2008 Primaries Thread 2: THE QUICKENING

"my friend," "my friend," "my friend," "my friend," "my friend."

My head hurts already, and it isn't even the GE yet.

i honestly wonder how many "motherfucker"s are slipping into hillary clinton's conversations recently.

i just know sen. mccain is going to be on zing patrol when/if obama emerges from this. He has to be seen as the aggressor from the outset, as a contrast to the "u old" narrative, and not even worry about being perceived as negative to have a chance to win.

I just wanted to post this again because it's awesome:

http://i28.tinypic.com/20hads9.jpg

i see her more spitting "cocksucker" as al swearengen would have done. darken her hair, give her a blue chalkstripe suit and a black moustache and she'd look just like him, too. xpost

then again as he's exposed to more scrutiny, mccain will seem as inspiring as a rotten cauliflower to all but the dimmest.

Ferraro yelled "You don't have to vote for Barack Obama just because you like him!"

xpost Howdy, cowpoke.

Please someone photoshop a Cindy/Meghan hairdo onto head of McCain?

Colbert cast Obama as Cleavon Little as Black Bart the other night

http://images.tvnz.co.nz/tvnz_images/tv2/movies/wl508_blazing_saddles_d.jpg

Gene Wilder IS the Biden Kid

he Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows Barack Obama leading Hillary Clinton 47% to 42% in the race for the Democratic Presidential Nomination.

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

lololololololol

Colbert cast Obama as Cleavon Little as Black Bart the other night

-- Dr Morbius, Wednesday, March 12, 2008 1:48 PM (Wednesday, March 12, 2008 1:48 PM) Bookmark Link

I've been preparing myself for "The president is a'near!" jokes since last fall.

'What matters is that the Clinton campaign is convinced that Archie Bunker is voting in Pennsylvania in April 22, and they clearly will not struggle hard to repudiate any idea -- no matter how loathesome -- that can squeeze out a few extra voters in that regard.'. Not sure this is true, but it's an interesting view (or maybe it's a view that's by now widely echoed or denounced; I've been a little out-of-the-loop for a few days).

apparently olbermann is supposed to do one of his "special comment" polemics against the clinton campaign tonight -- presumably over ferarro's remarks

I know Tracer won't agree, but I find Shril's "I have no reason to think he's a Muslim" far more vile than GF's ranting.

Ferraro also did a big 'look here sonny don't antagonize me' thing about Obama, reckoning she could 'help' him if he becomes the candidate. UGH.

Let's speculate on Ferraro's chances of becoming HRC's veep nominee.

they're equally vile, c'mon.

xp

haha alfred do you think there's even a 10% chance? cuz that would be interesting

clinton/ferarro 08 theme song?

boogie on reggae woman

don't stand so close to me

Ferraro could debate McCain, it'd be like analyzing On Golden Pond

sucka nigga

http://img.snlarc.jt.org/arc/chartn/GiRa-Baba%20Wawa.jpg

baba wawa want to know: wewe the wemarks made by gewaldine fewawwo wacist?

wol

hahaha

Ferarro's off the Clinton finance committee, apparently of her own will and not asked to resign by campaign officials (yeah, sure).

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/03/12/ferraro-quits-clinton-post/

Geraldine's got some bitchin' hair.

She's been fired because she's a woman.

GF was an obama plant!

I know Tracer won't agree, but I find Shril's "I have no reason to think he's a Muslim" far more vile than GF's ranting.

-- Dr Morbius

maybe not far more, but more nonetheless

lol

Not sure this ad is so "hip," but it's certainly true that HRC's "Choir Moment" was tremendously lame.

WHOA

Geraldine Ferraro on NBC now, totally batshit.

She implied that Obama's people did it.

"If anything, Obama's playing the race card."

hahaha

yeah he's playing the race card by BEING BLACK

HOW DARE HE

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y155/rgin/454361512399131564.png

from yglesias' blog

My outrage doesn't stem so much from Clinton's constant reminders of Obama's race, but rather Clinton's subtle reminders of how black voters don't matter.

By suggesting that Obama wouldn't be where he is today without the "black vote" presupposes that there's something wrong with those votes going to Obama. Meaning..."It's just those black people that are voting him."

If Ferraro and the Clinton campaign don't understand why this is insulting, then there's nothing we can do to enlighten them.

Posted by AKBY | March 12, 2008 3:54 PM

otm

Fundraisers were given a presentation on Florida by Senator Bill Nelson, and one on Michigan by Senator Debbie Stabenow, and senior Hillary adviser Harold Ickes walked listeners through the challenges ahead. The presentations had a tone of optimism tempered by realism, the fundraiser said, adding that Ickes didn't try to persuade his listeners that she would be able to catch up with Obama in pledged delegates.

Rather, the clear message emerging from the presentations was that Hillary's success depends on the campaign's ability to persuade the super-delegates that they should be considering three "data points," as this fundraiser puts it, in considering whom to back: The pledged delegate count, the popular vote, and the specific states won by each candidate.

pledged delegate count - everyone seems to agree she can't catch up
popular vote - obama winning (after mississippi he's even winning if you throw in michigan on hillary's side)
specific states won - subjective

so ... comes down to florida and michigan I guess? what is their strategy really?

by "subjective" I mean that hrc's "I won the important states" spin argument seems unlikely to sway a superdel's vote if that's the only one of your OWN 3 CRITERIA that you have going for you

I can't stand that argument. It makes no sense. Who cares if she won New York and California? It's not like they're going to go to McCain in November anyway.

I don't know if this posted yet, but here's a bit that the dude at Raving Black Lunatic linked to, talking about the actual ratings increases for the networks for february.

In other words, pushing the narrative has the expected financial results.

http://www.nytimes.com/ref/pageoneplus/corrections.html

Corrections

An article on Monday about an offer by two supporters of Hillary Rodham Clinton to pay for restaging the Florida and Michigan primaries misstated the current standing of the Democratic presidential race. Senator Barack Obama has more delegates and has received more popular votes than Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton. They are not in a “virtual tie.”

lol

yea wtf @ that