This country is still the last best hope on earth—Barack Obama on Letterman in 2007. Things like this provide me with the distance I need from the mania of the impressive campaign of Barack Obama, and the “excitement” he has injected into the American political process. I’m impressed with his speeches, and I find myself feeling that this is what Continue Reading
Obama talks about the “bitter” flack
Great comments here Jeffrey Toobin Skewers Clinton Over Bittergate Jeffrey Toobin Skewers Clinton Over Bittergate – Bitter Voters For Obama Notice the link above? It is into a new blog created just to honor the occasion: Bitter Voters for Obama. Excellent
I KNEW it! He had to have had exposure to that thesis! It explains to a tee what he was saying. And if enough people listen to the relevant section here, the sense of what he said that people are pouncing on is totally off-base from what his deeper insights offer. TPM Reader GB sent me in the video of Continue Reading
It was only a matter of time before someone notices that Hillary thought the very same things that Obama is now getting battered over; the “unfortunate (from a Clinton perspective) proclivity to vote on life-style rather than economic issues” What hypocrisy and political opportunism. She disgusts me. I have been in meetings with the Clintons and their advisors where very Continue Reading
The irony here is that the very folks who voted against their own best interests are now being encouraged to do so again by this very flack, aimed at a candidate that is INFINITELY more likely to help them, the “bitter” than the platitiude pushing phonies like Hillary, and by a more sincere, yet still sickly platitude pushing McCain. Neither Continue Reading
The key word here is bitter. Bad choice, but what he says is right on. It is reminiscent of Thomas Frank’s book What’s The Matter With Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America, which explored why heart of America conservatives vote against their own interests. (In essence, by getting politically gamed by cynical politics that play upon their conservative Continue Reading
Hillary: “Pennsylvanians don’t need a president who looks down on them,” she said. “They need a president who stands up for them.” Obama hit for saying some voters ‘bitter’ – Barack Obama News- msnbc.com Oh yeah, right, Mrs. 109 million dollars Tucker Bounds, a spokesman for McCain, said Friday: “Only an elitist would say that people vote their values only Continue Reading
Christopher Hitchens is saying that Obama’s refusal to condemn Wright was , rather than brave, a copout. Hitchens says that Obama could have and did not identify WHICH of Wright’s statements he disagreed with. For me, the reasons I have given for Obama’s intentional lack of specificity were that the issues surrounding this (black liberation theology expressed in apocalyptic language) Continue Reading
The tax records Clinton 109 million, Obama 1 million Neither of these candidates live in your world. As if none of us knew that already, but Dave below posted about this, and I think he’s right that she is so much further away from the rest of us. I think mostly because this is her whole life, isn’t it? Does Continue Reading
Stephen Colbert at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in Washington in April 2006: “Let’s review the rules. Here’s how it works. The president makes decisions, he’s the decider. The press secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the press type those decisions down. Make, announce, type. Put them through a spell-check and go home. Get to know your Continue Reading
Wow. Mike Huckabee should be listened to by the ravenous conservative media on this one: I’m pretty impressed. Hat tip to David Kuo. Go in about 3:20 into this video: Kuo comments: If you haven’t seen this, watch Mike Huckabee talk about Sen. Obama’s speech and Rev. Wright’s remarks: Particularly important is this paragraph: …And one other thing I Continue Reading
For some reason, nobody has put the entire speech up on Youtube yet that I can see, so here’s a link to a Huntington WVa TV station that has the link Here’s my rigged embedded player drawing from that video Click here to load speech into the player
Interesting. YouTube has a helpful political role by helping to spread the loftier notions of a Barak Obama about race, Iraq, economy. · The most popular video on YouTube has no lip-synching Chinese teenagers, no babies falling over, no drunk cats: It’s Barack Obama’s speech on race. So far, the Obama speech has been clicked on 1.6 million times —though Continue Reading
But here is the stark reality: there is a security gap in this country – a gap between the rhetoric of those who claim to be tough on national security, and the reality of growing insecurity caused by their decisions. A gap between Washington experience, and the wisdom of Washington’s judgments. A gap between the rhetoric of those who tout Continue Reading