When you got the American people funding your campaign out the wazoo, it doesn't matter where you run your campaign advertisment at. Paid for by the Obama supporters. We stand united.

Omama is wasting money in KY, he'd better save it for the general election

One way to read his devoting money to Kentucky is positive. He's got so much money to burn, he can afford to invest in Kentucky. It's an investment with no potential downside and with an potential upside in the form of an upset victory in KY. Even if he doesn't get an upset victory, if he can hold Clinton's margin down and prevent her from racking up delegates there, that's all to the good.

But there's also another, less favorable, way of reading this. He thinks he NEEDS to at least slow Clinton down in KY if he can. If she racks up a huge win there, pulls off Indiana. and pulls of a surprise in NC, he sees that he may be toast.

Here's what I think Clinton's endgame strategy is. Win out the remaining primaries, to the extent possible -- counting on Indiana, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Puerto Rico as relatively sure things, and making a very determined play for NC and Ore. If she pulls upsets in NC and Ore, then Obama will be toast because of the final part of the strategy (which is really a two part argument.)

The two part argument goes like this: Present a case to the supers that Obama is unelectable damaged goods who cannot possibly win the general. Make them WANT to find a way to dump Obama -- a way that is entirely legit and will not alienate his voters.

Well there will be a way, if all goes right. Seating Florida and Michigan.

Hillary is banking on getting the vote count and delegate count to a point that WITH Florida and MI included she is the winner on both fronts. She wants to the supers to see that the ONLY rationale for keeping FL and MI out is to hand the nomination to Obama -- who will be so damaged that he can't win. Instead of keeping FL and MI out, Hillary's delegation + the party apparatus + the uncommitted supers will vote on the floor to seat FL and MI. Obama will lose and Hillary will win.

He's got his volunteers working KY like crazy (I'm one of them). He's not ignoring any state. That's why he's winning.

Obama has indeed run a 50 state campaign, unlike Clinton. And he's had only a handful of states in which he's fallen below 40%, unlike Clinton, who's had many.

And I heard another reason for campaigning hard in Kentucky. Is it true that if someone wins 70% of the vote they get all of Kentucky's delegates? If so, he needs to be sure to get over 30% - which is not a sure bet given the racist block that Clinton has such a hold on.

It's really interesting to see that the most conservative, racist part of the country is the area where Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsylvania come together. I had no idea.

It's not about cash, it's the 50-state strategy.

Obama continues to run a very smart, forward-looking campaign. No, he won't win Kentucky. But, when he advertises in Northern Kentucky, it's on the Cincinnati stations. When he advertises in Louisville, it plays in Southern Indiana... most of the states surrounding Kentucky are in play, and will be important swing states in the general election.
Add to that the fact that, by devoting his attention and money to the race in Kentucky, he is helping to revitalize the local Democratic party infrastructure, which has been neglected and ignored by the national party for 2 decades.
Obama won't win Kentucky this time, but watch out in 2012!

From factcheck:

We've noted before that Obama's policy of not taking money from lobbyists is a bit of hair-splitting. It's true that he doesn't accept contributions from individuals who are registered to lobby the federal government. But he does take money from their spouses and from other individuals at firms where lobbyists work. And some of his bigger fundraisers were registered lobbyists until they signed on with the Obama campaign.

We find the statement misleading:

* Obama has accepted more than $213,000 from individuals who work for companies in the oil and gas industry and their spouses.

* Two of Obama's bundlers are top executives at oil companies and are listed on his Web site as raising between $50,000 and $100,000 for the presidential hopeful.

How does this jive with this?

"Misrepresenting your position and carefully parsing your words when you don't think you'll get caught are the hallmarks of the kind of politics that Barack Obama is running to change."

OMG, I will NEVER visit these states, they scare the hell out of me. Ohio, PA, Kentucky, TN, Alabama, Georgia, is it the water or what? Inbreeding over several generations? Never stepping foot out of your place of residence?

Like a whole separate area of third world nations, based on voting.

No post about this front page article in today's WaPo? Some quotes:

"If you have any, any kind of loyalty to the Democratic Party, perhaps you need to rethink your strategy and bow out gracefully in order to save this party from a disastrous end in November," Rep. William Lacy Clay (Mo.), an African American Obama supporter, said in an appeal to Clinton.

"I think she is destroying the Democratic Party," said New York lawyer Daniel Berger, who had backed Clinton with the maximum allowable donation of $2,300. "That there's no way for her to win this election except by destroying [Obama], I just don't like it. So in my own little way, I'm trying to send her a message."

The message came in the form of a $2,300 contribution to Obama.

The Obama converts include William Louis-Dreyfus. The billionaire New York financier said he had been impressed by Clinton's performance in the Senate and distressed by eight years of the Bush administration when he donated the maximum to her campaign last August. Then, he said, he began watching more closely.

....

He also expressed, as did other big givers who crossed to Obama, exasperation about the tone of the Clinton campaign and frustration with the candidate herself.

"At the end of the day, all she had to do was open her mouth for me not to believe her," Louis-Dreyfus said.

"At the end of the day, all she had to do was open her mouth for me not to believe her," Louis-Dreyfus said.

That's exactly what she did - she opened her own mouth and hung herself herself very thoroughly.

I've never been so disgusted.

ABC/Washington Post Nation Poll:

Sixty percent of voters, nationally, believe that Hillary does not tell the truth, and they find her to very untrustworthy.

If you know that a person is a habitual liar, and that you would not trust them under any circumstances,are you going to vote for that person. Of course not, except Gotalife, the Idiot that has gone missing from a Village in Clintonia.

G.O.P. Now Sees Obama as Liability for Ticket:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/26/us/politics/26ticket.html?_r=1&ref=politics&oref=slogin

Yeah wanker, I am the idiot that wants to lose three in a row.

In case you missed it - here's Bill Moyer's interview with Rev. Wright:

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/04252008/watch.html

It was a very good discussion!

Enjoy!

You know, Clinton is running all sorts of negative ads on Obama, trying to capitalize on his weaknesses. I would love to see an ad listing all of Clinton's lies. She's already perceived as untrustworthy - good way to drive up HER negatives. After all, the Republicans will surely do it - and she SHOULD be tested - it would be doing her a favor.

Team Obama has had a 50 state approach from day one and have found the money to propel it. Funds raised for the primary cannot be used in the general election, and it seems Obama will have an excess( No I do not beleive he will pay off Clinton's debts even if she asks & yes she would).
It seem that party building with the excess would be a good way to use these excess; I suspect he would regardless of race turned out.

So Kentucky, hello!

One of my very favorite writers online is Hunter, who sometimes has diaries at Kos. He used to be a regular commenter and troll hunter at several locations and he is brilliant and so funny. He's got a great piece up at Kos about Peggy Noonan, which explains why I think she is such a giant joke and why I don't want her kind words about my candidate.

http://dailykos.com/

It's OT, but worth it:

"America is in line at the airport. America has its shoes off, is carrying a rubberized bin, is going through a magnetometer. America is worried there is fungus on the floor after a million stockinged feet have walked on it. But America knows not to ask. America is guilty until proved innocent, and no one wants to draw undue attention. [...]" [noonan]

Now America needs to go to the bathroom. Sweet Jesus, why did America drink an entire Starbucks latte on the way here? What was America thinking? America crosses its legs, hoping to hell the line speeds up. Crap, thinks America, did I leave the toaster plugged in? For some reason, America has always harbored the secret fear that somehow, of all the electrical appliances in the entire house, the toaster is the one that will spontaneously erupt into flames while America is away for a few days. So America always unplugs the toaster before leaving on a long trip, even while leaving all the other appliances and electronics that are, truth be known, probably much more likely to burst into flames for no apparent reason. What can America say? America learned it from its mother.

Ariana Huffington(talking about Hillary): ...Beeell Cleeenton has slept with more black women than Obama

Bill Maher: at least her(Hillary) husband wasn't gay!

Ouch.

threw should have been "through" and that's what I have been saying about comments boards and homophones - for some reason the internet interferes with that part of my brain that knows the difference between different words that sound the same.

So for him to be running an ad here shows the degree to which his campaign is leaving no stone unturned in using their big cash advantage over Hillary Clinton.

Holy shit, Eric. You really think we're morons, don't you? Please allow me to reframe your statement, sans the huge, stinking pile of Hillary-centric crap:

So for him to be running an ad here shows the degree to which his campaign is leaving no stone unturned in their quest to win the nomination.

Better? You betcha.

The HMS Clintonic has hit an Iceberg. All the first class passengers are jumping into the Obama lifeboats.

From the Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/25/AR2008042503707.html

More than 70 top Clinton donors wrote their first checks to Obama in March, campaign records show. Clinton's lead among superdelegates, a collection of almost 800 party leaders and elected officials, has slipped from 106 in December to 23 now, according to an Associated Press tally.

Craig Crawford is the least funny man in America. He personifies the rule that 90% of success is showing up.

Well, it is very obvious that KO had Clyburn on to play the race card because Wright was the headline.

This tactic is disgusting and you know it is true.

Obama took the high road and called it bs.

Those who do not drink the kool aid see it .

Both times Wright headlines the news, the race card comes out.

His media like KO leads with Clyburn not Wright like the other media.

Put down the kool aid.

"Deliverance" took place in Georgia, not Kentucky.

Tounge in cheek or snark or whatever you want to call it, implying that the people of Ky are inbred Ned Beatty (Ky native, btw) rapists is not exactly the way to win their votes.

Come on.

No one has done more for the people of Kentucky than Barack Obama.

Not being American, Can anyone explain to me why the American media make such a huge deal out of things like "Obama not putting his hand over his heart during the Pledge of Allegiance" or a flag pin on a jacket, or Mischelle Obama giving the slightest indication America has things not to be proud about???
Is patriotism some sort of enshrined religion?
It just seems insane to me!