NYT: A Hug for Obama, a Handshake for McCain

[Fleshdancer]

A Hug for Obama, a Handshake for McCain

By JOHN HARWOOD
Published: July 28, 2008

Senator Barack Obama’s audience inside the Capitol this week will number about 200, not the 200,000 who gathered last week in Berlin. And with their own careers tied to his on Election Day, the House Democrats gathered to listen to him will bring more critical scrutiny.

Yet all signs point to a reception for Mr. Obama at the closed-door session that will be warm, if not as effusive as the cheery crowd in front of the Victory Column in Germany. In one of the notable turnabouts of the 2008 campaign, Democratic politicians and voters alike display more fervor for Mr. Obama than Republicans do for Senator John McCain.

Within Republican cloakrooms on Capitol Hill, the coolness toward Mr. McCain is mutual; while colleagues question his campaign’s performance and departures from party orthodoxy, he keeps a tarnished Republican establishment at arm’s length.

Democrats express remarkably few reservations about Mr. Obama — despite his tough nomination fight with Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton and the risks associated with his race, his liberal policy stances, even his nontraditional name.

“He’s preaching to the choir,” said Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida, once a staunch Clinton backer, “and we’re ready to sing.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/28/us/politics/28caucus.html?_r=1&ref=politics&oref=slogin

[Hope And Change]

1. K & R!

[writes3000]

2. Wow, a quote I actually like from Wasserman Schultz. Shocker. n/t

[Skittles]

3. no one wants to hug a corpse n/t

[opihimoimoi]

4. Skittles.....naughty LOL

:spank:

:toast:

[Skittles]

6. it's not that he's old, opi

he just looks for friggin' UNHEALTHY - he looks like a corpse

[opihimoimoi]

8. A CORPSE TOO FAR? OMG LOL...He is not an OLD guy...he is a DUMB guy acting smart

not realizing by acting smart he confirms his dumbness...."Who wants to hug a Dumb Corpse"

[fasttense]

5. Uewww, ugh, gag

The thought of hugging that creepy old man gives me the willies. He reminds me of my funny uncle trying to lure children into his car when he speaks.

The creepy old man can't be good for this country.

[Skittles]

7. again, to me it's not that he is old

it's that he looks so unhealthy and - you are very correct - downright creepy

[otohara]

9. I Think Ms Waserman Schultz

got lots of phone calls after Ed Schultz spoke about her a few weeks ago.

[Cha]

10. mccain is trapped in a web of his own

deception. Why would anyone honorable want to be associated with that?