the wright attachment

28Apr08

If Obama supporters over on places like the Daily Kos could turn down the volume of all that thunder and damnation aimed at Hillary Clinton and just think, for a second, about what it means not simply to Barack Obama, but to the Democratic party, now and forever, to have Reverend Wright out there now [...]

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the gospel, according to mary

15Apr08

Numerous publications digging deeper this week into why New Mexico Governor and former Clinton Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson turned on his old bosses and endorsed Barack Obama. The Los Angeles Times piece is here. Nothing new or surprising in any of the reports that I can see. Richardson was moved by Obama’s speech on [...]

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those san francisco nights

14Apr08

“….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.” – Barack Obama, April 6th, 2008 Comments like this have tremendous political ramifications. Republicans destroy Democrats with far less potent ammo than this c-4 that Obama spews. Look [...]

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the victim card

13Apr08

Someone suggested that Obama is caught in this situation where he has promised to run a different kind of campaign but when his wondrous and pure honesty forces painful truths out of the magnificent mouth that cannot tell a lie then he gets unfairly bashed for speaking of life’s inconvenient truths. He’s just a victim [...]

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here we gobama again

12Apr08

I think the campaigns have now gone on so long that these people are starting to lose it. Hillary laughing irrationally at a serious question. Bill confecting even more Bosnia trouble for her. Barack Obama has even started making sexual wisecracks to ladies on the meet and greet lines. At this point (meaning both in [...]

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when race trumps votes everyone loses

08Apr08

The rationale being offered by Democratic big wigs and the mainstream media as to how the Democratic party can get away with ignoring both a potential popular vote victory by Hillary Clinton, as well as ignoring or redefining the stated purpose of the superdelegates, is as follows: To have the super ones move to Hillary [...]

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