OBAMA DAILY NEWS Wed. March-12-2008

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Wednesday March-12-2008


Democratic presidential hopeful, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., shakes hands before speaking
at Jackson State University in Jackson, Miss.,Mon.,March 10, 2008.(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

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1. It's time to put a few things to rest about Hillary.....(Myths vs Fact)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5019091

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2. **Keith Olbermann to have a Special Comment on Hillary on Wednesday!!**

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5034171

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3. Clinton:"Feb good for Obama, March good for HRC" ****Obama wins March***

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5015667#5034399

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4. Hillary's next stop -- Ben Tre, Vietnam (read and learn)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5015667#5034408

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5. Too late, the truth about NAFTAgate

Too late, the truth about NAFTAgate

Mark Kleiman, Samefacts.com March 11, 2008

Naturally, the lie about what Austan Goolsbee is supposed to have said to the Canadian government has gotten around the world seven times by now, but at last the truth has managed to lace its boots on. Neil Macdonald, the Washington correspondent for the CBC, has the entire timeline.

The whole flap started with a political operative for Canada's Tory Prime Minister telling reporters that Clinton — not Obama, Clinton — operatives had passed the word to the Canadian Ambassador in Washington that her stance on NAFTA was just for show. But when a reporter for CTV called the Canadian Ambassador in Washington (also a Tory political appointee) the story changed: suddenly the conversation was said to have involved an Obama staffer.

Obama's folks denied any discussion with the Ambassador, for the excellent reason that it didn't happen. But then someone leaked a memo about a meeting between Austan Goolsbee — not a staffer, but an unpaid academic adviser — and the someone in the Canadian Consulate-General in Chicago (not the Embassy in Washington).

That meeting did take place. Most of what the supposed "smoking gun" memo says is perfectly consistent with Obama's public stance: that he wants to renegotiate NAFTA to strengthen labor and environmental standards, which of course is much less threatening to Canada than to Mexico.

more at the link

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8. kicked...what a shame -- Hillary the liar.

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10. she lies, it works, and the media forgets

and on to the next lie.

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6. A Florida Mail-in Primary "do-over" would require law change

From: John Gideon
To: Daily Voting News <[e-mail]>
Subject: - 'Daily Voting News' For March 11, 2008
Date: Mar 11, 2008 7:39 PM

Another good reason that a mail-in primary do-over cannot happen in
Florida? It is against the law.

State law only allows referendums to be on a mail ballots and doesn’t allow
for candidates to be named on ballots via stamp and carrier.
An executive order or a law change would be needed to allow
the presidential primary to be recast.

FL: Southwest Florida elections supervisor skeptical of mail-in redo

FL: Southwest Florida elections supervisor skeptical of mail-in redo

FL: Deadline To Decide On Revote Urgent

FL: Florida Democrats mull primary vote by mail

FL: Dems wonder what to do about Florida

FL: Host of factors affect possible new primary in Florida

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7. THE MATH - Mini update Tuesday night

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5033565

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9. Pennsylvania isn't a lock for HRC — yet

Pennsylvania isn't a lock for HRC — yet

David Paul Kuhn Politico.com Mar 11, 2008

With the support of the state’s political establishment and favorable demographic terrain,
Pennsylvania's April 22 primary is widely viewed as Hillary Clinton’s to lose.

But it’s hardly a lock, especially if Barack Obama can make inroads with a few key constituencies
outside of his reliable base of affluent whites, liberals, African-Americans and the youth vote.

.....Obama’s burden in the state is especially difficult because Pennsylvania is a closed primary state.

That presents a problem for him since white men are overrepresented among independents.
Those white male independents who have participated in prior open Democratic primary contests
are right in Obama’s wheelhouse. But he is without them here.

read more at the link

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11. Mississippi GOP Crossovers Went to Clinton

Mississippi Crossovers

I suspect partisans on either side will draw different interpretations from it.But here's another interesting tidbit out of the Mississippi exit poll.
The conventional wisdom and to a significant degree the reality in many
other states has been that Barack Obama has picked up the lion's share of Republican crossover voters.
Not in Mississippi.
According to MSNBC's exit numbers, Republicans made up either 12% or 13% of the voters in tonight's primary.
And they went for Hillary Clinton by a decisive 3 to 1 margin.

--Josh Marshall 03.12.08

link

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12. McClatchy News: Clinton Overstates Foreign Policy Role

Clinton's foreign experience is more limited than she says

William Douglas | McClatchy Newspapers Tuesday, March 11, 2008

WASHINGTON — Sen. Hillary Clinton claims that her experience in dealing with foreign affairs qualifies her to handle a crisis call at 3 a.m. and be commander in chief.

...But one of the key Irish negotiators last week called Clinton's description of her role in the process a "wee bit silly."

"I don't know there was much she did apart from accompanying Bill (Clinton) going around," David Trimble told Belfast's Daily Telegraph.

Trimble, the former leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, and John Hume, leader of the nationalist Social Democratic Labour Party, shared the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize for their roles in the peace process. "I don't want to rain on the thing for her, but being a cheerleader for something is slightly different from being a principal player," Trimble said.

...Summed up Myra Gutin, a communications professor at New Jersey's Rider University and author of "The President's Partner: The First Lady in the Twentieth Century": "She had the proximity to power, but she wasn't the one who made policy — she didn't have the accountability."

more at the link

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13. on MSNBC: Obama Campaign's Memo On Clinton's National Security "Experience"

Released by Obama adviser, Greg Craig, as shown on MSNBC:

"She (Clinton) never managed a foreign policy crisis, and there is no evidence to suggest that she participated in the decision-making that occurred in connection with any such crisis. As far as the record shows, Senator Clinton never answered the phone either to make a decision on any pressing national security issue -- not at 3am or at any other time of the day."

Damn, the campaign sure can counter-punch.
(credit: writes3000 for the original post on DU)

Read Full Memo here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5020016&mesg_id=5020147

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14. Obama adapts war room tactics to hit Clinton back

Obama adapts war room tactics to hit Clinton back

Sam Youngman The Hill 03/11/08
Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-Ill.) campaign has signaled in recent days it will hit back harder and more quickly to criticism from Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s (D-N.Y.) campaign, mirroring the rapid response efforts of President Bill Clinton’s 1992 war room.

Senior Obama officials have said they intend to respond to Clinton’s professed strategy of throwing the “kitchen sink” at the Illinois senator. And even though Obama supporters say they are still running a positive campaign, the responses have been more intense.

“He’s a tough guy, and he’s going to respond appropriately,” Rep. Patrick Murphy (D-Pa.), an Obama supporter, said on a conference call Tuesday.

...The senior adviser said that the Clinton campaign has engaged in an “insidious pattern” of trotting out surrogates and campaign supporters who make “offensive” comments. He added that her camp doesn’t go far enough in reprimanding the surrogates or condemning the remarks at issue.

“When you wink and nod at offensive statements, you’re really sending a signal to your supporters that anything goes,” Axelrod said.

...“The Obama campaign definitely is responding to every Clinton campaign attack now, the question is whether the Obama folks will initiate any counter-attacks on a different subject,” Murphy said in an e-mail

more here

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15. Hillary is going to win Mississippi! I can feel the momentum! (Mar 06)

Posted Thu Mar-06-08 02:16 AM


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=4922132&mesg_id=4922132

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16. LOL. I just bumped that post to keep it alive.

I think he's just trolling though (not a real HRC supporter).

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17. FL NEW VOTE: "The party would then pay a private firm to count the votes, Mr. Bubriski said." YIKES!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2996804

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18. The Audacity Of Numbers

The Audacity Of Numbers

No matter what you examine, be it pledged delegates, super delegates, fundraising, popular vote, or wins in "big states," Hillary Clinton is trailing Barack Obama. What's more, in a lot of these categories, she's trailed from day 1. She has no claim to front-runner status. Period.

more here
http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_josh_nel_080312_the_audacity_of_numb.htm

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19. HILLARY'S EXPERIENCE-BY-PROXIMITY THEORY

By Paul De Marco
HILLARY'S EXPERIENCE-BY-PROXIMITY THEORY
A critique of Hillary Clinton's central campaign claim -- "thirty-five years of experience" -- in historical perspective, particularly alongside the campaign of Robert Kennedy forty years ago

more here
http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_paul_de__080309_hillary_s_experience.htm

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20. OBAMA VERSUS CLINTON / REALITY VERSUS DECEPTION

By Allen L Roland
OBAMA VERSUS CLINTON / REALITY VERSUS DECEPTION
The Bushes and the Clintons are the masters of creating their own reality as witnessed by Bush seeing himself as the decider and Hillary seeing herself as the front runner versus Obama ~ but true reality reveals Bush as a failure and Hillary as a pretender who is willing to selfishly create her own deception, and damage the party in the process: Allen L Roland

more here

http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_allen_l__080311_obama_versus_clinton.htm

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21. Fla. House Members Oppose Mail-In Vote

Fla. House Members Oppose Mail-In Vote

Just when a solution seemed within reach for the thorny issue of what to do about Florida's Democratic delegates, late last night it appeared to have vanished. Florida's entire House Democratic caucus -- including both supporters of Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama -- issued a joint statement that aimed to shoot down a proposal to redo the Florida Democratic primary through a mail-in vote.

more here

http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/link.php?id=54206

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22. Spitzer's Fall Bad For Hillary

Spitzer's Fall Bad For Hillary

"The governor of her state -- who also happens to be one of her highest-profile backers -- is in trouble, big trouble," writes John Nichols at the Nation. "But Hillary Clinton doesn't want to go there."

more at
http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/link.php?id=54191

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23. Super Delegates

Hillary has lost two today

DNC Spitzer NY

and

DNC Hardt TX was moved from Clinton to undecided.

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24. Pro-Obama Governors Challenge Hillary "Big State Spin"

Pro-Obama Governors Challenge Hillary "Big State Spin"

The Obama camp has rounded up four governors of big states to argue against Hillary's claim that she wins big states while Obama wins caucuses: Huffington Post | March 12, 2008

FR: Iowa Governor Chet Culver, Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle, Washington Governor Christine Gregoire, Virginia Governor Tim Kaine, Missouri Senator Claire McCaskill

DT: Wednesday, March 12, 2008

RE: Debunking the Clinton Campaign's Dubious "Big State" Spin

In an attempt to minimize the significance of Barack Obama's success in winning more than twice as many states as Senator Clinton, her campaign's supporters have attempted to diminish the importance of the states where Senator Obama has prevailed.
Senator Obama has scored important victories in each of our states - states that will play a decisive role in deciding whether or not John McCain will be given the chance to enter the White House and extend George Bush's failed policies for another 4 years.

In each of the 30 primaries and caucuses that Obama has now won, including Mississippi yesterday, he's shown the ability to motivate Democrats to turn out at the polls, win the support of blue collar voters in suburban and rural communities and attract the support of Independents and Republicans. That's the kind of candidate Democrats need to nominate to beat John McCain in November, and it's the kind of leader America needs to bring to Washington the kind of change we can believe in.

The Clinton campaign's argument ignores relevant facts about how significant a role these states played in determining the outcome of the presidential race in 2004. In fact, Obama has won 7 of 9 of the biggest states that were close in the 2004 presidential election and have already selected delegates to the 2008 Democratic convention.

More than half of the votes that Senator Clinton has won so far have come from just five states. It's also worth noting that polls in four of these five states show that Obama would be a stronger general election candidate against McCain than Clinton.

Obama Winning Vast Majority of Big States that Were Close in 2004

Nine of the largest states that were decided by a margin of 8 points or less in 2004 have already held a caucus or a primary to select delegates to the 2008 Democratic Convention in Denver. Obama has won seven of those nine contests - including four that Bush won.

Clinton Totals Padded by States Where Obama Does Best Against McCain

The Clinton campaign's misleading argument about the importance of her performance in the largest states actually highlights the limits of her appeal and her ability to win the general election.

To turn the Clinton argument around, more than 55% of her popular vote total and nearly half of her pledged delegates have come in just five states. In four of them, polls show that Obama would be a stronger general election candidate against McCain than Clinton. In the fifth, Texas, Clinton admitted that she didn't expect it to be "in the general election calculation."

link

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25. I'm Changing My OP!: Clinton Campaign Claims Obama is in a "Downward Spiral"

by hnmnf

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5043470

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26. Texas Democratic Party Gives Up on Counting Caucus Votes

Democrats should worry that Clinton doesn't have the local infrastructure in place to
win caucuses. She doesn't have the infrastructure to win a GE either.

Texas Democratic Party Gives Up on Counting Caucus Votes

By Kenny Lopez Mar 12, 2008 at 8:53 AM

The Texas Democratic Party has washed its hands
of trying to tally up last weeks Texas caucus votes. What does that mean for the estimated 1 million votes from the post-primary caucuses?

Plenty of caucus chaos and confusion from last week's super Tuesday primary caused
the Texas Democratic Party to end their voluntary call in system. with fewer than half
of the state precincts reported. This all because, they say they were overwhelmed
with trying to tally the flood of votes.

Political Analyst, Jose Bocanegra says, he thinks the Democratic Party needs to settle the caucus chaos. He says, "The Democratic party held state wide caucuses at schools and now they're throwing in the towel on counting all the votes."

According to the State Democratic Party, just 40% of the precinct caucuses were reported.
In caucus votes, Barack Obama, held the lead, 56% to Hillary Clinton's 44%.
While in popular votes, Clinton won the primary, with 51% to Obama's 47%.

link

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27. Hillary: the “Heads She Wins, Tails You Lose” Candidate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5037861&mesg_id=5037861

Wed Mar-12-08 10:12 AM

http://iwillwalkaway.blogspot.com

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28. What happens after the election when people have time to think about all the BS they just saw?

Well in Iowa they continued to get a better and better impression of Obama

until somebody said that McCain would be a better commander in chief





Hillary on the other hand leaves an aftertaste.





Remember when they said Iowa is red and we can't win there?

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29. Obama Receives Endorsement of Flag Officers from Army, Navy and Air Force

Obama Receives Endorsement of Flag Officers from Army, Navy and Air Force


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5042571&mesg_id=5042571

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30. Obama to Visit Indianapolis on Saturday

Obama to Visit Indianapolis on Saturday


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x5044125

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31. OH: Provisional ballot counts start March 25

Election count starts March 25

BY THE ENQUIRER Wednesday, March 12, 2008

HAMILTON CO. -- The Hamilton County Board of Elections expects to begin counting more than 12,000 provisional ballots
March 25 and will know by April 3 whether any races are close enough to be subjected to an automatic recount.
Ohio law requires the official count, which involves counting provisional ballots and retallying the ballots from Election Day,
to begin between March 25 and 29 and be complete by April 4.

The results must be certified to the state April 8.

If the margin in any race is within one half of 1 percent of the total votes cast in that race,
the race is subject to an automatic recount.

link

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32. WaPo: Democrats Stuck in Own Mud: "Wresting to Negotiate An Endgame"

The Democrats, Wrestling To Negotiate An Endgame

By Kevin Merida Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, March 12, 2008; Page C01

Now what?

Barack Obama, as expected, won the Mississippi Democratic primary yesterday, his second straight victory in four days, his 29th overall, another tiny notch in his delegate lead over rival Hillary Clinton. But Mississippi clarified nothing. That's because the Democratic presidential race is in a byzantine state beyond clarification.

To make it plain: The Democrats are stuck in their own mud. They have no scripted ending to this titanic battle, no scenario ready for wide embrace. Or any embrace. Or even a handshake. On one level, the historic competition between Obama and Clinton has energized the party, boosted primary turnouts, spawned legions of new voters and campaign volunteers. But on the let's-get-real level, Democrats have problems even a blind man can see. Their primaries and caucuses have revealed labor splits, racial and ethnic splits, gender splits, age and class splits, and a rivalry that is getting nastier by the day.

"It's a train wreck," says John Edgell, a Democratic operative not involved in either campaign. "Either way, you're going to tick off half the base."

The judges waiting in the wings are 796 party insiders unaffectionately known as superdelegates. "There's no way that superdelegates will not decide it," says Edgell, who has been meticulously tracking superdelegate endorsements and compiling them on a spreadsheet. As of yesterday, his count was 269 for Clinton, 220 for Obama.

more at the link

The Super Delegates need to take action to stop Clinton's negative ads and rovian actions.

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33. National primary scrambles N.C. races (NC not competitive in 20 yrs)

National primary scrambles N.C. races

Candidates divide airtime, attention and advertising
By Mark Johnson - McClatchy Newspapers Mon, Mar. 10, 2008

CHARLOTTE --The spectacle of the presidential race coming to North Carolina brings more than bright lights, banners and Secret Service agents.

Independent voters will more likely vote in the Democratic primary, which is bad for Charlotte Mayor Pat McCrory, a Republican.

More women and blacks likely will vote, which is bad for state Treasurer Richard Moore, a Democrat.

...North Carolina hasn't seen a competitive presidential primary in at least 20 years.

Candidates and their hired guns now find their world transformed.

The statistical models they used to poll are worthless and direct mailing strategies are obsolete.

"The only thing that seems predictable this election cycle is the consistency in which pundits and experts have been proven wrong," Reiff said.

read more here

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34. Barack Obama TOWN HALL MEETING in Fairless Hills, PA-Part 1

Barack Obama TOWN HALL MEETING in Fairless Hills, PA-Part 1


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x104304

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35. VA Voting machines: Who is 'Barry Ocamaca'... sounded like 'Barreer Obahkah'

Visually impaired report trouble with voting machines that speak
Who is 'Barry Ocamaca'?

Wednesday, Mar 12, 2008 By KIRAN KRISHNAMURTHY
TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER Virginia

Linda Broady-Myers, who is blind, said she'd never heard of the
presidential candidate whose name was verbalized by a computerized
Richmond voting machine when she went to vote in last month's primary.

"Barry Ocamaca," she said the machine spit out, presumably for
Democratic contender Barack Obama.

"When I heard 'Barry Ocamaca,' I didn't know what primary I was
voting in because I wasn't aware that this person was one of the candidates,"
she said.

...Glenwood Floyd, who also is blind, said he encountered problems while trying to vote for Obama in the city, too.

"It sounded like 'Barreer Obahkah,' he said yesterday.

"I wasn't sure if the computer was locking up.
I felt my attempt to vote had been abrogated."
Floyd said he was frustrated but did not file a formal complaint because he was suffering from the flu.

more at the link

This is the ex-AVS WinVote mac hines

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36. Everyone please go here and make a positive comment on this

excellent thread by a Clinton supporter

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5051321&mesg_id=5051321

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37. Hillary and her Senate friends

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=5052393&mesg_id=5052393