2008 Primaries Thread

oh yeah, it might also say something about Hillary's January fundraising

same with her attacking Obama on matching funds

oh yeah, it might also say something about Hillary's January fundraising

^^yea definitely. debates are free publicity.

Mark Penn:

"The campaign believes that it’s critically important that we continue the debate," he said, citing the questions of "who offers universal healthcare and who's best prepared to fix the economy."

these are issues that i thought hillary outperformed obama on, at least in last week's debate.

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2008/02/05/obama_crushed_clinton_in_january_fundraising.html

sometimes you can tell what gabbnebb's links will say by reading the URLs

The whining begins:

Today, Romney for President Campaign Manager Beth Myers issued the following statement regarding the outcome of West Virginia's Republican Party convention:
"Unfortunately, this is what Senator McCain's inside Washington ways look like: he cut a backroom deal with the tax-and-spend candidate he thought could best stop Governor Romney's campaign of conservative change.

"Governor Romney had enough respect for the Republican voters of West Virginia to make an appeal to them about the future of the party based on issues. This is why he led on today's first ballot. Sadly, Senator McCain cut a Washington backroom deal in a way that once again underscores his legacy of working against Republicans who are interested in championing conservative policies and rebuilding the party."

haha, i'm for anything that keeps huckabee and romney in the race longer and encourages schism within the GOP

James Dobson -- I Will Never Vote for that Scoundrel, John McCain. Too little, too late, I'm afraid.

^^also rush

love that rush will vote for a candidate he thinks will undoubtedly screw-up the country just so that person doesn't end up being a republican

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/02/05/ny_brooklyn_neigborhood_loves.html

Poor Mittens. I wonder if he is going to be broke after today.

He won't be. Seeing the writing on the wall, he placed very limited ad buys in the Super Tuesday states.

California is his line-in-the-sand. If he doesn't win it, I'm not sure he even stays in the race.

Seeing Romney out before Ron Paul would make me laugh quite a bit.

Oh, and I gather Hewitt finally hedged a bit and said, "Well, um, I'll support McCain in the general, sure!" What a pathetic lickspittle.

I think I have just realized that I really hate the word "lickspittle".

Super Vocab Tuesday

is there anything to like about the word, except for the fact that it is particularly, uh, evocative?

I really like the words "toady" and "sycophant". "Lickspittle" is just gross.

it's got "lick" in it.

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I'd just like to point out that.. Hill's January fundraising was about $13.5 mil which would be on track for a record-breaking quarter, so it's not like her fundraising is drying up, more that Obama just pulled in an unprecedented amount of $$.

lil old ladies be sendin' green stamps

It's also phonetically clumsy with the "-cksp-" in the middle. It just doesn't sound right to me.

"Moistly queefing lickspittle" is probably the worst phrase in the world.

stop quoting Ulysses, Dan.

"And I said ugh I said oof."

Stately plump Rush Limbaugh

haha

"that lickspittle coug, queefing moistly in her jorts"

lazy idle little liberal

(wrong Joyce, but whatever)

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/02/05/us/05vote.337.jpg

Is the old guy in the middle peeing on the Diebold machine?

The loneliness of the Georgetown undergraduate Hillary supporter.

Interesting article about how Obama resisted being photographed with Gavin Newsom 4 years ago during the gay-marriage controversy in SF, and how that snub may have affected Newsom's decision to endorse Clinton:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/05/BAM5US1B5.DTL&type=politics

Way to go -- side with the pols who betrayed gays in '93 versus the one guy -- the only guy -- who's actually said the word "gay" in campaign speech after speech.

Newsom is a slimeball and his gay-marriage stunt was fantastically stupid and badly timed

Greg Nickels, Seattle mayor, can eat it but he endorsed Obama.

Surely this threatens the all-important Joanna endorsement.

newsom is well known for his moral courage
Joanna Newsom's cousin is a shit (allegedly)

I expect WA Gov. Gregoire to endorse Clinton, but if she endorses Obama it will be like wau

how petty xpost

I mean basically he handed the Republicans a wedge issue in a national election year for the sake of shoring up local short-term political support for himself. fuck him.

x-post

how will O win SF or get a table at plumpjack now?

I think he's gonna win SF.

don't forget that Deadhead benefit yesterday lolz

Steve Wonder just called my answering machine and sang "I just called to say I love you" and told me to vote for Obama.

i saw one sad hillary supporter outside of Bart today trying to give people flyers; the streets of the financial district have been filled with Obama people all week. still this doesn't necessarily mean anything

Hillary robocalled us so much yesterday (4 times!) my wife has now actually been put off voting for her, she was so annoyed

I got ScarJo and some unknown dude.

Scarjo why don't you call me anymore :(

I haven't seen but one lone Hillary sign in my 'hood in SF. It's all Obama.