Craig Crawford's Trail Mix

Campaigning in PA sounds like a smart move for Obama. If Hillary is really hurting for cash, Barack's efforts in PA may help to break her bank. He seems to have nothing to lose by making the effort.

I understand male voters jumping to Mr Obama's side; they just can't resist the opportunity of getting even with their moms for having made them cleanup their messes.

ROFL, Flatus. Looks like Harold Ford is going to be on MoJo this morning. The voice of reason. I'm so glad he's moved over there to class up that dismal channel.

I'm going to have to miss him Patsi, have a four hour stint in the dentist's chair this morning. Should be my last major appointment in getting implants, a process that's taken two _long_ years.

Good Morning Craig, Everyone:

Dear Craig Its a sad day today, my Jewish friend told me last night the closing of Rascal House; as a Florida resident you probably familiar with Wolfie Cohen, Wolfie's Restaurants throughout Florida, yesterday was the last day for the famous Rascal House in Sunny Isles :-(( It will be like a piece of Florida dying. Gramps and Gran and I have a lot of fond memories there, sadly those days will change.

Geee Craig lets hope Obama can govern better than he bowls good heavens [37] honestly sports is not his thing. He looks slightly effeminate bowling.
That may turn out to be a "Dukakis Moment" for him.

Sincerely,
Heather

I agree with Heather about the Obama's bowling stance, but for me the "Dukakis Moment" was Barack Obama sitting on a John Deere lawn tractor. I only saw it once. I'm sure the MSM is trying to keep that moment under wraps.

Bowling balls are so hard on ones manicure.

ubns,

This may be what you are looking for,

http://wonkette.com/363711/a-childrens-treasury-of-barack-obama-playing-with-tractors

Thanks for the link Bowmanc. That must be same pic I saw on TV. My apologies to John Deere.

Mornin', all.

Heather - ROFL. Well, he'd better do better in PA and governing than he did bowling - he had a what - a 37? Maybe he should have used the bumpers they put up for kids' birthday parties. We bowl very infrequently - maybe once every 5 years or so. The last time we bowled, Mrs. Pogo - who is not a bowler and stands at about 5'3" and 100 pounds soaking wet, scored around 100. Li'l Pogo told me he scored a 97 his last outing (and he was 10 when he last went bowling). The bowling won't be much of a Dukakis moment, although bowling with a tie on and a stick up your butt is a less than flattering image.

I do note that the PA polls have tightened a little in March - who knows what the bus tour (complete with revival tents?) can do?

Flatus, I do not envy you your morning. As a fellow dental sufferer, I'd rather be just about anywhere.

reminds me of when this farm kid came late to school and Ms Ruby asked him why he was late....He says, "The damn tractor got stuck and daddy made me get it out...."
She says, "What kind of tractor, John?!?"
He says, "He been a 'Farmall' "

‘The Gathering Storm’: One Democrat’s Analysis of Anti-Obama Feeling Among Democrats

" ...this post perfectly articulates the anger and frustration of Hillary’s Democratic supporters—-and the seething indignation that both the media and the disingenuous tactics deployed by Barack Obama and his supporters has engendered."

Obama has rudely lost the good regard of Democrats like me. The hysteria and hate of the elite punditocracy who have declared me and my candidate to be illegitimate in an attempt to bully her supporters, while giving him a free ride, cannot be rewarded. The Democratic Party is choosing to declare Hillary voters to be expendable (can’t count your vote if it would change the outcome of the race) and of lesser worth than Obama supporters. And all of this is being viewed with increasing disgust by a growing number of Democratic voters.(Anglachelg)"

More:

http://noquarterusa.net/blog/2008/03/30/the-gathering-storm-one-democrats-analysis-of-anti-obama-feeling-among-democrats/

Hows come this doesn't sound like the economy with strong fundamentals, whatever the hell unprecedented growth in the economy and three years of continuous job growth the chimp in chief touts ?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/31/us/31foodstamps.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin

Yesterday, another person shared their HRC/BHO "secret". I have also thought about this one, but I didn't write it... 8D

http://postsecret.blogspot.com/

Absolutely ROFLMAO at the Wonkette link. Particularly the caption under the Allis-Chalmers photo.

I'm thinking that if Obama selected Harold Ford, Jr. as his running mate, they could not only win, but perhaps even take over the world, based on nothing more than their combined charisma.

McCain may be too old and too Republican, but it doesn't keep him from being perceptive

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/30/AR2008033002401.html?hpid=topnews

Hello Craig and Gang,This is my first time at your merry little table and I feel comfortable. I've been enjoying your work for a couple of years now and I must compliment you and your team. I learn. I laugh. I lament. Good work by all!

Dear Pogo:
I loved your post :-)) My daughter is seven and bowls a 90 bless her heart. I would have thought that Obama's handlers could see he's not the rugged Tom Sellek type and seer him away from sports stuff. Good heavens I just had a scary thought, Obama as president and throwing out the "first pitch" at Yankee Stadium, Yikes!

--Heather

Obama bowling

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtBBgn0I34E

Heather - DUCK!!! That pitch could go anywhere.

Polecrat - don't just sit on the sidelines any longer - jump in and lay your opinions out here - really, most of us don't bite.

At the very least theyshould not let him bowl or get on a tractor while wearing a white shirt unless it is for a SNL skit.

heres a great article about race in the campaign

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/20080330_Obama_was_the_first_to_play_the_race_card.html

"Hello Craig and Gang,This is my first time at your merry little table and I feel comfortable. I've been enjoying your work for a couple of years now and I must compliment you and your team. I learn. I laugh. I lament. Good work by all! -- Posted by: Polecrat"

-- WELCOME ABOARD Polecrat. We love it when lurkers convert to players. Join the fray!

Racists again endorse Obama on candidate's website

"An anti-white and virulently anti-Semitic black supremacist party has once again endorsed Sen. Barack Obama on the presidential candidate's own website,...

Following criticism earlier this month of an online endorsement from the New Black Panther Party, or NBPP, Obama's campaign removed the controversial organization from the presidential candidate's official website. The NBPP had been a registered team member and blogger on Obama's "MyObama" campaign site."

(Yes, I know it is WND)

http://worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=60325

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/31/us/politics/31clinton.html?ref=politics

Hmmmmmmm
Amazing sometimes.....

Just watched the Obama bowling video. He bowls like a girl...he says he is skinny, but tough...he isn't so tough, when it comes to bowling!!

I am thinking he should've brought his own shoes...ewwwww!!

I am also thinking the owners of the bowling alley should sell those shoes on ebay!!

Happy Cesar Chavez day everyone!

Si, se puede

Go Hillary!

David Axelrod on Superdelegates

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dzuQsJP4Ses

Karolenna, MaxTrue, Eurotom -- I had some time to look at pending comments this morning and see that the spam filter held some of your comments due to the 3 or more links rule. I just now released them for publishing.

EVERYONE: This is unavoidable in order to combat the relentless spam attacks -- any post with 3 or more links is held by the spam filter and i don't get a chance to look at it that often. So please keep your links to two per comment. Thanks.

We have two additions to our Blogroll today: Mary Kitt-Neel and Unlikely Burrito.

Any regulars with a blog who would like to be added, send your link and screen name to cqtrailmix@verizon.net

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/blogroll.html

Informative piece from today's LA Times on how Harold Ickes is running Hillary's superdelegate boiler room:

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-ickes31mar31,0,918692.story

Its funny I keep hearing that Gore may come in to save the party a nominee if you can believe that. I just have one question, won't the Obama supporters feel disenfranchised that Al Gore prevented Sen. Obama from being the first African American president? It gets mentioned with Hillary often enough.
Is it sexist, a hypocrisy or both?

--Heather

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-health30mar30,1,6541075.story

No news, but still, she said it out loud!

@Heather: It is BOTH!

Agreed Craig, Obama is forcing Hillary to play the expectations games, I also agree with Ed, he's forcing Hillary to spend, something if the news are reports about her cash situation are true. If this story about her finances does prove true it should raise some serious questions with the voters, namely with all the money she's raised why is she always cash poor, and can she be trusted to manage the federal budget.

"I keep hearing that Gore may come in to save the party ................
..................................Is it sexist, a hypocrisy or both"

I vote for none of the above, airheaded punditry is my choice.

"never attribute to evil when stupidity will suffice"

Jack

Heather...good point.

Here's my "irony of the day" before I run off to the gym:

Doesn't the sight of all these party elders (superdelegates one and all) pressuring Hillary to drop out (and therefore decide the race before all the votes have been cast or counted) amount to the very process that the Obama camp was decrying as undemocratic just a few weeks ago?

If the Democratic nominating process pretends to have any semblance of integrity, why were places like Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Indiana even allowed to SCHEDULE primaries long after the time that these so-called "party elders" now seem to agree that the decision should have been made lest the party be destroyed?

"never attribute to evil when stupidity will suffice"

Jack

Now I have to get another cup of coffee because the first cup is all over my screen. Where did that come from and I want it on a Tshirt

LL,
That is a feverish article...
Read it in one breath,had heard of the guy, but didn´t know, how he operated....

Want to know how he stands at this moment though.- Of course we will not know....yet

‘The Gathering Storm’: One Democrat’s Analysis of Anti-Obama Feeling Among Democrats

Posted by: GORDO

I hope the Hillary supporters remember how the MSM had to prop up B. "Dorian Gray" O. and tear into Hillary to achieve their ignoble end.

toast

By the way...I do give Obama, himself, and Howard Dean major kudos for not encouraging the calls for Hillary to drop out. At least they're protecting the integrity of the process -- even if many of Obama's supporters choose not to.

Howard Dean maybe but nothing to Obama h may say one thing in public but his campaign is driving the get out Clinton bus.

KGC

I think I heard it from a College instructor mumble,mumble years ago. He was an east coast type, Harvard grad, McAurther genius grant and all that stuff. I have found it to be a workable assumption when dealing with the world.

Jack

Thanks Craig... I think my post I had already posted and took off one of the links.

About the blog re: hard feelings by Hillary supporters over the lovefest by media, et al with Barack Obama... well that sounds a lot like the blog I posted. I don't know if anyone read it, but I see NO ONE left a comment. Please feel free.... It's just the thoughts as came to me...

http://eurotom.blogspot.com/

P.S. I will probably be posting a bit less for the next 6 days. I am at 90% of my monthly bandwidth allowance, thanks to uploading many photos to my MySpace profile from Portofino ... Anyway, I'll be here, but not as much.

Not too much celebrating now ;-)

Tom

http://www.myspace.com/eurotom

OK, Lardass, you trying to be sarcastic or sumpin'? You don't seem to grasp the concept that consistency is only required of the Clinton campaign and the DNC rules only apply against large states and candidates without family ties to the almighty.

I wonder if some of HRC's vows to stick it out through the convention were a plea to her donors that their money would still have an effect.

Yesterday's WaPost story, an interview scheduled at HRC's request (a detail the reporters oddly pointed out), conceded that her only chance is superdelegates and an upset at the convention. How does the party recover from that and defeat McCain a little more than 2 months later?

HUD Secretary FINALLY resigns:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. housing secretary has resigned and will leave office April 18, he said on Monday.

Housing and Urban Development Secretary Alphonso Jackson said that he is leaving office "to attend more diligently to personal and family matters."

In recent days, Jackson has faced calls for his resignation after lawmakers have said he behaved improperly in awarding federal contracts.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/31/AR2008033100871.html?hpid=topnews

Brian

A good comment
Thankyou

I don't think the way HRC's campaign manages their money will reflect on the federal budget. But it does point out what I believe is a glaring weakness. I think everyone can agree that HRC put together a piss poor campaign organization. It makes one wonder if she can learn from the mistakes made by the previous Clinton administration and casts doubt on the ready from day one.

Jack

to attend more diligently to personal and family matters."
from dog's post

Like working with his lawyer. Maybe fed prison officials can have a Bush wing. A special cell for Rove.

Today's must read:

"The more Sharyn probed, the more it became clear that her mother is channelling a lifetime of slights and hope into one vote.

"Now there's a glass ceiling," explains Sharyn, a 61-year-old retired teacher. "Before, there were glass doors."

In a few weeks, Geri - a fiscal conservative who thinks Clinton, more than Republican John McCain, can restore a centrist stability to a nation adrift - will try to shatter what's left of those barriers."

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/20080330_Monica_Yant_Kinney__It_s_never_too_late_to_vote_your_heart.html?text=xlg

Jack I just find it staggering that she's not paying her bills and apparently it's the little guy who is being stiffed for the money, those hard just getting by Americans she claims to be championing. No wonder Mark Penn always has that smirk on his face, I recall reading some place, The Times I think that his firm has paid over 30 million by the Clintons, staggering.

Freed Ex-Governor of Alabama Talks of Abuse of
By ADAM NOSSITER
Published: March 29, 2008
MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Former Gov. Don Siegelman of Alabama, released from prison Friday on bond in a bribery and corruption case, said he was as convinced as ever that politics had played a leading role in his prosecution.

Rob Carr/Associated Press
Don Siegelman blames Karl Rove for his prosecution.
Speaking by telephone in his first post-prison interview, shortly after he had left the federal penitentiary at Oakdale, La., Mr. Siegelman said there had been “abuse of power” in his case, and repeatedly cited Karl Rove, the former White House political director.

LUSHisLINDA, I am horrified beyond words that we did not meet in person at the Charlottesville event Saturday. Sick to my stomach, in fact. Please don't be shy next time. I did meet some of our lurkers who were there, would have loved to chat with you.

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2008/03/clintons-tortured-path-to-vict.html#comment-60274

Obama: Another super, exaggeration Posted: Monday, March 31, 2008 9:12 AM by Mark Murray
Filed Under: 2008, Obama
at msnbc and they are his friends.

ET:

Good post...I left you a comment.

“Late last year, in response to a Politico story about Obama’s answers to the original questionnaire, his aides said he ‘never saw or approved’ the questionnaire. They asserted the responses were filled out by a campaign aide who ‘unintentionally mischaracterize(d) his position.’ But a Politico examination determined that Obama was actually interviewed about the issues on the questionnaire by the liberal Chicago non-profit group that issued it. And it found that Obama – the day after sitting for the interview – filed an amended version of the questionnaire, which appears to contain Obama’s own handwritten notes adding to one answer.”

More: “Through an aide, Obama, who won the group’s endorsement as well as the statehouse seat, did not dispute that the handwriting was his. But he contended it doesn’t prove he completed, approved – or even read – the latter questionnaire. "

what?

Bosnia the story that just keeps giving:
http://www.nypost.com/seven/03312008/news/worldnews/from_bad_to_verse_for_hill_104288.htm

Cash Strapped Clinton Fails To Pay Bills
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/30/cash-strapped-clinton-fai_n_94093.html

"Senator Barack H. Obama Jr. repeatedly refused to provide any responses to citizens on the issues through the 2008 Political Courage Test when asked to do so by national leaders of the political parties, prominent members of the media, Project Vote Smart President Richard Kimball, and Project Vote Smart staff."

"We are scrupulously non-partisan -- our founding board, headed by former presidents Carter and [until his death] Ford, is carefully balanced, and we do not lobby, support or oppose any candidate, issue or cause. To protect the independence and integrity of this Voter's Self-Defense System of information, Project Vote Smart does not accept funding from government or corporate sources, or any special interest group that lobbies. Our sources of support are entirely individual memberships and foundation grants."

http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/03/questions_for_obama.html

what is he afraid of

http://www.votesmart.org/

Here's the WaPost front page story yesterday, Clinton Vows to Stay in Race to Convention.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/29/AR2008032901909.html

My questions: when asked if Obama can win, she "deflects" that question and says she will pull in the women's vote.

That's likely not enough to win with, and she never says it will be.

SO: is this a message that she will stay in through Puerto Rico (barring a really bad showing in Indiana, I guess) and until the Florida/MI votes are resolved -- i.e. pressure on DNC to settle the matter before the convention so she can make a graceful exit?

Assume it's also signal to her donors, since she needs money.

What do you think? Article was as interesting for what it said as what it did not.

Jack/KGC

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor

Obama refuses to answer questions.
Little media availablity and no questions
and now he won't answer questions from a non partisan group that has provided info for citizens just wanting to know more about the candidates

what is he hiding?

Jamie

Thanks. I love it.

I knew the Heinlein quote, but after reading the whole article, I've fallen in love with the British version:

Cock-up before conspiracy

Fact strapped Huffinton Post one-ups Drudge - posts unattributed snippet about Clinton campaign, failing to identify author of piece, identity of source or companies mentioned in snippet. Snippet is posted via link on political blogs and represented as factual.

Sorry Craig I could not make it Saturday, it was my daughter's 16th B-Day party.

Obama at long last used the lull between primaries late last week to finally address an issue he has preferred to keep in the shadows for the past year -- the full extent of his political and financial relationship with Illinois power broker Tony Rezko, who is now on trial in Chicago on federal corruption charges.

He has yet to respond to the Sunshine Week survey.
http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/columns/newspaperbeat_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003726773

gosh another questionnaire he won't answe

Pogo: it's from a longer Politico piece; will put it up for you with excerpts. That was clumsy of HuffPo.

kc, Obama is exhibiting the political courage - or lack thereof - that has kept me from supporting him, and will do so until and if he wins the nomination. We have an all hat, no cattle president now. I don't want another one.

Politico article by Kenneth Vogel: Cash-Strapped Clinton Fails to Pay Bills

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0308/9259.html

Position strapped Obama campaign doesn't want to commit to positons

"How does the party recover from that and defeat McCain a little more than 2 months later?"

Don't worry about it dog...your guy will be handed this nomination. The fix has been in since the beginning, when Tom Daschle encouraged him to run now, before he had a record to question. And as I said before, on Russert's show it was admitted that Obama's campaign determined early on that he couldn't match her on policy so he had to destroy her character.

dog, thanks - I hate unsupported crap - and HuffPo has become bad about that.

Oh no. Now the little Bosnian girl Hillary met on the tarmac has something to say:

http://www.nypost.com/seven/03312008/news/worldnews/from_bad_to_verse_for_hill_104288.htm

First the 3am girl and now OUCH!

Reposting the same links over and over just shows the Obama campaign has nothing. TYhrow mud and refuse to answer questions.

Sounds like Bush

PRINCETON, NJ -- Barack Obama has extended his lead over Hillary Clinton among Democrats nationally to 52% to 42%, the third consecutive Gallup Poll Daily tracking report in which he has held a statistically significant lead, and Obama's largest lead of the year so far.

http://www.gallup.com/poll/105841/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Now-52-Clintons-42.aspx

Dog: That article illustrates the ultimate strategy of the Obama campaign. His minions do the dirty work while he is allowed to stay above the fray. Members of Obama's campaign call for Hillary to drop out while Obama says she should stay in.

Here's a question for you, let's switch the candidate's victories ... would you honestly want Obama to drop out of the race if the votes in Michigan and Florida had not been counted in his vote totals?

Hillary also brought up another interesting point. As Democrats have whined about the 2000 election results for years she is correct when she states that the Republicans will have a field day with the fact that the Dems have not counted all the votes from all the states. Can you imagine the hysterical coverage by Keith O. and the boys about the DNC holding back poor Barack's votes in some racist conspiracy? Sounds like Special Comment territory, doesn't it?

Quite honestly how Barack Obama can claim his campaign is a shining beacon of light, hope and change while he actively disenfranchises the voters of Florida and Michigan is beyond me. Change? Doesn't look like much has changed since '00.

What's wrong KC? sounds like you're not having a good day.

"I think everyone can agree that HRC put together a piss poor campaign organization"

This one I have to give them. I wonder if it wasn't a case of trusting only those who stayed loyal through all the Impeachment strife.

It does point up one flaw I see in many campaigns. They will shell out huge sums of money for "advisors" who do little but appear in press releases and on letterhead, but they won't shell out $250 - 150,000 for a really good office manager and office staff in each state's campaign office.

These screw ups are almost always the result of too many chiefs and not enough indians.

Damn KC you've caught us, Sheila and I are part of that vast right wing conspiracy. Sheila the jig is up!

Patsi, or you suggesting he will win?

I feel her pressured but cannot stand it

Here is an interesting commentary on "Hillary Clinton and the Action Bias"... for those who might want to take a look...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/30/AR2008033001582.html

Thanks to Patsi, Jamie, Pogo and Wendy for reading my blog and posting comments. Thanks a lot! Others feel free please, regardless of whom you support. http://eurotom.blogspot.com/

This may have been posted yesterday. If so, sue me.

More politics of hope and change - ingratiating one's self to the powerful - even if it ain't true.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/29/AR2008032902031.html?hpid=topnews

Perhaps the campaign statement should read, "I had hoped what I said about the Kennedies getting my father to America was true - it made a great story - but I had to change it when I found out what I said about it wasn't true."

"Perhaps the campaign statement should read, "I had hoped what I said about the Kennedies getting my father to America was true - it made a great story - but I had to change it when I found out what I said about it wasn't true." - Pogo

Here's one more sentence to add to that quote, "At least I didn't lie about dodging bullets, so there!"

And if you're bored and want to see something awesome, check out this kid dancing... he's awesome... If he keeps with it, he'll be a MAJOR dancer I think

http://myspacetv.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=31052807

Dog: “What do you think? Article was as interesting for what it said as what it did not.”

Yessir, I think that there is definitely the sound of silent dog whistles emanating from the Clinton campaign. They are in a desperate make-or-break race against time, expectations and realities. Cash being important for what it would signal to the super delegates that she must have to attempt the difficult three-cushion bank shot she plans to unveil in Denver.

Witness Carville’s recent attacks on NM Gov Bill Richardson. They are behind in both pledged delegates and in the popular vote; they cannot survive a further erosion of super delegate support.

Graceful exits, I very much doubt we will see.

Obama practices the big lie technique

ET, you're welcome. Your blog posts are well thought out and thorough, and I certainly enjoy them - now that I've visited. I recommend it to everyone.

ET: I had meant to stop by several times. I wanted to give you some encouragement about dieting.

I have so much to share when it comes to losing weight. I have lost what is the equivalent to an average size person over the years. Can't bring myself to tell you how much I've gained back!

Yep...the little Bosnia girl speaks...and what did she say...

"I was just excited," she said. "I wanted to look [Clinton] in the eye and say, 'Thank you.'"

Yep...that's right...Thank You Hillary!

GAK - lol. Of course he would have had to visit some place that was a war zone to lie about bullets dodged. At least McCain has been to Iraq - dressed in his best flak jacket and helmet - doesn't mean I'll vote for him on a darem, though.

"Patsi, or you suggesting he will win?
I feel her pressured but cannot stand it"

Jason -- I think that no matter what happens, unless Obama implodes, the super delagates will hand him the nomination. Let's be perfectly blunt. They believe that the Hillary supporters are more loyal democrats who will return to the fold. Obama's newbies and Republicans won't stick around. And, of course, they fear alienating the AA voters.

The thing that has been fascinating, much the same was watching a cobra sway is fascinating, is how the pundits can say with straight faces that the Rev. Wright problem won't hurt Obama in the primary but could be a killer in the general. And then with those same faces they say that Hillary is not electable.

What are they really saying? McCain already has it?

Mustard: You are correct. You will not see a graceful exit. The minute HRC would quit the race the attacks on her character would continue and the MSM would bloviate on how her quitting has set back women's rights 100's of years.

She is a tough fighter and I expect her to go the distance. Quitting is not in her nature.

"Sick to my stomach, in fact."
--Craig

Awwwww, Craig...not as sick as I am!! I wanted to just walk right up to you and say "hey"...I really, really tried to make myself do it...I am such an introvert...it sux!!

Actually, I blame "vadaryl"...I mean, did he and Iris really have to be with their daughter(Hilary) on her birthday??

LOLOLOLOL...hey Daryl!!!

The MSM does not discuss one part of Clinton's base: racist Dems. Many of the "older white women" group, for instance, are probably not supporting Hillary because she's female, but because she is white. They look at Obama and think, "purse snatcher."

Say is it just me, or are we all getting along a little better these days ? I hope so... I think if we all met we'd like each other very much. That might sound a bit pollyanna-ish, but it's how I feel... Ok I am back to work for a little while.

Thanks for the comments again... I really appreciate it, and even when folks disagree I learn from it...

Many warm thoughts ...

ME

Another SD endorsement for Obama, Amy Klobuchar.

(craig it would be really nice if we weren't forced to repeatedly have to log in with typekey, even when you check keep me logged in for two weeks this blog logs you out.)

They look at Obama and think, "purse snatcher."

I guess his grandmother is voting for Clinton

Thinking the unthinkable: suppose Obama wins PA?

" The minute HRC would quit the race the attacks on her character would continue and the MSM would bloviate on how her quitting has set back women's rights 100's of years."

You are so right.

Hey Nash.

"The MSM does not discuss one part of Clinton's base: racist Dems. Many of the "older white women" group,"

I'm not even sure you deserve an answer to that one, Nash. It sure as hell pisses me off, though. Are you a "typical white man" who is voting for Obama because you are an oinker?

More about the little Bosnian girl who greeted HRC at Tuzla airstrip. Goes beyond Wendy!'s carefully selected quote:

"Emina Bicakcic, now 20 and studying to become a doctor, told The Post she stood on the tarmac at the air base in Tuzla, greeted Clinton and even had time to share the lines of verse she'd written - all without fear of attack from an unseen enemy.

"I was surprised when I heard this," Bicakcic said, referring to Clinton's assertion that she braved snipers upon landing, ducking and sprinting to military vehicles. ......

Bicakcic, asked if she feared any threat of violence that day, said she felt just the opposite.

"No," she said, speaking at her home in Sarajevo, the Bosnian capital. "I was just excited. I wanted to look [Clinton] in the eye and say, 'Thank you.' "

And Clinton, she said, seemed far more interested in her poem than in dashing for shelter.

"She was really listening," Bicakcic recalled. "She was drinking in every word of my poem."

Her poem begins with the words, "Peace has come."

Bicakcic said she was reluctant to criticize Clinton's account of that day because of a deep appreciation for the US role in ending Bosnia's bloody nightmare.

A picture of the girl's meeting with the then-first lady - signed and inscribed by Clinton - has become a treasured family heirloom.

Still, Bicakcic admitted that she is not supporting Clinton in her contest against Barack Obama.

"I'm staying neutral," she said, declining to discuss the issue further. "I have very mixed emotions about it. It's a difficult situation for me."

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Yes, a child would have been thrilled and happy to be included in the greeting ceremony, and she'd treasure her memento of the day. Further, I'm sure Mrs. Clinton was genuinely touched by Emma's poem and presence.

But there was more to the story.

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Last: article mentioned 1994 visit to Sarajevo, during active hostilities, by " now-deceased former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and former Turkish Prime Minister Tansu Ciller. .... In an effort to call attention to Sarajevo's plight, the two female heads of state donned flak jackets and were driven throughout the heart of the bullet-riddled city at the height of the conflict. Two days after their visit, 69 people were killed in a mortar attack on a central market."

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In fairness to HRC, the Secret Service would never have allowed her into that situation.

signed, dog, Obama Bosnian girl story gang member

That must be your punishment, Brian! It doesn't log me out...

Hey Patsi, good to see you posting, how are you today? Well I hope.

The politics of destruction but not of answering questions Charges of racism and flinging poo

Today;s Obama gang supporters have proved the point.

Brian: How's things in the capitol city of global capitalism and the sins of the flesh?

rainy, and never enough sins of the flesh!

Nice to see you, too, Brian. I am quite well, thank you.

Apologies the 12:33 post was so long. I culled only the items directly related to the Bosnian greeting girl; lots of snark in rest of article by other Bosnians. Did not realize it would take up so much of Craig's real estate!

And would not have excerpted it at all had Wendy! not cherry-picked the quote.

Did not want to leave a misperception there.

Patsi: Do you deny that there are racists in the Democratic party? My point is that the MSM never talks about that.

"They look at Obama and think, "purse snatcher."

Nash, Don't tell me you are joining the Brian school of political analysis?

Most of those women are ones who have been fighting for equality for all segments of society (women and minorities) for the past 40 years. That is why the Dem party is taking them for granted now.

What the Dems may be missing is the deep bitterness and anger that may have been caused by the MSM slamming Sen. Clinton so hard. If she had been allowed to rise or fall on her own merits, that would have been different, but the one sided treatment has been really ugly.

It feels as if the unfairness we have fought for years is being thrown back in our face, and there are a lot of women out here saying, if I'm so unimportant go ahead and try to elect someone without me. If Sen. Obama is nominating, he is going to have a lot of burned bridges to mend.

Hey nash email me, bgarens at gmail. we'd love to have you join the pro-obama email list.

Hey nash!!!!

These postings are like a reunion....thought i would get into the act!!! ;0)

Brian,

First, make sure you have removed the check from "remember me" on this website. Go to typekey and log in there. Put a check in the "remember me there". Come to this website and log in. It may ask to share your email. Click yes, and recheck the "remember me"

You should be logged in for good, unless you take up anonymous posting or name changes.

So...here's the deal ..or how I see it anyway... I say, if Democrats really want this to be decided and then rally around the winner and focus on McOldcoot, then please oh please just vote en masse for Obama in the Penn primary. That'd pretty much decide it. But if Hillary wins, then she has every right to stay in ... I am a little concerned that Obama's wins are in states that are going to go Rep in November .. however, the sheer numbers of dem voters in all these primaries and cauci (have we decided the word indeed IS cauci?? lol) and the money raised by both candidates has got to bode well for November.. as long as the eventual winner embraces the second-placer -- and not only encourages but welcomes their supporters into the big circle. And as long as the second-placer encourages his/her supporters to JOIN the big circle ... I sure hope the speeches at the convention are barnburners .. the kind that energize and mobilize dems all over the country..

Nash,

There are racists in the democratic party. Over 8 million so far, they all voted for Clinton.

Jamie: that's interesting about removing the check mark from "remember me" on the anonymous log in option (which is "dog hussein dog" for me) and then trying Typekey.

Will see how long Typekey keeps me logged in. Thanks!

dog hussein dog

Just looked at the UC Law School news release page:
http://www.law.uchicago.edu/news/index.html

Looks like they've pulled the news release saying that he was a de facto Professor of Law. Guess de jure trumps de facto.

Words matter.

tylenol

I'd like to associate myself with your remarks.

How's Mr. T staple free?

Thanks Jamie I'll give it a try the next time I'm booted out.

Flatus

Don't expect this information to be mentioned in the "fudging the truth a bit" reports from MSM.

Jamie I also checked "send blog owner email" in my typekey profile, maybe that was the issue.

Flatus

I wonder who Obama bullied at the University to lie for him.

Patsi: Do you deny that there are racists in the Democratic party? My point is that the MSM never talks about that.

Posted by: nash | March 31, 2008 12:40 PM

With all due respect Nash, that's basically all the MSM was talking about when President Clinton was campaigning for his wife in South Carolina. Every angle, every statement that could be twisted to somehow mean he was a racist, was reported as a "racist statement"... While MSM didn't come right out and say Hillary's supporters are "racist", the implications were there.

And frankly, everyone IS racist. We fight it each day, we challenge ourselves, we try to overcome it, but it's not always easy. I wish as much attention would be given to sexism and the sexists who promulgate it each and every day.

Mr. T is coming along.. this is going to be a long recovery tho, his foot, which was damaged when the circulation was cut off by the embolism, is slowly repairing itself, but it's still causing some discomfort... the scars, tho, are healing well .. thanks for asking, KGC..

Flatus

There does seem to be a great deal of "rewriting" in Sen. Obama's past. Without any form of vetting by the MSM, then these bubbles don't get burst.
The disillusion could prove very painful.

Tylenol
Good news. I guess I'm a person of semi-faith. I do believe in the "good thought" theory.

Here's the latest Michigan proposal

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/03/31/politics/p095700D12.DTL&tsp=1

There are racists supporting Obama - See my 9:40AM post :

Racists again endorse Obama on candidate's website"

key phrase to take note of:

". . . and partly on the popular vote in all the nation's presidential primaries."

I want to say something. I like Barack Obama. I just like Hillary more. That is all.... :-)

Wendy are you a folk singer?

Guess who I had live on my radio show once?

DAR WILLIAMS

She was in Olympia aka Olytown to open for JOAN BAEZ.

She was great. Girlfriend is supporting Obama, but c'est la vie.

I say seat FI & MI based on the existing results , immediately after May 6th.
It won't make a difference then and Camp Hillary will be happy.
I still see Hillary as the inevitable VP candidate.,there is absolutely no way around that.

George

Be sure to let your candidate know your stand on Florida and Michigan. Why wait until 5/6?

It is not racism not voting for obama IT IS HIS QUESTIONABLE FREINDS AND YES HIS PAYOFF FROM REZKO PERIOD

KGC
Thats how long it will take to send Bill into exile for 8 years..
That way it will be an Obama/Hillary Administration.

Jamie, KGC

Judge Judy would surely say, "Liar, liar pants on fire!!"

The universities know on which side their bread is buttered.

Back in Florida in '95 or '96, an 'important' state senator became angry at NPR affiliate WMNF, the great community radio station in Tampa:
http://www.wmnf.org//

The big shot pulled their annual appropriation from the state budget. I called the director of the 'establishment' NPR station up the street, WUSF. He recognized my name because my family were substantial donors.

I asked that he offer his station's editorial support of its poor second cousin. He declined, undoubtedly realizing that it would have placed his own stipend in jeopardy.

I thanked him and sent his current year's five figure contribution to WMNF.

YES, let's hear it for community radio! Where I worked was KAOS...

http://www.kaosradio.org ... I miss it !!!!

Tom

Jamie in all fairness you were voicing your disdain for the man long before either of those two stories hit the media, early on you said things like "I don't like his smirk". Frankly your reaction to the man has been rather visceral to say the least. In fact if I recall correctly weren't you saying just a few days ago that if Hillary doesn't get the nom you're considering voting for Obama. I find that a rather staggering statement for someone who claims to believe in the ideals Hillary is espousing on her campaign.

Gordo:
"There are racists supporting Obama - See my 9:40AM post "

Nash
"The MSM does not discuss one part of Clinton's base: racist Dems"

LOL

So which one is the evil twin?

Jack

Meanwhile on the Straight Talk Epress

Charlie Rose falsely asserted McCain "call[ed] for the firing of Secretary Rumsfeld"
Summary: During an interview with Sen. Chuck Hagel, Charlie Rose falsely asserted that Sen. John McCain "early on call[ed] for the firing of Secretary Rumsfeld." In fact, while McCain expressed "no confidence" in Rumsfeld in 2004, he did not call for him to be fired; he said the decision about whether Rumsfeld should leave was the president's.
http://mediamatters.org/items/200803310001

"Dems, Reps Agree: Obama Tougher Opponent for McCain"

"A new Gallup Panel survey (3/31) finds a majority of both Republicans and Democrats saying Barack Obama has a better chance than Hillary Clinton of defeating Republican John McCain in the November presidential election."

http://www.gallup.com/poll/105904/Dems-Reps-Agree-Obama-Tougher-Opponent-McCain.aspx

Read em and weep.:)

Why does ANYONE on this forum need to justify their likes or dislikes with respect to the candidates? We are free to like or dislike them in any way we choose.

I don't question anyone's support for Senator Obama. Mainly, I question the Senator's campaign tactics. I do not like a candidate that claims to be something he isn't. That's how we got stuck with our current nightmare commander-in-chief.

National polls are largely meaningless said David Axelrod, Obama's chief strategist,

National polls are largely meaningless because the nominating process is a state-by-state contest?

As far as the media is concerned it goes beyond bias for Obama its downright hatred for Hillary and the Clintons in general, just look at David Shuster’s comment on Chelsea, a more recent example was on “Beltway Boys” on Faux News, with sub host Bill Sammon and Mort Kondracke where he made the statement that the 28% of Hillary supporters that would vote McCain in the general election were all redneck racists that would never vote for an African American. I cannot tell you how angry that made me because it was a statement without sourcing, researching, and documented proof. I know Kondracke suffered in his life and battled addiction to alcohol and recently lost his wife to Parkinson’s Disease so I’ll cut him some slack but he was still dead wrong to say that and he should know better as a veteran journalist.

--Heather

Poll: Clinton closing gap in N.C. | newsobserver.com projects

Hanky Rezdog?

Correction, I didn't mean to say Jamie would be voting for Obama if Hillary loses, I meant to say she said she was considering voting for McCain.

KGC,

That's not a national head- to-head poll.

As far as the media is concerned it goes beyond bias for Obama its downright hatred for Hillary and the Clintons in general, just look at David Shuster’s comment on Chelsea, a more recent example was on “Beltway Boys” on Faux News, with sub host Bill Sammon and Mort Kondracke where he made the statement that the 28% of Hillary supporters that would vote McCain in the general election were all redneck racists that would never vote for an African American. I cannot tell you how angry that made me because it was a statement without sourcing, researching, and documented proof. I know Kondracke suffered in his life and battled addiction to alcohol and recently lost his wife to Parkinson’s Disease so I’ll cut him some slack but he was still dead wrong to say that and he should know better as a veteran journalist.

I don’t deny that there are some racists that support Hillary as there are African American racists that support Obama. What I object to is that Kondracke said that the entire 28% was without any basis in fact and to my way of thinking to make a comment in that context has to have been motivated by nothing other than intense aversion toward Hillary Clinton

--Heather

I apologize i did not paste the whole comment off MS Office earlier left off the last paragraph

I would like to say to the BO supporters. You really do delight in goading and in essence rubbing it in.

Well better enjoy it now, because if Bo gets the nomination, (and I know of 10) yes 10 women and Men who will not vote or will vote for McC, he will definitely lose. You think all this msm attention and non vetting is so great. Well wait until the gop gets ahold of him. No more friendly remarks from Rove.or msm.
It will be katy bar the door, no holds held back.
There are more than you think democrats out there that have voted for Hillary than Bo. His is indep, gop, AA and few democ white.. His states are all gop in general. She holds more - more - more - electoral college votes than he does.. AT least hers are democratic voters in democratic states..

Then it will be up to the Clinton supporters to either be
nice or return the favor to you who are so nasty.. Just remember - what goes around comes around-.

Julie

Brian,

I still don't like his smirk. The MSM has given him virtually a free ride throughout this whole campaign while bashing Sen. Clinton every chance they get. The coverage has been abysmal and dishonest. In fact he seems to have a great deal in common with most of the "talking heads" simply because he is so superficial. Just as John Edwards found him glib, so do I and I don't have that much respect for people who impress me as glib and superficial.

Vote for him? At this stage I really don't know. The thought of McCain in office is deplorable unless there is a veto proof Congress to fight back against Republican proposals and nominations.

I don't want to vote for Obama, so I'm still sticking with a write in as a protest if Sen. Clinton isn't on the ticket, but there is lots of time to reconsider.

I was absolutely sincere about the feeling that the Democratic Party is assuming that women of a certain age :-) have worked so long and hard for the ideals of equality and justice, that unlike the new Obama sign ons, we won't desert them now. They shouldn't be quite so sure.