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Campaigning Against John McCain, Not George Bush
2008-05-10 17:04:00 Republican on line political strategist Patrick Ruffini is offering some advice that Democrats should listen to. I’ve been shuddering for a while over the strategy of trying to campaign against John McCain by claiming that he is identical to George Bush . Whether by good sense or possibly due to old fashioned dumb luck, the Republicans ... More About: Politics , George Bush , Barack Obama , Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton Continues Negative Campaign
2008-05-10 01:31:00 There’s been speculation now that pretty much everyone realizes that the race is over and Obama has won the nomination that Hillary Clinton would at least drop the negative campaigning if she remained in the race. Clinton sure has proven those who believed that to be wrong. She launched another negative and misleading attack against ... More About: Politics , Iraq , Health Care , Barack Obama
Wesley Crusher Fires Photon Torpedos At Hillary Clinton
2008-05-10 00:55:00 Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation–yeah I know, blame the writers for the character; Wil was just the young actor who wound up playing him) does not like Hillary Clinton . He writes: The thing about all of this is that, with a Clinton victory in the primary about as likely as jumping ... More About: Fires
Two Pundits From the ?Bartlet Adminstration? Weigh In on Controversy
2008-05-09 21:55:00 When Arianna Huffington wound up in a dispute with John McCain she was fortunate to have two members of The West Wing’s fictional Bartlet Administration on hand to back up her story. On Monday Huffington wrote that John McCain told her at a dinner party that he had not voted for George W. Bush ... More About: Television , Blogosphere , Controversy , Weigh
ABC Shows Obama Taking Lead Among Superdelegates
2008-05-09 16:41:00 Yesterday I noted that presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama had pulled within 8.5 superdelegates of Clinton per the count at Politico. The stampede away from Clinton continues and this morning Obama only trails by 3.5 superdelegates by their count. (The half comes from Americans abroad where there are four delegates with one-half vote each, and ... More About: Politics , Hillary Clinton , In the News
Hillary in the Bunker
2008-05-09 03:02:00 This is both accurate and hilarious. (Subtitles not safe for work). More About: Hillary
Obama Almost Caught Up to Clinton For Superdelegates
2008-05-09 02:49:00 I never thought it was very likely that the superdelegates would bring about a result different from the decision of the voters. Superdelegates certainly have the prerogative to vote for whoever they desire. An individual superdelegate can vote their conscience and vote for a candidate other than the national winner and different from the winner ... More About: Politics , Barack Obama , Hillary Clinton , Obama , Clinton
Clinton Remains a ?Dogged But Deluded Also-Ran?
2008-05-09 01:41:00 It appears that everyone except for Hillary Clinton and her more fanatic supporters realize that for all practical purposes the nomination battle is over and Barack Obama has won. AP describes Clinton as a “dogged but deluded also-ran.” She has yet one more ridiculous argument in considering West Virginia a test, thinking that a win ... More About: Politics , Blogosphere
Clinton?s Argument Doomed To Failure
2008-05-08 06:47:00 Despite being behind in number of delegates, the popular vote, and number of states won, Hillary Clinton continues to believe she is entitled to the nomination. It is her turn within the pattern of the Bush/Clinton Dynasty and matters such as the will of the voters must not be allowed to interfere with the planned ... More About: Politics , Failure , Doomed
The General Election Campaign Begins: Barack Obama vs. John McCain
2008-05-07 17:39:00 After last night’s devastating loss for Hillary Clinton , presumptive Democratic nominee Barack Obama can now begin the general election campaign against presumptive Republican nominee John McCain. I previously noted how the media has begun declaring Obama the winner, beginning with Tim Russert, Chuck Todd, and Matt Drudge. This continued on the morning news shows, increasing ... More About: Politics , General , In the News
The Wicked Old Witch At Last is Dead
2008-05-07 07:08:00 Hillary Clinton was right. Tuesday night was a game changer, but not as she had hoped. Obama is winning in North Carolina by 15% and Indiana remains too close to call (despite Clinton’s earlier victory speech). It is no longer possible for Clinton to win a majority of delegates or win the popular ... More About: Politics , Breaking News , Barack Obama , Hillary Clinton , Dead
Bill Clinton Had A Different View on Economists in 1992
2008-05-06 21:11:00 How things have changed since 1992. Back in 1992, Bill Clinton cited endorsements from economists as reason to support him in a campaign ad (video above–hat tip to David Kurtz). In 2008 Hillary Clinton not only ignores the economists after she adopted John McCain’s idea for a gas tax holiday. She even brags about ... More About: Politics , Economy , Barack Obama
Clinton the Anti-Intellectual
2008-05-05 17:46:00 James Hrynyshyn attended a Clinton rally and after seeing the “appeal to an anti-intellectual strain” fears she would give us “more of the last eight years.” Not only did Clinton’s speech avoid anything remotely resembling a respect for the challenges and contributions that science poses and offers society, but she seemed to go out of ... More About: Hillary Clinton , Blogosphere , Intellectual , Anti
Clinton Loses Town Hall on Arguments But Wins on Intimidation of Host
2008-05-05 17:23:00 Yesterday’s appearance by Hillary Clinton on This Week has received the most coverage for her once again supporting the gas tax holiday and saying she’s not going to listen to all the economists who disagree with her. Even someone asking a question at the Town Hall realized she was pandering: I have — Sen. Clinton, I ... More About: Economy , Host
If Hillary Clinton Was a P.O.W.
2008-05-05 07:37:00 If Hillary Clinton was a prisoner of war and was offered a deal to be released before those captured after her, does anyone think Hillary would have refused an early release as John McCain did?
Bill Clinton Cracks Jokes As People Faint
2008-05-05 07:28:00 Has Bill Clinton totally lost his mind? From AP: Former President Bill Clinton is cracking wise about his ability to make people faint, telling voters in North Carolina he didn’t think he still had it in him.Clinton was campaigning Sunday for his wife’s presidential bid on a hot and sunny day in western North Carolina. The ... More About: Jokes , People , Hillary Clinton
The Anti-Clinton Backlash
2008-05-04 08:28:00 Hillary Clinton has been trying to get the superdelegates to vote contrary to the majority of voters in Democratic primaries and caucuses by making a number of false claims. One of her recent tactics is to claim that there is a backlash against Obama which makes him unelectable. Hillary Clinton is right that there is ... More About: Politics , Barack Obama , Hillary Clinton , Polls
Obama Wins in Guam
2008-05-04 04:29:00 A win is a win, but they don’t get much closer than this. Obama beat Clinton by seven votes in the Guam primary. The projections were that this own would be close with Obama winning, and they were right. Clinton’s latest pandering didn’t give her the victory. With this close a result both Clinton and Obama ... More About: Politics , Barack Obama , Hillary Clinton
Ron Paul to Back Obama?
2008-05-03 23:32:00 It is far short of an endorsement, but Ron Paul has expressed a preference for Barack Obama over John McCain due to his positions on foreign policy. In an interview on The Situation Room, Paul told Wolf Blitzer that endorsing Sen. John McCain, the Republican Party?s presumptive nominee, ?would really confuse? his supporters ?because they know ... More About: Politics
SciFi Friday (Saturday Edition): Jack & Kate and Ted & Robin, and the Goat
2008-05-03 23:08:00 This week we had two shows which deal with relationships viewed at different points in time. Lost was a Jack-centered story in which the flash forward showed Jack and Kate living together at some point after Kate’s trial. Jack proposed but we saw the seeds of the end of their relationship which would lead to ... More About: Television , In the News , Science Fiction , Saturday
Hillary?s Move To The Right
2008-05-03 19:27:00 If Hillary Clinton ’s pandering and lies should allow her to win the Democratic nomination we could wind up in the unusual situation by modern standards that the Democrats have the more socially conservative candidate, as well as the candidate who comes closes to carrying on the Bush legacy. Michael Tomaskyhas also noticed the transformation of ... More About: Politics , Barack Obama , Move
Clinton the Fighter Escalates Pandering
2008-05-03 16:50:00 Hillary Clinton ’s pandering has extended to Guam. Jake Tapper reports that in an interview aired in Guam Hillary Clinton has come out in favor of allowing them to vote for president. Are all the territories to be made states? Strange that Clinton developed this interest in the rights of the people of Guam on the ... More About: Politics , Hillary Clinton , Fighter
And Now Even Peggy Noonan Sounds Less Like A Right Winger than Hillary
2008-05-03 01:51:00 At least on Jeremiah Wright: I am out of step. There is something that is upsetting others whom I care about and whose thoughts are often not unlike my own. And it’s not hitting me the same way. I am referring to the Rev. Jeremiah Wright. I disagree with and disapprove of the things he says. The ... More About: Sounds , In the News , Hillary , Peggy Noonan
McCain Chief Of His VP Search
2008-05-02 23:22:00 The Swamp reports that John McCain is heading up his own VP search. I’m sure relieved that he’s not having Cheney head the search. More About: Chief , Search
Hillary Rodham Bush
2008-05-02 18:52:00 One sad benefit of the Clinton campaign is that it will always provide me with an example to show why I am an independent, not a Democrat. I will not support a Democratic candidate who displays the same faults which I have been criticizing George Bush over for the past seven years. Clinton backed the ... More About: Politics , Hillary Clinton , Scandals , Blogosphere
Clinton Fails Coffee Maker Test
2008-05-02 04:28:00 It’s 3:00 a.m. at the White House and coffee is needed. Don’t call Hillary Clinton . This video settles it. There’s no way I can vote for Hillary Clinton if she’s so out of touch that she doesn’t know how to use a coffee maker. This comes just after one of her supporters introduced her ... More About: Coffee , Maker , Test
Bush Has Record High Disapproval Rating
2008-05-02 02:22:00 George Bush just keeps on breaking records–for most unpopular president of all time: A CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Thursday indicates that 71 percent of the American public disapprove of how Bush his handling his job as president. “No president has ever had a higher disapproval rating in any CNN or Gallup poll; in fact, this is ... More About: George Bush , Polls , High , Record
Stephanopoulos Remains a Loyal Clintonista
2008-05-02 01:36:00 ABC apparently does not care about journalistic integrity anymore. The C in ABC must stand for Clinton, and unfortunately it doesn’t mean Anyone But Clinton. After hosting what was very likely the worst debate of all time in Pennsylvania, George Stephanopoulos has found an even more blatant way to whore for Hillary. He’s hosting a ... More About: Politics , Hillary Clinton , News Media
Trippi Thinks Edwards Should Have Remained in Race
2008-05-01 23:39:00 Joe Trippi writes that he should have advised John Edwards to have remained in race. He writes, “He could have kept his agenda in the forefront by staying in the race and forcing Obama and Clinton to focus on those issues because he, John Edwards, would hold the key to the convention deadlock. And maybe, ... More About: Politics , Economy , Barack Obama , Hillary Clinton
Former Clinton Appointee to DNC Calls For Superdelegates To Back Obama and
More articles from this author:2008-05-01 18:39:00 With Obama having an almost insurmountable lead in the pledged delegates the race increasingly centers around the superdelegates. Convincing the superdelegates to go contrary to the results of the primaries is the only chance Hillary Clinton has to win the nomination. Obama has gone into a prevent defense, attempting to get through the remaining primaries ... More About: Politics , Democrats , Barack Obama 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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