2008 Primaries Thread 3: The Rejecting and Denouncening

Big picture, everyone now knows that Obama has belonged to a Christian church for 20 years.

Big picture, everyone now knows that Obama has belonged to a Christian church crazy racist jew-hating cult for 20 years.

And those clips came out at the start of a week without a primary, so it may turn out that the timing was almost ideal for Obama.

yeah ive been thinking that. he's got an insurmountable delagte lead, next rounds of primaries weeks away, etc.

hrc friend: this is exactly what hilary was talking about when she said he hadn't been vetted yet!

FOX news anchors walking off set in protest to the Obama-bashing on their network: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/21/mayhem-at-fox-news-ancho_n_92743.html

haha okay, when FoxNews is offending their own employees...!

im pretty sure that dude was walking off as a joke

not like thatll stop dailykos posters from going nutz over it

Chris Wallace is a bozo

he's my favorite of the FOX anchors, actually.

I think Chris Wallace is actually/arguably/supposed to be the closest thing they have to a real journalist there, and sorta gets beat up slightly on air by Brit Hume, his managing editor, in a milder version of the Hannity-Colmes relationship.

he's my favorite of the FOX anchors, actually.

this is like having a favorite venereal disease

maybe it's a show, but if it is it might reflect something real

this is like having a favorite venereal disease

Since I don't have cable, I know only the anchors I can watch in bits at friends' or my parents', but FOX's don't seem any more vapid than CNN's (ugh, Wolf Blitzer and Lou Dobbs).

don't get me started on Lou Dobbs

Blitzer just seems kind of incompetent and incapable of modulating the volume of his voice, Dobbs seems genuinely loathsome in his demogoguery

Meet the White Guy Who Inspired Rev. Wright's Chickens-Comin-Home Comments

tho of course it's a malcolm ref, just worth pointing out

Shepard Smith did a good job in the Katrina aftermath.

"Just yesterday, we heard Sen. McCain confuse Sunni and Shiite, Iran and Al Qaeda," said Obama. "Maybe that is why he voted to go to war with a country that had no Al Qaeda ties. Maybe that is why he completely fails to understand that the war in Iraq has done more to embolden America's enemies than any strategic choice that we have made in decades."

zing!

daaaaaaamn

Shepard Smith did a good job in the Katrina aftermath. so did geraldo(in his own breathless fashion), that's no reason to encourage him.

Blitzer just seems kind of incompetent and incapable of modulating the volume of his voice

otm. actually it seems like his voice just doesn't naturally project and he can't afford to not speak near the top of his voice most of the time.

well apparently 79% of lou dobb's viewers think hilary is hurting the party.

so there's that.

yeah everybody on cnn seems to be shouting lately

are you people just now figuring out that blitzer talks like a mongoloid? i can't get past it, dude is the most grating voice in all broadcasting

... mongoloid?

i think u need to clarify lololz.

urbandictionary.com

Mongoloid he was a mongoloid
Happier than you and me
Mongoloid he was a mongoloid
And it determined what he could see
Mongoloid he was a mongoloid
One chromosome too many
Mongoloid he was a mongoloid
And it determined what he could see
And he wore a hat
And he had a job
And he brought home the bacon
So that no one knew
Mongoloid he was a mongoloid
His friends were unaware
Mongoloid he was a mongoloid
Nobody even cared

3AM girl's Obama ad:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oXmYVRIpu2w

To: Interested Parties
From: The Clinton Campaign
Date: March 21, 2008
RE: Obama Campaign: Just Words

At this point, it's no secret that the Obama campaign is in political hot water given the news stories of the last few weeks and is desperate to change the subject.

The ground is shifting away from them and their response?

First, disenfranchise voters - Prevent new votes in Florida and Michigan. Stop voting in Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Oregon, West Virginia, Puerto Rico, Kentucky, South Dakota, Montana, West Virginia and Indiana.

Second, peddle photos of President Clinton shaking hands with Reverend Wright less than 48 hours after calling for a high-minded conversation on race. Well, President Clinton took tens of thousands of photos during his eight years as president. Stop the presses.

Third, accuse our campaign of having something to do with Senator Obama's passport file being breached, a reckless charge that has zero merit.

Fourth, continue attacks on Senator Clinton's character in an effort to implement what the Chicago Tribune called a full assault on her ethics.

Fifth, stonewall the press: no tax returns, no state records, no answers about the inconsistencies in the Rezko story.

So it's not a pretty sight - it's all part of a pattern of just words.

Senator Obama talks about voter participation while actively disenfranchising millions.

He calls for high minded debates while practicing lowdown politics.

He promises a different kind of campaign while attacking Hillary's character.

He promises transparency while hiding basic info and stonewalling the press.

It's no wonder that Americans are coming to see that for all of his lofty rhetoric, Senator Obama's candidacy is really just words.

It's no surprise that Americans are expressing serious doubts about his ability to answer the 3am call.

It's no wonder that top journalists are calling the Obama campaign desperate, saying that it's amateur hour in Chicago.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f1/President_Nixon_and_chief_advisers_1970.png

Third, accuse our campaign of having something to do with Senator Obama's passport file being breached, a reckless charge that has zero merit.

huh?

apparently matt drudge is part of the obama campaign now??

i dunno either

at this point their chutzpah impresses me much more than it provokes, so that's a huge step in the right direction.

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If you click through on the SNL link it's to a Hilz sockpuppet site.

Does the Hillary campaign have any policies of their own other than Don't Vote For Obama?

lolololz @ Fox & Friends anchor trying desperately to avoid saying "typical black person"

“Mr. Richardson’s endorsement came right around the anniversary of the day when Judas sold out for 30 pieces of silver, so I think the timing is appropriate, if ironic,” Mr. Carville said, referring to Holy Week.

^^^Cajun Style^^^

cold shit

So Hillary is Jesus now?

I love it when James Carville tries to do irony.

It's like him trying to grow hair.

now that the revotes are dead people are starting to say this thing is over. sorry if this was posted already.

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0308/9149.html

Unless Clinton is able to at least win the primary popular vote — which also would take nothing less than an electoral miracle — and use that achievement to pressure superdelegates, she has only one scenario for victory. An African-American opponent and his backers would be told that, even though he won the contest with voters, the prize is going to someone else.

People who think that scenario is even remotely likely are living on another planet.

As it happens, many people inside Clinton’s campaign live right here on Earth. One important Clinton adviser estimated to Politico privately that she has no more than a 10 percent chance of winning her race against Barack Obama, an appraisal that was echoed by other operatives.

In other words: The notion of the Democratic contest being a dramatic cliffhanger is a game of make-believe.

http://thepage.time.com/halperins-take-painful-things-hillary-clinton-knows-%E2%80%94-or-should-know/

“They’re looking ahead and saying: Is it possible this thing is just going to drip, drip, drip, drip — more video? Where does that leave us if he’s our presumptive nominee and he’s limping into the convention and the Republicans are just read to go on him, double-barreled?”

I've been thinking about this. I don't know who unearthed the original videos but presumably there's more out there.

Of course there are, but the LBJ and Clinton pics have balanced that out. People might just get bored of Wright as a whipping boy for Obama or anyone else. It is more than unfair.

It is more than unfair.

I get the sense that this won't stop them.

I didn't think the Corner could startle me anymore, but leave it to John Derbyshire:

I don't get the sensitivity and slack-cutting towards Obama that Charles Murray's post typified. Obama's the enemy — a far-left Democrat. We should be attacking him at every weak point. That's politics.

A pro-Obama emailer whines to me that the Pastor Wright business is "a Swift Boating of Obama." Well, duh!