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AllentownJake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-09-08 08:25 PM
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Desperation?
In the past 24 hours I've learned the following things.

A Hillary supporters is citing Internet Polls (click if you support candidate X) as accurate representations of the US electorate as a reason for her being the nominee.

Hillary supporters in NY are organizing a protest of the Today show for some reason. I'm not sure what their message is they have about 20 they want to deliver but I do know they plan on bringing pots and spoons to make noise to "scare the DNC and the MSM".

The first negative add was launched in PA by the Clinton campaign. On radio.

Five new PA ads were launched in a state that they are "guarenteed" to win

The goal post were moved from we need to win big in PA...to we need to win in PA...to Obama needs to win in PA...next week I expect it will be Obama needs to win in PA

Anything I'm missing. Just want to make sure I capture all the crazy things that are going on.

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Symarip Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-09-08 08:27 PM
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1. If you don't bang on pots and pans
The terrorists win.
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MannyGoldstein Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-09-08 08:30 PM
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2. Hussein
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ProSense Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-09-08 08:32 PM
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3. "Cooptation"

The Cooptation Gambit

<...>

That’s evidently the latest maneuver from the Clinton camp, if not the Clinton campaign.

As Marc Ambinder reports, a new website urging a “Clinton/Obama ticket” has less than one degree of separation from the Clinton campaign staff itself :

A Clinton insider who served as ex campaign manager Patti Solis Doyle’s executive assistant for several years has set up a new website, http://www.voteboth.com / and plans to register with the Federal Election Commission today.

VoteBoth urges Democrats to support a joint Clinton-Obama ticket.

Its creator, Adam Parkhomenko, resigned from the campaign three weeks ago.

He had been one of the first employees of the 2006 incarnation of Clinton’s political action committee, HillPAC, and his proximity to the powers of the campaign will raise the question of whether the effort is sanctioned by the campaign. (Parkhomenko says that the idea was his own.)

<...>

What this is really about is an attempt to stop the bleeding of Clinton’s own “soft” supporters who have been moving into the undecided camp and then toward Obama (as the recent North Carolina and Pennsylvania polls have demonstrated). It’s not so much about wooing Obama supporters as it is to fool Clinton’s own base into thinking that such a ticket is possible (it’s not) and that they can get “two for one” if they stay on the plantation.

The website itself is nothing but a mailing list collector: viewers are shown a single page asking for their email and personal data. When all is said and done, Mr. Parkhomenko will be the owner of the email list of the most gullible suckers in America. Maybe that’s also one of the project’s goals, because fools and their money are soon parted.

Update: After a reader pointed me to Clinton fan (and rabid Obama basher) Taylor Marsh’s endorsement of this project today, I rest my case. Marsh, the poster-gal for the slow-class among Clinton supporters, has dedicated every waking moment in the past year to claiming Obama is unfit to be commander in chief. Now endorsing him for vice president - “Clinton and Obama would be unbeatable,” she gushes today - Marsh reveals that she doesn’t believe any of the slime she’s thrown at him: if Obama is suddenly fit to be a heartbeat away from the presidency, obviously - she now inadvertently surrenders - he’s just as ready to be president.

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stillcool Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-09-08 08:34 PM
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4. I like the one where...
Obama is unelectable because 80-90% of the country is racist. If Hillary doesn't have a 20+ lead it will be because of gender. And, the only reason Obama might do better than expected is because Hillary is being outspent.
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