Bravo, Obama!

I hope he sticks to that pledge. It's apparently rather hard to resist.

Speaking of, Olbermann (I think) had a clip of Bill using 9/11 to defend Hillary's war vote (She's from New York, etc...) Did anyone see that? I'd love to find the exact quote.

Ohiomeister posted this on another thread and it is just superb.

"Now one of Clinton’s laws of politics is this: If one candidate’s trying to scare you and the other one’s trying to get you to think, if one candidate’s appealing to your fears and the other one’s appealing to your hopes, you better vote for the person who wants you to think and hope."

-Bill Clinton, 2004

I love how Obama uses Bills line on experience already about having the right kind and wrong kind of experience. I also like how he says we are buildign a bridge to the 21st century not back to the 20th centrury.

Something tells me that in the late evening 6 months from now Bill Clinton and Hill are going to realize that they were running against a better version of Clinton with his own lines being used against him..hahaha...I can hear Bill saying ..you lost again to me, babe...ha hahaha, that will get her goat for sure...lol lol lol..

The other thing I think of note here is that Axelrod also use to work for Clinton...I know he was the one that produced Bill's 'building a bridge to the next century' line.

I wonder now if he also is responsible for this hope vs. fear comment Ohiomeister posted as well as Bill's rightkind and wrongkind of experience line.

Something tells me he was as Axelrod's dominant theme with all the candidates he coaches are aspirational messages...and Bill was aspirational for his time...just like Obama is now.

Bill Clinton is watching himself fade into the sunset with his own words!

I LOVE IT!!!

Obama is in it to win it...as he spins out the paint for another behind the back pass from his right to his left hand for a SWEEEET layup!!

The only problem with the Obama team response, is that too many times Sen. Obama didn't bother to "answer the phone". All those present votes show some pretty poor judgement on his part.

"The only problem with the Obama team response, is that too many times Sen. Obama didn't bother to "answer the phone". All those present votes show some pretty poor judgement on his part."

The problem with your answer is that the "present vote" meme has been explain to death as a part of Illinois legislature - you have to dust off another 45 to play.

THIS IS EXCELLENT NEWS!! FOR HILLARY!!!

One shot 3 hits! Clinton, Bush, McCain and then wraps them all up together!
If only Kerry could have done this with the Swift Boat stuff!

In a lot of ways, I have viewed Obama's campaign as being very much in line with universal spiritual principles. I think that's why it resonates with people. Fear is not a universal spiritual principle. Now I'm not going all cooky or anything...this is politics after all and it gets dirty. But in general, I would really like to believe that people long for hope rather than fear.

I found one piece of antecdotal evidence to support this when I read an Obama supporter state that they used to be addicted to Rush - listened to him all the time and hung on his every word. Then he heard Obama speak and he felt cleansed...healed. Now this person may be over the top (and easily led for that matter) but I do think the point holds. People don't like to be afraid all the time and given a sensible alternative, will leap at the chance.

The "present" votes were done in coordination with and encouragement of Planned Parenthood: http://ppaurora.blogspot.com/2008/02/setting-record-straight-illinois-nows.html

Here are 10 reasons why we want Barack Obama answering the phone at 3 a.m. in the morning.

Hillary Clinton voted for the Iraq War, while Barack Obama opposed the war from the start. I want my President to have good judgment at 3 a.m. in the morning.

Hillary Clinton did not read the National Intelligence Estimate report before voting to send troops to Iraq. I want my President to have weighed all the evidence before acting at 3 a.m. in the morning.

Barack Obama agrees that America should talk to countries that are our foes, while Hillary Clinton takes issue with his position. I want my President to have relations such that their word is more powerful when dealing with other nations at 3 a.m. in the morning.

Barack Obama understands the basic facts about Pakistan’s electoral system better than Hillary Clinton at 3 a.m. in the morning.

While Barack Obama has proposed a detailed foreign policy plan, Hillary Clinton has not provided Obama’s level of detail. He will probably then have addressed the issues directly during the day time and have fewer phone calls with problems at 3 a.m. in the morning.

Hillary Clinton’s current foreign policy advisers were largely supportive of the war in Iraq. Obama’s current foreign policy advisers are more “forward thinking” and generally did not support the war. We need people advising our president who have good judgment on foreign policy, not people who carry the old conventional wisdom. I don’t want Bush lite people advising my President at 3 a.m. in the morning.

And from Frank Rich…

Hillary does not plan as well at 3 a.m. in the morning: “The Clinton camp was certain that its moneyed arsenal of political shock-and-awe would take out Barack Hussein Obama in a flash. The race would “be over by Feb. 5,” Mrs. Clinton assured George Stephanopoulos just before New Year’s. But once the Obama forces outwitted her, leaving her mission unaccomplished on Super Tuesday, there was no contingency plan. She had neither the boots on the ground nor the money to recoup.“

I worry about Clinton’s advisers at 3 a.m. in the morning: “And no matter how much bad stuff happened, she kept to the Bush playbook, stubbornly clinging to her own Rumsfeld, her chief strategist, Mark Penn. Like his prototype, Mr. Penn is bigger on loyalty and arrogance than strategic brilliance.“

Barack Obama is a better at executing a plan for action and managing a budget at 3 a.m. in the morning: “The gap in hard work between the two campaigns was clear well before Feb. 5. Mrs. Clinton threw as much as $25 million at the Iowa caucuses without ever matching Mr. Obama’s organizational strength.

In South Carolina, where last fall she was up 20 percentage points in the polls, she relied on top-down endorsements and the patina of inevitability, while the Obama campaign built a landslide-winning organization from scratch at the grass roots. In Kansas, three paid Obama organizers had the field to themselves for three months; ultimately Obama staff members outnumbered Clinton staff members there 18 to 3.“

Barack Obama knows how to organize better at 3 a.m. in the morning: “Perhaps her people can borrow the road map from Obama’s people. In Vermont, another March 4 contest, The Burlington Free Press reported that there were four Obama offices and no Clinton offices as of five days ago. For what will no doubt be the next firewall after March 4, Pennsylvania on April 22, the Clinton campaign is sufficiently disorganized that it couldn’t file a complete slate of delegates by even an extended ballot deadline.

This is the candidate who keeps telling us she’s so competent that she’ll be ready to govern from Day 1. Mrs. Clinton may be right that Mr. Obama has a thin résumé, but her disheveled campaign keeps reminding us that the biggest item on her thicker résumé is the health care task force that was as botched as her presidential bid.“

Barack Obama for President at 3 a.m. in the morning!

Where is that Gilda Radner poster?

The one with a signature line like BarbraWAWA?

you know:

This is great news for Hillary..is that how it goes with 3 exclamation points and caps.

3 snaps and a twist with that.

Didn't have time this morning to e-mail the Obama campaign about how he should respond to the 3 AM phone call ad. However, he seems to have figured it out exactly correct all on his own. Who woulda thought that?

My "judgment" response folded in Clinton's responses on Iraq, NAFTA, and the 1993 health care reform debacle. The tag line was "When you are the President facing a crisis then you have got to get it right the first time." Clinton did not get it right the first time in the Iraq AUMF vote, she did not get it right when the NAFTA bill was first developed, and she certainly did not get it right when she first had the chance at doing health care reform.

Barack Obama is so much more experienced in handling these utter, desperate rethuglican campaign tactics (than those who actually employ them), that it only gives me more confidence in him and even less in Hillary Clinton.

Not that there was much confidence left for me to lose in her, but each and every day I become more & more certain that my decision to back Barack Obama was indeed the more logical one.

"won't work this time" - should be a new bumper sticker phrase for the Obama campaign.

almost relish these attacks because it just gives obama more ammo to respond with deadly precision. rest-assured, the wingers are not facing john kerry this time around - that is certain.

Obama is a con and a liar.
He aired "fear" ads in Iowa against Edwards!

I agree,Carol.Billy is acting weird. Obama is in the process of wrapping up this nomination, so it seems a bit odd to accuse his supporters of whining..Billy should probably avoid the punditry business all together, and focus instead on posing for introspective looking photographs.

This all brings to mind another youngish inexperienced Illinois legislator, with a Semetic name as well, who had the wit, intelectual rigor, vision, and political savvy to gain the White House and save the Republic.
His political apologia were pretty keen as well.

Shall it be that two giants come forth from the Praire State to lift the Republic from it's kmees?

His call to bind up the nation's wounds was sadly undone by his untimely end, and the ascendancy of the Republican machine, which gave us the gilded age and an over century long insurrection, not to mention the Great Depression.

GOBAMA 08

Billy - I'm not sure you understand what a "whine" is. I sounds something like this:

“The mailer is simply despicable, but not likely to be challenged much in the "Progressive" blogosphere where gaining control of the Democratic Party is clearly the only objective.”

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/02/krugman_hits_obama_again_this.php#comment-2586950

Billy Glad:

You actually approve of an ad that could easily be run by Sen McCain?

Hey Billy Glad,
Has a troll stolen your password? You used to have something to say, even though as an Obama supporter, I usually disagreed with you. Now you're holding your breath and stomping your feet. Just take your ball and go home. Hopefully you'll calm down by November, we could use your vote.

Really, is it really you? Egads.

This is actually genuinely funny.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0208/Another_3_am_call.html

Man, it's fun to watch a campaign this clever...

Does anyone happen to know if Billy Glad is a bona fide spambot or just a sore loser? I've heard of the tactic of going after your opponent's perceived strengths (e.g., moving oratory), but the strategy of projecting your own candidates principal weakness onto her supporters must be some new Rovian tactic ya'll are trying. When you're done "whining," Billy, are you going to support the Democratic nominee?

I think Billy Glad's just givin' ya' guff. He might mean to signal that he liked your comment.