OMENTUM: OBAMA PULLS AHEAD IN CALIFORNIA 45-41, AL, CT, UT, GA! TIES CLINTONS IN NJ AND MO!

[Dems Will Win]

Will the Clintons win anything west of the Missisippi River? That is a real question now. Maybe Nebraska or New Mexico...

WOO-HOO!

To be released:

Zogby CA

Obama 45
Clintons 41

NJ 1 point lead for Clintons 43-42

MO 1 point lead for Clintons

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080203/pl_nm/usa_politics_poll_dc


UT KSL TV-Deseret News

Obama 53
Clintons 29
http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695249479,00.html

GA - 20 point Obama lead
CT -

Obama 48
Clintons 44

Update: AL Obama now up 7 instead of down 6.


WE'RE TALKING OMENTUM PEOPLES!

[Jawja]

1. Is that Tim Tebow

stumping for Obama? ;-)

[Dems Will Win]

2. No the picture is of Superman

Who just endorsed Barack Obama!

[Name removed]

11. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[u2spirit]

18. Is it just me or does this Neutron individual have a lot of time on their hands?

I assume they are a Clinton supporter which is fine, but I haven't clicked on a thread yet this morning without this person having spammed the thread with this story about Obama. They are well on their way to being ignored by a vast swath of the DU forum.

[sidwill]

23. Yeah, a member since october and he has as many posts

as I do and I've been here 4 years.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

25. You are just observant.

Same message repeated multiple times.

[neutron]

32. Some of us try to be useful during vacation time

Take a look at a couple of things.

First, the NYT today: He took hundreds of thousands of dollars from Nuclear interests then
worked AGAINST the interest of his contituents.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/03/us/politics/03exelon....

This was a bill to protect the public by forcing Nuclear Power Plants to report leaks.
The first bill wasn't bad. But he re-wrote it so that it was toothless, and protected only
the industry, not the public.

He bragged in Iowa that he had passed legislation that never went through.

For this alone, this guy is a jerk and a fraud.

Oh, and here is what Paul Krugman thinks about his economy plan:

Responding to Recession
by Paul Krugman

<snip>
Since this is an election year, the debate over how to stimulate the economy is inevitably tied up with politics. And here’s a modest suggestion for political reporters. Instead of trying to divine the candidates’ characters by scrutinizing their tone of voice and facial expressions, why not pay attention to what they say about economic policy?
In fact, recent statements by the candidates and their surrogates about the economy are quite revealing.
<snip>
On the Democratic side, John Edwards, although never the front-runner, has been driving his party’s policy agenda. He’s done it again on economic stimulus: last month, before the economic consensus turned as negative as it now has, he proposed a stimulus package including aid to unemployed workers, aid to cash-strapped state and local governments, public investment in alternative energy, and other measures.
Last week Hillary Clinton offered a broadly similar but somewhat larger proposal. (It also includes aid to families having trouble paying heating bills, which seems like a clever way to put cash in the hands of people likely to spend it.) The Edwards and Clinton proposals both contain provisions for bigger stimulus if the economy worsens.
And you have to say that Mrs. Clinton seems comfortable with and knowledgeable about economic policy. I’m sure the Hillary-haters will find some reason that’s a bad thing, but there’s something to be said for presidents who know what they’re talking about.
The Obama campaign’s initial response to the latest wave of bad economic news was, I’m sorry to say, disreputable: Mr. Obama’s top economic adviser claimed that the long-term tax-cut plan the candidate announced months ago is just what we need to keep the slump from “morphing into a drastic decline in consumer spending.” Hmm: claiming that the candidate is all-seeing, and that a tax cut originally proposed for other reasons is also a recession-fighting measure — doesn’t that sound familiar?
Anyway, on Sunday Mr. Obama came out with a real stimulus plan. As was the case with his health care plan, which fell short of universal coverage, his stimulus proposal is similar to those of the other Democratic candidates, but tilted to the right.
For example, the Obama plan appears to contain none of the alternative energy initiatives that are in both the Edwards and Clinton proposals, and emphasizes across-the-board tax cuts over both aid to the hardest-hit families and help for state and local governments. I know that Mr. Obama’s supporters hate to hear this, but he really is less progressive than his rivals on matters of domestic policy.
In short, the stimulus debate offers a pretty good portrait of the men and woman who would be president. And I haven’t said a word about their hairstyles.

[Alexander]

37. Spamming threads isn't useful. It makes you look foolish.

Start your own thread, if you care about the issue this much.

[stillcool]

24. now I'm really confused...

Nuclear spills spur notification legislation
Wednesday, March 1, 2006

Chicago Tribune staff reports

Illinois' two Democratic U.S. senators teamed up Wednesday with a Republican congressman to introduce legislation that would require nuclear power companies to tell federal, state and county officials about unplanned releases of radioactive substances.

The Nuclear Release Notice Act would require notification when radioactive releases exceed federal limits and when two releases below those limits occur within 2 years from "the same source, process or equipment at a facility."

The bill was introduced by Sens. Barack Obama and Richard Durbin, as well as U.S. Rep. Jerry Weller, whose district comprises Braidwood Generating Station, an Exelon Nuclear facility in far southwest Will County.

Exelon recently disclosed that radioactive tritium spilled or leaked from Braidwood four times between 1996 and 2003. Those spills, which local officials and residents said should have been disclosed years earlier, resulted in levels of tritium in groundwater near the plant exceeding federal limits.

Exelon Nuclear spokesman Craig Nesbit said his company is still reviewing the bill. "Exelon is committed to full notification to all affected people and all levels of government, and we are further committed to going beyond the formal requirements of the law," he said.

Exelon staff supports Obama
Yucca Mountain is the proposed site for a controversial proposal to store much of the nation's nuclear waste in one place. Predictably, most Nevadans oppose this. The original opening date for the site was in 1998, but opposition has prevented the project from going forward and its fate is unclear.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., is a powerful opponent. Both Clinton and Obama have urged that the project be shelved.

A prominent supporter of Yucca Mountain, though, is Exelon Corp., an electric utility based in Chicago.

Exelon operates the largest nuclear fleet (17 reactors) in the United States and the third-largest commercial nuclear fleet in the world, according to Exelon's Web site.
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We asked a spokesman for Exelon if they've spent "millions" promoting Yucca Mountain. We were told they don't track their spending by project. Public records, though, indicate the company has spent more than $10-million on lobbyists between 2002 and 2007, with Yucca Mountain listed among its top issues. That doesn't count previous years; the Yucca Mountain project has been debated for more than 20 years.

Meanwhile, campaign finance records confirm Exelon is one of Obama's top contributors. The Center for Responsive Politics found that Exelon employees were his sixth-largest corporate donor group. (No. 1 was Goldman Sachs.)
------------------------------------------
The Obama campaign points to several mitigating factors: Obama opposes Yucca Mountain. Exelon is one of the largest companies and employers in Obama's hometown of Chicago. Obama has sponsored legislation specifically targeting Exelon after unplanned waste releases in Illinois. Obama has not accepted any money from Exelon lobbyists or Exelon's political action committee; rather, the contributions are from people who work at Exelon.

Of all these points, it's the last we find most compelling. Obama is not taking money from Exelon as a corporate entity or PAC, rather he's accepting contributions from Exelon executives and employees. (Clinton, by contrast, accepts federal PAC money, though she hasn't accepted any from Exelon.) It's a small but real difference, so we rate her claim on Obama's ties to Exelon to be Mostly True.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/290/

Published on Monday, April 9, 2007 by Los Angeles Times
Pelosi, Clinton, Obama Favor More Nuclear Plants
by Richard Simon

WASHINGTON - The renewed push for legislation to cut greenhouse gas emissions could falter over an old debate: whether nuclear power should play a role in any federal attack on climate change.Congress, with added impetus from a Supreme Court ruling last week, appears more likely to pass comprehensive energy legislation. But nuclear power sharply divides lawmakers who agree on mandatory caps on carbon dioxide emissions. And it has pitted some on Capitol Hill against their usual allies, environmentalists, who largely oppose any expansion of nuclear power.
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/04/09/399/

Barack Obama’s Nuclear Ambitions
Another Automaton of the Atomic Lobby
by Jeffrey St. Clair & Joshua Frank / July 4th, 2007
--------------------------------------------------------------------
The purported solution to the imminent warming crisis, nuclear technology, is just as hazardous as our current methods of energy procurement. Al Gore, who wrote of the potential green virtues of nuclear power in his book Earth in the Balance, earned his stripes as a congressman protecting the interests of two of the nuclear industry’s most problematic enterprises, the TVA and the Oak Ridge Labs. And, of course, Bill Clinton backed the Entergy Corporation’s outrageous plan to soak Arkansas ratepayers with the cost overruns on the company’s Grand Gulf reactor which provided power to electricity consumers in Louisiana.

The Clinton years indeed saw an all-out expansion of nuclear power, not only in the US, but all over the globe. First came the deal to begin selling nuclear reactors to China, announced during Jiang Zemin’s 1997 visit Washington, even though Zemin brazenly vowed at the time not to abide by the so-called “full scope safeguards” spelled out in the International Atomic Energy Act. The move was apparently made over the objections of Clinton’s National Security Advisor Sandy Berger, who cited repeated exports by China of “dual use” technologies to Iran, Pakistan and Iraq. The CIA also weighed in against the deal, pointing out in a report to the President that “China was the single most import supplier of equipment and technology for weapons of mass destruction” worldwide. In a press conference on the deal, Mike McCurry said these nuclear reactors will be “a lot better for the planet than a bunch of dirty coal-fired plants” and will be “a great opportunity for American vendors” — that is, Westinghouse.

A day later Clinton signed an agreement to begin selling nuclear technology to Brazil and Argentina for the first time since 1978, when Jimmy Carter canceled a previous deal after repeated violations of safety guidelines and nonproliferation agreements.
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The atom lobby during the 1990s had a stranglehold on the Clinton administration and now they seem to have the same suffocating grip around the neck of the brightest star in the Democratic field today: Barack Obama.
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During a Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works hearing in 2005, Obama, who serves on the committee, asserted that since Congress was debating the negative impact of CO2 emissions “on the global ecosystem, it is reasonable — and realistic — for nuclear power to remain on the table for consideration.” Shortly thereafter, Nuclear Notes, the industry’s top trade publication, praised the senator. “Back during his campaign for the U.S. Senate in 2004, said that he rejected both liberal and conservative labels in favor of ‘common sense solutions.’ And when it comes to nuclear energy, it seems like the Senator is keeping an open mind.”
-----------------------------------------------
Clearly Senator Obama recognizes the inherent dangers of nuclear technology and knows of the disastrous failures that plagued Chernobyl, Mayak and Three Mile Island. Yet, despite his attempts to alert the public of future toxic nuclear leaks, Obama still considers atomic power a viable alternative to coal-fired plants. The atom lobby must certainly be pleased.

[neutron]

33. Then he took a little money, and diluted his bill against the interests of his constituency

Take a look at a couple of things.

First, the NYT today: He took hundreds of thousands of dollars from Nuclear interests then
worked AGAINST the interest of his contituents.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/03/us/politics/03exelon....

This was a bill to protect the public by forcing Nuclear Power Plants to report leaks.
The first bill wasn't bad. But he re-wrote it so that it was toothless, and protected only
the industry, not the public.

He bragged in Iowa that he had passed legislation that never went through.

For this alone, this guy is a jerk and a fraud.

Oh, and here is what Paul Krugman thinks about his economy plan:

Responding to Recession
by Paul Krugman

<snip>
Since this is an election year, the debate over how to stimulate the economy is inevitably tied up with politics. And here’s a modest suggestion for political reporters. Instead of trying to divine the candidates’ characters by scrutinizing their tone of voice and facial expressions, why not pay attention to what they say about economic policy?
In fact, recent statements by the candidates and their surrogates about the economy are quite revealing.
<snip>
On the Democratic side, John Edwards, although never the front-runner, has been driving his party’s policy agenda. He’s done it again on economic stimulus: last month, before the economic consensus turned as negative as it now has, he proposed a stimulus package including aid to unemployed workers, aid to cash-strapped state and local governments, public investment in alternative energy, and other measures.
Last week Hillary Clinton offered a broadly similar but somewhat larger proposal. (It also includes aid to families having trouble paying heating bills, which seems like a clever way to put cash in the hands of people likely to spend it.) The Edwards and Clinton proposals both contain provisions for bigger stimulus if the economy worsens.
And you have to say that Mrs. Clinton seems comfortable with and knowledgeable about economic policy. I’m sure the Hillary-haters will find some reason that’s a bad thing, but there’s something to be said for presidents who know what they’re talking about.
The Obama campaign’s initial response to the latest wave of bad economic news was, I’m sorry to say, disreputable: Mr. Obama’s top economic adviser claimed that the long-term tax-cut plan the candidate announced months ago is just what we need to keep the slump from “morphing into a drastic decline in consumer spending.” Hmm: claiming that the candidate is all-seeing, and that a tax cut originally proposed for other reasons is also a recession-fighting measure — doesn’t that sound familiar?
Anyway, on Sunday Mr. Obama came out with a real stimulus plan. As was the case with his health care plan, which fell short of universal coverage, his stimulus proposal is similar to those of the other Democratic candidates, but tilted to the right.
For example, the Obama plan appears to contain none of the alternative energy initiatives that are in both the Edwards and Clinton proposals, and emphasizes across-the-board tax cuts over both aid to the hardest-hit families and help for state and local governments. I know that Mr. Obama’s supporters hate to hear this, but he really is less progressive than his rivals on matters of domestic policy.
In short, the stimulus debate offers a pretty good portrait of the men and woman who would be president. And I haven’t said a word about their hairstyles.

[stillcool]

36. If that's your assumption...

I would prefer to know why and when this bill was not passed. In other words which bill it was that he co-sponsored or proposed. As far as a 'watered down' version, I think that is more the norm than the exception. I do not know who claims that a candidate is 'all seeing'. As far as the stimulus debate, I am not sure when it is these Senators are proposing legislation. I had assumed a 'stimulus package' would be introduced now. Not a year from now.

Congress May Track Threat Reduction More Closely
Monday, January 14, 2008
Printable Format

Global Security Newswire By Elaine M. Grossman

WASHINGTON — An omnibus federal funding bill that U.S. President George W. Bush signed into law late last month includes provisions intended to allow Congress to more closely monitor progress in nuclear threat reduction efforts (see GSN, Dec. 21, 2007).

Such efforts include U.S. assistance to Russia and other former Soviet states in securing or removing weapon-grade uranium from reactors and storage sites, upgrading security at these facilities, and attempting to block the smuggling of weapons of mass destruction.

Co-sponsored by presidential hopeful Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Chuck Hagel (R-Neb.) in the Senate and Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) in the House, the legislative measure calls on the White House to issue a report on a “comprehensive nuclear threat reduction and security plan.” The document, to be submitted to Congress in both classified and unclassified forms, is due June 23.

The new law includes detailed reporting requirements aimed at providing greater executive branch accountability for reducing the risk of nuclear terrorism. Some observers say the measure’s passage into law is the result of mounting frustration among lawmakers with Bush administration efforts to date to stem the threat.
http://obama.senate.gov/news/080114-congress_may_tr/

[Coexist]

4. Superman wears Tim Tebow pajamas

:hide:

[Jawja]

5. FLDem5,

I wouldn't doubt it!

:hi:

(Go Dawgs)

[scheming daemons]

52. Superman wears Barack Obama pajamas...

nm

[BlueManDude]

3. I'll be casting a ballot for Obama on Tues here in MA.

[Buzz Clik]

6. Gads. Obama has created a tie in Hillary's back yard?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

7. fyi - The Birmingham News guy on C-span said O up 7 in Alabama !!!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

8. That rhymes too. n/t

[Laura PourMeADrink]

10. what rhymes?

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

34. Obama and Alabama. n/t

[Dems Will Win]

13. That's a 13-point switch!

Wow, is Hil just going to win 5 or 6 or so?

[Laura PourMeADrink]

"O"- Mentum. did you make that up?? I LOVE it Baby !!

[krkaufman]

46. I pondered using that a while back but thought better of using it.

... thinking of how "Joe-mentum" became a term of mockery.

[smalll]

50. Omentum is cool, but it hasn't taken off because

reporters and such have checked, and it's actually a real word for some kind of semi-grossenating anatomical thing.

On edit: (here's a definition I just googled up- )
Omentum: A sheet of fat that is covered by peritoneum. The greater omentum is attached to the bottom edge of the stomach, and hangs down in front of the intestines. Its other edge is attached to the transverse colon. The lesser omentum is attached to the top edge of the stomach, and extends to the undersurface of the liver.

[krkaufman]

57. ah, yes, that would explain why we haven't heard it more. n/t

[Laura PourMeADrink]

54. O-Mentum Rocks !

[zanne]

9. Every time they say he can't.....

He does! Gobama! Fired up!

[skooooo]

12. Whoot! Gobama!

[HughMoran]

14. Obama is Superman!

:yoiks:

[HughMoran]

15. Ahh, I see you are using Clintons plural!

Hmmm, that's very unfortunate.

[Dems Will Win]

16. That is how they are running

The Clintons.

You're not just voting for Hil, you're also voting for finger-wagging Bill.

[Kahuna]

31. Uh, yeah! That's how they're running (wink wink).

[Azathoth]

39. You mean there is only one of them now? They've finally merged into a single, power-hungry being?

:shrug:

[jakem]

43. yep.

[mckeown1128]

17. I don't know about anyone else but...

I am fired up and ready to go.

[angie_love]

19. Obama, get thee to CALIFORNIA!!!!!!!!!!!!

[knowledgeispwr]

20. Cool! But don't call it "omentum"

o·men·tum /oʊˈmɛntəm/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
–noun, plural -ta /-tə/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation<-tuh> Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation. Anatomy.
a fold of the peritoneum connecting the stomach and the abdominal viscera forming a protective and supportive covering.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/omentum

[Occam Bandage]

21. Omentum protects and supports!

[krkaufman]

48. exactly... "forming a protective and supportive covering"

Sounds good to me, especially if it protects from lobbyists and free marketeers.

[polichick]

22. YES!!!!

WE, CAN! :)

[ShortnFiery]

26. Excellent News! Thank-you.

:hi:

[tokenlib]

27. Hillary's debate bounce? Where is it?

I'm glad I don't see it here...I thought Barack spoke less and said more in the debate. He didn't cackle and looked more presidential.

[still_one]

28. I am an Obama supporter, but the undecideds leave this race very uncertain

I don't think there will be a problem with people getting out to vote

[krkaufman]

56. Yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing the Super Tuesday turnout numbers.

And am especially interested to see the diff. between Dem and Rep turnout.

[Kahuna]

29. I just saw an Obama ad on NBC in the NYC/NJ market. It gave me chills..

GOBAMA!!!

[Dems Will Win]

35. It's O-Mentum

[1corona4u]

30. LOL...hysterical...

bellweathers of polls...LOL

[Alexander]

40. Enjoy your laugh. You'll be crying on Tuesday night

When voters in Super Tuesday states reject your preferred candidate.

[BringBigDogBack]

38. Fuck Yeah.

[Dawgs]

41. y e s w e c a n ! !

[tandem5]

42. uh the omentum is a fatty tissue that sits around your abdomen...

don't you watch Oprah?

[cbayer]

44. and holds your digestive system together. Yuck!

[krkaufman]

45. Polls mean diddly, from an absolute sense; though the trending is good news for Obama n/t

[Bread and Circus]

47. The omentum is a curtain of fat that hangs in front of your gut.

just thought I'd add that.

Go Obama!!!

[ErnestoG]

49. YAHOOOOOOOOO

This is a GOOOOOD night.

[Arugula Latte]

51. Patriots lost ... So can Hillary!

*crosses fingers*

[Laura PourMeADrink]

55. right. they were old news - it;s UNDERDOG time !

[psychopomp]

53. He's got it

Tomorrow will be a very interesting day...

[Change has come]

58. Omentum?

That just sounds icky. :cringe: