faux outrage.

Hillary is outraged, that there is outrage over her outrage?

If you ask me, hillary needs another hobby than to be outraged over responses to her manufactured outrage.

Obama blames everybody else for his mistake. That is the gop playbook.

"Long-lost article by Obama's dad surfaces"

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0408/9610.html

More dirt and more to come.

Drop out Obama.

We want to win this time.

I know Greg gets a lot of grief for his editorial comments at the end of these articles. I personally am not sure what I think about them, but I'm going to be unusual today and say good on you, Greg, for pointing out that the Clinton camp totally ignored the actual point that the Obama e-mail was making.

Hillary campaign spokesperson translation:

"Oh crap, they figured out how to fund-raise off of attacks like we did."

Does anyone else find it is ironic that she can say that Obama's opposition to the war isn't real because it was "just a speech", yet she is trying to take one word, completely out of context, and distort his obvious meaning beyond all recognition in order to try to brand him as an elitist so she can try to save her flatlining campaign?

That makes a hell of a lot of sense...

Obama had misrepresented his own comments by focusing on his claim that folks are "bitter" rather than on the guns and religion part.

What!?! Clinton's first reaction to this whole thing was:

"It's being reported that my opponent said the people of Pennsylvania who faced hard times are bitter," Clinton said. "Well that's not my experience . . . Pennsylvanians don't need a president who looks down on them. They need a president who stands up for them!"

And just who has been passing out the "Proud, Not Bitter" buttons.

Mind boggles.

A private citizen in a small Pa. town defends Obama.

Towns like mine are slowly bleeding to death all over America. It's about time someone told the truth!

Try giving this a read: I don't care if Obama is among the elite -I'd rather have a president who is among the elite than one who is a lying piece of shit. We already have one of those.

Hillary is despicable.

"Elitism" is the oldest goddamn Republican smear against Democrats and liberals going. That is Rush Limbaugh territory.

I am a plain spoken old man. Here are some of my plain thoughts on why Hillary is bad for our party.

The Republicans are the ones who have shipped all those small town jobs overseas, with the help of Bill and Hillary.

The Republicans are the ones who have eradicated the American manufacturing base that provided jobs for those who were not capable of getting a college degree.
Here is some plain truth for you: College is not for everyone. We all know that, but yet we keep letting politicians get away with claiming that a college education, for all, is the solution to all our economic woes. That is complete bullshit. If some one is not smart enough to earn a degree then why the hell should we pretend that they are.

We can not afford to educate all of the best and the brightest now, so where is all the money supposed to come from to send all the rest to college.

Some people are born with the capacity to be great scientists or doctors or teachers. Many are not.

Many of them need to earn a decent middle class income using their hands. Manufacturing and textiles plants used to provide them with good jobs.

The Republicans and The Clintons have send all those jobs overseas.

While they were doing so, they conned the communities that were bitter about watching their jobs, pensions, health coverage, and standards of living being eradicated, with scare tactics about how Liberals are going to take away the only things that you have left.

The Republicans scared the hell out of people, who were all ready traumatized from having their economic security stolen, by brain washing them with horseshit warnings that The Democrats were coming to take away their Religion, and their Sporting and Hunting guns.

For good measure, the Republicans scared the vulnerable people into accepting that The Democrats were going to "give them gay" in the words of Homer Simpson.

We all know this is the truth. That is what Senator Obama was talking about.

The Republicans stole all the good blue collar jobs, and shipped them overseas to near slave labor nations, while all the while distracting those they were ripping off with an avalanche of Gods.Guns and Gays, Fear Mongering.

Hillary knows that is what happened. If she had a single drop of moral courage and honest leadership in her body, she would have stood up and declared that Senator Obama is telling you the truth.

She did not do that. She is not capable of taking such a principled stand with a fellow Democrat. She is unworthy of our support, and she is unworthy to lead our party.

We can do better. We must.

Obama acknowledged that his wording was poor, so no he is not ignoring the "more controversial" statements. The Hillary and McCain campaigns are just refusing to accept that acknowledgment. Furthermore, Clinton was pretty clear in also attacking Obama over the term "bitter". Indeed, her campaign has been handing out "we're not bitter" stickers, so they are focusing just as much on that as Obama. It's just that now they are starting to realize that Obama, the only candidate in the race that began his public service in the shadows of shuttered steel mills, might be more in touch than they had first thought. No doubt, Obama messed up but I don't see that this is something he can't recover from and Clinton's over the top response to it all is only helping him by redirecting attention to the kinds of political gotchya games people are sick and tired of.

Hillary knows that is what happened. If she had a single drop of moral courage and honest leadership in her body, she would have stood up and declared that Senator Obama is telling you the truth.

She did not do that. She is not capable of taking such a principled stand with a fellow Democrat. She is unworthy of our support, and she is unworthy to lead our party.

That's very well said liam.

She really did fuck up things badly by trying to run as a Republican and pretend that a very serious issue is meaningless and nonexistent.

I still can't believe she did this - this is so basic to being a Democrat that it is the final proof for me that she just isn't one anymore.

"They are trying to recast what Senator Obama said and focus on the least controversial elements," Singer complained.

Yes, how DARE Obama not "focus" on the distractions in which the Clinton camp wants them to be bogged-down?

That's CHEATING! It's ELITIST!

Now listen Obama, dammit: when we say, 'When did you stop beating your wife?', we expect DATES and TIMES, understand?

This m.o. is so Rovian, it's leaving thin, wispy hairs all over my keyboard. If anyone can't see that everything the Hillary camp is doing these days has The Mark Of Rove on it, you're effing blind, deaf, and mighty mighty DUMB.

(Where the hell is the MSM, in pointing out what a disingenuous distraction this is? Oh, sorry, stupid question...)

Somebody should find out where Mayhill Fowler got the $2300 to go to the event. If it could be traced back to the Clinton campaign - WOW!

This m.o. is so Rovian, it's leaving thin, wispy hairs all over my keyboard. If anyone can't see that everything the Hillary camp is doing these days has The Mark Of Rove on it, you're effing blind, deaf, and mighty mighty DUMB.

Well, Carville is with Hillary's campaign. His wife is a neo-con, who has close ties to Cheney, which just about guarantees that she has ties to Karl.

I've seen people sent away for 25 to life on less evidence.

Don't forget Karl Rove in addition to Hillbilly and McNut, get the picture. when was last time anyone of them was right on anything?

Can you give us the whole Obama e-mail, or a link? Why do we get just snippets of that, but the whole damn Clinton phone call?

HusseinTenaX: good call on the trajectory from Hillary to Karl Rove. And a good time for me to lay out my theory as to WHY Rove is working for Hillary:

It's pretty much an article of faith that when Hillary got blindsided on Health Care Reform in the '90's, she determined she would never again go in any direction that would cause her and Bill to lose power.

Therefore, she got into bed with the moneyed interests... the banks, the military-industrial complex, the neocons, AIPAC... and has been one of the Democratic heads of the Money Party hydra, ever since.

To maintain the Democratic "brand", she occasionally makes noises about some of the more heinous oppressions of the middle class (which were done to them by the more extreme servants of the corporate right, anyway) and appears to throw them a bone. But still, she represents who she represents, and therefore has been dubbed one of the Accepted candidates to rule.

Now she believes she's been accepted by this ruling class, and by and large, she has. The scam keeps going... and when the powers that be offer her the services of one Turd Blossom, she's hardly going to turn them down.

Make no mistake; the powers that be would rather have another solid Republican rule. They will do everything they can to stab Hillary in the back, once she gets the nod. Hillary probably feels that if they turn back on her in the general election, she now has the Clinton Machine to handle it.

But if it turns out the Money Party can't have a genuine, major league R, it's just as efficient if a DLC "monster" keeps tabs on the checkbook. It's called "hedging your bet".

The only way around all this is to take the chance on Obama. I don't know, either, if he will ultimately break our hearts. But at this juncture, the one thing we do know is that he simply does not operate from this entire nexus of monsters.

Obama needs to hit Hillary HARD on the Tunzla imaginary trip along with Bill's she is 60 and forgetful to question how she has passed this Commander in Chief threshold.

It is time for Obama to take the gloves off about Hillary. She is trying to take him down and it is time he hit back HArD.

Barry Champlain! How the hell are you? I haven't seen you in a very very long time.

Thanks for the support on the comment.

Phil Singer: Why won't Obama pick up the shovel & brain himself with it? It's not fair!

Geez Greg, why don't you just come out and endorse Obama already. I mean Hillary. Er, Edwards or someone?

"she actually used the very same words to pile on with more attacks." Obama has to be careful here, since the words that caused the uproar were his, that he doesn't come off as trying to portray himself as an innocent victim beset upon unfairly by the big meanies. The victim thing does not look good on him.

WHY WE LOSE! Aarrgh! Some liberal pundits don’t seem to know what makes a person “elitist
http://www.dailyhowler.com/

AND ... contrary to what the Clinton-McCain campaign is peddling, Obama DID address what they both typify as the controversial of his remarks on Rural America. In an exclusive interview with Philly's editorial writers and reporters from the Daily News and Inquirer, Obama was quoted as saying:

The problem actually with this most recent episode is not that I was saying one thing behind closed door and saying something else in public. The truth is actually that I’ve made these same comments in a similar way on “The Charlie Rose Show" back in 2004 or 2005, and I had said it in town hall meetings in small towns.

The problem is that I just mangled it, which, you know happens sometimes. The point that I was making was actually two separate points that got conflated. Number One, that people who had felt abandoned by Washington and political leaders when it comes to an economy that’s falling apart, they find stability in those things that they count on – their faith, the traditions that have been passed down generation to generation and in many rural communities that includes hunting, their family, their community – those are positive things.

They also are vulnerable to, you know, explanations for why the world has changed and politicians seek to divide them,. And sometimes politicians over the last decade have used anti-gay sentiment, they’ve used anti-immigrant stuff, and there’s a long history of quote unquote “wedge issues” that I think distract from the very difficult issues that we have to deal with.

And so my syntax was poor but as a wise older woman who was talking to me the other day said, ‘You misspoke but you didn’t lie,’ and I think that’s how I feel about it, and as I’ve said these are things that I said as I was campaigning in Iowa -- and when people would talk to me about immigration and some of these other hot button issues, I’d say I think these are distractions from our failure to deal with some very critical issues. - Link

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See, all you have to do is let him explain because here's big ol' flash: the man tells the truth and you can tell.

how come there's always a response posted from the clinton campaign anytime obama puts something out, but there's hardly ever a response from the obama campaign when clinton puts something out?

Is it because EC doesn't call and ask the obama camp for a response because they dont have axelrods number on speed dial like harold ickes? or do they ask and just don't get a response?

Im just curious as to the cause of the disparity.

Howard Dean should have been on the ballot and I couldn't see it at the time - I let them talk me into thinking he was not "electable."

(Isn't this "blockquote" thing neato? :-)

Another thing I couldn't believe was the "Dean scream"... and by that I mean, I couldn't believe what I was seeing, the same day it happened.

I'm sitting there, watching CNN, and Judy Woodruff has assumed all the gravitas of Tom Petit and Bill Ryan during the coverage of the JFK assassination. CNN must have played that tape about 45 times in a row, each time, spewing more pained, hyperventilating commentary about how Dean's candidacy would never recover from this fatal gaffe ("You UNDERSTAND what we're saying??? He WON'T RECOVER! DAMMIT! WE HAVE SPOKEN!!" :-)

And I'm watching this and going, where's the AUDIENCE on the soundtrack? It sounds like he's speaking to NOBODY!

Soon after the "story" "broke", it was all over the internets that a funky mic mix had literally changed the entire event, for the Stupids. AH! NOW the faltering Dean candidacy will be vindicated! People will all soon hear the corrected version of the event, and...

[crickets]

THAT'S the moment I knew we were living in a cheap knockoff of the old Soviet Union.

The mainstream media decides what's "news". It has nothing whatsoever to do with commonly understood forms of "bias". If it simply does not exist, then it's not even real.