Craig Crawford's Trail Mix

Woot!!

It is the oldest tactic in the book of sales to create a "sense of urgency" to close the deal. More manipulation by BHO's campaign.

Craig, I believe you are spot on with this commentary. Why give the geezer press when he would not ordinarily get it?

He looked in his rear view mirror

"Objects are closer than they appear"

It may not be an appropriate phrase...but 'Bums Rush' keeps coming to my mind when I think of the the BHO campaign.

Today, there has been much "TV chatter" about the NY Times editorial. Don't be fooled by their original endorsement, it was only a cover to legitimize their never ending criticism.

Read "The Hunting of the President" to understand what role the NYT played in promoting the "scandals" of the 90s.

Is that our Iowa trailspotter Zoey come back to the fold? Feared you had disappeared on us. Welcome back.

Craig, I drop in from time to time but always seem to miss you. I mostly just read when I am at work because I can't post from there. Also, I am mostly interested in your commentary and not the juvenile posts from some of the posters here.

We have our district conventions this Saturday and I am on Credentials Committee. We are enacting a little used rule that all designated alternates must have been elected at their county conventions to be seated for a delegate. I made sure the Clinton campaign had observers at our meetings but there were not any Obama campaign staff attending.

It will be interesting to see if the Obama campaign called supporters to show up thinking they could game the system. I think they gamed some of the county conventions so they will probably have a disproportionate amount of seats at some district conventions.

Could NOT agree more with Craig's post.

Great to hear you on Imus this am.

Hi, 9/11...

Just saw your 'hello' from last thread...and am returning it. I've been gone all afternoon, and am about to leave again. Busy day!

always love your Iowa trailspotting Zoey -- thanks

thanks Lynn, off to dinner now folks. another session with the grand and glorious Helen Thomas

It seems the more people see and hear of Obama, the less they like him. He just wants this nominating process over.

Hell, if you candidate cant win, why focus on her? She can't catch him without some weird math (and the media's fake notion that there is a race).

BTW, here's a great article on how Clinton uses race.

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3597/the_clinton_firewall/

Obama and Clinton voted EXACTLY THE SAME over the most important legistative initiatives in the Senate as defined by ADA for the most recent two years (2005 & 2006). Therefore it is almost impossible for either of them to differentiate based upon political positioning. Consequently we have them bashing each other up on level or relevance of experience and, in the case of Clinton, questioning Obama's character or integrity. I don't see how that benefits the impending Democratic cause for the general election.

Craig Crawford..Obama is running scared..Pennsylvania is showing that people are clinging to their guns and their religion...i say ...CLING TO CLINTON........CLING TO CLINTON...new slogan...CLING TO CLINTON..yes ,Craig if you like that use it as a headline

Zoey,

I am confused at to why Iowa would go through such efforts to designate alternates? Isn't this normally determined when the primary slates are voted upon? Also, how could one campaign "game" the system? I know you were concerned about the Obama campaign. If they were not present, how could they still manipulate things in their favor? I am intrigued and confused by this process.

GORDO, because of your last post, I had to dial 911...I must be dying because I just read a post that had no mention of taylor marsh, no quarter (If I were Led Zeppelin I would sue) or Obama is gay reference...gotta go...EMT is here with oxygen for me.

nick---------------------

Yes - and Gene Lyons

Bear------------------------

For you: LARRY SINCLAIR UPDATE

Larry Sinclair’s ‘mzmolly’ Has an Attorney
Monday April 21st, 2008 9:38 PM

http://bigheaddc.com/category/larry-sinclair/

Newman

The Democrats need to freaking relax already.

This panicking and handwringing is exactly what loses them elections.

The people are going to figure this thing out. We are almost at the end. And any decision that is not made by either (1) the voters, or (2) Hillary Clinton - will not be seen as legitimate.

This idea about getting a gang of Super Duper Delegates to "talk to" Hillary is assinine. I have been with you Clintonites long enough to know that only decision you will accept without question is one handed down by the voters or HRC herself.

The voters don't like all this anxiety over this petty bullshit. It is good to be serious about the Economy and Iraq - but I prefer my politicians to take politics with a grain of salt.

Bush may sound and act stupid - but he beat Gore and Kerry by being relaxed, affable and very arrogant and assertive at times - while those other two took everything sooo seriously. Also, Bush made many decisions "against the polls" - and people respect that - even when the results don't turn out so well... It shows backbone (and sometimes it shows you are a bonehead).

These peeps on the cable news are on political crack.

Plus, no one expected this race to go so long without a break. Big deal. Suck it up people.

(Rachel needs a vacation. She let this loss get to her. I don't know what she was thinking.)

btw, I am going on a little vacation manana. Costa Rica - woohoo....pura vida!!

i disagree with your theories about why bush "won," warren. i do agree that voters don't like the anxiety over the petty bullshit. but remember, in 2000, the economy was roaring, and people didn't realize how much they had to lose. things are very different now for the average voter.

Now accepting wagers on the May 3 Kentucky Derby. Here is the most recent list of top contenders.

I'll advise any list changers after drawing of post positions

Just let me know which horse you want

http://www.kentuckyderby.com/2008/contenders

Bear,
We are a caucus state. At each level of convention we elect delegates and alternates (caucus night, county convention, district convention, and state convention). The Obama campaign did not have anyone present at the Credentials Committee meetings so they will not know we are sticking to the rules for the District convention and only seating designated alternates from the alternate slate at the county convention. There will be a concern that some of their delegates and alternates may not show up for convention (you know uninvolved new voters and all) so they will most likely ask other (unelected) supporters to fill in. We won't let those people be seated because they were not elected. That would be gaming the system. That may mean less Obama seated delegates than they expected...we will see.

The problem with hearing more and more about the minute details of their policies - is that they are opening themselves up in the general.

The old theory is run towards your base in the primary and then hit the middle in the general.

The problem is that with 24/7 media, blogs and political junkies:

EVERYTHING YOU SAY CAN AND WILL BE USED AGAINST YOU.

That is the problem with all the pandering and the 21-hundred debates. Nobody remembers the good moments of the debates (except of course LA - remember the "good old days").

Think of a swing voter - with no party affiliation:

Why you should be the next President of the United States? And why the Democrats are better than the Republicans.

Simple as that.

If the Democrats exploit all this free media attention to do that. They will be just fine.

If they attack each other - on petty distractions - instead of real issues - they miss an opportunity.

(Tust me, the GOP has already started their ground game....)

Damn typos.

"Trust me"

Zoey:

"I mostly just read when I am at work because I can't post from there."

Who do you work for - a bunch of facists?!

I post from work all day.*

(And don't take that too personally - I would have made that joke no matter who you worked for.)

*(pro bono of course OD - don't want you Clintonites to start a "file" on me ; )

I'm off to walk the goose!

Lanny Davis reacts to debate cancellation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Ed6LWP_k0g

Craig -- this is a great post. Nice to visit here when you have something up - I appreciate something written by someone who seems pretty rational.

I would not say Obama was "crushed" in Penn. He came from twenty some points back. How come Hillary can't close a deal.
McCain goes down in November, guaranteed. No way he wins when he can't raise but 35% of the money Obama can get in any month or when Dems out vote Pubs in the primaries more than double.

A Citizen,
From what I see Pubs will be Pubs come November.

From the daily show.........In 2001 we get a memo....."Bin Laden determined to attack the usa from his safe haven in Afghanistan"........now seven years, and 700 Billion dollars later we get a memo saying "Bin Laden determined to attack usa from his safe haven somewhere AROUND Afghanistan." We're going in F'ing CIRCLES.

the "20 points back" thing is a myth......a pure fabrication.

"The Obama campaign did not have anyone present at the Credentials Committee meetings "

I find that very unusual! Does that mean only there are only Clinton supporters on that Committee? Did anyone bother to notify any Obama reps?

Bob Casey.........you chop river.

I noticed that CNN was giving out early exit poll info starting around 4. Have they done this in other primaries. I thought they at least waited until about 1/2 hr before the polls closed to give out that info. The last minute voters were given pretty good info on what was happening. I thought they said they did not want to do that anymore.

On the 20 point "myth", see this post from Posted: 9/11 survivor (sort of)

http://blogs.cqpolitics.com/trailmix/2008/04/clinton-parties-hard-in-pennsy.html#comment-71487

the "20 points back" thing is a myth......a pure fabrication.

Posted by: sturgeone | April 23, 2008 8:14 PM

Why oh why did Penn and Wolfson propagate this myth? If they would have posed Hillary as an underdog in Pennsylvania, she would have won by 20 points.

They have ruined her chances.

Me chop river?

Good! If I eat me, I will BE the full weight of the party --

VICTORY IS MINE!

Keith Olbermann just never ceases to amaze.

I can't wait until he crashes and burns. Maybe it won't be this year, or next year...and it will probably be over something that's even more outrageous and embarrassing than his "coverage" of the 2008 campaign.

But his day will come. And as he's being wheeled off to obscurity, we'll all look back on these clips and be amazed that he was ever allowed to stay on the air as long as he was.

He thinks he's Edward R. Murrow. But he's actually closer in both form and function to Joe McCarthy.

frank,

I posted this earlier from Jerome Armstrong of MYDD...

There have been more than a few comments about Senator Clinton "blowing" a 20 point lead in PA.

Jerome Armstrong at My DD ddiffers.

That was ONE poll which has been quoted endlessly.

Here are Clinton's monthly poll averages for three months:

February: 47.8 - 38.3, a 9.5% margin for Clinton
March: 51.3 - 38.4, a 12.9% margin for Clinton
April: 45 - 38.6, a 6.4% margin for Clinton

Here is his comment:

The one thing that easy to see is this was never a "20 percent lead" by Clinton [since Super Tuesday on Feb 5th]. Also, despite all the resources Obama has put into PA, he had been stuck at 38 for three months. Now, the final poll of polls shows it a bit closer. The last 10 polls show 50 percent for Clinton and 42.8 percent for Obama.

So... I'd have to say that "20% lead" was an outlier. (Me learn new word!)

Maybe more like Charlie McCarthy.......

VADaryl

They do not give any information that reflects the vote count or predict winners prior to the closing of polls. All of the "exit poll" info prior to closing has to do with "attitudes" just general info on background that they then use to interpret the raw numbers when they start coming in.

Rez,
There are Clinton, Edwards, and Obama supporters on the Credentials Committee. Each candidate was allocated so many spots on the committee based on their preference group totals (which turned into delegate totals) at the county conventions. If the Obama supporters chose not to notify their campaign reps of the meetings so they could observe and learn the rules, that is their problem.

Maybe I read more into them than I should of. They were interesting that early in the evening.

sturge,

Or Mortimer Snide.

lol

The CNN exit poll has interesting results on the Vote for President in November question. It's the last question. It will be interesting to watch it after IND and NC.

http://www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/primaries/results/epolls/index.html#PADEM

My latest gripe is all the news people yammering about Sen. Clinton's "negative" campaign. What do they do to demonstrate this? Show her answering one direct question during a debate, and then showing it and showing it and showing it while decrying her "negativity".

Last night in reporting the numbers for PA, these same news people go on and on about the percentages of people voting for Sen. Obama in the principally AA areas of the state, but Pres. Clinton was a "racist" when he answered a direct question about the turn out in South Carolina and gave this information as a reason for the win by Sen. Obama. Huh?

Also the Vote By Religion and Attendance question was interesting too

and all this time I was thinking he was just Mortimer's Nerd.........

LL

Richardson is also going to crash and burn in the desert of New Mexico. Maybe KO and BR will 'go out' in Truth or Consequences.

Things are changing...I can feel it.

I thought Paul Begala was great lasat night. I think Jamel needs to take some leasons from him, in a few years he will be much better.

Has Carville said anything today yet?

If KO builds any more strawmen against Sen. Clinton he will need to buy Iowa for the corn fields.

I just heard a promo for Larry King tonight, Carville and Richardson both will be on. I hope it's live and they are together, that should be entertaining.

Carville and Richardson are on CNN's Larry King tonight. Richardson has already been spewing with Campbell Brown. He makes a bad cheerleader with the beard.

Zoey, that cool. . some Clinton dels didn't get admitted (credentialed) to our convention (WA) because they were 5 minutes late in arriving and no Alt there to replace them..so I understand caucus rules.

Anyone read the NYT's cover story about Putin's recreation of the Orthodox Church as not just the official religion of Russia...

But the ONLY religion?

Also, read the translated posts from a Russian language readers blog the NYT runs.

Apropos...

For all of you who follow opera stuff... Anna Netrebko gets medals from Putin yearly. She is also rumored to be his gohmer. (Before the gymnast.)

She is engaged to Erwin Schrott, Uruguayan barihunk. (Who is still married to a woman dying of cancer. You go, Erw. Just... go.) And they will have a baby in August.

Problem is... Anna's family doesn't know Erw is Jewish. Neither does Putin (who terrifies Senor Macho Erw).

Does Anna? He never answers that question.

Could get interesting...

Well, Erw will learn at least one essential Russian phrase before too long...

DIRTY ZHID!

the media has spent all day trying to figure out
what is wrong with the voters in penn'
are they uneducated''old'' racsist' ?
why don't they do what they are told and vote
for obama ?
maybe they should examine what is wrong
with the candidate instead of the voter

Very interesting and memorable exchange, Zoey and Rezdog.

Everyday in every way I learn how little democracy can matter to life inside our political parties.

(But I knew that already. Still, it's always sweet to see how little things do change.)

Richardson is not in the studio based on the earlier interview with Campbell.

9/11
ARG posted a 20% lead on the 14th. Wolfson pounced on it. I loathe his approach.

sturgeone,

If he hung around Mortimer, he'd be a better person.

And maybe -- just maybe -- one day the Blue Fairy would appear and turn him into a real boy.

frank,

This is not meant in disrespect.

I don't care about Wolfson. When he went to work for Lamont in CT after the primary, he actually went to work for Lieberman.

Wolfson has about as much influence on how voters think and act as, well, I do.

And the 20% lead was ballyhooed more than a bit by the guys and gals chez Obama who chopped it down like a mighty, mighty oak.

You know... this all would play a lot better as a Disney Channel sitcom.

Well the DNC is into the GE even if their candidates aren't. They are running an anti-McCain commercial.

Perhaps, BHO will be like Humpty-Dumpty. All the media's talking heads and tons of money could not put Humpty back together again.

Has the crack in his shell started?

Stating the Obvious

"What does all of this mean for the Democratic Party?... Obama cannot win the general election. This is exemplified by the fact that the core demographic in the Democratic Party, which are “socially conservative” but “economically liberal” White working class voters will find themselves pushed into voting for the “moderate” Republican that John McCain appears to be (by the standards of all public opinion polling), simply in response to an Obama candidacy, which many among said group find repulsive. This dislike is based on the reality that he is perceived as a highly Liberal and inexperienced African American candidate, with dubious relationships with anti-American elements of the radical “left” (like William Ayers and others), and as someone who holds a highly disliked view on illegal immigration, gun ownership and abortion. When you add to this factor the whole dynamics that involve Obama with radical Muslims like Khalidi and Auchi (which will break later on through the Mainstream Press), the recipe is slanted towards a complete disaster for his party."

http://savagepolitics.com/

Jamie..I thought it was a pretty good commercial. We know who the repugs are running...JMc has to fight a war on two fronts, so to speak, at least until August.

Carville and Richardson are on now...

Richardson is having facial tics......

If Senator Clinton wants to break records by killing Senator Obama's (and the Democrats') chances, she should be reminded that Laura Bush already holds the record for being the first First Lady who is a known murderess. (Mrs. Bush gleefully sped through town and stop signs to kill Michael Dutton Douglas on November 6, 1963.) If Senator Clinton wants to break a record, maybe she should stuff herself with some enormous number of sausages. The election statistics are against her; she cannot break a record there.

Richardson looks awful...it happens when you sell your soul.

benjaminblue,

Lemme guess.

Howard Stern fan??

Blonde wino,

Is there no woman on the set he can touch to calm himself?

Larry King, how rude of you.

Richardson did so poorly in the primaries and now that he is back in the state, we wish he would leave.

yep.......Richardson thinks he'll be VP nominee......poor chile.......

Sturge,

One thing about that Charlie McCarthy analogy. Someone needs to look around the set to find out who else's lips are moving when KO is talking.

AND if that person happens to have a hot daughter named Candice, we've really got a quinella.

Richardson studied his talking points. Again, who really can get into a bearded cheerleader? BHO is terrified of another debate.

Richardson is completely ridiculous. People like him followed Obama blindly and now we may be stuck with him as the Dem nominee, giving McCain and excellent chance of winning the election.

It sounded like Gov Richardson was reading from the "Sense of Urgency" playbook.......pretty good call, CC

Screw it!!

Political crack for all - 7 more months!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8ikFVoKHtQ

Hillary aint quitting......put that in your crack pipe......lol

Did Richardson say that Kansas was a "battleground state"? Did I not get the memo?

Here is the problem with the "say anything do anything" politics.

Clinton said Bush was the "worst President in history."

(Let the pundits say crap like that or the historians after the man has passed. He has a family for Christ's sake!!)

And the same thing goes for Carville (that rabid dog) calling Richardson (someone who the folks in Clinton camp "used to" have a lot of respect for.)

Why can't they just switch the Larry King set to a live dog track?

Yep, Ally...Richardson actually said that. He really is one bad, bearded cheerleader.

Good H & C

Replay at 11 PM C

Newt Gingrich & Terry McAuliffe

man........"bush has a family" oh, poor little boy..... is somebody telling the truth about him again out loud in public?

EdVb

You aren't going to give us any more gossip are you? I thought KO's new lady was named Katie?

Can Larry discuss Bill The Beard's Reign of Error as Energy Secretary? Viva Los Alamos!!!

As it should be, this will go to convention. I like watching how excited the BHO supporters are starting to get...stumbling and a twitching. Craig is right..."Hurry, John McCain is breathing down our necks." Bunch of bad actors.

Tell that to Wen Ho Lee and Diane Denish.

Sturg:

The crack comment meant the fight is on.

Don't get your hopes up. We're not throwing in the towell out of fear of the mighty Clinton Machine.

We have been kicking your ass so far - what's another month or so!!

(See you peeps in Puerto Rico if HRC can last that long ; )

warren......very well......and curs't be he who cries 'hold....enough'

From Josh Marshall during his Salon days...

"Two days later Lee was abruptly fired from his job at New Mexico's Los Alamos National Laboratory by Energy Secretary Bill Richardson. And months after that, on December 10, 1999, Lee was arrested and charged with offenses which, if proven, would have earned him life behind bars several times over. From the moment the New York Times broke the story, the case was quickly swept into congressional Republicans' effort to tar the Clinton administration over its China policy.

"Despite the uproar, the government's case against Lee was an ever-dwindling thing from the start. Claims of espionage were succeeded by charges that Lee had mishandled government secrets with an unknown, but nefarious, purpose. Now it turns out that that purpose was apparently not nefarious enough to garner Lee even 12 months in prison. "

Thank you, Decent Man Bill.

Lee would plea guilty to a lesser charge and walk. The government would then have to pay him $1.6 million.

Well indeed (and whatever else you said....).

And then there is NM Lt. Governor Diane Denish... who has officially complained about Richardson's touchy, feely ways with her.

Thank you again, Decent Man Bill.

No one is bitter or angry Bill Richardson can do as he chooses. All you Obama supporters carry a heavy burden, should you get the nomination you will have a huge burden carry through the general election and your Sainted Obama will lose and lose huge and most likely will disappear after the general because you will have earned frustration from many Hillary supporters for losing the general election and perhaps control of the senate

That will be a huge burden for you to carry and for months you will not be a happy camper here constantly hammered by Hillary supporters for hurting OUR Democratic Party. Live with that.

--Heather

And then there's his decades long claim that he was drafted by the Kansas City Royals when he was a high school senior....

Which he now blames on someone else.

Thank you, Decent Man Bill.

The weakness in BHO's argument about "no more debates" is that each debate is an opportunity to go in front of the American people. What is he so afraid of?

Wino: Obama is being smart deciding not to debate and not to do press avails. The less exposure for him, the better. The nomination is his to lose.

Brain and Warren...just curious, do you guys have beards?

Jamie,

KO's love life is way outside my ken. I was just hinting that if Keith is Charlie McCarthy, there might be an Edgar Bergen behind the scenes. And if that's the case, I was looking forward to watching the next Candice grow up.

I wonder if Al Gore wants his beard back.

Ed.......lol........nice angle........

Maybe after they drop out or lose their spouses or significant others take all the razors out of the house. Ever think of that?

I think it is a cosmetic thing...hiding that double chin and taking the gaze off of those "lying eyes!"

And if there is another debate - how bout NBC?

(I have a closely trimmed goat-t - you can barely see it.)

Ally,

That might be the other inconvenient truth.

9/11: Hee hee : )

p'sssst..........craig is out to dinner with Ms Thomas.....

Wino,

All us dog people loves our furs and whiskers.

How rude Blondie!

(I just think it looks cool and it covers a scar on my chin ; )

Wow...Warren, you are the first man to ever call me rude when I called him handsome. Brain -- the bearded cheeleader is a reference to Richardson. Don't lose your sense of humor over this primary process.

Floyd Brown is back.

"Brown, the former political director of "Americans for Bush" (meaning George H.W. Bush), was a key player in the infamous 1988 "Willie Horton" ad, and his new group the National Campaign Fund -- which launched a new website "Expose Obama" -- aims to take a similarly low-road approach to the presidential race and his new target, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois.

The subject of the ad is Obama's record on gang violence, which in recent days has become a real problem in Obama's home town of Chicago."

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/04/how-republicans.html

H & C - Fox had a very good statement on BO just now before close of show. Hannity said, Bo is seeking the hghest office in the land and he has not been vetted. The msm refuses to do this. He will do everything he can to bring Ayers, Wright, etc to the public attention.
msm sure were fast enough to trash Hillary today instead of praising her ability to win last night.
Hannity seems to be the only one willing to question BO background...

Julie

Here are the real questions: Why can't Senator Clinton seal the deal? Why are Americans not buying her experience lock, stock, and barrel? Why is it after 16 or so years in the public eye, with name recognition, and being First Lady for eight, did she not shut this down on Super Tuesday? Why is it that most Americans find her to be untrustworthy and dishonest? How can Jr. Senator from out of nowhere blindside her and take over not only the Popular Vote and Delegate Lead, not to mention win more states? Why is it that in states where she's expected to win by 20 or more percentage points, she barely scrapes by? Why is it, that people have started to cringe when Bill Clinton opens his mouth? Why is it that the Senator Hillary feels she has to lie, flip flop, change her position, and blow up Iran?

to all the furr and whiskers...I love you. I just wasn't impressed with the Richardson cheerleader routine.

sturg:

"the "20 points back" thing is a myth......a pure fabrication."

Maybe in Clinton Country....

*meanwhile - in the real world*

"Clinton Lead Narrows (2/21): Hillary's lead in Pennsylvania has narrowed from the previous poll. However, she still holds a 12-point margin, down from 20:

Hillary Clinton: 44
Barack Obama: 32"

"SurveyUSA Poll: Hillary With Big Lead: The primary is still several weeks away, but Sen. Obama has a big hill to climb according to SurveyUSA:

Hillary Clinton: 55%
Barack Obama: 36%"

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/02/17/pennsylvania-primary-late_n_87069.html

Max Jr.........dont you know real questions from mierda del toro?

Huffington Post? LOLOL

I have to walk my dog and she pointed out I typo-ed fur! Have a good night all!

warren,

Jerome Armstrong averaged ALL PA polls taken over the past 3 months.

I posted his final numbers twice today.

Life is more interesting than this and (almost) everyone here knows it.

FOX has become a regular Hillary News Channel lately I've noticed. Between Murdoch and Mellon Scaife, I guess she needs no better friends.

The "can't close the deal" argument was created by Mary Matlin awhile back on Russet's Sat. show - it is a GOP argument.*

Plus - it makes the debate "what's wrong with Obama".

(As opposed to "what's right with Hillary" that she still has a shot....)

A master stroke by Mary... She is much more subtle than her jack-ass husband.

*(unless someone can prove me wrong - but she said it long before I started hearing the Clinton camp paroting it.)

Yes, yes, yes, FoxNews, MSNBC, CNN...

The most compelling sources of information and thought since the back of box of Trix cereal.

Monday Murdoch did what he swore he wouldn't do, of course. He is getting rid of the solid journalists at the WSJ starting with its editor... and now he is trying to buy Newsday, too. (Zuckerman is fighting that.)

There is a lot more on the front page of any broadsheet website relating to journalism and politics that has turned up here in months.

However, this is now Trail Mix and not the earlier blog that was dedicated to politics and the media.

Well, things do change. And sometimes when they change they get strangely static and repetitive.

On H & C tonight, Terry McAuliffe complimented Fox News.

Gov. Ed Rendell (D-PA): Fox News IS Fair and Balanced

http://youtube.com/watch?v=BspCUHqXME0

Meanwhile - Lou Dobbs is destroying the credibility of the NY Times.

Today's news cycle - on a scale of 1-10 - a 9 for the GOP.

Dang, I miss my Trix! Need to switch back from Tony and Sugar Bear to the Rabbit and join in the real world. :)

Mary:

"but remember, in 2000, the economy was roaring, and people didn't realize how much they had to lose. things are very different now for the average voter."

In 2004 - we had two wars and there were (and still are) plenty or poor people, plenty of people with no healthcare and plenty of kids wasting away in crappy schools.

And what did all Kerry's "experience" get him?

Washington is broken - not just the Executive Branch.

Edvb

Thanks I wandered off for awhile. Silly me missed the Candace reference. Even aging she is still great on Boston Legal.

Sturgeone, Leave you alone and you're starting sword fights with MacDuff?

Jamie:

"My latest gripe is all the news people yammering about Sen. Clinton's "negative" campaign. What do they do to demonstrate this?"

Here is what the voters are saying...

Who attacked unfairly:

PA:

Clinton - 67%
Obama - 49%

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/04/22/exit-polls-clinton-blamed-for-more-unfair-attacks/

(and this is a state that likes her)

OH & TX:

"Democratic voters had some greater criticism for Clinton than for Obama on negative campaigning -- 54 percent in Ohio and 52 percent in Texas said Clinton attacked unfairly, while fewer than four in 10 both states said Obama did."

http://abcnews.go.com/PollingUnit/Vote2008/Story?id=4386210&page=4

And blondie - thanks for the compliment awhile back!

(I was responding to your comment about the next VP or Sec. of State and joking like you were talking about me.)

Enough is enough people. I need to pack, finish up some work and find my passport.

Hasta luego peeps.

(And may the force be with you - even if you are currently on the dark side....)

3

Warren..I told you a long time ago that I regretted my billable hours comment..

Volunteers are pouring into Oregon Hillary headquarters.

People are excited because Bill is returning for two days this week visiting Portland, and small towns like Monmouth and North Bend..

The Tide is Turning!!!!!!!!

OD - I'm just joking (plus it was a valid concern).

New Thread

Jamie,

You r killing me with your comment of yesterday at 6:11

YOU ARE TRULY KILLING ME!!!!!!!!
lmpo.....HAHAHAHAHHAHA. Amazing....

Objects in mirror are closer then they appear....

Anyway,
Morning all

Another cool day.
Dutch media picked up on the NYT controversy. They fully elaborated and spent less time on HRC winning PA.
I have sent tow e-mails and made a phonecall to complain.

OD
The new goal is $ 15 million in 36 hours.....
I donated yet again.. geting to like this donating thing.

Mom and dad leaving today for NC. Dad has the car stuffed with HRC signs from the whole neighbourhood. Mom complained that she doesn´t even have room to store her own luggage. :)) They told me that they are going to stay quite close to a HRC centre in NC

The tide is NOT turning OD

The tide has turned a long time ago.....

We have won three in a row now and we are not going to stop.....

Hillary......our nominee!!!!!

Great post Craig. I enjoy reading your blog, thanks for giving an honest post.

I see Team Clinton and her supporters true colors are coming out. You cant deal with the issues, so you insult, and you call that tough politics, I call that dirty tricks. Can Hillary explain how she plan to pay for the war in Iran, since she is trying to bully them into war.How does Team Clinton plan to pay for education?
how long do you plan to run the rev. wright sound bite?
How long do you expect Black folks and the working poor to play second fiddle to the likes of Team Clinton and McBush? do you think Hillary can win the white house without the support of African Americans? I DONT THINK SO!!!