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“Obama Implodes in Georgia”

One of the arguments many Obama supporters made against Hillary was that she did not support Howard Dean’s 50-state strategy. Obama embraced the 50-state strategy to garner the support of the netroots and other activists. In a mydd diary posted this January, Obama, with his usual humility, was quoted as saying:

I think that we’re shifting the political paradigm here. And if I’m the nominee, I think I can bring a lot of folks along on my coattails. You know, there’s a reason why in 2006, I made the most appearances for members of Congress. I was the most requested surrogate to come in and campaign for people in districts that were swing districts, Republican districts where they wouldn’t have any other Democrat.

A narrative was developed in the blogosphere that Obama, unlike Hillary, would be able to touch the hearts of red state conservatives and turn them into Democrats. Hillary was too polarizing, it was argued, and she would be fighting for Kerry’s states plus 1.

It was mandatory at dailykos to believe that Obama was a map-changer. A diarist from North Dakota named Ab2kgj, in a post which would be funny if it weren’t so painful, suggested that Obama had a real shot at grabbing that state:

I’ll start with ripping a part of McCain’s base right out from under him. I live in North Dakota, and I have a feeling that we will be more of a swing state than people realize. Up here in nowhereland, the reason that Republicans do so well is because of “family values,” and an automatic 15 point bump in the polls. I gotta tell ya though. I see change in the air, because we also can smell phonies a mile away, and John McCain calling us “his friends” doesn’t seem to cut it for the sensible, middle of the roaders up here.

Regardless of what Ab2kgj sees in the air, Obama is not going to win North Dakota, but that fact didn’t stop the Obama campaign from expending millions in red states.

The Obama campaign has always known that they would have a hard time winning both Ohio and Florida, the recent path to the presidency. Campaign manager Plouffe:

said Ohio and Florida start out very competitive — but he stressed that they are not tougher than other swing states and said Obama will play “extremely hard” for both. But he said the strategy is not reliant on one or two states.

Talk of map-changing was utilized by Obama in the primary campaign as a tactic to hide his real weakness with blue-collar voters. Obama and his team have shown disdain for this core group of the Democratic Party, and Obama’s “hope” message fails to offer them a compelling reason to vote for him. Anglachel explains their hostility this way:

In the minds of the liberal elite, the problems and failures of the progressive agenda could be laid at the feet of bigoted whites, the “Archie Bunkers” of the North, and the “Bubbas” of the South. And there lies the strategic fault line of the Democratic Party, the willingness of a significant portion of the party, and I’m willing to wager the majority of the party power brokers, to see the electoral problem as how to minimize the damage of the Bunkers.

Not only has Obama insulted these Democrats who live in the greater Appalachia region with accusations of being bitter and bigoted, some of his supporters inferred that voters’ resistance to Obama was because of racism. But the real problem is that Obama does not appear to offer solutions to their economic problems. Howard Fineman believes that part of Obama’s troubles now stem from the fact that he does not articulate a clear, concise economic message:

It is not enough to be for change – everybody is, or is trying to be. To make it stick, Obama needed, and needs, to put forth an easy-to-grasp grand proposal, one that would encapsulate what his central message. That tagline? That he is dedicated, body and soul, to advancing the economic interests of hard-working, average Americans. He has the makings of such a proposal – his tax cuts for low and middle-income families. But he has yet to package that, or anything else, in an easy-to-grasp, hard-number plan for voters. Instead, he’s got more of a laundry list than an actual rallying cry.

Turning their backs on the rust-belt, Obama’s team, as recently as June, looked to deep-red states:

“You have a lot of ways to get to 270,” Plouffe said. “Our goal is not to be reliant on one state on November 4th.”

Plouffe has been pitching such a new approach to the electoral map in calls and meetings, according to several people who discussed the conversations on the condition of anonymity because they were meant to be private. Plouffe confirmed the descriptions in the interview.

Plouffe and his aides are weighing where to contest, and where chances are too slim to marshal a large effort. A win in Virginia (13 electoral votes) or Georgia (15 votes) could give Obama a shot if he, like Kerry, loses Ohio or Florida.

Although it appears Virginia is still competitive at this point, Georgia is now off the table. A new poll by InsiderAdvantage says that “Obama Implodes in Georgia,” and:

Poll Position survey of likely registered voters in Georgia indicates a steep decline for the Barack Obama campaign and likely explains why the candidate is moving resources out of Georgia and into other states.

Q. If the election were held today, would you vote for:

John McCain: 56%
Barack Obama: 38%
Other: 2%
Undecided: 4%

Obama’s collapse in Georgia has been sudden and dramatic. McCain is in the process of solidifying his base, but the demographics of this collapse do not bode well for Obama, and we should expect smaller but real shifts towards McCain in the more competitive states; that has always been the danger of over-extending your resources into unwinnable states:

InsiderAdvantage’s Matt Towery: “This is a huge slide from what had been, in our prior surveys, a relatively close race. The reason is simple—Obama lost serious ground in virtually every demographic.

“At first glance it would seem that Obamais headed for no better than the low 40 percentile level achieved by John Kerry in 2004. But let me warn observers that in both our national tracking and surveys in other states, the biggest change has been a near parity between the two candidates among the youngest of voters.

“Should that group return to Obama and the African-American vote end up where we expect it to be, the race could be closer in November. But as of now Georgia is no longer a “leans McCain” state. As of this survey, Georgia is in the McCain column.”

Obama’s shrinking map is not a shock to Hillary supporters, but it’s ironic now that Obama will have to turn to Ohio, Florida, and, particularly, Pennsylvania to attempt to squeak out a victory, places where he performed poorly in the primaries and to the voters he and his campaign have continually insulted.

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Comment by gerard "Barracuda" Nedich | 2008-09-12 06:20:28

i am so proud of my country…

a. hillary
b. mccain

america first!

Comment by McGovern08 | 2008-09-12 06:27:18

Speaking of which, did Michelle even show her face yesterday?

http://img229c.imageshack.us/img229/3164/miclasstz6.gif

Comment by roseeriter | 2008-09-12 06:55:51

Michelle and Rev Wright do not like America and as Rev Wright said God damn America and said 9/11 was the chickens coming back to the roost, why would she.
Any one who payed attention to Obama’s sneering face while walking to the pool to throw his rose would understand why Michelle wasn’t there.

Plus I think her excuse “her daughters were starting school” is an action to point the finger at Sarah about proper Motherhood.

The Obama’s are despicable people.

Comment by wodiej | 2008-09-12 07:09:09

well she’s got a LONG way to go to proper motherhood taking her kids to Rev. Wrights church and not being proud of America until Obama ran for President.

Comment by Chicago Joe | 2008-09-12 09:20:22

Michelle could have gotten the kids ready for school and still made it to NY and back again if she REALLY wanted to show her face at 9-11. That was strategic.

Comment by Amae | 2008-09-12 19:11:32

She knew she would remind everyone of the
racist Wright’s “chickens came home to
roost”. so GOD Damn America! Nobama
alone was bad enough, but both of them
front and center, too much. Any way, she
is not proud of America, so she stayed
home. We need to make sure they both stay
in Chicago and do NOT move into the
WHITEHOUSE.
Read my lipstick, McCain & Palin, 08

 
 
 

Comment by tish | 2008-09-12 08:02:06

Why not take the drilling moratorium out of the funding resolution and allow a fair-up-or-down vote on domestic drilling?
That’s why we have our own message for Reid and his liberal allies in Congress who are dead set on raising the price of gasoline and keeping us dependent on foreign oil at the behest of left-wing special interests.
Harry Reid needs to be told, in no uncertain terms, that holding the American people hostage is not a “game” and the American people are not going to let him get away with it!
Moreover, our elected leaders (particularly the conservatives in Congress who have bravely championed the call for domestic drilling and lower prices at the pump) need to understand that NO LIBERAL-INSPIRED “COMPROMISE” OR SO-CALLED “COMPREHENSIVE” LEGISLATION WILL BE TOLERATED… PERIOD!
If Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi and liberals in the House and Senate want to play games and shut the government down over this issue… SO BE IT! The American will know who is to blame!
Use the hyperlink below to send your urgent and personalized

Comment by red_sleeves | 2008-09-12 13:20:56

We all heard about Mitt Romney being a Mormon …but so is Harry Reid. Which serves to show that Mormons, like Catholics, do not always think alike.

In fact, the existence of Reid makes Romney’s Mormonism moot, doesn’t it? So why was it consistently brought up?

 

Comment by Patrick Walker | 2008-09-12 17:50:57

The US oil and gas industry is sitting on 68 million acres of oil and gas fields already cleared for extraction.

They are idle but still the oil companies and the GOP want to open up even more lands for extraction.

The question is, why don’t the oil companies do domestic extraction on lands already cleared by all levels of government?

Answer: because they want to be able to book those leased lands and it’s oil as assets to inflate their balance sheets. That’s why.

The allowing of offshore drilling should have been made CONDITIONAL on existing extraction on already cleared lands.

 
 

Comment by Zelda Crunch | 2008-09-12 08:11:30

I knew they were despicable but I didn’t know they were ‘people’. They’re not ‘people’ in my book - not even close.

 

Comment by csuzeq | 2008-09-12 09:08:49

Does anyone have video of that with the roses, both Obama and McCain? I didn’t get to see it.

 

Comment by Dan | 2008-09-12 11:03:42

Your grammar (or lack thereof) parallels your intelligence (or lack thereof).

 

Comment by Jab | 2008-09-12 11:20:51

roseeriter just be quiet. It’s people like you that are dragging this country down.

 

Comment by Richard | 2008-09-12 11:54:16

The chickens did come home to roost.

I know you are probably one of those foaming at the mouth neo-cons that think that islamic extremists attacked us because they “hate freedom”.

This is an utterly and completely warped world view. 9/11 was blow back for the decades of interferance in the middle east, support for their greatest enemies (real or percieved), supporting the brutal dictatorial regimes in the region, and the economic and political exploitation of an entire generation of people.

It is like having a dog; you starve the dog, you beat the dog, you taunt him… and then you are utterly surpised when one day he bites the sh*t out of you. It must be because he hates the freedom you have? No, he just hates you.

People need to stop thinking there is a single layer of causality in all of these issues.

Wright was correct when he said the US invited 9/11, because we did. Innocent people did not deserve to die, but the US government has to start thinking about the long term impact of its policies.

Comment by Tristan | 2008-09-12 14:29:18

I’m glad to see that even 9/11 hasn’t changed some people’s view that any evil that takes place in the world is America’s fault. I wish I lived in another country so I didn’t have to be responsible for my actions. I’d set bombs every day, and if I was ever caught, I’d blame America’s foreign policy during the Nixon years. (Ayers anyone?)

If you would like to convert to Islam and submit to Sharia law to appease the fanatics, feel free. Because that is the only thing that will stop the terrorist attacks, according to statements from their leaders.

But perhaps we could offer other concessions to the terrorists in an attempt to keep the peace. For example, we could give them Israel, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Lebanon, India, Saudi Arabia, Azerbaijan, etc. How many countries full of innocent people would you like to offer the terrorists in the hopes that they’ll leave you alone? Would countries with huge oil reserves or nuclear weapons count extra? Would the killings of women and jews in the football stadiums be televised? Let me know when you have it all figured out.

 
 

Comment by mcpalin hill | 2008-09-12 13:46:01

roseeriter — Those Obama’s always have to get a dig in at the rest of us. We get it now and we don’t need them in the white house. No Way No How No Obama

 

Comment by jpatelis | 2008-09-12 14:05:27

That is strange because I remember reading how Obama dropped off his girls on the first day of school. Found the article the first day of school was 9/8 for his daughters, so if that was their excuse??!!

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/09/08/politics/fromtheroad/entry4425109.shtml

 

Comment by Prem | 2008-09-12 14:20:37

Roseeriter—you saw that, too! The difference in body language and facial expressions between McCain and BHO was very revealing. BHO just threw his rose and McCain very reverentially bent his knees (probably with some pain because of his POW torture) and placed the rose at the pool.

I don’t think BHO and Meechelle like America either—why would BHO create a detailed economic policy to get us out of this morass when he doesn’t genuinely care if our country sinks or swims.

 
 

Comment by lark | 2008-09-12 07:33:12

I get it now. Not showing yesterday is consistent with not being proud for anything here except for those who support her husband.

Comment by tish | 2008-09-12 08:04:12

http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSDAH72079920080907?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews&rpc=22&sp=true

http://blogs.moneycentral.msn.com/topstocks/archive/2008/09/11/the-death-of-opec.aspx

russia is building military in venz, and other countries, and talking to opec to bring the price of gas up,,,,create shortages, while pelosi and reid, refuse to use our resources and make one lie after another for it.. put the dots together people!

 
 

Comment by Jeremiah God Damn Amerikkka Wright | 2008-09-12 08:01:08

Michelle was at Pelosi’s plastic surgeon getting a botox touch up for her smile so that it would stay in place for the next 8 weeks.

Meanwhile Daily Kos allowed this image to be posted
From Ace of Spades HQ (he screen capped the page too for when it gets scrubbed)

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/twincopyhh5.jpg

I am linking to his image so that no extra traffic goes to that shithole of an Obamination.

Comment by Kim | 2008-09-12 08:29:33

Jeremiah, all you get is a FORBIDDEN page when you try to access this link.

Comment by Jeremiah God Damn Amerikkka Wright | 2008-09-12 09:11:11

Here is a direct link to the article on Ace of SPades HQ.

http://minx.cc/?post=273272

Comment by LookingForwardTo2012 | 2008-09-12 10:19:36

Oh, that is terrible.

 
 
 

Comment by jangles | 2008-09-12 09:21:52

Please stop the sexist comments about women.

Comment by bemused | 2008-09-12 09:52:12

“Sexist” comments mean that the comment states or implies that personal merit or social standing or power is justified by gender. Such as, “Women should stay home and have babies.” The implication is that women should have a certain social position and no other, solely because they are women.

However, I don’t see why this comment is sexist. It implies she needs a medicosmetic proceedure to mask her emotions. As anyone might express the emotions similarily (and facial expressions have very universal meanings)or want to mask them, there is no gender bias.

Comment by Hope Floats | 2008-09-12 11:02:24

 
 

Comment by Jeremiah God Damn Amerikkka Wright | 2008-09-12 10:01:29

I never once mentioned pigs lipstick or stinky fish when talking about Michelle or Madame Pelosi.

If you are looking for sexism please visit BarackObama.com.

The Resident Male Chauvanist Pig in Chief can help you clrify your understanding of the definition of sexist.

Comment by mcpalin hill | 2008-09-12 13:52:08

jeremiah — you put lipstick on a chauvanistic pig and he’s still a chauvanist pigs. He appears to be getting tired of the of attacking Palin and is now going after older Americans and their lack of computers. Obama’s strategy appears to be how to lose an election one constituancy at a time.

Comment by Jeremiah God Damn Amerikkka Wright | 2008-09-12 19:48:55

His new campaign slogan is going to be

Change we don’t need you to believe in.

 
 
 
 
 

Comment by mimi | 2008-09-12 08:03:37

That brushing off the shoulders is going to prove the turning point where people realized that this smug prick was not presidential. It was about the stupidest thing he’s done all campaign long. And the best part was, it was so unnecessary.

He did it because that’s who he is. The abc debate humiliated him. Obama had had such an easy pass by the msm, he was totally unprepared for tough questions and he flubbed that debate. When he came on stage with that gesture, you see a man who had totally lost control of his emotions and his rational state of mind. That certainly isn’t the personality or character of a POTUS!

Comment by Leisa | 2008-09-12 09:14:38

My fourteen year old son saw that and thought it was cool, but not presidential. He said doesn’t want the president to be that immature and foolish.

Comment by Cruiser | 2008-09-12 11:04:04

Your son is gay.

Comment by CountryFirst | 2008-09-12 11:49:33

well, aren’t you a pathetic piece of human garbage!

 

Comment by Johnny at Work | 2008-09-12 13:43:39

Obama is instrucing his Obot’s to throw Gay’s under the bus now? Who will be left to vote for him? Just the AA’s?

 

Comment by Patti | 2008-09-12 14:35:25

You are a piece of trash.. But you probably already knew that.. Dickduck

 

Comment by StrawberrybitesBarky | 2008-09-12 14:41:41

What’s wrong with being gay? Oh yeah, Barky is a closet self-hating homosexual and must slam gay people to distract from himself. Man, if that doesn’t mke him sound even more like a republican, I don’t know what does.

 
 
 

Comment by bemused | 2008-09-12 09:55:45

When I found out what it all meant, it sure frosted me, but the problem is that the WHOLE meaning is only immediately clear to a relatively small group. I wouldn’t have known without blogs. Sure, we all know about shrugging shoulders or brushing off after getting knocked down. But that masks and misdirects the Jay-Z message. It is such a middle-school wise guy gesture, too bad more people don’t understand or they could see his arrested development.

 

Comment by Ani | 2008-09-12 10:29:29

Mimi, I agree. That is exactly what happened. Instead of him going back to the drawing board and ‘hitting the books’ and learning something new so he might do better next time, he insulted everyone else involved with the process — Hillary, first and foremost, just because she happened to show up prepared. Horrors!!

Unfortunately, he couldn’t go ‘back to the books’ about Ayers — he didn’t have an appropriate lie prepared. But after the backlash of his supporters, Gibson, Mr. Big Anchor, was cowed, as was Stephanopoulos, and no one brought up this legitimate question again.

Then the Hillary bashing continued without interruption.

 

Comment by LookingForwardTo2012 | 2008-09-12 10:29:32

That move, and the finger move are 2 things that I just cannot get over. IMHO, a person who is Presidential should live on a higher plane than that…should never have used such crude communication…especially directed toward an honorable political opponent. It would appear that he desires to President of approx.1/4 of the voting United States population, the people who voted for him in the Primaries. Why else would he insult the sensibilities of others?

 

Comment by abbie | 2008-09-12 13:51:27

I would totally run ads featuring that clip of him brushing off his shoulders with the question, “is this the kind of person we want representing the United States to the rest of the world?” The ad might have to explain what the gestures mean, and especially show the part where he was brushing “excrement” off his shoe. That moment was so horrible to me. Just because Hillary bested him in the debate! That kind of reaction was just vile and adolescent (no disrespect to upstanding adolescents).

 

Comment by Jaycephus | 2008-09-12 15:04:33

What about the ‘finger’ he shot Hillary in a speech as he was talking about her attacking him. It’s on YouTube (Zhkq11UExcw). Supporters say he was just scratching his face, but come on! No one does that with their middle right-hand finger on TV! The crowd reacted to it, and Obama smiled as he continued. Later, in the same speech, and in other speeches, he did ‘just’ scratch his face with his left index finger (He’s left handed). There is just no doubt that it was a ‘bird’. Yeah, he’s quite the ‘winner’.

 

Comment by American Woman | 2008-09-12 16:23:54

Whenever I see that video..it reminds me of the Reverend Wrong, his mentor taught him well…

 
 

Comment by Sandi78 | 2008-09-12 09:36:56

Didn’t we see Obama taking the kids to their first day of school via limo as a photo-op?

I though it was very noticeable that she was not there, however I really don’t think either McCain or Obama should have been there.

Comment by Liz B | 2008-09-12 10:07:33

Where do they wait to start school until Sept. 11th? I smell a lie.

Oh, and BTW jangles, I didn’t see anything sexist about women in Jeremiah’s post. Were you referring to the Botox that Pelosi needed to take her friend Michelle to get? See, Oprah tried to steer her towards her ridiculously expensive eyebrow waxer, but they realized that the permanent angry b**ch expression was caused from the perpetual scowl, and thus, the need for the botox. Michelle has a lot to be angry about, you see she’s been oppressed by “the man” her entire life, and she apparently has also been stuck living in a country she doesn’t respect or feel proud of, so an intervention medically was requested by the Magazine Editors who were spending too much time airbrushing her numerous “Jackie O” photo sessions. It’s not sexist, men get botox, too. Barack goes with her, in fact, she gets the syringe and he gets his weekly Zoom treatment (don’t tell anyone I told you this, but HE SMOKES)

 
 

Comment by Heather | 2008-09-12 09:40:37

No she did not. It was striking, and yet no MSM seems to have mentioned it. Why not?

 

Comment by Linda | 2008-09-12 12:14:17

No, dogs aren’t allowed.

 
 

Comment by NoTrollZone | 2008-09-12 09:06:50

Thanks Bud, great analysis.

And as you point out Ohio, florida, and PA are important. That’s why Obama didn’t go to PA for the 9/11 memorial service there…

If McCain won’t make hay out of that incredible slight to PA and all America, then 527s need to
jump on it.

Florida dems should still be feeling that sting from Obama’s shutting the door on their primary.

I don’t see how all the chickens are even finding perches to sit on. So many chickens…

Comment by jangles | 2008-09-12 09:26:43

New poll; McCain leading in Ohio by 1 point. He was down by 5.

 

Comment by PJ | 2008-09-12 10:36:13

So many chickens… LOL!

 
 
 

Comment by gerard "Barracuda" Nedich | 2008-09-12 06:22:53

Democrats on Capitol Hill fear Obama fallout
By Andrew Ward in Washington

Published: September 11 2008 23:30 | Last updated: September 11 2008 23:30

Democratic jitters about the US presidential race have spread to Capitol Hill, where some members of Congress are worried that Barack Obama’s faltering campaign could hurt their chances of re-election.

Party leaders have been hoping to strengthen Democratic control of the House and Senate in November, but John McCain’s jump in the polls has stoked fears of a Republican resurgence.

A Democratic fundraiser for Congressional candidates said some planned to distance themselves from Mr Obama and not attack Mr McCain.

“If people are voting for McCain it could help Republicans all the way down the ticket, even in a year when the Democrats should be sweeping all before us,” said the fundraiser, a former Hillary Clinton supporter.

“There is a growing sense of doom among Democrats I have spoken to . . . People are going crazy, telling the campaign ‘you’ve got to do something’.”

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6c2f69ce-8031-11dd-99a9-000077b07658,dwp_uuid=4d9dd3aa-5fbd-11dc-b0fe-0000779fd2ac.html

a. hillary
b. mccain

america first!

Comment by Jeremiah God Damn Amerikkka Wright | 2008-09-12 06:27:02

Leaked Video of Democrat Strategy War Room Discussions

Absolutely Not Safe For Work

http://www.overstream.net/view.php?oid=i2a7maeftqt9

Comment by roseeriter | 2008-09-12 07:01:37

Oh My!! That was fun!!

 

Comment by boonies | 2008-09-12 07:38:03

absolutely fall-down-funny!!!
if there is a Oscar for rewriting movie scenes this is a finalist…can I have more,sir?

 

Comment by Steve1 | 2008-09-12 07:41:00

HA HA HA HA HA HA….LMAO! Too funny!

 

Comment by LesleeE | 2008-09-12 09:13:47

Fantastic. SOOOOOOOOO funny. Love it, love this blog.

 

Comment by Liberty Belle not for Obama | 2008-09-12 10:00:27

Very funny! Wonder what movie they borrowed from, given the German.

After all, we’ve compared what Obama is doing to the early Nazi Party take over of Germany. We could hope his putsche has devolved into the Obamacrat Party death throes.

Comment by Prem | 2008-09-12 14:53:18

The name of the movie this clip was taken from is The Downfall:

http://www.imdb.com/video/screenplay/vi277610777/

It’s based on Hitler’s last secretary’s (Traudl Junge) diary as to what went down with Hitler in his bunker the 12 days before Berlin fell to the Allied Forces. It was a powerful, well-done, well-acted film, showing the complete insanity of Hitler. It is recommended.

This “editing” on the part of Jeremiah is so hilarious—good work, Jeremiah. Bravo!

Comment by Jeremiah God Damn Amerikkka Wright | 2008-09-12 19:46:44

ah nono. i just found it at Ace of Spades HQ i had nothing to do with making it.

 
 
 

Comment by Johnny at Work | 2008-09-12 13:54:12

That was so damn funny. I am embedding it on my blog.

 

Comment by Keir | 2008-09-12 15:32:52

 
 

Comment by Liz B | 2008-09-12 07:14:07

If their so damned worried now, they should be, while real Americans struggled to put gas in their cars this summer so they could go to work, Nancy Pelosi walked out on the GOP Senators, and announced that Congress was breaking for the summer. If they (her fellow Dems, and my former party) had stood up to her, and turned the lights back on they wouldn’t have to sweat it out alone until November, now. From what I hear, their godlen boy has sucked the Fundraising tit dry, and he hasn’t been worried about the down ticket Dems., I think they just might get all that change they’ve been asking for–Be Careful What You Wish For…

Comment by Diana L. C. | 2008-09-12 09:13:12

I’ve been telling all the Democratic candidates in my state whom I really support that I don’t like it when they link themselves to Obama. When I wrote Mrs. Fowler to complain about her comments, the major point I made was that I AM a Democrat who can’t vote for Obama but am planning to vote Democrat down ticket and that I am worried that her comments were hurting down ticket Democrats.

Maybe we can get all the down ticket dems to distance themselves completely from O–serve him right for buying superdelegates. Those superdelegate who were bought, however, should be humiliated.

 
 

Comment by tek | 2008-09-12 07:51:18

Well maybe they all should have thought about this before they pushed out the best candidate of 2008 forced Barry on the ticket. Oblahblah always said he was “realigning the electorate.” Guess these pols didn’t realize he was talking about cutting their constituencies out of the party. What a joke the New Democrats are.

 

Comment by mimi | 2008-09-12 08:09:14

Democrats hysterical and fearful of losing elections?

That is music to my ears after what they did to Hillary, and the Democratic base.

FIRE HOWARD DEAN!!!

BRING THE DNC BACK TO WASHINGTON!

I hope these people are shitting bricks.

Comment by Jeremiah God Damn Amerikkka Wright | 2008-09-12 08:24:47

Bricks? Try Cinderblocks!

 

Comment by JoseyJ | 2008-09-12 08:36:07

Obama plans sharper tone while Dems fret -
NYT
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26667449

Is it wise for Obama to attack McCain’s old age?
http://my.barackobama.com/page/content/still_ad

Comment by csuzeq | 2008-09-12 09:23:22

Mr. OfraudlyingfraudwomanhaterfrauddidIsayfraudbama is going to have a tough time selling that pay equity for women when he is all fine on the woman being picked over for the man employment policy and McCain is not afraid to put a woman in a pwerful position.

Mr. OhIreallyhatethatmanbama, you suck!

 

Comment by Leisa | 2008-09-12 09:25:10

Thanks JoseyJ…

We will see how this plays out, but I think he just lost the senior vote.

I thought the ad was smug and condescending.

 

Comment by jangles | 2008-09-12 09:36:26

Sharper tone? Well, that will help. Have you seen the 527 ads launching today? The ones from the McCain campaign. Check it out at By the Fault.

 
 
 

Comment by Heather | 2008-09-12 09:42:48

Let the heads roll. We should all continue targeting those superdelegates who voted Obama against their constituents’ primary votes. Anna Eshoo & Barbara Boxer are on my list.

 

Comment by Clinton Fan | 2008-09-12 11:03:16

Hillary told them, he CAN’T WIN. She knew what they refused to acknowledge, so eager were they to make some sort of bullshit point with a sorely flawed and woefully inexperienced candidate. This guy is overanxious, hubris-laden, and not too terribly smart. He’s also got integrity issues.

Skin tone is not a substitute for skills. Obama doesn’t have the skills yet. If he’d cut a deal to run as Clinton’s VP, he might have spent eight years learning, and perhaps kicking over the traces of his corrupt Chicago past, and this whole mess would be on cruise control now–the Dems would be making their hotel reservations and fighting over tickets to the “best” inaugural balls instead of whining, shitting bricks, sending out OBOT bloggers to try to depress motivation and disrupt discussion, and spinning like tops.

They didn’t listen. And now, gee whiz, those chickens are coming home to roost….for four more years.

 

Comment by Diana | 2008-09-12 12:29:18

That’s pretty sad when 2 months before the GE downticket Democrats are distancing themselves from Obama. Planning to make sure they don’t say anything bad about McCain or Palin. They know. The MSM may not want to, be interested in vetting him, their constituents will.

 
 

Comment by McGovern08 | 2008-09-12 06:24:37

They’re looking to those extra 7 states only they know about to make up the difference.

http://img229c.imageshack.us/img229/3164/miclasstz6.gif

 

Comment by Hope Floats | 2008-09-12 06:30:04

Today we are all Georgians.

Comment by Liz B | 2008-09-12 07:03:02

That may be the most clever answer I’ve seen yet!

 

Comment by Jeremiah God Damn Amerikkka Wright | 2008-09-12 07:27:07

yeah best response of the thread!!

 

Comment by NoTrollZone | 2008-09-12 09:10:13

 

Comment by LesleeE | 2008-09-12 09:17:47

 

Comment by Heather | 2008-09-12 09:45:28

Bwahahahaha…

 
 

Comment by bmc | 2008-09-12 06:30:04

Obama has imploded in Florida, too:

FL poll: McCain 50, Obama 42
Sept. 10 poll of 511 likely Florida voters by InsiderAdvantage/Poll Position: John McCain, 50 percent; Barack Obama, 42 percent.

http://blogs.tampabay.com/buzz/2008/09/fl-poll-mccai-2.html

And, REALLY BAD NEWS FOR DEMOCRATS:

The battle for CONGRESS is COMPETITIVE:

http://www.gallup.com/poll/110263/Battle-Congress-Suddenly-Looks-Competitive.aspx

Comment by McGovern08 | 2008-09-12 06:36:20

Wow. Just wow. Ogreat-one losing I expected. But losing congress too? DNC better open it’s eyes, quick.

http://img229c.imageshack.us/img229/3164/miclasstz6.gif

Comment by Jeremiah God Damn Amerikkka Wright | 2008-09-12 07:30:22

I am pretty sure after that display in the congress by Cohen yesterday…

…where he ran up to the podium

…with his crazy alfalfa hairdoo

…and declared that Sarah Pontius Pilate was trying to crucify Barack Jesus Christ COmmunity Organizer Obama,

….a lot of americans thought

…we need a real change and fast!

Comment by lark | 2008-09-12 07:40:27

No kidding.

 

Comment by NoTrollZone | 2008-09-12 09:12:11

good lord, what was with that hair? How can you even get such thin hair to stand straight up in the air like that? Crazy man, that one.

Comment by Jeremiah God Damn Amerikkka Wright | 2008-09-12 09:17:00

MOOSE!

or is it spelled Mousse?

in any event the MOOSE he used to get his hair to stnad up may have been like Hillary’s orange Pantsuit - letting us know in a subtle way that he was with us and being forced to say this….after all he is COHEN…most likely jewish….but on the other hand he is the same guy that compared Hillary to glen close in fatal attraction and said she just wouldnt die and kept coming back…so maybe it was Mousse.

 
 

Comment by pasmalltowngirl | 2008-09-12 09:57:50

LMAO @ “Crazy alfalfa hairdoo” I actually thought it was one of his horns sprouting. I think the whole lot of Obama’s supporters have them. Or maybe Obama’s cult is smoking the new drug of choice, salvia, since it is illegal in only a few states. I sure hope that whom ever is our next Potus, he will wage war on drugs. Drugs destroy the lives of millions of our kids. I watched a few of the salvia video’s on utube, it is sickening and heart breaking to watch these kids.

Fox News Chicago Illegal Salvia Report

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLWK9GN-nF0&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmfOpLlov08&feature=related

 
 

Comment by BernieO | 2008-09-12 07:31:24

Oh no. I kept thinking that if McCain won he would not be able to get more radical policies enacted - like his stupid tax cuts. The two things he would be able to do without Congress is the Supreme Court (unless the Dems get some spine and get away from the stupid idea that they can only object to a president’s choice on issues like corruption, not ideology. They are a coequal branch for crying out loud!) and military actions.