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Obama Radio Ad In Vermont Stars Patrick Leahy

Barack Obama is focusing his efforts for March 4 not only on Texas and Ohio, but also on one of the smaller states voting that day: Vermont. His new radio ad there stars Sen. Patrick Leahy, who endorsed Obama about a month ago and has led much of the state party establishment in backing his candidacy.

"And Sen. Obama was against the Iraq War from Day One," Leahy says, a subtle but pointed critique of Hillary Clinton's "ready on Day One" slogan. "He's got the judgment to lead — he'll bring our troops home."

An mp3 of the ad is available here.


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Those small states are important. On super Tuesday Senator Obama picked up more delegates in Idaho thatn Mrs. Bill Clinton delegate margin, the same day, in the big state of New Jersey.

Obama has proven time and again in this campaign, every state is important.

My personal belief is he's trying to put as much distance as possible between he and Clinton to comfortably support seating Florida and Michigan.

Senator Leahy is one of those few senators that I have great respect for. Its a good thing there are at least a few of them in the congress.

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And so many of the good ones come from small states. The states mark penn denigrates....

Amazing!

Sen. Leahy is why I'm with obama.

Everytime one of your 'sexist' bloggers refers to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton...one of the most brilliant people in our country (and the world) as Mrs. Bill Clinton I think women and all people should stand up in outrage.

When clearly we have someone with the ability, experience and solutions to really make a difference demeaned in this way...all people ...especially women...must speak out.

Senator Clinton is the best and we all should be standing behind her if we really care about the future of this country..and the world!!!

Sorry, but my take on Hillary is she's standing squarely on the accomplishments of her husband in order to get ahead.

I think that does very little to advance the woman's movement.

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Agreed.

The cornerstone of her argument in regard to her "experience advantage" over Obama is her time as First Lady coupled with Democrats fond rememberances of Bill Clinton's 2 terms. Take those away from her, (as well as having a former president actively campaigning for her), and any advantage over Obama in regard to experience is negligible at best. On the flip side, I think the state of disarray that her campaign seems to be in right now shows that she's not an effective leader and is, in fact, not "ready on day 1".

The experience line isn't going to work in the general election anyway. Of the voters who won't automatically vote for the Democratic candidate anyway, (i.e. moderates and independents), they'll go for McCain if experience is their first priority.

Full disclosure - I say this as an independent that, at this point, favors McCain (though lately he's really started to piss me off).

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Excellent comment!

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You know, if you simply said you objected, I would be with you. But "one of the most brilliant people in our country (and the world)"? Give me a break.

She is a hack politician with DLC stamped all over her. SHE is the one who said "lobbyists are people, too," as if that excused taking lobbyist money and selling out. Hillary, as her election signs say, is a sold out Washington insider who is hellbent on getting nominated without any insight into how much damage she is doing.

Please! People are venting in anyway they can because they wish she would end this damage before she rips the party in half giving the election to the republicans.

I couldn't agree more, and I voted for Obama.

I guess I should clarify that I agree with you in terms of referring to Senator Clinton as Mrs. Bill Clinton.

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If one more Clinton supporter tells me I am not a real feminist because I support Obama- I am going to scream. I am a feminist. I believe in a woman's right to choose- I believe that Obama has the best chance of winning in November thereby securing women's right to choose. I also believe that being a feminist means supporting qualified women over unqualified men. That is not the case here. If you support Clinton- you should do so because you think she is the best candidate, not because a woman should be able to be President. I support Obama not because I think a Black man should be President but because I think this particular man could be. Are some of the attacks against Clinton sexist. Yes. Absolutely. I dislike those. But that does not mean I need to support her.

Also- let me be clear. As a FEMINIST, I would much rather see someone like Barbara Boxer or Nancy Pelosi as President than Hillary Clinton. I would like the first woman President to be someone who could say she got there on her own and not because she was married to another President.

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I agree 1000 percent with your post. Pelosi and Boxer are head and shoulders above clinton. I think clinton getting it for the reasons you describe degrade from the accomplishments of women politicians and leaders like Pelosi and Boxer.

Perhaps, not surprisingly, they got elected by developing their brand name by themselves. In other words, unlike HRC, they have truly "vetted" themselves -- not against a perceived set of hostile politicos from the other side of the aisle but with the *voters*.

No matter how or why she was nominated for the Senate, Hillary Clinton was elected and re-elected to the Senate by the people of New York, and she, like any member of that body, deserves the title "Senator". She's also chosen to run using her first name, Hillary (on all posters, etc.), so I assume that is fine also. Even when she was "only" First Lady she was referred to as Hillary Rodham Clinton, not "Mrs. Bill Clinton"

Obviously using the title she never chose to use is intended as some sort of put-down. There are substantive reasons to object to her candidacy. Being snide only reflects badly on the poster.

Obama '08!!

Some of us voted against her in the primary and refrained from voting in the election. As to titles, check the constitution, it says we don't use 'em.

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Had we still been in NY when she was running, I'd have done the same. It was sad to leave upstate NY, but not when she ran....

Come on. All the Constitution prohibits is granting a "title of nobility."

Word, Golux.

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TheGolux --

Amen! What a great post.

You sure are right about Barbara Boxer. I thought her questioning of C. Rice at that Iraq committee hearing a few months ago was stunning. If she were the one running, not Clinton, I'd have had more of a dilemma on my hands weeks back at our caucus.

So HRC isn't Mrs. Bill Clinton?

Why does Talking Points Memo have such a blatant pro-Obama bias?

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TPM doesn't have a pro-Obama bias, the posters do.

Tell Taylor there's nothing Josh can do about that develpment.

The most frightening thing about Iraq is that it is a repetition of Vietnam. Why do we keep doing this? Why were the candidates this year that wanted to instill a culture of non-militarism considered the lunatic fringe? Would Barack Obama be capable of winning the general election if he weren't proposing an expansion of the armed forces? Or are we really condemned to expand our armed forces to protect ourselves from the enemies we've made?

I think mankind discovered making money & political hay from war, about 7000 years ago – and would declare war every so often, if for no other reason than to try out some new technology or other. In my opinion war is pure crap; and if the people who started wars, had also to fight in them, there would be far fewer of them. I have no qualms about a good strong military though, so long as it's used very judiciously. In an ideal world, only people over age 50 who really, I mean really want to fight, would even be allowed to fight. It's too dangerous a decision for everyone else and shouldn't involve them. All fighting to be conducted in unpopulated areas, TV cameras welcome: http://theseedsof9-11.com

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I hate to say this but that ad was kind of sucky. I like Leahy and am an Obama supporter but whoever directed that commercial did a bad job IMO. Am I the only one who thought that?

Sorry, but my take on Hillary is she's standing squarely on the accomplishments of her husband in order to get ahead. I think that does very little to advance the woman's movement.

I've noticed that Hillary has frequently used references to her gender as well as her husband's accomplishments to help her out in this race. Here's an example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCGCrjmCkh0
2'10"

"Someone standing on the steps of the capital will place his or HER hand on the Bible..." (women cheer loudly)

Why didn't she just leave gender out of it and say "place their hand on the Bible"? Can you imagine if Obama had made such a cheap appeal to a particular demographic? Maybe he might say...

"Someone standing on the steps of the capital, either a white person or maybe a BLACK man... (black people cheer loudly)...will place their hand on the Bible..."

I guess that could have been Jesse Jackson's line....

Just read Clinton's quote about Obama - "if your whole candidacy is about words, they should be your own words, that's what I think." File this under "if you repeat a lie enough times, people begin to think it's true."

There is something so deceitful about this. Of course the premise "If you whole candidacy is about words..." is her own campaign's negative message.

This is what I find so repugnant about her candidacy - and that of so many campaigns I've witnessed over the years. Say anything for political advantage.

She will go into her coccoon and only hear what she wants to hear. That becomes a major problem when they get elected and actually wield power.

What is refreshing about Obama is that he is not so insecure that he can't listen to arguments that differ from his - and he doesn't have to resort to cheap stunts like this.


I have observed generally that when the chips are down you see what people are really made of. In the beginning before I made my mind up about whom to support I was concerned that HRC's (un-deserved negatives) would lead to more fractious years in our national body politic.

But look at what the Clinton camp is doing now that her campaign is in trouble-divide and conquer. Why not climb higher up the bully pulpit and shout out why she is the better candidate-what it is that she has to offer that makes her better!

Let's say for the sake of argument that the two candidate's positions are really close (just for hypotheticals). Who would be better able to lead? I think HRC's and Obama's campaigns are sending clear signals about their candidate’s styles.

One is exciting people and making them feel that everyone of us matters and can make a difference, while the other is fomenting petty dissent and division.

If Obama starts resorting to divisiveness, then he is not the man I think he is!


No war was ever started by a woman. Men have started all the wars and are guilty of all the atrocities of this earth throughout time. It Bush - who was voted into office because he was likeable - handled Iraq properly - it would have been over and done with a long time ago. It takes a real bunch of low-life weasles to point a finger at Hillary and blame her for the Iraq mess. A more important issue that Hillary's war vote - is all the stupid mens' votes to elect George Bush.

No war was ever started by a woman...

... you know, except for the Russo-Turkish wars, the Anglo-Spanish war, the Boadicean rebellion, etc.

Hillary has been a lawyer for 25 years. She was a partner in her lawfirm - at a time when very few women were able to do that. She has worked on so many committees , She has been a fabulous senator here in New York. If you are not aware of her 35 years of service, it is because you do not want to be aware. It is more convenient for you to be sexist.

Yeah, pretty hokey ad. But it will do for the intended audience - commercial radio listeners. Leahy never comes off as a slick, erudite liberal elite. We Vermonters like that.

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