Post #152
Subject: Quit, Obama, Quit
Democratic Party Chairman Howard Dean said Monday that Barack Obama must drop out of the Democratic presidential race after the June primaries in order to unify the party by the convention and win the election in November. ”We want the voters to have their say. That's over on June 3," Dean said in an interview on ABC's "Good Morning America."
Oh, wait – Dean really said that either Hillary Clinton or Obama must quit after the primaries.
Dean also said that while the party rules say Democratic superdelegates can wait until the party's August 25 convention to make up their minds, that would be too late to unify the party and defeat the presumptive Republican nominee, John McCain. "We really can't have a divided convention. If we do it's going to be very hard to heal the party afterwards," Dean said. "So we'll know who the nominee is and that'll give us an extra 2 1/2 months to get our party together, heal the wounds of having a very closely divided race and take on Senator McCain."
There’ll be no division – Obama will do the right thing and quit. There are nine primaries left, and Clinton leads the popular vote. Who is prepared to make Clinton “the Al Gore of ’08” and steal this election?
Let’s suppose Obama whines about Michigan. I say let’s have a one-day national primary, a re-vote. I wonder how many votes would switch today. And, Goodness, have a state-by-state, winner-take-all count that mimics the November election.
This is where the superdelegates come in. It is their responsibility to dismiss a candidate who has fatally wounded himself. The only division will come from Obama’s ego if he refuses to read the handwriting on the wall.
Clinton leads McCain by 9 in a poll released today while Obama and McCain were tied. Save us, superdelegates!
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Friday, April 25, 2008
Post #151
Subject: John McCain and his 99-year war
It is not important that John McCain will keep our troops in Iraq for 100 years if they are not taking casualties. What is important is how many years McCain will keep our troops there if they are taking casualties. Five years? 10? 20? 50? 99?
We are involved in the decisive ideological struggle of our time. The War on Terror is a race against time – we need to convince those who want to do us harm that there is a better way BEFORE they do us harm. The Iraq War is NOT the War on Terror.
How long will McCain continue to squander blood and treasure for no strategic gain? Indeed, the Iraq War is a drain on and a diversion from the War on Terror and making us less secure. The Iraq War itself is giving aid and comfort to the enemy – we are losing the ability to respond militarily to other threats and have provided Al-Qaeda with a recruiting poster.
Do not look for an answer from “Mr. Straight-Talk” BEYOND “we’ll be there as long as it takes to get the job done.” He will not define “job” in a way that applies to a military mission – a favorite tactic of George W. Bush.
To do so, to define the “job” as something the military can do – such as ‘getting’ Saddam, hunting down and destroying terrorist training camps and toppling governments that harbor ‘em, would be to acknowledge that the “job” is perpetual war. And that is fighting terrorism how?
Osama bin Laden, in a videotape released on the eve of the ‘04 election, said that his intention was to bankrupt America. Bin Laden cited the example of the Soviet Union in Afghanistan where a guerrilla war of 10 years forced a bankrupt Soviet Union to withdraw and collapse. How much closer are we to achieving the goal of bin Laden?
McCain warns about the consequences of leaving, but what about the consequences of staying? At what point will McCain say “enough is enough?” How many more lives will be sacrificed? How many more billions? Will it take a terrorist attack here at home for McCain to realize that Iraq is not the place he needs to hang tough?
My fear is that we’ll end up like Russia, a second-rate power with a lot of nuclear weapons we can’t afford to secure.
Subject: John McCain and his 99-year war
It is not important that John McCain will keep our troops in Iraq for 100 years if they are not taking casualties. What is important is how many years McCain will keep our troops there if they are taking casualties. Five years? 10? 20? 50? 99?
We are involved in the decisive ideological struggle of our time. The War on Terror is a race against time – we need to convince those who want to do us harm that there is a better way BEFORE they do us harm. The Iraq War is NOT the War on Terror.
How long will McCain continue to squander blood and treasure for no strategic gain? Indeed, the Iraq War is a drain on and a diversion from the War on Terror and making us less secure. The Iraq War itself is giving aid and comfort to the enemy – we are losing the ability to respond militarily to other threats and have provided Al-Qaeda with a recruiting poster.
Do not look for an answer from “Mr. Straight-Talk” BEYOND “we’ll be there as long as it takes to get the job done.” He will not define “job” in a way that applies to a military mission – a favorite tactic of George W. Bush.
To do so, to define the “job” as something the military can do – such as ‘getting’ Saddam, hunting down and destroying terrorist training camps and toppling governments that harbor ‘em, would be to acknowledge that the “job” is perpetual war. And that is fighting terrorism how?
Osama bin Laden, in a videotape released on the eve of the ‘04 election, said that his intention was to bankrupt America. Bin Laden cited the example of the Soviet Union in Afghanistan where a guerrilla war of 10 years forced a bankrupt Soviet Union to withdraw and collapse. How much closer are we to achieving the goal of bin Laden?
McCain warns about the consequences of leaving, but what about the consequences of staying? At what point will McCain say “enough is enough?” How many more lives will be sacrificed? How many more billions? Will it take a terrorist attack here at home for McCain to realize that Iraq is not the place he needs to hang tough?
My fear is that we’ll end up like Russia, a second-rate power with a lot of nuclear weapons we can’t afford to secure.
Friday, April 18, 2008
Post #150
Subject: open mouth, insert feet, Pt. II
My responses and additions – in [brackets]….
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=26004
“Stix Nix Obama’s Trix” by Jennifer Rubin
THE GOP SEES AN OPENING
Hillary got some help from the Republicans who decided that it was time to rough up the rookie candidate. (Whether the McCain team believes that Obama can be dislodged from the lead in favor of Hillary - who now trails John McCain in polls across the board - or whether they hope he can be bloodied before stumbling to the nomination, …
[Of course, John McCain wants a black as an opponent – appeals to racism can play to some %80 of voters whereas appeals to sexism can play to only some %50 of voters. Of course, too, McCain wants a bloodied opponent – and Barack Obama keeps doing it to himself.]
.... they were not about to miss this opportunity.) McCain’s communications director cut to the chase:
“It shows an elitism and condescension towards hardworking Americans that is nothing short of breathtaking. It is hard to imagine someone running for president who is more out of touch with average Americans.’
Karl Rove predicted the mega-gaffe would doom Obama’s chances in Pennsylvania and Americans for Tax Reform’s, Grover Norquist went further, declaring it would cost him the election.
Robert Gleason, head of the Pennsylvania GOP remarked that this would raise “even more questions” about Obama’s values and observed:
"The vast majority of Pennsylvanians believe wholeheartedly in their Constitutional right to bear arms, have a strong devotion to their faith, and believe that our government should be actively looking for a solution to the illegal immigration crisis, and Barack Obama managed to offend every single one of us with this one statement. With a diverse population, many with immigrant backgrounds, it is sad Obama wants to paint the Keystone State with this broad brush of ignorance."
[A sharp commenter [?] at another blog nailed Obama as an elitist BEFORE these latest comments back when he went bowling. Obama must have thought, the poster said, ‘if these ya-hoos can bowl, I can too.’ And, without a lesson, he made a fool of himself ]
Obama must be wondering, “Who would have thought that a bunch of bare footed, Bible thumping, know-nothings would take such offense?” Obama had slipped on the ice of his own condescension. Now the question is: can he recover?
He tried out a longwinded explanation Friday night in Indiana for why he believed the poor downtrodden of Middle America had no choice but to resort to firearms and faith to easy their economic pain, but somehow that did not seem to fly. He quickly detoured into insulting McCain. He tried again on Saturday to explain he had meant no disrespect, but there was no way to take the sting out of his own words. Reporters were left scratching their heads: did he really believe voters would not be insulted by his treatise on their political backwardness?
THE MEDIA DESCENDS
Even the usually solicitous MSM spotted this as a gigantic problem for their beloved candidate. One MSNC analyst put it: “Regardless of what he really meant by it, the idea that you're calling unemployed people bitter does not come off so good. I think that he's going to spend a lot of time on this between now and however long the election goes on.” Other pundits intoned: “It’s bad - and it drips condescension.”
You know things are not going well when Chris Matthews concedes “Nobody wants to be called ‘bitter.’” In short, this was a gaffe so bad that not even his media cheerleader could rescue him.
KEYSTONE IMPACT
Hick-gate may well halt Obama’s Keystone state progress in its tracks. Beginning with a double digit deficit in the Pennsylvania primary polls Obama had cut Clinton’s sixteen-point lead to mid-single digits. His enormous TV ad buy and the Clinton’s Three Stooges routine (Mark Penn, Bill and Hillary) had managed to fumble Hillary’s lead, tripping over free trade and repressed memories of Bosnia.
By Friday (before the effect of Hick-gate could register), Clinton’s lead in the Realclearpolitics.com average hovered just above seven points (but that included an outlying Survey USA poll which still showed her ahead by 18 points).
Now Clinton has her chance to short circuit Obama’s already anemic outreach to white working class voters. If not impressed with his “37” bowling score they likely won’t be thrilled to learn that he equates them with Lil Abner characters.
Before Friday some Pennsylvania voters might already have been worried about Obama’ outlook on America because of his long time association with the hate-mongering Reverend Wright. They might have even been irked after reading in Obama’s memoirs that he considers the country beset by racists around every corner and even in his own family.
Well now Hillary can fully exploit those suspicions that Obama is an elitist who looks down on his fellow citizens, regarding them as narrow-minded and foolish. She need not touch the remarks of Reverend Wright (and risk being labeled a race baiter herself): she now has Obama’s own words to work with.
What’s more, Obama’s somewhat ludicrous attempt to appeal to gun owners in Pennsylvania (and elsewhere) is now likely kaput. They likely wouldn’t have fallen for it anyway. Contrary to his perception that they are dullards, these voters are smart enough to doubt the sincerity of a man who favored strict gun control as a state senator and failed to sign on to the Congressional friend of the court brief asking the Supreme Court to hold the D.C. handgun ban unconstitutional.
IMPACT
Next week’s voting will reveal how deep Obama’s self-inflicted wound is. Should Hillary nab a comfortable win in Pennsylvania, any hopes of putting her out of the Democrats’ misery will vanish. All eyes will turn to the exit polls. If Obama has dug his own grave with working class white voters (the very segment that was fleeing his coalition in Texas and Ohio) the superdelegates will perk up. Then her dire warnings of impending doom for the Democratic Party with an Obama nominee might seem downright credible.
[Barak Obama has been judged not by the color of his skin but the content of his character.]
And John McCain? He is living up to his self-described billing as the luckiest man alive.
Subject: open mouth, insert feet, Pt. II
My responses and additions – in [brackets]….
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=26004
“Stix Nix Obama’s Trix” by Jennifer Rubin
THE GOP SEES AN OPENING
Hillary got some help from the Republicans who decided that it was time to rough up the rookie candidate. (Whether the McCain team believes that Obama can be dislodged from the lead in favor of Hillary - who now trails John McCain in polls across the board - or whether they hope he can be bloodied before stumbling to the nomination, …
[Of course, John McCain wants a black as an opponent – appeals to racism can play to some %80 of voters whereas appeals to sexism can play to only some %50 of voters. Of course, too, McCain wants a bloodied opponent – and Barack Obama keeps doing it to himself.]
.... they were not about to miss this opportunity.) McCain’s communications director cut to the chase:
“It shows an elitism and condescension towards hardworking Americans that is nothing short of breathtaking. It is hard to imagine someone running for president who is more out of touch with average Americans.’
Karl Rove predicted the mega-gaffe would doom Obama’s chances in Pennsylvania and Americans for Tax Reform’s, Grover Norquist went further, declaring it would cost him the election.
Robert Gleason, head of the Pennsylvania GOP remarked that this would raise “even more questions” about Obama’s values and observed:
"The vast majority of Pennsylvanians believe wholeheartedly in their Constitutional right to bear arms, have a strong devotion to their faith, and believe that our government should be actively looking for a solution to the illegal immigration crisis, and Barack Obama managed to offend every single one of us with this one statement. With a diverse population, many with immigrant backgrounds, it is sad Obama wants to paint the Keystone State with this broad brush of ignorance."
[A sharp commenter [?] at another blog nailed Obama as an elitist BEFORE these latest comments back when he went bowling. Obama must have thought, the poster said, ‘if these ya-hoos can bowl, I can too.’ And, without a lesson, he made a fool of himself ]
Obama must be wondering, “Who would have thought that a bunch of bare footed, Bible thumping, know-nothings would take such offense?” Obama had slipped on the ice of his own condescension. Now the question is: can he recover?
He tried out a longwinded explanation Friday night in Indiana for why he believed the poor downtrodden of Middle America had no choice but to resort to firearms and faith to easy their economic pain, but somehow that did not seem to fly. He quickly detoured into insulting McCain. He tried again on Saturday to explain he had meant no disrespect, but there was no way to take the sting out of his own words. Reporters were left scratching their heads: did he really believe voters would not be insulted by his treatise on their political backwardness?
THE MEDIA DESCENDS
Even the usually solicitous MSM spotted this as a gigantic problem for their beloved candidate. One MSNC analyst put it: “Regardless of what he really meant by it, the idea that you're calling unemployed people bitter does not come off so good. I think that he's going to spend a lot of time on this between now and however long the election goes on.” Other pundits intoned: “It’s bad - and it drips condescension.”
You know things are not going well when Chris Matthews concedes “Nobody wants to be called ‘bitter.’” In short, this was a gaffe so bad that not even his media cheerleader could rescue him.
KEYSTONE IMPACT
Hick-gate may well halt Obama’s Keystone state progress in its tracks. Beginning with a double digit deficit in the Pennsylvania primary polls Obama had cut Clinton’s sixteen-point lead to mid-single digits. His enormous TV ad buy and the Clinton’s Three Stooges routine (Mark Penn, Bill and Hillary) had managed to fumble Hillary’s lead, tripping over free trade and repressed memories of Bosnia.
By Friday (before the effect of Hick-gate could register), Clinton’s lead in the Realclearpolitics.com average hovered just above seven points (but that included an outlying Survey USA poll which still showed her ahead by 18 points).
Now Clinton has her chance to short circuit Obama’s already anemic outreach to white working class voters. If not impressed with his “37” bowling score they likely won’t be thrilled to learn that he equates them with Lil Abner characters.
Before Friday some Pennsylvania voters might already have been worried about Obama’ outlook on America because of his long time association with the hate-mongering Reverend Wright. They might have even been irked after reading in Obama’s memoirs that he considers the country beset by racists around every corner and even in his own family.
Well now Hillary can fully exploit those suspicions that Obama is an elitist who looks down on his fellow citizens, regarding them as narrow-minded and foolish. She need not touch the remarks of Reverend Wright (and risk being labeled a race baiter herself): she now has Obama’s own words to work with.
What’s more, Obama’s somewhat ludicrous attempt to appeal to gun owners in Pennsylvania (and elsewhere) is now likely kaput. They likely wouldn’t have fallen for it anyway. Contrary to his perception that they are dullards, these voters are smart enough to doubt the sincerity of a man who favored strict gun control as a state senator and failed to sign on to the Congressional friend of the court brief asking the Supreme Court to hold the D.C. handgun ban unconstitutional.
IMPACT
Next week’s voting will reveal how deep Obama’s self-inflicted wound is. Should Hillary nab a comfortable win in Pennsylvania, any hopes of putting her out of the Democrats’ misery will vanish. All eyes will turn to the exit polls. If Obama has dug his own grave with working class white voters (the very segment that was fleeing his coalition in Texas and Ohio) the superdelegates will perk up. Then her dire warnings of impending doom for the Democratic Party with an Obama nominee might seem downright credible.
[Barak Obama has been judged not by the color of his skin but the content of his character.]
And John McCain? He is living up to his self-described billing as the luckiest man alive.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Post #149
Subject: open mouth, insert feet
My responses and additions – in [brackets]….
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=26004
“Stix Nix Obama’s Trix” by Jennifer Rubin
Barack Obama broke the first rule of Democratic presidential politics: never let on that you believe rural American voters are hicks straight out of Deliverance. Unfortunately for The Chosen One’s adoring fans, he could not have picked a worse time to reveal his contempt for average Americans.
[“Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn of him." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson. Unless Barack Obama believes that, he shouldn’t be President. Yes, that applies to all candidates.]
THE MOTHER OF ALL GAFFES
On Friday the usually Obamaphile Huffington Report turned the tables on him, breaking a story (complete with audio tape) that Obama had regaled a hoity-toity California fundraising audience with his thoughts on the rural folk of Pennsylvania. In remarks that his Left- wing Harvard professors would heartily endorse, he explained that the Californians should take pity on Pennsylvanians:
"You go into some of 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, And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
[In case Obama doesn’t get it, “bitter” is not offensive. What is offensive is the idea that “bitterness” can explain religious fervor. Did “bitterness” cause Obama to nod “Amen” to Reverend Wright for 20 years? There was no “bitterness” 50 years ago, how to explain those other ‘clings?’]
This was manna from political heaven for Hillary Clinton (who had spent most of Friday explaining a new set of fabrications from Bill about her brush with death in Bosnia) just as she was heading off into the political wilderness.
The Pennsylvania primary next week is do or die for Hillary. A loss or narrow win will send her packing; a comfortable victory will hush the hounds baying for her to leave the race. And for the campaign which could not shoot straight (or rather could not keep their shooting stories straight), the Clinton team finally had a clear shot at their target.
Even the worst-run presidential campaign in recent memory could see this opening. Hillary charged out with comments at a campaign appearance chiding Mr. Hope for finding only bitterness in Pennsylvania. (“I meet people who are resilient, who are optimistic, who are positive, who are rolling up their sleeves.”) and then moved in for the kill:
“Pennsylvanians don’t need a president who looks down on them, they need a president who stands up for them, who fights for them, who works hard for your futures, your jobs, your families.”
The Clinton camp spent the remainder of the weekend pounding at Obama, Hillary personally whacking at him and surrogatees descending en masse to make certain the entire state knew they had been insulted.
[Not so bad for “the worst-run presidential campaign in recent memory,” huh?]
Subject: open mouth, insert feet
My responses and additions – in [brackets]….
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=26004
“Stix Nix Obama’s Trix” by Jennifer Rubin
Barack Obama broke the first rule of Democratic presidential politics: never let on that you believe rural American voters are hicks straight out of Deliverance. Unfortunately for The Chosen One’s adoring fans, he could not have picked a worse time to reveal his contempt for average Americans.
[“Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn of him." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson. Unless Barack Obama believes that, he shouldn’t be President. Yes, that applies to all candidates.]
THE MOTHER OF ALL GAFFES
On Friday the usually Obamaphile Huffington Report turned the tables on him, breaking a story (complete with audio tape) that Obama had regaled a hoity-toity California fundraising audience with his thoughts on the rural folk of Pennsylvania. In remarks that his Left- wing Harvard professors would heartily endorse, he explained that the Californians should take pity on Pennsylvanians:
"You go into some of 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, And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."
[In case Obama doesn’t get it, “bitter” is not offensive. What is offensive is the idea that “bitterness” can explain religious fervor. Did “bitterness” cause Obama to nod “Amen” to Reverend Wright for 20 years? There was no “bitterness” 50 years ago, how to explain those other ‘clings?’]
This was manna from political heaven for Hillary Clinton (who had spent most of Friday explaining a new set of fabrications from Bill about her brush with death in Bosnia) just as she was heading off into the political wilderness.
The Pennsylvania primary next week is do or die for Hillary. A loss or narrow win will send her packing; a comfortable victory will hush the hounds baying for her to leave the race. And for the campaign which could not shoot straight (or rather could not keep their shooting stories straight), the Clinton team finally had a clear shot at their target.
Even the worst-run presidential campaign in recent memory could see this opening. Hillary charged out with comments at a campaign appearance chiding Mr. Hope for finding only bitterness in Pennsylvania. (“I meet people who are resilient, who are optimistic, who are positive, who are rolling up their sleeves.”) and then moved in for the kill:
“Pennsylvanians don’t need a president who looks down on them, they need a president who stands up for them, who fights for them, who works hard for your futures, your jobs, your families.”
The Clinton camp spent the remainder of the weekend pounding at Obama, Hillary personally whacking at him and surrogatees descending en masse to make certain the entire state knew they had been insulted.
[Not so bad for “the worst-run presidential campaign in recent memory,” huh?]
Friday, April 11, 2008
Post #148
Subject: Joe Lieberman, another politician...
I’m no fool. I realize most politicians are the worst form of human scum, lyin’ cheatin’ bastards who’ll do anything to get elected. Sometimes, tho, I’ll run across one whom I think to be misguided but honest.
Joe Lieberman
Senator Lieberman's re-election campaign caused its own Web site to crash on the eve of the August 2006 Connecticut primary, federal investigators have found, not supporters of Democratic challenger Ned Lamont, whom Lieberman implied were responsible.
"In short, the server that hosted the joe2006.com Web site failed because it was overutilized and misconfigured," according to an October 25, 2006, e-mail included in FBI documents obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press. "There was no evidence of (an) attack."
That was some two weeks BEFORE the general election. Who in the Lieberman campaign knew about this – that is, the charge that their political opponent engaged in dirty tricks was false – BEFORE the election?
Lamont said Wednesday that Lieberman, a Democratic-leaning independent, should apologize.
"Senator Lieberman's campaign team accused an awful lot of good people of breaking the law on the eve of the primary, and they did it for political purposes," Lamont told the AP in a telephone interview. "If he does the right thing, he'll stand up and say, 'I was wrong."
Lieberman had implied that Lamont supporters had hacked the site, saying on primary day: "I'm concerned that our Web site is knocked out on the day of the primary, you'd assume it wasn't any casual observer."
His campaign asked the Justice Department to investigate; Lamont's campaign denied involvement.
A Lieberman spokesman said Wednesday that the Senator considered the case closed.
"We were told by our Web site administrator that there was clear evidence of an outside effort to disrupt our site, and that the administrator was so certain that the site had been attacked that he was willing to swear to it in a legal affidavit," Dan Gerstein said.
Not so fast. Joe Lieberman should apologize for the false accusations and for the time between when he first knew the accusations were false and now. It’s only decent.
And un-political….
Subject: Joe Lieberman, another politician...
I’m no fool. I realize most politicians are the worst form of human scum, lyin’ cheatin’ bastards who’ll do anything to get elected. Sometimes, tho, I’ll run across one whom I think to be misguided but honest.
Joe Lieberman
Senator Lieberman's re-election campaign caused its own Web site to crash on the eve of the August 2006 Connecticut primary, federal investigators have found, not supporters of Democratic challenger Ned Lamont, whom Lieberman implied were responsible.
"In short, the server that hosted the joe2006.com Web site failed because it was overutilized and misconfigured," according to an October 25, 2006, e-mail included in FBI documents obtained Wednesday by The Associated Press. "There was no evidence of (an) attack."
That was some two weeks BEFORE the general election. Who in the Lieberman campaign knew about this – that is, the charge that their political opponent engaged in dirty tricks was false – BEFORE the election?
Lamont said Wednesday that Lieberman, a Democratic-leaning independent, should apologize.
"Senator Lieberman's campaign team accused an awful lot of good people of breaking the law on the eve of the primary, and they did it for political purposes," Lamont told the AP in a telephone interview. "If he does the right thing, he'll stand up and say, 'I was wrong."
Lieberman had implied that Lamont supporters had hacked the site, saying on primary day: "I'm concerned that our Web site is knocked out on the day of the primary, you'd assume it wasn't any casual observer."
His campaign asked the Justice Department to investigate; Lamont's campaign denied involvement.
A Lieberman spokesman said Wednesday that the Senator considered the case closed.
"We were told by our Web site administrator that there was clear evidence of an outside effort to disrupt our site, and that the administrator was so certain that the site had been attacked that he was willing to swear to it in a legal affidavit," Dan Gerstein said.
Not so fast. Joe Lieberman should apologize for the false accusations and for the time between when he first knew the accusations were false and now. It’s only decent.
And un-political….
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Post #!47
Subject: … from Hot Air
An e-pal sent in “a discussion of the current presidential campaign's 'identity politics'... an excerpt from the discussion section after the post, which i find is usually as, or more, enlightening than blog posts themselves:
“The elitists and their candidates know nothing about America outside their Gulfstream ghettos and it is way too late for them to even start pretending that they do. All it does is to further insult us ‘great unwashed’ out here in ‘Jesusland.’
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/04/05/the-irony-of-identity-politics/
“Roses are red, Grasses are green; get off your ass and join the Marines!”
Racism was not a part of the ’08 campaign – ‘til Barak Obama made it so. He called for “understanding” of Reverend Wright – thereby exposing himself as a racist… or at least an apologist for racism. I can’t vote for that.
Of course, I can’t vote for the bankrupting of America either – which is exactly what Osama Bin Laden wants. [rolleyes]
Subject: … from Hot Air
An e-pal sent in “a discussion of the current presidential campaign's 'identity politics'... an excerpt from the discussion section after the post, which i find is usually as, or more, enlightening than blog posts themselves:
“The elitists and their candidates know nothing about America outside their Gulfstream ghettos and it is way too late for them to even start pretending that they do. All it does is to further insult us ‘great unwashed’ out here in ‘Jesusland.’
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/04/05/the-irony-of-identity-politics/
“Roses are red, Grasses are green; get off your ass and join the Marines!”
Racism was not a part of the ’08 campaign – ‘til Barak Obama made it so. He called for “understanding” of Reverend Wright – thereby exposing himself as a racist… or at least an apologist for racism. I can’t vote for that.
Of course, I can’t vote for the bankrupting of America either – which is exactly what Osama Bin Laden wants. [rolleyes]
Friday, April 04, 2008
Post #146
Subject: Exactly… Pt. II
Is America ready for a black President? Yes, we are.
Can America elect a black candidate for President who shares Dr. King’s faith in America’s ideals? Yes, we can.
Can America elect a racist? No, we can’t.
... from http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23918341/
Poll: Clinton leads Obama, McCain in key states
Primary vote between Democrats split sharply along racial lines
WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton holds a 9-point lead over rival Barack Obama among likely Pennsylvania Democratic primary voters ahead of the state's April 22 primary, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released on Wednesday.
Clinton, a New York senator who would be the first female president, leads the Illinois senator 50 percent to 41 percent, the poll found. She also runs better against the likely Republican nominee, Sen. John McCain, in Pennsylvania, Florida and Ohio -- all important swing states in the general election.
In a general election matchup in Florida, McCain closely trails Clinton 42 percent to 44 percent but McCain leads Obama, who would be the first black president, 46 percent to 37 percent, according to the poll.
"The difference between Clinton and Obama in Florida is the white vote," said Peter Brown of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.
In Ohio, Clinton has a 48 to 39 percent lead over McCain after months of too-close-to-call results, the poll found. In an Obama-McCain matchup, Obama gets 43 percent against 42 percent for McCain.
In Pennsylvania, Clinton tops McCain 48 to 40 percent and Obama leads the Arizona senator 43 percent to 39 percent.
Among Pennsylvania Democrats, Clinton leads 54 to 37 percent with women and ties Obama with men at 46 percent support.
The primary vote between Clinton and Obama splits sharply along racial lines.
Clinon leads 59 to 34 percent among white Pennsylvania likely primary voters while Obama leads 73 to 11 percent among black Democrats, the poll found.
Roughly 44 percent of people in all three states said the economy was the most important issue in their vote, while about a quarter of respondents said the war in Iraq is most important. The economic concerns of voters make Ohio a tougher challenge for McCain than has traditionally been the case for Republicans, who have never won the White House without carrying Ohio," Brown said. "But Obama's weakness among white men is an indication that he has not yet closed the sale among the lunch bucket brigade."
The poll was conducted March 24 through 31. Quinnipiac surveyed 1,135 Florida voters with a margin of error of plus or minus 2.9 percent; 1,238 Ohio voters with a margin of error of plus or minus 2.8 percent; 3,484 Pennsylvania voters with a margin of error of plus or minus 1.7 percent including 1,549 Democratic likely voters with a margin of error of plus or minus 2.5 percent
Subject: Exactly… Pt. II
Is America ready for a black President? Yes, we are.
Can America elect a black candidate for President who shares Dr. King’s faith in America’s ideals? Yes, we can.
Can America elect a racist? No, we can’t.
... from http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23918341/
Poll: Clinton leads Obama, McCain in key states
Primary vote between Democrats split sharply along racial lines
WASHINGTON - Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton holds a 9-point lead over rival Barack Obama among likely Pennsylvania Democratic primary voters ahead of the state's April 22 primary, according to a Quinnipiac University poll released on Wednesday.
Clinton, a New York senator who would be the first female president, leads the Illinois senator 50 percent to 41 percent, the poll found. She also runs better against the likely Republican nominee, Sen. John McCain, in Pennsylvania, Florida and Ohio -- all important swing states in the general election.
In a general election matchup in Florida, McCain closely trails Clinton 42 percent to 44 percent but McCain leads Obama, who would be the first black president, 46 percent to 37 percent, according to the poll.
"The difference between Clinton and Obama in Florida is the white vote," said Peter Brown of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute.
In Ohio, Clinton has a 48 to 39 percent lead over McCain after months of too-close-to-call results, the poll found. In an Obama-McCain matchup, Obama gets 43 percent against 42 percent for McCain.
In Pennsylvania, Clinton tops McCain 48 to 40 percent and Obama leads the Arizona senator 43 percent to 39 percent.
Among Pennsylvania Democrats, Clinton leads 54 to 37 percent with women and ties Obama with men at 46 percent support.
The primary vote between Clinton and Obama splits sharply along racial lines.
Clinon leads 59 to 34 percent among white Pennsylvania likely primary voters while Obama leads 73 to 11 percent among black Democrats, the poll found.
Roughly 44 percent of people in all three states said the economy was the most important issue in their vote, while about a quarter of respondents said the war in Iraq is most important. The economic concerns of voters make Ohio a tougher challenge for McCain than has traditionally been the case for Republicans, who have never won the White House without carrying Ohio," Brown said. "But Obama's weakness among white men is an indication that he has not yet closed the sale among the lunch bucket brigade."
The poll was conducted March 24 through 31. Quinnipiac surveyed 1,135 Florida voters with a margin of error of plus or minus 2.9 percent; 1,238 Ohio voters with a margin of error of plus or minus 2.8 percent; 3,484 Pennsylvania voters with a margin of error of plus or minus 1.7 percent including 1,549 Democratic likely voters with a margin of error of plus or minus 2.5 percent
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Post #145
Subject: Exactly…
http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/3/29/65423/4259
As a loyal and faithful Democratic voter for my whole life, I’ve always voted against racism. I am a member of the Democratic base, poor white trash. Now, I’m being asked by the Democratic Party to support a racist who is half-black – as tho that matters.
As I believe John F. Kennedy said, ‘sometimes, party loyalty asks too much.'
Subject: Exactly…
http://www.mydd.com/story/2008/3/29/65423/4259
As a loyal and faithful Democratic voter for my whole life, I’ve always voted against racism. I am a member of the Democratic base, poor white trash. Now, I’m being asked by the Democratic Party to support a racist who is half-black – as tho that matters.
As I believe John F. Kennedy said, ‘sometimes, party loyalty asks too much.'
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