis — including Alan Greenspan.

Yes, I know people still listen when Greenspan speaks — and John McCain once joked about taking Greenspan’s advice even if he’s dead. But for those in the know, AG is a key villain in the whole affair.

I mean, why not add Charles Prince, Stanley O’Neal, and Angelo Mozilo to the commission?

Exactly.

--Noam Scheiber

Posted: Wednesday, March 26, 2008

http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/03/26/krugman-on-hillary-s-greenspan-love.aspx

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41. NY Times: Obama's Speeches Catch Fire Online, Viewed by Millions

Finding Political News Online, the Young Pass It On

By BRIAN STELTER
Published: March 27, 2008

Senator Barack Obama’s videotaped response to President Bush’s final State of the Union address — almost five minutes of Mr. Obama’s talking directly to the camera — elicited little attention from newspaper and television reporters in January.

But on the medium it was made for, the Internet, the video caught fire. Quickly after it was posted on YouTube, it appeared on the video-sharing site’s most popular list and Google’s most blogged list. It has been viewed more than 1.3 million times, been linked by more than 500 blogs and distributed widely on social networking sites like Facebook.

It is not news that young politically minded viewers are turning to alternative sources like YouTube, Facebook and late-night comedy shows like “The Daily Show.” But that is only the beginning of how they process information.

According to interviews and recent surveys, younger voters tend to be not just consumers of news and current events but conduits as well — sending out e-mailed links and videos to friends and their social networks. And in turn, they rely on friends and online connections for news to come to them. In essence, they are replacing the professional filter — reading The Washington Post, clicking on CNN.com — with a social one.

more here

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/us/politics/27voters.html?_r=2&ex=1364356800&en=2f1a77edb6185cd2&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

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43. A Side Effect of Today's Ruling on the January Primary (Michigan)

A Side Effect of Today's Ruling on the January Primary
By - March 26, 2008

As seen here, the Michigan January primary has been voided by a federal judge. There is an important possible effect of today's ruling declaring the Mich priamry unconstitutional that has gone unnoticed. If, against the odds, there is an do-over vote in Michigan, the Democrats will not be able to exclude anyone who voted in the GOP primary in January. They had planned to do so.

This is for 2 reasons. First, a person can't be excluded from something because of something that is Constitutionally void. Second, and more practically, if the party are running the primary, they won't even have the January voter lists, so they won't have the knowledge to know whom to exclude.

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/03/a-side-effect-of-todays-ruling.php

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44. Hillary Super-Delegates In Washington State Wavering

Hillary Super-Delegates In Washington State Wavering
By Eric Kleefeld - March 27, 2008, 9:13AM

Some cracks are starting to show in the dedication of Hillary Clinton super-delegates in Washington State, with some fearing that the drawn-out contest would damage the party for the general election.

"I don't think that people want a divisive, explosive convention," said King County Executive Ron Sims, a super-delegate supporting Hillary. "It will radiate defeat."

Another Hillary supporter, Sen. Maria Cantwell, declared earlier this week that "I definitely don’t want the super-delegates to be the deciding factor," and that the party should eventually come together around the candidate who has won the most delegates and most states.

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/03/hillary_superdelegates_in_wash.php

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45. Pro-Clinton Bloggers are Giving Up on Their Gal

Pro-Clinton Bloggers are Giving Up on Their Gal

By - March 26, 2008, 12:45PM
Kevin Drum.

Atrios.

James Fallows.

And it's not the Wright thing or Snipergate that did it. It's the fact that Hillary has now decided to lie down with the so-called "vast right-wing conspiracy."

What is it called when you finally become the thing you hate? Is it just sad? Pathetic? Or is there a better word for it?

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/03/proclinton-bloggers-are-giving.php

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47. NBC-WSJ POLL: NEW CLINTON LOWS

Who can unite the country:
60 percent of all voters believed Obama could
58 percent of all voters said McCain could
46 percent of voters said the same about Clinton


NBC-WSJ POLL: NEW CLINTON LOWS

Wednesday, March 26, 2008 6:30 PM by Domenico Montanaro
Filed Under: Democrats, 2008, Clinton, Obama, Polls

From NBC's Chuck Todd
As expected, one of the two major Democratic candidates saw a downturn in the latest NBC/WSJ poll, but it's not the candidate that you think. Hillary Clinton is sporting the lowest personal ratings of the campaign. Moreover, her 37 percent positive rating is the lowest the NBC/WSJ poll has recorded since March 2001, two months after she was elected to the U.S. Senate from New York.

The poll was conducted Monday and Tuesday this week by Hart-McInturff and surveyed 700 registered voters, which gives the poll a margin of error of +/- 3.7 percent. In addition, we oversampled African-Americans in order to get a more reliable cross-tab on many of the questions we asked in this poll regarding Sen. Barack Obama's speech on race and overall response to last week's Rev. Jeremiah Wright dustup. (Watch Tim Russert's analysis of the poll results.)

...As for the damage this controversy did or didn't do to Obama, it's a mixed bag. Yes, Obama saw some of his numbers go down slightly among certain voting groups, most notably Republicans. But he's still much more competitive with independent voters when matched up against John McCain than Hillary Clinton is. And he still sports a net-positive personal rating of 49-32, which is down only slightly from two weeks ago, when it was 51-28. Again, the biggest shift in those negative numbers were among Republicans.

On one of the most critical questions we've been tracking for a few months, Obama showed resilience. When asked if the three presidential candidates could be successful in uniting the country if they were elected president, 60 percent of all voters believed Obama could be successful at doing this, 58 percent of all voters said McCain could unite the country while only 46 percent of voters said the same about Clinton. All three candidates saw dips on this issue, by the way. In January, 67 percent thought Obama could unite the country; 68 percent thought McCain could do it; and 55 percent said Clinton would be able to pull it off.

more here at the link
http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/03/26/821438.aspx

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

49. Jeremiah Wright, class act

"He's cutting short his 15 minutes and passing up the chance to
vindicate himself. The beneficiary is Barack Obama."

Jeremiah Wright, class act

Mark Kleiman Same Facts March 27, 2008

Jeremiah Wright has cancelled public appearances and isn't giving interviews.
He has done so although he is being widely, and not very accurately, vilified. In particular, he has been identified as a racist. Nothing he has been quoted as saying justifies that charge, and there is lots of evidence that it isn't true. None of the loudmouth political preachers to whom Wright has been likened since the controversy broke would have voluntarily cut short his own fifteen minutes of fame.

I have no special insight as to why Wright has made this choice, but the big beneficiary is the most famous member of Wright's former congregation, and the natural interpretation is that Wright is sacrificing both camera time and the opportunity to vindicate himself against slander either for Obama's sake or for the sake of the larger purposes that would be served by Obama's election.

I wish Wright hadn't said that silly, ugly stuff about AIDS and drugs, but the more I learn about him the more I admire him.
link

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50. Obama on the Economy: "let's stop letting the lobbyists write the laws."

((((((((((((((((( The RBC Update: Obama on the economy )))))))))))))))))

2008.03.27 10:21:13


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Not a typical Obama speech, but just right for the subject
matter: meaty and analytical, tying specific proposals into
his larger themes of "we're all in it together" and "let's
stop letting the lobbyists write the laws."

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http://WWW.samefacts.com/archives/campaign_2008_/2008/03/obama_on_the_economy.php

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

51. Joe Wilson Drinks the Napalm

Joe Wilson Drinks the Napalm Chip Collis HuffPo March 27, 2008

As the Clinton campaign continues its long day's meltdown into night, one of the sadder chapters of history being written is the tarnishing of Bill Clinton's legacy as a pretty good president.
...
Ambassador Joe Wilson has drunk the napalm and is belching fire!

One of the sadder footnotes currently being written to history is the damage to Joe Wilson's reputation as a pretty good public servant. Of course, in a footnote to a preceding chapter he became the Pancho to his wife's Cisco as they fought the forces of the Evil Ranchero. But it appears he has subsumed their legitimate victimization to Clinton's Cult of Perpetual Martyrdom.

Contrast his brave and principled stand against Saddam during Gulf War I and his brave and principled stand against the Bush Administration in Gulf War II with his craven attacks on Obama. What's worse, he smears by association, as he attacks Obama for being supported by people whose only crimes appear to be supporting Obama and... criticizing Hillary!

Wilson is immolating his honor and reputation in the Clinton Gotterdammerung by firebombing the principled stands taken by Zbigniew Brzezinski, by John Kerry, by Bill Richardson, and by General Tony McPeak on behalf of the most transfiguring person in American politics since Franklin Roosevelt.

more at the link
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chip-collis/joe-wilson-drinks-the-nap_b_93698.html

[Coexist]

52. New Superdelegate for Obama!!

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/3/27/1443/69652/646/485482

[Coexist]

53. new poll - Obama up 10 / racists don't like the Senator:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080327/ap_on_el_pr/poll2008_national

THE NUMBERS

Barack Obama, 49 percent

Hillary Rodham Clinton, 39 percent

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OF INTEREST:

The two rivals' standings in the Pew Research Center poll have changed little from late February, the latest indication that so far Obama has weathered the controversy over provocative sermons by his longtime pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. While Obama has a mostly favorable image among white Democrats, those with unfavorable views about him are likelier to say equal rights for minorities have gone too far and to oppose interracial dating. Almost one in four white Democrats who view Obama unfavorably also think he is Muslim, when in fact he is Christian. Obama and Clinton both continue to hold slender leads nationally in matchups against the all-but-certain Republican candidate, John McCain.

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[Hope And Change]

54. Full Speech - Barack Obama at Cooper Union

Full Speech - Barack Obama at Cooper Union


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x111174

[Hope And Change]

55. Pew Poll: Obama 49%, Clinton 39%

Poll: Obama leads Clinton nationally


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5284852