David Corn

How the HRC5 virus has penetrated our immune system and may take control of the body:

She gets the DNC rules committee to rule that she won Florida and Michigan, which requires them to agree that breaking the rules is okay, as long as the losing candidate screams long and hard. (Retailers know what I mean) This also has to be okayed by the Obama Campaign. Not going to happen.

An option would be to seat the delegates and count half the votes, but this does her no good, she needs all the votes, even the ones from Michigan where only chairman Hillary was on the ballot. She won't agree to the half rule. Not going to happen.

Another option proposed by Levin and Stabenow for Michigan gives her the 69 delegates and him 59. Giving him any delegates means she can't win. She won't agree to arbitration. Not going to happen.

Michigan and Florida will go to the convention with nothing resolved. Well, aside from the fact that they broke the rules and shouldn't count.

So the anti-bodies can't kill off the virus this weekend and we wait and see what Puerto Rico and South Dakota and Montana do.

She needs to get 83% of the remaining delegates and super delegates in order to win. She is not going to get that in the states. Not going to happen.

She then needs to block the uncommitted T-Cells from choosing anyone. If the decide next week to swarm to Obama the virus is finished.

The Virus needs to take it to the convention floor and hope Obama doesn't get it on the first ballot, the convention votes to seat Florida and Michigan, and she has attracted enough red blood cells to switch the her. The party can't let it get that far.

Remember this is the HRC5 virus and it has support within the system from previous exposure to HRC3 and HRC4 and the immune system has difficulty do to the long term presence of the WJC virus. Party leaders like Al Gore, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid must act before the convention to keep our nomination from being a distraction from the message and winning the general election.

This is one nasty virus and it ain't going away.

DEM BIGS DEMAND CLINTON MICHI-GAIN

(Majority of MI delegates to go to HILLARY!)

The New York Post ^ | May 30, 2008 | Daphne Retter and Maggie Haberman

Top Michigan Democrats yesterday rebelled against a plan to seat just half of the state's delegates, demanding that the national party seat them all - and give a majority to Hillary Rodham Clinton. The plea to the Democratic National Committee's Rules and Bylaws Committee from four prominent pols, including uncommitted Sen. Carl Levin, comes amid controversy over how to represent Michigan and Florida at the August convention. The 30-member rules panel meets tomorrow to decide what to do about the two states, which were stripped of their delegates for moving up their primaries on the calendar against DNC rules. Party...

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24 hrs until D Day, let the fireworks begin!

As Dean would say:

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHAWWWWWWWWWWW

Hey Pansy,

Remember that feeling you had last night when the Spurs got spanked by Kobe cuz it will be the same feeling you're gunna have in November when Obummer gets trounced by McBush.

Jeesh,

Do you trolls have anymore Obummer Pastors in the closet? The gift that keeps on giving!

Oh Snap!

Isn't that what dudes who sip on margaritas say Pansy? I'm just trying to relate bro~~~

Obummers brother from another mother~

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Obama, Pfleger, and Earmarks ]

By Erick

Barack Obama has thrown Rev. Michael Pfleger under the bus. Pfleger took Hillary to task, claiming she felt she should win over a black man.

CBS News notes that Pfleger is "another pastor friend."

But he's much more than that. Pfleger and Obama have had a long relationship. Pfleger backed Obama against Bobby Rush when Obama ran in 2000 for Congress.

Already by that time, Pfleger was on record supporting radicals like Louis Farrakhan.

Pfleger is a campaign contributor to Obama, in addition to being yet another "spiritual mentor," and Obama got a $225,000.00 earmark for Pfleger's church when Obama was in the state legislature in Illinois.

Obama's strategist, lobbyist David Axelrod, told the New York Times

that Father Pfleger was “remaking the face” of Chicago’s South Side and that all of Mr. Obama’s earmarks went to worthy programs like his.

Great, so not only is Obama associating with far left hate filled preachers, he's getting them tax dollars too.

[UPDATE:] Our friends at the Catholic League have gone on offense over this issue.

“Obama and Pfleger are no strangers. Indeed, when Obama was in the state senate in Illinois, he conveniently arranged for Father Pfleger’s St. Sabina’s Church to receive state monies for its social programs. Of course, the guardians of church and state separation said nothing then and they are saying nothing now. That’s because they’re all in the tank for Obama. Just as important, why is it that of all the wonderful Catholic priests in the Chicago Archdiocese, Obama long ago chose Pfleger to hang with? Truth be known, Pfleger has a very troubling history: he has welcomed the anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan to preach in his church; he has hired prostitutes to worship there; he has been arrested for defacing billboards; and he once urged the crowd at an anti-gun rally to hunt down a gun store owner ‘like a rat’ and ‘snuff’ him.

“Senator Obama says he wants to bring people together. Then why does he choose as his clerical friends people like Rev. Jeremiah Wright and Father Pfleger? They are two peas in a pod, both equally divisive, separated only by the color of their skin.”

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Hey Pansy, this guy makes your preacher Hagee look like a sane man of God!

Obummer , what are you hiding?

When was the last time you snorted coke?

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What Ailments is Barack Obama Hiding?
By Erick

When John McCain released his medical records, he put a bunch of reporters in a room with thousands of pages of documents for hours on end, let them pore over the records, but did not actually give them copies.

The left went nuts.

The Huffington Post has previously speculated that something must be hidden because of McCain's delay in release.

Yet, Barack Obama has not released his records.

In a one-page letter released by the campaign, Obama's longtime physician, Chicago internist Dr. David L. Scheiner, said he was summarizing 21 years of medical records, during which the Democrat suffered only minor problems such as upper respiratory infections.

I thought Obama was open to transparency. I thought he was an open government guy.

What's in the records that he thinks must be hidden?

It's probably nothing, but why not reveal them. The Obama camp is pushing the story on Cindy McCain's tax records. She's not even a candidate. But the Democratic candidate for President of the United States won't release his medical records.

I know he takes the whole JFK comparison seriously, but come on -- we know now JFK actually had a serious medical condition he wanted to hide.

What, if anything, is Obama hiding, other than his real contempt for open, honest, and full disclosures?

Think of a deep-sea diver who rises from the depths in phases so as to not get the bends.

However when the diver is infected with the HRC5 virus there can be damage done to the boat.

(HRC5 - excellent geof01!)

McCain caught in ANOTHER blunder, this time troop levels in Iraq

And, so, the McCain campaign stumbles on. I mean, shouldn't they check this stuff out before trotting out false talking points? This post sums up nicely all the foreign policy gaffes John McCain has made so far. Now we've got a new one: troop levels in Iraq. Today, John McCain asserted the following:

In comments to reporters on Thursday, McCain asserted that "I can tell you that it is succeeding. I can look you in the eye and tell you it's succeeding. We have drawn down to pre-surge levels. Basra, Mosul and now Sadr city are quiet and it's long and it's hard and it's tough and there will be setbacks."

D'oh! Wrong again, John.

(kos)

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McSame will make a thrilling debater! I can't wait.

Maybe he just gets a little confused, senile dementia will do that.

Obama's Gaffes Reveal More Than Mistakes ...

Townhall ^ | May 30, 2008 | Matt Lewis

A new narrative seems to be developing about Barack Obama; that he is smart but also a "gaffe machine." The WSJ's John Fund writes:

"As smart and credentialed as he is, Sen. Obama is often an indifferent speaker without a teleprompter. He has large gaps in his knowledge base, and is just as likely to dig in and embrace a policy misstatement as abandon it. ABC reporter Jake Tapper calls him "a one-man gaffe machine."

Let's be honest, when you talk as much as presidential candidates must, some gaffes are unavoidable. Others occur when a candidate is tired. But Obama's gaffes seem to be the result of a candidate who is in over his head -- who has gotten by on style points -- not the substance.

To me, this is the real story -- that Obama's gaffes actually reveal something more dangerous than a candidate who merely "misspeaks." That his gaffes are the product of someone who is not quite ready for prime time...

Of course, going from the Illinois state senate to being a presidential frontrunner is a lot of ground to cover in just a few years ...

Another interesting thing to consider is whether or not this lack of historical understanding is uniquely due to Obama's inexperience -- or if his lack of knowledge is actually a cultural phenomenon.

While Obama is a child of the 80s, he seems to have a lot in common with today's generation. In his new book, The Dumbest Generation, author Mark Bauerlein says this phenomenon is true of most "Millenials." In short, Bauerlein argues today's young people are great at using the internet to retrieve information, but that they lack knowledge of history. Might Obama's emphasis of style over substance be a result of the era in which he was raised? Is it unique to him? Or is it merely a product of a young man who is still finding himself? These are all interesting to ponder.

Consider the Reagan vs. Obama contrast. When Ronald Reagan was elected president in 1980, he had lived through The Great Depression, WWII, Vietnam, The Civil Rights Movement, etc. He had also achieved success in other areas of life. For this reason, he did not need the presidency to give his life purpose. Of course, being compared to Reagan is never a good thing for the person being compared.

Still, it's fair to say that Obama has been playing "over his head" for quite some time. He's like a young football team who starts off winning a lot of games. Deep down, you always suspect it won't last.

It's also interesting to note that Obama has really won few contests in the last several months. To over-extend the football metaphor, he's like a football team who "backs into the playoffs". One wonders if McCain will be facing the Obama of February -- or the Obama who got his clock cleaned in West Virginia.

There is no doubt he has run a surprisingly smart primary campaign. But because he and Hillary agreed on most major policy issues -- he was not forced to defend his political philosophy. That is about to change. McCain will challenge him, and most likely, this will create "forced errors."

At least, Obama appears to be demonstrating that he is, in fact, human.

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As Jake Tapper from ABC calls Obummer:

"The One Man Gaffe Machine"

Jeesh,

Obummers new pastor is all over the news and radio today. When I first heard his sermon I thought I was listening to the comedy club. Nope just Obummers church of twenty years!

Ha ha ha!

The gift that keeps on giving~~

In An Iraq-Related Hole, McCain Keeps On Digging

In politics, as in life, when one is in a hole, he or she should stop digging. This advice was not heeded by John McCain's campaign today. Both the Senator and his aides sought to brush away his factually inaccurate statement that American troops in Iraq were down to pre-surge levels. In the process, they made the hole even bigger.

Reminded that troops in Iraq currently number 155,000, well above the pre-surge level of 130,000, McCain refused to acknowledge on Friday that he had misspoke.

"I said we had drawn down," the Senator declared during a press conference (watch video). "I said we have drawn down and we have drawn down three of the five brigades. We have drawn down three of the five brigades. We have drawn down the marines. The rest will be home the end of July. That's just facts, the facts as I stated them."

But that isn't what he stated. On Thursday, in fact, he made a very specific measurement as to the extent of troop reductions.

"I can tell you that it [the mission in Iraq] is succeeding," said McCain. "I can look you in the eye and tell you it's succeeding. We have drawn down to pre-surge levels."

http://tinyurl.com/3hfu5u

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Someone take his shovel away, this is just sad.

Capts big gotcha moment~

Wow! So McCain was a month off from being correct.

You win that one Big Dog, feel better.

Obummer would be better served going on damage control from the rantings of his second comical preacher, cuz he loses when it comes to Iraq and he knows it.

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Dems, GOP Squabble Over McCain's Troop Numbers

Friday, May 30, 2008 2:30 PM

MILWAUKEE -- Republican John McCain's estimate of U.S. troop levels in Iraq touched off a firestorm between his campaign and Democrat Barack Obama on Friday, the latest turn in the rivals' escalating disagreement over the war.

The likely GOP presidential nominee told an audience Thursday: "We have drawn down to presurge levels. Basra, Mosul and now Sadar City are quiet."

In fact, U.S. troop levels are not yet down to levels before President Bush's troop increase last year, a move that McCain endorsed.

There were 15 combat brigades in Iraq before the increase began. Five were added, and the United States has been reducing numbers since December. As of Friday, there are 17 brigades in Iraq, another brigade will depart in June and the plan is to pull out another in July, returning the level to 15.

Prior to the increase, there were 130,000-135,000 U.S. troops in Iraq.

In a conference call with reporters, Wisconsin Gov. Jim Doyle, an Obama supporter, argued that McCain was misrepresenting the facts when he said that the U.S. military has drawn back to levels before last year's force increase in Iraq. "That just is just not true. And everybody knows it's not true. And I assume Senator McCain just doesn't know the facts here," Doyle said in a conference call with reporters.

Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry, another Obama backer, echoed Doyle's criticism.

That prompted an angry response from the McCain campaign.

"Clearly John Kerry and Barack Obama have very little understanding of troop levels, but considering Barack Obama hasn't been to Iraq in 873 days and has never had a one-on-one meeting with General Petraeus, it isn't a surprise to anyone that he demonstrates weak leadership," the McCain campaign said.

In a dueling conference call, Sen. Jon Kyl, a McCain backer, accused the Obama campaign of deflecting from the real issue that Obama still calls for withdrawal even though the troop-influx strategy has worked to curb violence and he hasn't been to Iraq in two years. "It is absolutely the case that the decisions have been made to draw down to presurge levels," Kyl said.

The Arizona senator said, "It is correct that the levels of troops there are not the same as they were during the surge, and, in fact, all of them will be home by the beginning of July."

In response, the Obama campaign said the GOP campaign "still can't explain why John McCain could be so clearly and factually wrong in stating that our troops are at pre-surge levels. They are not, and anyone who wants to be commander in chief should know better before launching divisive political attacks. Once again, Senator McCain has shown that he is far more interested in stubbornly making the case for continuing a failed policy in Iraq than in getting the facts right."

Said Randy Scheunemann, McCain's senior foreign policy adviser: "The difference is so minuscule that I'm not sure it rises to the level of nitpicking."

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Unless your a desperate Cornnut!

Clinton Campaign Concedes The Rules Argument On FL/MI

In today's conference call, the Clinton campaign conceded any rules-based or fairness-based argument for the full seating of the Florida and Michigan delegations. The Clinton campaign declared that, unlike Iowa, NH and South Carolina, Florida and Michigan did indeed break the DNC rules and without justification. The Clinton campaign expressly disagreed with the Michigan Democratic Party's contention that the DNC had selectively enforced its rules by allowing New Hampshire and South Carolina to break the sanctioned primary schedule, that Florida was not entitled to a safe harbor or waiver, and that the DNC had acted properly and within the rules when it stripped Florida and Michigan of its delegates.

The Clinton campaign's only argument now seems to be that yes, rules were broken, but to help us in November, the RBC should seat the delegates anyway. It seems to me that the obvious response by the RBC is to rely on its staff memo which says it can only restore half of the delegates, and that to honor the voters of Florida and Michigan, it will magnaminously do so. [More...]

I am not sure that Barack Obama or the DNC objects to such a result and the Clinton campaign has no justifiable basis anymore to object to it. To me, the statements made in today's conference call make tomorrow's meeting a mere formality.

By Big Tent Democrat, speaking for me only

http://www.talkleft.com/story/2008/5/30/13333/0744

your should be you're

I assume you mean "you are" contracted.

As in "Unless you are a _______" (insert any silly name or insult)

McCain Says It Was Inappropriate to Use Petraeus in His Fundraising Solicitation

Per ABC News' Bret Hovell, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., was asked today if it was appropriate to use an image of Gen. David Petraeus in a fundraising soliciation.

"No," McCain said. "It won't happen again."

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Maybe he was just confused again? That does happen when you are so old.

And tell them kids to get off my lawn!

lol

I assume you mean "you are" contracted.

Assume what you want but we both know what you are!

What? No defending comments on Obummers second crazy Pastor?

Come on Capt, I giddy waiting for a response~

This is a first: Democrats considering spending cuts~~

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DNC host officials short on cash

The committee for the Democratic convention considers cuts in light of the fundraising shortfall.

By Chuck Plunkett
The Denver Post
Article Last Updated: 05/30/2008 10:40:47 AM MDT

An exterior view of the Pepsi Center taken before opening night for the Dallas Stars at the Colorado Avalanche on October 4, 2006 in Denver, Colorado. (Carmen Kuri-Moeller, Getty Images)Millions of dollars behind in raising money and unlikely to meet a fast-approaching final deadline, the Denver committee hosting the Democratic National Convention is considering spending cuts.

Committee sources say they are working with the Democratic National Convention Committee to consider lowering the $55 million in private cash and donated services that must be raised to bring the convention to town. The cuts would be made to the many parties the host committee is obligated to throw for the delegations and the news media, and other hospitality functions not tied to production aspects inside the convention hall.

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Ahhh! I feel so bad for you guys~

Maybe they can figure a way to charge it to us affluent white folks~ha ha ha

Or in Pansy case, a lawnmower tax~

Did McCain coordinate Obama attack with swiftboaters?

Vets for Freedom is a swiftboat-style group attacking Barack Obama, and the McCain campaign is using the exact same attack. Last week, HuffPo broke the news about the close ties between the two organizations. Now the question is: have they coordinated their messages? If so, they are breaking the law.

Watch this video comparing a Vets for Freedom ad with the attack lines used by John McCain and his co-chairman Lindsey Graham who until yesterday was on the swiftboating group's board of advisors. It seems obvious there was message coordination, especially given the tight links between the two groups.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-90qbfDAME8

Already, the McCain campaign has been forced to ask Senators Joe Lieberman and Lindsey Graham, both McCain campaign co-chairmen, to take leaves of absence from the group. However, two members of McCain's campaign team still maintain roles with the organization.

Now will the mainstream media cover this potential scandal of illegal campaign activity?

(jedreport)

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Gramp's must have forgotten it was illegal.

"Now where was I"

lol

"Now where was I"

About to explain why Obummer has a new comedian preacher ~ who hates white women~

I thought Obummer was a uniter and not a divider.

By the way,

The Vets for Freedom ad was awesome.

I like the one with the blond chick vs Obummer ~ Nice!

She makes Obummer even look like more of a Pansy than the margarita sipping troll here in Cornnut land.

Thanks Capt for the link~

Obummer vs real patriots that have served in the US military.

At least Kerry could defend himself by being a Vet himself. Obummer not so good~

U.S. Cites Big Gains Against Al-Qaeda
Group Is Facing Setbacks Globally, CIA Chief Says

By Joby Warrick
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, May 30, 2008; A01

Less than a year after his agency warned of new threats from a resurgent al-Qaeda, CIA Director Michael V. Hayden now portrays the terrorist movement as essentially defeated in Iraq and Saudi Arabia and on the defensive throughout much of the rest of the world, including in its presumed haven along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.

In a strikingly upbeat assessment, the CIA chief cited major gains against al-Qaeda's allies in the Middle East and an increasingly successful campaign to destabilize the group's core leadership.

While cautioning that al-Qaeda remains a serious threat, Hayden said Osama bin Laden is losing the battle for hearts and minds in the Islamic world and has largely forfeited his ability to exploit the Iraq war to recruit adherents. Two years ago, a CIA study concluded that the U.S.-led war had become a propaganda and marketing bonanza for al-Qaeda, generating cash donations and legions of volunteers.

All that has changed, Hayden said in an interview with The Washington Post this week that coincided with the start of his third year at the helm of the CIA.

"On balance, we are doing pretty well," he said, ticking down a list of accomplishments: "Near strategic defeat of al-Qaeda in Iraq. Near strategic defeat for al-Qaeda in Saudi Arabia. Significant setbacks for al-Qaeda globally -- and here I'm going to use the word 'ideologically' -- as a lot of the Islamic world pushes back on their form of Islam," he said.

The sense of shifting tides in the terrorism fight is shared by a number of terrorism experts, though some caution that it is too early to tell whether the gains are permanent. Some credit Hayden and other U.S. intelligence leaders for going on the offensive against al-Qaeda in the area along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, where the tempo of Predator strikes has dramatically increased from previous years. But analysts say the United States has caught some breaks in the past year, benefiting from improved conditions in Iraq, as well as strategic blunders by al-Qaeda that have cut into its support base.

"One of the lessons we can draw from the past two years is that al-Qaeda is its own worst enemy," said Robert Grenier, a former top CIA counterterrorism official who is now managing director of Kroll, a risk consulting firm. "Where they have succeeded initially, they very quickly discredit themselves."

Others warned that al-Qaeda remains capable of catastrophic attacks and may be even more determined to stage a major strike to prove its relevance. "Al-Qaeda's obituary has been written far too often in the past few years for anyone to declare victory," said Bruce Hoffman, a terrorism expert at Georgetown University. "I agree that there has been progress. But we're indisputably up against a very resilient and implacable enemy."

A landmark study last August by the 16 U.S. intelligence agencies described the Afghanistan-Pakistan border area as a de facto al-Qaeda haven in which terrorist leaders were reorganizing for attacks against the West. But Hayden said counterterrorism successes extend even to that lawless region. Although he would not discuss CIA operations in the area, U.S. intelligence agencies have carried out several attacks there since January, using unmanned Predator aircraft for surgical strikes against al-Qaeda and Taliban safe houses.

"The ability to kill and capture key members of al-Qaeda continues, and keeps them off balance -- even in their best safe haven along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border," Hayden said.

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Damn that Bush! Seems his policies are a workin just fine without Obummers appeasement fix.

Clinton outlines DNC appeal

The Hlll ^ | 5/30/08 | Sam Youngman

While Democratic presidential front-runner Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) has elected to send two well-known Democrats to speak on his behalf at Saturday’s pivotal meeting, his rival has opted for more obscure names.

But she has armed them with a plan.

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s (D-N.Y.) campaign announced Friday that former Michigan Gov. Jim Blanchard and Florida state Sen. Arthenia Joyner will represent her in what has become one of the more critical moments of the nomination battle.

Her campaign prepared a four-point argument aimed at producing a best-case scenario and bolstering Clinton’s argument with the remaining undecided superdelegates.

Clinton’s campaign released a letter that general counsel Lyn Utrecht sent to the Rules and Bylaws Committee (RBC). It’s the campaign’s way of countering a letter from the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) legal team earlier in the week that would, if adhered to by the 30 RBC members, fatally wound Clinton’s chance at a comeback.

The goal of Saturday’s RBC meeting is to decide the fate of Florida and Michigan’s delegations. The states had their delegates stripped as a penalty for moving up their primary dates in violation of the committee-approved schedule.

Clinton won both states and has pushed hard to seat the delegates as they would have been awarded by the original primary results.

The DNC argues that the RBC is not in a position to award a full slate of delegates to either state, a rule that would seriously harm Clinton’s chances at an already improbable comeback.

In his letter, Utretcht makes the case that contrary to the DNC’s legal findings, the RBC does have the authority to restore the full delegations of both states.

Because both states made an effort to hold a revote, Utrecht wrote, they have “taken provable, positive steps and acted in good faith to bring the state into compliance with the DNC’s Delegate Selection Rules.” In doing so, the RBC would then be in a position to “forgive violations.”

Utrecht also takes issue with the Michigan solution that would seat “uncommitted” delegates as Obama delegates. The Clinton campaign argues that forcing uncommitted delegates into one category arbitrarily would be unfair and would cost Clinton delegates.

“The voters may have been truly uncommitted or they may have supported (former candidates) Joe Biden, John Edwards or Bill Richardson,” Utrecht wrote. “The RBC has no authority or factual basis upon which to supplant the judgment of these voters.”

The third argument appears to be worst-case damage control for Clinton, but is what many think the most probable resolution Saturday. The DNC lawyers made the case that the RBC is only in a position to seat half of the delegations.

The lawyers left it up to the committee members to decide how to do that. They could only allow half the number of delegates or they could allow all the delegates but give them all half a vote.

The Clinton campaign, hinging most of its hopes on being able to claim a popular-vote lead after the last nominating contests next Tuesday, is pushing for the latter option.

More delegates equals more representation, and that could lend a degree of legitimacy to Clinton’s argument that the more than 2 million voters in Florida and Michigan that supported her should be included in the overall popular-vote total.

Obama, who withdrew his name from the Michigan ballot, has fought this tooth-and-nail, questioning the fairness of both contests since his name was not on the ballot in one state and no candidate campaigned in either.

Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Fla.) and ex-Rep. David Bonior (D-Mich.), former campaign manager for Edwards, are set to represent Obama on Saturday.

Obama campaign manager David Plouffe has said repeatedly that the race is for delegates. What’s more, he argues, the popular-vote totals do not include the number of caucus-goers that have caucused for Obama. The Illinois senator holds a tremendous advantage over Clinton in caucus states, but vote totals are not kept.

Utrecht used a pragmatic argument in defending the Clinton campaign’s position of seating full delegations and giving them half votes, noting that there would be a painstaking process for the states to decide which delegates were seated at the conventions and which had to stay home.

Finally, Utrecht makes the case that the RBC shouldn’t punt on the issue. If the RBC has not acted by 56 days out from the convention, then jurisdiction for the issue moves to the convention’s credentials committee.

While that might seem to be a better path for Clinton to get what she wants, it also opens up the very real possibility of a brokered convention, and most Democrats are already apprehensive about the length of the nomination battle thus far.

“Millions of voters in Florida and Michigan have waited patiently for more than four months to know whether their votes will count and whether they will play a meaningful role in determining who will be the Democratic nominee,” Utrecht writes. “It is time to resolve this pivotal matter.”

Saturday afternoon will show if the committee agrees with Utrecht.

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Isn't this a new NBC show coming up called the

"Circus of Stars"

Reality TV at it's best, stay tuned folks!

Yawn...

Obama’s Remarks at Great Falls, Montana Town Hall

Remarks as prepared for delivery:

“There are honest differences about how to move forward in Iraq, just like there were honest differences about whether or not we should go to war. John McCain was for the invasion of Iraq; I opposed it. John McCain wants to continue George Bush’s war in Iraq indefinitely; I want to end it. So there’s going to be a clear choice for the American people this November.

“But that’s not what John McCain’s been talking about the last few days. He’s been proposing a joint trip to Iraq that’s nothing more than a political stunt. He’s even been using it to raise a few dollars for his campaign. But it seems like Senator McCain’s a lot more interested in my travel plans than the facts, because yesterday – in his continued effort to put the best light on a failed policy – he stood up in Wisconsin and said, “We have drawn down to pre-surge levels” in Iraq.

“That’s not true, and anyone running for Commander-in-Chief should know better. As the saying goes, you’re entitled to your own view, but not your own facts. We’ve got around 150,000 troops in Iraq – 20,000 more than we had before the surge. We have plans to get down to around 140,000 later this summer – that’s still more troops than we had in Iraq before the surge. And today, Senator McCain refused to correct his mistake. Just like George Bush, when he was presented with the truth, he just dug in and refused to admit his mistake. His campaign said it amounts to “nitpicking.”

“Well I don’t think tens of thousands of American troops amounts to nitpicking. Tell that to the young men and women who are serving bravely and brilliantly under our flag. Tell that to the families who have seen their loved ones fight tour after tour after tour of duty in a war that should’ve never been authorized and never been waged.

“It’s time for a debate that’s based on the truth, and I can’t think of anything more important than how many Americans are in harm’s way. It’s time for a debate that’s based on how we’re going to end this war – not a debate that’s based on raising a few dollars for John McCain’s campaign.

“The American people have had enough spin. Just this week, we were reminded by President Bush’s own former spokesman of how it was deception – not straight talk – that misled the American people into war. It’s time to cut through the tough talk so that we can be straight with the American people about a war that’s cost us thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars without making us safer. It’s time to end the political game-playing so that we can finally end this war. That’s what I’ll do in this campaign. And that’s what I’ll do when I’m President of the United States.”

Former Bush donors now giving to Obama

WASHINGTON — Beverly Fanning is among the campaign donors who'll be joining President Bush at a gala at Washington's Ford's Theater Sunday night, but she says that won't dissuade her from her current passion: volunteering for Barack Obama's presidential campaign.

She isn't the only convert. A McClatchy computer analysis, incomplete due to the difficulty matching data from various campaign finance reports, found that hundreds of people who gave at least $200 to Bush's 2004 campaign have donated to Obama.

Among them are Julie Nixon Eisenhower, the granddaughter of the late GOP president Dwight Eisenhower; Connie Ballmer, the wife of Microsoft Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer; Ritchie Scaife, the estranged wife of conservative tycoon Richard Mellon Scaife and boxing promoter Don King.

Many of the donors are likely "moderate Republicans or independents who are dissatisfied with the direction of the country now and are looking for change," said Anthony Corrado, a government professor at Colby College in Maine who specializes in campaign finance.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/227/story/39067.html

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Maybe McSame can turn this around, somehow.

http://www.slate.com/id/2112318/fr/nl/

lol

Just in Larry King Live

Obummers

Pastor Disaster part 2

he he he

Hey Dog B

Bet ya didn't know that yawning contributes to global warming, did ya?

Excuse me David, why do you refer to "Clintonites" and "Clinton and her crew" which have a derogartory ring, yet you always refer to Obama as "Obama?"

Be that as it may, you yourself say- rather fleetingly- that you're only guessing about all this. Let's say your guess is right.

Let me ask you this. If the shoe were on the other foot, don't you think Obama would be doing exactly the same thing?

Don't you think the Chicago pol who got all his primary opponents' petitions invalidated so he could run unopposed on the Democratic line for the Illinois State Senate would have the savvy and determination to set up for 2012?

This is the guy who, in 1996 cut the political throat of Alice Palmer, his Chicago mentor, remember?

Alice Palmer never ran for public office again and she neverf spoke to Barack Obama again.

A few weeks ago Alice Palmer endorsed Hillary Clinton.

Senior McCain aides continue K Street courtship

John McCain's campaign manager and other senior officials met with about 70 top Republican lobbyists yesterday, making the case for why McCain is well-positioned and explaining why they've enacted tough rules barring the involvement of registered lobbyists in the campaign.

Rick Davis, McCain's top aide, Christian Ferry, his deputy, and Frank Donatelli, the McCain campaign's liaison at the RNC each spoke, providing a general campaign update, details on their regional campaign manager system and the partnership between candidate and committee. RNC Chairman Mike Duncan was also in attendance.

The session, held at the GOP's Capitol Hill Club, was the second of three meetings planned between McCain's campaign and members of Washington's powerful lobbying community. Yesterday was aimed at those who work for multi-client firms. The campaign has previously met with representatives of trade associations and will later address those from the Washington office of corporations and businesses.

http://tinyurl.com/3ssfga

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Maybe people will go in for the lobbyist stuff. The GOPhers do love their money, eh?

McClellan himself told CNN's Wolf Blitzer Friday that he'd be "glad" to testify about the Bush White House. That and he doesn't see himself apologizing to George Bush any time soon:

"I don't need to ask for any forgiveness from him because my comments are sincere and honest ... it was tough getting to the conclusions I drew, but they were absolutely the truth from my perspective."

(huffpo)

Roh oh, Scooby-do - testimony under oath from an ex-Bushbot? Could be some major trouble for Commander Bunnypants.

Does McCain have ‘a lack of appreciation’ for Gulf Coast reconstruction?

John McCain has asserted that, because Barack Obama has not visited Iraq since 2006, it demonstrates a “lack of appreciation of the importance of this issue.” The Huffington Post notes that, by analogy, McCain must have a lack of appreciation for the importance of post-Katrina reconstruction. “Up until traveling there one month ago, [McCain] had made just one public tour of New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina touched down in August 2005.” Obama has visited five times over the same period.

(thinkprogress)

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McSame cares more about Iraq than America, more about the health and safety of Iraqis than Americans.

Not presidential - not by a long shot.

Maybe people will side with the Iraqis and McSame on this one too?

-- Of course, the mother of all poor judgments: his vote to authorize a war that never should've been authoried and never should've been wage.

-- Declaring "Mission Accomplished" a bit too early, one of a number of blown judgment about the war.

-- Admitted to being wrong in voting against MLK day, and tried to blame it one not understanding the facts about MLK as a 50 year old man.

-- Displayed a lapse in judgment by allowing lobbyist to crawl all over his campaign, leading to a mid-campaign change in his policy on employing lobbyist and firing top officials mid-stream. (Of course, he's still wrong on this issue: still taking Washington lobbyist dollars and allowing Charlie Black and Phil Gramm to rule the roost).

-- Showed an basic failure to grasp key facts about Iraq: not knowing how Iran is allied in the nation and not even knowing how many troops we have there and the security needed for our top commander or for himself.

-- Amazing showed that he doesn't even know who would be responsible for "calling" for troop shifts in the region. (Hint:it's not Petraeus).

-- Has admitted to not having enough experience economic issues, and then wrongly claimed to have never admitted saying that he lacked such experience.

-- Recently claimed he didn't think we were heading into a recession and that people are doing better than they were eight years ago. Oops.

-- Has said privatization is necessary to preserve Social Security.

On issue after issue, fact after fact, judgment call after judgment call, McCain has been as wrong as rain.

http://tinyurl.com/4yorjp

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Each gaffe, each wrong statement, error, mistake, miscalculation and lie is all linked up.

Pretty hard to defend.

Turned on the TV this morning and thought I was watching cartoons.

It turns out that it was Pansy's DNC on CNN.

Hillary's people made Obummer look like a fool and a coward by taking his name off the ballot.

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This is the guy who, in 1996 cut the political throat of Alice Palmer, his Chicago mentor, remember?

Alice Palmer never ran for public office again and she neverf spoke to Barack Obama again.

A few weeks ago Alice Palmer endorsed Hillary Clinton.

Right on myskylark

Corn and his side kick Capt don't care about anyone's life Obummer has ruined or trampled on cuz they be shilling for Obummer any way they can. Reminds me of a used car salesman I used to know.

No wonder McCain is beating Obummer in Michigan by four points.

McCain Trusted More Than Obama on Economy, Iraq, National Security

Rasmussen Reports ^ | May 30, 2008 | Rasmussen Reports

When it comes to the economy, 47% of voters trust John McCain more than Barack Obama. Obama is trusted more by 41%. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey also found that, when it comes to the War in Iraq, McCain is trusted more by 49% of voters. Obama is preferred by 37%. McCain has an even larger edge—53% to 31%--on the broader topic of National Security. These results are little changed from a month ago.

Obummer wants to unite the party by stealing 4 Mi delegates from Hillary??

Nice!

McCain's Base Problem Continues

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Richard Viguerie--the 74-year-old conservative stalwart who's deeply proud of his affiliation with Barry M. Goldwater and Reagan and the Contract with America. He is a man who can't stomach what Mrs. McCain's boy is serving.

"It's a rare person who considers themselves a conservative and is enthusiastic about McCain," said Viguerie. "There's just a disconnect. He's had three months to try and bridge that gap and he's done nothing. He's made a couple of speeches, but people look at him and don't see conservatives around him. He's got a brand, and that brand is the maverick who says, 'I am not partisan and I reach out to Kennedy, to Feingold, to Joe Lieberman, to the other side.'"

Ed Rollins, campaign director for Reagan's thumping of Walter Mondale in 1984 and, more recently, the campaign chairman for former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee's presidential bid, agrees with Viguerie. "He still has to prove himself to the conservative base," Rollins said, "He hasn't reached out to them as much as I would do. They're still not sure whether he's one of them."

(huffpo)

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Maybe he will change course, flip flop again and then get the "base" to rally?

He will have to do something, eh?

From the NYT:

In many ways, Mr. Obama is wheezing across the finish line after making a strong start: He has won only 6 of the 13 Democratic contests held since March 4, drawing 6.1 million votes, compared with 6.6 million for Mrs. Clinton.

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Where has the magic gone Pansy?

He will have to do something, eh?

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No problem, Hillary supporters will easily carry him to victory!

We at least we finally know who Obummers base is:

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Pfleger's Vile Sermon

Chicago Tribune ^ | May 30, 2008 | staff

You can read the Tribune's Saturday editorial regarding the news surrounding Rev. Michael Pfleger here. When Barack Obama announced his campaign for president, you could anticipate that ugly racial stereotypes would rear up. You probably couldn’t anticipate that some of his strongest supporters would promote the worst of it. That’s what the nation saw as video surfaced of a sermon Rev. Michael Pfleger gave last Sunday from the pulpit of Obama’s church in Chicago. Pfleger talks of exposing “white entitlement and supremacy wherever it raises its head, and then theatrically mocks Sen. Hillary Clinton. He stalks around the stage of...

Obama to negotiate with World's most evil leaders but can't work out deal with Clinton?

If Obama will be able to meet face to face with the leaders of rogue nations and negotiate agreements why can't he do the same with Clinton? Obama claims he will make breakthroughs in international diplomacy dealing with the world’s worst despots yet he can’t do anything with Senator Clinton? Why is this? Is Clinton more of an intractable tyrant than Kim Jung Il or Khamenei. It's interesting that Obama has decided not to meet with Clinton face to face to work this out when that is exactly what he claims will be the most effective approach with international conflicts....

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Obummer is an empty suit

Obama: McCain should admit he was wrong on surge comments

RAPID CITY, South Dakota (CNN) — Democrat Barack Obama accused Republican John McCain Saturday of not owning up to what Obama calls his "mistake" — saying that the U.S. has drawn troops down to pre-surge levels in Iraq.

"We all misspeak sometimes," the Illinois senator told a crowd in Rapid City, South Dakota. "I've done it myself. So on such a basic, factual error, you'd think that John McCain would just say 'Oh, I misspoke, I made a mistake' and then move on. But he couldn't do that. Instead, he dug in."

Obama connected McCain's Iraq comments to President Bush's unwillingness to admit fault "when he was presented with facts that went against his views" on the war.

"Just like George Bush, John McCain is refusing to admit that he's made a mistake," the White House hopeful continued. "And that's exactly the kind of leadership that has got us fighting for five years in a war that should've never been authorized."

"We don't need more leaders who can't admit they've made a mistake, even about something as fundamental as how many Americans are serving in harm's way."

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Barack you ruthless bastard - make gramps admit he was wrong and move on or keep diggin in - either way McSame is exposed as McBush.

Gotta love it, eh?

Barack Obama supported the energy policy before he didn't

By Erick

Barack Obama today in South Dakota suggests the United States does not have a good energy policy. He says "they don't have an energy policy that would actually weaken Iran and take money out of their pockets." I assume by "they" he means the GOP. He goes on to say we need to stop our dependence on foreign oil.

Well, I would point out that Barack Obama voted in favor of the present energy policy when it was put to a vote on June 28, 2005 — the very energy policy he does not now like.

John McCain voted against that energy policy.

I await Barack Obama's backpedaling on this. Every time he stands on the little record he does have, it's something he realizes he has to disown.

It's like the Democrats have nominated the love child of Michael Dukakis and John Kerry and then declared George McGovern his god-father (or is that gaia-mother in the Democrat party).

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Come on Capt, say it; Obummer is a flip flopper!

Obama resigns from his church (breaking CNN)

CNN story. Apparently Obama sent a letter to his pastor but that has yet to be released.

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Hey it only took him 20 years to figure out that his church is full of racist hate mongers!

Obummer sure is a slow learner, and you trolls want a learn as you go Prez. I guess you're not aware of the two term limit.

Barack you ruthless bastard - make gramps admit he was wrong and move on or keep diggin in - either way McSame is exposed as McBush.

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When Obummer gets the balls to go to Iraq and figure out that the surge is working then he can comment.

I guess the Surge has been a failure for Obummer. It has failed the Democrats because they can't claim defeat.

Hey Capt,

Why is McBush polling better than your boy on the ECONOMY?

Jeesh that's McCain's admitted weak point and your boy can't even do better than that?

Pathetic!

Al Qaeda on the Run

Opinion Journal ^ | 31 may 08

A year ago in July, a National Intelligence Estimate warned that al Qaeda had "protected or regenerated key elements of its Homeland attack capability," meaning it could be poised to strike America again. The political reaction was instantaneous and damning. "This clearly says al Qaeda is not beaten," said Michael Scheuer, the former CIA spook turned antiterror scold. What a difference 10 months – and a surge – make. CIA Director Michael Hayden painted a far more optimistic picture in an interview yesterday in the Washington Post. "On balance, we are doing pretty well," he said. "Near strategic defeat of...

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More bad news for Obummer~

Will pundits who blasted Howard Dean in 2003 over troop-numbers response question McCain's fitness following his Iraq troop-level falsehood?

Summary: During a May 29 campaign appearance, Sen. John McCain falsely stated that U.S. troops in Iraq "have [been] drawn down to pre-surge levels." As the Associated Press reported, "[T]here are 17 brigades in Iraq" right now, as opposed to the 15 brigades in place before the increase. In 2003, then-Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean was criticized in the media for his response to a question about the number of active-duty soldiers, with Tim Russert and others questioning his fitness to be commander in chief. In light of McCain's troop-surge falsehood and numerous national security gaffes, will the media similarly question his suitability to be commander in chief?

(mediamatters)

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The CIC should know better, eh?

From NBC's Mark Murray and Ben Weltman
By a 19-8 vote, a compromise allocating Michigan's pledged delegates by a 69-59 forumla -- but counting each by just half a vote -- has just passed the DNC Rules and Bylaws Committee.

The compromise will give Clinton 34.5 delegates and Obama 29.5 delegates. It would also seat all of Michigan's superdelegates but also give them just half a vote. Moreover, it would make the magic number to clinch the Democratic nomination 2,118.

But Clinton adviser and committee member Harold Ickes strongly disagreed with this compromise -- and said Clinton will reserve her right to take this dispute to the Democratic convention.

"This motion will hijack, hijack, remove four delegates won by Hillary Clinton and most importantly reflect the preferences of 600,000 Michigan voters. This body of 30 individuals has decided that they are going to substitute their judgment for 600,000 voters."

He noted sarcastically, "Now that's what I call democracy."

He went on to say, "Hijacking four delegates is not a good way to start down the path of party unity," he said, adding that Clinton reserves her right to take "this to credentials committee."

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Ickes is just icky. The HRC5 virus is on the run.

Say hello to the next president Barack Obama~!

WOO HOO!