The Detroit Free Press’ caption for this picture: “If you roll the ball with two hands you would almost certainly beat Barack Obama’s score: 37. The Illinois senator was in Altoona, Pa., on Saturday.” A perfect score is 300. Most inexperienced kids can score higher than a 37, bowling experts say.
If we elect Obama…this is exactly what we will get..someone with no experience or practice at skills to get the job done right. 37 out of 300 — we can do better than that — Obama should drop out because of the upcoming scandals including his ties to Rev. Wright, Rezko, Larry Sinclair, etc…
Barry’s gonna unite the races by participating in a typical white sport !!
Barry 08
He wouldn’t have even won a Special Olympic event!
Maybe he is ducking “sniper fire,” while he was bowling! We all know how dangerous that can be.
Just give it a rest, you bitch.
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Constipated?!
If she can’t manage her own campaign’s finances, how can she run a multi-trillion dollar economy? The wheels are slowly falling off this feminist march to the presidency and America is better for it.
Read here:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0308/9259.html
I would trust Hillary over obama. This typical white person is voting for Mccain.
Good for you. More war should help you sleep better at night. When the body count gets to 5000, you can pat yourself on the back and say, “job well done.”
In fact, if you are under the age of 36, why don’t you hop on down to the Army recruiting office and help fight terror. Hopefully you will be put on the front line.
was this obama’s attempt to show he is just like the common pa man or woman? what a joke, 37?!?
give it up, you should have just darnk beer at the bar.
BHDC: raising the bar each day.
Obama Holds LGBT Fund-raiser In New York City
Sen. Barack Obama waded deep into Clinton territory Thursday evening at a private LGBT fund-raiser in New York City where the price of admission was $2,300 per person.
Held at the apartment of GLSEN founder and executive director Kevin Jennings and his partner, Jeff Davis, the event drew about 125 people and raised $170,000. No press were admitted, but based on several accounts, attendees were struck by the Illinois senator’s candor as well as his fluency with LGBT issues.
“I’ve been to many events over the past 10 years of candidates running for office,” said Corey Johnson, one of the hosts, “This was the most forthright, eloquent, and detailed stuff I’ve heard from a politician [regarding gay issues].”
Molly Lenore, 43, compared Obama’s discussion of the LGBT community to the speech he gave about race in America last week. “During his race speech, everybody said afterward that he treated the American people like adults, and I felt like that’s what he did,” said Lenore, who is transgender and an Obama supporter. “I might not agree 100%, but I want to have an intelligent conversation with somebody.”
According to those present, Obama spoke for about 30 to 35 minutes about queer issues and then fielded questions, most of which were not LGBT-specific.
Johnson, who is 25, has supported Obama for about a year but prefaced his remarks by saying he has never been an “Obama-phile.” He said the senator addressed some of the most contentious LGBT issues without prompting, such as same-sex marriage and the inclusion of transgender people in the Employment Non-Discrimination Act. In fact, those were the two issues Sen. Obama singled out as being potential disappointments to the LGBT community right now, while he signaled that a hate-crimes bill could likely be passed and signed into law and that repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell” might be on the horizon.
According to several sources, including Johnson and Lenore, Obama said he did not think it was “politically feasible” to secure marriage rights for same-sex couples in the country at this point. Sen. Obama acknowledged that the community wanted full marriage rights but said that he favored civil unions for now while leaving open the possibility that his position might evolve in the future.
In terms of ENDA, Obama said he supported an ENDA that included transgender protections but that he didn’t believe a fully inclusive bill had enough votes to pass the Senate at this time.
“I don’t agree — I think we’re much stronger united as a community,” Lenore said of keeping transgender protections in the bill. “But I do understand the politics and I do appreciate the fact that he said, hey, it’s not going to pass in this political climate. Many other politicians haven’t really done that. They make decisions but they never really address the trans community.”
Should he become president, Obama said his first three priorities would be designing a safe exit strategy for Iraq, working on affordable health care, and addressing greenhouse gases and the environment.
As Sen. Obama made his way to the door, Johnson said he asked the senator directly to do more interviews with the gay press, citing the fact that he has conducted only one interview with an LGBT outlet during his presidential campaign. “I said, ‘Your speech tonight was so moving to all of us, the way you spoke about our community. You need to do more [interviews],” recalled Johnson. “And he said, ‘You’re right, absolutely. We do need to do more with the LGBT press.’” (Kerry Eleveld)
Wow is this a joke? Bowling experts?
What kind of crackpot website are you running here?
Oh wait, never mind. I already know the answer to that.
Goes to show you what no experience will give you!
another boneheaded decision I guess
I assume it was! I guess he should have used the bumber rails!
His dominant caucasian side wouldn’t allow him to bash those white pins with that black ball.
He might not be able to bowl, but oh, can he dance!!
Uh….. not either.
A little forestate of his score at the convention, should he be so suicidal as to carry it that far.
Don’t you just LOVE the look of penultimate determination on his face in that picture? As if he can, through sheer force of will, force that ball straight as it heads straight for the gutter.
Add a squint to it and you’ve got George Bush looking at the press….
Jake Tapper Reports:
Who’s Scrubbing the Trinity United Church of Christ Website?
March 31, 2008 2:34 PM
The website for Sen. Barack Obama’s church — Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago — not long ago described the “Black Value System” in the “About Us” section of its website.
And it used to provide a link to the Trumpet Magazine that once gave an award to Louis Farrakhan — a magazine published by Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s daughter.
No longer.
You can see the old webpage, including both the Black Value System and a link to Trumpet HERE
Interestingly, Trumpet used to have a web presence and now it doesn’t seem to.
Here’s the Google cache of the Trumpet Magazine heralding Louis Farrakhan (”When Minister Farrakhan speaks, Black America listens,” says the Rev. Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright,likening the Minister’s influence to the E. F. Hutton commercials of old. “Everybody may not agree with him, but they listen…Minister Farrakhan will be remembered as one of the 20th and 21st century giants of the African American religious experience.”
Through a web archive search I also found THIS ARTICLE from the September 2005 Trumpet, in which Rev. Wright wrote: “Conservative fanatics line up on the side of al-Qaeda or they line up behind George Bush. Both are terrorists! Both believe that war is the answer. Both believe in murdering innocent people…”
Who’s scrubbing the web to sanitize this story?
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/
Never saw a man bowl in a suit before!
“Conservative fanatics line up on the side of al-Qaeda or they line up behind George Bush. Both are terrorists! Both believe that war is the answer. Both believe in murdering innocent people…”
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I agree with that - I was following a conservative blog the other day and there was a guy who said all muslims should be wiped out - like it was something that had to be done for the good of the planet - round them all up - send them into the gas ovens kind of thinking. No one jumped on him for it. Funnily enough, I consider that a scary and dangerous person who would not think twice about doing harm to innocent women and children so long as they were muslim
We have very good reason to be scared of some of these Christian extremists - they are pumping for a holy war too. They are all ‘god bless, Jesus is good - now let’s savagely murder an entire group of people who don’t believe what we believe’.
That’s terrorism in a pretty strong form if you ask me.
OH MY GOD. WE BETTER GET A GOOD BOWLER OR THIS NATION IS SCREWED.
What a fantastic concept… let’s decide the nominee by bowling!
Bet Hillary could kick his ass!
Get ready for President THE JESUS!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=2Lfjc4Q9pso
Obama Overstates Kennedys’ Role in Helping His Father
Then-Sen. John F. Kennedy met with Kenya’s Tom Mboya in July 1960 to discuss funding for the second African student airlift. (Courtesy Of Susan Mboya — Zawadi Africa Educational Program)
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By Michael Dobbs
Sunday, March 30, 2008; Page A01
Addressing civil rights activists in Selma, Ala., a year ago, Sen. Barack Obama traced his “very existence” to the generosity of the Kennedy family, which he said paid for his Kenyan father to travel to America on a student scholarship and thus meet his Kansan mother.
The Camelot connection has become part of the mythology surrounding Obama’s bid for the Democratic presidential nomination. After Caroline Kennedy endorsed his candidacy in January, Newsweek commentator Jonathan Alter reported that she had been struck by the extraordinary way in which “history replays itself” and by how “two generations of two families — separated by distance, culture and wealth — can intersect in strange and wonderful ways.”
It is a touching story — but the key details are either untrue or grossly oversimplified.
Contrary to Obama’s claims in speeches in January at American University and in Selma last year, the Kennedy family did not provide the funding for a September 1959 airlift of 81 Kenyan students to the United States that included Obama’s father. According to historical records and interviews with participants, the Kennedys were first approached for support for the program nearly a year later, in July 1960. The family responded with a $100,000 donation, most of which went to pay for a second airlift in September 1960.
Obama spokesman Bill Burton acknowledged yesterday that the senator from Illinois had erred in crediting the Kennedy family with a role in his father’s arrival in the United States. He said the Kennedy involvement in the Kenya student program apparently “started 48 years ago, not 49 years ago as Obama has mistakenly suggested in the past.”
The real story of Barack Obama Sr.’s arrival in the United States and the subsequent Kennedy involvement in the airlifts of African students sheds light on the highly competitive presidential election of 1960 and Africa’s struggle to free itself from colonialism, as well as the huge strides made by the Obama family, which has gone in two generations from herding goats in the hills of western Kenya to the doors of the White House.
In his speech commemorating the 42nd anniversary of the Selma civil rights march, Sen. Obama linked his father’s arrival in the United States with the turmoil of the civil rights movement. Although the airlift occurred before John F. Kennedy became president, Obama said that “folks in the White House” around President Kennedy were looking for ways to counter charges of hypocrisy and “win hearts and minds all across the world” at a time when America was “battling communism.”
“So the Kennedys decided ‘we’re going to do an airlift,’ ” Obama continued. ” ‘We’re going to go to Africa and start bringing young Africans over to this country and give them scholarships to study so they can learn what a wonderful country America is.’ This young man named Barack Obama got one of those tickets and came over to this country. He met this woman whose great-great-great-great-grandfather had owned slaves. . . . So they got together and Barack Obama Jr. was born.”
A more accurate version of the story would begin not with the Kennedys but with a Kenyan nationalist leader named Tom Mboya, who traveled to the United States in 1959 and 1960 to persuade thousands of Americans to support his efforts to educate a new African elite. Mboya did not approach the Kennedys for financial support until Obama Sr. was already studying in Hawaii.
Mboya, a charismatic politician, was assassinated in 1969. His daughter Susan, now living in Ohio, said the mass airlifts of Kenyan students to the United States had a “huge” impact on the young African nation, which gained its independence from Britain in 1963. She cited a University of Nairobi study that showed that 70 percent of top Kenyan officials after independence, including Obama Sr., were products of the American program.
In the late 1950s, there was no university in Kenya, and educational opportunities for Africans were limited. The British colonial government opposed Mboya’s efforts to send talented young Kenyans to the United States for an education, arguing that there was a perfectly good university, Makerere College, in neighboring Uganda. The U.S. State Department supported the British and turned down Mboya’s requests for assistance.
During his 1959 trip to the United States, the 29-year-old Mboya raised enough money for scholarships for 81 young Kenyans, including Obama Sr., with the help of the African-American Students Foundation. Records show that almost 8,000 individuals contributed. Early supporters included baseball star Jackie Robinson, who gave $4,000, and actors Harry Belafonte and Sidney Poitier.
There was enormous excitement when the Britannia aircraft took off for New York with the future Kenyan elite on board. After a few weeks of orientation, the students were dispatched to universities across the United States to study subjects that would help them govern Kenya after the departure of the British. Obama Sr. was interested in economics and was sent to Hawaii, where he met, and later married, a Kansas native named Ann Dunham. Barack Jr. was born in August 1961.
Among the other students on the first airlift was Philip Ochieng, who went on to become a prominent Kenyan journalist. In a 2004 article for the Nation, Kenya’s leading newspaper, Ochieng remembered Obama Sr. as “charming, generous and extraordinarily clever,” but also “imperious, cruel and given to boasting about his brain and his wealth.” Obama Jr. paints a similar portrait in his best-selling 1995 autobiography, “Dreams From My Father,” describing his father as exceptionally gifted but also “wild,” “boastful” and “stubborn.”
After the success of the first student airlift, Mboya decided to expand the program in 1960 and to include students from neighboring African countries. This time, he raised $250,000 for 256 students. Universities and colleges promised scholarships worth $1,600,000, but Mboya still needed money for the airlift itself. His American friends suggested that he approach Sen. John F. Kennedy, who had just launched his presidential campaign. In addition to chairing a Senate subcommittee on Africa, Kennedy controlled the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation, named after his older brother who was killed in World War II.
The two men met at the Kennedy compound at Hyannis Port, Mass., on July 26, 1960. Kennedy later said that the family was initially “reluctant” to support the program because of other commitments but eventually agreed to provide $100,000 because it was impossible to raise the funds elsewhere.
Stephen Plotkin, an archivist at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library in Boston, said a search of the records did not turn up any evidence that the Kennedy family supported the 1959 airlift.
Vice President Richard M. Nixon, determined not to be outdone by his Democratic rival for the White House, persuaded the State Department to drop its long-standing refusal to fund the program. The head of the Nixon campaign “truth squad,” Sen. Hugh Scott, accused Kennedy of attempting to “outbid the U.S. government” in a “misuse of tax-exempt foundation money for blatant political purposes.” Kennedy responded by accusing the Nixon campaign of “the most unfair, distorted and malignant attack that I have heard in 14 years in politics.”
The former executive director of the African-American Students Foundation, Cora Weiss, said some of the money provided by the Kennedys was used to pay off old debts and subsidize student stipends. Even though Obama Sr. arrived the previous year, he and other members of the 1959 cohort benefited indirectly from Kennedy family support.
According to a letter on file in the Mboya papers at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, “most” of Obama Sr.’s early expenses in the United States were covered by an international literacy expert named Elizabeth Mooney Kirk, who had traveled widely in Kenya. Kirk wrote to Mboya in May 1962 to request additional funds to “sponsor Barack Obama for graduate study, preferably at Harvard.” She said she would “like to do more” to assist the young man but had two stepchildren ready for college.
Susan Mboya credits the student airlifts with helping to make Kenya “an island of stability in a region rocked by turmoil” until very recently. “We were fortunate in having a lot of highly educated people who were able to come back and take over the government after the British left,” she said. Products of the airlift project included Africa’s first female Nobel Peace Prize winner, the environmentalist Wangari Maathai.
Obama’s Selma speech offers a very confused chronology of both the Kenya student program and the civil rights movement. Relating the story of how his parents met, Obama said: “There was something stirring across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks are willing to march across a bridge. So they got together and Barack Obama Junior was born. So don’t tell me I don’t have a claim on Selma, Alabama.”
After bloggers pointed out that the Selma bridge protest occurred four years after Obama’s birth, a spokesman explained that the senator was referring to the civil rights movement in general, rather than any one event.
Obama Sr. never quite lived up to his enormous potential. He achieved his dream of studying at Harvard after graduating from the University of Hawaii. He divorced Dunham in 1963 and married another woman.
He returned to Kenya and became a close aide to Mboya, a fellow Luo tribesman, at the Ministry of Economic Development. According to his old “drinking buddy” Ochieng, he antagonized other officials with his “boasting,” was “excessively fond of Scotch” and ended up in poverty “without a job.” He got into frequent car accidents, one of which led to the amputation of both his legs. He was killed in another car accident, in 1982, at the age of 46.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/29/AR2008032902031.html?hpid=topnews
On March 17, New York Senator and Democratic presidential contender Hillary Clinton gave a speech at George Washington University outlining her plans to de-escalate U.S. military involvement in Iraq. Though she called for the gradual withdrawal of U.S. combat brigades over the next several years, she continued to refuse to apologize for her 2002 vote authorizing the invasion, to acknowledge the illegality of the war, or to fully explain her false claims made at that time regarding Iraq’s military capabilities and alleged ties to al-Qaeda. Nor was she able to offer an explanation as to what led to her dramatic shift from a supporter of the ongoing war and occupation as recently as a year and a half ago to her current more critical perspective.
Below are excerpts from her speech, followed by annotated comments:
“It has been five years this week since our president took us to war in Iraq.”
President George W. Bush was not solely responsible for taking the United States to war. He had accomplices, such as Hillary Clinton. Bush was only able launch the invasion as a result of being provided with the authorization to do so by a Congressional resolution. Clinton was among a minority of congressional Democrats who – combined with a Republican majority – provided sufficient votes to give the go-ahead for this illegal and disastrous war.
“Bringing lasting stability to the region will take a president with the strength and determination, the knowledge and confidence…to rebuild our military readiness, to care for our veterans, and to redouble our efforts against al-Qaeda. If you give me the chance, I will be that president.”
As predicted prior to the invasion, the over-extension of the U.S. armed forces, the enormous costs, and the high casualty rates resulting from the war has greatly harmed U.S. military readiness, the ability to care for veterans, and the struggle against al-Qaeda. It’s hard to imagine how someone who supported the invasion can be trusted to be the kind of president who will be able to address those needs.
Nearly 4,000 of [our troops] have, by now, made that ultimate sacrifice. Tens of thousands more have suffered wounds both visible and invisible to their bodies, their minds, and their hearts. Their families have sacrificed, too, in empty places at the dinner table, in the struggle to raise children alone, in the wrenching reversal of parents burying children… Our armed forces are stretched to near the breaking point with many of our troops on their second, third, or fourth tours of duty. … Taking into consideration the long-term costs of replacing equipment and providing medical care for troops and survivors’ benefits for their families, the war in Iraq could ultimately cost well over $1 trillion.” In scholarly journals, in newspaper columns, in congressional testimony, on this web site, and elsewhere, there were ample warnings of just such disastrous consequences resulting from a U.S. invasion of Iraq. Regardless, Clinton apparently believed at the time that seizing control of that oil-rich country was worth the sacrifice. Only since public opinion polls indicated that she had no hope of winning the Democratic presidential nomination if she continued to support the war, did she start talking about the war’s negative consequences.
“I have met with our soldiers and military leaders [in Iraq]. I have met with Iraqi local, regional, and national elected and other influential officials.” During her one trip to Iraq, in February 2005, she insisted that the U.S. occupation was “functioning quite well,” although the security situation had deteriorated so badly that the four-lane divided highway on flat open terrain connecting the airport with the capital could not be secured at the time of her arrival, requiring a helicopter to transport her to the Green Zone. Though 55 Iraqis and one American soldier were killed during her brief visit, she insisted – in a manner remarkably similar to statements by Vice President Dick Cheney – that the rise in suicide bombings was evidence that the insurgency was failing.
“The American people don’t have to guess whether I’m ready to lead or whether I understand the realities on the ground in Iraq or whether I’d be too dependent on advisers to help me determine the right way forward. I’ve been working day-in and day-out in the Senate to provide leadership to end this war.”
In reality, until very recently, Clinton was one of the leading senators supporting the war. Even after the U.S. forces invaded and occupied Iraq and confirmed that – contrary to Clinton’s initial justification for the U.S. conquest – Iraq did not have “weapons of mass destruction,” active WMD programs, offensive delivery systems, or ties to al-Qaeda as she and other supporters of the war had claimed, she defended her vote to authorize the invasion anyway. When Representative John Murtha (D-PA) made his first call for the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq in November 2005, she denounced his effort, calling a withdrawal of U.S. forces “a big mistake.” In 2006, when Senator John Kerry sponsored an amendment that would have required the redeployment of U.S. forces from Iraq in order to advance a political solution to the growing sectarian strife, she voted against it.
“Now, my Democratic opponent talks a great deal about a speech he gave in 2002. He is asking us to judge him by his words, and words can be powerful, but only if the speaker translates them into action and solutions. Senator Obama holds up his original opposition to the war on the campaign trail, but he didn’t start working aggressively to end the war until he started running for president. So when he had a chance to act on his speech, he chose silence instead.”
It’s ironic that Clinton, in a desperate effort to cover up for her support for the war and her lies to justify it, would belittle Obama’s accurate and prescient understanding that invading Iraq was wrong. Back in October 2002, Obama publicly acknowledged that “Saddam poses no imminent and direct threat to the United States, or to his neighbors” and that “even a successful war against Iraq will require a U.S. occupation of undetermined length, at undetermined cost, with undetermined consequences.” He also recognized that “an invasion of Iraq without a clear rationale and without strong international support will only fan the flames of the Middle East, and encourage the worst, rather than best, impulses of the Arab world, and strengthen the recruitment arm of al-Qaeda.” That same month in Washington, however, Clinton was insisting incorrectly that Iraq was such a dire threat to U.S. national security that it required her, “in the best interests of our nation,” to vote to authorize the invasion.
Furthermore, Obama did a lot more than give a speech: he gave interviews, lobbied members of Congress, and made a series of other statements in which he warned of the violent sectarian and ethnic divisions which could emerge following a U.S. invasion and occupation, the risks of a long-term U.S. military commitment, and the dangerous precedent of giving a carte blanche for a pre-emptive war.
It was true that, much to the disappointment of many of his supporters, Obama did not initially take leadership in opposition to the war once he was elected to the U.S. Senate, though it is customary for freshman senators to take a back seat on foreign policy issues during the early part of their first term. Yet, by November of his first year in office, while Clinton was still backing Bush administration policy, Obama was calling for a reduction in U.S. forces. Within a year, Obama introduced legislation setting a date for the withdrawal of U.S. troops, well prior to Clinton supporting such legislation.
“As we bring our troops and contractors home, we cannot lose sight of our strategic interests in this region. The reality is that this war has made the terrorists stronger. Well, they may not have been in Iraq before the war, they are there now, and we cannot allow Iraq to become a breeding ground and safe haven for terrorists who seek to attack us and our friends and allies. So let me be clear - under my plan, withdrawing from Iraq will not mean retreating from fighting terrorism in Iraq. That’s why I will order small, elite strike forces to engage in targeted operations against al-Qaeda in Iraq. This will protect Iraqi citizens, our allies, and our families right here at home.”
Clinton did not always acknowledge the absence of terrorist operations in Iraq prior to the U.S. invasion and occupation. Indeed, in order to justify her vote to authorize the invasion, she insisted that Saddam had “given aid, comfort, and sanctuary to terrorists, including al-Qaeda members.” This came despite top strategic analysts correctly informing her that there were no apparent links between Saddam Hussein’s secular nationalist regime and the radical Islamist al-Qaeda, despite doubts of such claims appearing in the National Intelligence Estimates made available to her, and despite a subsequent definitive report by the Department of Defense which noted that not only did no such link exist, but that no such link could have even been reasonably suggested based upon the evidence available at that time. Now, as a direct consequence of the invasion and occupation she helped make possible, Clinton uses the very real presence of terrorist groups, including at least one major faction which identifies with al-Qaeda, as an excuse to continue prosecuting the war.
See Barack Obama lied about his Kennedy Connection, I can cut and paste too!!! Do you REALLY want to get into a lie for a lie?Lying about her support for the Iraq war, it’s just a tiny white lie, right?
I guess his inexperience runs into all aspects of his life. This is prophecy being fulfilled if Obama faces McCain.
McCain 263
Obama 37
I’ll be one of the 263
Yeah for Lacey! When the body count in the war goes past 5000, she can look herself in the mirror and say “I helped make that happen.”
By the way Lacey, are YOU under the age of 36? The Army needs YOU! Tell the recruiter you want on the front lines.
I am sure that his low score was Clinton’s fault.
noone put up the bumpers for him for bowling and noone will put up the bumpers for him if he’s the nominee,,,,,,,,he will not and can not win general election
Yeah for Lacey! When the body count in the war goes past 5000, she can look herself in the mirror and say “I helped make that happen.”
By the way Lacey, are YOU under the age of 36? The Army needs YOU! Tell the recruiter you want on the front lines.
The only person you should blame for the war in Iraq is Bush and Cheney. Sorry, I’m too old to join the military but maybe you should give it a thought. My husband served our country proudly and my son is now a disabled American veteran, so don’t run your mouth about our brave men and women who have given their lives for this country so you can run your mouth on these boards. The fact I won’t support Obama is my right. And his supporters are not helping his cause by jumping down everyone’s throat who doesn’t buy his promises. When you can’t tell the truth about how your parents met, you have a serious problem. When you sat in a church that only believes in the advancement of one race, how can you be a President for all? Sorry, if the truth bothers you but I’m proud of my country, unlike some. If Obama can’t take the pressure now, what will he do in November when he faces a man who is not held back by his party?
you said it, lacey!
vulva is finding too much pleasure here knocking on those of us who are hillary supporters that will be voting for mccain.
i need to add that we will be voting for mccain IF obama wins the nomination
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Want a cookie with that vote? As long as HRC is not in office many Obama supporters will be satiated!
CHICAGO MEDIA - OBAMA WRIGHT FOOTAGE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoUhaEJjcWA
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Want a cookie with that vote? As long as HRC is not in office many Obama supporters will be satiated!
A cookie is worth more than a sticker that says, “My Vote Counts,” especially for those in Florida and Michigan.
Wolfson: ‘Our cash flow is good’
From the hill.com
By Klaus Marre
Posted: 03/31/08 03:43 PM [ET]
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s (D-N.Y) communications director Howard Wolfson said Monday that the former first lady’s presidential campaign is raising “a considerable amount of money” and that its “cash flow is good.”
Wolfson reacted to reports stating that the campaign was experiencing a cash crunch during the home stretch of the primary season.
Our cash flow is good. Bills are being paid. We are continuing to raise a considerable amount of money. We had the best fundraising month in the campaign’s history last month,” said Wolfson on MSNBC. “We are continuing to do well this month. The support that we’re receiving over the Internet especially is very, very strong.”
However, he noted that the Democratic front-runner, Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.), would again raise more money than Clinton in March and acknowledged that the former first lady is not yet on the air in Indiana and North Carolina, instead focusing on winning Pennsylvania.
“If we had the money, we’d be advertising everywhere in the country,” Wolfson said, adding, “I’m sure even the Obama campaign, as well-funded as it is, would love to have more. But we are going to have what we need for what we need to do.”
The Clinton spokesman also criticized Obama for not doing enough to give Michigan and Florida a voice in the presidential selection process.
“Sen. Obama, despite talking about the importance of voter participation on the stump, has done everything he can to really kill plans in both states that would have provided an opportunity for voters there to participate again,” Wolfson said.
The Clinton campaign is hoping that some way will be found for a re-vote in the two states, after their January primaries had essentially been voided. The former first lady, who had won both of the contests, believes that re-votes would give her an edge in total votes and close the gap with Obama in delegates.
Wolfson also chastised surrogates of the Illinois senator for saying Clinton could not win the nomination anymore and asking her to drop out.
“It’s clear that they know that Sen. Clinton can win,” Wolfson said. “They wouldn’t be attacking her so ferociously if they didn’t, and they wouldn’t be doing everything they could to forestall the process if they didn’t think there was a chance we could win.”