“OBAMA SUPPORTERS” DAILY NEWS Monday April 14, 2008

Senator Casey: Clinton Arguments Against Obama Getting "Really Ridiculous"

Jake Tapper / ABC

The Lies of Hillary and John, Contrasted With The Truth Barry Told Us....

April 13, 2008 Greg Dewar.

Its almost an insult to Nixon.

Nixon In A Pantsuit

By: John Cole at Balloon Juice April 13, 2008

Hillary campaign promotes blogger who has repeatedly called Michelle Obama a “blow job queen”

posted at "Rumproast on April 13, 2008

but reading at the link and you will see that other contributions by this blogger are consistent (Donna Brazille is called a 'brillo head). Other excerpts from this blogger are apparently featured on official Hillary campaign sites.

Bottom’s Up

Rolling Stone Magazine 4/13/08

Hillary Clinton, January:



Hillary Clinton, Today:

Obama Uses "Antipathy" In a Sentence, Candidacy Doomed

posted at Ridiculopathy on April 13, 2008

Obama's Raleigh North Carolina HQ Registered 1,000 Voters Friday

Submitted by gregflynn at Blue NC on Sun, 04/13/2008 -


Photoblog of Obama Raleigh HQ on Friday April 11, 2008. The office was a hive of activity Friday with waves of volunteers assembling early and mid-day to prepare and fan out for voter registration while a steady stream of individuals came to register at the office. Staff estimated that Friday alone resulted in over a 1,000 Raleigh voter registrations assisted by the Obama campaign.

He'll get on his soapbox, invite Buchanan in and call Obama an out of touch elitist who just lost any chance at the presidency. Mika will attempt to defend Obama, but Joe will "put her in her place" like Joe thinks he has the right to do.

What foreign government hasn't donated to or paid Bill Clinton?

by Joe Sudbay (DC) · 4/13/2008 at America Blog

Last week, the right wing Moonie paper ran a front page story about advisers to McCain having ties to foreign governments:

The firms of McCain senior adviser Charlie Black, who until recently was the chairman of Washington-based BKSH & Associates, and campaign co-chairman Thomas G. Loeffler, who heads the Loeffler Group in San Antonio, received millions of dollars lobbying the White House, Congress and others as agents of nearly a dozen foreign clients in recent years.

So the conservatives are concerned about relationships between campaigns advisers and foreign governments. Huh.

Last week, we learned of Bill's close relationship with Colombia.

Today, the LA Times reports on Bill Clinton's dealings with a company that is abetting the Chinese government's crackdown on Tibetan protesters. That sounds bad enough. The Times also notes several other governments whose have financially aided the Clintons:

The Clinton foundation and the former president's library in Little Rock have received millions of dollars in donations from the Saudi royal family and the Middle East sheikdoms of the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait and Qatar, along with the governments of Taiwan and Brunei.

We do need full disclosure. Who gave? And how much? No doubt, the Clintons would surely put the national interests before their own financial interests. But, we should know what countries provided the financial interests. Because, if Hillary somehow secures steals the nomination, no doubt the Republicans are going to make a big deal about this foreign influence in the fall. They're already laying the groundwork.

http://www.americablog.com/2008/04/what-foreign-government-hasnt-donated.html

Hillary doesn't think Pennsylvania voters are bitter. She thinks they're stupid.

by John Aravosis (DC) At America Blog · 4/13/2008



In her latest effort to win votes by changing the color of her spots, Hillary has just announced that she's been a lifelong gun nut. Yes, you heard it right. The women who led the Million Mom anti-gun March on Washington is now a pistol-packing momma.

“You know, my dad took me out behind the cottage that my grandfather built on a little lake called Lake Winola outside of Scranton and taught me how to shoot when I was a little girl,” she said.

“You know, some people now continue to teach their children and their grandchildren. It’s part of culture. It’s part of a way of life. People enjoy hunting and shooting because it’s an important part of who they are. Not because they are bitter.”

....Now, maybe Hillary's telling the truth. Maybe she stood at the crack of dawn "in the cold water" waiting to bag her first bird. Maybe she's a proud member of America's gun "culture." Maybe. But after her extremely detailed, and totally false, Bosnia sniper-fire snafu, I'd like a little more detail on her latest gun tale before we're going to believe that Ms. Gun Control is the new Charlton Heston.

Let's revisit Hillary's actual history with guns and gun control, which, you'll be surprised to find out, involves an awful lot of rewritten history:

...more at the link
http://www.americablog.com/2008/04/hillary-doesnt-think-pennsylvania.html

People aren't bitter, they're happy!

by Chris in Paris · 4/13/2008



Hillary is absolutely correct about Americans who have been shafted by the policies of the GOP, Bill Clinton, and Hillary's votes on the war and the bankruptcy bill. I don't know who Obama is talking to, but these people are smiling and happy. They're pleased that they've been given the opportunity to be thrown aside to help freedom, democracy, modern economics, corporate CEOs, and the government of Colombia.

Funny, but I've witnessed the same in poor countries around the world. Some people see suffering millions who have no idea how they will manage to put the next meal on the table - but no, that's just not right. I know when I look at the world's working class - and I think Hillary and McCain would agree - I see smiling happy people. I see starving people who are bloody well happy to get a three-day old crust of dried bread out of the waste bin, thank you very much. They're simple people, really, but perky as the dirt-poor clams they are. Oh, to be blue collar (or no-collared) and carefree.

Heck, I know many a friend (and spouse) of Hillary and McCain would trade in their million dollar salaries and $200,000 speaking fees to live without the worry of where to spend their awfully inconvenient trust funds. Ahh, being poor, with no job (or just as bad, two jobs), no health insurance, an exploding mortgage, gas prices of $4 a gallon, two wars with no end, a massive budget deficit to hand down to the kids, and an overall bleak future - now THAT is the life. Just ask Hillary. Hillary connects with these happy people because she's had a hard life too, what with the sniper fire and all. And her chauffeur, her gardener and her cook are all simple people and she does talk with them, sometimes. And after all, she can shoot a gun just like John Kerry, or perhaps Mitt Romney. All regular people too, just like Hillary.

http://www.americablog.com/2008/04/people-arent-bitter-they-happy.html

Obama our next President coming to Greenville NC on Thursday April 17

This is from Rolling Stone's Magazine issue for Apr 3, but I missed it until yesterday. Its one of
those articles that you need to read sometime, sort of a Campaign 101 orientation.
RollingStone Magazine is doing some great writing on elections and politics.

Hillary's Flimsy Case
The myth of the "battleground" states, and other frequently asked questions from the campaign trail

MATT TAIBBI POSTED APR 03, 2008

Isn't Hillary Clinton better qualified than Barack Obama to be president, given that she is the more experienced candidate?

The idea that Clinton is somehow more qualified to deal with international crises because she has more "experience" is one of the strangest things I've seen the media swallow whole in a long time, dating back to the "tiny, sand-covered, yet-to-master-the-art-of-plumbing nation of Iraq is an imminent military threat to the United States" fiasco. According to my calculations —worked out over many hours, using long division out to eighteen places —Clinton is a second-term senator, while Barack Obama, conversely, is a first-term senator. By any reasonable standard, both are political neophytes.

...Clinton talks a lot about having visited "over eighty countries" —but then, Chelsea was with her on a lot of those trips, and I doubt folks are rushing to hand her the red phone

It is worth noting that Hillary was being packed off on these trips into the heart of Africa at precisely the time when her husband was getting his knob polished by an intern in the Oval Office. That's not a reflection on her personally —but for the Hillary camp to tout her advantage in foreign affairs based on these trips into the marital wilderness, as compared to a candidate who has actually lived overseas and has actual relatives living in villages like the ones Hillary passed over in her glass-bottomed boat, is beyond absurd.

…When it comes time for delegates to vote at the convention, shouldn't they take into account that Clinton has performed better than Obama in the so-called battleground states? Doesn't she stand a better chance against John McCain in the national election?

In reality, the exact opposite is true. Everything about the results so far suggests that Obama is the more electable candidate according to the "battleground" voter the Clinton camp is claiming for their own.

The Clinton strategy for winning the presidency is so simple, even a chimpanzee could grasp it. You win the blue states, the Massachusettses and the New Jerseys, almost automatically, just by being pro-choice and saying nice things about trees and gay people. You concede the really red states, the places like Tennessee and Kentucky where you're fucked anyway, places where huge pluralities believe the devil really exists and has thick red skin and a bull's horns.
…But saying that Hillary is better qualified to take on John McCain because of her performance in those states only makes sense if (a) you believe that the people who voted for Clinton in the primaries will not vote for Obama in the general election, and (b) you believe that no Democrat can win the traditionally red states.

…In other words, Hillary is winning the Democratic voters who are going to vote Democratic anyway. Obama is bringing in new voters, and he's winning large numbers of swing voters in red states.


…Are the Clinton camp's attacks against Obama racist?

Not really. What they are is opportunistic. The Clintonian campaign philosophy is basically an inverse of the Nixonian Southern Strategy…It's no accident that Hillary ran her "3 a.m." commercial in Texas but not Ohio; this was a cunning ploy to win back those scared white voters whom the Clinton strategy insists are needed to win…

…Won't the Republicans go after Obama with even nastier stuff?
Not long ago, I was talking to former Bush speechwriter David Frum, and he told me he thinks that Obama's Achilles' heel is patriotism.

….So Obama is weakest on the issue of patriotism?

No —Obama's real weakness is that nobody really knows yet what he's all about.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/19767182/hillarys_flimsy_case/2

About 600 Dukies register to vote
By: Cameron VanSant
Issue date: 4/14/08


The Barack Obama office in Durham is one of several locations where students
could register to vote. The N.C. presidential primary is May 6.
Media Credit: Laura Beth Douglas

With the North Carolina primaries less than a month away, many students are signing up to cast their ballots in the tight presidential race.

Mike Ashe, director of the Durham County Board of Elections, said as of 4:30 p.m. Friday, 585 people have registered to vote in precincts two and five-which include students living on East Campus and West Campus, respectively.

According to statistics from the Board of Elections, 545 of the total individuals registered were either Democratic or unaffiliated, qualifying them to vote in the May 6 showdown between Sens. Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.

...Freshman Madeline McCrary, an undergraduate representative to the Duke Students for Obama steering committee, said her organization conducted a voter registration campaign last week, registering more than 275 students on Thursday and Friday alone...

...Early voting-which runs from April 17 to May 4-is available for students who want to cast their ballots before returning home. Larry Moneta, vice president for student affairs, wrote in an e-mail to students that Duke will provide busing to polling sites during the early voting period.
..
more at the link http://media.www.dukechronicle.com/media/storage/paper884/news/2008/04/14/News/About.600.Dukies.Register.To.Vote-3322852-page2.shtml

:dem: :hi:

New voters flood upcoming primaries
Democrats' battle lures many from GOP

By Scott Helman and Matt Negrin
Globe Staff And Globe Correspondent / April 12, 2008
More than half a million people have registered to vote or switched registrations this year to get their say in upcoming Democratic primaries in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, and Indiana - the latest indication of heavy voter interest and enthusiasm in the 2008 presidential campaign.



...Republican Senator Arlen Specter said yesterday that he is glad he's not up for reelection this fall...

"I think it's very tough," he said on CNN. "They have turned many Republicans who were my voters. We're going to be working very hard to try to turn them back."

...The May 6 Democratic primary in North Carolina, where traditional voter registration closed yesterday, is open to Democrats and unaffiliated voters. At least 122,000 of them have newly registered this year. As of last week, the number of black voters, among whom Obama has found overwhelming support throughout the primaries, had increased 34,000 from the end of 2007, or 3 percent; white voters were up about 66,000, or 1.5 percent.

The North Carolina figures do not give the complete picture of what the Democratic electorate will look like on Primary Day. Through a new, same-day registration law, voters can register and cast an early ballot between April 17 and May 3.

.... more at the link
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2008/04/12/new_voters_flood_upcoming_primaries/?page=2

Note - voters cannot change party affiliation during the early voting with same day registration,
but NC's state political parties do allow unaffiliated to vote in their primaries. (This is determined each election year by the state parties' conventions.)

here is the link if anybody has any threads


http://www.gallup.com/poll/106504/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Numbers-Holding-Strong.aspx

The more she goes negative... ...the higher her negatives get. Maybe she should rehire Penn? :rofl:

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