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Re: racemongering by Obama camp new low

nc4hill — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 01:52:42 -0400

Today's over-the-top rant by Rep. Clyburn just finished me off. I'm a progressive democrat Clinton supporter, and I don't appreciate being called a racist and threatened with riots in Denver. Obama expects to be coronated and any opposition must be racist - it can't possibly be that we think he's an inexperienced phony who will win only Illinois in November.

Indiana: Former Obama Supporter Stumps for Hillary

MollyMcGee — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 17:56:16 -0400

Indiana: Former Obama Supporter Stumps for Hillary

Alice Palmer is campaigning for Hillary Clinton today in Indiana:

Joining Chelsea Clinton and other women leaders to campaign for Hillary Clinton today is Alice Palmer, the former state senator who picked Obama to be her successor back in the mid-90s. When she tried to reclaim her spot, though, Obama got her booted from the ballot.

Her story is an interesting one, since it shows how Obama plays hardball:

Fresh from his work as a civil rights lawyer and head of a voter registration project that expanded access to the ballot box, Obama launched his first campaign for the Illinois Senate saying he wanted to empower disenfranchised citizens.

But in that initial bid for political office, Obama quickly mastered the bare-knuckle arts of Chicago electoral politics. His overwhelming legal onslaught signaled his impatience to gain office, even if that meant elbowing aside an elder stateswoman like Palmer.

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A close examination of Obama's first campaign clouds the image he has cultivated throughout his political career: The man now running for president on a message of giving a voice to the voiceless first entered public office not by leveling the playing field, but by clearing it.

Bottom line: How did he win his first Senate seat? By challenging his opponents' right to be on the ballot and succeeding, so he could run unopposed.

As to Alice Palmer:

Palmer served the district in the Illinois Senate for much of the 1990s. Decades earlier, she was working as a community organizer in the area when Obama was growing up in Hawaii and Indonesia. She risked her safe seat to run for Congress and touted Obama as a suitable successor, according to news accounts and interviews.

But when Palmer got clobbered in that November 1995 special congressional race, her supporters asked Obama to fold his campaign so she could easily retain her state Senate seat.

Obama not only refused to step aside, he filed challenges that nullified Palmer's hastily gathered nominating petitions, forcing her to withdraw.

"I liked Alice Palmer a lot. I thought she was a good public servant," Obama said. "It was very awkward. That part of it I wish had played out entirely differently."

He took four candidates off the ballot with his challenges:

"He wondered if we should knock everybody off the ballot. How would that look?" said Ronald Davis, the paid Obama campaign consultant whom Obama referred to as his "guru of petitions."

In the end, Davis filed objections to all four of Obama's Democratic rivals at the candidate's behest.

How he later justified it:

he defended his use of ballot maneuvers: "If you can win, you should win and get to work doing the people's business."

This is a unity candidate and candidate for a new kind of politics in Washington?

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Gallup Daily Obama LOST

MollyMcGee — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:02:13 -0400

Gallup Daily

Obama LOST Pennsylvania by a huge 9.4 points, basically 55 to 45 percent of the vote. Now that's a win anyone would be happy to have in a presidential race. (And Obama continues his losing streak, losing in every large Democratic stronghold state, except his own state of Illinois.)

Hillary has gained on Obama every day for the past four days -- ever since the Pennsylvania primary.

And, according to the Gallup poll, Hillary in now statistically EVEN with Obama nationally.

Also, according to the Gallup poll (based on interviews with 4,410 national registered voters), McCain would beat Obama 46% to 45% , but Hillary would beat McCain 47% to 45%.

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*Gallup Daily: Obama and Clinton Tied at 48% to 47%*

April 25, 2008

Clinton’s increased support has mainly come from undecided voters
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Interactive electoral map pulldown..Interesting take

MollyMcGee — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:53:11 -0400

It's becoming abundantly clear that Obama is a disaster in the
making. SDs are starting to notice that if he gets the nomination, he wouldn't win any of the swing states and might even lose traditional Dem strongholds like CA and MA. That puts him in the same league
as Humphrey, McGovern, Mondale and Dukakis. Go to this interactive
electoral map and have fun with the Select the Year pulldown just above the map.

http://www.270towin.com/

Re: Obama to hold rally at Dean Dome

MollyMcGee — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 09:41:33 -0400

excellent article regarding Senator Obama..check it out..

Obama's 'Distractions'?
By Charles Krauthammer
Friday, April 25, 2008; A23

Real change has never been easy. . . . The status quo in Washington will fight. They will fight
harder than ever to divide us and distract us with ads and attacks from now until November.

http://tinyurl.com/6nwe9s

Re: Obama to hold rally at Dean Dome

danmanley2299 — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:08:10 -0400

hillbilly, you forgot to mention that the rally was held in a 2500 seat thomas wolfe auditorium. probably could have filled the civic center if they chose to. didnt see anything of an angry greeting mentioned in the paper, did you leave your cave long enough to toss "strive to smarter" outside the civic center.

Re: Obama to hold rally at Dean Dome

FFC1304 — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:00:38 -0400

thats a mighty ambitious space to fill there...Hitlery only drew about
3000 in Asheville, but she was shocked by the angry greeting outside!

Obama to hold rally at Dean Dome

bkrueger — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 09:56:11 -0400

Barack Obama is coming back to the Triangle.

Obama's campaign announced that he will be at the Dean Dome Monday night for a rally to encourage supporters to take advantage of North Carolina's one-stop early voting.

The event is free and open to the public, but you have to have a ticket.

Info on how to get tickets after the jump.