“OBAMA SUPPORTERS” DAILY NEWS Monday June 02, 2008

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Monday June 02, 2008


Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., greets people during
a gathering of veterans and military families in the armory at the W. H. Lyon Fairgrounds
in Sioux Falls, S.D., Sunday, June 1, 2008. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

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1. can't believe we're into summer already

[Spider Jerusalem]

4. not for three more weeks

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2. Clinton's dishonest popular vote claim has a new caveat

"Caucus states - she's just not that into you."

Sun Jun 1, Jed Report

Clinton's dishonest popular vote claim has a new caveat

Hillary Clinton claims to have won the so-called popular vote, but if you pay close attention to her words she is now using a critical qualifier: "in presidential primaries."

Many people won't notice Clinton's caveat, but the meaning of her carefully chosen words could not be more clear: her definition of "popular vote" now includes only primary states. In the past, she excluded four caucus states that did not report vote totals: Iowa, Maine, Nevada, and Washington. Now she's excluding all of them.

By excluding caucus states, Clinton is dismissing the preferences of voters in fourteen states, home to more than 56 million Americans and nearly one in five voters. And by Clinton's new rules, they might as well have never voted.

As she might say, how can you win in November if you don't count one-fifth of the Electoral College?

read more at the link

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7. and that's what pisses me off so much.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

3. STRANGE BEDFELLOWS

Uh hello, Clinton campaign - want to denounce these mysogynists?
Especially the one who is famous for his aggressive support of you, Senator Clinton.

STRANGE BEDFELLOWS

Sunday, June 01, 2008 No More Mister Nice Guy Blog

Clinton-or-death extremist Larry Johnson is once again gleefully spreading the rumor (in two essentially identical posts) that there is a video of Michelle Obama referring to "whitey":

New and dramatic developments. This is a heads up. I'll post the news Monday morning by 0900 hours. Now I know why people who have seen the videotape say it is stunning. Barack's headaches are only starting.

(I don't know what's really going on, but I can't help wondering if the fact that he's promising "news" on Monday, rather than a posting of the video, means that he's going to tell us that now he's really sure it exists. But, hey, I don't know.)

But I point this out because I notice that someone else is gleefully spreading the rumor, in an appearance on Fox News: Roger Stone.

...Yes, Larry, your partner in sleazy scuttlebutt is Roger Stone, the guy responsible for the 527 group formed solely to insult Hillary Clinton with a sexist acronym -- Citizens United Not Timid.

Lovely -- you guys are now on the same side.

Hey, Larry (and Larry's fans) -- enjoy your new friend.

[papau]

5. I do love your "Clinton supporters not welcome sign" post

[Spider Jerusalem]

6. You really, really enjoy whining, don't you?

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9. Papau, you can start your own thread for Hillary Clinton - if you have the initiative

Instead of being bitter.

[grantcart]

22. Clinton supporters are welcome but many have come by to interupt

the thread. I wish that a Clinton supporter would start a similar thread so that I could go thru and see what they are seeing all at one place.

You sure do have those victim reflexes well developed don't you.

Have you been a victim your entire life or is it just an outgrowth of the Clinton campaign?

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8. STIRRING UP HATE SO AS NOT TO LOSE FACE -- IT'S A BIT LIKE 1962

Clinton campaign creates a new breed of swiftboaters

STIRRING UP HATE SO AS NOT TO LOSE FACE -- IT'S A BIT LIKE 1962

No More Mister Nice Blog June 1 2008

I'm reading the Huffington Post and New Republic reports about the now-maddened people who went to the DNC meeting to protest on Hillary Clinton's behalf:

..."You know who is backing him is George Soros. It'll be George Soros, not Obama, who is running the country."

..." is a socialist! You know what the Nazi Party was before it was the Nazi Party? It was the Socialist Party." ...

****
...Hillary protesters are occupying an utterly alternate (and healing-free) universe: a universe ... in which a Hillary supporter with two poodles shouts, "Howard Dean is a leftist freak!"; in which a man exhibits a sign that reads "At least slaves were counted as 3/5ths a Citizen" and shows Dean whipping handcuffed people; and in which Larry Sinclair, the Minnesota man who took to YouTube to allege that Barack Obama had oral sex with him in the back of a limousine in 1999, is one of the belles of the ball.

If this hatred can't be put back in a box, the result is unlikely to be bloodshed, but Hillary Clinton may have helped create a new Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, a group of conspiracy theorists and cynical liars who'll help give us yet another Bush term, with John McCain as a surrogate, by making preposterous allegations and claiming victim status. All because Hillary Clinton thought that nothing was more important than not personally losing face.

...more at the link

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10. 24

"24"

Sunday, June 01, 2008 Posted by Field Negro

That's how many delegates the "Ice Queen" will get after the dumbocratic party leaders decided to seat the delegates from Michigan and Florida at only half strength.

Of course now everyone in camp Hillary is crying that the process was unfair. They were "jeering","hissing", and to use, if I may, a biblical rerence,gnashing their teeth.

Hilliary's peeps are mad because even after all of this, the "0" man will keep his delegate lead. One of Hillary's henchmen,Harold Ickes, said that Hillary will "reserve the right" to appeal the decision to the party's credentials committee. Oh boy!

"I am stunned that we have the gall and chutzpah to substitute our judgment for 600,000 voters". Nice rhetoric there Harold, that will really help your party come November. And I have a question: Didn't your girl agree to play by these very rules? Just a thought.

...more at the link

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11. Cheer Up Hillary: The Audacity of Hope

The Audacity Of Hope

Sunday, June 1, 2008 posted by Fafnir

So now everybody's all "oh, Hillary Clinton can't win the nomination" and "oh, Hillary Clinton can't be president" and "oh, Hillary Clinton, haven't they sedated her yet." Well that's just talking crazy talk! There's tons a stuff that can happen between now and the convention to make Hillary Clinton the nominee, so you just cheer up, Hillary Clinton people! Here's just a few of the many electoral scenarios that could make Hillary Clinton the next president of the United States.

Barack Obama is suddenly eaten by giant pill bugs.

On the way to the convention Barack Obama is confronted by gangs of outraged delegates from Florida and Michigan, who feed him to their giant pill bugs.

Hillary Clinton wins Puerto Rico, just as expected. In a surprise twist however Puerto Rico turns out to be ten thousand times the size of Puerto Rico.

An obscure quirk of DNC bylaws forces the nomination to be settled by spelling bee. Hillary Clinton gets the word "cat," while Barack Obama is eaten by giant pill bugs.

By the time a the Democratic National Convention only one delegate still supports Hillary Clinton. His name? Jesus.

...So Barack Obama's all "I will defeat you Hillary Clinton and steal the nomination forever ha ha ha" but Hillary Clinton knocks im down with her kung-fu action punch like KA-SMMEESSSSHH! but Obama's all "now I shall reveal my TRUE IDENTITY" an he turns into this evil cyborg dude here an fires his auto-launching arm missiles like KA-PEWW, KA-PEWW an then Godzilla an the Decepticons show up but Hillary Clinton fights em off with her laser breath an her robot pony friends an it's totally awesome an that's when the dinosaurs attack.

...more at the link

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12. Manufacturing Dissent

Manufacturing Dissent

Posted by Ogged on 06.01.08

This isn't about the candidates or campaigns generally, but the manipulability of people: there seem to be Clinton supporters who are genuinely outraged by "disenfranchisement" when the disenfranchisement argument is a transparent sham that I assume even the people who introduced it don't believe. When Republican supporters say things that sound like they're coming from an alternate reality, I figure that we have different priors and priorities, but when I hear it from Democrats, I realize again, holy shit, you can control people's minds.

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

13. Obama the negotiator

How Obama handles opposition bodes very well for the Democratic party goals.

Obama the negotiator

Sunday, June 01, 2008 by ASP at Xpostfactoid

When asked about his lack of executive experience, Obama often says, "look at my campaign" -- which combined unmatched analysis of the delegate map with equally impressive execution when it came to getting out the targeted vote/caucus. Others have countered that historically, running a brilliant campaign does not correlate particularly well with governing effectively.

This campaign is unprecedented, however -- in length, in candidate exposure, and in the relative strength of the opposition that Obama first overtook and then held in check. And while the campaign's vote-targeting tactical brilliance is not in itself sufficient to predict effective use of executive power in office, a more fundamental aspect of Obama's performance in this most gladitorial of nomination fights bodes very well for the way he's likely to govern.

What we've seen is the way Obama handles aggressive opposition. Now, in the credentials fight, we've had a good look at his negotiating style. The Wall Street Journal reports today that Obama had the votes to force an even split in the halved Michigan delegate delegate count. Instead, he instructed his supporters to allow a split that gave Hillary a proportion reflecting her "victory" margin against unnamed opposition. Obama also authorized a means of splitting the Florida halved delegation that cost him an extra handful of delegates.

...Those who fret that Obama lacks a "killer instinct" take note: he has beaten the Clinton machine. He is diminishing the authority and credibility of her continued opposition every day. And he's doing it in a way openly calculated to bring all but the most intransigent Clintonites back into the Democratic fold.

Somehow I get the feeling that he'll handle multi-directional opposition to the health plan he unveils with rather more nuance than Hillary mustered in '93. And I'm comfortable with him going eye-to-eye with whatever world leaders, rogue or otherwise, he determines it makes sense to meet.

...more at the link

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14. 29 Words: The Reason Obama Won the Primary and Will Win the General

29 Words: The Reason Obama Won the Primary and Will Win the General

By MassDem at TPM - June 1, 2008

"The best way to show that a stick is crooked is not by arguing about it or spending time denouncing it,
but to lay a straight stick alongside it"

-DL Moody

He just played it straight. They didn't know how to fight it. They still don't. They won't in November.

[grantcart]

15. Phoenix We Have a Problem: Obama may be able to take Arizona

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6220830

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16. Would the Clintons kindly leave the building

Andrew Sullivan wonders whether the Clintons are really gone yet, and marvels at the
dramatic contrast between John McCain and Barack Obama.

Would the Clintons kindly leave the building

Andrew Sullivan June 1, 2008 at the Times Online UK

So this is how the Clintons end – not with a bang but with a whimper? By this time next week Barack Obama will be the Democratic nominee. Yes, I’ve thrown a little salt over my shoulder, crossed myself a few times and said 10 decades of the rosary, but the laws of mathematics have to be worth something.

...Against him we see a walking symbol of 21st-century America. A mixed-race son of a divorced mother, reared in Indonesia and Hawaii, Obama is an American whose father was a member of the Kenyan elite and whose great-uncle liberated Buchen-wald concentration camp in 1945 as part of the US army. He is the first unashamed liberal to run for president since George McGovern, but a man whose capacity for reason and inclusion and civility has won him many conservative friends and admirers.

A bi-racial man who does not condone but will equally not disown the angrier segments of black America, Obama glides through public life like a visible incarnation of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man. He is as cool as McCain is hot.

As the Clintons fade ungraciously away, the emergence of these two from the dust of an astonishingly vivid and endless primary campaign comes to me, at least, as a massive relief. These two men are easily the best each party has to offer, the two most capable of talking to the other side: serious, decent, principled figures with, of course, their fair share of political shading. And in a war against Islamist terror, which for me remains the most important issue, they offer a choice as stark as it is difficult.

...more at the link

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17. Clinton Staff To Be Let Go From Campaign

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=6222841&mesg_id=6222841

Biggest news of the day!

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18. Photos of the campaign on June 1 - enjoy!

Barack Obama was campaigning some more in South Dakota today.
I envy the people who got to have their pictures taken with Barack and also those who got to see him in person.
I couldn't resist the pancake flipping/catching pictures because they show a sense of humor and light-heartedness.

Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., waves after speaking
at a rally at the Corn Palace in Mitchell, S.D. Sunday, June 1, 2008. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)



Democratic presidential hopeful Illinois Sen. Barack Obama greets veterans and military families
during a breakfast in the armory at the W.H. Lyon Fairgrounds in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.
(AFP/Getty Images/Chip Somodevilla)



Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., arrives for a rally at the Corn Palace
in Mitchell, S.D. Sunday, June 1, 2008.
(AP Photo/Chris Carlson)



US Democratic presidential candidate and Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) greets supporters
before speaking in Mitchell, South Dakota June 1, 2008. REUTERS/Rick Wilking



US Democratic presidential candidate and US Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) hugs Kathy Frank (R)
who introduced him to speak in Mitchell, South Dakota June 1, 2008. REUTERS/Rick Wilking



US Democratic presidential candidate and US Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) greets supporters
after speaking in Mitchell, South Dakota June 1, 2008. REUTERS/Rick Wilking



Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., speaks during a rally at the Corn Palace
in Mitchell, S.D. Sunday, June 1, 2008. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)



US Democratic presidential candidate and Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) speaks in Mitchell,
South Dakota June 1, 2008. REUTERS/Rick Wilking



US Democratic presidential candidate and Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) watches
chef Gregg White (R) flips pancakes at a breakfast for military families and veterans in
Sioux Falls, South Dakota June 1, 2008. REUTERS/Rick Wilking



Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., catches a pancake tossed by Gregg White, right,
during a gathering of veterans and military families in the armory at the W. H. Lyon Fairgrounds in
Sioux Falls, S.D., Sunday, June 1, 2008. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)




Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., reacts after catching a pancake on a plate
during a gathering of veterans and military families in the armory at the W. H. Lyon Fairgrounds in
Sioux Falls, S.D. Sunday, June 1, 2008. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson



Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., catches a pancake on a plate during
a gathering of veterans and military families in the armory at the W. H. Lyon Fairgrounds in Sioux Falls, S.D.,
Sunday, June 1, 2008. (AP Photo/Chris Carlson)



US Democratic presidential candidate and Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) catches a flipped pancake
at a breakfast for military families and veterans in Sioux Falls, South Dakota June 1, 2008. REUTERS/Rick Wilking




US Democratic presidential candidate and Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) poses for a photo with
supporters after speaking at a pancake breakfast for military families and veterans in Sioux Falls,
South Dakota June 1, 2008. REUTERS/Rick Wilking



Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama D-Ill., speaks during a gathering of veterans
and military families in the armory at the W. H. Lyon Fairgrounds in Sioux Falls, S.D., Sunday, June 1, 2008.
(AP Photo/Chris Carlson)

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23. I love the photos!

The flipped pancake toss and catch photos are hilarious!

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19. Larry Johson video debunked by Booman Tribune

Booman Tribune blog info on Larry Johnson's alleged Michelle Obama "whitey" video
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=6223410&mesg_id=6223410

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20. Anyone know when next campaign finance reports come out?

just wondering how far in debt the Clinton campaign is now.

[goclark]

27. Isn't it always at the end of the month?

That would mean it's late.

Perhaps it's out today since it's not a weekend.
?

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

21. Fight or not? Hillary Clinton supporters are split

Fight or not? Hillary Clinton supporters are split

Leslie Hoffecker Los Angeles Times June 01

...Now that the Democrats have voted on seating the disputed delegations from Florida and Michigan (all the delegates get to come, but they only get half a vote each), some of Hillary Clinton's highest-profile supporters are divided over what should happen next.

But appearing on the same program, one of Clinton's most prominent supporters seemed to back away from a battle. Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell started his comments by noting, "I'm not inside the campaign mechanism, but I believe she'll do the right thing for America."

"I don't think we're going to fight this at the convention, because even were we to win it, unless it's going to change enough delegates for Sen. Clinton to get the nomination, then it would be a fight that would have no purpose," he said.

That view was bolstered by an Obama supporter, Sen. Claire McCaskill, who also appeared on CBS. Asked about a fight over credentials, she said: "I think we all want to believe that will not happen. And I think Sen. Clinton will do the right thing."

[TragedyandHope]

24. K&R

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25. Latest Breaking News: Kennedy to Undergo Surgery At Duke University

He's in my state today. Senator Kennedy was to go into surgery at 9 AM eastern, to be there until
around 3 PM eastern.

Kennedy to Undergo Surgery At Duke University
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3334893

Kennedy to undergo surgery at Duke for brain tumor
By MIKE BAKER

DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Sen. Edward M. Kennedy was set to undergo surgery Monday at Duke University Medical Center for his cancerous brain tumor and then faces chemotherapy and radiation treatment, his office said.

The 76-year-old senator was diagnosed last month with a malignant glioma, an especially lethal type of brain tumor. A statement from the Massachusetts Democrat's office said the surgery would take place on Monday morning in Durham, N.C., by one of the nation's top neurosurgeons, Dr. Allan Friedman, followed by chemotherapy and radiation.

Anthony Coley, a Kennedy spokesman, said the surgery is scheduled to begin around 9 a.m. and expected to last about six hours. He expects to remain at the North Carolina facility for one week to recuperate and then will begin further treatments at Massachusetts General Hospital and start chemotherapy.

...Kennedy said that over the past few days he and his wife, Vicki, "along with my outstanding team of doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital, have consulted with experts from around the country and have decided that the best course of action for my brain tumor is targeted surgery followed by chemotherapy and radiation."

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gNDIXzKvyoGpfOSCYkzQg0thsDvgD911UTUG0

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26. The Clintons Lost Control of the DNC: Hillary's Campaign is Over

The Clintons Lost Control of the DNC: Hillary's Campaign is Over

Mon, 06/02/2008 - BUZZFLASH EDITOR'S BLOG by Mark Karlin Editor and Publisher

June 2, 2008

Last year Harold Ickes (a chief Clinton strategist), a member of the DNC Rules and By-Laws Committee that met on Saturday, voted to take away the delegates and superdelegates from Florida and Michigan if they moved up their primaries, which they did.

A few years back, Terry McAuliffe -- Hillary Clinton's campaign manager this year -- was head of the DNC, appointed by Bill Clinton. At that time he read the riot act to Senator Carl Levin about his desire to move the Michigan Dem presidential primary up to challenge Iowa and New Hampshire. McAuliffe told Levin that if Michigan moved up its primary that they would lose their votes.

Fast forward and now Ickes and McAuliffe have taken positions 180 degrees opposite their former DNC positions. Now, they are saying that a great injustice was done to Senator Clinton on Saturday because the DNC adopted the compromise Florida and Michigan Democratic Party seating and voting plans for the two states. In short, the Democratic Party agreed with the states -- not with Hillary Clinton the candidate -- and resolved the contentious problem.

...But this is what it meant in a nutshell: Clinton Inc. no longer can call the shots at the DNC, even in a committee that was headed by two former Bill Clinton administration officials, and a committee on which 13 of the 30 members were pledged Clinton delegates (Obama had 8 and the rest were undeclared at this time.)

...After the last two primaries are over on Tuesday, and after Obama meets the new threshold of delegates and becomes the presumptive nominee, if Clinton stays in the race it won't be about what's better for America or "choice" or economic justice; it will just be about the ego of Hillary Clinton and a desire to ruin the chances of the Democratic Party to win in November.

...more at the link

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28. Connecticut & Virginia SuperDs endorse this morning! 44 to Go!

GoBama!

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29. **** Super Delegate Update Obama +2 further updates below

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6226878

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31. DNC Lawrence (MI) endorses Obama 43.5

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32. Added DNC Lu Battaglieri (MI)* for Obama magic number 43

Today's action so far


6-2-08 - Added DNC Jerome Wiley Segovia (VA) for Obama
- Added DNC Nancy DiNardo (CT) for Obama
- Added DNC Chris Whittington (LA) for Clinton
- Added DNC Brenda Lawrence (MI)* for Obama
- Added DNC Lu Battaglieri (MI)* for Obama
- Added DNC Irene Stein (NY) for Clinton

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30. Gallup - The American People support talks with Iran

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33. k and r. nt