Democratic Death Wish
By Larry Johnson on February 5, 2008 at 9:40 PM in Current Affairs
Save this post. I will be telling you, “see, I told you so” or you will be feeding me a healthy helping of crow. But I am confident it will be, “I told you so.”If Democrats choose Obama they are signing the death warrant for their party’s presidential aspirations in November. Normally, given the Bush record of the last eight years, Republicans in general would not have a snowball’s chance in a blast furnace of winning in November. But this year will not be normal. The virtual lack of national scrutiny to Obama’s record and the media adulation for his bullshit “change” mantra will come to a screeching halt. When it does, expect the following:BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA, BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA.
Unless he sets up shop in St. Patrick’s Cathedral, he’ll have a tough time shedding the label that he’s a muslim (even though he isn’t). Although, as the media starts looking at his father’s side of the family in Kenya they will find practicing muslims and a relationship with the Kenyan opposition leader, who also happens to be a muslim. That could have been a heartwarming story except cousin Odinga is in the middle of an ethnic/tribal war pitting Luo against Kikuyu and muslim against christian. Not so sweet. If fighting in Kenya continues to escalate it won’t be the inspirational backstory Barack may have counted on.
Then there is the fairy tale fantasy about Obama opposing lobbyists. He’s against them unless they represent the nuclear industry in his state and then he will take their money. And that is just for starters. I don’t begrudge Obama taking money from lobbyists. It is how Washington works. But he is so disingenuous and sanctimonious. Just wait till the national media starts sorting through his past record of contributors. The shine will come off. They love going after preachers who decry homosexuals and then score a hummer from a male hooker.
Oh yeah. Look for the Patrick Fitzgerald backlash. Most Democrats have lauded Mr. Fitzgerald for hauling Scooter Libby in for perjury and obstruction of justice. But will Democrats be singing with similar gusto come end of March as Mr. Fitzgerald builds a case against Obama’s key financial backer, Tony Rezko? I fully suspect that Dems, angry over the legal assault on Obama at that time, will be hollering for Fitzgerald’s head. Fitzgerald has integrity but that will count for little when you are perceived as crucifying the black Jesus.
The real crock of shit is the praise of Obama’s brilliance. There is not a “there” there. That is the point of Susan’s piece below, challenging his backers to tote up the list of “accomplishments.”It would be one thing if he was getting busted up on a daily basis by Hillary. No way. Many of the Dems are such a bunch of whining pussies that any effort to challenge Barack on anything of substance was batted down as “gutter” politics. Jesus Christ!!
I would be prepared to make the case that Obama can resist the shit storm that will hit him in a few months if he had in fact conducted an effective defense of himself this last month and a half. But that has not happened. The Obama supporters, with the enthusiastic support of the mainstream media, are enabling the Senator.
Oh. I’m glad to see 80% of the African American’s in Georgia are supporting Obama. He’s going to need it. But there are other states where a black man (it does not matter his mother was white) with a direct tie to Africa will be savaged. Some of the racism will be overt and very ugly. But most of it will be quiet and insidious. If Obama had genuine and significant accomplishments he could probably deflect a significant portion of the racist attacks. But he doesn’t. Tiger Woods? Yes. Colin Powell? Yes. Being known for giving snappy speeches won’t cut it.
Like it or not, race will be an issue that will muddy the waters come November (and please, do not accuse me of being racist for using the phrase, “muddy the waters”).
And there is more to come. Republicans are doing a good job of beating the crap out of each other. Not a lot of new on that front. But not the same for Obama. I am familiar with a couple of stories that the mainstream media is sitting on. These stories will be very damaging for Obama and add to the baggage he will carry into November. The remaining question is whether or not the media counter attack will come before or after the Democrats make their final decision.
Preview of Coming attractions. Check out this piece by Peter Hitchens. This is but the beginning.
I am very worried - the racial split - as seen in GA says bad things for Dems. In essence we have met the enemy and it is us!
The silent bigotry is going to come to pass. If Obama is the ultimate candidate, we will need a lot to overcome this.
I don’t know anything about future stories but I wouldn’t be surprised if they exist. If not, the Repugs will just make it all up!
Yikes!
I’m not sure he will lose, but he would be ineffective.
It’s like this- we send Obama in, he helps the Repubs hold their base together, then confirms their previously held bias to the extent they are not a party slated to wander in the wilderness for forty years as the legacy they have earned.
He isn’t ready yet as a best case scenario. At the worst case instance, he’s poorly vetted and likely to got hrough ten times the amount of investigation Hillary did.
Whitewater was a mountain out of a molehill compared to Rezko and Auchi.
Actually, the Republicans are doing a good job beating the shit out of Hillary in their campaign communications. Considering Romney’s ads in particular, you would think that he was already matched against her. Now, I wonder why that would be? Anti Hillary ads and speeches by Republicans in the primaries? It all adds up to who they would rather run against.
With this difference. There is no new dirt on Hillary. I’ve been chatting with my buddies at Fort Bragg. They all hate Hillary. However, if it was a choice between Hillary and Obama they’d take Hillary.
Moreover, as someone who used to occupy the “I can’t stand Hillary camp,” I am quite confident she can turn the hearts of some of her opponents. The real Hillary has not been widely seen or known.
Face it, the Republicans can’t run on anti-Obama ads yet because most Republicans haven’t realized that he’s in the race.
Larry,
Seriously - Why is the Corporate Media sitting on stories about Obama? Don’t they have an obligation let voters be aware of what they are getting?
WHO is behind them withholding these stories?
Also, it seems the “OBorg’s” are in full swing mode about the post on Obama’s house. Seems to justify our feelings here that there is LOTS and LOTS more on the Obama Reko connection.
The media wants Obama as the nominee so the repubs can win the white house. The media wants the repub to win the white house because the consolidation has given a handful of corporations access to our airwaves. Corporations live those tax cuts, deregulation…etc.
The irony is that Bill’s 1996 Telecommunications bill laid the ground work for all the media consolidation and GWB’s FCC perfected it. I guess legislation has consequences.
The media also make fortunes from political ads. It is in their inter$t to stretch out the campaigns.
I have not read this persons work very often but I would like to know what the source for this came from.
Is this what you are looking for ?
SOURCES
rijj, I was attempting claify if the doctor selling the house had decided to split the lot prior to Michelle Obama becoming aware of the property or as cited in the link Larry posted;
implies he was not going to split the lot.
If he was not “willing” to do this, the way the deal went down takes on a different complextion than saying the deals where independent of each other.
Teak,
Wow are you good at detail. I doubt there is any IF involved.
It is fairly obvious the Doctor originally planned to sell the house in manner which he bought it, as one lot. Think about it:
• If it was just a pure Real Estate transaction, why didn’t the Obama’s have their Real Estate Agent contact the doctor, or the Doctors Agent, after learning the house was going to be for sale? It would have been a simple deal with TWO Realtors negotiating – and there would have been no need to involve Rezko. All the Obama’s would have to have done, as part of their Purchase agreement, is add the codicil that they accepted the restrictions for a Historic home. As the ordinances say – once in there no opting out.
• Obama’s told told the Chicago Sun-Times the Name of his Agent in this interview http://www.suntimes.com/news/124171,CST-NWS-obama05.article
Q: Who was your Realtor? Did this Realtor also represent Rita Rezko?
A: Miriam Zeltzerman, who had also represented me in the purchase of my prior property, a condominium, in Hyde Park. She did not represent Rita Rezko
•By going to the Illinois Association of Realtors at this link http://www.illinoisrealtor.org/FirmSearch/FirmSearch.aspx and inserting Ms. Zelterman’s last name you get this:
Miriam E Zelterman
Urban Search Chicago, Name of Company
4800 S Lake Shore Dr. #100 N
Chicago, Il 60615 (Zip code for Kenwood’s Historic District)
Tel 312-337-2400
Fax 773-285-7724
Instead there was 16 months of convoluted bureaucratic paperwork, permits, subdivisions of lots, hearings, fences and of course the help of Tony Rezko and his wife. That’s an awful lot of trouble to go through to buy a house.
Further, the reporter, Mr Hitchens, works for a British paper. Britain has extremely strict slander laws, so their reporters really dig in before they write anything. Otherwise, they could lose everything, including their jobs, if the facts are not accurate.
I honestly fail to see any IF in this.
I saw a quote attributted to Barak Obama saying the house “was on the market for months” which is not what I took away from what I have read. In fact, quite the opposite is what I take away allowing for
the permit process. Obama also stated there where two “offers” on the house and his was the better one. Perhaps better in that this doctor did not want to invite more hassles by not taking Obamas’ offer.
The thing about it is, if the doc did not go along and split the lot Michelle Obama was in a position to make things difficult for him and full price on the lot was what made him willing to “wait”.
“no need to involve Rezko”; It was that or the dog house for Barry Obama. My impression of Michelle Obama is that she does not take crap or no for an answer. Obama does not wear the pants in that household.
I have asked myself the same question. What is behind the blackout of obviously bad info on Obama? What is the press afraid of?
More, what can we do? Start writing to the networks with real info and daring them?
There are five media conglomerates that control what you think.
News Corporation
Viacom
AOL-Time-Warner
Disney
GE
They are in it for the money.
We could spend a couple of billion on this election, JUST ON THE PRESIDENTIAL RACE, so no matter who loses they win. Big.
The Obama candidacy is good for a very lucrative ride if they concentrate on two goals.
***First hype the rags-to-riches sharecropper angle of the downtrodden kid from the south side that makes it to the top. God, we love that story and have sopped it up since before Lincoln’s old log cabin days.
***Secondly, keep the primary race going as long as possible, up through June if possible. If the media spots stopped at the beginning of February, they’d miss the additional four months of cash flow from the Democrat donors.
It’s a honey of a conveyor that transports dollars from your fist to their income statements.
I think you are right Jim.
So does the New York Times today.
They make money off it
They report that they make money off it
We pay for the news that they make money off it.
What’s not to like?
I’m not sure that I agree with your final sentence. I think that Romney in particular would rather run against Obama, which is one reason why he is positioning a fair number of his ads in the “Hillary has never run anything” space. If Obama and Romney face off, then Romney is perfectly positioned to challenge Obama for the “Washington outsider” mandate and he will have already established himself through message repetition as the candidate with successful private sector and government executive experience (the substance won’t matter to most voters, just the message).
As has been pointed out several times on this blog, all he would have to do in the general election is zero in on Obama’s lack of accomplishment (What actual change has he brought about?)and his (Romney’s) record of accomplishment, executive responsibility, and the fact that he has never been to Washington (thus separating himself from the Bush administration) and Obama might well fizzle in the general election even with his true believer, ex-Clintonista advisors. Add in the political hay that could be made of his ties to the Kenya situation and he could easily be toast.
Tell ya what, pal. Whenever we hook up after November, if you have to eat crow, we’ll go to KFC. But if you’re in the “I told you so” mode, we’ll go out some place better for steaks and martinis. In the event of the latter, I’m fairly certain that several martinis may well be necessary.
“Republicans can’t run on anti-Obama ads yet because most Republicans haven’t realized that he’s in the race.”
Well, I must say you have provided them with ample material for those anti-Obama ads when and if the time comes that they need them!
Oh, please. Go to a few wingnut sites and you’ll see they have 38 page pdf’s just full of goodies on Obama. They’ll start funneling all that crap to the media if he wins. They won’t use that stuff now because they would rather he won the nomination. Then he’ll be fresh meat for their swiftboat machine. They don’t have anything new on Hillary that we haven’t already heard 100 times before. If they throw up any of that old stuff on her, we’ll all just yawn. They know that.
this is true. Media is waiting. so is GOP.
can you imagine the black community when Obama is made to look like the bum he is? Obama exposed? Michelle has quite a resume as well.
They don’t have anything new on Hillary that we haven’t already heard 100 times before
Are you joking? I’ve read plenty but didn’t post it because I’m not going to do what Clinton surrogates have done to Obama.
The GOP can’t WAIT to take her down, along with her husband.
Barak Obama said there was truckload of swiftboating waiting for Hillary and he was already vetted making him the better choice to beat the republicans.
what Clinton surrogates have done to Obama???
Done to Barak Obama? Everyone is running around having heart palpitations about what was done to Barak Obama. Freakin horse pucky. It does not matter if Obama was the one to play that card first;
During this primary season MSM demographics reached new lows.
I have watched the media talk about:\
Old people; black old people;white old people;latino old people divided by gender.
Young people;white;blacklatino;asian
20,30,40,50,60 70 somethings by gender and religion.
You want to complain about the alledged racial profiling of some preechy politician who thinks he can win it by giving sermons of false hope and dreams? “yes we can” my ass! The guy can’t even buy his own house with out screwing up and did not know about people freezing there buts off who he was responsible for! You want that for a president?
He will take money from the nuke indusrty of Illinois, but you hear him utter one word about the 1.8 billion dollars that state lost? Of course not! You know why? Because he NOT a fresh face. he is two faced and left Durbin holding the barf bag.
Go on now Cee please, take your best top 5 and give it your best shot. It will be like an immunity shot in the arm for us.
“I’ve read plenty but didn’t post it because I’m not going to do what Clinton surrogates have done to Obama.”
And the fearless few that have posted your vital information have departed this mortal coil?……….
Psst…… your shoe is ringing.
For those of you who have not run into Jackie O and Elvis at the 7-11 recently, there is an interesting article by Prof. Stanley Fish in the New York Times. His searches on the subject of Hillary Haters earned him an “email pal” which assailed him with his email file on Hillary, to wit”
For those of you of more pedestrian tastes there is the Tale of Two Charlies: An interesting assessment by Charlie Cook on the Charlie Rose Show last night in which Cook used the analogy of a stock price to describe the volatility of each candidates chances. He said that there really wasn’t much more to be known about Hillary Clinton (You’d think so after sixty million USA bucks, Ken Starr and the millions Scaife fronted in the Arkansas Project — DUH!!)
Her price would trade in a very narrow range with a fixed ceiling and a floor not much below.
Barack Obama, he reasoned, is still very much an unknown with a value seen to gyrate between excessive highs and dismal lows. As we get to know the candidate better and the tidbits gleaned from his background sink into the public psyche, his trading price will seek his true value (think Arrow-Debreu Model) and his trading range will narrow accordingly.
assessment by Charlie Cook ;Her price would trade in a very narrow range
Like a blue chip? Steady money.
Speaking of this, though, Clinton is just not afraid of the Republicans.
Maybe that’s why she and Bill drive them nuts;they just cannot intimidate her.
FWIW, nice to know, for me.
Dead on the money.
Currently if you lay five bucks on Clinton, you get nine bucks at the window if she wins.
If you lay five bucks on McCain, you get ten bucks at the window.
It’s that goddamn close.
If you lay five bucks on Obama, you get twelve bucks at the window.
This is why the California first family tried to steer the faithful towards McCains best hope of winning.
This is why the rest of the GOP looks on Obama as the dream opponent.
Christ, it’s not like it’s rocket science.
(A little money changed hands last night over California: Clinton was not favored to win on Betfair when voting began.
Neener neener neener Oprah)
One good indicator of why Romney’s campaign crashed and burned. He was already trying to run against Hillary.
Right now, Memphis, East Arkansas, and all of West Tennessee is getting ass kicked by wave after wave of storms and tornadoes.
http://monkeyfister.blogspot.com…lar- budget.html
What’s happening here is truly terrifying. Massive damage. a Mall was nearly flattened. A Sharp manufacturing plant was flattened with a whole shift inside. People are being ordered off the streets. national Guard is activated. Polling places all closed hours early as a result of these terrible storms.
Is this being reported anywhere in the National news scene? I only have rabbit-ears TV.
–mf
Be safe!!! God bless!!!!
Yes I read about this! How awful! I hope it gets better very soon.
Mr Murder,
A nasty Clinton hater said it served them right for voting for Hillary.
You better hope she isn’t the nominee.
Hillary talked about it when she spoke in her NYC headquarters after the NY vote was in. She talked about the death and destruction through the states that were damaged so badly last night. She was the only candidate I heard refer to it.
Your mantra is that Obama can’t win a general election. I question that. But mostly I’m surprised that you’re so negative about a Democratic Candidate. You’re beginning to sound like a negative image of James Dobson.
i am with you 100% larry. i competely agree. he is going to get clocked. someone had posted on taylor marsh the table of contents of the 37page pdf on the many attack points the repubs will use against him and it is unbelievable. if bo gets the nom - god forbid- it will be prez mccain.
ahhhhhhhh
thanks larry!
Link? 37page pdf?
INPUT! INPUT!
I think you have to subscribe to the icky place to get the Obama pdf.
http://www.humanevents.com/search.php
Gosh, I hate even putting that link in here. But that’s where it comes from.
Thanks. I’ll do it for the info; I can use an alias. Good to know what the Raiths are up to without being feed upon.
aka …MC Rove.
Teakwood,
It is 1:44 AM here - I am not sure what the questions are or if it is because I made more damn typo’s. I am tired right now - so I’d rather wait until morning to continue -OK?
Please email me (no links attached) at stefanikn at gmail dot com. Then if necessary I will give you another email address.
{{HUGS}}
Teakwood,
You are so funny. It is 1:40 AM here now, so is it okay if this keeps till morning?
Please use plain text, and no attachements, and email me at stefanikn at gamil dot com If there is lots of info needed or wanted, I will give you another email address. Having dial up does not allow me to use all the gmail features.
{{HUGS}}
I think that people who believe Obama can win the general election with his dismal record is just fooling themselves. He might win Illinois, DC and New York. Maybe! All those southern states he is winning in the primaries such as South Carolina will overwhelmingly support the republican. All those caucuses he’s winning with the walk-in republican vote will go the other way.
I think an Obama nomination really means that so called progressives are not serious about their agenda being enacted in any manner. We allow our nomination to be compromised by republicans who vote in our primaries. As a result we almost always get unelectable, dog butt candidates: Mondale-Ferraro, Dukakas-don’t remember, Clinton (was great but not the parties favorite), Gore-Lieberman where Lieberman almost single handedly sabotaged the election and then Kerry. Frankly, I am tired of supporting a party that doesn’t organize well, doesn’t get their message out, that gets hen-picked on by republicans and loses elections when the ideas they expouse are clearly morally, ethically and in practicality superior to anything the republicans have ever said. How do we lose when the majority of americans favor our ideas and policies? Sheer incompetence. If Obama gets the nomination I can’t vote for the guy, he isn’t qualified in any manner to be president. If he gets the nomination I may just say fuck it and vote a straight republican ticket because I don’t think democrats are serious about doing what is right.
And a party that can’t say no to Bush Chimp. They seem completely paralyzed to me. Take a look at Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi. It is just gutless all the way. There’s no visible strength.
McConnell Hey Ried! Why don’t you go do the Leahy bird dance! BSlap!
Ried: “I say to my good friend from Kentucky….WAAAA….WHAAAA…YOU WON”T LET US VOTE…WHAAAAA
Completely Penniless.
Walter the Penniless
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_the_Penniless
The internet is an amazing thing. Who would of thought there was such a person.
It was my impression he expected to do better tonite, Obama seemed downcast.
He’ll probably feel better tomorrow.
We are being misled by the suits on TV. The Charlie Rose Show had a historian, several pundits, a Democrat strategist and a pollster on last night. They seemed to focus on the California primary except that Georgia and Massachusetts were mentioned briefly.
Two things emerged
Hillary’s glass was always half empty, Barack’s always half full. This, I presume because Obama surged to the point where the LA Times poll gave her a two point lead (a dead heat).
Today Clinton has nearly twice as many California delegates than Obama and a 52% to 42% advantage: There will be crow to eat yet again on Charlie Rose tonight.
The pundits were really up on the “momentum” and “spirit of change” thing with Obama presenting the fresh, thirtysomething future and Clinton mired in the legacy of the establishment.
The historian told them that older women were solidly behind Clinton and much more likely to vote than the thritysomethings. The pollster told them that Clinton was likely to win Texas and Ohio; also now that she was ahead and heavily favored in Texas and Ohio, that all she had to do was keep winning with scant margins to win the nomination.
Clinton has won California, New York and Florida. She is slated to win Texas and Ohio. I’d post odds that Clinton will take Pennsylvania as well. Obama has flyover America.
What do you call someone who wins California, New York, Florida, Texas, Ohio and Pennsylvania in the general election?
Madame President.
I am watching Hillary make her speech on CNN right now and I must say I don’t understand how she doesn’t win the nomination in unanimous fashion. She also should win ever state in the general election. She is by far the best presidential candidate running. By FAR!! She is an amazing speaker and an amazing woman. I don’t get it.
Dan Abrams of MSNBC, last night had a mind blowing stat that explains why Obama is competitive with Hillary. Abrams showed that since Iowa or NH (I can’t recall which one) 83% of the media reporting on Obama has been favorable; Hillary’s favorable reporting number…wait for it…47%. This sounds eerily similar to the run up to the war. I believe the media coverage of the GWB’s war was in the Obama numbers.
Obama is being set up for THE Slaughter, me thinks.
He actually called it right. “It won’t matter what votes he gets, tomorrow if he loses them you’ll still be hearing the ‘media’ saying, ‘yeah, but isn’t he still so magnificent!’”
Well, low and behold, Claire McCaskill is on the tube all aglow about Obama while saying its amazing that Clinton took NY, NJ, California…Obama is still amazing.
This glow is a Rovian spin. This glow is the jesus juice the DEMs can’t resist.
Ya know, Lucifer’s name itself indicates that he was all aglow…not saying Obama is Lucifer, but that followers of Glowie things….
And I knew Britney’s manager was manipulating her!
Rove came out with the faux jab at LazyObama. That should have given away exactly what was planned. Then you have Bill O’Reilly gleeming to get so close to Obama…..When FoxNews is looking to crown the DNC guy, pay attention.
…..When FoxNews is looking to crown the DNC guy, pay attention…..
Last night, when Fox News was covering an Obama speach, they focused on a 40 year old, white woman standing behind him, while Brit Hume said, “Look at the woman behind Obama. She’s in love with Barak Obama. She’s smiling and hanging on his every word”.
The media is not going to give it to you, unfortunately. Anyone catch Chris M. sounding stunned off camera…Hillary Clinton is being called for Arizona????
Amazing speaker, amazing woman, sure. It’s her history and policies that are the problem for me.
For some debts don’t matter, others history…It is about the future; that other stuff? Just a bad “dream”. Nice to know the Bush administration thinks Waterboarding is legal.
But what would the world think if we called him on it? Not as bad if we won’t.
I not a big fan of Obama or Clinton. The former because I can’t think of anything he has done and the later because if she is elected to 1 term its 24 years of bush or clinton leading the country not very good for our democracy.
I was of course pulling for Edwards. In all this I am amazed no democratic candidate wants to come out and hold liars bush & cheney accountable for thier actions. I guess that would beg the question why isn’t Pelosi doing anything? It seems this administration can break the law over and over again with impunity with no consequences. I worked hard before the 2006 elections for democratic candidates donated money etc but no more.
To pile on Pelosi, we can note that she, too, is guilty of “signing statements”. One day, she took an oath to support and defend the constitution, then the next day, said, oh, except for impeachment. “Impeachment is off the table”. When does the Speaker of the House have the power to disregard part of the constitution?
She states that impeachment would be “devisive”. Hello, Nancy, we already have “devisive”. And isn’t it desirable to have “devisive” between those who believe in law and those who don’t?
This is very disturbing - yes. I can see it now. Can you imagine the swift boating coming Obama’s way if he does, in fact, get the Democratic nomination? It feels ominous.
The Swift Boaters just made up lies about John Kerry. With Obama they would not need to bother to lie.
Why doesn’t anyone talk about Michelle Obama? She appears to be a liability. Just do an internet search on her.
Usually Democratic politicians’ wives are subject to major scrutiny. Remember during the Clinton administration when Hillary said she doesn’t like baking cookies? How many times did we hear that Elizabeth Edwards’ health issues would distract John Edwards if he was elected president?
Why doesn’t anyone talk about Michelle Obama? She appears to be a liability. Just do an internet search on her.
And believe me, you will never hear from the MSM that she just hired Lieberman’s executive assistant to be her new chief of staff.
Really - WOW! This really is a set-up!
From what I have read about Michelle Obama, she and Imelda Marcos, of the Phillipines, would have much in common.
Michelle can reach across the aisle and go shoe shopping with Condi.
Rita,
I bet you whined like stuck pig when Hillary was being attacked, didn’t you? Now you want Michelle attacked? Pathetic!
I understand that today on a talk show Michelle Obama responded “I’d have to think about it” when asked if she would support Hillary if she secures the nomination.
“I’d have to think about it”?? Now imagine—just imagine—if the speaker had been Bill Clinton and he’d been asked about nominee Barack Obama. All over the media don’t you think the coverage would be Divisive!! Underhanded!! Out of control!! Subtly racist!!
And the coverage as to what Ms. Obama apparently said? Absolutely zero as near as I can tell.
And worst of all is that she’s irretrieveably validated all those arrogant Obamatrons who sniff “I could never vote for Hillary! I’ll vote for McCain! I’ll stay home and work my difficult level NYT crossword! The Sunday one!”
The Dan Abrams stat in a previous post is invaluable. But let’s be optimisitic and wait for the media to finally dig in on the nukes, on the Illinois Maytag workers he abandoned, on Kenya and yeah, really dig in on Rezko.
Last point: great stat tonight is that of voters who decided within the last three days, Hillary split them with Obama, even getting slightly more. Huge shift from previous where Obama got 60 to 70% of such voters. If accurate, does that mean he’s crested and that scrutiny is taking hold. Let’s hope so.
And SusanUn, God bless, be well and take care. All the best. And then get back to work. We need you.
Frankly Michelle Obama is a bitch and responsible for Obama’s aqwuisition of his landmarked mansion as she was on board [placed by Obama] of City Planning Commission and found this house and got Rezko to help! Rezko was neighbor.
She’s a greedy tough piece of work. Ungracious and super entitled….and angry. Remarks about Clinton are snarky and nasty.
Her career leaves much to be desired. Both are an extremely greedy calculating duo.
Obamas’ resumes are atrocious.
Can you refrain from calling people dirty names? As a woman, and a Hillary supporter, I resent any female being slurred in such a fashion.
Steve,
I believe was asked if she would WORK to support Hillary.
I expect desperation, spin and lies from Clinton supporters now. Keep it coming.
You’ll have more people like Michelle who may for vote for her but won’t lift a finger to help the campaign.
Let me say again that I’ll never vote for her.
The Obamas are likeable enough.
(/Barack)
I am surprised that some people who insisted right here on these pages that they were planning to vote for Edwards ended up voting for Hillary. For what little it is worth, I did vote for Edwards. As someone said here the other day, there is nothing to make me choose one over the other (interesting that the person who said that is one of those, I do believe, who ended up choosing one over the other - oh well).
[...] Interesting bias from kos. No one is saying "huge night for Obama" anywhere else. Over at No Quarter, Larry Johnson continues his love affair with Hillary with another bash Obama piece. I guess [...]
Hey Larry, does this mean that you can kiss off an appointment in an Obama administration?
It happens to be a great night for Hillary. If you’re looking for Hillary bashing go to Huffington Post, Alternet, and a dozen so called liberal blogs that I now find so stupid I can’t dig them anymore. You want Obama without bias?? It’s easy to find. just troll the liberal websites, as all they do is hit jobs on Hillary and love jobs on Obama.
Stop whining.
ritamary, “Why doesn’t anyone talk about Michelle Obama? She appears to be a liability. Just do an internet search on her.” What R U talking about??? Where’s the “liability?”
First I do not infer this is a negitive just another
example of trying to have both ways Saying that Hillary worked for walmart.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/politics/obama/396874,CST-NWS-sweet23.stng
First I do not infer this is a negitive
Teak,
Sure you do.
Hello to you too.
I see it as Obama telling his wife “Sorry Michelle, I just wacked 50k of our bottom line for saying I support unions.” Michelle does not come across a person who would respond with “It’s ok Barak…I don’t mind.”
what part of “example of trying to have it both ways” is unclear?
We(oops) Hipocrascy is not exclusive any one politician.One more point on electability if it’s McCain v Obama.
The Hispanic vote goes back to the reeps on immigration. They will reward McCain and trusted him on the issue since he stood up despite taking a big beating.
Hey Larry, Ft. Brag on the Hillary band wagon??? That’s a hoot! That’s a scream! What exactly was the vote from those precincts? Show us the numbers!!! Pa-leeeeeze. Ft Brag N.C. (Brunswick County) population 19,980 males, 9,203 females, median age 22, median income 31K. Come on man, if this is Hillary country show us the numbers.
One thing remains clear — whether winning or losing you Obama supporters are always whining. Fact is alot of us are not buying into the manufactured Obamas. DEAL WITH IT.
I can see it now. If Obama is the nominee, groups like Swift Boat Vets for Truth (remember them and the damage they did?) are going to eat him alive, especially if Huckebee is on the Republican ticket. Obama supporters better wake up now, smell the coffee, and vote for Hillary in the remaining primaries. Our freedoms are at stake!
Centrocitta,
The Swift Boaters have nothing on the Clinton surrogates. They’ll just use the disinformation they’ve spread here and elsewhere.
The Clinton surrogates have jeapordized our freedom. Blame them.
Listen to what Hill’s old FRIEND has to say.
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SUPER TUESDAY OUTLOOK: OBAMA’S SURGE
By DICK MORRIS
February 4, 2008 — AS we approach Super Tues day, Barack Obama has been surging all week - closing the enormous gap he once faced in most key states. But his momentum has yet to carry him over the top. Hillary Clinton still clings to leads, sometimes narrow, in the bulk of the states in play.
Of the 10 states with reliable and recent poll data, Hillary leads in eight, although by razor-thin margins in California, Alabama, Missouri, Connecticut and New Jersey. Only in New York, Massachusetts and Tennessee does her lead seem secure.
How did the Clinton machine falter so badly? And will the trend for Obama continue?
Every election is, at some level, a simple conversation between the two camps. Obama began the campaign by saying he was new; Hillary replied that he was inexperienced. Obama answered that he was a voice for change - and that was the state of discussion leading up to Iowa.
Then, after losing Iowa and almost failing in New Hampshire, the Clintons basically panicked and played the race card - injecting it into a contest that had been colorblind.
While Hillary emphasizes in every speech that she could be the first woman president, Obama had rarely mentioned race. He ran for the Democratic nomination like a Republican black - never summoning victim status and avoiding racial remarks entirely.
Had the Clintons shut up and let the black voters of South Carolina do their talking for them, the block African-American vote there for Obama would’ve brought the race issue home to undecided white voters, triggering a pro-Hillary backlash. But they couldn’t keep quiet. Their oh-so-subtle racial innuendo (for which I doubt they thought they would get caught), philosophizing about the relative roles Martin Luther King and President Lyndon Johnson in achieving civil rights, landed them in the hot water.
With nothing else new to say, Hillary, in effect, countered Obama’s message of change by saying “You’re black.” When Bill compared Obama to Jesse Jackson, the point was obvious.
McCain should have little real difficulty in consolidating the Republican and conservative ranks behind him - especially if his adversary is Hillary Clinton. Animosity to the New York senator may be just the elixir McCain needs to unite his party.
Morris was/is no friend of Hillary. She was on to him from the beginning, and warned her husband about him. That is why the toe sucker can’t stand the sight of her feet. Morris has never had a good word for Hillary, and he never will, thank God, as that would be as bad as the endorsement from Ann Coulter.
Morris is mentioned in Fish’s article, All You Need Is Hate, I cited above.