Sen. Bob Casey of Pennsylvania on CNN

[Hope And Change]

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Obama Supporter Sen. Bob Casey's Interview on CNN's Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer

[Captain_Nemo]

1. Casey is anti-choice and wants Roe v. Wade overturned

[FrenchieCat]

2. So do many people in rural small town Pennsylvania......

and Casey's not running for President.

[phrigndumass]

3. Perhaps Sen. Casey is one of those bitter Pennsylvanians clinging to religion

Thanks for proving Senator Obama's point!

[jackson_dem]

11. Casey is experiencing economic problems?

He is a son of a popular governor. He is political royalty in Pennsylvania. Casey is actually an example of why Obama is wrong. People don't go to church or own guns because they are bitter or political dupes. It has been party of the culture in small towns long before there even was a Republican Party.

[MindMatter]

4. Is Blitzer a complete moron, or just a demagogue?

Why does he keep asking "what did that comment mean"? It should be perfectly obvious what it means.

It means wedge issues. The GOP has been completely disconnected from the majority on the truly important issues for 30 years. Issues like job protection, economic security, education, war, and the environment. On many of those very important issues, the fascists are against 70% of the public. How do they win? By creating phony wedge issues. They understand that can distract the public by whipping up prejudices and passions on artificial issues.

I wish the Obama camp would say this just a little more plainly. Some people are not getting it.

The point is that people know they are getting screwed economically, but neither party is speaking to that. That is what leaves the doors open for the Lee Atwaters (Rest in Hell) and the Karl Roves (Rest in Hell one day soon, I hope) to come in with their wedge issues.

1. The Democrats want to take away your guns.
2. The Democrats want to make your sons and daughters gay and mandate that everybody take up cross-dressing
3. The Democrats hate our freedoms. That's why they won't support our troops.
4. The Democrats are into killing babies. They won't stop at abortions, soon, they're going to be slaughtering 3-year=olds.

and so it goes. We need to be calling this shit out, and now is the perfect time because at least idiots like Blitzer are asking the question. This is the opportunity to call out these bastards.

[digidigido]

5. Very Well Said

[ooglymoogly]

7. Wolf B. came out ot AIPAC. He and his handlers and minions are scared to death

of Obama. They are afraid he might turn out to be an honest broker vis a vie Isr@el and Palestine and the Arabs that are in range of Isr@el plus he has not taken any money from lobbyists, which scares them even more and that means they have no control over him. CNN has been blowing this out of all proportions and spinning it silly to out and out distortion since it came out. They are trying to make a Dean scream destroyer out of this.

From Wiki
Wolf Blitzer, who has the same first name as his maternal grandfather,<1> grew up in Buffalo, New York, the son of Jewish refugees from Poland. Blitzer graduated from Kenmore West Senior High School and received a B.A. degree in history from the University at Buffalo in 1970. While there, he was a brother of Alpha Epsilon Pi. In 1972, he received an M.A. degree in international relations from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

Career

Blitzer began his career in journalism in the early 1970s in the Tel Aviv bureau of the Reuters news agency. In 1973 he caught the eye of Jerusalem Post editor Ari Rath, who hired Blitzer as a Washington correspondent for the English language Israeli newspaper. Blitzer would remain with the Post until 1990, covering both American politics and developments in the Middle East.<2>

During his tenure with the Post, Blitzer interviewed several American Presidents and Secretaries of State and broke news from Lebanon, Egypt and Jordan. At the time, he was perhaps best known for his coverage of the arrest and trial of Jonathan Pollard, an Israeli spy in American naval intelligence.<2> Blitzer was the first journalist to interview Pollard, and he would later write a book about the Pollard Affair titled Territory of Lies.<3>

Sometime in the mid-1970s, Blitzer also worked for the American Israel Public Affairs Committee as the editor of their monthly in house publication, the Near East Report.<4><5> While at AIPAC, Blitzer's journalism focused on Middle East affairs as it relates to United States foreign policy. Contrary to popular speculation, Blitzer has never lobbied on behalf of AIPAC.

At an April 1977 White House press conference, Blitzer asked Egyptian leader Anwar Sadat why Egyptian scholars, athletes and journalists were not permitted to visit Israel. Sadat, somewhat taken aback, responded that such visits would be possible after an end to the state of belligerence between the two nations. This was the first time Sadat said that peace between Israel and Egypt was possible. In November of that year, Sadat made a historic visit to Israel, and Blitzer covered the negotiations between the two countries from the first joint Israeli-Egyptian press conference in 1977 to the final negotiations that would lead to the signing of the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty two years later.<2>

[MindMatter]

9. These AIPAC types must be really gripping about Jimmy Carter

The prospect of a President who actually insists that both sides address on a level basis must be horrifying to the State of Israel. With Carter endorsing Obama, IAPAC has to go after both of them.

That is even more reason why we need to get Hillary out of the picture so that AMERICANS, elected by AMERICANS to represent AMERICAN interests can come to Obama's support.

I certainly want to see Israel survive and be in a position to defend herself. But that's not what is happening. Israel has bee he belligerent actor here more often than not. AMERICA will not be safe until we can bring an era if peace and stability to the Israel-Palestine region. The people running Israel don't want peace. They feel they are in a better position maintaining AND FREQUENTLY USING overwhelming military power.

[RBInMaine]

8. True, but

Obama did use some poor word choice here in his effort to explain why so many rural people vote on the gun, god, gays issues and why he (and Dems generally) aren't doing well enough to connect with them. First, he shouldn't have used the term "cling". Second, while his definitely analysis has some merit, he should say "some folks" and not paint with so broad a brush as no one wants to be stereotyped or tossed entirely into one basket. Next, he needs to understand that rural and small town folks have a long history of an affinity for hunting, religion, and these other cultural issues, not that they merely vote that way because Dems don't do well enough convincing them that we can help them more on the economic issues. He is correct in much of his analysis, but he actually went too far with it and used some poor word choice. So he needs to do what he has done: clarify his points and express honest regret for any inadvertent offense he may have caused. The way he explained the whole thing in his Indiana response was MUCH better. I am an Obama supporter, and I love him, but he does need to remember to stop talking like a Harvard trained law professor and talk more plainly, more from the gut and less from the "head," and in concrete terms. He needs to be "Barack the community organizer who grew up VERY modestly" and not "Barack the Harvard law professor channeling Mike Dukakis".

[wisteria]

6. Sen. Casey is a class act. No so Rendell. Obama is leaps and bounds more electable than Clinton is,

what with her past baggage, her inexperience and her un-likability. I said it before and I will say it again, Redell is after a cabinet post- that and payment on a favor owed to Bill Clinton for the cushy judgeship position Rendell's wife was appointed to by Bill. Politics as usually. Redell will sell out the party- if Clinton doesn't get the nomination he is done.

[jackson_dem]

12. The latest poll has Obama down 15 in FL, Clinton winning

Rendell is a good man, as is Casey. Let's not disparage Dem leaders simply because they disagree with us.

[clevbot]

10. nice post