“OBAMA SUPPORTERS” DAILY NEWS Friday May 30 2008

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Friday May 30 2008


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1. Clinton Issues Post-Primary Schedule (Yes, Post-Primary Schedule)

Clinton Issues Post-Primary Schedule (Yes, Post-Primary Schedule)

ABC News May 29, 2008

ABC News' Eloise Harper Reports:

The press traveling with Sen. Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign received an email Thursday afternoon informing reporters they could sign up for travel through June 6 on the campaign website.

Given the speculation surrounding plausible outcomes from this Saturday's DNC Meeting and the final Democratic primaries on June 3, many confused looks passed between reporters on the back of the press bus.

When asked for comment, Clinton spokesman Jay Carson looked past Tuesday's primaries to the general election.

"There are a lot of places for us to go between June 4 and November," Carson said.

[grantcart]

3. its getting sad - macabre

[Cha]

4. Past the primaries to November?

Don't you have to actually win the primaries to participate in the General election? Or are they starting their very own party a la joe lieberman?

[SoCalDem]

14. Um... many places to go??? Like going back to your JOB???

being a SENATOR?? voting & stuff?..

and whaddabout that gas tax holiday you promised your white peeps in WV & KY??

It's common practice to leave the field when you have lost and the game is over..

If Barack needs your services, he'll email you:)

[WillyT]

24. Straight To Hell Would Be Nice... If She Keeps Pushin This Shit

:banghead:

[grantcart]

2. ***Super Delegate Update and Mini Thread we start at 41

Here is Thursday's total

5-29-08 - Added DNC Gail Rasmussen (OR) for Obama
- Added DNC Eileen MacColl (WA) for Clinton
- Added Rep. Alan Mollohan (WV) for Obama
- Added DNC Boyd Richie (TX) for Obama
- Added DNC Betty Richie (TX) for Obama

[Rosa Luxemburg]

6. excellent!

[Aloha Spirit]

23. Was anyone else offended by MacColl's endorsement?

Yuck!
As a woman, just, yuck!

Seattle Post Intelligencer:

"I think Hillary Clinton would be the best commander in chief to get us out of this mess in Iraq," Macoll said. Macoll said she was spurred to announce her endorsement by her reaction to Memorial Day. "I just got very emotional this Memorial Day weekend," she said. "This war just makes me sick."

Superdelegates are Democratic elected officials and party leaders who will be automatically seated at the convention in Denver in late August, when the nominee will be officially selected.

"I wanted to show my support for Hillary," Macoll said. "I think she has handled this whole campaign with style and grace. I think she's a valuable role model for young women entering politics and life."

http:seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/365172_delegate30.html?source=mypi

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5. McCain's a Medical Mess

McCain's a Medical Mess

Diane Francis at Huff Po May 29, 2008

...the guy's a medical mess and here are the highlights which were buried in other news (Hillary's reference to Bobby Kennedy's assassination that same day overtook all political coverage):

-- We all know that he has Stage II melanoma which means that he must undergo extensive tests every month. There must be blood tests, catscans and his body has to be carefully examined from top to bottom. He is one lesion away from Stage III which is fatal at his age.
-- He has serious arthritis and may need a joint replacement. Which joints are involved here were unspecified.
-- He recently had benign polyps removed from his colon.
-- He has dizzy spells.
-- He was treated for an enlarged prostate
-- He underwent cataract surgery
-- He suffers from vertigo.
-- He takes medication for high cholesterol
-- He had early stage squamous cell cancer this year.

I'm no physician but anyone will tell you that the lifespan of anyone who has had serious heart problems or cancer before their 70th birthday isn't going to make the cut. Conversely, if someone has remained cancer and heart disease free until that age they can expect to live to 87 years on average.

Voters, and one in five Republicans, are concerned about his age. I'm not but I'm concerned about his health. Reagan was as fit as a fiddle and slightly younger when first elected. Even so, toward the end he began exhibiting symptoms of the alzheimers that he eventually succumbed to.

...more at the link

[blue sky at night]

13. ever wonder why the repukes....

can't come up with someone in leadership that isn't an over-the-hill geezer? The bu$h administration is run by a bunch of guys who were old when nixon was around! bu$h jr. doesn't count, as he was never in control, just a spokes model for the big heads. guess they just aren't reproducing like they should be.

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7. CNN's John Roberts this morning plays back McAuliffe 4 years ago

AMERICAN MORNING

John Roberts May 29 CNN

Scott McClellan Speaks Out About his Tell-All Book; Massive Evacuation in China; Is Hillary Clinton a Presidential Short-Timer?

Aired May 29

Roberts talking to James Carville:

...Carl Levin of Michigan wanted to move Michigan's primary out of the regular schedule. And McAuliffe said you do that, I'm going to take away your delegates. Carl Levin according to Terry McAuliffe in this book insisted that he wouldn't take away the delegates. And this is what Terry said in response.

"Carl, take it to the bank. They will not get a credential. The closest they'll get to Boston will be watching it on television. I will not let you break this entire nominating process for one state. The rules are the rules. If you want to call my bluff, Carl, you go ahead and do it."

So four years ago, James, he's saying you go out of the process, you are not going to go to Boston, which is where the Democratic convention was. Now he's saying, oh, we've got to get those delegates seated.
.....

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8. Clinton's "popular vote" argument disenfranchises 27 states

Clinton's "popular vote" argument disenfranchises 27 states

Jed Report Thu May 29

There's certainly some jingoistic appeal to Hillary Clinton's "count every vote" refrain, but the truth is that what she is proposing is a massive power grab, and as in every massive power grab, there are winners and losers.

In this case, it turns out that the losers would be 27 states representing two-fifths of the U.S. population.

Under Clinton's proposal, they would go from having a proportional voice in the nomination process to having a dramatically minimized one, from having 41% of the votes to select the nominee down to having just 24%.

These are state that even Mark Penn would admit matter, among them New York, Washington, Connecticut, Florida, and Michigan.

The flip side is that 22 states would have their power boosted dramatically. And the partisan makeup of these states is surprising: 10 of them actually voted for Barack Obama over Hillary Clinton.

Continue reading this at The Jed Report »

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9. Hillary Clinton In Her Own Words: "The Most Fiscally Responsible Candidate"

Hillary Clinton In Her Own Words: "The Most Fiscally Responsible Candidate"

By Jade7243 TPM- May 29, 2008

From the ABC News blog this tasty morsel:

Another blow Clinton has had to face is one that concerns her finances. Clinton, whose campaign is approximately $20 million in debt, said in Huron, S.D. that she is the most fiscally responsible candidate.

"If you will vote for me next Tuesday, you are voting for the most fiscally responsible candidate on either side of the aisle," said Clinton.

So aside from being "virtually tied" with Obama, she can manage money better, too! So good that we got that one on the table.

Talk, please, amongst yourselves. Anyone?

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10. Obama's goals for his first 100 days

Bush’s laws will be scrutinized if I become president, Obama says

Deborah Charles Reuters May 28

DENVER - Maybe it’s his background teaching constitutional law.

If elected president, Democratic White House hopeful Barack Obama said
one of the first things he wants to do is ensure the constitutionality
of all the laws and executive orders passed while Republican President
George W. Bush has been in office.

Those that don’t pass muster will be overturned, he said.

During a fund-raiser in Denver, Obama — a former constitutional law professor at the University of Chicago Law School — was asked what he hoped to accomplish during his first 100 days in office.

“I would call my attorney general in and review every single executive order issued by George Bush and overturn those laws or executive decisions that I feel violate the constitution,” said Obama.

Other goals for his first 100 days: work out a plan to withdraw troops from Iraq; make progress on alternative energy plans and launch legislation to reform the health care system.

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11. In Contrast With Core Hillary Message, Carville Says He Thinks Obama "Will" Win General Election

In Contrast With Core Hillary Message, Carville Says He Thinks Obama "Will" Win General Election

By Greg Sargent -TPM May 29, 2008

In a quick phone interview with me just now, prominent Hillary supporter James Carville diverged from the Hillary campaign message on several key "electability" questions, saying that he thinks Obama "will" win the general election.

Carville, surprisingly, also seemed to downplay Obama's problems with non-college whites -- a cornerstone of Hillary's electability claim -- saying that if Obama gets the same level of non-college whites that John Kerry did in 2004, he "will" win the general.

Asked if he thought Obama would beat McCain, Carville said: "I think he will. I think Democrats will win in November...There's a crushing desire for change in this country. No one has seen a party or brand held in such low esteem" than the Republicans.

Carville's repeated suggestions that Obama "will" beat McCain contrast with the core Hillary message -- repeated frequently by Hillary advisers -- that Obama merely "can" win a general election, while Hillary "will" win it. Carville's comments also suggest that with the fall contest looming, it's becoming tougher for prominent Hillary backers to sustain any argument that doesn't show full confidence in Obama's chances against McCain.

...more at the link

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12. Carville: We Want a Hostage Crisis Because Our Feelings Are Hurt (Video and OP)

Al Giordana blogged on this video, its hillarious so I posted it here in Political Videos
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x139847

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15. 50% of New York Democrats Say Clinton Should Drop Out of White House Race

50% of New York Democrats Say Clinton Should Drop Out of White House Race

Rasmussen Reports Thursday, May 29, 2008

Fifty percent (50%) of New York Democrats say it’s time for Senator Hillary Clinton to drop out of the race for the White House. Just 43% believe she should keep going. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey also found that most New York Republicans—52%--want Clinton to keep striving for the nomination. Overall, among all Empire State voters, 45% believe she should drop out while 43% disagree.

Just 16% of New York Democrats think Obama should drop out of the race.

Forty-seven percent (47%) of New York voters believe Obama is the stronger general election candidate. Forty-three percent (43%) believe Clinton would be better.

The survey also found that Obama is now viewed more favorably than Clinton in New York. Sixty-two percent (62%) of New York voters have a favorable opinion of Barack Obama while 55% give Hillary Clinton such positive reviews. For Obama, those ratings are up four points from a month ago while Clinton’s are down three points. John McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, is viewed positively by 44%. His ratings are down six points from the previous survey. ...

[DerekJ]

19. Hey .. That needs to be on a thread by itself.

[grantcart]

20. Obama is now polling slightly better in NY than Clinton

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16. Reminder: Obama urges supporters not to demonstrate at crucial DNC meeting

Just in case anyone tries to say differently.

Obama urges supporters not to demonstrate at crucial DNC meeting

By Bob Cusack at The Hill 05/28/08

Sen. Barack Obama’s (D-Ill.) campaign is urging its supporters not to demonstrate at Saturday’s highly anticipated Democratic National Committee (DNC) meeting on how to handle the delegates of Florida and Michigan.

In an internal campaign e-mail obtained by The Hill, the Obama campaign states, “We look forward to the meeting proceeding smoothly — and we’re asking our supporters not to show up to demonstrate, passionately as they feel about this campaign.”
This weekend’s meeting of the DNC’s 30-member Rules and Bylaws Committee (RBC) at a Marriot Wardman Park hotel in Washington, D.C. is expected to be a media circus, and will likely attract many supporters of Obama and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.).

But the Obama campaign wants to avoid heated intraparty confrontations that would attract national headlines and be replayed on the cable news networks. Saturday’s potential public relations nightmare comes as the Obama campaign is taking steps to unify the party as the Democratic primary process appears to be winding down.

...

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17. Doctor: Obama in ‘excellent health’

Doctor: Obama in ‘excellent health’

By Aaron Blake at The Hill 05/29/08

Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) released a statement from his doctor on Thursday stating that the Democratic presidential front-runner has been “in excellent health” over the last 20 years.

...Scheiner noted that Obama, 46, has been an “intermittent” cigarette smoker who has failed in previous attempts to quit. He said Obama is currently having success in that regard by using Nicorette nicotine gum.

Obama pledged to quit smoking when he began his campaign for president.

“His build was lean and muscular with no excess body fat,” Scheiner wrote. “His physical examination was completely normal.
...He noted that Obama often jogs three miles to stay in shape and had no complaints during his last checkup.

...more at the link

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18. Blog Notice: Searching for John McCain

This is sort of like Google bombing.

Blog Notice: Searching For John McCain

The Personal IS Political May 29

Today something was posted on Daily Kos, which is going to lead to some minor changes in my blog. Here is the gist:

Searching for John McCain is a massive, online activism campaign designed to make at least ten million non-partisan, poll-tested, on-message voter contacts that reveal the damning truth about John McCain entirely through mainstream news reports and McCain’s own words. Through mass blogger participation and the use of embedded hyperlinks, Searching for John McCain will connect millions of curious, low-information swing voters to negative, mainstream news articles about John McCain without 99% of those voters even knowing that Searching for John McCain exists.

To learn how to participate, and to learn how it will work, read on into the extended entry.

Essentially it is a strategy to make it more likely that casual internet searchers who type in "John McCain" will find news articles which expose his true nature. These aren't opinion pieces or exaggerations, they are just mainstream news articles that accurately reflect John McCain's positions, but might otherwise be subsumed by less informative or important results. Read the original post if you'd like to know more about the project.

...So how this affects my blog. Basically, from now until some time in the future, every time I mention John McCain, I'll link his name to one of nine news articles about him. Unlike my normal links, these generally won't be relevant to the content of what I'm writing about, so don't get confused if you click on "John McCain" in a post about how ignorant John McCain is on foreign policy, and find it is an article about the minimum wage. Please note, though, that if I have a link that covers more than just McCain's name, like the one in the preceding sentence, it isn't part of this project, it is a real link worth checking out....more at the link

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21. "Obama campaign used party rules to foil Clinton"

AP article full of little bits of interest, not one thing in particular.

For example, it mentions that Jeffrey Berman, Obama's "director of delegate operations," spent most of 2007 analyzing delegate opportunities.


http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ghb-cUeWpvC77LS_S8tI4aB7ENIQD90VTEV00

[RNdaSilva]

22. Puerto Rico Primary

Puerto Ricans, as a whole, don't appear to be too excited about voting in "our" primary.
Large turnout not expected...too expensive.

http://www.observer.com/2008/puerto-rico-primary-looms-smaller

http://www.observer.com/2008/clinton-has-lead-not-landslide-puerto-rico

You can votar en Puerto Rico aqui...for what it's worth.

http://www.radioisla1320.com/ Vote Here

[RNdaSilva]

26. Yep!

"Puerto Rico's Democratic Party has asked the Commonwealth Elections Commission to cut the number of polling places by 1,000, apparently due to a failure to find poll workers."

Apparently Hillary wont have sufficient numbers to pad her imaginary popular vote lead. Like it really matters.

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25. Proposed Obama response to the "you haven't visited Iraq"

((((((((((((((((((((((( The RBC Update: Comeback )))))))))))))))))))))))

2008.05.29 15:14:46


------------------------------------------------------------------------

Proposed Obama response to the "you haven't visited Iraq"
nonsense:

"Our brave men and women fighting in Iraq have better things to
do than babysit one more tourist from Washington."

------------------------------------------------------------------------

http://WWW.samefacts.com/archives/campaign_2008_/2008/05/comeback.php

[JimGinPA]

27. Clinton falls behind Obama in state (CA), poll says

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x6180480

[JPZenger]

28. k and r. nt

[Kittycat]

29. Obama Takes Huge Lead over Clinton/McCain in CA

Blogged at Kos
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/5/30/92035/3013/412/525395

The results of the poll (taken May 16-27) show that Obama is now preferred as the party nominee by a landslide 51 to 38 percent among the state's Democrats. The poll also shows Obama doing just as well against McCain as Hillary in the state... leading by 17 pts with likely voters

More details:
Leads McSame by 35pts with Indies (59-24)
Leads Clinton on Women 49-41
Also leads in favorable ratings compared to Clinton & McSame

Obama does better than Clinton in all age, educational groups and income levels except three: voters over 65, voters with a high school education or less, and voters earning less than $40,000 a year.

[Aloha Spirit]

30. Wisconsin Gov. Doyle and Sen. Kerry chastise McCain

http://thepage.time.com/2008/05/30/obama-camp-criticizes-mccain-for-fundraiser-iraq-statements/

In media call, backers Wisconsin Gov. Doyle and Sen. Kerry chastise McCain for saying that troops were down to pre-surge levels while at a Wisconsin fundraiser Thursday night.

Doyle: “That’s just not true and everybody knows that’s just not true…The fact is that we are not down to pre-surge levels.”

Kerry: “If you don’t know the number of troops its very difficult to make the judgment about whether we’re overextended…. It raises serious questions about his comprehension of this challenge.”

They also point to past McCain Iraq gaffes, his fundraising letter picturing him with Petraeus and questioning Obama for not initiating a meeting with him.

Kerry also says Obama would be “well served” to consider to a trip to Iraq after securing the nomination, but it shouldn’t be a “political stunt.”

[Aloha Spirit]

31. Is Rep. Jim Oberstar in line to become Secretary of Transportation?

http://www.minnpost.com/stories/2008/05/30/2035/rep_nick_rahall_has_an_idea_oberstar_should_be_next_transportation_secretary

Rahall, who is vice chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee chaired by Oberstar, said Wednesday night he will urge the next president to name Oberstar to the Cabinet position.

And since Oberstar is a superdelegate to the 2008 Democratic National Convention who was an early supporter of likely Democratic nominee Sen. Barack Obama, he would have a good shot at a Cabinet job if Obama were elected.

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32. Oliver Willis will be live blogging the Denver Convention

We’re Going To Denver!
Published May 29, 2008 Oliver Willis

And by we, I mean me. OliverWillis.com is one of the blogs officially credentialed to cover the Democratic convention in Denver. I’ve never been to a convention (a political convention, that is, I’ve *ahem* been to a comic book convention or 10) so this should be pretty cool.

I’m thinking one of my main goals/projects should be to finally see Al Gore in person.

Democratic Convention 2008 @ OliverWillis.com: The Quest For Gore.

Thoughts?

http://www.oliverwillis.com/index.php/2008/05/29/were-going-to-denver/

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33. McCain's famous "peaceful" visit in Iraq followed by massacre of 21 Iraqi children

Over at Balloon Juice:

The visit was tragically followed by this news a few days later:

The latest massacre of Iraqi children came as 21 Shia market workers were ambushed, bound and shot dead north of the capital. The victims came from the Baghdad market visited the previous day by John McCain, the US presidential candidate, who said that an American security plan in the capital was starting to show signs of progress.

http://www.balloon-juice.com/?p=8039

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34. Sick of this Shyt (Yeah, I said it)

Thursday, May 29, 2008 Jack and Jill Blog
Sick of this Shyt (Yeah, I said it)


THE FACE OF A LUNATIC...YA THINK?

I'm beyond being sick of this shyt. And for those of you Christians who would want to correct my "French", save it; I think da Lawd will forgive me for expressing my frustration in less than holy fashion.

Hillary Clinton can't get a clue. Either that, or she defiantly refuses to buy herself one. Now the Clinton supporters are going to protest outside the DNC Rules Committee meeting on Saturday, demanding that the delegates from Michigan and Florida be seated at the convention in Denver.

At the height of my pissivity, is the following:

Among the scheduled speakers at the rally are Clinton fundraiser Elizabeth Bagley; two members of Congress who back the New York senator, Reps. Stephanie Tubbs Jones of Ohio and Corrine Brown of Florida; and Kim Gandy, president of the National Organization for Women. Her group's political action committee has endorsed Clinton.

I see a couple of CBC members that could use primary challengers next election. More on that later; I need to talk about Hillpatine, as my colleague Rikyrah calls her.

First, she invoked every negative racial stereotype against Senator Barack Obama.

... more at the link

http://www.jackandjillpolitics.com/2008/05/sick-of-this-shyt-yeah-i-said-it.html

Jack and Jill Politics is a blog that offers a Black Bourgeois perspective on American politics.

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35. Drama Queen

The drama of Hillary Clinton
By ROGER SIMON | 5/29/08

Oh, the drama of it all. The drama that is the Hillary Clinton campaign.

What will she say next? What will she do next?

I do not know, but I do know this: There is a huge drama gap between the Clinton campaign and the Barack Obama campaign. In fact, it is more like a chasm.

Whenever things get dull, whenever things settle down and people begin to concentrate on how Clinton is a serious candidate with a serious message, championing serious issues, she manages to heat things up.

Why talk about health care or energy policy or the housing crisis when you can talk about ... the assassination of Robert Kennedy!

I always thought that the first rule of talking about assassination in a political campaign is that you never talk about assassination in a political campaign.

...more at the link
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0508/10694.html