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Category: 2008 Presidentials

  • A More Perfect Union…Updated with video

    Full text of the speech by Barak Obama, here. After reading the text of the speech, I’m inspired. This is what I’ve been talking about. Do we have severe social challenges, racism being one of them? You betcha. Is there long standing hurt and distrust stemming from these and other challenges? Absolutely. Is this something…

  • Apologizing to Ferraro

    h/t MissLaura Yesterday, Geraldine Ferraro resigned her post on the Clinton finance committee. This follows several days of noise concerning a “racist remark” that she made about how Barak Obama wouldn’t be in the lead for the Democratic nomination if he weren’t black. Now apparently, she wants an apology from the Obama campaign. Are you…

  • Stupid Experience

    So the Hillary camp thinks that highlighting the experience of the presumptive Republican nominee somehow bolsters their claim to being “ready on day one”. This is the stupidest of stupid arguments, particularly in light of Hillary’s claim that there is more bias against women than men in elections. Hillary’s campaign has become a sad shadow,…

  • Even Clinton Agrees

    MSNBC is reporting that former President Bill Clinton has put out the call… If she wins in Texas and Ohio, she’ll be the nominee. If she doesn’t, I don’t think she can be. It’s all on you. I’ll bet money the people of Texas and Ohio will be blamed long before Mark Penn or any…

  • Delegate-ometer

    So, the M-Obam-emtum rolls on. By my unscientific count, I find 12 states left to dole out the delegates on the Democratic side for a total of 1062 delegates (VT, RI, OH, TX, MS, PA, IN, NC, KY, OR, SD, MT). Unfortunately, that’s the only thing for sure right now, is how many delegates are…

  • This Conversation is Dead to me

    In our latest installment of “The Hillary Clinton Campaign’s Continuing Efforts to Make Their Candidate Look More Like the Problem than the Solution”, TPM reports that long time Clinton supporter Harold Ickes 
acknowledged that it would be possible for Clinton to lose pledged delegates but control a majority of the credentials committee, which ultimately decides…