hey where are the black adults? also where are the men? what a sexist

They are in the pictures.

That would only be funny, if the first and fifth mailer didn't feature African-American children; and the 2nd and 5th mailer didn't include elderly men.

Ver nice. Very high quality stuff. Why is her campaign asking for more money?
This stuff is not the product of anyone wanting for cash.

Michael, please cite the time and place where Hillary complained about sexist treatment.

Oh, please, you guys have no sense of humor. Check out the posts on the thread concerning Ferraro's comments about the debate, which you know darn well weren't made without approval from on high. That's one thing the clinton machine does is control all communications. Also, the staffers posting on this site have been harping about the allegation left and right, you don't think that isn't being done based on a "talking points memo." Hello.

I was trying to point out the humor between Mr. 9/11's mailer and her mailer. Nobody see it? I guess not.

Well, Michael, after all those wonderful years crunching our cocks into flight suits and screaming we're going to turn the Middle East into glass and going from "let's roll" to "mission accomplished to "please don't execute me" and that fantastic 2004 campaign where we got to relive Vietnam and Cambodia again, I must admit it's disappointing to see Hillary play the gender card with a bunch of wimmen. Wassup wid dat?

Anyway, Hillary channels Eleanor, and Ferraro channels Hillary. Was that the humor you were referring to?

What is it with these hillary-lovers? They are so bitter and nasty and no sense of humor. What ailes the group? I don't get it.

Y'all, it's not a "2nd" and "5th" mailer. It's TWO mailers, which happen to each have more than one side.

The one I have in front of me as I type (I live in NH) has six pictures total. Two are of Hillary alone, the front cover and a letter saying that GWB is a failure; one is of an older lady about my age (58) and her reasons for supporting Hillary; one of her is with a gentleman (white) looking at what appear to be blueprints (the theme is blueprints), one is of Hillary with a young family (white) -- mom, dad, kid, and in-law plus a crowd; and another is of an African-American female researcher or lab type person (representing the 21st century I'm guessing, since we have a lot of biotech in NH & MA).

So, that doesn't look like the rest of America?

The impact of the mailers has to do with the goals that she lays out in them. Maybe you can't read them, but notice the bullets that highlight her "blueprint" for "the 21st century."

These honestly have to be the classiest literature I have ever received from any campaign, ever.

I also agree that they are not very controsversial, but that's fine by me.

"These honestly have to be the classiest literature I have ever received from any campaign, ever."

Best. Mailers. Everrrrrr.

:-)
They're nice, but the enthusiasm is a little over the top. I guess if you're starved for positive things to say about a campaign. . . .

"Men haven't always done such a great job over the centuries!"

Yeah. For example, men have been responsible for launching and supporting wars of aggression, basing their judgment on nothing more than conventional wisdom and ignoring other available evidence. Look at all the men that supported the invasion of Iraq without even reading the National Intelligence Estimate. Didn't they care enough about the Iraqi children that would be effected to even be bothered to read the NIE before voting for war and against several amendments that would have forced further diplomacy? Can you believe these MEN? . . . errrr. . . . wait a minute.

Forward into the good old days! The best of all Dem candidates except the ones who aren't running, and bound to be a better President than George Bush so what do you want? Wait until the 2nd term, then we'll see the real Hillary! Great campaigner, not such a good implementer. (Stop me if you've heard any of this about someone named Clinton before.) You were expecting something liberal, rubes?

I admired Hillary years ago for her advocacy for women and children, which was the theme of her personal work before she got into a wider arena about two decades ago. I can also understand why she is retreating to that theme to avoid today's truth: she has compromised her distant past's youthful ideals by joining the old boy's club of corporate DC elites, and now embodies all the baggage which that membership entails, including being the darling of the military industrialists, the health care lobbyists, and so forth.

DonnaG. Hillary's past advocacy for women is admirable, but her co-sponsorship of the "Workplace Religious Freedom Act" with Rick Santorum is counter to the interests of women. The bill would limit access to birth control by protecting pharmacists that refused to do their job from being fired.

Today 268 Iowa Republicans announced that they will caucus for Senator Barack Obama and 68 New Hampshire Republicans announced that they had changed their party registration to vote for Barack Obama in the primary, saying he is the only candidate in either party who can break through the gridlock in Washington because he has a proven record of bringing Republicans and Democrats together to solve problems. In Illinois, Obama bridged the partisan divide to extend health care to 150,000 Illinois families, pass a $100 million tax cut for working families and enact historic ethics reform.

“With all of the challenges our country faces, we cannot elect a President who will go to Washington and just get bogged down by the same partisan gridlock,” Brett Blix said. “That’s why I’m supporting Senator Obama even though I’m a Republican. He’s the only candidate in either party with a record of bringing Republicans and Democrats together to solve problems, and he will always tell you where he stands even when you disagree. There are thousands of disaffected Republicans like me who are disappointed by President Bush and the Republican presidential candidates who would consider voting for a Democrat who can bring about change we can believe in.”

Brett Blix is 30-year-old Iraq war veteran from Northwood, Iowa. He recently switched his party registration so that he can caucus for Senator Obama.

“I’ve been a Republican all my life, but the challenges we face are too great to choose a candidate based on his party—we need to the choose the candidate who can bring fundamental change to Washington and start getting things done again,” Jerry Spivak said. “Barack Obama is the only candidate who will be able to break the partisan logjam and inspire Americans to come together around real solutions.”

Jerry Spivak is a 57-year-old engineer from Nashua, New Hampshire. He recently switched his party registration so that he can vote for Senator Obama in the primary.

This public support from Republicans is yet another sign of Senator Obama’s crossover appeal. Previously, Obama received third place in a poll of Republican Iowa caucus goers – receiving more support from Republicans than Mike Huckabee, John McCain and Sam Brownback combined.

“I’ve always believed that you can only bring about real change when people come together across party lines, and I’ve seen what happens when folks put politics aside and get down to work,” Senator Obama said. “If you can’t bring people together across the old fault lines, you simply aren’t going to be able to make progress on the challenges we face.”
http://www.democrats.org/page/community/post/deeannaroberts/CrYy

Not sure what you mean by "newsworthy"?

This block is called TPM Election Central. It deals with election news. As you might have heard, we are in the middle of a Presidential election. Therefore, the activities of the Presidential candidates is pretty standard fare for this blog.

The mailings that the candidates are doing in New Hampshire and Iowa are interesting to those of us in other states because we wouldn't normally get to see them. The topics and presentation of these pieces tells us a lot about each candidate's strategies.

For example, I'm willing to bet that different voters got the two Clinton pieces above. They are probably part of a modern "microtargeted" campaign.

desider, you hillary-lovers are way too serious. By the way, why don't you divert that energy and agression to figure out what her positions are as opposed to constantly slinging the fluff on the one hand and the bitter and nasty diatribes on the other. Again, if you can't see the different tones, too bad. I am sure that you never watch the daily show.

Your point on the ex-girlfriends and wives was funny, see, you can do it and it would have been funny if you didn't have the bitter lead in. That kind of ruined the joke.

I'm sorry, I should have given Chris Dodd and perhaps Bill Richardson credit in the "being serious about the real opposition" category.