2008 Primaries Thread 2: THE QUICKENING

Whoever said this was the ZINGingest campaign ever was dead on.

Hillary to do The Daily Show Monday night. Have her staffers not been watching the show lately? Won't this probably do her more harm than good?

they should offer her as many pillows as she wants

fully expecting a phone-call-mid-interview gag

o wow obama campaign already has thier own "3am phonecall"

that is fucking fast

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/politicalintelligence/2008/02/obama_launches_2.html

just came here to post about it xp

http://hotlineblog.nationaljournal.com/archives/2008/02/pregnant_pause.html

Your headline said "Pregnant" another anti-feminist post!

just another dem | 02.29.08 05:35 PM

Come on Hillary, pack it in, try to get yourself a job on Obama's cabinet or you'll end up with nothing at all.

you know, she's really not that far behind obama... i see no reason for her to "pack it in" just yet.

wow the turnaround on that ad is insane.

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she's too far behind to catch up without posting double digit victories in a couple big states, which is next to impossible to pull off.

and certainly doesn't look likely given how things are polling and how badly Clinton's campaign is performing

im starting to feel sympathy for her, a sign that she really is finished

even so, his delegate lead is really slight and he won't be able to get the required amount before the convention anyway.. lets be fair here.

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Re: Hillary not being that far behind, Marc Ambinder's rosiest scenario has her behind Obama by 60 pledged delegates even if she does better than expected in every upcoming contest. She can't win the nomination, unless the superdelegates change the outcome.

that is fucking fast

THE QUICKENING

She should stay in the Senate. Better for policy wonks anyway.

Marc,

You say Obama will be closer to the victory.

Give me a break. This is the biggest fairy tale I have heard.

You do not want to roll the dice.

Jesse Jackson won South Carolina in 1984 and 1988. He was not close to the victory.

Give me a break. This is the biggest fairy tale I have heard.

Posted by eorse | February 29, 2008 4:49 PM

even so, his delegate lead is really slight

this is simply incorrect, particularly in regards to how many delegates are left to claim

lol

have you guys checked out hillaryis44.org? LOLZ FOR DAYS.

and its been noted many times that the superdelegates will feel obligated by both internal party pressure and external popular pressure to back the candidate with the majority of delegates. Hillary "winning" the nomination on the backs of superdelegates would be a colossally stupid move in terms of the GE, and the Democratic Party on the whole is aware of this.

you're right shakey, I just don't think we should count her out just yet.

http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN2964115720080229?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=22&sp=true

^ o has a lead in tx, gaining in ohio

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2008/02/mccains-liberal.html

^ mccain accidentally calls himself a liberal

Obama got what, like, 10 new superdelegate endorsements this week to Hillary's -2 since Super Tuesday? There's no f'ing way the superdelegates will toss the nomination to Hillary anyway. It's just stupid for her to stay in the race unless she wins huge next week.

hahahaha McCain is the gift that keeps on giving

though i get the sense that post-nyt-story, it won't do much as far as getting the right wing attack dogs on him xxp

big hoos you've done this a couple times now ... pretty sure those articles were both referenced upthread

OMG Hillary quits!

Ah, remember the internet on 2008?

big hoos you've done this a couple times now ... pretty sure those articles were both referenced upthread

-- deej, Friday, February 29, 2008 11:45 PM

yeah i guess in a thread like this it's a safe assumption everything gets covered by somebody at some point. i'll back off.

OMG

But Republicans said it was just the faintest preview of what voters are likely to see in a general election — whether from McCain, the Republican National Committee or an independent group.

"It's a love tap compared to the Wu-Tang fist of fury that's coming at this guy in the fall," said Rick Wilson, a Republican media consultant.

quote from here

and they wouldn't do anything like that if Hillary was the candidate? What IS the point of this republican "just you wait" thing with Obama?

More basketball metaphors on the way.

Even before the evening news, today's campaign news now is "New Clinton Ad Prompts Reply From Obama"

Whoever has the last word by printing deadline wins, and Obama's good at that game.

Yglesias is OTM here. It's pretty pathetic that HRC's top campaign advisors sashayed into a major conference call with the press on the heels of releasing that "3 am" television spot without being able to cite to a single significant nat'l security crisis that HRC has had to confront. Wasn't she a NY Senator during 9/11? Surely they could make something of that (tho, admittedly, in citing to 9/11 she'd be drawing from the same winning campaign playbook as Rudy Giuliani). But they didn't, which speak volumes.

i dont believe republican reps are aware enough of wu tang clan to have this be a ref. to obama's blackness. i think he literally meant it as a reference to the old movies

http://img512.imageshack.us/img512/3277/weetangclanjl0.gif

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/photos/uncategorized/2008/02/29/acmecagle.jpg

lolz

awesome

*BREAKING* HIGHLY INFLUENCIAL SUPERDELEGATE SWITCHES TO OBAMA'S SIDE:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qe0BPwWAxnk

-- The Brainwasher, Saturday, March 1, 2008 12:07 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Link

A+++

yeah well

Rolling US Economy Into The Shitbin Thread

carter ii at best?

huckabee 12?

oh no, will.i.am does it again. one of the people appearances was good for a lol, at least.

meanwhile, hillary wants you to know that she's gone off the deep end.

http://thepage.time.com/2008/03/01/dueling-videos-for-dueling-candidates-hit-the-web/

http://thepage.time.com/2008/03/01/ny-times-finds-no-meaningful-anti-clinton-pro-obama-bias-in-press/

Doesn't a montage of Nicholson villains seem...lazy?

I would love it if the Obama campaign responded with a William H. Macy montage.

It was funny but thousands of people have just been left with unappetizing mental pic of what Jack's 'morning salute' might consist of.