Too bad. Obama will desperately need SOMEONE to be mean to Old Man McCain. He's gambling that the American electorate will see through the torrent of sewage that the Rethug 527s will flood them with. He's gambling that his upright righteousness will triumph. Good luck with that.

Perhaps he'll choose an attack dog VP running mate to carry the fight to the GOP-- but I doubt it.

We all better pray hard as hell that the nation is so sick and tired of the Rethugs that they'll vote for the only alternative from a major party.

Posted at May 15, 2008 12:44 PM in response to David Brock's Tough-Talking Third-Party Group Fizzles

He is getting many of the publicly elected supers, but the party leaders who have no concern over constituents are more likely to vote for the person most likely to keep the conservative voters, and that is Clinton.

Is that the reason that Republican operatives are openly salivating at running against another Clinton? Please. The GOP understands that Hillary's negatives in the polls are the result of investing millions in slime campaigns. They know that swift-boating Obama will be much trickier since the less disciplined media voices will slide directly into racist appeals which will drive moderate white Americans into his camp.

In short: a Hillary candidacy would be like Christmas in August for a party that desperately needs to distract independents and moderates from the trainwreck that the Republicans have driven the nation into.

Posted at May 10, 2008 1:01 PM in response to The Vast Majority Of Working Class Americans Will Not Vote For Senator Obama In The Fall

We believe the entire Democratic Party will line up behind Senator Obama if he is the candidate

Sheer lipservice. Your candidate is about a week from running off the cliff totally and declaring herself the "white people's candidate."

And, she's playing the "good cop" to Bill Clinton's "bad cop!" (See remarks after SC primary.)

I can't wait for Sen. Clinton rip the mask off and reveal... Tonya Harding going for Obama's kneecaps while proclaiming that he just can't be elected because of the racist American electorate.

Posted at May 10, 2008 12:51 PM in response to The Vast Majority Of Working Class Americans Will Not Vote For Senator Obama In The Fall

We don't think of working class voters as white or black.

Obviously, your candidate does.

Posted at May 10, 2008 12:43 PM in response to The Vast Majority Of Working Class Americans Will Not Vote For Senator Obama In The Fall

Isn't it apparent? Billy would have the impudent voters quit interrupting the coronation.

Posted at May 10, 2008 12:41 PM in response to The Vast Majority Of Working Class Americans Will Not Vote For Senator Obama In The Fall

Looks like NC could be a great home state for an authentic, progressive Dem who could forge the same alliance between the African-American community and the more liberal RTP segment.

Any candidate who could appeal to moderate whites and the other two segments could write his ticket nationally, too.

Now, what are you going to do about Heath Shuler?

Posted at March 19, 2008 11:49 PM in response to North Carolina: Democratic leadership lining up behind Obama

McCain's oppo research people won't even break a sweat. They'll just fax the Clinton campaign to messenger the files over.

Posted at March 19, 2008 11:32 PM in response to Obama Haters: The Republican Party LOVES You!!!

Odd, isn't it, how quiet McCrazy has been about Sen. Clinton. Seems like he's taken every chance to slag Obama.

It's like... he WANTS to run against Sen. Clinton.

If Clinton-supporters would look around, it's pretty clear who the Republicans think would be "more electable."

Posted at March 19, 2008 11:30 PM in response to Republicans gave Clinton Texas

I think that Rockefeller's "safe seat" IS the problem. He faces no threat from the right so he doesn't recognize the viciousness of the attack. There's no political opposition within his own party that will hold him to account.

He's floating along in the Senate, comfy and stupid. He certainly wouldn't want to piss off his fellow club members across the aisle.

Posted at March 5, 2008 12:52 PM in response to "It's Very Strange"

Obama should have hung NAFTA around Clinton's neck and re-inforced it in Ohio. How can she evade responsibility for NAFTA? Was she taking another "vacation from experience"-- like the vote for war? Both her book and her husband's book endorse NAFTA.

She flings a little dust in the eyes of Ohio voters with the Goolsbee affair and suddenly Obama is the one who's talking out of both sides of his mouth.

Obama needs to go more populist, not more dirty. Clinton's record will sink her.

Posted at March 5, 2008 12:46 PM in response to What Experience? Obama To Aggressively Engage Hillary's Claim To Foreign Policy Readiness