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The VP Choice that Lost the Presidency for McCain

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 05:11:57 GMT

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clipper's remarks: It's also a slap in the face of Democratic women voters. They don't get Hillary but they get Sarah as the first potential woman President? In fact, I can just hear Biden saying, "Sarah Palin, you are NO Hillary Clinton!"

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

The VP Choice that Lost the Presidency for McCain

I think we will look back at today as the day when the Republicans most certainly lost the Presidency.

In choosing Sarah Palin of Alaska for Vice President, the Republicans have made a cynical but clever choice. At least they think it is clever.

Clip Source: wonkette.com

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

She has NO national experience.

She has never been under the intense scrutiny of a national campaign.

She is under investigation for some incident in Alaska that is messy and personal.

She has no international experience.

When Republicans and independents go into the voting booth, will they have the confidence to vote for a McCain-Palin ticket, knowing that John McCain has had several recurrences of his skin cancer, and will be the oldest President ever? Can they imagine Sarah Palin stepping into the Oval Office and dealing with all the problems we face right now?

It's a slap in the face of other Republican women like Kay Bailey Hutchison

Tags: john mccain whore mongering gold digger

Key Clinton Constituencies Moving Toward Obama

Wed, 21 May 2008 03:02:07 GMT

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clipper's remarks: As I expected, once the dust settles Democrats will rally behind the Democratic nominee.

No Democrat, and no sane thinking person wants to see four more years from McBush.

Clip Source: www.gallup.com

Key Clinton Constituencies Moving Toward Obama

Obama now competitive among women, whites, and the less educated

Gallup Poll Daily tracking has documented a surge in Democratic voters' support for Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton in recent days, swelling from a four percentage-point lead for Obama during the first part of May to a record 16-point lead for him in polling from May 16-18.

At the same time, support for Clinton among some of her traditionally stalwart support groups -- women, Easterners, whites, adults with no college education, and Hispanics -- has fallen below 50%.

The only major demographic group still supporting Clinton to the tune of 51% or more is women aged 50 and older. This group's preferences have changed little during May, at the same time that Clinton's support among younger men (those 18 to 49) has declined by nearly 10 points.

Bottom Line

Obama's latest gains have come from a broad spectrum of rank-and-file Democrats

Tags: clinton supporters moving to obama

Obama 7 to 3 in super delegates since Pennsylvania - 2 more today

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:44:52 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The math just doesn't work for Hillary. She should graciously accept defeat and get behind beating the republicans this fall.

Clip Source: thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com

Looking ahead to the Kentucky primary on May 20, Barack Obama can count on the support of the state’s popular Representative Ben Chandler, who endorsed him Tuesday

Mr. Chandler’s support means that Mr. Obama has the backing of both Democratic Kentucky House members

In addition, Richard Machacek, an Iowa farmer and member of the party’s state central committee, endorsed Senator Obama today

Mr. Machacek told The Des Moines Register that he was impressed with the strong showing Mr. Obama made at the state district convention last weekend. Senator Obama won 16 of Iowa’s 29 pledged delegates, compared to nine for Senator Clinton and four for John Edwards, even though he has dropped out of the race.

Since Mrs. Clinton’s win in the Pennsylvania primary, Mr. Obama has landed more superdelegates, 7 to 3.

Clip Source: www.time.com

Tags: obama, 7 to 3 in delates over clinton since pennsylvania

Jimmy Carter - "Hillary supporters must accept outcome of pledged delegates"

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 21:37:32 GMT

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clipper's remarks: More: Mr Carter emphasised that he and many other super-delegates would not countenance this. “It would be undemocratic if the super-delegates blatantly went against the decision of Democratic voters across the nation.

"And I think that many super-delegates who have not yet declared their preference have the same feeling that I do, including the Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi. She’s said over and over that whoever gets the most [pledged] delegates by June 3rd ought to be the nominee.”

It would be “too bad” and damaging to the party if the battle went to the nomination, he said. The role of super-delegates, he argued, was to swing behind the winner chosen by the voters and not to usurp them.

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Former President Jimmy Carter has given Barack Obama a major boost by calling for the bitter Democratic nomination battle to end on June 3rd and speaking glowingly of his ability to “transform the image” of America.

Mr Carter did not formally endorse Mr Obama but in an interview with The Daily Telegraph made crystal clear where his sympathies lie. He even sketched out the kind of inaugural address the first black United States president could deliver.

Jimmy Carter's comments are a blow to Hillary Clinton

"I don’t see any reason at all to continue after June 3rd when we know who got the most [pledged] delegates, who got the most popular votes, who won the most states and so forth,” said Mr Carter, 83.

June 3rd is when the final primaries will be held, in South Dakota and Montana

Her advisers believe her only hope of defeating Mr Obama would be to persuade the super-delegates

that they should put aside the results of the voting and anoint her instead.

Tags: hillary, you're killing the party

Hillary Clinton - Highest Unfavorability Ratings of all 3 Candidates

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:48:13 GMT

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clipper's remarks: There is a reason McCain only attacks Obama.

Republicans want to run against Hillary. It is their best hope.

Clip Source: rasmussenreports.com

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Overall Favorable Ratings for Presidential Candidates

Hillary Clinton

Fav

45%

Unfav

53%

John McCain

Fav

51%

Unfav

46%

Barack Obama

Fav

51%

Unfav

46%

Date

04/28/2008

Clip Source: www.news.com.au

Tags: hillary, high negatives

Civilization's First Attack Ads - The Attack Poem

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:38:13 GMT

clipped by: BobbyRutan
clipper's remarks: Here's a poem he directed at a rival (all translations are from Brooks Haxton's book Dances for Flute and Thunder from Viking Press):

Swept overboard, unconscious in the breakers,

strangled with seaweed, may you wake up in a gelid

surf, your teeth, already cracked into the shingle,

now set rattling by the wind, while facedown,

helpless as a poisoned cur, on all fours you puke

brine reeking of dead fish. May those you meet,

barbarians as ugly as their souls are hateful,

treat you to the moldy wooden bread of slaves.

And may you, with your split teeth sunk in that,

smile, then, the way you did when speaking as my friend.

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

If you've missed Rudy Giuliani's 9-11 exploitation ads or waited anxiously for Swiftboaters to start running some shadowy Bin Laden video, this 2008 Democratic primary is for you!

At the rate it's devolving, voters in South Dakota and Montana can look forward to Deal or No Deal getting interrupted by footage of Hitler at the Reichstag--with Obama.

It turns out the Ancient Greeks--inventors of Democracy--may also have invented the first smear tactic: the attack poem.

Don't laugh. Poetry was primarily spoken, not written, back then, and it was often recited publicly

A well-timed poetic assault in front of the right audience could do some serious damage to one's rival. Archilochus, a soldier and renowned poet in the 7th Century BC, had such a gift for these attacks that it's said he drove a rival--and his entire family--to hang themselves

His verse was nasty enough to get him banned from Sparta. Just how how nasty could Archilochus get?

Tags: hillary, attack ads

Is Hillary Clinton Push Polling?

Sun, 27 Apr 2008 19:19:54 GMT

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clipper's remarks: More: The questions started out normal enough, but got progressively more ridiculous. Early in the conversation Ed asked my preference among the Democratic candidates and I told him I was an Obama supporter.

Then the questions turned to long Hillary-praising and Barack bashing policy statements with the response options being "Do you consider that a very strong, strong or weak or very weak reason to support her candidacy for president?" which is kind of an unanswerable question, and clearly not the point. At the end of the conversation they asked "Now based on everything we've discussed, who would you vote for?"

The questions were often based on statements that I wouldn't agree with in the first place. It's classic push polling as I've read about it, though never experienced it before. The questions are of the "Are you still beating your wife?" variety. No way to answer with any sense of veracity and integrity

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

North Carolina activist David LaMotte just got a push poll call from the firm of Geoff Garin, the new head of Hillary Clinton's campaign team

It wasn't as bad as asking "would it change your mind if you knew John Kerry actually bought his Vietnam medals off eBay." Or "How do you feel about John McCain's illegitimate black children?" But it was a push poll nonetheless,

This isn't the first time that the Clinton campaign or their allies have had pollsters offering positive information about Clinton and negative information about her opponents--they did it on the eve of the California primary and in South Carolina. (And firms linked to the Giuliani campaign made highly negative push poll calls against Mitt Romney in Iowa and New Hampshire) But it's a disturbing practice precisely because it tries to spin the recipient under the pretense of merely asking about their views, and from everything I can tell, it's a practice that Obama has avoided.

Clip Source: www.againsthillary.com

Tags: hillary, push polling

Major Clinton fundraiser switches to Obama

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 11:14:39 GMT

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clipper's remarks: So much for a "tide" shifting victory in Pennsylvania (NOT).

Clip Source: politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com

A “Hillraiser” – a major fundraiser for Hillary Clinton – said Friday he had defected to Barack Obama’s campaign. The official announcement will be made next week.

Gabriel Guerra-Mondragon – who served as ambassador to Chile during the Clinton administration – had raised close to half a million dollars for Clinton’s campaign, reports Chuck Todd, who broke the story.

Guerra-Mondragon told the Washington Post. "Looking at it as coldly as I can, I just don't see how Senator Clinton can overcome Senator Obama with delegates and popular votes. I want this fight to be over, the quicker the better."

He added that leaving the Clinton campaign for Obama's "was a very, very difficult decision for me to make. I am an old and longtime friend of Senator Clinton. And I continue to think she is a fantastic and formidable person. But I am first of all a Democrat."

Clip Source: www.pbs.org

Tags: president obama

Sooners Governor Endorses Obama - Brad Henry of Oklahoma

Wed, 23 Apr 2008 18:29:43 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Moderate Southern/Midwestern Governor tired of the politics of destruction coming out of the Clinton camp.

Clip Source: www.kswo.com

Governor Brad Henry is endorsing Illinois Senator Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination.

Clip Source: www.governor.state.ok.us

Clip Source: www.kswo.com

In a statement released by the Obama press office in Chicago, Henry called Obama an inspirational leader who can unite the country. He says the senator will be able to move beyond the divisiveness and partisanship that has characterized Washington politics.

The endorsement gives Obama the official support of 3 of Oklahoma's 10 superdelegates, while Hillary Rodham Clinton has the backing of 1 superdelegate. The rest are uncommitted.

Henry -- a moderate Democrat in a Republican-trending state -- says his own efforts to build a consensus across party lines is why he's so enthusiastic about Obama's candidacy.

Clip Source: www.governor.state.ok.us

Brad Henry is currently serving his second four-year term as governor of Oklahoma. Originially elected in 2002, Governor Henry was re-elected in 2006 by one of the largest margins in state history.

He married the former Kim Blain, a Shawnee school teacher

have three lovely daughters

Tags: sooners president boren, and sooners governor henry endorse obama

Hillary slipping amongst white women in Pennsylvania

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 10:04:55 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The most familiar echo among many Pennsylvania women when they discuss Clinton is disappointment. Ask them when they became disillusioned and they can cite the exact moment.

For Clare Howard, from Southhampton, it was the night when Bill Clinton suggested that Obama did well in the South Carolina primary because of his race.

That went too far, said Howard. "It was like they would do anything to win,"

Joan Schmidt, in Levittown, grew tired of hearing Clinton exaggerate her experience.

Jane Dovel, 68, turned away from Clinton after the New York senator's reaction to Obama's comments that Reagan had been a "transformative political figure."

Clinton fired that Republicans hadn't had better ideas. "I don't think it's a better idea to privatize Social Security," she said. "I don't think it's a better idea to eliminate the minimum wage."

That's not what Obama had said, recalled Dovel. "What Clinton said was a blatant lie," "From that moment on she was not to be trusted."

Clip Source: www.mcclatchydc.com

Like many women over 50, Paula Houwen was eager to vote for Hillary Clinton for president

I was impressed when she was first lady. She wasn't the country's trophy wife," the 56-year-old suburban Philadelphia pharmacist recalled

Today, though, Houwen's no longer a Clinton fan

I do not like the way Hillary Clinton has run her campaign," she said

Clinton's strongest core of support — white women — is beginning to erode in Pennsylvania

These are Democratic women who waited all their lives for a woman president, but Hillary is not turning them on," said polling analyst Clay Richards

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Clip Source: www.mcclatchydc.com

A lot of white women, and for that matter white men, want the race to end and increasingly consider Obama an acceptable nominee

The most familiar echo among many Pennsylvania women when they discuss Clinton, however, is disappointment. Ask them when they became disillusioned with the woman who would be president, and they can cite almost the exact moment

Tags: core constituency slipping, pennsylvania

Who said? Economically Insecure White People...Are Scared to Death!

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:40:05 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Continued from above: They know if they can keep us looking at each other across a racial divide, if I can look at Bobby Rush and think, Bobby wants my job, my promotion, then neither of us can look at George Bush and say, 'What happened to everybody's job? What happened to everybody's income? What ... have ... you ... done ... to ... our ... country?'"

Jason Linkins notes a statement from Harvard political scientist Theda Skocpol to Talking Points Memo, which reads in part:

I have been in meetings with the Clintons and their advisors where very clinical things were said in a very-detached tone about unwillingness of working class voters to trust government -- and Bill Clinton -- and about their unfortunate (from a Clinton perspective) proclivity to vote on life-style rather than economic issues. To see Hillary going absolutely over the top to smash Obama for making clearly more humanly sympathetic observations in this vein, is just amazing.

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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 the Sunday Times, reported that Clinton made the following remarks

"You know, he [Bush] wants to divide us over race. I'm from the South. I understand this. This quota deal they're gonna pull in the next election is the same old scam they've been pulling on us for decade after decade after decade. When their economic policies fail, when the country's coming apart rather than coming together, what do they do? They find the most economically insecure white men and scare the living daylights out of them.

Tags: annie oakley, hillary clinton

Miss USA 2008 - is a Democrat "Ha Berlusconi Take that!"

Sat, 12 Apr 2008 06:26:32 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Italian opposition leader Silvio Berlusconi

Mr Berlusconi, the centre-right's candidate in elections this weekend, was quoted as telling local media that the left had "no taste" in women.

Clip Source: tv.yahoo.com

A 26-year-old entrepreneur from Texas was named Miss USA on Friday, besting 50 other beauty queens for the coveted crown

Crystle Stewart, of Missouri City, Texas, runs a party-planning and motivational speaking company, as well as modeling professionally. She says she wants to dedicate her life to international philanthropy

"I want to talk to people about how to set a goal and achieve it," she told The Associated Press after the show. "Because I just achieved my goal."

Stewart was headed for the publicity circuit. She said she was eager to travel and spread her message of self-improvement to young women. She noted she was one of only a handful of black woman crowned Miss USA in the pageant's 57-year history

"I think the United States is coming together," she said, citing the historic presidential candidacies of Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton. She declined to name her preference

"I don't know, we'll see. Fundamentally, I'm a Democrat," she said.

Clip Source: cache.daylife.com

Clip Source: www.ci.mocity.tx.us

Tags: democratic, women

Obama leading Hillary by 1 to 2 million votes.

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:32:56 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Therefore, in Kansas, Barack Obama gained 543,440 votes to Hillary Clinton's 189,240 votes. This is a far wider margin of victory than Clinton supporters would like to admit, but decidedly more accurate.

Let's just say, for arguments sake, that we're overestimating how many people a county delegate represents. Let's call it 10 rather than 20. Then the tally becomes 271,720 votes for Obama, and 94,620 for Clinton. A substantial victory. And that is the absolute bottom lowest average estimate

13 caucus states so far in the Primary and Clinton has only won one of them. Obama defeated her in Iowa, Alaska, Idaho, Kansas, Minnesota, Colorado, North Dakota, Nebraska, Washington, Maine, Hawaii and Wyoming.

The tally of county delegates for these states, has Obama at 366,764 and Clinton at 156,563. Multiply these numbers by 10, it puts Obama at 3,667,640 and Clinton at 1,565,630, a margin of 2 million votes.

Applied to the final tally, it puts Obama ahead of Clinton by 2,300,000 vo

Clip Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

Many DNC insiders fear that if Hillary Clinton manages to lose the pledged delegates, she may still take the lead in the popular vote, thereby causing the superdelegates to make a hard decision as to which candidate they should choose come August. Their fears are rooted in the notion that Clinton is only behind by roughly 800,000 votes, and that she could feasibly catch up with a big win in Pennsylvania

They'd be wrong

In fact, Obama leads in the popular vote by anywhere between 2 million to 3 million voters

When voters everywhere were watching the returns of, say, Kansas on Super Tuesday, most of them naturally assumed that Barack Obama won 27,172 votes to Hillary Clinton's 9,462. But those aren't voters they're counting, they're really just more delegates

The county delegates represent an undefined amount of peoples' votes, depending on how many people arrive to the caucus and how many county delegates are assigned. This number could be anywhere from 5 to 100 people and beyond

Clip Source: gabbyattic.com

Tags: behind by all measures, substantially

New Endorsements (Superdelegates) for Obama

Mon, 31 Mar 2008 05:42:09 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Pictured is Senator Klobuchar from Minnesota with the late Senator Wellstone, a true American Hero who might have been running against McCain if not for his untimely death.

Clip Source: online.wsj.com

Slowly but steadily, a string of Democratic Party figures is taking Barack Obama's side in the presidential nominating race and raising the pressure on Hillary Clinton to give up

Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota is expected to endorse Sen. Obama Monday, according to a Democrat familiar with her plans

Meanwhile, North Carolina's seven Democratic House members are poised to endorse Sen. Obama as a group -- just one has so far -- before that state's May 6 primary, several Democrats say

The expected move by Minnesota's Sen. Klobuchar follows Friday's endorsement of Sen. Obama by Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, which holds its primary April 22

One North Carolinian confirmed that at least several of the state's House members would go public in favor of Sen. Obama before long. Meanwhile, elected officials in other states with upcoming contests, including Indiana, Montana and Oregon, are weighing whether to endorse Sen. Obama

What makes such endorsements significant is that they're

superdelegates

Clip Source: www.waste.org

Clip Source: www.doublespeakshow.com

Tags: obama the inevitable nominee

Hillary campaign fails to pay bills.

Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:56:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: More: She owed Iowa’s Sioux City Art Center Board of Trustees $3,500 for catering and venue costs, New Hampshire’s Winnacunnet Cooperative School District $4,400 in event costs, Qwest $24,000 for phone service, various branches of the Iowa-based supermarket chain Hy-Vee $15,000 for food, beverages and catering, and $7,700 to Ohio and Massachusetts branches of the theatrical stage employees’ union, for equipment costs.

In fact, about a third of the nearly 700 individual debts Clinton reported at the end of February were for various types of “event expenses,” including $319,000 for catering and venue costs, $420,000 for equipment, $11,000 for photography and $9,000 for security

And word is getting around that Clinton’s campaign does not promptly pay those who labor to make her events look good,

“I feel insulted by the way that the campaign treated this company and treated us personally,” said the employee

It's 3 AM and the bill collectors are calling....

Clip Source: www.politico.com

Hillary Rodham Clinton’s cash-strapped presidential campaign has been putting off paying hundreds of bills for months — freeing up cash for critical media buys but also earning the campaign a reputation as something of a deadbeat in some small-business circles

Clinton's campaign did not respond to recent, specific questions about its transactions with vendors. But Clinton spokesman Jay Carson pointed on Saturday to an earlier statement the campaign issued to Politico, asserting: "The campaign pays its bills regularly and in the normal course of business, and pays all of its bills

A pair of Ohio companies owed more than $25,000 by Clinton for staging events for her campaign are warning others in the tight-knit event production community — and anyone else who will listen — to get their cash upfront when doing business with her

If she had paid off the $8.7 million in unpaid bills

and had not loaned her campaign $5 million

the cash

at the end of last month

would have been less than $2 million

Tags: stop calling about these dang bills! don't you kno