since it potentially demonstrates that the spate of bad news that's buffeted Obama of late

My, what passes for news nowadays. Cronkite spins in his grave.

Did you hear that? I think I just heard Joe Carville's head explode.

Big deal...simple response:

Why did Obama stay in Rev. Wright's church after he know about his comments. Why did he un-invite Reverend Wright to his "POTUS announcement" the day of the announcement? Why did he not condemn Wright when the story broke (as I suggested) and instead waited weeks and possibly fatally injured his campaign and of course his faux unity/hope/change message?

Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr
Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr
Rev. Jeremiah Wright Jr

Praise the Lord!

Greg. Another reason this is a big deal is that Joe Andrew was the former DNC Chair before Terry came on board. He was installed by Bill Clinton.

This loser lost the majority and is trying to do it again.

Maybe this helps change the media narrative. More unhinged Team Hillary comments (like with Richardson) would be perfect.

I can't believe the incompetence of the BO campaign. No one cares about endorsements (see, e.g., Ted Kennedy in MA). The "strategy" is to trot out this odd duck? You must be kidding.

BO should not be arguing politics, or electibility, or hiding behind M Obama on the Today show.

He should be picking one (any) substantive issue (i.e., 47 deaths this past month in Iraq) and show how, as President, he would have had the judgment to avoid the war and will, if elected, bring the troops home with honor. He should saturate the media with one message, be relentless, change the subject, and energize his surrogates to stay on message. Respond to every question about Wright, Ayers and bitterness with his solution in Iraq.

HRC is a professional. While BO is consumed with damage control, she is pushing for a gas tax holiday -- meat and potatoes, not politics. Brilliant.

Who is Joe Andrew and who cares?

Obama hurt by furor over ex pastor: polls

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080501/pl_nm/usa_politics_poll_dc;_ylt=AjG.oU9bfe1zW.YBFjoJtnAXr7sF

Lets run him anyway and lose.

You get what you vote for.

You get mcwar.

It's so ironic that Hillary Clinton is slowly but surely becoming the grassroots candidate against the hierarchically backed Obama! What will be telling for him is the shift in the African American vote due to black women backing Clinton in North Carolina which -- it looks now like -- he won't even win. If Clinton does nail it, there may be a lot of sour grapes to get rid of.

So you know, Mr. Andrew ends his letter to the superdelegates with gooey lines from a speech he repeated again and again during the (failed) 2000 election, including:

"The difference between the Republican Party and the Democratic Party is that you are always welcome in the Democratic Party. Because Democrats don’t care if you are black or white or brown or a nice shade of green, you are welcome in the Democratic Party."

The difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is that they WIN and we LOSE.

Mr. Andrew is a wimp just like his "new" candidate. Peace-hope-love doesn't win elections and doesn't make our country stronger. Yes, Democrats should embrace everyone but the DNC leaders must insure the right candidate gets nominated so that our Democratic platform can succeed. Democrat-Wimpy vs. Democrat-Strong, liberal vs. moderate. Look to the past; it's easy to see where we've gone wrong. We need a candidate who can succeed. We need power so we can make the changes we all want to see happen.

it looks like we're seeing the next wave of the clinton camp's "what's most important in this election" starting to swell.

first it was the pledged delegates that count,

then it was the popular vote

then it was only primaries

then it was letting the superdels have their say

now its going to be "well the superdels can change their mind..."

how long before they run out of parameters?

I guess the posters in this room are correct.

BO should ignore substantive issues. Rather, he should play basketball, glumly do Wright-related damage control, and trot out odd duck endorsements, like Andrew -- a DC lawyer desperate for 15 minutes.

Does anyone think this guy has anything close to the stature necessary to change the narrative or change the trend lines?

With this crowd, I can guess the answer.

"spate of bad news"?!

Um... except, of course, for all the good news that has happened in the past few days.

Obama's complete denunciation of Wright, and the numerous superdelegate endorsements coming on board have done a great job of reversing the trend... we just aren't seeing that in the polls quite yet.

On a practical level, he has less than 300 delegates to go, and, it is now clear, will have as big of a lead before North Carolina and Indiana as he did before Pennsylvania.

As the dust settles, it's becoming clear that Hillary's meager chances become more and more remote. All a vote for her does at this point is prolong the inevitable.

And as for fundraising, Obama is looking good this morning, with 1,476,896 people donating to the campaign, which should cement a strong end-of-the-month push.

Only 23K left to go on Obama's goal of 1.5 million contributors by the 6th. It's a great time to donate for the first time, or make a matching donation!

Yes we can!

"Magnequench" Hillary has been exposed once again for lying her pantsuited arse off about who approved of the sale of that Indiana Business to China.

Bill Clinton was the one that signed off on the deal, and Hillary has been trying to pin the blame on Bush.
Hillary has told bald faced lies to the working class people of Indiana.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/election2008/v-print/story/35337.html

Posted on Wed, Apr. 30, 2008
Clinton blasts Bush for not stopping a project Bill OK'd
Steven Thomma | McClatchy Newspapers

Racist Alert. Otto the Aryan Nation Troll(ANT) has logged on from their compound sewer system.

Gallup today Clinton 47% Obama 46% (same as yesterday). However, watch the video, Obama problems...

http://www.gallup.com/

Six-Day Statistical Tie
May 1, 2008

i was born in indiana and live in illinois. i went to school in both and work in both. one thing for certain is that 5 minutes into indiana from chicago and the culture is completely different. it's like night and day. actually this has always amazed me how cities so close would be so different. i found i had a hard time working in indiana which is just 15 minutes from my home as it was so often backwards on race as well as slow culturally and from a fashion sense. i will be very interested to see how this state votes. i have read that they assume gary, hammond, merrilville and the valpo area will favour obama because it receives chicago news. i am not so sure. what is important to note is that this is a very strong religious belt, very conservative and a bit racist. although high crime rate gary is a BIG church area. martinsville indiana is a town you had to drive through to get to Indiana university. if you are a minority you knew never to stop there for any reason and make sure you had enough gas to get through it. as i said i live just 15 minutes from indiana and you could be called the N word if you stalled at an indiana stop light too long. that has never happened to me in my life while driving in illinois and it happens frequently in the indiana border town area to illinois. that's just the way it is. this is the area that their licencse plates are "in god we trust" and from just casual talking were extremely offended by the bitter comments OBAMA made. in gary, these folks are not that into politics. in churches all across gary they are torn between both candidates and love both barack and hilliary. they fell they have two great candidates. my family are memebers of the largest congregations in gary, hammond and merrilville...such as "embassy of christ". since the bush fiasco they make a concerted effort to keep their members now OUT of the daily issues of politics.

i guess we will have to wait and see how this all plays out but it sure will be interesting to see how specific areas of the state vote.

Two very interesting things were said by Joe Andrew today.

He said that the Clinton team will sick its "attack dogs" on him. "The same words will come out of the [Clinton campaign's] surrogates' mouths to attack me that the Republicans used — and that demonstrates the very hypocrisy of the old politics." Note the use of the future tense. "will come out" So before the Clintons even say anything, Joe is attacking their "hypocrisy" for saying it.

And then this: "Don't settle for the tried and true and simplistic slogans, but listen to your heart and dare to be inspired," he wrote. Excuse me, but aren't "Listen to your heart" and "Dare to be inspired" tried and true and simplistic slogans? Sorry, but that made me laugh out loud.

I realize that you are trying to scold trollishness, BUT

nisleib:

This is a Democratic site

Josh Marshall, owner of this site, April 22, on "Acceptable Commenting":

All political viewpoints are welcome

nisleib:

how you get your news from Fox News. Democrats don't do that.

Andrews will have a negative impact on true progressives. He was traveling the country, lobbying the States to buy Diebold electronic machines. Those machines have glitches and produce no paper trails of the votes cast on them. Most progressives were/are against Diebold. It appears to me, that Andrews is only attempting to repair his political career and gain back favoritism with the progressive movement. I don't think he really cares which person gets the Demo nomination. He is only interested in using Obama to better himself.