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Barack Obama turns to damage limitation after polls beating
Post Date: 2008-04-14 16:08:42 by nolu_chan
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tinyurl.com/6poaxv From Times Online April 14, 2008 Barack Obama turns to damage limitation after polls beating Tim Reid in Pittsburgh Barack Obama sought to turn the tables on Hillary Clinton today over his controversial remarks that small town Americans "cling" to guns and religion, amid signs that the issue has damaged him. In separate appearances before an audience of steelworkers in Pittsburgh, a week before Pennsylvania's primary, the Democratic rivals attacked each other aggressively, with one new poll showing Mrs Clinton opening up a formidable 20-point lead in the Keystone State. The American Research Group survey comes after a string of polls last week showed ...
Obama Remark ‘Elitist,’ McCain Says [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-04-14 14:36:12 by aristeides
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Obama Remark ‘Elitist,’ McCain Says April 14, 2008, 12:35 pm By Ariel Alexovich WASHINGTON — John McCain called Barack Obama’s recent comments that Pennsylvanians are “bitter” an “elitist” remark but stopped short of calling Mr. Obama himself elitist. “I don’t know Senator Obama very well,” Senator McCain said, addressing a packed crowd of journalists at a newspaper editors’ conference on Monday. Mr. McCain, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee, spoke at length about how small town Americans in places like Pennsylvania are the backbone of America. Those folks don’t support the Second Amendment because of recent ...
SHOCK POLL: CLINTON TAKES 20-POINT LEAD IN PA... [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-04-14 12:50:08 by Horse
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April 14, 2008 - Pennsylvania Democratic Primary Preference Hillary Clinton leads Barack Obama 48% to 44% among men (45% of likely Democratic primary voters). Among women, Clinton leads 64% to 31%. Clinton leads 64% to 29% among white voters (82% of likely Democratic primary voters). Obama leads 79% to 18% among African American voters (14% of likely Democratic primary voters). Clinton leads 52% to 43% among voters age 18 to 49 (50% of likely Democratic primary voters) and Clinton leads 62% to 31% among voters age 50 and older. 10% of all likely Democratic primary voters say they would never vote for Hillary Clinton in the primary and 24% of likely Democratic primary voters say they ...
John Baer: Decades of working-class neglect - now that's insulting (OBAMA WAS RIGHT)
Post Date: 2008-04-14 10:58:31 by aristeides
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John Baer: Decades of working-class neglect - now that's insulting By John Baer Philadelphia Daily News Daily News Political Columnist SOME THOUGHTS on the latest diversion of Campaign '08, a campaign apparently hell-bent on keeping the nation mired in its own stupidity. As a native-born, small-town Pennsylvanian, a son of native-born, small-town Pennsylvania parents - one from the coal region, one from Lancaster County - let me assure you that the so-called offensive, condescending things Barack Obama said about the people I come from are basically right on target. "Bitter" perhaps best describes my late mother, an angry Irish Catholic who absolutely clung to her ...
4um poll. Are there any here who consider themselves a D? An R? [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-04-14 10:55:39 by Jethro Tull
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I'm thinking we have some died in the wool Ds, and that might explain, in part, the Obama pimping.
Poster Comment:I'm a reformed R, who now is a electoral non-participant.
Bob Barr: Wrong About Colombia
Post Date: 2008-04-14 10:42:44 by robin
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Bob Barr: Wrong About Colombia Right about Iraq: the perils of hemispheric interventionism by Justin Raimondo Bob Barr's announcement that he is making a run for the White House on the Libertarian ticket has many advocates of a non-interventionist foreign policy hopeful, even excited – and I include myself among them. A successor to Ron Paul is right around the corner, or so it seems, and the continuing education of the American voters – a long-term project, to be sure – is still on track. That's the good news. The bad news is that the candidate himself may need some educating, particularly when it comes to the issue of U.S. intervention in South and Central ...
Now He's A Godless Commie
Post Date: 2008-04-14 10:17:18 by aristeides
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Now He's A Godless Commie Bill Kristol, trained in the same politics as Hillary Clinton, now argues that Obama's remarks in a fundraiser q and a are the "real Obama" - and that his voluminous writing and speaking about the sincerity of his own religious faith, and of others, are presumably "masks." The reason for inferring Obama's Marxism is the following point Obama artlessly made about the way in which economic distress can alter people's tolerance for others: "It’s not surprising then that 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 ...
Bill Clinton Flashback: "All These Economically Insecure White People...Are Scared To Death"
Post Date: 2008-04-13 22:09:46 by nolu_chan
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http://tinyurl.com/5f2gwq Bill Clinton Flashback: "All These Economically Insecure White People...Are Scared To Death" April 13, 2008 02:41 PM Nico Pitney Huffington Post As the rumination continues over Barack Obama's comments about economically-depressed small town voters, statements made by Bill Clinton on the same topic -- uttered while he was running for president in 1991 -- have now surfaced. "The reason (George H. W. Bush's tactic) works so well now is that you have all these economically insecure white people who are scared to death," Clinton was quoted saying by the Los Angeles Times in September 1991. A couple months later, Joe Klein, writing for ...
Obama Turns Tables on Clinton
Post Date: 2008-04-13 20:52:29 by a vast rightwing conspirator
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By BETH FOUHY The Associated Press Sunday, April 13, 2008; 8:38 PM STEELTON, Penn. -- Democrat Barack Obama lashed out Sunday at rival Hillary Rodham Clinton, mocking her sudden vocal support for gun rights and saying he understands the concerns of working class people. "She knows better. Shame on her. Shame on her," Obama told an audience at a union hall here. The Illinois senator has spent two days on the defensive after comments he made at a San Francisco fundraiser suggesting working class people are bitter about their economic circumstances and "cling to guns and religion" as a result. Clinton has pounded him for the remarks, calling him "elitist ...
Standing by His Woman
Post Date: 2008-04-13 17:19:49 by nolu_chan
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Standing by His Woman By MAUREEN DOWD Op-Ed Columnist April 13, 2008 WASHINGTON Hillary’s right. The boys are holding her back. And the worst part is, they’re her own boys. Fresh from pushing the preposterous Mark Penn to the rear of her leaky boat, Hillary has to deal with Bill making waves again. He spent the week taking the fun out of dysfunction, putting the “I” in id, and getting flaky just when Hillary has to be flawless. In a mystifying burst of nuttiness, right in time for the Sunday talk shows, Bill twice dredged up Hillary’s rococo story about sniper fire in Bosnia. He defended his wife on confusing her facts by confusing his facts — a ...
Why did Obama stand by Wright for 23 years?
Post Date: 2008-04-13 16:28:43 by Peppa
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Illinois State Rifle Association Blasts Candidate Obama on His Record of Hostility Toward Law- Abiding Firearm Owners
Post Date: 2008-04-13 16:26:40 by Jethro Tull
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ISRA Blasts Candidate Obama on His Record of Hostility Toward Law- Abiding Firearm Owners From:U.S. NewswireDate:August 24, 2004More results for:obama total ban on handguns CHICAGO, Aug. 24 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The following was released today by the Illinois State Rifle Association (ISRA): The ISRA is warning the state's 1.5 million law-abiding firearm owners not to be taken in by Barack Obama's recent claims of support for the 2nd Amendment published in downstate newspapers. Obama, the Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate, has a well- established history of hostility toward hunters, sportsmen, and other law-abiding firearm owners. For example, in 2003, Obama voted in support of ...
Election of 1972 echoes in presidential contests now
Post Date: 2008-04-13 03:21:38 by Ferret Mike
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In the fall of 1972, I was a junior at Moravian College. Sen. George McGovern of South Dakota was the Democratic presidential nominee. Then, many college students looked like hippies. Everyone had long hair. Society was polarized, and mainstream Democrats were not very enamored of Sen. McGovern. I was a volunteer for the McGovern campaign that year, and we were not even allowed to use local Democratic Party offices. The Northampton County party boss at the time, Attorney Justin Jurolanio, disapproved of the McGovern candidacy, and he was not about to lend official party support to the McGovern volunteers. McGovern had wrested the nomination from Minnesota Sen. Hubert Humphrey that year, ...
It's Obama, stupid: Carter and Gore to end Clinton bid
Post Date: 2008-04-13 00:32:51 by nolu_chan
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tinyurl.com/5lm2om It's Obama, stupid: Carter and Gore to end Clinton bid By Chris Stephen in New York Published Date: 13 April 2008 Source: Scotland On Sunday Location: Scotland DEMOCRAT grandees Jimmy Carter and Al Gore are being lined-up to deliver the coup de grâce to Hillary Clinton and end her campaign to become president. Falling poll numbers and a string of high-profile blunders have convinced party elders that she must now bow out of the primary race. Former president Carter and former vice-president Gore have already held high-level discussions about delivering the message that she must stand down for the good of the Democrats. "They're in ...
Grover Norquist in "New York Times Magazine" This Sunday Defends 'Nut-Job' McCain
Post Date: 2008-04-13 00:30:44 by nolu_chan
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tinyurl.com/6ldamo Grover Norquist in New York Times Magazine This Sunday Defends 'Nut-Job' McCain Posted April 11, 2008 | 02:12 PM (EST) Greg Mitchell While the cover story on Chris Matthews has already drawn attention to this coming Sunday's New York Times Magazine, a Q & A with tax-cut guru Grover G. Norquist should not be overlooked. Norquist reveals that he is now working with John McCain, after calling him a "nut-job" just three years ago, and in return McCain "reciprocates by sending at least one person to each of our Center-Right meetings." Norquist now admits that labeling McCain a "gun-grabbing, tax-increasing Bolshevik" was ...
CNN Thinks Obama’s Words Are More Important Than Bush’s Torturing
Post Date: 2008-04-12 23:47:12 by robin
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Maybe because I’m a “San Francisco elite,” when I heard what Barack Obama said at a Marin County fundraiser about the difficulties inherent in reaching out to small town voters, I said, “And…?” Obviously, context is everything, and perhaps it was not as artfully phrased as it might have been. Are voters so fragile that having someone point out that there is antipathy and bitterness in many economically impoverished areas that makes it hard to connect to voters and encourage them to vote for you is somehow an elitist attitude? Are we so immature that we need candidates to pat us on our heads and say, “It’s okay, little voter, there, ...
John McCain 'would confront Russia and China'
Post Date: 2008-04-12 20:44:16 by robin
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John McCain 'would confront Russia and China'By Alex Spillius in WashingtonLast Updated: 9:35am BST 12/04/2008A John McCain presidency would take to a more forceful approach to Russia and China, according to senior foreign policy advisers to the Republican candidate.Trail Mix: Barack Obama gets flirty (again)Bill Clinton's ill-informed Hillary 'misspeak' defenceToby Harnden: If Hillary was a man, would she win? The Arizona senator has already signalled that he intends to confront Russian president Vladimir Putin more directly than George W Bush if he wins the White House in November.John McCain: Tougher foreign policy? In a recent foreign policy speech, Mr McCain ...
Obama's Past Offers Ammo for Critics
Post Date: 2008-04-12 20:22:58 by Jethro Tull
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Obama's Past Offers Ammo for Critics From:AP OnlineDate:January 17, 2007More results for:obama and gun ban SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama may have a lot of explaining to do. He voted against requiring medical care for aborted fetuses who survive. He supported allowing retired police officers to carry concealed weapons, but opposed allowing people to use banned handguns to defend against intruders in their homes. And the list of sensitive topics goes on. With only a slim, two-year record in the U.S. Senate, Obama doesn't have many controversial congressional votes which political opponents can frame into attack ads. But his eight years as an ...
Elitism for Elites
Post Date: 2008-04-12 18:13:55 by robin
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Elitism for ElitesBy: Barbara O'Brien @ 2:45 PM - PDT It always amuses me when upper-class people with power and privilege start screeching about “elitism.” Today all manner of political, media and blogging elites — people with advanced degrees who’ve never been to a tractor pull in their lives — are snorting about elitism because Barack Obama said something that anyone with a real redneck background knows to be true — working-class, small-town whites feel left behind, bitter and frustrated. Ezra Klein and Marc Ambinder provide good commentary on what Barack Obama said. My remarks today are aimed at the critics who are rushing forward to defend the ...
Obama 'Small Town' Comments Draw Fire, Support
Post Date: 2008-04-12 12:40:54 by robin
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** UPDATED BELOW WITH RESPONSES FROM MCCAIN, OBAMA, PUNDITS ** Sen. Hillary Clinton drew sharp disagreements with Sen. Barack Obama late Friday for comments he made suggesting that job loss and economic woes had compelled people in Pennsylvania to bitterness, "guns or religion or antipathy, or anti-immigrant sentiment." "Pennsylvanians," she declared, "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 line was cutting and drew applause from the crowd. And it demonstrates that the Clinton campaign feels it has a political winner ...
The 3:10 to Yuma and those god damned Flemish
Post Date: 2008-04-12 12:29:12 by robin
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The 3:10 to Yuma and those god damned Flemish Posted by grantcart in General Discussion: Primaries Thu Apr 10th 2008, 04:42 PM LONG RIDE FROM YUMA Yesterday I was driving back from Yuma - in the middle of the desert - and passed a guy on the freeway who didn't look completely psychopathic but had been under the sun for a couple of days and looked down at the clock and it was 3:09 and realizing that if I took the next ramp up to go back and pick him up I would become the 3:10 to Yuma and that cinematic reference was all that was needed to tip the balance on whether I should take a chance on picking him up. It wasn't completely selfless as I knew that in about 20 miles all the ...
Opponents Call Obama ‘Out of Touch’
Post Date: 2008-04-11 23:47:28 by Dakmar
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TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — As Senator Barack Obama sought to broaden his appeal to voters in southern Indiana on Friday, Senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and John McCain separately criticized him as being out of touch with the middle class, seizing on a remark Mr. Obama made at a California fund-raiser about “bitter” Americans. Click for Full Text!
Poster Comment:You think Hillary will let me borrow her limo some time? I want to take McCain bowling.
Obama says some voters are angry, bitter
Post Date: 2008-04-11 23:32:48 by richard9151
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Personally, this is one time I would agree completely with Obama. Esp. the part about the people no longer trusting DC, which, unfortunately, does not stop those same people from chosing the lessor of two evils. And then they still do not 'get it.' 24 minutes ago TERRE HAUTE, Ind. - In the midst of an assault from his rivals, a defensive Barack Obama said Friday that many working-class Americans are angry and bitter over economic inequalities and have lost faith in Washington — and, as a result, vote on the basis of other issues such as gun protections or gay marriage. The Illinois senator's analysis of what motivates working-class voters came after chief rival Hillary ...
Obama on small-town PA: Clinging to religion, guns, xenophobia [Full Thread]
Post Date: 2008-04-11 19:39:50 by christine
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Obama on small-town PA: Clinging to religion, guns, xenophobia Huffpo's Mayhill Fowler has more from Obama's remarks at a San Francisco fundraiser Sunday, and they include an attempt to explain the resentment in small-town Pennsylvania that won't be appreciated by some of the people whose votes Obama's seeking: You go into 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 ...
Former AL Gov. Don Siegelman Says Media Ignoring Details of His 'Electronically Stolen' 2002 Election
Post Date: 2008-04-11 19:06:27 by robin
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BLOGGED BY Brad Friedman ON 4/11/2008 11:17AM Former AL Gov. Don Siegelman Says Media Ignoring Details of His 'Electronically Stolen' 2002 ElectionHas Given Story to 60 Minutes, Dan Abrams, LA Times, WaPo...All Have Failed to Report His Allegations While Covering Other Aspects of His Story... Still paging Dan Abrams... The following email comes from Mark Crispin Miller, NYU media professor, and author of the landmark election integrity book, FOOLED AGAIN. It includes an email exchange from yesterday with the finally-free-on-bond former Democratic Governor of Alabama Don Seigelman, concerning his allegations that his 2002 election was electronically flipped. (A rarely seen video ...
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