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RiverStone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 03:45 PM
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Obama calls South Carolina 'absolutely critical' on Jesse Jackson's radio show
Source: chicagotribune.com

Associated Press
11:26 AM CST, January 20, 2008

CHICAGO - Presidential hopeful Barack Obama said Sunday that South Carolina's primary will be "absolutely critical" to his campaign and was quick to point out that he won the majority of Nevada's Democratic delegates.

In a radio interview with the Rev. Jesse Jackson on Chicago station WVON-AM, the Illinois senator said Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton edged him out in the popular vote in Nevada's caucuses because she did well in Las Vegas and the rest of Clark County, the state's most densely populated area. By contrast, Obama said, he did well throughout Nevada.

Obama won more delegates in Nevada, despite getting fewer overall votes than Clinton, because of the proportional manner in which that state awards delegates.

"We had a hard fought battle in Nevada," Obama said in the radio interview. "We feel very strong about our showing."



Read more: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/chi-ap-il-obama-jackson,1,4122247.story
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peoli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 04:06 PM
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1. I wish the old crew would get over themselves and come out and endorse him
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Evergreen Emerald Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 04:37 PM
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2. I wish the old crew would get over themselves and endorse Clinton
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depakid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 07:25 PM
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11. I wish the new crew would get a clue
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comradebillyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 05:11 PM
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3. here's the key item from the interview
"In the radio interview, Obama called for federal intervention and investment to address racial inequalities."

I'm not saying that we don't need to redress racial inequalities, but I do think he just kissed off his clever and sucessful strategy of being "colorless". Federal intervention and investment to address racial inequalities is probably not a winning position in most of America. I think this is a big strategic blunder. His racial pandering in South Carolina will hurt him everywhere else.
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Kittycat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 05:20 PM
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4. Oh please. He wasn't speaking to America in that address.
He was speaking to the predominately black community that listens to Jackson. I'm sure HRC caters her conversations to relate to the crowds she's speaking to as well.
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comradebillyboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 05:55 PM
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8. I know who he was speaking to but
plenty of others are tuned in and I think it will come back to haunt him.
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amandabeech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 09:12 PM
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13. I agree. This won't go down all that well in Michigan, Pennsylvania or Ohio among whites, IMHO.
I think that there are plenty of people who really don't want affirmative action anymore. Michigan now has an anti-affirmative action law like California. This won't play there.

All three states have many older voters. McCain will exploit Obama's youth focus and anti-babyboomer message, too.

I don't know if an increased African American vote in the big cities in those states will be able to counteract the problems Obama could face.

The three have a chunk of electoral votes that Obama would have to make up somewhere, and, frankly, I don't know where.



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teleharmonium Donating Member (64 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-21-08 08:38 PM
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19. demographics
It goes down just fine with this white guy from Ohio, and I know several actual Republicans that say they are voting for Obama if he gets the nomination.

Obama is absolutely not depending on the black vote to win, to suggest otherwise is to play into empty headed media and Rep talking points.
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amandabeech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-22-08 05:10 PM
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21. I'm not suggesting that he is depending on blacks.
I'm just saying that some white people, particularly in my home state of Michigan where the voters passed a binding referendum banning affirmative action, will not see this as favorably as most people here.

I lived in PA for seven years, and I have to say that this won't go down too well with a lot of people there.

Your experience in Ohio differs, so I amend my comment.

I'm not playing into the media, and if my comments mirror those of Reps on this issue, so be it. Reps aren't stupid when it comes to negative campaigning, or at least their pollsters aren't, and they are not afraid of unscrupulous tactics. If your guy is the nominee, this may very well show up in a rep or 527 ad somewhere.

I'm an Edwards fan, but I'll vote for your guy in the general. All candidates say and do things that piss off voters. Your guy is no exception, and IMHO, he needs to be prepared for these comments to be played up.

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harmonicon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 05:25 PM
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5. Am I the only person whose first reaction to this headline was to think:
Jesse Jackson has a radio show?
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mopinko Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 05:41 PM
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7. you would be the only one in chicago.
wvon originally stood for voice of the negro. seriously. it is a black talk station.
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danielet Donating Member (150 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 05:35 PM
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6. IT'S HILLARY'S TIME...NOT *YET* OBAMA'S
AFTER I FINISH TYPING THIS POST I WILL HAVE TO TAKE A SHOWER BECAUSE I WILL FEEL EXTREMELY DIRTY WRITING THESE WORDS ON THE DAY WE CELEBRATE ONE OF AMERICA'S GREATEST MARTYRS FOR FREEDOM. BUT WE MUST NEVER FORGET WHAT HILLARY SAID WHEN SHE BEGAN CRYING IN NEW HAMPSHIRE: "I DON'T WANT TO SEE THE COUNTRY FALL BACK FURTHER." IF THE REPUBLICANS WIN, THE NATION JUST MAY FALL BACKWARDS IRREVERSIBLY, SO PLEASE ACCEPT THE PAIN I FEEL AS REAL AS I WRITE THESE SICKENING WORDS OUT OF LOVE FOR THIS NATION THAT HAS GIVEN ME REFUGE AND FREEDOM FROM TYRANNY.

IT'S NOT OBAMA'S TIME....YET!
HILLARY MUST PAVE THE WAY FOR HIM.

"I never doubted Bill's love for me," is the way Hillary disarmed every question about Bill's presidential penile madness. This only speaks well of her faithfulness, devotion and loyalty-- rare attributes for presidential candidates. But as time goes by in the campaign, while Bill's bypass cardiac surgery may have slowed down his wondering shlong, he still seems to be burdening her with great embarrassment. DON"T GET ME WRONG, I THINK BILL CLINTON IS A TERRIFIC MIND AND PROBABLY ALSO A VERY LOVING PERSON IN HIS OWN WAY. I think he has much to contribute to America. Both he and HGW Bush (41) have personal flaws but together made a formidable team-- because they saw how eachother's better sides complimented to overcome their lesser sides. Once they recognized eachother's qualities and humane caring hearts, they teamed up as an invaluable asset to our entire species and to our dying planet.

But, alas, one must face the fact that there is no case of open-heart surgery where the brain avoids an microembolic shower from mini-clots, hence the "mental" picture attributed post-op to patients who had their chest cracked. The fact is that in the brain it is the small neurons that most suffer from embolic (ischemic) insult. And, these small neurons are INHIBITORY neurons-- those that tell the mind: "Wow, hold on, think this over before you act too rashly." I can't help wondering, therefore, if Bill does not suffer from the "dis-inhibition"-- ie. loss of subtle cerebral brakes to subdue impulsive actions-- due to microembolic shower during his open-heart surgery. That might explain his combative and impulsive outbreaks on the campaign trail at Hillary's expense. HER SILENCE, ONCE AGAIN, BESPEAKS HER ADMIRABLE WIFLY LOYALTY AND TOLERANCE. But, those of us who want to see her elected must consider what damage he might be unwittingly inflicting on her.

(A) When he created a racial issue by clumsily arguing through himself and black surrogates that Obama was a cocaine addict...IF ONLY BUSH HAD USED THE SAME COCAINE AS THEY CLAIM OBAMA DID, INSTEAD OF WHATEVER HE AND ROVE PRESUMABLY SMOKED, WE MIGHT BE A LOT BETTER OFF AS A COUNTRY NOW...and pushing Hillary to constantly argue that she is more black than Obama, he is in effect helping her win black PRIMARIES votes while alienating white voters in the NOVEMBER ELECTION who had been sensitized by the evil polarizing mind-bending of Rove since the 2000 election. Obama would normally be convincing whites to vote color blind through his inspiring call for unity. But America is geriatrically sick after eight years of Bush-Rove (FOXNEWS was so dirty as to insinuate that Obama is Muslim just because his father-- whom he barely knew-- was, so as to exploit the geriatric fear of Muslims, which Rove has been cultivating in them since 9/11). So, in these fearful economic times, we must watch for racist subtext in the words of scumbags like Romney, McCain and Huckabee, all of whom would do anything to increase their electoral prospects through polarization.

(B) By constantly claiming that she is "READY," because of her years as First Lady, Hillary is negating believability that she is for "CHANGE," now that her corporate ties will become an issue in light of how the banks have devastated the national economy with plain stupid greed.

On MEET THE PRESS today Peggy Noonan clued us in to the strategy the Republicans plan to use against Hillary. Writing off GW Bush as a hopeless moron that destroyed the Republican Party, she invoked the idea that America is too good for DYNASTIES....She insisted that AMERICA IS TOO GOOD TO GET STUCK WITH THE HEREDITARY LINES OF BUSH-->CLINTON-->BUSH-->CLINTON. That should be a clear warning that Hillary may win the battle for the nomination thanks to Bill only to lose the war for the Presidency thanks to Bill.

WITH HILLARY AS PRESIDENT, I AM SURE THAT BILL CAN HELP MAKE IT POSSIBLE FOR HER TO BE "READY FOR "CHANGE," GIVEN HIS EXPERIENCE, GOOD MOTIVES AND GREAT ABILITY.

But first she has to get to the White House by proving between now and November that she has indeed 'FOUND MY OWN VOICE."

I CAN THINK OF NOTHING MORE UNFAIR THAN THE DIRTY DEAL IMPOSED ON SO ABLE A "BRINGING US TOGETHER" TALENT AND GENIUS AS OBAMA. WHITE AMERICA IS A NATION OF FRIGHTENED, HATEFUL AND ANGRY OLD FARTS THAT CAN ACCEPT A WOMAN PRESIDENT IN THEIR CURRENT SATE OF DELIRIUM AND PANIC, BUT NOT A BLACK, MAN OR WOMAN. As we celebrate the great American hero of freedom, Martin Luther King, we must face that we fell backwards, far backwards, in our color-blind One America perspective out of fear, degeneracy and the virus of hate with which Rove infected the nation. So-- disgustingly unfair as it is-- this is not Obama's time to lead the nation as a "UNITER FOR CHANGE," because we are too sick to accept him. But his time shall come to overcome-- and soon.

WORST OF ALL, IF OBAMA WINS THE DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION AND LOSES THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY WILL FOREVER BE DIVIDED AS MANY OF US WILL COME TO THINK THAT BILL RIGGED HIS DEFEAT SO THAT HILLARY COULD TAKE IT IN 2012.

Of course, we should let the primaries play out. If Obama wins the nomination by taking Edwards on his ticket as his VP, they might pull it off and I will give my all for them. But I want Obama to win and I don't think he can win unless Hillary wins first and uses her woman's touch to nurse America back into health....THEN, OBAMA CAN FOLLOW HER, UNITE US, AND LEAD US TO GREAT HISTORICAL HEIGHTS AS ONLY HE CAN. But you can't lead to great heights an America aged, exhausted, depleted and made critically ill by eight years of a pathogenic Republican rule. We need time to heal so we can rise to the task and so that Obama will not fall race victim to our grave national delirium of the moment.

WE ARE NOW COMING TO REALIZE THAT BUSH NOT ONLY ALLOWED THE CORPORATE CROOKS TO BLEED AMERICA DRY BUT ALSO ALLOWED THE BANKS TO NICKLE AND DIME THE AMERICAN PEOPLE INTO POVERTY. IF HILLARY IS TO BECOME PRESIDENT, SHE CAN'T CAMPAIGN ON A NEOCON BALONEY HATE OF ISLAM AGENDA BUT MUST ON A JUSTICE AGENDA TO REIN IN THE GANGSTERS THAT ARE DRIVING THE MIDDLE CLASS INTO POVERTY. SHE MUST ***PROVE*** TO THE VOTERS THAT SHE IS NOT BEHOLDING TO HER CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTORS BY PLEDGING TO EVEN THE PLAYING FIELD IN WHICH THE AMERICAN PUBLIC IS FLEECED BY TWO-BIT BUSH-TYPE "ENTREPRENEURS."

Whatever is done between now and November, Hillary can only win if she seizes every moment to reassure the grassroots through small group impromtu dialogue that we'll be alright because she will nurse us back into health and will fight for our needs to get well. And Obama will have to stand by her as the DAUPHIN who will stand by her all the way to follow her and lead us in eight years into our next great leap into History.

OBAMA, STANDING WITH HILLARY, AND HILLARY, STANDING WITH OBAMA, WILL REASSURE AMERICANS THAT IT WILL NOT BE A DEGENERATE DEATH BY HEREDITARY LINEAGE, AS CHARGES PEGGY NOONAN IN THE NAME OF SCUMBAGS LIKE ROMMNY, MR. PHONY CORPORATE MAN. BUT IT WILL BE A SIXTEEN YEARS LONG MARRIAGE BETWEEN "EXPERIENCE" AND "CHANGE" SO THAT OVER THE NEXT SIXTEEN YEARS AMERICA WILL REGAIN ITS POWER AS THE LEADER OF FREEDOM AND JUSTICE, INSTEAD OF THE SICK HELPLESS OLD LADY LIBERTY DEVOURED BY PREDATORY "ENTREPRENEURS."

Let the Clinton-->Obama Revolution begin!


DANIEL E. TEODORU


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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 05:57 PM
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9. Hillary's going to pave the way for him to run again in 4 years.
Because she'll never be president.
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loveangelc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 06:52 PM
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10. that's what I'm thinking..
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Strelnikov_ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 09:21 PM
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14. Agree n/t
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jlake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 11:12 PM
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15. Wrongo. She will. Obama is self destructing & will NEVER be prez.
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loveangelc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 11:18 PM
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16. thats a nice fantasy...i'm willing to bet oneverything hillary will not win against mccain.
if she is the nominee.
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jlake Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 11:19 PM
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17. She'll wipe the floor with that senile old coot.
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humbled_opinion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-21-08 12:08 PM
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18. Your way too sure of yourself
National Polls have Hillary losing to Mcain by a significan margin say 5-8 percentage points...

National Polls indicate that more then 50 percent of the electorate will not vote for Hillary.

Why would our Party allow this crap to happen? The longer Hillary and Obama fight for the nomination the more divided the Democratic party becomes and for what? She cannot win the prize, unless there is a third party candidate like Ron Paul that can suck up some of the Rethugs then I will believe.
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jasmine621 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-20-08 08:03 PM
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12. Does that mean he will get out of the race if he loses SC?
The sooner he gets out and readies himself for 20012 or 20016, the faster the party can heal its wounds and come together to defeat the Rethugs in November.
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teleharmonium Donating Member (64 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jan-21-08 08:42 PM
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20. wounds ?
The party needs to come together by embracing all the new and lapsed voters that Obama is consistently bringing out. They are key to the generational domination that we could have by working for the whole countries' votes.

Bush has the whole country moving leftward, for good and plentiful reasons. We need to let them come to us and hang out for a few decades, and we don't need to move rightward to do it; we just need to keep it positive. This isn't a revenge match and nothing could ever be payback for the last 7 years. Living well is the best revenge, and "time wounds all heels" (Lennon).
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