“OBAMA SUPPORTERS” DAILY NEWS Tuesday June 10, 2008

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WELCOME TO “OBAMA SUPPORTERS” DAILY NEWS

Tuesday June 10, 2008


Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., hugs Pamela Cash-Roper
after she spoke at his economy speech, Monday, June 9, 2008, at the
North Carolina State Fairgrounds in Raleigh, N.C. Roper, a lifelong Republican,
told the crowd that she and her husband are struggling because of medical problems,
losing their jobs and the high price of gas and prescription drugs. (AP Photo/Jim R. Bounds)

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1. This is the Story of Me...A response to More Dumb questions about Barack Obama and Black Folks

The question of "blackness" is, by and large, a pretty stupid one - but it continues to be asked.

This is the Story of Me...A response to More Dumb questions about Barack Obama and Black Folks By LaKeisha Chestnut at TPM June 9, 2008

I am who I am. I am black. I am African-American. Though my ancestral heritage states otherwise. Either way, I am black. No, I don't claim to have a pulse on the black community, but I do have a pulse on what it is like to be black in America, and how some black folks are feeling about Barack Obama.

I wasn't raised in the ghetto of Mobile, Alabama. I was raised in a middle-class neighborhood where my neighbors were white and black. My great-aunt lived in an all-black neighborhood. I had cousins who lived in the housing projects. I was just fortunate enough to have this kind of education. When I read blogs that questions some people's blackness, I get a little uneasy. Because, no one can put into question someone's blackness.

When Barack Obama started his campaign, a lot of black people thought that Barack was one of us. That he wasn't "black" enough to identify with us. So many had decided to vote for Hillary because they knew her, and she was Bill's wife. As the nomination process went on, Barack's blackness came on display. Suddenly, black folks didn't see Barack as not "black" enough, they saw him as "one of us".

What we failed to realize is that Barack is everyone of us. He's not black or white, he's a human being. Just like me. Even though my ancestry is African, Irish, and Blackfoot Indian, and I am still a human being, and I am part of the human race. People question my "blackness" all the time. Because I don't listen to a lot of rap music, but I have never had anyone question my "human-ness." No one can never question that. No one can question Barack's.

...more at the link

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4. I just read her post.

And she describes 100% how I feel.Down to the bone.I am glad you posted this.

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6. I haven't watched, but hope it is at this link

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x145448

Sorry, haven't watched the video yet, but this is all I could find of
the Raleigh visit.

[Cha]

13. I Rec'd like it suggested..it was so

poignant. Thanks, WYVBC.

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2. Is there any video of her speech available ?

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16. oops I responded at wrong post. Here, I hope this is full video

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x145448

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3. Gloria Steinem is Unintentionally Funny

In a sense, Bill DID lose to Obama. In fact, Obama beat two of the most highly touted political whiz kids of the past 25 years.

Gloria Steinem is Unintentionally Funny
By Rick Spilman at TPM June 9, 2008

This morning on CNN Gloria Steinem explained how Hillary lost the nomination due to sexism. During the interview, John Roberts noted that many have argued that Obama was simply a better candidate, and that Obama might have beaten Bill Clinton as well.

Gloria responded. "that's ridiculous to do a singe factor analysis of history ..."

I had to laugh. Apparently casting everything in terms of gender is not "a single factor analysis" but suggesting that Hillary's attributes as an individual campaigner somehow is.

Yes, gender played a significant role in the primaries, working both for and against Hillary Clinton. The same thing could be said of race. Nevertheless, Ms. Steinem's lack of nuance is regrettable. Then again, it did give me a good chuckle, which is worth something, I suppose.

[Cha]

15. Gloria Steinem needs to get over her whiny self.

She and elton john need to throw a pity party with whine and cheezewhiz.

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5. Obama --- Change that Works for You: Raleigh, NC (more complete) video

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x145448

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7. Barack in Raleigh, NC: "It is time to try something new. It is time for change.

The Edwards were there for the speech.

Barack in Raleigh, NC: "It is time to try something new. It is time for change."
By Christopher Hass - Jun 9th, 2008

Barack just concluded an economic policy speech in Raleigh, North Carolina. The speech marks the kick-off of a two week tour focusing on the current economic crisis and the need for new economic policy:

You don’t have to read the stock tickers or scan the headlines in the financial section to understand the seriousness of the situation we’re in right now. You just have to go to Pennsylvania and listen to the man who lost his job but can’t even afford the gas to drive around and look for a new one. Or listen to the woman from Iowa who works the night shift after a full day of class and still can’t pay the medical bills for a sister who’s ill. Or talk to the worker I met in Indiana who worked at the same plant his father worked at for thirty years until they moved it to Mexico and made the workers actually pack up the equipment themselves so they could send it to China.

... We did not arrive at the doorstep of our current economic crisis by some accident of history. This was not an inevitable part of the business cycle that was beyond our power to avoid. It was the logical conclusion of a tired and misguided philosophy that has dominated Washington for far too long.

Also on hand for the speech were John and Elizabeth Edwards:



...more at the link

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8. The Field: It’s the Economy, Stu…, Er… Senator!

“I’m going to be honest: I know a lot less about economics than I do about military and foreign policy issues. I still need to be educated.” - John McCain, November 2005

It’s the Economy, Stu…, Er… Senator!
June 9th, 2008 by Al Giordano

Video Here

When it comes to the American and the global economy in which it exists, presumptive Republican presidential nominee John McCain is, well, just plain bored with you people and your “problems.”

Asked in April, on Fox News, about soaring gas prices, McCain said, “lot of our problems today, as you know, are psychological,” including the “ability to keep our own home.”

Some weeks earlier, he had said – in a prepared speech, no less – that Americans losing their homes to predatory mortgage lenders were at fault for their own plight: “it is not the duty of government to bail out and reward those who act irresponsibly.”

When it comes to “the economy, stupid,” the Republican candidate is a walking gaffe-factory.

Meanwhile, community organizer-turned-presidential nominee Barack Obama – no doubt sensing Senator McCain’s soft underbelly of disinterest in economic policy - will begin turning up the heat this morning, kicking off a two-week economic issues tour in Raleigh, North Carolina (here’s a preview memo). As soon as we can confirm that it will be streamed live on Internet video we’ll post a link here.

...more at the link

[Cha]

9. It looks like he's whispering

"sweetie" in her ear! :evilgrin:

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10. McCain Reruns The Clinton Campaign

"I’m pretty sure his car runs on anger and old spice…"

McCain Reruns The Clinton Campaign
Oliver Willis June 9, 2008

Sen. McCain seems determined to use the same line of attack versus Sen. Obama that Sen. Clinton used.
Now he’s resurrecting the idiotic gas tax holiday
that does nothing to address the actual Republican-aided energy problem.
Maybe Sen. McCain just forgot how these attacks ended up not working for Sen. Clinton.

Yeah, he forgot, that’s it.

"Here is the Annenberg Political Fact Check article on the gas tax holiday, which according to them would just transfer that revenue essentially from the government to the oil companies -"

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11. Obama to make oil companies pay for windfall profits

The comments posted to the blog say that they don't think this plan will work. It sounded like a good idea, but read the comments.

Obama to make oil companies pay for windfall profits
John Aravosis (DC) • 6/09/2008

Good. Very good.

Launching a two-week focus on the ailing U.S. economy, Obama drew a sharp contrast with Republican John McCain, his rival in the November election, accusing him of a "full-throated endorsement" of President George W. Bush's fiscal policies, including tax breaks for oil companies.

"I'll make oil companies like Exxon pay a tax on their windfall profits, and we'll use the money to help families pay for their skyrocketing energy costs and other bills," the Illinois senator said.

Every week people pay for gas, for food, for plane tickets, for everything that is going through the roof. This is a smart move, defining the election as being about the economy - a topic that John McCain admits he knows nothing about.

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12. delegate to TX Dem convention launches pro McCain website

More election fraud in Texas, registered Dem delegate launches pro McCain site

Already it's Begun...
Farnsworth68 at One Pissed Off Veteran Friday, June 06, 2008

It didn't take long for some disgruntled Hillary supporters to put up a website for something called The National Organization of Hillary Clinton Supporters for John McCain (Google it yourself if you want to see it, or click on the link in the story -- I don't want to give them a free link).

So the joker behind it is a rancher down in Texas. Yeah, right -- a Texas rancher supporting Clinton.

Well, it turns out that the guy appears to be for real, and is registered as a delegate to the Texas Democratic convention.

So what's really behind this? I'm sorely tempted to say that it's the Rethugs up to some more of their dirty tricks, and despite the fact that this guy claims to be a Democrat, he's been a McCain stalking horse since the beginning. Don't forget that it was Texas that profited hugely from drug addict pimple-assed Rush Limbaugh's anarchistic plan to stuff the ballot boxes with Rethug votes for Hillary. This guy could be a direct recipient of that movement.

Right now he's claiming some 5000 members. Wow, I'll bet the Obama camp is shaking in its collective boots over that number.

But watch for more of this crap as the season wears on. I think this is just the opening salvo in what will prove to be a long and depressingly angry campaign.

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14. Poll: Women are NOT shunning Obama; he has a 62% chance of winning

Many may have changed their mind about Sen Clinton after South Carolina.

Poll: Women are NOT shunning Obama; he has a 62% chance of winning
By GottaLaff Monday, June 9, 2008



GObama!

Are women a big problem for Obama? Maybe not. At least one poll shows rapid recent movement to Obama overall among Democrats, including women.

Pollster Scott Rasmussen says that as of today, based on 3,000 automated telephone surveys over the past three nights, Obama gets support from 52% of the women in his national tracking poll compared with 40% for presumptive Republican nominee John McCain. He says that's better than Democrat John Kerry did with women against President Bush in 2004.

There are more details, but here's a peek:

The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Monday shows Barack Obama attracts 48% of the vote while John McCain earns 40%. When “leaners” are included, Obama leads 50% to 44%. Last Tuesday, just before Obama clinched the nomination, the candidates were tied at 46% (see recent daily results). Data from Rasmussen Markets gives Obama a 62.1 % chance of winning.

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17. Gary Hart: Fear Itself

Democrats need to redefine "security" in order to be successful.

Fear Itself
By Gary Hart - June 9, 2008, 2:22PM

"Fear itself," an authentic American president remarkably said, is what we have to fear most. Seven decades later, the incumbent president said, in effect, "be afraid, be very afraid."
Years from now historians will wonder, without resolution, how George W. Bush might have governed absent 9/11. It is at best an academic question but one that focuses on the catastrophe that gave his presidency whatever meaning it might have.

Without 9/11, what justification would the Cheneys, Rumsfelds, Addingtons, Yoos, and others have found for the toxic and unconstitutional theory of the "unitary executive," a theory used to consolidate power in the White House, ratified by a compliant partisan Congress, and unquestioned by a complacent ideological Supreme Court? Nixonian at its roots, it was used to justify torture, massive wiretap surveillance, outing of covert agents, repeated deception of the American people, manipulation of intelligence, extraordinary rendition, secret prisons, unlawful detention, suspension of the writ of habeas corpus, and the wholesale violation of whatever remains of the Constitution.

Against this backdrop, one is almost inescapably reminded of a closing scene in "Three Days of the Condor" where the CIA official (Cliff Robertson) tells the researcher (Robert Redford), "Of course it's about the oil. The American people expect us to get it for them. They don't care how we get it. They just expect us to get it." Though our leaders will never admit it, this and future Persian Gulf wars are of course about the oil. And they are about fear.

By their avoidance of the hard work involved in thinking creatively about security, too many Democrats have surrendered the field to Republicans unafraid to use fear to gain and maintain power. This circumstance will continue until a new Democratic administration gives security a new definition, one that is based on national self-confidence rather than fear.

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18. McCain, Obama To Speak At NAACP Convention

I must say "oh noeess" on a few fronts here..... see for yourself. Agh.

McCain, Obama To Speak At NAACP Convention
09 Jun 2008 08:28 am

Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama have accepted invitations to speak at the NAACP's convention next month in Cincinnati. McCain will speak on July 16, keynoting a plenary session. Obama, and former presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, are currently scheduled to speak on July 17, according to the group.

McCain accepted the invitation as soon as it was issued. Then Gov. George W. Bush spoke to the group in 2000 but only returned once as president.

A side note: also on July 16, Obama supporter Donnie McClurkin will help to entertain the NAACP members. Earlier this year, a McClurkin tour through South Carolina on Obama's behalf drew the ire of gay rights activists because McClurkin believes that homosexuality is immoral.

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19. Betty Cracker: Unsolicited advice for the Obama campaign

Unsolicited advice for the Obama campaign
Betty Cracker at 6/09/2008

MEMO: Obama for America

To: Campaign Events Coordinator

Subject: Proposed McCain-Obama Debate Format

According to this AP story, both you and McCain's campaign rejected ABC's offer to moderate a townhall-style meeting in New York City. Well done -- the absurd Stephanopolis-Gibson tag-team mugging that was billed as a debate with Mrs. Clinton should disqualify ABC from "moderating" anything more significant than a monster truck rally for the next decade or so.

Clearly you guys know what you're doing. But I have a few thoughts on how you might respond to McCain's offer to conduct 10 townhall meetings.

1. Don't let McCain dictate the venues. McCain wants townhall meetings because he sucks less in that setting than he does delivering speeches. He's a heinously bad speaker -- even Fox News panned his crappy speech the night our man delivered his soaring address in Minneapolis. McCain's hoping to get through the election without having to make another speech. Don't let him. Offer to do 2 townhall meetings in exchange for one televised speech per candidate on the top 5 topics as you see them -- no moderators. Maybe you could even suggest allowing Americans to weigh in on the performances via text messaging, just like on American Idol. Hell, you could even get the Idol crew to provide scathing commentary at the end of the performances. I think we know whom Simon would ruthlessly squash, don't we? And I don't even watch Idol.

2. Insist on green backdrops for all joint appearances. McCain delivered the aforementioned crappy speech in front of a green background, probably to make some subliminal point about his mavericky record on the environment or something. But it backfired horribly: It made him look like a scoop of cottage cheese on a bed of wilted lettuce, unappealingly backlit like a much-rejected side-dish fronted by a smudged Luby's Cafeteria snot-guard. We need to repeat that image as often as possible. Plus, Stephen Colbert issued a Green Screen Challenge! We need more opportunities for mockery.

3. Advise Obama to smile at McCain -- a lot. Obama would be right at home on a Crest commercial -- he has perfectly spaced, even white teeth and a smile that looks like it's connected to actual feelings. If he smiles at McCain frequently, McCain will be forced to employ his Montgomery Burns grimace in response, revealing his maize-colored choppers.

...more at the link

[Cha]

21. Betty Cracker is

funny!

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20. Friendly advice: How to talk to non-supporters about Obama

Friendly advice: How to talk to non-supporters about Obama
by desmoinesdem
Mon Jun 09, 2008 at 05:43:45 PM PDT

Slightly revised from the version posted at MyDD, thanks to feedback from several thoughtful readers. Note: If Hillary Clinton were the nominee, I would have written a similar diary addressing her volunteers.

This diary is for people planning to volunteer for Barack Obama's presidential campaign this summer and fall. My goal is to help you be more effective in communicating with voters like me, who don't care for Obama.

jump to the link.....

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/6/9/204346/8388/356/515265

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22. The Ladner Report: A Time To Regroup And Move Forward

Two points here. When Joyce Ladner talks about moving forward, she means REALLY moving forward. She also reminds us that we have to fight as hard as we can to win this election.

A Time To Regroup And Move Forward
Joyce Ladner Monday, June 9, 2008



If we want to keep it real, we must partner with Obama to win this bottom-up and not top-down movement to save the future.

Barack Obama caught all of us off guard by winning the Democratic nomination. Sure, we knew he had the most delegates and it was virtually impossible for Hillary Clinton to catch up, even with all of her permutations of what constituted a winner. But, to accept the fact that a young black man, chosen for the job and the times to lead us out of our decay has taken some getting used to. Every black person I have spoken with around the country as well as a few friends who live abroad have said they never thought they would live to see the day. Neither did I. If only our parents had lived to see Barack soar to the top. They would have felt that some of the suffering they endured had been worthwhile.

I grew up in a family of race men and women. Blunt to a fault, and always ready to assert their equality as black men and women in Mississippi's sweltering sea of racism and segregation, just knowing that Obama was nominated would have reaffirmed their lifelong feelings that "no white man or woman is better than us." It was a mantra passed down through five generations of my mother's lineage, and it is still very much in play.

Now we must go inside ourselves and regroup. We need to take a few days to get in touch with our core strengths and beliefs. We need to reaffirm our beliefs that Obama will not ascend to the presidency unless we fight as hard as we possibly can. Obama tapped into a deeply-held belief that we cannot win any race unless we believe in ourselves and our abilities to do so. Barack cannot win unless we throw ourselves into the race at the community-based level, do voter education, voter registration, and take people to the polls if they cannot get there on their own. He cannot win unless each of us claims our own stake in the future, and partner with him and the other voters for change.

...We do not have to identify ourselves primarily as the descendants of slaves. With Obama in high office, we can erase our automatic identification with the most tragic parts of our history. The new yardstick can allow us to soar beyond that lowly status. It will help all blacks rise higher than before, as black kindergarten children now know they, too, can be president or anything they want to become. Obama has established a new paradigm that lifts the new bar to the sky. He has laid out a road map for our children and our children's children to ascend to the top.

...more at the link

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23. Rude Pundit: The Coming Republican Attack, Part 1: Mainstreaming Racism

The Coming Republican Attack, Part 1: Mainstreaming Racism:
The Rude Pundit 6/09/2008

Now that we're all trying to hold hands and get our "Kumbaya" on over here in Democratville post-Clinton campaign suspension, let's not forget about what's coming. The self-fellating right wingers in this country are going to try to portray Barack Obama as some kind of unholy combination of a razor-wielding pimp and a back-stabbing house negro. Who converted to Islam. Get ready for the mainstreaming of contemporary racism.

Hell, Obama's candidacy has gotten Floyd G. Brown, the creator of the "Willie Horton" ad, all hard and yearning to start fucking. Brown has started a website and gotten some ads going where he wants to show how Obama is weak on crime because, among other things, Obama didn't support the death penalty for gang members. Fucker's not even subtle about his opinions of the Democratic nominee: "Obama is a liberal, only slightly more stylish than Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, but equally dedicated to the same causes." Damn those uppity coloreds.

Once the mainstream media goes full force on the whole "can a black man be president" thing, you can bet that they're gonna trot out every scuzzy racist with a thick Appalachian or Boston accent they can find. Like the Guardian did yesterday, going into Appalachia (and elsewhere) to talk to voters in, say, West Virginia about why they won't vote for Obama, like Johnny Tevlor, who said, "We'll end up slaves. We'll be made slaves just like they was once slaves" if Obama is elected. Frankly, it's kind of deeply hilarious that there are people kept so stupid in this country that they think a black president would enslave white people. When Tevlor goes back to his shack in his shitty little depressed town to gum on a dry biscuit, one hopes he feels free under the white presidents.

You see what the Rude Pundit did right there? He engaged with an idiot. Because by putting the idiot's opinion in the newspaper, it seems like it's a relevant argument, not just an extremist perspective from the most talkative racist in the town. Over at Americablog, Aravosis goes through the nutzoids who spout hate-filled bullshit all over John McCain's poorly monitored blog comments section. Yes, it shows that there's assholes who can type, but little else.

...more at the link

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24. VP Madness (Democratic Edition)

VP Madness (Democratic Edition)
CQ Politics

Play Now! First Round June 5 - 10

It's time for presumed Democratic nominee Barack Obama to turn his attention to a running mate. To help, we bring you the second installment of VP Madness, where users decide who Obama should choose as his #2. Vote in the head-to-head match ups below to determine which candidates advance to face each other in the next round. You can view the latest results by clicking the button at the bottom of the page. The winner will be revealed on July 1, in plenty of time for Obama to consider your choice.

In the GOP Edition, former Arkansas Governor (and former presidential candidate) Mike Huckabee was chosen as John McCain's best bet.

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25. This is just one of the reasons I don't buy the B.S. about how Clinton supporters will go for mccain

There are just too many people hurting out their, and the differences between the Democrats and republicans, Obama and mccain

are so stark and wide, that the only thing the right wing propaganda machine can do is feed us their lies

It isn't going to work

[Cha]

27. Also they wouldn't be caring

about our Environment at all.

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26. The RBC Update: Gotcha!

(((((((((((((((((((((((( The RBC Update: Gotcha! ))))))))))))))))))))))))

2008.06.09 21:27:20


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Yes, McCain misstated on Friday what he said on Tuesday. And
yes, his press staff tried to spin their way out of it, lying
all the way. And no, Jonathan Martin of Politico.com is not
pleased.

Bad move!

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http://WWW.samefacts.com/archives/john_mccain_/2008/06/gotcha.php

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28. inevitability is NOT our friend.

The Effing Jazzy Rule A Cautionary Tale Again without the Effing Fonts & Styles I Can't Figure Out!
By dijamo - June 9, 2008

There once was a race between three candidates. Hillary was the power walker, Obama was the skate boarder and McCain was McCane on a cane limping because half of his base regarded him with scorn and distrust. Hillary and Obama left McCain in the dust as they battled for the nomination. Hillary was speed-walking her way to the lead with her Tony Robbins I Am Inevitable on her walkman. Obama was the sk8erboi who surprise the powerwalker and came up on her quickly with his Yes I Can will.i.am crap blaring on his iPod. It was a hard fought race but the sk8erboi won.

If HRC's campaign taught us anything it is that inevitability is NOT our friend. Even if you believe Obama will win, perhaps it's time to act like we are behind the eight-ball. Obama excelled in the first half of this campaign because he went everywhere, did not back down from a debate, campaigned as if every vote mattered. In the second half when Hillary came back, it was precisely because Obama was playing it too cautious. Playing the inevitability of his delegate lead rather than going to WV, KY, meeting Hillary for debates to woo her voters before the primary ended. If you look at the polls in WV, Obama is only down 8 against McCain. How much lower would that lead have been had he actually campaigned in the state and spoken to those voters much as Jesse Jackson did when he campaigned in the hills of Appalachia on a platform of economic prosperity for all Americans? I repeat inevitability is not our friend. It makes us complacent and lazy and careful.

For us to have any chance to beat McCain, we need to come together as a party and unite on both sides. John Kerry battled GWB with Bush’s approval ratings sub 50% and a united democratic party behind him. He lost because the GOP smear machine smeared John Kerry as an un-American, unpatriotic, antimilitary elitist who stole Purple Hearts despite the fact their own candidate hid behind daddy’s skirts to avoid the draft. The American people fell for that crap which does not reflect positively about the intelligence of our country in terms of voting in our own best interests.

There are Hillary supporters for whom this election is much more important than Hillary or Obama – it’s about NOT MCCAIN. Count me in that group. There are others (20%) who are perhaps more moderate on foreign policy but liberal on economics who are not sold on the authenticity of Obama. There are others who are still wounded by a party that did not speak up in the face of sexism and misogyny that Hillary faced in this campaign. Now is not a time for gloating on one side or petulant pouting on the other. It’s time to confront that 20% of HRC supporters and argue why Obama based on policy and facts rather than get over it he’s the nominee. So rather than degenerating into Hillary is so divisive and the devil and even worse the gender based insults that tend to get me so aggravated, try appealing to Clinton supporters with reason. Think back and figure out why it was they started to support Obama in the first place – whether that be policy or inspiration. There is nothing less inspiring than being told you have no other choice. There is nothing less inspiring than being told if you don’t agree then you are not one of *us* - us being Democrats. We cannot win this election divided and it is up to each of us who truly wants to see a Democrat in the White House to clean up this mess.

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/06/the-effing-jazzy-rule-a-cautio.php

[JimGinPA]

29. K&R

:kick:

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30. McCain makes fun of lobbyist paranoia

McCain makes fun of lobbyist paranoia
June 10, 2008 Jonathan Martin

Another note from McCain's fundraisers last night that I had to include. At his lobbyist-heavy soiree at 101 Constitution -- home to both Politico's Hill bureau and a few lobby shops -- McCain poked fun at the Scarlet L's being affixed around town these days.

Per the pool report:

“I’m gonna thank some corrupt unscrupulous lobbyists that are destroying America as we speak, everything we stand for and believe in,” McCain said, which got the crowd laughing. “You can’t even eat a piece of apple pie any more without being corrupted.”

Of course, McCain has been partly responsible for this perception as lobbyists-as-evil-doers due to his stringent rules barring them from his campaign. That said, we in the media are also to blame for continuing to be SHOCKED, Casablanca-style, that members of the political class advocate for corporate interests in between working on campaigns.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0608/McCain_makes_fun_of_lobbyist_paranoia.html