4um: Ind. and N.C.: Obama keeps poll leads and wins newspaper backing

Title: Ind. and N.C.: Obama keeps poll leads and wins newspaper backing
Source: http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/
URL Source: http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2008/05/obama-keeps-pol.html
Published: May 4, 2008
Author: Mark Memmott and Jill Lawrence
Post Date: 2008-05-04 13:24:18 by robin
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Views: 211
Comments: 15

As always, we caution you that these are snapshots and we don't know what voters will do when those states vote on Tuesday.

In other primary news, Obama has picked up several newspaper endorsements. They include:

--The Charlotte Observer. "Do the Democrats need a restoration of the past, or is it time for a change? We think it's time for a change."

--The Louisville Courier-Journal. "Sen. Obama's relentless focus on change, and the hordes of new voters he draws to the polls, would make it hard for his victory to be read as anything other than a mandate for changing how Washington works."

And the morons at the Charlotte Observer think that we are going to get any "change" with Obama? From what I have heard if they have any "change" they better figure out where to hide it if they help that sob get elected (not that any of the three establishment choices are any good, I wouldn't vote for any of them for dog catcher).

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton

by BoBo2020

Sat May 03, 2008 at 12:45:45 PM PDT

Wow ! - this has been a busy Saturday in politics. The day is still young, and there's already been lots of news from the superdelegates.

Obama has picked up 8 superdelegates today and 2 pledged delegates from Guam.

So far today, Obama has been endorsed by Brian Colon, the Democratic Party Chairman in New Mexico.

Obama also received an endorsement from the South Carolina add-on, former State Education Superintendent Inez Tenenbaum.

He gained support from Maryland add-on, former Gov. Parris Glendening.

He has picked up:
Jaime Paulino (Guam) - an Obama supporter
Pilar Lujan (Guam) - undecided but on record stating she will support the popular vote winner in Guam.

Meanwhile Clinton picked up:
Maryland add-on, former Lt. Gov. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend.

And in non-super delegate news:

Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Martin Sheen support Obama!

Superchunk and Arcade Fire are rocking out for Obama in North Carolina.

Obama has rebounded in the Gallup daily poll, and he is up BIG in Oregon.

He reached out to John Edwards, and gave his amazing "Closing argument" in Indianapolis (Here's the ad video).

Friends of the Earth has endorsed Obama (are you listening Gore?)

The Magnequench and WVWV issues are both catching up with CLinton.

Virginia Governor Timothy Kaine is going to campaign for Obama in Indiana and Ron Paul, yes THE Ron Paul is considering supporting Obama because of his policy on foreign affairs.

This has been a VERY GOOD DAY for OBAMA!

UPDATE 1:
Early voting is HUGE in North Carolina and favors Obama.

Yoda has endorsed Obama (warning: satire - but fun)

The Clinton Gas Tax Holiday pandering is getting some healthy criticism.

We've known this for a couple of days, but Obama is about to officially pick up 3 more Illinois superdelegates this weekend:
Mayor Daley
Illinois House Majority Leader Barbara Flynn Currie
Illinois Cook County Board President Todd Stroger

UPDATE 2:

Obama has WON GUAM and Jaime Paulino and Pilar Lujan will be his superdelegates!

"To destroy a people you must first sever their roots." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

It was funny but I hope Yoda will sue them for character assasination for claiming he would support some establishment whore. Maybe if Jabba the Hutt or the Dark Side endorsed him it might be believable but I don't believe Yoda or Jar Jar Binks would.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton

"To destroy a people you must first sever their roots." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

ADEN, Yemen -- Almost eight years after "al-Qaeda" nearly sank the USS Cole with an explosives-stuffed motorboat, killing 17 sailors, all the defendants convicted in the attack have escaped from prison or been freed by Yemeni officials.

The collapse of the Cole investigation offers a revealing case study of the U.S. government's failure to bring al-Qaeda operatives and their leaders to justice for some of the most devastating attacks on American targets over the past decade.

..."There's something that doesn't smell right," he said. "It was all very strange. After these people were convicted in unfair trials, all of a sudden it was announced that they had escaped... __________________________________________________________________
He's not the only one who thinks so:
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What happened: judicial- inc.biz/USS_Cole_prelude_Iran.htm

"On 2000, the USS Cole was sent to Yemen to refuel, and it was struck by a small boat that had a massive explosive charge. Normally, these ships are refueled at sea by oil tankers, but someone in the Pentagon ok'ed this.

Who would send a high-tech ship into Yemen - alone - with anti-American feelings running rampant there?

...Thus, experts conclude that professional intelligence operatives, were the only ones who could have carried out this operation. The Mossad is the world's foremost intelligence agency, when it comes to staging terror attacks, and they have a long history of doing cunning false-flag terror attacks, that appear to be things other than what they really are. "

"To destroy a people you must first sever their roots." - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Mad, passed-out-McCain baby. LOL! Despite the fact that I think Obama, Clinton and McCain are all nogoodniks, I have to say that is a funny video. Thanks for the laugh.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
Lord Acton

What change? More government? More wars? More taxes? That is not change. Okay, I admit that making things go from bad to worse is change. Still, that is not what I had in mind.

It's funny, a topic about how Obama stood in the same room with a guy wearing a Che Guava shirt 20 years ago gets +100 posts. I put up Obama's Neo-neocon manifesto from the CFR and there is not one reply.

That just re-enforces my conviction that America is all about style and not one wit about substance. Right or wrong does not matter so long as you look cool doing it.

"If violence solved nothing, then weapons technology would have never advanced past crude clubs and rocks." - Me.

Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things. T. S. Eliot

Maybe I should have given it a different title so more people would read it. Something like "OMFG here's a pic of Obama reading 'Das Kapital' and feeding puppies into a meat grinder at the same time!" should just rake in the comments.

"If violence solved nothing, then weapons technology would have never advanced past crude clubs and rocks." - Me.

Maybe you should have resisted the urge to put your ridiculous "summary" on the end of it.

Success is relative. It is what we can make of the mess we have made of things. T. S. Eliot

"It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams (1722-1803)‡