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[Tropics_Dude83]

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/9561.html

Also CNN's John King asked if this has derailed Obama's campaign just an hour or so ago.

Who's chicken little now?

[blogslut]

1. Why do you link to that site?

The Politico is Right Wing.

[Garbo 2004]

2. So have you eaten your hat yet? n/t

[Tropics_Dude83]

5. Obama is finished

I'm disgusted with him and I feel duped that I ever supported him. I'm switching my support to Hillary Clinton now, someone who is oh I don't know "electable."

And let there be no doubt I supported Obama until the plagiarism story shook me a little, then Wright shook me to my very core but I still stood by him-(Check out some of my posts after he survived-Obama will be the next president now) but now he throws this in my face?

Also, look at my posts from way back in January "Bill Clinton: Unprecedented bad behavior for a former president." My post history proves my Obama support.

That said, I'm horrfied and turned off. He has lost my support. I'm tired of scandal after scandal. Mistep after mistep.

Obama 101: How to turn an early strong supporter into someone who opposes you.

[GarbagemanLB]

7. A 'strong supporter' who was shaken up by 'plagiarism-gate'? Wow, this is a devastating loss.

[Tropics_Dude83]

9. That started the ball rolling

I am SO angry with him right now. For doing his best to blow a chance to really throw the Washington establishment out on it's ear. To lead a movement inspired by young people. To have a people-powered campaign. To have someone who actually opposed Iraq from the start in the W.H.

And he pulls crap like this. The tipping point has been reached.

I went from nervousness to fear to anger to now withdrawing my support. Not for what he said. It's actually kind of true. But, for the ineptitude of his campaign.

[NJSecularist]

19. Is this your first election?

How old are you?

[Tropics_Dude83]

25. It isn't my first election, it's my 3rd that I followed really closely

And yeah, John Kerry and Al Gore had problems like "voted for it before against it" and "invented the internet" but I never felt like they were running a Keystone Kops campaign the way Obama is.

Maybe Al Gore had a horrible start before he moved his campaign to Nashville and fired some staffers, et al, but it was never this bad. At least from what I remember.

The way that the Obama campaign has been run in key moments from NH to OH/TX to now this bitterness comment is quite frankly horrifying to me.

Hillary at least showed that when she was down, she knew how to turn things around. 10 point Ohio victory.

This is what Hillary means when she says that she has been "vetted."

I actually get it now.

[Boz]

28. UM you do realize the only reason she was running in Ohio, was SHE FAILED to win

February 5th and it took her almost a month to get a campaign together to run in Ohio

[Joe the Revelator]

36. You weren't around, or aren't a student of the Bimbo eruptions of 92

Politics is not for the faint of heart.

[Boz]

24. And to think you almost made it, you almost kept your powderr dry long enough

to take a real shot when it was needed, but no you picked the worst "gate" to jump on and out yourself. You must have been giddy like a little girl, you just couldn't wait your turn, bang, pow, dodge, spin, duck, spin, parry, SMACK.........

FAIL

[Cali_Democrat]

8. scandal after scandal?

:rofl:

[Tropics_Dude83]

11. Wright, Austin Goolsbee Nafta Gate, Michelle Obama proud, plagiarism, Rezco, Small town gate n/t

[Boz]

14. And not one of them stuck, you know why, they were theatrics.

But you know what is sticking people don't believe her and Bill Clinton the icon is going down in flames because of her.

[Tropics_Dude83]

17. But CNN doesn't run "will this derail her campaign" stories about HRC

Nor for that matter for John Mccain.

I don't want my nominee being beseiged by new stories every day that may "derail his campaign."

[Boz]

26. When exactally have you been watching CNN, there are half a dozen of times

for each candidate, Not becasue it matters, but just like a tabloid, asking the question is SO SHOCKING.

LIVE LIFE OUTSIDE THE IDIOT BOX

walk away from your tv and go listen to the man

[quantass]

27. It's because she is LOSING and already LOST...nothing more negative can derail it even more

Obama will always get those plums because he is the presumptive democratic nominee

[Fovea]

39. That is why so many voted for president

Dewey.

It was the whole Pendergast-gate thing that cost Truman the election.
All the papers said so at the time.
He should have stayed in the Senate.

[woolldog]

42. Do you know how few people are watching CNN on a saturday night?

And how few people watch cable news period? And how few of those are undecided? And of that group how few will be swayed by something this silly and trumped up?

You're not switching your support because of how the comment stikes you, but because you're trying to get into the head of someone else who is supposed to be offended by it, which is based on absolutely nothing but speculation.

Even Bayh said the comments were basically true.

Turn off the TV. stop posting on this board. Get some fresh air and put your focus elsewhere until the end of the primary.

[Milo_Bloom]

18. None of which are actual scandals...

But nice try though.

[myrna minx]

23. So now you are retroactively outraged by these things?

Um, ok. Did we hop into the way-back machine?

[Boz]

10. "I'm tired of scandal after scandal. Mistep after mistep." Boy are you in for a rude awakening,

Switching to Hillary, Good luck with that, if that has been enough to trigger you, cant wait to here what you would say when you opened your eyes to Iran, Mine fields, bankruptcy, her continuation of tax cuts and so on.

Thank goodness we will never find out. Sorry for your loss ahead of time.

[Tropics_Dude83]

13. She's a fighter

When she was left for dead in TX/OH, she came back and had a landslide victory. She ran a tremendous campaign in Ohio and TX. If she's down 8 to John Mccain come late October, I have full confidence in her ability to scratch and claw her way to a victory. Plus, she'll anihilate Mccain in the debates.

[Boz]

15. Nice troll, except you know she lost texas, and scraped Ohio.

She will never get the chance she will be scratched out in the next 12 weeks.

[Tropics_Dude83]

20. I'm not a troll-I'll support Obama if nominee but I'm in camp HRC now n/t

[Boz]

31. I didnt say YOU were a troll, I said your statement was when you said she won texas, and you know

Full well she didn't. In fact the only way you could think she won Texas was if you were a Hillary supporter.

Every Obama supporter knows the truth of the outcomes and don't buy here spin and lies about them or the goalpost.

[Tropics_Dude83]

32. True-he did win more delegates in TX 99-94

Her 100,000 vote popular vote victory can't be dismissed, however.

[Boz]

35. There you go again, there is no Popular vote in the Primaries......

Again the only people that dont understand that are Hillary people. It is definitely good your coming out for her, you have obviously been lying to yourself for quite some time. Probably about the time you started trying on the pantsuits just to see how she felt, so you could be not so shaken up by the scary man.

[JackORoses]

49. you have never been an Obama supporter

you have always been looking for a reason to jump on the Hillarywagon.

Enjoy the ride! You and Hillary can hold hands like Thelma and Louise right before going over the cliff.

[Garbo 2004]

21. Her "landslide victory" in Texas ended with Obama getting more delegates than she did btw. nt

[cliffordu]

12. Arrivadercci, baby!!

I mighta misspelled that but, I don't give a shit. I'm an elitist!!!!

I plagiarized it from a Sophia Loren movie, with Marcello Mastroianni...

Those are Italian papists, you know, from the real Italy.



:rofl:

Sheeit, I need a latte.

:patriot:

[A-Schwarzenegger]

16. May you recover quickly from disgust, shookedness, turned offness, tiredness, and horrifiedness.

Thank goodness youre not bitter.

[Tarheel_Dem]

40. Oh yeah, you've been one helluva supporter. I've got you bookmarked.

With supporters like you, the Clinton campaign can have you. I suppose you weren't shaken by Tuzla-gate? Colombia-gate? NAFTA-gate? The Clinton campaign is welcome to "supporters" like you. I've been wondering just how long it would take you to get around to your real agenda, and thanks you have not disappointed.

[JackORoses]

44. Newsflash: You didn't ever support him.

All your posts have been hyped up trash like this.

"Oh no! Obama is done for! Whatever will we do" type posts.

How surprising to find out that Chicken Little is a fairweather friend.

Adios, Pollito!

[cliffordu]

3. Who the fuck cares what John King says???

Jack Cafferty his own self already crapped on this whole non-story.

[bobthedrummer]

4. "49 reasons all in a line, all of them good ones-all of them LIES..."

:+

[myrna minx]

6. Politico's Mike Allen has had it in for Obama for a long time.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200703270006
Drudge flagged Obama hit piece on Politico -- which presented admittedly "trivial" inconsistencies -- apparently one hour before it was posted

In an article appearing in The Politico's March 27 print edition, Politico chief political correspondent Mike Allen wrote that Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) has "shown a tendency toward seemingly minor contradictions and rhetorical slips," characterized Obama's alleged inconsistencies as "trivial," and wrote that "the senator's rhetorical miscues have been more curiosities than obvious political blunders." Nonetheless, Allen stretched these alleged "trivial" inconsistencies into a 1,200-word article headlined, "Rookie Mistakes Plague Obama," which appeared on the front page of the print edition. The Drudge Report flagged the article by posting its headline verbatim approximately one hour before The Politico posted the article on its website on the evening of March 26, according to Google News. Additionally, one of the so-called "curiosities" that Allen purported to expose were "strange echoes" of 2003 campaign speeches by former Sen. John Edwards (D-NC) in Obama's current campaign speeches. However, these "strange echoes" appear to be little more than oft-used rhetorical devices that are not unique to any presidential candidate.

In the article, Allen conceded that the "rookie mistakes" he highlighted were in fact "trivial" and "small":

While trivial, the remark is the sort of throwaway line that can trip up a candidate in the heat of a national campaign, and it shows the challenge the young senator will face in coming days as his words are dissected and scrutinized with fresh intensity.

Obama's gift with language -- his powerful speaking style and the graceful prose and compelling story of his best-selling memoir -- has been an engine of his dramatic, high-velocity rise in presidential politics. But he has also shown a tendency toward seemingly minor contradictions and rhetorical slips that serve as reminders that he is still a newcomer to national politics.

For the first time, Obama is on a stage where small mistakes can have disproportionately large consequences. The Republican National Committee, working in league with Bush operatives, exploited similar blunders -- sometimes misleadingly -- to portray the last two Democratic presidential nominees, Al Gore and John F. Kerry, as inconsistent or hypocritical in ways that savaged both men's reputations.


http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/03/27/politico/index.html

TUESDAY MARCH 27, 2007 08:41 EDT
Drudge and the Politico -- poisonously joined at the hip
(Updated below - Update II - Update III - Update IV)
The new online political magazine, The Politico, is a pernicious new presence in our media landscape. As I noted the other day, it really is nothing more than the Drudge Report dressed up with the trappings of mainstream media credibility. Today, Will Bunch of the Philadelphia Daily News writes on his blog about what is merely the latest episode (of many) proving how closely coordinated The Politico is with The Drudge Report. It is not hyperbole to say that the former is all but an arm of the latter.
Last night, The Politico's Mike Allen published a petty, trite hit piece on Barack Obama -- entitled Rookie Mistakes Plague Obama -- claiming that Obama "has also shown a tendency toward seemingly minor contradictions and rhetorical slips" and referencing "imprecise or incomplete statements by Obama over the years." As Bunch noticed, Allen's story was "highlighted on the Drudge Report no later than 18 minutes after it was filed by Allen (how does he do it!)." Drudge continues prominently to promote The Politico's story today:

[mythyc]

22. I stopped reading at:

"3. Some people actually use guns to hunt — not to compensate for a salary that’s less than a U.S. senator’s. "

fuck politico. right wing trash fronting as a Hillary sanctuary.

[Tropics_Dude83]

29. Look at it this way-Obama as my girlfriend

or boyfriend in his case. Your boyfriend or girlfriend is someone you love very much. But, then, they change and you start to fight more. They do things to bug you. You start having rough moments. You make up. Things will be better. Then, something happens one day, and you realize that things just aren't working and a break-up is in order.

Well, for now, a break-up is in order between Obama and I. Maybe we can get back together eventually.

[Boz]

33. ou really need to get out of the basement sometime.

[Tropics_Dude83]

34. That I totally agree with-LOL

That's why I'm taking a break from tommorrow to April 22nd.

Maybe things won't look so bad after taking a week off from these insufferable pundits.

[Tropics_Dude83]

30. Look at it this way-Obama as my girlfriend

or boyfriend in his case. Your boyfriend or girlfriend is someone you love very much. But, then, they change and you start to fight more. They do things to bug you. You start having rough moments. You make up. Things will be better. Then, something happens one day, and you realize that things just aren't working and a break-up is in order.

Well, for now, a break-up is in order between Obama and I. Maybe we can get back together eventually.

[Joe the Revelator]

38. You need to grow up a bit before you start trying to talk about politics

and I don't mean by physical age, we're only a year apart, but you need to study campaigns, and understand that this shit happens to every good candidate. Hell, Clinton was in scandal after scandal during his int ital campaign.

[Garbo 2004]

37. Halperin: (14) "Things Hillary Knows---Or Should Know"

http://thepage.time.com/halperins-take-painful-things-hillary-clinton-knows-—-or-should-know/

HALPERIN’S TAKE: The Biggest Threats to Hillary Clinton’s Goal to Take Her Nomination Fight to the Convention
http://thepage.time.com/halperins-take-the-biggest-threats-to-hillary-clintons-goal-to-take-her-nomination-fight-to-the-convention/

Dueling media punditry. So?

Be prepared to continue panicking.

[woolldog]

41. lol

[JackORoses]

43. John King is a shill, and you are still Chicken Little.

How do you make it through life when you run around in a panic at the drop of a pin?

[PM7nj]

45. I see you are revealing your true colors.... finally. nt

[woolldog]

46. He is an Obama supporter, but I believe

he's too emotionally invested in the campaign. That's why I suggest he focus on other things (partying, sitcoms, job, whatever) until the primary season is over. He can't handle it.

[JackORoses]

47. this guy has always been on the fence

always quick to count Obama out.

those are not the makings of a supporter.

[Tarheel_Dem]

50. I suggest you check the archives...

I won't presume to say what I think his true agenda is, but I don't even think he supports Hillary. He has been instigating since his arrival here.

[MadBadger]

48. Why an I not surprised?

[cali]

51. You are. God, your continuous squawking is a bore.