OBAMA DAILY NEWS Wednesday March-05-2008

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2. Times Online: Obama is world's choice for Democratic nominee

Obama is world's choice for Democratic nominee

March 4, 2008 Times Online

An international poll by Times Online found Barack Obama to be the global choice for the Democratic nomination

Poll: the Democratic nominee

Barack Obama is the global choice for the Democratic presidential nominee by a margin of almost two to one, according to an international poll conducted by Times Online.

65 per cent of participants – spanning all continents right around the world – said the young Illinois senator was their choice to take on John McCain in the race for the White House, against just 35 per cent who selected Hillary Clinton.

The findings, published as voters in four US states headed to the polls in a primary round crucial to the Democratic race, run counter to the Clinton campaign’s claims that Mrs Clinton, as a former first lady, commands a level of international goodwill and respect that her less experienced rival cannot.

...The poll, running on Across the Pond, the Times US elections blog, had by lunchtime attracted more than 1750 voters over a period of 24 hours. These were evenly spread across Europe and United States, while the Middle East, Africa, Russia, China, Central Asia and Australia also saw heavy participation.

more at the link

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3. It's 3 a.m. and Hillary's Dreaming

"The 1968 Chicago convention would look like a picnic compared to what Denver would become,"

It's 3 a.m. and Hillary's Dreaming

Marc Cooper March 5, 2008

To be a winner you have to win. And Tuesday night Hillary Clinton unreservedly won three out of four states. Barack Obama, however, has won twice as many primary and caucus states overall, leads substantially in the popular vote and continues to hold a mathematically insurmountable lead in elected delegates.

For two or three days, the Clinton campaign will spin itself -and the media--silly, breathlessly celebrating her overwhelming victories in Rhode Island and Ohio and her squeaker in Texas.

After the confetti is swept and the champagne bottles are tossed a more sober reality will take hold. Not just that her net gain of delegates this week will be, at most, in the single digits. But worse. There is no plausible scenario in which Clinton can win the nomination. At least not democratically.

...Indeed, as Jonathan Alter has pointed out, Clinton can't win an elected majority even if she triumphs in what are now likely to be re-scheduled primaries in the cranky states of Michigan and Florida. Again, we'd be back to the Superdelegates and, therefore, back to a dicey game of chicken by the Democratic Party elite. How many Superdelegates are willing to politically die, or willing to spark an intra-party party civil war, just to save Clinton's bacon?

full article at the link

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4. Obama Camp Lays Ground For Negative Attacks

As well they should!

Obama Camp Lays Ground For Negative Attacks

Huffington Post | March 5, 2008

The Obama camp appears to be laying ground for pushing back against Hillary Clinton's latest campaign attacks, even if that means taking a negative approach themselves. The difficulty, as has been noted in the past, is maintaining the positive approach that has dominated his campaign while still drawing contrast with the Clintons.

Obama campaign manager David Axelrod claimed last night:

"If Sen. Clinton wants to take the debate to various places, we'll join that debate. We'll do it on our terms and in our own way but if she wants to make issues like ethics and disclosure and law firms and real estate deals and all that stuff issues, as I've said before I don't know why they'd want to go there, but I guess that's where they'll take the race.''

The Associated Press cites an anonymous Obama aide:

A senior Obama adviser, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Obama's team will respond to Tuesday's results by going negative on Clinton -- raising questions about her tax records and the source of donations to the Clinton presidential library, among skeletons in the Clintons' past.

more at the link

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5. WHat? Hillary didn't propose health care in NY? What has she done for NY?

Excellent comment to a HuffPo article that is worthy of reading:

"If there was no bias for Ms. Clinton would not her claim to 35 years of exprience be up for a more intense examination. i live in New York and have what I think is a pretty good memory. i can't recall any plan put forth for universal health care for New York. Nearby Mass. has it i kept wondering why if Mitt Romney could get it for Mass. why have not Ms. Clinton even proposed it for New York. I also wonder if she is so intuned to equal pay for equal work she has never pushed it in her home state. I know single moms now who are paying $ 400 dollars a week for childcare. I really wonder why the Junior Senator from New York has done nothing in her own state to help take some of burden off single moms. If my senator is using the years that she was Chief Hostess of America on her resume why should not Whitewater. Foster, impeachment , renting of bedrooms in white house, last day pardons for money and so on be fair game.

Oh i forget that would be ganging up on poor Hill and she just might cry. Has anyone asked her what decision has she made at 3AM in the morning. OOPs there i go again beating up on poor Hill. Guess she forgot the little people from New York I know she won't them forget as president. Guess traveling alot qualifies you as president. Maybe i will run my aunt for president next year she likes to travel. Wondering why poor kids who get sick in New York City still go the emergency room to see a doctor. Guess my senator overlooked that. She has her mind on more pressing matters.

Wonder why i must still send my kids to private school guess my senator has no time to help the public schools in my state. she has more pressing worldly matters on her mind. My city wants to charge 6- 8 bucks to drive tthru mid town now guess that only hurts the dunkin dounut crowd not the starbucks guys. Guess my senator has no opinion on that either. She has other matters on her mind. The 30 thousand jobs she promised upstate New York,as referenced by Russert in the last debate, that never materialized. i forgot again she more pressing issues on her mind. Media bias my foot its like the run up to the war the media is asleep at the wheel."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/05/obama-camp-lays-ground-fo_n_89979.html

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6. Hillary Top Recipient of Walmart Campaign Contributions

The Wal-Mart Connection: Hillary's Years on the Board

VIDEO - Posted by Jessehaf , Brave New Films at 12:27 PM on March 4, 2008.

Hillary is currently the top recipient of campaign contributions from Wal-Mart executives, taking in more than Rudy Giuliani and Mike Huckabee. Post

As many now know, Hillary Clinton served on the exclusive Wal-Mart board of directors from 1986 to 1992. What many may not know is she is currently the top recipient of campaign contributions from Wal-Mart executives, taking in more than Rudy Giuliani and Mike Huckabee.

For Clinton, the contributions come just months after she turned away $5,000 that Wal-Mart had donated through its PAC to her Senate campaign. At the time, in February 2006, Clinton's spokeswoman said the senator rejected the money because of "serious differences with current company practices.

Read the full story.

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7. Did Clinton's Campaign Darken Obama's Skin?

Did Clinton's Campaign Darken Obama's Skin?
By GottaLaff, Cliff Schecter's Blog

Call me crazy, but it certainly appears to me that Sen. Obama's skin tone is significantly darker in the Clinton campaign commercial....

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/#78708

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8. Ballot Shortages Plague Ohio Election Amid Unusually Heavy Primary Turnout

Ballot Shortages Plague Ohio Election Amid Unusually Heavy Primary Turnout

By IAN URBINA Published: March 5, 2008

A federal judge in Ohio granted a request late Tuesday from Senator Barack Obama’s campaign to extend the voting hours in 21 precincts in Cleveland by an extra 90 minutes because of a lack of paper ballots.

But because the order arrived after the polls had already closed, election officials were only able to reopen 10 polling stations, according to the Ohio secretary of state, Jennifer Brunner. That resulted in five additional votes being cast, Ms. Brunner said.

After a recent state review of touch-screen machines that raised concern about them, paper ballots were made available at all precincts for those voters who wanted to use them. Many more voters took advantage of the option than officials had predicted. The shortages of ballots were also caused by an unusually heavy turnout, officials said.

The federal judge, Solomon Oliver, denied a similar request for other precincts in Cuyahoga County, home to Cleveland, and for all precincts in Franklin County, where the capital, Columbus, is located.

more at the link

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9. Brazile: Howard Dean And Other Party Leaders Should Be Prepared To Step In

Brazile: Howard Dean And Other Party Leaders Should Be Prepared To Step In

By Greg Sargent - March 5, 2008

Despite Hillary's big wins in Ohio and Texas last night, some super-delegates are already suggesting that a continued contest risks damaging the party and are calling on Howard Dean and other party leaders to be ready to intervene should the race get dirtier:

"Despite Obama's impressive victories in February, Clinton's comeback is based on sowing political seeds of doubt," said Donna Brazile, a Democratic strategist and one of nearly 800 party leaders known as superdelegates for their ability to determine the nomination. "In order to clinch the nomination, he must anticipate the worst attacks ever."...
Some superdelegates are bracing themselves to intervene on Obama's behalf if necessary.

"If these attacks are contrasts based on policy differences, there is no need to stop the race or halt the debate," Brazile said. "But, if this is more division, more diversion from the issues and more of the same politics of personal destruction, chairman Dean and other should be on standby."

Consider that a harbinger of what we're likely to hear from other super-delegates if the race gets uglier without significantly altering the underlying pledged-delegate imbalance between the two candidates.

One outstanding question today: Will that bloc of super-dels who were reported to be ready to bolt to Obama last night materialize, or did Hillary's wins staunch that bleeding for now?

Late Update: The Hotline has an Obama spokesperson flatly denying that any kind of bloc of super-dels was set to get behind Obama.

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10. "Florida Democrats are all for it"...

"Florida Democrats are all for it"...March 2006

All for the early primary that far ahead.
Posted by madfloridian in General Discussion Mon Oct 08th 2007, 07:36 PM

"Florida Democrats are all for it"...March 2006 Florida Dem spokesman about early primary vote.

"Florida Democrats are all for it," Mark Bubriski, spokesman for the Florida Democratic Party,
said at the time. (The time was March 2006)

Yet even though it is more and more established that the Florida Democrats were ok with the idea, that they did not fight back....there are articles printed daily without that truth in them, articles that turn the DNC and its chairman into a caricature.

...more at the link

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19. Can Anyone Get this to Olbermann? Or to Dan Abrams?

the media either knows about this and is ignoring it, or doesn't know.

Since Fl is being discussed in today's news cycle, its important.

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11. Dayton, Ohio Mayor (and superdelegate) Rhine McLin today endorses Obama

Another Ohio (Super) Delegate for Obama



This should raise some eyebrows (and cut against the wrongheaded presumption that Clinton’s symbolic victories last night will stem the flow of superdelegates to Obama)…

Dayton, Ohio Mayor (and superdelegate) Rhine McLin today endorsed Obama:

Mirroring the unofficial results of the Democratic Presidential race in Montgomery County, Dayton Mayor Rhine McLin today announced her endorsement of Illinois Senator Barack Obama.

Despite a win statewide by New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, in Montgomery County, the results told a different tale with Obama beating Clinton by over 10,000 votes.

In a morning interview on CNN, McLin said the decision of Dayton and Montgomery County voters would determine how she used her superdelegate vote.

(Is there anybody else out there that senses that the fact that the Clinton campaign didn’t go quietly into the night last night may push more superdelegates out of the closet to declare for her rival?)

Posted on March 5th, 2008 by Al Giordano

http://208.122.14.138/thefield/?p=840#comments

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12. Duel of Historical Guilts (and about "shoulder pad feminism)

Duel of Historical Guilts

By MAUREEN DOWD March 5, 2008 SAN ANTONIO

Some women in their 30s, 40s and early-50s who favor Barack Obama have a phrase to describe what they don’t like about Hillary Clinton: Shoulder-pad feminism.

They feel that women have moved past that men-are-pigs, woe-is-me, sisters-must-stick-together, pantsuits-are-powerful era that Hillary’s campaign has lately revived with a vengeance.

And they don’t like Gloria Steinem and other old-school feminists trying to impose gender discipline and a call to order on the sisters.

As a woman I know put it: “Hillary doesn’t make it look like fun to be a woman. And her ‘I-have-been-victimized’ campaign is depressing.”

...more at the ink

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13. What Clinton Did Right, What Obama Did Wrong

What Clinton Did Right, What Obama Did Wrong

In the context of that it’s the delegate count that matters and – as we await the fleshing out of the results from the Texas caucuses –
last night was at best, for Clinton, a draw in the battle for Democratic National Convention delegates, and may not even be that for her once all is counted…

As the Great Mentioners – Halperin and Fournier, among them – are today emphasizing the very points we made yesterday
(that it’s the delegate count, stupid!), the Clinton campaign deserves a lot of credit for what it did right, achieving, at least, a ticket out of March 4 to remain in the contest.

Some things Giordano cites, minus the details available in the article:

1. The Clinton campaign worked rural areas of Ohio and Texas much harder than the Obama campaign

2. Senator Clinton offered more frequent updates of her stump speech.

3. The Clinton campaign successfully neutralized NAFTA as a wedge issue in Ohio by playing off errors in the Obama camp

4. Clinton has gained some traction with the drumbeat of “yeah, my policies and positions (on Iraq, on campaign finance, and other issues) suck, but Obama’s suck equally.”

5. One of the smartest things that Clinton has done in recent weeks is to constantly mention the URL of her website on the stump.

6. The other really smart thing that the Clinton campaign has done is to berate (and “run against”) the news media.


But as long as there’s a moment of spin zone right now in which so many are babbling about so-called “momentum” for Clinton – six weeks before the next big state primary! – and so much kneejerk gnashing of teeth among a certain sector of Obama supporters that want history to easily turn its pages (something that history simply does not do), Obama should call up a little of that political jiu-jitsu he’s shown before and act as if he’s in more trouble than he is, create the similacrum of a campaign “shake up” among economic policy advisors, provide more variety and more frequent changes to his stump speech, and get back to the plays in his playbook – particularly a renewed focus on rural voters – that worked to get him here, so far. Because for everything that Clinton “did right,” she didn’t advance a yard in delegate count yesterday, spent all her money (again), and in fact has fallen behind because more than 300 delegates, after yesterday, are no longer up for grabs as the clock ticks down.

Posted on March 5th, 2008 by Al Giordano

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16. agree with >> 2. Senator Clinton offered more frequent updates of her stump speech.

I have to agree, Obama needs to evolve and update his stump speech. Maybe he has lately but even though I am a strong supporter of his I got tired of his stump speech because it was always the same. If it doesn't evolve, it fails to continue to hold people's interest.

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18. agree with >> 6. The other really smart thing that the Clinton campaign has done is to berate (and

“run against”) the news media.

Yes, this is a popular tactic and tends to work because people generally feel like they are fed bullshit. Both Democrats and Republicans play this game and the Republicans overall do a better job (even though they own the media).

It's false that Obama's gotten a pass by the media and that Hillary has been hammered. As far as I can tell, it's mostly been fluff coverage ON BOTH SIDES up until this past week and Obama has been crucified. People complain Hillary has gotten it bad up till now but that just doesn't fly with me as criticisms of her have been about "did she cry or not cry" type stuff. However, she has NOT been taken to task on her record or her connections.

Nonetheless, the Clinton campaign did a good job taking a page from the RW playbook yet again and "worked the refs" to have them work Obama very hard the week prior to this critical juncture.

Obama et al better take control of the daily news cycle and that doesn't mean just being negative.

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14. Dereliction of Duty: How Clinton and McCain disqualified themselves

Dereliction of Duty: How Clinton and McCain disqualified themselves

04 Mar 2008 06:27 PM CST

There were troubling aspects to this 90-page document. While slanted toward the conclusion that Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction stored or produced at 550 sites, it contained vigorous dissents on key parts of the information, especially by the departments of State and Energy. Particular skepticism was raised about aluminum tubes that were offered as evidence Iraq was reconstituting its nuclear program. As to Hussein's will to use whatever weapons he might have, the estimate indicated he would not do so unless he was first attacked.

That's what Senator Bob Graham, the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee in 2002 wrote his Washington Post OpEd regarding the classified 90-page National Intelligence Estimate on Saddam's Iraq that was presented by Bush administration's CIA as evidential basis for a war with Iraq:

What I Knew Before the Invasion
By Bob Graham
Sunday, November 20, 2005

Despite being implored by the chair of the intelligence committee, Hillary Clinton and John McCain did not read the 90-page NIE before committing US troops by voting to authorize a preemptive war that:

1. killed and maimed thousands of US troops
2. killed and maimed millions of Iraqi civilians
3. has cost the tax payer and the economy trillions of dollars
4. has compromised the reputation of the United States around the world

more at the link

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15. Canadian Public Broadcasting Exonerates Obama"

"Canadian Public Broadcasting Exonerates Obama"

Posted: 05 Mar 2008 10:47 AM CST

MyDD diarist mattw posted a link to a Canadian news broadcast that lays out the latest on the leak of a memo that the Canadian government now says may have misrepresented the views of the Obama campaign and certainly should never have been made public.

It's worth watching the video. Very illuminating.

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17. Post Primary Results (and Snap out of it and grow up!)

Post Primary Results

05 Mar 2008 11:13 AM CST

I haven't seen it here but a number of blogs have a few Obama supporters writing as if the world just ended. Just 7 words:

Snap out of it and grow up!

Remember just 3 weeks ago when some polls showed we were down in Texas as much as 16 points? Remember when we were reading the New York Times about this:

“She has to win both Ohio and Texas comfortably, or she’s out,” said one superdelegate who has endorsed Mrs. Clinton, and who spoke on condition of anonymity to share a candid assessment. “The campaign is starting to come to terms with that.” Campaign advisers, also speaking privately in order to speak plainly, confirmed this view.

If Sen. Clinton wins the popular vote in Texas by just 3% margin and loses the delegate total there, I wouldn't call that a comfortable win. Would you?

...This was supposed to be Clinton's big day. The day her firewall turned the Obama momentum and reduced the Obama delegate lead. That failed.

So as we gear up for Wyoming, Mississippi, Pennsylvania and the 9 other remaining contests, take pride in how far we've come and dig in for those last few contests.

more at the link

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24. Lock & Load!!!

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20. Obama needs only 46 % of all remaining SD and PD to get the nomination

Please go here and k/r

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=4908323&mesg_id=4908323

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21. Here are the numbers last night brought the magic number from 644 to about 464

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=4906539&mesg_id=4906539

please k/r

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22. RACIST MUCH, HILLARY?

Clinton campaign making Obama "blacker" by kos Wed Mar 05, 2008

Or maybe more Muslim? The sordid details are in this diary by Troutnut, but it can be distilled down to this



... the ad is right here at Clinton's campaign website, so the Clinton campaign is clearly lying.



More at the link

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23. Clinton donor named in Rezko trial/criminal indictment

Rezko has a tie with one of Clinton's biggest donors.
The inhouse atty. of a corporation headed by Clinton's big ($180,000) donor, IPA, is identified as "Individual H" in the Illnois criminal indictment of Rezko. This atty. is also a Clinton donor.

Here's the link & the info:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=4907332&mesg_id=4907332

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25. I worked for a competitor of IPA - they are the lowest of the low

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26. Plan to Purge Voters in Mississippi - Jim Crow Returns

Mississippi is an Obama state, now they are trying to purge voter rolls.

Burning Voters in Mississippi

By: Rebecca Wakefield - February 26, 2008

Not since the civil rights era have minorities and young adults exercised their right to vote in the numbers seen thus far in the presidential primary season. But the battle for enfranchisement never ends. Currently, the voting rights of vulnerable groups are under attack in Mississippi, in a faint echo of the Jim Crow era.

A new Secretary of State, Delbert Hosemann, is championing a bill (SB 2910) in the state legislature that, if passed, would likely strip thousands of poor, elderly, and minority voters from the voting rolls, simply for missing this year’s federal election.

Whether or not that was not the intended effect of the legislation, the threat was real enough that Project Vote wrote Senator Terry C. Burton, the bill’s sponsor, a letter pointing out the bill’s flaws and its contradiction of a federal voting rights law, the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA).

Touted as a package of generally positive election reforms, the bill includes a provision that would throw citizens off the voter rolls if they do not cast a ballot between Nov. 3, 2008, and Dec. 31, 2009. Purged Mississippians would then have to re-register to vote. Not only would this disproportionately affect minority, young and low-income voters, it also runs counter to the NVRA. And because of the wording of the bill, it is possible that even absentee voters, who are primarily elderly or disabled, could be kicked off the rolls.

read more at the link

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27. Kick

:kick:

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28. Simiply wanted to ask Obama supporters to stop and think

Mar 4 was a terrible loss for Obama.

He lost the spin war.

This was Clinton's firewall where she was going to stop Obama from running the table. She accomplished that barely. Obama came up from being 20 points down in Ohio and Texas and almost took Texas. Clinton was able to stay in Texas because of a huge Hispanic vote. In Ohio the state democratic power pulled out everything and the net result is:

Clinton picks up 12 delegates.

So far Obama has picked up 67 out of the last 83 delegates for over 80%.

There are 787 Pledged Delegates and 283 special delegates for a total of 1030 and out of this Obama needs only 466. He only needs 45% of all of the remaining delegates to win (This morning it was 46%). After Mississippi and Wyoming it gets easier and easier. Do not let the hysteria effect your perception of what is happening. Yesterday was in fact a great victory for Obama. On the most favorable day of the primary schedule for Clinton he neurtalized her delegate hunt.

Obama's magic number is 466

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29. Still counting votes in Texas - Obama may officially win Texas

Still counting votes in Texas

by kos Wed Mar 05, 2008 at 04:28 PM PST

Texas

Caucuses

Obama 56
Clinton 44
It's looking more and more like Obama will officially win Texas.

Obama could pick up a net gain of three delegates, after all the dust settles.

Here’s how Dem officials say that’s possible:

Clinton won the popular vote, and could pick up as many as four delegates from that.

Obama appears to be winning the caucus voting on delegates, and could pick up as many as seven delegates there.

If that holds true, Obama would end up with three more Texas delegates than Clinton.

Permalink

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30. When John Edwards Will Endorse:

Chat transcript: Wayne Slater on the Texas primaries

Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA
I would think Indiana and North Carolina. Wayne Slater: No question.
That might be why Edwards is waiting, to get to the North Carolina primary. ...

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31. Dean Statement on Florida and Michigan - We must hear from ...12 states

Dean Statement on Florida and Michigan

March 5, 2008

Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean issued the following statement on Florida and Michigan:

"We're glad to hear that the Governors of Michigan and Florida are willing to lend their weight to help resolve this issue. As we've said all along, we strongly encourage the Michigan and Florida state parties to follow the rules, so today's public overtures are good news.
The rules, which were agreed to by the full DNC including representatives from Florida and Michigan over 18 months ago, allow for two options. First, either state can choose to resubmit a plan and run a party process to select delegates to the convention; second, they can wait until this summer and appeal to the Convention Credentials Committee, which determines and resolves any outstanding questions about the seating of delegates. We look forward to receiving their proposals should they decide to submit new delegate selection plans and will review those plans at that time. The Democratic Nominee will be determined in accordance with party rules, and out of respect for the presidential campaigns and the states that did not violate party rules, we are not going to change the rules in the middle of the game.

"Through all the speculation, we should also remember the overwhelming enthusiasm and turnout that we have already seen, and respect the voters of the twelve states and territories who have yet to have their say.

"As we head towards November, our nominee must have the united support of a strong Democratic Party that's ready to fight and ready to beat John McCain. After seven years of Republican rule, I am confident that we will elect a Democratic president who will fight for America's families in the White House. Now we must hear from the voters in twelve states and territories who have yet to make their voices heard."

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32. Take Hillary to the Vet, Please

Has Hillary Clinton really been "vetted" as she so often claims?

by Bob Johnson Wed Mar 05, 2008

Over and over, we have heard Hilary Clinton and her campaign surrogates claim that she has been "vetted for 15 years."
Harold Ickes used those very words today.

The candidate, herself, has said:

"I’ve been tested. I’ve been vetted. I have been in the political arena in our country very intensely for 16 years. There are no surprises. There’s not going to be anybody saying, ‘Well why didn’t we think of that?’ or ‘What, my goodness, what does that mean?’" she said. "I am going to be able to go up against any Republican who they nominate."

"No surprises?" You've been "vetted?"

Really?

(more)

Bob Johnson's diary :: ::

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33. So what gives? Why so quiet on the Obama front?

Why did the Obama campaign go so quiet today? What about the amount of money raised in February? Seems like something big is coming up. Maybe everybody was just taking a day off - but seems unusually quiet.