Letters to the Editor
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Obama's state grant donor scandal.
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/front/la-na-killerspin27apr27,1,7650855.story?track=rss
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Passing legislation
I guess if he wasn't shot at by snipers while passing legislation, it doesn't count.
My favorite thing, Koppelman, is how you analyze every word out of Obama's mouth - even words that don't come out of his mouth - but haven't the slightest interest in parsing or otherwise examining Clinton's words.
The most amazing thing about hacks like you and Joan Walsh is the deep denial that allows you to continue considering yourself as "principled" or even a "journalist," when all the while you're no better than blind pigs who cannot keep their dulled snouts from the offal.
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Chicks are saps.
Was anyone else offended by Hillary trotting out poor little old Maya Angelou for a photo op? That was just disgraceful. And those photos! What's really sad is that it works. Thousands of women next Tuesday are going to vote for her based soley on that ad. I'm ashamed that my sex falls so easily for that sort of thing.
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What reality are you in
Was anyone else offended by Hillary trotting out poor little old Maya Angelou for a photo op? That was just disgraceful. And those photos! What's really sad is that it works. Thousands of women next Tuesday are going to vote for her based soley on that ad. I'm ashamed that my sex falls so easily for that sort of thing.
That was by far the best Ad Clinton has run, and likely the best ad of the entire race so far.
It doesn't attack anyone, it's uplifting and positive, if you find that offensive and disgraceful, you should examine your beliefs.
Obama is on the committee, he gets to say he passed legislation that passes through that committee as long as he voted for it, which he did.
Everyone does this and it's perfectly acceptable.
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Clinton camp trying to mislead NC voters
You need to do a story on the organization Women's Voices Women Vote that is making misleading phone calls to NC voters--it's staffed by Clinton supporters--HRC is employing Rovian tactics
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Now, now, dear.
KCB, exactly what evidence do you have that your sex will come out in droves to vote for Hillary based on this Maya Angelou ad? First of all, there is nothing wrong with the ad (except did Angelou just call Hillary "the breast president"?!). It is completely fair, truthful, cloying schmaltz. Just like everything Maya Angelou ever wrote. Obviously, she is not a favorite of mine, but if you already like her and you already like Hillary, this ad will make you feel really good. It's great PR, but I don't think it will convince a single person to vote a different way.
Why do you? Methinks the lady doth protest too much.
Full disclosure: As an Ohio-raised, middle-class, middle-aged mother, I am by rights a Hillary voter, but I'm not one. Because I don't think I can sit through another long Maya Angelou poem during the inauguration. Give me Toni Morrison anyday! (But please, I beg you, not Oprah.)
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@KCB - Maya Angelou
Don't suppose you've read the wonderful poem, "Rise, Hillary, Rise" by Angelou, a rather stirring tribute to Hillary? I daresay Ms. Angelou is very much capable of deciding who gets to, uh, "trot her out". That was low, KCB, real low.
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Speaking of ads
Speaking of ads, Hillary has lately been airing one in Indiana that criticizes Bush for allowing the sale of an Indiana firm called Magnequench to a Chinese company, noting that she would have stopped the sale.
One small problem: Bush didn't approve the sale.
Who did?
Why, her husband's administration did in 1995!
Whoops!
She's already repeated this charge a few times. Do we could this one as "lying" or "misspeaking"?
The story appears here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/election2008/story/35337.html
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HUGE screw-up by Hillary
She blows it by not continuing to go sickeningly negative and in full attack mode. She seems to forget that voters only respond to her when she tears down Obama. Because she is incapabe of making undecideds prefer her on merit.
So, she'll slip back a few points and then run an ad with Osama Bin Laden in it the weekend priotr to the election.
This whole thing is, by the way, a lesson that Americans perfer / demand / act on negative campaigns. They cannot get enough negativity.
If Obama had hit back he's have the nominationby now. But he is held to a higher standard - and we all see what happens when one person is held to no standard and the other to a high one...8 years of W.
But it should be expected - Patton was wrong. Americans love a loser and hate a winner.
I guess NC will "matter" now that Hillary has a shot a being ompetitive there. C'mon, Salon staff of monkeys! Dance to the Hilllary narrative and talk up NC now!!!
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All of this is besides the point
Obama supporters and the press who kneel at their dirty sandals are completely off base when they delude themselves that Obama will win NC. He won't. He will win in Chapel-Hill (the Berkeley of the East), he will win in some of the upscale areas in Charlotte and surrounding areas and he will win in Durham.
You get it all wrong, it's not entirely a racial thing. It's a centrist thing. Obama is viewed as too radical by the Dem voters in NC which is generally one of the more conservative Dem regions in the country. True we have a Dem gov but that's like a Texas gov, aka everyone else's Republicans. And none of the Dems of any merit even want to challenge Elizabeth Dole for her Senate seat because they know they can't win.
Sorry Salonbots it's not about how we all hate and lynch black people, but they will rise up to crush Whitey no matter how hard you want to pimp that. And it's not about Wright. It's about centrism and nature of the Democrats who vote here.
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re: Speaking of ads
I hadn't seen that story, Wood Goblin, thanks for the link. I'll check it out, looks interesting.
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I like Maya Angelou's poetry ...
... Hillary, not so much. Though if through divine -- or demonic -- intervention she gets the nomination, I'll still vote for her over McCain. No contest.
(KCB-Houston: Huh? Are you serious?)
And yeah, it'd be better if the Obama ad was phrased like " ... helped pass legislation ...", but I don't think the actual wording was worth remarking on. It's a common enough way of phrasing it, and it's not like anyone -- other than pundits, maybe -- is silly enough to say, "Gosh, he passed it all by himself?"